Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 107

SHENANDOAH SPLITS IN SKY; 14 DIE

Milk Is Analyzed for Taint as Child Dies

ARCHITECTS IN MEETING mm War Memorial Trustees Have Closed Conference 9 —Action on Dismissal Recommendation Is Not Given Out. * BOARD OF ACCOUNTS IS NOT REPRESENTED Indianapolis Engineers Adopt Minority Report, Urging Appointment of Disinterested Expert and Ask Thorough Probe. .hist what action trustees of the Indiana World War Memorial will take on recommendat ons that. Walker & Weeks, Cleveland. Ohio, Memorial architects, he discharged, was still being debated this afternoon. The Memorial hoard continued its session begun about 10 a. m. at the American Legion Bldg. trough the noon ly*ur. No o-rd was given out. At the meeting -were Marcus L. SonntTg, Evansville; Samuel B. Royse. Terre Haute; Robert Batten, Marlon; Thomas B. Coulter, Vincennes; Howard O'Neal, Crawfordsville; William P. G-lenn, Gary, and Evans Woollen, Indianapolis, just Enough to constitute a quorum, together with Walker & Weeks. Sam Ashby and Paul Comstock, attorney and secretary, respectively, of the board, attended the session. No member of the State board of acconuts, which recommended the dismissal, was present. Engineers Divided Meanwhile a divided report by the committee of the Indianapolis Chapter American Association of Engineers concerning action of the War Memorial Plaza squabble was presented the organization at luncheon at the Board of Trade. E. W. McCullough and Daniel B. Luten presented the following resolution, the majorit yreport: “Resolved that if the reports be true hat the architects under contract to design the Indiana World War Memorial specified a material in which they were financially interested they should be discharged and (Turn to Page 13) JTIO GRAND ON RAMPAGE §.d Drives f>oo From Homes in Vicinity of El Paso B\ / United Pres* EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 3. —Five hundred persons were temporarily homeless in El Paso and vicinity today as a result of the Rio Grande river breaking through its levees after a rise which exceeded that of last month. A side current two feet deep was running through the MexU can quarter here at 10 o’clock today, five blocks from the river's bed. Three outlying additions are flooded. FLAPPER FANNY sea A' 1\ ik . "e 192S BY Ml rfiKVICt me j A mirror will tell you who is

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Coroner Robinson Investigates Death of Lad and Serious Illness of Older Brother Following Supper Tuesday Night. NAME OF DAIRY FIRM FACING PROBE WITHHELD Physician Called by Parents Early Wednesday, but Youngest Boy Succumbs Seven Hours Later —Consumed Greater Portion. Kenneth, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Huggins, of 2922 Shriver Ave., was dead today and his brother, John, Jr., 4, was seriously ill at his home. Milk from which children drank Tuesday evening at supper, was ordered held by Coroner Paul F. Robinson, for chemical analysis. He said indications were that tainted milk had caused the children’s illness. Robinson withheld the name of the dairy from which the milk came, pending investigation. According to the parents, Kenneth drank considerable more of the milk than his brother. Wednesday at 5 a. m., the children became so 111 that Dr. Irwin P. Medsker, 316 E. Thirtieth St., was called. Kenneth died Wednesday noon. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Saturday at the home, with burial In Crown Hill. CITY TAX LEVY GAIN FORECAST May Seek to Mandate 3Cent Increase. A rise of 3 cents in the ci’v tax levy loomed in prospect today with announcement by Merle N. A. Walker, attorney, that he would file suit to mandate the Istate tax board and auditor to establish levies for 1926 of 2 cents each for the police and firemen’s pension funds, reduced by Mayor Shank to one-half-cent each. Should Walker’s efforts be successful the tax levy would be increased from its present figure of $1.0525 to $1.0825. Walker said the law provides for a 2-oent levy for each division, but declared his clients would have been satisfied with a rate of 1 cent for each division. Budgeteers refused to authorize the t-cent rate, he said. If the board of sanitary commissioners succeed in raising their levy of 2 cents, for which a campaign has started with city council members, the levy for 1926 would mount to $1.1025. On the other hand, there is prospect of reduction of the park board levy 1 cent when city council tackles the budget. 1,50© RETAIL BUYERS HERE Official Observance of Week to End. Out-of-town retailers who are guests of wholesale firms here during Buyers' week reached the 1,500 mark today Clifford Dunphy, manager of the wholesale trade division of the Chamber of Commerce, estimated. Practically all of the sixteen houses participating reported heavier attendance than last year. While buyers -will continue to purchase fall stock the rest of the week, the official observance of the week ends today. Several hundred buyers were guests of the wholesalers at English’s Theater, Wednesday night. SUBMARINE IS FOUND; 55 DEAD Italian Undersea Craft Located. Bn United Preen ROME. Sept. 3.—The 111 fated Italian submarine, Sebatlno Venelro, with fifty-five aboard, was reported today to have been located In ninety meters of water of Cape Passero. The Navy department has notified the families of the Veneiro’s crew of their deaths. The submarine was lost during the recent naval.sham wsr and floating oil of Cape Paisero indicated that the Moot wmm hme burial ground.

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PACIFIC FLIERS NOT FOUND IN 48 JIOURS Honolulu Gives Up Hope That Naval Plane Will Reach There Safely.

Hu Vnited Prruit NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—The United States Navy will press on in another effort to reach the Hawgilans by air as soon as the weather Is favorable. Despite th possible losss of the seaplane PN-9-1, with Its live-man crew, the PB-1 will take off here at the earliest opportunity, Capt. Stanford E, Moses, flight project commander, announced today. The PB-1 Is In the beet of shape and Captain Moses advised the secretary they were merely waiting for good weather. "As far as we are concerned hers, we all want to see the flight started," Lieutenant Wead said. No word from the missing PN-9-1 has been received here. The plane and cj'ew has been missing nearly forty-eight hours. The U. 8. .8. Aroostook radioed the commandant of the twelfth na-

INDIANAPOLIS, THUKSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1925

val district here today that, despite the efforts of airplanes, destroyers and merchant ships, no trace of the missing fliers had been found. Meantime Honolulu dispatches to the United Press said that the people there had practically given up the aviators as lost. BIG LIFE LOSS IS REPORTED Typhoon Lashes Chinese Ships. Bn Vntteii Prt SHANGHAI, Sept. 3.—Lashed by a typhon many small native ships are reported today to have foundered with considerable loss of life. The Chinese steamer Alu Amoy for Shanghai was wrecked near Foo Chow, but her passengers are reported saved.

Twisted Mass Tells Story of Wreck Farmer Says He Heard Crash on Roof and Saw Debris Land. y

By L. H. Merrick United Pre Staff Corresoondent AMBRIDGE, Ohio, Sept 3. Andy Gamary, 32, Slavish farmhand, the first civilian to reach the wreckage of the Shenandoah told a graphls story today of the crash. “Mary, my wife, had Just started downstairs to put on the coffee,” said Andy. "I stayed upstairs to mind the kids. * 'T heard a terrific crash on the roof if the house. the window I saw something crash In the yard. ” ‘My God, Mary,’ I called. ‘An airplane has dropped.’ I had no idea the big ship was around. “I dashed into the yard. In the wreckage I >aw two forms. I saw another man under the heavy iron. He was alive because he was moving Ills anus. Survivors Ask .Vid "I couldn't reach the men and In the excitement I thought of getting a doctor.. In another minute I met some men from the ship coming toward me. (These were the survivors of the aft half of the ship which had dropped some distance beyond.) "They asked me if I had a telephone. I had no phone and I told them where the nearest one was. “They told me to go and get help and I went to some neighbors .and spread the news.” .lust a few feet from Andy’s house—in his very yard—lay the wreckage of the control, cabin where most of the men met their deatli—a tangled twisted mass of metal. Blood-stained fence posts tell (lie story of the crash to earth of the death cabin that carried Captain Lansdowne and his mates to their terrible end. Picture of Wreck Tla's scene—the devastated patch of green corn where the cabin lay —through a typical barn-yard, down the lull to a patch of trees where another batch of wreckage was caught—shreds of oiled sMk, twisted aluminum frame, bits of control apparatus, shattered cartons of canned food, hits of polished wood, tangled wire—plainly mark the course of the rear portion of the ship to its resting place on the hillside— Many of the gas compartments were still ’nflated and the huge section of the ship with 'its tangled mass of metal front and rear, rooked In the wind. Ominous crunchings as • the hlg bag heaved hefore the breeze drove thousands of curious sightseers and souvenir hunters back again and again. The big section had nearly turned over on its side after the hour's rocking, but the name Shenandoah and the red. white and blue star, the insignia of the air service, still were visible.

Measurements of Wrecked Blimp LENGTH—6BO feet. GREATEST DIAMETER--79 feet. GAS BAG CAPACITY—--2,200,000 cubic feet of helium. LIFT mately "0 tons. MOTORS—Six Packards, 300 horsepower each. WEIGHT—3O tons. SPEED—6O to 70 miles an hour. RADIUB OF ACTION—4,OOO miles. ESTIMATED COST—SI,2SO.000. APPROXIMATE CREW r 7S officers and men. $

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Commander Zachary Ijtnsdmvn of fhf Shennndnihi, who was killed. MORE INCOME RETURNSSEEN Marshall and Beveridge 1924 Figures on File. Among the prominent Indiana persona whose 1924 income tax payments are on file at the office of M. Bert Thurman, collector of internal revenue for Indiana today are: THOMAS R. MARSHALL,, deceased. former Vice-President of the United States, 1939 N. Illinois St. 1931.78. ALBERT .T. BEVERIDGE, former United States Senator, 41'’,4 Washington Blvd., *464.88. ABE GOLDSTEIN, department store proprietor, Indianapolis Athletic Club. *717.98. EMERSON W. CHAILLE, real estate dealer, 308 N. Meridian St., *50.41. WILLIAM C. SMITH. JR., Vicepresident Indianapolis Athletic Assiciation baseball club, Columbia Club. *52.50. SAMUEL LEWIS SHANK, golden Hill $58.27. EPH INMAN, attorney, 33 E. Sixteenth St., *124.95. ONA B. TALBOT. 1446 N. Illinois St., *ls. JUDGES ARE ABSENT Fail to Discuss Remodeling With Commissioners. When not a single Judge appeared this morning at a conference arranged by county commissioners, with the jurists as special guests, discussion of remodeling the courthouse was postponed until Tuesday. The Judges are against inserting another tier of rooms in the top of the present second floor. Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court has Issued an order forbidding It. HOT SEPTEMBER DAY Thermometer Climbs With No Forecast for Change. Indianapolis today decided that tho advent of September does not necessarily mean the departure of summer temperatures, when the thermometer soared to 93 at 1 p. m. This is about 9 degrees above normal. The forecast is for no decided change In temperature. In Boston, Mass., overcoats were popular, Today's Brooklyn-Boston baseball game was postponed on account of cold weather. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 8 a. m 72 10 a. m 90 7 a. m 73 11 a. m.,,.. 91 8 a. m 80 12 (noon) .... 92 9 a. m 85 1 p. m 93

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Giant Dirigible, Fighting Hurricane, Crashes to Earth, Breaking Into Four Pieces, on Trip That Would Have Brought It Here Today. BODIES OF CRAFT’S VICTIMS STREWN OVER 10-MILE COURSE Commander Zachary Lansdowne Goes Down With His Ship and Is Found Dead—Several Are Missing and Two Are Injured.

Not Unexpected Bn United Preen _ „ . ~. WASHINGTON, Sept. J.—Secretary of the Navy Wilbur today said the crash of the Shenandoah was ‘‘not unexpected.” The nav.t always has feared the effects on its airships of the destructive local storms prevalent at times iu the interior of the United States, Wilbur said.

Bn United Pries CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Sept. 3.—Whirled through space, twisted and tossed by the winds until she broke into pieces, the giant naval dirigible Shenandoah hurled fourteen of her crew to their deaths early today near Ava., Ohio, and then fell, a total wreck. Commander Zachary Lansdowne perished with his ship. In addition to the fourteen dead, two are injured and three of the crew are unaccounted for. The remainder of the crew of forty-two is safe. Crew Hurled From Cabins Members of the crew were scattered over an area of ten miles as the giant airship whirled and twisted in the air, tossing them from the cabins swung beneath the gas bag.

Those who witnessed the disaster from the ground described the Shenandoah spinning like a giant "revolving door” until she finally broke in two. Scattered Over Ten Miles The dirigible reached the grouncj in four pieces, scattered over ten miles. First the keel broke off and fell, one part directly to .earth In a farmers' barnyard and the other ten miles away—carrying eight of the crew to the ground with it, uninjured. Without the keel, the airship careened in the storm beyond all control. Then a seam opened and the hag broke apart, the forward half dropping to earth, nose first and the stern drifting miles away and landing as it was almost lost to sight. Tossed Like a Toy People up early to watch for the coming of the great air cruiser saw her spin and twist and plunge as the gale, as if angry, vented Its whims upon the ship tossing it as if It were a toy. First, a railroad telegrapher at Belle Valley, Ohio, saw the dirigible spinning on its tail above him, nose up and helpless. Girl telephone operators at Ava, Ohio, looked out and aw It only a few hundred feet from the ground, still fighting ltc way. Started I .ate Yesterday Then, as they looked, came the final crash and they sent out the word that the Shenandoah was a wreck. Starting its tragic trip, the big blimp cast off from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., at 4:02 p. m., Wednesday, bound for a neighborly, week-end visit to the Middle West, where she was to have flown over State fairs In seven State capitals. The return was to have been made not later than Monday. It was the second attempt of the dirigible to Invade the Mississippi Valley, high winds having turned It back once earlier In the summer. Was on Way Here It was to have passed over Indianapolis and Lafayette, Ind., today, en route to Scott field, St. Louis, where It was to stop. The return was to have been made by the way of Detroit, where it was to stop again and moor at the new dirigible mast built by Henry Ford at his River Rouge, Mich., plant. Ford was to have boarded the craft to fly back east. Passing over Akron, Sunday, Chief Petty Officer Frank Masters, listed (Turn to Page 13)

Air Navy Has Two Disasters The giant dirigible Shenandoah was wrecked, breaking in two over Ava, Ohio, In a storm early today. Fourteen were killed. The air branch of the American Navy thus Is confronted with two major disasters. The Navy plane PN-9-1, which attempted to fly to Honolulu, has now been missing thirty-six hours, with five men aboard and chances of their rescue are hourly diminishing.

Forecast FAIR tonight and Friday; no decided change in temperature.

TWO CENTS

Toll of Fourteen Lives Taken

Bu United Prrtn CAMBRIDGE. Ohio, Sept. 3.—An official check-up of the casualties in tile crash of the Shenandoah today showed fourteen dead, two injured and three missing. The known dead are: L I E I’TENANT CO M MANDER ZACHARY LANSDOWNK, Grand Rapids Wis. MEI TENANT COM MANDER LOUIS HANCOCK, executive officer, Austin, Texas. LIEUT. ,F. B. I.u\ WRENCH, senior watch officer, St. Bgul, Minn. LIEUT. A. R. HOUGHTON, watch officer, Allston. Mass. RIGGER EVERETT P. ALLEN, Omaha, MACHINIST’S MATE CHARLES BROOM, Toms River, N. J. PILOT JAMES W. CI'LLINAN, Binghamton, N. Y. RIGGER RALPH T. JEFFR.AY, St. Louis, Mo. MACHINISTS M.-VXE JAMES A. MOORE, Savannah, Ga. MACHINIST’S MATE CELESTINTO P. MAZUCO, Murray Hills, N. J. M YCHTNTT’S MATE RARTHOLEMEW O’SULLIVAN, Lowell, Mass. RIGGER GEORGE C. SNITZER. Tuokerton, N. J. MACHINIST'S MATE WML 11. SPRATTLEY, Venice, 111. Two were injured: CHIEF GUNNER RAYMOND COLE, Lima. Ohio. RIGGER JOHN F. Mcf’ARTHY. Freehold, N. ,T. LIEUT. K. W. SHEPPARD, Washington, D. C. The missing are; PII/OT FRANKLIN E. MASTERS. Akron, Ohio. RIGGER HENRY A. BALIARD, Gordon, Ala. YEOMAN RICHARDSON WILSON, Y'akima, Wash. FOUNDRY FIRE LOSS $50,000 Prompt Work Keeps Blaze From Spreading. Fire starting frond an overheated coke oven destroyed the foundry section of the Peerless Foundry Company, 1853 Ludlow Ava., early today with an estimated loss of *50,000. Blaze was discovered shortly after midnight by J. P. Ott, 803 Elm St., night watchman. Upon arrival of first detachment of fire apparatus Battalion Chief McKinney sounded a second alarm. Prompt work by firemen kept the fire from spreading. Structure, which was 75x100 feet, contained patterns and machinery, all of which were destroyed. Clay Sparks, secretary, said the loss was covered by Insurance. Eighteen companies used ten lines In fighting ths blaze.