Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1927 — Page 11

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1927 RECORD YEAR M STATE ROADJRORK 398 Miles Lifted Out of • Dust, Annual Report of Williams Shows. COST IS $14,873,310 Government Help Brought $2,075,554; Balance in Fees, Gas Tax. Indiana highways went into the dustless class during 1927 as a result of the paving and resurfacing of 398 miles of State roads, the annual report of the State Highway Commission, made public today by Director John D. Williams, show. During the fiscal year 1927, the departmental expenditures aggregated $14,873,310.50. Os this amount, $2,075,554.14 was claimed in Federal aid. The sum of $12,797,756.36 therefore was produced by auto license sales and the commission’s twothirds share of the 3-cent gas tax, minus the cost of collection in both cases. Os the mileage laid, 218 miles were concrete, seventy-two bituminous macadam or rock asphalt, and 108 miles retread. The latter class is not pavement, being merely a treatment to serve as a binder and prevent dust. In addition the commission during the fiscal year closing Sept. 30, completed eighteen of the twenty-six miles of heavy grading contracted. Is Record Year On Oct. 1, there was approximately fifty-eight miles of incompleted pavement of the 1927 construction season. Forty-six miles have been completed since that date, leaving but twelve miles to be finished next spring. “These figures show that the past year has been a record one in the history of State pavement construction,” Williams said. “The work just completed closed lines in important trunk roads and provided rigid type surfaces. “These figures do not represent the calendar year’s work, because it ends at a time when weather conditions force suspension of paving operations.” The commission, through the bridge department, completed nine-ty-nine large contracts, calling for more than twenty-foot spans. The department awarded contracts totalling $1,250,000 and made contract payments on completed projects amounting to $1,300,000, exclusive of subways. Eight grade separations were completed prior to Oct. 1, and six more will be completed before the end of the year. Projects Listed

The 1927 paving projects completed are listed as follows: In excess of forty-two miles on U. S. 80 between Warsaw, Plymouth and Valparaiso. Forty-two miles on U. S. 41 from Williamsport* and Attica, through Kentland, Morocco and Schneider to the junction of U. S. 30, near Dyer. Seventy miles of U. S. 52 between Lafayette and Fowler, and from Julietta to Rushville. Fifteen miles on State 62, between Mt. Vernon and Evansville, except for two miles where a heavy grade built this spring must settle during the winter before receiving the slab. Twelve miles on U. S. 31 from Sellersburg, with branches to Jeffersonville and New Albany, and between Columbus and Edinburg. Fifteen miles on U. S. 150 between Paoll and West Baden. Ten miles on State 36 from the Marlon County line to Danville, except for a heavy back fill to a bridge which involves less than a quarter of a mile of paving next spring. Twelve miles on State 34 from the Marion County line to Jamestown. Six miles on State 6 between Waterloo and Butler. Five miles on State 57 . from Mooresville and pavement previously laid to Indianapolis.

Major Highways Pavement completed this year and the mileage to be carried over to next year, will, on completion early in 1928 together with previously finished roads, give Indiana paved major highways across the State as follows: , U. S. 41 from Evansville to Chicago via Vincennes and Terre Haute. XJ. S. 31 from Louisville to the Michigan State line via Indianapolis and South Bend. U. S. 20 from Chicago to the Ohio State line via Gary, South Bend, Elkhart and Lagrange. U. S. 30 from Dyer at the Illinois line to the Ohio line. U. S. 40 was completed several years ago across the State from the Ohio to the Illinois line via Richmond, Indianapolis and Terre Haute. U. S. 52 from Cincinnati to Chicago via Indianapolis and Lafayette, exeept for a stretch between Cincinnati and Rushville via Brookville. ASKS $25,000 ALIMONY Columbus 'Woman Would Divorce , Manufacturer Bu Timet Special v COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 7.—Alimony of $25,000 is asked in a suit for divorce filed here by Mrs. Charlotte F. wife of Carl M. Reeves, vice president of the Reeves Pulley Company. She also asks custody of their son William K., 4. The wife alleges Reeves spent three-fourths of his time away from her and their child; that he engaged in "wild and boisterous parties” during which he squandered money needed for support of his family.

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\Scarface AV Capone Is King With Barking Gun as Scepter

By NEA Service CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—This second largest city in America has many things that other cities lack. It has a magnificent lake front, a double-decked auto street, a huge municipal stadium, skyscrapers that rival New York’s. It also has an overlord of crime who is one of the strangest figures in America. This man is Alphonse Capone, alias A1 Brown, ordinarily called “Scarface Al.’ - He is both a myth and a reality; a myth, because he is seldom seen, seldom heard from directly, because he seems to be a fictitious embodiment of all that tin ambitious gunman might want to be—and a reality because he is one of the most powerful men in Chicago. "Scarface Al” is king of Chicago’s underworld. To many, many people his word is law. He can pass death sentences, issue reprieves, make or destroy prosperous businesses, levy kingly tribute, utter decrees of exile. Many an oriental king has had less power than this swarthy gunman. 0 0 ft tt ft ft WHAT is he like, anyway? What sort of man is it that this sprawling city has tossed up to such a position of-sinister eminence? He (got his nickname from two diagonal scars on his left cheek, and his start in life from the fact that he knew how to use an automatic pistol. Both characteristics, he says, were acquired in France, where he served with the famous “Lost Battalion.” The Scarface is proud of his war record. Capone came upon the Chicago scene shortly after the war, when the roving bands of gangland were just beginning to develop from groups of ordinary stick-up men into rich syndicates of rum-running beer barons. John Torrio and Dion O’Banion were leaders of the chief rival gangs. Torrio, always a target for hostile bullets, wanted a bodyguard. Capone, handy with a gun, got the job. The changes of gangland fortune soon brought death to O’Banion. Torrio shortly thereafter found Chicago too hot for him. He went to Europe, and Capone succeeded him.

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TWO TICKETS IN FIELD FOR MEDICS’ ELECTION Society Will Vote on Officers at Jan. 3 Meeting. Indianapolis Medical Society placed two tickets in the field for its election Jan. 3, 1928, at a meeting Tuesday night at the thenaeum. The council ticket is headed by Dr. H. H. Wheeler, for president; Dr. W. H. Kennedy, first vice president; Dr. Raymond Butler, second vice president; Dr. C. A. Stayton, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. K. Coons and Dr. L. R. Pearson, council. The committee ticket is composed of Dr. L. D. Carter, for president; Dr. John Eberwein, first vice president; Dr. A. D. Sweet, second vice president; Dr. L. D. Belden, secre-tary-treasurer, and Dr. L. A. Ens* minger and Dr. J. W. Ricketts, council. Dr. S. E. Earp is a candidate for librarian on both tickets. Papers *on “Blood Transfusion in Infancy” by Dr. R. R. Hippensteel, and “The Relation of the Eye to Constitutional Disease and Focal Infection” by Dr. B. J. Larkin were discussed by Dr. J. H. Warvel, Dr. Albert Stern, Dr. H. B. Mettel. Dr. W. D. Gatch and Dr. C. W. Rutherford. Miss Edna Hamilton, Public Health Nursing Association, also spoke.

CITY GETS RATE EDGE Merchants Are Given Favorable Charge to South. Saving to Indiana shippers of approximately 20 per cent will be effected as a result of the new rates Jan. 15, H. A. Hollopeter, assistant traffic manager of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, announced today. The change in schedule comes as a result of the order of the Interterstate Commerce Commission in the Southern class rate case and will apply between points north and south of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi. With the benefit of the new rates Indiana shippers will be in a position' to compete fairly with Louisville and Cincinnati concerns. Kin of Pioneer Dies Bu Timet Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 7.—Miss Helen Brenton, 74, is dead here. She was a daughter'of the late Rev. Samuel Brenton, the Twelfth Indiana district’s first Representative in Congress. Her father, a Ft. Wayne pioneer, was elected to Congress on the Whig ticket in 1851. )

TINY GIRL, ILL, FATHER SLAIN BY BANDIT, SMILES—DOLL DREAM COMES TRUE

BY DENNIS J. O’NEILL TRAGEDY has a heavy hand, and when laid to the heart of a child, who can measure its weight? Certainly not grown-ups, past remembering the time when a glance from the eyes, of a waxen doll was warm as sunbeams in a garden. Past remembering when the littlest things of life held supreme joy or sadness in their only slightly understood depths.

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ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 7. Anderson is proud of its girl flier, declared to be the youngest in the United States, Cozette Parker, who is only 13 years old, comes of a flying family, and she is an aviatrix of no mean ability herself. Recently she flew from her home town to Kankakee, 111., a distance of 138 miles. Her father, mother, and brother are registered pilots and they declare that she is the youngest pilot of an aircraft in in the country. And of course her favorite hero is Charles Lindbergh and her favorite heroine is none other than Ruth Elder.

WHITE HOUSE IS GOALOFWILLIS Ohio Senator Enters Race to Succeed Coolidge. Bu United Press „ WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Senator Willis, Ohio Republican, entered the lists today as a receptive presidential candidate for 1928. Meantime, the United Press learned reliably that a definite boom for Secretary of Commerce Herbert hoover for president will be started within four to six weeks by his friends. These two outstanding developments in the national political situation followed closely on President Coolidge’s pronouncement to Republican national committeemen late yesterday that they should “vigorously continue the serious task of selecting another candidate from among t he numbers of distinguished men available.” Willis’ statement was similar to one recently put out by Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader in the Senate, and it made the avowed candidates for 1928 Willis and Curtis, with Lowden generally regarded as a candidate and others likely soon to follow wniis' suit. Willis twice was Governor of Ohio and succeeded to the Senate seat left by the late President Harding.

RIVER LEVEE IMPROVED 25-Foot Concrete Apron Built on Weakened White Dike. The levee along White River, between Illinois St. and College Ave., has been strengthened with SSOO worth of repair work, Park Engineer J. E. Perry reports. A twenty-five-foot concrete apron has been built to protect the weakest point in the levee, Perry said. Board of Works Member Charles L. Riddle urged erection of a permanent concrete levee wide enough to support a sixty-foot roadway.

FOLLOW EDDIE ASH TO FOLLOW THE TRIBEIt James E. Perry, new owner of the Indians, has promised Indianapolis baseball fans a real first-division ball team in 1928; Eddie Ash, sports editor of The Times, is in Dallas, Texas, where American Association heads are mapping out next season’s activities. His daily stories by wire give Times baseball readers the story of next season from the beginning. EVERY DAY IN THE TIMES

Probably not even the child, because the heart of a child Is a buoyant thing and flowers bloom out of crushed buds—sometimes. But there is the story of Waneta Conrad, whose heart has felt the heavy hand. Her father, Charles Conrad, grocery store proprietor at 2816 Clifton St., was killed Nov. 3, by four Negro bandits, who held him up in his store. * * THE TIMES today received this letter from Waneta: “Dear Flotgie Flirt Editor:

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CAPONE soon made a city-wide reputation for utter ruthlessness; yet withal he won gangland’s respect as a square shooter, after his fashion. But one, Hymie Weiss, who had succeeded the defunct O’Banion, dared to challenge his authority. Capone’s men ambushed Hymie and shot at him. Hymie escaped. Then he led eleven touring cars, each with a machine gun in the back seat, out to Cicero. They drove around the Hawthorn Inn, where Capone lived, and peppered it with as severe a fusillade as any strong point in France ever received. £apone, safe behind steel shutters, waited until the uproar had ceased, and beckoned his lieutenants. A few days later Hymie Weiss died with half a hundred machine gun slugs in his body. 000 000 THEN began Capone's period of luxuriance, now in its fullest flower. He moved through Chicago like a miasmatic breath, laughing at the police, bringing saloons, gamoling houses, dance halls and other haunts of vice under his thumb. Few of his rivals ever saw him; yet all knew the penalty that awaited the man who dared defy him. Once the Federal prohibition forces indicted Capone. Shortly afterward the Government’s two leading witnesses were found shot to death. •The police seemed, and still seem, utterly unable to touch him. They never pin him down. 000 000 SUCH is Capone’s power. Today he is supreme in his field. How long he will stay that way is problematical; some day, doubtless, some rival machine gunner will find film and send him on to join O Banion and Hymie Weiss. .. . . . , Some day he probably will be decoyed away from the bodyguard c. twelve gunman which he allways keeps about him. But until then—a large part of Chicago will continue to fear a swarthy, scarfaced desperado far more than it fears the police, the district attorney or his Satanic Majesty himself.

CONGRESS GETS GREATEST U. S. PEACE BUDGET ( Asks $200,000,000 More Than Appropriations for Last Year. By JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President Coolidge today presented Congress with America’s greatest peacetime budget. The President requested appropriations of $4,258,793,765 for the fiscal year 1929, or about $200,000,000 more than the budget for the current fiscal year. He stressed the importance of a “balanced budget” and warned Congress against cutting taxes beyond a safe margin. * A tax reduction greater than $225,000,000 might “jeopardize our financial stability,” he said. Increased appropriations were urged for national defense, an appropriation of $363,167,020 was asked for the Navy Department and $398,823,143 for the War Department. Speculate on Navy The President's message caused some speculation apropd? his intentions as to naval increase. He noted that “the estimates carry $48,000,000 for increase of the Navy, and stated that “Navy craft under construction in 1929 will comprise rines and eight cruisers, of which two will be practically completed in 1929—the Pensacola and Salt Lake City.” He also wrote that ample funds are provided for modernization of the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada and for the third increment of the five-year air program and for the huge airship for which Congress already has appropriated $200,000. The army program contemplates a regular army of 118,750 men with 12,000 officers; 30.000 trainees for the citizens military training camps, 15,725 trainees in the organized rteserve; 125,000 cadets in the reserve officers training corps and a National Guard of 188,000 men. The President included an estimate for the Army Air Corps for the second year increment in the five-year building program calling for 1,800 airplanes at the end of 1932 and a $2,000,000 increase over the 1928 appropriation for ammunition. The budget included an estimate of $1,108,000 for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy.

No Farm Aid Fund For the Federal building program $13,000,000 was requested to supplement the $8,131,000 pending in the second deficiency bill. Operating the Veterans Bureau in 1929 will cost the Government $560,060,000, an increase of $31,660,000. The President asked for an appropriation of $142,753,229 for the Agriculture Department in 1929, jpr $591,000 less than in 1928. No provision was made in the budget for monetary Federal relief for farmers. For the first time in history the budget asked money for retiring Government employes. Mr. Coolidge asked Congress to appropriate $19,950,000 for civil service retirement and $213,000 for foreign service retirement and $213,000 for foreign service retirement. An appropriation of $135,000,000 for refunding taxes illegally collected was also asked. River and harbor work was estimated at $68,176,200, including $lO,000,000 fqr Mississippi River and $400,000 for Sacramento River flood control, and $275,000 for maintenance and operation of dam No. 2, Muscle Shoals, Ala.

“I do want a Flossie doll, oh so much, but I am sick and cannot get out and earn one. Mother said if you would sell me one I could get the six Times subscribers when I get/well. “Daddy was going to come and ask you, but oh dear me, that cruel bandit shot him and he is gone. His place is vacant at the table. His reading chair Is empty. He always would read The Times and then ask me if I

Well Suited Congressional Clothes Are Conventional; One White Vest.

BY KENNETH CRAWFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.—Eccentric dress, of the sort ascribed to Congressmen by political cartoonists, has all but disappeared from Congress. Conventional business and formal day attire is overwhelmingly the rule today. Except for the 'double-breasted white vest, wide black tie, long coat and broad-brimmed hat of Senator Heflin (Dem.), Alabama, the classic congressional costume was not in evidence for the opening days of the Seventieth gressA majority chose to appear in blue and gray sack suits, black shoes and somber haberdashery. A sizeable minority wore cutway coats and gray-striped trousers. Judging from the gallery comment of feminine spectators, Wisconsin carried away sartorial honors. Senators La Follette and Blaine (Rep.), Wisconsin, were faultlessly and formally tailored. 000 VICE PRESIDENT DAWES refused to be stampeded into formality. He was dressed, as usual, in a doubt-breasted, hairstriped blue suit. Senator Borah (Rep.), Idaho, notoriously indifferent about fashion—much to the annoyance of Mrs. Borah —recognized the importance of the occasion by appearing in an obviously new blue suit. Senators-elect Smith (Rep.), Illinois, and Vare (Rep.), Pennsylvania, conspicuous at the opening session because of the seating contest, won the style approval of the gallery, Vare in a gray business suit and Smith in a cutaway.

u a a SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE LONGWORTH’S sartorial supremacy will be challenged, it appears, by Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania, whose attire attracted favorable attention as he took the oath of office. They dress after the current fashion. The only approach in the House to congressional attire of the old days is the sweeping cape worn by Representative Edgar Howard (Dem.), Nebraska, once secretary to William Jennings Bryan. The four women members of the House dress conservatively, in what might be termed “business” style, such as women wear to club meetings of various kinds. There are no frills and furbelows about them. Volunteers Build Church Bu Timet Special REDKEY, Ind., Dec. 7—Volunteer wielders of saw and hammer < today are rebuilding the United Brethren Church here, replacing the structure destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. The pastor, the Rev. Frank T. Atkinson, is superintending serving of sandwiches and coffee to the workers. First Marion Postman Dies Bii Timet Special MARION, Ind., Dec. 7.—Funeral services were held here today for Melvin L. Starr, 76, first city letter earner of Marion. He was in the postal service thirty years, having retired six years ago. Since that time he had been in failing health. Starr had been a resident of Marion forty-eight years. Fraternity Pledges Five BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 7. Five students of journalism at Indiana University have been pledged to Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity. The list includes Franklin Mullin, Rushville; Jean Graffis, Richmond, and

had any school work to do. I do miss him so much! “Any little girl would who had such a dear good daddy as mine and your paper spoke so nice of him I cut out the pieces and put them in my Bible. “Mother says she can’t pay a big price for Flossie, so if it is too much I will wait and try and earn one myself. Daddy didn’t get to tell Santa what I wanted this year, but maybe he will whisper to him from Heaven. Do you think? “Will you kindly; answer; my

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Words and Figures Save Autoist From Jail Term

Supreme Court Decision Is Unique Ruling, Based on Technical Error. The written word, “nineteen hundred,” saved Clarence Hunt, of Evansville, from paying a $25 fine and serving 180 days on the State farm, for driving an automobile wlfile intoxicated. In a unique decision, with two Justices, Martin and Gemill dissenting, the supreme Court of Indiana today decided that Hunt’s appeal be sustained and the lower court be ordered to remit the sentence. Embryo lawyers and even the old sages of the legal profession probably will be taught the importance of the necessity of care in preparing a case by this decision, Deputy Attorney General Edward J. Lennon, who argued, it said. Autos in Crash Tire automobile driven by Hunt, on Oct. 27, 1923, struck another automobile. Hunt was arrested by Officer Ralph Plummer on a charge of driving while Intoxicated. He pleaded not guilty, but was convicted in city court. He appealed to Circuit Court and was found guilty again and sentenced. Hunt appealed to Supreme Court, charging that the evidence was not conclusive. The records showed that Plummer told his story on a printed affidavit form, which had printed on it, in words, “nineteen hundred,” and immediately following the numerals “1923.” The Supreme Court held that this constituted a serious error in the case and quashed the sentence. Martin Dissents Justice Clarence Martin, in his written dissent, said that as long as the case is proved, the date is immaterial and that in 1900 automobiles were not in general use and there was no law forbidding driving while intoxicated so the natural assumption is that the crime was committed in 1923, as stated by the numerals. “It is extremely probable,” Len non said, “that if it were not for those two words nineteen hundred. Hunt would have been compelled to go toj jail.” Lauds Gary School Plan Bu Times Snccial GARY, Ind., Dec. 7.—Dr. Paul Neureiter, Viennese doctor of science, who is making his second visit to the city schools here, declares the Gary system as evolved by Superintendent William A. Wirt is remarkable. He is making a study of various systems in the Unitea States as an emissary of the Austrian ministry of education.

letter and say how- much Flossie costs? “WANETA CONRAD, “858 W. Twenty-Eighth St.” Today The Times answered Waneta’s letter. The reporter who was at the home when the little family clung to the faint ray of hope that the father, then in the hospital at the point of death, would not die, handed the doll to Waneta. U M BECAUSE she is a girl, Waneta’s eyes sparkled at the sight of “Flossie Flirt," because

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SYMMS SEEKS GOVERNORSHIP First Republican to Enter State Race. Arthur Symms, Linton, Ind., efficiency engineer and receiver for the Linton Gas and Coke Company, today announced he will seek the Republican nomination for Governor in the May primary. His announcement was the first to come from Republican ranks in the gubernatorial race. Thus far, but one, Frank C. Dailey, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination. Symms, will center his campaign on a plan for early paving of the entire State highway system. Employment of 50,000 additional workmen in hard-surfacing more than 4.000 miles would be effected under the plan. An enabling act would be asked authorizing a finance company to issue bonds to provide funds for the work. Money would be expended by the State highway commission and the roads, when completed, w’ould be leased by the State from the finance company at 7 per cent a year. This payment of 7 per cent, Symms said, would pay the interest on the bonds and retire them in twenty-six and a half years. Symms was bom in lowa, Aug. 16, 1872, and attended the University of the Northwest, Sioux City, lowa. He has been a resident of Linton for twenty-three years. He is a majority stockholder in the Jasonville Water Company. He is a member of the Masons, Elks and Methodist Church. Although he has served as a Republican precinct committeeman at Linton, he has held no other post in the Republican organization and has never held public office.

she is a woman—although a very small one—she sobbed a little, too. Waneta insisted on knowing “how much Flossies cost.” It is her first Christmas without her daddy and Waneta has not learned that while everything in the world costs something, they sometimes are paid for in strange ways. The reporter did not tell Waneta this—-she might understnad what, it meant and she is too happy with her doll to be disturbed with “the cost of things.”

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ASK LINDY TO FLY FIRST AIR MAjLTO CITY Committee Prepares Gala Reception for Plane Here Dec. 17. INVITE NEW TO ATTEND Escort of Cars Planned for initial Consignment of Letters, Cards. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been asked to pilot the first plane on the Cincinnati-Chicago by way of Indianapolis air mail route Dec. 17. The invitation was extended by Adjt. Gen. W. H. Kershner in a telegram Tuesday afternoon. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, chairman of the air mail reception committee, also has invited Hany E. New, Postmaster General, and Robert H. Glover, second assistant postmaster general, to assist in the program. Urge Big Escort

The committee, at a meeting Tuesday, authorized O. B. lies, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce aviation committee, to mail invitations to 500 or 600 Indianapolis civic leaders, to act as an escort for the trucks carrying the first air mail to the Indianapolis airport. In addition, a small reception committee, composed of civic club presidents, will be named. The escort will include all stockholders of the airport corporation. Capt. H. Weir Cook was named to arrange details of the escort. Suggestion was made at the meeting the new air mail route will enable Indianapolis residents to send belated Christmas presents and cards to distant points. A package mailed here Saturday by air mail after Dec. 17 will reach Los Angeles - Sunday, it it bears a special delivery stamp, B:.-yson said.

Arrive Here After Noon Under tentative plans, planes will leave Cincinnati at 2:45 p. m. (Eastern time) and arrive in Indianapolis at 2:45 p. m. (Central time). Leaving Indianapolis at 3 p. m. the planes will arrive in Chicago at 5, in time to connect with air mail routes to San Francisco, New York City and Dallas, Texas. The rate of postage on air mail is 10 cents for each half-ounce or fraction. The weight limit is 50 pounds. Bryson estimated nearly 1,000 letters are awaiting the first flight. Approximately half that number are being held here for return to stamp collectors, while as many more at least are being held at Cincinnati. The Embry-Riddle Company of Cincinnati, contractors for the route, already has arranged for two planes to carry the first day’s mail, with more planes to be used If necessary. Bryson anticipates a heavy flood of Christmas greeting cards and gift pacakages on the first flight.

FIRST NIGHT CLASS IN AVIATION FOR INDIANA Students In School at Kokomo From 21 to 50 Years Old. Timet Special KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 7.—A night course in aviation, the first in Indiana, is being taught in the Kokomo night school by Roma L. Stephens, Fairfield, an experienced aviator. Members of the class in flying range in age from 21 to 50 years,Three of them already have had some practical aviation experience. The students are considering making contributions to a fund for purchase of a plane. PAPER SPECIALTIES FIRM IS ORGANIZED Beach & Arthur Leases 15,009 Feet of Floor Space. Anew Indianapolis industry, Beach & Arthur, Inc., paper specialties manufacturers, will be in operation within the next few days, it was announced today by C. L. Harrod, Chamber of Commerce industrial comfnissioner. Incorporated for SIOO,OOO, the firm has leased 15,000 square feet floor space in the McCoy-Garten building, 221 W. South St. About twenty-five men and women will be employed. The most modern machinery available for esconomical and efficient manufacture of paper specialties has been purchased in Germany. Incorporators are W. H. Arthur, president, former secretary treasurer of the Economy Box & Pie Plate Company, Maion; R. W. Beach, president of R. W. Beach & Cos.. Chicago, and David H. Jennings, Continental National Bank vice president. - • The plant will be equipped to manufacture picnic plates, decorated plates, embossed napkins, machine rolls, paper fans, advertising die cut3 and all kinds of display material. Farm Show at Bloomfield JBu Timet Special nBLOOMFIELD. Ind., Dec. 7.—The third annual Greene County poultry and grain show will open here Thursday to continue through Saturday. A county agricultural banquet will be held Friday night in connection with the show with T. A. Coleman of the agricultural extension department, Purdue University, as. speaker, t