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WITNESS FOR STATE MAKES MOONEY PLEA Ex-Officer Tells Supreme Justices Pair Should Win Clemency. GOVERNOR TO ACT SOON Promises to Present ‘Key’ Before Pardon Board Within Few Days. By T m >t*4 Press SAN FRANCISCO. July 31. Captain Charles GofT. in charge of the bomb detail during the investigation of the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing in 1916. declined to recommend a pardon for Warren K. Billings, although he had previously suggested that executive clemency be extended to Thomas J. Mooney. GofT was a lieutenant under Duncan Matheson when Billings and Mooney were arrested. Declining to follow his former chief, GofT insisted today that the cases were not similar. BY MAX STERN Times Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. July 31 Duncan Matheson. former police captain in charge of the bomb squad which helped build the MooneyBillings' prosecution, Wednesday told the seven justices of the supreme court that he believed Mooney aud Billings should be pardoned. The ex-policeman, now city treasurer, was put on the stand by Charles H. Fickert's spokesman, Fred Berry, to refute the charges of John MacDonald that Captain Goff and Fickert, had coached him into perjury. Matheson. however, turned out to be the biggest trump yet played by Mooney and Billings’ lawyers, Frank J. Walsh and Edwin MacKenzie. The latter read a letter written by. Matheson six years ago to Mooney promising to support his plea for clemency. "Do you still adhere to all these principles,” asked MacKenzie. "I do,” Matheson answered. Justice Langdon asked Matheson why h had joined in the plea for clemency. He replied that he could not recognize the pictures of the Mooneys introduced in their trials. He said there was “to much discrepancy” in the testimony to permit certainty in a case built upon circumstantial evidence. He called MacDonald a romancer suffering from ‘‘mental despair.” Ovman Story Shaken "You have doubt now as to the guilt of the petitioner, Warren K. Billings?” Justice Preston asked. “I have,” replied Matheson. Matheson's letter read into the records follows in part: “I am convinced beyond any question of doubt that your rights were violated and that you were entitled to anew trial, and fully concur in the opinion of the trial judge and the attorney general. This is not possible now. because of legal limitations and your only available relief is executive clemency, to which, I am convinced, you are fully entitled. ’’After all the sanctity <?f the court and a fair trial stand over and above any offense that may be committed, regardless of the enormity thereof. Because that is the very foundation of our government and, therefore, must not be trespassed upon.” From the faltering words of MacDonald. attorneys for Billings shook the Oxman story of an auto bringing the alleged bombers to the explosion scene. Motive Established They established motive for the MacDonald confession by showing that he is a Catholic and considered himself dying in Trenton in 1921. i VThey showed that he was down to his last dollar in 1916 when he told his weird story to the police with obvious hope of reward. Fickert himself took part in the hearing Wednesday by cross-exam-ining MacDonald, but the latter stuck stubbornly to his story, blaming Fickert for the false identifications. The session ended Wednesday night with Justice Preston trying to make MacDonald assume all the blame and exculpate the officers of the law. Governor Young has promised immediately to arrange a hearing for MacDonald before the advisory pardon board. It will take place in Sacramento, probably on Saturday or early next week. Then MacDonald will be free to resume his wanderings. ALLEGED KNIFER HELD Negro Woman Arrested Charged With SUbbing Man. Following a cutting scrape this morning in which Sherman Orange, Negro, 45. of 1417 East Seventeenth street, was wounded severely, police found his alleged assailant. Evelyn Bowling, Negro. 20. in a house in the 1400 block on Missouri street. She is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Police allege she knifed Orange in a brawl at 713 North Senate avenue.

Time Tells Bv I'mitfti Prrm LEWISTON. Me., July 31. James Demack. 71, and Mrs. Demack. 74. who would have celebrated their gulden wedding anniversary in 1928 if they had not been divorced thirty years ago. have filed marriage intentions here.

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 70

STATE TO ACT ON LOW WAGES IN ROAD WORK

Highway Group to Fight Contractors’ Practice of Slashing Pay. Indiana's highway commission will go on record next week as ‘‘unalterably opposed” to the practice disclosed Tuesday by The Times, of certain state paving contractors taking advantage of the unemployment situation to pay wages as low as 15 to 20 cents an hour. This was the program announced today by Jess Murden 'Rep., Peru), member of the state lyghway commission and close personal friend of Governor Harry G. Leslie. It has the indorsement of Director John J. Brown of the state highway department, w-ho deplored the paying of less than living wages on any sUte work. Murden congratulated The Times for directing attention to the low wages being paid and said that there is no excuse for such a situation on state road work under present contracts. Figured at 50 Cents “These contracts were all figured by this commission at a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour,” Murden declared. “Os course, technically, the commission is powerless to force payment of a decent wage and thus keep the contractor from taking undue advantage of the present labor market under these contracts. “But W’e can and will, if other commissioners agree with me, raise our voice officially against this practice of unwarranted wage cutting. At the meeting next week I expect to introduce a resolution condemning this wage cutting and make it the official stand of this commission that we shall frown upon contractors in the future who engage in such business.” May Go in Contracts To prevent a repetition of wage cutting, the matter of putting a minimum wage clause into next year's contracts will be studied, it was asserted by Director Brown. He is of the. opinion, however, that this could not be done without special legislation. The state highway law provides that all contract forms be passed upon by the attorney general. Attorney-General James M. Ogden indicated today that should the matter be brought to Ills attention he likely would approve a minimum wage clause. “There is nothing in the law that I know r of to exclude such a clause, although there is nothing providing for it either,” he said.

ATTACK IS CHARGED Youth Is Alleged to Have Accosted Child. An hour after he was alleged to have enticed a 14-year-old girl into a home where he roomed at 3004 Meredith avenue. Frank Jones, 19, was arrested by Motorpolice William R. Fisher and John L. Wilson near Southeastern and Arlington avenues this afternoon. Charges of assault and battery with intent to commit a statutory offense, and carrying concealed weapons were lodged against Jones. Officers said he drew a .38-caliber revolver on them when they arrested him. When the officers raided the house on complaints of neighbors, Jones and two companions fled. His companions were caught, but released when they satisfied polrie they had no part in the alleged attack. Two shots from Fisher’s gun failed to halt Jones, but he was nabbed within an hour. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 66 10 a. m 75 7a. m 70 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 73 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 80

FAIL TO INDICT ON' BRUNDIDGE STORY

Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 31.—1n its report on the Alfred J. Lingle murder and subsequent charges of racketeering by certain other Chicago newspaper men. the Cook county grand jury today gave credence to some of the charges made by Harry T. Brundidge, St. Louis star reporter, but declined to indict any of the men Brundidge named on the grounds that the evidence “was not substantiated.” In concluding their report, the grand jurors said they “had every reason to believe that the Lingle murder will soon be solved” and exhorted the citizens of Chicago to “co-operate with the state's attorney

STORE WALL IS JOB BUREAU; PRIZE GOES TO SWIFTEST OF FOOT

BY ARCH STEINEL. 'T'RANSFER wagons pull close to the curb at the southeast comer of the Marion county courthouse. A driver's foot clamps on the brake and his motioning finger precipitates the charge. Men, who. but a moment before. were dull bent figures sitting on a stone wall holding their knees, charge the transfer truck. There's a conference and one, maybe two, excited males are motioned to a seat beside the driver. And thus another man has been hired from the city’s open-air employment agency. .

Twin Family By Science Srrrice CHARDON, O, July 31. The third set of twins—a boy and a girl—was born here Wednesday night to Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Stamm. The Stamms’ first twins were born twenty years ago. Three years ago the second pair was bom.

WEBSTER GIVEN 2-TO-14 YEAR * PRISON TERM Judge Criticises Statute in Announcing Sentence in Blackmail Case. Convicted three weeks ago of conspiracy to commit blackmail in a newspaper advertising scheme, Irving Webster, 46, publisher of the Indiana Journal, Seventh district G. O. P. newspaper organ, was sentenced today in criminal court to serve two to fourteen years at the Indiana state prison. Made by Special Judge Floyd Mattice, the finding included a $25 fine. The prison term is made mandatory by law, although the court might have suspended the sentence but for the state’s objection. Vehemently maintaining he is innocent, Webster stands convicted of attempting to extort money from prominent persons in business, political and civic circles in the city. The state charged him with threatening victims with harmful stories in the Journal unless they subscribed to advertising. Webster was released under SI,OOO bond, pending appeal. “Sentence Unreasonable” Making his finding, Mattice told Webster today that the two to fourteen years penalty is an “unreasonable "sentence.” Mattice criticised the legislature for “taking from courts tire right to exercise discretion in the matters of sentence.” “I would dispose of this case with a fine, provided Webster had the money, if I was given free rein,” Mattice declared. The judge said he would not consider suspending the imprisonment sentence. Ira M. Holmes, defense attorney; Prosecutor Judson L. Stark, friends of Webster and Mattice spent almost two hotirs in a discussion of the case before finding was made. Approve Commutation “I don’t think a man of Webster's standing in this community ought to get such a heavy sentence,” Mattice repeated several times. “If it rests with me I will approve commutation of this man’s sentence In a very short time,” he declared. Mattice declared, however, that “Webster, according to this case, has been a little bit too cocky—like a bull—in his community.” Holmes was granttrl sixty days in which to file a bill of exceptions for appeal of the case. Mattice denied a motion for a’ new trial. The appeal, according to Holmes, will be made at the expense of the coun•y- . > HOOVER TO GO TO CAMP President Leaves Friday for !?tay at Virginia Lodge. Bn United Pres* WASHINGTON. July 31.—President Hoover will leave Friday for a three-day stay at hi* Virginia mountain camp, it was announced at the White House today. Mrs. Hoover went to the camp today to prepare the lodge for the presidential party.

and investigators working solely on the Lingle case.” Bernard De Vry, real estate operator and foreman of the jury, submitted the report to Chief Justice Dennis J. Normoyle of the criminal court, after hearing the testimony of a dozen newspaper men and public officials. The report held much of Brundidge's testimony was heresay and that although certain of the charges were admitted by the newspaper men called before the jury none constituted indictment offenses. The grand jury later returned a supplementary report calling on Mayor Thompson to reinstate Captain John Stege as chief of detectives.

It is thus another trouser seat is saved from the severe stone wall and another man is assured a meal and a night's lodging. Thousands have sat on the stone wall that serves as a bench for the employment agency. Jobs seek them and motor right up to their front porch, but they don't seek jobs. No registrar is there to quiz for credentials, for to the swift of foot goes the job. The lineup on the stone wall begins at 6 a. m.

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INSULL WILL SPEED STATE’S TRACTION CARS Smaller Interurbans and Faster Time to Be Stressed in Service. PLANS ARE TOLD HERE Feustel Calls on Leslie; Seeks to Revive Interest in Electric Lines. “Ford-izaticn” of Indiana interurban lines, by replacing heavy rolling stock with light equipment ajjd speeding service up to sixtyfive and seventy miles an hour, was the plan announced by Robert M. Feustel, Insull utilities chieftain in Indiana and newly elected head of the Indiana railroad, today. Feustel was at the statehouse to attend a Rearing on property exchange of certain Insull properties and called on Governor Harry G. Leslie. Speed to Be Stressed As president of the Indiana railroad, he will be in charge of operation of interurban lines of the old Union Traction Company, Interstate at Ft. Wayne and from Indianapolis to Louisville. “We are going to try and revive interest in flectric transportation in Indiana,” Feustel declared. “In a short time, we expect to experiment with small and fast-moving oneman cars. “The branch lines that can never be made to pay will be lopped off from the central system and with a modern method of operation we will make a big bid for passenger and fast freight service. “With the harid to mouth merchandising now prevailing, we feel that there may be a big field for less than carload lot shipments in which speed is stressed.” Feustel appeared as a witness at the hearing conducted before Chairman John W. McCardle of the public service commission. The plan is to exchange Northern Indiana Public Service Company properties at Lafayette, Kokomo and Crawfordsville, for Interstate Public Service Company properties at Goshen, Monticello and Warsaw. All are Insull owned. The Northern Indiana properties are valued at $5,360,593 and Interstate at $6,186,0Q0. Approximately $820,000 difference would be paid in cash or stock, if the transfer is allowed. MURDERJS CHARGED Man Is Named as Killer of Detroit Attorney. By United Press DETROIT, July 31.—Angelo Livecchi, arrested in the LaSalle hotel a few hours after Gerald E. Buckley was murdered there by three gunmen, today was charged with murder in the slaying. The murder warrant was recommended by James E. Chenot, prosecuting attorney. Livecchi has been held by police since the murder, July 23. His release on a writ of habeas corpus was to have been sought today. Oldest Resident Buried B.u Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. July 31.—Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Sarah Ann Artis. 102-year-old Negress. Howard county’s oldest resident, who died Tuesday.

Rush in Your Entry for Times Toy Golf Tourney Start pointing! That isn't advice to bird dogs, but a reminder that you toy golf experts have only four more days before qualification starts for The Times Pigmy Golf Tournament. If you fancy your ability, or luck, in the art of bagging the " elusive hole in one, and are pretty good in negotiating the stump and water holes of your favorite toy golf course, start practicing. You may be among those to work your way into the elimination round and then into the rnampionship play for the city title. Qualifying starts Monday, Aug. 14, and continues until Aug. 12, \ with the privilege of shooting as many rounds as you want to in trying to be among the select three men and three women who will represent each course. Age, either ripe or immature, is no barrier. The Times tourney is open to any one except course employes and employes of The Times. You may shoot as many eighteen-hole rounds as you like in trying to qualify. On Page 5 of today’s issue of The Times, you will find a complete list of rules and a coupon. Merely fill out the coupon and give it to your course manager when you start play. Sign each scorecard at the end of the round and leave it also with the manager. The four lowest eighteen-hole rounds (72 holes) will qualify three women and three men for the elimination round, which will reduce the field to the eight lowest women and eight lowest men. Then comes the championship play, with appropriate prizes for the winners. Watch The Times toy golf page daily for qualifying scores and list of awards. Dates and the course for the elimination and championship matches will be announced with completion of the qualifying.

“'T'HAT’S the best time, buddy, X if you're out of a job. Transfer jobs—that’s the kind to get, and that's about all, outside of farmers, of course, that come here to hire men. Why, say, I wouldn’t do nothing else but transfer jobs. They always call for me and wait sometimes until I get to the truck instid of taking some younger man ” vouched OneEye. who’s had ten years’ experience wearing out the courthouse stone. ’’Tough sledding now, though. Before hard times you could make as high as $lB coming on and

DROUGHT IN CORN BELT IS WORST IN 25 YEARS; WHEAT UP IN TRADING

Pasture Land, Tobacco and Cotton Fields Are Parching. Bv T'nitrd Press WASHINGTON. July 31. Drought conditions, particularly in the corn belt, today had reached disastrous proportions without parallel in more than twenty-five years. The weather bureau reported widespread rainless havoc. Corn, pasture land, tobacco and cotton fields are parching. Stock also is suffering. Meanwhile, the final stages of the harvest are pouring into storage spaces a great wheat crop as prices for that grain approach pre-war depression lows. Federal agencies are struggling with the problems of over-produc-tion and low prices in numerous farm commodities. But no satisfactory aid is available for the farmers, who are watching their crops burn beneath blistering cloudless skies. Chairman Legge of the farm board will leave today on a northwestern tour to plead for reduction of wheat acreage as an aid in solving the problem. He will meet with wheat producers in Indianapolis Friday and spend the week-end in Chicago, leaving Monday for Caldwell, Ida., where he and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde will discuss dairy problems. Reports to the /weather bureau from the'corn belt state most of the Missouri crop has been ruined by the drought. Much of Ohio's corn is stunted, while the crop in Illinois and Indiana has suffered greatly except in the northern parts of these states. Showers have somewhat protected Kansas corn, but in neighboring Oklahoma, upland fields are ruined and bottom lands are beginning to suffer from lack of moisture. In lowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, burning has begun but a considerable portion of the crop still is in fair condition. Wheat Hits Low Level BI CHICAGO*JuIy 31—The price of wheat zoomed down in a swirl of ticker tape on all American marts Wednesday to levels unseen since the pre-war depression of 1914. July wheat sold at 81% cents a bushel at Minneapolis and 83% cents at Chicago. September wheat at Milwaukee touched 83% cents a bushel and at Chicago bottom was 85Vi cents. Freight charges caused the price differences on the two markets. No State Rain,Near Indiana's drought will continue unbroken for the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and no weather conditions indicate any rainfall in the near future. United States weather bureau officials declared today. Predictions of fair weather, with little change in temperature, for the next twenty-four hours were made. MISSING MAN FEARED VICTIM OF VIOLENCE Police Are Asked to Aid Search for John L. Me Elroy. Fearing violence, friends of John L. McElroy, 45, of 511 Bosart avenue, today reported to police that he had been missing from his home since July 21. McElroy roomed at the Bosart avenue address. He left July 21 and was expected to return the following Saturday. On July 27, his car was found stripped at South West .street anff White river.

going off jobs by waiting for ’em at this corner. Now, well, $4 a week would be good,” he said. When a bent reader of a blood-and-thunder magazine was pointed out as an unlikely seeker of work, Cine-Eyed smiled, “Him —it all depends on how good the story is when the transfer men pass and yell for help. Say, buddy, do you know we've helped move and tear down foundations of some of the biggest buildings in this here city?” Pride keyed his face and then his gaze shifted to a group of men nearby and he scowled.

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Not that Miss Mary Sink, sec-** retary in the state department of geology, has to tame her game before she shoots it, but she believes there’s nothing like having a little of it salted away ahead of time, what with so many nimrods oiling their guns in antici-

HALLWAY GANG LOOTS CHATEAU $2,000 in Furnishings Is Taken in Robbery. Continuing operations, a gang of apartment house hallway thieves on Wednesday night stripped the elaborate lounging room at the Chateau apartments, 1501 East Maple road, of more than $2,000 worth of furnishings. The robbery brings the total loot of apartment house hallway burglaries here within the last two weeks to more than $5,000 in furnishings and fixtures. Nine robberies of the kind have been reported to police and it is believed that the stolen furnishings have been sent to Chicago for sale. That the thefts are work of a well-organized gang has been established, police say. Entering the apartment houses where the presence of strangers is not noted, the thieves remove hall furnishings, floor lamps, rugs and drapes. CUPID USES CALLIOPE Band Also Plays When Employes of Carnival Wed. Bjj Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 31. When Joseph Kessler, Alexandria, Ind., and Miss Mary Shell, Dayton, 0., Were married at the home of Miss Helen Bain, a justice of the peace here, music was provided by the Harvey & Gibson Amusement Company’s carnival caliope and band, with every person connected with the carnival attending. Kessler and his bride are employes of the carnival. They will continue with it until the close of the season, Oct. 1, when they will go to Kansas City, Mo., where both will have positions.

POLICE END GIRL’S DREAMS AS BANDIT

Dressed in overalls, Charlene Powers, alias Charlene Wiggins, 22, of Memphis, Tenn., and Lexington, Ky., planned to crown herself queen of a highway bandit gang, police here today declared her alleged confession i hows. Two men companions who declare they were hitch-hiking when she offered them a ride in the car she was driving and then suggested they hold up an aged man whom she previously had given a lift were held with her. All three were to be returned to Lebanon, Ind., where W. E- Hogan, 62, of Pennsylvania, is in a serious

“Them's ‘come-you-nists’ reds, you know—they’re trying to stir us up. They ain’t gitting nowhere. No, it’s tough sledding now. It used to be you could get jury jobs in there.” He pointed to the courthouse. ff tt U “VT'OU can't now. Jury-serving j[ is on the bum except in justice courts, and they pay only a dollar a day. If it keeps up we’re all going to hijacking. Say we had ought to blow up . Here comes one of them ‘come-you-nists.’ I got to go; here comes a trucker looking for a man. S-long.” *

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pation of the opening of the squirrel season Friday. According to conservation department officials, there are plenty of fox squirrels this year. The season continues through October, and the bag limit is five daily. '

PARK SET FOR LANTERN FETE Annual Spades Event to Draw Thousands. Workers today were dressing Spades park and homes nearby with gala decorations and thousands of lanterns that will light the park and adjacent streets tonight at the fifteenth annual feast of lanterns. Residents of the neighborhood are vying for honors in decoration of their homes, for which prizes will be awarded. The fete is expected to climax all other previous events, the beauty of which has attracted crowds of many thousands to Spades annually. William Demmary, 2336 Coyner avenue, president of the Brookside Civic League, which is sponsoring the festival, has announced a long list of prizes. Streets will be blocked off for dancing. The Brookside Night Hawks will furnish the music. Children from Brookside, Brightwood, Spades, Oak Hill and Morris Square playgrounds will entertain with dances and a minuet.

Buy a Bride? Bu United Press YUMA, Ariz., July 31.—A 24-year-old IToy (N. Y.) girl today offered herself in marriage to any young man willing to provide a home for her father and mother. In a letter to a newspaper here, Miss Catherine Charron, described herself as pretty and petite. “Don’t think I’m a gold digger,” she wrote. “All I want is a home for my folks.”

condition at a hospital after allegedly having been slugged and robbed and left at the roadside. The three were arrested by Detective Sergeant George Hubbard here after reports of the holdup at Lebanon Wednesday night. The two men gave names of Frank Mancuso, 27, Hibbing, Minn., and Helmoth Smith, 19, Lima, O. In alleged confessions today the three told the same story of the holdup, police assert. Smith declared he was hitch-hik-ing along Road 52 near Chicago when the woman permitted him to enter her car. Hogan was in the car at the time, having been picked up by Miss Powers previously. Near Lafayette, Mancuso was picked up. Smith says the woman told Mancuso and him that Hogan had $lO and that she needed the money for gasoline and oil. On her suggestion, Smith’s alleged confession declares, Hogan was beaten and robbed by Mancuso and Smith. "It will be easy for us to pull other holdups,” Smith says the women told them after Hogan had been left unconscious at the roadside, police say Smith confessed. A previous arrest in Kansas City, on a vragancy charge, was admitted by the women, police declare. They say she admitted the truth of Smith’s alleged confession. Smith declared the holdup the first in which he ever participated, and denied having previously known either the woman or M^.cuso.

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HUGE AIRSHIP IS PUSHING ON TO MONTREAL R-IQO Is Bucking Contrary Winds as It Noses Way Up St. Lawrence. KEEPS 50-MILE SPEED Giant Dirigible Expected taj End Ocean Flight Early Tonight. BY GILBERT DRAPER United Press Staff Correspondent ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, Quebec, July 31.—The R-100 dodged contrary winds that impeded her prog, gress to Montreal and began pushing up the river to her destination today at a good rate of speed. After crossing the Atlantic in a highly successfully demonstration of the new “flexible” type of dirigible as a link in swift communications within the British empire, the R-100 encountered fog and contrary winds at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Commander R. S. Booth turned the great ship, the largest now afloat, sharply to the north after 'striking the mainland of southern Quebec at Cape Magdelaine at 8 a. m., eastern standard time. He crossed the St. Lawrence, seventy miles wide at that point, in a northwesterly direction to Seven Islands bay. Winds Are Better There more favorable winds were encountered and the dirigible picked up speed, • turning southwestward down the river in a line for Montreal, 435 miles away. With an average of fifty miles an hour, which he apparently hoped to make, the dirigible could reach St. Hubert at 7 p. m. Her previous speed would not have brought her here until 11 p. m. or midnight. However, the dirigible still was encountering occasional contrary winds and the probable time of arrival was nob definite. If the R-100 reaches here by 7:45 p. m. she will have covered the voyage of approximately 3,500 miles in seventy hours, at an average speed of fifty miles an hour. Time Almost Same The time compares almost exactly with that of the Los Angeles 'then the ZR-3) in flying from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst in 1924, when she made 4.010 miles in eighty-one hours. The Graf Zeppelin has made much better time, however. The R-100 was reported at Godbout, fifteen miles west of Trinity bay, at 10:25 a. m. After following the north shore from Trinity bay to the mouth of the Godbout river, the dirigible veered more to the south and ab 11:55 a. m. was reported passing Father Point, approximately seventy miles away on the south shore. It’s around fifty miles an hour. Father Point is 360 miles frond Montreal. All the dirigible needed to do to make St.. Hubert by St, Hubert by 7 p. m. eastern standard time, was to maintain its fifty mile speed. May Delay Mooring Local weather conditions were described as favorable for mooring tonight, and unless there is a decided change, the dirigible should be moored within an hour of arrival. If the late afternoon heat is intense, however, officials mi#ht wait until well after sunset, since expansion caused by heated air makes the ship difficult to maneuver down. The weather forecast along the river from Father Point to Montreal was light to moderate westerly winds and fair weather, with good visibility. The crowds and members of the reception committee began arriving here at noon. Several hundred soldiers, sailors and mounted police were on hand to keep order. Colonel James Ralston, minister of defense, arrived by airplane. He was joined by Mayor Camillien House of Montreal, Major-General A. S. L. MeNaughton and Brigadier General W. 3. N. King, commander of the Montreal military district. Forty-four men are aboard the R-100, including five officers and seven passengers, the latter traveling in official capacities.

LENIENCY AWARDED 2 BY PARDON BOARD Pleas of 14 Other Prisoners Denied at Prison Hearing. Bu United Press . . MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 31. —Only two of sixteen persons who appeared before the state prison pardon board this morning, had their requests granted. William E. Cook, St. Joseph county, serving from two to fourteen years upon a first degree murder conviction, was granted a parole. The two to fourteen-year term of-Milton Warren, Morgan county, imposed on a forgery conviction, was commuted to from one to furteen years. His wife and children pleaded for him.

Thorny Victory Bu United Press YUMA, Ariz., July 31.—Lawrence Peters, 13, a newsboy, claimed today a world’s record for cactus sitting after his descent from a thorny perch which he had occupied for 118 hours and 47 minutes. Lawrence's parents called him down when they noticed he looked uncomfortable in the 112 degree temperature.

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