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RELIEF FROM HEAT WAVE IS DUE TONIGHT Mercury as High Today as on Wednesday, Says Weather Man. PREDICTS FAIR FRIDAY Thunder Showers in State May Cut Temperatures; No New Fatalities. Hourly Temperatures *a - m 74 10 a. m 82 7 a >m 76 .11 a. m 84 8a 1 m 78 12 (noon).. 84 fla m 81 1 p. m 85 Relief tonight from the heat wave In which Indianapolis has been sweltering for three days was promised in today’s weather forecast. "Cooler weather with probably thunderstorms tonight, followed by generally fair Friday,” was the word from J. H. Armington, chief meteorologist for Indiana. "Temperatures may go as high today as they did Wednesday when 88 was the maximum," Armington said, “but cooler weather will come early tonight and by Friday morning, temperatures should be ten or fifteen degrees lower than they were this morning." Starting from 74 degrees at 6 a m. the mercury rose rapidly today, attaining 85 at 1 p. m.. one degree lower than at the same hour Wednesday. The highest mark this season was 89 6 degrees Tuesday afternoon. Despite the continued hot wave, there has been no recurrence of Tuesday's fatalities here—one heat prostration and a drowning. POLICE AID STRANDED MOTHER, 8 CHILDREN Officers Make l*p Money Stolen From Widow on Trip West. Police today came to the rescue of Mrs. Laura Hersh of Goodtown, Pa., who was stranded here with eight children Wednesday night when her pocketbook. containing $63, was stolen from her car in front of the Log Cabin Inn, 1645 West Washington street. With money from their charity fund, police sent Mrs. Hersh and her children on their way to Berriver. Utah, where they were going to live on a small sugar-beet farm left by the father of Mrs. Hersh. a widow. The eight children slept in the back of the car while the money was stolen.

RHINELANDER EXPECTED TO WIN DIVORCE SUIT Mental Cruelty Will Be Charged Against Negro's Daughter. LOS ANGELES. June 20.—Harley Harmon, attorney for Leonard Kip Rhinelander, predicted today that Rhinelander would receive favorable action on his petition for divorce from Alice Jones Rhinelander, daughter of a Negro hack driver. Harmon expressed complete confidence that the Nevada courts would grant the divorce. Rhinelander has established residence in order to bring the divorce suit there. He is living under the name of Lou Russell. Harmon said Rhinelander will charge mental cruelty. RECOVER STOLEN LOOT, HOLD FOUR AS ROBBERS Goods Valued at §2OO Believed Taken in Kentucky. Merchandise valued at more than S2OO was recovered today in a house at 222 Eden place and four persons are under arrest charged with being members of a gang that committed robberies in several small towns near Bowling Green. Ky. Shilto Ethridge. 30. and Walter Zaunch. 24. Wednesday were bound over to the grand jury for alleged robberv of Mrs. Lottie Stewart, in her home at 437 West Ohio street, Sunday night. Ben and William Wilier, of the Eden place address, will have a hearing on extradition to Kentucky June 25. Police Chief C. C. Sullivan. Bowling Green, and L. H. Hildreth, owner of a general store at Smith’s Grove. Ky.. identified the loot. MELLON LIKES WRITING But Secretary's Son Doesn’t Know What Work to Choose. Bv United Free* WASHINGTON. June 20.—Paul Mellon, son of Andrew J. Mellon, secretary of treasury, who was graduated from Yale this year, likes to write, but Is uncertain what his future profession is to be. his father said today. • Told that news of the career his son will embark upon would be of public interest, Mellon said: “That would be of interest to me and my son, also." The secretary explained that in college his son was an editor of the school paper and wrote two edif .

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2 ROOSEVELTS BREAK RECORD

Near 200-Hour Mark in Nonstop Endurance Test. Rearing the 200-hour mark, two Roosevelt automobiles continued fheir record breaking drive at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today after breaking the world’s nonstop endurance record for gasoline motors Wednesday afternoon at 2:32:1The Roosevelts had been under way 195 hours at 1 p. m. today and were “still going strong,” attendants said. The cars, under the supervision of A. A. A. officials, began the monotonous drive at 10 Wednesday morning, June 12. and even

Held Years as Slave, Georgia Man Charges ATHENS. Ga . June 20.—W. D Arnold, owner of a peanut plantation. was held under SIO,OOO bond on peonage charges, here today after Claude King, 28. father of four children, told officers he had been held several years on Arnold’s plantation, virtually as a slave. King declared that on one occasion he ran away from the plantation and tried to arrange for the escape of his family. He was caught by two Negroes in Arnold’s employ, according to his story, brought back to the plantation and beaten with a strap. King and three of the plantation Negroes are held as material witnesses. John Vanover, one of the Negroes, said he was flogged by a white man while Arnold pointed a gun at him.

LATTA HEIRS FACE INSURANCE BATTLE

$85,000 Involved: Coroner Unable to Give Verdict of Accident. Probability that heirs might be forced to litigation to collect $85,000 insurance on policies of Will H. Latta. Indianapolis Street Railway attorney, who was killed in a Monon railway crossing crash near Carmel, Ind., June 12, grew today after Dr. Frank J. Evans, Hamilton county coroner, said he was unable to give a verdict of accidental death. The automobile in which Latta was killed was standing still on the tracks without lights when struck by the train, members of the train crew testified at an inquest Dr. Evans refused to give any futher information on his findings. Three accident policies, two for $30,000 each, and one for $25,000, were taken out June 6, the date on which his will was made. The two larger policies were written by the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and the Employers Liability Assurance Corporation, while the United States Casualty Company held the $25,000 policy. The Hartford company also had insured him for $5,000 more than thirty-five years ago.

AIRPORT INSPECTED City Officials Look Over Proposed Entrance. A group of city officials visited the municipal airport site today to look over ground proposed for an entrance. It has not been decided what part of the field will be used for the entrance. Mayor L. Ert Slack. Theodore Dammeyer, works board president, Oren S. Hack, corporation counsel, and Henry O. Goett, secretary to the mayor, were in the party. MANY DIE IN FLOOD 5,400 Miles Inundated in India: Toll Unknown. Bu United Press CALCUTTA, June 20.—Fears were expressed today that posssibly several hundred persons were drowned m the disastrous floods which inundated the entire Cachar and adjoining districts of northeastern India. Officials in charge of the relief workers from Assam stated that the extent of the disaster would not be known for several days. The devastating floods have affected an area of 5.500 square miles with a population of more than a million. BRIDGE BILL ~ SIGNED Authorizes Span Across Wabash Near Vincennes, lnd. Bu United Frea* WASHINGTON, June 20.—President Herbert Hoover today signed a bill authorizing Illinois and Indiana jointly to construct a bridge across the Wabash river at or near Vincennes, lnd. SHOE STRIKE SPREADS Walk-Out Affects 4.300 Massachusetts Workers. Bu United Press HAVERHILL, Mass., June 20 An additional 2.500 shoe operatives went on strike here tpday. increasing to approximately 4,300 the total number of workers participating in the walk-out which began a fortnight agck , _ .

| though the record Is broken by i hours, will continue until stopped by tire or engine trouble. Oil and | gas ha’ ! been taken on from re- ; fueling cars, and a tire changing | crew is prepared to change tires “on I the go” if necessary, j The Marmon company, is making : the test, has not aimed at speed or I distance, but endurance, the trial : being made under conditions that ■ closely approximate driving under average conditions, the cars making an average speed of thirty-five miles an hour. The cars making the run were picked at random by A. A. A. officials from the floor of the Marmon plant, and have been timed, checked, refueled, and completely supervised by American Automobile Association officials.

Mu rder of 11 Aliens Is Suspected Bu United Press HAVANA, June 20.—Four men arrested aboard the launch Del Irio in connection with police suspicion that eleven aliens, seeking to be smuggled into the United States, had'been murdered to avoid prosecution, were arraigned in police court here today. The men asserted they had landed the aliens, consisting of Spaniards and Armenians, on the coast of Pinar Del Rio province somewhere between Mariel and Bahia Honda. Bernard Sastre, the skipper, boasted how-ever, that he had landed the aliens near Key West. Police are inclined to doubt both stories. A police informer, Diaz Ancomedo, who was given S4OO in marked bills with instructions to buy his passage as an alien aboard the Del Irio at its sailing Wednesday has not been heard from and it is believed that had he been landed anywhere alive he would have communicated with the police. The Del Irio sped out of the Almendares river as a squad of detectives arrived at the dock to arrest the captain after Ancomedo had gone aboard. Search of the Del Irio revealed some blood stained pocketbooks clothing, and a blood-stained hand spike. Police have no evidence that there were eleven aliens aboard the Del Irio except Ancomedo’s story that they were to have been taken to Florida Wednesday.

MAYOR SLACK IS SUED Official Refused to Discuss Florida Claim for §6,000. Mayor L. Ert Slack today refused to discuss the suit filed in federal court by the City National Bank of Miami, Fla., against he and his w'ife, Mrs. Mayme Slack, asking $6,000 judgment on three notes given the J. C. H. Realty Company in 1925. “It is purely a personal matter,” the mayor said.

LOSES VOICE IN AIR, GETS IT BACK IN SECOND FLIGHT

Bu United Press JERSEY CITY, June 20.—Miss Margaret Wintermeyer, the former telephone operator who regained her lost power of speech through stunting in an airplane Monday, only to lose it again Tuesday morning. was talking again today. Clarence Chamberlin, trans-At-lantic flier, who read of the girl’s plight, gave her the “fright treatment” prescribed by her physician, and enabled her to win back her speech.

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1929

HEFLIN’S SON IS HELD ON DOPE CHARGE Accused of Operating Car Under Influence of Narcotics. PLEADS NOT GUILTY Bond Set at $1,000: Youth Says He Merely Had Been Drinking. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, June 20,—James Thomas Heflin Jr., son of Senator Heflin <Dem., Ala.) pleaded not guilty to. a charge of driving an auto while under the influence of narcotics when arraigned before Judge Isaac Hitt in police court here today. Young Heflin demanded a jury trial and his bail of SI,OOO was continued by Judge Hitt. He was arrested Wednesday night after an automobile he was driving struck the rear end of a laundry truck. Heflin Jr., denied to the United Press today ne had used narcotics, as charged by Washington police. “I drank about a pint of grain alcohol mixed with two parts ginger ail at a party with some boys and girls in an apartment Wednesday and that’s all that was wrong with me when I ran into a truck at Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue," he said.

Denied He Was Drinking “I was driving across Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue when the cop flashed a stop sign against me,” young Heflin said. “The brakes didn’t hold and the car slid on. The driver of a laundry truck which I hit saw' me put on the brakes through his mirror and. came back and said if I w'as willing to let everything slide he’d keep on going. “I was all set to drive away when a policeman came up, took a smell of my breath and said, ‘Come with me,’ and we drove off together. “The cop asked me if I had been drinking and I told him no. I told him I had taken a veronol tablet as I had not been feeling well. “You see, I used the same excuse when I had been drinking at the University of Alabama and avoided getting suspended from school, as a veronol tablet affects you like alcohol. Fears Worst From Father “When they took me to the hospital they said I’d been using all kinds of dope, morphine, cocaine and whatnots. Finally my doctor came in and they let me go home.” Young Heflin said he didn’t know what his father would say, but he “feared the w’orst.” “The senator is in Toledo, 0., making a speech, thank goodness,” he said, “You know I promised him to stop drinking when I returned from Panama, and I really had been on the wagon from April 13 to June 14. Then I ’faw dowm and go boom with a bang!” Young Heflin denied he used narcotics in any form, but said he once used veronal for a week after he had been on a spree in Alabama and his nerves w'ere ragged.

KILLER IS EXECUTED Ends Week’s Stay to Make ‘His Peace With God.’ Bu United Press HUNTSVILLE, Tex., June 20.—At the expiration of a week’s reprieve which had been granted by Governor Dan Moody so that he might “make his peace with God,” O. C. Wells, of Coleman, was executed at 12:27 a. m. today for the murder of J. A. Mitchell, filling station operator. Desperate last minute efforts to obtain another reprieve falied when the Governor refused to interfere further.

Although a violent rainstorm was in progress, Chamberlin was as determined as the patient to see the treatment through. From an altitude of 5,000 feet he made devious dips, nose dives, loops and tail spins. Afterward Miss Wintermeyer said quite clarly: “Gee, I feel kind of funny.” Miss Wintrmeyer's family “saved up” for payment for the flight treatment. The girl, who is 24. lost her speech in a nervous breakdown eighteen months ago.

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‘CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS’ PLANE IS CHRISTENED x.. i v :..... „ - .mt ■. ~ , ... >.,, M ■,, jafryateßl

Breaking a bottle of water over the propeller hub of the giant tri-motored T. A. T. plane, Mrs. Mary J. Thatcher formally christened the City of Indianapolis today at the Mars Hill airport. The ship is one of a fleet that will span the continent in a forty-eight-hour air-rail transportation service starting July 8.

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23 Hoosier Youths to Be Given Scholarship Test Next Week,

Three Indianapolis jouths are among the twenty-three selected by elimination throughout the state to compete in a final examination next Friday and Saturday for the honor of being the Indiana youth to appear before Thomas A. Edison in the contest for the scholarship offered by the aged inventor. The Indianapolis boys are William Winter, Elbert Marlowe and Gordon Ward. Winter, 16, is the son of Mrs. Leona Winter, 1002 South New Jersey street. His father is dead. Working his way through Manual Training high school and showing unusual proficiency in his studies, Winter graduated this month. Leadership Praised Ward. 16, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton D. Ward, 4065 Central avenue. He came to Shortridge high school in September, 1927, from Merton high school at Richmond, lnd., and graduated from Shortridge this month. His teachers reported he excelled in leadership, industry and mentality. Marlowe will be 17 in August. He graduated this month from Arsenal Technical high school with an. A plus average. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O. Marlowe, 821 North Centennial street. The twenty-three successful candidates were selected from a field of seventy who were given preliminary tests at Butler university, Earlham college, Ball Teacher’s college, Notre Dame university. Evansville college and Indiana university. Others in Finals Other successful contestants in the preliminaries were: Merlyn Compton and Harold Sinton, La Porte; Albert Greiner, Mel- j vin Hemmer and Richard Becker, Evansville; John Kirkpatrick, Greensburg; Richard Moss, Boston; John Cleveland, Anderson; Bernard Sturgis, Butler; Turrill Uleman, South Bend; William Price and Andrew Wylie, Bloomington; Loren Snyder, Connersville; Marion Huntington, Liberty; Byron Woertz, Georgetown; Donald Youse, Ft. Wayne; Ralph Townsley, Emerson; Robert Malcom, Shoals; Robert Rea- j veal. Terre Haute, and Bernard Ry-! nearson, North Manchester.

MISSING GIRL FOUND Writes That She Will Return Friday to Home in Peru. Bu United Press PERU. Ind., June 20— Missing since Monday when she w r as said to have left her home in the company of a stranger, Miss Ombra Wise, 20, will return Friday, the girl’s mother told the United Press today. The mother, Mrs. Sarah Wise, said she received a letter from her daughter, mailed from Liberty Mills, Ind., near Huntington. Mrs. Wise said she did not know why her daughter left, but believed she had been offered a position by the ’stranger.

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Father Slays Son and Dies byOwnHand Bu United Press METAMORA, lnd.. June 20.—Using an ax as a w'eapon, John Baker, 55, farmer, hacked his 23-year-old son Raymond to death and then inflicting injuries to himself, dying after a leap into tw'enty-foot well, at the family's farm home near here. Neighbors said the older man has shown signs of insanity for several months. The slaying occurred in a field where the youth was at work. The victim's mother found the body. The older Baker, dfter hacking his son, clubbed himself several times, then leaped into the well. Virgil Davis, Franklin county coroner, returned a verdict of homicide in the death of the son and suicide in the father’s case. He said his investigation bore out neighbor’s statements that Baker was insane. Besides Mrs. Baker, three children and five brothers survive. FRISON GUARD SLAIN Inmate Runs Amuck, Kills Foreman With Pipe. Bu United Press LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June 20. —Carl Panzran, prisoner, ran amuck today while working in the laundry of Leavenw’orth federal prison and killed R. G. Warnke, 40, laundry foreman, by striking him over the | head with an iron pipe. Panzran fled into the orison yard, j where he was captured by Phil Holtgrave, guard. The prisoner, serving a sentence | for burglary, was placed m solitary j confinement w'hile authorities investigate.

CITY MAYJUY FARM Consider Laurel Stock Land for Park. The park board was expected to discuss informally the proposal to purchase the Laurel Stock Farms, along Millersvlile road, northeast of the city, at the session this afternoon. A committee headed by John E. Milnor, presidnet, viewed the tract. It is understood that some board members feel that the present board should not enter into a long time lease on the property in view of the change to the city manager form of government in 1930. The ground is ideal for park purposes, board members said.

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i Thousands See Mayor’s Niece Break Bottle Over Propeller Hub. With the tinkle of a bottle of mineral water broken over its center propeller hub, the City of Indianapolis, tri-motored Ford monoplane of Transcontinental Air j Transport, w r as christened officially | at 9:30 today at the Mars Hill airI port, ! The program preceeding the ! christening ceremony, performed by | Mrs. Mary J. Thatcher, niece of j Mayor L. Ert Slack, was witnessed by a crowd of several thousand persons, and w'as broadcast to countless others over WFBM. The City of Indianapolis soared into view from the east and after circling over the throng several times gracefully landed and taxied up to t&e new T. A. T. administration building. While airport attendants were servicing the huge ship, Paul Q. | Richey, Chamber of Commerce I president, gave a brief introductory talk.' Slack Thanks T. A. T. Appreciation of the city for the honor was expressed by Mayor L. Ert Slack. He also lauded Hoosier, Capitol, Mars Hill and Schoen field ports and told of plans to rush the new municipal airport to completion. Mrs. Thatcher smashed the bottle over the propeller hub and as the bottle broke, attendants removed the flag w'hich covered the words, “City of Indianapolis,” on the nose of the ship. Miss Betty Jane Acre presented Ia bouquet of roses from the Chami ber of Commerce to the pilot, Harry jW. McGee. On behalf of the Young ! Men of Indianapolis, President E. | E. Whitehall presented a thermos | bottle to McGee. Parker B. Sturi gis, T. A. T. chief of transportation, spoke briefly. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson described efforts made to establish a connection here with the transcontinental air mail lines, successful in December, 1927.

Official Praises City “Indianapolis was not selected as a port of call without great care,” said J. W. Brennan, T. A. T. traffic manager. “There w r ere many other cities seeking the stop.” The motors were started and with a tremendous roar the ship took off at 9:39 a. m. to continue its trip from Columbus, 0., to Waynoka, Okla. This was the first test run made by T. A. T. on the regular time schedule. Passengers on the plane included: G. J. Konvalinka, Chicago, Pennzoil Company; Major Reed G. Landis and Russell L. Putnam, Chicago; G. E. Everett, assistant to general traffic manager, and M. M. Canfield, ship courier. Regular daily test runs will be started Monday and passenger carrying is scheduled to start July 8. Planes will leave Columbus, O. shortly after 7 a. m. and will arrive here at 9:13 a. m., departing for St. Louis and west at 9:28 a. m. The program at the airport was preceded by a parade of automobiles from Monument Circle, headed by the Police and Firemen’s band. TWO FIGHT TO BE EARL Canadian Rancher and London Baker Seek English Title. Bu United Press LONDON, June 20.—The Canadian rancher, F. J. T. Perceval of Priddis, Alberta, found the road to his possession of the earldom of Egmont increasingly difficult today when the claims of his rival, James William Perceval, London baker, came before Justice Maugham in ‘chancery court.. * Attorneys representing the trustees said it is probable that It will be necessary to place the question of who is entitled to the earldom into the house oi lorda.

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SLEUTHS SEEK CONFESSION IN CO-ED KILLING •She Had Been Begging fop Cocaine,’ Detective Says Professor Cried. BLOOD STAINS STUDIED Suspected Man Has No Explanation for Most Damaging Clew. BY HABRY W. SHARPE United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, O, June 20. A corps of investigators continued hammering at Dr. James H. Snook late today, convinced the deposed Ohio State university professor was on the verge of confessing the murder of Theora Hix, co-ed in the College of Medicine. The din of questions began Wednesday afternoon. There was a brief respite for breakfast today, then the barrage was resumed with the be-spectacled Snook weakened and distraugh and responding coherently. Miss Hix’s mutilated body was found on the New York Central rifle range here last Friday. The following day, Snook, who admitted he occupied a north side “love nest” with her, was arrested. Snook, according to investigators, has admitted he was with the girl Thursday night, the night she was killed; that he gave her a key to their room which later was found in his possession, and that on Friday he burned some of the girl’s clothing which he took from the “love nest." Damaging Admission Detective Otto Philllips claims to have obtained a damaging admission from Snook when he took him to breakfast this morning. "Why did you kill the girl?" Phillips demanded. Philllips said Snook answered evasively, then, when the detective repeated his question, said: “She had been begging for cocaine. Wait till it all comes out.” The detective said Snook then asked him to send for John Seidel, his attorney, adding that he was ready “to tell all.” When Seidel arrived he went to Snook’s cell. He emerged a few moments later and told newspapermen: “Phillips says Snook confessed, but Snook denies it. He’s all befuddled. He can’t even pronounce words correctly. He said he wanted to see me to get away from them (the investigators) for awhile?” Denies Partial Confession Phillips told of the denial, insisted Snook made a partial admission of guilt, and John M. Chester, county prosecutor, prepared to resume questioning the professor. Snook had no explanation today for the blood spots found on his car, represented as a clew in the brutal murder of Miss Theora Hix, grad - uate medical student.

“How’ do you account for the blood spots?” asked Prosecutor John Chester, who is conducting the investigation. “If there were such spots, they must have come from some dog upon w'hich I operated,” Snook said. “You know that’s not true,” Chester said. “You never carried such animals in your car, did you?” Snook replied that he did not. He was again asked to .explain the presence of the blood, revealed as such by the chemical analysis of C. F. Long. “I have no explanation for it,” he finally admitted. BISHOP BACKS HOOVER INVITATION TO NEGRO j Southerner Declares Attendance of Mrs. De Priest Justified. Bu United Press MACON, Ga., June 20.—Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, took exception today to Bishop H. M. Dubose’s condemnation of the tea party at the White House attended by the wife of Representative Oscar De Priest j of Chicago. “There is no more justification for j the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one,” Bishop Ainsworth said. “Such occasions are not personal, but official,” Ainsworth added. POTATO ADS PLANNED Shippers Consider Drive to Overcome Women’s Prejudice. Bu United Press KEARNEY, Neb., June 20.—A national advertising campaign to extol the healthful properties of the potato and overcome the prejudice against it of women who desire to j retain “that school girl silhouette” was under consideration by the agricultural council of the Central Western Shippers Advisory Board in session here today. Dog Kills 120 Chickens A stray dog was “under arrest” today in custody of Shepard Hodrich, 3309 Prospect street, owner of 120 ! chickens, slain by the dog early this j morning. His Ui* will be d a/ ’’ / *fi* l&m. __ . -