Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1929 — Page 1

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DOG RAGING DECISION SET FOR SATURDAY Attorneys Wrangle Over Envelope Wagering System. BETTING LIKE GAMBLING Track Counsel Asserts. No. Indiana Statute Violated. Derision on the legality of Investment betting at, the Indiana Kennel Club, Ltd., greyhound trark, north of Indianapolis, today rested with Arthur C. Van Duyn, Hancock county circuit judge, in Greenfield, who took under advisement a petition of track operators for an order restraining interference by police or deputy sheriffs. The judge announced he hoped to render his verdict by II Saturday morning. As track attorneys and counsel for Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Sheriff George Winkler wrangled over the inclusion of investments on racing whippets in a legal definition of gambling, Clin- j ton H. Givan, Marion country attorney, made several oral thrusts at County Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, who withdrew from the case Tuesday. Urges Prosecutor Enjoined “If the injunction is granted,” Givan addressed the court, “I shall ask the prosecutor be enjoined from bringing criminal indictments on gaming charges for ulterior purposes." He did not explain what he meant. Stark said Tuesday he had prosecuted the case sufficiently in Marion county, and when a change of venue was granted from Superior Judge James M. Leathers’ court, lie requested that it be taken to Hendricks county. During the reading of the transscript of evidence before Judge Leathers, Givan interrupted, stating, “The prosecutor might have been used as a witness in this case, but he failed to appear. I think Sheriff Winkler made a mistake, when he said before Judge Leathers that ‘Stark is in this case to the finish.'” T. J. Moll, one of the track attorneys, opened the arguments, pointing out that the action was purely civil, and stating that only a prima facie case need be made to | warrant the order. Seeking to show that through the > envelope investment system no state statute is violated, Omar Jackson | Greenfield, track attorney, said, j “Let us say for example, you donate j a certain sum on a dog named ‘Gyp.’ j The track holds the money, deducts j a small per cent for brokerage, and j returns the investment with interest if the dog wins. If ‘Gyp’ loses, the track keeps the investment." “Mr. Jackson called the dog ‘Gyp,’" Herbert Spencer, city prose- j cutor interrupted. “Oh. how the j public will get ’gypped.' These track operators are not in business for their health, but for their wealth.” Money Returned on Demand "If the patron demands it. his; money will be returned, even if the i dog loses,” Jackson continued. "They'd have to.” said Spencer.; “because it's gambling, and illegal. You could run poker games on West Washington street, and call the betting ‘investments.’ Moreover, how many of the sporting class would welch on their bets?” j “We have evaded successfully, j yes. but we haven’t violated any section of an Indiana statute against gaming.” Earl Cox. track counsel, declared shortly before court adjourned. DRY AGENT RELEASED Man Accused in Death of Farmers Gives Bond. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. July 31.—W. W. Thomason, federal pro- | hibition agent, was granted bond of $15,000 today pending hearing in connection with killing of two farmers in a fruitless dry raid near Tecumseh. Okla.. a month ago. Jeff Harris, under-cover man. was denied application for bond on an amended application for release. TABOOS PUBLIC POOLS Minister Threatens Expulsion for Modernists. OKLAHOMA CITY. July 31.—The Rev. J. C. Howard of the Kelham Avenue Baptist church, has banned from membership in his church all who go out for a dip in public pools where both men and women swim. He said he also would ban members who attended public dances, played cards or swear. DOG OWNERS WARNED Must Pay Taxes on Pets Before Sept. 10. Says Stark. The last batch of warning letter to tell Marion county dog owners to pay taxes on their pets before Sept. 10. or suffer prosecution, were mailed by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark today. E>og owners are advised to pay the more than $3,000 outstanding on 1929 dog taxes at township trustees’ offices. Stark said no further will be given.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 69

TEARS UP $20,000 PROFITS

584,000 Derby Winner Refuses to Sell New Home

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Scenes at Trigo farm which Arthur Court, winner of $84,000 on Trigo, the British derby horse, has refused to sell, tossing aside a $20,000 profit. Above, the house; below, the barn; right, the Stutz, which Court bought his wife, and four of the eight Court children. ana a a a r I "HE Indianapolis man who won $84,000 on a one dollar chance on one of fortune’s wheels has lived to see the day when he can tear twenty-thousand dollars right in two and be glad he did it.

This, the newest chapter in the amazing leap to wealth of Arthur Court, former engineer of the Jackson building. who held the winning ticket on a Canadian veterans’ lottery on the English Derby six weeks ago, was disclosed today. The Courts and their eight children are happily established in their new home, “Trigo Farm,” on the Noblesville road a a a

“'T'HEN I just broke down and cried,” broke in Mrs. Court. “We had JL found our ideal home and were about to give it up. My husband saw how things hurt me. so he grabbed up the papers and tore them in two. We have understood that folks wanted this for a country club. Well, money doesn't mean our happiness. We always were happy and grateful, even before this good luck came to us.” The house, an old-fashioned brick of eight rooms is only semimodern, but the Courts point to its great rock fireplace, its wide porches and numerous windows with rare appreciation. “The minute w r e set eyes on this house, we said ‘this is where we want to live,’ ” commented Mrs. Court. A particularly valued object among several thousand dollars worth of new paneled and period furniture and expensive rugs, is a combination radio and phonograph.

“We had always wanted a phonograph, but if I tell the truth, the thing I appreciate the most in the house is my new electric washer,’ declared Mrs. Court. “Sure I do my own laundry work. Why not? Money hasn’t made me proud. Last week I had a laundress. She scorched about S2O worth of clothes. I'll be my own laundress after this.” Court is manifestly proud of

a a a ana THE couple are mildly ambitious for their children. “Sure it's nice to think they can have educations,” they agreed, but Mrs. Court immediately added the greatest thrill that came to her was the realization money gave her power to make lots of folks happy. “Maybe I shouldn't tell it as we are already getting lots of requests.” she said, “but we entirely outfitted six children and their mother with new clothes and have been happy doing other things like that. I always had wanted to help folks. So far, this has been the most joy of all.”

Hundreds of persons have called on the Courts in the past few weeks. "Fifty-five were here in one day,” said Mrs Court. “‘They want to ask questions, advice, sell us things and some just come to stare. One woman wanted to shake the Courts by the hand, so ‘some of the luck can rub off.’ she said. “Well, I’m superstitious, too,” laughed Court, “I bought a fine new dresser in there because it had a horseshoe shaped mirror and I’ve bought another ticket — yes. just a $1 one for the October Derby drawing." Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 78 10 a. m 86 7a. m 79 11 a. m..... 88 8 a. m..... 80 12 (noon).. 88 9a. m. 8* lp. m M

sixteen miles northeast of Indianapolis, which they bought for $20,000 soon after Court returned from Quebec with $84,978 in cold, hard cash. “I paid $20,000 for this house and the fifty-nine acres,” said Court. “We had hardly got in before I was amazed to receive an offer of $40,000 for it. It seemed strange, but the offer turned out to be bona fide. An option was taken by the folks who wanted to buy, the papers were made out, and, much as we liked the place, we were about to sell, when—”

stock—cows and sheep on the place. “I’ve only one horse,” he smiled. ‘Thats the painted one on the barn—a picture of Trigo, the horse that gave us luck. We've named the farm after him.” A Stutz automobile, recently purchased, was referred to by Court as “Something my wife thought we ought to have.”

When the Anti-Saloon League Went Wet

How a crooked official pulled the wool over the eves of the Anti-Saloon League, flooded the country with high content beer, and enlisted support in the fight against the attorney-general’s office, is told by Mabel "Walker Willebrandt, former assistant United States attorney-general in charge of prohibition, in one article of her series, ‘"The Truth About Prohibition,” starting in The Times, Aug. 5. Bootleggers in the halls and corridors of congress and liquor in congressmen’s trunks are described by Mrs. Wille-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1929

MERCURY DROP PROMISED CITY Break in Torrid Wave Is Weather Prediction. An eight or ten-degree drop in temperature Thursday, following thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, was the welcome prediction of the weather bureau today. As relief was promised from the heat w’ave in which Indianapolis, with most of the country, has been sweltering for days, the mercury started on another altitude flight to break the season’s record of 93 degrees. After one of the hottest nights this season, the mercury jumped from 78 to 88 degrees between 6 a. m. and noon today. “Changes in today’s temperature are rather problematical,” said J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, “but a drop of eight or ten degrees Thursday would bring temperatures to near normal. They have been averaging eight or nine degrees above normal for several days.” A trace of rain fell here Tuesday night. CHINA ASKS PEACE Antagonistic Measures in Manchuria Forbidden. By United Press HARBIN, Manchuria, July 31. The Russia-China situation took a sudden dramatic turn toward peace with the arrival here of representatives of Chang Hsueh-Liang, military governor of Manchuria, who ordered local authorities to stop antagonistic measures of the last week. The United Press learned from unimpeachable sources that officials at Nanking and Mukden had not authorized the seizure of the Chinese Eastern railroad and other acts protested by Russia.

TWO BOYS ARE DROWNED IN WHITE RIVER % ' Heroic Rescue Effort by Young Pal Fails; Seek Bodies. STEP IN DEEP HOLES Keystone Avenue Cottagers Aid Police in Search for Victims. Glen Harvey. 10. of 2156 Winter avenue, and Ernest Major, 11, of 2225 Winter avenue, were drowned in White river near Keystone avenue at noon today after their companion, Harold Howell, 11, of 2240 Winter avenue, made a heroic but futile effort to rescue them.. Cottagers and police dragged the river for the bodies while Howell, who had jumped into the attempted

rescue with his clothes on, told excitedly o£ the drowning. The boys had gone to the river to fish, he said. Tiring of it, the Harvey and Major boys decided to go in swimming. Without removing their clothes, they entered the water in front of Camp Island View' cottage, owned by Heze Clark, Times police reporter. Pal Attempts Rescue They had no more than stepped in than they disappeared from sight in deep holes, Howell said. Both came to the surface simultaneously, calling for help. Without removing his pants and shirt, Howell, a good swimmer, plunged in for Harvey, the nearest boy. He seized him, but was carried under. Wrenching free, he again tried to get hold of the lad. but failed. When both failed to reappear, he swam to the shore and called Harvey O’Brien, 16, and Harry Reinking, 15, who live nearby. They came in a canoe and dove in but could not find the two boys. Other neighbors and cottagers, including Paul Jordan, president of the Indiana and Kentucky branch of the A. A. U., joined in efforts to locate the bodies. Three deputy sheriffs who had dashed to the scene began dragging the river with grappling hooks. Failing to locate the bodies they sent for the police boat and dragging apparatus. Boy’s Cap Is Found The tragedy increased this season’s drowning toll in Indianapolis to six. An hour after the drowning, draghooks brought up the Major boy’s cap. Rocks and snags made dragging difficult. The water ranged from ten to eighteen feet aeep. “We bummed rides out nere,” Howell said, as he watched efforts to find his chums’ bodies. “Three weeks ago Major ‘cracked’ his arm at the Y. M. C. A. and he couldn't use it much. He could swim a little, but he couldn't swim, I know, with that ‘cracked’ arm. “Harvey could swim ’dog-fashion,’ and not much of that.” Poison Victim Buried By Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., July 31. Funeral services were held Tuesday for Randolph Wickersham, 21, who committeed suicide,, by poisoning, due to illness.

brandt in another article, when she asks “Are Congressmen Above the Law?” How the crooked politicians handed enforcement jobs to ward heelers and sluggers in the early days of prohibition and how the fight to appoint unfit agents is carried right up to the doors of the attorney-general also is related by Mrs. Willebrandt in another article of her remarkable series on prohibition. Don’t miss a word of this wonderful series, starting Aug. 5 in The Times. To avoid losing out on a single one of these articles, The Times advises you have the paper delivered to your home.

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Endurance Aviators Earn $31,250 for Record Stay in Air

Jackson and o’Brine Land in Robin After 420 Hours Aloft. By United Press ST. LOUIS, July 31— Jointly enriched by the sum of $31,250 for their record-breaking endurance flight, Dale (Red) Jackson and Foreste (Obie) O’Brine today received the plaudits of the realm of aviation, The longest flight in history ended here at 7:49 Tuesday night when the aviators made a perfect landing on Lambert field in their St. Louis Robin after staying aloft 420 hours 21 hi minutes. All Objects Accomplished When Jackson and O'Brine brought their Challenger-motored Curtis-Robin to earth they had exceeded by 173 hours and 37 minutes the previous endurance mark, set by the Angeleno. The exact amount the fliers will receive for their seventeen-day stay in the air still is undecided because of the galaxy of different awards to be presented them. A prediction today was made that their earnings will average approximately $2 a minute. Jackson and O’Brine landed their ship after receiving an order earlier Tuesday from Major William B. Robertson, chief sponsor of the flight, to “Come down some time today.” The message was delivered by the refueling plane and later in the afternoon the Robin dipped low, dropping a note of agreement. It rea,d: “We will land some time between 6 and 8. Maybe before that time.” The order instructing the fliers to end their flight was sent after.it had been decided that all objects of the flight had been accomplished and a record far in advance of all expectations had been established. Dapper Fliers Land The amount to be received by the aviators includes a bonus of SIOO an hour on the basis of 500 hours, promised by the Curtis Airplane Company. Word of the fliers intention to land early in the evening spread over St. Louis and by 7 o’clock a mass of 25,000 persons were jammed

COP FANS CANARY!

Hot *.Prisoner ’ Is Given Relief

AGREED that “fish don’t sweat,” police at headquarters today were divided on the perspiratory possibilities of a yellow canary. Often caged, but never jailed before, the canary received more police courtesies than its owner. Vinton Mingle, 49, of 921 Cedar street, and his companion, Lee Carney, 39, of 124 Spring street, -who pined in larger and stronger cells on charges of vagrancy. The bird was the third passenger in the truck in which Mingle and Carney were arrested at the Brookvilie road and Washington street Tuesday night upon their arrival from New Palestine, where they were wanted for questioning in connection with a series of burglaries. Mingle, police said, attempted to draw a gun, but was not quick enough, and drew, instead, an added charge of carrying concealed weapons. In Mingle’s pockets were found a number of rings, a watch and a purse bearing the name Robert Newton Ross.

Desk Man Ila M. Reeves was on the police switchboard when the canary was intrusted to his tender mercies. “I figure he’s hot, so I turns the fan on her,” said Reeves. The fan was still purring soothingly, sending a miniature gale into the canary’s ruffled feathers, when Officer John G. Moriarty, day desk man. took over the board this morning. “You might as well feed that bird to the cat as turn the fan on it,” Moriarty barked. “Why?” Reeves asked irritably. “Canaries don’t sweat and take cold, do they?” “That fan will kill it,” Moriarty retorted, switching it in another direction. The bird emitted a faint chirp of relief as its feathers fell into place. Moriarty, who knows his canaries, dispatched a reporter for a dime’s worth of bird seed, filled the tray with water, and let the fan’s cooling draft play on the back of his neck as he settled to work with his plugs and earphones. “She’s only a bird in a gilded cage." he hummed. “But he don’t sing!” Reeves interrupted, donning a coat. “She's a fine bird anyway,” said Officer Moriarty.

BRIAND GAINS FAVOR 36 AUTOISTS TAKEN

Chamber of Deputies Gives Vote of Confidence to Premier. By United Press PARIS. July 31.—Thei government of Premier Aristide Briand was given a vote of confidence in the chamber of deputies late today by the comfortable margin of 325 votes to 136.

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along the runway. A sudden storm delayed the landing *nd drenched the spectators. Finally at about 7:35 the highflying plane dived, and circled close to the field. The crowd plunged through police lines and streamed out onto the runways, cheering and waving. After circling several times at a low altitude, Jackson and O'Brine suddenly "straightened out” the plane, swept down to an easy “three-point” landing and taxied up to the edge of the field. The glass door of the Robin opened, and out stepped two neat, freshly-shaven young men, dressed in dark trousers and clean, white shirts. For a moment the throng stood amazed at the sight so amazingly different from the haggard, worn men they had expected to see. A cordon of police and field operatives surrounded and protected the monoplane. Several persons were hurt, none seriously, in the jam of spectators. “Outside of feeling a little tired we feel fine,!’ announced Jackson. A flurry shook the police lines and there appeared two young women—one a tall striking blonde, the other short, plump and tremendously excited. They were Mrs. Sally Jackson, wife of Red and Mrs. Elsie O’Brine, Vobie’s “better half.” Both fliers apparently could hear with perfect ease, despite “heir eighteen days behind a constantly roaring motor. The spick-and-span condition of the flyers after eighteen days aloft, was due to the facilities the Robin carried for comfortable living. Jackson weighed the same as he did when he climbed into the Robin to take off. O’Brine has gained two pounds.

Police Continue Drive on Law Violators. Police Chief Claude M. Worley's campaign for safe and sane traffic conditions in Indianapolis continued Tuesday night and today caused the arrest of ninety-six persons, including four women. Os these thirty-three were charged with speeding; twenty-four with failure to observe preferential streets; twenty for disobeying traffic signals; fourteen for improper light, and five on miscellaneous charges. COMMUNISTS CLASH Cavalry Regiment Sent to Quiet Rioteers. BEGOTA, Colombia, July 31. Fresh communist outbreaks, in which six persons were killed in a clash between rioters and police, were reported today in Libano dispatches to the newspaper El Espectador. The newspaper stated that a regiment of cavalry was sent to the ti tim mtmmb f

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GIRL CLAIMS 12-HOUR RIDE IN PARACHUTE Leaps From Plane Soaring Over Chicago; Lands in Missouri (?) FLOATS 276 MILES Declares Jump Was Made at Height of 31,000 Feet in Sky. By United Press LOUISIANA, Mo., July 31.—Mary Daly, 20, who claimed to be the world’s champion woman parachute jumper, walked into Louisiana early today and said she had just landed from a parachute jump that started Tuesday afternoon over Chicago. She said she cut loose from a plane over Chicago at the height of 31,000 feet with an oxygen tank and floated southwest about twelve hours before she landed. She claimed that she was unconscious in the air for half an hour when her oxygen ran out before she reached a level where she could breathe. The plane from which she leaped was piloted by Bill Turgeon, she said, and she dove off the wing at 4:45 p. m. yesterday, landing in a field near Louisiana, at 4 a. m. today. The distance from Chicago to Louisiana, Mo., is 276 air miles. She said she tried to keep notes on her reactions as she made the cross-country parachute jump and succeeded except for the time she was unconscious. She wore a pencil on a string around her neck, she said. Wore Two Flying Suits Miss Daly said she formerly lived in Chicago and was a parachute jumper by trade, having established a record at Toledo by leaping 15,000 feet from a plane. She said she had lived in New York for the last two years and gave her address there as 255 West Fourteenth street. This is her story as told to a United Press correspondent: “My pilot and I took off from the Chicago Flying Club field at. 2 p. tn. Tuesday. It was 4:45 before we were directly over the loop I cut loose. “I wore two flying suits, one light and one heavy, and two helmets. Oxygen tanks were strapped to my side so I could breathe at that altitude. I later cut away the tanks when they seemed to weight me down. I cut away the heavy flying suit when it almost stifled me. “The wind was very strong at 31,000 feet and I was carried rapidly southwest. As I dropped it changed constantly, and several times I was carried some distance in the opposite direction. “I finally landed on a hill in an overgrown orchard near Louisiana at about 4 this morning. I could not rid myself of the chute and was forced to drag it through dense underbrush and high weeds before I reached the highway. Picked L’p by Farmer “Frank Hagen, a farmer, picked me up and brought me to Louisiana and here I am.” She said she had been flying and making jumps for eight years, since she was 12. It was over Toledo she won her membership in the famed Caterpillar Club, as well as making the 15,000-foot record jump, she said. She and her pilot were making a hurried trip from Chicago to Cleveland when their motor suddenly caught fire over Toledo and both were forced to take to their ’chutes. That was on Aug. 9, 1927, she said. Apparently Mary didn’t mind the doubting attitude displayed toward his story. She declared she made the jump “and that is all there is to it.” ZEPPELIN TO START U. S. TRIP THURSDAY Three Women Among Passengers on Third Atlantic Voyage. By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, July 31.—The Graf Zeppelin will start her flight to the United States, a preliminary to a voyage around the world, at 3 a. m. Thursday, Commander Hugo Eckener announced today. Three women will be among the passengers on the dirigible's third attempt to fly the Atlantic westward. The second attempt failed. * ATTEND SURVEY SESSION City Officials Take Up Preliminary Recommendations of Expert. Mayor L. Ert Slack, Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr, Police Chief Claude M. Worley and Judge James A. Collins attended the meeting of the recreation survey committee this afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce. The conference was to take up preliminary recommendations of the survey of Eugene T. Lies, who Is studying indiwqpaiip nanraatkirwU

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