Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1930 — Page 3

JULY 21,1930

5 DIE IN CIRCUS CRASH AS LIONS ROARINFRICHT Al G. Barnes Show Train Is Derailed Amid Yowls of Scared Beats. Bu t. mted Pres* MONCTON. N. 8.. July 21.—Nine flat cars of the Al G. Barnes circus train were derailed and telescoped on the Canadian National railway, eighteen miles north of here today, killing five persons and injuring eighteen others. Four of the dead were circus roustabouts and the other was a hobo who had "hooked" a ride. Although some of the performers were shaken up, none was injured seriously. , The circus train was composed of twenty-eight cars. The front part of the train, in which were the cars bearing the performers and the animal cages, was not affected by the derailment. Thus none of the animals escaped, but many were frightened and grow’ied and screamed until quieted by their trainers. The nine telescoped cars were toward the rear. Railroad authorities believed a defect developed in a wheel, jolting one car off the track and breaking the couplings. Those cars nearest to it likewise rumbled on to the tics. Cook Wagon Damaged Among the cars damaged were t those containing the electric power plant, the cooking apparatus for the circus employes and those carrying tents and wagons. The wreck occurred a few miles north of Moncton. Four flat cars and five pasenger cars went over a steep enbankment when the train crashed, from some cause unknown. The train was en route to Amherst, where the circus was to play Monday. Among the acts with the circus are the Great Gretonas, a high wire act, and Mabel Stark, with her daring tiger act. The circus had been enjoying a successful summer as it toured the Canadian maritime provinces, according to The Billboard, theatrical magazine. It has gone through Ontario and dropped down to Maine. At is customaiy among circus lolk, there had been adventures. At Brockville, Ontario, there was so much rock that tent stakes could not tie driven and the show was given in the sun without the "big top." At Kingston, Ontario, the circus played to a good house despite a thunderstorm that broke just before the night performance. Part of Combine The Barnes circus ordinarily travels in thirty railroad cars. It is a part of the gigantic Ringling Brothers-Bamum and Bailey organization. The Ringling organization took over control of five other circuses, including the Barnum shows, last September. Other cirruses under the Ringling control are the Sells Floto shows, John Robinson shows, Hagenback-Wal-lace shows and Sparks shows. The Al G. Barnes circus, known all over the United States, is one of the few remaining ones that use wild animal acts. SULLIVAN WILL SPEAK Shcrman-Emerson Festival to Continue Two Days. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will rpeak Saturday night at the Sher-man-Emerson Mardi Gras in Neuerburg park, according to Roy M. Swartz, general chairman. The festival this year will continue two days, opening on Friday. Decorations along Tenth from Emerson avenue to Sherman drive are already in place, advertising the event. L. Ert Slack, former mayor; Mrs. C. A. James, Roy Swartz, L. K. Harlow and Roy D. Everson, are on the program Friday night. CONGRESSMAN IS DEAD Edgar R. Kirss of Pennsylvania Is Stricken Suddenly. B'j I'ailed Press EAGLES. Pa. July 21.—Representative Edgar R. Kiess, 54. Pennsylvania Republican leader, was dead here today following a sudden attack of heart trouble at his summer home Sunday. Kiess had been a member of congress since 1910 and was chairman f *he important house insular affairs committee. BEER BLAST KILLS MAN Artery Severed by Glass as Bottle of Home Brew Explodes. %i United Press r CHICAGO. July 21.—When a botfe of homp brew exploded as he was #tteir.pting to open it. William Hayes w x injured by flying glass. H? dlf ' of loss of blood from a severed \rtery cefore neighbors could rea h him. Injured Man Asks SIO,OOO Bm Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind.. July 21. Henry Robert* of near * Edinburg has filed suit in the Barthonmew circuit court here again Donald Shumway of this city, asking SIO,OOO for injuries he alleges he received when struck by an automobile driven by the defendant. Mr. Roberts claims he was walking on a bridge when struck. Loss $l5O in Blaze Fire set by vandals in the home of William Givtns, 3342 Wilcox street, burned Itself out after damaging the interior of the house about $l5O Sunday night. — —-

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It begins to look like a woman's place is in the air. Here are comely members of the Prop and Wing Club, composed of aviatrices of New England states, pictured as they held their summer meeting at the Boston airport. Left to right are Barbara MacKlashau of Boston; Eleanor Spear, daughter of State Senator Arthur Spear of Portland, Me.; Mrs. Guy Ham of Dorchester, Mass.; Loraine Defern, president of the club of Brookline, Mass.; Jean Cameron of Boston; Frances Nelson of Beverly, Mass.; Mrs. Teddy Kenyon of Boston, and Mrs. Hoyt of Syracuse, N. Y.

UNION SESSION IS UNDER WAY 600 Delegates at -Meeting of Stereotypers. More than six hundred delegates and guests today were welcomed at opening sessions of the twentyninth annual convention of International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union at the Claypool. Chief among problems before the present conference, which will adjourn Saturday, are group insurance, technical education of apprentices, and creation of an international statistician's office for use of the union. The session opened with registration at 10 a. m., and addresses of welcome by union officers. This afternoon the delegates were to tour the city. A dinner and dance at Municipal Gardens will close the dpy’s program. Tuesday, the delegates will attend a picnic and dance at Walnut Gardens. Business sessions Wednesday will be followed by a theater party. At the annual banquet Thursday night, Hilton U. Brown of the Indianapolis News, Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, and B. F. Lawrence of the Indianapolis Star, will be speakers. A smoker will be held Friday. International officers are: Winfield T. Keegan, New York, president; J. Fremont Frey, Indianapolis, vice-pres.dent, and Charles A. Sumner, Kansas City, Mo., secretary and treasurer. Timber Wolf Sighted Bu United Preen PORTLAND, Ind.. July 21.—A large, gray timber wolf was reported seen near Portland by Charles Kantner. He said the animal easily was identified as it was crossing a field. During the last two winters, several reports have been made of stock killed by wolves in Jay county.

Arrivals and Departures Mars Hill Airport—Richard Arnett, office manage# of CurtissWright Flying Service, Indianapolis to Lafayette and return; EmbryRiddle passengers to Cincinnati included Miss Celestina Donelly, 2004 North New Jersey street, and Miss Betty Moorehead, 1235 Marlowe avenue: passengers to Chicago were Miss Hazel C. Stevens, 695 West drive. Woodruff Place; Miss Edna P. DeLaney, 1049 North Alabama street; Miss Francis Johnson, 2957 California avenue, and Miss Eleanor Hill. 268 Hendricks place. Hoosier Airport—C. Warwick, Detroit to St. Louis, Monocupe: Kinnalrd Rove. Louisville to Indianapolis, Great Lakes; Glenn Doolittle, South Bend to Indianapolis, Waco; Ralph Sturm. Seymour to Indianapolis and return, Ted Blish, passenger. Capitol P. Briggs, St. Louis to Pittsburgh. American Eagle, Richard Knox, Chicago to Indianapolis, Prest-O-Lite Ryan monoplane. Claims Altitude Mark New altitude honors for this section of the country were claimed today by Lieutenant C. E. Stillwagon, who made a flight of 19,000 feet in a low-wing monoplane at the first all-state glider meet at Brightwood airport Sunday. The plane was prevented from going higher by a frozen oil line. Stillwagon was in the air one hour and fifteen minutes and suffered from the cold, despite a heavy sheeplined flying suit. The flight was sponsored by the Indianapolis AeroGlider Association. 5.000 See Glider Show Air maneuvers with motorless and powered craft were viewed by more than 5.000 persons at the first allstate glider meet at Brightwood airport Sunday under auspices of the Indianapolis Aero-Glider Association . Derby D. Frye, South Bend, won the trophy for spot landing and the altitude contest with his Rainbow glider. Second and third places were awarded Charles Depka, instructor, and Herman P. Roesch, president of the association, respectively. A spot landing contest for powered craft was won by Clarence Dowden in a Travel Air biplane. Ralph Crooke. 1101 North Kealing avenue, won first in a model airplane endurance flight by staying in the air one minute and thirty-three seconds. Coast to Fete Hunters Bw United Press LOS ANGELES. Cal., July 21. Preparations for welcoming the four Hunter brothers of Chicago, holders of the 553-hour endurance flight

YEAR ILLNESS FATAL TO GEORJSE BARKLEY Funeral Services for Retieed Conductor Slated Tuesday. George L. Barkley, 72, retired Baltimore & Ohio railway conductor, died in Indiana Christian hospital Sunday after a year’s illness, and will be buried in Crown Hill cemetery Tuesday, after funeral services at 2 p. m. at the Hisey & Titus funeral parlors, 951 North Delaware street. Born in Port Jervis, N. Y. Mr. Barkley spent most of his in Seymour, Ind., and Cincinn ti. He came here in January to v .t a daughter, Mrs. Jessamine E -kley Fitch, instructor in Shortridge ’gh school, residing at 911 North A: idian street. Mr. Barkley was a members of the Masonic order in Seymour, the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and the Methodist church. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Barkley; the daughter and a brother, James T. Barkley of San Diego.

BREAK EVEN ON BANK ROBBtRS Two Held Up; One Bandit Is Captured. Bank robbers in Indiana split 5050 with the state criminal bureau during the month of June, the report filed today by E. L. Osborne, superintendent bureau, with Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield, shows. Two bank robberies were reported for the month and one bank robber apprehended. Using the data contained in the bureau’s report, Fifield sent a circular letter to all sheriffs and police chiefs, setting out some of the accomplishments, and urging increased co-operation, particularly in the matter of exchange of finger prints.

record, who arrived here Tuesday from Tucson, Ariz., were completed today. While here the brothers may attempt anew refueling flight of 1,000 hours. Mayor John C. Porter ordered the fire department band to meet the Hunters and issue a proclamation urging a fitting public reception. Tests Phone by Air Bu United Press BUENOS AIRES. July 21.—Captain Lewis A. Yancey continued his radio-telephone experiments from an airplane when he conversed with Hollywood, Cal., and San Frahcisco as he flew at an altitude of 3,000 feet above Buenos Aires Sunday. Huge Air Mergers Near Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 21.—Two separate mergers which, when completed, will join the four largest American air lines under two heads, are nearing completion, the New York World said today. The first merger will be that of Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express, Inc., which have operated planes over parallel routes from Kansas City to the coast for over a year. The secopd merger wil be that of Pan-American Airways. Inc., and the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires line, according to the World. Plane Derby Starts DETROIT, July 21.—Their carefully tunec motors roaring a challenge to speed and time, eighteen tin* racing airplanes today flew eastward on the first leg of the American flying derby. The first stop will be at Buffalo. Tonight the pilots will rest in New York Tuesday they wall stop at Cincinnati and Wednesday will reach Little Rock. The planes will touch the west coast and then recross the continent to Detroit. They are due back Aug. 1. To the pilot whe completes the tour in the shortest elapsed flying time, will go , prize of $15,000. Some of the country’s best crosscountry racers are represented among the pilots. Favorites to win first place included P. A. Holser, Detroit, Edgar B. Todd, Pueblo; J. R. Wedell. New Orleans, and Lee Gelhback, former member of the First army pursuit group at Selfridge field. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9a. m.: * Southwest wind, ten miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.85 at sea level; temperature, 88; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, six miles; field, good. „

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SHERIFF GIVEN DERBYCROWN Coronation Is Feature of ‘Siege of 1918.’ Despite the proverb. ‘‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Sheriff George L. Winkler today reported he slept well even though he was crowned with the BROWN DERBY Saturday night, when the "Siege of 1918” was staged at the state fairground. A shrinking violet had nothing on the bashfulness of the sheriff in accepting the ‘‘royal” kelly before a crowd of 8,500, that attended the “Siege.” V. T. Wagner, commander of Convention City post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, placed the coronet on Winkler’s dome. Winkler cocked the skypiece on one side of his head, and as the multitude cheered swore by all holy hats that he would rule in a regal fashion without benefit of fedoras, straws, or ten-gallon lids. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, run-ner-up in the BROWN DERBY vote deluge, was given a cane. A bugler sounded the call to colors and the “Siege,” with its pyrotechnics, tanks, and marching men, was displayed. Miss Dorothy Rudolph of Ft. Benjamin Harrison was winner of the Miss Victory wreath for sale of the most tickets to the “Siege.”

MOUNTAINS CHOSEN FOR BEST VACATION

City Residents Tel! How They Spent Their Rest Periods. When vacation time comes, do you like best to put a tourists’s twist to that melodramatic “crack” of the rugged mountaineer: “I’m going up in the mountains, Little Nell!” J. M. Jewell, 1516 North Pennsylvania street, likes the idea and has this to say about it in his entry in this week’s Times’ vacation letter contest: “To motor east in the spring . . . through New York and New England ... to come to rest in Franconia or Crawford’s or Pinkham Notch ... to hit the mountain trails, forgetting everything but the tumbling stream, the spruce and pine . . . that’s a real vacation! “Trails, posted by the Appalachian Mountain Club, girdle the White mountains. And on them lie many lovely spots which the average tourist seldom sees—waterfalls and sweeping views, sparkling streams and hidden ponds. For days you can prowl through the woods and find food and shelter each night at comfortable huts maintained by the A. M. C. That’s a vacation to remember.” From Mrs. Pearl Bennett, 813 South Meridian street: “Here’s my idea of a wonderful vacation: Just pack up your clothes in your old kit bag. Leave all your cares and worries at home. Home is the best place of all, but here we are the ent’re year. So hitch “old dobbin to your shay” and off to some lovely lake. Go boating, fishing and enjoy bathing early and late. Then off to a nearby tourists’ camp for the night with your basket of good food. Find a restful spot. Eat and eat. Sleep until the sun comes peeping in. Start another day over again. And on returning home, it will be a dreamer’s paradise.” “Why was your vacation best from the standpoint of the mental and physical benefit you received?” To The Times reader sending in the best answer to this question, The Times each week is awarding a $5 prise. Letters must not exceed 100 words. Another $5 prise will be awarded weekly to the person submitting the best vacation picture, suitable for publication. Thus far, the snapshots submitted were either indistinct or

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STALLED AUTO WRECKS TRAIN; TRIO ARRESTED Motorists Charged With Death of Passenger, Injuries to 57. Bu United Brest ELIZABETH, N. J., July 21. Three men whose stalled motorcar caused the wrecking of a Pennsylvania railroad train in which one person was killed and fifty-seven were injured severely enough torequire hospital treatment, were arrested today on a charge of manQlaiicthtpr John Craig of Brooklyn, N. Y., a passenger 4>n the Philadelphia-New York express, died from a fractured skull and severe internal injuries. It was baheved all of the other victims would recover. The arrested men are Arthur Allcroft, 33, a building contractor; his brother, James, 31, and William McNair, 34, all of Elizabeth. Arthur Allcroft, according to detectives who investigated the collision, was the driver of the car. Made Wrong Turn Allcroft informed authorities that he had made a wrong turn and had veered off near the railroad station here, on to the tracks. “We stalled and were trying to get the auto off the tracks,” he was quoted as saying, “when my brother shouted that a train was coining. We ran to a safe point. Arthur stood and watched. Then I ran.” Edward Gaffney, engineer,- said that he saw the reflection of light on the rails, but thought it came from the station platform. “I slowed down my speed to about forty-five miles an hour because of a curve. I knew that I had hit something and applied the brakes,” Gaffney said. “The locomotive begane to leave the rails and rolled over on its side. Then I climbed out —without a scratch.” Rode Ties 200 Feet Leroy Terhune, fireman, was less fortunate, but even his injuries were slight, although the engine bumped along the ties for 200 feet before lunging over as it struck a signal frost spanning four tracks. 1 Os the seven cars behind the engine the first came to rest on ties of a trestle. The coupling of the second coach broke and that car, together with the one at its rear, toppled over a concrete retaining wall and down a thirty-foot embankment. The fourth car remained upright, partly over the embankment. Three Pullmans at the end of the train did not leave the tracks. Traffic on the line was tied up for three hours until west-bound tracks could be opened for two-way service.

lacking in appeal or interest. Address your letters or snapshots, or both, to the Vacation Contest Editor, Indiana Times. MAYOR KILLS MOTORIST Reprimand Over Only One Headlight Causes Tragedy. Bu United Press CONTINENTAL, 0., July 21. Mayor Joseph Noffsinger of this village, who shot and killed a motorist after an argument over an alleged traffic violation Saturday night, remained at liberty today pending the verdict of Coroner Peter Zizel. The motorist, Alexander Kreiger of Clover dale, 0., was reprimanded .by Mayor Noffsinger for driving with on.y one headlamp. According to A. J. Jenkins, town marshall, Kreiger replied with abusive language, and Noffsinger shot him. STATE MAPS ARE READY Show Indiana Points of Interest; Distribution Is Free. Indiana’s new Points of Interest Map is ready for free distribution and may be obtained from the conservation department at the statehouse, it was announced today by Director Richard Lieber. The map gives the various state park locations, points of historic note and the best routes to these places. Thousands are distributed each year, not only in Indiana, but throughout the United States, Lieber said. CONFIRMS ‘RED MENACE’ Soviet Trading Company in U. S. Is Declared a “Blind.” Bu United Press PARIS, July 21.—Charges made before a congressional committee in New York that the Amtorg Trading Company masked diplomatic activities of the Soviet government in the United States were affirmed to be true by George Bessedowsky, former Soviet minister at Paris, in an exclusive interview with "the United Press Sunday night. Bessedowsky also said he had been informed by prominent Soviet intelligence service officers that two espionage services were maintained in the United States to discover military and political secrets. Fall Law Term Date Set Fall term of the Indiana law school, affiliated with Butler university, will open Sept. 17. The school is located at 43 East Ohio street.

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SUSPECT POWER TRUST DACK OF NORRIS'DOUBLE' Senator Nye Takes Charge of Quiz in Nebraska Political Trick. Bu United Press LINCOLN. Neb., July 2.—A senate investigation was resumed here today to learn what prompted the fling into politics and the subsequent seclusion of George W. Norris, small town grocer, who has not been located by '.he probers. The grocer experienced a shortlived campaign as the opponent of Senator George W. Norris in the Republican primary of Nebraska Aug. 12. Threatened confusion of voters because of the identical names was prevented when the Nebraska supreme court removed the grocer from the ballot. He had sent in his filing papers after the legal date had expired. Senator leralrt P. Nye of. North Dakota, chairman of the senate campaign investigating committee, was here today with the announced intention of determining whether or not “power interests” injected the grocer into the race against Senator Norris, long a critic of power combines. “The general belief is that outside interests prompted the grocer,” Nye said. “While nothing definite was revealed concerning power trust affiliations, we will go into that matter. I am convinced the bank accounts of jrocer Norris revealed that he was not earning sufficient funds to take the extensive vacation that he now is on.”