Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1929 — Page 2

PROFESSIONAL PASSENGER IS AIRPLANE JINX Accidents Dog Footsteps of ‘Hard Luck’ Bates, Tramp of Air. Bv ffrriiiiiK-llotenrd ,V icspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—There is a young man at Hoover field here called “Hard Luck" Bates. He is not a pilot, but an inveterate air passenger. Some fliers won’t lei him ride with them, and a few of the more superstitious won't even let him touch their planes. He just naturally brings bad luck to flying men, they say. Bates used to be a bookkeeper or something at Hoover field. Laid off now during the dull winter season, he sort of “tramps” around the country by airplane, picking up rides here and there as long as the pilots don’t know his history. He is liable to crawl out of a plane in Atlanta, or Chicago, or Kansas City just any old day. The reason they call him “Hard Luck” is because nearly every time he goes up in a plane, something happens. He has been flying as passenger less than two years, and has been through five crackups, and never been scratched. He took his first airplane ride at Fredericksburg, Va., in May, 1928. The motor cowling blew off, hit the prop, and broke it. A forced landing was the next thing in order, and the ship turned over and was washed out. Last summer Bates was flying with Lieutenant Bernard Thompson of the army. Near Charleston, W. Va., a cylinder head gasket blew out, and they went down in the treecovered mountains, and escaped unhurt. Then he went down to Nokesville, Va., one day with Roger Scott, Hoover field operations manager. Landing at Nokesville they groundlooped and tore off a wheel. Last fall he was flying over Virginia with Pilot Hank Pritchard and they decided to land in a school yard. They did, but hit a ditch, the plane went over and was WTecked. One wheel came up through the cockpit. Hoover field got a telegram from

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the sheriff there. It said: “Sending Bates back by train. Plane washed out.” That meant, they thought, that he was dead. Poor old Bates. A little while later Bates walked into the hangar, covered with mud and grease and carrying a bent propeller over his shoulder. They thought it was a ghost, but it wasn't. It was Bates. But that didn't sour Bates on Pritchard, or Pritchard on Bates. They flew together again at Atlanta the other day. When they landed, the ship went up on its nose with a big smash. Nobody was hurt. You can see now why some pilots won’t carry Bates. Scott, of Hoover field, isn’t afraid of him and carries him around here and there. But Jack Parker, formerly of Hoover and now r flying in Baltimore, won’t even let him sit in his plane on the ground. If Bates so much as touches the ship, Parker wipes it off before going up. There ate other superstitious about Bates. He was a friend of Tom Gurley, Pitcairn mail pilot. He stood in front of the hangar one day and waved to Gurley as he took off for New York. Gurley was killed before he got there. Some of the fliers forbid Bates to wave goodby to them. The reason pie has a bad reputation for indigestibility is that it often is taken at the end of a heavy meal, w r hen the stomach already is ovreloaded.

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GALES RAGE IN EUROPE; REPORT MANYDEATHS Flood Waters Menace to Residents in France, England, Belgium. Bv United Press LONDON, Dec. 31.—Three more deaths were reported today from storms and floods w'hich have raged since Sunday throughout the British Isles. A cloudburst, accompanied by a terrific thunderstorm, broke over Bangor, Wales, flooding houses, the police station and the gas and electric plants* The battleship Rodney, of 33,900 tons, was unable to leave Portsmouth harbor. Many ships were reported in distress off the coast. Bv United Press PARIS, Dec. 31.—Accompanied by a torrential rain, the storm which swept over France from England continued its destructive work Monday night, particularly in the

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English channel and along the Atlantic coast. A landslide menaced one section of Boulogne, tons of mud sliding into houses and hotels. At Versailles, a high tension cable wire collapsed in the gale, instantly killing a passerby. The rivers Marne. Aisne and Meuse were rising dangerously. Bv Tnit-ed Press BRUSSELS, Dec. 31.—The inhabitants of Couillet, near Charleroi, were thrown into a panic Monday night when the dykes inclosing a vast reservoir, owned by the chemical works, burst under the pressure of heavy rains. The storm partly demolished one railroad bridge, and flooded the cellars and ground floors of many houses. The population took refuge in upper stories. One of the laws of Tibet is that married women must not make themselves attractive to men. Therefore they plaster their faces with black mud.

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time, new highways will be constructed twenty feet wide instead of the regulation eighteen feet, as the annual increase in motor traffic, and the increase in speed along highways, has made travel dangerous on the narrow roads. SEARCH FOR POISONED CAKE IS SUCCESSFUL Crosses Border Into Canada; Wire Results in Its Seizure. Bn T'ni'rd Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 31.—The story of an international search for a missing fruit cake, accideneaiiy poisoned with arsenic, has been made public here by the department of agriculture. A housewife baked nine fruit cakes for sile. Calcium arsenic accidentally had been mixed with the

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'lour. The first was eaten by a lady purchaser who became violently ill. Analysis showed the presence of arsenic in the cake and a search was made for the cakes. Seven were found with little difficulty, but not before nine other people had fallen iJL The ninth cake proved elusive. Determined to locate it, agriculture officials launched an extensive search. Many clews were traced before they learned the cake had crossed the border into Canada. A wire to Canadian authorities resulted in seizure of the threatening delicacy. ? Young Hogs Weigh Heavily By Times Special . „ _ ind., Dec. 31.—Four hogs only thirty-two weeks old butchered here by John Caborn. had a total weight of 1,212 pound and in addition to maet providde fifty gallons of lard.