Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1927 — Page 3

JOTE 8. 1927

FARMERS LOOK TO 25 PER CENT VALUATION CUT State Tax Board’s Land Figures Show 10.71 Per Cent Overcharge. While the first figures garnered by the State tax board at farm revaluation hearings indicated that present assessment was 10.71 per cent greater than “true value,” Indiana farm bureau leaders have harvested “a bushel of figures” which lead them to believe reduction of 25 per cent should be made. “The trouble with the tax board figures are that they are not dealing with 1927,” Farm Bureau Secretary L. L. Needer said. “The purpose of that section of the Lindley-Shake-Johnson law, which provides for 1927 revaluations is to afford immediate relief to the farmer. “The board Is taking 1925 and 1926 figures and using them in making estimates, while they should be confined to 1927 valuations entirely.” 903 From Sales The bureau figures include a list of 93 farm sales in Clinton County, covering a three-year period. The average assessment for this list is 20 per cent high, figures indicate. A Grant County list shows that while 1926 sales were 93.99 per cent of assessed valuation, the 1927 sales were 81.89 per cent. “There has been depreciation of 12.1 per cent in valuation since last year,” Needier contends. “The 1925 value was much nearer the assessment than now.” , As Well as Sales The 1927 statute provides that true cash value must be based on production income and speculative value, as well as sales, but Needer contends that this definition was meant to apply only to the general revaluation and not the local unit revaluations being made this year. The tax board believes “true cash value” should be determined now as set out In the 1927 statute. Hearings are being held today at Martinsville and Friday at Spencer.

ROTARY AREA PLAN BEFORE CONFERENCE Committee Accepts Resolution of Nashville Man. Bu United Press OSTEND, Belgium, June A—Effective control and supervision of Rotary Clubs by establishment of area administrations was proposed to the resolutions committee of the international Rotary convention today by William Nainer of Nashville, Tenn. The committee accepted the resolution and will introduce it on the floor of the convention. The committee side-stepped a resolution presented by two lowa Rotarians which might have precipitated discussion of tariffs and war debts. The comimttee held that it had originated privately, whereas It should have been presented by a club. RAIL HEAD ACCUSED Van Sweringen Quizzed on Personal Loan Charge. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June B.—After a sharp exchange between counsel, O. P. Van Sweringen was ordered by the interstate commerce commission today at hearings on the C. & 0.-Erie-Pere Marquette railroad merger to present a written statement of loans made to him by large New York, Cleveland and Detroit banking houses. Director of Finance Mahaflle, hearing the case, issued this ruling after Henry W. Anderson, counsel for the C. & O. minority stockholders, insinuated Van Sweringen has used credit of the C. & O. railroad in obtaining personal loans. Denying the insinuation, Van Sweringen sai<4 he would comply with the ruling. WALES VIEWED BY CAT? King George Gives Oldest Son Knighthood. r.u United Press LONDON, June B.—The Prince of Wales Tuesday was appointed by King George as a Knight of the most illustrious Order of St. Patrick. A black cat crossed his path the same day, so superstitious Englishmen are wondering whether there is any connection. The cat walked in front of the Prince as the latter entered a hospital at Newton Abbott. He looked at the Prince as if to say that at least one cat had looked at a Prince, even if not at the King. HOLD-UP AUTO~TOUND Stolen Car Contains Part of Cash Register and 350 Pennies. The automobile stolen from Orville Breece, 634 N. Illinois St., and used in a recent filling station hold-up was found Tuesday night. Mrs. N. F. Martz, 408 N. Jefferson Ave., became suspicious of an auto parked several days in the rear of her home • and investigated. When she saw a cash register money drawer and 350 pennies in the car she called police. BORAH’S TONSILS OUT Senator at Office After Unannounced Operation. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June B.—Chairman William E. Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee was at his office today after some days’ absence during recovery from an unannounced operation for tonsil removal. Borah appeared to have withstood the operation well, though Ms voice was feeble and he could scarcely speak above a whisper.

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Lindbergh Felt Fear During Flying Circus

BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) CHAPTER VIII Captain Charles A. Lindbergh got what his friends among aviators believe to be the only real fright of his life in 1924 when at Fowler, Colorado, with a “Flying Circus.” It was largely fear for the safety of two men who were riding with him as passengers. “We had come to Fowler to give an exhibition,” said Captain J, Wray Vaughn, who was managing the “Flying Circus.” “Lindbergh was our great stunt pilot at the time and he was giving the people plenty of thrills. “Two men came to the field and wanted to be taken up. Lindbergh accordingly hopped off with them. It was late afternoon. “The ship had hardly left the ground when a nasty wind storm blew up. The wind howled and Lindbergh, with his two passengers, circled over the lield, but he could tell by the feel of the plane that It would be dangerous to land in such a blow. So he went up higher and higher to keep out of the danger zone, and before the storm abated it was pitch dark. “The field where we were flying was small. It was not a regular flying field, but just a big open space which had been turned over to us for our exhibition work. In it were two haystacks and several trees. In daylight a pilot as skilled as Lindbergh could land and take off with perfect safety, but at night it was a different matter. Flares were not easily available in those days’and lighting such a field was an almost unknown practice in that region. Last Place In World “So, while the field might be all right in daylight, it was about the last place in the world to pick for landing at night. “The wind was still pretty heavy and the night was pitch dark. I didn’t know what was going to be done about it. I knew he couldn't stay aloft forever. He had to come down sometime. “So, I moved up three automobiles and directed their headlights so they would outline, although perhaps weakly, the boundaries of the field and show up the haystacks and the trees. “Lindbergh was watching and pretty soon he began coming down. He circled around looking the situation all over, and then dropped low and made a perfect landing. “The two passengers got out and were enthusiastic about the splendid ride Lindbergh had given them. They thought the long trip was a' part of our generosity and they probably don’t know to this day that only unusual skill and coolheadedness on‘the part of Lindbergh saved their lives. “But Lindbergh got out of the plane, came over to me and said: “ ‘You can put that down in the book—in all my flying experience that’s the first time I ever was scared.’ ” Lindbergh had Joined Vaughn after going to St. Louis from his Little Falls home where he had rested after his first year or so of following the country fairs in the Rocky Mountain states. Vaughn had taken him back to the West. Need a Pilot “I wired Lambert field In St. Louis one day that I needed a pilot for a summer stunt tour through the West,” Vaughn said telling how he and Lindbergh met. “ I told them I wanted a pilot with plenty of nerve and one who knew his business. They replied that they were sending Lindbergh. I’d never heard of him before. “So I went down to the station in Denver, Colo., to meet him. I expected to see a regulation trick airman all dressed up in doggy aviators uniform. “I stood on the station platfoim scanning the crowd trying to pick out someone who looked like an aviator, I noticed a tall, gangling kid in a misfit blue suit about three sizes too small. He wore an old cloth cap and carried, a card-board suitcase and a duffle bag. “The crowd thinned out, but I

j couldn't find my pilot anywhere. ! The kid kept hanging around like he was looking for someone, and | after while he saw I was about the only ones left. Then he came up to me and said hesitatingly “‘Are you Captain Vaughn?’ “I said that I was. “ ‘l’m Lindbergh,’ the kid said. “I looked him over again and said to myself ‘those fellows flown in St. Louis are slipping me something. If this kid is a pilot I’m a horse.’ “But the first time I saw him In the air I knew I was wrong. There never was another like him.” Lindbergh remained with the Flying Circus until late in 1924 when j he decided to take the army trainI ing course in aviation and become ; a reserve flier. So, one day, he got into his airplane and flew to Brooks’ Field, Tex., to enroll as a flying cadet. Dilapidated Bi-Plane "I remember when he came,” said j Sergoant D. Wood, of Brooks Field. : “He had an old. dilapidated Standard bi-plane with most of the fabric [ gone from the lower half of one wing. But that didn’t seem to j bother Lindbergh any. He handled j it just as well as if the wing were sound. “He was a quiet, unassuming chap who seldom went to town and was always studying.” He completed his primary train- | ing at Brooks Field in September, 1 1924, and went to Kelly Field, San j Antonio, to attend the Advanced ! Flying School. It was while flying j there that he made the first of his !' famous parachute jumps when his ■ plane was disabled in that most j rare and spectacular of accidents, I —an aerial collision. "I felt a slight jolt followed by a J crash,” Lindbergh wrote in his offii cial report of the accident. “My head was thrown forward against the cowling and my plane seemed to turn around and hang nearly motionless for an instant. I closed the throttle and saw an SE-5 plane with Lieut. McAllister in the cockpit, a few feet on my left. He was apparently unhurt and getting ready to jump. Ships Locked Together "Our ships were locked together. My right wing was folded back. The ships started to mill around and the wires began whistling. The right wing commenced vibrating and striking my head at the bottom of each vibration. “I climbed out and jumped backwards as far as I could. “I was afraid the planes might .fall on me, so I did not pull the cord of my parachute until I £ad dropped several hundred feet. ”1 saw Lieut. McAllister floating above me and the wrecked ships about 100 yards to one side. I watched them until, still locked together, they crashed in the mesquite and burst into flames. “Although the impact of landing was too great for me to remain standing, I landed in a ditch at the edge of the mesquite and was not injured in any way. “During my descent I lost my goggles, a vest pocket camera which fitted tightly in my hip pocket, and the rip cord of the parachute.” MANY KILLED IN BLAST Campino Oil Well in Balkans Explodes. Bu United Press VIENNA, June 8. Dispatches from Bucharest today said an explosion at a Campino oil well had caused large loss of life. A report said seventeen workers had been killed after a careless smoker dropped a match. Girl Hurt in Crash Thelma Mikels, 18, University Heights, was taken to city hospital Tuesday night with a cut in her right knee following a crash between the car in which she was riding, driven by Mildred Robinson, 21, 1511 Edwards St., and one driven by Ralph Gary, 19, of 209 N. Downey i Ave., at Pennsylvania and Arch Sts.

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KENTON, OHIO, TODAY IS ‘LAIR OF MAGICIANS’ Clergy Even Represented Among 1,000 at Weird Magician Session. Bu United Press KENTON, 0.. June B.—Kenton today rivaled O. Henry's “lair of the magi” here with more than 1,000 exponents of necromancy gathered here for the second annual convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. With their secrets of Maori black art were delegates from Australia; Japan and India sent fakirs; Mexico, England, Canada and every State in the Union were represented when the magicians assembled to discuss tricks of the trade and learn new feats of magic. The Brotherhood has a membership of more than 1,700, representing every continent in the world. Such world-famous magicians as Thurston, Blackstone, Dante, “Mysterious” Smith, Silent Mora, Bert Johnson. Elmer Eckman and Alla Rageh were delegates, while Dr. A. M. Wilson, editor of The Spinx, magazine, devoted to magis, also was in attendance. On the opening day a memorial service will be held for seven members of the Brotherhood who have died since the last convention, which was held here last year. Governor Vic Donahey, Senator Frank Willis of Ohio, and Senator Coleman DuPont of Delaware, honorary members, will tfe guests of honor at grand banquet. Willis is a magic enthusiast, and it was through his efforts that Governor Dohahey and Senator DuPont joined the organization. The Brotherhood has in its membership four Methodist ministers, one Episcopalian, two Catholic priests and a Jewish rabbi. The membership also includes manufacturers. lawyers, physicians. State and Federal officials, mechanics, and all manner of persons Interested in magic. Fifteen women belong. POLICE PEER INTO AUTO; SNIFF—JAIL! Jasper Boys Get Flat Tire and Booze Charge. “Flat tire, boys?” queried Patrolmen Dillane and Curran as they approached an auto at Liberty and Court Sts. Tuesday night. “Yes,” replied Bernard Eckstein and Bernard Lange, both of Jasper. Ind. "And what might be that peculiar odor like whisky?” questioned Dillane as he lifted the rear compartment lid. He found two five-gallon jugs of “coni whisky.” Blind tiger ar.d transporting charges were placed against Eckstein and Lange. SHRINERS’ TREK TO ATLANTIC CITY IS ON 150,000 Nobles Expected to Attend Imperial Council. Bu Times Special ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. June 8 The movement of Shriners toward Atlantic City is under way. Delegates to the convention of 150,000 Nobles of 157 Temples, converging here for the fifty-third Imperial Council session, have been under way for some days from Honolulu, Mexico City, Canal Zone and Cuba. Others, Iron* far points of the United States and Canada, will start this week. Special trains will begin moving Friday. Chicago’s seven special trains will start out Saturday and arrive here Sunday. CZECHS LIKE SUNDAES WASHINGTON, June B.—The American soda fountain lunch counter is becoming popular in Czechoslovakia, the commerce department was advised today. The first typically American fountain was opened recently in Prague and serves more than 3,000 persons daily.

Rowboats Deliver Mail in Flood-Swept Regions

Trucks and Horses Also Do Share in Postal Crisis of River Valley. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June B.—Trucks, motor boats, horses, rowboats and just plain man power were used to deliver mail during the height of the Mississippi flood, W. I. Glover, second assistant postmaster general, said today. Glover has just returned from the flood zone, where he studied rehabilitation of rural mail routes. Practically all the mail that accumulated during the height of the flood has now been delivered, Glover said, and no additional congestion is expected. At the beginning of the flood Glover dispatched superintendents to key positions and they directed the delivery of the malls using whatever means they could obtain. “It was expensive, but we delivered,” Glover said. “The uncertainty was the greatest trouble. One day mail could be delivered over a rodte by truck and the next day It would be necessary to use a motor boat or a rowboat. “Sometimes a horse would be needed, or, if the road was impassable for horses, oftentimes a mailman would start out on foot. “One route set a record. The mail started in a truck, was transferred to a horse, thence to a power boat, then a motor boat and finally a man had to transport it the remainder of the distance.”

COOLIDGE GETS SLAP FOR NEAR SNUR TO FLEET ♦ Even Wore Cap Instead of Plug Hat, Baltimore Sun Criticises. Times Washington Bureau. 1322 -Veto York Avenue WASHINGTON, June B.—Did the President review the fleet Saturday as the cbmmander-in-chief of the Navy ought to review it, or did he not? This promises to be a mooted question because of an article just published in The Baltimore Sun. The article critipises the President severely, asserting he wore a yachting cap instead of the more formal silk hat, that he only spent twenty minutes of the two hours of review on the bridge of the Mayflower at attention, that he reclined on a couch on the lower deck instead of watching the warships pass and that he left his more formal duties to the presidential yacht captain. It is asserted that there Is quite a buzz ampng rtavy men at the manner In which the President glossed over his review. To the Navy the review by the President is a big event, for which there is much preparation. It is a formal occasion with everyone from' the highest ranking officer to the lowest gob on dress parade. The Navy did its part in carrying out the formalities, but the President failed to his, if one may judge from the conversation undercurrent. POISONING CHARGED Witness in ‘King Ben’ Case Says Two Girls Died. Bn United i’rcss ST. JOSEPH. Mich., June B. Two young girls, members oi the House of David, died from poison at the isolated high island lumber camp of the cult after they had been subjected to “King Ben” Purnell's “purification rites,” Mrs. Hazel Wuerth testified here today. Mrs. Wuerth was a witness In the State’s suit to disband the House of David colony. She said Eliza Murphy, 14, died after drinking spirits of camphor, and Jesse Wheeler succumbed after eating poisonous mushrooms. DECISION INVITES NEW FREIGHT RATE BATTLE Turndown of Boston Appeal Is Opening for Rail War. - Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June B.—The Interstate Commerce Commission virtually has invited big railroads of the East and Midwest to start a freight-rate war. The invitation was contained in the commission’s decision which refused to change present rates on “ex-lake” grain from Buffalo to eastern ports for export. Baltimore and Philadelphia enjoy a slightly cheaper freight rate, than New York and Boston, the latter cities being farther from Buffalo. Boston asked the commission to make all rates equal. Its sixth attack on the Baltimore-Philadclphia differential in thirty years. ADE’S HOME RAIDERS BELIEVED IN CUSTODY Two Hold at Peoria, lll.—Most of Loot Recovered. Bu Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind.. June B.—Arrest of Rex Meadows •and Fred Arliss at Peoria. 111., is believed by authorities to have rounded up the ring that looted Hazelden, the home of George Ade, near Brook, while the Hoosier writer was abroad. Most of the loot, including many gifts to Ade from foreign notables, has been recovered from Illinois and Indiana pawn shops. Ade's estate was robbed early In April, but the theft was not discovered until Ade’s return.

SEARCH FOR DYING MAN Police Told Officer Wounded Man During Raid. Police squads searched the northeast section of the city Tuesday night for Willie Green, Negro, 2244 Yandes St., said to be dying from a bullet wound inflicted last Sunday by some police officer. Police records show no shooting in any Sunday raid. Jasper Bright, proprietor of a pool room, at Yandes and Nineteenth Sts., told police he last saw Green Sunday night, and that he was weak and suffering. Bright said he advised him to give up to police, but Green said he was going to hide. SWEET THIEVES CAUGHT Boys, 16 and 7, Try Grab-and-Run Act; Third Escapes. Three Negro youths, one just a child, today attempted to steal candy and money a u the Lukaszh & Robeff 993 W. Washington St., but were put to flight. -Later an emergency squad in charge of Lieut. O. D. Thomas, arrested two of them. Pete Lukaszh told police the three ordered soda water and when he turned to get it, they attempted to loot the cash register and candy case. He yelled that he would shoot and they ran to the street, leaped on bicycles and rode away. One youth held gave aage as 16 and the other as 7,

Agnes Wants Divorce

Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., June B. Agnes Ayres, movie actress, has filed suit for divorce from S. Manuel Reachi, reputed Mexican millionaire. They were married at Tia Juana, July 13, 1924. Charging extreme cruelty and desertion, the star said that she had been accustomed to refinement and polite consideration, but that her

Times Readers Praise Easy-to-Read Type

C. L. HAROD. General Manager Chamber of Commerce—The new type certainly makes a more attractive paper and I think it far easier on the eyes than was the old. Personally, I favor the change. 'h. L. BENDEL, Assistant Indiana Prohibition Chief—The new type gives the paper a dressier appearance, as well as being easier on the eyes. Without a doubt it is a great improvement over the former method of printing. A. G. CAVENS, Assistant United States District Attoiney—Put me down as one who favors the new style. It is clearer, better looking, and tfcu'k enough to give a more distinct contrast on the white of the paper, thereby becoming easier to read. HELEN ARDERY. Secretary to George Winkler, Indiana Prohibition Chief—My opinion of which the new or the old is the better type. That’s easy, the new, of course. It is easier to read and I like the appearance it gives to the paper. MRS. GEORGE L. WINKLER. Secretary to Albert Ward. United States District Attorney—l don’t think it requires much thought to decide which type is the better for newspaper readers. Without a doubt the lonic Is the best. GEORGE FOOTE, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector—Maybe I'm sort of old-fashioned about some things, but I like the old type the best. Why? Because I think the new is a little too dark and the other seems easier to read. MARJORIE KRELIE, Secretary, AUTHOR TO FIGHT BAN Upton Sinclair Defends His Latest Book, “Oil.” Bn l nitrd Press BOSTON, June B.—To this city, which has frowned in turn on the American Mercury and ten ‘best sellers,” including Sinclair Lewis’ “Elmer Gantry,” Upton Sinclair came today to defend his newest novel, “Oil.” The novelist conferred with his lawyer. Attorney George E. Roewe Jr., about testing the recent court ruling against “Oil.” Sinclair had crossed the continent from California to fight the local ban on learning that Municipal Judge John Duff had turned thumbs down on “Oil,” on the ground that it contained passages liable to corrupt the morals of youth.

FT. WAYNE GETS PARKS Election Decides in Favor of City System. Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., June B.—Special election here Tuesday resulted in voters adopting the park system, in which the entire city will become an assessment area to provide funds foi; a park and boulevard system. The election results make possible the beautification of the river banks. The city voted more than two to one in favor. TREES FORECAST STORM Astronomy Professor Tells New Methods Found. Bit SPA Service TUSCON, Ariz., June B.—Climatic cycles of variations In the weather are recorded in the trunks of trees, Dr. A. E. Douglas, astronomy professor at the University of Arizona, says. By “reading” the rings in trees, he believes he can make a general forecast of the weather for years to come. CITY NABS vfILD DEER Bridgeport Obtains Zoo Animal on Nothing. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June B. A deer was captured Tuesday after it had leaped Into Harbor Channel. Its capture followed a chase through city streets, participated in by hundreds of men. boys and dogs. It broke one of its antlers when it will be added to the Beardsley Park Zoo.

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husband had criticised her and treated her rudely. The actress asked for custody of their 14-months-old daughter, Maria Eugenia. It was reported that a property settlement had been made out of court. Miss Ayres played opposite Rudolph Valentino in “The Sheik” and a leading part in “The Affairs of Anatole,” in which Wallace Reid starred.

tJnited States District Attorney’s Office—l like the new type better because it, to me, is easier to read. I think the lonic is far ahead of the old style type. C. E. GORDON, Commercial Artist—The deep contrast between the black of the type and white of the paper makes for easier reading. Therefore, I favor the new type, because reading ease goes to make up a good newspaper. J. A. KELLEY, Commercial Artist—Without doubt. I like the new type far better. It's plainer and dressier than the old and I think it gives a newspaper a far neater appearance than did the old type. JOHN AMBUHL, Police Secretary —I was satisfied with the old type, but the new is more readable and more distinct. LOUIS JOHNSON, Police Major —The new type is a distinct improvement. I noticed it immediately and like it very much. GRAIN FOUND IN THROAT Child Suffers From Corn Inhaled Sunday. Bu Vnited Press PHILADELPHIA. June B.—Physicians in the bronchoscopic clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital today removed a grain of corn from the right bronchus of 6-year-old Pansy Huss, after she had been hurried to this city from a hospital in Lincolnton, N. C. The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Husi. of Cherryville, N. C., inhaled the grain of corn while playing near her home on Sunday morning. RUBBISH, SAYS EPITAPH Sailor Goes to Court for Marking Father’s Grave. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. June~B.—Paul J. Bender Jr., sailor, was held for Superior Court on charges of criminal libel today, because he placed the sign “Good Riddance of Bad Rubbish,” over the grave of his father. If Bender Is convicted he will face a fine of $5,000 or a year In Jail. Bender contended his father deserted his mother in Clovis, N. M., in 1911, police said.

100-Hour Flight Next on Aviation Program

0. K. ON CHURCH GROUPS Federation Committees Given Approval. Standing committees of the Church Federation of Indianapolis were approved by executive committeemen Tuesday at a Y. M. C. A. conference. The appointments were made by President Earl R. Conder. The committee chairmen arc Dr. J. A. Ambrose Dunkel, literature; Mansur B. Oakes, social service; A. H. Goddard, financial appeals; Lester C. Nagley, publicity; the Rev. H. L. V. Shinn, statistics; Samuel E. ! Garrison, religious education; Mrs. Charles A. Mueller, woman's work; M. D. Lupton, finance; the Rev. Edward Wesley Dunlavy, church comity, and Dr. William I. Caughran, race relations. NAGGING JUST ILLNESS London Doctor Says Wives’ Can’t Help Dispositions. Bu United Press LONDON, June 8. Nagging wives need a doctor, not a sock on the jaw—for it’s illness, not ill temper, that is-responsible, Sir William Arbutnot Lane, famous surgeon and head of the New Health Society, advised in a lecture. “It is the unhealthy woman who nage,” he explained. “It’s not her fault; she is improperly fed. Wives who observe the first principles of health can make their husbands happy, and will never nag them.”

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AUTOS,BUSSES I SLASH STREET I CAB EARNINGS l Reason Given in Annual Re port for No 1926 Divi- j dends. Decreased earnings, due principally to constantly Increasing use of automobiles and to serious losses from bus competition, made it Impossible for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company to pay dividends on preferred stock in 1926, Secretary Joseph A. McGowan reported at the annual stockholders’ meeting this morning. The annual report also outlined the proposed purchase of the Peoples Motor Coach Company bus lines by the company for $500,000, turned down by the public RBvvjce commission and now pending decision on rehearing. Stockholders were to vote upoa directors. Thirty-three Lines Operated Thirty-three bus lines are operated by the company, according to the report, which comments: “This service, while gretaly accommodating the public and protecting the company from further inroads of competing bus lines, has lacked patronage and resulted in a net loss from operation, including depreciation of $203,507.04 for the year 1926.” Peoples Motor Coach Company lines, under management of President A. Smith Bowman, showed a net earning of more than $15,000 on the forty busses operated in tha same period. In petition for merger it is contended that elimination of competition and coordination of lines would result in huge savings. Gross earnings of the railway, company for 1926 were $5,518,794, the report showed, and deficit of $203,514.22 recorded. Improvements Listed A long list of property improvements was shown. Five new substations were reported nearly completed for July operation. Fiftynine one-man cars are in operation and more are to be added. Pension fund and benefit association paid $29,000 in 1926, of which $5,000 came from the company, i There are 1,200 stockholders in the street car company and 800 In the Terre Haute, Indianapolis Ss Eastern Traction Company, stockholders of which also met this morning at the Terminal Bldg. Deficit of $79,157.98 was recorded in the annual report of the T. H., I. &E. Progress on company merger plans and subsidiaries with the Central Indiana Power Company was reported. The merged comI pany will be the Indiana Electric Corporation, an Insull interest. Directors Re-cleetcd Directors and officers were reelected. Officers of the street car company are Robert I. Todd, president: Henry C. Thompson, vice president and executive committee chairman; John J. Appel, vice president; Joseph A. McGowan, secre-tary-treasurer; W. F. Milholland. assistant secretary-treasurer; L. J. E. Foley, auditor; J. P. Tretton, superintendent, and Ferdinand Winter, general counsel. Officers of the T. H., I. <fc E. are President Todd, Secretary-Treasurer McGowan, Vice President Apppel, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Milholland, General Superintendent G. K. Jeffries, General Manager Terre Haute Division O. O. Nicolai, Auditor L. T. Hixson and General Counsel Winter. CHINESE THREAT SEEN “Economic War” Flared by British , Newspaper. Bu United Press LONDON, June B.—A dally mall dispatch from Shanghai today said fifty nationalist organizations in China were planning extensive antiBritish and anti-Japanese propaganda and that a big demonstration had been arranged at Shanghai to “usher in the economic war against Imperialism.”

Wrights Try Out Motor in Scheme to' Surpass Previous Record.

B WASHINGTON, June B.—A 100hour non-stop flight may be the next big aviation development, according to Maj. W. G. Kilner, executive officer of the army air corps. The Wrights, builders of the motors carried in the Lindbergh and Chamberlin airplanes which successfully hopped the Atlantic, have tried out on the “block” anew motor which has gone 100 hours without stopping and without trouble. Lindberg’s flying tims. was thirtythree and one-half hours to Paris, Chamberlin and Levine were in the air forty-four hours and thirty-five minutes en route to Germany. “Before this 100-hour non-stop motor can function on what would be approximately a 10,000-mile voyage, at an average speed of 100 miles an hour, it is necessary to develop a ship which will carry the tremendous quantity of gasoline necessary for such a sustained voyage,” Major Kilner said. “Another development necessary is a fuel lighter than the present aviation gasoline.” Major Kilner is one of the pioneer aviators of the army and during the World War he was in charge of the training overseas of all American airmen. Lindbergh and Chamberlin are products of the army training school at Kelley Field, Texas, a