Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1923 — Page 2
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PROGRAM FOR RAINBOW VETS’ CONVENTION IS ANNOUNCED
CORONER PROBES FATAL WRECK AT , GRACECROSSING Man Killed When Interurban Hits Automobile —Other Accidents Reoorted, An investigation was being made today by Dr. Paul F. Robinson, coroner, into the accident which caused the death of William Henry Weaver, 48, of 5412 E. Washington St. The accident occured at 3:10 p. m., Tuesday. Weaver was driving south on Emerson Ave., when his automobile was struck by Union Traction car No. 261, west bound en route from Newcastle.
The automobile was demolished. The interurban stopped 800 feet west of the crossing, and parts of the automobile were strewn for that distance along the tracks. George McHaffey, 442 N. David son St., motorman, suffered cuts on the face from broken glass.
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Blows Wliistle McHaffey said he sounded the whistle 1,000 feet from the crossing. When within 200 feet he saw the automobile approaching at about eighteen miles an hour and saw it was not going to stop, he said. He i gave three blasts on the whistle and put on the brakes, he told police. The motorman’s statement was verified by a number of passengers. Funeral will 'be held Thursday at 2 p. m., at Flanner and Buchanan ehapel, 320 N. Illinois St. Burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Anto Collides With Car. William Leibold, 1401 W. ThirtyFourth St., superintendent of the city bathing beach at Twenty-Sixth St. and White River, was in the city hospital suffering from a broken arm, cuts and bruises. Leibold was driving his automobile east on Eighteenth St. and attempted to pass an automobile going in the same direction near the Belt Railroad. Leibold’s automobile met head-on with street car No. 987. John Galbreath. 1131 E. Fifteenth St., was driving a truck south on Ashland Ave. when rubbish on the truck struck the top of an automobile owned by Dr. H. S. Thursron, 2238 Ashland Ave., parked in front of his house. The top was almost torn off of the automobile. Driver Is Arrested Following an accident at Maryland and Missouri Sts., Joseph Leach, 30. of 3330 N. Meridian St., was arrested on charges of drunkenness, operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor, assault and battery, and falling to stop after an accident. Oscar Brentlinger, 1136 S. Kealing Ave., a truck driver for Kingan & Cos., told the police Leach backed his automobile into the company’s truck. George Beltz, 2137 N. Capitol'Ave., who was driving south on Capitol Ave., turned east on St. Clair St. and drove his automobile on to the sidewalk Tuesday night in an effort to escape hitting Bertram Smith, colored, 686 Torbett St. Smith was riding a bicycle.
Boy Hurt Thomas Schnitz, Jeffersonville, was under arrest today charged with improper driving as a result of an accident at Sixty-Second St. and Keystone Ave. Tuesday afternoon. According to police, Schnltz's car struck an automobile in which W. Gullsoyle, Mrs. Ada Hill and Harry Hill, 5, all of 1308 Bellefontaine St., were riding. The boy was slightly hurt. Alvin Hess, 13, of 1616 N. Alabama St., was slightly cut about the head today when he was knocked down by an automobile driven by Marlon Cooper, 22, colored, 2030 Alvord St., at N. Alabama and Sixteenth Sts. Policemen Powers and Pettit arrested Cooper on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. Cooper had in his pocket a revolver and cartridges which he said he was taking downtown to be repaired. Policemen found the gun to be in good working order, they said. TWENTY-TWO MEMBERS LEViATHAN CREW HELD British Charge Men Deserted F’rom Cunard Lliners. SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 11. —Twenty-two members of the crew of the Leviathan which docked yesterday were served with summons on which they were charged with having deserted from British ships, principally Cunard liners. The summons must be returned tomorrow. P\US TO BE AWARDED Swimmers Will Receive Prizes From Red Cross. Miss Helen Cruse, director of the Indianapolis Red Cross life saving corps, will award pins to swimmers at the Ringgold swimming pool, 3 p. m. Thursday. Miss Cruse awarded thirty-seven pins to swimmers at the Willard pool, Tuesday. Clashes in swimming will close at all pools tomorrow. Damage Suit Filed Charles B. Perkins, doing business W. S. Perkins and Sons in Terre was asked today in suit filed court by the C., C., C. & St.
Committee of Judges in Baby Peggy Motion Picture Contest Is Announced
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The winner of The Indianapolis Times Baby Peggy contest will be determined by three judges. They will be Mrs. Judith Lowry, a member of the Stuart Walker Company, who will represent The Times; Edward W. Hunter, secretary-manager of the Advertising Club of Indianapolis, and Jean Marks, treasurer of the Central Amusement Company, representing Charles W. Olson of the Lyric theater. All photographs of entrants will be turned over to this committee at the
SPARKS CAUSE OF MOST FIRES, CITY REPORTREVEALS Loss in Mile Square 1$ Held ' Down by Inspection, Riedel Asserts. Sparks falling on wooden shingle roofs caused the fire department to answer 941 out of the 2,564 alarms ih the first six months of 1923, according to report by Jacob E. Riedel, chief of the city bureau of fire prevention to Fire Chief John J. O'Brien today. The most alarms answered in one twenty-four-hour period was on Feb. 23, when eixty-eight were answered and fifty-seven caused by Sparks on shingle roofs. The estimated fire loss for the six months amounts to $750,000 on buildings and contents. Riedel reports that within the mile square there were only ninety-eight fires io that period. Causes of fires within downtown districts were found to be carelessness with matches, three fires, loss $335; carelessness with cigarettes, fifteen fires, loss $6,292; defective flues, hve fires, loss $68,976; gasolin exploeions, three fires, loss SBS; 'spontaneous combustion, four fires, loss $5,638; sparks falling on wooden shingle roofs, $762; cause unknown, eighteen fires, loss $131,482. The total loss within the mile square was estimated at $214,131. Riedel said the small number was due to the rigid inspections his department makes within the area. The recent fire resistant roof campaign resulted in the elimination of 3,574 wooden shingle roofs, and the bureau asks for the elimination of 10,000 wooden shingle roofs this year. Building permit reports show that 2.139 re-roof permits were issued in the first six months of 1923.
MOVES IN WATER FIGHT ARE THICK (Continued From Page 1) said. ‘‘When I asked Fred C. Jordan, secretary of the Water Company, for the information he told me he would have to ‘refer it to the people in charge.’ He did not say whom he meant by ‘the people in charge.” Mayor Shank will speak again at ! the municipal theater at Brookside Park tonight. “I am going to tell them something I forgot Tuesday night,” he said. ''l am going to point out that the public service commission has the right to designate where the books of the company shall be kept. I am going to ask the people if they knowany good reason why the books shotrid be kept in Philadelphia, by order of the commission. Instead of here. It certainly is a big handicap to the city to have to go to Philadelphia for information.” Ward committeemen and committeewomen will meet at the mayor’s ! office at 7;JO tonight to formulate plans for a city-wide campaign against | increased rates. Thursday night they I will call their precinct committeemen j together in every ward. John F. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning, was named by Shank to organize the political workers. There will be nothing of a partisan nature in the campaign. Shank said. After a conference with the mayor, Walker said the Democratic city organization would be asked to take part in the fight. “We want the whole city in on this, it is too big and too important for politics,” Shank said. x So great was the demand for peti-tions-:'against the increase. Mayor Shank .said, that the supply of 3.000
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close of the contest at midnight Friday. Because of the large number of pictures submitted, the committee probably will not be able to announce the winner until the first of next week. The Times will give SSO to the winner of the Baby Peggy contest. In addition, there will be second and third awards. The universal Film Exchange, which distributes the Baby Peggy movies, today received word from Louis Amberg & Son, manufacturers of the Baby Peggy doll, that two of these wonderful dolls will
Husband Asks Help in Search for Wife
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2,000 more was sent to the printer. Howls of applause and much signing of petitions to lower the present water rate Instead of Increase it greeted May Shank’s five-minute plea to citizens gathered in the municipal theater in Brookside Park Mothers laid babies on benches while they signed the petitions circulated by Traffic Man W. E. Paul. The mayor’s speech was totally unexpected, Jaut every one of, the 2,000 present who had not previously signed affixed signatures to the petitions.” Shank explained what he was about in no uncertain terms. "It’s the damndest robbery any one ever tried to pull off in Indianapolis, and there have been several pretty rotten deals handed. the public,” he said. "Here’s this water company, with headquarters at Philadelphia, asking for an Increase of $500,000 a year. Why, say, 90 per cent of the water they sell us cornes dewn White River and Fall Creek, a gift from God. And they run it down the old canal, which never cost them a cent, but which they put In at a valuation of $1,600,000, and want us to pay 8 per cent interest on. “I tell you, Jesse James in his palmiest days never touched these birds,” shouted the mayor. “I have more respect for Jesse than this gang. Jesse James took a chance on getting shot, and they don’t take any chance at all.” Cheering interrupted the speech at this point. Then Shank repeated the story about one of the public service commission members visiting C. H. Geist, owner of the water company, for two weeks. “Say, the war’o over. Things have got to come down instead of going up.” yelled the mayor. "We’ll say they have,” answered several voices in the crowd. * DETAILS NOT NECESSARY Lawyer “Kids” Public Service Commission Investigation. Rich sarcasm is contained in a document on tile today with the public service commission by an attorney for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Railroad, defendant in a complaint brought by the Wabash Valley Eleetric Company. The controversy, Is centered in the question of how coal should be shipped to some of the Wabash Valley company’s power production plants. The attorney’s reply runs thus: "The defendant dose not believe that the kind of locomotive which moves the cars, nor the color of the conductor's cap, nor the kind of badge L he wears are at all determinative of
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be given to the second and thjfd winners of the contest. The dolls are life size and say "Ma Ma." Among the several hundred entrants in the Baby Peggy contest, are: Peggy Willis, 7, 2819 Central Ave., daughter of Dr. E. A. Willis and Muriel Michael, 3, 222 E. Walnut St., daughter of Mrs. Mabel E. Michael. The picture of Miss Willis Is by the Dexheimer studio. Mall or bring to the Baby Peggy Contest Editor of The Times pictures of your entrant. She must not be over 7 years of age.
PRINCESS MARIE’S FRIENDS ASK HER RELEASE ON BAIL Beautiful French Woman, Charged With Husband's Murder, Held in Jail. Bu United Press LONDON, July 11.—Friends of beautiful Princess Marie, held in jail charged with the murder of her husband, Prince All Fahmy of Egpt, will attempt to obtain her release on ball, it was learned today. Their efforts probably will be fruitless, as persons held on a charge of murder usually are not permitted to be freed on bond. The princess was reported about to undergo an operation and if one is necessary, she will be compelled to content herself with a room in the prison hospital. Authorities do not seem willing to acecde to requests of the princess for special privileges. They have granted her only one concession. Yesterday, when she was leaving the hotel for jail, she asked she be permitted to ride in a taxicab instead of the black maria and the police consented. * It was learned today the princess embraced Mohammadlsm to overcome objections />f the prince’s family. The prince was found mortally wounded in his suite at the Savoy hotel yesterday morning. FREIGHT CARS DERAILED Passenger train service between InI dlanapolis and Richmond, Ind., was regular today after being interrupted Tuesday night when three cars of a Pennsylvania freight train were derailed at Dublin Junction, near Richmond. The derailment caused the rerouting of one passenger train by way of Muncie, Ind. The train arrived at Indianapolis several hours late. Local officials said little damage resulted.
FROM FAR AND NEAR
First State Bank of Shelby, Mont., closed Its doors Tuesday morning. It is the second banking institution to close since the Dempsey-Gibbons fight. Servant hunters were disappointed Tuesday When several hundred Scandinavian immigrant girls In New York declared they were headed for beauty parlor jobs, Cuba has a population of 3, 123,040 as of Dec. 31, 1922, as compared to 2,889,004 Sept. 15, 1919. German charge d’ affairs In Brussels was assaulted in a street Tuesday night by a crowd of citizens. Herbert Pell, New York State Democratic chairman, declared in a statement in New York Tuesday booze would not be the issue In 1924. Professor Bazin of the French Academy of Science In Paris, declares common fleas cause spread of cancer. An earthquake of some severity was felt Tuesday at Biarritz, France. Giuseppe Borgatti, regarded as one of the best Italian tenors, has become totally blind at his home in Milan. Twenty-six oil promoters, Including Dr. Frederick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer, were indicted by Federal grand Jury at Cleveland Tuesday. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, millionaire head of Zion City, 111., paid a fine for Chicago 1 Monday after con vie-
FATHER REACHES END OF CLEWS IN SEARCH FOR GIRL Frances Vinnie Webb Now Missing From Home 34 Days. Len S. Webb, 420 N. Emerson Ave., today once more was without a clew in his search for his daughter, Frances Vinnie Webb, 16, missing thirtyfour days. For a time Tuesday information furnished by Mrs. Augusta A. Webb, 1314 Burdsal Parkway, who is not related to the missing Miss Webb, seemed to be a clew that would lead to the finding of the missing girl. In company with a detective Webb investigated the clew. They were told Mrs. Raymond C. Webb, at a picnic dinner in Salem Park, July 4, was introduced to a girl whose name was Webb, and who resembled a picture of Frances which was published In The Indianapolis Times. Mrs. Webb said that when she attempted to question Miss Webb she walked away. The searchers were sent to a rooming house at 509 E. Ohio St., where they learned! the girl who was at Salem Park was Lomy Elsie Webb, 18, who somewhat resembled the picture of the missing; girl. A nurse girl who was employed by an Indianapolis merchant and who disappeared a week ago, after reading The Times story telling of Frances Webb's disappearance was located today and proved she was not the missing Miss Webb.
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ANGELENE WALKER With a traveling bag full of clothes and about S3O In her pocketbcok, Miss Angelene Walker, 14, daughter of Mrs. S. R. Walker, 534 N. Dearborn St., left home about 2 p. m. Tuesday and has not been heard from since. NET CLOSES ON ‘BOOTLEGGER KING’ By T r nlted Press CHICAGO, July 11. —Evidence which John Evans, assistant Federal district attorney, declares will enable the Government to halt operations of Lawrence Crowley, alleged "bootlegger king” of Illinois. was seized during a raid on a brewery in Elgin today. Federal agents, led by Bryce Armstrong. trailed two trucks of beer from the Elgin Ice Products Company, to a rural road and seized them, Evans anounced. Evans declared bootlegging activities by Crowley, formerly a Joliet dog-catcher, has amassed a fortune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, several large business buildings In northern Illinois and a palatial, richly furnished mansion In Joliet.
Jurist, declared Monday "It is a privilege of a woman, especially a widow, to get a husband, even If she has to propose to him." Fred G. Thompson. Chicago "sheman,” and alleged killer, was formally charged with murder by a grand jury Tuesday. The Leviathan docked at 10 p. m. at Southampton Tuesday, completing her first voyage under United States flag. Hans W. Langseth, Barney S. D„ with his seventeen feet of whiskers, arrived in Chicago Monday to celebrate his-eeventy-seventh birthday and explain how he nursed his crop of chin foliage. Mrs. A1 St. John, -wife of the movie comedian has filed suit for divorce at Los Angeles. Three bandits, ohe wearing a policeman’s badge, held up a truck of the American Tobacco Company at New York Tuesday and escaped with cigarettes valued at $20,000, and the truck. A party of American tourists narrowly escaped death near Turin, Italy, Tuesday when a boulder crashed down a mountain wrecking their automobile. The Berlin government Tuesday announced wage Increases to officials averaging 80 per cent. Gaston Glass, film star, Louis Gaanler, producer and two women are on
Automobiles Wanted for Use of Delegates During ThreeDay Meeting Beginning Friday-General Pershing Will Be Here Saturday. Detailed program of the convention of the Rainbow eterans Association here Friday, through Sunday, was announced today. The schedule: Friday, 9 A. M. —Gen. Henri Gouraud, famous French officer, will arrive and be met at Union Station by special committee.
Friday, 2 P. M.—First business' sesSioq. on roof garden of Severin. Governor McCray, Mayor Shank, General Gouraud, speakers. Friday, 7:30 P. M. —Band concert and boxing show at Washington Park. Saturday, 9 A. M.—Business session at Palace Theater. Addresses by Gen. John J. Pershing, who will arrive at 11:12 a. m. Parade at 1:45 P. M. Saturday, 1:45 P. M.—Parade will move through downtown district from St. Clair Park, headed by Generals Pershing and Gouraud. Gen. Harry B. Smith will be in command. Line of march: Meridian St. around Circle to Washington St., east tq New Jersey St., countermarch to West St., where the men will board box cars, reminders of the war, for the Speedway. Saturday. 4 P. M. —Special fifty-mile race at Speedway. Saturday, 7 P. M.-jßanquet in Manufacturers' building, State fairground. Sunday. 8:30 A. M.—Automobile tour of city, leaving from Monument. Sunday, 2:30 P. M. —Memorial services at Cadle Tabernacle. Pershing to Speak (general Pershing will address a meeting of the National Council Reserve Officers’ Association at the Claypool Saturday afternoon. Gen. Henry J. Reilly, who was chairman of the national committee for the Rainbow convention, is president of the association. Pershing will leave Indianapolis at 10:10 p. m. Saturday. Appeals for automobiles for the use of veterans have been issued by John W. Green, chairman of the automobile committee, and by M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club. Boy Scouts wishing to do special duty are urged to report to Scout headquarters in the Chamber of Commence before noon Thursday. Marion County Raibow men will register at a meeting in Superior Court, room 3, from 6 to 10 p. m. this evening. Byron C. Young, county president, has urged every man to attend the meeting. Samuel D. Miller, general charlman of the citzens” committee for the convention, will talk. Meetings of comittee chairmen will be held at the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, when final details will be checekd up. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company has granted free service to Rainbow men wearing badges.
IS PROHIBITION PROVING SUCCESS? ■fOrmtinued From Page 1) the living conditions of the families of men who formerly failed to provide for their wives and children before debauching. In this series of articles an attempt will be made to record the present situation as regards the legal manufacture and distribution of alcohol and spirits in tha United States, and to describe the illicit trade of smugglers and bootleggers. The effect of prohibition on crime, the problems which confront enforcement officers, and the present popular attitude of various important groups of the population will likewise be discussed. Pro-Volstead Consumption During the five years before national prohibition became effective, the annual consumption of alcoholic beverages amounted to approximately 2,200,000,000 gallons Nearly 90 per cent of this was beer, which totaled 2,000,000,000 gallons. Distilled spirits totaled aobut 160,000,000 gallons and wines aobut 50,000.000 gallons. The present consumption of beer is negligible. Beer worthy of the name may only legally he obtained on prescription by a physician. Wine is still being consumed in important quantities, for it is available on prescription from a physician and also for sacramental purposes. During the year ending Feb. 28, 1923, 7,469,000 gallons of wine was legally consumed In the United States. This amounted to over one-seventh the preprohibition normal consumption. Most of this wen:: to Jews, who are authorized to buy a maximum of two gallons a year for each member of their families. Whisky may be lawfully' obtained only on prescription. During 1922 the lawful consumption of whisky was slightly under 2,000,000 gallons, or one-seventy-fifth the normal consumption. < Whisky' Drinking Effective Illicit consumption of whisky, however, Is very extensive. While beer and wine are relatively'- difficult to obtain Illegally because of their bulk, whisky Is everywhere to be had. Bottlegging of beer or wine In sufficient quantities to be profitable is extremely difficult. Beer containing more than the legal quantity of alcohol is frequently to be had at nearbeer breweries, and is also sold at many bars, but the restrictions are sufficient to keep the total consumption down to a very small fraction of the pre-prohibition figure. The same general situation applies to wine. The high prices men ars willing to pay for whisky, in contrast to the amount they will pay for beer and wine, has incited a tremendous trade in illegal whisky and gin. Much of the illicit whisky and gin Is made from grain alcohol now being lawfully manufactured in the United States and diverted from lawful to unlawful channels via flavoring extract, hair tonic, tooth paste and liniment factories. Druggists and chemists also are authorized to withdraw from industrial alcohol plants and bonded warehouses such quantities of grain alcohol aa they require. Alcohol Manufacture Heavy
Victim of Crash on Interurban Crossing
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Driving his automobile directly in front of a Newcastle division Union Traction Interurban at Emerson Ave., Wiliiam H. Weaver, contractor, 5412 E. Washington St., was instantly killed late Tuesday.
States today at a rate of 10.000,000 proof gallons per month. This exceeds the quantity of industrial alcohol produced before the war, but is less than the amouiit produced during the war years, when war necessities requiring alcohol were manufactured in large quantities. Thete are today seventy alcohol producing plants in the country, and for the most part they are working at a greater capacity than they were two years ago. . The greater part of this alcohol is denatured—that is, made unfit for Internal consumption. Os that which is denatured, over one-half Is "specially denatured.” Specially denatured alcohol is used for tooth pastes, liniments, hair tonics and hundreds of similar purposes. It is not absolutely poisonous as is completely denatured alcohol Severe restrictions surround the manufacture and withdrawal of grain alcohol which io not denatured or not "completely denatured.” Asa result, many Industrial establishments which formerly used "specially denatured" or undenatured alcohol have turned to the use of completely denatured alcohol, which is for sale to the public with very little supervision. While comprehensive statistics on this shift from the use of good grain alcohol to denatured alcohol are not available, chemists of the TreasuryDepartment say the move Is general enough to make large quantities of grain alcohol which were formerly used in industry available for bootleg operations.
Wareliouses Are Source Another source of -whisky within the country is that in storage at bonded warehouses. Legally This may, be withdrawn only for medicinal purposes and Is distributed to druggists who have been granted the proper authority. There have been a number of important illegal withdrawals made possible by the use of fake permits. To minimize the dangers of this type by centralizing control, all whisky in bonded warehouses, over 300 in number, is being moved to twentyfive centrally located warehouses. The total amount of whisky now on hand In bonded warehouses In the United States is approximately 37,000,000 gallons. Since November, 1921, there has been no lawful manufacture of whisky In the United States. Until such time as the amount in the warehouses shows signs of depletion, no permits will he granted to distilleries. At the present rate of withdrawal, the warehouse supply will last eighteen years. Intoxicating liquors now available in the United States fall into four groups: (1) The liquor lawfully available on prescription and for ritualistic purposes; (2) the illicit liquor made from alcohol legally manufactured but diverted from lawful channels; (3) moonshine whisky made with stills, large and small, operated by trained chemists and Ignorant mountaineers, alike, and (4) liquor smuggled into the United States from North and South and West, but chieflly from the East. Quantities Unlimited The quantities available from these sources are not limited—except by the severity of enforcement and the Elasticity of the pocketbooks of consumers. The principal effect of more rigid enforcement of the Volstead act to date has been the boosting of prices —not the stopping of the supply. Realizing all illicit sources of liquor are still insufficient to meet the demand for beverages, non-alcoholic drinks are being sold widely in such a manner any one but a moron can very readily remedy the situation by simply adding grain alcohol—carried by all up-to-date bootleggers—and thus justify the claims of the manufacturers that "our non-alcoholic beverages make xpur private stock last longer.” Walska Abandons Tour By United Press PARIS, July 11.—Ganna Walska has abandoned her plans for an opera tour and sailed tpday on the Olympic for New York to meet her husband,
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SHOPTAW GIVES THEORY OF ROTH AND NJJIi DEATHS Aide to Winning Pilot Says He Believes Latter Was Tied to Balloon, Lieut. John W. Shoptaw, aide to Robert S. Olmstead, pilot of the United States Army balloon that Vuii the national elimination balloon race ' which started at the Speedway July 4, stopped at the Chamber of Commerce this morning en route to Cha* nute field, Rantoul, 111. “We were certainly sorry to hear about Lieutenant Roth's death," Lieutene.nt Shoptaw said. "I think they were forced down in the storm. I was talking with Ralph Upson (another pilot) in Detroit recently and | we came to the conclusion that in all ! probability when they were coming I down they- decided to cut the basket j from the bag. Roth stayed in the j basket and Lieutenant Null roped / himself to the bag. Os course, when the basket was cut loose the balloon might have shot up about thirty thousand feet. If that was the case Null might have become unconscious from \ the lack of oxygen and dropped from the bag, falling either into the lake or In some woods." Had Two Chances for Lives Lieutenant Shoptaw asserted that if Lieutenant Roth and Lieutenant Null did undertake such a hazard they were taking two chances of being saved whereas if they remained in the basket they had only one chance. “Under the circumstances I believe that is what I would have done,” said Lieutenant Shoptaw. Lieutenant Shoptaw said that he and Lieutenant Olmstead saw H. E. Honeywell and Roth behind and below them early Thursday morning. Storm Causes Worry "We saw the storm approaching,’* Shoptaw said. "It had us worried. It was a terrific thing. I know Lieutenant Roth got the worst of it. We were worried for ourselves at first but later we became alarmed about Honeywell and Lieutenant Roth.” Lieutenant Shoptaw said that hia balloon flew over the entire length of Lake Erie. Lieutenant Shoptaw asserted they could have flown pver Lake Ontario but they were "fed up” on lakes. "We arbitrated for a w-hile what we should do," Shoptaw said. "Finally we decided to fly- close to the ground and let the current take us southeast, < We were in danger of being blown back over the lakes when we landed about two and a half miles south of Marilla, N. Y. Lieutenant Shoptaw expects to sail for Belgium about Aug. 1, where he and Lieutenant Olmstead will represent the United States in the international balloon race at Brussels, Sept. 23. They will use the same balloon. Olmsted and Shoptaw. had plenty of entertainment including radio returns of the Wempsey-Gibbons fight, while on the trip. .
EXPLOSION TOIL REACHESJ2 DEAD Mother of Ten Children !nr eluded in Fatality List. i By United Press EAST ALTON. 111., July 11—Twelve lives were lost and twenty-three injured when a ten-pound lump of powder accumulated in the chamber of a decapping machine exploded at the Western Cartridge Company late on Tuesday, sending parts of the machine In every direction, striking men and women employed in the building, seven of the dead were women. One of these killed was the mother of ten children. She began work at the plant Tuesday morning. The injured were taken to a hospital in Alton. Five of the dead were killed instantly, while the others died at the hospital. Every available nurse and physician from Alton was rushed to the scene. Fifty persons, many of them women, were employed in the building, a one-story structure, which Is fireproof, except for flooring, and was not damaged, except windows shattered and light fixtures torn from the ceiling and wall. It was used for work of separating bullets from cartridges. These are purchased from the Government as part of its disposal of wartime equipment. COMMITTEES ARE NAMED Fred Killen, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, announced today the following standing committees of the organization: Membership, Edward Dorey, Herbert Krauch, Lemoyne Lambert, C. H. Lysett, L. C. Kercheval; program, Ralph Klare, Marlon Borders, A. C. Kamplain, ,'R. Lloyd Monroe, Kent Dorman: finance, Ferdinand Barnikel Jr Dan W. Flickenger, George Mize, W. S. Horn. Austin V. Clifford; acceptance check, Myron Hughel, rfFred Rakemann, Grier M. Shotwell, Allan Heaton, E. Earl Robinson; social, William Florea, Kenneth Rosenberger, Harold Haskett, Frank Olson and Curtis McKown. IjOcal Men Held at Noblesville NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 11.— Police today held two young men giving their names as Roll Hoss and M. J. Thomas, of Indianapolis, on bootlegging charges, according to a dispatch. Noblesville police said they caught them with two gallons of grain alcohol while they were repair-