Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1929 — Page 9
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DASH TO MARS IS DREAM OF INDIANA MAN Instructor in Oakland City School Would Get Power from Air. PROPOSES TO GET BACK Differs from Rocket Makers in Round Trip Intentions. Bn SFA Service OAKLAND CITY, Ind.. April 2. Everett Hunt. 34-year-old professor i of science and mathematics in the high school here, is abou to begin 1 building a machine that he believes will take him straight to the planet Mars. While he may not be the first man to feel this ambition, he at least has anew idea about locomotion. The rocket-like contrivances which others have proposed j for such inter-stellar journeys have j been discarded by him: in their i place he is developing a car j which, he says, will take him to : Mars in something like five minutes and will bring him back again i when lie is ready to leave—something that the rockets would not do. I Hi*s proposed super-flying machine j Is to be a big pear-shaped affair of duralumin, with a complicated j motor on the top where the stem ; ought to be. 186,000 Miles a Second This motor, according to his ideas, I would look something like a radio ! loop aerial. It would depend on neither gasoline nor oil, but would | grab, out of infinite space, energy j from the all-pervading ether *•aves to carry the machine along. Out of j it, he believes, he will be able to get ! a speed approximating the speed of I light—lß6,ooo miles a second. Just how these waves will be used j to make the thing go will have to 1 remain a mystery to the general! public, for the present. Hunt says} he has his scheme all worked out, ! but can not describe it until he has j it perfected and patented. "It is hard for me to believe,” he says, “that God would create this vast universe and place us on this insignificant earth without some means of interplanetary travel to other worlds. Some we will know how to get back and forth ; from one planet to another.” rians Vertical Rise His flying machine will have no landing gear, as it will arise and descend vertically, thus requiring no special landing field. It will be able to travel in the air either straight up or horizontally, or at any other angle, the motor at the top being pivoted so as to be upright no matter what the angle of the car below. i When the machine gets half way to Mars, he believes, it will pass out of the region of the earth's gravitational attraction and would become pulled toward Mars. Then it will gradually swing 'round, and eventualy will land on Mars right side up. Oxygen tanks will have to be installed. of course, as there is no air at all in the vast region between the earth and Mars. Oxygen masks probably will have to be carried, too, so that the passengers can explore Mars after they get there, as scientists report that the atmosphere on Mars is much thinner than on this planet. Might Broadcast Power There are objections to his plan. Hunt admits: but he does not think they are very’ serious. “Certain scientists claim.” he says, "that there prevails, about 200 miles from the earth, a zone in which there is a total absence of ether waves. I haven't considered this as a problem, for I don’t agree with them. The mere fant that waves of energy come from the sun in the form of light and heat would disprove this theory, to my mind. However, if this condition should really exist. Hunt believes it could be surmounted by having a radio station on the earth broadcast power to him. When his machine is completed. Hunt plans to take several persons along with him. He believes it would be just as well to have a competent astronomer in the crew, to act as a pilot while flying around among the planets. Later, he says, he could build machines to carry 100 passengers—machines that would not only be fit to travel to other stars, but that would be very useful for ordinary air travel on earth, since they would have a speed so much greater than that of any existing airplane. AUTO STRUCK BY TRAIN Nurse Escapes With Slight Hurts In Crash With Freight. Miss Alice Brown, 28, ot 3149 Ruckle street, public health nurse escaped with minor cuts and bruises when her sedan was struck by a backing string of freight cars today | at Lafayette and Twelfth streets I W. L. Jordan, 38. of 2229 Minknei | street, in charge of the train, said 1 he air whistle was blowing. Miss Brown did not hear it and was on [I the tracks before she saw’ the backping cars Tabernacle Begins Revival Series | A series of revival services scheduled to last throughout April anc by S. B. Shaw. Grand Rapids, Mich., evangelist, are undei l*ay at the Missionary Band's tab made. 719 East St. Clair street “he services are held at 7:30 each •ight and at 2:30 Sunday afteroons. Mr. Shaw is the author ol sveral religious publications.
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SHERIDAN BOOMED FOR CENSUS CHIEF
City Plan Expert Likely to Be Supervisor for Indianapolis Area, BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 2. Lawrence V. Sheridan, city plan expert, probably will be appointed supervisor of the 1930 census for the Indianapolis district. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has recommended Sheridan's appointment to Census Director Steuart, it was announced today by Representative Louis Ludlow. Ludlow favors the appointment. The census will be taken next November. Several hundred county enumerators and other officials also must be chosen. Ludlow’ today pointed out that not only the city’s rank, among other cities of the country, but its representation in congress,-will be effected by the census results. Under the reapportionment bill, up in the coming special session, Indiana probably will lose two representatives, after the 1930 census is taken. This is not because Indiana's population has not grown, but because the populations of other states have grown faster. California and Michigan will gain several representatives. It is important, therefore, that an accurate census be taken, so that Marion county will continue to have full congressional representation. Ludlow said. He also said the death rate depends upon the census, and that an inaccurate census would make this rate apparently higher, bringing the city bad advertising. Ludlow* said that Director Steuart has recommended the naming of a Marion county advisory committee to keep check on the census as it progresses. The Indianapolis Times would be given representation on this committee.
INDIANS TO GET ROYAL OPENING DAY WELCOME
Committees to arrange tor the annual baseball openm" day here April 16 when the championship Indians start the season against Milwaukee, were announced today by Frank E. Chamber of Commerce athletic committe chairman. The greatest parade and the iargest opening day attendance in history of the Indiana’ >lis ball club is anticipated, McKinney said. Reserved wi' be available at the park for the opening game and throughout the season Committees include: Luncheon clubs. Thomas F. Hatfield: parade marshal. Harry Franklin: parade Charles Kaser. Harvey J. Elam "rank E McKinney: trophies Wallace O. Lee; prizes. Vedder Gard Lee Emmelman. Rooert Heuslein; automobiles. A C Byerly; publicity Blythe Q Hendricks: distinguished •e-,ts. George B Wellbauro: floral offerings. Robert Heuslein; bands Hubert S. Riley; trucks for* band. Wallace O Lee. The trophy committee will prq- ♦
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Good-by Baldy Bel United Press CHICAGO. April 2 beauty science continues at its present pace, gray-haired women and bald men will be museum exhibits in 1950, predicts Miss Georgia George, Los Angeles hair authority, w’ho is attending the Mid-West Beauty Trade Association in session here today. “Most hirsute maladies are paused because people do not exercise their scalp.” Miss George said. She recommends a daily shampoo.
URGE STREET REPAIR East Michigan Business Men to Petition Board. Request that work be hastened on the traffic elevation on Michigan street, the widening of East Michigan, and completion of paving at the east end of the street was made Monday night by the East Michigan Street Business Men’s Association at a meeting at Liberty hall, La Salle and Michigan streets. A committee was appointed to wait upon the board of public works and petition the early completion of the work. New* officers installed at the meeting are Dr. D. S. Goble, president: L. H. McAllister, secretary, and W C. Freund, treasurer. The association will meet next Monday night at 8:15 at Liberty hall. BABY SPILLS LYE: DIES Burns Saturday Fatal to Child, 18 Months Old. Lye burns were fatal to Clarence Parker Jr., 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F. Parker 1321 West Twenty-fifth street, Sunday at the city hospital. He spilled the contents of a can of lye over his body Saturday.
vide trophies for the largest delegation in the parade and the most beautiful float Prize committee will arrange nrizes for the first put out, first onebase hit. two-base hit, home run ->rd other firsts. Governor Harry G Leslie. Mayoi L. Ert Slack and other officials will be invited to attend and participate ; r> the ceremony.
HOOSIER'S AUTO MADE 25 MILES ON BUCKET OF COAL
i: lmu s Si.t ‘-nit Evansville, ind., April 2.Now that the Indiana 4-cent gasoline tax is in effect, William M. Smith, patent agent here, recalls that in 1891 he built an automobile which, would go twentyfive miles on a bucket 01 coal Ten gallons of water would keep the car moving a whole day Recalling his invention, Smith says: ‘T was a year and a half build-
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929
DRY ACT FATE PUT TO VOTE IN WISCONSIN Election for Guidance of Legislature Now in Session. BITTER CAMPAIGN ENDS Question of ’Secession From Union,’ Prohibition Friends Declare. tt i United Pri ss MADISON, Wis., April 2.—With repeal of the state prohibition as an issue, Wisconsin went to the polls today. Drys called the special vote a question of whether Wisconsin will "secede from the Union” over the prohibition law. Wets said it was only an expression of sentiment, a joining with Nevada, New York, Montana and Maryland in a movement to end prohibition. On the ballot, the question on which voters of the state will decide, reads: “Shall the state prohibition enforcement act, generally known as the Severson act, be repealed?” Vote to Guide Lawmakers Result of the voting neither will repeal nor save the law. It merely is for the guidance of the legislature now in session here. A second question on the ballot, overshadowed by the repeal fight and largely ignored by both sides, was that of amending the state dry act to remove penalties for making and selling beer. Weather promised to be an influential if not deciding factor in determining the status of the dry law. The state was blanketed with snow Monday, stopping all out-door work and indicating a large vote in rural communities where, heretofore, drys have polled majorities. On the other hand the snow has blocked highways in some districts which may keep many farmers from voting their convictions. The wet vote, generally speaking, is massed in the more populous sections, Milwaukee being the center. Sponsored by Socialist The repeal and beer referendum was sopnsonored and guided through the legislature by Senator Thomas H. Duncan, Milwaukee Socialist. Duncan has been behind other wet moves in the state, one a bill to abolish penalties for beer making, which was vetoed by Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, and the othei a referendum in 1926, by which Wisconsin voted 2 to 1 in favor of asking congress to amend the Volstead act to legalize beer. Duncan made a brief, but whirlwind campaign, his latest wet movement, challenging votes to “vote as you drink; be honest with yourself and with the state.” Dry leaders characterized his slogan as fostering “government of the bel’y. by the belly and for the belly.” The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment entered the campaign in earnest, inserting advertisements in many newspapers reading: "Smash prohibition, state by state.” Trouble for Kohler The fight against the wets was led by the Anti-Saloon League and W. C. T. U., both organizations concentrating on getting out the rural vote. | Should the wets win in the voting and the legislature pass a repeal ' law, Governor Walter J. Kohler : probably would find himself in an embarrassing position. He was elected last fall over La Follette progressive forces by the paradoxical aid of Anti-Saloon League forces combined with the suport of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Friends of the Go ernor in the senate where the resolution to submit the refe- ;ndum won by a margin of two votes, were prepared to make a fight to hold up any legislation that may result from the j v't* and thus relieve the bathtub nanufacturer-Governor ol embarrassment. SCOUTS TO BE GUESTS Kiwanis Club Will Observe father and Son Day. “Father and Son’ day will be observed by Indianapolis Kiwanians at the Claypool Wednesday when Gunnar Berg of New York, national director of volunteer training. Boy Scouts of America, will be heard. F. O Belzer, Indianapolis Scout executive, will direct a pageant depicting Scouts of other nations Demonstrations of scouting will be given. Baby’s Body Found Itii Unifi <1 Prfxs LAFAYETTE. Ind.. April 2.—The body of a newly born baby, apparently dead for twenty-four hours was found near here by William Collins.
ing the car. At that time I was employed at the Southern railroad shops as a machinist In my spare time when I found a lathe idle I would make a piece of the ’buggy.' And I made everything about it. even the wheels, boiler, chassis and the whole thing. The wheels were iron with a three-inch tread. I had an iron steering wheel and gear rigged up an* it worked pretty well. “The boiler was only fifteen inches in diameter and a bucket
ROMANCE BLOOMS IN CITY
Medieval Touch on West Maryland^
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METHODISTS OF STATE CONVENE Hundreds at Opening of Logansport Meeting, Bu Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 2. The outstanding 1929 event for Methodism in Indiana opened here today—the annual North Indiana conference of the denomination, which w’ill mark the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Broadway Methodist church here, which will be host for several hundred visitors during the meeting, which will continue for a week. Opening of the program this j morning included conference study ! course examinations under direction of the Rev. Freeland A. Hall and Dr. Merrill O. Les'er. Communion and memorial serv- : ices will be held Wednesday morn- ; ing. The Rev. Clarence True Wil- | son, secretary of the board of tem- : perance, Washington, D. C., will speak. Celebration of the Broadway church anniversary will be held Wednesday evening, with the Rev. i Alfred H. Backus presiding. Dr. i William W. Sweet of the University ! of Chicago will speak, i Sessions of the Preachers’ Aid Society and of the Laymen's Associa- | tion have been set for Thursday, l A lay electoral conference is on : the Friday program and the WomI en's Missionary Society will hold an : anniversary session. NEW MISSIONS SCHOOL OPENS THURSDAY NIGHT Lyndhurst Baptist Church Sponsors Classes. Announcement of a school of missions to be opened Thursday night at the Lyndhurst Baptist church was made today by the Rev. C. H. Scheick. pastor. The school meets each Thursday until May 9. Classes will be held for men. women and children Each Thursday night a general assembly wlil be held at 8:15 and a prominent speaker heard. The assembly speakers billed are: Mrs. Mae Brown, dramatic art teacher, April 4; the Rev L. A. Tripp, social service director of the Church Federation of Indianapolis i April 11; Mrs E. R Moon, returned ! missionary, April 19; Dr W. S. 1 King. April 25. and Mrs. William Adams, May 2. Wife Slays Husband ftti Timex Six rut LOGANSPORT, Ind.. April 2. Aurelia Rossi. 36, is dead ot knife | wounds inflicted by his wife at their | nome, where police say both were j drunk.
of coal would run it twenty-five miles ter gallons of water would run it ail day. “1 had air controlled brakes, just like those ov locomotives. 1 louid Drinp her to a stop quicker than four-wheel brakes will stop any machine. “The engine was connected directly with the rear axle with a chain and sprocket and the car -ould De idled down until it barely crept along. ‘ “About the first time I ever
“Medieval” scene on West Maryland street, Indianapolis,
DAYS When knighthood really “flowered and clanking armorplated men fought for but a rose from the hand of their lady fair stick out ot the above photo. You can almost imagine the Three Musketeers, with drawn rapiers, beating off the press of flashing swords of ten times their number. Back back, through the dark caverns of this courtway they retreat to the safety of the castle, the chateau, beyond that portal in the backOr to change the picture to the evil days oi Paris when Apaches waited in the above gloomy alleyway for but a centime from the purse of some drunken nobleman who had wandered out to grasp adventure s In those two windows in the background and above the last shadowy gateway fancy almost opens those windows to the golden curls of a fair lady beckoning to the nobleman Lo rescue her from the denizens of Paris sewers.
FALL VICTIM DIES Funeral of Clarence Jennings at Berea, Ky, Clarence Jennings, 24. of 1806 West Minnesota street. r\ied today in the Methodist hospital as the result of injuries received Monday when he fell twenty-five feet from the top of a tipple through a shed at the American Aggregate Corporation gravel pit at 2100 South Harding street. The body will be sent to Berea, Ky., today, where the funeral will be held. Burial will be held there. Jennings either lost his balance or was blown off by the high wind. After crashing through the top of the shed, his head hit a piece of iron. 44 IN TRAFFIC CASES Speeding and Improper Lights, Head Charges. Forty-four persons were to answer traffic violation charges in municipal court today. Sixteen persons including one woman were arrested Monday for speeding: twenty-one for improper lights; six for not stopping at preferential streets and one for driving through a safety zone. Czecks Stabilize Money l!n United Press FRAGUE Czecho-Slovakia. April 3.—Stabilization of Czecho-Slovakia legal tender, the crown, will be effected shortly, the governor of the Bank of Czecho-Slovak'a has announced.
CURTISS PLANS $75,000 HANGAR AT MARS HILL
Curtiss Flying Sendee of Indiana will start work on a $75,000 permanent airplane hangar at the Mars Hill airport within ten days, H. Weir Cook, general manager, announced today. Cook explained his company is unable to wait any longer on the proposed municipal airport, which has met with one delay after another since selection of a site was started last summer. Transcontinental Air Transport coast-to-coastv air-rail passenger
ran the thing I took my sister and two brothers to Newburg. “I went after a vehicle license. They didn t have a license that would fit an automobile so they just crossed out “horse and gave me a ‘vehicle license, and that’s the first automobile license that ever was issued in Evansville.” Smith finally gave up trying to operate the machine, because wherever he went, crowds of children followed and horses ran away.
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Entered As Second • Class Matter at Postotftce Indianapolis
The nobleman in a flair of feathers, cloak and swinging cutlass hears her plea of face and voice. He enters. A knife is hurled by the Apaches waiting in the shadows. Sscreams from the windows, steel upon steel, the call for gendarmes —and then the silence characterizing a Eugene Sue novel. Verily one could almost believe that the Pied Piper of Hamelin had piped children and rats through this courtway and out of Hamelin-town . a tt a BUT of course it isn’t true—it couldn't be—for this bit of the Old World is just a scene In Indianapolis at 530-532 West Marvland street. The courtyard extends from Maryland to Pearl street. The Pearl street entrance looks like the Maryland one if you can forget modernity and play at seeing the days of doublets and doubloons. Two shoddy brick buildings, no one seems to know why they were built in this fashion, extend east and west on Maryland and Pearl streets. The two structures, back-to-back, form the arches and this touches of the medieval in the capital city of Indiana. PHARMACY IS ROBBED Stamps Taken After Window Is Broken. Two men broke a glass from the front of. Lon Clary's drug store, 2136 West Morris street, at 12:30 a. m today. Elmer Yeager. 1236 Blaine avenue, a merchant policeman heard the glass break and reached the store in time to see two men run away. Clary said stamps were stolen from the sub post office in the store.
line, scheduled to start within the next month or two. also will use the Mars Hill airport, although it is possible the transcontinental may be able to make arrangements later with city officials for use of the •municipal field. Cook said. The Curtiss company is local representative of the transcontinental line. The new building will proride hangar space 120 by 100 feet, accommodating about twenty ordinary sized airplanes, and big enough to house the largest planes in the country. Adjoining the hangar will be wings containing a complete operations office, machine shop, stock room, waiting room for passengers, restaurant, rest rooms, class rooms and sleeping quarters for visiting pilots and mechanics. Curtiss has a fifteen-year lease on the Mars Hill field, having contracted with the National Guard foi the right to store and service all commercial ships landing there. Because of present lack of hangar space. Curtiss has found it necessary to rent space in hangars at Schoen Field, Ft. Benjamin Harrisor..
HERRICK HELD ONE OF WAR’S GREAT HEROES Ambassador, Dead in Paris, Did Monumental Work for His Country. PLAYER SAVIOR ROLE War Correspondent Tells of Splendid Service by Envoy. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreicn Editor, Scripps-Howard Newspaper* WASHINGTON. April 2.-Place: Paris during the first weeks of tha World war. Scene: The dimly lighted rotunda of the famous military prison of the Cherehe-Midi, left bank of the Seine. Time: About 3 a. m. In a growling hudale in the middle of the stone-flagged floor .stood a group of weary war correspondents, waiting while some of the prisoners of the already overcrowded bastile could be doubled up to provide cells to accommodate them. There were Richard Harding Davis, Sir Ashmead Bartlett, Wythe Williams, Granville Fortesque, the writer and two or three others. We had been arrested at the front, near Rheims, whither we separately had gone to get the story of the bombardment and burning of the renowned cathedral. Treated Like Spies The prison governor, a French colonel, was very gruff. He treated us as if we were spies caught redi handed—as, indeed, the hissing i populace had called us, as, between j armed guards, we had motored in from Rheims. Without a bite to eat since breakfast of the preceding day—and then only hardtack softened in what, in war, passes for coffee—we loudly { demanded food. The governor laughed disagreeably. Such a joke. “I say!” exclaimed Sid Ashmead, his British wrath boiling over, "they can t keep us in this place!” “Did you hear those heavy steel i doors clang shut after us?” asked ! Davis. “They held Captain Alfred ; Dreyfus and they can hold us.” | The minutes dragged on. Military orderlies came and went, scowling. We were putting them to a lot of trouble. A bell tingled. An orderly appeared and saluted the, governor. ”Mon colonel,’’ he reported, “the telephone.” The Scene Changes The governor disappeared into his office. The murmur of his voice could be heard and presently it seemed excited. Suddenly another | bell sounded. Immediately orderlies responded as if answering a riot j call. j “Bring chairs,” briskly ordered | the governor. “Bring tables. Bring dishes. Bring a menu. Bring food. Bring anything the gentlemen nere | desire.” Something had happened. A moment before, in his eyes, we had been cattle. Now we were gentlemen. What that something was wc afterwards found out. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick had turned the trick, at about 4 o'clock in the morning. The French military authorities did not welcome corre- ; spondents in those days and they had intended making an example of | us. | Their plan was to intern us in | the fortress of Toul until the war i was over, but the ambassador, heari ing what was on foot, left his bed | in the small hours of the night to j ring up the foreign minister a~d | fight it out with h’m. Nobody could treat his people like that. Herrick Was Nobleman And we weren't interned. Instead, i the cooks of the Hotel Lutetia neari by were routed out of their sleep to cook for us such a breakfast as, it j seemed to us, we never had eaten i before. | The incident depicts Herrick. | France" never had a better friend from America and Americans never J had a stauncher representative in France. During the first chaotic days of ! the war, tens of thousands of Americans were stranded in Europe, i Herrick raw to it that they were : housed, fed, furnished trains to the | ports, and ships from the ports 1 home. Out of his own pocket he | loaned more than SIOO,OOO to people 1 he had never seen nor heard of before in his life. They had all become "his folks.” Afterwards I asked him how much he had lost out of his loans. Hardly a dollar,” he replied. I “Folks are mighty honest.’’ Then he : added' You know, the few I didn’t; : hear from, they weren’t dishonest, I’m sure. My idea is, something ! happened to them; maybe they died.” Always Generous to Others That was Herrick again. He was ;so fine himself that no room was | left inside for a single ungenerous ; thought. Today Ambassador Herrick lies dead at his embassy in Paris. He can not be replaced. Other splendid Americans there are, of course, but there was only one Herrick. | Both the French and the Americans who knew him intimately say so. Neither France nor America should grieve too deeply over his death. He lived a wonderful life and died as he would have died—j at his post in France, which coun--1 try, after his own, he loved best.