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ZEP SAILS ON SECOND TRIP ACROSS OCEAN Dirigible Flies Over France; Due to Reach New York Early Sunday. MRS. PIERCE ABOARD Seventeen Men Also Passengers; Weather Reported Good on Route. f:/ I’nitrrf Prm* FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, May 36.—Germany’s giant dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin, sailed along the Mediterranean coast of Spain today and the northern tip of Africa headed for the Atlantic on its second trip to the United States. Eighteen passengers and a crew of forty-one are aboard. The giant of the air took off from here a t 5:54 a. m. (1:54 p. m. Wednesday) Indianapolis time. Under favorable weather conditions it was expected to reach its destination. Lakehurst, N. J., at 9 a. m., Sunday. Weather reports were favorable for a journey along the southern route and it was expected that the same weather conditions would prevail for another twenty-eight hours at least. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the flight, expressed satisfaction with conditions. Seen at Barcelona Reports from Barcelona. Spain, said the ship passed over there at 2:30 p. m. <7:30 a. m., Indianapolis time.) The Zeppelin flew over Nimes, France, at 11:40 a. m. and turned southwestward towards Montpellier and Perpignan, near the Spanish border. The Zeppelin was following the same course she took on her last flight to America. Mrs. Pierce Makes Trip There are seventeen male passengers aboard the ship and one woman, Mrs. Mary Pierce of New York. Mrs. Pierce said Wednesday that she had canceled her passage and would not make the flight. This morning, however, she was with the rest of the passengers. The crew numbered forty-one. The departure of the Zeppelin was like clockwork. It resembled the departure of a trans-Atlantic liner. Dr. Eckener gave but few commands to the ground crew, whose members worked as if they had been accustomed to their task for years. There were no bands as on previous hop-offs. The proceedings resembled an ordinary flight. Perhaps the most unconcerned passenger was Susy, the female gorilla which is destined for the Cnicago zoological gardens in Lincoln park. Susy retired rather early to her cabin and looked on complacently from her cage while the members of the crew hustled about the ship before the hop-off.

Passengers Get Up at 4 The passengers, including Mrs Pierce, were awakened at their hotel at 4 a. m. and transported to the flying field after a hasty breakfast. They arrived at the hangar at 5 a m and boarded the ship at 5:30 a. m. Although there were many celebrities aboard. Mrs. Pierce was the passenger most popular with the populace of Friedrichshafen. Dr. Eckener received her at the gangplank and escorted her personally to her cabin, the only person to whom he extended such an honor. A careful guard had been placed over the dirigible to keep stowaways from boarding. Four would-be stowaways had been caught before the start. The guards also spotted another would-be stowaway in the network of girders in the hangar after the ship was taken out. The police said he intended to jump onto the ship just as she was pulling out. They arrested the man. who gave his name as Adolf Lenk. 20- He said he was from Bavaria, a tailor by trade. Fuel for 130 Hours There was sufficient fuel aboard the Graf Zeppelin for 130 hours, 50 per cent more than was needed for the trip, according to Captain Lehmann. There was half a ton of mail aboard. Knud Eckener. Dr. Eckener's boy, whom his father described as “an eleiator man,” will return to the United States to work after he makes the round trip on the Graf.

‘ Ornery , Dumb 9 Freckle-faced, ornery and dumb— Anaemic, retiring, and unambitious— Either of these may describe the present characteristics of the successor to Thomas Alva Edison, declares John Paul, president of Taylor university, at Upland, in another article in a series by noted Indiana educators on “'Qualities that Edison's Successor Must Possess." Turn to Page —and read the entertaining article by a man whose acquaintance with American youth is unquestioned.

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Graphically pictured above is the scene ?.t the Cleveland Clinic hospital, where 126 persons were killed and many injured when explosions and fire swept the building. Many of the dead and injured were carried down ladders from their rooms. Others had been rushed to the

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Three Hoosiers Lose Lives in Blast; Two From Indianapolis. . Names of two Indianapolis persons and a young Indiana doctor who served his interneship at the Methodist hospital here were added today to the toll of the Cleveland Clinic hospital tragedy. The Indiana dead: W. W. Busby and his wife. Mrs. Ida E. Busby, each about 55, of 1128 East Thirty-fifth street. Dr. Ferris Victor Langston. 27, son of E. E. Langston, Windfall, Ind.. and graduate of the Indiana university school of medicine. Mr. and Mrs. Busby were believed to have been trapped in the hospital reception room while awaiting Mr. Busby's examination by Dr. George W. Crile, head of the clinic. • Suffering from goitre. Mr. Busby had intended undergoing an operation next Monday if Dr. Crile dvised it. Dr. O. S. Jaquith, 60! Medical Arts building, had arranged the appointment for Mr. Busby, who was a traveling salesman for the PittmanMoore Company. Stricken with anxiety when she learned of the disaster, Mrs. Busby’s sister, Mrs. J. W. South, 2821 North Illinois street, called the Hollenden hotel, Cleveland, and learned the Busby's luggage was in their room. Their bodies were identified today, according to dispatches. Surviving Mr. Busby are a sister, Mrs. Cena Cheek of Aurora. Ind., and one niece and two nephews. Mrs. Busby, who was Miss Ida E. Coulter before her marrigae, is survived by two sisters, Mrs. William E. William of Aurora. Mrs. South and one niece. Mrs. Perry .Freeland of South Bend. Dr. Langston was born No. 3. 1902, at Elwood. Ind. He received his A. B. degree from the Indiana university in June. 1923. Four years later he received his doctor's degree from the Indiana university medical school here. After serving one year's interneship at the Methodist hospital he went to the Cleveland institution in July. 1928. Dr. Langston was a member of Lamda Chi Alpha and Nu Sigma Nu. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 030 000 000—3 9 1 Boston 002 002 OOx—4 10 1 (N. Y.) Benton and Hogan; ißos.) Cunningham and Spohrer.

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Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Busby, 1128 East Thirty-fifth street (above) and Dr. Ferris Victor Langston, of Windfall, Ind., former interne in Methodist hospital here who were among those killed in the blast at the Cleveland Clinic hospital Wednesday afternoon.

5 HELD FOR GAMING Ball Pools, Slot Machines Cause Arrests. Sam Gobie, 29, of 612 South Illinois street; David Rosen, 28. of 2118 West Morris street; and Norton Kaufman. 25, 2112 Central avenue, were arrested today when police raided the Owl Cigar store, 117 West Merrill street. Several books of baseball tickets were found. All were charged with keeping a gaming dvice. Five persons in the establishment were slated on charges of frequenting a gaming house. In another raid, police arrested Everett Cope. 49, proprietor of a cigar store at 468 West Twenty-first street, and Robert Clark, 84. proprietor of a pool room at 214 South Illinois street. One slot machine was taken from the cigar store and j three from the poolroom on Illinois j street. Both men were charged l with keeping a gaming device.

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929

roof, where firemen, doctors and nurses worked desperately to resuscitate them. Powerful gas fumes poured froh the building, hampering rescue efforts. Witnesses described the first explosion merely as a “soft boom.”

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Doctors and firemen worked desperately trying to save the lives of victims of the explosion and fire at Cleveland Clinic hospital. Below, volunteer stretcher bearers are carrying an injured patient to be taken to another hospital. Above, doctors and firemen are applying the pulmotor to one of the injured patients.

TRAFFIC COP CHARGED WITH ANNOYING WOMEN Allegation Against Thomas Pollard Sent to Board. Thomas R. Pollard. 217 North Addison street, traffic policeman, will face the board of public safety next Tuesday on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer. Tuesday night police answered a call to 1012 West New York street. Mrs. Pearl Miller told them a policeman was in her home drunk and had mistreated her daughter, Mrs. Thelma White. Officers said they found Pollard in the kitchen. An affidavit charges Pollard tried to choke Mrs. White and threatened Mrs. Miller. Veteran School Chief Retires Em Time* Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., May 16. William G. Everson, superintendent of Shelby county schools for twentysix years, will retire Aug. 16- Failing health, he announces, has caused him to cease his work. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 42 10 p. m.... 43 7 a. m.... 40 11 a. m 44 8 a. m.... 42 12 (noon).. 45 9a. m.... 42 Ip. m.... 49

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DEATH BILL VETOED Michigan Governor Flays Mandatory Penalty. Bn United Press LANSING. Mich.. May 16.—Governor Fred W. Green today vetoed the Lennon-Wood bill providing mandatory capital punishment for all first degree murderers in Michigan. The Governor issued a statement saying that terms of the bill were too stringent and that if even a referendum were justified, one should have been attached to this measure. The bill provided a supreme court review for every conviction, leaving no discretion in the court as to punishment. Storm Wrecks Three Homes Pji Timer snecint GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 16. Three houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and other damage done by a storm which struck east of here Wednesday night. George Webster, Charles Broadstreet and Paul Albin, farmers east of here were occupants of the houses. Rain accompanied the wind.

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DEATH LIST RISES TO 125 IN HOSPITAL EXPLOSION; PROBE DISASTER CAUSE

Rescue Workers Victims of Gas; Many Are in Critical Condition, FIND FAULTY FIRE DOOR Investigators Learn That Fatal Vapors Could Have Been Shut Off. BY C. M. BURCKY United Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND, May 16.—As the death toll in the Cleveland Clinic explosion disaster reached 126 this afternoon, many of the rescuers were near death. An order was issued by city officials for any who had come in contact with the gas which killed most of the victims to report for medical attention, no matter how slightly ; they had been affected. Four firemen were in serious con- ; dition and were given blood trans- | fusions. Doctors, nurses, police and citizens were in hospitals for treatment. Most of these had entered the fume-filled building in rescue work. Faulty Door Found An automatic fire door that would not work was found today by H. L. Rockwood, health emmissioner, who headed the first of the investigators at the scene of the explosions. Had the door worked it would have shut-off the room from the rest of the building and caused the deadly poison gas to be forced out to the street through a ventilator, Dr. H. L. Rockwood, health commissioner and head of the probing commission, said. The faulty door is the only entrance to the X-ray room. It is large, thick, metallic, The door works automatically, the temperature of the room releasing s. lever when it reaches a certain heat. The lever closes the door. Three Inquiries Started The lever worked when fire broke j out in the room Wednesday. But a ! heavy metal pipe, carrying either j gas or water, stood in the direct path of the lever. This prevented the door from closing more than half way.

With the death toll growing hourly, federal, state, county and city investigations were under way as follows: City—Commission headed by Dr. Rockwood named by William R. Hopkins, city manager, to determine cause, fix responsibility and make recommendations that will prevent future disasters. County—Prosecutor Ray T. Miller assigned assistants to inspect scene ! with a grand jury probe promised jif negligence is discovered. Coroner A. J. Pearse started inquest. U. S. Enters Probe State—Governor Myers Y. Cooper ordered full inquiry. Ross Hedges, assistant state industrial relations director; P. F. Casey, commission chairman; Thomas Devine, chief inspector of industrial buildings; John Clemmer, of the state board of standards ar.d H. M. Schnerer, industrial commission engineer sent to scene. Federal—From Washington came announcement that the United States bureau of standards was sending two inspectors here. Also investigating were Thomas C. Martinec, deputy state fire marshal and his assistant Joseph Farisel and Dr. W. E. Obetz, medical investigator of the industrial commissioner. Die of Fright Investigations will center around the cause of the deaths. Except for a general agreement that the first explosion occurred j from defective wiring, opinions vary las to what followed and what caused the many deaths. Coroner Pearse, in an effort to determine what caused the skin of the victims to turn yellow, had blood tests from three bodies made Wednesday night. He reported that the blood showed j heavily of both hydrocranic acid i gas and bromene acid gas (bromide j gas). Dr. Pearse expressed the belief that poisoning by either of the gasses was sufficient to cause quick death. Many of the patients in the clinic died from fright, Pearse said. The hydro cyanic gas an ’ bromide gase. Dr. Pearse said, evidently were formed by the combustion of X-ray films.

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Explosion Death List

Bu I'nitrd Press ~ CLEVELAND. 0., May 16.—A1l of the persons who died in the Cleveland Clinic disaster today had been identified. Following is a complete list of the dead and injured. Those for which no addresses are given are Cleveland residents. THE DEAD Andison, Dr. Harry. Bader. William, 21. Bartholomai, Max. Borrello, Dr. John. Bernier, Evelyn. Bielshelt, Oscar, Alliance. Bissell, R. E., 35. Brintnall, Dr. Roy. Brownlow. William J. Belcher, Dr. George W. Busby, William, Indianapolis, Ind. Busby. Mrs. Tda, Indianapolis. Carl, Mrs. (first name unknown.) Carse. Mae 8., 44. Casino, Rose. Casino, Romeo. Collins, Richard. Costly, Mrs. Minnie. Dehart, Charlotte. Dembrow, Fannie. Dumpirth, John. Dumpirth, Tillie. Dunfortb, H. B. Elliott, Miss Blanche. Engleman. Max. Epstein, Dr., Detroit. Epstein. Mrs., Detroit. Fayduer. Evelyn, Akron, O. Fields, Hugo, Akron. Fielt, Lillian Margaret, Franklin, Pa. Fahey. Miss Zanna, Fleming, Virgil. Frank, Mrs. Josephine. Dunkirk, N. Y. Fowler, Miss Georgiana. Fuerst, Mrs. Hermine. Fulton, R. B. Gibson, Miss Gladys. Greet, Miss Gwendolyn. Gumplin, Minnie. Hass, Samuel. Hellwig, Mrs. Carl. Hoffman, Miss Gertrude. Hollingbeck, Miss Leonora. Horowitz, Mrs. Jeanette. Hurd, Nate. Hunter, Dr. E. S. Karminsky, Bertha, 33, Akron, O. Kaufman, Mrs. Rose. Kuester, William. Lane. H. M., Cincinnati. Langston. Dr. Ferris V., of Windfall, Ind. Locke, Dr. C. E. Logan, Alice. Logar, Frances, 36. Long. C. H„ Barberton. O. Long, Mrs. Fred, Parsons, W. Va. Long, Mrs. C'. H. Maatz, Miss Sue, Rochester, N. Y. McKenna, Margaret. Markeil, Mrs. Mary, Madison. O. Markell, Clifford, Madison, O. Miller, Mrs. Mabel, Erie, Pa. Moellier, Alice, Elyria, O. Moore, Charles.

Moore, Ella, Elyria. O. Morgan, Edith. Morton, Mrs. H. L. Mulcahy, Mrs. Stella. Mullen, Margaret. Mullen, Mary. Mullen, Florence. Nadler, Mrs. Hope. O’Connell, Helen, Elyria, O. O’Keefe, Mrs, C. F., Rome, Ga. Nuccio, Samuel. Perkins, Lita F. Phillips, Dr. John. Pontius, Minnie, Flint, Mich. Porter, Miss. Primo, Meta. Pugh, Miss Ann May. Quale, Miss Alice. Ralston, John, Wellsville. Ramaska, Margaret. Renz, Miss Helen. Reese, Mrs. James T. Reese, James T. Rich, Mrs. Frances, New Brunswick, N. J. Richards, Miss Mary, Ashtabula. Roberts, Miss Laura. Rogers, Patrick. Rogers, William T. Rothschild, Mrs. Mollic. Roquemore, Paul, Dallas, Tex. Rose, Ray, Ashland, O, Scherbarth, Mrs. Charlc*- E. Scherbarth, Charles. Schill. Mrs. Lorretta, 33, Pittsburgh, Pa. Schoen, Luella, Rome, Ga. Sertelle, Mrs. Francis. Sewald, Charles,, Williamsport, Pa. Sexaucr, Mrs. Elizabeth. Akron, O. Seywert, C. W 7., Akron, O. Shaefler, Mrs. Mary. Sherman, Miss Alma. Smith. J. Barker. Spellman, W. H. Forrest, O. Stage, Mrs. Charles W. Stahl, Mrs. Anna, 33, Youngstown, O. Steele, Mrs. William, Erie, Pa. Steinberg, Harry, New York. Strapp, George. Szubra, Julia. (Turn to Page Two)

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Silence of Tomb Marks Scene After Blast of Doom. GIVES LIFE FOR OTHERS Patrolman Carnes 25 Out of Building; Then Dies of Fumes. Bn I nil erf Press CLEVELAND, May 16.—A tragedy in silence beneath a coppery cloud— - Joseph Stanley, division superintendent of the Cleveland Railway Company, one of the first te view the tragedy at the Cleveland Clinic, thus described the scene of death. “A peculiar cloud or fog hung ever the buildings,’’ he said. “It was a strange, sickly copperish hue. The building was on fire. “People, patients and attendants were crowded at the windows and doors struggling. They said nothing, made no cries. “The silence, and that awful struggle of frantic people. It was the silence that was the horrible feature. It seemed that a deadly blight had enveloped the Clinic, strangling all within it. “Not until I scented the fumes, did I realize that those terror stricken people, leaping from windows and staggering into the street, were being gassed, and were unable to even cry out for help.’’ Policeman Is Hero Patrolman Ernest Staab traded his life so that a score of others might live when flames and gas scattered death through the corridors and rooms of the hospital. His name was inscribed high today among the heroes of that disaster. Twenty-one lives he saved, some said. Twenty-one persons, it is believed, he carried to safety. Staab was one of the first to run into the blazing structure. He emerged carrying a man near death. A pulmotor was used on the man and he is expected to recover. Staab went back again and again. He drove a police car into the rear yard of a hospital, helped carry in those rescued, and then collapsed. He died several hours later.

Nurse Dies Aiding Patient All authorities agreed today that the blame for the disaster lay in the X-ray storage room in the basement of the four-story brick structure and that the deadly fumes swirled from ignited X-ray film. Twelve bodies, seared and yellowed by the gas. were found in the X-Ray room, mute evidence of the fumes deadliness. Twelve other bodies, equally discolored, were taken from the roof. Between those points were many sprawled bodies of dead and injured, surround by cracked walls, broken pipes, shattered windows and overturned table* s* "M A nurse was found lying dead across a wheel chair bearing a patient she had tried vainly to wheel to safety. Some patients were trapped and killed in bed. Others ran naked or partly dressed, only to fall half way to exits.

Ventilator Carries Gas Patients heard a muffled roar from the X-Ray basement room. All fire doors immediately closed. Poison gas. generated from the explosion, was forced through the ventilator shaft by the heat. Thin yellow wisps were seen straying onto the second floor, climbing upward through a court into the third and fourth floors and i emerging from the blow-out skyI light. \ Those on the first floor ran out j to safety or remained to warn perj sons on the floors above. . Telephone operators stayed at their posts to give warnings. Confusion indescribable followed. Fire raced up a rear stairway and ! spread. ! Fifteen minutes alter the first explosion, a second came, driving res- ! cuers back. Forty-five minutes later, a third occurred, tearing out pipes, crumbling the walls and breaking all windows in the clinic and adjoining structures. Little of the building interior was left intact. Persons Outside Felled Person standing outside were ; felled by the force of the first blast. I One passerby was reported to have received a broken arm, A policeman hurried up, smelled the fumes many yards away, and j dashed to an alarm box. Soon ambulances, fire apparatus and commandeered automobiles formed a steady stream to the scene of tragedy. Ladders were strung to windows of the three upper floors. Policemen and firemen with gas masks carried out dead and injured, wrapped them in blankets and laid them in rows on the lawns. They spread life nets to catch timm nw ieajung

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