Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1927 — Page 3

JTJNE 6, 1927

COL. DONOVAN HERO IN WAR. HEROJN PEACE Attorney General’s Assistant Gets Offers That Make Bambino Look Cheap Times Washinnton Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, June 6.—lt is rare that distinguished military chieftans attain equally distinguished honors in the law courts, but Col. William J. Donovan, assistant to the attorney general, is an exception to the rule. His recent victories in the dingy chamber where the Supreme Court lays down the law for America have attracted the attention of the legal world and have brought him offers from private firms which make Bambino Ruth’s $75,000 salary look like a child’s allowance. His success in the sisal binder case blazed a path for American control of foreign combinations which have been making inroads on domestic markets since France and Germany effected an economic entente. One of his recent victims was Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state. His last opponent in a Standard Oil case was John D. Davis, 1924 Democratic presidential nominee. Anti-Trust Victories He has won three of the four great anti-trust actions the Government has brought since the war and has taught captains of industry and finance the virtue and means of creating monopolies unprecedented in scope and power. The fourth case, which was against the International Harvester Cos., has not been decided. The only anti-trust suit the Government has lost since he started making business be good was argued by another department of justice lawyer. Once, of course, Donovan’s foot slipped—when he took on the Administration’s job of prosecuting United States Senator Wheeler. Covered With Medals Donovan came out of the World War with a distinguished service cross, a congressional medal of honor, and a lot; of foreign decorations. He soon was made Federal district attorney in Buffalo. He was no respecter of persons. He broke up the Klu-Kluz Klan, prosecuted alleged dynamiters, and enforced the dry laws. There were raids on exclusive clubs suspected of selling liquor. Donovan's friends were members of the clubs. He lost friends. He ran for lieutenant governor in 1922, but war heroes were then a drug on the market of public esteem and he was licked. hqmTcityTo HONOR AVIATOR Dennison, la., Burns Red Fire in Chamberlin Honor. Bu United Press DENNISON, la., June 6.—The biggest celebration in the history of western lowa is planned for today, as Clarence Chamberlin’s neighbors honor his sustained flight from New York to Germany. Last night the town celebrated when it became known that Chambelin was safe across the Atlantic. Flares burned continuously. Big bonfires were lighted. Horns were tooted. School bells were rung. Shouts rang out. There were impromptu parades. Even the old-fashioned Halloween stunts came into use and several minor injuries were reported. But that celebration won’t compare with the one planned for today. 'We’ll have the biggest celebration this section of the State has seen. We’ll have music, oratory, flags, airplanes and everything,” Mayor N. L. Hunt said. Efforts will be made to have Governor John Hammill speak. A little telegraph office did a great business in cablegrams. Scores were sent out. The longest one was sent by the Chamber of Commerce and | read: “Atta boy, Clarence. We knew you’d come through. Congratulations. A hearty welcome awaiting your home coming.—Your Home Town.” KENTUCKY GETS AID Flood Toll Still at 60 Dead; Millions Lost. fin United Prrss LOUISVILLE. Kv., June 6.—Virtually isolated from the rest of the world for the last week, the flooded area of eastern Kentucky welcomed relief expeditions today. Lines of communication are out of commission and previous estimates of sixty dead are unchanged. Only forty-five telephones are standing over a distance of forty-one miles. Tabulations of estimates of damage in the six stricken counties on the Kentucky and Big Sandy Rivers raised the total losses to about $12,000,000. About 125,000 persons are affected by the disaster, caused by an elevenhour cloudburst. More than 20,000 miners are out of work. Thief Escapes Sleuth A Negro caught stealing potatoes from a freight car bowled over his , captor, E. C. Miller, 2433 Kenwood | Ave., Big Four Railroad detective, and escaped. Miller said he captured the Negro at Pratt St. and the company yard, and started to a call box to send him to city prison. The Negro hit him in the stomach and knocked him down, Miller said.

Coolidge to See Spot Where Pastor Was Slain

The last surviving stage coach of the old Black Hills line—photographed as it was being presented to the Lions Club at Lusk, Wyo. Driving is Russell Thorp, son of the original owner of the line. Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of six articles giving the colorful history and romantic associations of the Black Hills region, where President Coolidge will spend his vacation. _ _ . By Peter Edson RAPID CITY, S. D., June 6.—Eighteen days after Jack McFall got Wild Bill Hickok, the Indians got Preacher Smith, the first sky pilot who dared venture into this romantic Black Hills country where Calvin Coolidge plans to spend the summer. Armed only with his trusty Bible, Smith had set out from his cabin in Deadwood to walk across the mountains and preach a sermon in the town then known as Crook City.

The City in Brief

TUESDAY EVENTS Rotary Club luncheon, Claypool. State Association of Spiritualists convention, K. of P. Bldg, auditorium. Indiana Christian Institute, E. Sixteenth St. Church of Christ, evening. College of Missions consecration services, eV ßenJa’ml(i Harrison Camp, Sons of Veterans, memorial services, Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois St., 8 p. m. Mercator Club luncheon, Spink-Arms. Purchasing Agents' Assocation luncheon, Severin. American Chemical Society luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. Universal Club luncheon, Columbia Club. Phi Gamma Delta luncheon. Chamber of Commerce. . . University of Michigan Alumni luncheon, Lincoln. Coroner Paul F. Robinson is seeking relatives of a woman believed to be Mrs. Anna Anderson, 64, who died suddenly in her room at 943 N. Capitol Ave. Sunday. Police were told she has a daughter and two sons by a first marriage, names unknown, in the city. Harry Wharton, 436*4 E. Wabash St., reported a double case of hard luck to police today. Following an auto accident at Michigan and Blackford St. Sunday afternoon, $99 cash and a check for s3l dropped from his pocketbook as he got out of his car. Neither of the auvos was badly damaged, he said. Head of a dog shot by Loren Dixon, 27, of 342 Newton Ave., Sunday when it bit his brother John, 12, was being examined by State chemists today. The wound was dressed at city hospital. Clair McTurnan, 3812 N. Pennsylvania St., has been chosen to serve as toastmaster at the Wabash College Alumni banquet at Crawfordsville tonight. He was graduated in 1914. Fire prevention will be discussed before the Foremen’s Club of Indianapolis, June 24, by Richard E. Vernor, Chicago trade journal editor. Other speakers will be Indianapolis Fire Chief Jesse A. Hutsell, Horace W. Carey, director of fire prevention and Frank C. Jordan, chamber of commerce. Police squads and frantic relatives searched west side streets and alleys for an hour Sunday, believing that Elnora Snapp, 8, 204 N. Tremont Ave., had been kidnaped. Playmates told she had been put in an auto by a man. After an hour the girl, who had been taken for a ride by her cousin who had just bought an auto, was returned home. A special session of the pastoral teachers’ conference of Indianapolis Lutheran Church will be held at Trinity Hall, Arsenal Ave. and Market St., at 8 p. m., Tuesday. Prof. Albert Mock, Butler University, will be speaker. Flying 407 miles from Marshfield. Mo., to Indianapolis, “Lindy,” a racing pigeon owned by Charles Schwert, 350 E. Thirtieth St., won the race held Sunday by the Indianapolis Racing Pigeon Club. “Lindy’s” time was 12 hours, 54 minutes, 3 seconds. Twenty-nine pigeons from five lofts were entered. Only “Lindy” completed the trip. Youths of today should draft character covenant with themselves to carry through life. Dr. William A. Shullenberger, Central Christian Church pastor, told the Shortridge High School graduating class Sunday in a baccalaureate sermon. He paid high tribute to modern youth as a memorial to Mayflower youth. Celebration of Pentecost by Jewish people is under way in Indianapolis and will continue until Friday evening. Dr. Maurice Darbridge, University of Manchester. England, is speaker at various meetings. Annua! graduation exercises of the United Tynothetae PrintingSchool at Arsenal Technical High School will be held at noon Friday at the school. Sixty-six students will be graduated.

Before he left he scrawled out a card and nailed it on his cabin door: “Gone to Crook City to preach and if God is willing, will be back at 3 o'clock.” He came back on a hay wagon—dead. Trusted in Bible Black Hills lore says that neighbors had warned the preacher not to make the trip, as the Indians were known to be ugly. Deadwood, too, probably offered enough work for more than one preacher at the time, and he was advised to stay at home. It is reported that the preacher held up his Bible and declared that it was his protection. It had never failed him yet, and he was willing to put his trust in it again. It was only a short time later that a miner came into Deadwood with the news that the preacher’s body was lying beside the road. The Indians had prevailed. Diary Tells Story Smith's first sermon in the hills, which he preached in Custer City, just west of where the white house is located, was attended by thirty men and five ladies. An old diary, still preserved, tells about the service and records that the congregation listened intently to the sermon except when there was a dog fight outside. The Rev. Henry Weston Smith’s career in Deadwood was short. He had come into the Black Hills three months before his death. He was a quiet man, volunteered no information about his ancestry, and in those days it wasn’t considered safe to ask too many questions. Drug Store Pupil Sunday in Deadwood in the gold rush days was the time for general trading. Gold dust was the coin of the realm. Miners quit work and poured down on the poor little community to buy supplies and blow the proceeds of their six days panning and digging. Mules brayed, ox-teams pulled heavy carts through the one muddy street. Hammers pounded and saws rasped through wood as new shacks went up. And the one street in the town was a surging mass of rough and ready customers, well lickered and ready to fight about anything or nothing. Preached In Street These were the people Preacher Smith tried to preach to. His favorite pulpit, apparently, was the platform in front of the drugstore or Captain Gardner’s trading center. Deadwood then was a one-street town, and its inhabitants, numbering 3,000 or more, always knew when'there was anything going on. He never had any trouble getting a congregation. (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) JUNE 18 LAST DRIVE Manager Forces Plan Huge Downtown Meeting. City manager drive leaders today tentatively decided on June 18 for a final mass meeting to educate workers in the principles of the new form of government to be voted on June 21. A huge downtown meeting with Republican and a prominent Democrat as speakers, stressing the non-partisan phase of the movement, was planned. Claude H. Anderson, executive secretary, said workers had redoubled efforts. Several neighborhood and civic club meetings are planned. Nearly 1.000 workers soon will conduct a city poll. CALLED BY PROBERS Shaneberger and Wolf Questioned in Corruption Inquiry. Roy Shaneberger, former board of works president, and Jacob Wolf, board of zoning appeals member, were called before county prosecutors today. The officials are conducting the injuiry into alleged political corruption. It was announced that city affairs will continue to hold attention of the prosecutors.

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ROTARY HEARS BELGIAN KING GIVE WELCOME Albert Lauds Civic Clubs’ Principles in Opening Address. Bu United Press OSTEND Belgium, June 6. World peace became the “sixth object” of Rotary today as more than 7,000 Rotarians met in their annual convention. The delegates represented all leading nations. More than 3,000 were from the United States and Canada. King Albert of Belgium, himself a member of the San Francisco and Brussels Rotary Clubs, welcomed the delegates to Ostend in an address praising the Increasing international influence of the Rotary Club. Dr. Moreaux, Ostend burgomaster, and Albert Bouchery, president of the Ostend Rotary Club, formally welcomed the delegates and Dr. Florestan Aguilar of Madrid responded. Walter D. Cline of Wichita Falls, Texas, presented the official program. Harry Rogers, international president, then addressed the convention. King Is Rotarian "I am a Rotarian myself and want to sit on the same plane with other Rotarians,” the King said. “The application of the golden rule to personal, business and community life stimulates the development of a sense of citizenship,” King Albert continued. “A lively, active spirit is the tool of all good government. Rotarian principles are those that make good servants for the State. “Friendliness in international relations can be fostered by friendliness in international trade. “It gives me very great pleasure to welcome today thousands of Rotarians from countries in all parts of the world. The presence here of so many ladies and the keen interest they take in the matter is precious encouragement and will contribute to the success of this humanitarian campaign. Mentions Lindbergh “The crossing of the Atlantic by 3,000 American citizens—the Atlantic which your heroic countryman. Charles Lindbergh, crossed in some thirty hours—is indeed an important event and proves the strength of the' Rotarian cooperative spirit. “Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby declare the eighteenth convention of Rotary International open.” His majesty spokfe in perfect English. The only decoration he wore was a small Rotary insignia in his lapel. The crowd, which stood throughout his address, cheered, stamped and shouted when he finished. Lilly Is Named as Trustee on Purdue s Board

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Company President Will Take Place of Lafayette Publisher.

J. K. Lilly, president of Eli Lilly and Company, today was appointed by Governor Jackson to the board of trustees of Purdue University. He will take the place of Trustee Henry W. Marshal, Lafayette publisher, who asked to be retired after many years of service. James M. Kimbaugh, Muncie, was reappointed to the same board. Other appointments announced by the Governor were Walter Owens, Democrat, reappointed field examiner, State bard of accounts; Forrest Knepper, Etna Green, lnd., poultry raiser, to succeed John W. VanNatta, Lafayette Republican, on livestock sanitary board; Dr. Carl W. Sibbitt, Frankfort, reappointed to board of dental examiners.

Hoch! Hoch! Bu United. Press COTTBUS, Germany, June 6.—This Prussian community ave Clarence D. Chambejiin and Charles A. Levine a great welcome today. The people were frantic with enthusiasm and the entire population assembled in front of the Hotel Ansorge, shouting: “Hoch! Hoch! “Hoch Chamberlin, Levine.” While the crowd was cheering in front of the hotel, the first airplane arrived from Berlin with an impromptu reception committee.

Ball of Fire to Menace Earth, San Will Be Darkened, Moon Will Fade Out

June to Be Busy Month in Science Circles; Eclipses and Comet Will Be Studied by Savants. By Israel Klein Science Editor, NEA Service June will be an auspicious month for science and superstition. The sun will be darkened, the moon will be obliterated and a great ball of fire, with an enormous tail, will appear to threaten us in the sky. The darkening of the sun and obliteratio of the moon are eclipses of these great bodies in space, and the great ball of fire we know now as a comet. The first event this month Is the eclipse of the moon. The earth will come between the sun and the moon, completely shutting off direct sunlight from our satellite. This will occur in the night of June 1415, and will be seen all over the western hemisphere. Moon In Eclipse First the moon will cut through the outer shadow, or penumbra of the earth and will slowly cross into the umbra, or dark shadow, which it will reach at 1:43 a. m. eastern time, June 15. For the next hour and a half the moon's eclipse will icrease until It will be eclipsed totally at 3:13. This totality will last twenty-one minutes, after which the moon will move slowly out of the earth’s shadow. A week later the day becomes the longest of the year, with the beginning of summer, at 5:22 on the morning of June 22. Arnost at the same time we may be able to detect a stranger in the sky. It is the Pons-Winnecke comet, discovered In 1819 by a doorkeeper at the observatory at, Marseilles and since then noticed every six years. Comets Strange ‘Folk* Comets are a strange lot of heavenly bodies, each a collection of flbry meteors and dust particles grouped together by some sort of electric attraction and whirling around the sun at an enormous speed and over a huge ellipse, or flat circle. ! The Pons-Winnecke comet is approaching us at the rate of twentyfour miles a second, faster than the earth is traveling, and June 26 it will come nearest to us—a distance of 3,600,000 miles. If we stay up until 3 in the morning of June 26, Eastern time, we may see the comet perhaps without aid of a telescope, but barely visible in the sky almost directly ! above us. Tho presence of a waning moon at the same time may drown out the view of the comet. Sun's Eclipse June 29 Os ■ far more importance to science, although invisible in the United States, will be the sun's eclipse on the morning of June 29. As the sun rises that morning, the moon will get between it and the earth to cast a circular shadow thirty miles in diameter. This shadow will start a little west of the Bay of Biscay, cross the ! Atlantic and pass over the populous section of Lancashire in England. It will proceed along the length of Norway, the north of Sweden and Lapland and over the desolate region of the Arctic ocean north of the Siberian coast, leaving the earth at sunset at the tip of Alaska. Scientists have been preparing for this event for a whole year. Some American scientists are going to Norway to set up instruments by which they may study the sun's corona, the great prominences of fire that can be seen favorably only when the moon covers the disk of the sun. They want to know what materials form It and exactly how. AQUEDUCT BOMBED Third Attack on Los Angeles’ Conduit. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. June 6.—Additional guards were patrolling the runway of the Los Angeles aqueduct today following the third dynamiting of the conduit within two weeks, i A section of the aqueduct, fifteen | miles south of Lone Pine, was blown | up early yesterday in the latest outbreak of the fourteen-year-old feud which has resulted in six acts of violence since the building of the project to carry water to 1,000,000 people In Los Angeles and vicinity. The water was shut off immediately and a repair crew sent to the scene. The damage was not extensive, officials said. I The explosion was blamed on | Owens valley ranchers, who protested vigorously against the building of the aqueduct, claiming that they received unfair treatment from the water bureau. CONCRETE USE ASKED Paving Material Barred by Works Board Is Petition Subject. Petitions to Include concrete, eliminated In the work board regular specifications, as a material for four streets were filed today. Property owners asked concrete for these streets ;Lowell Ave., Kenmore Rd., Rldgeview Dr., Richland St.. Limber to Minnesota Sts., North Sixty-first St. and Fayette St. from Tenth to Twelft Sts. TYPHOON HITS SHIPS Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 6. —A typhoon off the coast of China has struck three American ships, according to wireless messages received here. The vessels were the freighters Miller County, and West Sequana, and the Tanker Standard Arrow, ir

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Above—The sun's corona, shooting millions of miles Into space, visible only when the sun Is competeJy eclipsed by the moon. Below—This photo of Moorehouse’s comet, shows what the PonsWinnecke comet looks like.

LINDY RATED LOW AS STUDENT OF AVIATION Instructors at Flying School Not Impressed by Youth Who Was Destined for Paris Flight.

By Morris De Haven Tracy United Press Staff Corrcsvnndent (Copyright, 1927, by the United Press) CHAPTER VI When Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at the Aircraft Company’s offices in Lincoln, Neb., late in 1921, and enrolled as an aviation student, they thought so little of his chances of ever becoming anything much in the way of an aviator that no record was kept of the date of his arrival. Apparently the immediate impression was of a sort of a “Merton of the Movies” person who had dreamed flying and finally came with enough money to pay for some instruction, but who never would do much more. Ray Page, company president, described him as typically a country lad, green, gawky, tall, gangling and bashful. “He blushed when he came to us In a way that would have done credit to any high school girl,” said Page. He was turned over to some instructor and no one knows just who it was, to be taught a bit about airplanes. He was given the ground training which consisted of a study of airplane construction and explanation of the theory and mechanics of flying. He was not talkative, was very quiet and unassuming, but when he got into the pilots nest, what a difference there was,” said Page, telling of this training period. - Began to Notice "As soon as he was permitted to take a plarte aloft, everyone began to notice him. He was a changed man when he got his hands on the controls. He wasn’t bashful or blushing any more, and he didn’t appear gawky. He made airplanes behave like no beginner ever did before. “He was never reckless; that boy, but daringly courageous. “Pretty soon everyone around the field was talking about the kid being one of the few men born naturally adapted to flying. It took his flight to Paris to convince the world that here was a remarkable flier but we knew it long before he finished his course at the flying school here.” Lindbergh left the flying school not when he had finished the complete course but when he felt that he had learned all therd was to be learned there, just as he left college when he felt he wasn’t making any progress. Up to the time he left the flying school he had not been permitted to fly alone. Immediately Lindbergh looked around for an airplane of his own. He picked up one at an army sale—an elderly biplane—and took it to Lincoln, where he fixed it up and began running an air-taxi service. He charged the farmers and visitors to Lincoln so much per minute of flying. Few Acquaintances He made few acquaintances, and those who did know him in those days recall him chiefly for two things, his quiet, reticent disposition and his interest in aviation. He shared a room at the Harry E. Peckham home in Lincoln with another embryo aviator named Ball. When he flew to Paris Lincoln people searched so deeply for “Lindbergh lore” that they finally unearthed the place in the Sanitarium garage where Lindbergh had space for his motorcycle, and it has become a sort of shrine. Harry Ellis, Lincoln, also interested in flying, was one of his closest friends there, and it was through Ellis that Lindbergh came to mix parachute jumping with his study of flying. “I had done some balloon work myself and had made parachute dro{sS,” Ellis said. “He was making great progress in flying and wanted to drop. “I thought he had plenty of nerve although he didn’t make any boasts. He would get me talking about parachute jumping and would question *ne on every little point, He was

getting all the Information he could. “Pretty soon I learned he was going down to the Twentieth street flying field and dropping all over the place. Arranged for Self “He had, it seemed, got all the information he could from me about parachutes and then arranged to learn the business for himself. Soon everyone was talking about the perfect manner in which he handled himself in his drops. It was just natural to him.” Lindbergh tired of Lincoln and finally gave up his air-taxi business there, get into his plane and flew back home to Little Falls, Minn. It was in Little Falls that he dreamed of flying during his youth and those who have dreamed in childhood may imagine how the day in 1922 when Charlie Lindbergh came flying his own plane into the old home town, was for him a thrill only surpassed by his arrival in Paris on May 21. The townspeople were immediately curious over the quiet, silent lad and his airship. They gathered at its quickly built hangar to see it and Charlie began doing an air-taxi business at home once more. Not all of the townpeople would take a chance riding with Charlie Lindbergh but many of them had their first ride through the skies in his old army biplane. FLOOD CUBES GIVEN Thousands Try to Show How It Could Be Done. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, June 6.—Secretary Hoover disclosed today that more than 1,000 volunteer engineers throughout the country have flooded his office with complete plans for preventing a recurrence of the Mississippi floods. Two have been received from Germany. Many Are Fantastic One suggests construction of tremendous cisterns beneath the bed of the river with trap doors which may be opened in floor sections so as to let the angry waters sink into the earth—to China, maybe, Another calls for construction of a far-flung pipe system from Chicago to the Gulf of Mexico parallel with the river so that the water may be diverted into these conduits. One most interesting of all suggests erection of evaporation plants at strategy points along the stream. END IS IN SIGHT WITH FLOOD REACHING GULF Atchafalaya Carrying Off Inundation—Little Rise Expected. Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS. La.. June 6. The current of the Atchafalaya River, pouring through Berwick Bay, may carry off sufficient flood water from the southern part of the “Sugar Bowl” to prevent further inundation, observers said today. The Atchafalaya, traveling at ten miles an. hour, is managing to force millions of cuWc feet a second out of the mouth of the 'jay into the gulf. At Morgan City today the gauge stood at 9:5 feet and little rise was expected. "The end is now in sight,” Dr. I, m. Cline, meteorologist in charge of the weather bureau here, announced. , RITES FOR WAR VET Bu Times Special NORTH VERNON, lnd., June 6 Funeral services will be held here Tuesday morning for John G. Denton, Civil War veteran and Marion oo\i£t£ prosecuting attorney & 1824,

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OCEAN FREIGHT i BY AIR IS SEEN Bellanca Forecasts Lines Across Atlantic. Bu United Tress NEW YORK, June 6.—Overjoyed by the non-stop flight of the Bellanca plane Columbia from New York to Forst, Germany, G. M. Bellanca, designer of the plane, predicted today that trans-Atlantic freight nd passenger service is near. He urged that the United States lake the lead in the development of khe movement. His statement said: “The successful termination ol a longer flight than Lindbergh's, following so near the first, proves that crossing of the Atlantic by commercial planes with passengers and freight is near. “Without doubt, the planes to make these crossings will not be with one motor, but with multimotors, and of a type to make landings in water. A first essential of such planes will be that they fly in perfect balance and with full load, with less than 50 per cent of the total horsepower. “The endurance of the pilot (Chamberlin) cannot be questioned. He flew under all kinds of weather, much of which was adverse and he ought to be commended. I am highly pleased with Ills great work. “Now Is America's great opportunity to become the leader of all aviation movements.” LION S - D A Y MEETING OPENS State Convention on at Martinsville. Bn United Press MARTINSVILLE, lnd., June 6. The roar of the lion, not the jungle beast, but the tamed genus homo, was heard here today as the Lfons Club opened its two-day State convention. Six hundred guests are expected to register. Dr. F. F. Gravis, Martinsville, general chairman of the committee in charge, opened the convention this afternoon. Maurice N. Cramer. Martinsville president, delivered the opening address and Or sr O'Harrow, Martinsville, the weh ■'m*. District Governor W. W. *. Mishawaka, responded. One of the visiting dignitaries is Benjamin A. Ruffin, national second vice president, who is on tho opening program. “A June Night in Venice,” a water pageant, will be the entertainment tonight. Later, the Community Players of Greenwood will present “The Bad Man.” at the high school auditorium, followed by the governor’s ball. ‘HOT FEETNEW BALLROOM STEP May Displace Char’;' 1 and Black Bottom. Bn Tint's Bnrcial ; NEW YORK, June 6.—The prominence of knees and hips in bar- | room dancing is threatened by rec- ! ognitlon again of feet as the natural 1 terpsichorean members of the body. If Broadway decrees fashions in dancing, summer resort couples will be ‘hot footing” instead of Charlestoning, or bending and shuffling through tthe Black Bottom. Called less gawky and slovenly than the two latter dances, the “hot feet” depends on a series of Jerky little steps that are keeeping the minds of dancers from Harlem to the Battery too busy with their feet to bother much about knees or hips. Arthur Murray, ballroom authority and the man who made the Prince of Wales a devotee of American steps, got his inspiration for originating “hot feet” from the song of the same name that crop into New York almost unnoticed when its composer. Wendell Hall, famous for his prophetic song about the rain, wended his way east from Chicago only a month ago.

OIL MEN TO FIGHT Fall-Sinclair Witnesses Plan Action. Hu Time * & nee in I WASHINGTON, June 6.—Henry Blackmer and James O’Neil, key Fall-Sinclair conspiracy witnesses whom the Government has vainly sought to bring home from Europe, to testify, may permanently avoid the necessity of testifying or being fined the SIOO,OOO provided by Congress for refusal to appear. Plans are being outlined, it was learned today, to attack the validity of the act of Congress designed to corral absent Fall-Sinclair case witnesses. If the act is applied to Blackmer or O'Neil, both wealthy men, and their property is seized in payment of a fine for refusing to appear, it is understood their attorneys will challenge the act as going beyond the power of Congress and the United States courts. The contention will be made that a summons to appear as a witness in a United States court is only valid when within the jurisdiction of the court.

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