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HUNDREDS PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO J. A. PERRY Plane Crash Victim Is Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. PASTOR LAUDS ABILITY High Figures in Baseball and Aviation Attend Funeral Rites. Tribute to the simplicity, generosity and ability of the late James A Perry, was paid by the Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, in funeral services at the Fanner & Buchanan mortuary. 25 West Fall Creek boulevard, this afternoon. In the presence of hundreds of business leaders, men and women who had worked under him, and high figures in aviation and baseball, Mr. Perry was borne to his grave in Crown Hill cemetery. The entire Indianapolis American Association baseball team attended. Mr. Perry was president of the club. High officials and employes of the Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, Inc., of which he also was president, were present. Killed in Air Crash Mr. Perry was killed in a plane crash near Ft. Benjamin Harrison Wednesday while on an errand for his company. "Delightfully human, a man of many affairs, of wealth and power and yet very gracious,” Mr. Dunkel described Mr. Perry. “All through his life it had been his purpose to give his aid. and to do with his might what his hands found to do withput proclamation.” Mr. Dunkel hurried home from Boston. Mass., where he had been attending a church conference, to deliver the eulogy. “James Perry was loyal to what he believed to be right, did not seek honors or power, but was happy in making others enjoy some of the desirable things of life,” said the Rev. Mr. Dunkel. Unselfishness Praised “He was unselfish in every way and hundreds of men and women have been helped by him because of his quiet and unassuming conduct of his affairs. He sought that which is above honor, namely the enrichment of his own life as he enriched the life of others. “To all this he added courage, fervency and an indomitable will to achieve. . . . This made his life a continuous joy to his friends.” Scores of telegrams and messages of condolence were received by Norman A. Perry, president of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. and brother of James. Prominent among the floral offerings was a basket of pink roses from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Baskets of flowers were received from each American Association baseball team. Civic organizations of the city have drafted and presented resolutions expressing their deep loss in the death of Mr. Perry. Realtors Praise Perry The Indianapolis Real Estate Board declared: "Mr. Perry was of the finest type of progressive business and civic leader, having interested himself in numerous civic enterprises calculated to benefit his community, sacrificing his own time, effort and money for the advancement of such projects, and in fact meeting his death as a result of having loaned one of his planes to further instruction in aviation at the Citizen's Military Training Camp." The Universal Club, of which Mr. Perry was a member, expressed its sense of deep loss through Jesse E. Hanft. its president.

SITS ON PAROLE BOARD | Governor Leslie May Aet on Ayers \ Store Bandits' Clemeney Plea. | Governor Harry’ G. Leslie and his jassistant secretary, Gaylord Morkon. left at noon for Michigan City kvhere they will sit with the Indiana prison trustees in hearing applications for paroles. Among those expected to be heard is that of James Toohey, Chicago, Ayers store bandit, who has served a minimum sentence and for whom the politicians are making a play to get released. GUN DEALERS WARNED Police to Halt Selling of "Blank" Pistols for Fourth. Pt Special warning to Indianapolis Reworks dealers against selling pis■s in which blank cartridges may fired was sent dealers by Police Hies Claude M. Worley today. Iworley said that the toy pistols. Big cartridges, have been the 9* of most of tire serious injuin Fourth of July celebrations y in recent years. ■Ve can not reach the dealers 9 sell cartridges." his warning “but we can stop the sale of pistols."

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DOG RACING STARTS SATURDAY AT NEW TRACK; NO BETTING Opening to Be ‘Acquaintance Exhibition’; Promoters to Study ‘lnvesting’ System Legal Status Further Before Starting ‘Play.’ The $150,000 greyhound race track of the Indiaanpolis Kennel Club, Ltd., on Noblesville road, a mile north of the city limits, will be opened Saturday night, but there will be no betting, either direct or by the “investment brokerage” system, club heads announced today. The Saturday night races will be exhibitions to acquaint the public with big league dog racing, and until the club is surer of its legal position upon the envelope system of “investing” in dogs by those who desire to wager the club ftrill stay “strictly within the law,” declared Godfrey Yeager, attorney and secretary of the club.

BANDIT SHOT IN GUN BATTLE More Than 100 Bullets Fired in Richmond Fight. /.’>/ Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., June 28.—Police and three bandits engaged in a gun battle here early thus morning at the Miller garage, after officers had been notified of an attempt to open a safe in the company office, and a hundred shots were fired and tear gas used before the bandits surrendered. The three men held are Robert Carman. 45; Wilbur Craven, 30, a native of Louisiana, and Charles Smith. 38, Peru. Carman was wounded in the right side and removed to a hospital.

It’s Too Much ! Charge Dry Sleuth’s Traffic Errors to ExOwner of Seized Car.

IT was bad enough, believes Mrs. Oliva Schmidt, 2259 North Capitol avenue, when police and federal agents captured her husband, Joseph, with a load of liquor, sent him to jail for nine months and confiscated her Oldsmobile coupe, which Joseph was driving but . When Mrs. Schmidt began to get second notices on traffic stickers issued for violation of drivers car. which she had not seen since the day the federal agents took it away, it was too much. The postcard told her she would be arrested if she didn’t hustle in and pay a fine for the traffic violation. Mrs. Schmidt sailed to police headquarters wanting to know why. Investigation by Sergeant John Eisenhut and Indianapolis Times reporter disclosed, that federal prohibition agents are driving around in the confiscated car still using Mrs, Schmidt's license plates. Ind. 88-183. Just what the prohibition agent did to get the traffic sticker upon which Mrs. Schmidt got the second notice probably will remain a mystery. The sticker stub long since disappeared from the traffic division headquarters and the second notice did not state what offense had been committed. a a a Schmidt and the car were captured March 13 when Schmidt in response to a telephoned order delivered some whisky into the waiting arms of a squad of federal men and police on Monument Circle. He was sentenced May 1 to fail for nine months and fined SSOO. The car was officially confiscated that day. Under federal law three things can happen to a confiscated car. Usually a finance company claims it and gets it by paying some costs. The judge may order the car sold at auction. But if the car is a good one, the prohibition department may petition that it be turned over to them. This is what happened to the Schmidt car May 14. according to court records. Garage records show that James Browning, acting prohibition administrator. ordered the car on live storage and prohibition agents began taking it out May 16. An attempt to get an explanation from the prohibition office as to why Mrs. Schmidt’s license plates still are being used faded. The Oldsmobile coupe was not being used this morning. A Times reporter saw it stowed safely in the garage, with flat tires, still bearing Mrs. Schmidt’s plates, front and rear.

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A. C. Baxter, general manager, is extending an invitation of all lawenforcing officials to be guests at the opening. Protecting Citizens Sheriff George Winkler said he would havee plenty of deputies at the track Saturday night “to protect the rights of citizens and handle traffic.” He said he understood there would be no attempt to gamble the first few days. He did not state what his course would be if the “investment” system is started, but said his men would “take cognizance of everything that occurs.” Police Chief Caude M. Worley declared he and 500 policemen will back up the sheriff. He pointed out that the sheriff has original jurisdiction since the track is outside city liTnits. Worley declared that rumors that he had retracted his declaration in The Indianapolis Times last week that no gambling in any form would be permitted were untrue. Sticks to Statement “My statement in The Times last week stands as it,” he said. Final details for the track opening were being arranged today with 275 greyhounds straining for the barrier. The opening is scheduled “rain or shine.” Promoters had arranged that any person desiring to bet on a dog might do so by inserting the amount of investment (never less than $2) in an envelope and by handing the envelope to a brokerage clerk become a part owner of the dog and the participant in any winnings for the period of the particular race only. Scan Statute Books Decision of Florida, Illinois and New York supreme courts upholding the investment feature and declaring that this was not gambling were cited by the promoters of the track last week. But in the face of the declaration by Chief Worley that no gambling would be permitted, the sponsors are desirous of further investigation before opening the brokerage offices. The investment system would have been the principal source of revenue to the track a the kennel club under that method deducts 10 per cent of all “investments” as a brokerage commission. While the dogs will be running without any bets placed on them the operators will be scanning law books to determine “when is an investment not a bet.” FORCE RAIL LINE TO PAY STATE MONEY Paving Suit Reversed by High Court in Favor of Indiana. The suit of the Terre Haute. Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad, in which it was ruled by the Wayne circuit court that they did not have to reimburse the state highway commission SII,OOO for paving between their tracks on the National road, was reversed by the supreme court today. The case had been appealed by the state. In today’s ruling, the court held that the law requires that the traction companies passing through cities must pave their own tracks. Another suit will be necessary, perhaps, to collect the money, but the decision today paves the way for such collection.

ACTOR’S LOVE CAMPAIGN SCUTTLED AS SHIP LANDS

fit/ United Prene LONDON. June 28.—The campaign of Norman Kerry, American to win back the affections of his estranged wife, appeared beset with difficulties today. Kerry and Mrs. Kerry arrived together at Southampton Thursday aboard the liner Majestic from New York, but they were barely on speaking terms. Kerry boarded the liner in dramatic fashion when it sailed from New York on June 21. He had no ticket or passport, but

fice finds it impossible to put the driver license law in effect Monday, July 1, the day set by the statute, because it has been impossible to issue licenses to more than onetenth of the drivers in the state, state police declare that they will question every person in an ac-

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929 .

OPEN KAISER’S DOOR OF EXILE AS RIOTS RAGE Reichstag Unlooses Street Fights With Slap at Treaty of Versailles. GERMANY IN TURMOIL Wilhelm’s Return to Fatherland Doubted by Leaders in Ban Lift. Bu United Press BERLIN, June 28.—The former kaiser’s virtual exile from Germany will come to an end in a few weeks with the expiration of the republic defense law on July 22. The reichstag, in one of the most heated debates of the year, refused to prolong the law and when the session was over shortly after midnight today the sponsors of the measure stood defeated by a vote short of a two-thirds majority. In the meantime German bitterness against the Versailles treaty on the tenth anniversary of its signing today culminated in demonstrations and fighting in the streets of Berlin. “Down With Swine” Students, who had been forbidden by the police to engage in public demonstrations, nevertheless marched through the streets shouting, “Down with the Versailles outrage, “Down with the swine republic” and similar cries. Fighting occurred in Unter Den Linden and elsewhere. While the rioting continued Von Lindeiner-Wildau, one of the nationalist leaders, told the United Press that as far as the former emperor is concerned the defeat of the exile law probably will have no practical results. The former ruler, he said, probably would make no effort to return. War Guilt Denied Moreover, he added, it will remove the stigma which the law hitherto had affixed to the one-time emperor. It was understood that President Paul von Hindenburg was in favor of continued exile. Officially, Germany went on record with its denial of the war-guilt charge in a government manifesto bearing the names of President Paul von Hindenburg and all the members of the cabinet, condemning the terms of the Versailles treaty, especially that section of it which puts the blame for the World war directly upon the German people. The government manifesto set today aside as a day of mourning with the resultant riots. The manifesto signed by Hinaenberg and the other high government officials was clear and precise in stating Germany's dissatisfaction with the treaty. CALL PIERS UNSAFE Train Patrons Aver Line’s Bridge Dangerous. Two hundred patrons of the Union Traction Company line between Muncie and Portland today petitioned for improvements on the road. The petition was filed with the public service commission. It alleges that the Albany bridge’s central piers are unsafe, the track poor throughout the division, the cars “old, dirty, worn-out, wooden affairs that are nothing more than junk and seem as if they were going to fall to pieces.” Lack of seating capacity on certain runs is also charged. The petition sets out the route, but fails to name the company, and it may be refused hearing by the commission on this technicality, it w'as pointed out.

was determined at the last minute to join his wife, who had engaged passage. When guards attempted to bar him, Kerry climbed the fence of the pier and ran up the baggage chute just as the liner sailed. Kerry told reporters that he and his wife had no conversation on the voyage beyond "good morning,” although they sat at adjoining tables. Kerry slept on a sofa in the stateroom of a friend and borrowed extra clothes. His future plans are indefinite.

cident as to whether he or she has a license. If they have not even made an attempt to get the license, complications may ensue. So, the best thfng for drivers to do is to at least make out the application blank at The Times office and try to get the license

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Winners in the swimming meet at Camp Delight, Girl Reserve camp of the Y. W. C. A., as shown here. Girls from chapters throughout Indiana end their ten-day stay at the camp today and Indianapolis reserves enter Monday. Top (left to right) Stella Burks, section winner in the meet from Bloomington; Iris Fisher, section winner from Bedford, and Betty

3 BANDITS TAKE $1,200 AT WOLCOTT BANK AFTER FIRING SHOT INTO CEILING

The" Place Is Stuck Up, Let’s Have It/ First Words of Robbers. Bu United Press WOLCOTT. Ind., June 28.—Three dapper bandits, with drawn revolvers, today robbed the Peoples State bank here of $1,200 and escaped. The trio entered the institution with the command, “The place is stuck up; let’s have it.” Albert Jones, cashier, and Eda Ebersole, assistant cashier,, were lined against a wall, while the bandits forced James Magruder, a director, to open a vault from which the money and some papers were taken. It was not disclosed immediately after the robbery of what nature the papers were. It was said, however, that considerable negotiable bonds were kept in the vault. One shot was fired into the ceiling by the robbers. R. Fisher, White county sheriff, is instituting a search for the men and has notified authorities in surrounding cities and towns of the robbery. It was said the bandits headed toward Chicago.

ONE PRISONER’S HOWLS RUFFLE POLICE NERVES “Bow, Bow! I Don’t Like Your Old Jail,” Barks Dog. If one prisoner held at police headquarters today had understood anything about habeas corpus actions, lawyers probably would have had a job. As it was, all he could do was to “howl.” The prisoner was a big black police ,dog. Two small boys brought him in from St. Clair park late Thursday. Police, believing him to be a valuable pet, locked up the dog in the basement. A Negro woman claimed him, saying a small boy had given her the dog Monday. Officers doubted the story and sent the dog to the pound today after he had kept headquarters on edge with his murderous yelps through the night.

from the secretary of state's office, only one block away, before the deadline. The secretary of state’s office probably will be able to take care of all who call up to the deadline Saturday, but in case of a last minute jam those who cannot be

Jane Hartley, section winner from Hagerstown and high scorer of the state meet. The camp this year had the distinction of two sets of twins at the same time. Lower photo (left to right) Avis Alien, Mary White, Drothy White and lone Allen. The Allen sisters are from Rushvville and the White twins call Hagerstown their home.

PROBE DRUG DEATH Pharmacist Held After Girl Dies of Narcotic Overdose. Bn United Press COLUMBUS, 0., June 28.—Edwin Figner, 36, a pharmacist, was taken to police headquarters for questioning today shortly after the death of Miss Pauline Rader, 23, a beauty parlor operator, who died from what physicians said was an overdose of narcotics. Police said Figner was with the girl a few hours before she became ill. The pharmacist said she apparently was in good health when she left him. WINS ‘TAW' FINALS Philadelphia Boy Is U. S. Marbles Champion. By United Press OCEAN CITY, N. J., June 28 Before a crowd of 3,000 and with every shot broadcast over a national hookup, Charles (Sunny) Albany of Philadelphia, w r on the national marble tournament today. Albany completely outclassed Michael Batche of Akron, winning five straight games in what was scheduled as the best five out of nine. The scores 9-4, 11-2, 7-6, 7-6 and 8-5. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 78 7a. m 64 11 a. m 78 Ba. m 73 12 (noon).. 79 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 76

MOTHER OF SIX TO ASK BIRTH CONTROL INJUNCTION

Bu United Prc** _ _ RIDGEFIELD PARK. N. J., June 28.—Mrs. Emma Schilling will ask next week in county court for a “birth control injunction” to force her husband to respect her wishes to limit their family. Mrs. Schilling is 27. She has had six children since her marriage seven years ago, the eldest being 6 years and the youngest 8 weeks.

taken care of at the statehouse will have made the effort. Those who take advantage of The Times notary service*will save the 25-cent notary fee which is charged at the secretary of state’s office and authorized branches. The fees collected by the sec-

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HAWKS’ PLANE ROARS EAST ON NONSTOP RETURN FLIGHT; SETS CROSS-NATION RECORD Hopes to Make Second Lap of Round-Trip Dash in Fifteen Hours, Again Clipping Mark for Distance. ENDURANCE FLIER DIES IN CRASH Noted Stunt Pilot Cracks Up in Machine With Woman Passenger When He Runs Out of Gas in Fog.

By United Press OLD WESTBURY, L. 1., June 28. —Jack Ashcraft, veteran pilot for whom hairraising “dead stick’’ landings were too tame, met death today trying to effect an ordinary landing in a fog. The Cabinair plane in which he and Miss Viola Gentry took off from Roosevelt field at 8:49 o’clock on Thursday night for an endurance record, ran out of gas, crashed against a tree and came to rest on Hicks’ nursery grounds here. Ashcraft, at the controls, was pinned under the gas tank. Miss Gentry, in the rear of the cabin behind a curtain she had placed in the ship for privacy, was cut on the mouth, severely bruised and suffered greatly from shock. Miss Gentry, one-time woman’s endurance record holder and known !as “the flying cashier,” suffered | fractures of both arms, severe bruises and shock and may have been injured internally. Ashcraft, who hailed from Protection. Kan., was an aerial daredevil of the first order. He learned to fly during the war and then joined a flying circus as “The Texas Cowboy.” Once, at Baton Rouge, La., his plane went into a spin at 2.500 feet and killed ai passenger. Ashcraft was in a hospital for weeks. In 1928, his brother Frank and Jack’s best friend were decapitated by a prematurely exploding bomb they were throwing from a plane at Macon, Ga. Soon after this, Ashcraft, flying with a passenger, turned from the cockpit to see the man crawl overboard and jump to his death. This deterred him not at all. He took up “dead stick” landings to show the public how safe aviation was. When even this palled, he began coming down, blowing taps on a bugle with one hand and guiding the dead plane with the other.

Where Is Viola? By United Press ROOSEVELT FIELD. L. 1., June 28.—The plane Three Musketeers droned over this field today in quest of anew refueling endurance record. At 10:02:02 a. m. the three persons aboard —Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jensen and William Ulbrich—had been in the air 38 % hours. At 9:30 a. m. Jensen dropped a note asking “what has happened to Viola? Saw her at low altitude about 5 o’clock and not since. Am wewried.” Field attendants did not inform him immediately that Viola Gentry, seeking a record in another plane, had been injured and her copilot killed in a crash shortly after 6 a. m. or that Miss Gentry had asked that Ulbrich be notified. At 10:30 a. m. the refueling plane Exclamation Mark prepared to go up with drills and wood screws with which to repair a break Jensen said was in the fuselage opening. NO MAIL ON ‘FOURTH’ Post Office to Close, Except General Delivery, on Holiday. The Indianapolis post office will be closed July 4 all day, with exception of general delivery windows, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson announced today.

Her husband, a 41-year-old painter, is serving thirty days in jail because he threatened to kill her when she pleaded with him not to force her to have another child. Judge Alfred F.eishman. who sentenced him, will represent Mrs. Schilling when she asks County Judge Charles McCarthy for a birth control injunction.

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Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, 28.—Captain Frank Hawks began another assault on the transcontinental flight record at 3:37 a. in. today when he took off for New York. Captain Hawks flew over the Albuquerque airport at 930 a. m. (mountain time) today, word received from there said. Hawks Thursday established a record of 19 hours 10 minutes and 32 seconds in a flight from New York to Los Angeles. Captain Hawks landed shortly after 8 p. m. Thursday. His time bettered by nearly five hours the previous record for the westward trans-continental trip, established by the late Captain C. B. D; Collyeafr and Harry Tucker. Flight in Fourteen Hours Hawks’ Lockheed-Air Express plane was delayed on the return trip when it was discovered the right streamline cowling of the plane had been cracked. Mechanics worked feverishly getting the plane in shape for the return flight, while Hawks slept on a cot at the airport. Shortly before 3 a. m. he was awakened and advised the plane soon would be ready for the return trip. A few minutes later Hawks climbed aboard the Lockheed and started warming it up. Then he started down the runway, taking off after a short run. He circled the airport once and then sped east, the lights on his plane vanishing in a few seconds as the plane roared away aftac another record. Captain Hawks believes he can return east in “fourteen to fifteen hours.”

Declares Trip “Perfect 1 * This would shatter the present west-to-east record of eighteen hours, which he now holds, by more than three hours. Hawks’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hawks, were the first to greet the trans-continental flier as he landed here. They and newspaper men and mechanics were the only ones permitted inside police lines. Hawks declared his trip was "perfect,’’ except for fog over the Pennsylvania mountains and in the vicinity of Cajon pass near here. Thundershowers near St. Louis gave him a little anxiety, but did not delay him. The only danger he encountered, the captain said, was when bumpy air over the mountain spilled gasoline close to the open exhaust pipes. He flew at an altitude all the way from 5.000 to 12,000 feet, he said, "to keep the motor cooled.” Fliers Forced Down By United Press CLEVELAND, June 28.—The endurance flight plane, City of Cleveland, which took off at 7:16 p. m , Thursday, in an attempt to establish anew refueling record, was forced down by a blinding rainstorm at 1:40 a. m. after six hours and twenty-four minutes In the air. The storm, which broke shortly after the fliers, Byron K. Newcomb and R. L. Mitchell, took off, forced them to descend after their altimeter and bank-and-turn indicator was put out of commission.

Fly Five Days 81l l nited Pre<tn MINNEAPOLIS, June 28.—Five days and nights a U.er the Miss Minneapolis roared off in quest of ne world endurance flight record, the red monoplane droned on in its monotonous flight today, victor of adverse weather conditions and ill luck with refueling signals. At 1:03 Owen Haughland and Thorwald < Thunder) Johnson had ridden the skies 128 hours and were appproximately fifty hours awa from their goal. Three times in the past thirty-six hours the Miss Minneapolis was forced to abandon her eighty-mile course In the southern part of the state and fly away from hail and windstorms. Late Thursday the pilots barely averted a forced landing when they lost their refuelling ship in the black clouds and missed contact because of confused signals. “Boy. I shudder to think of how near dry we were,” one of the pilots said in a mesage to Gene Shank, commander of the refuelling crew after the contact had at last been made. "We had only enough gas left to run us betwee thirty seconds and five mintes.”

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