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Big Chicago Beacon Will Guide Fliers

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An artist's conception of the Lindbergh beacon.

CHICAGO. July 30.—The world’s greatest aerial beacon will flash across scores of miles of sky. a trail of light beckoning aviators to safety, within a few weeks. The Lindbergh beacon, gift of the late Colonel Elmer A. Sperry of Chicago, is nearing completion atop the Palmolive building here, its steel tower soaring seventy-feet above the thirty-nine-story structure, and will be dedicated during the national air races in August. Depending upon atmospheric conditions, it w ill be possible to see this •monster light 500 miles away. Two lightkeepers will guard the beacon constantly after it is in operation. The light will be supplied by incandescent lamps and the candlepower will be 300.000.000. An impressive ceremony will mark ttie dedication, with hundreds of notables participating.

BICYCLE CONTEST TO CLOSE AT 10 TONIGHT Approach of State Wheel Race to Halt East Side Event. Because several contestants in the heralded 100-honr bicycle race on the eist side are entrants in the state bicycle races, the East side event will close at 10 tonight. Ray Kealing and Byron Conroy \eld the lead this morning as the J.venth day’s ten-hour grind started, but James Bacon and George Worley has reduced the gap between themselves and the leaders to forty-tour laps. Kealing and his teammate traveled a total of 810 miles up to starting time this morning. WORKERS HONOR FORD Hungarian Craftsmen Will Present Gift to Car Manufacturer. CLEVELAND. July 30.—A handtooled leather case in a walnut cabinet, containing the signatures and greetings of 300 Hungarian workers, is to be offered to Henry Ford by Joe Hfeiffer. Cleveland, who has returned with the ease after a visit to Hungary. The case and chest were made by native craftsmen for presentation to Ford. MILLS MEETS KING ZOGU l ? . S. Treasury Official ’ays Call at Capital of Albania. Bv United Press DURAZZO, Albania. July 30.—Ogden L. Mills, undersecretary of the treasury of the United States, arrived by private yacht today. He motored to Tirana, the capital, where he visited the Albania foreign minister and then was received in audience by King Zogu. AIMEE M’PHERSON SUED Scenarists Charge Non-Payment foe. Movie Plot. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES. July 30—When Aimee Semple McPherson and J. Roy Stewart abandoned the proposed talking picture. "Clay in the Potter’s Hands.’’ which was to have been the vehicle for the noted evangelist's screen debut, they failed to pay for the scenario, a damage suit charged today. The action was filed by Harvey H Gates, Hollywood scenarist, who asked SIO,OOO from the

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 69

HITCH-HIKER IS IN OKLAHOMA BALLOT LEAD Penniless Campaigner Is Ahead of Millionaire for Governor. RUNOFF NEXT BATTLE ‘Alfalfa Bill’ Murray Is Colorful Figure: Bolivia Colony Failed. Bv United Prr •* OKLAHOMA CITY, July 30.—W. H. f Alfalfa Bill) Murray, 61, who hitch hiked over the state in his campaign, was leading his nearest opponent, Frank Buttram, oil millionaire, today in the Democratic gubernatorial contest for the runoff primary. Murray, who has been in state politics since the Constitution was framed, was leading Buttram by 81,380 votes to 56,802 today. The count was from 1,821 of the state’s 3,340 precincts. The 61-year-old Democrat, penniless now, but still energetic after years of strenuous activities, seemed assured of p place in the runoff primary to be held two weeks hence —the winner of which is assured of election. Buttram probably will oppose him in the final balloting. Martin E. Trapp, former Governor, was running third in the early returns, followed by S. B. Howard, former congressman, and A. S. J. Shaw, state auditor. Close Senate Race The race for the United States senatorship was much closer, with four candidates grouped in the running. Former Senator Thomas ?. Gore, blind orator, held a slight lead. He was closely followed by Charles J. Wrightsman. Tulsa oil millionaire, and Henry S. Johnston, last impeached Governor. Lee Cruce, another former Governor, was running fourth, with former Governor J. B. A. Robertson, wet canjjidate, a poor fifth. The senatorial returns were Gore, 34.830; Wrightsman, 33,332; Johnston, 25,714; Cruce 16,519; Robertson, 7,914. The returns were from 1,693 precincts. Buttram. oil millionaire, was expected to gain much of his support from the urban sections. He did most of his campaigning in the rities. in contrast to Murray, who httch-niken his way to the rural communite? to preach his doctrine as a “commoner.” Alfalfa BilL known also as the Sage of Tishomingo, was one of the signers of the Constitution. He has been a school teacher, farmer, lawyer and congressman. Contrast of Candidates He habitually wears a large beaver hat. a vividly colored neckerchief and baggy, unpressed trousers. Buttram, on the other hand, typifies the modern young business man. Suave, well-dressed and successful, he has been a banker, corporation executive and philanthropist. He is the son of Oklahoma territory' pioneers, educated himself as a geologist and amassed a fortune in oil.

Reunited Realty Dealer’s Death Is Exactly One Year After That of Wife.

ONE year ago today at 8:30 a. m.. Mrs. Minnie Sadlier, wife of Georee Sadlier, 65, realty dealer, died at her home. Today, the anniversary of her death, Mr. Sadlier died at the same hour of his wife's demise a year ago. Sorrow over his wife’s death and high blood pressure brought his death after an illness of several months. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 Friday morning at the home and at 10 a. m- at SS. Peter and Paul cathedral. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Sadlier was bom in 1865 in Limrick county, Ireland. He came to America At the age of 21 and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y. Later he moved t° Indianapolis and established a blacksmith shop. In 1918 he quit the blacksmith business to deal in real estate. He has been president of the George Sadlier Real Estate Company, 33 Kentucky avenue, for the last twelve years. He organized the Indianola Building and Loan Association in 1884 and was president of the association up to the time of his death. Surviving him are five daughters, Mrs. John A. Langan, Catherine. Minnie. Marcelle and Estelle Sadlier, and a son, George Sadlier Jr., all of Indianapolis.

WHO IS CITY’S TOY GOLF CHAMPION? TIMES TOURNEY GIVES ALL A CHANCE

WHO is the Bobby Jones, who is t-he Glenna Collett of the city sand lots? The best man and the best woman pigmy golf player in Indianapolis? The Times will And this out in a tournament that will enable all devotees of golf in the tabloid form to match their skill in negotiating the tricky hazards that mean a birdie two or a "buzzard'’ eight.” no entry fee. All you

Wicked and Monstrous

Building state highways tvith labor that is paid 20 cents an hour is a practice so monstrous as £o be unthinkable. The people of this state are turning over to the highway commission more than twenty millions of dollars a year for road purposes. . That commission has given contracts to private concerns. The bids were upon estimates of state engineers in which the payment of workers was at least 50 cents an hour. The commission fails in its duty to the people when it permits these contractors to take advantage of the unemployment situation to force workless men to take the wage of slaves. It is pure peonage. There is an implied obligation on the part of the commission not to enforce the payment of wages up to the estimates of its engineers. ' No reasonable person believes that any man, especially the head of a family, can live on the pitiable ivage that now is paid by some public contractors under the highway commission. The men who accept these wages in desperation only can become public charges, sooner or later. Their ivives and children inevitably must be hungry. A commission that fails to safeguard public interest by preventing such an outrage either should be replaced or abolished. This nation abolished slavery for the Negro race. It should notTencourage it on state enterprises under the guise of sacredness of contract. The practice is wicked, brutal, inhuman, monstrous.

Bloodhounds Proposed to Solve Baby Tangle Another Who Would Help Anxious Parents Suggests Faith in Ether Waves

Ri/ United Press CHICAGO, July 30.—While scientific and legal authorities still squabbled over the parentage of the Watkins-Bamberger babies today, solicitous correspondents in various parts of the country swamped the health department and newspaper offices with suggestions for determining which the baby was born to the william Watkinses, and which to the

Charles Bambergers. Ben Mielke of the Elmwood flower shop in Detroit wrote to the Chicago bureau of the United Press recommending that bloodhounds be employed to settle the disputed parentage. “I would advise the cleansing of each infant by a neutral person,” Mielke wrote. “Then make a trail in opposite directions with the feet of each infant. Give the blood nounds the scent of one of the mothers to see which trail will be followed. I feel sure this mixed babies thing can be solved by scent.” In the same serious vein came a

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communication to the health department from G. E. Albright, Ft. Worth, Tex. , Albrignt, however, puts his faith in ether waves rather than bloodhounds. He suggests one of the babies be put in a room alone, while both mothers wait outside. Then:

"When the baby gets hungry and begins to cry for nourishment the cry will ride upon the vibratory waves of the ether and a contact will be made with the right mother who will feel a tingling sensation. “The other mother will feel nothing and therefore will know the other baby is hers.” Soul Consultant Advises A "soul consultant” in the east said it would be an easy matter to determine the identities of the infants by confining them in a room with their mother for a week. "When the week is up the babies instinctively will choose the right mothers.” he concluded. "Babies always can be told by their noses,” wrote another adviser. “Let *a mother forget other features of the physiognomy and she will be able to choose her own baby, in a roomfull of other babies, by its nose alone. That’s how Solomon would have solved this —by a nose.” All this '‘hullabaloo” never w r ould have arisen, wrote a grandfather, if parents 'generally would follow his system of tatooing offspring. Anew figure appeared Tuesday in the baby tangle and brought with her complications that made it more of a tangle than ever. She was Mrs. Anna Van Stan Watkins, 29, Philadelphia dancer, who charged Watkins was a bigamist. She said he had not divorced her before marrying the second Mrs. Watkins, but this Watkins denied, stating he had been divorced several years before his second marriage. Most Unusual Suit Watkins’ attorney. Barratt O'Hara, also complicated the tangle further, by filing one of the most unusual bills of equity in the history of American courts. This bill was in behalf of "John Doe,” the baby which the Watkins have but contend really belongs to the Bamberger and was given them by mistake when Mrs. Watkins and Mrs. Bamberger left Englewood hospital, where both babies were born on the same day. Baby John Doe’s suit names as defendants not only the hospital, but all four of the Bamberger-Wat-kins parents as well, and it asks somebody please find out once and for all just who he is. The bill was filed in the name of Mrs. Grace Dibrell. president of the Associated Mothers of Illinois.

have to do to enter is fill out the coupon which will appear in The Tunes, starting Thursday, and take it to the manager of your favorite toy golf course. Your only expenditure depends on the number of rounds you want to play in trying to win your way to the elimination round of the tournament. Any contestant may play as many rounds as he likes on any course, but Kmly the total score

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1930

An Editorial.

SEN. SIMMONS ILL Democratic Chief Treated at Sanitarium. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.—Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, 76, of North Carolina, veteran Democratic leader, is undergoing treatment at a sanitarium here for a rundown condition and a chronic eye and nose ailment. He was reported resting comfortably today. Mrs. Simmons also is undergoing treatment at the sanitarium. CLINGS TOJS NEST Life in Leaves Lasts On and On for Bough Boy. Palmer McCloskey, 328 North Temple avenue, leader of Indiana limb loungers, was still aloft today, having passed his 380th hour in a tree. Several other youths were in their trees in the city, but none approached Palmer's time. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 65 10 a. m 82 7a- m 67 11 a. m 84 Ba. m 74 13 (noon).. 84 9 a. m 79 1 p. m 84

Most-Arrested Mans Last Ride Without Cop

BY ARCH STEINEL. Willie Carey, the city's most arrested man, took his last ride today. No “copper” faced him in a Black Maria as he rode on his last "rap.” No bondsmen or lawyers were with him to "spring” him, for Willie faced the Big Judge alone today as he was buried in the Holy cross cemetery. Willie, the defendant in scotes of police court cases in the last twenty years, died Sundav at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Sherer. 926 Arbor avenue. Around police headquarters today Willie and his exploits in the west end was the sole topic of conversation.

of the four best eighteen-hole rounds count toward play in the elimination round nan Qualifying starts Monday, Aug. 4. ar.d continues until Aug. 12. with three lowest women and three lowest men at each course being chosen to represent that course. Then comes the elimination round. With six competing, from each course, all entrants Wsl play thir-

AIR LIHER TO REACH CANADA ON THURSDAY Communication Grows Less Regular as Ship Nears North America. KEEPS 50-MILE SPEED ‘All Well,’ Latest Report From Dirigible; Plenty of Water Aboard. BY KEITH JONES United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 30.—The progress of the dirigible R-100 on the first stages of her flight from Cardington to Canada indicated tonight that the big ship would reach Montreal probably Thursday about 3 a. m„ eastern standard time, weather permitting. Radio communication with the R-100, which had been in touch with the air ministry until she passed far out over the Atlantic ocean, was less regular today after the ship had progressed to within less than 800 miles of Newfoundland. Squadron Leader R. S. Booth reported that all w’as w r ell as the ship continued westward along the fifty-fifth parallel. More Than Half Way More than two hours earlier, the air ministry assumed that the R-100 had passed the 35th degree, w’hich is more than half-way across the Atlantic, and requested the St. Hubert airport authorities in Canada to handle the dirigible’s periodic reports hereafter. It has been more than fourteen hours since the dirigible communicated direct with Cardington. All was well with the forty-four passengers aboard the ship on its first trans-Atlantic voyage, messages here indicated. “Every one now settled down to normal routine,” one message received at the ministry said. “Hot lunch now being served,” another sa : d. “All okay.” A message from the R-100 to the steamship Manchester Exporter, intercepted by the Valentia radio station, said the ship was “having a good trip.” Passengers Are Carried The personnel aboard the dirigible included five officers, thirty-two members of the crew, and seven passengers, all of them traveling in official capacities. They included Major G. B. Scott, in general charge of the present flight; Lieutenant-Commander Sir C. Denistoun Burney, designer of the R-100; Wing Commander H. B. B. Colmore, director of British airship development and representative of the air ministry, and Lieutenant Commander R. St. J. Prentice, representative of the British admiralty. * There w’as no danger of inconvenience among the passengers and crew if the ship should be delayed on its voyage, since it was provisioned for five days and carried 500 gallons of drinking and washing water.

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The Watkinses fear this baby belongs to others.

R-100 to Broadcast Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 30.—Arrival of the R-100 at Montreal after its flight from England to Canada will be broadcast in the United States by an extensive network of the National Broadcasting Company. The arrival of the dirigible will be described by attaches of the ministry of home defense and the NBC programs scheduled for the hour of arrival will be canceled. HU NT PAIR N SWA M P Police, Sheriff Posse Seek Daring Bank Bandit Duo. By United Press HILLMAN, Mich., July 30.—After an all-night vigil at the Fletcher swamp, state police and deputy sheriffs’ posses today resumed search of the swamp district for two daring bandits who robbed the Montgomery County Savings bank of $15,000 here Tuesday. The searching parties are being guided by experienced woodsmen and two airplanes.

“The man that hasn't arrested Willies is no copper,” exclaimed one detective and from a recount of “Willie’s” blue-coat friends the department has a “lot of coppers.” Willie wasn't a “big shot” in the racket. Fighting, boozing, petty crime, with Military park as the “hang out” w r as his forte. “Beating jolts was his long suit,” declared one plainclothes man, “and it was one out of ten times that he was hooked for a jail or state farm sentence.” “I remember once when he turned bondsman.” related Lieut. Claude Johnson, “and we found out

ty-six holes to eliminate all except eight women and eight men with the lowest scores, ties to be played off. These sixteen will compose the championship flights and contestants will be paired by draw in each flight for match play. With a woman and a man champion chosen, the two will play off the battle of the sexes to determine a city champion. With co-operation of Indianapolis merchants, The Times will

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Miss Gytha Stourton LONDON, July 30.—Engagement of Miss Gytha Stourton, daughter of English nobility, to Signor Del Agnese, handsome Italian butler of Sir Ronald Lindsay at Washington, has been termed impossible and absurd by her father, M. J. Stourton, grandson of the nineteenth earl of Stourton. She has just returned here to seek permission for the marriage. Miss Stourton went to Washington as social secretary to Sir Howard and Lady Esme and remained when Sir Ronald became ambassador. She and Signor Del Agnese met in Rome.

FEAR MILK FAMINE IN MIDDLE WEST

She's a Winner It was a blind date, “wished on” Dan Rorimer, when he met Anne Winter. Dan looked for an evening of boredom, but he found Anne from Tulsa to be a girl worth knowing. Both were in Hollywood for a career, Dan a rising scenario writer and Anne an extra girl w'ho could not be denied. “The Hollywood Girl,” Ernest Lynn’s fascinating story of life back of the scenes in the film capital of the world, started in The Times Tuesday. Read the second big installment in today’s Times on Page 5. Then call The Times circulation department, Riley 5551, order this paper sent to your home, and read all the rest of this enthralling serial.

ERROR IN LICENSES Couples’ Names Mixed in Copying Register. A regrettable error occurred In the publication of marriage licenses in Tuesday’s Times. Dfte to an error in copying names from the marriage license register at the courthouse it was made to appear that Clarence Robertson Jr., 21, of 820 South Randolph street, clerk, and Thelma A. Moore, 22, of 1124 College avenue, clerk, were licensed to marry. This was in error. Robertson was licensed to wed Miss Vivian Hooten, 18. of 725 East Tenth street. Harold S. Ransopher, 42, of 1124 College avenue, was licensed to wed Miss Moore. Heat Fatal to Three Bu United Press NEW ALBANY, Ind., July 30. Three deaths, all of persons past 90 years of age, were blamed on the heat wave here. Mrs. Catherine Weber. 93; David H. Zahn, 91. and Mrs. Mary P. Turner, 91, were the victims.

he didn't have property to back the bonds he signed. We arrested him on a perjury charge. He beat us. When we went back to look at the county record's books—sure enough a piece of property was on the book in Willie’s name.” "Why, he'd been pinched so often he used to come to jail and ask us, ‘ls there any mail for Willie Carey?’ ” recited a turnkey. Throughout his life Willie wore a badge, bravery badge, some say, he received the night the Iroquois theater in Chicago burned down. Willie was injured in the fire and it caused a permanent disability to his neck.

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Scorched Pastures Bring On Dairy Crisis; Prices to Go Up. With pasture fields burned up by the extreme heat and the drought, the middle w r cst is on the verge of a milk famine. Indianapolis milk distributors and dairymen today indicated that while Indianapolis has not felt the decreased production of milk to any serious extent, the city has been called to aid of other communities where milk shortages are serious. Louisville and southern Indiana are facing a serious condition and Indianapolis milk distributers today were shipping milk from this city to the Kentucky metropolis. A reduction of 25 per cent in milk production in Indiana was attributed directly to the drought by officials of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation today. Dairy herd owners, accustomed to grazing their herds at this time of year, are being compelled to feed grain and hay due to the burned-up pastures, farm experts declared. Milk prices to producers will <be raised about Aug. 15, milk distributers here indicated today. The increase will be 10 per cent, from 50 to 55 cents a pound for butter fat. That the increase will not be reflected immediately in retail milk prices was indicated, but butter prices piobably will show the change. While cool weather prevailed today over the entire state and was predicted to continue Thursday, no rainfall was expected. Rainfall over the last week-end in northern Indiana partially relieved conditions there, although officers of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation today declared additional rains are needed throughout that section to insure partial saving of the crops. A twenty-four-hour rain at the present time would save less than 20 per cent of the crops, farm bureau officials estimated from their reports. . ,

And to bear out their tales, today of his gameness they wihsper at police headquarters of his death. He contracted tuberculosis. He seemed to know the last "jolt” was due. Sunday, they say, he called some of his old gang to his bedside and as the room darkened on him he pulled the last patrol box with: “Call the wagon, boys, the undertaker's wagon.” And as funeral services were held today in the Assumption church it was an even money bet at police headquarters that Willie might beat his case in front of the Big Judge, just as he'd beaten cases in front of mortal magistrates.

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‘PACK OF LIES’ ADMITTED BY MOONEY ‘KEY’ MacDonald Sobs Confession on Stand He Perjured Self in Bomb Case. STICKS TO REPUDIATION Man He Saw Place Blast Suitcase Not Billings, Says Witness. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY ] United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, July 30. John MacDonald told the California supreme court today that the man he saw place a bomb at the scene of the July 22. 1916, Preparedness day dynamiting in San Francisco, in no way resembled Warren K. Billings, who was convicted of complicity in the crime. The admission came shortly after the second day of a court hearing on Billings’ pardon application opened. MacDonald, who identified Billings as the man who placed the bomb when Billings was tried in 1916, repudiated his testimony under the questioning of Eugene V. McKenzie, attorney for Billings. “The man I saw leave a suitcase at the corner where the explosion occurred w r as taller, heavier, darker and older than Billings, MacDonald said. Associate Justice John W. Preston, acting as an examiner for the court, subjected the witness to a searching questioning through a fourhour session Tuesday and although he confused him many times and caused him to cry, in the main MacDonald stuck to his repudiation story. Today the witness was given a friendly coach, Edward V. McKenzie, attori.ey for Billings. Wants Clear Conscience “I want to clear my conscience,’* MacDonald sobbed when Justice Preston demanded an explanation of his repudiating the story that he saw Mooney near the scene of a bombing outrage, July 22, 1916, which broke up a Preparedness day parade and killed ten persons. He insisted that he did see a man place a suitcase near the scene of the explosion, but that he could not have Identified him. Serious charges against officials who conducted the investigation and trials in the Billings and Mooney cases in 1916 and 1917 were repeated. Charles M. Fickert, the district attorney, influenced and coached, him, he said, and Edward Cuhna, deputy district attorney, told him what to say. Reward Not Factor MacDonald said he wrote to Captain Duncan Mathewson of the San Francisco police in 1921, saying his trial testimony was true, in hope of getting part of the reward offered for conviction of the bombers. He denied, however, that the fact no reward ‘money was forthcoming had anything to do with his first repudiation affidavit. Conflictions due to faulty memory and inconsistencies, permitted Justice Preston, an experienced prosecutor, to tangle and confuse MacDonald many times, but on such occasions the witness wept and, after gaining composure, insisted he couldn’t remember. Sometimes he would burst out: "They were a pack of lies—all of it i the trial testimony) was untrue.” Governor to Listen When MacDonald finishes telling his story to the supreme court, he will be called upon to repeat it to Governor C. C. Young and the state advisory board, Young informed Frank P. Walsh, attorney for Mooney, by telegram Tuesday night. The present hearing deals only with the Billings case, the case of Mooney being one for the Governor to handle himself. Because Billings had been convicted of a felony before he was convicted in the bombing trial, it was required by law that his case go before the court. Young's statement he would hear MacDonald as soon as the present hearing ends, was in answer to Walsh’s request that a definite date be set for the second hearing.

ASKS FOOD, THEN FAINTS Youth Hikes From Washington to New York, Nearly Starved. Bu f’vifrtl pro** NEW YORK. July 30.—Claude Burano, 15, of Washington, fainted from starvation today as he was asking Patrolman Joseph O’Brien for food. He said he had left Washington several days ago to hike to New York, had walked most of the way here and had had nothing to eat. ASK PRAYERS FOR RAIN Virginia Governor Is Requested io Call State-Wide Session. Bu T'nitetf Prrtu ALEXANDRIA. Va„ July 30.—The Alexandra Chamber of Commerce sent a telegram to Governor Pollard of Virginia today urging him to issue a proclamation calling for statewide meeting to pray for rain. SHIP~ CHRISTENING SET Mrs. Hoover to Act at Ceremony for Excalibur’s Launching. Bu United Prct* WASHINGTON, July 30.—Mrs. Herbert Hoover will go to Camden. N. J., next Tuesday to christen the Excalibur of the American Export Steamship Company at formal launching ceremonies, it was announced at the White House today.