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PACIFIC FLIERS NEAR HAWAII; ORDER OUT TROOPS TO HOLD HONOLULU CROWDS IN CHECK Island Population Plans Great Welcome for Aviators; Governor Is Waiting at Flying Field. CLOUDS, FOG IN LAST STRETCH Machine Has Supply of Gasoline to Remain in Air for Four More Hours; Speed Is 100 Miles an Hour. Ei) L i)iled Prrst WHEELER FIELD, Honolulu, June 1. —Governor Wallace Harrington of the Hawaiian Islands and a group of officials of the city of Honolulu arrived at Wheeler field early today to await the arrival of the Southern Cross from California. High army and naval officials also were on hand to greet the four airmen upon their conquest of the dangerous 2,400mile flight from the mainland. The crowd that had been waiting since before dawn was increasing rapidly and two additional battalions of troops were ordered out to help hold it in check until after the landing of the plane.

A flurry of excitement spread over the field when a report was received that the Southern Cross had sent a message reporting the sighting of land. The report was credited to the Mutual Wireless Company. Later the Mutual Wireless Company reported intercepting a message froom the Southern Cross saving, “These clouds fooled us. We thought we had sighted land.” This message indicated the plane was encountering clouds and foggy weather along the last stretch of its flight over the ocean. A subsequent message picked up by the Mutual said: “We can stay up four hours more if necessary without exhausting our gasoline supply. We now have been in the air twenty-four hours and twenty-five minutes.” The message did not give the exact position of the plane, which sent a wireless message at 7:30 a. m. (Pacific Coast standard time) that it was less than 300 miles from Honolulu arid had increased its speed to 100 miles an hour. Captain Kingsford-Smith sent word ahead that he was anxious to avoid formal receptions as much as possible. But the population of Honolulu was determined to make it as big an event as when the two successful planes in the Dole race from the mainland last summer came swooping down on Wheeler field. Enjoy Good Fortune BY GERALD P. OVERMAN. United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, June I.—A quartet of valiant fliers today appeared near completion of their attempt to span the treacherous air currents of the Pacific which in the last twelve months have taken the lives of nine men and one woman. Captain Kingsford-Smith and three companions, flying to Honolulu from here on the first leg of a 7,778mile flight to Australia, were radioing regularly that their Southern Cross was performing perfectly and that the end of their journey was in sight. The three motors of the silverwinged Fokker were performing perfectly as the big plane roared over the last few hundred miles of its nonstop Pacific flight from Oakland airport. Throughout the journey, which began Thursday morning, good fortune has followed the crew of the Southern Cross. Early today radio operators here heard Harry Lyons, operator aboard the Southern Cross, radioing to Hawaii. Message to Governor The message was addressed to Governor Farrington of the islands. “A Brother Beta is coming to see you on the Southern Cross. Lyons,” the message said, referring to the college fraternity of which both Lyons and the Governor are members. “My receiving batteries are run down,” the message added. “We now have 700 miles to go.” Fifteen. minutes later the Southern Cross radioed that it was flying at an altitude of 6,000 feet above large masses of clouds. “One seldom sees such beautiful sight as this moonlight on top of clouds/’ the message said. “Speed, 70 knots. All O. K., cheerio. Kings-ford-Smith.” “It’s been a great trip,” the plane crew radioed earlier. “Three motors spinning as fine as ever. Ship weaving a bit but plowing right along.” During the first half of the voyage they had averaged about eighty miles an hour. The Southern Cross passed the halfway mark in its 2,400-mile flight to the Hawaiian Islands early last night. The most hazardous part of the voyage up to that point had been in passing over the spot where several c: *he Dole filers were believed to have been lost last summer. Over Spot of Peril The Southern Cross soared over the place at dusk. The air currents began to shake the plane and the

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(Hours in Log Are Pacific Coast Standard Time) THURSDAY 8:30 A. M.—Took off from Oakland airport. 9:02 A. M.—First radio message: ‘We're over the Golden Gate.” 10:03 A. M.—“ Weather fine. Motors working perfectly.” 11:15 A. M.—“ 190 miles out. All well.” 12:09 P. M.—“ 300 miles out. Low clouds. Visibility only fair. Fail to pick up radio beacon.” 1 P. M.—“ Can’t see much of ocean. Speed eighty-two miles; clouds lower.” 1:25 P. M.—“ 500 miles out. Still listening for Beacon.” 6P. M.—“ Hazy; sun going down soon. Night not so good.” 7:10 P. M.—“ Going strong. Sea smooth.” * 7:20 P. M.—“ Getting dark. Trying to eat. We are 800 miles from San Francisco.” 9:50 P. M.—“ Our position Is lattitude 30.42 north, longitude 140 west.” This indicated that approximately half of the journey to the Hawaiian Islands was completed. 10 P. M.—“We just passed through an air pocket and had to drop down a bit.” t * FRIDAY 1:25 A. M.—" Three motors still spinning as fine as ever. It’s been a great trip. Ship weaving a bit but plowing right along.” 4 A. M.—Radio operator aboard sent fraternal greetings to Governor Farrington of Hawaii and announced plane's receiving batteries were down. 4:15 A. M—Reported flying in moonlight above clouds at altitude of 6,000 feet. 5:50 A. M.—“ All well,” plane reports Estimai c 575 miles from Honolulu. 7:3C A. M.—Radio message from Southern Cross says she is within 300 miles of Honolulu increasing speed as islands draw near, to 100 miles per hour. pilots had difficulty seeing through a haze. The silver-winged plane sailed ahead through the mist, however, rising to various altitudes in seeking the level of best visibility, and later reported it was going “great.” Below them, somewhere along that stretch of the Pacific, were the ocean graves of Capt. William Erwin and Alvin Eichwald, who were buffeted into a tail spin on their flight of mercy in search of the lost Dole fliers, and plunged into the sea. It was there also that Martin Jensen, who safely negotiated the dangerous flight, fought desperately against cross currents to keep his plane aloft. When the plane left Oakland the gasoline tanks held 1,200 gallons of fuel. The fliers carried no rafts or lifesaving apparatus.

MOTORIST TRIES TO LURE GIRL INTO AUTO; ESCAPES

Police today searched for a man who George Kinney, railroad detective, saw/trying to lure a little girl into his automobile at the Nickel Plate Railroaa and Thirty-Third St Thursday night. The child refused the man's invitation to take a ride. Before he could attempt to force her into the car, Kinney came into sight. Sensing

PLANES, MODERN ‘RICKSHAWS,’ ‘GONDOLAS’ TO CARRY TOURISTS ON SHORE TRIPS

B\ GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent lOS ANGELES, June I.—See the Orient without a rickshaw. Venice without a gondola, the pyramids without a camel, that is the vision of the Dollar Steamship Company. The future vessels of the round-the-world line will carry seaplanes for passengers use, R. Stanley

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On much the same route as the tragic Dole flight of last summer—only longer—four fliers in the giant tri-motored monoplane Southern Cross hopped off Thursday from San Francisco in an attempt to fly to Brisbane, Australia, by way of Hawaii and the Fiji Islands. Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith, head of the expedition, is shown above (center) with Capt. Harry W. Lyons Jr. (right) and Charles T. O. Ulm. pilot deft). Kingsford-Smith and Ulm are Australians, while Lyons and the fourth member of the party, James Warner, are Americans.

AMUNDSEN URGES SPEED IN SEARCH FOR NOBILE

Cupid Opens Bride Month With Rush for Licenses CUPID appeared well on the way to set anew June Ist bride record at noon today. Eleven would-be June brides and prospective bridegrooms had obtai ißc marriage licenses up to noon. All day Thursday only e.’even licenses were issued. Last year a total of eighteen permits to marry was issued on June 1. County Clerk George O. Hutsell expected a rush this afternoon to boost today's total over that mark.

NYE TELLS JURY STEWART REFUSED TO TALK IN QUIZ

STATE GETS $4,000,000 Shares in United States Appropriation for Highways. Indiana will receive about $4,000,000 for road construction for the two fiscal years ending June 30. 1931, out of the $75,000,000 Federal road appropriation bill passed by the last Congress, it was announced today by the State highway commission. CALL TAMMANY HEAD Olvany Ordered Before Senate Vote Fund Quiz Group. Bli United Prc ntt NEW YORK, June 1— George W. Olvany, grand sachem of Tammany Hall, was subpoenaed today to appear before the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, but his office notified the committee that he had left he city on a fishing trip and would not be back until Monday. The subpoena for Olvany was issued because of charges made to the committee by Senator Heflin of Alabama and others that Tammany was playing an active part in the campaign of Governor A. E. Smith. The committee will decide later whether it will remain over until Monday to hear the Tammany leader.

that something was wrong, he snouted at the man, who drove rapidly away. Kinney observed his automobile license number and officers are searching for the license. Kinney also to give a good description of the man. The child lived near the place where she was accosted.

Dollar, vice president, said before he left here for San Francisco this morning. “There is no speculation in this venture,” ffie emphasized. “Modem competition demands speedy adaption of modern methods of travel. The donkey parts gave way to the air craft. Our new ships will be equipped with auxii-

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1928

Testifies Against Indiana Oil Head in Senate Contempt Trial. 'B’l United Perut WASHINGTON, June I.—Chairman Nye of the Senate Teapot Dome committee, testified before a jury here today that Robert W. Stewart, Indiana Standard Oil chairman, refu- and to answer certain of his questv concerning the Continental _-ading Company's operations. Nye and Ser itor Walsh of Montana, appeared for the Government in the Sen; te contempt trial of Stewart, which resulted from an indictment requested by their committee after Scwart had refused to tell whether he had conversed regarding the company's Liberty bond profits of $3,080,000. Defense lawyers strenouously objected to parts of Nye’s testimony, and charged that the transcript of the Teapot Dome committtee hearing, which was used to refresh Nye’s memory, was “inaccurate and wrong.” Nye’s memory was hazy about some of the questions he put to Stewart last Feb. 2 and 3. “I have asked so many questions this winter that I don’t recall that one exactly,” he said. He testified, however, that he Stewart if he had discussed the Continental's Liberty bonds with Sinclair and whether Stewart knew of any one who received the bonds. BUTLER LINE ARRANGED Extension of the Fairview street car line on Boulevard PI., from Forty-Second to Forty-Seventh Sts., thence west to Butler University campus, has been practically decided upon by the board of works, it was reported today at city hall. The board, headed by President Oren S. TT ack, has been seeking a new route for the car line to serve the new Butler campus. It was said Forty-Seventh St. was selected because traffic is light and it can carry a street car line without widening.

lary seaplanes which will be used solely for sight seeings.” nun THE Dollar Line intends to build five new ships during the next two years. Each o’ the vessels will be equipped with auxiliary sea planes. When foreign ports aie the planes will be lowered to the

Weather in Polar Regions Becoming Worse Daily, Increasing Perils. I Bn United Prr** OSLO, Norway, June I.—Weather in the polar ice regions which is dailybecoming worse, makes it necessary to hurry help to Gen. Umi berto Nobile and his dirigible Italia. Roald Amundsen, the explorer, said j today. Amundsen said fogs especially are becoming denser and will hamper | rescue work. Push Relief Plans BY LARS HANSEN United Press Special Correspondent KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 1. I —Stern men who have braved the | rigors of the Arctic to extend scientific understanding of that zone joined today in a magnificent effort to save one of their select group, Gen. Umbertc Nobile and his aids of the dirigible Italia. The Italia has been missing a week. It was shortly before noon | last Friday that the dirigible reported it was making slow progress down from the North Pole toward Kings Bay. Since then there has been only silence from the great aircraft. . * Today such famous figures as Roald Amundsen. Lincoln Ellsworth, Capt. Riiser Larsen and others joined to help locate hat polar dirigible. As understood now, Ellswo/th, an American, will finance the air flane rescue expedition that Amundsen will head for the government. Capt. Riiser-Larsent and Lieut. Luetzow Holm, the latter one -of Norway's great fliers, will aid Amundsen. Ellsworth will arrive in Oslo, probably about June 11, and shortly thereafter the circuitous tour of the polar regions will be undertaken, under the direction of the keen student of the north—Amundsen. PICKS U. S. TREASURER Recess Appointment Given Tate of Tennessee, by Coolidge. B/i United Prr dm WASHINGTON, June I.—President Coolidge today granted a recess appointment to H. T. Tate of Tennessee, to be Treasurer of the United States. Tate, an Assistant Treasurer, has been serving as active Treasurer, j i His recent nomination as Treasurer was not acted on by the Senate 1 before its adjournment May 29. $6,500 CIGARET HAUL Burglars Use Truck to Carry Loot Away at Michigan City. Bn United Prrxe MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June I. Police today searched for robbers who entered the Michigan Central freight house here Thursday night and escaped with 2,300 cartons of cigarets valued at more than $1,500. The thieves gained entrance through a transom and loaded the cigarets on a stolen truck.

water and round-the-world sightseers will be permitted to see the foreign countries from above. The development is a natural one, according to Dollar, and eventually will be adopted by all steamship lines. He merely iiopes that his company will be first in the parade. . The Dollar Company program

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YOUNG BANDIT HOLDS UP COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYE AND FLEES WITH $1,600

Parley in Air The Indianapolis Times today made arrangements to broadcast next Wednesday details of the Democratic State convention from Cadle Tabernacle over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company station. The Times w'ill be on the air over WFMB from 10:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Wednesday, the most interesting hours of the convention. Balloting to choose the Democratic candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and other State offices will occur during those hours. Full details will be given radio listeners by The Times and WFBM.

POWDER PLANT BLASTKILLS 2 19 Hurt, Building Wrecked by Explosion. B’l United Pri nt KEARNEY, N. J., June I.—Two men were killed and four seriously injured today when a “digester” machine exploded in the nitration building at the Arlington plant of the Dupont Munitions Company. The machine, which is used in the manufacture of munitions, was in a small building, which was damaged badly by the concussion. Only a few workers were in the building. The dead: Robert King, 21, Arlington, N. J. Jack O’Brien, 25. Kearny, N. J. About fifteen others were injured less seriously and were treated at the plant and at hospitals. Four of the injured in the West Hudson Hospital are: Donald Davidson, 25, Arlington, N. J., fractured skull. i Michael Donegan, 60, Paterson. N. J., contusions. Charles Murray, 40. Paterson, contusions. , Frank Newton, 55, Harrison, N. J., bruises. Two unidentified, both seriously injured. MINE AREAS QUIET Troops Are Withheld as Feud Subsides. National guardsmen will not be sent into the Pike and Knox County coal mine areas for the time being, Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershner said today upon receipt of reports from two staff officers who reported conditions quiet. Kershner said one officer would remain in the mining region as long as a semblance of trouble is apparent in the feud between union and non-union miners. The staff officers were sent to Vincennes and Petersburg Thursday upon orders from Governor Ed Jackson to make inquiries as to the need for the intervention of guardsmen. William Johnson of Indianapolis, president of the State mining boars and general superintendent of the Gibson Coal Company, appealed to the Governor Tuesday after he and A. L. Hampson, another mining official, were attacked by a mob of union miners at the Littles mine, south of Petersburg. Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m.... 63 11 a. nu... 69 8 a. m.... 64 12 (noon).. 68 9 a. m.... 67 1 p 69 10 a. m.... 67

BUTLER, AIDS MAKE FINAL PLANS FOR G. O. P. SESSION

Itn United Prcns KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 1 Chairman William Butler of the Republican national committee, arrived here today, to begin setting in motion the ponderous machinery of the national Republican convention. Butler was accompanied by his secretaries and a group of advisers. Belief exists here that the proposed farmers’ march on the convention will not materialize beyond the point of a few leaders outlining the farmers’ demands before the committee on resolutions. But should the marching movement become a reality, farmers will find

is to be in the nature of a tribute to Robert Dollar, pioneer segman of the Dollar Line, who will reach his 85th birthday next year. THE planes are to carry six or eight passengers. In order to* care for the space necessary for sheltering the heavier than air

Bookkeeper Forced to Hand Over Fay Roll;] Youth Makes His Escape in Blue Sedan in Which Confederates Wait. FAST POLICE CARS PUT ON TRAIL Robbery Takes Place on High Trestle, After; Bookkeeper Leaves Crawfordsville Trolley With Cash. t A youthful bandit hold up Bookkeeper Charles H. Horn of the Indianapolis Country Club at 11:30 a. m. today as Horn left a Crawfordsville interurban at a stop near the club with the club’s weekly pay roll of $1,600. The pay roll is insured. The youth forced Horn to hand over the pay roll and ran to a blue sedan, waiting on the Crawfordsville Rd., across the tracks, with three other men hi it. The car speeded west. The bandit had ridden from Indianapolis on the same car with Horn. The Country Club is ten miles northwest of the

city. Police and sheriff’s squad were unable to ascertain from the first hasty description of the one bandit, closely observed, whether there was a possibility that this was part of the same gang which held up guests of the Broadmoor Country Club and took $200,000 in money and jewelry Wednesday night. Squads in fast cars paused at the holdup scene only long enough to get descriptions of the bandit and the car and then spread, fanwise, to the west. Watch AH Roads Other squads were sent to watch roads leading to the city from qther directions, on the theory the bandits might have tried the old trick of doubling back. Horn got the pay roll money from the Security Trust Company bank a half hour before he was held up. He told Manager E. C. Welsh of the club that he walked from the bank, 111 N. Pennsylvania St., to the Terminal Station and took the car at 11 a. m. He said he did not notice anyone following him, but the bandit apparently boarded the car after he did and sat in the rear. At the Country Club stop, James Robertson of Detroit, a club guest, and the Negro waiters, H. Bell and Emmett Duncan, of Indianapolis, got off with Horn. The bandit left behind them with a pistol hidden beneath a newspaper. Holdup on Trestle The path to the country club leads up twenty-eight steps to a high bridge across the Big Four railroad, paralleling the car tracks. Horn, Robertson, Bell and Duncan had reached the high trestle, with the bandit close on their heels. The bandit pushed past them and whirled. He whipped the newspaper off his gun and pointed it at the quartet. Robertson put his h#nds in the air. The bandit ordered him to put them down. Evidently he feared someone on the road would see what was going on for, being high in the air, they were visible for miles. Then the bandit stuck the gun against Horn’s ribs and said: “I want that grip.” Horn handed it over. It was a black Boston bag with gold letters,

ample housing quarters awaiting them here. The dramatic appeal of such a march probably would go a long way toward impressing the resolutions committee with the seriousness of their demands. James W. Good of lowa, generalissimo of the Hoover forces, started the convention campaign of Herbert Hoover with the prediction that the Secretary of Commerce would be nominated early in the convention. Good said the marshaling of the farm forces was a movement against President Coolidge and not against Hoover or the Republican party.

conveyances, the new steamships will be built 100 feet longer than any of those now used. Airplane travel will not be stressed by the Dollar Line. It intends rather to give flying to those who care to fly and donkey carts to those who prefer mules. Later, Dollar says, they will want to fly.

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“Indianapolis Country Club/* on the side. The youthful brigand scrambled down the steps and dashed to the road, to speed away with his waiting companions in the blue Buick sedan. Bandit Appears Scared The bandit appeared to be about 22 or 23 years old, light weight and about five feet six inches in height. He wore a sweater and cap. The witnesses differed on the color of the sweater, some remembering it as brown, others as dirty white. He had on light flannel trousers. “The boy appeared to be more frightened than I was,” said Horn. “He was shaking when he told me to hand over the bag. If any of us had had a gun we could have stopped him easily as he scrambled down the steps. But I have been getting the pay roll for three years and I never carried a gun.” Questioning of witnesses after the excitement died down disclosed two stories as to what kind of a car the bandits had. Those in the group held up were sure It was a blue Buick sedan. Conflict on Car Identity Bud Shank, 16, and Miss Minnie Ruddle, 25, who live in a farmhouse near the holdup scene, saw the youth dash to the car and hopped in thfir own. They followed the speeding blue car as far as Clermont and were sure it was a blue Graham-Paige sedan. They also believed there were only two men In it. At Clermont the bandit car was halted a moment by a stop sign, but got the “go” and was speeding west, out of sight, before Shank and Miss Ruddle arrived to spread the alarm in the town. A few minutes before the holdup according to persons lounging about the club, two men in a GrahamPaigne sedan, drove up to the clubhouse, about a quarter-mile from the holdup scene. Ask for Manager They asked for the manager. Welsh was out at the time. The two men got in the car and drove away. Some persons said they saw the car later, by the car tracks. Police had not cleared up definitely whether there were two cars in the holdup or the one upon the identity of which witnesses differed. Lee Nelson, golf professional at the club, saw the bandit run to the waiting car, but thought nothing of it until the victims reached th clubhouse. Insurance companies who suf- ; sered in the $200,000 robbery Wednesday night at the Broadmoor Country Club today considered offering a reward for information leading to capture of the bandits and recovery of the loot as a move to spur the hunt for the daring gunmen. Indianapolis police still held seven men today in their investigation of the holdup, but had little evidence to connect them with the crime. Furniture Man Freed Six of those held are Chicago youths, arrested in a green sedan at Lebanon Thursday, who said they came here for the Speedway race, and the seventh is a Chicago youth who has been rooming on N. Kenwood Ave. for several weeks. He was arrested late Thursday when two of the Chicago youths said they had stayed with him Wednesday night. His landlady verified the story, declaring they were in bed by II p. m. The robbery occurred about 10:45 p. m. A local west side furniture dealer who was questioned several hours Thursday was released when detectives found six persons who verified his story of his Wednesday night activities.