Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1925 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37 —NUMBER 108

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Here are first photographs of the Shenandoah disaster, secured by a staff Scripps-Howard newspaper photographer, who rushed, by airplane, to the scene where the giant blimp crashed early yesterday at Ava, Ohio. The photographer, from the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen, arrived at the wreck scene ahead of thousands of souvenier hunters who have hacked and pilfered the ruins until nothing remains today but the huge engines, too heavy to be carried away. N. E. A. Service completed the photographs and delivery to The Times. At the right is shown a close-up of the twisted wreckage of the framework of the ship.

WAS? MEMORIAL QUIZ MAY GO TO GRAND JURY Accounts Board to Act if Rivet Steel Found in Legion Building. TRUSTEES ARE SCORED Conduct of Architects Denounced by Orr. Characterizing failure of trustees of the Indiana World War Memorial 9o take definite action on the plaza trlsls as “unsatisfactory,” Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the State board of accounts issued a statement today branding as "criminal” the conduct of Walker & Weeks, memorial architects. Orr’s statement tvas based on recent disclosure by the accounts board that the architectural firm la interested In the Rivet-Grip Steel Company of Cleveland, Ohio, whose patented product was specified in original plans for the foundation of the main plaza building. Asa result of the disclosure, the opening of bids on the project was postponed recently on Orr's recommendation. Rigid Quiz Orr declared a rigid examination would be made on the American Legion Bldg., built at a cost in excess of $300,000, which is a part of the general plaza layout. If the investigation shows that rivet-grip steel was used in this structure, as has been alleged, Orr declared the entire matter would be thrown before the Marion County grand jury. Memorial tr ustee * spent the entire day Thursday studying charges launched by Orr, but arrived at no definite decision beyond issuing a statement admitting that the conduct of Walker & Weeks had been “unethical and the use of their steel illegal.” Orr declared informally that the trustees had done nothing other than “whitewash Walker & Weeks.” The trustees also engaged Prof. W. K. Hatt of Purdue University, recognized as one of the outstanding authorities in the country on (Turn to Page 23) TRACTIONCAR KILLS MOTORIST Salesman Meets Instant Death Near Here. Clem Duerstock, 154 W. Pratt St., salesman, was instantly kililed this afternoon when he drove his automobile in front of an Indianapolis & Cincinnati traction freight car at Stop 9 on tlie Shelbyville road, about seven miles southeast of here. Deputy Coroner William A. Doeppers, said he was told Duerstock turned right directly in front of the oncoming car. The auto was dragged 600 feet and demolished. Duerstock’s body was mangled beyond recognition. Chester Morris, and Green Morris of Shelbyville, were in charge of the car. Both were slated. CUTS THROAT, MAY DIB Bv Tnited Pres* BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 4. —Mrs. John A. Downing, 68, slashed her throat today with' a butcher knife while peeling apples at her home at Beeridge, near here. Physicians say *** rlll -'"

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SURVIVORS OF CRASH BACK IN LAKEHURST Party Members Unaule to Achieve a Smile as They Are Tearfully Greeted by Widows.

By Paul R. Fallon Unit and Prett Staff Correspondent LAKEHURST, N. J„ Sept. 4. Eighteen survivors of the crew of the Shenandoah that ser. out day before yesterday from here to conquer the winds of the West came home today to find a colony of mourning. Scarred and bruised, still in their dongarees, some were without hats as they stopped off here at 9:55 a. HOTTEST MONTH HERE IN YEARS Mercury Highest Thursday Since 1899. Record-breaking September temperatures are being hung-up in Indianapolis and territory to the south, the United States Weather Bureau ! repoited today. No relief is in sight. Temperature at noon was 91, a degree lower than at noon Thursday. With a mark of 95 at. 2 p. m. Thursday was the hottest September day on record h°re since Sept. 6, 1899, 4vhen the thermometer ! • gistered 98. Several stations over Indiana had high figures, Vincennes, lead with 102, while Paoli had 101, and Columbus and Evansville each 100. Temperature at 7 a. m. today was if. or 7 degrees above normal. This is 2 degrees below the mark for the i same hour Thursday. The lowest mark this morning was 69 at 6 a. in. Corn in some sections of Indiana has been injured by the heat and continued drought, according to J. H. Arrnlngton, meteorologist. lowa and Nebraska reported 95 degrees, and Springfield, 111., registered 99.3. Showers fell in the northwest today, causing a drop in temperatures, which Thursday reached 97 degrees. RELIEF NOT IN SIGHT St. Louis Reports Eight Dead As Result of Heat. Bv United Prett CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—There is no relief in sight for the middle States which are baking in record-breaking September temperatures, the weather bureau forecast today. St. Louis reports a loss of eight lives due to the heat, whils other sections report several prostrations. MINE OWNERS DEMANDTROCPS Governor Asked for Guards in Strike Area. Bv United Pro** OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 4. —Mine operators from Pittsburgh and Lattimer Counties today appeared before Acting Governor W. J. Holloway and demanded troops be sent to that section of the strike area. The delegation reported part of the equipment of Dow Mine No. 5 had been destroyed by fire. Other | disturbances such as shots being

m., to be greeted by a crowd of more than 1,000 relatives and friends. It was a tearful greeting Women and children, many of them having lost their husbands and fathers in the disaster, cried hysterically as the survivors came from their coach. Fall to Smile The men attempted smiles, but could not achieve them. They presented a grim spectacle as in their torn clothing they clasped the hands of friends or swept members of their families into their arms. Automobiles were driven up alongside the Lakehurst water tank and the men gingerly climbedd into them for the mile trip to the naval station. Lieut. T.*C. Hendley of Columbia, Tenn., communications officer of the Shenanhoad, was in charge of the party. “I i!o not believe there is any way this accident could have been avoided,” he said. Received Weather Warning “We received the weather reports as usual from Arlington at midnight, but we didn't expert anything like what we encountered, although we knew there was a storm. We never ran into anything like it before. "W© set our chart for the night on the basis of our advices from Arlington and everyone, except those on watch, retired for sleep.” “How long was it ‘ between the time you knew you were in the storm and perhaps in trouble, and the time the ship broke up?” Hendiey was asked. “Just a few minutes, I think,” he answered uncertainly. Then he turned to Lieut. J. B. Anderson, who was with him. “Wasn't it just five or ten minutes?'' he asked Anderson. "I think it was about half an hour,” said Anderson. Then they agreed that probably no one could say definitely—so great was the strain and excitement. LEGION OFFICER FETED Citizens Pay Honor so Clarence A. Jackson. Bu Timer Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 4. Clarence A. Jackson of this, city, recently elected commander of Indiana department of the American Legion, was feted Thursday night by 200 persons, State Legion officers, workers and local citizens. Paul Benson, local attorney, presided at a dinner in Jackson’s honor. Mayor John H. Morris, State Senator Walter S. Chambers, Ray Davis, president local Chamber of Commerce; Waite* Myers, Indianapolis Democratic candidate for mayor, and spoke. DOUBLE BILL SCHEDULED Hibernians and Klan so Parade at Anderson Labor Day. Bv Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Dept. 4.—Ancent Order of Hibernians and the Ku Klux Klan will have Labor day programs here, Monday. The Hibernians will parade in the afternoon and the Klan at night. Indianapolis delegations will attend both meetings. Klan officials said about 900 from Indianapolis will make the trip. Three traction cars will pe chartered by the Klan. Rational leaders are on the Droeiaci,

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YELLOWLEY IS MADE DISTRICT DRY DIRECTOR Former Chief of All Agents Will Replace Rev. Ewing. HAS '"BEEN IN WEST Andrews’ Aid Announces Appointment. Bv United Prett WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—E. C. Yellowley, former chief of prohibition agents, who was appointed

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Aug. 21 to be prohibition agent for District No. 21 (northern California and Nevada), has been made head of District 13, with headquarters at Chicago, Frank Dow, assistant to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, announced today. Yellowley displaces Rev. Benjamin Ewing, present acting administrator of District 13. Yellowley’s new jurisdiction covers Indiana, Illinois and parts of Wisconsin. MORGAN KEEPS SILENT Director Refuses to Discuss Chance for Permanent Berth. Bert C. Morgan, acting Federal prohibition director for Indiana, said today he had no comment to make on the appointment of E. C. Yellowley as permanent district administrator, announced today at Washington. Morgan refused to discuss his chances of being appointed permanent director for Indiana under Yellowley. Three stenographers in Morgan's office who have been handling permit records, will be transferred to Chicago at once, Morgan said. A reorganization conference will be held next week between Morgan and his agents. The three stenographers Are: Miss Isabelle Graf and Miss Helen Ardery, bo h of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Irene Hoyt of Hammond, Ind. LOCAL MAN KILLED Bennett Jordan, 4615 E. Tenth St„ has been killed in an automobile accident at Bennett, Col., according to dispatches. Jordan was driving home from California with a friend.

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Wild Game to Graze in Brown County Bv Timet Spicial NASHVILLE, Ind., Sept. 4. The spirit of the wild ..nd woolly* west may again pervade Brown County. Chief Eagle Feather, a full blooded Indian, and his wife, both of Oklahoma, have closed a deal with Nashville real estate agents for the purchase of the 100-acre farm of Oliver P. Thompson in Washington Township. They plan to place a high wire fence arolmti Lhy. tract and stock if with wild' buffalo, elk, deer and moose. The game will be obtained from Government reserves, it was said. *

WASHINGTON ST. OFFICERS TO GO • Installation of Stop and Go Signal Begun. First steps to supplant the corner traffic cop on Washington St., by* the automatic signal device was taken today with start of installa tion of a stop and go signal at Senate Ave. and W. Washington St. Within a few days work will begin on the automatic signal at East and Washington Sts. Motorists who drive on Meridian St., were warned today by John Beiry, board of safe ty electrician, to heed the change Interval in automatic signals from Ohio to St. Clair Sts. The change interval has been shortened to five seconds. Berry announced. The “go” glashes forty-five seconds for Meridian St. traffic and thirty for automobile drivers going in an east or west direction. The “flasher" at Ohio and Meridian Sts. will be synchronized with the other Meridian St. lights in a week, Berry said. DEAF BOY AND AVIATOR KILLED Plane Plunges 2,000 Feet to Earth. Bv United Prett CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 4.—A former Army aviator and an ll-year-ojd boy, flying to cure the bby's deafness, were instantly killed when their airplane plunged 2,000 feet just outside of the city today. The pilot was Capt. Walter Smith and the boy Clifford Davis, both of Cleveland. The downward velocity of the plane was so great its motor was buried in the earth and the two passengers were crushed under the wreckage. The fall was caused by the crumpling of the plane’s wings.

Want Ad News Men are wanted in central Indiana. If you are a good salesman read about tbiß Job, advertised in the claasiflerl columns. Attention Is called to an exhibit scheduled for the poultry tent at the fnlr next week. A paint or carpenter shop is for rent. A lady will teach shorthand, typing or spelling at inviting rates. Fruit Jars, washstands, dresser, lau idry stove %nd other house'.joll necessities are offered for sale A violin with case is for sale; also mandolin. Olrla and men with theatrical ability are desired by local concern r |

SAY POP WILL BE STRONGEST DRINK AT FAIR Raids Begun to Make City Dry Next Week, Agents Announce. Indiana. State fair visitors will quench tiwir thirst with water, pop and lemonade only, if efforts of Federal prohibition officers and police are succcessful. Thursday night saw the liquor squads in action. Five men were arrested at a saloon at 31 N. East St. George Winkler, Federal group chief, said he had the plans for a clean up that will insure an exceptionally dry fair week. The raids are to continue over the week-end Winkler said. Several purchases marie at the East St. saloon, an well as thirteen half pints seized, will be used as evidence against William Baker, 61, of 423 Madison Ave.; Lonny Lyster, 45. of 118 N. Noble St.; John Koehler, 36. of 15 N. East St., Fred Poole, 41, of 16 N. East St., and John McFadden, 85, of 812 E. Market St., police raid. Elsie Hall, 30, colored, 1126 Cornell Ave.; Alex Pope, 34, of 723 W. Vermont St., and Robert Haas, 27, of R. R. P, Box 33, also were slated on liquor charges. Deputy sheriffs arrested Haas. RESUME OCEAN FLIER SEARCH Navy Refuses to Give Up Rescue Hope. Bu l nited Prett SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 4.—With the San Francisco to Hawaii flight seiplane PN-9-1, now missing nearly sixty hours and not a trace of her or of the five men aboard yet reported, naval officials here today still refused to give up the hope that the plane and its men might yet be found. They had no sympathy to express for suggestions made In Honolulu that the search might be abandoned and the plane given up as lost —to be recorded as anothcr'of those mysteries which the sea will never tell. Capt. Stanford Moses, fight project commander, expressed the belief that every effort should be exerted toward quickening the search.

OFFICER LOSES BADGE Allege Policeman Accepted SSO to “Forget” Evidcnee. Bu United Prett SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 4. Harold lvnudsen, special police officer, was stripped of his badge today and held to the St. Joseph County grand jury on charges of accepting a bribe. Knudsen admitted he accepted SSO to “forget” convicting evidence obtained in a rum raid, Police Chief Lawrence Lane said. Knudson served without pay and devoted his efforts to a crusade against rum. Police believe investigation may result in indictment of several officers and lawyers. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 86 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 88 8 a.m 78 12 (noon) .... 91 9 a. rn . 82 1 p. m...... 92

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CHARGES OF NEGLIGEHCE, MURDER, FLY Commander Protested Making Flight, His Widow Declares—Wilbur Denies Forcing Trip. Bv United Prett Smashed by the elements, the giant naval dirigible Shenandoah, the “Daughter of the Stars,” laid pilfered in its Ohio graveyard today, while charges of negligence in its operation and murder were made and promptly denied* A charge that politics prevailed over the protests against the fatal voyage by Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, who perished with his ship when it crashed near Ava, Ohio, hurling fourteen of its crew to their deaths, was made by Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, his widow.

Captain Anton Heinen construction expert of the dirigible, charged the deaths were murder. Senator Duncan Fletcher, Florida, ranking member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, said the Navy need expect no more money for lightor-thnn-air activities. An inference that weather warn ings given the pilots b-y Arlington observers did rot graphically enough depict actual conditions for the dirigible officers to foresee the danger it was riding into, was made by two of the eighteen survivors on their arrival back in lakehurst to report for duty. And the key* to solution of this problem the ship’s log is missing. By Harry Sharpe United Prett Staff Correspondent CALDWELL. Ohio, Sept. 4.—The log of the ill-fated dirigible Shenandoah is missing, Commander J. H. Klein, chief of the board of inquiry, which convened here today to probe the cause of the disaster, told the United Press. “The log apparently was stolen from the wreckage with many valuable instruments.” Commander Klein said. Klein accompanied by Commander Sydney Krause, Commander William Nelson and Lieutenant Minnlck, all composing the court of Inquiry went to Belle Valley today to view the bodies of the fourteen officers and men killed when the ship crashed. Secrecy Shrouds Inquiry Utmost secrecy surrounded the sessions of the inquiry which already has heard the story of the disaster told by Lieut. Charles E. Rosendahl, navigator. C. W. Cook of Ft. Hays, Columbus, Ohio, one of the leaders in the investigation, Indicated there were three distinct lines to be followed in seeking the cause of the wreck. They were: 1. That the airship cabin caught on a tree top as the ship cruised low* in an effort to fly under the storm, weakening the supporting strutls so that the balloon snapped hi two. 2. That a lightning bolt that accompanied the storm struck the ship and that she started down attempting to land, being blown to pieces by the gale’s fury as she neared the earth. 3. That violent cross currents caught the ship and broke her as a man would break a stick across lyis knee. . The bodiee -of tha-dead,* including"

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that of Commander Zachary Lansdewne. were to be shipped to relatives. Saws and hatchets were used by souvenier hunters in ripping and tearing and pilfering the tangled wreckage. Three companies of Slate militia, ordered to the scene by Governor Donahey, arrived to find nothing to guard except the gigantic motors. Survivors Given IHnner Before leaving the survivors wer£ tendered an informal dinner by tIM Cambridge Kiwanis Club. Extreme silence prevailed during the dinner. Hardly a word was' spoken until Lieut. T. C. Hendley. a ranking officer, arose to thank the club for its hospitality. “I eHn not talk nbout the Shea* andoah,” he said, his voice choking. “I want to thank you in behalf of all of us, for your hospitality. You 1 have hel)>ed to lift a keen burden! from our hearts.” Hendley sat down, tears filling his eyes. The survivors were then 1 escorted (Turn to Rage 23)

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