Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 314, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1928 — Page 1

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THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS CAST ON ‘FAST’ TIME Clock Change for Saving of Daylight Favored by 2.437. 1,889 W VOTES IN Debate Grows Hotter, With Decision Up to Council Monday Night. For daylight saving 2,437 Against daylight saving 1,889 With votes accumulating faster than they could be counted, the ratio for and against daylight saving remained about the same in The Times daylight saving poll today. This morning’s total was 2,437 for and 1,889 against. Because of the large number of votes received in the morning’s mail, a total will be compiled at noon tod&y. The final total will be counted at non Monday. All ballots must be at The Times office by that time, to ire counted. Monday night the ballots and letters accompanying them will be turned over to city council, when that body meets in special session to consider the ordinance providing for daylight saving here this summer.

Councilmen Divided Councilmen are known to be divided. 'l’he votes in The Times poll will be rine of the deciding factors showing whether the public desires the adoption- of ‘fast time.” No petitions are being circulated by The Times to encourage voting in The Times poll. Some groups of employes and neighborhoods are voting together on petitions, however. All votes are being sent to the poll editor on the initiative of the voters, thus insuring a fair expression of a cross-section of the city. A number of other expressions of opinion are to be presented to council Monday night, it is known. Petitions are said to be circulating in several theaters, which are to be put before council at the special meeting. Theater Men Oppose The Associated Theater Owners of Indiana, representing 500 theater owners in the State and fifty in Indianapolis, has gone on record against the proposed time change. Charles R. Metzger, president, in a statement today, attacked the time change plan as “class legislation and a fad which is being promoted by luncheon clubs, whose members wish an extra hour of golf In the evening.” He declared such an ordinance would work a hardship on the working man, “because it robs him of the best hours of sleep, namely in the early morning, when the temperature is the coolest and when the atmosphere is most refreshing in hot weather.” The Marion County Bankers’ Association is gathering a petition for the daylight saving proposal. The association unanimously voted for “fast time” adoption last week. Milling Employes Opposed Evans Milling Company employes voted eighty-two against and one in favor on a petition sent for inclusion in The Times poll. Twentyone of the Fairmount Glass workers voted “no” and only one, the night watchman, voted “yes.” Indiana Electric Company employes, however, forwarded fifty-one favorable votes and National Furniture Company seventeen “yes” ballots. Sixty-four Kingan & Cos. employes sent negative votes. Considerable opposition to the daylight saving plan developed at a meeting of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs at the Chamber of Commerce Friday night. Confusion prevented Councilman John F. White, president of the association, from counting votes on the question. White is opposed to the measure. Quadruplets’ Father Dies By Times Special NOBESVILLE, Ind, April 28. Oscar Stevens, 49, father of quadruplets, said to be the only ones born in Indiana, is dead here after a several months illness. He was the father of eight other children. The quadruplets were born two years ago. They lived about four months.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 314

SNOW AND SLEET BLOCK TRAFFIC IN EAST; GREAT CROP LOSS THREATENED

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Clyde A. Walb, former Republican State chairman (left) with Deputy United States Marshal John Voegtlin on the station platform at Ft. Wayne just before Walb was started to Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., Friday afternoon. Walb is under a four-year sentence for violating the national banking laws in the First National Bank of La Grange, Ind., of which he was vice president. The former State G. O. P. chief did not want to be photographed on the way to prison. The photographer chased him from the Ft. Wayne Federal Bldg, to the Pennsylvania station, finally catching him on the fifth “shot.”

NEGRO TO SUCCEED MADDEN IN HOUSE

And Why! By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., April 23.—Sergt. Ellis Diver in charge of the police traffic work, has received the prize-winning alibi from a motorist who came in with three tags and two letters regarding improper parking. Diver demanded to know why the' motorist had delayed reporting so long. “I’ve been in the county jail the past few days,” the motorist replied.

TRAINS CHANGE TIME New Pennsy Schedule Effective April 29. Pennsylvania railroad today announced the following changes in train schedules effective Sunday. Keystone Express will leave Indianapolis at 3:25 p. m., instead of 3:05 p. m., and arrive in New York as at present. Spirit of St. Louis will leave at 5:30 p. m., instead of 5:40, and arrive at New York as at present; Washington ai 12:30 noon, instead of 12:45 p. m. American will leave at 2 p. m., instead of 2:30, and arrive at St. Louis as at present. Trains to Louisville: No. 326 will leave Indianapolis at 7:40 p. m., instead of 7:25; No. 318 will leave at 12:05 noon, instead of 12:15; No. 316 will leave 3:22 p. m., instead of 3:30; No. 324 will leave at 550 p. m., instead of 6:10. Ft. Wayne sleeping car leaving at 10:30 p. m., will be withdrawn. Grand Rapids sleeping car now leaving at 10:30 p. m., will leave at 7:30 p. m. BANDITS ROB AUTOIST Jump on Running Board of Car and Take s2l. Two armed bandits leaped on the running board of the automobile of D. H. Smith, 648 Arch St., at Bluff Rd. and the Belt railway Friday night and robbed him of s2l. He refused at first, but they stuck the guns to his head and threatened. Both escaped in an automobile parked at the curb. When Smith first drove up they were pretending to be fixing the machine.

ANDERSON PASTORS FAIL IN LIQUOR CASE

By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 28.—Ministers here have failed in their effort to prove charges that the municipal garage adjoining the city hall was used for liquor drinking parties. Analysis of liquor sezed in a recent raid on the garage discloses it is near beer and denatured alcohol, the latter such as used as an anti-freeze solution in automobile radiators. The analysis was made by the Indiana State laboratory and

First Colored Member to Get Congress Seat Since 1896. Hu United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Congress will have a Negro member again for the rst time since 1896 because of the death of Representative Martin B. Madden (Rep.), Illinois, it appeared certain today. The Chicago district represented by Madden, whose sudden death from heart disease in his office Friday shocked his colleagues, is almost totally a Negro district, having Negro representatives in the State Legislature and city council. It recently chose two Negro Republican national committeemen. Opposed by Negroes Martin was opposed by three Negroes in his recent race for renomination. Jlis clest Negro opponent, William J. Dawson, whom he defeated by 13,000 votes, may be the next House member from the district. Negroes came to Congress first in reconstruction days. There have been twenty Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. Speaker Longworth today will appoint a special House committee to attend the funeral in Chicago Monday, which will follow a State funeral in the House chamber Sunday. A Senate committee was appointed Friday. Wood to Get Post President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, cabinet members, the Supreme Court, the diplomatic carps, members of the House and Senate, chief of naval operations, the Army chief of staff and other officials will gather in the House chamber at noon Sunday for the special services. Representative Will R. Wood (Rep.), Indiana, will succeed to Madden’s post as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. OLD RECORD BROKEN Spohn Sets Shot-Put Marie As Tigers Thump Poly. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 28. De Pauw University track team overwhelmed the Rose Poly thinly clads here Friday by the top-sided count of 111(4 to 14%. Hugh Spohn, of the Tigers, set a new De Pauw record, when he headed the shot 41 feet, 10 inches, four inches more than the former record made in 1898 by “Doc” Roller.

Federal prohibition headquarters at Indianapolis. Jesse Taylor, city mechanic, arrested in the raid, will be released at once, authorities announce. Several weeks ago the Anderson Ministerial Association detailed the Rev. Owen A. Knox, Grace Methodist Church pastor, to spy on city employes. The first result of his efforts was a shake-up in the detective department, the second the garage raid.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1928

Drifts Three Feet Deep in Pennsylvania; Trains Are Hours Late. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH. Pa.. April 28.—A record spring snowfall of eight to fourteen inches, accompanied by sleet, paralyzed train and automobile traffic and telephone and telegraph services east and south of Pittsburgh today. No relief was in sight, as repair crews were hampered by the unexpected heavy snowfall. Snow drifted three feet deep. The Pennsylvania Railroad and B. & O. trains running east of Pittsburgh were one to two hours late. Dozens of telegraph poles had fallen on the tracks. Crop Damage Heavy By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., April 28.—A heavy snow and sleet storm which swept Pennsylvania. Virginia and West Virginia last night was expected to cause severe damage to the fruit crops of this section. The snow was the heaviest on record for April 27. A heavy rain which turned to snow when the mercury dropped 12 degrees in three hours left Harrisburg and vicinity with more than three inches of snow. Street car service was disrupted, due to short circuits and traffic was badly demoralized. At Cresson the Snowfall was fourteen inches deep and at Greensburg there was eight inches. The State highway department ordered its snowplows out last night to clear the Lincoln Highway, blocked between Ebensburg and Frederick. Fruit crops in western Maryland were damaged, as the snowfall was heavy in the vicinity of Hagerstown and Frederick. More than twelve inches of snow had fallen in the Shenandoah valley.

BRING BODY OF LOCKHART HERE Funeral Services Are Set for-Monday. (Lockhart crash picture on pace 2) Funeral services for Frank Lockhart, race driver, whose tragic death while attempting to set a new world's speed record at Daytona Beach Wednesday shocked the Nation, will be held Monday at 4 p. m. at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Services, which will be conducted by Dr. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, will be public. The funeral party left Jacksonville this morning, aviators showering the train bearing the body with flowers. The body lay in state in Daytona until Friday night, and flags in the city were lowered to half staff. F. E. Moskovics, president of the Stutz Motor Car Company, announced that the factory and retail salesrooms would be closed Monday afternoon in honor of the dead driver. After the services here, the body will be placed in a temporary vault, and will be taken to Los Angesel for burial later. The body will arrive in Indianapolis at 11:30 a. m. Sunday and will be taken to Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, where it will remain throughout the local ceremonies.

TAX CUT DELAYED Board Members Disagree on Utility Reduction. Because two members of the State tax board could not agree on the amount of reduction to be made in the valuation of the Citizens Gas Company for taxation purposes, the tentative cu tset Friday must come up for rehearing next week. A reduction of SBOO,OOO tentatively was set forth at the hearing Friday. The 1927 valuation for the Citizens Gas Company was $6,231,000, while the new rate is $5,531,100. Philip Zoercher, member of the commission, held for an SBOO,OOO reduction, while William A. Hough, another commissioner, held for a SOO,OOO cut. Owen S. Bolling, secretary of the commission, who sat in place of John J. Brown, chairman of the commission, who is out of the city, held with Zoercher. RETURN PLANE CHECK Stinson Company Refuses to Build Ship for Trans-Atlantic Hop. By United Press DETROIT, Mich., April 28.—The Stinson Aircraft Corporation has returned to Thea Rasche, German aviatrix, a check for $3,000 which she proffered as the first payment on a monoploan in whWh she hoped to fly the Atlantic. Officials of the corporation said today it was their policy to discourage “suicidal” flights.

BEDRIDDEN WOMAN SAVED FROM BLAZE

Policeman Carries Invalid to Safety as Ceiling of Home Falls. DAMAGE IS $15,000 Four Houses Burned; One Fireman Slightly Injured on Duty. Fire that destroyed two single and one double houses in the 2000 block on Hillside Ave. early today provided Traffic Officer Leo Troutman an opportunity for a thrilling rescue. Damage was estimated at $15,000. Dashing into the home of E. J. Emerson, 2015 Hillside Ave., where the fire originated, Troutman wrapped the invalided wife of Emerson in her bed clothes and carried her through flames and smoke to safety. Just as he crossed the threshold the ceiling gave way and fell with a shower of flaming timber. Bed-Ridden for Two Years Mrs. Emerson has been bed-ridden for two years. She was given temporary shelter in the home of Dr. C. O. Toles, physician, 2021 Hillside Ave. The Emerson home and all furnishings were completely destroyed. The fire, said to be of unknown origin, started in the kitchen at the Emerson home about 7 a. m. Troutman had left for his work at about 6:30 a. m„ and his wife was alone in the house. In a short time the place was a mass of flames. Troutman, who lives at 2012 Hillside Ave., saw the fire and dashed over to save his neighbor, whom he knew was unable to save herself. One Firemen Injured When the fire companies arrived the flames had spread to the homes of Edward Bond, 2018 Hillside Ave.; Carl Blacketer. 2019 Hillside Ave., and Charles Utterback, 2009 Hillside Ave. Furniture was rescued from most of these houses, but the interiors of the houses themselves were completely swept by the flames. One fireman received slight burns on the arm when attempting to shut off the gas in one of the burning houses. . HOGS DOWN 25 CENTS; FIRST DROP IN WEEKS Hog Top Hovers Around 510.40 to $10.45; Calves Lower. Dropping for the first time in more than two weeks, hogs went down 25 cents on the hundredweight at the local yards today after holding steady since Wednesday. The top was $8.45 and the bulk weighing 160-275 pounds sold at $10.40. Receipts were estimated at 4,000. Calves were lower again today falling off 50 cents. Other material was mostly steady. The Chicago market opened very slow asking steady. Most bids were 10 to 15 cents lower with 180-220 pounders receiving bids of $10.40. There were 5,000 received and 7,000 held over. WATSON HERE TONIGHT Will Sfoeak at Armory Meeting; Delegations to Attend. Delegations from throughout the State have promised to attend the Armory mass meeting tonight at 8 when Senator James E. Watson, opponent of Herbert C. Hoover for Indiana’s presidential preference vote will speak. Watson came to Indianapolis Friday night, after four days’ strenuous campaigning in the Thirteenth district, Hoover stronghold. Monday night he will speak at Ft. Wayne, Tuesday and Wednesday will be spent in the Thirteenth district and Thursday and Friday in the Calumet region. His principal address there will be made at Gary. BOXING ISSUE UP City Councils Commission May Be Abolished. The city council’s boxing commission may be abolished and the authority to supervise boxing and wrestling matches delegated to the city controller. The athletic committee, headed by Robert E. Springsteen, will meet soon to discuss the commission’s jurisdiction/ Paul Bridges, named commission secretary by the former council, probably will be replaced if the commission continues in its present form. Promoters of the fights at the Indiana National Guard Armory have requested a conference with the new commission on compliance with the city’s regulations. The Armory promoters clashed with former councilmen over enforcement of the city regulations. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 35 8 a. m— 40 7 a. m.... 36 9 a. m..., 44

GLORY HIS SHROUD Bennett Rites Inspiration to Living

BY PHILIP HEWITT-MYRING Associate Editor Lon don Daily News THE coffin sank beneath the earth. The patient, rain-soaked crowds turned homeward. And there was that in their faces that told of some new thing in their lives, of an experience that had made it impossible for them to be just those same men and women they were before. Floyd Bennett has passed beyond our ken and all the trumpets have sounded for him on the other side. But before he left he added one great splash of purple to the pageantry of the world, and English as well as Americans claim the right to rejoice and find inspiration in it. There is no death. The airman’s gallant spirit has but passed on to find more ardent expression, to undergo new and greater adventure in some field of which we now know nothing, but will one day know. Such a soul is not confined by even so fair and noble a grave as that into which its outworn husk was lowered yesterday.

Yet it is right that there should be held such ceremonies as were held in Arlington. Somehow, one likes to think, dead are graced with them; definitely and beyond dispute they are an aid, an inspiration, to the living. As I stood by the grave with the thousand others who had braved the elements to be present at that hillside sacrament, one line of verse ran perpetually in my head: “Devon, oh, Devon, in wind and rain,” and as I pondered over it I realized it was more than the wind and rain that had put it there, though wind and rain there were in plenty, to form a fit passing scenes for the rider of the storm. u n tt I HOPE it may be pardoned an Englishman if he says that there were present in his thoughts memories of the heroes of his own land, and particularly of the seadogs of the West country, who made the name of Devon ring throughout the world. Drake, Raleigh, Hawkins —Drake above all. Just such a man as Drake was Floyd Bennett, quick to act, fierce as the lion, yet of a gentle and courteous soul. I thought of the English seadogs, many of whom were laid to rest on just such days of gray, hard weather as was yesterday, yet never forgot that Bennett was not, of my land, but of this newer ctountrv that was born of heroic men, and in recognition of that giant birth bears heroic sons today. And with this double train of remembrance in my mind. I welcomed that most noble life and most glorious death of Bennett as tilings that could only bring my country and this great renublic into a closer sympathy, a greater intimacy, a deeper understanding.

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, April 28.—Develop--1 ments during the week have justii fled the optimism of traders in railroad securities for with the agreement reached by the execuitve heads of,the various eastern trunk lines a great forward step has been taken which should eventually remove much of the opposition and delayed sanction from official quarters. It is quite possible that bullish sentiment displayed in the market valuation of the western roads will spread itself to other sections and in the securities of those carries which will be benefitted by consolidation. Another factor to consider is tne optimistic outlook for generally improved business conditions and the decrease of unemployment. With these points in mind it is reasonable to expect that current unsatisfactory reports of car loadings will cease shortly and rails as a whole will begin reporting net earnings comparing favorably with their best years. However we can still see the advisability of profit-taking from time to time so as to be in position of safety should developments appear because of the credit situation. New York Curb Opening —April 28— Am Gas 145 14 146 4 Am R Mill 103% 104>4 Cities Svc 60% 61% Cont Oil 18% 19% Durant 9% 9% Ford Canada 56414 56514 Humble Oil 7814 79% Ind Pipe 8714 8814 Imp Oil 6314 64% Int Pete 4014 41% Marir.on 52 1 .4 53 V* Ohio Oil 65% 65% Prairie O & Gas 54 54% Prairie Pipe 215 216 Stutz 18 1814 Stand Oil Ind 79% 80 Stand Oil Kansas 23',4 23% Stand Oil Ky 131 132 United L& P “A” 2314 2414 Vacuum Oil 14914 15014

Pump Padlock By Times Special NEWPORT, Ind., April 28. Ariet Willis, self-appointed oneman dry enforcement tribunal, put a padlock on the well pump at the Jacksonville school house, where he is janitor, and the fight wa son. Willis, according to testimony in Vermillion Circuit Court here, was attacked by Israel Hunt, who lives next door to the school. Willis said Hunt had been in the habit of getting water from the well and was angered because he stopped the practice by putting a padlock and chain on the pump.

Chicago Grain Opening CHICAGO, April 28.—Grain opening: Wheat, May up %c, July unchanged, September up 14c. Corn, May off 14c, July off %c, September off %c. Oats, May unchanged, July unchanged, September up 14 c. Provisions lower.

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AIM FILIBUSTER AT JAM BILL Senators Organize Against Boulder Project. Bu United Press ' WASHINGTON. April 28 —A bitter filibuster is being organized in the Senate against the Boulder Canyon dam bill. Senator Johnson (Rep.), California, indicated today he would seek to keep his Johnson-Swing bill before the Senate to the exclusion of other legislation next week, hoping to force a final vote. His leading opponent. Senator Ashurst (Dem.), Arizona, is preparing with the assistance of half a dozen other Senators to talk the bill to death and prevent a vote. Senator Smoot (Rep.), Utah, who as chairman of the finance committee, is in charge of tax reduction legislation, will make a five-hour speech beginning this afternoon, he indicated. Next week he plans to bring out the tax reduction bill and will move to sidetrack the Boulder Dam bill so that the tax reduction measure may be considered. The tax bill will require a week or ten days for consideration and by that time a vetoed farm bill or flood control bill may be back before the Senate to prevent consideration of the Boulder measure.

How the Market • Opened

Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 28.—Stocks opened strong with the leaders showing a firm tone, /fter the execution of over-night buying orders however, a tendency to irregularity was noted as week-end selling set in. Trading was active. General Motors opened at 192 and then eased to 191%, while New York Central, whose initial price was 186%, up 114, eased to 186%. Anaconda continued to lead the coppers, rising % to 71%. Consolidated Gas rose nearly two points to 16614. Air Reduction soared to 72. up 51s. Standard Oil of New York and Louisiana Oil sold at new high prices while Sinclair continued to advance. “Weekly trade reviews again described spotty conditions in mercantile lines. However, Irregularity was largely attributed to unfavorable weather conditions. Reports from industrial centers showed increasing employment with Tolqjjo at record levels and steel operations in the Youngstown district well maintained. New York Stock Opening Allied Ohem ...A**.**!. 4 7 4 Am Loco log Anaconda 71% Curtis 9014 C F & T 74'4 Chgo & Northwestern 92% Chrysler 73 Cons Gas 165% Corn Products 12 % Oen Asphalt 89% Gen Electric 169% Oen Motors 192 Goodrich 87% Hudson Motor 86% Hupp Motors 51% Kroner 76% Marland 4314 Mont. Ward 141% N Y Central 186% NYNH&H 65% Pan Amer Pete B 53% Pennsylvania 70 Pa tec 3314 Pure OH 25% Radio 18114 Rock Island 116 St Paul Pld 4914 Sears-Roebuck 10214 S O Calif 61 SONY 35% S O N J 45% Studebaker 66% Texas Oil 61% Un. Carbide & Carbon 154% U S Steel 14614 Westinghouse 103% Wabash 84

WHITE TOJJIT POST Councilman to Resign as Civic Club Head. John F. White today announced he would resign as Federation of Civic Clubs president because of his recent election as city councilman. Federation rules provide Oscar W. Storer, vice president, shall succeed White. The announcement followed a stormy meeting Friday night at the Chamber of Commerce, when the session ended in chaos over a daylight saving dispute. J. Edward Burke, south side civic leader, demanded that the federation sever its affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee and attempted to stop a rush to the door. His voice was drowned by scuffle of chairs and rapid exits. Burke is secretary of the Southeastern Civic Improvement Club, of which White also is president, and recently has shown opposition to White on public occasions,

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BREMEN CREW IN TRIBUTE AT FUER’SGRAVE Drive Through Cold, Pelting Downpour to Arlington Cemetery. HONOR TO AIR MARTYR Rites Somber and Gloomy; Body Lies Near That of Peary. BY LYLE C. WATSON, United Press ScalY Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 28.—Three aviators—one Irish and two Ger-man-paid tribute today to Floyd Bennett, polar airman, who gave his life to succor them at the end of their recent trans-Atlantic flight. In a cold driving rain, Maj. James Fitzmaurice, Baron Gunther von Huenefeld and Capt. Herman Koehl laid a wreath and flags on the muddy new grave at Arlington National Cemetery where Bennett was interred Friday under weeping skies. Maj. Gunther Von Huenefeld Capt. Hermann Koel;l and Maj. James Fitzmaurice, the Irish-Ger-man crew of the ice-bound airplane Bremen, arrived in Washington at 10:13 o’clock Friday night by train from New York. The fliers and Miss Herta Junkers, who accompanied them from New York, were surrounded by a small crowd at the Union Station.

Cast Aside Welcome Plans Plans for the informal welcome were cast aside as police struggled to extricate the aviators from the crowd and place them in automobiles which took them to Bolling Field. The State entry of the first men to fly across the North Atlantic from East to West in a heavier-than-air machine will take place Wednesday. Today they were not here in the role of world heroes, but as mourners at Bennett’s fresh tomb. Neither the State department nor President Coolidge was represented in the greeting at the station. Miss Junkers and the fliers entered Army cars while a musician of somewhat meager attainments tooted a brass horn to produce “Ach, du Leiber Augustine.” The airmen strode Into the station wearing the informal dress ©f men thinking more of comfort and necessities than appearance. Fliers Arrival Broadcast Von Huenefeld, In uniform with a green felt shirt, urgently required the services of a barber. Fitzmaurice wore his much photographed hip boots and his upper clothing was the uniform of an Irish Free State airman. Koelh had a flaming red garment which might have been a shirt or a jacket. Miss Junkers was bareheaded and dressed for cold weather flying. The fliers’ arrival at Union Station was broadcast over the blue network of the National Broadcasting Company. After seeing his companions safely housed at Bolling Field. Baron Von Huenefeld made a short visit to the German embassy, where a dinner to Secretary of State Kellog was in progress. He briefly greeted Kellogg, German Ambassador Von Prittwitz and others and returned to Bolling. Bennett’s burial Friday on a knoll overlooking the Potomac and the Capitol was as somber and gloomy a ceremony as could be Imagined. He lies near Admiral Robert E. Peary, first man to reach the Pole. The crowd stood bareheaded during the brief, austere rites . Rain Pelts New Grave In a little group near the lip of the rain-washed grave stood the flier’s widow, with Commander Richard E. Byrd, who discovered Bennett’s worth and valued his friendship and ability beyond that of any other man. Mrs. Bennett stood bravely until the first volley of Bennett’s salute was fired by a detail of bluejackets. She shuddered as the echo rolled back from-the Virginia hills. The plaintive notes of “taps” floated into the soggy air and as the significafice of this summons to sleep bit deeply into the widow’s consciousness she could stand It no longer and was led away before the flag-draped coffin vfas lowered Into the earth. The flier’s mother remained on the special car which brought the party from New York. She was too feeble to make the last journey with her son. The party returned to New York immediately after the burial. The rain,* which pelted Bennett's coffin and the mourners, continued through the night, an unceasing patter on the freshly turned clay.

Down Fine By Times Special RIDGON, Ind., April 28. Assets of $31.52 and liabilities of $3,656 were left by Lawrence Spitzmesser, missing grocer here, according to the report of the El wood Trust Company, receiver. Creditors of the grocer will receive .00862 per cent of their c laims.