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CROSS - U. S. AIR SERVICE IS LAUNCHED Embry-Riddle Also Adds New Trips to Chicago and Cincinnati. AIR TRAVEL BOOMS Two Ships Land Here in Start of T. A. T. Plane and Rail Schedule. With inauguration both of regular passenger trips by Transcontinental Air Transport. Inc., and three round-trips daily between Cincinnati and Chicago on the EmbryRiddle air mail line, today was one of the greatest days in the aviation l history of Indianapolis. The Emby-Riddle Company's new ; mr mail schedule started with a I night flight for mail only, leaving Cincinnati at 4 30 a. m. eastern standard time, and leaving here at 445 central time. The first passenger planes on the schedule met her at 10:05 a. m. and departed for Cincinnati and for Chicago at 10:15 a. m. Colonel Edgar S. Gorrell. Stutz Motor Car Company president, was the only Indianapolis passenger on the first of the regular westbound passenger trips of T. A. T. today. He was one of 1,500 persons seeking the honor. Goes to Meetings Gorrell will reach Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon. The next morning he will leave, on an airplane tour to attend dealer meetings in Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City and St. Louis. Two T. A. T. fri-motored Ford monoplanes left Columbus, O. westbound. and Los Angeles, eastbound, tiiis morning. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was pilot of one of the eastbound planes. He was to stop at Winslow. Ariz.. and return to Los Angeles as pilot of one of the two west bound planes. More than 800 persons witnessed the inauguration ceremonies. They included Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, Adjutant-General William H. Kershner, C. L. Harrod, Chamber of Commerce general manager: H. Weir Cook, Curtiss Fiying Service; Otto P. Deluse, president, and William H. Howard, secretary, Board of Trade. Both the “City of Columbus" and "City of Wichita" landed here at 9 03 a. m.. ten minutes ahead of schedule. After refueling and the reception ceremonies the City of Columbus left at 9:20 a. m„ eight minutes ahead of time and the City of Wichita at 9:34 a. m.. six minutes late. A third tri-motored Ford monoplane. owned by the Ford company, j carrying W. B Mayo, Ford Motor ; Company's chief engineer, and J. L. \ Eysmans. Pennsylvania railroad vice-president and T. A. T. director, who are observing the service inauguration, landed after the regular planes and left soon after their departure. Several thousand persons in a drizzling rain waved a greeting to the J two planes. City of Columbus and j City of Wichita, each with fourteen passengers, as they left Columbus at 8:18 a. m.. eastern standard time Secretary of Commerce Charles W. ! Lamont, in his office in Washing- i ton. pushed a button giving the planes the starting signal. Met by Officials A delegation of state and city i officials greeted passengers on the T A T. west-bound planes reaching here at 9:13 a. m. Scheduled departure time is 9:28 a. m. Eastbound planes arrive at 4:22 p. m. and depart at 4:37 p. m. Passengers on the planes this morning included: Colonel Gorrell, Betty Brainard. newspaper woman; U. Grant Border, New York: A. A. Gaithwaite. vice-president Lee Rubber Company; F. W. Higgins of Bostn. Mass.: Amelia Earhart, assistant general traffic manager of the T. A. TANARUS.: Colonel Paul T. Henderson, executive vice-president of the T. A. T ; Fritz Hinkle. Kansas City (Mo.) newspaper man: D. M. Shearer, chief of transportation of the Pennsylvania railroad: Paul T. Henderson Jr.; Chauncy Lamb of Kansas City; j W. Brennan, central traffic manager of the T. A. TANARUS.; William Chaplin, New York newspaper man; Mrs. John T. Litch. Byfield, Mass.; Miss Mary A. Salamon. Brooklyn (N. Y.) newspaper woman; E. E. Greiner of Springfield. O.: James Bryant of Washington, and aCrl Larson and Charles Tice of Fox Movietone News. Two Passenger Trips Donald A. McConnel, local Embry - Biddle representative, announced that air mail will be carried on all three round-trips, while passengers will be carried on the two roundtrips during daylight hours. North bound schedule, giving eastern standard time for Cincinnati and central standard time for Chicago and Indianapolis: Leave Cincinnati, 4:30 a. m, 10 a. m. and 5 p. m.; leave Indianapolis, 4:45 a. m„ 10:15 a. m. and 5:15 p. m., arrive Chicago, 6:30 a. m., 12 noon and 7 p. m. Southbound: Leave Chicago 8:30 * m., 2 p. m. and 9 p. m.; leave Indianapolis 10:15 a. m.. 3:45 p. m. jfnrf 10:46 p. m.: arrive Cincinfeatt ffeso p. ex, 6 pu m. and 1 a. m.

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Air Lanes Cross at Mars Hill Port

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These pictures portray the joining of two great air lanes at Indianapolis, fast becoming the air crossroads as well as paved highway junction of the nation. Above is one of the two giant trimotored planes which made the first stop in history of transcontinental air transportation at Mars Hill airport this morning. Center, left, is John Paul Riddle of Cincinnati, general manager of the Embry-Riddle Company,

NEW COURT ACTION IS HINTED BY DOG RACE TRACK CHIEFS

Promoters Are Undecided Whether to Try Out ‘lnvestment Brokerage’ Plan Again Tonight; Officers Halt Saturday Betting.

Dog racing will be resumed at the Indianapolis Kennel Club. Ltd., track, a mile north of city limits on the Allisonville road at 8:30 tonight, but whether another attempt to operate the ‘'investment brokerage" sysem of wagering will be made remains to be decided, A. C. Baxter, track manager, announced today. Sheriff George L. Winkler and Police Chief Claude M. Worley smothered an attempt to operate the betting windows Saturday night. Baxter indicated that some new plan of court action might be instituted today. The promoters lost the first court skirmish when a restraining order issued by Superior Judge James M. Leathers Friday, under which the sheriff and police forces felt themselves prevented from making arrests, was modified Saturday so that the officials’ powder was restored.

After the hectic day Saturday the track opened Saturday night with tellers in the betting booths. No sooner had the crowd lined up to place money than eighteen policemen and twelve deputy sheriffs marched into the grounds. The ultimatum that at the first money exchanged “arrests will be made and money, dogs and the electric rabbit confiscated" was delivered bv Sheriff George L. Winkler and Police Chief Claude M. Worley. Tellers and cashiers left the booths and many patrons left the track. A crowd estimated at more than 2.500 persons remained throughout the eight races. As the races were

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which inaugurated three-plane a day service between Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago today. Riddle was on one of the first planes. Right, center, is Colonel E. S. Gorrell, Stutz Motor Car Company president, first Indianapolis passenger on a T. A. T. trip to Los Angeles. Amelia Earhart, also a passenger, is just walking into the picture. The snap below shows the enormous size of the regular T. A. T. planes.

run some patrons made clandestine wagers with “bookies” working independently of the track. A denunciation of Prosecutor Judson L. Stark was delivered to spectators through a loud-speaker by Frank Young, lumberman, who supplied materials for the track and grand stand. Stark and Earl Cox and T. J. Moll, attorneys for the kennel club, will appear before Leathers again Tuesday morning. At this time'the club attorneys will attempt to obtain a temporary injunction to prevent police from interfering with : the enterprise.

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INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929

QUAKE STIRS TO ‘GREET ELKS' Los Angeles Temblor Is Strongest in Years. LOS ANGELES. July 8. —An earthquake of fairly heavy intensity shook downtown Los Angeles today. The shock lasted several seconds. The ■weather bureau said the quake was the strongest felt here for several years. “It was ‘put on’ as a special treat for delegates to the Elks national convention,” Colonel H. B. Herzey, government forecaster, said. The office of the United Press was shaken rather severely by the tremor. Lights swung from side to side and a portable telegraph in- ; strument almost upturned. The shock was felt distinctly in Monrovia, San Pedro, Wilmington, Point Firmin and Terminal Island. ' At San Pedro buildings shook for six seconds. Four girls were reported to have fainted in the San Pedro city I hall. j Glendale felt the earth movement 1 only slightly. Whittier reported the first dam- : age from the tremor. A plate glass [window in the First National bank : broke, plaster was shaken from walls 1 and bricks fell from coping during j the seven seconds shock there. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 71 10 a. m 79 7a. m 72 11 a. m 80 8 a. m 76 12 (noon).. 82 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 82

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FIGHT REVIVED FOR CHURCHES ON WAR PLAZA Bible Class Makes Plea That Builings Stay Near Memorial, CITES MORAL BEAUTY Claims of Living Should Precede Those of Dead, Expression States. An expression by the Rev. William Carson, retired Presbyterian minister, indorsed by his Sunday school class, the Beecher Bioie class of the Second Presbyterian church, opposing removal of that church and the First Baptist church from the War Memorial plaza, was made public today by Mrs. Martha W. Kendall, secretary of the class. No move to settle the question of whether the two historic churches shall be moved has been made by authorities for many months. The two churches stand at the corners of the memorial shrine. Memorial commission officials have declared the plaza can not be completed until the churches are removed. The County commissioners, who purchased the rest of the propertyin the block with the churches, upon which the shrine stands, several months ago declared that they would spend no more money on the plaza. Since then they have refused to comment. Morally Beautiful The expression of Beecher Bible Class (named after Henry Ward Beecher, famous preacher once pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church), cites the churches as two of the most "morally beautiful” spots in the city and declares: “Is it not more in harmony with the principles of honor, rectitude and personal regard to care for the living soldier rather than to make a great ado over the one that is dead? Is it not better, far better, for these churches to go right on in building up moral sentiment, molding character and doing much in shaping final destiny than spending millions of dollars in erecting costly monuments for those boys who have finished their course and sleep under the sod? “Both are right and comely in their proper season, but the welfare of the living soldiers should by all means have the preference. The ground where these churches stand, and where they have labored so long and so well, is sacred and ought not to be disturbed. "Spiritually Dead'* “Have we become so spiritually dead, so lost to every sense of right and wrong as to see these buildings torn down without a tear, a j sigh or a regret? May a kind providence save us from such a lamentable result. . . . “Can not some means be devised to put the church buildings in full accord with all the approaches, so as not to mar or destroy in any degree the beauty, the symmetry and the glory of the plaza?” The expression closes with the suggestion that a row of statues of Henry Ward Beecher and other heroes of peace times be lined across the block of Vermont street which the two churches face. LINDY TALKS FOR ANNE “I Have Nothing to Say” Includes Wife, Colonel Explains. By United Press LOS ANGELES. July B.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has augmented his famous one-second interview “I have nothing to say’’ to include “she has nothing to say.” Arriving in his Falcon plane from Kingman, Ariz., Colonel Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were surrounded by newspaper men. When Mrs. Lindbergh was questioned, she remarked “You had better ask Colonel Lindbergh.” “She has nothing to say,” said Lindbergh. SEEK RUBBISH DUMPER ■ Truckload of Junk Is Left Along Prospect Street. Arrest of a man for dumping trash along a public highway was ! expected today following an investigation by Charles Mann, county highway superintendent. Mann announced that deputy i sheriffs were seeking a man who 1 dumped a truckload of junk along : Prospect street near Emerson avenue, over the week-end. Ernest Seele. 332 South Emerson avenue, was arrested last Wednesday on a similar charge

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‘Dolt’ Jolt By United Press LANSING, Mich., July B.—A man would be a '‘dolt" to marry a bootlegger, the state supreme court held today in deciding that Joseph J. Andruska had sufficient grounds for breaking his promise to marry Rose Akema. Andruska admitted he had made the nuptial promise, but said he balked when his fiancee refused to abandon bootlegging. Miss Akema was arrested for a liquor law violation while her breach of promise case was pending in the lower court.

‘GANG’ RITUAL FATAL TO BOY Youths, 11 and 14, Held for Murder of Playmate, 8. Bn United Press FLINT, Mich., July B.—Two boys, 11 and 14 years old, today faced murder charges as the sequel to a childish initiation ceremony—the “royal bumps”—which police say was responsible for the death of Merrill A. Putnam, 8. The Putnam boy died in a local hospital from blood poisoning resulting from a scratch on the right leg received in a gang initiation several days ago. The lad’s playmates, Harold Creighton, 11, and Harley Topman, 14, were arrested Sunday -when Putnam’s father complained to police. The youthful pair admitted they gave Merrill the “royal bumps” by striking him against the ground as one of them held his head and the other his feet. "He said ‘ouch’ once when it hurt him,” the youngsters declared. They insisted that the boy did not appear to be hurt after the ‘ceremonies’ and continued playing without complaint. Putnam was taken to the hospital Saturday after he complained to his parents of his illness. An autopsy showed that death was due to blood poisoning. A bad bruise and scratch on the leg was said to have been the source of the poisoning. Creighton and Topman were released to their parents pending arraignment on murder charges. FIND GAMBLER’S BODY Cincinnati Man Believed “Taken for a Ride.” CINCINNATI, July B.—The body of Charles Caruso, 26, known to police as a gambler, was found in a clump of weeds near an outlying roadhouse today. A bullet had pierced his heart. Police expressed the belief that Caruso had been “taken for a ride.” dies”” reading mass Rector Stricken by Heart Attack Caused by Heat. By United Press NORRISTOWN, Pa.. July B. While reading mass toda,y, the Rev. Hugh A. Trimble, 55, assistant rector of St. Augustine’s church, near here, died from a heart attack brought on by the heat.

STATE REFUSES BONDS FOR KESSLER BOULEVARD

State tax commissioners today turned down the proposed bond issue for extending the Kessler boulevard paving east of Keystone avenue for little more than two miles outside the city limits. The Indianapolis park board had asked a $282,000 bond issue for this improvement, but at a hearing they indicated that they would accept anything the state board deemed sufficient, if bids were received. There will be no bidding now. In turning down the project, Chairman William A. Hough of the state tax board pointed out that the greatest interest was manifested

DOCTORS IN TWO CITIES, FLIER LOSE DEATH RACE

Bn Times Special MISHAWAKA. Ind.. July B.—Despite frenzied efforts of physicians in two cities and those of an aviator who raced to Indianapolis during the night, death claimed James Prdstman, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dcr.ald Prostman. here early today. The boy died of convulsions caused by rabies following the bite of a stray dog three weeks ago. Doctors who were caring for the child thought that he was making satisfactory progress. Sunday night, however, convulsions started and the child's life was despaired of unless special serum could be obtained.

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! FLIERS OFF ON 4,800-MILE ATLANTIC DASH TO ROME; SEEK NEW DISTANCE MARK ! " Williams and Yancey, Flying in Pathfinder, Expect to Reach Italian Capital Early Wednesday Morning. PLANE MAKES PERFECT TAKE-OFF

Wreath Intended for Memory of 111-Fated Old Glory Is Left Behind—Too Big to Carry; Hundreds See Trip Begin. BY FRANK MURPHY United Press Staff Correspondent OLD ORCHARD, Me., July B.—Bound for Rome, 4.800 miles away, the sturdy silvery monoplane Pathfinder soared off the sands here at 8:48 a. m. today in a spectacular attempt to better the distance record for heavier-than-air craft. If all goes well, Pilot Roger Q. Williams and his navigator. Lewis A. Yancey, expect to land in the Italian capital about 9

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feet take-off after a slow run from north to south on the cres-cent-shaped beach. Pilot Roger Q. Williams, with the tide rapidly narrowing the natural runway, kept his plane, within twenty feet of the water’s edge as it moved about a mile and a half down the beach.

The huge plane lifted easily into the low-lying haze which had threatened to block the flight. It gained altitude rapidly and headed southsoutheast. The monoplane, with its light green nose pointed toward the rising sun, and its huge silver wings shimmering, then was turned to the southeast and later shifted to the east, heading directly for a 1,000mile fog bank which the fliers hoped to pass over. No word regarding the progress of the plane has been received since 9:50 a. m„ when Lieutenant Leonard M. Melka of the Gloucester (Mass.) coast guard base, who acaccompanied the Pathfinder in his Amphibian plane on the first hour of its journey, reported it was “going strong” about seventy-five miles off Portland lightship. Melka, on his flight back to shore, was forced down about five miles off Portland lightship when his fuel supply became exhausted, according to reports reaching here. From Old Orchard the Pathfinder

by landowners who would be benefitted, that the board has approved bonds for the Millersville road in the vicinity, that tax refunds for 1919 and 1921 may have to be paid and that Broad Ripple, recently annexed to the city, needs a high school building. “The extension of Kessler boulevard may be taken up at any time in the future when financial conditions, the tax rate and public needs will warrant,” Hough declared. The board sustained its original assessment figure of $32,776,208 for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, following a rehearing this morning.

The nearest supply of such serum is kept in Indianapolis. Captain Charles Bowers of the Shockley Flying Service of South Bend and Kokomo volunteered his I assistance. He wired to Clyde j Shockley, president of the company, j who was in Kokomo. Shockley took eff for Indianapolis at 9:30 reaching here at 10:50. An Indianapolis doctor had 'rushed a quantity of the serum to i the Indianapolis airport and Shocki ley Immediately started the return flight. He arrived in South Bend at 12:08. The serum was administered, but it was too late. i The child died at 3 this morning.

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a. m. Wednesday with anew distance record to their credit. Although one airplane and automobile had become stuck in the soft sand of the natural runway only a few minutes previously, the Pathfinder, weighing more than three tons, got away to a per-

was scheduled to fly due east to Cape Sable; then east-southeast to latitude 41, longitude 47, the junction of the ship lanes; then due east to Cape Ortega, Spain; then over Bayonne and Marseilles, France; across the Mediterranean, over the Island of Corsica, and on a bee-line to Rome. The fliers arose at 5:30 a. m. and breakfasted at the Brunswick hotel half an hour later with Mrs. Yancey and Lieutenant Melka. After tackling a menu that consisted of orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon, rolls and coffee, the party repaired to the hangar of Captain Harry M. Jones, where mechanics were completing the work of fueling the Pathfinder. The following provisions were placed aboard the Pathfinder: Three quarts of water, three quarts of coffee (in thermos bottles), eight oranges, four apples, six chocolate bars, a roasted chicken cut into chunks and a bottle of medicinal whisky. Going This Time Mrs. Yancey was wearing a blue silk dress with white lace collar, a blue cloque hat, tan stockings and low-heeled black shoes. Around her neck was a string of pearls and pinned to her dress was a white carnation. “I guess they’re going this time,” she said with a radiant smile. It was 6:50 a. m., when the airmen and their companions reached the beach. Twenty minutes previously mechanics had completed the work of placing 500 gallons of fuel aboard the Pathfinder. Some of the mechanics already had inspected the natural runway, and they informed Williams and Yancey that the tides had smoothed out the rough spots and that the beach was suitable for the take-off. The fliers had ordered a wreath with the idea of dropping it into the sea, about 1,000 miles out, near the spot where the ill-starred transAtlantic plane Old Glory is believed to have fallen while attempting to fly to Rome. Wreath Is Discarded But when the wreath was delivered this morning, it was so large the airmen decided it would be impracticable to take it along. “The 500 gallons of fuel we’re taking should keep us aloft fifty hours,” Yancey said. “We expect to make Rome in forty-five to fifty hours. Over the first six miles of our course we will use a fuel mixture of 80 per cent gasoline and 20 per cent benzol, gradually decreasing the benzol content until, at the seventh mile, we will be using clear gasoline. This plan should give us better lifting power.” Sixth Day in Air B'l X’nltfd Prcaa CULVER CITY. Cal . July B. Within striking distance of anew world’s refueling endurance record, Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart were on the sixth day of their long flight today. If the California fliers succeed in keeping their Buhl Airsedan afloat until 2:30 p. m. Tuesday they will have passed the mark of 174 hours 59 seconds, set in Cleveland Saturday by Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell. The fliers were hard pressed by fogs during the first three days of their flight, but clearing weather has eliminated this dangerous hazard at least temporarily.

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