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STATE G.O.P. CHIEF URGES QRR TO PERMIT ACCOUNTS LAW VIOLATION AT GARY Elza Rogers Requests City Treasurer Be Permitted to Use Own System in Keeping Barrett Law Books. SENATOR HOLMES JOINS IN PRESSURE Republican Boss Says He Merely Didn’t Want Things Torn Up in Lake County; Statute Compliance Ordered. BY DANIEL St KIDNEY Elza O. Rogers, Republican state chairman, has assumed leadership m a political pressure movement to induce Lawrence F. Orr, state board of accounts chief, to permit the Gary city treasurer to continue to violate the law in beeping Barrett fund books; it was learned today by The ITimes. Following a meeting of political henchmen at the Gary hotel, July 16, Rogers sent Orr a telegram, urging him to pei'mit Herman 11. Werber, Gary city treasurer, to continue to keep his books as at present, despite the report of board of accounts field examiners that tne piocedure followed is illegal.

The telegram is reported to tiave urged Orr to permit this “if at all possible, as we do not want to stir up things here at this time.” It was sent from Gary. Another of the petitioner:; was State Senator C. Oliver Holmes ♦Rep.). Gary, who long has been a leader in governmental reform nvnements. It was learned that Holmes called Orr and asked if it couldu’ f be arranged to let Werber proceed with hJi bookkeeping as previously. Neither Rogers nor Holmes is said to have accompanied his requests with any information on why Wert?r would rather not live up to the law in his bookkeeping, or why the feasurer's bookkeeping should be a matter of “pressure politics.” Merely Enforcing I.aw Orr did not make the matter public, but The Times learned that he wrote both Rogers and Holmes regarding it and pointed out that in, inquiring a certain bookkeeping method, he merely was enforcing requirements of a 1929 statute as interpreted by Attorney-General James M. Ogden. Ogden had ruled that the board of accounts has complete power to demand that the Barrett funds books be so kept that there is a separation of waivered and unwaivered accounts. This. Werber is reported not to have done. Field Examiners John C. Thurnvm and Hugh D. Studabaker reported the matter to Orr and the political uprising started when Onto and them to see that the law is obeyed. Rogers, who was at G. O. P. state Headquarters at the Severin today, admitted sending the telegram. His applanation was: “I merely wanted Orr not to tear things up in Lake county unnecessarily. If there is anything crooked about the way those books are kept, Orr will take care of that." Rogers denied l*e knew of Holmes' request to On. LOANIs~bISCUSSED BY HIGHWAY BOARD Slate Road Paving May Be Halted If Funds Are Not Obtained. The state highway commission jbc, with Governor Hany G. Lestoday to devise a means of borrowing money from some other department, or elsewhere, to meet current obligations brought about by rapid construction this season. Ample funds will be received by tl end of the season to meet all obligations this year, the commiswon said, but the program is so far ahead of early estimates that it will be necessary to curtail paving operations unless funds can be borrowed t* pay claims as fast as they are presented. The highway commission, with fenlv $797,766.28 in its treasury, wishes to borrow $1,357,264.32 from the counties, cities and towns division of the state gas tax. w-hich is distributed annually, on* March 1. PATIENTS TO BE OUSTED Quarters Must Be Found for 20 Tubercular Victims. Means of providing quarters for twenty advanced tubercular oatJents as result of the Indianapolis Flower Mission hospital toy the state fire marshal were to be discussed today by the Flower Mission directors at a conference with Or. Wili am A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent. The society has thirty days in which to vacate the structure, declared a fire hazard. LINDYS MAY GO WEST Tulsa C. ®f C. Says "Lone Eagle" Is Considering Home There. Bv Vmitrß Press TULSA. Okla.. July 23.—Tulsa of Commerce officials said today that Charles A. Lindbergh had communicated with them relative to establishing a home in Tulsa. The offcials said the “Lindbergh family wishes to get away from the metropolitan Tush." Hourly Temperatures 6a- m 69 10 a. m 69 7a. m 71 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 78 12 moon).. 82 9a. m..... 78 Ip. m 81

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Jinx Spuds B.’J Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., July 23. Nine potatoes which didn’t belong to them put John Klinger, 26, and John Washburn. 29, in the Knox county jail here. Joseph Donnersberger, farmer, said the potatoes were dug from a field he owns. He telephoned the sheriff’s office, and Deputy Lester Robbins arrested Klinger and Washburn. He found one of the men peeling the potatoes and the other busy with skillet and fire preparing to fry them. Klinger says his home is in Pennsylvania and Washburn is from New York.

SUIT OVER WHISPER Tonsil Operation Patient Asks $25,000 from Doctor. n ''nOBLESVILLE, Ind.. July 23Negligence, unskilled surgery and lack of attention on the part of the defendant are alleged in a suit filed in Hamilton circuit court here by William Dale ags:nst Dr. Herman Deck in which the plaintiff is demanding $25,000 damages. Dale alleges that he was an ablebodied man when he went to the defendant for medical attention and a decision to remove his tonsils was the result. Dale charges that since the operation he has been unable to talk above a whisper alleged to be the result of tissues and vocal organs being cut during .the operation. Infirmary Inmate Dies WINCHESTER. Ind.. July 23. Thomas Neal, 69, is dead at the Randolph county infirmary. He leaves a son Everett, Muncie: a daughter in Michigan; three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamness, near Farmland; Mrs. Anna Stegall, Williamsburg. and Mrs. Jonathan Davis. Winchester.

BILLINGS GETS RE-TRIAL IN CALIFORNIA HIGH COURT Fate of Mooney Also to Rest on Testimony Before Tribunal in Hearing July .29.

Bu T ailed Press . i SAN FRANCISCO. July 23.— 1 Warren K. Billings, convicted of murder fourteen years ago in connection with the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing in which ten persons were killed, virtually will be retried in a proceeding without precedent in California. The retrial will be held next Tuesday. July 29. before the seven justices of the California supreme court. This decision was reached late Tuesday by the court after Governor C. C. Young declined to hear testimony of John MacDonald, repudiation witness, before the court heard his claim that his originaf trial testimony was not true. While the hearing betore the court pertains to Billings, it is expected to determine the fate of Thomas J. Mooney, arrested with Billings and convicted of the same crime. MacDonald, recanting Witness who came here from Baltimore in the hope of convincing authorities that he lied during the trials of the two men. will be the star witness in favor of Mooney and Billings. MacDonald's role next Tuesday will be exactly opposite the one he played during Billings' trial in 1916 and Mooney's trial in 1917 when he identified Billings as the man he saw place a suitcase supposedly containing dynamite at the scene of he explosion. The nature of the testimony McDonald will present is well known. He made it in affidavit form in 1921 and repeated it again July 12 after he was located in Baltimore. He will say that his testimony dining the trials was false, that he could not have identified either Mooney or Billings at any time without assistance from San Francisco police. Only a few weeks ago. the supreme court rejected a plea by Billings for a pardon recommendation. Governor Young followed this action by denying Mooney's pardon application. the Governor may act

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ELECTION KILLING \( ROUSES DETROIT Jr §■ ' Hwm ice Crusader, Critic of Ousted Mayor, Put on Gang Spot j After Telling Vote Results by Radio. . : djf t j o;? and gambling interests against which h> Gerald W. Buckley, attorney and He was shot to death in the La dio announcer, who had attacked Sa'le hotel early today, two hours ,j* >' & .5 , after he had broadcast the results , ' > e city administration ana gam- Qf the reca ji election over station j / . - I ng interests of Detroit two hours in which Mayor Charles | *■ lor Mavnr ftharles Bowles was i _ . *..

ELECTION KILLING ROUSES DETROIT Vice Crusader, Critic of Ousted Mayor, Put on Gang Spot After Telling Vote Results by Radio.

Bu T'nitcrl Press DETROIT, July 23.—The murder of Gerald W. Buckley, attorney and radio announcer, who had attacked the city administration and gambling interests of Detroit two hours after Mayor Charles Bowles was ousted from office on a recall election, today aroused state and city officials to a determination to rid the city c* gangsters/^ Governor Fred Green, apprised of the killing at Holland, Mich., where he was visiting, flew to Detroit in an airplane. He was met at the aiport by heads of the police department, w'ho took him to police headquarters where they all immediately w r ent into conference. Governor Green previously had ordered state police into Detroit to aid in the roundup of suspects in the murder. One of the men who figured in the slaying of Buckley has been arrested, Thomas C. Wilcox, police commissioner, announced. The suspect is Angelo Livecchi, 29. Wilcox said he was a lookout and did not take part in the actual Ehooting of Buckley. Police advanced the theory Buckley was the victim •of powerful BOY STILL IN TREE Palmer McCloskey Finishes 216th Hour on Perch. The record for nondrop tree-sit-ting safely his, Palmer McCloskey, 14, of 328 North Temple street, continued to live in his perch twentyseven feet above the ground today. He will stay up until all other competitors are dow'n, he said. Today he completed his 216th hour aloft. Warren Winzenread, Brightwood, and David Smith, Beech Grove, one day behind Palmer, also continued their marathon in the branches. More than a dozen other youths are competing, well behind the leaders.

in the case of Mooney, while the court must make recommendation for Billings, is because of a California constitutional provision that twice convicted men, such as Billings, must have the court’s favorable recommendation'before a Governor has authority to issue a pardon. The appearance of MacDonald in the hearing conforms with a hope expressed by Governor Young when he denied Mooney’s pardon. The Governor then chose to believe MacDonald's testimony, but suggested that he be found and returned here to tell his story to the supreme court, at which time the cases could be considered fully and MacDonald's story investigated.

‘KILLER’ BURKE SUSPECT TAKEN IN POLICE NET

Four sheriff's and police gency cars, bristling with machine guns and shotguns, haunted State Road 52 northwest of the city this afternoon, searching for America's most notorious gunman, Fred S. (Killer) Burke, alias Fred Dane of Chicago and St. Joseph. Mich. Burke has been sought throughout the United States since the St. Valentine's day massacre of seven Chicago gunmen on the north side of the windy city Feb. 14. 1929. He is believed to hate operated the machine gun that slew the gangsters. An underworld grapevine tip that he was to mee f two girls at Sixteenth street and Road 52 this afternoon spurred police and deputy sheriffs into action. Near the assigned rendezvous a police squad halted a green Ford coupe, with an Illinois license, in which two young women were ridhag. <

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gambling interests against which h had waged an incessant campaign. He was shot to death in the La Salle hotel early today, two hours after he'had broadcast the results of the recall election over station WMBC, in which Mayor Charles Bowles was ousted from offiice. Buckley had favored the recall of Bowles, charging he was allied with underworld characters. Three men walked into the hotel lobby where Buckley was seated in a chair, reading a newspaper. Without a word they formed a semicircle about him and began firing. Eleven slugs bit him. The men then dashed out a side entrance and drove away in a:i a ;omobile. Buckley recently had received threatening letters, and had told fellow workers in the radio station he feared ie was a marked man. He had obtained a pen. fit to carry a revolver because he tnought his life was in jeopardy. Begged Him to Stop Paul Buckley, brother of the 37-year-old attorney, said he and other members of the family had begged Buckley to stop his attacks on Bowles and his administration, but that he had insisted on going through with his program. Indications today were that the Buckley'murder would create as great a stir in Detroit as did the McSwiggin and Lingle killings in Chicago. Buckley, former St. Mary’s (Kan.) college student, and once an attorney employed by the Ford Motor Company, was well-known throughout Michigan for his caustic radio comments on state and civic affairs. He was a champion of the poor classes, and did much in his i-adio work to find them employment. He first aroused considerable underworld enmity by his bitter attacks on'gambling and vice. His crusade against gangster and underworld activities in the city was intensified during recent weeks. Cited Vice Alliance In urging the recall of Bowles, Buckiey justified his position that the mayor was aligned with certain underworld interests by citing that Norman Smith, convicted bootlegger and reputed a friend and political aid of Bowles, came to him with a demand to "lay off” his gamblingvice crusade. The most recent known attempt to "get to” the commentator was revealed today by a Detroit News reporter, who said that last Sunday Buckley told him. tha t he had been offered $25,000 to devote his broadcasting period to the cause of the anti-recall forces. In going down to defeat, Bowles lost every ward in the city. Even his home precinct went against him, returning 211 votes for his recall to 174 for his retention. The total vote was 120,863 for recall to 89.979 against. It was the first time in American history that a mayor of a city of more than a half million population had been recalled. • Bowles charged there was fraud in the election, and said the time of the campaign—twelve days—was insufficient for him to overcome the prejudice and misunderstanding he said had been built up against him in six months.

Both were nervous. The driver's companion almost collapsed when she saw the police. Sending both to police headquarters, police squads continued on Road 52 beyond Flackville, until at a roadside restaurant eight miles nortn of the city they saw another Illinois licensed auto parked outside. Inside sat a large man, corresponding in several respect to descriptions of the Chicago killer, police say. He gave the name of Clifford Burke of Chicago. *T know who you’re looking for,” he said when accosted by the officers. "You want Fred Burke, the killer, not me.” Detained for questioning, he said he is a native of Chicago, but has been employed as secretary to a race track operator in Louisville. Ky. He said he wasgen route to Chicago when detained here.

IT’S not only an ill wind, but a rare heat wave that hasn't an ounce of good somewhere in it, these baby chicks, “orphans of the sun,” chirped today. For to excessive temperatures of Monday, and the week-end, they owe their existence as fullfledged chicks rather than as some kind of omelet. Late Monday E. R. Weekly, Columbus (Ind.) trucker, brought to Kingan & Cos. poultry division at the stockyards, South Kentucky avenue, thirty cases of eggs collected that day at various farms in Jackson county. Tuesday morning Norman Dunn, manager of the division, found twenty-nine cases of eggs and one of chicks, some in the half-shell and others in down feathers. Tlie eggs probably were taken by a harvesting farmer from a nest in a field, a practice discouraged by egg wholesalers, Dunn said. When the remainder of thatcase was candled here, the majority, of eggs showed they would hatch chicks. “The farmer lost on that deal. He should be more careful,” Dunn declared. “He got 15 cents a dozen for the eggs that we’ll get $1.50 a dozen for now.” The orphan chicks will be featured when the sixth annual Indiana poultry tour, under auspices of Purdue university, visits the Kingan plant Thursday.

NEGRO PLAYS COP, RAIDS STILL; IS NOT ARRESTED Tells Police He Tied Up Alleged Bootlegger at Point of Gun; Booze Find Is Charged.

A Negro who claimed to a police dry raiding squad that, wtihout authority, he had entered a home to search for a still and had bound an alleged liquor maker with makeshift cords, was not arrested by the squad Tuesday night. Instead of holding the Negro on his own story on charges of impersonating a police officer, possession and drawing of deadly weapons, entering a house forcibly and other charges possible against him, the dry squad, under Sergeant Arthur Huber, raided the home of Carl a7r~race pilot hurt Plane Upsets on Take-Off at Cincinnati Port. SU LUNKEN'"'’AIRPORT. CINCINNATI, 0., July 23.—Pilot R, A. Hosier of Detroit, contestant in the allAmerican air derby, was injured today when his Simplex plane nosed over as the twelve ships remaining in the race took off on the fourth lap for Little Rock. Ark. Hosier's injuries were not 'determined immediately. He shot away from the starting tape with his motors wide open, but the ship apparently refused to respond to her rudder and nosed over after Hosier down the runway for 300 yards. Hosier was able to climb from the wreckage, but was shaken badly and was removed to a hospital. The plane was demolished. INDIAN RELICS FOUND Collection of Archeological Data Ends in Delaware County. Bu Times finecitl MUNCIE, Ind., July 23.—An archeological survey of Delaware county for the Smithsonian institution by F. M. Setzler of the University of Chicago, has been completed. Seven Indian mounds were discovered and two authentic Indian village sites found. Three main Indian trails were found to cross the county, all leading in different dij "ections. I Hundreds of skeletons were found | in gravel pits, Seltzer reported, two jof which were unearthed by him- | self. He obtained photographs of many Indian collections and these i will be placed in the files of the in--1 stitution.

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HUNDREDS DIE AS QUAKE SPREADS RUIN OVER VAST REGION IN SOUTH ITALY

Thousands ‘of Persons Injured; Appalling Reports of Devastation Grow as Rescue Work Progresses. WORST SHOCK LASTS 42 SECONDS Town of 12,000 Persons Is Destroyed; City of Naples Is Thrown Into Darkness and Twenty Are Dead There. BY THOMAS MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent NAPLES, July 23. —A wide area of southern Italy was devastated early today by an earthquake that extended from Naples oh the Mediterranean side to the province of Foggia on the Adriatic, spreading death and devastation over several thousand square miles. Reports of casualties poured in steadily over disrupted communication lines from the stricken area, indicating a death list of hundreds with thousands injured.” Incomplete official lists this afternoon showed more than 270 dead.

One report, which lacked any official confirmation, said towns of Villanova and Montecalvo, in Avellino province, had been destroyed, with a death list of around 4,000 in Villanova and 300 in Montecalvo. Ihc reports said 80 per cent of Villariova’s population of 5,000 had been killed. Venosa, in the province of Potenza, also was reported destroyed. The city of Melfi, with a population of 12,000, was in ruins. The known death list there was given as 120, with 400 injured, but workers, hampered by falling walls, still were trying to dig dead and injured from the ruins. Fear Fresh Disaster While refugees streamed into Naples this afternoon from the devastated area, stretching across the peninsula from sea to sea, the restless earth continued to tremble and the inhabitants were in constant fear of fresh disaster. Activity of Mt. Vesuvius, which has been in eruption, was increased, although no danger was officially apprehended from Vesuvius, and the earthquake was not attributed to volcanic activity. The United Press correspondent reached Naples from Rome to find the city in confusion, but with the death list in this city of nearly one million inhabitants almost miraculously small. Preliminary reports from Naples and its suft-ounding province indicated about twenty

(Connie) Mack at 1119 Churchman avenue. The raiding police officers say they found a seventy-five gallon still, forty gallons of alleged liquor and several hundred gallons of mash. Mack was not in the house. The Negro claimed, according to Patrolman Ralph Chambers, a member of the raiding squad, that he had bound Mack with three window curtains, a piece of plush rope and some cord to a chair in the house. Patrolman Chambers today declared no evidence was found that the alleged liquor maker had been bound in the house. The raiding squad had failed this morning to make any report on the raid and Sergeant Huber could not be located. When asked why the police did not hold the Negro for his self-adrnitte*! unauthorized raid on the home. Patrolman Chambers declared "I don’t know.” tie declared he did not know the Negro, but understood the informant was one of three “stoolpigeons.” The Negro told the squad that he overheard two boys talking about making liquor in the house and entered it after getting a revolver. He said he forced the man in the house to take him to the still at the muzzle of the revolver. Then he declared he bound the man to a chair and sought police aid.

JURY PONbERING KOLB’S FATE IN POISON CASE

BY CHARLES E. CARLL Times Staff Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind.# July 23. After deliberation since 7 p. m. Tuesday, a jury of ten farmers and two school teachers, in whose hands rest the fate of George Kolb, Rushville farmer, charged with murder, was believed still far from a verdict early this afternoon. State’s and defense attorneys, however, continued their watch in the Hancock circuit courtroom, hoping for the signal that the twelve men had agreed that Kolb is guilty, not guilty, or tha£ they had decided to disagree. *

dead and probably several hundred injured. The five provinces most badly hit were Napoli, Benevento, Avellino, Foggia and Potenza (northern section). Those five provinces have a total area of 8,442 square miles and a population of 3,843,778. Montecalvo Irpino, in Avellino, reported fifty dead and many injured. Other reports poured in from towns and cities all through the five provinces. The provinces of Compotasso, Matna and Bori also were affected. The quake struck Naples at 1:06 a. m. City in Darkness Lightning accompanied by heavy rumblings resembling thunder, preceded the first and most violent shock, which lasted forty-two secons. It was followed by two lighter and shorter shocks which drove inhabitants from their homes in terror. The city was plunged in darkness, since the three shocks broke all electric cables, and troops were commanded to preserve order and prevent plundering. Virtually, every building in the slum section of Naples was cracked and many collapsed. The so-called Casanova bridge here was broken. Melfi, seventy-six miles east of Naples, and on the basis ,of early reports apparently the worst sufferer, virtually was destroyed. The town ha:; a population of approximately 12,000 persons, and is built on the volcanic peak, Monte Vulture. The stricken zone stretched due east from Naples across southern Italy, centering north of the instep of the “boot.” Preceding the shock, two violent explosions occurred in the sulphur springs at Pozzuoli, en the bay of Naples. Mud boiled like a geyser. The director of the scientific office at Pozzuoli said the sulphur springs acted like valve for the activity of Vesuvius. Religious services of thanksgiving for the escape of the city from greater damage will be held in the Naples cathedral and other churches this evening. Tragic Stories Told Refugees arriving from Melfi and other towns in the devastated region told tragic stories of the disaster today. Many seemed hardly to know what they were doing, still suffering from the shocks of the events during the terrible night when they fled from their homes, thinking the end of the world had come. Several women died from sheer One woman was found dead in Rionero with her arms around her child, trying to protect it. Both were killed by falling masonry. The historic castle of Frederick 11, one of the glories of Melfi, was tottering on the verge of collapse. The railroad station at Melfi was in danger of collapse and crowds of refugees trying to get trains out were shepherded away from the weakened railway shed. Many children were injured by falling masonry in the collapse of the orphanage at Rionero. Aged Woman Dies But Times (special , MODOC, Ind., July 23.—Mrs. Eugene Stump. 82, ..v dead near here, following a short nmess. She leaves two sons, Percy and Lacey, Winchester, and a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Bowers, Denver, Col.

The state’s demand for a death penalty for the alleged murder of his third wife, Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb, is expected to be a chief barrier to a verdict. If acquitted, Kolb probably will not be tried on another murdei indictment, alleging that he also poisoned his second wife, Mattie Laramore Kolb, opinions of attorneys interested in this trial generally concur. Many spectators avowed the jury would report disagreement, thus forcing retrial. Others predicted acquittal, and several anticipated a verdict of guilty, either qp murder or manslaughter charges.

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DEATH TAKES GLENN CURTISS, 1 AIR PIONEER Man Who Startled Worl<( by Flight 20 Years Ago j 5 in Hospital Week. / Bu T'niteil Press BUFFALO, N. Y.. July 23.—Glemg Curtiss, one of aviation’s pioneers, died today from a blood clot on tliQi lung discovered after a recent appendicitis operation. The aviation pioneer—who twenty years ago startled the world by making a flight from Albany to New* York City—was brought to a Buffalo hospital a little more than at week ago suffering from appendicitis. Art immediate operation wag ordered. The operation, doctors said, wag successful. Afterward, however, the clot touching upon the lung wag found. This brought his death aQ a local hospital today. Mr. Curtiss’ death was so unexpected that Mrs. Curtiss, who had been keeping an almost constant vigil at his bedside, was at a downtown hotel. Only his nurr? w r as witlg him. Became Inventor Early Mr. Curtiss was brought to the hospital here from his home ia Hammondsport, N. Y., July 11, after; an acute attack of appendicitis. Mr. Curtiss was born at Hammondsport, N. Y., May 21, 1878, and early showed a bent for mathematics and invention. He opened a bicycle repair shop at the age of IT and turned it into a workshop where he invented everything from skatesails to motorcycle engines. In 1902 he* established the Curtiss Manufacturing Company to produce his motorcycle and gained a national reputation as a racer. The success of his engine, whet! attached to balloons and lighter-than-air ships, led him to expert-, ment with early forms of airplanes, and he soon w’as making flight® around Hammondsport, Won SIO,OOO Prize in Hop Under the auspices of the National Aerial Experiment Association the airplane White Wings was built and in it Curtiss made several successful flights. In 190S, Curtiss went to Francd with a home-made airplane and won the James Gordon Bennett cup•, and the Prix De Vitesse againsS some of the most skillful aviateti of Europe. His machine made 46 miles an hour. Probably his most famous flighS was that made from Albany to New i’ork City in 1910 for a $10,00(1 prize offered by the New YorK World. He made two stops with his ‘box kite" plane, and finished hig journey at Governor’s island, hav-i ing covered the distance of 150 mileg in 2 hours 51 minutes. J

Did Much fer Aviation H .Twenty years later—a few weekß \ ago—he made the same flight in al huge modern Curtiss Condor, capable of carrying twenty pasengers* ' With the exception of the Wright! j brothers, no other man did so mucfci j for American aviation as Gleatt j Curtiss. • After the pioneering phase of aviation had passed he turned to tha 1 commercial side and was one of tha t leaders in developing the airplana ■ as it is today. j The Curtiss Airplane Company, o3 which he was the head, built many! ; airplanes for the United States and foreign governments and for private companies and individuals. $5,900 SHORTAGE PAID Formed Muncie City Clerjt Acts ois , Advice of Examiners. $ Bu Times Special , „„ _. *‘ MUNCIE, Ind., July 23.—Discrep* ancles amounting to $5,926 were reported by field examiners of tha j state board of accounts in account* of Maynel Dalby, who in January j retired as city clerk of Muncie aftea ' serving eight years. Dalby, according to the report, has repaid the city treasury in. that amohnt, acting on the advice of the examinees and it is unlikely that any charges vAll be filed. •The former clerk explained that because of his many interests he had permitted nis books to become jumbled and awaited the findings of the examiners as to the amount of money he owed the city. Criminal Cases Dismissed ANDERSON, Ind.. July^23.—An v accumulation :f 122 old cases on the Madison circuit court criminal docket were dismissed by Judge Carl F. Morrow on motion of Oswald * 1 Ryan, prosecuting attorney. Most of the cases had been pending for several ygars during which futile searches were made for accused persons. j School Aamcd for Wilson 1 1 SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 23.-* Woodrow Wilson, wartime President* was accorded nret official honors in St. Joseph county when Portage township officials announced that the former •rive Points schoo’ would be named as Ahe Woodrow Wilson school. The school building was burned last all and anew and modem ten-room structure is ij| process of construction.

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