Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1929 — Page 3

AUG. 12, 1929

T. A. T. SAFETY,SPEED AND COMFORT. FOR SKY RIDER Time and Distance Give Way to Man’s Genius Which Bred Aviation. VAST DESERTS SPANNED Great Peaks, Bottomless Canyons Among Scenic Marvels Observed. BV BOYD GURLEY Editor of The Times At 9 o'clock Friday morning, the great tower of the magnificent city hall of Los Angeles reflected a smiling farewell. At 4:22 Saturday afternoon the Indianapolis monument beckoned a friendly welcome. In between, in the straight line, lie 2.043 miles of a great nation, broad acres of farm lands, little villages, great cities, vast deserts, mystic mountains, deep canyons gashed by Mother Nature, and. most of all. j a great people who, having con- j quered distance by steam and gasoline and stage coach, now annihilate time by the genius of aviation. Running upon a schedule as accurate as ever was maintained by any time clock, the great planes of the Transcontinental Air Transport | Company each day make this trip. Each day adds to the number of those who finally’ have arrived at ♦he conclusion that air travel no longer is a great adventure, but a part of modern living, as firmly established as any other means of transportation, and as safe as a baby carriage under the hand power of a most cautious and solicitous mother. Opens New Vistas To those who place a value upon time, air travel magnifies their power. To those who may have lost some of their wonder of the world, it opens new vistas in which the soul as well as the mind may j soar to greater heights. The start gives confidence. The j men, all young, but experienced, j have the assurance that gives confidence. Into the plane with seven other passengers, one steps with something of trepidation that fades as you notice that nothing is left to chance, nothing taken for granted. ; These men know, before the; motors start to roar, and the three j propellers to whirl, until they reach ! 1.600 revolutions per minute, that 1 the machine is mechanically all that human intelligence can create, j They know the power behind those motors, the tensile strength of each , part, the condition of the tires upon j the great wheels that will enable them to land as softly as a snow- j flake in an autumn day. Pass Over Glendale There is a quick dash against the winds, a slow rising and a minute later you are above Glendale, he great and fast growing suburb of Los Angeles. The wide streets fade into lanes j as you pass above this city and : through a mountain pass to Pasadena. the home of millionaires. Their palaces lose their magnifi- j cence. The great bowl, scene of j great football games, seems the size j of a saucer as you pass on to the foothills, getting anew viewpoint of mountains as you ride above them and look down into the valley with its orange groves, its small plots of walnut trees, its peach orchards. The distance to Kingman, in Arizona. is 300 miles. And as you leave the valley and pass high above the San Bernardino mountains, you enter the land of deserts, where vast expanses of white sand color in the sun and blue haze spreads a screen beneath the sky riders and the torrid suns. C r eep Over Passes There is the Green ircm_the trees on mountain tops, the httle lakes that nestle high above ti ' plains, the great crags of mineral and rock that invited the early seekers to golden dreams and death through hardship. As you creep through the mountain passes at 120 miles an hour, you catch sight of *the little town of Ludlow, built in the desert and identify the railway track from the cement road by the fast moving train that seems almost to stand still as you pass it. Mountains, deserts, mountains, deserts, as mile after mile is checked up on the map. but meaningless in the air. There are little oasis in the desert where some hardy soul has found a well and water, rich enough to create for himself a home in that forsaken land. But the houses are few and grow even fewer as you ride over a land whose beauty from above becomes almost monotonous by Its variety and its splendor. There are colors, as you look from above, which man has not translated to his canvas. You have left the railway line to meander its way through easy passes while you have ridden above mountains and above clouds. Novelty Begins to Pall The experienced official of the air line, himself a great aviator, begins to yawn. A lady who has tired of the scenery, and whose mind is not yet equipped to absorb such a succession of new experiences, turns to a love story in a magazine. And in two and a half hours there is a slow circling of the plane and you are at the neat little airport, with its well equipped runs, and its people busy a mile away, becoming so used to the landing of the plane that they no longer look aloft or, if they do. merely to use it as 3 means of setting clocks. More gas. Again they shove off. Again anew and wonderful country. The desert is less barren. But the trees upon the mountain tops are interspersed with the red of rocks. There are steep declivities,

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deeper canyons, more intimate views, as the plane rides closer, but j follows a path that is as definite as j a street railway track. For variety, there is offered as you j pass above the mountains a hailstorm which beats a tattoo upon the wings for its moment of history and is left behind. Storms In Southwest It is the time of storms in Arizona and New Mexico. The earth is being flooded. Roads have been washed away. You ride around these storms, not through them. You catch a flash of lightning in the distance, starting apparently from your own level. You have the strange experience of seeing rains go down instead of coming down. There is another landing at Winslow. More gas. A chat with the station master, who has a friend in Indianapolis. Another start and you are off for Albuquerque. The only discomfort comes from the attack of anew experience upon the mind. There is no physical discomfort, j none of the weariness that comes j from riding in automobile or other j means of .transportation. If you are tired, it is from the task of being j too comfortable and too easy. The j only strain is that of remaining : seated. If you care, you can relax | by walking down the narrow aisle. But the possibilities in that direc- j tion are limited. The fifteen min- | utes at each field offer necessary I relief. Veer From Straight Line You discover that the great lor- [ ests of New Mexico and eastern j Arizona are untouched as yet. There j begin green patches, and such j greens! The route from Winslow to Albuquerque deviates from a straight line. The’-e are mountain ranges. It is safer to veer to Gallup on the ! north, a triangle in place of the j straight line that had carried the j plane from Los Angeles to Winslow, j There is an Indian reservation in | the distance, vast tracts set aside S for the Zuni tribes. There is something of agriculture and much of j sheep herding. It is late afternoon when the plane stops at the New 7 Mexico metropolis, which lies in a fertile valley, irigated by its small river, j filled by the recent storms. Wheel’ls Changed But. here ‘are new adventures. It is discovered that the tire on one of the landing wheels does not meet the tests. The wheel is changed. That* delays for a half hour and again you are in th air. riding above new mountains, finding the pass to j the lowel levels of the eastern part of the state, the pathway to Texas. The change of tires has delayed the schedule for this trip, so that darkness begins to fall and far beneath the little lights from little villages are seen. Then the search- ] lights, twelve miles apart, begin to i play upon the skies and ahead and upon the plane as it passes. Small blinkers, between, make a route as clear as could be marked on land. You land in a square of electric lights, easily and without a jar. And after a lapse of nine hours, with approximately an hour and a half upon the earth, you have covered a distance of 937 miles. Ride in Aero Car Carried by an aero car to the railway station, there is dinner, and a short wait for the train, that left day before yesterday, to pick you up and carry you to Kyanoka, Okla. Breakfast, another ride to the field, and away again. The next stop is Wichita, 117 rtiiles away. There are some new passengers, among them a 12-year-old girl who writes all about it to her mother as she pioneers. Oil fields, farm lands. Emporia, the home of William Allen White in the distance, and Ottawa, where Senator Henry 7 Allen got his start, a few miles ahead, and at noon you are swooping upon Kansas City with its skyscrapers and its vast business and industrial section. The Missouri river marks the spot. And i you follow it as you go aloft fifteen i minutes later and ride across Missouri. varied and beautiful. You . try 7 to estimate the size of farms and of houses. You meet the river again and again as it goes on its circuitous route and you travel in a straight line. The city of Columbus and its great university buildings seem like dots. You catch sight ? the great bridge at Booneville, the city’s pride. It Ipoks small from the skies. * Across Indiana Now Then St. Louis, a change of pas- ! sengers and you are on the last lap across Illinois and Indiana. The j pilot has word of a thunderstorm ! ahead. He has listened to radio . messages from St. Louis and he pokes the nose of the machine upward. above the clouds and you look down upon them with contempt for any menace they have below. YOu ride through one of these clouds, probably for the sake of variety. Such is the story of a trip that will cease within a year to be a story at all. because so many will have ridden on the planes and have

given different interpretations that [ it will be no news. Who flies? Those who need time. One of my fellow passengers on the outward trip was Philip Stewart of Colorado. Years ago he refused a governorship tendered him with begging by a political machine whose corruption seemed to need his fine reputation as a perfume for its stench. He was busy then, a useful citizen, and busy now. Small Boy on Plane There was the private secretary to a great New York bank, hurrying out to the coast for a dinner party, and a vacation. There was a small boy. And Brian, who crossed on the Zeppelin, was riding swiftly back to meet his wife, who had followed him by ship. There was Max Cornwall, an official of the company, who thinks in terms of safety and of development. back to see a still larger and more powerful ship. And as he flies he dreams this dream: ‘'Some day in sealed cabins, by the use of oxygen to keep human life safe, planes will fly at a height of 25.000 feet and make the trip from New York to Los Angeles in eight hours.” Well, the dream of flying the continent sounded vague a decade ago. Perhaps a decade hence other dreamers will have still other dreams of even greater speed. But for the moment, what is important is for every city to realize that air travel is here, permanently. There will be need of planes, great planes. There will be more factories dedicated to this industry. And the cities which show the most alertness will profit and grow and those that fail will be as obsolete as the deserted camps over which we rode.

DOPE SALE CHARGED Man and Woman Held for Narcotic Peddling. A man and his woman companion who are alleged to have made “dope” deliveries Sunday night to a Negro and two other customers, were to be arraigned before a United States commissioner today on narcotic charges. Eddie Siersdorfer. 35, Apartment 34. 1503 North Pennsylvania street, and Miss Elva Johnson, alias Manning, of the same address, were arrested by federal agents* and police as they stepped from their car in front of a Negro's house on Ellsworth street. Thirty capsules containing cocaine were said to have been found in the couple’s possession. Follbwing the arrest, the apartment was raided and police found an opium smoking set and various dope equipment and quantities of cocaine, morphine and opium. HOUSE IS ‘ABDUCTED’ AND SOLD FOR S2OO Emptj- Four-Room Building Stolen, Rolled to Vacant Lot. Bn r Pr-K* BUTTE. Mont., Aug. 12.—Abduction of children., automobiles, accessories. cattle and other livestock is common enough in Montana, but, until recently, the abduction of a four-room house had never been reported. Sheriff’s deputies, armed with a warrant, are searching for William F. Sullivan, who is alleged to have stolen a four-room house, moved it a mile from its original site, and sold it for S2OO. Sullivan, the complaint charges, put the vacant house on rollers, hauled it to an empty lot, and sold it to Mrs. Isabell Lloyd. The house was owned by Mrs. Anna Walch, Seattle, Wash., formerly of Butte. Mrs. Lloyd, becoming suspicious, investigated. The abduction was disclosed, and the hunt for Sullivan launched. Favors Waterways Bti Times Special WARSAW 7 . Ind., Aug. 12.—Cheap transportation to be obtained by watei ways is a sure method of farm ' relief, Otto G. Fifield. Indiana secretary 7 of tsate, believes. He expressed the view in an address at an “after harvest’ 'celebration held at Hoffman lake near here.

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MISSOURI ‘PEN' CONDEMNED IN SURVEYREPORT Jefferson City Prison Is Declared Overcrowded and Mismanaged. By United Freer NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—The Missouri state prison at Jefferson City is intolerably mismanaged and overcrowded, its sanitary and hospital facilities antiquated and Its shops disorderly, accQrding to the National Society of Penal Information. which is completing a survey of prison conditions throughout the nation. The Missouri institution, one ot the three largest in the United States, ‘‘has one of the best cell houses in the country, a. beautiful flower garden and a, very good farm program.” the society will say in its handbook, “but, apart from these things, it is difficult to find any features which can be commended or compared favorably with like features in other institutions.” "The excellent cell house is cso seriously overcrowded the advantage of the type of construction is largely lost,” the society says. “There are no other housing facilities which come up to modern standards. Two other cell houses are not more than fair and another, used for Negroes, is hardly fit for human habitation.” Regarding anew cellhouse, built for disciplinary purposes, the report continues: “‘The construction is of the 7 bastile type and indicates a complete dependence on concrete and steel and a corresponding lack of faith in leadership of officers and in the possibility of morale on the part of the prisoners. To dub this structure medieval woud be flattering/’ Noting that apparently no attempt is made to segregate long and short term offenders, the report declares “it is impossible to avoid the conclusion the state is committing a more serious crime against society than the short-term inmates committed and that the institution is doing more "to contribute to crime in the state than to preveint.”

DUVALL FLATS CITYOFFICIALS Former Mayor Criticises Worley, Remy. Former Mayor John L. Duvall, Sunday let loose a barrage of criticism at city officials in his speech at Walnut Gardens. A crowd of 350, composed mainly of women and children, heard Duvall’s talk. Duvall, who was convicted in the Marion criminal court of violation of the corrupt practices act and received a 60-day jail sentence and SI,OOO fine, is. at liberty pending the supreme court’s ruling on his petition for rehearing. The appellate court upheld the sentence in a decision two months ago. Duvall leveled his attack at Police Chief Claude Worley, former Prosecutor William F. Remy and the newspapers, particularly The Times and its editor He promised more “revalations” would be made from time to time at Walnut Gardens, of which he is part owner. insulunterestsTid FOR TRACTION BONDS Receivership Committee Recommends Acceptance of Offer. Representatives of three groups of bondholders in the receivership of the Union Traction Company of Indiana have issued notices of the proposal of the Insull interests of Chicago to buy the traction property. The notices are addressed to bondholders of the Union Traction, the Indiana Union and the Indianapolis Northern bond. The Midland Utilities Investment Company an Insull corporation offers $240 for each Union Traction bond, SIBO for each Indiana Union bond, and $l5O for each Indianapolis Northern bond. The committees recommended acceptance of the Insull offer. The bonds are to be deposited with the committees representing the bondholders, and unless the bonds are withdrawn from the committees before Sept. 3, they will be sold to the Insull interests. Mrpohine Paison Extracted Bu United Prees HAMBURG, Aug. 12.—Professor Hans Much, director of the University Institute for Tubercular Research, is said to have discovered a method of extracting poison from morphine and similar drugs without lessening their medicinal value. The total strength of the London police, including all ranks, is 119.180.

STILL A DRY, ' LUDLOW TELLS OLD PRINTERS Indianapolis Congressman Makes Humorous Talk at Brookside. Looking across four wine glasses at an Episcopal bishop opposite him, Congressman Louis Ludlow maintained his reputation as a tee-totaler at Sir Esme Howard’s dinner at the British embassy in Washington. But the Indianapolis congressman, in a humorous address to members of the Old-Time Printers’ association in Brookside park Sunday, made no admission that the bishop’s presence had anything to do with his abstinence. Ludlow’s talk. “How I Like It As Far As I’ve Got,” was crowded with reminiscences of the early days in the printing business here, when he became reporter for the old “Sentinel,” visiting labor union offices when the late Samuel Gompers former American Federation of Labor president, was an obscure figure in the labor offices here. Confessing that he realized the need of training in elocution when he was elected vice-president of the National Press Club three years ago, Ludlow related how he obtained lessons from an Irish instructor in Washington. Slight Tactical Error Directed to make a twenty-min-ute oration before his teacher, Ludlow launched out on a eulogy of the king of England which all but brought an ink bottle in his direction. Os Sir Esme’s dinner, the admitted “high spot” in Ludlow’s social career since becoming a member of congress, the congressman said: “One thing that impressed me that night was that while America has gone dry the world has not. When Mrs. Ludlow and I entered the embassy gates we stepped out of the United States upon British soil. “At each place were four wine glasses. Opposite me sat Bishop Freeman of the Episcopal church, and while others around us waxed damp the good bishop and I remained arid. My wife, who sat at the other side of the ambassador, stayed as dry as a bone. There were forty guests, and when the evening was over I should say that the irrigated belt covered 75 per cent of the party.” He’s Not So Famous Os an incident at the dinner, Ludlow said: “At my left sat the gray-hairecl mother of a United States senator, a most charming matron, and at her left was a jumpy, affable little diplomat from Siam. The senator’s mother introduced us. “‘l’m mighty glad to meet you, Congressman Ludlow,’ said the pleasant little fellow, around whose neck appended a ponderous decoration of some kind. ‘I have read about you often. You are well known among our people.’ “I began to swell up. It occurred tc me that if my fame already extended to Siam I was going some for Bj first termer. “ ‘I keep track of you in the Congressional Record,’ the diplomat rattled on. “I have often remarked that you are best debater in congress.’ “The swelling immediately subsided. Deflation was instantaneous. Up to that time I had never said one word on the floor of congress.”

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CHILD SWAMP yiCTIMFOUND Estranged Father Held for Coroner’s Jury. Bu United rress - MILFORD. Conn.. Aug. 2.—Peter Mikenas, father of 3-year-old Albert Mikenas whose nude, decomposed body was found in a swamp hern Sunday, was brought here from Derby today and held for the coroner. Police Chief James M. Maher, who detained Mikenas. said he found the laborer in a shack in Derby. According to Maher, the following conversation ensued after he entered the shack., “You have found the boy?” asked Mikenas. “Yes.” said Maher. “He live.” the man demanded. “No,” Maher replied. The laborer burst Into tears. Mikenas has not lived with his wife and son for several years. ROBBED OF JEWELS Finger Prints Only in $250.909,. Gem Burglary. Bu United Press ,■>. BEVERLY FARMS. Aug. 12. / Finger prints on an abandoned rifle. and on a balustrade and waterspout were the principal clews on whichpolice were working today in the investigation of the $250,000 jewelrobbery at Sidney E. Hutchinson's summer home. It also was learned that only an hour after the break at the residence of the wealthy Philadelphian, an attempt was made to enter the home of Francis I. Amory. Boston investment broker.

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