Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1928 — Page 13

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DELCO-RENIY EL EXPAND AT ANDERSON Building of New Plant Unit Will Give Jobs to 600 to 700 More. PLACES FOR 1,000 OPEN Servel, Inc., Evansville, to Bring Force Within 600 of Limit. By CHARLES C. STONE Stats Editor, The Times Erection of anew building at Anderson by the Delco-Remy Corporation, duplicating its Plant No. 2, is planned immediately as a result of an agreement for an emergency electric power source arrived at by corporation representatives and city officials. The new building will make possible employment of 600 to 700 persons, and bring the total Anderson force considerably above 7,000. The expansion program at Anderson is among several encouraging features of a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Servel, Inc., plant, Evansville, will add 1,000 men to its force within the next three weeks, bringing the total at work to more than 2,000, which is 600 less than capacity. 860 on Pay Roll Employment by the Adams & Westlake Company, moved to Elkhart from Chicago last fall, is now almost at capacity, with 860 persons on the pay roll. The force will probably be increased to 1.000. The Bantam Ball Bearing Company is to moved to South Bend from Bantam, Conn. It was organized thirty years ago. The company's products were purchased by the United States government for use in the Panama canal locks, and the gate valves of New York’s great Croton dam system are similarly equipped. ♦ The Haskell & Barker plant, Michigan City establishment of the Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company, has received an order for 1,000 cars from the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad. The working force has been increased to 1,200 to take care of demands on production. Production of new cars has started at the Ford Motor Company's plant at Hegewisch, 111., from which the Calumet region of Indiana is supplied. The survey shows conditions elsewhere is the State as follows: RlCHMOND—Approach of full operation of the Bclden Manufacturing Company plant is heralded by starting production in the rubber department. The plant was moved here recently from Chicago and all machinery has not yet arrived. A newly organized cGncern, the Quaker City Furniture Company, plans to establish a factory here. Plans will be discussed the latter part of February. > Adds New Department HARTFORD CITY—The Overhead Door Corporation announces it will set up a steel rolling and bending mill as a new’ department of its plant. The unit, will occupy a building 60x277 feet. In the last three months, the corporation has expended between $30,000 and $40,000 for expansion. BLOOMINGTON—Stone production in the district south of Clear Creek has been better this winter than for any like period in the industry’s history and two trains are required to handle the product. GARRETT—A new foundry for manufacturing brass, aluminum and w'hite metal products is to be established here. It is planned to begin operations by spring. FAIRMOUNT—The Snyder Packing Company plans capacity operation of its plant here during the coming season. Contracts are already being made with farmers for tomatoes and other produce. Last year the company paid out $130,000 from the plant and prospects for this year are that this figure will be considerably increased. Works Double Shifts PERU—The Redmon Furniture Factory is running night and day to keep up with orders, and new employes are being added. FT. WAYNE—The telephone and telegraph systems of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Ft. Wayne division, are to be rewired and rearranged at a cost of $6,000. TERRE HAUTE—The Hoosier Hickory Furniture Manufacturing Company, established here a little more than a year ago, expects to double its 1927 output this year. LOOGOOTEE—The local plant of the Reliance Manufacturing Company is to be enlarged and fifty persons added to the pay roll, due to creased business. MISHAWjATA Erection of a SIOO,OOO theater was started this week. It will have a seating capacity cf 1,000. Completion is set for June 1.

SIOO,OOO FOR AIRPORT Ft. Wayne City Council Votes Bonds to Make Improvements Bp Times Special FT.' WAYNE. Ind., Feb. 17—A bond issue of SIOO,OOO has been approved by the city council for improvement of Paul Baer field, municipal airport. Money derived from the bonds will be used to pay for flood lighting, additional land, erection of hangars and general improvements.

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THE STORY SO FAR Lindbergh completed his education at the University of Wisconsin, where he became interested in aviation. He entered a flyinjr school and later joined a barnstorming: outfit nad learned parachute jumping and wing walking. He bought a Government airplane for SSOO and made his first solo flight at Americus, Ga. Lindy decided to fly. to Texas by direct air line against t'■ - advice of more experienced pilots. Jl<> made a safe landing the first night at a Government field, but the next night made a hazardous landing in a soft field near Meridian. Miss. A crowd gathered, and Lindbergh offered air rides for $5 each. Avery heavy man accepted, and the weighted piane missed a fence by three feet in taking off under the load. Lindbergh left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and descended in a field 125 miles from Meridian. A hidden ditch in the field spelled disaster, and the propeller was broken. Lindbergh was unhurt. After repairing the plane, he had a rushing business in passenger carrying. After carrying a few passengers at $5 each, he left Meridian for Texas, but got lost and crashed in a hidden ditch after landing in a field. Lindbergh repaired the plane and had a brisk business in passenger carrying. Lindy took up an old southern Negro as a passenger and "stunted” for the admiration of the crowd and to the terror of the Negro. Rain and mud forced him from this field and he took off for Texas, CHAPTER V Y HAD strayed over a hundred miles off my course and experienced a minor crack-up, but I departed with $250 more in my pocket than had arrived with, besides confidence in my ability to make at least a little more than expenses by barnstorming. The constant rains had filled the rivers to overflowing, and after leaving Maben I flew over flooded territory nearly all the way to Lake Village, Arkansas. Often the water was up to the second story windows of the farmhouses, and a forced landing at any time would have at least meant nosing over. I had installed the compass while waiting for th e new propeller at Maben, and experienced no further difficulty in holding my course. After circling Lake Village I landed in a field several miles north of town. The nearest building was a clubhouse and soon the keeper and i his family had arrived beside the plane. They invited me to stay with them as long as I wished,.but the keeper persistently refused to accept a flight in return for his hospitality. I canned only a handful of passengers that afternoon. The flying territory around that part of the country \yas fairly good and j there were a number of fields available for planes to land in. Consequently, an airplane was no longer the drawing attraction that it was farther in the interior. I staked the plane down much earlier than usual and went over to the clubhouse. Evening came on with the clearness of a full moon and open sky. The landscape was illuminated with a soft yellow light, an ideal night for flying. I decided to see what the country looked like from the air at night and jokingly asked my host to accompany me. To my surprise, he willingly agreed. For some reason he had no fear of a night flight although I had been unable to persuade him to go up with me in the daytime. What his reaction would have been had he known that I had never flown after dark before is a matter of speculation. We untied the plane, removed the canvases from engine and cockpit, and after a few minutes spent in warming up the motor, taxied down the field and took off for a moonlight flight down the Mississippi and over Lake Village. Later in the evening after the l ship was again securely staked to ! the ground and we were sitting' jquietly in the clubhouse my host! "stated that he had never spent a i more enjoyable quarter of an hour in his life. The next morning I was again heading toward Texas against a strong westerly wind which retarded the speed of the Jenny so greatly that even with my double fuel capacity it was necessary to land at Farmerville, Louisiana, to replenish my supply. From there I flew to Texarkana and landed between the stumps of the 1923 airport. On the following morning I left Texarkana with a strong tail wind aijd after crossing the western end of the Ozark mountains landed near a small town in northeastern Oklahoma, where I took on a fresh supply of fuel and again headed north toward Lincoln, Neb. ~My tanks began to run low about half way through Kansas and I picked out a hillside near Alma. After flying low and dragging the field several times I came in for a landing, but just as the wheels were about to touch the ground I discovered that it was covered with fairly large rocks half hidden in the tall grass. I opened the throttle to take off but the plane had lost too much speed for the motor to take effect and as it hooked in the rocks and groundloped the ship to the left but without doing serious damage. The landing gear wires were strained and about two feet of the rear spar on the lower left wing tip was snapped off. Nothing was broken, however, which would require immediate repairing. The field was quite a distance from Alma, and in order to get an early start in the morning I stayed with

GIANT AIR STEAMSHIP TO BE LAUNCHED BEFORE SUMMER IS OVER

Bu SEA Service Glendale, cai., Feb. 17.—in a few more months the steamship City of Glendale will be ready for its maiden voyage, and the launching is eagerly awaited by the world of aeronautics. For the City of Glendale, steamship though it is, will be the first real steam propelled air liner ever to be built. Like the boats that plough the ocean lanes, it will be built entirely of metal. Like them, too, it will be propelled by the highly

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the ship that night. During the heavy rains at Maben, Mississippi, I had constructed a hammock of heavy canvas which could be suspended under the top wing. I tied the corners of this hammock to the upper strut fittings and crawled into the three blankets inside, which were sewn up to form a bag. Thus I spent a comfortable night. When I arrived over Lincoln the next day I circled over the Lincoln Standard factory, and after landing on the old flying field south of town waited for the car which was sent out to bring in visiting airmen. The remainder of the day was spent in “ground flying” with my friends in the factory. We had not been together for seven months, and the usual exchange ences was necessary. I soon learned that Bud Gurney had made a parachute for himself and was intending to test it by the simple method- of going up to an altitude of 1,500 or 2,000 feet and cutting loose from the plane. If the chute opened, it was successful. After a great deal of persuasion I prevailed upon him to let me take him up in my ship y r hile we made the first test with a sandbag. The tanks had just been filled with fuel, but I had unlimited confidence in my Jenny, and we lashed the parachute and a sandbag on the right wing. Bud, who weighed 165 pounds, climbed into the front cockpit, and we started the take-off with a total load of about 600 pounds, to say nothing of the resistance of the parachute and sandbag, which were directly in the slipstream from the propeller. Even with this load we cleared the nearest obstacle by a safe margin and finally attained an altitude of j about 200 feet. Then we were caught by a descending current of air which carried the plane down to within ten feet of the ground, and try as I would I could not get any higher. A wooded hill was directly in front, and to avoid striking the trees I turned down wind. A railroad trestle was then in front of us and we stalled over it by inches. For five minutes we dodged hills, trees and houses. I signaled Bud to cut the sandbag, but when he started to climb out of the cockpit to reach it, the added resistance brought the plane down still lower. Then in front of us appeared a row of trees, much higher than the ! rest, which I knew ft would not bej possible to get over. We were then i passing over a grain field and I cut the gun and landed down wind. The grain was high enough to keep the ship from rolling far and we unloaded the sandbag before taking off again. With the weight of the bag and its resistance gone, we had no trouble in getting out of the grain and back to the flying field. A week later Bud carried out his original intention of testing the chute. It was successful. Before continuing the flight to Minnesota, Bud and I made a short barnstorming trip through eastern Nebraska. That territory had been fairly well covered by other barnstormers, however, and we did very little business. At one place where we landed we were overtaken by a violent thunderstorm combined with a strong wind. It came up so suddenly that we had only time enough to tail the ship into the wind and lash the stick to keep the ailerons from whipping before the wind struck us. We were both holding on to the tail trying to keep the plane from brewing away. Following the wind was a heavy rain which covered the ground with water and at each flash of lightning the electricity on the wires of the ship would pass to the ground through our bodies with the intensity of' a booster magnet. In an electric storm a plane acts as part of a condenser, since it is insulated from the ground by the rubber tires and wooden tailskid. It is possible to receive a violent shock by standing on wet ground and holding on to one of the wires. We were unable to let go of the ship in the high wind and could l only remain and take these discharges as they came. Fortunately the storm did not last long. The night after our return to Lincoln we slept on the field so that I could get a good start in the morning. Bud was in the back of a Ford truck, and I was in the hammock. Copyright, 1928, by Charles A. Lindbergh (To Be Continued Tomorrow) SLAYING UNDER PROBE Evansville Detective Fatally Wounds Fleeing Man. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 17.—Investigation is being made here in the death of Samuel Payne, 29, shot by Detective Paul Newhouse Monday night. Payne was shot while Newhouse and Detective Joshua Cavins were seeking a man wanted for a shooting escapade in Kentucky. He was stopped by the two officers, despite the fact that he in no way resembled the wanted man. He is said to have resisted Cavins during a search of his person, then ran, and Newhouse fired.

efficient but cumbersome steam turbine. But for the application of this motive power it will employ a principle never before used on any craft—water or air. If the City of Glendale sails as engineering calculations indicate, a distinctly new trail will have been blazed in air travel. If it buckles or bucks in a high wind—as many an aeronautical expert says it will—the third failure will have come to Captain Thomas B. Slate, the inventor and builder.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 37.1928

SIX MAIN CITY STREETS ILL BE SURFACED Widening Also Is Planned; 20 Other Thoroughfares to Be Improved. EXPENSE IS ALLOTTED Municipality’s Share Will Be 75 Per Cent; Property Owners Pay 25. Widening and resurfacing of six main thoroughfares and resurfacing of twenty streets are contemplated during 1928 by the board of public works. City Engineer A. H. Moore today said the city will accomplish as much of the program as possible during the year. Certificates of indebtedness will be issued to pay the 75 per cent, the city’s share of expense. Property owners bear the remainder. The board of works, headed by President Oren S. Hack and Mayor L. Ert Slack, has signified a desire to put all streets in good condition. Widening projects include: Delaware St., from Massachusetts Ave. to Sixteenth St.; Meridian St. from Fall Creek to Thirty-Eighth St.; Michigan St. from Massachusetts Ave. to Senate Ave.; Thirty-Second St. from Delaware St. to Washington Blvd.; Washington St. from Wallace St. east to city limits; and E. Sixty-Third St. from College Ave. to the Monon railroad. Cost Put at SBO,OOO • Cost of widening Delaware St. from 40 to 60 feet between Massachusetts Ave. and St. Clair St., is estimated at SBO,OOO. The thoroughfare will be widened from 40 to 54 feet between St. Clair and Sixteenth Sts., at an approximate cost of $64,000. The street has been widened between Sixtenth St. and Fall Creek. The board plans to push the work ■ on E. Washington St., important east and west artery. Moore esti- ' mated it will cost $33,000 to widen ] from 42 to 50 feet between Wallace and Audubon Rd. Plans will De ready soon. Property owners will pay costs. It will cost about $75,000, of which property owners will pay 25 per cent, to make the street fifty feet wide between Audubon Rd. and city limits. Indianapolis Street Railway Company has agreed to lay double tracks between Audubon Rd. and Arlington Ave. and new single tracks between Arlington and corporate limits. Other Streets to Benefit Other streets scheduled for resurfacing: N. East from Ohio St. to St. Clair St.; S. East from Virginia Ave. to Raymond St.; Michigan from East St. to Talbott St.; West from Washington St. to Kentucky Ave.; Meridian from Thirty-Eighth St. to Canal; Michigan St., from Indiana Ave. to Blake St.; Illinois from TwentyEighth to Thirty-Eighth St.; Pennsylvania. from Thirtieth 1O ThirtyEighth St.; New Jersey from Thir-ty-Eighth St. to Fortieth St.; Central from Thirty-Fourth St, to Fif-ty-Sixth St.; New Jersey from Tenth St. to Twenty-Second St.; Park from Massachusetts Ave. to Seventeenth St.; Broadway from Massachusette Ave. to Seventeenth St.; Meridian from St. Clair St. to Tenth St.; McCarty from Meridian St. to Virginia Ave.; Noble from Washington St. to Virginia Ave.; Morris from West St. to Madison Ave.; Pine from English Ave. to Virginia Ave.; Buchanan from East St. to Virginia Ave.; Woodlawn from East St. to Virginia Ave. LITHUANIA OBSERVES LIBERTY ANNIVERSARY General Celebration Is Held for Decade of Freedom By United Press KOVONO, Lithuania. Feb. 17. There was general rejoicing throughout Lithuania today on the tenth anniversary of Lithuania's independence. An annual feature of the national celebrations this year is that they fall on two different dates. The first of these was today and was in the nature of a vast and dignified “commemoration” of February 16, 1918, when Lithuania declared herself free from the domination of foreign government. The second is scheduled to take, place on May,. 15, the date chosen to commemorate the corresponding day in 1922, when Lithuania became known to the outside world as an independent government. -In honor of Lithuania’s own declaration of freedom, almost every town in the country was illuminated tonight. Church services were held everywhere.

TWO other dirigibles designed by Captain Slate were wrecked by storihs before they were completed. The new ship, snugly housed in an immense metal hangar, at least is destined to live until the day when, partly filled with gas, it will be moved out for installation of the cabin and engine. But the inventor’s confidence of success is growing as fast as the ship itself. He spends many hours each day directing the crews of workmen who are giving form to the maze of rods and aluminum strips that go the irnlL ,

City Girls Rush for Stage Tryouts

| M|Rh£kK,- . ':'A .A- XAyAi/' Taken EaJ. j£mH - fHj ,| By United Press Eddie Foy was making his last road j .J- L A train was bearing his body back S<3r 11 mgwr 52 a\s toward Broadway, whicif knew him '• H,*ij 1 A $3 1 | of a past generation who had found |PllSiw|S||^ it impossible to desert the footlights |} >A in the fact of advancing years. Wlrapp FOiU - PfOi°CtS ConSid''”Cd‘ Fitzgerald, died in a hotel here n ■ _ n , .

EDDIE FOY ON LASTROAD TRIP Veteran Actor’s Body Being Taken East. By Vnitcd Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Feb. 17. Eddie Foy was making his last road trip today. A train was bearing his body back toward Broadway, whicif knew him as one of the few remaining stars of a past generation who had found it impossible to desert the footlights in the fact of advancing years. Foy. who real name was Edward Fitzgerald, died in a hotel here Thursday, a few hour;' after he had completed a per.ormance in “The Fallen Star” at the Orpheum Theater. The body was placed aboard a train last night and, accompanied by the widow, Mrs. Marie Coombs Foy. and numbers cf his family, started for New Rochelle, N. Y., Foy’s home. Four sons and two daughters were to join the widow when the train arrived in Chicago. The elderest son, Brian, left Hollywood, Cal., last night for Chicago. Four other sons, Charles, Irvine, Dick and Eddie Jr„ and two daughters, Mary and Madeleine, comprising the “Younger Foy” troupe, cancelled an engagement at Madison, Wis., and left immediately.

Quick Reducing, Railroad Changed From Broad to Standard Gauge in Six Hours.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind , Feb. 17. The story of how the Ohio & Maryland Railroad changed the gauge if its rails in six hours was told by W. A. former Washington resident. Foster, who now lives at Fairfield, 111., visited Washington a few days ago and dropped into the editorial room of the Washington Democrat. He told of his early days here, and how the O. & M. changed the rail gauge in half a day. “I learned telegraphy at Mitchell,” he said, “and entered the employ of the O. & M., in, 1871. In that year the road was changed from broad gauge to standard gauge. “When the road was broad gauge, the rails stood five feet eight and one-half inches apart. The standard gauge is four feet eight and one-half inches. “The broad guage rails were changed to the standard gauge in six hours,” Foster said. “The organization of this change was complete and efficient. Along the entire road, a telegraph operator was stationed every five miles. His duty was to report the progress of the section crews, and wire in when the work was done. “Section crews were stationed five miles apart, each crew two and one-half miles from where the telegraph operator was stationed. “Naturally, the telegrapher being half-way between crews, each would strive to reach the station first; thus the work was accomplished in a short time.” JOB Playwright on League of Nations Art Commission By United Press GEhifeVA, Feb. 17.—John Galsworthy, famous playwright and author of “The White Monkey,” “Caravan” and other well-known books, has been appointed a member of the League of Nation’s Commission of Arts and Letters. The commission is closely connected with the League’s International Intellectual Collaboration Commission.

“She’ll fly, all right,” he says. “The speed ought to be between 90 and 100 miles an hour, fast enough to go from coast to coast in 36 hours with 40 passengers. "We’!! have no ball rooms or swimming pools or promenade decks on this model, but she will be as comfortable as a Pullman car. Pullman type chairs will be convertible into berths, and meals will be served buffet style.” u * * “ A DISTINCTLY new feature of A. the ship is that it seldom will have to come to the ground or be anchored at mooring masts.

Top row, left to right, Eva Bohnenkamp, Hallie Wood, and Dorothy Fae Remley. Below, center, Dot Denham. Many Indianapolis girls who long to get practical experience as well as pay on the stage are entering their pictures in the Times-George Jessel search for ten girls for his chorus. Each mail brings many new entries and the four pictures here show four girls who have entered the contest. Four of the girls entered are Hallie Wood, 241 N. Arsenal Ave.; Dorothy Fac Remley, 26 Sheridan Ave.; Eva Bohnenkamp, 3018 Central Ave.; and Dot Denham, 802 Fletcher Ave. These girls with many others, will report at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon at English’s, when George Jessel. star of the "The Jazz Singer,” will pick ten girls for his chorus in the second act of his show. He then will put the ten through rehearsal, to be ready for their work opening night, Monday, of the three-day engagement. Every Indianapolis girl, whether she be a professional or not, may enter her name and picture, sending them to the George Jessel Editor of the Indianapolis Times before midnight Saturday. WADSWORTH DOUBTS THAT HE’LL RUN AGAIN New York Situation Too Chaotic to Decide, He Says. By l lilted Press HONOLULU. T. H„ P’c’o. 17. —Former United Slates Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York, on a brief vacation in Hawaii, decided that New York political conditions are so chaotic it is impossible for him to say whether he shall ever be a candidate for the senate again. Wadsworth predicted that the Republican party is assured of victory in the next presidential election because o' prosperous conditions brought about during the administration of President Coolidge. Talking with politicians and business men here Wadsworth said that while in the senate he was glad to vote many times for a high protective tariff which would protect Hawaii’s sugar interests. LAST RITES FOR ASQUITH WILL BE HELD MONDAY Messages of Condolence Pour in From All Over World. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 17.—Messages of condolence over the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith continued to pour into his home at Sutton-Courtney today. He died Wednesday. World political leaders joined the British nation in expressing regret to members of the family, at the death of the eminent statesman. Funeral services will be private at the chapel in Sutton-Courtney Monday and burial will be in the cemetery adjoining, that afternoon. This is in deference to wishes expressed by Lord Oxford before his death. The nation, however, will have opportunity to honor him at a memorial service at Westminster Abbey Tuesday.

“The Glendale will have a com - plete elevator system,” explains Captain Slate. “It is built so that it can be brought to a full stop over hotel roofs or landing fields. “A fuel tank will be lowered and before the fuel is taken on passengers will descend or come up on the elevator attached to the cable.” The dirigible will be an all-metal bag constructed of corrugated aluminum alloy weighing only three and one-half ounces per square foot. It is one one-thousandth of an inch in thickness and is placed on the frame in horizontal strips. An-

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NEW BRIDGES mi IE BUILT Four Projects Considered; Repairs Planned. Construction of four new bridges and repair of two spans are projects considered by the board of works. City Engineer A. H. Moore has recommended replacing of the Indiana Ave. span over Fall Creek at an estimated cost of $200,000. New spans are needed at TwentyFust St., over Fall Creek, and the canal and at Shelby St. and Pleasant Run. 'Flie Twenty-first St. bridges will cost about $200,00 and the South Side span about $50,000, it is estimated. Plans have been filed for repair of footings of the Thirtieth St. bridge over Fall Creek at a cost of $14,000. Moore ordered plans drawn for fixing Central Ave. bridge over Fell Creek at a cost of $25,000. Costs will be paid through bond issues. The recommendations are a result of a survey made by Moore under direction of Oren S. Hack, works board president.

Fly Not Fly Bierierwolf Takes Issue With Expert on Bait; Tells Best.

T T OOSIEI:DOM-’S acknowledged emperor of anglers Is Charles Biederwolf, clerk of the Supreme Court and president of the Indiana division of the Izaak Walton League. If you don’t believe he is a fisherman—listen to him. He takes issue with Gregory Clark, who, in the current Issue of “Field and Stream” magazine, writes that the fisherman should, in their use of wet “flies,” have the “flies” represent nymphs and larvae. “That statement alone proves that Clark is misinformed. Contrary to popular belief the 'fly' used in fishing is not an exact replica of any insect, but is instead a piece of feather or fur that will attract the fish,” Biederwolf said. “The purpose of the ‘fly’ Is to excite fish to strike. For years I have used the wet ‘fly,’ that Is the ‘fly’ that is trailed under the surface of the water, instead of the dry fly that moves along the surface. “I have found that the ‘Royal Coachman,’ ‘Brown Hackle’ and “Silver Doctor” are the best wet “flies” to use and they, to my knowledge, do not seek to be an exact replica of any undersurface insect. “Where an exact replica is used, it has not met with such success.” Too Much “In-Law” By Times (Special KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 17.—Robert Kuhn is asking a divorce here from Ruth Kuhn, alleging she failed to keep a pre-marriage promise that they would live in a home apart from that of her parents. The husband alleges Mrs. Kuhn can neither cook nor sew, and is unfitted to care for a home. He asks custody of their one child.

other strip seals each seam and makes the bag leak-proof. Contrary to the old method, there will be no gas bags qn the inside of the envelope, the lifting gas remaining free inside the shell. In addition to the simplicity of this design, it eliminates the weight of the interior bag, which on a ship the size of the Los Angeles weighs three and one-half tons. Heretofore, every sort of air or water craft has been driven with propellers. The Slate ship, from a 500-horsepower steam turbine located just inside th eblunt nose of the hull, will be driven with a “blower” with flat blades.

DELAY WATER REMEDY PLAN ATSUPYSIDE Installation of Sedimentation Basins to Be Started in Three Weeks. MUST WORK CAREFULLY Slight Mishap in Present Arrangement Would Cause Shortage Recurrence. Construction of sedimentation basins at Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium, as a permanent remedy 10 the water shortage there, cannot be started for at least three weeks, it was indicated today. Meanwhile a slight mishap in the present arrangement of using full capacity of the two wells in operation would cause a recurrence of the shortage of Feb. 5, when 151 patients were forced to return to their homes, due to lack of water. Two weeks will be required for I County Engineer Henry Campbell to prepare plans and specifications for the basins, he said, and at least a week will be required to get actual construction under way, it was indicated. Hazard Alarming In addition to the imminent danger of having to send natients to their homes again, the fire hazard at the county-owned institution, valued at more than $1,000,000, is alarming, since only 15,000 gallons of water can be held in reserve in case of emergency. It is the plan of the county commissioners to use the sedimentation beds as fire reserve also, increasing the storage capacity to approxj imately 95,000 gallons. Should fire break out. the firemen could use only the 15,000 gallons \ and the capacity of the wells, which is consumed by operation of the sanatorium, and the chemical apparatus. Warning Was Sounded. Warning of the present situation was sounded several months ago by the board of managers, Dr. Alfred Henry, member, said. A provision for anew well was inserted in this year’s budget, but 1 it was stricken out by the county council, which alone has authority to pass on appropriations. County Commissioners Cassius L. Hogle, George Snider and Charles O. Sutton are attempting to remedy the situation as an emergency, without calling the council, and a total of $1,200 Is available. To Purify Water. Present plans call for purifying the water from the wells, the supply of one of which had been called muddy and unfit for use without filtering. A filtration plant is to be installed, through which the water will pass after spending from twen-ty-four to forty-eight hours in the sedimentation plants. Commissioner Hogle said the Sunnyside. water will get the same treatment as that, given city Water, and that of many other cities where supply is taken from the river. The 151 patients who were forced to return to their homes Feb. 5 are back at the institution, and the 248 patients there consume the capacity of the wells in operation, the only ones that will be in operation when the contemplated improvements are completed.

TAXPAYERS TO GET AID Revenue Officers Will Be Assigned to Many Cities. Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair has announced that revenue officers will be assigned to public places to aid income tax payers in making out the returns for 1927, payable before March 15, 1928. In cities, government experts will be stationed in banks, trust companies and department stores to aid the tax payers fill out the blanks, service in rural communities will be furnished by officers who will visit every county seat. Blair said the service, Including administration of the oath, will be without cost to taxpayers. DISCUSS FARM RELIEF Indiana Bankers ant Purdue Representatives Open Session. Bp United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 17.—Indiana bankers and members of Purdue University’s agricultural staff discussed practical aid for farmers today. Speeches and a round table brought the question to the floor. Means of strengthening the Indiana livestock production program, problems of the farmer in feeding and breeding in relation to the future dairy herd and available dairy markets for State products, were considered. Three members of the Purdue staff made addresses which presented problems of the livestock and dairy industry of the State. They were Prof. F. G. King, J. H. Hilton, of the Purdue dairy department, and R. D. Canan. Oldest New Englander Dies at 110 Bp United Press FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 17.—Believed to be the oldest person in New England, Mrs. Francisco Cabral, died of pneumonia in her 110th year. * '■