Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1927 — Page 1

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41 DEAD BY VIOLENCE IN TORE DAYS Five Drownings Among Latest Additions to List of Fatalities. 3 SLAYINGS RECORDED Men Are Victims in Calumet District—Five Motorists V Killed. (Other stories of holiday accident toll on paces 3 and 3.) rorty-one violent deaths were recorded in Indiana in the three days ended at midnight Monday. Injured in accidents total nearly fifty. Latest additions to the death list include five drownings, five killed in automobile accidents, three slayings, two in airplane crash, two burned. A bullet wound, a fall and a street accounted for three more fatalities. Os the dead, thirty-eight were in the State outside Indianapolis and three in the capital. At Mitchell, Lecis Shockley, 50, Mitchell Bell Telephone manager, and a Miss Hardesty, of Louisville, Ky., were drowned while swimming with a party. Robert Hardesty, Mitchell, brother of the drowned woman, came near losing his life in attempting to rescue her and Mr. Shockley. Oscar Fielden, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Remus Fielden, Evansville, was drowned while swimming with companions in the Ohio River. When a boat capsized in Flint Lake, near Valparaiso, Thomas Hynes, 21, plumber’s apprentice, Chicago, lost his life. An unidentified young man was drowned at Crown Point. Ernest E. Best, 33, and his wife, Mrs. Anna Best, 33, Negroes, 514 W. Michigan St., were killed when their automobile crashed into the Chikcago & Cincinnati flier of the Pennsylvania Railroad at a crossing on the National Rd. two miles east of Richmond. Bedford Child Killed Carter, 4, was killed at Bedford, when he ran into the path of an automobile driven by Charles Wright of Bedford. The boy’s father was accidentally killed two months ago at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad yards at Bedford. The boy leaves his mother asd seven small sisters and brothers. Mrs. Mary Motejok, 36, Joliet, 111., was fatally injured in an automobile accident at Indiana Harbor. Dale Gillispie, 28, was killed instantly near Idaville, west of Logansport, when his automobile collided with two other machines that had met in a head-on collision on State road No. 24. His neck was broken. Three slayings were recorded in the Calumet district. John Lauranatis, 27, was killed in a street fight at Indiana Harbor. Vaso Tishma, 34, is sought by police in connection with the slaying. Herbert McGurt, 30, was killed in a holdup at Gary. John Cannon, 30, Negro, was slain in a fight at Gary. Harry Danbury, 24, and Raymond Hodges, 30, were killed when a commercial airplane fell at the Laughery Country Club four miles north of Rising Sun. Edward Roefling, pilot and owner of the plane, was severely injured. Fire in a playhouse at New Albany caused the death of two little girls and a third was so seriously burned she may not recover. The k dead are Norma Kinman, 3, daughr ter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kinman, and Lucille Moore, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore. Mary Heimbach, Moore’s stepdaughter, was injured. Body Found on Tracks Possibility of murder is seen in the death at South Bend of a young woman believed to be Clara Smogor, bookkeeper at the South Bend Country Club. Her mangled body was found on the New York Central Railroad tracks, near the club golf course. The body of an unidentified man was found in St. Mary’s River, at Ft. Wayne. Peter Burke, 55, Wabash Railway Company machinist, received fatal injuries when he fell down two flights of stairs at a Ft. Wayne hotel. A man believed to be George Mlocheck, about 35, died after he had been struck by a street car at Gary. A bullet in the brain ended the life of John Stearley, 17, at Seeleyville. A .22 caliber rifle which he was handling was accidentally discharged. Harry Poindexter, 36, Terre Haute, died of injuries suffered when an acetylene ga> tank exploded at a machine shop where he was employed.

NOVELIST KILLS SELF Mrs. Henrici’s Third Suicide At- • tempt Is Successful. 811 United Press NEW YORK, July s.—Mrs. Ernes-, tine Vaughn Henrici, short story writer, today succeeded in her third 1 attempt to commit suicide. Her body was found in a rooming house, where she had left a gas jet opened. Previously Mrs. Henrici had attempted suicide twice, first by leaping into the East River and later fay fbooiting heraeML

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Oh, Rats! By NEA Service BALTIMORE, July s.—ls you’d know what the population of New York will be in 2000 A. D., go ask the rats. The studies of a rat’s growth in John Hopkins University here have resulted in the demonstration that the increase in a given region can* be foretold with almost unbelievable accuracy. The cycle of expansion found in plants also applies to human life and its progress, the scientists hold.

WEST FHOLIGS FOR COOLIDGE Hardy Cowboys and Girls in Great Round-up. Bu United Press BELLE FOURCHE, S. D„ July 5. —Hardy boys and giris of the cow country—who choose mad bulls for playmates or rattlesnakes for pets—assembled in the arena here today to stage for President Coolidge the “big show” of the west. The show is the tenth annual tri-state round-up of Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota and is considered a tame affair unless necks of a steer or two are twisted beyond restitution and the performers nurse injuries for months afterward. It opened yesterday with preliminary events of bull dogging, fancy riding, roping and i wild-horse racing. Fox Hastings, woman bulldogger, and Tad Lucas, 24-year-old daring riders who won the national championship the last three years, are the stars of the show. “Dakota Clyde” Jones, riding master at the summer White House, came through the first day of elimination and said he was “rarin’ to go” for the bucking bronchoes today. More than $13,000 in prizes have been offered and! because of the President’s presence, competition is exceedingly keen. STORES JJLOSE EARLY Five o’clock Rule Becomes Effective Today. Five o’clock closing rules went into effect in practically all downtown retail stores today, the Merchants Association announced. Halfholidays on Saturday start at a number of downtown stores next Saturday. The shorter hours for salespeople of office forces remain in effect until Labor day. The Merchants Association announced these stores would close on Saturday afternoons: At 12:30 P. M.—Charles Mayer & Cos., W. K. Stewart Company, Julius Walk & Son. At 1 P. M.—L. S. Ayres & Cos., William H. Block Company (excepting certain departments), Baldwin Piano Company, E. O. Langen Company, H. Lieber Company, Pettis Dry Goods Company, Rauh’s. Inc.; Rink’s Cloak House, Sander & Recker Furniture Company, Selig Dry Goods Company, Vonnegut Hardware Company, H. P. Wasson & Cos. These, according to the association, will remain open Saturday afternoons: E. J. Gausepohl & Cos., Goldstein Brothers, Charles L. Hartmann Company, Kahn Tailoring Company, Paul K. Kraus Company, Marott Shoe Shop, W. H. Messenger Company, BradshawKornblum Company, Banner Furniture Company, L. E. Morrison & Cos., Peoples Outfitting Company, the Star Store, L. Strauss & Cos., Taylor Carpet Company, Rost Jewelry Company.

LINDY STARTS ON BOOK Colonel Requires Seclusion for Literary Labors About “We.” Bn United Presk NEW YORK, July 5.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh was here today to work on his forthcoming book, “We.” Lindbergh’s representatives refused to reveal his whereabouts, explaining that the flier required seclusion during his litereary work. It had been impossible at midday to reach the Colonel to inquire about reports from Ottawa that twelve United States Army planes would attempt a flight to Europe. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.. 61 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 63 11 a. m 73 8 a. m 66 12 (noon) ... 75 9 a. m 71

Bv United Pres/ OSSINING, N. Y., July s.—While 1,200 convicts in the exerdise yard of Sing Sing penitentiary stormed at their guards and begged to be allowed to go to the rescue, three unidentified youths died before their eyes in the rough waters of the wind-whipped Hudson river late Monday. Six guards, powerless under prison rules to permit able convict simmers to attempt rescue, held tsm behind a twelve-foot fence on the river bank, with threats to shoot to km.

NAVY PARLEY IS AT CRISIS; U.SJS FIRM American Delegates Refuse British Demand to Cut Cruiser Tonnage. INSIST ON EVEN SCALE Washington Envoys Balk at Accepting Status of Inferiority. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, July s.—The most critical period of the naval armaments conference was expected to be reached today, as the technical commission resumed its discussion of cruiser limitations. The British delegation was insisting on a 7,500-ton limit on cruisers, while the American delegation was equally firm that the tonnage must not be reduced below 10,000 tons. The conference began the third week of its discussions with the Independence Day speech of Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones fresh in mind, addressing the American colony here yesterday, with the majority of the American commission present, Jones, a member of the commission, made it plain that the United States delegation would insist on a parity with Great Britain in naval power. Would Mean Building Race Should the conference accept Britain’s figures on cruisers, the United States would have to construct 450,000 tons in cruisers to maintain a parity with Great Britain in that class alone. In spite of difficulties over the question, on which the fate of the conference probably rests, the conference has made considerable progress. The technical commission already has agreed that all vessels under 600 tons shall not be subject to limitation; that destroyers shall be divided into two classes, one of 1,850 tons and the other 1.400 tons; and that the maximum size of submarines shall be 1,800 tons. Should the commission be able to agree now on size of cruisers, the conference’s principal remaining task would be to fix a ratio for each nation. After thus disposing of the agenda of the conference, it was understood there will be at least a technical discussion of Britain’s demand on capital ships; The discussion, however, was not expected to jeopardize the conference. U. S. Firm in Stand Admiral Jones in his address said the American naval adviser came to Geneva firm in the belief that a practical and equitable solution could be found for naval limitations. “We have not sought an advantage over any other navy,” Jones said. “We have sought merely a parity for the United States, to which we believe it entitled. > “Under the present state of industrial development, foreign commerce is as important for the United States as for any other nation, and it is equally important that our foreign commerce shall be protected by a suitable navy.” Admiral Jones said the necessity of linking up oversea dominions and possessions with the home country was the real reason for having a powerful navy. Referring to protection of “farflung lines of communications,” the rear admiral said that the United States also has long lines of communications overseas, which are necessary for the economic existence of the nation.

STEVE THE HEARD Remy and Deputies Go to Prison for Interview. Prosecutor William H. Remy, his deputy, William H. Sheaffer, and Special Deputy Emsley W. Johnson planned to interview D. C. Stephenson at Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, today. Remy and Sheaffer went to Michigan City from other parts of the State, where they spent the Fourth of July, and Johnson left the city early toi'ay. Remy indicated several days ago that he did not expect to obtain any startling information from Stephenson. This was after Stephenson threatened to “tell all” he knew when he learned the State charities board was to exonerate prison officials of his charges of cruel treatment.

Boys Drown as Guns Hold Back Ravi ng Convicts From Rescue

One of the youths finally swam from the capsized canoe to within fifteen feet of the prison dock, where he sank exhausted while the inexorable law of Sing Sing prevented a man among the frantic hundreds behind the picket fence from, rescuing him. Some 1,200 convicts were exercising in the big prison yard which touches the river when the slim, green canoe, one of a number of holiday craft, slipped past Croton Point on the ebb tide. No attention was paid to the three .youths tv the indifferent gras; fig-

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HUSBAND GRIEVING FOR WIFE LEAPS OVERBOARD Col. William P. Stone Commits Suicide As Liner Nears Port. Bu United Press NEW YORK, July s.—Heartbroken over the death of his wife, Colonel William P. Stone, U. S. A. retired, jumpeh overboard from the Tuscania of the Cunard line yesterday when the vessel was nearing New York with the body of Mrs. Stone. Earlier in the day the Colonel attended church services. Only a steward was on deck when he jumped overboard. A life buoy was thrown over and a boat lowered, but a dense fog covered the sea and the man was not seen.

PAIR TO SEEK JUDGEjCHANGE Garrett and Collins to File Motion Monday. Moves to obtain changes of judge for John L. Collins, city purchasing agent, and Earl S. Garrett, former city market master, against whom affidavits were filed in the political corruption probe, were started in Criminal Court today. Arraignment of the two had been scheduled today. Attorneys Michael Ryan and John C. Ruckelshaus, after starting *to file motion to quash the charge of soliciting a bribe against Collins, notified Judge James A .Collins they would file motion for a change of judge Monday. ' Attorney Ira Holmes filed a plea for a change of judjfc for Garrett, who is charged with official misconduct and false pretense. Collins said he would not act on the motion until Prosecutor William H. Remy can come in to court. Remy Is out of the city. Collins said, however, he would name the three men from whom a judge will be chosen as soon as he ran get in touch with Remy, and set Monday for arraignment of Garrett before the new judge. Collins is charged with soliciting SSOO from Samuel Greenburg of the W. H. Armstrong surgical instrument company in return for of- - to gave a SIO,OOO contract for city hospital surgifaJLUMlSUinuits to Greenburg’s company. Garrett is alleged to have taken SSO from market stand holders for transfer of leases, instead of the regular fee of $5. MOTHER SAVES GIRL Child Playing With Matches Sets Clothes on Fire. Mrs. Margaret Leverenz, 1022 E. Ohio St., wrapped a blanket around her screaming little girl, Ruth, 5, this morning and saved her from burning to death. The child is in a serious condition at city hospital. Ruth found some matches and played with them. Her clothing caught fire. M’CLURE BEAChTuIT COMES UP WEDNESDAY Judge Will Hold Hearing on Action to Compel Opening. Hearing on a suit to order *he city to open McClure beach, White River and Twenty-Sixth St., will be held before Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Milner Wednesday. The complaint was refiled with Milner after Ira Holmes, attorney for James Angelo,, plaintiff, had submitted it to Superior Court Judge James M. Leathers Saturday. Upon recommendation of Dr. Herbert G. Morgan, city sanitarian, the beach has been kept closed because of unfit water. Angelo, who holds the beach concession, alleges the waer-Is satisfactory for swimming. He has had it tested by a local chemical firm. DREW’S CONDITION SAME Actor Still Critically 111 After Six Weeks’ Suffering. Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 5. —John Drew, 73-year-c'd actor, still was in critical condition here today after six weeks’ serious illness. He is suffering from arthritis. Former Reserve Bank Head Dies Bit United Pre** BOSTON, July s.—Charles Morse, formerly Governor of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, died at his home today of heart disease. He was 70 years old.

ures in the exercise yard until a sudden cry called attention that the canoe had overturned in the white caps. , All activity in the yard ceased, and the convicts crowded along the 200 feet of high palings near the river’s edge. One of the youths could not swim and kept losing his grasp on the slippery bottom of the overturned canoe. A companion several times seized him and saved him from going down. The erics tor help continued, with

BYRD TO SAIL FOR AMERICA NEXTTUESDAY Crew of Three, Levine and Chamberlin Also to Leave Paris on Leviathan. BALCHEN PLANS GRIND After Distance and Duration Mark; Fliers Visit Le Bourget Field. Bu United Press PARIS, July s.—Unless plans are changed further, crews of both American trans-Atlantic airplanes now here will sail for New York next Tuesday on the United States liner Leviathan. They would arrive at New York July 18. Officials at the American embassy said definitely that Commander Richard E. Byrd of the monoplane America, and Bernt Balchen, Bert Acosta and Lieut. George Noville, his crex, would sail on the Leviathan. Charles A. Levine announced that he and Clarence D. Chamberlin, pilot of the Bellanca monoplane Columbia, would sail on the Leviathan unless they decided at the last moment to fly back. Herbert A. Gibbons, personal representative of Rodman Wanamaker, backer of the America flight, said that whatever ship the Byrd crew went in, they would go together. Levine Going to London

Bernt Balchen had said previously to the United Press that he was going on the Leviathan and believed the others would. Levine said he was going to London Friday, prior to embarking. Chamberlin, holding French airmen breathless, performed thrilling stunts in a strange plane at Le Bourget today, explaining: “I just want to keep my hand in, in case I want to fly soon." .Bernt gating that he 'fc’omfl'sail for States next Tuesday, will attempt a world record duration distance flight in a Fokker airplane, now under construction, he told the United Press today. Will Try Air Grind Balchan received a cablegram today from Anthony Fokker, builder of Bryd’s America monoplane, asking him to return immediately to make the duration-distance attempt. After making the attempt, Balchan said, he planned to go to Amsterdam, Holland, to supervise the building of the plane in which Byrd plans a flight across the South Pole. The American trans - Atlantic aviators, visiting their French comrades, today spent what was their most interesting morning since the hectic one of their arrival in France. Byrd, Acosta and Balchen spent the entire morning at Le Bourget flying field. First they went to the military field. There, after the 34th Aviation Regiment had rendered them military honors, the colonel commanding officially welcomed them, and praised their courage. Signs “Gold Book’* Going on to the civil field, they paused a moment at the tablet commemorating Col. Charles Lindbergh’s landing. A French ace performed acrobatics overhead, and the Americans stopped frequently to watch him. Before their departure at 12:20, Byrd signed the “Gold Book,” reserved for signatures of the famous. Lieutenant George Noville, fourth member of the America crew, remained in Paris. Clarence D. Chamberlin also visited Le Bourget, flew a Fokker machine, and left to lunch with Louis Bleriot, first man to fly across the English Channel. CONSIDER HOSPITAL AID Councilman Moore Expected to Back $1,200,000 Bill. Boynton J. Moore, majority leader, is expected to recommend passage of the city hospital ordinance authorizing expenditure of $1,200,000 for new units at the city council meeting tonight. Dr. William A. Doeppers and the health board asked $1,700,000 for four units, but council refused to pass that large a flguife. The council bucked on the measure several weeks ago. “We want to help the hospital and don’t intend to hamper them, but the board asked for too much money,” Moore said.

no other boats near by and no human help available, save in the prison yard, where volunteers by the score clamored to be allowed to’ swim to the rescue. With shotguns presented at the heads of the more urgent of the convicts, the six guards obeyed the relentless prison order which forebade them to permit a prisoner outside the fence. Men in prison gray hurled themselves against the unyielding pickets and wept and pleaded. One of the boys was seen to strike out bravely for the prison dock..

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Dashes show how County Assessor James C. Douglas leaped to his death from the seventh floor of the Union Title Bldg, today. Inset, Mr. Douglas.

GIRL DIES IN LEAP

Adventure Lure Leads to Grave

(Plrtnre on Pace 10) pA 1 lla luring thrill in adventure, but sometimes the I 1 I thrill means death; and so Ethel Doane McKinney lies in a morgue today—because adventure called. Death came to the daring 21-year-old girl Monday evening, when sh# attempted a double parachute leap from a balloon over Walnut Gardens, twelve miles southwest of the city.

The second parachute failed to open and Mrs. McKinney dropped 200 feet into a tree. Death resulted from a broken back. It was only the third attempt at crowd-thrilling that the girl had

mHE pretty, blueeyed, blonde girl became interested in parachute work about the middle of the winter, when she met Oscar E. (Mile High) Ruth, who went up on the same balloon with her last night. Ruth made a triple leap from the air shortly before Mrs. McKinney plunged to her death. He attributed her disaster to failure to allow enough space for the second parachute to open.

“Ethel always was full of pep,” Mrs. William C. Doane, her mother, with whom the girl lived, at 1912 Wilcox St., said today. “She was one of those girls interested in most everything, who had a good word for everybody. “About the middle of the winter she decided she’d like to try para-

■jTTJ RS. DOANE was dry-eyed, talking calmly of the tragedy IVI that had come to her home, and back of the stoii* attitude one easily could see whence Ethel inherited the bravery which was her’s when she answered adventure’s call.

Mrs. McKinney is survived by her husband, Willard, a sailor at the Great Lakes Naval framing School; her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Doane; three listers, Mrs. Maggie Hamby. Mrs.

FLIES 7 MILES HIGH Lieut. Champion Breaks Altitude Record He Made. Bu United Press . WASHINGTON. July s.—Lieutenant C. Champion Jr., U. S. N„ today had broken his seaplane altitude record by nearly a mile. He flew to an unofficially estimated height of 37,500 feet over the Capital yesterady, breaking his own mark of 33,455 feet achieved May 5. The plane used In both cases was a Wright-Apache fighting craft. Champion was up an hour yesterday. He wore goggles with nonfreezable lens.

The other obviously had but a lew minutes to live unless help reached them. The overturned canoe bobbed crazily in the swirling tide. The boy swimming toward the frowning prison churned the waters with strokes that rapidly grew feebler. As he neared the shore. He called for help. Within the prison yard, the pleadings of the convicts increased to an enraged roar. The guards, glancing over their shoulders to watch the drowning boy’s struggles, held the fence with half-hearted threats and raised

made, and it was her first tr| at double-leaping. She made her first leap at the scene of her death on May 31 of this year. The second came on June 4.

chute Jumping. Os course we didn't like it, but then she was her own boss and we didn't say anything. “She was tickled after’ the first leap and glad she had gotten Into the work. We were glad to see her happy and I guess the best we can do now is bear up under the strain. She would have wanted us to.”

Lena Baker, and Marie Heniy, all of Indianapolis,” and two brothers, George and Albert Doane, Indianapolis. Burial will be In. Floral Park cemetery.

AIR TANK BLOWS UP Compressor Tears Hole in Bearing Company Roof. An air compresser tank in the die casting room of the American Bearing Company, 401 W. Eleventh St., exploded today and blew a 10-foot hole in the roof. The tank landed on the roof of the Tarpenning-Lafollette Company, sheet metal contractors, 1030 Carnal St., did S2O damage and bounced on to the radiator of the parked Ford of Russell Harold, 5402 Brookville Rd. The Ford suffered about $lO damage.

Keepers ran to the office of Warden Lawes to seek his counsel, but before Lawes could reach the scene the boy’s strength was gone. A few more strokes would have brought him to the dock and to the 1,200 furious men in gray who wanted to save him. But the youth was not equal to it. Apparently seeing that help was not coming, he raised his hands and sank out of sight into the swirling waters. Few of the convicts who witnessed the tragedy were able to touch the

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ASSESSOR OF COUNTY LEAPS TO HIS DEATH J. C. Douglas Plunges From Seventh Floor Office Window Ledge. ILLNESS MOTIVE SEEN Official Had Been Sufferer From Asthma Over Long Period. James C. Douglas, 47. county assessor, 5106 Pleasant Run Pkwy., known tp thousands as “Jack,” committed suicide shortly before 9 thi morning, jumping from the seventh floor of the Union Title Bldg., Delaware and Market Sts. He was dead, a crumpled heap on the sidewalk, when pedestrians rushed to him. Motive for the suicide was undetermined. He had been suffering severely from asthma for three months, friends said. Douglas came up the elevator in the Union Title Bldg., with Miss Eleanor Hussey, 1329 E. Market St., secretary to Thomas Moynahan, a close personal friend. He frequented Moynahan’s office, 710 Union Title Bldg. Notes Changed Manner "Usually Mr. Douglas Joked and laughed with me when he came to the office,” said Miss Hussey. "This morning he called me by my last name. Usually he called me by my first name. We walked into Mr. Moynahan’'s office together and he asked if ‘Tommy,’ as he called him, was in. "I said I would go and see. I walked into another room to make inquiry and to hang up my hat. When I came back Mr. Douglas was sitting on the window ledge, a wild look in his eyes. I screamed and rushed to him, but he Jumped before I could touch him.” Saw Body Falling James Ross 2148 Drexell Ave* standing near by. said he saw something which looked like a large paper package hurtling through the air. Then he heard a woman’s scream and thud of Douglas' body. Harry Lieness, 825 S. Capitol Ave., saw the body falling, and William Baker, 2126 Coyner St., said he narrowly missed being struck as he walked beneath the window from which Douglas leaped. Knows No Reason Moynahan said he knew of no personal or business reason why Douglas should have killed himself. Douglas had seemed very nervous lately, he said. Leo King, elevator operator, remembered taking Miss Hussey and Douglas to the seventh floor and said the assessor seemed nervou* and acted strange. Miss Anna Pacmus, 1213 E. Thirteenth St., a pedestrian, saw the body falling through the air. It struck a dozen feet from her. Prank Henry, 48 W. Raymond St., and Jeff Glllan, 416 W. TwentyFourth St., were other witnesses. The body was ordered taken to Shirley Brothers mortuary. 946 N. Illinois St., by Dr. U. B. Hine, deputy coroner. Douglas had been county assessor since 1919. He was a Republican and for many years before his election he had been an active party worker. Before he became assessor, Douglas was proprietor of the J. C. Douglas Excavating Cos. He retained his interest in that firm and also had interests in the Million Population Wrecking Cos. and the Bates Street Coal Cos. He is survived by the widow and a daughter, Mrs. Helen Fern Essig, recently married. Chief Deputy William Roessner took charge of the assessor’s office. County commissioners said they would not name a successor immediately.

VETERAN EDITOR DIES Col. George A. Halley 111 Short Time. Bu United Press HOUSTON, Texas, July 5.—C01. George A. Bailey, editor of the Houston Post-Dispatch and a veteran newspaper man of Texas, died last night following a brief illness. Bailey was born in Wiscassett, Maine, in 1864. He came to Texas in 1890 as a member of the Dallas Morning News. He served there in the capacity of political writer, city editor, editorial writer and Washington correspondent. Bailey Joined the Houston Post in 1904. holding the position of editorial writer until 1924, when he took over the editorship of the Post-Dis-patch. CHANGES FLIGHT PLANS Boston Publisher Abandons Trip to Australia. Hu United Press AMSTERDAM. July s.—lt was reported here today that Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, has abandoned his plan to continue his airplane flight from Batavia, Dutch East Indies, to Australia. Instead, it was said, he win leave Batavia tomorrow or Thursday on HU ratairn fliarh* bn AmntesetSmrJi' ni in,.