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PLANES SPEED WESTWARD IN N.Y.-SPOKANE AIR DERBY; DETROIT CRAFT IS IN LEAD

25 Fliers Get Away From Roosevelt Field; Four Down in Fog. PRIZES TOTAL $9,750 Class A Start Is Tuesday; Non-Stop Flight Begins on Wednesday. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent ROOSEVEIT FIELD, N. Y., Sept. 19.—The class B race, first event of the three-day Spokane air, derby, started from this field at dawn today. Twenty-five small airplanes, their hiotors pounding a staccato salute to the grey-breaking day, roared down the Roosevelt Field runway between 7 and 7:32 a. mS and sped away into the West, headed for Spokane, Wash., 2,352 miles away. OOf the twenty-five planes, twenty had been accounted for up to 1 p. m. today. C. W. Meyers, piloting a Waco 10, entered by Berry Brothers of Detroit, at that time sas the official leader of the race. One Plane Delayed He had checked into the control station at Bellefonte, Pa., second, but A. M. Banks, driving a Pitcarin Fleeting, who arrived at Bellefonte two minutes ahead of Meyers, encountered engine trouble and was unable to get away in his proper place. Up to 1 p. m., a total of thirteen planes had checked into Bellefonte, all but one having continued on to Bryan, Ohio, the next control. They were due there early in the afternoon.. Four other, planes had been forced by fog to land at Tamaqua, Pa. One, that of R. E. Dake, had been forced down at Highbridge, N. J., and another, that of R. E. Cantwell, had failed to get farther from Roosevelt Keld, New York, than Curtiss field, a die away. Five planes at that hour had not been accounted for, •'.wwr Compulsory Stops Listed The derby ends late Wednesday. Compulsory five-minute stops are listed for today at Bellefonte, Cleveland and Bryan. Ohio, and tomorrow at St. Paul. Fargo and Bismark. N. D. On Wednesday the planes will stop at Billings and Missoula, Mont., before reaching Spokane. “Class A’’ planes with engines of not more than 800 cubic inches.displacement will race toward the Washington city with one overnight stop, beginning tomorrow. On Wednesday unlimited type craft will engage in a non-stop flight.

Five Prizes Up Entrants in the race today are competing for five prizes, totaling $9,750, with the first five places earning $5,000, $3,000, SI,OOO, SSOO and $250. ' The planes took off in the following order* , Eagle Rock, J. 8. Charles, Richmond, Va„ pilot. Hess Bluebird, E. W. Fleet, pilot, Hartford, Conn. Pitcairn Fleetwing, A. M. Bates, pilot, Philadelphia. Waco-10, R. T. Quinby, pilot, Rock Island, 111. Waco-10, C. W. Meyers, pilot, Detroit. Monocoupe, V. L. Roberts, pilot, Fargo, N. D. American Eagle, C. B. McMahon, k)ilot, Miles City, Mont. W Waco 10, Tfx La' Gront, pilot, Kansas City, Mo. Eagle Rock, L. Miller, pilot, Des Moines. Eagle Rock, G. Smith, pilot, TaN oma. Swallow, R. R. Johnson, pilot, Missoula, Mont. Waco 10, A. Litzenberger, pilot, Erie, Pa. Waco 10, A. W. Stephenson, pilot, Dillon, Mont. Waco-10, L. F. Hughes, pilot, Wheeling, W. Va. Travel-Air, Detmer, pilot, Tarrytown, N. Y. / Travel-Air, W. H. Emery Jr., pilot, Bradford, Pa. j. Travel-Air, K. R. Hunger, pilot, Madison, N. J. Eagle Rock, M. H. McMeehan, pilot, Yakima, Wash. Travel-Air, R. W. Cantwell, pilot, Oklahoma City, Okla. Swallow, J. B. Sidowsky, Coffeyville, Okla. Waco. R. E. Dake, pilot, Pittsburgh. Pa. Eagle, S. Darius, pilot, Chicago. Waco-10, E. W. Knapp, pilot, Ypsilanti, Mich. Waco-9, Jack Ashcroft, pilot, Towanda, Pa. Laird Commercial, N. Black, pilot, Chicago.

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By United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 19. Eleven of the planes entered in the New York-Spokane air. derby had arrived at the airport here and departed at 1:50 p. m. E. S. T. today. One pilot, W. L. Roberts, was reported forced down near the Penn-sylvania-Ohio State line. The other eight planes, thought to be still in the air, were expected to arrive momentarily. A plane believed to be that of C. W. Meyers of Detroit was reported to have passed over Lorain, Ohio on its way to Bryan, Ohio, the next control station. By United Press BELLEFONTE, Pa., Sept. 19. Planes in the New York to Spokane air derby made their first stop here this morning. Some proceeded on their way, while others were forced out of the race. Arrivals were as follows: Pitcairn Fleetwing, A. M. Banks— Arrived at 10:26; delayed by engine trouble. Waco 10 of C. W. Meyers—Arrived 10:28; departed 10:37. Eagle Rock of L. Miller—Arrived 10:39: departed 10:46. Eagle Rock of J. S. Cftiarles—Arrived 10:45; departed 10:54. Travelair of Eugene Detmer—Arrived at 10:51; took off at 11:03. Other planes arrived and departed in the following order- Travelair of W. H. Emery Jr.; Swallow of R. R. Johnston: Waco 10 of R. T. Quinby. The fliers reported traveling through a dense fog over the mountains between New York and Bellefonte.

DRY BOSS WILL FIGHT GILLIOM Plans to Cite Motion in His New Trial Plea. Motion to increase sentence, filed by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom in the Supreme Court Saturday, may be used to support a motion for anew trial pending before the cQurt* counsel for the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, indicated today. Shumaker was held in contempt and sentenced to sixty days and fined SSOO. Gilliom’s motion asked that Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson be summoned as witnesses, and also Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico; State Republican Chairman Clyde Walb, Editor Boyd Gurley of The Indianapolis Times, “and others." Effort will be made to show Shumaker sought political aid to influence the court. Watson, from a hospital at Rochester, Minn., expressed willingness to testify and Wilson declared in a Washington dispatch that he will support Watson’s testimony. The entire matter was broughtto light after Gurley and Robinson had exchanged letters and editorials last week. Letters of Shumaker and Watson were published and Shumaker told of a phdfte talk with Watson after Robinson had called the senior Senator at the Wilson summer home at Lake Maxinkuckee. • INHERITANCE TAXES SHOW GAIN IN STATE Collections This Year Top Total for 1926. Inheritance tax collections this year total $1,108,947.18, according to figures compiled by state Auditor Bowman. The 1926 total was $1,047,238.19 for the entire year. All such collections are now paid directly into the general fund. Average annual collection in fourteen years has been $625,511.10. ' CURB ALCOHOL MAKERS Quantitative Control of Commercial Product Is Announced. By United Prest WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Quantitative control of commercial alcohol production, to prevent surplus output from reaching bootleg channels, will become effective Jan. 1 next, Federal Prohibition Doran announced today. “Heretofore there has been no limit on the amount of industrial alcohol produced, and the new regulation is to cut off the lawless fringe," Doran said.

Time Changed NEW YORK, Sept. 19—The radio audience listening to the Scripps-Howard radio 'fi£ht party will get more than it anticipated Thursday night. The time for broadcasting from the ringside at Soldiers’ Field has been advanced an hour, from 10 o’clock Chicago time, to 9 o’clock, Merlin H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, rinnounced today. This means that if the Tun-ney-Dempsey champ 1 o n s h < p bout is fought under clear skies, Mr. and Mrs. Radio Fan, as guests of The Times and the twenty-five other newspapers in the big Scripps-Howard family, will hear blow-by-blow descriptions of several preliminary bouts preceding the “Battle of Three Millions.”

PATROLMAN SHOT DOWN BY ROBBERS Officer Near Death After Gun Battle With Pair of Bandits. Shot three times with his own weapon, wrested from him by two filling station bandits he attempted to arrest, Patrolman Martin O’Connor, 43, of 25 N. Tacoma Ave., is near death in city hospital. Six men and one woman are held in city prison under high vagrancy bond as suspects. O’Connor was maklnr lis 2a. m. call from the box at J mont Ave. and Michigan St. whe le saw an auto in the driveway o ,he Standard Oil station there. One man was seated in the machine and another stood back of the station. Seized by Bandit Taking the occupant of the car in custody, O’Connor relieved him of an automatic pistol and marched him to the call box, where he was reporting the arrest, when he was seized around the neck jy the man’s companion and thrown to the sidewalk. 4 The two won the struggle for the officer’s gun, and when O Connor gave pursuit, one turned on him and fired five shots point blank. Wounded. O’Connor answered with a volley from the pistol he had taken from the first bandit. He managed to return to the call box and summon an ambulance. The man O’Connor arrested had given his name of Lloyd Thompson, 23, of 1263 Nordyke Ave. He was found at that address by Lieut. Leonard Forsythe, who, with Ser-' geants Richter, Barge and several spuads of police, investigated. Others Are Held Thompson, when questioned, mentioned a cousin, William Thompson, 20, of 1046 S. West St. The two were taken before O’Connor at the hospital. The officer said he believed William was the one who shot him. Lloyd Thompson was released. When William’s wife, Mary, 19, refused to talk, police arrested her and two men found near her home. Three men giving their address as Terre Haute, found in the west sec tion of the city, also are held under high bond Mr questioning. Police learned the bandits’ car had been stolen from Frank Hart, Y. M. C. A., who said he left the car parked at the side of the building. p’Connor was appointed to the department July 12, 1915. He is a brother of Sergt. Patrick O’Connor, who is aiding the investigation. STATEHOUSE REPAIRS COST $d,847 IN YEAR Bills Paid by State Auditor Show Expenses of Upkeep. Statehouse repairs cost $9,847.91 this year, bills paid by State Auditor L. S. Bowman showThis included pointing of stonework, painting and varnishing woodwork, interior decoration, roofing and window repairs and repairs to the plumbing and elevators. The Statehouse was completed Oct. 2, 1888, at an original cost of $1,980,969. Additional improvements have been made in the basement bringing the total to $2,000,000. One year ago it was appraised by a competent board at $6,513,000. DEATH CLAIMS EDITOR Rudolph Kauffman of Washington Star, Victim of Heart Failure. By United Prat DUNKIRK, N. Y„ Sept. 19.—Rudolph Kauffman, 74, managing editor of the Washington (D, C.) Star, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis N. Murray, here today after a long illness.

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INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 1927

VETERANS OF A. E. F. MARCH AGAININPARB Thousands Jam Parade Line as Americans Come Back to France. OLD MEMORIES ROUSED Yanks’ Procession Passes Historic Places, Honors War Dead. BY A. L. BRADFORD United Prtu Staff Correipondent ” PARIS. Sept. 19.—The first foreign peace-time army in history to parade 'through Paris moved along the capital's most famous thoroughfares today. The peaceful marchers came from the seaboard, the mountains, and the plains of the United States. While thousands of Parisians cheered, the American Legion second victory parade started from the Place Diena at 1:59 p. m. The marchers were led by a calvacade of the Republican guard and a battalion of French Infantry. Legion standards dipped and thousands, of marchers turned their eyes to the left in honor of the Americans who fought in French uniform, as they passed the Alan Seezer monument. Thousands in Line Into tha place de Letoile, where the Arc de Triomphe stands, swung thousands of doughboys, gobs, leathernecks. Red Cross workers, Salvation Army girls and nurses of the A. E. F. Around {his place and down the champs Ely Sees a German army headed by Uhlans marched fifty-six years ago when they occupied Paris. Now’ the chains which have circled the Arc de Triomphe since France’s defeat In 1871 are broken and for the second time in history the legion passed under the arch as it did in the victory parade of 1919. Drop Flowers at Tomb

French and Legion bands were stillxi. Colors dipped. Legionnaires dropped red, white and blue flowers as they passed the Tomb ot the Unknown Sold er, France’s greatest hero. . Compared to the millions who fought in the great war, the Legion parade was small. But the marchers’ ranks were swelled as they passed beneath the sacred arch by hosts of unseen marchers. They were the men who fell at St. Mihiel, along the Meuse, in the Argonne, at Chateau Thierry. They were from the Marne, the Yser and from Verdun. Silent and unseeen, the wraiths of memory fell in with their buddies once more. They were the 50,000 American dead risen from tended graves and forgotten thickets, from scattered tombs and from wherever an American boy lay down to sleeep forever in France. ( Pass Reviewing S tand Circling the Place de la Concorde, where the victims cf the Revolution passed to the guillotine, the parade passed the reviewing stand, where it received the salutes of French and American officials, thence down the Rue Royale to the Madeleine church and along the boulevards to the opera. From the Avenue de l’Opera, the paraders entered the Rue Rivoli and passed by the historic Hotel de Ville and city hall. Crossing the bhdge and disbanding before the church of Notre Dame there came the moment of supreme emotion. Hardened veterans wept with gold star mothers. They were joined by silent crowds of French and women who remembered. General Pershing, Marshal Foch, and Howard P. Savage, national commander of the Legion, rode uncovered in an automobile immediately behind the French troops of the 24th Infantry. Behind them came the Legionnaires. Convention Opened The Ninth annual Legion convention was opened officially at 9:30 a. m. by President Doumergue of France, honorary chairman. The delegates seemed somewhat overawed by the presence of the many notables and the opening of the convention was not marked by the customary byplay of previous Legion conventions. Colonel Dougherty of Nogales, Ariz., dressed in buckskin and a yellow neckerchief, who usually stages buck-and-yring stunts on the slightest provocation, actually seemed ill at ease. Thirty-thousand Legionnaires and their friends filled the vast auditorium, which with its forest o? signs marking state delegations resembled a national political convention in the United States.

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GIRL FLIER ON AIR PILOT TEST Ruth Elder Tries for Flying License Today. By United Press CURTISS FIELD. L. 1., Sept. 19 Ruth Elder, who aspires to be the first woman pilot to make a nonstop trans-Atlantic flight, today had only one obstacle between her ana her flight. She wil try to dispose of this barrier today when she takes off in her plane, with observers from the Department of Commerce looking on, in an endeavor to obtain her pilot's license. Meanwhile, the girl and her advisers are closely scanning weather reports. Levine May Lose Pilot By United Press CRANWELL, England, Sept. 19. Charles A. Levine today was in danger of losing another pilot. “Anxious as I am to make the flight East," Capt. Walter Hinchcliffe said today. “I greatly fear that unless Mr. Levine can finish his private affairs in time to enable us to start Wednesday or Thursday, I must reluctantly abandon the flight." Hinchcliffe made this statement after a week-end in which Levine returned to London and then left again for Paris. IRISH FACTIONS EVEN Government, Oppo: iion Win Same Number of Lail Seats. By United Press DUBLIN, Sept. 19.—Opposition to the William T. Ccsgtave government today was making an even fight of it as final returns from last week’s general election were being tabulated. Eamon de Valera’s Fianna Fall party had won the bulk of opposition support. The Government had 49 seats, Independents 10, and the Farmers 4. The three parties were expected to vote together, making Cosgrave’s strength so far 63 votes in the dail. The opposition had an equal number, divided as' follows: Fianna Fail 49, La’ior 11, National League 2, Communists 1. Goodrich Company Treasure™ Dies By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Lorenzen Brown, vice president and treasurer of the B. F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, died suddenly of heart disease last night ten route to New York, according to word received here today.

“Gator” Gone By Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., Sept. 19. —lt was a straw that broke the camel’s back, hut a rock broke the back of Big Tom, alligator m Memorial Park. The alligator was taking a sun bath when some children desired to see him move and dropped a rock on him. He lived two weeks / after being injured.

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Mayor John L. Duvall (above) and his brother-in-law, William C. Buser, who were on the witness stand in Criminal Court today to (deny testimony of William H. Armitage that he gave Duvall $14,500 in return for premises Armitage could name two board of works members and the city civil engineer.

USE STATE BALANCE Money in Treasury Will Help Keep Taxes Down. Balance in thq State treasury will be brought to aid the administration in keeping the 1928 State tax rate at 23 cents when final decision is made Tuesday. The decision will be made at a conference of the State tax board members with State Auditor L. S. Bowman and Governor Jackson. That a decrease from the present 23-cent rate would be impossible was indicated by the Governor when he pointed out that a .95 cent special levy, for corn-borer and forestry, had been added by tjie 1927 Legislature, as well as large expenditures without special levy. The largest single additional appropriation was for the new State School for the Blind. CONFER ON CHARGE MAN BURNED BODY OF BABY Capital Officials Baffled As to Complaint Against Father. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept?. 19.—Police attorneys conferred today regarding a charge that can be placed against Clarence E. Tippett for burning the body of an unwanted baby. Tippett has confessed, police say, that he was the father of the child, a girl, born Augl 27 to Mrs- Clara Butterworth, daughter of the janitor of an apartment house. All trace of the child’s body has disappeared. Police inclined to believe that in absence of the corpus delicti as evidence, the onl„ charge that can be placed against Tippett is violation of health regulations. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 48 10 a. m 60 7 a. m 50 11 a. m 62 8 a. m 58 12 (noon) ... 64 9 a. m 59 1 p. m 65

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MAYOR ON WITNESS STAND; DENIES ALL CHARGES THAT HE PEDDLED APPOINTMENTS

Quiet Sunday Church, checkers, movies and meals constituted the Sunday program for the jury hearing evidence in the trial of Mayor John L. Duvall. The jurors attended morning services at Zion Evangelical Church, went to the Indiana theater as the guests of Manager Ace Berry in the afternoon, made the usual pilgrimages at meal times to Ryker’s restaurant in N. Illinois St. and filled in between times with checker and card games at their quarters in the Hotel Washington, Bailiff Clarence Clegg reported.

MILITANT DRY DRIVEPLANNED New Acting Chief Pledged to Continue Wheeler’s Work. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Pledging himself to carry on the work of the late Wayne B. Wheeler, the new acting counsel of the Anti-Saloon League and its general superintendent, Francis Scott Mcßride, today issued a militant program for the dry organization. . “The presidential situation will be given thorough consideration in persuance of the recent declaration by our board of directors that the league will oppose any candidate of any party who can not be relied upon if elected to keep his oath of office to uphold the Constitution,” Mcßride said. Wheeler’s successor outlined, as formal objectives, cooperation with lawyers and public officials for prohibition enforcement, reports on enforcement conditions in various States, protection and promotion of the interests of prohibition in Congress. FLIRTING WITH M’ADOO DENIED BY MEREDITH Both in New York, but Each Didn’t Know Other Was There, By t ini ted Press , NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—William G. McAdoo and Edwin T. Meredith, the latter of lowa, and regarded by many as McAdoo’s choice for his own position in politics, should he relinquish it, both were in New York today. But, in separate conversations with the United Press, each denied his presence here had any political significance. What was more, each denied he knew the other was in New York. The fact that-both were here was discovered Sunday, and it set politicians talking and buzzing with conjecture. But it was not until today that either could be reached for a statement. HONOR DEAD DANCER \ Remains of Isadora Duncan Lie in State in Paris. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 19.—The body of Isadora Duncan will be taken to the Pere Lachaise cemetery to be cremated and the ashes placed beside those of her childrenUntil the removal, the body of the late dancer lay In state In the studio of her brother, Raymond, transformed into a Greek mortuary chapel. Two men and two women, garbed in flowing Greek robes stood guard. The coffin was covered with the purple robe Isadora wore when she danced Chopin’s funeral march. Among the profusion of wreaths and flowers was one inscribed “Russia mourns Isadora’s death.” HEAT WAVE IS BROKEN Temperatures 24 Degrees Lower Than Sunday; 11 Below Normal. Temperatures 24 degrees lower than those of Sunday and 11 degrees below normal at 7 a. m. today marked the end of the heat wave which has prevailed here since Aug. 29.Today’s temperature of 65 degrees at 1 p. m. was 13 degrees lower than Sunday’s 78, at the same hour and 25 degrees than Saturday’s 90. The cool wave, brought by northwest winds which first blew over the city about noon Sunday, will remain at last today and Tuesday, J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head, said.

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Duvall Declares He Made no Deal With Armitage, Rated as ‘Liability/ CALM UNDER QUIZZING i * Campaign Donations Placed in Bank, Returned to ‘Boss/ He Testifies. (Detailed Testimony on Pate 3) Cooly, cautiously and at times with a mild pat upon his chair arm for emphasis, Mayor John L. Duvall today permitted his attorneys to draw from him a detailed denial of the story of corrupt practices the State had offered against him in Criminal Court last week. The mayor, seldom straying from the limits of the questions asked him, denied: 1. That William H. Armitage, who aspired to retain the control of city hall affairs he enjoyed in the Shank administration, gave him $14,500 for his campaign fund. He said Armitage gave him only $12,000. Denies Spending Money 2. That he spent any part of this in his campaign. He said he carefully placed the sum, obtained in $5,000, $5,000 and $2,000 lots, in a safety deposit box and gave it back to Armitage after the election. 3. That he had promised Armitage two places on the board of works and the city civil engineer appointment, or that Armitage e\er even asked him for an appointment before the election. Armitage had testified for the State that Duvall fell in readily with his proposal that they work together politically and that they had an explicit understanding that Armitage was to get the appointments in return for the contributions. *

Duvall also denied the story of Frank Sipe, former constable, that when Sipe reminded him of a promise to name him city market master, he demanded a $3,000 bribe. Believed Armitage Liability Duvall, always responding to the careful questions of his attorneys, drew a picture of Armitage as having importuned him time after tinv to accept his political and financial support and of himself as having warded off the offers, because he believed Armitage to be more of a liability than an asset. The mayor is the only witness in the trial, so far, who has had opportunity of hearing what others have testified. Being the defendant, he could not be excluded, as were all other witnesses. The mayor, in general, supported and added details to the story which his brother-in-law, William C. Buser, told Saturday. Buser Back on Stand Buser was recalled to the stand when court opened this morning. He was late and the opening was delayed five minutes. The State asked Buser a few questions about his meeting with Armitage in the Tazewell Hotel in Pekin, 111., and then was blocked by a defense objection to a query a? to whether he ever heard Duvali make any speeches against Armitage during the campaign. Duvall followed Buser. The State, in cross-examination Saturday and today, attempted to catch Buser in a discrepancy in an effort to discredit his testimony which so diametrically opposed that of Armitage. Gets Testimony Tangled Armitage had testified he followed Suvall to Illinois after having reived a note from Duvall requesting him to do so. The defense has attempted to show that Duvall did not send word to Armitage, but that Armitage, desperate to get a lookin on patronage, found out he was in Pekin from a relative of Duvall and "chased” him there. The State caught Buser in only one apparent discrepancy upon cross-examination. Buser had testified that he had happened onto Armitage in the Tazewell Hotel in Pekin, the morning after the mayor and Buser had gone to Illinois. The State asked Buser how he happened to meet Armitage in the hotel. Buser said he was in the habit of taking morning walks and just happened into the hotel. Then the State askad Buser how he went to the hotel and Buser replied: “In an •automobile.” Odd Fellows Invite Coolidge By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—President Coolidge was invited today to speak at the Maryland Odd Fellows convention at Baltimore, Nov. 23. He took the invitation under advisement.