Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1929 — Page 11

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ROCKETS SEND AIRPLANE ON 6-MILE JUMP German Inventor Proves Part of His Theory in Daring Flight. SHOT OFF OF RAILS Motorless Craft Thunders Through Space With Cannon-Like Roar. /?.< i niti'i r,< - FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. I. A wealthy young German's dream m an airplane propelled by the explosion of rockets advanced today to the stage of practical experimentation, supported by a successful trial flight. The inventor of the rocket plane Is Fritz von Opel, who risked his life in a daring attempt to prove a theory to which he has devoted himself for more than a year After two unsuccessful trials, during which the young experimenter's heir had been singed by flame, the motorless airplane shot into the air with the roar of a cannon, streaked through the sky and landed roughly after a flight of about six miles. Plane Without Tail iVon Opel, who had demonstrated with some success in .motor cais | that explosions of rockets could be used as a propelling force, had exIperimented secretly with Wilhelm f Sander, rocket engineer, for more r than a year to And a suitable plane for the application of their theory: The plane is a short and tailless monoplane, resembling a motorless propellerless glider. The pilot’s teat is in the front wings above the fuselage. The wingspread is approximately 38 feet and the plane's The rockets, attached to the side of the fuselage and discharged by % means of fuses in the cockpit, weigh &an additional 100 pounds. The plane Itißs no undercarriage and is shot ®rom rails. [ Attains Eighty-yard Altitude jgfiwith Von Opel, stappea in an as-pap-tos-covereri seat in the cockpit. Safe rocket plane was placed on the gßjecial starting rail, and the rockets Kt off. The plane shot into the air Jfpurting flames and dense smoke. It f attained an altitude of about eighty A yards. The experimenter was very enthusiastic about the success of the trial, but explained that he only had hoped to prove that it was possible to fly an airplane by rocket power. Later he hopes to make a flight across the English channel and attempt to apply the rocket method of propulsion to practical use.

CITY MAN IS KILLED IN ROAD TRUCK CRASH Bury Russell Bowlin, Victim of Peru Accident, Wednesday. Funeral rites for Russell Bowlin. 54. of R. R. 14, Box 207. killed in an L .auto crash at Peru Monday, will be W held Wednesday at the Shirley i Brothers’ funeral chapel. Burial will / be in Crown Hill cemetery. ™ Bowlin was killed when the truck on which he was riding overturned k on state road No. 31 and crashed } into a barn. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. I Mary Alice Bowlin; two sons, RusI sell Jr., and Donald Bowlin, and a I daughter. Mrs. Myrtle Derantore. all [ of Indianapolis. I Bowlin was an employe of the Iron * Fireman Company of Indianapolis. INSTITUTE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS SCHEDULED Former Suffrage Loader to Open Sessions Oct. 10. The opening session of the Institute of Public Affairs will be con- > ducted at the Columbia Club. Oct. 10-11. by Mrs. W. W. Ramsey, Chicago. fifth vice-president. Mrs. Ramsey, a former ardent suffrage worker has been identified ack tively with the Illinois and Chicago Leagues of Women Voters since 1920. Mshe is well known for her platform Kork. Hk “Our Government in Action” is (TThe opening topic for the institute, which will be open to the public. Course tickets may be obtained at the Indiana league headquarters, Illinois building. 1 CLOTHING IS LOOT IN TWO CITY BURGLARIES Tailor Shop Yields Men's Outfit: Dresses Taken at Home. * Thieves continued their fall shopping tours early today when two citizens reported the loss of 5350 in clothing. The tailor shop of Earl Brown. 905 West Michigan street, was entered through a rear window and I two suits, and three overcoats at S2OO. were stolen. I Mrs Edith Hoffman. 919 English wavenue. reported to police that f someone. using a skeleton key, entered her home and stole four dresses and a coat valued at $l5O. Former Official Dies r. Timm Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Oct. 1.--Damel l W. Black. 81. recorder of Madison county from 1890 to 1894. is dead at I lus home here. He was born near | Alexandria and had been a resident I of the county all his life. He leaves L three daughters and three sons, al? presiding here.

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HUGE WHITE SLAVE RING IS REVEALED

Time-Locked Bn United Press BUFFALO. N. Y„ Oct. I. Changing from daylight saving to standard time inconveniences hundreds annually, but it nearly lost George Miller, 24-year-old bank clerk, his life. Miller was working in the Frontier National bank vault Monday night. It was supposed to be open until 10:30. At. 9:30 the lock snapped. The clerk rang a burglar alarm but police were unable to release him until a bank official arrived. Employes had neglected to change the time-lock when daylight saving ended SundajC

DR. SHUMAKER SENT TO BED Physicians Say Dry Leader Must Take Rest. Decline in the health of Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League as a result of strenuous work since his return from a Battle Creek sanitarium. has necessitated his confinement to bed. it w : as announced today at the Anti-Saloon League office. Dr. Charles R. Sowrier. his physician, declared the veteran dry leader must take a rest to regain his strength. Mrs. Lois Morrison of Plainfield, a daughter: has come here to aid in attending her father, and a son, Wayne, came here from De Pauw university to be at his father's bedside over the week-end. Dr. Shumaker ignored his physician's advice to rest when he came back from Battle Creek and work has weakened his constitution. Jaundice has made inroads on his strength. Dr. Shumaker became ill upon completion of a sixty-day sentence at the Indiana state farm, following conviction on a charge of contempt of the state supreme court. FINE IS SI A STITCH Judge Assesses Penalty on Basis of Wound. For every stitch required to mend wounds inflicted in a “cutting scrape" the offender must pay sl. said Criminal Judge James A. Collins today. Lee Thornton, whose address was given as “Jail.” faced trial today on a charge of assault and battery with intent to murder. He is alleged to have slashed the arm of a friend in a Quarrel. “How many stitches did it take to sew up your friend?” asked Collins. “Twenty-three,” was the response. “Twenty-three dollars and six months on the state farm.” said Collins. PAY HONOR TO DAWES Ambassador Gets Freedom of City From Home of Ancestors. Hus uitrti SUDBURY. England. Oct. 1. Ambassador Charles C. Dawes was presented today with the freedom of this Suffolk manufacturing town, from which, nearly three hundred years ago, his ancestors set forth to America. Past matting and brick works, through cobbled streets shaded by parish churches of perpendicular style, the ambassador was escorted with Mrs. Dawes and their son Henry to the town hall. Store Robbed Three Times Sv Timri Sprrial NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 1. The clothing store of T. L. Collins has been robbed the third time in eighteen months, twenty suits being taken Saturday night. In the three raids on this store $4,000 worth of clothing was stolen. ~

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Fifty Murders Are Laid to Girl Traffic in* Wide Area of East. By United Press BOSTON, Oct. I.—Two shots fired in the semi-darkness of a Back Bay hotel corridor early last month have resulted indirectly in the disclosure of an east-wide white slave traffic, astonishing even to hardened investigators. Vice conditions believed to have been obliterated in the big cleanup of 1916 have risen again to dot most of the eastern industrial cities with red light districts, authorities here revealed today. Investigation of the unsolved murder of Samuel Reinstein, alleged white, slave trafficker, in Hotel Huntington recently, brought to light information which caused United States Attorney Frederick H. Tarr to make the blunt statement that at least fifty recent murders could be attributed to white slavery. The United Press learned from high authority today that evidence obtained by the investigators pointed to the recent development of white slavery on a “big business” basis, with houses of ill fame linked in a far-reaching chain from New England to Pennsylvania and beyond and involving 2,000 to 2,500 girls. Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Easton, Pa., were important “stations” in the “underground railroad” by which “slaves” were exchanged between cities, authorities said. It was stated that the east side of New York, where the dance hall racket flourishes, was an important recruiting center for the girls used by the ring. SOARS TO NEW RECORD Missouri Pilot Sets Unofficial Altitude Mark of 20,800 Feet. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. I. Wilfred G. Moore, pilot for the Inland Aviation Corporation, was congratulated today as the holder of the unofficial world’s altitude record for a two-place light airplane. Barographs, which Registered 20,800 and 20.100 feet on his flight Monday will be sent to Washington, D. C., for official check. The present record is held by Captain G. De Haviland. who soared to 19,862 feet in England more than a year ago. ASK PADLOCK ON HOME Deputy Prosecutors Allege Sale of Liquors at Residence. Petition to padlock the home of John Matau. 428 West Pearl street, for one year as a public nuisance, was on file today in superior court three by William R. Ringer and George W. Eggleston, deputy prosecutors. Intoxicating liquor is sold at the residence, it was charged. Murder Trial Opens Hr United Press BEDFORD. Ind., Oct. I.—Selection of a jury was started here today in the trial of James Brannon, 33, Cincinnati, charged with first degree murder of his step-son. Edward Lucas. 17. Cincinnati. The state contends Brannon struck Lucas on the head with a railroad pin and threw his body under a freight train, near Mitchell, Ind., May 8. Brannon said the youth accidentally fell beneath the train.

50,000 LEGIONNAIRES MARCH IN GIGANTIC PARADE AT LOUISVILLE

BY JAMES M. KERR t'nited Press Staff Correspondent LOUISVILLE. Oct. I.—Bill Smith, the broker, and Jack Jones, the barber, with 50,000 other dough-; ; boys of eleven years ago, marched J ; down the streets of Louisville to- j day in the annual American j j Legion parade. Every section of the United | States was represented in the trim column of stalwarts, clad in the uniforms of war days. There was | the same old staccato in the tattoo j of their feet against the pavement and the same boyish eagerness ‘ shining from their faces, though

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 1, 1929

RADIO TO LINK ANTARCTIC AND WILD BORNEO Explorers, Deep in Jungle, May Talk Soon With Byrd’s Men. CHICAGO GETS MESSAGE Expedition Makes Progress in Studying Natives in ‘lsle of Mystery.’ By Science Service WASHINGTON, Oct, 1.— I The jungles of Borneo soon will be talking with the Icy wastes of the Antartic continent, where Commander Byrd’s men are wintering. Borneo already has talked with Washington and Chicago by means of a short-wave radio set in the hands of the scientists of the all-American Mohawk Malasian Expedition, now' far into the jungles of the world’s largest and least-known island. John H. Provinse, anthropologist of the expedition, just has communicated with his chief here, Professor Fay-Cooper Cole of the University of Chicago, chairman of the division of anthropology' and psychology of the national research council. He transmitted his message through station WSGZ, Columbus. 0., a member of the American Radio Relay League. The same station has undertaken to send the return message. Once Took Ten Weeks The speed with which the message came from the opposite side of the W'orld contrasts strongly with conditions prevailing only six years ago, w'hen Professor Cole w r ent into the same territory on a preliminary scouting expedition. At that time messages could be sent only by mail, from the Dutch station at Poeroek Tjahoe, a tow r n on the Barito river, and the explorer had to bring them there in person. From there they were carried to the coast by a flat-bottomed steamboat, w'hich plied once in two weeks at the oftenest. Under the most favorable conditions a letter thus could reach the United States in about ten weeks; usually it took much longer. But the short-w'ave radio now brings central Borneo as close as the nearest telegraph office. Provinse is in Borneo for the purpose of making a scientific study of the Siang Dyaks. a native Malay people never before subjected to thorough anthropological examination. He states that he has established himself in a Siang kampong or village two days up the river from Poeroeck Tjahoe, where he finds the people friendly and conditions favorable for his work. Too Much “Tuak” Among Mr. Provinse’s notes are entries indicating that he is very decidedly “east of Suez." He attended a “tiwah" feast attended by more that 400 men from thirty-two villages, w'here everybody got somewhat more than he could hold of a native brew' called “tuak.” Out of courtesy he had to drink half a carabao horn full of it, but it was a good deal more than he wanted, especially since the genial Siangs had not been at all particular about straining out ants, small flies and other unnecessary foreign substances. RAYON HEAD KILLED Slashed Wrists Death Is Puzzle to Officials. By United Prcrs ELIZABETHTON. Tenn.. Oct. I Consul M. G. Kummer. acting president of the American Bemberg and American Glanzstoff Corporations. was found dead at his home here today. Both his wrists were slashed, apparently with a razor. The large rayon plants which Kummer headed recently had been the center of strike troubles, but difficulties had been ironed out, Kummer was found dead by a servant, who had gone to awaken him. Sheriff J. M. Moreland immediately began an investigation. He expressed the opinion that Kummer had ended his own life, but would not make a definite statement to that effect until further investigation. Kummer formerly was German consul to Portugal and his title has remained with him ever since. Kuramer’s room shows signs of a struggle, the sheriff said. The telephone was on the floor and a window in the back part of his house was open. Near the body was a bloody razor.

gray hairs are beginning to show beneath their overseas caps now. More than 250.000 persons banked the line of march and watched the legionnaires, their 12S musical organizations and 100 floats entered by various state delegations file past. Today was set apart on the program of the eleventh annual convention of the American Legion for merrymaking and the big parade was the grand opening event. Approximately 125.000 visitors were here, including members of the Legion, the auxiliary and families and friends. Special trains, automobile cara-

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MARION COUNTY TO SET NEW AUTO DEATH MARK

Sniffs at Millions in Sea of Steam Shovels By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. I.—Mrs. Tillie Hart today sat on the front porch of her home, located on an island in a great sea of excavations. and sniffed at $25,000,000. Steam shovels on the right and concrete mixers on the left volleyed and thundered; the foundation of her home quivered. But Mrs. Hart fingered her lease, which expires May 1, 1930, and defied Henry Mandel Associates to proceed with the construction of $25,000,000 worth of hotel apartments on West Twenty-third street between Ninth and Tenth avenues. The Hart home is the only building left in the block. Dispossess proceedings have been filed against Mrs. Hart, but she isn't worried about that so much as she is over the fact that she has to shout down the din of the steam shovels whenever friends drop in for a chat.

SIO,OOO RIOT GUN FUND IS REFUSED

Sheriff Must Keep Peace With Adding ‘Artillery’ to Equipment. Sheriff George L. Winkler’s contribution to the preservation of peace in Indianapolis will have to be made without benefit of SIO,OOO worth of riot guns. That was the edict of state tax commissioners when Winkler appeared before them in defense of his budget. Unceremoniously, the board cut off the SIO,OOO item Winkler had listed as “special emergency equipment” to be spent for riot guns. Winkler offered little defense of the item. It was included, he said, upon suggestion of the Chamber of Comemrce and Employers’ Association. Appearance of Harry Dunn, county auditor, today failed to save SIO,OOO cut in the budget for election expenses, for which $30,000 was asked. So far the county reductions have brought the budget rate down to 40.5 cents, a 1-cent cut, it was estimated. The gravel road fund, always a bone of contention, for w'hich a 5-cent levy is asked this year, has not yet been passed upon. County commissioners originally asked a 53-cent levy, which was cut to 41.5 cents by the county council. The state board approved all court and institutional budgets. Personal service was Increased from $23,000 last year to $36,000 this year, as each deputy .sheriff is scheduled for a sls a month raise. The commissioners made a 14cent reduction in th% Lawrence township rate and left Perry township unchanged. A 6-cent levy for the Indianapolis public library was approved. The Lawrence township cut was made by reducing the township levy 1 cent, special school levy’ 6 cents and tuition ,7 cents. Upon suggestion of Harry' Miesse cf the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association. $27,000 for new cell locks and steel sashes and window frames at the county jail was stricken from the budget. This item -will be handled by a bond issue. The $15,000 motor equipment budget was cut $2,500: SI,OOO for motorcycles was stricken out. and a SSOO request for tear gas was cut to SIOO.

vans and airplanes- poured guests into the city Monday. The more that came, the merrier grew the city until late Monday night, downtown streets were choked with milling throngs. Confetti and toy balloons filled the air. Paper sacks filled with water splashed those in the streets as they soared out hotel windows. Joyous shouts, greetings to old pals called above the din. impromptu songfests and other manifestations of the time of their lives added to the vocal features. Police smiled good naturedly and made no effort to stem the tide of jubilee.

Sour Case ny Times Special WHITING, Ind., Oct. I.—Six months at the penal farm and fines totaling $55 form the penalty the law exacted from Joseph Simko in city court here where he was charged with assault and battery on his wife, because she was slow 4n providing pickles he askec! for when he came home drunk. He struck her on the head w'ith a chair, inflicting a wound which required nine stitches to close.

PRINCE BUYS JEWELS Italian Heir's Purchases Revive Rumors of Engagement. B.v United Press ROME, Oct. I.—The rumored engagement of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium was revived today, when it was learned Prince Humbert had been a recent purchaser in one of Rome’s most fashionable jewelry shops. “The crown prince bought several pieces of jewelry, but none in the nature of an engagement ring,” the owner said. MENJOU OFFERED JOB Screen Star May Take Leading Role in French Picture. By United Press PARIS, Oct, I.—Adolphe Menjou, who once said he couldn't get a film job in America, because of prejudice. has been offered the leading speaking role in a French comedy adapted by Sacha Guitry’. The offer was made by the manager of a prominent theater near the Madeleine. Menjou speaks perfect French, as does his wife, Kathryn Carver, who learned the iangauge in three months. Women to Give Pageant By Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Oct. 1. A pageant, “The Evolution of the American Home,” will be given here Nov. 15 by club women of Putnam county.

A brief business session before the parade this morning claimed a minor share of attention. Other serious interludes were efforts of Boston and Los Angeles delegates to talk up their home cities for the 1930 convention and electioneering by supporters of O. L. Bodenheimer of Arkansas and A. L. Cox of North Carolina for the commandership. The Forty and Eight “wreck” and a free-for-all street dance are scheduled for tonight. Many visitors to the convention are whooping it up day and night, since they neglected td arrange for a place to sleep.

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46 Killed in First Nine Months of 1929 in Motor Mishaps. Before 1929 closes, the automobile death toll, outside the city of Indianapolis in Marion county, bids fair to double last year's list of thirty-two killed by motor cars. Figures from the office of Sheriff George Winkler show forty-six persons have been killed in the first nine months of 1929. “Reckless driving, a mania ' for speed and driving while intoxicated have caused the increase in the accidents,” Sheriff Winkler said. He has placed extra squads of men to watch speed points on highways outside the city in an effort to reduce the year’s total of fatalities. Despite traffic congestion, Indianapolis proper has improved its auto death toll, with only sixty-three killed during the first nine months. In 1928, on Oct. 1, seventy-five persons had been injured fatally by motor cars, with a total of ninetyi nine deaths for the year. Statistics from the sheriff’s office I show September, with eight persons killed in county territory, is the : year’s top month in the death list. O s 338 persons injured in the | county by autos, thirty-two were hurt in accidents on West Washing- : ton street and the Nation*! road, j west. In Inhhuiapolis, Illinois and 1 Washington streets is the leading | accident corner. Thirteen children have been killed by autos on Indianapolis streets this year, records show. FIRE SWEEPS HOMES Three Residences on North Senate Are Damaged. Fire, thought to be of incendiary origin, damaged three homes early today in the vicinity of 712 North Senate avenue. . The blaze started in a garage <n the rear of the home of Mrs. G. A. Blackenship. 712 North Senate avenue. The home of Mrs. Blacken- ! ship was damaged SI,OOO. Sparks from the fire ignited the home of Miss Matilda Burrow, 711 Lafayette street, causing SSOO damage, and a vacant house at 719 Lafayette street. Damage to the vacant house was estimated at S2OO by the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, rental agents. HOOVER NAMES DRY AID San Francisco Attorney to Study Enforcement Approval. Bn United Press • WASHINGTON. Oct. I.—President Hoover today announced inauguration of his program to centralize prohibition enforcement agencies. John McNabb. San Francisco attorney, has been selected with the joint approval of the President, Secretary Mellon, Attorney-General Mitchell and Chairman Wickersham of the law enforcement commission, to begin a study and to formulate recommendations for improvement of enforcement.

BRITAIN. RUSSIA AGREE Diplomatic Relations Will Be Resumed by Nations. fin I niiril Pirns LEWES. England. Oct. I.—Representatives of Great Britain and Soviet Russia reached an agreement today, looking toward resumption of '■ relations between the two countries. The action was announced after a two-hour meeting between Arthur Henderson. British foreign secretary and Valerien Dovgalevsky, Soviet ambassador to Paris. Working Student Robbed r.n Time* Sprrinl CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Oct. 1. j —W. J. Sherwood Jr., attendant at! a filling station here, was held up j and robbed of S2O by a bandit. Sherwood. who is a student at Wabash college, was studying at the time. He gave police a good description of the robber.

UNDY TO SEEK ANCIENT MAYA JUNGLE RUINS Rare Archeological Finds to Be Goal of Institution Hunt by Air. BURIED DEEP IN FOREST Lost Cities Impossible to Reach Overland: Base to Be Belize. By Science Sercict WASHINGTON. Oct, I.—When Lindbergh and Carnegie Institution archeologists fly over the jungles of northern Central America and Mexico in search of lost Maya cities, [they will be adding anew method | to the scientific exploration of ruins ! of one of the world's most interestI ing civilizations. | Buried beneath almost impenetrable tropical forests in the Yucatan j peninsula. Guatemala. Honduras j and British Honduras, are the re- | mains of populous cities that flour- | ished long before the time of Colum--1 bus. Many of these abandoned cities, rich with artistic temples and mon- , uments. lie hidden, unseen by modern eyes. On foot, tediously hacking a path through the tangled growth, an explorer might pass within a few huni dred yards and yet not find the : ruins. From the air. a few hours’ flying may reveal not one. but several, hitherto unmapped and possibly totally unknown Maya cities. Such is the expectation of Colonel Lindbergh and Dr. Oliver Ricketson. the Carnegie Institution archeologist, who will fly with him in a Pan - American Airways airplane. Their base at Belize. British Honduras. is nearly in the center of the. region that from before the time of Christ until about the year 150 Q the Maya inhabited. Pictures Will Help Today the descendants of the race j that showed such accomplishment live in the same area in a primi- | tive state, unmindful of their glorious past. Colonel Lindbergh's aerial photographic experience obtained o.) recent flights over the southwest will prove useful on the projected flying over the Maya country. It is expected that he will act as photoj grapher as well as pilot and that Dr. Ricketson will do the mapping that will allow land parties to reach and excavate the cities that are dis covered. The airplane in Middle America | can duplicate the remarkable feats | achieved in England, where O. G. S. Crawford, air corps observer, has : discovered Roman towns and I trenches by means of air photo • ' gjaphy. These trenches and streets long since were plowed over by I British farmers and presumably ! were lost forever to the knowledge of historians, but where the ground | was once disturbed, the texture of i the soil has been altered, and the j crops planted there are apt to b° ! greener and more luxuriant. The air camera or the keen eye of ! the airplane observer often can | trace the exact plan of the vanished [ town or fortress. By some such I method the stone highways which J the Maya built to connect their im-, i portant cities probably can kt I traced. * Stone Roads Found It is only a few years ago that the existence of these smooth stone roads, 30 to 60 feet wide, was discovered. Dr. Thomas Gann, who found sections of the roads in the forest near Coba, concluded that the Mayas could not have needed such highways for traffic, since they had no wagons or beasts of burden, and since they would have found dirt roads suitable for their long journeys. The roads, he believes, must have been laboriously constructed over long distances between religious centers for use by the religious processions of priests, votaries and sacrificial victims. One highway which airplane observers may search for is the road which Dr. Gann believes must have stretched from Coba to Cozumel island, to which the Mayas made religious pilgrimages. Another may have led from Coba to Chichen Itza. famed religious city, sacred to the deity known as the Plumed Serpent ELECT REV. S. L. HOOVER Missionary Secretary New Head of Bethany Assembly. The Rev. Guy L. Hoover, genera’ secretary of the Indiana Christian Missionary Association was elected president of Bethany Assembly at the annual business meeting Monday. The Rev. F. E. Smith, Indianap.olis, was made vice-president; Miss Veda Coombs, secretary; Mrs. Effie Cunningham, treasurer; and E. E. Shelon, grounds superintendent. The following directors were elected: Dr. H. O. Smith, the Re\ C. W. Cauble, Indianapolis; John D. toek, Indianapolis; Dr. H. O. Pritchard and Charles M. Martz, Tipton. Bethany Assembly is twenty-two miles west of Indianapolis. Alleged Slayer Held By United Press BLOOMFIELD. Ind., Oct. L Wayne Lucas, paid informer for prohibition ofliers, was being held today pending convening of a grand Jury to indict him on charges of killing Delmar Oliphant, 18, high school athlete. Lucas waived preliminary hearing Monday when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Buckner, charged with stabbing Oliphant to death early Sunday in a mob fight, and was bound over to Greene circuit court.