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AGED MAN IS KILLED BY INTERURBAN CAR

An eidarly man. believed to be C-fTr?# Sylvester, about 65, inmate of th* Davton ‘O .) Soldiers’ home, as injured fatally when struck by an Interstate interurban. bound for Lenin Ule. Ky.. at Georgia and Illinois streets at 9 this morning. Walking with a rane. the man stepped in front of the mterurbar,d

HOOVER ASKS CUTS IN HOUSE TARIFF m Watson, Reed and Edge Declare Some Rates Will 8e Slashed. *7 T'rittfi rro, WASHINGTON. .July 13.—New developments in the tariff situation indicated today that President Herbert Hoover favors reduction in some of the rates of the house bill and has communicated his wishes to members of the senate finance committee. now engaged in revising that measure. Three of the most stalwart •tandpat members of the finance committee —Watson. Reed and Edge —have stated within the last twen-ty-four hours they think that some of the house rates should be cut, Watson and Reed making this announcement after a tariff conference at the White House. Watson has said he and the President are in complete agreement with regard to the tariff and. in almost the same breath, has said he believes the tariff bill as it was reported out by the house ways and means committee was a good bill, but that some increases added on the floor of the house were unjustified. Watson's and Reed s views were explained in oral statements. Edge's in a written statement, in which he expressed the "personal view that a number of reductions in the existing rates, or those proposed by the house bill, can be made without injury to anyone." “Whether the final result will warrant more reductions than increases no one definitely can foretell at this time." Edge declared. “However, judging from the evidence presented to the committee of which I am a member. I am of the ©pinion, to date at least, the information will justify a cutting down of the house bill.” Democratic members of the committee were encouraged by the statements of their Republican colleagues, but were inclined to be skeptical until the latter become more specific with regard to particular rates.

Bill Called Unfair BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING Tlmrs Staff f orrespondrnt WASHINGTON. July 13.—Firsthand information as to the dissatisfaction of northwestern agriculture with the new tariff bill was brought to Washington Friday by Governor Theodore Christianson of Minneota. Christianson, who saw President Hoover, said that his state thought the house tariff bill extremely unfair. but that he hopes the President and the senate would make a better measure of it. “The disparity between protection for the farmer and for industry, which in the present low prices brought- on the demand for farm relief through the tariff, is continued if net increased." he said. “The high rates on lumber and building materials not only are unfair to the farmer —the federal and stßte governments are working together on a policy of conservation for our fast-vanishing Minnesota forests. “The proposed tariff Tates would Shut out Canada s lumber and compel us in the United States to use our dwindling supply faster than ever. Why shouldn't we use some of Canada's lumber and save our own?” * Christianson said the farmers also desired duties on foodstuffs not produced here, but which competed with our own foods, and that the compensatory duty of 2b per cent on shores was too high as compared with the 10 per cent given the farmers on hides.

MECHANICAL ICEBOX GAS INJURES THREE Women Escape Deadly Fumes Fata! to Others. *1 T m*tt4 Fr'ts CHICAGO. July 13—Gas leaking from a meehsnical refrigerator was blamed by health authorities today for the illness of three women who fled their apartment gasping for breath. None was believed serious. Those stricken were Mrs. E A. Reynolds. Miss Varna Flesner and Miss Kathlyn Carney. Dr. Arnold Kegel, health commissioner continued experiments in the hope of eventually combatting the poisoning which already has resulted in several deaths. * The latest case was said to have been caused by sulphur dioxide used tn the refrigerator.

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apparently without seeing it as it turned from Georgia street south on Illinois street, Edward Borry. Columbus, Ind., motorman. told police. He was knocked down, and the wheels passed over his body, nearly severing it below the waist. He died in the ambulance en route to city hospital. In pockets of his coat police found

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FURNACE DEATH HELD SUICIDE Believe Man Killed Self Over Business Worries. Bu I nit id Press CHICAGO. July 13.—The charred body of Theodore Hammel, 50, was taken from the furnace of his vacant- apartment building here Friday night. He failed to come home for dinner find a search was begun. Relatives and police believed Hammel ended his own life, despite the apparent improbability of suicide in such a manner. Indications were he had swathed himself in burlap, drenched it with an inflammable liquid and crawled into the firebox. Then, as police reconstructed it, he applied a match. Members of the family and friends told of Hammel's financial worries. His apartment building had stood idle for months. Mortgages totaling $28,000 were about due. Hammel's wife. Mrs. Alice Hammel. an invalid, fearing her husband might have been overcome by the heat, asked her niece. Miss Carmen Hammel. to go to the apartment building and see if he were there. The niece called a friend. James Cregg. to accompany her. Miss Hammel and Cregg searched even- flat, the storeroom and the laundry—even the coal bins—without success. As they prepared to leave, the girl jestingly remarked: . “Maybe he crawled into the furnace to keep cool.” Cregg flashed a searchlight through the furnace door and the light's rays revealed the body. Charges Age Misstated Rv T'mcs Bpcriiil BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. July 13. Mrs. Sarah Rider is seeking a divorce from John H. Rider, alleging that at the time of their marriage he said he was 60 years old. when in fact he was 75.

‘GIRL WITHOUT COUNTRY,’* HEARTBROKEN BY U. S. SNUB, GIVES UP NURSE CAREER

BY HOWARD STEPHENSON Times Staff Orrppeßlfiit LIMA. 0.. July 13.—1n tears. and said to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Martha. Jane Graber. youthful nurse, who just has been refused American citizenship by the local common pleas court, was on her way today to the home of her mother in lowa. She is heartbroken because her firm adherence to -the tenets of her Mennonite faith and her profession of nurse forbade her to swear that she was willing tc kill, in case America goes to war.

papers bearing the name of George Sylvester, and identifying him as an inmate of the soldier's home. Cards with the address of the home, and a. railway ticket from Dayton to Indianapolis also were found. Borry and Albert Goshom. Columbus. conductor, were questioned by police and allowed to take the interurban on to Louisville.

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Ex-Sophisticated Screen idol Goes to Europe in Attempt to Find Work. By United Pres* NEW YORK. July 13.—After living expensively here with his wife of a few months, the former Katherine Carver. Adolph Menjou, for vears America’s sophisticate of the screen, has sailed for Europe in search of a job. Menjou has been going the rounds of the employment offices unable to find a picture concern interested in his services. Just before he sailed on the liner Paris he was assured he could make one more picture in the United States at least, and will remain in Europe for only thirty days, instead of indefinitely, as a result. Edwin Earl Smith of the executive department of the American Sound Studios, announced Menjou has signed a contract to make one picture on a co-production basis. The revelation that Menjou had been going the rounds of the employment offices was a surprise, since he had been in great demand after his performance in "A Woman of Paris" several years ago and was considered a Hollywood fixture. He even had essayed the talkies and had been pronounced successful there. “It is all very strange to me,” Menjou said. “After my last contract expired I couldn’t get a renewal under any consideration. Other producers said they did not wish my services.” Menjou said he was not exactly “broke." hut had need of employment soon. He plans to visit producers in France. Germany and England before making the picture fer the Sound Studios Company. BOY IS UNIMPROVED Tetanus Victim Remains Critically 111 at Hospital. Critically ill since Tuesday with tetanus, resultant from the explosion of a toy cap pistol July 2. Harold Coble. 11. of 325 North Bright street, still is in city hospital, his condition i unchanged, attendants report.

The case has stirred up unusual interest throughout Ohio. The final court scene in which the girl, whose case has been pending since February, explained her reasons for refusing to kill in war was dramatic. • I want to know what your objections are—your reservations,” said Judge Fred C. Becker. She replied that to kill is not ethical in her profession, nursing, and that she had taken an oath to be true to her profession. Would you fight in defense of this country ? That's what the

IXDIAXAPOLIS. SATURDAY. JULY 13. 1929

FLIERS LAND AFTER TEN DAYS IN AIR Flood of Movie and Stage Contracts Greet Record Aviators. MOTOR IN GOOD SHAPE Gathering of Refuse in Tail Group Makes Landing Necessary, B't Vniterl Bn. LOS ANGEL.ES. July 13.—Loren Mendeli and R. B. (Pete) Reinhart, changed from greasy flying togs tq clean linens and smooth-faced after the removal of ten days, growth of beard, presented a much different picture today than Friday at 2:16 p. m. when they crawled from their biplane Angelno after a sustained flight of 246 hours 43 minutes 30 seconds. Telegrams of congratulations, offers of movie and stage contracts, invitations to indorse merchandise for cash, and other problems confronted Mendeli and Reinhart. Motor In Good Condition According to McManus and the pilots, the direct cause of the sudden descent of the Angeleno during its thirty-seventh refueling at 1,500 feet was the gathering of paoer and other refuse in the tail group of the plane, causing the plane to become wobbly and hard to control. During the last refueling the supply plane gained altitude slowly and the draught of its propeller blew a cowling hood of the Angeleno back into the stabilizer of the plane. This increased the uncertainty of steering and a successful refueling contact appeared impossible, so Mendeli dove for the landing field. The fliers claimed an examination showed the Wright wirlwind engine would have been good for 150 hours more. The flight covered approximately 21.000 miles of flying. Airport figures show that the Angeleno traveled eighty-five miles per hour and would have circled the globe. Airmen place importance in tills fact because for the first time in history a plane has been sustained in flight long enough to have gone around the earth.

Both Deaf Upon Landing Mendell and Reinhart retired at 9:30 p. m. Friday night after a “victory- banquet” hr their suitecs and brief speeches over the radio over a nation-wide hookup. Much interest was attached to the physical examination the men were forced to take after the conclusion of their flight. It was announced at the hospital in Culver City that Reinhart’s pulse registered 120 when he entered the institution and thirty minutes later it had dropped to 96. Mendell’s pulse beat 109 when he first was examined and a half hour later registered 92. Reinhart’s blood pressure ranged from 160 to 140 and Mendell’s from 136 to 120. The eye reflection and respiration of both pilots was somewhat above normal. Reinhart, due to the fact- that he handled most of the refueling for the Angeleno and was forced to Inhale gasoline fumes and subject himself to additional nerve strain, felt the effects of the long flight more than Mendell. Both fliers were deaf when they landed and it was several hours before their hearings reached a degree approaching normal.

First Three Days Hardest Mendell said the first three days and nights were the hardest. “We were sick from gasoline fumes, tveary from fighting fogs and unable to sleep, due to the roar of the motor.” he said. “Then suddenly we became acclimated. We were unable to hear the motor because we were deaf. Asa result we got sleep, and sleep is one of the most important things on an endurance flight.” Records of the condition of Mendell and Reinhart at the end of their flight will be turned over to Doctors Theodore Lvster and Isaac Jones by the Culver City hospital, it was said. The two physicians examined the aviators at the time they got their pilots’ licenses and data of importance concerning the effect of long flights upon pilots will be discovered. physicians believe. Medical journals already have asked for comprehensive accounts of the case from a scientific angle.

oath of allegiance means,” the judge explained. aa • ~ “x LOVE this country, love the 1. people of this country. I would be willing to fight for it the same as I would for any of my folks.” she declared. “Do you mean by that you would be willing to take up arms? Would you be willing to Are a. gun?" Miss Graber was silent for a moment. ,“I couldn't say what I wohld do in a time like that. I don't know.” "Would you kill to protect your

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NINE HUNDRED ARRESTED BY CHINESE IN FIGHT AGAINST SOVIET FORCES

Manchurian Railway Operates Smoothly, and War Fears Are Discredited, Bis United Tree? PEPING, .July 13.—Seven hundred more arrests have been made in Harbin, Manchuria, by Chinese officials jn. addition to the 20(! Soviet officals ana workers of the Chinese Eastern railway, who have been rounded np in an effort of the Chinese authorities to “halt the Sovietization of* North Manchuria,” it was learned here today. The dispatches said the railway was operating smothly since its seizure by the Chinese authorities. Harbin officials declared the arrests were 'necessary to halt Russian influence over the district.

Troops Are Massed BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW. July 13.—Reports of concentration of Manchurian and Soviet troops along the Russian borders in the east were published in the' Soviet press today, together with the first information which has been made public here of the current clash between- Russia and China over the Chinese seizure of the eastern railway. The Soviet newspapers gave a full account of the railway seizure and the Chinese confiscation of the telephone and telegraph lines in Manchuria, as well as the subsequent arrest of some 200 Russian railway officials, including the manager of the Harbin headquarters. The foreign colony had known of the trouble between China arid Russia for seme time, but today was the first time that the general populace here had been informed of the threatening trouble. In well-informed quarters it was doubted there would be an armed conflict between the two nations. It was believed the-Russian government would prepare a sharp note of protest to the Chinese government. citing its grievances and demanding respect -"or the existing treaties. It was argued also any attempt to regain by force the control of the railway might hurt, the Soviet's selfappointed role of friend to colonial and semi-colonial people. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 73 9 a. m 30 7a. m 74 10 a. m 33 8 a. m 79

mother ?” Judge Becker asked. "I would not kill even to save my mother.” she stated simply. The case promptly was dismissed, but later Judge Becko paid a high tribute to the girl's character in her refusal to take the oath as a conscientious objector to bearing arms. During the World war many hundreds of Mennonites of this secfio!n.‘df Ohio Webe. listed aseohscientious objectors and the couriroort • was cmv. tied with them They are fanner folk from the neighborhood of Bluffton, where

HOGS 10 TO 15 CENTS LOWER: CATTLE SCARCE Yealers Drop 30. Cents; Sheep and Lambs Steady Here. Hog prices at the city yards opened mostly 10 to 15 cents lower than Friday's best prices. The bulk of 160-280 pounds brought $ll.BO to $12.30. Receipts were 6.000, and holdovers from Friday’s market numbered 359. Cattle were scarce though quotably steady. Vealers were selling 50 cents lower at sl6 down. Sheep and lambs opened steady with fat ewes still at $4.50 to $6.50. Better grade lambs sold at sl3 to $14.50.

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Miss Graber was taking a special course at Bluffton college to train as a missionary to Africa. a a a THE girl was born tn Alsace and has been in this country since 1910. She is a graduate nurse and had no hesitancy in saying that she would be willing to serve as a war nurse. The case is certain to be appealed- It is said.to raise one new aspect in the growing controversy over naturalization in that it may 'involve the religious test specifically forbidden by the Constitution.

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TWO PLANES SPEED OUT OVER ATLANTIC IN RACE FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK Radio Signals of French Fliers Come in, Showing Machine May Toward Goal; Polish Machine Flies Silently. TRAVELING AT TERRIFIC PACE Favorable Winds Will Accompany Airmen Over Ocean. Say Meteorologists; Start Is Sudden and Unexpected. i BY RICHARD D. M MTLLAN. Unit'd Press Staff CorresjM>ndent PARIS. July 13.—Two airplanes took off from Le Bourget field at dawn today for a race across the Atlantic to the Lnited States, and eight hours later the French crew* of Die-Dotme Coses and Maurice BeUonte was well on its way toward the open ocean. The other plane, manned by a Polish crew, had not been reported at noon. Wireless messages from Costes and Bellonte were coming in regularlv, giving word that all was well aboard their great monoplane. Question Mark. The Marshal Pilsudsky, in which Louis Idzikowski and Casim.ir Kubala tverc making a second attempt to cross the Atlantic, was not equipped with radio. After leaving Le Bourget at 4:45 a. m., summer time (10:45 p. m. Friday eastern standard time), the Question Mark was seen first over Tours, headed for Bordeaux. Next it was reported by the fishing boat, Mouette, thirty miles northwest of Cape Ferret, on the French coast.

It was flying toward the coast of Spain, on a direct line from the French capital, and next was sighted flying high and fast toward the open ocean. It was traveling at a terrific pace, having covered 150 miles, in four hours. The route of the Question Mark was by way of the Azores and Halifax, with New York as the destination. The two Polish fliers made an attempt to' cross the Atlantic last August, but were forced down. Polish Plane Has Advantage The Question Mark, which had been secretly prepared for the flight for the last two months, was flown by two of France’s best known aviators. Costes, who already has a south Atlantic flight to his credit, ana Bellonte, also celebrated for his feats of daring and skill. The Marshal Pilsudski. with an advantage in speed ana fuel capacity, got off to a smoother start. The big grayish-white plane rolled down the runway gracefully, took off perfectly and in a few moments was out of sight. The Question Mark required a

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Since refusal to kill is a part of the Mennonite religious doctrine, to force a candidate for citizenship to renounce that part of her creed is said to approach imposing a religious test. Acting as head nurse at Bluffton hospital, the girl has been unusually popular in her little village. where she had lived and studied for three years. Immediately she resigned her post as nurse, abandoned her summer classes and announced that she would try to forget the humiliation the case has caused her by going home to her mother.

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little longer to take off, but once in the air its motors hummed perfectly | and seemed ready for a gruelling flight. It circled the field before j starting westward on its long journey. \ According to the French meteorI logical bureau the planes would, have ] favorable winds to accompany them | across the Atlantic. Excellent ' weather prevailed over the whole i oceari. Start Is Unexpected The start of the planes was sudI den and quite unexpected. Only a ; fev: newspaper men and photogj raphers were on hand to see the takeoff. Bellonte’s English wife was at the field to bid her husband good-by and to give him a parting kiss. What preparations Costes and his partner had made were for the ostensible purpose, in view of the French ban of trans -Atlantic flights, of flying to Tokio. A few moments before the takeoff, however, when Costes was asked if he really was going to Tokio. he said: “No, New York.” Costes left a letter for the air ministry, which had placed the prohibition on trans-oceanic flights, reading: “We are leaving for a prohibited destination. We place the responsibility on no one.”

Fueled Side by Side Idzinkowski in an exclusive interview with the United Press just before the take-off, said he was absolutely confident of reaching New York. The Polish flier said he would be satisfied as long as he landed somewhere in the United tStaes. Although New York City was his chief objective. The two planes were prepared and fueled side by side. The Marshal Pilsudsk* was the first to be ready and was standing outside its hangar, ready for the dash, as the Question Mark was being put in condliton for the flight by two score of workers who were putting the finishing touches to it. Provisions loaded on the Question Mark consisted of several bottles of water, packages of biscuits, dried meat, dried preserves and a quantity of pemmican, a food used by expore rs in the polar wastes. They also carried medical supplies, including grease with which to smear their faces against the cutting winds. The French plane was equipped with a radio apparatus, but the huge Polish plane was not. The Amiot biplane in which the Poles started their flight carried a greater supply of fuel. It had nearly 1,500 gallons aboard while still in the process of being loaded. The Question Mark carried 1,400 gallons. Fought Each Other In the war the Polish fliers fought against each other in opposing armies. Idzikowski, born in Warsaw, fought with the Russians, becoming one of the best pilots in the Russian army; Kubala served with the Austrian air force. The restoration of Poland brought the celebrated aviators together. Both planes looked Impressive as they stood side by side awaiting the moment of the get-away. The Costes plane, equipped with a BreguethHispano motor, was painted red, its wing-tips ornamented with the tricolor of France. Across its fuselage was painted a huge question mark The Marshal Pilsudski, painted a grayish-white, had the name In bold printed letters painted across its fuselage. The Amiot biplane, made partly of metal, was equipped with a pneumatic canoe, but carried no wireless apparatus.