Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1929 — Page 10

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Aviation RUSSIAN PLANE AGAIN OFF FOR NEW YORK HOP Same Crew Which Came to Grief Recently Is Manning Craft. By Cnttrd pr.se MOSCOW, Aug. 23—A new blmofcored all-metal monoplane, christened Land of the Soviets, took off from Moscow at 3:15 a. no. today (10:15 p. m. Thursday, eastern standard time), for Omsk, en route to New York. The plane is a duplicate of the land of the Soviets plane which was damaged in a forced landing last week in a forest near Chita, Siberia, because of motor trouble. The same crew which came to grief after having traversed many hundred miles of the course to New York manned the new Land of the Soviets. The fliers are due at Omsk. 1.400 miles away, during the afternoon. The flrst lap of the flight is the longest single hop of the contemplated itinerary, although the plane is capable of a cruising radius much in excess of 2.400 miles, according to the navigator, Boris Sterligof. The plane has a capacity of three tons of gasoline and fully loaded and equipped weighs eight tons. Numerous stops are included on the Itinerary. The fliers expected to make their flrst landing on United States soil at Seward, Alaska, flying from there to Seattle and San Francisco, thence eastward to Chicago and New' York. Arrivals and Departures Hoosier Airport—H. G. Rough, department of commerce examiner, Buhl monoplane, from Detroit and return; D. W. Diggle, Inland sportplane, Kansas City to Cincinnati; M. S. Smith. Lincoln plane, Lincoln, Neb., to Cleveland; D. F. Zimmerly. Barling NB3, Marshall, M 0.,! to Cleveland. Capitol Airport—H. L. Biedouw, Inland sport plane, Kansas City to Cleveland; Victor Pixey. Eaglerock, overnight, from Richmond; Sam Lambert. Monocoupe, Washington to St. Louis. Curtiss-Mars Hill Airport—Gentry Shelton, Challenger-Robin monoplane, St. Louis to New York; C. A. Loring, Gypsy Moth, Lowell, Mass., to Kansas City, for delivery to Curtiss Flying Service of Middle West; George McMillan, Cardinal monoplane, St. Louis to Cleveland. Air Development Shown Demonstration of one of the newest developments in aviation progress, the variable pitch propel- j ler, was given members of the Soio i Club of Indianapolis during their | dinner meeting marking the semi- j official opening of the new Curtiss | Flying Service restaurant building, i Lieutenant C. E. Brooklev, flight test section. Wright field, Dayton, 0., principal speaker at the dinner, flew here from the army field In a Douglass 02H biplane equipped with the new type propeller, which he explained to the club members. Pitch of this new propeller can be changed by the pilot with the engine running, thus meeting the needs of changing conditions, he explained. At low altitude, the pitch is reduced to obtain a quick take-off, the reverse being true in high altitudes Change of pitch also will effect j speed of the plane. Brooklev compared the new de- j veiopment wth the multiple gear shift automobile. Old style fixed-pitch propellers, set for the average need, are comparable to an automobile with only one gear, it was explained. Brooklev departed for Wright field in his plane shortly before midnight, Curtiss Gets Biplane Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana has received anew De Haviland Moth biplane to be added to the large number of planes owned by the Indiana company. The plane was delivered Thursday from the factory at Lowell, Mass., by H. Galladay. The Indiana Curtiss company recently became Indiana distributor for the Moth, a light cockpit biplane with remarkable performance records. The plane is powered with the PO-horse power Wright-Gypsy motor and is equipped with folding wings and wing slots. Free Policies for Fliers Free life Insurance is being provided by Curtiss Firing Service of Indiana for all its student fliers, it was announced today by H. Weir Cook, general manager. When a student enrolls with Curthis for a flying course, he is given automatically a $2,500 life insurance policy without any qparge other than the tuition fee. Cook said. In case additional life insurance is desired, the student may take out more insurance at the rates regularly charged by life insurance companies for ordinary insurance. This insurance risk is carried by the Curtiss Company itself, to enable the student to obtain insurance at a reasonable figure. Decision to carry the insurance was made by the company because of its confidence in its instructors and flying equipment. Cook said. Curtiss also carries its own risk on ifs planes for all kinds of flying, and requires no bond of students to cover possible damage to planes while taking instruction or flying solo. In the Air Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m.: Southwest wind, eleven miles an hour; temperature. 70: barometric pressure 30.04 at sea level; ceiling. 1.000 feet; visibility, one and onehalf miles, with light fogs and moderate rain; field, 'wet, •

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No! He's not calling up his favorite-bootlegger for another quart. For the above photo is Howard Quinn, property man at the Lyric theater, and a few of his "props.” The pre-war Scotch bottles have nothing in them, the limb lying on his lap is wax, and the telephone he’s talking into never does get “Central.”

Only One Failure in 25 Years as Stage Property Man, BY ARCH STEINEL He has hunted facial masks of Abraham Lincoln and borrowed Negro babies. He's soothed actors disgruntled with their dressing rooms and then impersonated a ventriloquist's dummy on the stage. He's the man you can't, surprise with any request—Howard T. Quinn, 44, of 730 Elm street, property man at the Lyric theater for twenty-five years. “Props” gets what he goes after unless it’s a suit of medieval armor —the only order from an actor Quinn failed to fill. 0 “I hunted ror two days for a suit of armor for tire Stuart Warner company at Keith's several years ago,” he said. “I begged the art institute to loan me the only suit in town. They wouldn’t.” Quinn flrst viewed the world of fantasy behind the footlights carrying water in 1903 for the scrubwoman in the old Grand theater. He know-s how they “saw the woman in half,” and caught on to Houdini’s trick of escaping from a milk-can full of beer suds. But he won’t tell you how- it's done. “We never tell secrets of magicians. It’s their living,” he said.

Indiana Dance Goes Over at Pittsburgh Conclave

Camel Glide Is Popular at Convention, Reports Louis Stockman. BY LOUIS STOCKMAN Indiai'anoTi? Dane? Master. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23.—Indiana's own dance, the camel glide, holds the attention here at the annua! convention of the Dancing Masters of America. I took the floor of the convention and demonstrated the step that was originated in the Indiana ballroom at Indianapolis and I feel safe in saying that it created quite a hit. Indianapolis teachers who are attending the session are George Siff, president of the Indianapolis Dancing Teachers’ Association, Peggy Sue Snyder, and myself. One of the most striking steps originated was demonstrated by W. C, Jacobus of New York, who taught the rainbow fox trot. Oscar Duryea of New York taught the “three time,” a dance that can be performed to fox trot, waltz, or tango music. The “three time” was originated by the New York society as the new step fgr the coming season. Another feature was the "rhythm stomp.” a stage tap dance, demonstrated by Thomas Sheeley, the sixfoot six-inch dancing master of Chicago. Sheeley brought with him two youngsters, Orville Delrich, 12, and Eleanor Solbert, 11, child wonders, to help demonstrate his “rhythm stomp.” MATHEMATICS GETS IT Statistician Finds 48 Million Cherries Handled Each Day. By Vnited Press LOVELAND, Colo.. Aug. 23.—The cherries are ripe and canning factories are going full blast. There lies a day's work for a good statistician. It remained for G. H. Thomson to find that it took 160 cherries. dropped one by one into a bucket, to make a pound. Then it was found that factories In Loveland can or pack approximately 150 tons of cherries a day. Bv simple mathematics It. was found that 48.000,000 cherries a day are handled by the factories. TYPHOON SINKS SHIPS Thirty Men Lost as Gunboats Go Down. Bu r nited Press HONG KONG. Aug. 23.—Two Chinese g-un boats were sunk, with a loss of about thirty men, Thursday when a typhoon struck Shiuhing, advices here said today.

The hardest “props” job given him was hunting a Negro baby for a gag in a comedian’s act at Keith’s and the time Stuart Walker demanded masks for Lincoln’s face and hands. “It took me two days of house-to-house canvass in the Indiana avenue district to find the Negro baby. Then alter finding a motner willing to let her ‘picaninny’ do four-a-day, the comedian got me to bring the babe on stage during his performance.” “But the Lincoln face and hands w r as the toughest assignment. I couldn’t find masks of him, so I w-ent to the State Capitol building with some artist’s mud. I molded a face mask from a Lincoln bust. That mask was o. k., but the bust had no hands of Lincoln to form a mold. “Well when the show was staged it was a mold of my hand that masqueraded for Lincoln’s. I’ve still got the masks.” Stage superstitions have dwindled, Quinn says, to one ogre, a dressing room w-ith the number 13 stenciled on its door. “That’s why our dressing rooms here are named after cities as Detroit, Buffalo, Toledo and so forth,” he added. Quinn has built and set “props” for Eddie Foy, Will Rogers, Della Fox, William Gillette, Sophie Tucker, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Mrs. Patrick Campbell and hosts of other stars of today and yesterday.

2 CONVENTIONS ELECHIFFICERS Women’s and Men’s Groups Hold Joint Banquet Thirty-eighth annual conventions of the state council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Daughters of America were to elect officers today at the Denison hotel. More than 500 delegates are attending the conventions, which close today. After a banquet at the SpinkArms Thursday night Mrs. Ethel Bricker, Richmond, state councillor of the Daughters of America, gave a welcome address to which Mrs. Sarah Johnson, national councillor, and other officers of the order, responded. Today’s session opened with a joint memorial service at 10 a. m, followed by the election. Omar Stubbs, national councillor of the mechanics, spoke. WRIGHT EXHAUSTS ON * AUTOMOBILES URGED Professor Blames “Tired Feeling” on Fumes From Cars. By Vnited Press BOSTON, Aug. 23.—The nation's health would be benefited if automobiles equipped with vertical exhausts, in the opinion of Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale medical school. He told the thirteenth international physiological congress here that the health of pedestrians was adversely affected at present by carbon monoxide gas fumes, which, after expulsion from automobile exhausts. hung in the air about six feet above ground. The "tired feeling" of which many city dwellers complained might be attributed to these fumes, he thought. U. S. TOURISTS DROWN Bv Vnited Press MONTREAL. Que., Aug. 23.—An inquest has been ordered into the death of five tourists, drowned when their automobile collided with another car and was thrown into the Soulanes canal near Cascade Point Thursday. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Chudds and Elizabeth Chudds, West Chester, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. George A. Dale of Cochraneville, P*.

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NEGRO PYTHIAN CONVENTION TO CLOSETONIGHT Coronation Ball Will Be Climax of Week’s Sessions Here. Program of the golden jubilee celebration of Negro Pythians of America closes here tonight, after a week of business sessions and festivities presided over by S. W. Green, New Orleans, supreme chancellor. The sessions began Sunday with a sermon by Bishop R. E. Jones at Simpson M. E. church and close with announcement of the winner in a nation-wide popularity contest, to be followed by a coronation ball. The dance will be public. Weather conditions for the week have favored every one of the seemingly unending round of activities of the Pythian order. Tents pitched at Camp Jacob M. Porter at the state fairground impressed passing motorists as a veritable military city. The official jubilee night was celebrated Wednesday with a fireworks display costing more than $2,000. Parade Is Big Feature The parade Thursday was the biennial military tribute to Indianapolis, which has the distinction of playing host to the supreme body for the second time in eighteen years, F. G. Tidrlngton, grand chancellor of Indiana, assisted by William Porter, leader of entertainment plans for the parley here, directed preliminary details of the grand and supreme bodies with sessions running concurrently since Aug. 17. Failure of an Indianapolis band to appear In the parade Thursday was the big surprise of the week. Many citizens showed keen disappointment when the marchers passed without the accompanying strain of at least one of the several Indianapolis Negro bands. W. H. Porter, chairman of local arrangements said, "The supreme chancellor and R R. Jackson, leader of the uniform rank department, directed Thursday's parade and are responsible for what did or did not happen in connection therewith. The parade war- out of our jurisdiction.’ According to announcements, S. w. Green. New Orleans, leader of the supreme body for twenty-five years, was re-elected. * Tidffngton Re-elected ■E G Tidrlngton, Evansville, grand chancellor for more than twenty years, was re-elected. Mrs. Julia B. Reed again was returned as leader of the Calanthe courts of Indiana, i Next biennial session is to be held in Boston. Members of the supreme lodge and friends are to be guests of the Old Settlers' Civic and Pleasure Club from 5 to 10 o'clock tonight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas B. Willis, 512 North West street. Among those appearing on the program are Mrs. Lillian J. Brown, Mrs. M. L. Fitzfcugh Valentine. Miss Hortense Smith, Miss Emille Garrett, Mrs. Elizabeth Stewart, Mrs. Fannie Murray, Mrs. Cora Woodfolk. Mrs. Elizabeth Cutler. Mrs Blossie Roberts. Mrs. Lora Blanks, Miss Jean Coston, Miss Mary Davis, Miss Sara Hill and Paul Hill. "The Problem of Suffering” Is the Sunday morning sermon topic of the Rev. M. W. Clair Jr., pastor of Simpson M. E. church, Eleventh and Missouri streets. The pastor will use for the evening them "Jonah.” The Rev. C. H. Bell, pastor of Mt. Paran Baptist church, will speak at Sunday forenoon and evening services after an absence of ten days. He has been on a vacation in Nashville and Gallatin, Tenn. Recital to Be Given Mrs. M. L. Valentine, dramatic soprano, will be presented in recital at Antioch Baptist church, Wednesday night, Aug. 28. New Members Club is sponsor. Medical examinations for swimming and other athletics at the Phyllis Wheatley V. W. O. A. will be held Monday. Aug. 26, at 10 a. m. and 7 p. m. Mrs. Charlotte Cox is in charge of athletics. Many requests for permanent rooms fn the dormitory indicate that the demand will exceed housing capacity. The following services will be held at Mt. Zion Baptist church, Sunday. Sunday school at 9:30: Courageous-

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At the Walker Theater

"Noah s Ark." spectacular picture about which so many stories have appeared in recent months, has been released by Warner Brothers and will be seen at the Walker for six days, starting Monday. This great picture was more than three years in production and is one of the finest films yet made. The settings occupied thirty-three acres and ten thousand people were employed in the flood scene, as well as in the events which occur in the sequences depicting mcdern times. The cast of this great film epic includes the famous colored star. Noble Johnson. The story begins just before the outbreak of the World war. The victims of a train wreck, on reaching Paris, find the conflict is on. They are carried into the tumult of Ihe nations. At one point a bomb hits a building where they have taken refuge and they are thrown into the cellar. There a chaplain begins to tell them of Noah and the flood and as they are carried back to the ancient time, the story is made a reality. In making "Noah’s Ark" Vitaphone has been used effectively. The great festival of Jaghut. the sentence of Miriam to human sacrifice, building the Ark, march of animals to the Ark, the storm and the great flood are but few of the-impressive scenes that Warner Brothers have incorporated in "Noah’s Ark.” : . ly” is to be the morning sermon theme of the Rev. 8. B. Butler, pastor; B. Y. P. D. services at 6:30; the pastor will use as the evening subject, "Light for the Righteous.” Convention to Closa Twentieth annual convention and Bible conference, which have been In session at Christ temple, Pall Creek boulevard and Paris avenue, will close Sunday. More than 500 visitors from all parts of the country have registered for the conference, conducted by the Rev. G. T. Haywood. P. A. of W. Sunday School Association will open sessions Monday and Tuesday. Fourteenth annual P. A. of W. ministerial convention will convene at the temple Aug. 26 and continue each day and night, with noted speakers from different, parts of the country taking part. 1 The Rev. W. D. Shannon, pastor of Allen Chapel A. M. E. church, announces the following schedule for Sunday services. In the forenoon the pastor will give the twelfth message from a series of talks on “The Sermon on the Mount.” "The Two Deceivers: r4Tlse Preachers and False Professors.” Sunday school will be conducted by the superintendent. Dt. H. C. Hoskins. The lesson will be reviewed by E. W. Diggs, principal of school 42. Women Will Speak Mrs. Mary David of Demerara, British Guiana, will speak at the evening services on "Are Missions Proving Successful?” The pastor, Mr. Shannon, will speak on, "The Great Commission.” There will be special music. Much interest is being shown in the popularity contest between the Rev. F-- F. Young, pastor of the First Baptist church, Fall Creek boulevard and Rader street, and the Rev. W. D. Shannon. Special services will be held at Allen Chapel A. M. E. church Thursday night, Aug. 29. The Rev. Mr. Young and choir will have charge of the services. The Rev. W. D. Shannon and choir will be guests of the congregation of the First Baptist church, Friday night, Aug. 30.. Mr. Shannon will have charge of the program. Orlando Mitchell, boy evangelist, will preach at both services at St. Faul A. M. E. church, Manlove a’-enue and East Twenty-fifth street Sunday. The Rev. Walter Chenault Is pastor. Finance Drive Started "Self Denial Rally,” with Mrs. Irene Adair as captain of the navy and Mrs. Vera Greer as captain of the army, is sponsoring a financial drive Sunday at Barnes M. E. church. Twenty-fifth and Nice streets. The Rev. R. E. Skelton, pastor, will use for his morning theme, "The Greatest Question of the Age-Where Is Your God?” The Rev. M. W. Clair Jr., pastor aU Simpson M. E. church, will preach at 3:30. The choir of Simpson Will sing. "Lost Joy” is the sermon topic for the evening services. A twenty-minute song service Will precede the sermon. Mrs. Frances L. Hill, Mrs. Cora Bell and Dr. and Mrs Edward J. Robinson of Chicago visited Thursday with Mrs. J. F. Johnson and Mrs. Katie Boyer in Boulevard place. Mr. and Mrs. Paschal L. Webster, Mrs. Anne Southern and Mrs. L. Davenport of Chicago were guests of Mrs. Edward Bogan in Boulevard place. Thursday. Mrs. Joyce Marberle of Ford City, Pa., is visiting her sister. Mrs. Naomi Denny in E. Fall Creek boulevard. Miss Murray Atkins was hostess to * swimming party given in honor of Miss Margaret Lawrence, her house guest from Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Florence Alexander, Gary; Miss Elsie Rogers, Washington, and Miss Florence Warren, Louisville.

BUILDING NEEDS HAMPER CUTS IN SCHOOL LEVY Budget of $1,200,000 for Structures Holds Up Tentative Rate. City school officials today were no nearer solution of the serious problem facing them in attempting to reduce 1930 budget appropriations sufficient to get within a reasonable tax levy. The levy today stood between $1.32 and $1.35, Business Director C. C. York said. York added a definite figure probably would not be available befoie Monday. The board must adopt the budget at Its meeting Tuesday night to permit advertising it ten days before date for final action. Sept. 9. Want Building Funds Plans to finance Schools 81 and 82, and additions to Schools 15 and 49, costing $415,000. in the budget instead of by bond issue are advanced by the majority faction, it was learned today. The state tax board recently turned down a $395,000 bond issue for these buildings and $600,000 issue for Irvington high school, because bids were higher. The board had planned to readvertise with an SBOO,OOO Irvington issue, and a $415,000 grade school issue, which would leave the school city’s bonding power at a, dangerously low figure. Building Budget $1,200,000 This is expected to bring the budget appropriation for building to $1,200,000, as it includes about $500,000 for one unit fo> anew Broad Ripple High school, $50,000 to acquire the Washington township grade school in recently annexed territory, and $123,500 to acquire Center township school No. 1, also recently annexed. York said the board is faced with the problem of making up for budget reductions of previous years, As an example, he pointed out the annual summer building program had to be abandoned this year because of insufficient funds, and much of the work left out this year must be planned for next year.

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LESLIE NAMES 2 COMMITTEES Appointees on Commissions Pay Own Expenses. Governor Harry G. Leslie has named the personnel of two extralegal commissions, the Cumberland Gap memorial and the Indiana delegation to the national tax conference at Saranac Lake, N, Y., Sept. 9-14. The appointees serve without pay and bear their own expenses. Appointees on the Cumberland Gap commission, which is to cooperate with the Cumberland Gap Pioneers’ Memorial Association, with headquarters at Middlesboro, Ky., in the erection of a memorial to the emigrants who used the gap on their trek to the middle west are;- James A. Wodburn, Bloomington; Vernon Knight, New Albany; Ross H-. Lockridge. Bloomington; Charles H. Thompson, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Fred Hoke, Indianapolis. Members of the tax delegation are: Harry Miesse, president of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association; William C. Harrison, Fred A. Sims, T. P. Tillman and Charles A. Greathouse.

Mayer’s End-of-the-Month Clearance

ALGER HUNTED IN KENTUCKY BY INDIANA POLICE State Officers Leave for Louisville to Seek Bandit Suspect. The search for Gene Alger, 21, paroled state reformatory convict, and his red-haired bride. Josephine, alleged bank bandits, continued to center around Louisville. Ky.. today as state police attempted to find a "key man” who might know where Alger weftt after leaving Louisville Sunday morning. The Algers are wanted on charges of robbing the Paris Crossing state bank last Thursday. Police say pictures of Alger and his wife have been identified positively at Paris Crossing as the man and woman who obtained $750 from the bank. Letter Is Sought Police today received word that Mrs. Gal Alger, wife of Gene Alger’s brother, received a letter which was supposed to have come from the alleged bandit or his wife. Immediate steps were taken to obtain the letter. Informants said the postmark of the reported message indicated it had been mailed from a railroad train or depot. Alger and his wife aare said to be driving Gail Alger's car. Officers Go to Kentucky Carl Losey, state policeman, reopened his search at Louisville Thursday afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesday, Losey learned that the Algers lived at the Hermitage hotel, Saturday and Sunday, under an assumed name and spent most of their time with Joe Roth, alleged bootlegger and gambler. Roth told police Alger was armed and "would shoot to kill” if they attempted to arrest him. George McHie, assistant state police chief, and several officers today left Indianapolis to aid in the search for Alger. The officers were in plain cloths and were expected to go to Louisville.

court fight over a baby. Her own child having died. Mrs. Annabel Crouch of Kansas City, bought the child of an unmarried couple for $75 and told her husband it was her own. Now the parents of the child are married and want it back. Juvenile authori-

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