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ROAR TRIBUTE TO GIRL FLIER IN NEW YORK Amelia Earhart Comes Home in Triumph; Rain Stops for Welcome. MEDALS ARE PRESENTED Two Companions in Hop Over Atlantic Share in Noisy Greeting. Jtil United Press NEW YORK. July 6. Amelia Earhart came home in triumph today. Up through lower Broadway, where New York shouted its acclaim to Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd rode the Boston girl, who joined the select band of Americans who have conquered the Atlantic by air. With her were her companions on the flight from Trepassey Bay to Wales—Milmer Stultz, the pilot, and Lou Gordon, mechanician. The first woman to fly the Atlantic was met by Grover Whalen, chairman of the mayor’s reception committee, who went down the bay in the city tug Macom to. escort her j to city hall. Relatives at Dock Miss Earhart, Stultz and Gordon j were taken off the S. S. President Roosevelt. Waiting to greet them were Mrs. Stultz, Mrs. Clara Stultz, mother of the flier, and Miss Anna Bruce of Brookline, Mass., who promised to marry Gordon if he flew the Atlantic and who will keep her promise. Harbor craft swung into line and made a lane of dipping flags and shrieking sirens as the Macom pointed its nose toward the Battery and steamed up the bay. On the upper deck stood the crew of the monoplane Friendship, waving a greeting. Rain, falling all morning, ceased just before Miss Earhart and her companions boarded the tug, but the skies were murky. Wears Modish Gown Miss Earhart bore little resemblance to the girl who, dressed in flying togs, waited impatiently for the weather to clear at Trepassey bay. She was dressed in a modish gown and a small, trimly cut hat had displaced the leather flying helmet. A line of automobiles was drawn up at the battery. Smiling broadly, Miss Earhart, Stultz and Gordon got into the first car for the short ride to iity hall. ' As the parade swung into lower Broadway, motorcycle police pushed the crowds back to the curb. Out of the windows of skyscrapers came ticker-tape and confetti. Employes and employers quit work as the procession passed and leaned from windows to shout greetings to the fliers. At City Hall, Joseph McKee, acting mayor, extended the city’s official welcome in the absence of Mayor James J. Walker, who is on a vacation in Hollywood. “Glorious Reception’’ In welcoming Miss Earhart, McKee compared her flight to those of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd and the crew of the Junkers monoplane Bremen. He said the Friendship had demonstrated that ocean flights could be made without risk of life, provided adequate preparations were made. McKee then presented the medal of the city of New York to Miss Earhart, Stultz and Gordon, and also gave them a scroll of welcome. Miss Earhart responded briefly: “This is the most glorious reception I have ever had. It is always a pleasure to come to New York, but this time it is greater than ever. The 20 hours and 40 minutes which we 6pent over the Atlantic were well worth it. Most of the credit, of course, goes to Mr. Stultz for his wonderful piloting.” After the reception Miss Earhart and her companions were guests of Commander Richard E. Byrd at luncheon. The round of entertainment here will continue until Monday, when the-fliers leave for Boston. They are due in Chicago. July 19. DISCUSS STREET PLAN City Officials, C. of C. Committee Confer on Thoroughfares. City officials discussed the city thoroughfare plan with the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee at luncheon today, at the chamber. William H. Block, civic affairs secretary, invited the city officials. George T. O’Connor, plan commission president, Macklin Mack and Henry Steeg, plan engineers. City Engineer A. H. Moore and Mayor L. Ert Slack attended. DEATH FOILS REUNION Girl Learns Father She Has Not Seen in 15 Years Dead in Accident. Hunting for her father whom she had not seen for 15 years, Miss Arline Umbarger, Galveston, Ind., learned today at the coroner’s office that he was killed in an automobile accident near Stileyville on May 5. . 0 The father was Charles Umbarger, 1042 S. Peters St. The father and the girl’s mother separated •ossa years ago.

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DRY BOSS CALLS HALT ON VIOLENT METHODS IN ENFORCING LIQUOR LAW

‘No More Rough Stuff’ Is Edict by Doran, as He Reorganizes Army. BY RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, July 6.—“ No more rough stuff” in prohibition enforcement. That was the order sent throughout the country today by Dr. J. M. Doran, prohibition commissioner, as he prepared for the reorganization of his army of 2,400 men that will follow new civil service examinations the latter part of this month and in September. “The prohibition law,” said Doran, “is a dignified law, and it can be enforced in a decent and dignified manner. We have as clean and honest a body of agents now as could be found in any similar group, and they will be required to use reasonable tactics.” Dr. Doran said he did not expect his men to use kid gloves, but except for moonshine areas, where desperate violators often are encountered. he said there would be no more door-smashing, furniturebreaking methods. Bars Extreme Methods The new kind of enforcement caps years of complaint against “Carrie Nation methods” of dry agents and coast guard forces, including the wholesale destruction of furniture in the Helen Morgan night club in New York and the shooting of J. D. Hanson near Niagara Falls several months ago. There have been previous instructions against use of firearms and other forms of violence, but the one broadcast today is the most extreme of all. Though sanctioned by the United States Supreme Court, wire-tapping will be banned except in big conspiracy cases. The new civil service examinations have been demanded by Doran for many months. Some of his best men fell before the questions, which he characterized as absurd in testing the qualifications of agents. They were mere scholastic tests, according to Doran, and were neither fair nor searching. Counter Attack on Smith? In view of the approach of a national election, and A1 Smith’s demand for modification, many looked upon Doran’s order as one means of counteracting Smith’s line of attack. Though almost 2,400 positions technically are vacant as a result of the last examinations, Doran hopes that the majority will pass the next ones. He lost almost 75 per cent of his men in the examinations which he criticised, but they have been kept on, pending his demand for another test. Dry officials from all parts of the country will be called here for a conference on new enforcement methods within a month. Doran will explain to them what he expects in the way of dignified enforcement. In New York, he said, good results recently have been obtained without employing unconstitutional or violent tactics, and he sees no reason why this system cannot be extended to other parts of the country.

BY DAN IS. KIDNEY THE archaepiscopal red cross, which appears on Christmas seals bought by conscientious Indianapolis citizens from the Marion County Tuberculosis Association at the holiday season, has proven a fairy wand that has brought into being a miniature Eden of health for this city’s undernourished children. Located at the wooded bend of

She Won’t Tell By United Press UNIONTOWN, Pa., July 6. —Although she had read of apples being shot from the head of living persons, Mrs. James Dennis refused to place her head in such a position, especially with the rifle in the hands of her husband, she told authorities. Her husband had a nice, big red apple selected for the feat, and his favorite rifle loaded for the occasion, Mrs. Dennis said, when she managed to escape from their home in the mountains near Seaton’s Lake. She notified State police who found Dennis asleep in his home, his rifle in his hand and the core of the target apple near by.

ASKS 150 MORE COPS Worley Submits Request to Safety Board. Additional personnel of 150 was asked by Police Chief Claude M. Worley in the budget request for 1929, which he submitted to the safety board today. He would add to the present force seventy-eight second grade patrolmen, fifty-eight first grade, five detective and five uniform sergeants and four lieutenants. The budget total was placed at $1,621 000, an increase of $369,500 over the figure for this year. The salary increase, due to the additional force, would be $312,000, making a total for salaries of $1,502,479. Equipment recommendations would total $28,870. There was no budget appropriation for equipment, this year, but $50,000 raised by bonds was spent. The equipment asked included six medium heavy cars, five light cars, one emergency, fifteen motorcycles and six side cars. LESLIE TO SEE HOOVER Candidate and Manager to Confer in Washington Saturday. By Times Special WASHINGTON, July G.—Harry G. Leslie, Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana, and Bert Fuller, his campaign manager, have an appointment with Herbert Hoover for 10 a. m. Saturday. George Akerson, secretary to Hoover, said that the appointment was asked by Leslie and that he does not know the purpose of the Hoosiers’ visit. MEARS VISITS IN BERLIN World Girdlers Pay Short Call on U. S. Ambassador. By United Press BERLIN, July 6.—John Mears and Charles B. D. Collyer, attempting to break the record for a round-the-world trip, paid a hasty visit to American Ambassador Schurman today before starting by airplane for Moscow.

FRAIL-BODIED CHILDREN FIND HEALTH EDEN IN BODY-BUILDING CAMP

a winding creek, far from noisy highways, a short distance from the village of Bridgeport, is this beauty spqt dedicated to the building of strong young bodies. The first quota of twenty-five girls between 8 and 12 have gone to the camp. In August a similar number of boys will attend. They were chosen because they were underweight and not assimilating properly.

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HUNT BODY Os MAGNATFLOST OUTDFPLANE Mystery of Disappearance Over English Channel Is Unsolved. WIDOW ORDERS SEARCH Loewenstein’s Chief Aid Says Suicide Theory Is ‘Stupid.’ By United Press LONDON. July 6.—Mystery in the disappearance of Captain Alfred Loewenstein, noted Belgian financier who fell from his Fokke: plane as it crossed the English Channel, continued today as efforts were started to find the body. Captain Roland Drew, pilot of the Loewenstein plane, believes he knows fairly accurately the spot where Loewenstein might have fallen after opening—either accidentally or purposely—a door leading out of the cabin Thf; plane was flying at a height of about 4,000 feet at the time, Drew said, and there was considerable chanqe the body might have been smashed. The pilot today planned to hire the Dover harbor board tug and make a search for the body, near the spot where Drew believes the financier dramatically brought an end to a career that had been dramatic. It was understood here that the search for the body had been ordered by Loewenstein’s widow who at present is in Brussels. She has returned to Brussels and has refused all comment on the disappearance of her husband. Scouts Suicide Theory However, commenting on reports, that the Paris coroner’s board unofficially had decided Loewenstein's death was suicide, M. Lauter. Loewenstein’s chief aid? in Brussels, is reported as saying: “It is stupid to think it was suicide. Loewenstein was energetic and characterful. He had no reason to desire death. I know the plane well and it was easy to mistake the door to the retiring room and the outside door.” Loewenstein’s dramatic death had very telling effect on the bourses of many European capitals. The financier, who had at times offered to loan his own government $50,000,000 without interest and the French government $100,000,000 at 2 per cent interest, had claimed to be just ready to start on one of his greatest financing schemes. Wednesday night he bearded his Fokker plane—one of the vast fleet of airplanes he kept—to cross the channel. Apparently, friends said, he was in good humor. A valet and two secretaries accompanied him. Plunges From Plane At about mid-channel the financier rose, said something to one of his secretaries about going to the retiring room, and then disappeared. Soon his valet discovered the captain had disappeared, had discovered the outer cabin door open and ordered the plane brought down. Many pointed out that Loewenstein was thoughtless about some minor things and often mistook doors. This was given as explanation for his mistaking the outer door and the retiring room door. However, officials at the Croydon airdrome, from which the plane sailed, said it was almost impossible to accidentally open the outer door. The door opens outward and there is a terrific wind pressure against it. Market Gains Confidence Financiers Thursday night, after diagnosing the market and the sharp downward trend of the Loewenstein holdings, said they believed the market had regained its confidence and that further losses would not be expected. The International Holdings and Investment Company and the Hydro Electric Securties Corporation, whereof Loewenstein was president, issued statements saying the financial position of both companies was sound. Loewenstein’s shareholdings also were said to be unencumbered. HALT 532-HOUR DANCE Each of Sevet: Pittsburgh Couples to Receive S7OO. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa.. July 6. Seven Pittsburgh couples completed 532 hours of dancing when the dance marathon in Duquesne Garden was halted by the health department at 2 a. m. today. They had entered the derby, June 13, when 100 couples took the floor.

Amelia Earhart, “Lady Lindy,’ first looman to fly the Atlantic, who returned from Europe today to receive the plaudits of New York for her (treat feat.

PLAY, eat, sleep. Out of these three things Matron Amie Wadsworth and Nurse Flora Alice Dutcher have constructed a daily program, which has already met with the children’s joyous approval. They arise at 7 a. m., each child sleeping on a single cot In the long dormitory, with its dozen well-screened windows.

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They’re not so old, but they’re too old to get in The Times-Capitol Dairies Scooter Derby. So the staff of City Recreation Director Jesse McClure staged their own scooter race, to get experience they deemed necessary in directing the playground elimination races. Bob O’Hara, the, bald Irish youth on the extreme

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Warns Against Lash to Beat Genius Into Child

Minneapolis. July 6.—Genius can not be slapped into a child with a strap, nor can great ability be imbued with coercion. Miss Florence M. Hale, editor of the Kindergarten. Boston, and State supervisor of rural schools, Maine, declared today at the closing session of the National Education Association convention. “Parents might just as well learn in the beginning that children have natural limitations beyond which they can not go,” Miss Hale said. “Some time ago a great lawyer came to use with his backward boy, whom he said also was to be made a grtat lawyer. “The youth had been In the best

COLLINS SETS DATE FOR WILD BANK CASE RULING

Criminal Judge James A. Collins will rule July 28 on motions to quash indictments against four officials of the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank, he announced at conclusion of arguments on the motion today. If the motions are overruled, the decks will be cleared for the formal arraignment and setting of a trial date, unless attorneys present some unusual delay moves. The motion to quash and a plea in abatement, the latter already having been disSLAYER JREAKS JAIL Four Cut Hole in Wall of Tennessee Prison. By United Press UNION CITY. Tenn.. July 6. Four prisoners cut a 20-inch hole in the wall of the county jail here today and escaped. One of the prisoners was Johnny Vaughan, 21, under death sentence in connection with the murder of Roland Bell. A posse of citizens was organized shortly after the escape and started search for the men. No trace of the four had been found late this morning. Vaughan shot and killed Bell when he found the latter riding with Miss Angie Stone, whom each claimed as his sweetheart. The others in the jail break were Charlie Archer, Bernie Sims and Will Allen.

Then breakfast is served at the refectory, where eight children dine at each of the new oak tables. The meals are prepared in a modem diet kitchen and electric refrigeration insures that the milk, which is always on the menu, is at the proper temperature. Following breakfast there are play hours until 11 a. m.. when a nap precedes the noon hour lunch. The daytime npps, at 11

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left, above, who is the Scooter Derby Editor of The Times, had the shortest legs and had to buy the cokes for the crowd after the race. Others in the picture above (left to right), Miss Ruth Emhardt, Lewis Skinner, Miss Hazel Abbett, Director McClure, Henry Long, Miss Lola Pfeiffer.

schools here and in Europe. Everything had beer done to fit him for a great work and still he was below mental average. ‘We found he was mentally incapable of the career planned for him. He had intelligence to be a good merchant, a good salesman or a good telegraph operator, but not a great lawyer. "Consider Lindbergh, ousted from the University of Wisconsin because he could not 'get by.’ ‘Just think how much stronger he would have been if, instead of making him batter at the things he did not like, he had been placed in his own field.”

posed, are the usual methods employed to delay. The four officials are: J. F. Wild, John Craig Fisher, Otto P. Kern and William F. McNairy. The indictments resulted from a grand jury investigation following the closing of the bank, now in receivership, last s>immer. A point brought out by Attorneys James W. Noel and Fred Van Nuys for the officials was that the indictment is faulty because It does not point out specifically that jurisdiction in the case is left to the State because the bank was not a national bank or a member of the Federal reserve system. If either of these conditions had prevailed. Noel argued, jurisdiction in the case would remain with the Federal Court exclusively. Prosecutor William H. Remy said the indictment does not have to set out these facts negatively. ‘STEVE’ HEARING ~ SET Convict to Make Plea July 18 for Conferences In Prison. By United Press LA PORTE, Ind., July 16.—Judge John C. Richter of La Port Circuit Court, today ordered D. C. Stephenson to be brought into the court July 18, when a hearing will be held on Stephenson’s petition for a writ of mandamus to compel Warden Walter Daly to permit Stephenson and his attorneys to have private interviews in the State prison at Michigan City.

a. m- and 3 p. m. are to be taken in the sunshine, the children garbed in as few clothes as possible. m a a THERE will be hikes, games, woodcraft, swimming and showers in the new bathhouse in the afternoon. Then dinner and movies and other indoor programs on the large screened-in porch or the lounge, where an open fire-

Supreme Court Justice, Opposed in Campaign, Is Named. Rtf United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. July 6. The Oklahoma News today printed a charge that Justice Fred P. Branson of the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ‘ threatened to kill” Carl C. Magee, editor of the News. The News declared the threat was made before a leading member of the bar and a business man in the offices of the chief justice. Magee has opposed the re-election of Branson to the State Supreme Court. Chief Justice Branson was absent from the city today in campaign activity. His secretary said she was in the office at the reported time, and labeled the story “a lie.” The News said the alleged threat was heard by one of its employes and “later corroborated.” FATAL Shelbyville Boy Dies in Hospital Here. Harold George, 10, of Shelbyville, Ind., died at the Riley Hospital here late Thursday of burns received in a fireworks accident Wednesday, at Shelbyville. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elongo George, was burned on the body when his overalls caught fire from a firecracker which exploded in his hand. * STATE ELKS TO FLORIDA Special Train Will Leave Here Tonight for Convention. A special train over the Big Four will carry about 125 members of the Elks Club to the national convention in Miami, Fla., leaving the Union Station this afternoon. Indiana delegations arrived in Indianapolis Thursday and today, and all will march in a body, headed by the Hammond band and drum corps, to the Union Station at 3:30 p. m. Slate Fall Kills Miner. By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July Dallas Hays, 36, Is dead of Injuries suffered when struck by a fall of slate while working in Crown Hill Mine No. 2, near Clinton. Hourly Temperatures 7a. m ... 70 10 a. m.... 81 8 a. m.... 74 11 a. m.... 82 9p. m.... 80 12 (noon).. 82 1 p. m.... 82

place has been built. Bedtime is at 8 p. m. The building, newly painted and decorated was formerly a portable schoolhouse at Ben Davis. New equipment was donated. Sunday there is to be a formal dedication program at the camp. Fred A. Sims is president of the asssociation and Mrs. Jeannette Williams is supervisor of the camp.

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FOG AND RAIN HALT ITALIAN OCEANPLANE Fliers Safe in Natal, Brazil, After Being Turned Back by Storms. SHATTER AIR RECORDS Atlantic Machine Located; Returns to City After Night of Anxiety. BY U. G. KEENER Inited Prfss Staff Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6.—MaJ. Arturo Ferrarin and Maj. Carlo Del Prete of the royal Italian air force arrived at Natal at 10:20 a. m. today after their record breaking flight from Montecelio airdrome, Rome, to the beach at Touros, fortwfive miles north of Natal. The silver gray plane, 64, In which the aviators—already holders of the endurance flight record—made their flight of 4,321 miles from Rome, was located today after its landing Thursday night when rain and hailstorms and blinding fog made continuance of their flight impossible. The plane had landed first at the municipal bathing beach near Natal, but reascended and turned southward to continue its flight, originally intended to end at Buenos Aires, 7,000 miles from Montecelio airdrome, from which it started Tuesday. Crowds watched the plane head into the storm, and a few minutes later saw it flying back over the city, to disappear northward. Night of Anxiety A night of anxiety regarding Its safety was ended today when Pilot Andre De Pecker of the French Latecoere Paris-Buenos Aires mail service searched the coast and, after an hour’s flight, located the plane at Touros. Later the two planes were see/; flying over Natal on the return journey. News of the Italian plane’s landing was reecived with great enthusiasm throughout the country. Thousands of people, in towns and in isolated provinces, had watched for it. In Air Fifty-One Hours The flyers had bee: in the air for 51 hours 24 minutes when they first landed on the Natal Municipal Beach near the River Ceara and the Mirio Falls. They had broken the long distance flight record made by Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine who flew’ 3,909 miles to Germany from New York last year. The flight of these two former Italian war flyers, already holders of the endurance flight record and two of Italy's most famous airmen, was as spectacular as it was carefully planned. The gray Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, capable of 150 miles an hour and capable of 600 horsepower, had been prepared secretly for the great test. Asa preliminary test the two airmen took the machine aloft and broke the endurance flight record of Captain George Haldemand and Eddie Stinson. Carried Five-Ton Load Tuesday evening the craft was loaded with its tons of fuel, with sandwiches, wines, coffee and fruit and the fliers appeared for a start. Reports from the ocean at Rome said that flying conditions were not the best. Ferrarin met this report with a shrug of his shoulders. All sorts of weather would be met on this trip and he had assured the government the start would be made that night, therefore, he was ready to go. The plane made terrific speed. Crossing Gibraltar, the African Gold Coast, the Cape Verde Islands and at sea it whirled through the unknown aircourse at a speed ranging from 122 to 137 miles an hour. Constant radio communications were maintained with Rome, with land stations and with ships at sea. Each message was terse, merely telling of the speed and of the plane’s perfect actions. ATTEMPTS PLANE THEFT “Book Flier” Crashes Machine Into Fence at Muncie. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 6.—Attempted theft of an airplane is the charge on which police are seeking Nevaldo Marino, 22, Negro. Dubbed “a book flier” by employes of the Muncie airport where he had been a frequent visitor, Marino bought gasoline from a nearby station, filled the tank of the plane and started the motor for a take-off. However, the machine did not attain sufficient speed and struck a fence. Marino fled. The plane was badly damaged. Glass Breaking in Season By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., July Window and door panes in school buildings here are suffering too many casualties, G. G. Eppley, city recreational director asserts, report J ing 535 completely broken and 5021 cracked. _