Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1927 — Page 1

Home Edition The picture story of Lindbergh’s epochal flight is printed on Page 2.

VOLUME 39—NUMBER 10

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Lindbergh Awarded Legion of Honor Membership by President of France

French Give Highest Honor to American Boy Air Hero for Successful Trans-Atlantic Flight. CHARLIE TO RETURN BY SEA Plucky Yankee Blushes as Folks Kiss and Cheer Him. By United Press PARIS, May 23.—Captain Charles A. Lindbergh of Missouri and the whole United States today visited his New York-to-Paris plane, arrived later at the Elysee Palace where he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor and told the United Press that his plane looked good. “I think I could fly back again,” he said.

But Lindbergh won’t fly back to America. He will return on a steamer, just what steamer has not been decided. The people of Cherbourg have invited the flier to honor them by sailing for home from their port. Lindbergh Kissed Lindbergh received the decoration and a kiss on either cheek in the private study of President Doumergue of France. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, who has had as much thrill out of this thing as the flier himself, accompanied Lindbergh to the Elysee Palace. They immediately entered the study and Doumergue stepped forward, seized his young visitor

Lindbergh Off Water Wagon By United Press PARIS. May 23.—Capt. Charles Lindebergh overcame his dry convictions today to sip a toast to his mother. The occasion was the luncheon at the Aero Club of France where the flier was feted by his fellow airmen and heard him self described as the ‘‘best ambassador” the United States could have.

with both hands and kissed him. Then the President pinned on Lindbergh’s coat the coveted cross. The ponderous machinery of French government moved swifty for Lindbergh. The appropriateness of giving him the Legion cross was plain to the French from the moment his plane settled from the heavens Saturday night at 10:21, thirty-three hours and thirty minutes out from New York. Arrangements for the audience with President Doumergue were made yesterday. A telephone call to the country home of Foreign Minister Briand obtained that minister’s enthusiastic approval this morning. Praises Mother Ambassador Herrick told the incident at Eylsee. “Charles,” said the 72-year-old diplomat, “blushed like a baby. President Doumergue talked to him like a father to a son. “ ‘You have done something wonderful,” the president said. “I want you to tell your mother for me that she has a wonderful son, and I want you to take her my best wishes, and kiss her hand for me, too.’ ” Lindbergh, fresh after a long (Turn to Page 2) $9,021,106 VALUATION Street Car Figure 5260,381 Less Than in 1926. Indianapolis Street Railway Company valuation for 1927 was set by the State tax board today at $9,021,106, which is $260,381 lower than the figure last year. Other utilities, including water, gas and light companies, had been increased in value. The street railway has shown no profit in several years. American Telephone and Telegraph property in the State was valued at $10,910,130 for 1927 and last year at $8,438,462. CHILD SHOOTS WOMAN Mistakes .32 for Toy Pistol Caliber Revolver. Mrs. Sina Cooper, 61, Lynn, was shot in the elbow today, by Elizabeth Schofield, 13, 1825 New St., with a .32 calibre revolver, which she mistook for a cap-pistol belonging to Mrs. Cooper's grandson, Milton Allison, 7; son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Allison, 1821 New St. . Mrs. Cooper is visiting her Mrs. Allison. The revolver was lying on a bed. The girl came in, saw it, and, thinking it a toy, fired at Mrs. Cooper. She was treated at Indiana Christian Hospital. The Best-Grand Laundry, Main 0774. Economy finished. 10 lbs., $1.51, if halt flat. Everything ready to use. Adv.

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MAN HERE CADET IN SAME SCHOOL WITH LINDBERGH Morris Young, Fellow Student, Tells Anecdotes of Paris Flier. Charlie Lindbergh was not only a gawky country boy and a "flying fool,” but he usually accomplished what he set his head to and that is wby he landed safely in Paris Saturday ahead of schedule on his daring flight across the Atlantic from New York. That is what Morris G. Young, publicity director of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and former newspaper man, thinks of the man who was his brother cadet at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. ‘‘Though I had known Charlie Lindbergh before, and knew what he could do, his performance for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the close of the Kentucky Derby a year ago was surprising,” Young declared. Some Speed ‘‘The Post-Dispatch employed Lindbergh to rush pictures of the race to St. Louis. The race was over at about 4 o’clock. The PostDispatch camera man dashed to the flying field out of Louisville by motorcycle, tossed his camera to Lindbergh, and the flier took off. ‘‘Lindbergh flew to Scott Field, 111., about fourteen miles from St. Louis. There I met him and took the pictures to the Post-Dispatch,, and within four hours and twentyone minutes the pictures were being prepared for an early edition. Lindbergh beat the best train time between Louisville and St. Louis about nine hours. "Lindbergh was the first pilot to carry mall between St. Louis and Chicago when that service was inaugurated. He hopped off from St. Louis md flew to Peoria, where he was forced down by sleet and snow. Yet, as soon as possible, he took off again, and made the trip to Chicago in record time.” Crashed in Midair Young received his air training at Kelly field at the same time Lindbergh was there. He was there at the time Lindbergh and Lieut. Will W. White, a student officer, crashed (Turn to Page 2) De Pinedo Starts for Europe Again By United Press TREPASSEY, Newfoundland, May 23.—Col. Francesco De Pinedo took off from here at 2:58 a. m. today, eastern daylight time, for the Azores, on the last lap of his four-continent flight. The distance is about 1,800 miles. De Pinedo discarded his wireless set, leaving the plane without communication. ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May 23. —Col. Francesco De Pinedo passed over here, en route to the Azores, at 7:12 a. m. (Indianapolis time.) French Girl Asks Lindbergh's Hand By United Press PARIS, May 23.—At least one French girl thinks Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh should remain in France. Among the thousands of letters and telegrams which are arriving at the American embassy was one proposing marriage. "France needs you," said the letter. “You must stay here and I would be happy to be your bride.” There may have been more proposals among the mail, but only one had been found so far.

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ASKS CHARLIE BE MADE "AIR" HEAD Babson, Figure Man, Wires Cal, Who Is Silent. Dy United Press DETROIT, Mich., May 23.—An appeal was dispatched today to President Coolidge by Rober L. Babson, financial statistician, requesting him to take advantage of Capt. Charles Lindbergh’s "stroke to the American people’s hearts” and appoint the daring flier head of aviation. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 23.—The White House withheld comment today on the suggestion of Roger Babson for appointment of "Lucky” Lindbergh as head of American aviation. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 73 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 74 8 a. m 70 12 (noon) .... 75 9 a. m 72 1 p. m 75

First Picture of Plane After Reaching Paris

This NEA photograph transmitted across the Atlantic by the Radio Corporation of America and distributed through the United States by telephoto wires, shows Captaln Charles Lindbergh’s plane, “Spirit of St. Louis,” under guard of French soldiers and police on Le Bourget Parts, it was taken shortly after the young aviator had completed the first non-stop flight in history from New York to Paris,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927

—Photo by Dexheimer. Mrs. Ed Jackson

PACIFIC, SOUTH POLE INTRIGUE U. S. BIRDMEN These Mastered Soon, Predicts Civil Air Head, Imagination Filed With Lindbergh’s Success.

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 23.—An American birdman has conquered the Atlantic. America probably will seek next to master the far reaches of the Pacific and the Anarctic by air. This was the prediction today of Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. McCracken, civil air head, in an exclusive interview with the United Press. His imagination fired like that of millions of Americans through the unbelievably succcessful feat of Charles A. Lindbergh in spanning the Atlantic from New York to Paris by air, McCracken declared a “transPacific flight to Manila is among the great projects of the future." Simultaneously he ventured the view that Lindbergh's achievement "likely would lead to an early attempt at the South Pole.” In Great Projects “A Trans-Paciflc flight to Manila Is among the great propects for the future,” he said. “Lindbergh's flight

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to Paris is over a greater distance than any single leg of a Pacific Coast-to-Manila flight via Honolulu and Guam. Such a flight is clearly practicable, and waits only someone's enthusiasm. It would he especially interesting because made between points all under the American flag. "The chief effort of airplane builders in the light of Lindberg’s achievement will he to increase the safety of planes consistent with weight-carrying capacity. With some further experience in long distance flight with heavy loads the feasibility of the trans-Paciflc flight can be safely predicted.” Now Heading South Other authorities agreed, too, that with the north pole “covered,” the Atlantic crossed from New York to Paris, and the western hemisphere crossed and crisscrossed by American planes, the Pacific again will engross the imagination of flight promoters.

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STORM SWEEPS NORTH INDIANA Communication Fails After Brief Report. By United Press WARSAW, Ind., May 23.—A terrific wind struck north central Indiana at 1 p. m. today and appeared to have done extensive damage. After the foregoing information was received over a United Press wire, all communication was lost. CHARLIE TO AUSTRALIA? Antipodes Agog With Humor of His Next Flight. By United Press MELBOURNE, Australia, May 23. —Keen and widespread interest was aroused today by the report that Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh might fly to Australia next. If Lindbergh will come Australia will be ready. Civil aviation authorities today expressed willingness to cooperate for the flight.

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Letter Discloses Fact That Liquor Was Used to Save Life of Governor’s Wife. RECALLS CASE OF OWN CHILDREN Attorney General Says He, Too, Had to Break Law for Family. That the lives of Mrs. Ed Jackson, wife of Governor Jackson and of his own little sons were saved by the use of whisky, obtained at the risk of imprisonment to themselves was revealed by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom today in a letter sent to the Governor. The letter urges the Governor, as a public duty, to urge the next Legislature to amend the State bone dry law so as to permit the use of whisky, under proper precautions, for medicinal purposes. Governor Jackson said he had no comment to make upon the letter. Saving Lives Violated Law That the life of the little sons of the attorney general were saved when physicians despaired of their lives has been known for some time. That the life of Mrs. Jackson, who has just recovered from pneumonia in which her condition was pronounced as exceedingly critical, was saved by use of whisky, became known first when the letter urged amendment of the law which made the Governor and the attorney general subject to the criminal proscution and imprisonment in their efforts to save the lives of their loved ones. “We have a natural right, indeed a supreme duty, to save the lives of our dear ones by every means available, just as the lowliest and poorest citizen has a right equally precious to him and a duty no less compelling. No government and no law can justly interfere with that right and that duty,” wrote the attorney general. In the case of the attorney general, the friend who hurriedly sought out a bootleg source of whisky, procured it and rushed to the bedside of the dying boys, paid with the humiliation of arrest and prosecution.

Friend in Need Arrested A few days later, a discharged workman, knowing of the incident and aware that there was left in the cellar of the friend’s home some of the supply, of a quality that was poisonous, caused the search of his home and his arrest. Mrs. Ed Jackson, wife of the Governor, has just recovered. For days her physicians pronounced her condition as precarious. The attorney general lifts the veil as to what happened when he relates the Governor, seeking whisky under advice of physicians, came to him for an opinion as to whether it could be legally purchased. The bone dry laws of Indiana prohibit physicians from prescribing whisky for any case, no matter how desperate. They make it a crime to possess liquor. They make it a crime to carry it from one place to another. They make it a crime to give it away. A general charge of conspiracy to break the laws can be proved by the mere asking for liquor, no matter to what use it is put. Convinced Law Is Foolish His own experience can be said to he responsible for the deep-seated conviction of the attorney general that the laws are not only foolish, but may become dangerous. He realized that he and no other would be able to protect any friend who performed a similar service for him. He is known to have declared that an equal right belongs to every citizen and resents the fact that the law made him technically guilty of a crime in order to save the life of his children. The letter today to Governor Jackson urges that all citizens be relieved from any similar ambarrassments. It is based upon the question by the Governor as to the possible legal purchase. Gilliom’s letter to Governor Jackson says: Governor: While the whole people of our State rejoice over the recovering by their charming first lady from an almost fatal illness, I deem it a public duty to urge that you recommend to the next General Assembly, a proviso to a present statute which was calculated to deny her as well as to all of our citizens, the opportunity to be benefited by a medicine found necessary in her case. You will recall your anxious inquiry to the chief law officer of the State of the possibility of immediate and lawful acquisition of a pint of reliable whisky for the use of your wife when the physicians, in whose judgment and skill you repose your faith and hopes, prescribed this for her, and you recall my answer that there was no lawful way to obtain it. You were then in precisely the same situation as my wife and I were in just a year earlier, when whisky was prescribed in the cases of three of our children who lay at death’s door for many weeks, while suffering from typhoid fever and pneumonia. Os one of them it may be said with (Turn to Page 5)

Mussolini Lauds Young Yank Flier By United Press _ , ROME, May 23. —Premier Mussolini. an enthusiast, sent the following message of praise for Capt. Charles Lindbergh to United States Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher: "Please accept the emanlfestatlons of enthusiastic jubilation and admiration rising at this moment fram the hearts of the Italian people exulting in the superb ocean flight of Capt. Charles Llndbergh. Superhuman win has taken place by as-

Forecast Local showers and thunderstorms and continued warm this afternoon and tonight, followed by fair and cooler Tuesday.

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sault and conquered it. Once more matter has bowed to spirit. The wonder is such that it will remain forever in the memory of man. Glory to Lindbergh and his people ” The message was in Li Duce's own handwriting. 90,000 Cigarets Stolen By United Press BEDFORD. Ind., May 23.—Ninety thousand cigarets were stolen from the Allen wholesale tobacco and candy store last night, a checkup this morning disclosed .