Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1927 — Page 1

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THRONG JAMS GROUNDS FOR FAIR 'BIG DAY’ j Governor and Legislators Are Honor Guests at Jubilee 'Expo/ GOOD RACES ON CARD Horse Show and Fireworks Will Be Features of Night Program. Thursday Judging of cattle, sheep and swine, all day. Luncheon for members of legislature, girls’ school in woman’s building, noon. Grand Circuit races, vaudeville, grand stand, afernoon. Whippet races, grand stand, afternoon. Horse show, vaudeville, old fiddlers’ contest, coliseum, evening. Gordon fireworks display, vaudeville, grand stand, evening. D. D. Murphy shows, Midway, day and evening. Radio show, manufacturers’ building, day and. evening. Friday Bwine Judging, all day. Cattle Judging, Coliseum, all day. D. D. Murphy shows, midway, day and evening. Grand Circuit races, vaudeville, whippet races, grand stand, afternoon. Gordon fireworks, grand stand, evening. Society night horse show, vaudeville, Coliseum, evening. Championship old fiddlers’ contest, Coliseum, evening. Sale of beef ca’ves, Coliseum, p. m. Governor’s and Legislature Day was celebrated at the Indiana State Fair by throngs who crowded the grounds even at an early hour this , morning. The tradition that Thurs- | day is the ’’best day” of the fair was being followed. Governor Ed Jackson and members of the Indiana Legislature were guests of the girls’ State Fair school at noon in the Woman’s building. Jackson spoke briefly. On Thursday of 1926 more than 33,000 persons paid admissiohs, and today’s total attendance was expected to top that mark. Wednesday’s paid admissions totaled 40,407, about 3,000 more than, the same day last year. Because of postponement of the feature Grand Circuit racing card Wednesday, the events scheduled were carried over for today. Feature attraction was the Frank P. Fox pace for 2-year-olds for an estimated stake of $15,000. The Bilver Flash Gas 2:10 pace for $5,000 also was held over. Good Races Carded Today’s card included the David Guy 2-year-old trot for SI,OOO, the Pluto Water 2:05 trot for $20,000, the 2:12 trot for SI,OOO, the 2:18 pace for half-mile horses for SI,OOO, and Braden Direct 3-year-old pace for SI,OOO. Friday’s total purses of $5,000 will Close the $57,000 Grand Circuit card. Judging of cattle, horses, sheep and swine started this morning and will continue throughout the day in the several departments. The usual vaudeville, whippet races and band ooncert were held this afternoon in front of the grandstand, between race events. I The horse show in .he Coliseum Wednesday night was the only attraction held, because of the rain, but Gordon fireworks in front of the grandstand will be staged tonight, as will the horse show. Friday night’s display of Gordon’s fireworks has been dedicated to the three Indianapolis newspapers. Dog Show Closes The $50,000 dog show closed Wednesday night, with judging of , bulldogs and Airedale terriers. Exhibits will remain in place the remainder of the week. The American Red Cross Emergency Hospital increased its staff to two physicians, two internes, four nurses and two non-professional attendants today in anticipation of a rushing business. Although 104 cases were handled Wednesday, none was serious. Home nursing demonstration and hospital treatment in the Indiana University building started at 10 a. m. and will continue until 4 p. m. The Hancock County livestock Judging team won first place in the special dairy cattle Judging event Tuesday, according to announcement Wednesday night. Rush County finished second; Washington County, third, and Dearborn County, fourth. Boy Wins Lamb Prizes The first prize wether, the first prize pen of Shropshire lambs and the championship pen of lambs over all breeds at the Boys’ Club show was won by Charles Brown, 13, of near Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, who also was given the SSO educational trip of the board of agriculture. The standing room only sign was hung out early Wednesday night at the horse show. Mrs. Robert E. Trimble, Indianapolis, took honors in the ladies’ horse with appointments event.

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Telephones Sizzle With Calls From Heat Wave r _nVEN the,telephone wires sizzle in an Indianapolis heat wave. Ei Every heat wave brings a distinct increase in telephone traffic, l±±l but Wednesday was one of the heaviest days of this year, Phil M. Watson, district commercial manager, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, said. “The hot weather undoubtedly was the principal cause, although we realize that there are hundreds of visitors in the city for the State Fair.” Ordinarily, telephone traffic peaks are between 9 and 10 a. m. and 3 and 4 p. m. and early in the evening, but on hot days folks start calling early In the morning and keep it up steadily until late at night. They stay home and telephone the butcher and grocer and their friends Instead of making calls, phone officials say.

CITY PARADE TO BE ELABORATE All Departments Join for State Fair Pageant. City officials are planning a long and elaborate parade to the State fairground Friday in connection with ‘‘lndianapolis day.” A committee composed of Fred Connell, Ira Haymaker, Robert Miller, safety board members; Secretary Claude C. McCoy and Councilman Otis Bartholomew, Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell and Recreation Director Jesse McClure met to arrange the parade in cooperation with the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Police Chief Claude M. Worley assigned a detail of motorcycle officers to head the parade. Chief Hutsell will order eight pieces of fire-fighting equipment in the line of march. Practically all city departments will provide some equipment or a float. Harmon E. Snoke, Junior Chamber secretary, said Stutz and Marmon autos would carry officials. About fifteen commercial floats will participate. The parade will form at 12:30 at Ohio and Alabama Sts. and march down Washington St. and around Monument Circle to the fairground at 1:15. Mayor Duvall is general chairman. David Swain, float chairman, will be marshal. Guy Cantwell, State fair board president, and Dick Miller, Chamber president, will speak at the fair grand stand. THINKS HUGHES MAY RUN Mellon Gives Reporters Impression of His Belief. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Secretary of Treasury Mellon today gave Washington correspondents the impression that he believes Charles Evans Hughes would take the Republican nomination if It Is tendered him. Their Impression was drawn from the fact that Mellon, who had consulted Hughes politically en route home from Europe, remarked that a newspaper article on Hughes and Mellon, making such an observation, contained nothing untrue. 15 BALLOONS WILL RACE Crews Prepare Bags for Bennett Cup Contest Saturday. By United Pre DETROIT, Sept. B.—Fifteen International balloon crews today spent a busy forenoon preparing their "bags” for the Gordon Bennett race, which starts Saturday. Wade T. Van Orman of Akron, Ohio, captain of the three American entries, last year’s champion; Lieut. Ernest Demuyter, Belgium, four times champion, and Major E. Maldonado, Spain, arrived here last night and completed the list of competing pilots. The balloons leave the Ford airport at Intervals of five minutes, staring at 4 p m. ORDER FOR 75 PLANES Atlantic Airways Want Early Delivery by Denver Firm. By United Press DENVER, Sept. B.—The Alexander Aircraft Company today received an order for $300,000 worth of airplanes, the largest ever received here, from the Atlantic Airways pf New Rochelle, N. Y. The order Is for sixty planes of the present model Alexander Eagle Rock and fifteen planes of the cabin transport type. Delivery Is asked for this winter. Faulty Switch Blamed By Timm Special PRINCETON, Ind., Sept. B.—A faulty switch is assigned as the cause of the Southern-Big Four train collision near here Saturday which resulted in the death of three men and injury of sixteen, in the verdict of Karl S. Strickland, Gibson County coroner. Save 200 From School Fire By United Preen CLINTON, Mass., Sept. B.—Nearly 200 children were led to safety here today when a parochial school was threatened by fire that virtually destroyed St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. Loss was estimated at $25,000. Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis By United Free* BOSTON, Sept. B.—Twenty-six new cases of infantile paralysis were reported within the last forty-eight hours. A total of 304 cases of the disease now has been reported this year.

TWO BURNED IN PLANTJLAST Boy’s Presence of Mind May Save One Life. Edward Logan, 40, of 4034 Madison Ave.. general foreman, was burned critically, and Harold Pease, 22, of 3104 Bethel Ave., an employe, was burned seriously in an explosion of naphtha fumes at the International Metal Polish Company plant at Quill St. and Belt Railroad today. , ’"Quick work of Robert Blackburn, 16, of 354 S. Arlington Ave., whose mother, Mrs. Grace Blackburn Is one of the proprietors of the plant, probably saved Logan from death, police said. Logan was inside a circular vat eight feet in diameter and ten feet high, in which final mixing of the metal polish is done. Pease was sitting on the edge of the vat. An electric light Logan carried is believed to have short circuited and caused the explosion. Pease was burned by the„ flash of flame and hurled ten feet. Logan, his clothes aflame, climbed from the vat, and, crazed by the pain, ran for the open air. The Blackburn boy tripped him, pulled off his overalls and beat out the flames. Frank Van Sickle, 18, of 2110 Shelby Bt., helped give first aid. Police and firemen from engine house No. 26 also gave first aid. U. S. JURY TO CONVENE Session Starting Monday to Consider* 150 Cases. Preparations for the full session of the Federal grand Jury beginning Monday are being made by Albert Ward, United States district attorney, and his assistants. More than 150 cases, about onehalf of which are liquor law violations, are to be presented to the Jury for consideration. FLOGGINGS ARE PROBED Alabama Officials Probe Masked Whippings at Birmingham. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. B.—A grand jury investigation into alleged masked floggings in this county opened today under direction of Attorney General Charles C. McCall. McCall’s arrival here with John J. Haynes, first assistant attorney general, followed repeated invitations by the Birmingham Post, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, which charged there appeared to be slight possibility of prosecutions by county authorities. Hlndenburg to Attend Navy Parade By United Press BERLIN, Sept. B.—President Von Hlndenburg, who returned yesterday from an extended vacation, announced today that he would leave next week to attend the naval parade at Swinemunde.

SECOND A. E. F. OFF ON PARIS PILGRIMAGE

Joyous Reunions Feature Sailing of Vanguard; Old Strain Missing

BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. B.—Ten years later, and with the war an ever fainter scar in their memories, the men of khaki sailed once more today for France. Six ships, peace-time carriers, left port with more than 5,000 former doughboys, the advance guard of American Legionnaire who will FIRE LOSS IS HEAVY New York Waist Cos. Damage Near SIO,OOO. Fire, believed to have been started by a short circuit in the electric wiring in the rear of the New York Waist Company store, 34 W. Washington St., destroyed virtually all stock In the store and did considerable damage to the building Wednesday night. Company officials estimated damage at more than SIO,OOO. Members of a printer’s club, who were holding a meeting on the third floor, were forced out of the building by smoke. Fred A. /acobs, manager, said that new stock would arrive today and business would go on as usual. Stock of the E. J. Gausepohl and Company leather goods store just west of the waist shop was damaged several hundred dollars by smoke.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1927

RADIO RULING 1$ PROMISED WITHIN WEEK Pleas of City Stations for 1,000-Watt Permit Are Given Commissioner. DEBATE GROWS FIERY Witnesses for WKBF and WFBM Present Reasons for Their Stand. Indianapolis radio stations WKBF and WFBM will know in one week which will be granted a power in*crease to 1,000 watts, according to Henry A. ©ellows, United States Radio Commissioner, who Is conducting a hearing on the matter today in the Federal Bldg. A transcript will be forwarded to the Federal Radio Commission in Washington, D. C., and a decision will be made in a week. Otto Kogel. Chicago, attorney for the Power company, said WFBM would put better programs on the air if granted a power Increase. Joseph Morgan, attorney for Noble Watson, owner of WKBF. said the Hoosler Athletic Club station had a prior claim to the power increase, because it previously had onerifted on 500 watts and the other station had suspended operation during the summer. Witnesses Examined Witnesses for WFBM were examined during the morning and witnesses for WKBF this afternoon. State Senator B. R. Inman said he was interested as a layvn-n and believed the present equipment of WFBM was not sufficient and should be enlarged. D. J. Angus, representative of the American Radio Relay League of Indiana, testified as an expert witness that he had examined the plans for the new station and found them excellent. A 1,000-watt station would cause Interference with other stations only outside a ten-mile radios he said. Ben Lawrence, business manager "St the Indianapolis StaK sMd he* was backing the new station editorially and believed tnat a public utility would be better able to conduct a radio station than a private individual. Favors New Station Dick Miller, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Cemmerce, testified he was La favor of anew station. A question asked by WKJiF attorneys that Miller favored the combination of the power company and the Samuel Insull interests was stricken from the records. Frederick E. Schortemeler, Secretar yof State, testified as a radio otfner, and said he wished to see a high-powered station. Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times, said he was wholly impartial as to any organization that wishee dto sponsor and operate anew station of'l,ooo watts. “What I want to see Is Indianapolis on the air,” said Gurley. The commission later was thrown into confusion by the introduction of twenty-four witnesses who were examined together. The examination le dto arguments among the witnesses and attorneys, and order was not restored until shortly before adjournment at noon. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 77 7 a. m 70 11 a. m 79 8 a. m 73 12 (noon) ... 81 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 83

attend the annual convention in Paris. On the docu bands played and drum corps rattled and shrilled. The happy travelers, many seeing one another for the first time in years, began to sing. There was some mention of a mademoiselle from Armentieres, and others. In some cases women were left on the dock, smiling. This time they knew with reasonable certainty that the men would come back. But the biggest difference between today and 1917 was that so many women went along. Wives, mothers and sistgrs stood on the decks, eager to visit the scenes where death once was always near by their loved ones. By Saturday the number of legionnaires will have exceeded 10,000, all due to arrive in Paris before the convention opens Sept. 19. The pilgrimage of peace began at 1 a. m., when the Cunarder Tuscania slipped from its pier with

‘PIG WOMAN’ STILL ILL Hall-Mills Murder Trial Witness in Hospital for Months. By United Press JERSE YCITY, N. J., Sept. B. Mrs. Jane Gibson, "the pig woman,” witness 4n the Hall-Mills murder trial at Somerville, N. J., still is critically ill, hospital physicians said today.

Fire Department Gets Rescue Wagon

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Here is one of the new $9,000 Mack rescue squad wagons, assigned to fire headquarters Company No. 7. The wagon'is equipped with the latest type of rescue equipment, including a first-aid outfit, pure-air mask. Jack, stretchers, pullmotor, a steel-cutting outfit and chemicals. Left to right: Assistant Chief Roy G. Phillips, Lieut. Ralph Tyner. Chauffeur Joseph Wilhelm, Walter Wiley, Paul Boling and James Mclntyre. Claude Turner Is wearing the smoke-gas mask in the foreground.

CENTER TOWNSHIP TAX RATE IS SET AT 32.5 CENTS BY COUNCIL

Flicks Out By United Press LITTLETON. Colo., Sept. 8 —Surrounded by a group of friends, Harry O’Brien called to them “watch me flick the ashes off this cigaret.”* He pulled the trigger of his revolver, but instead of hitting the cigaret, the bullet entered his neck. O'Brien died.

BANK ROBBED AT SWITZ CITY Good-Natured Bandits Flee With $2,000. By United Press SWITZ CITY, Ind.. Sept. B. Three good natured bandits robbed the Switz City State Bank of about $2,000 today and escaped in an automobile driven by a fourth man. The car was seen to roar eastward out of the town on State Rd. No. 67. One report said that when they reached Newberry, southeast of here, they mistook a watchman’s signal at a railroad crossing and turned back. Charles B. Hollars, cashier, was alone when one of the bandits, described as short and young, entered and walked up to a cage. A few seconds later another entered, and as Hollars turned to look at him the first drew his gun. A man wearing overalls followed. The bandits forced Hollars to lie face down on the floor back of the cage while they took all the money In sight and then made him open the vault. The cashier kept his wits and sparred for time. He excused his fumbling with the knob by saying that he was "nervous," and one of the bandits said “that’s all right—we’re used to that, but be sure to get the safe open.” Ferry Sinks; Report 280 Dead By United Preen TOKIO, Sept. B.—Two hundred eighty persons were reported in dispatches received from Seoul, Korea, today to have been drowned when a river ferry capsized near that city.

1,100 former soldiers. The Ansonia and Scythia of the same line, with 850 and 1,000 respectively, sailed this forenoon. The De Grasse of the French line, with 900, also ,oined the procession. The Cunarder Caronia and the Anchor liner Caledonia will leave today with additional hundreds. Everywhere one saw evidences of impromptu reunions. Division insignias tucked away in bureau drawers and recovered after lengthy search, appeared on the legionnaires and served as signal foe a thousand hearty blackslaps. “Do you remember when?” and “what ever became of?” one heard everywhere. The crowds on each pier were orderly. Ship news reporters said they never before had seen the vessels cleared so quickly. Perhaps military discipline was more than a memory and an order still was to be obeyed immediately. At that, the legionnaires may

MYSTERY WOMAN HELD Fouhd Unconscious on Porch of City Home by Milkmen. A woman believed to be Miss Helen Berger, Devonshire Hotel, Chicago, 111., is held at city hospital after officers called to 3028 Jackson St., *the home 6t Mrs. Elizabeth Shine, at 5 a. m., found her unconscious on the porch. Mrs. T'"v ■: : x 4 i

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Increased From 29 Cents; Strike Out Provision for Refund. Center township taxpayers will pay Marion county 32.5 cents tax on each SIOO worth of taxable property in 1928, county council decided today. A 40-cent rate had been asked. This year the rate is 29 cents. The new rate is made up of these levies: General county tax, 15 cents; sinking fund. 12 cents; tubercular fund, 2.5 cents, and the free gravel road fund, 3 cents, a total of 32.5 cents. Requests were made for an 18cent general fund. 15-cent sinking fund an da 5-cent road fund All were reduced, except the Sunnystde Tuberculosis Sanitarium fund, which was raised to 2.5 cents. In rereading various ordinances of the proposed budget, the council struck out entirely the one asking 13 cents for the county’s share in paying the horizontal tax Increase refund. Decreases made In requested appropriations follow: General county fund, $152,614.16; Center Township poor, $50,000, made by slicing the requested levy from 2 cents to 1 cent, and $200,000 In the county sinking fund, a total of $402,614.16. The 3-cent gravel rate will bring In $230,000, Instead of the $378,680 requested. County Auditor Harry Dunn told councilmen they had no right to cut the free gravel road fund, as ”lt has been approved by county commissioners.’’ Councilman John Shearer said he would not act on the motion to slice the levy 2 cents until various parts of it were explained. When the cut was made, Dunn said there was a deb', of about SIOO,OOO in the fund, and that a 3cent levy will “only pay the debts” after taxes for the first half-year are collected. In cutting the road levy the salary of Highway Superintendent Luther E. Tex was reduced from $3,180 to $2,000. Auditor Dunn told the council to “go ahead with your slicing; it will have no effect.” The new county rate will be brought before the State tax board, if protested. It is believed since the gravel road fund has been reduced, this will be done.

have missed the leather-lunged sergeants with their once-familiar cries of, “snap it up, you!” There were delegations from as far away as California and Alaska. This second A. E. F. was a group grown older, but more merry. The strain of yesterday was gone. Only the sight of an occasional buddy, who walked on a crutch or whose coat sleeve was empty served as a reminder.

M’CRAYJSJT FAIR Former Governor Greets Many Old Friends. Former Governor Warren T. Me. Cray, released from Federal prison last week, spent a happy day today at the Indiana State Fair. Because of his lifelong interest in agriculture McCray was actively interested in the State fair while Governor, participating in plans lor expansion which have resulted in the present magnificent buildings and grounds. McCray met many old friends and was the center of many groups which formed to shake his hand and wish him well. He returned late Wednesday from Kentland, Ind., his former home, where he and Mrs. McCray went Saturday.

Brave, Now! By United Preet CROYDON AIRPORT, England, Sept. B.—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, best known American draft dodger, has applied to Charles A. Levine, the latter told the United Press today, for passage to the United States in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia. Levine said Bergdoll’s application was one among thousands received by him. Bergdoll wrote from a small town in Germany, offering to permit Levine to name his own price.

QUIZ DUVALL’S CAMPAIGN AIDS William H. Armitage Goes Before Probers. BULLETIN At 1:30 this afternoon the grand jury still was in session, establishing the longest continuous meeting record since the political corruption probe was started last October. The last witness left the jury room about 12:45 p. m., but the jury did not stop for lunch. With William H. Armitage. political general of the Shank city administration and a backer of Mayor John L. Duvall in the 1925 municipal campaign, before it for more than an hour today, the Marion County grand jury was believed to have focused its attention upon city hall affairs again. The jury remained in session tlirough the lunch hour. There were other indications that the political corruption inquiry rapidly is drawing to a climax which is expected to result in several indictments. Affidavit pending against Duvall charges him with having failed to list in his campaign expense account a SIO,OOO contribution from Armitage. Armitage’s brother, James, is under sentence of three months at the Indiana State Farm on a charge of offering Claude Achey, former grand juror, a bribe if he would agree not to indict Duvall. George Snider, county councilman, former sheriff, and campaign manager for Duvall in 1925, was the first witness today. Orin E. Davis, former head of horsethief detectives in Marion county, and a strong Duvall worker in 1925, was another witness. The Rev. William H. Brightmire, former Ku-Klux Klan orator; Ray Mulligan, former city hall employe; Earl Logan, former United States narcotic agent, and R. L. Donahew, former business partner of D. C. Stephenson, were other witnesses. • HOLD TWO FOR THEFTS Cleveland Men Are Returned to City From Kokomo. Frank Fraiburg, 34, and James Runt, alias Louis Bender, 34, both of Cleveland, Ohio, were returned here from Kokomo, Ind., late Wednesday night on burglary and grand larceny charges. When arrested the pair had radios and tires valued at S2OO, stolen from the Irvington Tire Company, 4022 E. Washington St. Tuesday night, police said. SHOOT AT NEGRO’S HOME Shot Pierces Door After Note to Move Is Unheeded. A shot was fired through the door of his home and a group of young men threw rocks on his porch Wednesday night a short time after he found a note on the porch warning him to move before 10 p. m., Charles Lewis, Negro, 1305 Indiana Ave., reported to police. Lewis told Dolice a white family formerly lived j the house.

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FEAR DEATH IS VICTOR IN TWO OCEANDASHES Sir John Carling Overdue 2t London; Hope Lost for Old Glory. SHIPS GIVE UP SEARCH Nothing Is Heard of Ontario Plane Since Start From Newfoundland. By United Press Another mystery of the Atlantic was developing today regarding the whereabouts of the monoplane Sir John Carling while somewhere at sea the bodies of three airmen were believed to be near the wreck of the monoplane Old Glory. The Sir John Carling, nearly forty hours out from Newfoundland en route to England, was overdue at Croydon airport where it had been expected at abdht 7 a. m. Hathlng Heard of Plane Nothing had been heard of the plane since it left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wednesday with Terry Tully and James Medcalf aboard. Croydon officials were anxious today lest the Carling’s end be similar to that of Old Glory, which has disappeared without leaving a trace of her tragedy. Hope for Lloyd W. Bertaud, James De Witt Hill and Philip A. Payne, who were aboard Old Glory, almost has been abandoned. Vessels which searched the Atlan k ic hundreds of miles off the Newfoundland coast ’ Wednesday reported to the United Press that they had found nothing, and most of them, perhaps all, have abandoned the search. Atlantic Is Rough The sea was rough. The chances of the plane or its rubber boat remaining afloat were negligible. A vessel without wireless might have picked the fliers from the sea, and upon that faint chance rested such hope for them as existed today. Lack of news of the Carling from Irish waters or from Ireland was regarded as ominous. All successful attempts to cross the north Atlantic have been accompanied by scattered reports of the plane’s progress. Hearst Offers $25,000 By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. B.—William Randolph Hearst, newspaper pub. lisher and backer of the missing monoplane Old Glory, today offered $25,000 reward for the finding of the three men aboard the trans-Atlantic craft. The following statement, signed by Hearst, appeared in the Evening Journal, one of his newspapers; “I know that no reward is necessary to stimulate the search for Old Glory and its occupants, but I will gladly give $25,000 to the captain and crew of the ship which finds them merely as an expression of my gratitude.” Mirror Offers Reward By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Word that the New York Daily Mirror offered SIO,OOO for rescue of Old Glory’s crew of three and $5,000 for discovery of the lost monoplane, was broadcast today by navy radio. The Navy Department cannot undertake a search for Old Glory, according to announcement here today. Answering search appeals from two New York newspapers, the Graphic and the Mirror, the department said it has no ships near enough to mid-Atlantic to be In time “to be of any assistance" to the missing plane and its crew. The nearest available vessel. It was learned, is the fast cruiser Trenton at Brooklyn navy yard, but for her to reach the point of origin of the Old Glory’s SOS would require three or more days, it was estimated. runawaysTeave note Two Boys From Columbus, Ind., Stop at City Home. Two runaway boys from Columbus, Ind., Marshall Beneflel and Alvin Sprague, en route to Illinois, stopped at the home of Mrs. Ida Benneflel, 317 E. South St., Wednesday night while she was away. They left a note saying they were going to Illinois and had plenty of money. Police, notified by Columbus authorities, arrived at the house about the same time Mrs. Beneflel did, but their quarry had fled. PAY TRIBUTE TO LOEW Work Stops in City Film Exchanges; Funeral Today. Indianapolis film exchanges today stopped work at five minutes at noon as a tribute to Marcus Loew, movie magnate, who died Monday at Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y. Loew’s funeral was this afternoon. The Indianapolis Film Board of Trade office, 312 Chamber of Commerce Bldg, was closed for the afternoon. Hiller Offire Supply Cos. MaTocS. Tatum Loose Leaf Devices.—A dr.