Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1929 — Page 5

SEFT. 10, 1929

PILOTS BLAMED FOR MOST OF AIR ACCIDENTS Stricter Requirements for License Expected to Reduce Fatalities. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 10.—Better •‘organization, discipline and system” in operating America's commercial airlines, such reforms to come from the industry' itself without governmental pressure, are essentials to safer air travel, Director E. P. Howard, the commerce department’s aeronautics bureau, told the United Press today. ‘ Efforts are being made constantly by the commerce department to insure safe ships and adequately trained pilots on "commercial air lines.' Howard declared. ‘ But there is an end to what government regulation can and should do. Efficient and safe air travel will depend ultimately on rules made by the operators themselves.” Pilots Cause Most Howard produced statistics to show most air accidents are due to eirors of pilots, rather than to poor ships. During the last six months of 1928 nearly 58 per cent of air accidents were attributed by the aeronautics buraeu to human failure, as compared with 16 per cent blamed on faulty power plants and 5 per cent on structural weakness of planes. “Now we are working on the personal element, the pilot. On Sept. 10 far more drastic requirements for a transport pilot's license will go into effect.” Divided by Weight "Airplanes.” he exp\ained. “will be divided into three types, according to weight: Less than 3,500 pounds, from 3.500 to 7,000 pounds, anc from 7,000 pounds up. "Before transport pilots are licensed they must undergo a stringent physical and mental examination and must qualify as fliers in each particular type of thip shey want to operate. "They must be re-examined physically each six months and must show affidavits proving they have flown at least ten hours during the last six months in each type of plane they' want to operate.” HIGHWAY COMMISSION TAKES TOUR TO NORTH Members Will Return for Session Wednesday Afternoon. State highway commission members. led by Albert J. Wedeking. chairman, and William Titus, chief engineer, left today for Oakland City, Ind., to inspect state roads. The commissioners will return on Wednesday for a meeting at 2 p. m. in the office of John J. Brown, highway director. A delegation of residents of East Chicago. Ind., will appear to request routing of Indiana state roads over Chicago avenue into Chicago. The delegation will be led by A. P. Melton of Gary, Ind Gary Motorist Killed Bv F nili u Prigs GARY, Ind., Sept. 10.—John Hoffman. 30. father of two children, was killed here today when his autobile crashed into a truck driven by Charles Nagy, 26. Nagy was arrested on charges of manslaughter. PwiSßi

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Traffic Officer Henry E. O’Hara, who suffered a fractured skull today when he was struck by a truck at Ohio and Meridian streets, his post of duty. cou"ncilwiii STUDYPOLICIES Committee to Confer With Officials on Projects. A special council committee will study administrative practices revealed during the council's perusal of the 1930 budget. Council President Edward B. Raub Sr. appointed the special committee, comprised of Earl Buchanan, chairman; Robert Springsteen, Herman Lieber, Edward Harris and Meredith Nicholson, to study more than a dozen matters in which the council is interested and to make recommendations. Need for revision of the light and power contract with the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to reduce the city’s bill; conferences with the sanitary board on the $200,000 dehydration plant building, been idle since it was expected four years ago. with a view to completing the plant and starting part-time operation this year, and advisability of putting in a private w'ater system at Riverside to serve the three golf courses and dropping of plans for a golf course at Dearborn park, are among topics to be considered. Closer co-ordination between policemen and the park motorcycle police will be urged and absences in the police and fire department will be checked. ASPHALT CO. SEEKS STATE FUNDS TIEUP Suit for an injunction and a judgment of $50,544 was on file today in superior court five by the Kentucky Rock Asphalt Company against John J. Brown, state highway commission director: Mrs. Grace Urbans, state treasurer; the Hayes Construetfon Company, and the United Rock Asphalt Sales Company. The Hayes company is alleged to have broken a contract to purchase rock asphalt from the Kentucky company for use on State Road 27, in Randolph county. The injunction seeks to prevent Brown from paying the Hayes company road funds until the plaintiff’s claim has been paid, and to prevent the United company from supplying the Hayes company with materials.

BRITISH VIEWS UPSET CRUISER SLASjjjWECT Hoover’s Dream of Naval Reduction Menaced by MacDonald’s Stand. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—President Hoover’s dream of naval reduction in the cruiser class appeared to be fading today, as discussion of Premier MacDonald’s estimate of British needs continued. Unless MacDonald can be persuaded to go against his admiralty, the most likely result of the negotiations in progress between London and Washington will- be limitation of cruiser strength, instead of reduction. Application of the reduction principle advanced by Mr. Hoover in his Memorial day speech at Arlington national cemetery w’ould be restricted to capital ships and possibly submarines if the cruiser problem were found to be insoluble along these lines. To Appeal to England An effort will be made to salvage the President’s cruiser reduction program, by appealing to MacDonald, the United Press understands, but the tight-lipped reticence of persons actually on the inside of the negotiations indicates doubt as to the outcome. Policies of humanity and economy entered into the naval reduction program as stated by Mr. Hoover and amplified last spring by Secretary of State Stimson. “We do not always realize,” Stimson said, “the immense material burden which is imposed upon the nations of the world today by the cost of modern ships of war. A modern 10,000-ton cruiser costs double the original cost of the library of congress.” Hoover Seeks to Save He added the authorized and contemplated American naval program would cost $1,170,800,000. It was the President's purpose to curtail this “unproductive expenditure.” But Great Britain has not been able to scale her cruiser requirements down to a point at which the United States could abandon any large portion of this naval program without abandoning even the semblance of parity with the British. Mr. Hoover’s advisers do not believe congress would accept a naval agreements w’hich did not leave the United States and Great Britain about equal in cruiser strength. Failure to achieve actual cruiser reduction would be disappointing to the administration, but not fatal to the entire naval project. Reduction undoubtedly can be achieved in capital ships and there is every expectation of at least a limitations agreement with respect to cruisers. Such an agreement would end ecompetitive building, which is considered to be the most dangerous aspect of the naval situation. BOY SCOUT DAY SET Boy Scout day will be held in Indianapolis Sept. 28. Louis W. Fletcher, chairman of the arrangements committee, announced today. In the morning the Scouts will parade and in the afternoon they will attend the rtutler-Illinois Wesleyan football game as guests of Butler university. After the game the university will give a supper ana and a jamboree in the Butler field house. -

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■No Horseshoes Endurance Pilots Want Bad Luck Tokens for Friday, 13th.

Friday the thirteenth, black ft cats, broken mirrors, spilled salt and all other “bad luck” superstitions will be defied by Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro, pilots of the Indianapolis Flamingo endurance plane, on the start of their flight, according to present plans. Major H. Leßoy Muller, flight manager, today decided the fliers should practice refuelings for several days a"nd Friday, Sept. 13, tentatively has been set for the take-off. “If we can start on Friday, we might as well defy all the other superstitious omens,” Mulier said. Accordingly, Muller is seeking a dozen or more black cats the blacker the better to turn loose in front of the plane at the take-off, a number of mirrors for Peck and Genaro to break before they leave the ground, and ladders for them to walk under as they enter their plane at Hoosier airport. The pilots will get out of bed on the wrong side the morning of the take-off and will spill some salt on the hangar floor. Asa crowning touch, they will light three cigarets from one match just before entering the plane, and will look backward as they take off. “Maybe all these bad luck signs w'ill counteract each other and give us enough good luck to break the present 420-hour sustained flight record,” the pilots mused. Nearly three hours was spent Monday in practicing refueling maneuvering, practice ceasing when the Douglass refueling plane ran out of gas and made a safe forced landing. THREE ARE HELD ON DRY LAW CHARGES Transporting, Blind Tiger, Pool Ticket Possession Alleged. Three men were held today for alleged liquor law violations, following arrests Monday. James Pete, 33, of 623 West Washington street, was charged with operating a blind tiger and keeping gaming devices. Police said they found a bottle of white mule whisky and eight books of baseball tickets. Carl R. Wallace, 5219 Wayne street, of Ben Davis, was charged with transporting liquor and operating a blind tiger. Police reported finding two gallons of whisky in his automobile. After police are alleged to have confiscated a quart of alcohol in his machine, Henry Allen. 1718 Linden street, was charged with transporting liquor and operating a blind tiger. Auto Kills Pedestrian LOGANSPORT. Ind.. Sept. 10.— Struck by an automobile while crossing a street, James Cassell, 57, was injured fatally. Cassell lived an hour after reaching a hospital.

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PRODUCTION OF GRAPES TO HIT NORMAL LEVEL Growers, Government Strive to Keep Product From ’Leggers. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.—After years of complications due to prohibition, with panic and prosperity alternating, indications are that the business of producing grapes will strike a normal level this season. Roughly, California’s 639,927 acres of vineyards will yield 1,791,000 tons of grapes and raisins this yeargiving the growers approximately $140,000,000. The acreage is the smallest since 1925 and the tonnage likewise is less than in recent years. More grapes and raisins, for instance, were raised in 1922, and in all succeeding years since that date, with the exception of the short crop season of 1924. ‘Your Own Policemen’ One bothersome phase of the “red ink” problem has been removed. When a grape grower speaks of “red ink” he refers to the loss side of ledgers, which record that the price received was less than shipping costs. But the “red ink” wine problem in which the prohibition bureau is interested still remains—and for the* first time responsibility is on the shoulders of the raisin men. “Be your own policeman,” said Dr. J. C. Do~an, federal prohibition commissioner, when he visited the great grape growing region of the sunny San Joaquin valley, not long ago. Different Year Indicated Aid was pledged by co-operative organizations to keep the grape and

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TRIO ON TRIAL FOR SLAYING Famous ‘lnvolved Murder’ Plot Gets Airing. Bn l'nit fit Prong DETROIT. Sept. 10.—An intriguing potpourri of murder plots involving a wealthy Michigan real estate dealer, his estranged wife and theix respective aids will be dissected legally today with the opening of the trial of Ralph A. Wood, Wyandotte real estate dealer, and two associates. Herbert L. Sullivan and Cecil W. Holt. The state will ask a jury to listen to more than fifty witnesses tell of their part in the involved murder plot mystery that was climaxed with

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the fatal shooting Jan. 9 of Ambrose L. Hagerty, one of the alleged conspirators, against the life of Wood. Wood and his associates. Holt and Sullivan, go on trial in circuit court for the slaying of Hagerty. Mrs. Wood and two of her friends arc awaiting trial on charges of plotting the death of Wood. ATE IN HURRY, THEN SUFFERED Weaver Tells How Indigestion Was Relieved After He Had Taken Black-Draught. Mr. Clyde Vaughn, a weaver living at 10 Shippy Street, Greenville. S. C.. says he has used Thedford's Black Draught “a good many years.” “My work is confining, being inside work," he writes, “and often I eat hurriedly, causing me to have I indigestion. Gas will form. I will ! smother and have pains in my chest. My heart seemed to beat fast. This made me very nervous, besides the : suffering. j “I had to be careful what I ate, ; but after someone had recommend- ! ed Black-Draught and I found a i small pinch after meals was so helpful, I soon was eating anything I wanted. “Now I keep a package of BlackDraught at home and one on my work-bench, and when I feel the least pain, smothering or uncomfortable bloating, I 'take a pinch of Black-Draught and get relief.” Thedford’s Black-Draught is a purely vegetable cathartic or laxative medicine, composed of selected medicinal herbs and roots. Get a 25-cent package, today. Sold everywhere.

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