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Lindy, Anne Escape Death in Crash!

—“THESE ARE FUZZY, BUT A SOLDIER WAS CHASING ME ——Mexican, soldiers did everything in their power to prevent photographers at Yalbuena field from taking pictures of the accident or getting the pictures away once they were taken. The only cameraman to get his plates away safely was the NEA man.

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Above—This picture, brought from Mexico City to Laredo, Tex., by airmail, taken thence to St. Louis by chartered plane and telephoned from there, shows Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s airDlane immediately after it had crashed at Valbuena flying field, Mexico City. Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancee, Miss Anne Morrow, had, just got out of the plane when this picture was taken. Mexican soldiers attempted to confiscate all cameras and films; this is one of the few pictures that got through to this country. Arrows points to the missing wheel that caused the wreck.

MANAGER BILL WRESTED FROM FOES IN COMMITTEE

Measure is Expected to Emerge on Senate Floor Today. Wrested from the grip of its opponents in the state senate’s cities and towns committee, the Noli city manager bill was expected to emerge on the floor of the senate today on a divided report. City manager forces who clushed with the bill's enemies in a public hearing Friday night had the promise of Senator John C. Sherwood of Mitchell, cities and towns chairman, that he would canvass the committee before today’s session for signatures on the divided report. Fight for Delay A minority, including Senators Sumner A. Clancy, Indianapolis. Coffin protege, and George W. Sims, Terre Haute, bitter foes of manager government, will recommend indefinte postponement. Senators J. Clyde Hoffman. Indianapolis. Byron Huff. James P. Davis and Roy M. Fried ley were to recommend passage, making up a majority. All the arguments that were advanced against adoption of city manager government in the referendum in Indianapolis in 1927, were advanced by city manager foes at the hearing. Charles W. Jewett, attorney and former mayor, lead the attack, charging the bill and 1921 act propose to set up a government that is "unconstitutional, autocratic and a civic calamity.” Gause Answers Arguments "If this manager law becomes operative,” Jewett said, "the city of Indianapolis will be helpless to do business; bonds cannot be * issued;

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indebtedness cannot be incurred; money cannot be collected and expended and the w hole institution of our government will be shaken to its very foundation.” The prediction followed Jewett’s contention that laws pertaining to first-class cities will not apply to Indianapolis under city manager government. Jewett’s arguments were answered

Opening Markets

BY ELMER C. WALZER Vnitrd Press Financial Editor NEW YORK. March 2.—Though on a smaller scale than Friday the Hoover bull market showed no signs of weakening at the opening today. The majority of issues moved up from fractions to two points, with rails and utilities leading. A few small losses were noted on the big board, while the curb market showed signs of heavy profit-taking. Big blocks were absent on the initial transactions. American Water Works opened 5.000 shares at 94. a new high and up 2 points, while Kreuger and Toll opened 5.000 at 44 1 _•, unchanged. Other sales were relatively small. U. S. Steel declined l - points to 190’?. and losses ranging to a point were recorded in Westinghouse Electric, New Haven, Gold Dust. Montgomery Ward and International Combustion. —March 3 Amer Roll MiU 94 s Assoc Gas (A? - r 60 Amcr S Pover (AS 118 •* Hoping Air T 91 Cont Oil 26 Cities Service m T * Curtiss Flying Serv 23"* Durant Motors ts’ Dr Forest 22% Elec Bond and Sh 285’ Elec Inves 113 ! j Fox T 33 \ : Ford of England II •* i Hudson Bav 22‘x iNE Fewer 57% . SvJir. 23* i X Am Aviation 18% Fokker NaU Aviation 71*.

An indication of the difficulties he encountered is given by a note he scribbled on the back of one plate holder, which contained two of the pictures printed here. The note read: “These two pictures are a trifle fuzzy, but a Mexican soldier was chasing me and 1 took them while on the run.”

Below—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh probably never was more worried in his life than he was when this picture was taken. It shows his plane, crippled by the loss of one wheel, circling over Velbuena field preparatory to landing. Inside, Lindbergh was lowering the windows to avoid the danger of broken glass, tucking pillows about Miss Anne Morrow, his fiancee, and cautioning her to "sit still and don’t be frightened.” A moment after the camera shutter clicked the plane came to earth, coasted along on one wheel for a space, and then overturned.

by Fred C. Gause, former state supreme court judge, who has had a hand in shaping the Noll amendments. "I see nothing invalid about them,” Gause declared. “Whenever a law like this has been attacked in other states, the last courts of appeal in every case have supported them.”

Std Oil Indiana 87 % Serve] 16% S E Power 83 3 4 Trans Cont A T 26 United L and P (Ai ; 38% United Gas and Imp 190 1 8 Ohio Oil 4 New York Stock Opening —March 2 Am Can 1.123% Anaconda r. 151 Atchison 204 Canadian Pat, 254'i Chrysler 197% Fisk Tire 18% Goodrich 97% Hudson Motor 90 \ Inspiration 65’ a Mo Pac 83% Mont Ward •. 139 Nor Pac . 109% Pennsylvania 79". Radio 82% St Paul pfd : 61 Sinclair 39 So Pac 134% S O N Y 40' 4 Ste°- Warner 134% p udebaker 90% Union Pac ...229 U S Rubber 53 Yellow Truck 44% Magma 79 Westinah Elec 160 Itit Nickel 67 WOOLENS ARE~FAVORED LONDON. March 2.—The much-laughed-at winter woolens have received the approval of the British Research Association for being the best garments for winter. A series of experiments conducted by this association indicated that undyed wool permits a higher t ransmission of ultra-violet rays than either silk or cotton.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1929

DEMOCRATS TO ELECT TODAY E. Kirk McKinney Has Edge for Chairmanship. City Democrats will meet • this afternoon at the Clay pool to elect a city chairman to succeed William E. Clau^r. E. Kirk McKinney, treasurer of the county organization, is expected to be elected. It is understood that he is satisfactory to the Leroy J. Keach factiofi and city hall democrats'. McKinney was assigned to city hall to solicit contributions during the recent campaign. Mayor L. Ert Slack and other city hall Democrats have not openly fought County Chairman Keach in the contest. Keach has suggested delaying the election until after the legislature ends to determine the status of the city manager law. City hall leaders cifculated the report that Keach planned to defer the election, filling the vacancy with a man of his choice after the legislature ends. Keach refused to reveal his plans this morning. Speakers will include Frank Dailey, defeated candidate for Governor, Mayor L. Ert Slack and Evans Woollen. It was indicated that Mrs. George Werbe will be re-elected vice-chair-man; Walter Houpper, secretary, arid Ernest Markey, south side druggist, treasurer.

FOUR DEADJN BLAZE Trapped by Flames When Home Is Destroyed. By United Press . STEUBENVILLE. 0.. March 2. Four persons were burned to death today when the home of William Prim, at Goulds Station, eleven miles west of Steubenville, was destroyed by fire. Prim was brought to the Ohio Valley hospital here with his feet burned off. Physicians said he probably would die. JAIL CLUBBER TO DIE *Convicted of Killing ExAuto Executive in Cell. By l nitt and I'n.'.g CLEVELAND, March 2.—Sentence of death in the electric chair was to be pronounced today by Judge N. Craig Mcßride upon James T. Nevins, homeless sailor who late ! Friday was convicted of first de- | gree murder for the fatal clubbing ! of Don Prentiss, former executive of a Detroit automobile company. Prentiss was killed in his sleep Nov. 13, 1928, while confined in a Cuyahoga county jail cell with Nevins. LIFE SAVED BY CIGAR Bullet Crashes Into Chair as Man Goes to Smoking Room. ROCHESTER. N. Y„ March 2. A cigar, which George Beaudoin |of this city was asked to take to | the smoking compartment of a j train bound for Maine, probably saved his life. Shortly after he had ! complied- with the request a bullet | crashed through the window and I flattened itself against Beaudoin’s seat.

RIPPLE WINS FROM MANUAL IN OVERTIME Garrett's Last Second Field Goal Wins for Northsiders, 21-20. RIVALS TIED OFTEN Half Ends 8-8: Regulation Playing Time Finds Count Tied at 15. BULLETIN • Ben Davis held al3to 7 advantage over Acton at the ha’f In the second quarter-final contest at the fieldhouse. BY DICK MILLER Broad Ripple won a sensational 21-to-20 triumph from Manual this morning in an overtime contest in the first game of today’s session of the Indianapolis high schoool sectional basketball tournament and moved into the semi-final round, which will be played this afternooon.

Ripple's victory came with the echoes of the gun shot that ended tlie contest. Garrett fired away and the gun ended the contest as the ball swished through the meshes. Four thousand fans watched a hotly contested initial period, the half ending with the teams tied at 8-all. Both teams continued to battle savagely in the last half. Ripple grabbed a 14-10 advantage late in the game but two frantic shots by Manual put the Red and White on even terms once again. It was a hysterical crowd that watched Roome knot the count for Ripple just a moment before the game ended regulation playing time ended with the count at 15-15. Harter put Ripple into the lead at the ■ start of the overtime with a free throw, but Beplay’s goal .had Manual ahead a moment later. Garret tied the count at 17 with a foul toss. Roome flashed under the basket for Ripple, but Regenstrief tied it at 19. Kappamyer tossed a free throw to give Manual the lead, 20 to 19, and Garrett’s field goal decided the contest as the gun cracked. BD. RIPPLE G F TPi MANUAL GF TP Garrett,!...'. 33 9Beplay.f 2 4 8 Lee.f 0 0 0 Reiswsrg.f 0 1 l Gulling,c 1 1 3lKappamyer,c. 13 5 Reinking.g.. 0 0 OlElrod.g 2 0 4 Ressler.g 0 1 1 [Light, g....... 0 0 0 Harter, f 1 2 4 : Regenstrief,!. 10 3 Roome,f 1 2 Wilson.g: 0 0 _oj Totals 6 9 21. Totals .... 6 8 20 AUTOOCCUP/iNTS FIGHT GUN BATTLE IN ROAD Blood and Shattered Glass on Highway Near Attica. By United Press ATTICA, Ind., March 2. What jyas believed to have been a duel between rival liquor runners occurred near here Friday night. Two automobiles, each containing several persons, halted a short distance apart and a rifle batle, lasting about fifteen minutes, ensued. Shattered glass and a pool of blood on the highway indicated that the batle was violent. At its close, both automobiles were driven away in opposite directions, it was reported to police here. Local authorities have been unable to trail the machines farther than Attica.

DRY BILL TO SENATE Consider Perkins Resolution on Monday. Monday at 3 p. m., the senate will consider the Perkins resolution to memoralize congress to amend the eighteenth amendment to permit regulation of the liquor traffic by law. This was decided upon motion of I. Floyd Garrott, Battleground, after Senator Chester A. Perkins, South Bend, pleaded for printing of his resolution when he took the senate floor on a minority committee report for passage Friday afternoon. All other members of the committee voted that the resolution be indefinitely postponed. Perkins is author of the measure. DENTIST ON WASHINGTON STREET Dr. A. F. Eiteljorg Has Lp-to-Date Suite Taking Three Floors. Opening of one of the most modern dental offices in the city will tip held Saturday when Dr. A. F. Eiteljorg occupies his new suites on the second, third and fourth floors of a building of 8 1 -. East Washington street. Dr. Eiteljorg has taken a long time lease on his new offices He was located formerly at the cottier of East Market street and Monument Circle Within a short time the building formerly occupied by Dr Eiteljorg, he was a tenant there for thirty years, will be razed to make way for a twelve-story office structure.

Mexico to Washington Hop States Fliers Hope to Be First to Make Flight Between Two Capitals. B.u United Preen MEXICO CITY. March 2.—Joaquin Gongalez Pacheco and C. E. McMillan started on a nonstop flight from Mexico City to Washington at 6:47 a. m. today. They are carrying 507 gallons of gasoline. By lifting their Stinson-Detroiter in the air with such a heavy load, they set a record for this altitude. The plane started from the Valbuena civil flying field and ran a mile, gathering high speed before it rose slowly into the air and began to climb. The fliers still had to rise another 2.000 feet, with load largely unimpaired, to clear the mountains en route to Tampico. If Pacheco and McMillan reach WaWshington, it will be the* first non-stop flight from Mexico City to Washington. Pacheco is a Mexican civil aviator and McMillan an American air mail pilot. Hourly Tempertaures 6 a. m 29 8 a. m.... 30 7 a. m 29 9 a, in.... 31

TWO ARE ACCUSED IN GANG MASSACRE

Gunmen to Be Arraigned Today for Murder of 7 by Firing Squad. By United Press CHICAGO, March 2.—lnvestigation of Chicago's most cold-blooded gang murder, the St. Valentine’s day massacre, has resulted in a break between the state’s attorney’s office and the police department The investigation was turned entirely over to David Stansbury, assistant state’s atotrney, today, as Jack McGum and Rocco Fanelli were called up for formal arraignment on seven charges of murder. Stansbury declared Friday flight that McGum’s alibi had been smashed and that he is convinced both McGum and Faneli were members of the firing squad. He said new and important evidence had been received, necessitating a thirty-day continuance to prepare the state’s case for trial. Still Probe Police Angle Presumably the rift developed because Stansbury declared he by no means had given up his inquiry into whether members of the police force participated in the murders. John Stege, deputy police commissioner, refused to comment other than to say it had been deemed advisable for the state’s atorney’s office to have full charge of the investigation. McGum, reputed chief machine gunner for A1 Capone, and Fanelli, mild appearing, bespectacled former bodyguard for Capone, were charged formally late Friday, one charge being lodged for each of the seven men who were shot down in the massacre. Release Blonde Model The blonde artist's model found with McGum in the Hotel Stevens when he was arrested, Louise Rolfe, was booked dn a disorderly conduct charge. She was freed on bond, loudly proclaiming her derision for the "cheap bums who would pick qn an innocent girl and a swell fellow like Jack.” Stansbury is known to be concentrating his work now on the police angle of the case. Two of the men seen leaving the garage at the time of the shooting, wore police uniforms.

JONES BIU.JS SIGNED Coolidge Puts Signature on Dry Measure. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 2.—A new law providing a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine for liquor law violations, intended to curb bootlegging, came into existence today when President Oclidge signed the Jones bill.

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon i NEW YORK, March 2.—There is nothing particularly new in justification of its warning of several weeks ago in the formal annual report of the Federal Reserve Board just submitted to congress. The advance in the Dallas 'Tex.) bank rate is probably due*to local conditions and is not regarded seriously as a market factor. Perhaps of more importance are the views of president Coolidge attributing the success of his administration largely to his policy of noninterference with business. A continuation of this policy by the incoming President is takCn as a foregone conclusion. We do not think the market will be greatly upset either by the rate increase in Dallas or the reserve board's annual report.

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FIVE CITY STUDENTS ARE INJURED WHEN AUTO IS WRECKED; TWO MAY DIE Car Crashes Into Telephone Pole When Driver Swerves to Avoid Collision With Another Machine. PAIR HAS FRACTURES OF SKULD Other Motorist Arrested on Assult and Battery Charge; Quintet on Way to Basketball Tourney. Five college and high school students were injured, two critically, when the Ford-roadster in and on which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole at Forty-ninth and Illinois streets this morning. The youths were on their way to the sectional basketball tournament at Butler university fieldhouse when the smashup occurred. It resulted when the driver of the roadster attempted to avoid collision with another auto. Critically injured are Richard Fogary. 17, of 1138 Pleasant street, and Max Greenwald, 17, of 1515 Park avenue.

Heap Big Boy B,u United Press FOND DU LAC, Wis., March 2.—The largest baby boy in the middle west is a resident of the Wisconsin Industrial Home for Women at Taycheedah, near here. “Big Chief”—so named because of his Indiana blood—is 1 year old, weighs forty-two pounds, stands three feet high and already has all his first teeth.

WFBM ON NEW CHAINSUNDAY First Columbia Program to Be Carried. Indianapolis radio fans will receive their first treat of big time broadcasting through a local station Sunday night, when WFBM of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company officially joins the Columbia Broadcasting system as a permanent member of that national radio chain. The first Columbia feature to be heard will be the La. Aaline program at 7:30, followed ly the Majestic "Theater of the *.ir” at 8 o’clock, and the De Forest hour from 9 until 10. WFBM will broadcast the entire inaugural ceremonies Monday direct from Washington. This event will be covered in its entirety by the Columbia chain and will be handled by a large staff of announcers and newspaper men. The program will go on the air from WFBM at 10 o'clock and will cover a period of perhaps five hours. First musical program Monday will be the Taystee Baking Company hour, starting at 5:30 p. m. Tuesday night at 8 the entire Paul Whiteman orchestra will be heard broadcasting the Old Gold program, which has proved one of the outstanding chain programs on the air. The Whiteman is heard over more than fifty stations from coast to coast. The De Forest hour at 9 Sunday night will feature leading stars of the operatic and concert stage with a large symphony orchestra.

REVOLT IN PEPIN 6 Martial Law Declared After Scores Are Killed. By United Press PEPING. China. March 2.—Nationalist authorities still are in control of the city today after an insurrection by former northern soldiers, who had enlisted with the nationalists. Martial law was declared in Peping today. Scores were killed in the clashes which followed attempts to disarm the northern soldiers. KING MAY GO TO SPAIN English, Monoarch Needs Sunny Clime to Get Better. By 1 ii itrd Press SEVILLE. Spain. March 2.—King George V of England may spend his convalescence at some retreat on the sun-drenched coast of southern Spain or the Canary islands, it was disclosed here today.

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Both are Butler university students. Fogarty also is employed by the Associated Press and he and Greenwald were on their way to the fieldhouse to write stories on today’s games. Greenwald, city hospital doctors said, has a double skull fracture and Fogarty a skull fracture and internal injuries. Both may die. Three on Running Board Harry L. Kupferburg, 23, of 3454 North Illinois street, was driving the Ford roadster. Sitting in the car with him were Samuel Clor, 17, of 2946 Park avenue, and Herman Sluctzky, 18, of 4910 Park avenue, both Indiana university students. A few score feet east of Illinois street, on Forty-ninth, Kupferburg had stopped and offered a ride to Greenwald, Fogarty and dJhn Bemloehr, 15, of 2237 North Alabama street,' Technical high school student.

The three climbed on the running board of the car. The driver of the other car wa3 Frank Buchanan, Liberty Beach, river resort north of the city on White river. He was arrested on assault and battery andspeeding charges. Other Car on Them Kupferburg said he just had started forward in the Ford after picking up the three youths, when someone yelled. "Look out.” "I looked up and saw the other car about on us and shut my eyes,” he said. Buchanan twisted his car up over the curb into a vacant lot. Bemloehr, Clor and Sluctzky were only cut and bruised. Fogarty is the son of Patrolman Richard F. Fogarty. PORKERS GENERALLY STEADY IN YARDS Underweight Hogs 1 15 Cents Higher. Hogs were generally steady, with some underweights selling around 15 cents higher, at the local stockyards today. The bulk of 160-300 pounds, brought $11.40 to $11.60. few loads higher at $11.70. Receipts were estimated at 3,000. and holdoversfrom Friday’s market numbered 378. The cattle market was steady.* Vealers were steady selling at $lB down. The top paid was $18.50. The sheep and lambs were scare* and not enough on sale to make market. DOCTOR WILL TESTIFY IN ALMA RUBENS CASE Man Accused of Giving Screen Star Dope to Tell His Side of Story. ■ By United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 2. The physician accused of giving morphine prescriptions to Alma Rubens, film actress, will be permitted to testify, at his own request, in the federal investigation of the narcotic situation here. Dr. I. Jesse Citron, the physician, was not subpenaed. Ricardo Cortez, screen actor and husband of Miss Rubens, and Mrs. Teresa Rubens, her mother, have been called. tage t BUYS LOEW’S CONTROL • % William Fox Makes Purchase From Theatrical Estate. Bu United Prest NEW YORK, March 2.—William. Fox has purchased a controlling interest in Loew’s, Inc., from the este of Marcus Loew for about $l2O a share, it wa3 learned in Wall street today. This block of stock, together with other holdings recently obtained by Fox is said to give him w orking control of Loew s. - . CHARLEY ’ SREST AIR ANT open for Sunday dinners, 5 to Bp. m. 130 E. Ohio St,—Advertisement.