Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1927 — Page 3

SEPT. 2, 1927

JI.S, AIR'DEAN' URGES CAUTION IN LONGFLIGHTS Go Slow on Wild Schemes or Lose Public Confidence, Says Stinson. Bn United Print ‘ , , „ . „ NORTHVILLE, Mich., Sept. 2. With the future chief aviation at heart, Eddie Stinson, acknowledged “dean” of American fliers, today urged “national preparations” for long distance flights. In an exclusive interview with the United Press, Stinson deployed the rising toll of life claimed by such flights .and voiced a general plea to aviators to “go slow.” He carried his plea a step farther by announcing that hereafter he would refuse to accept the order of any man for a plane in which that man proposed a long trans-oceanic flight alone. Redfern Wouldn’t Listen He admitted regretfully that he had been unable to dissuade Paul Redfern from attempting the apparently ill-fated Georgia-to-Brazil flight alone. Redfern, he said, ordered the plane before he was fully aware/Of the Georgian’s purpose. %“Even then,” Stinson said, “we lit into the Port of Brunswick a al set of controls despite the fact the contract called for only single Ibntrol. We exhausted every argument we knew of to induce him to take along a companion. "Aviation has made phenomenal strides in the last twenty years,” he said, “and ultimately is destined to attain a solid place in civilization. “But that day may be retarded seriously by unnecessary, quixotic flights into the comparatively unknown. Too Long at Controls "All the gain in public confidence resulting from the Lindbergh and other successful trans-oceanic flights is likely to be lost by repeated failures of similar attempts.” Stinson emphatically disapproved long "solo” flights over the ocean, despite Lindbergh’s success, and asserted with the conviction of the 12,000 hours of flying he has amssed that “forty hours at the sticks is too much for any man.” Stinson has been flying for more than fifteen years. He has piled up a grand total of more than 12,000 hours in the air and today is flying almost daily. There are only 8,760 hours in any one year. AUTO DISTRIBUTOR IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Funeral for John A. Murphy Will Be Held Saturday. Funeral services for John A. ■klurphy, 41, of 5320 Lowell Ave., Avho died Thursday morning at his home after, a long illness, will be held at 9 a. m. Saturday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mr. Murphy was president and general manager of John A. Murphy, Inc., 2124 W. Washington St., distributor of Hudson and Essex automobiles. He was formerly connected with the Cole Motor Company. He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and the Knights of Columtfus. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Alice Wilson Murphy; five children John, Charles, Alice, Robert and ; Mary Rita; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Murphy; two brothers, Charles and Robert L. Murphy, and two sisters, Misses Anna and Marcella Murphy, all of Indianapolis. COUNCIL TO CONSIDER SPECIAL SESSION CALL' Meeting May Be Held Saturday to Take Up Budget. A special session of city council Saturday, at which the 1928 city budget and tax levy would be formally introduced to head off any tangle which might develope from refusal of any councilman to suspend rules at the regular meeting Monday night was considered today by President Claude E. Negley. H The council must adopt the budget *and levy not later than Monday night, or the present levy and budget remain in effect. If the measures are formally presented at a special meeting Saturday, no suspension of rules Monday is necessary, Negley said. Council Finance Chairman O. Ray Albertson today indicated the tax levy will he near sl.lO, as the Chamber Commerce recommendedBOY DRAGGED TO DEATH Frightened Mule Causes Tragedy Near Mt. Vernon. * HU United Prcaa MT. VERNON, Ind., Sept. 2. Dragged around a field by a frightened mule, James W. Wade, 8, son of Ermald Wade, Center Township farmer, was killed Thursday night in sight of his horrified father and grandfather. The boy had driven a team to water after the day’s plowing was done and started to climb on the back of one mule to drive it to a barn. His foot caught i . a trace chain and the mule began ’•unnlng away with its mate. He was dragged 100 yards before the father and grandfather could Jialt the team and was dead when they picked him up. Grandson May Be Son By Ttr.iea Special PORTLAND, Ind., Sept. ’.—Paul Arthur Phillips will become the son of his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Phillips, if her petition for his filed in circuit court here. Vis granted. ™ ' .- ■ Hobo Gets Airplane Lift fg United Presa MUSKEGON, Mich., Sept. 2.—A hobo, new style, got a lift from here to Lansing yesterday in an airplane.

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ESTATE TAX GAINS More Paid on Inheritances in Last Year. A. total of $8,757,044.22 has been collected by the State and turned into the general and highway fund since enactment ol the inheritance tax law in 11913, according to figures issued today by State Auditor L. S. Bowman. The figures are included in the final report for the fiscal year which ends Sept. 30. Inheritance tax collected during the 1927 fiscal year totaled $1,108,836.05. This Is an increase of $61,597.86 over 1926. Os the total amount collected, $3,534,222.29 went Into the general fund and $5,222,821.93 went into the State highway fund. All inheritance tax now goes Into the general fund, the Supreme Court having held that the highway law was unconstitutional. RAILROAD SMOKERS OPENED TO WOMEN Men Protesters Told All Pay Same Fares; Get Same Privileges. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—The smoking cars of the Long Island Railroad are for the use of women as well as men, P- H. Woodward, passenger agent of the road, announced yesterday in replying to protests which he had received from men against the large numbers of women who travel in the smoking cars. Mr. Woodward said he had received recently a complaint from Neil G. Bancroft of Glen Cove, who wrote that he would be compelled to ride on the tenders of the engines to enjoy his smoke if women continued to sit in the smokers. “Women are entitled to as much for their fares as the men receive,” Mr. Woodward replied.” German Factions Battle By United Press POTSDAM, Germany, Sept. 3. Twenty persons were arrested here alter Republicans and Monarchist sympathizers fought in front of the city hall.

COUNCIL OPENS GENEVAPARLEY Work of Press Conference Praised Highly. By United Press GENEVA, Sept. 2.—The League of Nations council convened publicly today under the presidency of Senor Villegas of Chile. The league assembly meeting, during which the council will remain In session, will begin Sept. 5. One of the first subjects discussed today was the work of the International Press Conference, convened under League of Nations auspices, which adjourned earlier this week. Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany asked that the resolutions adopted by the conference be executed with enterprise and perseverance. Paul Boncour, of France, expressed hope that the league would continue the work of the conference. Boncour said that censorship was an internal problem of each natlbn, but he cdhgratulated the conference on Its unanimous condemnation of peace-time censorship as an obstruction to distribution of news, which caused false reports inimical to world, peace. LOCAL STATIONS MAY LOSE OUT Programs Broadcast Thru World Forecast. By Initial Prat WASHINGTON, Sepl. 2.—Estimating that 90,000,000 people all over the world are radio listeners, Lawrence D. Batson, Commerce Department expert, predicted today that “tuning in on the universe” wil' become more popular than getting local stations. “Radio programs,” he said, “have a striking similarity all over the world, and it is not without some basis of possibility that programs broadcast throughout the wo-ld may be expected to prove more popular than those of local origin.” Batson estimates that a billion people live within the world's constant radio receptio narea. About 200,000,000 receiving sets would be necessary to serve this population, compared with the 18,000,000 now in use in the world. Radio broadcasting, he said, has become as important abroad in international, national and family life as it is in the United States. People In many foreign countries, however, have to pay for their radio entertainment. Radio broadcasting corporations, who hold exclusive concessions, charge owners of radio sets a fee. Trans-Continental Plane Wrecked By United Press KANSAS CITY, Kan., Sept 2. The plane in which Murray B. Dilley, 18, planned to make a transcontinental flight alone from San Francisco to New York was wrecked near Ash Grove, Kan., when it hit a fence pole while taxing off after a forced landing.

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REED AND AIDS READY TO SIFT BALLOLFRAUD Democrats Have Faint Chance at Last to Get Senator in Pennsylvania. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Pres. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Whether there will be a Democratic Pennsylvania Senator—a political rarity—probably will be determined by the result of the somewhat unofficial meeting of two Senate committees in Chicago Wednesday. If the meeting succeeds in finding a means to collect Pennsylvania’s Vare-Wilson senatorial election ballots of last November, then the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee will be able to conduct a full, authorized recount after the seventieth Congress meets in December. In this case, William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor in '■the Wilson Cabinet and Democratic candidate in the election, will have a chance to be Senator, should the recount sustain his claim to a majority of the ballots. > Would Eliminate Wilson If the meeting fails, some of the ol dballots at least will be destroyed by Pennsylvania County officials in preparation for the State primary Sept. 20, and there will be no possibility of a full recount. This would kill Wilson’s chances. Only one Democratic Pennsylvania Senator ever has been elected, according to historians, and that was many years ago. Elimination of Wilson would not, however, affect the charges made by Senator James A. Reed’r special investigating emmittee after an Investigation of the expensive Republican primary campaign, that William S. Vare, Republican senatorelect, was not a fit person to be senator. It generally Is believed here that Vare will be barred on this count, as Frank Smith of Illinois was last spring. Polls of the Senate before adjournment last March Indicated a majority against Vare. Reed Calls Meeting The Chicago meeting was called by Senator Reed (Dem.), Missouri. Members of the priviliges and elections committee have been asked to meet with Reed’s committee. Senators King (Dem.), Utah, and La Follette (Rep.), Wisconsin, of Reed’s committee, are expected to attend, and perhaps Senator McNary (Rep.), Oregon. Which members of the other committee will attend is not known. It is believed Reed or Senator Watson (Rep), Indiana, will have a plan to unravel the complicated legal annd legislative tangle. CAR BURNS: NEGRO HELD ‘Owner’ Is Taken to City Jail on Vagrancy Charge. Firemen called to rear of 3642 N. Illinois St., at 1 a. m. today to extinguish a blazing auto, held Richard Simmons, Negro, of 1034 Etoach >X for police. Simmons first denied then admitted ownership of the car which, after witnesses heard the sound of falling glass, burst into flames. Police are holding Simmons on a vagrancy charge. TUMMY ACHE FOR THREE Boys Fl 4, Ice Cream Missing at Irvington Card Party ! Police are searching for three Irvington boys with the stomachache. The boys ate a gallon of ice cream they stole lrom the back porch of Mrs. I. W. Cook, “33 S. Audubon Rd., Thursday night. Mrs. Cook saw the boys run and found the empty cream tub in a yard near by, when she started to serve refreshments to her card party.

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WANTS HEAT OF WORLD used 30,000 Years’ Power Available, Says Scientist. By United Prat LEEDS, England, Sept. 2.—Heat energy sufficient to supply man’s requirements in heat and power for 30,000 years exists inside the earth, the engineering section of the British Association was informed today by J. L. Hodgson. Hodgson said his estimate was moderate. He assured his listeners that there was no need to deplore depletion of the world’s coed supplies. The energy produced by the cooling of only one cubic mile of rock, he said, would amount to 50,000,000 horsepower. Heat radiated over the entire surface of the earth, said Hodgson, would be equivalent to that which could be produced by burning 1,000 tons of coal per second. He estimated that it would be necessary to bore nine miles to reach maximum temperatures within the earth.

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Out at the State fair grounds ninety-three girls are having a wonderful time and learning oodles of things about cooking, serving and other domestic matters. They’re attending the two weeks’ home economics course, which began Monday and is in charge of Mrs. L. G. Vannice of Amo, Ind. In the dining room some of the girls pose as guests and the others serve them with a dexterity that would maxe a “sure enough” waiter open his eyes for big tips. Mrs. H. V. Huey of Monticello Is director in the dining room ADMITS STEALING RINGS Took Jewelry Worth S6OO and Sold It for SSO, Youth Says. Harland Beck, 23, of Paris, 111., held in the city prison, on a grand larceny and vagrancy charge today, admitted taking rings valued at S6OO here, and sold them in Terre Haute for SSO. police say. Mrs. Emma Venn, owner of the nngs and the rooming house at 1736 N. Capitol Ave., where Beck lived before the theft, called police when Beck returned here Thursday.

ENDS 50-YEAR WORK Conductor Makes Last Run on Big Four. After fifty years’ service as conductor for the Big Four Railroad, Amlel Krier, 70, of 1444 Lexington Ave., finished his last run on the “Sycamore,” a passenger train between Indianapolis and Chicago, Thursday night at 9:40. When Krier got off the train at the Union Station he carried a big bouquet, a gift of Big Four employes. Krier came to Indianapolis from Lafayette twenty-four years ago. Tn all his fifty years as conductor he never has had a suspension and has missed only a few days. Krier says he is “satisfied” after having spent most of his life on a train, and is planning to make toe last years a long 'acation. Patrolman Kills Mad Cat By United Press DETROIT, Sept. 2.—A mad cat, which terrorized residents here was shot by a patrolman after it had bitten its way through a dog catcher’s net. The animal wounded a 2-year-old child and an unidentified boy.

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FAKE DROWNING 1 PLOTTER SLAIN Victim Expected Rescue in ‘Rowboat’ Murder. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—lnvestigators of Brooklyn’s “row boat murder” today will face Joseph Lefkowitz with charges that he deliberately caused the drowning of Benjamin Goldstein to collect $140,000 Insurance after promising to save him. Lefkowitz and two youths who confessed are alleged to have pushed Goldstein from a boat into Gravesend Bay Friday. They already have been charged with homicide. The new development in the case came with announcements from the district atotrney’s office that he had learned from a brother, of the victim that 22-year-old Goldstein agreed to a fake drowning. He believed he was to be rescued by Lefkowitz, a business associate, who had his life insured in his own favor, the brother said. Instead of living up to his agreement, Lefkowitz, 42, is said to have stood calmly by on a Brooklyn dock and watched Goldstein drown while Harry . Greenberg, 18, and Irving Rubinzahl, 20, rowed away from the floundering youth. Lefkowitz and Goldstein, it is alleged In the new charges, agreed that the latter should be saved after apparently drowning in the bay. Goldstein expected to be taken quietly to Honolulu, according to the district attorney, and wait there while Lefkowitz collected the life insurance. Crosses Lake in Motorboat By United Press HOLLAND, Mich., Sept. 2.—Henry Trinke, Racine, Wis., fireman, yesterday crossed Lake Michigan in a seventeen-foot outboard motor boat. The trip between Racine and Holland took twelve hours. Invite Red Cross Officials Here Dr. W. R. Redden, American Red Cross national medical director, has been invited to attend ceremonies opening the first permanent Red Cross hospital at the Indiana State fair. A permanent buildihg was provided by the last Legislature.