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Complete Wire Reports of UNITED PRESS, The Greatest World-Wide News Service The Indianapolis Times HOME Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, becoming unsettled Tuesday. S SCAIPPS~-JIOWARr>7k Outside Marlon Entered as Second-Class Matter County 8 Cents VOLUME 40—NUMBER 2 INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 14,1928. at Postoffice, Indianapolis TWO CENTS Fickle NINETEEN / Fate Expert Yeggs ON DIE By Blast Pettis TO FACE QUIZ United LEWIS, Press DAVE Safe WATSON NEW YORK, May 14.—Grief reigned in two homes today because of Mother’s day. A BY VIOLENCE daughter’s forgotten promise RACE DRIVER, CHARGES OF DAWES ‘DEAL’ to her mother of a Mother’s day visit is believed to have lead Mrs. Leila McKillop, 48. OVERSTATE to attempt suicide by gas. She NEWSPAPERS HERE is WITH in serious IS GUNVICTIM condition. Arising early Sunday to cele- Five Persons Killed Gary brate the day, May Driscoll, at 26, fell to her death from the Famed Speedway Star Is Agreement With Fairbanks and Shaffer When Train Strikes kitchen window of their third floor apartment. Found in Cabin, Bullet Alleged, Senator to Grab Delegation Auto. A desire to pay a visit to his Through mother’s grave, brought Joseph Head. to Help Vice President. Richatsky, escaped convict, back to his cell. He was ar- BLAST TOLL STILL FOUR rested as he knelt at the grave PROBE MURDER THEORY of his mother in Linden. FAVORITE SON BOOM SEEMS DYING In November, 1927, Richat- Two Fatalities Due to sky, made a sensational escape Auto Pilot Here from Flushing police court by Due This Headquarters Reported Dropping Burns knocking down a 65-year-old Here as Swell Week- ' Week; Scene of Death attendant. All Activity for Hoosier, Working End List. Near Los Angeles. for Chicagoan’s Candidacy. Violence took a toll of nineteen Dave in Lewis, 43, veteran auto- lives Indiana over the week-end. mobile race driver, and BY RdSCOE FLEMING Donald Poole, 7, of 606 Twenty- DEATH well known W. CLAIMS for his feats on Times Stall Correspondent Eighth St., died at the the Indianapolis city hospital Speedway, where he appeared in today from injuries suffered Sun- WASHINGTON, May 14.—When Senator Watson of In- the 500-mile classic annually since day when struck by an auto driven 1916, diana faces the senatorial campaign quiz this afternoon, it is by YOUNGLAWYER is dead at Los Angeles. Edward Cook, 639 E. Thirty- Authorities there are investigating that in addition to the ordinary queries he will be Sixth St., as he ran across the the understood street in front of his theory of a possible murderer, home. according to a United Press dis- asked concerning a reported agreement with Warren Fairbanks, The father, Charles Walther Lieber Passes boy’s Pooole, patch today. of News, to aquiesced a street car motorman, saw the ac- publisher the Indianapolis and said be in After Brief Illness. Lewis was found shot to death in Terre cident from the controller of a his cabin in San Francisquito can- bby John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, Northwestern Ave. car he was driv- 33, yon. First reports made by deputy ing past the scene. He jumped out Walther Lieber, attorney, 617 Haute Star and Muncie Star. E. Maple Rd., died in Methodist sheriffs were that Lewis had and was the first to reach the boy. Statements concerning the reputed agreement, published Hospital at 5:30 this morning after started a brush fire and it got be- Donald was in the second grade yond a few days’ illness of septicemia. his control. Surrounded by in the Chicago Tribune, have been read by members of the sena- of School 36. He is survived by his flames in the cabinet clearing, he father He was the son of Richard Lieber, committee and will be the basis for the projected ques- and mother; five half- State had committed suicide to keep from torial brothers, James and Harry West, director of conservation. Private funeral services will be burning to death, they said it ap- tioning on what the Tribune characterizes as a political deal. Cheveland, Ohio, and Edward, Mar- peared. shall and held Wednesday. The family re- will be asked, it is understood, whether he did not Woodrow West, Indian- quested Relatives, however, refused to Watson apolis, and by four half-sisters, that flowers oe omitted. Ma- Mr. accept this theory. Tom Gardner, into an agreement with Fairbanks, two years ago, which bel, Gertrude and Thelma West and Lieber was bom in Indian- enter apolis Nov. 22/ 1894. He was mar- nephew, told authorities that Lewis Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, Indianapolis. never had a gun on his ranch. This POLICE HUNT FOR resulted in the Indianapolis News’ support of him for re-election West, 13, is with ried to Miss Elizabeth MacClintock, Woodrow ill dou- Chicago, led to investigation of the murder to the senatorship after thirty years of hostility to him. Fur- ble pneumonia and is not expected in 1921. Mrs. Lieber and theory. to recover. two children, Richard, Jr., and Wil- ther he will be asked if he agreed at that time, to obtain the liam L., survive him. Due Here Soon CRACKSMEN FUTILE Sam Henry Waldon, 72, Negro, to grab the Indiana delegation to the 1135 After his graduation from Short- Lewis had expected to leave this News’ support, and hold Garfield PI., was killed when ridge High when a street car backed into him School, Mr. Lieber at- week for Indianapolis, where he Republican national convention in 1928, in the interest of Vice at Fourteenth and West St. Satur- tended Indiana University for two was to drive anew car in the Expert Yeggs Still Free and went to Drivers’ Charles G. Dawes. day night. Waldon was blind. years Chicago Univer- Decoration day event. Relief President sity, where he was graduated from not listed By Times Special SIO,OOO Five Chicago residents were killed Although among the With Loot From The Tribune reports, which and Missouri, and Ar- the literary and law departments. drivers, Speedway authorities de- NEW YORK, May 14.—Peter Minnesota at Gary when the auto in which have committee’s kansas. riding struck by He began law practice here with clared that it likely that Lewis Jones, wealthy British steel Pettis Store. aroused the they were was a Jones, Hammond would have Figures gathered by the commit- train. The dead are James E. Rich- <te Jones. Fr the driven one of the new manufacturer arrived on the interest, say that such a deal each of the last five years he had been part- Miller Specials. today tee on the expenses of ardson, 49; his daughter, Beatrice, a Cunard liner Samaria today, Police were without clews that, little ner in firm of Harry Miller, Los Angeles, maker determined to in their hunt for three expert crack- was entered into, and since candidates to date give more 14; Peter McDonald, 30; his wife, the Rapaport, Kipp rid the United than general indication of the & Lieber, Illinois Bldg. of the famous racing cars bearing who blew large safe in the a Edna, 20, and her sister, Helen States of “oack seat” drivers. men a Watson’s victory in the Indiana battle for dele- his name, is married to a sister of His crusade will carry Pettis Dry Goods Company. 25-39 financial end of the Eckert, 15. him as over Hoover gates. Testimony thus far has re- Lewis. In 1925 Lewis finished sec- far west as Detroit and he E. Washingotn St., early Sunday primaries Herbert The death toll in an explosion ond in the vealed the following known expen- Saturday at the laundry in race here in the first plans to visit Cleveland, Buf- and looted the strong box of nearly last Tuesday, Indianapolis Fridlin front-drive car ever piloted on ditures: Kokomo remained at four today. HOOVER IS FAVORITE the falo and Chicago with a de- SIO,OOO. $241,274, in- track, built by Miller especially for vice which will overpowered and bound headquarters have abandoned Republicans—Hoover, The victims are Mrs. Emma. Ford, turn an auto- The yeggs associated Hoover the race. mobile into a puilman car. the day watchman at the store and of supporting Wat- cluding all the 28; her sister, Miss Anna Black, 21; all j retense except Cali- Beaten by De Paolo • Jones explained combination from clubs that in northern Miss Rosella Courtney, 17, and Miss N. Y. Committee Chairman that “back knocked a a sec- boosting $11,468; His time average was 100.82 miles seat drivers try to dictate to ond safe, which they left without son and are Dawes. fornia; Curtis of Krnsas, Thelma Garriott, 18. Fairbanks, Borah of Idaho, nothing: Norris of an hour. Pete De Paolo was first the persons at the wheel be- opening. It further was said that Vincennes Boy Killed Indorses Secretary Dawes, Goff of West Virginia, that year with an average of 101.13, cause they can see traffic The daring and the skill of the as art Evanston neighbor of Nebraska, $6; Robert Lincoln, 10, Vincennes, was his • ahead. step yeggs they expert long has been Interested in pres- approximately S6O. killed while hurrying to Sunday By United Press the fastest time ever made for the His first was to showed that were * The report said Democrats—Governor A1 Smith. school, NEW YORK, May 14.—George K. entire 500 miles. cut off the lew and make the criminals. Detective Chief Jerry idental aspirations. when struck by an auto Shaffer, although not orig- $92,909. (not including local State In 1920 Lewis drove one of the interior of the car so comfort- Kinney and Police Claude M.