Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1929 — Page 9
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.OCEAN PLANE STOWAWAY IS HERO OF PARIS Fliers Complete Flight From U. S.: Youth of Stolen Ride Is Happy. THROUGH WITH FLYING Portland (Me.) Lad Says He Has No Further Desire to Be Aviator. BY RALPH HEINZEN t'nited Prs Staff Cos rrespoßi'nt PARIS. Jane 17.—The American youth who staked his own life and endangered that, of three others for the glory of sharing in a trans-At-lantic flight was the hero of Paris today. Arthur Sehreib®r. 22. Portland. Me., who stowed away on the monoplane Yellow Bird and made the flight, from Old Orchard. Me., to the coast, of Spain, was brought along by the French aviators —Jean Assolant, Rene Refevre and Armeno Lotti Jr. —when they completed their trip to Paris Sundav night. Because of the rain and the uneertainty of the hour of arrival there was only a handful of people at Le Bourget field when the plane made its landing. Schreiber was the happiest man at the hangar during the. reception. He waved an American flag and tried to sing “hail, hail, the gang's all here.” He tried his utmost to convince all concerned that he honestly did not know when he stowed away that he was endangering the lives of the three airmen. Cold to Stowaway Assolant s first act wa-s to communicate by telephone with his wife, the former Pauline Parker, American show girl, whom he married a few days before hopping off. Assolant spoke in French and his | wife in English. Lotti’s mother tried vainly to get her son away from the crow and of ad- | mirers and newspaper men. She was nearly in tears. She said: “I want my boy to myself for a while.” “For the past week.” she said. “I | have been begging God for his as- I sistance. Tonight I shall thank him j on my knees." Families of the fliers noticeably were cold to young Schreiber. Lotti, backer of the trans-Atlantic flight, from now on will act as manager for the boy. Confessed No Passport During the reception at the ! hangar. Schreiber leaned over to the j American charge d’affaires and | “confessed” that he did not have a j passport, asking if the French would throw him out of the country. Norman Armour, who is noted for his diplomacy and delicate handling of delicate situations, said: “One never knows. But wp shall do all we can for you.” There were a few rounds of cham- j pagne at the hangar before the , aviators went to the hotel which is • owned by Lotti’s father Schreiber was assigned to a room at. the hotel, with the compliments I of the management. It was the same room which had been assigned to Ruth Elder when she was here. “I want absolutely to deny rumors that I had an understanding with Assolant about my stowing away,” Schreiber said. "Whoever said that I had an arrangement with him is wrong. I am not versed in aviation and I wanted to cross the ocean in a plane. Ten minutes before the machine left I crawled in and hid. I don’t know how it was that I was not seen by anyone.” Scared During Trip "Several times during the journey I felt the end had come. I could not betray of fear in the presence of such brave men as the Frenchmen, but I must say I was scared. “Several times the question of life and death was uppermost in my mind, but then I realized the bravery of those men and I was all right again.” Speaking of his future. Schreiber said he did not know what career he would embark on. But of one thing he is certain—he has had enough of aviation. “I don’t want to fly any more. I don’t want to be an aviator. I wanted to cross the Atlantic in a plane, snd I did. Now I’ve got enough." ATTORNEY SCORES BAR Muncie Attorney Charges Influence of Lawyers on Wane. Bu Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. June 17—Muncie’s lawvers can’t agree whether the standards of the legal profession are as high now as in the past. The argument was brought about by Francis A. Shaw, attorney, in addressing tne bar association, when ne charged that the influence of the bar seems to be on the wane in these days. He recommended several things to remedy the situation. In a round-table discussion, the members of the bar violently agreed and disagreed with his statements. Alleged Bootlegger Returned. B'J Timrt Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., June 17.—A deputy United States marshal arrived here from East St. Louis. 111., to return Grover <Pegg> Lffler of Champaign. 111., arrested here at the request of Federal officers. Leffler was found guilty in Federal court of having sold liquor to students at. the University of Illinois, and was out on bond awaiting . sentence when he disappeared.
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It was a. short honejunoon. Pilot Jean Assolant had some flying to do across the Atlantic ocean, and here you see him as he climbed into the cockpit of the Paris-bound Yellow Bird at Old Orchard. Me., leaving behind him his pretty bride of three days, a former New York show girl. She is shown standing beneath the nose of the huge plane for a last glimpse of her new husband before the departure of the Yellow Bird. Inset is a closeup of Mme. Assolant, the former Pauline Parker, after the giant craft took off.
Twenty - two - year - old Arthur Schreiber (right) of Portland, Me., an unexpected passenger aboard the monoplane Yellow Bird” on its trans-Atlantic flight. CITY YOUTH FREED South Bend Judge Suspends Car Thief's Term, SOUTH BEND, Ind.. June 17. Paul Pierce, Indianapolis youth charged with stealing an automobile from Herman Kuntz of this city on April 19. 1928. after arriving here fro mlndianapolis in another stolen car. was given a suspended sentence of from three to ten years on his arraignment in superior court before Judge Orlo R. Deahl here. He pleaded guilty to vehicle taking. The voutht was brought to this city from the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton, Ind., where he had served a year’s sentence for the theft of the first car in the capital. The judge indicated that he suspended the sentence because the youth’s excellent record in the penitentiary indicated that he would “go straight” if given a chance.
DEAF WILL HEAR PASTOR BY RADIO
Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind.. June 17. Installation of a novel radio broadcasting system in the Olivet Presbyterian church here which will enable the deaf to hear sermons as well as earn - the speaker's voice throughout the auditorium, is nearing completion. A microphone will be erected in the pulpit. Plugs are placed on the back of the pews and a receiver will be given the deaf by users at the door Regular members of the congregation will also receive the sets, consisting of one ear phone with a small handle and plug to connect with the socket. A volume gauge on each piece allows each person to modify the tone. Dr. W. T. Pearcey. Olivet pastor, originated the system which will be used for the first time at the Sunday morning services. June 30. Two large speakers are to be placed in the church. By connections with the amplifier, a phonograph attachment will present the half hour of sacred music to pre-
Cyclist Is Injured Bu Times Sp-cial MARION. Ind.. June 17—John Thompson. 19. is confined to his home here as the result of injuries suffered when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car driven by Murray Wetzel, Gas City. Thompson suffered a fractured arm and rib and painful bruise*
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RETAIL STORE MEN JO MEET Session at La Porte to Open Wednesday, Bu Times Special LAPORTE. Ind.. June 17.—Business problems confronting ready-to-w’ear and retail dry goods merchants will be discussed at the fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association, opening here Wednesday for two days. Changed conditions brought about in retailing through chain stores will likewise be discussed. The annual dinner will be held Wednesday night, with J. Heber Hudson, director of the organization service department of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce giving the main address. Membership of the organization includes most of the merchants of the state. Non-members have been invited to attend. J. Levine, LaPorte, is president of the organization. The committee in charge has decided to make it a “brass tacks” affair and will eliminate useless lengthy speeches and discussions.
DESIRE FOR ‘LIFE’ LEADS TO PRISON
Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 17— Virginia Culley, 18. a- comely Kentucky lass, never really meant to be bad. But the world outside of Sturgis, Ky„ held too many fascinations for Virginia, she just had to “step out” and the urge has cost her freedom more than once. Only a few weeks ago she was paroled from a reformatory in Kentucky on her conviction that she could be good, but she strayed from home again in search of the elusive
cede Sunday evening services. The phonograph will be kept in the ministers study. The system works only in the church, and will not broadcast the exercises over the air.
Butler Grads Tread Leafy Forest Path
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INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1929
PLANE TO BE j CHRISTENED IN HONOR OF CITY Ceremony Is Scheduled at Mars Hill Airport for Thursday. T. A. TANARUS, PRESSES PLANS Staff Arrives Here. Ready for Air-Rail Line Opening in Near Future. Final arrangements for christening Thursday of the City of Indianapolis, Transcontinental Air Transport Ford monoplane, and for the subsequent start of the forty-eight-hour. coast-to-coast air-rail j line, were being made today by the local T. A. T. staff. A staff of five members, which will be augmented later, has been stationed here, it was announced today. This includes: Charles F. Devoe, j from Hadley field, New Brunswick, | N. J.. Indianapolis manager; George Porter, formerly department of commerce radio operator at Chicago municipal airport, chief radio operator; David F. Carroll, Pennsylvania. weather observer; C. Alston Williams. Savannah. Ga., field clerk, and Harry Munn, Indianapolis, mechanic. Radio Station Reads* The T. A. T. radio station for communication with planes en route practically has been completed, Devoe said. Tests are being made and he expects to have them concluded by Friday night. The broadcasting station is located one and one-half miles due west of the Mars Hill airport, approximately halfway between the Mars Hill field and the new municipal field. Devoe warned local fliers to be on the lookout for the two 125-foot towers, 300 feet apart, erected for the antenna. The broadcast station will be connected directly with Devce’s office in the new T. A. T. administration building at Mars Hill airport, nearly completed. T. A. T. planes will start regular test runs to smooth out “kinks” June 24, while regular passenger runs are scheduled to start July 8. Ceremoy Is Arranged An elaborate ceremony is being arranged by Devoe and H- Weir Cook, Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana manager, for christening of the “City of Indianapolis” Thursday at 9 a. m. at the Mars Hill airport. Mayor L. Ert Slack has urged all local civic and luncheon clubs to take part. A parade, headed by the police and firemen's band, will leave Monument Circle at 8:30 a. m. Mrs. Mary J. Thatcher, niece of Slack, will perform the christening rite in the presence of a number of distinguished officials.
something she thought was “life” and is now sitting behind the bsrs in the local jail. “Check forger” was the ironic report of police. And now bright-eyed Virginia faces the cold process of “deportation” back to the hills and drab, gray walls of the reformatory again —another dream of bright lights and finery paled to insignificance. Police said Virginia forged her mother's name to a S3O check here so she could “live swell” for a little while. Crawfordsville Aids Fliers Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., June 17.—Although this city has no airport, it at least has one firm progressive enough to furnish a sign that will serve as a guide to aviators passing over here. The Mid-States Wire and Steel Company has painted a huge yellow sign on the roof of one of their buildings. The letters in the name “Crawfordsville” are ten feet high and can be seen for a mile.
‘Easy Come, Easy Go; 'Boy Robber Spends Loot of 150 Burglaries on Movies
Bu United Pres CHICAGO. June, 17.—An amazing tale of juvenile thievery was being unraveled today as Joseph Dowling, red-headed, freckled-faced lad of 11, related further details of the 150 burglaries he boasted he committed within the last three years. Eleven of his “jobs,” he declared, were ‘ pulled” since he first was arrested in February. A hundred strings of beads, twenty wrist
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TWINS PLAN SESSION Indiana Club to Meet at Newcastle In August, Ba Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., June 17. Plans are under way here for the entertainment of the T ins Association, to- hold their tenth annual reunion at Memorial park, north of Newcastle, the first Sunday in August. Officers of the Twins Association are Otto Brandon, Huntington, president; Harry Reger, Newcastle, vice-president; Elby P. Land, Newcastle, secretary-treasurer. The reunion here last year attracted twins from five states, and this year’s meeting is expected to bring them from even more distant points. Hundreds of invitations will be sent cut, but any twin, or set of twins, is urged to attend, whether or not they receive a special invitation. A splendid program of entertainment is being arranged. Alleged Robber Held Bu Times Special • ANDERSON, Ind., June 17.—Police detectives thought Glen Goshorn was too eager when he reported the names of two women who helped him clean wall paper at the home of Miss Elsie T’erce, Anderson high school teacher, and he is being held in jail in connection with the theft of sls from the teacher’s home. Goshorn was arrested when he failed to appear at police headquarters for questioning concerning what he might know 7 about the robbery.
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watches and numerous articles of little value were recovered when Joseph led police to his caches. One hiding place was under a rock on a beach. Another was behind a loose block of granite on the roof of a south side theater. ■Don’t blame my folks,” the boy told detectives. “I’ve been working on my own. T needed the money to have a good time. I blew'most of it in on the-movies. ' Easy come, easy go, you know .”
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YOUTH WILL SERVE TERM FOR KILLING
Bu Times Special GREENSBURG. Ind., June 17. Herschel Curry, 18. awaits today in the Decatur county jail the papers which will take him to the Indiana reformatory at Pendleton, to begin I service on a two to twenty-one-year | sentence, imposed by Judge John W. i Craig in Decatur circuit court here
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JAIL ESCAPES AT MUNCIE TO GET ATTENTION Sensational Evidence May Be Given Grand Jury to Convene June 24, B'i Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. June 17—The Delaware county grand jury will investigate numerous escapes from the county jail here, when it convenes June 24. it was announced today by Prosecutor Joe H. Davis. Davis intimated that startling revelations may follow the probe. “I intend to go into these escapes to the bottom,” he said. “It looks to me like there is a conspiracy somewhere to place all these prisoners at liberty.” The management of the county workhouse at the jail by Sam Hite, superintendent, will be investigated, Davis stated. “If the grand jury finds that certain reports which have been brought to us are true, the Delaware county board of commissioners, who appointed Hite, will be asked to remove him. “Os course. I could institute ouster proceedings for alleged neglect of duty, but I do not believe it Is the prosecuting attorney’s place to do so. The commissioners appointed Hite to manage the workhouse in efficient manner and it is my opinion that they should see that he does so. “The report has been brought to me that Hite took four prisoners from the county jail on election day and permitted them to vote. While I do not know the truth of this report, it will be probed by the grand jury and if it is found to be true, w r e shall act accordingly.” SUNDAY SCHOOL RALLY TO OPEN Record Crowd Expected at Shelbyville Session. Bu Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 17. Reports from counties throughout the state estimating the number of delegates expected for the sixtyfith annual state convention of the Indiana Council of Religious Education here this week indicate the attendance will be much larger than first anticipated. The convention will open Tuesday and continue through Thursday. Leading religious workers and educators are to attend. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university, and president of the state Sunday school organization, will preside at all sessions, and will deliver the annual president’s message at the opening meeting Tuesday. Several other speakers of prominence are to appear on the program, including Bishop Edgar Blake of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Dr. Charles Darsie of Indianapolis, national adult superintendent of the Christian church.
Saturday night, upon the youth's conviction on a charge of manslaughter. He will be taken to the reformatory within a few days. Curry faced a charge of first degree murder during the four days of his trial here, on a change of venue from the Bartholomew circuit court, for the killing of Hubert S. Taylor, farmer, Mach 5. The case went to the jury late Saturday afternoon. After deliberating four hours and a half, the defendant was found guilty of manslaughter. Curry received his sentence calmly, even as he had viewed the entire trial, and thanked his attorneys, appointed by the state to defend him. Self-defense had been the youths plea, and in view of recent comment over amendments to statutes by the 1929 legislature many of the spectators who filled the courtroom at each session of the trial expected acquittal. It was thought by many that the new law precluded the returning of a verdict for a lesser crime than that charged. Curry was defended by Rollin Turner, Greensburg; Donald Shinn and Loyd Bryer, Columbus, while the prosecution was handled by William Dobbins, Bartholomew county prosecutor, and Herrod Carr, prosecuting attorney of Decatur county, assisted by Hugh Wickens, Greensburg. The jury was composed of nine farmers, an electrical egineer, * truck driver and a salesman.
GEN. BOOTH IS DEAD AFTER LONG ILLNESS Deposed Salvation Army Head Was Weakened by Ouster, END COMES SUDDENLY! All of Life Was Spent in Religious Work'. Chief Since 1912, Bu United Press LONDON, June 17.—General William Bramwell Booth, son of the founder of the Salvation Army and its second general, died at his homo at Hadleywood, near London, Sunday night, General Booth was 73 March 8, and had been in ill health for some time. He was ousted as commander-in*
chief last winter by the high council of the Salvation Army, and that action, was believed to have contributed to his failure to withstand the illness from which he had suffered for almost a year. The general suddenly became worse Sunday morning and his condition grew
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more grave until evening, when *h9 end came. All members of his immediate family with the exception of a daughter. Colonel Mary Booth, were at the bedside when the end came. Colonel Booth was in Germany where she commands the arr ly’s operations. Salvation Army announced that General Booth’s funeral would be held at Albert Hall next Sunday, with services conducted by Commander E. J. Higgins. Burial will be Monday afternoon in the family vault at Abney Park cemetery beside the General's father and mother, founders of the army. Burial probably will be in Abney park cemetery, northern London, where the general's parents are buried, and the Salvation Army is expected to have charge, according full army honors. Started Work Early Bramwell Booth was born March 8. 1856, at Halifax, England, the son of William Booth, a traveling evangelist, and Catherine Booth. He was educated privately and at the city of London school, which the present earl of Oxford and Asquith also attended at the same time. Booth began his connection with his father’s work which later was to grow into the Salvation Army. When he was 13, he was asked to find the of a discrepancy in the accounts of the newly organized Christian mission in the east end of London. He was so successful that the trustees voted him a bonus of $25. but his father allowed him to keep only $2 of it. and put the remainder in the family exchequer. Becomes H*ad of Army As he grew older, his ability in financial matters prompted General Wililam Booth to give him charge of the Salvation Army’s business matters, and he became chief of staff, the second in command. He held that office until 1912, when General William Booth died and Bramwell Booth became general. General William Booth had named his son general by placing his name in an envelope which was opened after the founder of the army died. General Bramwell Booth insisted that method be made permanent, and when other prominent army members objected and asked for election by the high council in the future, the general refused to concede the point. The method of succession was made an issue in the high council’s meeting last January, and together with General Booth’s advancing years and poor health, resulted in his removal from the army command. Ousted From Office Booth brought suit to retain office, and won the right to present his case before a vote was taken on his removal, but the final result was the same, and Higgins, then ehief-of-staff, was elected to succeed him. Commander Evangeline Booth, the general’s sister and head of the army in the United States, was a leader in the move for army reforms, and when she attempted to visit him she was denied admittance to his sick chamber. General Booth married Miss Florence Soper in 1888, and she and six children survive him. A son died in 1917. Moose Dictator on Program. Bit Times Boecial MARION, Ind„ June 17—Albert H. Lander, newly elected supreme dictator of the Moose lodges of the world, will speak at the State conclave of the Moose to be held here August 29. 30, 31, Secretary E. E. Pauley announced today.
Suit —Able Bu United Press KOKOMO. June 15—Anything in bathing togs from a pair of track pants and a shirt to a loose suit of underwear, including all types of one-piece suits, will receive approval of Milton Wolford, city park superintendent, he declared in announcing opening of the bathing pool.