Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1928 — Page 3

MAY 15, 1928.

ROCKET POWER DRIVES CAR 60 MiLESAN HOUR Success of German Test Expected to Aid in Developing Plane. By Science Service . , BERLIN, May 15.—A new method of transportation with the motive power furnished by spurts of expanding gases, like the trail of a Fourth-of-July rocket, is about to make a bid for practical success. After secret experimental development, a rocket automobile has been given speed tests at the racing track of the Fritz Opel motor car factory at Russelsheim near Frankfort, where it was built. Speeds of slightly more than sixty miles an hour were attained eight seconds after the start. A demonstration before experts at the Avus racing track in Berlin is scheduled for the near future. As speeds on this track are limited to a hundred miles an hour, plans are underway to utilize later a stretch of railroad track which has been offered for this purpose by the German States Railways. May Work on Planes The theoretical investigations which inspired this rocket-propelled automobile were begun by Prof. R. H. Goddard, American scientist, who designed a rocket that would travel to the moon. Later mathematical studies were made on the same problem by Prof. Max Vallier of Munich and Albert Mueller, whose results were available to the Opel Company’s designing engineer, Sander. Tests of the rocket automobile are believed to be merely preliminary to the construction and launching of a rocket airplane capable of rising to heights that ordinary pro*peller driven airplanes can not possibly attain. Journeys to other planets across the great distances of airless space are theoretically possible through the use of the rocket exhaust kick as the motive power. VFor experiments show that the \ick of the exploding rocket charge is just as effective in a vacuum where there is no air as it is under ordinary conditions where there is plenty of atmosphere. Would Work in Vacuum Propellers of ordinary airplanes need the air to work against. The rocket is effective in vacuum for the same reason that a rifle fired in an airless chamber would have the same sort of kick that it would in i air. The rocket airplane, once it > reached the airless outer space or the upper rarefied portion of the atmosphere, would attain great speeds because of the lack of air resistance. The Opel rocket auto looks like a multiple-barrelled piece of light artillery in speedy retreat. From the rear of the car project twelve large tubes arranged in a rectangle. From these tubes the exploding gases emerge with terrific kick which sends the car racing along the track. Any highly explosive mixtures can be used such as light gasoline, alcohol, or even pure hydrogen and oxygen mixtures which give the geratest expansion for the least , weight.

‘HAUNTED HOUSE’ NEAR ROANN DRAWS VISITORS Tomb Stone With Unsatisfactory Wording Stands in Yard. By Times Special ROANN, Ind., May 15.—A “haunted House” on a lonely road along the banks of Eel River near here is attracting throngs of visitors. The house was formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Day, but after they died it was deserted, and relatives of the couple did not remove the furnishings. These have been stolen ' by visitors until today the interior is entirely bare. , A tombstone stands in the yard at the house. Day ordered it for his wife who preceded him in death, but he did not place it on her grave, ' as the inscription was not satisfactory to him. PHONE INCREASE ASKED Liberty Center Company Seeks Higher Rate. Petition was filed Monday with the Public Service Commission by the Liberty Center Telephoi Company, asking for an increase in rates on the grounds that the present rate , of $1 a month for all types of phones is unreasonable and insufficient. The phone company asks the commission to grant it the right to charge $2 for a straight business lines; $1.75 for a business party line; $1.75 for a straight resident line, and $1.50 for a party residence line. • PASTOR WRITES BOOKS ■ffobbs-Merrill to Publish Two Volumes by Dr. Bundy. GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 15. Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis, will publish two new books by Dr. Walter E. Bundy, De Pauw University Bible teacher. “The ißeligion of Jesus,” will apksar in the fall and “Recovering Vie Real Jesus,” about six months •Stter. Dr. Bundy has written several viooks on synoptic gospels. *£HOQT OUT LAMPS Seeks Youths Who Used Street Lights as Target. Two youths who tried their skill with a revolver on street light globes are sought by police today. John Blackwell, boulevard policeman for the Indianapolis Power and Light reported that the two ■ left • series of globeless lamp posts ■behind them at Villa Ave. and ■Pleasant Run Blvd.

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RELIEF PLANE REACHES FLIER Airman Stricken on Trip to Bremen in Hospital. Bii United Press WASHINGTON, May 15.—Lieut. Muir S. Fairchild, who was stricken with appendicitis while piloting an Army airplane bound for Greenly Island, still was in St. John’s today, War Department officials said. He was to be taken to Boston today in the relief plane sent from that city to St. John’s. If his condition permits, officials said he will be brought on to Washington in an airplane piloted by Maj. Howard Davidson, commanding officet of Bolling field. Davidson flew to Boston Sunday with Lieut. Elwood Quesada, who replaced Fairchild on the expedition. Fairchild will be taken to Walter Reed hospital upon his arrival here. The Army’s relief expedition to remove the airplane Bremen, in which two Germans and an Irishman flew across the north Atlantic, suffered today from the elements that have made the westward crossing of the Atlantic so difficult. One of the Army planes was down at Tatamagouche, N. S., while the other was at Trunu. Capt. Ire Eaker, prominent Army flier assigned to the northern expedition, advisea thef War Department late Monday that he had been forced to land at Tatamagouche.

ROBBERY SUSPECT HELD Man Arrested for Car Theft May Be Wanted in Hammond. Harry Johnson, 30, of Chicago, 111., arrested Sunday on a charge cl' driving while intoxicated, speeding, transporting liquor and vehicle taking, is held today as a suspected fugitive. A telegram from Sheriff Krug, at Hammond, Ind., states that he holds a warrant charging William Johnson, 29, of the same description as the Harry Johnson held here, with robbing a filling station. When arrested Sunday, Johnson was driving a car he admitted he had stolen at Marion, Ind. Johnson collided with an automobile driven by Albeit H. Huntsinger, R. R. P„ Box 382, at Emerson Ave. and Washington St. CAN’T TELITcOLLEGIANS Little Different From Others, Says President. B,y United Press SWARTHMORE, Pa., May 15. American College graduates are not distinguished from those who never have gone to college except that the college man can talk more glibly of sports, President William A. Neilson, of Smith College told the American Association for Adult Education. PROPOSES FARM CREDIT Holland Asks League of Nations to Make Investigation. GENEVA, May 15.—Holland’s delegates to the League of Nations economic commission asked that a commission be appointed to discuss with governments the possibility of increasing agricultural production and establishing, if necessary, a permanent system of governmental farm credits. OF ‘A~LKY’ Pursued Men Abandon Car With 123 Gallons. Police today are seeking the man whose name was on the certificate of title of a machine containing 123 gallons of alcohol abandoned at Fifty-Fifth and Pennsylvania Sts. Monday night. Chased by Motor Policemen Roeder and De Vault two men jumped from the car and fled.

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PRIMARY TODAY IN NEWJERSEY State Contests Overshadow National Races. Bn United Press TRENTON, N. J„ May 15.—New Jersey voters are going to the polls today in one of the most tangled primary races in years. Th| Republican contest for senatorial and gubernatorial nominations, with nine candidates in the field, far overshadows the selection of delegates to the national party convntions at Kansas City and

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Houston and the unopposed candidacies of two Democrats, Senator Edward I. Edwards for another term and Commissioner William L. Dill for the govemship. Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York is unopposed and will get the State’s twenty-eight votes at Houston, while the Republican presidential preference carries only the name of Herbert Hoover, but the vote will not be binding on delegates. Others offices for which nominations will be made are twelve members of the House of Representatives, seven State Senators, sixty members of the Assembly and county offices. Late indications were that the Republican choice for the gubernatorial nomination lies between State Senator Larson and former Judge Carey."

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NEW RAIL MAIL TO SERVE CITI 4 Stations Will Open on New York Central. Four railway postoffice stations on the New York Central Railroad between Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo., with Indianapolis as the division point, will go into service May 28, Otis K. Adams, Indianapolis division chief clerk, announced The new stations, which will require lour additional railway mail clerks, will be the Southwestern

Straw Hat Day Bn United Press NEW YORK, May 15.—New York’s official straw hat day arrived today with a surprisingly large number of men wearing straws despite the cold weather. Morning temperatures hovered around 50 degrees.

Limited, leaving Indianapolis at 11:25 a. m.; the Knickerbocker, leaving St. Louis for Indianapolis at 12:45 p. m.; St. Louis Limited, leaving Indianapolis at 2:50 p. m., and No. 20, leaving St. Louis at 5:30 p m. Mail service on these trains will prove valuable to Indianapolis business houses, Karns said.

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CITIZENS GAS IS UP MILLION Valuation Boosted Despite Plea for Reduction. Despite pleas of Clarence L. Kirk, vice president and general manager of the Citizens Gas Company, that the taxation valuation of the utility be decreased SBOO,OOO for 1928; the State tax board today announced that the valuation had been increased a flat $1,0,00,000. The increase from $6,231,000 to $7,231,000 provided no increase in the value of the Indianapolis Gas

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Company, rented by the Citizens Gas Company, and the total appraisal of both companies for 1928 is $13,242,000. - The valuation was increased in view of the $680,000 earnings reported for last year and the fact? that the Citizens Gas Company paid to the Indianapolis Gas Company a total of $420,000, which in effect "was taking it from one pocket and putting it in another,” a board member said. 325 Tons of Coal for Schools Bn United Press DECATUR, Ind., May 15.—The city school board here has purchased 325 tons of Pocahontas coal as next winter’s city school supply. E. L. Carroll & Son, of this city were awarded the contract at $5.20 per ton. Their bid was the lowest submitted.

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