Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1927 — Page 3

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DRY FARMING STATION ROOSTS DAKOTAPROFIT United Press Reporter Covers Coolidge’s Idea of News Story. BY PAUL B. MALLON United Pres* Staff Correspondent ARDMORE, S. D., July 20.—Out here in the golden West where there is plenty of scenery and enough outdoor life to please the most persistent of game hunters, news has been scarce for the Washington correspondents assigned to ‘cover” the summer vacation of President Coolidge. Mr. Coolidge suggested that newspaper correspondents write stories about the Ardmore dry farming field station, a 1,600-acre tract of land devoted by the Federal Government to experiments in raising crops where the rainfall averages only twelve inches a year, and about the Beliefourche irrigation project where the Government furnished water for the farmers of two counties.

Visited by Thousands Following the President’s suggestion, the United Press correspondent came here and has found some interesting information concerning the extent to which the Government has gone to develop the soil possibilities of vast prairies. O. R. Matthews, head of the experimental farm, said thousands of farmers yearly visit his 400 acres of cultivated land and 1,200 acres of pasture land to learn the tricks of the trade of growing alfalfa, wheat, com, and sugar beets, and of raising cattle. Mr. Coolidge himself saw the crops last Saturday at a farmers’ picnic and walked in the stubby corn three feet high which is grown in this semi-arid region. The most important part of the w,<?rk m crop production in this area is the study of the proper method of cultivation and crop rotation. Matthews told the United Press that if proper methods are used it is possible to obtain average yields from this soil despite the handicaps of nature. Good Done for Farmers grazing work is carried on entirely on native pastures. One of the objects is to find the carrying capacity of the native grass to determine the effect of different intensities of grazing on vegetation. “We have done the farmers out here a lot of good,” Matthews said. “I can visualize the day when all these brown buttes and rolling lands will bear food for the nation. Today they are practically worthless.” The station is situated at the foot of the Black Hills where Mr. Coolidge is spending the summer. FREE LETTERS BY TON Envelope Bill on Congressmen is $53,440 in Year By United Press WASHINGTON, July 20.—The United States government buys more than 260,000,000 envelopes annually that can be sent free through the mails. Twenty millions are for use of congressmen and are statnped with the congressional frank, while the other 241,000,000 are for government departments and are labelled as “penalty mail” envelopes. The envelope bill of congressmen last year was therefore $53,440 according to figures compiled by government printing office officials.

4-LEGGED DUCK BORN Freak Has Extra Feet But Waddles Along on Two By United Press YORK, Pa., July 20.—A four-legged duck suprtsed Mrs. J. C. Trout of near here when she went out to inspect a recent hatch of duck eggs. The freak does not make use of the two extra legs in waddling about the farm yard. They are to the left and in front of the normal left leg. In every other respect the duckling is normal and apparently is thriving. FAILS TO MAKE BOND Chauffeur Accused of Signing Name of Widow to Check. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 20—Floyd Glotzback, the chauffeur who gained prominence five years ago by his marriage to Mrae. Marguerite Matzenauer, grand opera star, was in jail here today in default of $5,000 bail on charges of forgery. Glotzback was arrested on the request of Portland police. Mrs. R. D. Inman, Portland widow, complained he signed her name to a check for $5,000 and cashed it at a San Francisco bank five months ago. STONE MERGER TALKED All Independents Involved, Report in in Bloomington By Timet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind„ July 20. All independent stone companies in Monroe County, numbering seventeen, are to be merged according to reports current here. It is said the new combine is not connected with the Indiana Limestone Company which figured in the merger of twenty-five companies a year ago. FOOD~PRICES MOUNTING Four Per Cent Increase in City During June Is Reported. By Times Special WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20. Food prices in Indianapolis increased more in June than during any month this year, the Department of Labor announced today. Tha Increase was 4 per cent leaving prices only 1 "2r cent less than a year ago and 59 per cent higher than In 1913.

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BY MINNOTT SAUNDERS NEA Service Correspondent "pr"| ARIS, July 20.—Captain P Charles Nungesser has not gone down into the sea, and he is not dead, his gray-haired mother believes. She bases her conviction on some presentiment she cannot explain, but in which she has absolute faith. She does not despair; she has no maternal tears to drop down to her boy. She only waits. This stouthearted woman, who bred one of the greatest of war aces and smilingly sent him on his flight across the Atlantic, waits in her little garret apartment, filled with flowers, in the working class district of Paris. She said: ‘I shall wait until Charles’ birthday on November 1, and then if he is not back I shall go and search for him. I shall go to America, that wonderful country of such generous and noble people, where my friends, these brave American boys who have flown across the Atlantic, will help me find my Charles.” Madame Nungesser, still a majestic figure despite her weeks of anxiety, rarely leaves her home now and only receives her closest friends. The walls of the sitting room are covered with pictures of Captain Nungesser, photographs and water colors and oils. Besides the mother’s favorite picture of her son hangs an autographed photograph of Colonel Lindbergh, showing these proudly to me, she picked up photographs of Commander Byrd and

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Chamberlain and held them together. "There,” she cried almost hysterically, “look at these four, just four airmen to whom their exploits were all in a day’s work. Men real men, and yet greathearted boys. I love Charles Lindbergh almost as much as I do my own Charles. Chamberlin is a splendid man nad Commander Byrd—what a kindhearted gentleman! Asked why she felt so confident that her son was still alive, Madame Nungesser said: ‘Since he was a babe in my arms the thought of Charles and my thoughts have been the same. When we have been separated our letters, crossing, have contained the same thoughts and expressions. “Call it telepathy if you like, but I, his mother, and his greatest friend, who went through the trials and horrors of the war with him, tell you that he is alive.” “Perhaps he is lying injured with a tribe of Indians, cut off in Canada or Labrador, but he lives. My whole soul tells me that we shall see each other again. “Look at me. Today I wear blue, tomorrow pink, perhaps, any color, but never black. My Charles, the most wonderful lad in all France, will not die without me. “When they put me in my coffin and screw the lid down, then Charles may be dead too, but not until. “Tell the good American people that a mother is coming to find her son. I often feel he is waiving for me to come.”

ARREST TRIO IN STOLEN AUTO AFTER CRASHES Police Make Long Chase to Capture Men in Speeding Car. Three men were held today after capture Tuesday evening in a stolen automobile after speeding away from the scene of two accidents. The men gave their names as Robert Maley, 22, of 1834 S. East St.; James Brown, 22, of 726 S. Illinois St., and Frank Ellis, alias Ulsas, 25, of 809 E. Eleventh St. The car was stolen from H. E. Yeager, 52 S. La Salle St., police said. Pursuit started when Patrolman Carter saw the car collide with one driven by Nungio Natalis, 1104 Prospect St., at Fountain square. Chasing the car to Merrill St. and Virginia Ave., Carter stopped to assist Ralph McConnille, 15, of 1117 Cottage Ave., who was struck by the stolen car. Deputy Sheriffs Reagen, Shipp and Dilger, sighted the car on Bluff Rd. near Troy Ave. and chased it more than a mile to Troy Ave. and Garfield Rd., where arrests were made.

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EVIDENCE CHAIN BINDS BIRGER State Prepares to Rest Case Today in Murder Trial. By United Press BENTON, 111., July 20. With an almost unbroken chain of evidence bound around Charlie Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, the state of Illinois prepared to rest its case today in the Moyor Joe Adams murder trial. Only a handful of witnesses were scheduled to be called by the prosecution before the three notorious gangsters are given an opportunity to deny complicity in the murder as charged yesterday by the state’s star witness. Harry Thomasson, a wan youth, now serving a life sentence for the actual murder of Adams, related from beginning to end the part he and his brother, Elmo, played in the shooting of the West City mayor. Elmo since perished in thd fire at “Shady Rest,” the Birger roadhouse. No amount of questioning by defense attorneys was able to shake the boy’s story. Observers believed the trial would be completed some time this week. Few defense witnesses are to be called although promises have been made that Birger will take the stand in his own behalf. MORE AUTO THEFT ARRESTS EXPECTED Police Continue Probe of Ring in Calumet District By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., July 20.—Additional arrests were expected to be made today to halt the activities of an auto theft ring that has been operating in the Calumet district. Three of the gang have been captured in the last forty-eight hours Tony Zilonis, William Thomas and Theodore Osdinski, held at Gary. Osdinski admitted the gang stole seven automobiles in one week. Parts of the automobies were located by police with Osdinski’s aid. Three other men are understood to have been implicated. WOMAN GETSI.OT BACK Supreme Court Reverses Decision in Parkway Blvd. Case. Mrs. Rose M. Kessler again owns her rectangular lot on Parkway Blvd., due to reversal of decision of the lower courts handed down by the Supreme Court Tuesday. The lot originally was given to the city in 1911 for use in construction of Parkway Blvd. Later the boulevard was shifted to accommodate anew bridge and Mrs. Kessler recovered her lot, as^ agreed. Still later the park board' wanted the lot to give boulevard access to others in the vicinity. Condemnation suit was started in lower courts, but Judge Clarence Martin ruled no public necessity was shown and the case should be retried. GOOD MONEY FOR BAD Collects Five Good Dollars for Ten Sickly Ones. An aged man proved the old maxim Tuesday that “You can't trust ’em, young or old.” Mrs. Edith Thomas, 351 N. East St., told police the man came to her home and asked for a room for himself and his wife. She rented him one for $5 a week. He paid a week in advance and obtained $5 change for a $lO bill, and left to get his wife. He failed to return. Mrs. Thomas found the $lO bill was a doctored greenback. PAYS, WITH INTEREST Stolen Penny and 50 Cents Grows to $4.61 in 29 Years Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—The Chicago chief of police recently received a check for $4.61 from a consciencestricken New Orleans man who said that twenty-nine years before he had stolen a penny on a street car and later stole 50 cents from his mother. The check covered the amount, with interest.

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SLEUTHS SHOOT IF THREATENED Federal Dry Agents Figure in Three Gun Fights. Federal dry agents are empowered to shoot to protect themselves when their lives are threatened, Harry Bendle, assistant to George L. Winkler, Federal dry administrator, stated today in commenting on the shooting of Owen Day, alleged liquor violator, near Columbus yesterday. Federal agents have figured In three shootings in the past two months in making arrests, in each case the lives of the Federal agents being threatened, Bendle asserted. Federal Agent Kinder slightly wounded Mike Brown in Gas City, May 13. when Brown refused to stop his car, attempted to run over Kinder and made a movement to draw a weapon. Brown was convicted of transporting liquor. Federal Agent Conroy shot James Luchleitner in Ft. Wayne, May 21, when he stepped from his car brandishing a revolver. Owen Day was shot in the left side yesterday after Federal Agent Oscar Holman of Indianapolis and Sheriff Linza Allen of Bartholomew County surprised Day and a companion at a still hidden in a woods. Day was taken to the Columbus Hospital under guard. RALLY M'NUTT FORCE Indiana Legion Men Look to Paris Election. Indiana Legionnaires may get behind a movement to boost Paul V. McNutt, Indiana commander, for election as national commander at the Paris convention, when the annual State convention opens Monday at South Bend. McNutt probably will be placed on the national executive committee. Two attorneys are mentioned as likely candidates to succeed McNutt, Frank McHale of Logansport and Fred Weicking of Bluffton. More than 150 Marion County Legionnaires are expected to attend the State convention. Principal speakers will be Royal C. Johnson, South Dakota Representative, and Fredericw Landis of Logansport, prominent editorial writer. MOSCOW LIKES RADIO 72,000 Receiving Sets Now Are Registered in City By United Press MOSCOW, July 20.—There are 72,000 radio receiving sets now licensed in Moscow and it is officially estimated that many more than that number are illegally and surreptitiously enjoyed without payment of a license tax. The city authorities maintain loud speakers in more than twenty parks and public squares, which bellow speeches and music almost without interruption from dawn to darkness. At this season of the year, dawn begins at 1 a. m. and darkness doesn’t come till midnight. CHILEAN DINNER GUEST Henry Pierce Attends Diplomatic Function at Santiago Among guests at a recent diplomatic dinner at Santiago, Chile, given for President-elect Don Carlos Ibanez del Campo, was Henry D. Pierce, 1415 N. Meridian St. Pierce was given an autographed photograph of the president-elect. Pierce has made two trips around the world and forty-three trips to foreign countries. DUST RAVAGES CROPS Americans to Pay for Three-Day Storm as They Buy Dates By United Press BASRAH, Mesopotamia, July 20. A three-day dust sorm, still raging here will be felt in the United States some months from now. It has badly damaged the date crop, part of which goes to America. The storm is giving anew thrill to Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, here on his return flight from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam.

Trot Him Out, Gents; Worth $2,500? Easy Democrats will sell a “valuable spavined horse” to the highest bidder at an auction at the Democratic Service Union picnic Thursday at Longacre Park, five miles south of the city on Madison Ave. The “nag” is worth in excess of $2,500 with the equipment, in the opinion of expert Democratic horsemen, former County Clerk Albert Losche, arrangements chairman, said. Many leading Democrats will participate in the contests and enjoy swimming in the new concrete pool. A basket dinner will be spread in the evening. Speakers include Evans Woollen, Albert Stump, L. Ert Slack, Frederick Van Nuys, Charles Greathouse, Frank Daily, Thomas McGee. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, Earl Cox and Frank P. Baker. Stephen Chambers, Thomas McGee, William Headrick and Albert Porter compose the arrangements committee.

Wild Tale of Murder on High Seas Hears End

Armed Tug Sent Out to Meet Mystery Ship From Africa. NEW YORK, July 20.—This is a story of murder on the high seas, of a ship becalmed and its first mate dead; a tale which might come from the brain of a Jack London, or a Robert Louis Stevenson, or a Joseph Conrad. Today a tug is off Sandy Hook trying to unravel the tale. The story came to the coast guard and to the office of the United States attorney. The schooner Kingsway, a trader which cruises the coast of Africa dealing In everything from ivory to spices, is the ship involved. It sails out of Perth Amboy, N. J., a trim, white vessel of romance. Woman Slain No one thought much of it until word came that a trader had put in at Monrovia, Liberia, weeks ago, telling a story of speaking to the Kingsway and learning that a man aboard had gone wild, had killed a woman, had been cast into the dungeon and had broken out again. It wasn’t clear who the woman was, but it seemed she was the wife of the captain or the wife of the ship’s cook. Nor was it clear who the killer might have been. The trader pictured the ship becalmed beneath the tropic sun, the murderer wandering the decks defying all attempts to capture him, and the crew muttering and dissatisfied. Searched for Mate. Then a few days ago a cable from the American consul at the Barbadoes drifted in. It told of the Kingsway putting in there to report its mate was dead and he could not be replaced. But, at any rate, a mate was found and the ship came on. The coast guard and the U. S. attorney decided they should act on the reports when the ship was sighted off Barnegat Light yesterday. “We don’t know what this all can be about,” the district attorney’s office said. “It is a weird story and it has to us from strange places and with details vague. “So we propose to meet the ship at Quarantine with a force of eight or ten men. and we will be ready to cope with any situation that we may find.”

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DEFERS SEA_ FLIGHT Wireless Delays Courtney in Dash to New York. By United Press CALSHOT AIRDROME, SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 20.—A poorly functioning wireless apparatus today prevented Captain Frank T. Courtney, Brtish commercial air pilot, from starting his proposed flight to New York. The takeoff had been scheduled for noon today, but a test flight at 8 a. m. disclosed a defective wireless and the necessity of engine adjustments. The British flier will take with him two companions. Flight Lieutenant F. W. M. Downer will be relief pilot and R. F. Little will be engineer. Plans call for two stops to refuel, the first at Valentia, Ireland, and the second 1,900 miles across the Atlantic near St. John’s Newfoundland. NEW u. s. officer!ere Frank Cole Succeeds Bayless in Federal Bureau. Frank Cole, recently of Kansas City, has assumed charge of the Indianapolis office of the bureau of investigation of the United States Department of Justice. He succeeds Joseph Bayless, in charge here for a year, who is on leave of absence, and later will be transferred to another office. Cole has been in the service eighteen years, serving in all but three States. OFFICERS ON PIG RACE Police Help Owner Hunt Black and White Runaway. Somewhere in the eastern part of the city twenty-two pounds of black and white pig was leading two Indianapolis patrolmen a goose chase today. The pig leaped off a truck of Hunsing Brothers, Mays, Ind., at Oriental and Washington Sts. and outdistanced the driver. He called police headquarters for help. Patrolmen John Payne and Charles O'Donnell were given the job.

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HOSIERY MILLS ! WORKERS PLAY AT BROAD RIPPLE Real Silk Employes Parade to Park for Annual All- j Day Picnic. Real Silk Hosiery Mills employed today put aside all business cares and devoted the day to pleasure. More than 5,000 workers, their families and friends paraded from the factory in N. Noble St. in gaily decorated automobiles to Broad Ripple Park this morning for an allday picnic, given by the Employe*' Mutual Benefit Association. Many Contests Held Not a wheel was turning in tha mills as the employes participated in and watched unique games and contests. Running races for men and women, potato, relay swimming* watermelon and pie-eating races, ice carrying, canoe tilting, shoefinding and other contests, as well as boxing and wrestling matches featured the morning program. Luncheon at noon, a ball gams) in the afternoon and a free dance from 6 to 8 tonight rounded out tha day’s events. Picnic Annual Event Prizes were provided by the committee for all contests. Among the prizes were two of $lO each for the most grotesque and the prettiest float in the parade through the downtown district this morning. The program committee lne’ and Miss Thelma Burton, Mis' nan Wiebke, Carl Fox, A' Lierger, Charles Kiknle, John V ,Tis, J. H. Hilkene. Don Kcpner, .1111 am and Julius Witoff. The picnic, which Is' an annual event at the mills, i is conducted and financed by the e lployes’ association. KILLED BY FIST BLOWS Kokomo Youth Su cm Broken Neck —Opponent aces Charge. Bn Times Special KOKOMO, T id., July 20.—Raymond Antrim, 20 is dead from the effects of fist (lows received in a fight, and Joh i ,Knipfer, 16, his opponent, is he’!, to the grand Jury on a manslau 'iter charge Death was due to a <roken neck, Dr. W. R. Morrison, coroner, held. The fight resulted from letting air out of tho tiros of Antrim’s automobile. Authorities learned Antrim attacked Knipfer, believing him to be Lawrence Schleeter, whom hs caught deflating the tires previously. GHOST CAR "WALLI Man and Daughter Meet Driverless Auto in Cemetery. By United Press PITTSBURG, Kan., July 20— Driving along a cemetery road E. W. Alberty and his daughter passed a speeding motor car that they saw was driverless. A bit disturbed, they proceeded around the drive and met the car again. This time it dashed out tne gate aid crashed into a wall, its Brakes had been released on a hill.

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