Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 327, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1927 — Page 2

PAGE 2

Chamberlin Saves Three Lives in Heroic Air Drama

STRAWBERRIES SUFFER HEAVY FROST DAMAGE Ruined, Say Truck Farmers —Further Danger Removed by Warmer Weather. The county strawberry crop was considered ruined today after the series of frosts Thursday and Friday nights, closing with a serious one Saturday night. Truck farmers und nurserymen said there was no hope for strawberries, and that it will take two days to estimate the damage to the fruit crop. Sunday morning's frost was about as severe an on the two proceeding days," Meteorologist J. H. Armington said, “ although the lowest temperature here was just 32 degrees.” ‘There was another light frost this morning" lie added, “but Monday will be warmer and the danger of further frosts is removed for the t;ime being.” Too Soon to Tell No definite knowledge of the fruit damage can be learned until the center of the blossoms are examined. If frost-bitten, the centers will turn jalack withing forty-eight hours. ; It also was reported that the fruit crops in Brown County were badly damaged. •C. Henry, county agricultural agent, said he had not sufficient facts on hand to estimate the damage, He said he believed the peach crop was seriously damaged, the Strawberry crop gone and the apple crop injured. He declared wheat and rats went untouched and that most vegetables in the ground this time of i-eax are hardy enough to ward off sth* frost. Ice at Bridgeport Bridgeport nurserymen declared ice was a, quarter of an inch thick there Sunday morning. Edward Maschmeyer, nurseryman, 206 W. Troy Ave., in the heart of the county’s truck farming center, eald effects of the frost could not be determined fully yet, but that the loss was large and the spring market probably would be short.

SNYDER MURDER CASE OUTLINED (Continued From l’age 1) briefly summarized the Indictment, charging that on March 20 the defendants did “wilfully” murder Albert Snyder. Together at Hotels “In 1915.” said Newcombe, ‘‘Ruth Brown and Albert Snyder were married. He was a little bit old-fash-ioned, W’hile his wife liked a little bit more life. Then, two or three years ago, this woman met the other defendant, Henry Judd Gray. Their friendship ripened into intimacy. They went to hotels together, occupied the same room and were known as ‘Mr. and Mrs. Gray’ in the Imperial and Waldorf-Astoria Hotels. ‘‘We will show you that his wife Induced her husband to take out policies which, in the event of ‘accidental’ death, would bring the beneficiary $96,000. /We will show that Henry Judd Gray know of that Insurance. ‘‘Albert Snyder was slated for killing on March 7. Before that Gray had bought tlie sash weight and chloroform with which that poor devil, Albert Snyder, was done to death. ' “Tools of Death” “Gray met Mrs. Snyder in Henri’s restaurant and gave her the tools of death. And oven as she took them with her she had her 9-year-old daughter, Lorraine, with her. Oh, that woman! She brought her daughter to the man she plotted with.” Newcombe’s voice was raging now. His nasal tones rose and filled the huge courtroom. Tjje defendants stared at the prosecutor. Both remained unemotional. They appeared as though they were merely watching the district attorney tell a dramatic, almost incredible story. Newcombe finished his statement at 11:40, after talking half an hour. During that time neither defendant displayed any emotion. Brother Testifies When Newcombe resumed his seat, Warren Schneider, a brother of the slain man, was called as the first witness. Ho testified he last saw his brother alive in January, 1926, and he had been called after the murder to identify his brother’s body and had done so. Dr. Howard W. Neail of Jamaica, assistant county medical examiner, was the next witness. He said that about 9 a. m. on March 20 he went to the Snyder home and found picture wire making a deep furrow in Snyder's neck. He told of grewsome details with no variation in accent. Mrs. Snyder’s glance never wavered from the witness. She was leaning forward in her chair, Intent upon every word. Gray, his eyes pertly closed, sat looking at the floor beneath a chair directly in front of him. shotTpierces window Police Fall to Find Person Who Fired at Street Car Sunday Police were unable to tell what kind of a bullet it was that struck a College Ave. street car at Ft. Wayne Ave. and Alabama St. Sunday or Who fired the shot. Ray Comstock, 614 Highland Ave., conductor, said he heard glass fall, and eaw the hole in the car window, but did not see anyone with a gun. No pne was sitting near the window.

GET BLOCKS FOR FUEL AND FLOOR

4. *

Wood paving blocks were in demand today for firewood at X. Meridian belween Tenlli and Sixteenth Sts. The blocks were hauled away by wagon and trurk load by persons to whom they were given by tlie Marion Construction Company, which has the resurfacing and widening contract. A Westfield farmer hauled several loads home for flooring a barn. s

TUREE CUILDREN DURE IN SUNDAY AUTO ACCIDENTS Girl Crawls Under Car for Ball —Boy Tricyclist, Another Lad Injured. Three children were among Sunday’s traffic accidents victims. Margaret Duckworth, 6, retrieving ball from under an auto In front of her home, 1239 Nordyke Ave., was Injured when the driver, unaware of her presence, drove the car away. Billy Kodenberg, 3, of 765 N. Belmont Ave., was bruised when his tricycle was struck by an auto driven by Charles W. Cassel, 743 N. Belmont Ave., when turning into his drive Way. Woman Injured James Curtis, 5. of 1719 Arrow Ave., was hurt when he ran into the side of a car driven by Charles Harrington, 29, of 1332 Olney St., at 1540. Roosevelt Ave. Clay Beckham, 38, of 346 E. McCarty St., was charged with assault and battery, reckless driving and speeding after his car struck another driven by George Adrian of R. R. 4, Box 595, at 3500 S. Meridian St., Sunday, injuring Charlotte Reed, 21, of 1702 Drapler St., riding with Beckham. She was sent to the city hospital. Mrs. Leona Elliott, 42, of 1605 Churchman Ave., was injured when the auto driven by her husband, W. H. Elliott, was struck at Sixteenth and Meridian Sts. by a hit and run driver. Autos driven by Jack Messmer, 27, of 2430 E. Sixteenth St., and Ernest Newhouse, 4403 N. Capitol Ave., collided at Canal and Kessler Blvd. Messner’s auto turned over. He was taken to city hospital, hurt about the chest. A. coupe driven by Peter Lambertus, 2609 N. Alabama St., was badly damaged when struck by a hit-and-run Negro driver at Eleventh and Missouri Sts.

FLOOD OF MISERY FOLLOWS DELUGE (Continued From Page 1) afternoon in a big room at the Y. M. C. A. They were laughing around a phonograph. On cots near by were two women. The doctor who came said they had the chickenpox. There are sick people by the scores among the thousands on the boats and trains who are coming into Vicksburg tonight and tomorrow. Os course there are. Any time you move 100,000 people out of their homes you’re bound to find sick people among them—people who are quarantined with malignant diseases like scarlet fever, diphtheria, chicken-pox, measles —perhaps even smallpox and all the other dangerous illnesses. But what dees a red quarantine card count for on a house when the house is going to be swept away in a flood? The sick person has a right to live; and so he is taken*along with the rest. We have them here, the malignantly sick ones, perhaps hundreds of them. They can’t be picked out> in all the rush. Some of them may he at the Elks Home, which has been thrown open, or in the Y. M. C. A., or in some of the private houses which have taken in the sufferers. Dr. Lippincott is fixing up a temporary contagions hospital of fifty beds as a starter in the fight against disease. Drink River Water I have talked to many refugees today who, while they have been marooned on high spots or in the upper stories of their houses, have been drinking the Red River water for the past few days. There are dead animals in the river water; for hundreds of miles up the flood, clear into Illinois and Missouri, the flood is polluted; it isn’t drinking water, but It’s all the water there is. No one knows how much typhoid there is in it. So you may be sure no doctors and nurses will sleep in ; Vicksburg this Sunday night be- ; cause all of these thousands of hu- \ man beings must be inoculated ! against typhoid fever and, perhaps, diptheria. There is one steamboat load of refugees from the town of Murphy due here at any moment; the doctors expect to hear the old steamboat Randall, which Is carrying them, blow her whistle around

Think Flood Delays Meridian Curbing V The Mississippi River flood today was believed responsible for the four-day delay In arrival of a carload of curbing for Meridian St. between Tenth and Sixteenth St. The street is being widened and repaved. The Marion County Construction Company asked Big Four Railroad officials to investigate the delay. F. H. Rosebrock, company secretary, asked rerouting through Cincinnati, Ohio, of two other cars of curbing. Arrival of the material from Lithonia, Ga., will not delay the asphalt paving of Meridian, Rosebrock said. Rosebrock has no report on the cause of the delay, but It is believed due to high waters, since the Illinois Central route is through Martin. Tenn. the Mississippi bend ’ any minute. They’ll be hungry, dirty and thirsty for clean water, for they've been stuck on a piece of high ground, in the flood, for three days. Flood water was all they had to drink. What they had to eat we don’t know as yet. They must all he inoculated as soon as possible before they scatter out. Ten Counties Inundated Miss Pauline Marshall is the chief Red Cross nurse here. She told me this evening that she sees nothing but twenty days and nights of work ahead for her and her assistants. You see the main part of the flood won’t be due here for a week. But the great Red Cross of the nafton is behind her. she'll get help and plenty of it, soon. She'll need it. She and Maj. John C. H. Lee, United Statt3 Army engineer, in charge of this district, have been told today by airplane fliers that there are perhaps 60,000 human beings caught in houses or on high ground in north of us. Ten solid counties, to the north of us, are one vast lake, tonight, and the crest of the flood hasn’t hit us. This great district, as large as some of our smaller States, is emptying itself of human beings. Rowboats, motor boats, steamboats and planes, aro picking up the sufferers and heading them toward Vicksburg. Every Lodge Helps Office buildings of Vicksburg are lighted tonight. Women volunteers are sweeping them out and scrubbing hallways and empty rooms, making them ready for the dazed, sleepless, sufferers. Every lodge room and fraternal house is being made ready for them. We have heard the news that President Coolid go is sending Secretary Herbert Hoover down South. Thank God. We’ll need him and all the help he can bring. There's horror and death behind thft scenes, everywhere. There’s .TOhn Descha. for instance. I talked to him in the Masonic Temple only an hour ago. Saved Family He got his wife and family out of Greenville. “I had to leave my car, and the piano and the radio. Had ’em almost paid for, too, but no insurance against a flood,” he said. “How do I know they’re gone? Well, there was a 30-foot tree out in the yard by the house and that was covered when we went over the farm in a steamboat last evening. I couldn’t see a sign of the old house. It was awful tough about my neighbor, Ernest Clarke, too. I got my family out safe, but his wife and four children were drowned. He was away sick in a hospital; wasn’t there to help ’em.”

0. S. SHIP UNDER FIRE BY CHINESE British Craft, Also Attacked, Silence Shelling. Bu United Preti LONDON, April 25.—Chinese troops fired on the U, S. S. Peary and on two British warships in the Yangtze River today, an admiralty communique announced. The Peary was fired on from Futung Bluff, near Kfukiang which has been a trouble center for many weeks. 11. M. S. Keppel and AVolsey replied with their main batteries to rifle fire from the south bank of the river, the communique said, both above and below Chinkiang. The British fire silenced the riflemen. Twelve hundred additional Japanese marines wdl leave for China Friday aboard the service ship Murotot 1$ was announced at Toklo - j.... ...a

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

DELAWARE BRIDGE APPROACH REPAIR ORDERED BY CITY Temporary Fill of Chuckholes to Relieve Present v ‘Bumpiness.’ Temporary relief from the bumps and chuck holes on ihe north approach of Delaware St. bridge at rail Creek was ordered today by the Duvall administration new board of works. Headed by Virgil Vandngrjfft, board president and City Engineer Frank C. Lingenfelter the works board made an early morning visit to inspect the approaches which never have been in condition since the bridge *was built two years ago. Grading, Oiling Ordered Scraping, grading and oiling was begun today. Street Commissioner George Woodward started a grader and roller to work to put the approaches in condition. ‘‘The permanent improvement of the approaches is delayed by the city’s failure to asquire the ground and we want to give citizens a temporary surface,” said Vandegrifft. Bids for paving the south approaches were advertised for today, the board said. The new board adopted the policy of inspecting the site of projects the day they come up for action. John W. Friday and Frank Cones are other members. Senate Ave.. between Washington St. and Indiana Ave. the topic of a widening and resurfacing petition, was visited. A hearing on the proposed widening from 50 to 70 feet was set for this afternoon. Blocks Given Away Announcement of the Marion County Construction Company that wood paving blocks would be given away on Meridian between Tenth and Sixteenth Sts., drew citizens and farmers who hauled the blocks away in wagons and trucks. The street is being widened and paved with \nsphalt. Paul Gray, Marion County Construction Company foreman, said a farmer came from Westfield to get blocks for flooring a barn. Others will use them for fuel. The Meridian project and improvement of W. Michigan St., between White River and Holmes Ave., are being rushed to completion before the Speedway race, Gray said.

PIONEER DENTISI IS FOUND DEAD Dr. Thomas Rutledge Dies After Heart Attack. Dr. Thomas Rutledge, 70, of 721 E. Fifteenth St., retired dentist, was found dead in his bedroom at 7:30 a. m. today. Death is believed due to heart attack, and from grief over the death in February of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Prather. The body, a gash cut above the right eye, was found by Mrs. Louosa Huntsinger, aged housekeeper. He bad fallen against a radiator, and had been dead several hours, according to Dr. C. R. Shaffer. Dr. Rutledge w-as a graduate of the Indiana Dental College. He was a Mason. He is survived by a nephew, Jesse Crim, 3633 Kenwood Ave., and two brothers living in Ohio and lowa. MANUAL WINS CONTEST Danville Second, Noblesville Third in Commercial Department Event. The commercial department of Manual Training High School won first place in the district contest for high school commercial departments of Marion, Hendricks and parts of Boone and Hamilton Counties here Saturday, it was announced today. Manual Training had fifty-four points; Danville second with twentytwo, and Noblesville third with twenty-one points. The winners will meet Saturday at Bail Teachers’ College, Muncie. to compete with winners from fourteen other Indiana districts. The local contest was In charge of W. F. Barnhart, Manual Training pommtrdal department head,

DISASTER RELIEF OPERATES UPON WAR-TIME BASIS Red Cross, Federal and State Agencies United at Memphis. Bu United Preen WASHINGTON, April 25.—The great campaign to raise $5,000,000 for Mississippi flood sufferers was launched formally throughout the country today, the American Red Cross announced. Indications were that more than the requested total would he achieved. Following President Coolidge's proclamation for relief funds, Governors of most States and mayors of large cities have issued similar filcas. Newspapers and various relief agencies are helping. With wartime Red Cross leaders bacji''“in the saddle" to assist moro than 3,000 chapters in tho inie:gency, reports came that many chapters towns would exceed their quotas. 4y00,000 in Three Hours More than 1500,000 was contributed within three hours after Coolidge issued his proclamation, it was revealed. Richmond, Va., assigned to raise $17,000, replied it would contirbute at least as much as it did for the Florida hurricane sufferers, $42,000. Jackson, Miss., has raised half of its $28,000. Columbus, Ky., inundated in tlie flood area, gave SBOO the first day. The Chicago chapter increased its $540,000 quota to $750,000 voluntarily. St. Louis reported having raised SIOO,OOO. New Orleans, with a $40,000 quota, set out to get SIOO,OOO. Florida Remembers Florida apparently intends to show appreciation of Red Cross assistance last year by responding quickly now. Bradentown, Fla., reported that although its schools lacked funds it would give $1,500. Many small Florida communities asked to raise SIOO replied they would contribute SI,OOO or omre. Meantime, all governmental agencles were active in the crisis. The War Department, reporting that the flood crest would not exhaust itself into tho gulf of Mexico for at least two more weeks, sent a War Department piano with a photographer aboard to Memphis with orders to tour the flooded region. Photographs of th* - territory will be used at relief headquarters for the information of relief directors.

MARS DILL AIR CIRCUS THRILLING Estimate 15,000 ’Stole a Look’ at Aviation Stunts. Parachute drops, angular banking, leaping, barrehrolling, twisting and diving by expert airplane pilots provided 25,000 persons with thrills at the air circus at the new city airport at Mars Hill Sunday. It was estimated 10,000 persons paid to see the stunts on the inside field, while the other 15,000 watched from parked cars within a radius of two miles of the field. High honors for tho day went to Lieut. E. C. Batten, Lieut. W. N. Amos and Lieut. E. L. Eubank of McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, for skillful management of the racy Curtiss planes. Batten and Eubank thrilled the crowd during their “aerial combat,” when they careeened, dived and spun at each other from 3,000 to 5,000 feet above the ground. The forty-mile race of ten J. N. S. planes of Schoen field and the 113th Observation Squadron gave the circus an exciting start. Lieut. Albert Schneider of the 113th Squadron won. Parachute jumpers from Chanute field, Rantoul, 111., and Schoen field dropped from altitudes of about 3,000 feet. I $12,000 DAMAGE IN SUNDAY FIRES Church Burns to Ground and 7 Homes Have Blazes. Flames took a toll of approximately $12,000 in Indianapolis and vicinity Sunday and early today when seven homes and a church caught Are. The Shiloh Church, one mile west of the Marion County line on West Tenth St., burned to the ground with a loss of $3,000 at 9:30 a. m. Services had not begun and only a few members of the congregation were at the church when the blaze was started by an overheated furnace. Damage, amounting to $6,000, resulted from a blaze which started in a double house at 117-119 W. TwentyFirst St., owned by E. M. Hammett, and occupied by C. H. Bryant, and spread to a double at 113-115 W. Twenty-First St., occupied by H. R. Coleman and R. F. Yohler, each house being damaged $3,000. Sparks spread to a house at 253 Kenwood Ave., causing $25 damage. Other fires and their damage: C. E. Fossett residence, 418 N? Temple Ave., $1,200, and the Mary Winters hrffm next door, $200; vacant house a-. 715 N. Senate Ave., SSOO, believed of Incendiary origin, and residence of E. F. Gallahue, 5838 E. Washington St, $1,00(1. _

Enacts Hew Thriller in Aviation

Wm '"liwu - - % ' * v i* v

Clarence Chamberlin, holder with Bert Acosta, of the world’s endurance aviation record, staged another drama of the skies Sunday. Going up with three passengers, Chamberlin did not notice that the landing gear of his plane was smashed, making it almost impossible to bring the machine to earth without accident. Other aviators soared to Chamberlin and warned him. By masterly flying skill lie landed tlie plane without injury to himself or passengers.

GILLIOM REBUKES KLAN AND ‘SIEVE’ IN GARY LECIDRE Pleads With Republicans to Run ‘Public Affairs in Public Manner.’ Although mentioning neither the Ku-Klux Klan nor D. C. Stephenson and his lieutenants by name, Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom scored the effect of these "undercover” forces in the Repubjican party in Indiana in an address before the Republican Club at Gary Saturday night. He made a plea to his party members to conduct public affairs in a public manner and never again surrender to self-seekers -with ‘‘gum shoe” methods. Blames “Impostors” Existing doubt and mistrust, he declared, are the natural result of “the intruded presence in the affairs of our party of certain very strangely and mvstreiously active imposters.” “I need not name these person lie continued. “Their names are only too painfully famiUar in Indiana, and in association with the fair name of our State ’throughout the land.” “They captured the Republican party because they could win,” lie said. “Even now Democratic Senator Heflin is coming to Indiana from the south to revive the dying flames of the recent conflagrations.” Rebukes Klan *ln closing he delivered a stirring challenge to rebuke the Klan and its leaders. “The lesson learned and the tiling to he done is plain,’’ Giliiom declared. “Party affairs are public affairs and public affairs are the peoples' affairs. net there be no fear of offending a half dozen impostors, who in reality reprsent no one, hut themselves. The public interests of three and a half million people is the object to be kept in view.”

TALL FUNERAL - RITES TUESDAY Brooding Over Brother’s Death Blamed for Suicide. Funeral services for Ovid Butler Tall, 43, who took his life at his home. 43 W. Thirtieth St., late Saturday, will bo held at the PlannerBuchanan Mortuary Tuesday, 2:30 p. m. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Tall, brother of H. Houston Tall, former park board employe who was found drowned in P'all Creek a year ago, shot himself, using a police gun laid on a buffet a short time before by his brother-in-law, Sergt. William Paulsel. * Mrs. Pausel, sister of the dead man, had just left the house to go to a grocery. Paulsel was in a front room. Tall left no note and it is Paulsel’s belief that the sight of the gun prompted the action. Tall brooded over the death of Houston, it w r as said, and arrangements had been made to take him to a hospital today. Besides Mrs. Paulsel. a brother, Persifer F. Tull, survives. Fail to Halt Service Indiana Public Service Commission has denied rehearing of petition to prevent the Highway Transportation Company of Marion from operating a truck line from Anderson to Indianapolis. The company permit allows transportation between the two cities, with provision that no stops be made en route. 5i,000,000 ADVERTISING Mu r nitul Press * DETROIT, April 25.—Although the close is but four days away, only $500,000 of the $1,000,000 sought in a drive by 1,300 workers to advertise the city with, had been raised the seventh of the drive. The workers expressed continence the goal would be reached.

Joint Holder of Endurance Record Went Up in Crippled Plane. TWO CHILDREN ABOARD Disabled Gear Menaced Landing. | Hu United Pre, NEW VUKK, April 2. —Clarence D. Chamberlin, joint holder of the I world endurance flight, record, held another 'endurance today and two j little girls and a man owed their ! lives in his skill as a pilot. Chamberlin, with deatli reaching Ia hand for the controls of Ills plane, | came down from the clouds on a i broken landing gear, yesterday after | an hour in the air. during which jinen and women spectators clenched their hands and prayed for the safety of him and the three passengers in his charge. The incident occurred at Mitcliel Field, Long Island, where Chamberlin had gone up in the Bellanca monoplane in which lie and Bert Acosta recently broke the endurance record. The plane had just been christened preliminary to its attempted flight from New York to Paris, and Chamberlin took up the young sponsor. Eloyse Levine, 9. who broke a bottle ] of ginger ale over the how, naming the plane Columbia. With them were Grace Jonas. 15, and John Carlsl, factory superintendent for R. G. M. | Bellanca, Designer of the plane. Mother, Unknowing, Smiles ! Just as the plane left tho ground, I trained eyes of airmen saw that the I landing gear had been bumped in taking off, a strut was broken and j tho left wheel bent in. Airmen knew what it meant and were horrified. To the laymen and to the parents of the j two girls, who were watching, it | meant nothing. Mrs. Levine was ] smiling happily, thinking of the i pleasure her little girl was getting out of her first ride in the air. Quietly, trying not to alarm the parents, the men on the field set to work. Gene Smith, pilot, jumped into an observation plane and men frantically heaved at the propellor to get him off. Other men had ripped the wheel from a truck and thrust it in with Smith. The plane rose and chased after the Bellanca. As the two came together, Smith leaned from the cockpit, thrust out the wheel of the truck and gestured frantically downward, telling Chamberlin in pantomine what was wrong. Everett Chandler, another pilot, also ha ', taken off and circled alongside. He, too, gestured to Chamberlin to make sure he understood and the pilot of the Bellanca nodded gravely. Helpless to Aid For nearly an hour the strange drama was enacted —on the ground a thousand people, now aware of what portended, watching anxiously; an ambulance racing to the scene; trucks with men aboard trying to follow the course of the plans at the landing spot, and in the air the Bellanca and its two escorts circling steadily around, the one unable to land without dire peril and the other two helpless to aid it. Chamberlin’s mind was working busily. Ho was flying low, seeking the smoothest possible landing place, the while issuing instructions ito Carisi. The latter was dropping sandbags to lighten the load of the plane. Chamberlin wanted weight on the tail to keep it from nosing down in landing. So Eloyse, who was in front with Chabermlin, was moved to the rear witli Carisi. All this time, the girls were unaware of their danger. The pilots chatted with them casually, and Chamberlin remarked with a laugh that they might he bumped a little in landing, so hold tight.

Tried to Guard Child Chamberlin was afraid to land on Curtiss field, which is rougher than Roosevelt or Mitche! fields, adjoining it. He started to swing low over Roosevelt field, but there was a crowd there and those on the gVound thought Mitchel W’ould be safer. So a third plane went up, with "MRch<T f chalked in big letters on the side. Chamberlin understood and headed for there. Carisi caught Eloyse in his arms and held her slose to his body, trying to sheiid her. Chamberlin couldn't do the same for Grace, but he gave her his seat pad and told her to hold it against her head. Slops Upright Chamberlin came down with a precision that stirred the experts on the ground to throaty cries of exultation. The plane .settled like a feather, drifting over the ground and finally touching with the lightest of bumps on its good wheel. It careened slight and with a short run stopped—upright. “Thank you for the ride.” said the girls, still unaware of how close they had been to death. Chamberlin started to disappear, but Mrs. Levine caught him. Her arms went around his neck and the abashed aviator received a kiss that probably will live in his memory longer than the many honors he has received for his other exp'oits.

Proposes Plea for Flood Protection Bu United Preen WASHINGTON, April 25. Congress will he asked next winter to provide more flood protection along the Mississippi, Senator Pat Harrison (Dem.), Mississippi, announced here today. He called at the White House and thanked President Coolidge for his efforts in behalf of the disaster area, and for sending Herbert Hoover to the flood district to organize relief. “The present crisis does not give encouragement to those who oppose levee control of flood waters,” Harrison said. “Had we not had the levees along the Mississippi in the present circumstances, the suffering and loss would have been one hundredfold greater.

APRIL 25, 1927

FRIENDS, POLICE PAY TRIBUTE TO * DEAD REPORTER Funeral Rites Held for Victim of Railway Crossing Accident. Funeral services for Orla A. Woody, 2i, police reporter for the Indianapolis Star, who died Saturday

night, twenty-four hours after being injured in a railload crossing accident, were held ai tho First Friends Church at 2:30 p. m. today witli the Re-. Eldon Mills officiating. Private burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. The pallbearers: Robert Hoover of tho News, George Mercer, Ben Davis publisher; Dick Miller of The

••• * *

Orla Woody

Times, Paul Jennings of the Star, Frank Stevens and Thomas Evans. Hundreds of friends paid to Woody Sunday afternoon adfl evening at the home of his sisten® Mrs. Ralph Peckham, 3504 Salem St. Practically every member of tlie police force viewed Woody's body Sunday. Woody was formerly police reporter for The Times. The police emergency squad under charge of Lieut. Fred Drink ut and police reporters made a “run” to the Peckham home this morning in the emergency car in which Woody had made many perilous trips, and expressed their grief over the reporter's death. Police department officials and members visited the homo; throughout the day. Police and court attaches raised a $l5O fund to place a marker on Woody's grave.

AUTHORITIES ON ‘CITY MANAGER’ FORM LB SPEAK Cincinnati Executive to Address Mass Meeting— Assign Luncheons. Executive and campaign < omijflfe tees of tiio city manager orgaillHl tion today laid plans to bring several nationally known authorities on, the manager movement to Indianj apolis before the election here j June 21. Murray L. Seasongood, Cincinnati (Ohio) mayor under tho city manager form of government, will speak at a mass meeting May 19. Address Clubs Efforts will be made to bring other national manager leaders here earlier in the campaign, Claude H. : Anderson, executive secretary of the I local organization, said. jCmnager speeches will bo delivered I every day this week at club meetings by Indianapolis leaders, i J. W. Esterline, Esterlinc-Angue j Company president, spoke at the J Scientech Club luncheon at the Chamber of Cofhmerce today and' j will address the Gyro Club Tuesday! j noon at the Lincoln. Attorney E. O. Snethen will speak, before tho Junior Chamber of Com-j merce nt luncheon Wednesday, Choose Comitteemen Claude H. Anderson will explain', | the merits of the new form beforethe Knights of the Round Table' I Thursday noon at the Lincoln. ! Friday Esterline will speak at the l ! Exchange Club luncheon at the, j Lincoln. AVard and precinct committeemep’ are being chosen. A complete list of; workers will be announced within ;r few days. Frank E. Gates, campaign committee chairman, said. i i BANDITS ESCAPE*: AFIER 3 HOLDUPS ! ! Filling Stations Yield $180; to Armed ‘Customers. ; *! Police hud no trace today of band-j its who held up three filling stations) withing twenty minutes Saturday* night and escaped with SIBO in casq. { A burglary yielded loot valued ati $77. Using a stolen auto, a lone bandit* drove into the National Heflniny* Company Station, Thirty-Eight and! Ruckle Sts., am) forced R. E. Johns,* attendant to hack inside the statlohj j and stand asido while he scooped up* j $35 and ran out to the car. | Another lone bandit held up Major* I Howard, attendant at the Indiana* | Refini ig Company station, DelawarfeJ and Soulh Sts., and took S9O from* the register and safe. Two banditk* held up the Great Western oil* station at White River Blvd.. and* Michigan St., and took $55. L. fJ.J Monohan, attendant, described them) to police. Mrs. Stella Sottong, 730 Fulton St,,* said a burglar who forced a re.frl | door at her home took a typewriter.; ! diamond ring and another ring,* ! totaling $77 *

i. ■' ’! ' Ti-ujne,