Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1930 — Page 13
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Uppity! Sugar Didn’t Like 'Em That Way, So He Told the Boy Plenty.
COUGAR didn't like these uppity guys, no way, so he fold him plenty when he r f/ave him the cold stare as they met. This is another in the series of World war jstorics being published in frhe Times contest this week. This will be the final week of the competition, In which The Times is a first prize of $lO for the best war story and a Second prize |>f $5. Winners In the fourth week of the Contest will be announced Wednesday and winners in the final week ite’ill be made public next Wednesday. Willis L. Macy, R. R 11, Box 216-F, Indianapolis, who nerved with Company K, Fourth infantry, tells of *'Sugar.” SUGAR BROWN, colored corporal from .North Carolina, met a colored Moroccan soldier from a French outfit. The Moroccan was about to pass without seeming to recognize Sugar, when the latter laid a hand on his arm. whirled him about and confronted him with, “Say, Nigger, doan yo’ all know no better than to pass up a ossifer in uniform without salutin’?” "Je ne comprende pas,” ejaculated the other in surprise. Say,” said Sugar, “what yo all tryin’ to do? High hat me, with that fancy langwidge? Who yo' all think yo’ is. anyhow We’s free white folks where I come from, and yo' all better wait ’til this war git ovar fo' yo’ go gittin’ uppity. How you know you gonna be lucky like us .and get freed? Yo' all ain’t got no Abe Lincoln ovah heah to run dis war, like we had.” a a a The kissing corporal got by with it, in the tale told by John J. Jeffers, 1206 Central avenue. AT Camp De Souge artillery training camp, not far from Bordeaux, Corporal Bums of Battery P, One hundred and thirtyfield artillery, Thirty-seventh division, was corporal of the guard. He brought the squad around to relieve us and we fell in, back to tiie guardhouse. Instead of Corporal Burns staying there with us, he disappeared, and when time for rne next relief drew near, and he hadn’t show-n up, I went out looking for him, he being a pal of mine. I found him in a dice game with plenty of francs in his hand and plenty of liquor under his belt. I grabbed the francs, took him by the arm and started back to the guardhouse with him. Lo and behold! Who should run into us but the lieutenant in charge of the guard, the officer of the day, and our captain. The captain said. “Corporal Burns, what’s the matter with you and what does this mean?” "Oh. captain,” he said, “I’m getting Prench.” He ups and kisses him on both cheeks and got by with it! HUH The man who would be first finally went to his death because of his ambition, in the experience related by Ray Mussman, R. R. 7, Box 557, / ndianapolis. I HAVE been reading your little stories about the war. written by ex-service men, and would like to add mine to the collection. I was a member of Company E, Twentyseccnd Engineers, and saw- plenty of act: x My story follows: We had a fellow- in our outfit who had a passion for being first in everything. No matter w-hat it was. he just couldn't stand for any one to get ahead of him, and seemed always on the alert to show up the rest of the boys. We came to the conclusion that Bill was just plain selfish, and didn't pay much attention to his antics, after awhile. Bill was a member of my squad on that night in August, 1918, when our company received orders to relieve the front line trench in the advanced sector of the Argonne. As we pressed slowly forward in squad formation to gain our objective, the Germans opened up with everything they had in the way of heavy artillery. And, boy. they had some assortment. too. It seemed like a wall of fire directly across our path. The captain finally called a halt and commanded us to take shelter until the bombardment was over. Bill ► instantly broke away and started on a run toward an abandoned dugout. which could be seen by the light of the shell fire. He seenul to be afraid the rest of tiie squad would beat him to it. although they hardly had moved from their tracks. We saw him reach the entrance and start to open the door. Then it happened—a brilliant flash followed by a muffled explosion. We made a rush for the dugout. but too late to do Bill any good. His mangled body was beside the entrance. On investigation we found that the retreating Germans, by using wires, had arranged cleverly a potato masher hand grenade so that It would explode when the dugout door was opened, and Bill unwittingly had sprung this death trap in his haste to be first. Aged Man Killed CHESTERTON. Ind.. April 15. Returning to his home here from Gary, where he attended a party Celebrating his seventieth birthday, Steve G alias, was killed instantly when struck by a train.
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FIRE SWEEPS OVER LAND IN TWO COUNTIES Wooded Areas Damaged in Jasper and Adams as Hundreds Fight Flames. LARGE TREES BURNED Some Sections Lose A.I Forest Growth; Sod Banks Save Buildings. Jasper and Adams counties have been added to the areas in Indiana where woodland and fields of dead grass are burning. Lack of rain for a long period has caused a drought which is making spread of the fires easy. Keener and Walker townships are the Jasper county sections where fires are raging. Sod banks have been thrown up near many farm homes and other buildings and plowing and other work now at its height has been halted while men devote their efforts to fighting fire. Volunteers from De Mote and Kniman are aiding farmers in efforts to halt the flames. Back fires were built around Kniman, which stopped the flames before they reached the villlage. One fire-swept area extends from a point two miles south of De Motte to near Kniman. Three miles north of De Motte tfiere is another burning area. The first covers a section that is a mile and a half square and the other two square miles. It is reported trees up to a foot and a half in diameter have been consumed. In some places not a tree has been left. Loss of SB,OOO was caused in Adams county by a fire, which burned over 100 acres, including some wooded land. It started from a trash fire. One hundred employes of a furniture factory at Berne aided farmers in halting the fire, which was on the Jacob Yoder fann. It was the first fire of the kind in the county in twenty years. ILUILLS SELF IN SANITARIUM V Miss Josephine Blue Ends Life in Bathtub. Despondency over illness that affected her sight was believed by police to have led Miss Josephine Blue, 49, formerly of north suburban Indianapolis, to drown herself in a bathtub at the Rest Haven Sanitarium, 1424 North Alabama street early today. According to relatives, including sister and brother here, Miss Blue, a cousin of Monte Blue, motion picture actor, has been living in sanitariums throughout the country for several years. Another inmate of the sanitarium tried the bathroom door several times, and then called a nurse who obtained help and broke into the room, finding the body in the tub. Survivors are two sisters. Mrs. C. J. Canders, 4239 Boulevard place, and Mrs. Eva Black Los Angeles, and a brother, Irving Blue, this city. WOMAN IS CANDIDATE Miss Henzie Making Two Campaigns for Auditor at One Time. Miss Sara E. Henzie, 1901 North New Jersey street, is conducting two
campaigns for auditor simultaneously. Having announced her candidacy some time ago for the Democratic nomination for auditor of Marion county, Miss Henzie also has become a candidate for auditor of the Federation of International Study and Travel Clubs. Miss Henzie, a
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native of Indianapolis, is a member of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter of the D. A. R. Wife, 43 Years, Asks Divorce ANDERSON, Ind., April 15.—Mrs. Louisa Ponsler, 68. wife of Noah Ponsler. 65. for forty-three years, has filed suit for divorce here, alleging cruelty. She asserts he compels her to have employment in a factory.
GIRL ASKS EASTER PEACE IN FAMILY
By United Press CINCINNATI, April 15. Miss Marjorie Schiele, 17, heiress and central figure in a guardianship hearing here, appealed to Judge W. H. Lueders in court here today to end "the family disgrace” and let her wealthy grandmother, Mrs. Marie L. Hanke. continue as her guardian. Efforts of her mother. Mrs. Henrietta Keppell Bethell, wife of General Hugh Keppell Bethell of the British army, to win her daughter’s favor during several visits over the week-end, seem to have failed, according to the girl’s statements.
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By Times Snecial ANDERSON. Ind., April lo.—A continuance has been granted in the trial of a suit brought by John Spahr, attorney, against the Hope State bank, to enforce payment of 512.000 of certificates of deposit. The suit, involving some sensational angles was filed in Marion county in 1924, taken to Hancock county on a change of venue for trial and next brought to Madison circuit* court here. Pioneer Dies on Farm NOBLESVILLE. Ind., April 15. David M. Brock. 83, is dead at the home of his son, •Albert, near here. He leaves another son, Harry Brock, Indianapolis. He died on the farm which his father entered under the government grant in 1818. For twenty-five years he was engaged in business here. He served as a member of the city council several years and was also chief of the Noblesville fire department. Two Scalded to Death SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 15Two employes of the Studebaker corporation were scalded to death late Monday when they were trapped in a cold boiler by a cloud of live steam that spurted from an exploding tube in an adjoining boiler in the main powerhouse of the automobile factory. Joseph L. Herrick, 35, died as he was being carried into Epworth hospital. George C. Caldwell, 30, Roseland, died two hours after the accident. Man Sues to Regain Family ANDERSON, Ind., April 15. Plenneth Weaver can’t find either his wife or his 2-weeks-old daughter. He has filed suit in superior court here alleging the infant, Clara May Weaver, is being “illegally restrained of her liberty,” and that his wife has been transferred from a room she first occupied to another in St. John’s hospital where he can not find her. Horses Die in Bam Fire ATLANTA, Ind., April 15—Fire which destroyed a barn on the farm of Ray Macy, northwest of here, was fatal to five head of horses and several head of cattle, and consumed farming implements, several hundred bushels of rye, many tons of hay and 1,000 bushels of com. Recall April, 1850, Snow MT. VERNON, Ind., April 15. Fourteen inches of snow fell in Posey county eighty years ago Monday, a sharp contrast with weather at present, according to Joseph A. Cox, Mt. Vernon. Wages Demanded of Carnival ANDERSON, Ind., April 15.—A carnival company ended a twoweeks' stand here and owes ten Anderson men wages ranging from $25 to $52, the employes complained to police. Estate Fails to Pay Cost ANDERSON, Ind., April 15.—A life estate bequeathed by William F. Pence to his widow, Mrs. Mollie F. Pence, is more of a burden in its present form than an asset, she avers in a suit filed in Madison circuit court here. Women Saved From River ELKHART, Ind., April 15.—Two youths plunged into the cold waters of Elkhart river Monday night and saved the lives of two women trapped in an automobile which had plunged over an embankment. Jury Probes Bank Robbery NEWCASTLE Ind., April 15.—The Henry county grand jury, which is in session here this week, will consider robberies of the State bank at Kennard within the last three years as its most important work. Evansville Shows Growth EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 15. Despite changing of Evansville’s boundaries reducing area of the city, the 1930 census will show a population increase, according to census officials, making an estimate on the basis of figures for eight districts so far completed. South Bend Votes Fast Time SOUTH BEND. Ind., April 15. Daylight saving time was adopted by the South Bend city council Monday night after a debate that aroused more acrimony than any subject before the body for a long time. Dies at 81, First of Six DUBLIN, Ind., April 15.—August Ertel, 81, is dead at the home of his son-in-law, Michael Amhreim, near here, the first to die among a family of six children whose combined ages are 487 years. He leaves a brother and four sisters. City Must Assume Debt ANDERSON, Ind., April 15.—The city of Anderson must bear $22,098.57 of the North Anderson district sewer debt under a judgment by Superior Judge Lawrence V. Mays in favor of 150 property owners whose original assessments were reduced 50 per cent.
Asking permission to be heard, Miss Schiele said: “This is Easter week. The world should be at peace. My family should not be dragged through all this disgrace. “This is my life. I have it to live. I should have something to say in this case. I don’t want to be tossed about like an old rag. I think you should let my grandmother be my guardian.” Judge Lueders suggested the case go over for a week. “But I want it decided now,” Marjorie answered. .•‘I don’t want tc see my family quarrelling in court at this season of the year.”
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930
U. S. TO JOIN WORLD COURT, SAYSJOOVER President’s Prediction to D. A. R. Due to Revive Senate Opposition. TRACES PEACE EFFORTS Adherence to Arbitration Body Is Called Only Hope of Progress. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 15.—President Hoover’s plea for the world court, contained in an address before the Daughters of the American Revolution, was expected today to revive senate opposition to American adherence. Mr. Hoover spoke to the D. A. R. congress Monday night in Constitution hall. He suffered from a cold and Mrs. Hoover was so ill with the same malady she was unable to accompany him. The address gave a panoramic view of efforts to prevent war, of which the President said naval or arms treaties, arbitration treaties, the world court, the Kellogg pact and other methods of international action are parts. He predicted without qualification that the United States would join the court, but recognized disagreement regarding terms of adherence. Problems arising from that disagreements, he believes, will be solved. The speech was a summons to membership in the court which, Mr. Hoover said, had been accepted by 90 per cent of the civilized peoples of the world. No other court, he said, is practicable. Answer to Illinois Vote His address came within a week of the Illinois primaries in which Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick defeated Senator Deneen for the Republican nomination for the senate in a campaign in which the only formal issue appeared to be the world court. Mrs. McCormick opposed American adherence. The President spoke* to 6,000 women, most of whom are influential in their respective communities. Difficulties in applying the Kellogg anti-war pact to the ChineseRussian dispute last year showed, Mr. Hoover said, “the clear need for some method of mobilization of public opinion against violation.” Mr. Hoover emphasized America’s duty to take part in securing world peace, but said this duty could not be performed without maintaining the fullest independence. Success at London Referring to armaments problems only as they were related to the greater question of preventing war, Mr. Hoover outlined progress since the war. He began with the Washington arms conference of 1921-22. Failure of the 1927 Geneva conference, called by President Coolidge, Mr. Hoover said, was followed by renewed and more dangerous competition than had existed before. He said the London conference is assured of success. Terms being formulated now, he continued, would reduce Anglo-Japanese-American naval standards 25 per cent below those discussed at the Geneva conference and current naval programs would be reduced 12 per cent. DUFFEY THREATENS LAND OWNER REVOLT Letter to Robinson Demands Farm Consideration in Tariff. “If you fail in the preparation of this tariff to asign the fanner a niche in the nation’s tariff plan, many land owners are threatening to forget on election day that the Grand Old Party was bom out here in the hay mangers of the west in 1856.” Thus was United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson addressed today in a letter from Luke Duffey, Indianapolis dealer in farm properties and strong advocate of farm relief. Duffey told the senator he should vote to kill the tariff bill “if it is to be altered further in conference or elsewhere.” APPROVAL OF PARKER BY OGDEN IS SOUGHT North Carolina. Senator Asks Bar President’s Indorsement. Attorney-General James M. Ogden today received a letter from United States Senator Lee Overman of North Carolina asking Ogden’s indorsement, as president of the Indiana Bar Association, of President Hoover’s nomination of Judge John J. Parker as justice of the United States supreme court. Senator Overman points out that the North Carolina bar has indorsed Parker and seeks to have other bar associations do likewise. Parker is being opposed by senators as a purely political appointee and because of his approval of “yellow dog” labor contracts while on the United States district bench. Such contracts are barred by law in Wisconsin. SIO,OOO Loss in Store Fire PEERLESS, Ind., April 15. Sparks fro ma passing train are blamed for the fire which destroyed the William Cuddy store here early today. Loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. The blaze threatened the nearby store of Homer George. Fire equipment from Bedford kept flames from spreading to surrounding residences.
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Little Ruth Ellen White. 4, didn’t have to draw on her imagination to paint a fuzzy chick on the Easter eggs she decorated in The Times contest offering twelve live Easter bunnies as prizes. Ruth Ellen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noel C. Wirt?. 1544 Hoyt avenue and her feathery friends are from Boyer’s hatchery, 34 North Delaware street.
JOBLESS TOTAL COTJUGHTLY Breadlines and Aid Appeals Continue, However. By United Press NEW YORK, April 15.—The middle of April brings estimates of a slight decrease in the number of New York’s unemployed. But breadlines and crowded appeal-for-aid lists of charity organizations testify to an economic distress. Not since 1915, according to social agencies, have conditions been as critical as the past winter months. In addition to normal charity outlets, breadlines have been and still are operating. Through their efforts, it has been possible to feed as many as 3,500 hungry and workless a day. Other breadlines, organized from time to time when philanthropic purses would permit, have furnished food to additional hundreds. For the most part, the gathering places for the unemployed have been the Little Church Around the Corner and the Bowery hotel of the Salvation Army. Some idea of the seriousness of conditions this year may be gained by the fact that only twice before, in 1864 and 1907, has the Little Church found it necessary to establish a breadline.
CAR HITS ICE WAGON One Injured; Driver Booked for Drunk Driving. An automobile struck an ice wagon at Sixty-first street and College avenue and scattered three tons of ice over the street. The ice wagon, owned by the Harold Atkins Ice Company, was at the curb while the driver made a delivery. The automobile driven by Otis Sigler, 30, of 806 North Delaware street, was demolished when it crashed into the heavily-loaded wagon. Miss Anna Flowers, 30, of Ravenswood, an occupant of the automobile, was injured slightly and was taken to city hospital. Signer was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated, and Harlan Owens, 30, of 3740 Orchard avenue, and Miss Lola Pankersley, 30, of the same address, w r ere arrested on charges of intoxication. TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AT CITY MARKET CHECKED Standholders Make Complaint Enforcement Has “Ruined Business.” Checking of traffic conditions in vicinity of city market was orderd today following a complaint from standholders that strict enforcement of the traffic ordinance had “ruined the market.” Donald S. Morris, safety board member, suggested a check to determine the number of cars which are driven into downtown spaces early in the morning and permitted to stand there all day. CARNATIONS TO BE SOLD Proceeds of War Mothers Sale to Be Used for Relief. Sale of carnations by War Mothers on Mothers’ day, May 10, today was indorsed by Governor Harry G. Leslie in a proclamation. Proceeds of the sale will go to relief of war widows, orphans and mothers of fallen soldiers. Governor Leslie declared the effort a “laudable” one and urged support. In another proclamation he called upon civic and religious bodies to take steps to further child health and child welfare conditions on M!ay day, May 1,
LET’S make April showers turn to Easter egg showers for the youngsters in Indianapolis orphanages! Another incentive to children to submit gaily painted Easter eggs in The Times contest for twelve Jive Easter bunnies was added by the Lyric theater today. A, J. Kalberer, manager of the theater, announced he will admit to any of the performances at the Lyric Thursday afternoon or night any child who brings a decorated Easter egg. The egg—or eggs, if the child wants to send more than one to the orphans—must be in a paper bag or container, with the child’s name, age, and address firmly attached. The egg will entitle the child to admission to the theater, where Indians this week are seen in a revue, “International Rhythm,” that is sure to delight them. Then there are other acts, and “Frozen Justice,” a screen epic of the northland. Children unable to attend the Lyric Thursday, may bring their eggs, decorated with wholesome dyes or water colors, to The Times’ office, 214 West Maryland street. They will be received only one day—Thursday—so that they will be as wholesome and pretty when taken to the orphanages Saturday morning. Friday, The Times will announce the names of the twelve boys or girls whose Easter eggs were the best decorated. To each of the twelve, The Times will give a live Easter bunny, delivered to his or her home Saturday as an Easter playmate.
LECTURE TO BE GIVEN Bell Official Will Demonstrate Transmission of Sound. A lecture and demonstration on sound transmission will be given
at B. F. Keith’s theater at 2 Wednesday afternoon, May 7, by Sergius P. Grace, assistant vicepresident of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., under auspices of the Indiana Telephone Association, which will hold its annual convention at that time. His lecture will demonstrate the electric ear, scram-
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bled speech, delayed, amplified muscle noises, translation of mechanical impulses into speech, the artificial larynx and other discoveries. FORGIVES KILLER-SON Man Blessed by Dying Father, Shot as Burglar by Mistake. By United Press CHICAGO, April 15.—A father’s deathbed blessing softened the remorse today of Bruno Burdik, 21, who had mistaken John Burdik, the father, for a burglar and fired the shots that resulted in his death. The father called Bruno and his two younger brothers to his bedside just before he died and gave them his business, a clothing store.
DRY AGENTS START RUM RING SMASH
By United Press NEW YORK, April 15.—Striking into three states, William J. Calhoun, prohibition administrator, and more than fifty federal agents today carried forward a far-flung campaign against a huge liquor combine whose modern business methods enabled it to earn $1,250,000 weekly. Into New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania the agents moved after receiving instructions from Calhoun’s office in Newark Monday
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POWERS NEAR NAVALACCORD Treaty Is Expected to Be Signed Next Week. By United Press LONDON, April 15.—A1l five powers participating in the naval conference virtually have agreed on all points on the treaty which will be signed next week, the American spokesman annonuced today. Agreement includes accord on the contingent clause and the global category transactional method, he said. The contingency clause provides protection for the United States, Britain and Japan against any large building of navies by another country, permitting them to increase their navies if forced to do so by competition of a non-signatory nation. The clause was demanded by Britain especially, which desires to maintain the “two-power standard” in Europe. The transactional clause first suggested by the French provides the method by which limitation of navies shall be achieved if the five powers reach an understanding for limitation. It limits navies by classes of ships, with provision that limited transfer may be made from one category to another.
PROWLER IS NABBED Connersville Man Is Held for Observation. Police today were holding for observation Fred Cornett, 31, of Connersville, who was found wandering through the offices of the upper floors of the statehouse at 6:30 this morning. Cornett fought off the Janitors who corralled him until James B. Breen, captain of the statehouse police, arrived. He declared he came here to see the Governor, the chief justice of the supreme court ana other officials and when he was taken to the state police headquarters declared he was going to shoot every one. But state police failed to find any weapon upon Cornett’s person. DEFEAT OF BILL~ASKED Governor Wires Senators to Fight Cement Duty Removal. In telegrams today to United States Senators Watson and Robinson, Governor Harr” G. Leslie urged their efforts to defeat the Blease amendment to the tariff act which would admit cement for public usages in the country free of tariff duties. Governor Leslie characterized the free tariff on cement for state, county and municipal use as “unfair to manufacturers of cement in this district.”
night to start the major drive against the big syndicate, whose existence first was revealed last October through a decoded radio message. Bearing warrants for fifty-eight men indicted by a federal grand jury, the agents swept down first on New Jersey seaboard cities. The first person arrested was Charles Maguire, chief of police of Keansburg, N J., who was taken to Newark for arraignment before United States Commissioner -Joseph F. Holland.
WAR SECRETS OF GERMANS AREEXPOSED Austrian Inventor Relates Clever Schemes Used to Baffle Allies. PERISCOPE CONCEALED Bomb-Releasing Gondolas on Zeppelins Aided in Hitting Mark. BY DR. MAXIM BING, BarHn Corrtwpondent of Science Senric*. * BERLIN, April 15. Periscopes incased in mirrors to make them invisible, bomb-releasing gondolas hung thousands of feet beneath their parent Zeppelins, rifle grenades that bounced into the air before exploding, were among the military devices used by the central powers during the World war. The tale of these martial inventions just has been told in a lecture at Berlin by an Austrian engineer, Otto Gergacsevics, formerly captain in the Austrian technical forces and holder of over a hundred patents. During the war, it was a favorite “wisecrack” that the English never could see a submarine because the Germans painted a joke on it. Asa result of Captain Gergacsevics* disclosures, it is known now that the concealing device was even more transparent than this. The end of the periscope was sheathed in a sixteen-faced prism of mirrors. These reflected the waves, and provided the most perfect possible concealing camouflage. But even with the periscope thus “armored” in invisibility-providing mirrors, it still betrayed its presence by the streak of broken water it caused even when the boat was cruising at low speed, and at full speed it often would throw a wave four feet high and some sixty feet long. Ripple Done Away With This was overcome by placing around the periscope shaft a sliding float of streamline shape, that permitted the water to close in evenly astern and thus do away with the long ripple. A deflecting plate on top of the float prevented the rising of a bow wave. The common football bladders within the float became filled with water when the U-boat submerged, preventing the outside water pressure from collapsing the float. So effective was this device in preventing the betraying white wave that it was possible for a submarine to approach within 125 yards of an enemy ship without being detected. Word went around among the allies that the Germans had devised a means of using submarines without employing periscopes. An equally effective device was used with the Zeppelins. From the great height the Zeppelins were obliged to keep, to avoid the shells of the defending guns, it was well nigh impossible to do any proper aiming. Thus the bombs dropped often hit private houses, while objects of military importance were missed. This difficulty finally was overcome by an invention of Captain Gergacsevics. On a cable, 2,000 yards long, auxiliary gondolas were suspended from the body of the airship. They were lowered when in action, so that they were only a hundred meters above the ground. Hauled Up Again Within the gondola an observer lay flat on his chest, directing the circular motion of his little craft by a small rudder, and dropping the bombs by a catch working from the inside. The airship kept above the, clouds. After the action, the gondola was hauled up again. The Zeppelin raids, however, finally were supressed by the allies, through the invention of an ignition bullet, fired from rifles and machine guns. Captain Gergacsevics nevertheless believes that by; filling the Zeppelins with hellumj and by operating the gondolas with radio waves, the giant airships still can be made formidable weapons. Another invention of Captain Gergacsevics was a bouncing rifle grenade. The ordinary rifle grenade, upon falling, usually burled its head In the earth and explode mainly upward, with very little effect. The Austrian inventor developed a grenade which, upon striking the ground, was thrown back into the air by a small auxi - lary charge. After one or more of such explosites bounces the mMn charge would be detonated, with much greater effect than 't would liave had if the explosion had been close to the ground. The invento* also provided a noiseless pneumatia gun for throwing this formidable weapon.
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE SLATED AT ENGLISH’S Capacity Crowd Expected; Street Cara Pause Minute. Good Friday services will be held in English’s theater from 12 noon to 3 p. a In addition to other downtown services already announced for these hours, Dr. Ernest N. Evans, chairman of the Good Friday interdenominational committee, announced today. The theater, seating 1,700, is expected to be taxed to capacity for the service. All Indianapolis street cars will stop for one minute at 2:59 p. m. Friday in commemoration of the day, J. P. Tret ton, general manager of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, announced today,