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ZEP FAVORED BY WEATHER OVER OCEAN Huge Dirigible Makes Fast Time on First Leg of World Tour. PLAN RETURN VIA TOKIO progressing Swiftly, Monarch of Skies Radios ‘Airs Well/ BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. B—The Graf Zeppelin soared swiftly eastward over the Atlantic today bound for her home port of Fredrichshafen on the first part of a pioneer commercial flight around the world. Her radio sputtered the message "All's well" to stations along the eastern coast. Two ships, the Rochambreau and President Roosevelt, sighted her sailing toward Europe in a direct line. At 10 a. m. fcentral standard time) she was computed to be about 750 miles due east of Lakehurst, her commander, Dr. Hugo Eckener, apparent having changed his intention, announced when the Zeppelin left here at 10:42 Wednesday night, of following the Lindbergh trail. The United States weather bureau today said "The Graf Zeppelin should have fresh winds nearly west to the Grand Banks with partly overcast skies. Wind conditions should be ideal during the remainder of the trip to the British Isles.”

22 Passengers on Board In the air-giant's cabins are twenty-two passengers, in the hold a cargo of mail and freight aggregating about two tons. After stopping in Germany at Friedrichshafen, the Zeppelin will visit Tokio, fly across the Pacific to Los Angeles and return again to Lakehurst. “The mission of the Graf Zeppelin,” said Commander Hugo Eckener before departing, “is not to make money—it is to prove to your financiers that commercial transphrtatfnn by airships is safe, feasible and potentially profitable.” The Zeppelin’s removal from this hangar and the launching into the air were miracles of motion. Only five minutes were required to walk her 776-foot hulk into the open. Seventeen minutes later she was aloft, four motors in hoarse chorus and the fifth beneath the stern silent against greater need further north. Departs in Swift Order Emerging from the hangar on to the field where searchlights smeared paths of whiteness in the night, the Zeppelin was tremendous. Out of her element and on the ground the craft seemed unwieldly while she dwarfed the dozens and scores of men who clung to her hawsers. Somewhere along within her bodybells tinkled. One and another and still two more motors awoke, spewing fire from exhaust pipes and hurling an echoless barrage of racket in all directions across the pine forests. The warmed-up Maybachs spun faster. Ropes dropped from the hands of the ground crew and were hauled aboard. The shouldering men beneath the cabin shoved upward. Nose up, the huge craft departed and in five minutes she was gone from sight. Complete Passenger List The official passenger list of the Graf Zeppelin, as given out just before the departure, follows: Dr. Walter Spiess, Berlin: Count Monteglas, Berlin; H. Von Eschwege, Berlin: Captain Schuetz, Berlin: Nate Wexler, New York; William Weber, New York; Herman F. Schlatter, Philadelphia: John E. Lamey Jr., Brooklyn; William B. Leeds. New York. Merien Cooper, New- York; Morris Schumoffosky, Bridgeport, Conn.; Lady Grace Drummond Hay, London; Karl H. Von Weigand, Berlin; Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, London; C. P. Burgess, naval aeronautical engineer, Washington. Lieutenant - Commander C. E. Rosendahl. U. S. N.; Lieutenant J. C. Richardson. U. S N.; Dr. Lisser Kiep, Hamburg; Robert Hartman, New York; A H. Godfrey, New York; Nelson Morris, Chicago; Joachim B. Rickard, Boston. Wexler, Weber. Schlatter, Lamey, Schumoksy, Cooper and Kiep are expected to leave the Graf Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen. SEAPLANE TO BE TESTED Navy Fliers Will Try to Better 318-Miles-an-Hour Record. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Lieutenant Alvord J. Williams, crack navy flier, will make a preliminary test of the secret mercury racer seaplane at Annapolis today and another test tomorrow which will determine whether it will be entered in the Schneider cup regatta in England in September, he laid today. "I hope the plane win do more than 318 miles (the record held by an Italian),” Williams said. Hourly Temperatures Sa. m..... 65 10 a. m..... 80 7a. to ~,. 67 11 a. m..... 83 llt 75 13 < noon).. 81 [ M 1P Biu* Bf

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State 4-H Club Health Champion Is Entrant in Physical Culture Race

/COMPETITION in The Times contest to select a Physical Culture contest girl became keen today, with the announcement that the wunner of the state 1929 4-H Club health contest, has filed as an entrant. She is Miss Dorothy McNeff of Brooklyn, Ind. The 16-year-old entrant has auburn hair and her measurements, which brought her the health prize, follow: Weight, 128 pounds: height, 64 inches; hair, auburn hair worn in curls; eyes, blue; bust, 34% inches; waist, 26 inches; hips, 37% inches; thigh, 21% inches; calf, 13% inches; ankle, 10 inches; neck, 12% inches; knee, 14 inches; wrist, 6% Inches; upper arm, 10% inches and forearm, 9 inches. Miss McNeff is only one of the many entrants in the

‘STARVE ME, PETS, TOO,’ WOMAN SAYS Hunger Striker Refuses to Allow Feeding of Five Dogs, Ten Cats. "Starve me, starve my dogs,” was the edict city and county officials faced today as Mrs. Suzanhe Krause, 3145 North Illinois street, continued her hunger strike in the county jail, interrupted only by a bombardment of spoons and cups which she directed at women prisoners when another attempt was made to give her food. Mrs. Krause is serving out a $55 fine imposed by Special Judge William H. Faust Tuesday afternoon, when she was found guilty In municipal court for failure to have a dog license and maintaining a nuisance. Neighbors testified the pets were a nuisance. While she refused to eat she also refused to permit city and county officials to enter her property to feed or remove her five dogs and ten cats that are plaintively wailing and crying for their mistress. Clamor for Relief Since Tuesday afternoon when she went to court-, her pets have been without food. Neighbors are calling police headquarters and the humane society clamoring for relief for the pets. Mrs. Krause broke out in the women’s jail dining room when attendants invited her to eat with other prisoners today noon. “I won’t touch food,” she yelled. Entreaties were of no avail and she had to be returned to jail when she began a near-panic by hurling food and eating utensils at other prisoners. But Mrs. Krause’s troubles were equaled by those of Sergeant Thomas Bledsoe of the humane department, who is trying to aid the unfed pets. Asks Order to Enter Bledsoe went to Faust for an order to enter the property. "I can’t do that,” Faust said. "There is no law that covers this situation.” Undaunted, Bledsoe located Criminal Judge James A. Collins to act in an advisory capacity. Collins had nothing to offer other than that Bledsoe again try to get an order from Faust. Wandering about the courthouse in a daze of worry, Bledsoe met Frank Brattain, Center township assessor, who suggested he obtain an attachment for the animals from Deputy Prosecutor Floyd Mannon. The humane agent was interrupted in this mission when Dr. Elizabeth Conger of the dog pound called and offered to feed the animals. Bledsoe hurried to jail and made the proposition to Mrs. Krause. Woman Threatens Suit “Let me tell you something, sir," she told him. “If you, or anybody else, goes In that house without my permission I'll sue every one of of you." After an hour and a half search through law' books, that hadn't been perused for years, Mannon closed the legal ledgers and shook his head in despair. "Sergeant, there is no law*,” he said. Bledsoe had heard that before, so he called Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, who could offer no new suggestions. And, in the meantime, the lunch hour for five dogs and ten cats passed but no food passed in front of them.

CONDITION CRITICAL Morrissey’s Chances for Life Are Slight. Police Sergeant Michael Morrissey of the motorpolice is in a critical condition at the city hospital today. Morrissey underwent an operation for stomach ulcers Monday and Dr. T. B. Noble said Morrissey’s chances lor raoover? are

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NEW ORLEANS AIDS STRIKERS Ex-Street Car Employes May Run Busses. Bn United Press NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. B—The New Orleans city commission today announced tentative acceptance of a plan to break a protracted street car strike here by employing the strikers to operate busses, a radical change in transportation here. Thomas D. Dawkins, Shreveport public safety commissioner, submitted the plan at a meeting Wednesday and the commission announced in an open letter today its tentative acceptance, subject to final approval and issuance of a franchise. Dawkins proposed to operate from 150 to 500 double-decked busses on a fare of 10 cents to any part of the city under a permit of not less than twenty years. The 2,000 men now out on strike for higher wages and shorter hours would be employed to man the bus fleet. What, if any, effect the plan would have on the street car franchise was not immediately clear. Officials of Public Service, Inc., operators of the street car line now under strike, declined to comment.

CULTISTS END FAST Truth-Seekers Embark on Eating Spree. B LYONsf Colo., Aug. B.—The wide-ly-heralded ninety-day fast of Dr. George Huntley Aron and his Chicago truth seekers was ending ingloriously here today in an orgy of feasting. The forty cultists moved down here in a body from their Camp Dix headquarters late Wednesday and made a concerted rush on the town’s numerous restaurants. Today it appeared that their eating spree might last as long as their fast. Statistics show that Aron probably retains his laurels for sustained spruning of victuals, but he missed the hree-month mark by about seventy-five days. No official statement was forthcoming as to the cause of the sudden end of the fast. PULLING RECORD FALLS Horsfs Pull Granite Weighing 20 Tons in Muncie. Fji Times ftnneial MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. B.—The Indiana pulling record was broken at the Muncie fair Wednesday. A team of horses, weighing 3,970 pounds, owned by Irwin Tomlinson, Alexandria, pulled the equal of nearly twenty tons of granite block pavement, the full distance of 27 H feet. Tomlinson's team pulled a load of 3,050 pounds on a special testing machine operated by Purdue BBhwnsiia, _ A '

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contest and if you want to get your name before the judges, who will be named within the next two days, bring in your photograph immediately, as the contes closes at midnight Saturday. Beginning Monday, the judges will select from the entrant list every girl who meets the contest requirements. After that there will be a big Physical Culture Girl night at the Lyric theater, when the winner will be chosen to represent Indianapolis in the national contest at New York City. If you haven’t already entered, and you are between the ages of 16 and 25, unmarried and not a professional actress, bring in your name and photograph. If, like many girls, you are without a recent photograph come to The Times office and be photographed free.

U.S. UPHOLDS DRY AGENT IN TEXASJLLING Doran Says Reports Show Discharge of Gun Was Accidental. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Au*. B.—Prohibition Commissioner Doran said today a final report from Deputy Commissioner Jackson showed the shooting of Tom Chandler at Poteet, Tex., by Prohibition Agent Charles Stevens was accidental. “While I was somewhat dubious as to Stevens’ first statement that Chaindler was shot when the agent slipped and fell, causing a rifle under his arm to be discharged, another federal agent, a town marshal, and a constable, the latter two municipal officers, substantiated his version in full,” Doran said. . “Stevens has a reputation of being a careful officer. He has been in the service a long time with an excellent record. The report will be accepted as accurate.” Doran said no indictment has been returned against Stevens, but if the agent is held for trial the case will be transferred to a federal court. The fatal shooting of Chandler took place when agents were searching for a still. The Texas farmer was on his front porch when Stevens fell. Doran said it was highly improbable Stevens would have shot Chandler in cold blood. CITY WOMAN BURNED Injuries in Explosion May Be Fatal. When * fumes from cleaning naphtha exploded in the basement of her home today, Mrs. Shelby Wyly, 49, of 68 South Audubon, was enveloped in flames and probably fatally burned. Mrs. Wyly had been cleaning curtains in the naphtha, but went upstairs a few minutes and returned to light a water heater. When the match was struck the fumes exploded. PAROLE BOARD TO MEET Assistant Secretary Will Attend for Governor Leslie. Gaylord Morton, assistant secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie, will represent the Governor at the monthly parole board meeting of trustees at Indiana state reformatory, Pendleton, Friday. Morton announced the board will consider only prisoners who have served minimum sentences, with the exception of three or four executive clemency petitions previously heard but not yet acted upon. ADVERTISE ORDINANCE $532,000 Hospital Appropriation Up for Ten Days. The new $532,000 appropriation ordinance for the new city hospital power plant was advertised today. It will be advertised for ten days and then called up for final passage.

Lauds Times Commendation of The Times for publication of Mable Walker Willebrandt's series of “inside” stories on federal prohibition enforcement was expressed at the monthly meeting of Vayinger chapter, W. C. T. U., Wednesday at the home of Mrs. M. D. Willey, 3302 East Thirty-third street, chapter president, said today. “All of our members are reading the stories and they were much discussed by our group Wednesday,” said Mrs. Willey. “The Times Is to be commended for affording its readers an opportunity to get this inside picture of enforcement difficulties.”

ALL BIDS ON HIGH SCHOOL ARE REJECTED Tax Board Minces No Words in Declaring Shipp Given Monopoly.‘CLOSED’ PLANS SCORED School Commissioners Must Change Specifications, Provide Bonds. BY BEN STERN The brand of c. C. Shipp upon its brow, and a bundle of expensive plans and useless specifications was all that the Indianapolis school board had to show today for its attempt to foist a ‘‘monopoly upon the Indianapolis taxpayers.” All bids for the construction of the Irvington high school, two new schools, 81 and 82, and additions tc two schqols 15 and 49, were ordered rejected today by the state tax board, which at the same time, disapproved the $995,000 bond issue for the construction. In order to erect the building which the tax board agreed were necessary, the school board must declare anew bond issue and advertise for bids on redrafted specifications. Funds Insufficient Confusion has revealed that even If the specifications for the heating, ventilating and plumbing work were altered, it will be necessary to have at least an additional SIOO,OOO to build the Irvington school. The school board at its meeting next Tuesday night is to determine on the amount of the bond issue for both the high school and grade school construction. Grave warning against closed bidding and retarding of competition was contained in the tax board’s rejection order. Stinging charges were made at the hearing before that board Wednesday when it was shown specifications were so drawn that only favored material companies had an opportunity in the 'Kdlling. The tax board members minced no words in describing the heating and ventilating specifications as being designed to create a monopoly. Shipp Is Under Fire C. C. Shipp, Indianapolis ventilating equipment manufacturer, drew most of the fire. Comparison of figures showed his bid of $34,600 was $30,000 higher than that of Herman Zietlow, another Indianapolis ventilating equipment manufacturer. When the commission order was delivered to the school board today Lewis Whiteman, board member declared it was impossible to construct the high school for $600,000. “It can be done and should be done,” Theodore Vonnegut, another member, replied. “The architects, McGuire and Shook were told that their plan would call for more than $600,000, but they said it would not when the plans were first shown to me,” Charles Kern, board president said. “By some changes in the plans, I believe the building could be held within the original appropriation.” Sees No Need for Change

Retention of the proposed gymnasium is advocated in the order and no need for new plans can be seen by the tax board The school board had recommended that, in order to stay within the $600,000 appropriation, the gymnasium be deleted and new plans drawn. “The ratio of cost of the heating, ventilating and plumbing is out of proportion with the general contract,” the tax board points out. “The experience of the members is that no such an amount, $201,000, could be approved for the lesser contract.” Must Permit Competition The new specifications for this equipment must be drawn in a manner “that will permit and insure fair and open competition in the heating and ventilating systems and thereby secure for the taxpayers of the city school buildings at prices that are reasonable and without favoritism to any one,” says the partial order prepared by the tax board. A letter written by Carl Eurton, | building and grounds superintendent, to W. A. Breining, engineer for School 49, was introduced. It recommended the specifications, already written, be changed so as to favor Shipp. Charges Procedure Unfair “This is a deliberately unfair procedure,” declared Zoercher. “Who told you to write the letter?” “No one,” was Eurton’s answer. “Why did you do it, then?” “Because the school board always has insisted that Shipp equipment be used and I obey my orders.” “Then if things are all sewed up, the city had better not build any more schools until after another session of the legislature,” Zoercher said. William A. Hough, tax board chairman, pointed out that whereas the heating, plumbing and ventilating bid on a proportional basis should not have exceeded $134,000, it is $201,000 and that there is something radically wrong with such situation |

MURDER OF THEORA HIX DESCRIBED BY SNOOK; SELF-DEFENSE CLAIMED Struck Co-Ed Four Blows With Hammer Because He Feared She Would Kill Him on Last Love Tryst, Professor Testifies. GIRL CURSED HIS MOTHER, JURY IS TOLD Fed Sandwich Containing ‘Dope’ by Paramour on Fatal Ride to Rifle Range, Slayer Says; Weeps on Witness Stand. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. B.—Dr. James Howard Snook testified today that he struck Theora Hix with his mechanic’s hammer in self-defense, because he believed she would kill him, while in a high, emotional frenzy. He could not remember striking more than four blows, he said. The attack followed a conversation in which she had cursed his mother and threatened the life of his wife, he said. As he Avent into the details of the tragedy, his steel nerve broke and for two minutes he wept on the witness stand.

He charged that Miss Hix had given him a sandwich which may have contained excitants as they drove to the New York Central rifle range the night of the murder. She had told him, he said, that she also had eaten one. ‘‘Did you intend to kill her?” he was asked. “Heaven, no!” he answered. “She was a good friend of mine and I never would have done it.” Telling of their last automobile ride, he said they reached the rifle range about 9 p. m. and drove in, parking about 100 feet from the road. He explained the presence of a mechanic’s hammer with which Miss Hix was beaten; so handy in the car, by saying he had put it and other tools into the car at his office to take home for some work to be done there. Immediately upon parking their love-making began. Then he suggested they leave but she refused. “She said she wouldn’t” he testified. “Then she said I couldn't go home over the week-end. I said I had to see my mother. She said

DRY LAW KILLING TOLL IS DEPLORED BY WILLEBRANDT

(In this chapter, the fourth. Mrs. Willebrandt. former assistant United States attorner-Reneral, xives her hearty condemnation of unjustifiable use of firearms and explains the other side of the pictu re. describing excitine battles which have helped swell the casualty lists of govern ment asents.) BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT (Copyright, 1929, by Current News Features. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) “Is it necessary for prohibition agents to kill 135 persons in the course of less than ten years to enforce prohibition? is one of the questions I have been asked many times. I might make an evasive answer to this question by asking another: “Does not the killing of fifty-five agents of the prohibition unit in the same period, the killing of six federal coast guard officers, and the crippling of six others for life, and the killing of three narcotic enforcement officers and nine customs agents, indicate the necessity for the use of arms and force by officers of the government to deal with a vast class of desperadoes engaged in criminal violations of the nation s laws. I have no desire, however, to evade the issue. I not only believe, I know, that the violence which has accompanied enforcement or attempted enforcement of the prohibition law, has done more than anything else, probably, to instill in the public mind, the question and the doubt: “Can prohibtion ever be enforced, and, if so, is it worth the price in human life and the violation of personal and property rights.

If I thought that enforcement of the prohibition law necessarily would entail contin-..ed killing and other acts of violence, and the outrage of private rights of persons and property, I unqualifiedly would demand the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the laws enacted thereunder. I condemn as atrocious, wholly unwarranted, and entirely unnecessary some of the killing by prohibition agents. But I know that there are equally shocking cases of gangsters’ attacks on agents, which if as widely known will influence the fair-minded people not to be too hasty in lavishing sympathy on violators of the law who get wounded in the course of arrest. Asa sample of how the bootlegger deals with citizens who stand in his way, this touching letter to me sfinds as mute evidence: Dear Madam: I understand that my husband wrote to you some limy ago about prohibition la m

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‘Damn your mother.’ Then she said she would kill my wife. She was in an emotional frenzy. “I couldn’t stand it” he said. “I tried to choke her off and I couldn’t. I looked for something to strike her. I hit her with the hammer. “She said ‘Damn you, I’ll kill you’ and reached for her purse. I was sure she was going to kill me,” said Snook. “I remember I hit her three times with the hammer in the car and once when she was out of it. “Then the next thing I remembered, I was sitting on the running board of the car with my elbows on my knees. I don’t remember anything that happened in the meantime.” Between the striking of the second and third blows with the hammer, Snook said he twisted the girl’s arm “nearly off.” She cursed him and he struck her the third blow. “But I was too weak,” he said, “and could not hit her hard. She rolled out of the seat and caught her hand in the door as it slammed. I hit her one hard blow when she was out of the car.” He insisted it was at that point that his memory failed. Q—After you found yourself sitting on the running board, what did

and the agents you sent here told those, the wholesalers, about him writing to you, so the wholesalers went to the priest on the fourth of April. This priest called on my husband and warned him that the wholesalers would make a lot of trouble. Just four days after that they murdered my husband, Eugene Costa, and left me with five little children. My husband fought for his country during the World’s war. And it took a foreigner to murder my husband over beer and whisky. If you sent some one in, I will explain it better. If you think it would be better for me to come there, please tell me when and how. For I am broken-hearted. Kindly pay special attention. MRS EUGENE COSTA. Take the case of Tom Morris, deceased. His family now know that in enforcing the prohibition ilura to Pago rtsn,i m

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you do? A—l was crying. I spoke to the gin, but there was no answer. I got into my car and drove away. Q —What did you do then? A— I found her purse in the car. I realized I couldn’t take it home, so when I crossed a bridge I threw it out. On the way home I stopped and bought a paper. When I got heme I came into the kitchen and sat down to read, but I couldn’t read. Q —What did you do at home? A— I got out my old clothes for my trip to the farm. I decided the old suit wasn’t fit to wear. His wife, he said, was upstairs and came down a little later, bifs there was no conversation. “I sat downstairs, but I couldn’t read,” he went on. “Things didn’t look right, so I went to bed.” Slept on Night of Killing Q —Did you sleep that night? A— As far as I remember. Q —What time did you arise? A— About 8 o’clock. Snook was calm as he began the story of the last hours of Theora Hix. He charged that the sandwich she ate, allegedly containing the two highly provocative drugs was provided by Miss Hix herself and that she gave him a similar one. “She said she already had eaten one,” he testified, “when she offered one to me.” Half an hour after court opened, the recital of the evening of that tragic June night when Theora died, was begun. Dr. Snook began the day with an explanation of the episodes described by Dean David S. White of the veterinary department of Ohio State university in which he was alleged to have given drugs to a woman and had been required to “settle with the woman’s husband.” Gave Dope as “Favor” “The lady had been on the campus three or four years and had done me some favors,” he said. "She came to my office and said she suffered from gall stones and only morphine would help her. Her doctor, she said, would not give it to her and she asked me to help her. “I gave her three tablets. A few days later she came back and said she had lost them and I gave her four or five tablets and told her to be careful. Then a few days later she came back and said she had spilled them In the sink and I gave her all there was left in the bottle. I told her again to be careful. “A few days later her husband came to me about it and I explained to him and later explained to the dean and they all seemed satisfied.” Plunging into the recital of events of the night of June 13 when the murder was done he told of meeting Miss Hix about 8 p. m., when he visited a market to buy hamburger for his midnight lunch. They then had driven by a circuitous route to the Scioto Country Club. While driving, he said, Miss Hix produced a sandwich and urged him to eat it. He did. Girl Wanted to Scream “I remarked I did not like the crust and tossed the crust away,” he said. “She said she already had eaten one. There was a large piece of meat in It. We drove along talking about her work and my trip home to visit my mother at Lebanon, O. "I told her I would be there five or six days and she said for me to get back as quickly as I could.” He was leaving for Lebanon Saturday, he said. When they came to the Country Club, he said, they drove in and he got his shooting glasses from his locker. Leaving the Country Club they drove to a spot on the road near the club where they parked. “She didn’t like It,” he said. “She thought there were too many care around and she wanted to go somewhere where she could scream.” They then drove to the New York Central rifle range. As they drove aha ca reseed hiflfc Ire mMi .Sidt ->