Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1930 — Page 1

OPEN GUNS ON THIRD MOONEY ‘EYE-WITNESS' Defense to Contend State ‘Key’ Was Under Car During Blast. JUDGES BECOME WEARY Preston Scores Hearing as ‘Nothing but Corned Beef Hash.’ r Aug. 13.—A new charge of perjury was made by the defense today in the retrial of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney. Edwin V. McKenzie, attorney for Billings, called W. L. Claibom, Oakland attorney, as a surprise witness. Claibom testified that John Crowley, who appeared against Billings, did not see Billings at the scene of the explosion and did not even see the bombing which killed ten persons. BY MAX STERN Tlm* BUff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 13.—Evidence that another of the state’s key witnesses in the 1916 Preparedness day murder trials actually was an absentee was to be offered today in the Mooney-Billings "retrial’’ before the seven California supreme court judges. The newest writness the defense will seek to add to its growing list of proven perjurers is the late John Crowley, auto merchant, who helped John MacDonald "see” Warren Billings near the explosion scene Crowley swore he saw Billings with a man who looked like a Mexican eleven minutes before the explosion a block from where MacDonald tetsifled to having seen them, Edwin McKenzie. Billings lawyer, promised to produce an army officer to swear that Crowley was under this officer's auto Axing the clutch for one hour prior to and at the time of the explosion and a half block away from the scene of the tragedy. Mile From Scene

Crowley thus would be the third of the Fickert-Cunha-Brennan witnesses shown not to have been even at the scene of the crime where they identified Mooney and Billings. Frank Oxman was at Woodland, ninty mile* away. John MacDonald now Is believed to have been a mile from the scene in a barber shop at the time. McKenzie promised other new witnesses, several from out of town. Tuesday's session developed two important points. One was that the alleged '‘conspiracy'' evidence, thrown out of court fourteen years ago. is not to be introduced until after the judges cross-question Warren Billings in his prison home Thursday night, and possibly not then. Justice Waste announced that it would be admitted now only for identification. The other was that the judges apparently are wearying of the hearing. McKenzie repeatedly objected to remarks interjected by Justice Preston. "You're wasting your and our time,” Preston said, "I’ve listened to as little of your cross-examina-tion as possible. It’s an affront to this court.” Admission Obtained Preston even threatened to halt the hearing forthwith. "If this sort of thing keeps on I will move that we adjourn and quit this hearing." he snapped. “It is degenerating into a harrangue. It's nothing but corned beef hash.” Justice Shenk. however, interrupted with: "Let us go on.” “Your honors,” countered McKenzie, "the worst perjurers in the world have been alowed ample time to holster their cases. When we seek to, we are told to cut it short.” Otherwise the hearing generated much more heat than light. ExProsecutor James Brennan made an admission that proved a feather for the defense. He said he did not wish to leave the impression that he wanted Mooney and Billings denied a pardon. "I wish my statement that I thought Billings guilty stricken from the record.” he said. "I feel it is up to the justices to decide that." It was Judge Preston himself that brought out the point that Brennan had signed a pardon plea for Billmgs. Change Case Theory Ex-Prosecutor Edward Cun ha when asked why he had not called Crowley. Estelle Smith, or one Rominger in the Mooney trial, replied that "the defense could have called them " McKenzie claimed It was because the prosecution had found Oxman and thereupon changed its whole theory of the case. To prove that it was possible for Mooney and Billings to have taken their famous trip from 721 Market street to the crime scene at the foot of Market street and then back in time for the Mooneys to be photographed at 1:58 on top of the Eller building more than a mile away, Cunha said he had just driven the distance in his car from the scene of the crime to the Eiler building to SH and 4 minutes “without going faster than thirty miles an hour." McKenzie reminded him he had only two mini’jes. if his own witnesses were to be believed, to make it from 721 Market, a distance of 4.000 feet farther; that the elevator to the seventh floor wasn't running in the Eller building: that Mooney would have had to change his suit to fit MacDonald's word picture: that the streets were filled with people and no autos were allowed or Market street. "This is not a witness," he burst out at last, "he s an advocate.”

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 81

Hawks Sets Record Pace in Hop East

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Ahead of Lindbergh Time Thus Far in Dash From Pacific Coast. BULLETIN Captain Frank Hawks landed his bullet-nosed monoplane at Mars Hill airport at 1:23 p. m. on his east-west flight for the transcontinental record. Bv United Brets WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 13—Capt. Frank Hawks landed his bullet-nose monoplane here at 10:28 a. m. today on his way across the country to set anew west-east transcontinental record. He left Albuquerque, N, M.. at 7 a. m. Captain Hawks’ elapsed flying time from Los Angeles was 6 hours 12 minutes. He was forty-four minutes ahead of the time made by Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in their record setting flight. The plane made the jump from Albuquerque at better than 200 miles an hour, twenty miles an hour faster than its average to the New Mexico city. The flier paused here only long enough to take on gasoline and oil. He climbed into his narrow cockpit at 10:35 a. m. (central standard time) and roared away toward Indianapolis. the last scheduled stop before New York. Middlewestern weather was ideal for the dash. Skies were clear and rains had cooled the air. There was little wind. Captain Hawks was jubilant as he left He said he believed he would arrive in Newr York with an elapsed time of twelve hours, more than two hours better than the record set by Colonel Lindbergh.

LINEMAN KILLED BY LIVE WIRE ■ : Coroner Holds Superintendent in Electrocution Death. Charles King, 20. of 820 South Belmont avenue. Indianapolis Power and Light Company, lineman, was electrocuted today while working on a company pole at Twenty- ! ninth and Harding streets. I According to information ob- : tamed by police, the accident oci curred at 9 a. m. Coroner Charles H. Keever, who said he was not notified until two hours after the tragedy, informed company officials that he will probe the delayed report. Glenn Elwood, lire superintendent, was arrested by Keever on a charge of interfering with the process of law. He was ordered to appear in coroner's court at 10 a. m. Thursday. Elwood told Keever efforts were being made to save King’s life after the accident. King was thrown to the street after the shock and his back broken in the fall. The high tension line with which he was believed to have come into contact, carried 3.300 volts. Full details of the accident were lacking. ARSON ISJHARGED First Arrests for Grass Fires Are Made. First arrests on arson charges for carelessly or maliciously setting grass fires along highways have been made at Martinsville, it was reported today by the state police. State Policeman Charles Robbins and Virgil Quinn, state arson investigator. plac and charges of arson against Fred C. and Herschell Dorsett. Martinsville, and they are held in jail there. 1 - It is alleged they were driving along State Road 37 and tossed lighted torches into the grass at several places, burning one orchard and threatening several farm buildings. NINETEENTH ST. TO BE USED FOR AUTO TESTS Indianapolis Police to Conduct Annual Car Inspection Week. Nineteenth street, between Illinois and Meridian streets, will be used by the Indianapolis police department for the annual automobile inspection week which will begin Monday. Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney said today that brakes and various parts of an auto dealing with safety of operation will be examined during the week. Lieutenant Frank Owen, head of the accident prevention bureau, will be ilk charge of the tests.

BITTER FIGHTS ARE FORECAST BY PRIMARIES Returns Show Many Thrills in Store for Observers in Fall. BATTLES IN FOUR STATES Oklahoma, Ohio, Alabama and Nebraska to Hold High Interest. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I’nlted Press Staff Correspondent ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Four ; bare-fist political fights with plenty of thrills for the voters were forecast by returns today from primaries in Nebraska, Ohio, Alabama and Oklahoma. Returns indicated the following contests in the fall elections would !be marked by spectacular clashes of fighting personalities and issues: NEBRASKA—For senator, George W, Norris, Republican incumbent, against former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat; for Governor, Arthur Weaver, Republican incumbent, against former Governor Charles Bryan, Democrat and brother of the late William Jennings Bryan, OHIO—For senator, Roscoe McCulloch, Republican incumbent, against Robert J. Bulkley, Democrat, who won the nomination overwhelmingly as an outright wet over four opponents; for Governor, Myers Y. Cooper, Republican incumbent, against George White, Democrat, former chairman of the Democratic national committee during the 1920 presidential campaign. ALABAMA For senator, J. Thomas Heflin, incumbent, running as an independent after being expelled from the Democratic primary, against John H. Bankhead, Democrat, and member of one of Alabama’s political dynasties. OKLAHOMA—For senator, W. B. Pine, Republican incumbent, against former Senator Tnomas P. Gore, Democrat, and for years famous as Oklahoma’s blind senator; for Governor, William (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, Democrat, former congressman, against Ira A. Hill, Republican. Robinson Assured of Post In Arkansas, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic incumbent, won renomination from Tom Campbell in the first contest he has had In twelve years. His re-election is assured. Only in Nebraska was President Hoover a serious primary issue. There Norris won out against the combined forces of regular Republicans and Anti-Saloon League forces who attempted to punish him for bolting to Governor Smith-on the power issue in 1928. Norris w'as assailed as a deserter from the administration and from the dry cause. He faces a hard fight, however, against Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock-, who is assured of much influential support from enemies of Norris and the contest is expected to be one of the most spectacular in the country. Ohio, birthplace of the AntiSaloon League, will witness a bitter senatorial contest revolving around the prohibition issue. Buckley, who won the Democratic senatorial nomination over four opponents, made his campaign against the eighteenth amendment. Bitter War Looms in Ohio The new Republican national chairman, Senator Fess of Ohio, is a lifelong favorite of the Anti-Saloon League. Therefore, a desperate effort is expected to re-elect Senator McCulloch to stave off the moral effect which a defeat on the home grounds of the Anti-Saloon League and the administration party management would carry. In Alabama, Senator Heflin faces the fight of his political career. Denied a place in the Democratic primary for his refusal to support Governor Smith in 1928, Heflin now is running as an independent. He is against some odds because Jonh H. Bankhead, whose father was a senator and whose brother is a congressman, commands family and business strength. Heflin will make his fight on a "Tammany-Raskob-Rome’’ issue. The Oklahoma fight, both for senator and Governor, ■Rill be packed with the drama for which the politics of that state has been noted. “Alfala Bill” Murray, Democratic candidate for Governor, would be almost certain of faction, execept for the fact that large numbers of Democrats who fought him bitterly may be expected to bolt the ticket. Murray umself suggests what may be in store by calling himself a "candidate for impeachment.” Former Senator Gore. who. though blind, was one of the most active senators during his service here, is out with his com knife after the Hoover administration. He is staking everything on the discontent of the Oklahoma farmers and though Senator Pine, his Republican opponent, never has been known as a thick and thin supporter of the administration, Gore will attempt to make him pay for even lukewarm support of the administration. Life Long Resident Dies Bv Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind., Aug. 13.—Porter Penisten, 69. lifelong resident of Anderson and vicinity, is dead at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Harry Cooper. He leaves his widow, four cliildren and a sister. Man, "0, Sees First Movie FT. WAYNE. Ind., Aug. 13. Thomas B. Weisman, 70. Grant county resident, saw his first motion picture in a theater here where his son, Duk Weisman, is a machine ojwrKor. V

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"It certainly will make a nice ornament for some one’s mantel,” speculates Miss Mildred Dismore, 2003 West Micihgan street, as she fondles the Kay Jewelry Store trophy to be presented to the city champion named in The Times toy golf tournament. Course champions were named today after nine days of qualifying play and will compete Thursday and Friday nights at four courses in a thirty-six hole elimination round to name eight women and eight men for the championship flights next week.

$50,000 ‘GIFT’ TO HELEN KANE BARED

Court Order Ties Up Fund Deposited by Admirer in New York. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Aug. IJ.— Local attorneys have secured an order restraining Helen Kane, musical comedy singer, from touching $50,000 deposited to her account at the Plaza Trust Company. Miss Kane, now playing in a Chicago theater, last June received

SIO,OOO from a friend, Murray J. Posner, dress manufacturer, it is charged. Last August an additional $40,000 is said to have been given Miss Kane by Posner. She deposited the money to her account. Milton Weisman, attorney secured the restraining order from Supreme Justice Frankenthaler, he

said, to protect creditors of the Bond Dress Company, in which Pos-

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‘MENCKEN DOMESTIC TYPE,’ SAYS NATHAN “Henry Should Marry; Bellows With Rage If Noodles Are Late.” Bv United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 13—One of the most unperturbed passengers aboard the Europa when that ship docked Tuesday night was George Jean Nathan, close friend and former partner of H. L. Mencken. Asked what he thought of Mencken’s impending marriage, Nathan said he wasn’t fooled by his colleague of many years. "I’m not the least bit surprised.” said Nathan, "H- L. Mencken really is a home man and he actually bellows with rage if he doesn't get his noodles promptly at 6 p. m.” When Mencken cabled him; "Keep all your praises for yourself, I’m getting married,” Nathan said he was vastly amused. "Henry couldn't fool me,” said Nathan, "he always was like a married man to me. All his talk against matrimony was just so much talk.” CITY SUIT IN COURT Gas Station Case Starts Before Judge Young. Trial of an injunction suit in which the city seeks to prevent operation of a filling station at Kesiler boulevard and the Lafayette road, was under way today before Special Circuit Judge Howard Young. Contending that the Lincoln Oil and Refining Company violated a city ordinance in erecting the station, city attorneys ask an injunction against continued operation, and seek to test the park board’s jurisdiction in zoning matters outside the city limits. Attorneys for the oil company contend that city ordinances class the property' in litigation as a business area. Trial of the case is expected to require two days. Mashed Finger Fatal Bv Times Saerial ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 13.—Albert P. Rinker, 73, farmer of the Perkinsville community west of here, died at St. John's hospital of blood poisoning resulting frgn a mashed finger.

ner was a partner. A preliminary accounting shows the concern’s assets to be only $200,000, while debts total $325,000. ‘Greek to Me,’ Says Helen Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—Helen Kane, musical comedy star, stopped her ‘boop-doop-a-dooping” at a Chicago theater Tuesday night long enough to deny she had received $50,000 from Murray J. Posner, New York dress manufacturer, last spring. "It’s all Greek to me,” said Miss Kane, when told creditors of the Bond Dre£s Company, in which Posner was a partner, had obtained an order, tying up money Posner allegedly gave her. “I knew Mr. Posner in New York,” she admitted; "but only vaguely, and I don’t have $50,000, or $40,000, of my own, or of Mr. Posner’s.” Further attempts to question the baby-voiced singer were stopped | when she interrupted with "I don’t know what you're talking about,” and ran on the stage. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 61 10 a. m 79 7a- m 65 11 a. m 82 Ba. m 71 12 (noon).. 83 9 a. m 77 1 p. m..... 86

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Failure to Regain 4-Year Child Is Blamed for Death Effort. BY GEORGE H. BEALE United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13.—Lina Basquette, screen star and formerly premier danseuse for Ziegfeld, at-

tempted to commit suicide, early today because, police said she told them, she despaired of ever regaining custody of her 4-year-old daughter, Lita Warner. The a c tress, widow of the late Sam Warner of Warner Brother’ productions, took poison at her home, where she was entertaining a few friends.

She was rushed to a police hospital where antidotes were administered. Later, when her condition improved, she was permitted to go home under the care of her physician. Investigating officers said Miss Basquette told them she became despondent when her attempts to have her child returned to her were futile. Young Lita, by an agreement with Miss Basquette, was given into custody of relatives of Sam Warner when the former New York dancer decided to remarry. Miss Basquette was found by a maid, writhing in agony and rapidly losing consciousness. The maid said she believe the actress was in poor spirits because she had not fully recovered from a recent operation for appendicitis. DISCUSS BRIDGE STATUS Vanderburg County Commissioners Confer With Director Brown. Vanderburg county commissioners today confcfitd with Director John J. Brown <sf the state highway commission, regarding the present status of the Evansville bridge. There is little likelihood of construction soon, as the state highway commission doesn’t have sufficient funds at present, Brown told them.

RAILWAYS AID STATE FARMS BY RATE CUT Representatives of Twelve Companies Agree to 50 Per Cent Slash. HAY ORDER IS BOOSTED Roads Also May Act in Moving of Livestock to Other Localities. (Other Drought News. Page 2) Reduction of 50 per cent on freight rates on stock foods, hay, water and com in Indiana areas stricken by the drought was agreed today by representatives of twelve railroad companies in the state, in conference with John W. McCardle, public service commission chairman. While Indiana groups were offering relief to the farmer, Arthur Hyde, secretary of agriculture, notified the American Railway Association that emergency drought conditions in Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Ohio required special freight rate relief. Action Follows Program The action by Hyde and Indiana railway officials follows the program outlined by the interstate commerce commission last week. The Indiana move will pave the way for the shipment of 200 tons of hay from Kansas. The original order was 150 tons, but was boosted when word was received from Representative Louis Ludlow that eleven southern shippers already have announced the slice in freight rates. Included in Letter Ludlow, in a letter to W. H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau Federation president, said that in addition to a complete state-wide survey, the railroads and government will set up agencies in the drought areas to direct traffic of the relief products. That the railways also may grant reduced rates to Indiana farmers so they may move livestock to other localities was included in Ludlow’s letter to Settle. Governor Harry G. Leslie is in Washington for the drought conference Thursday called by President Herbert Hoover which is to be attended the Governors of states affected by the drought.

REMOVE PATIENTS IN CONDEMNED WARD Fire Marshal’s Orders Complied With at City Hospital. Removal of all patients from the old city hospital main ward building has been completed, in accordance with orders of the state fire marshal, according to Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent. Some of the patients have been transferred to the linen room on the ground floor of the Burdsal unit, and the infants’ ward on the fourth floor of C wing. Frisoners are being held in a separate division of the psychopathic ward, Dr. Doeppers said. The out-patient department will be transferred to the new building Jan. 1, tentative completion date. SHIP TRAGEDY IS AIRED Federal Officials Finish Probe of Crash Fatal to 50. Bv United Press NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 13.—Trial of Captain Archibald H. Brooks of the steamer Fairfax, w'hich collided with the tanker Pinthis July 10 with a loss of fifty lives, was concluded by federal steamboat inspectors here ! today after the accused master 1 categorically denied every charge preferred against him. The trial board announced at conclusion of testimony, that a decision would be made “as soon as possible,” within a day or two or w ithin the next few weeks. A transcript of testimony will be forwarded to federal authorities at Washington. SLANDER CHARGES FILED Nebraska Attorney-General Asks $200,000 for Radio Talk. Bv United Press LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 13.—Claiming his reputation was damaged by utterances made Monday night in a campaign speech over the radio, Attorney-General C. A. Sorenson today filed a damage suit in district court for $200,000 against Richard F. Wood, Omaha, and radio station KFAB of Lincoln. Each are sued for SIOO,OOO by the attorney-general-FOUR KILLED IN CRASH Three Others May Die as Toll of Auto-Milk Truck Collision. Bv United Press CRANBERRY LAKE, N. J.. Aug. 13. —A milk truck and an automobile sedan collided in the morning mist at Fredon near here today, killing four persons and injuring five others, three of them probably fatally. The dead are: Tony Amadeo, 28; his brother, Herman, 32; Napoleon De Carlo, and an unidentified man. All are believed to live in Passaic. Chickens Under Ban INGALLS. ;Cnd., Aug. 13.—Chickens cf this town have lost their liberties. The town board has served notice that an ordinance requiring chicken raisers to keep their fowls penned froci April 1 to Oct. 1 is to be rigidly enforced. The ordinance is to protect gardCD3' *

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Auntie Alky Woman, 61, Quits Keeping Boarders for Rum Running Thrills.

Bv United Brets _ . Michigan city, ind., Aug. 13.—A yearning for adventure which caused Mrs. Mary Hurn, 61-year-old widow', to turn from the prosaic work of keeping boarders to rum running in a battered flivver, has landed her in a jail cell. Clad in an old fashioned calico dress, Mrs. Hum placidly awaited arraignment on charges of unlawful possession and transportation of liquor. She said she would tell the judge ‘a thing or tw r o about prohibition enforcement.’ Her life until three years ago, she claimed, had been dull. For twenty-seven years after the death of her husband, she supported herself by taking in lodgers. Then she decided to travel, and made regular trips between Chicago and Detroit, and "other places,” with alcohol. On such occasions she would load her car in Chicago, she said, and deliver the alcohol to points in Michigan. At Detroit, the machine w r as reloaded with whisky, and brought back to Chicago. nun ALL might have gone on well had not the woman and her companion, William Richards, been arrested in Michigan City as they drove pasta stop light, with a load of alcohol. Mrs. Hurn says that once she was an ardent prohibitionist in Corydon, Ind., until lured by the spirit of adventure and convinced that prohibition enforcement merely was a theory, she decided to find out just how easy it was to break the law. “Some people might say that this business is dangerous,” she said, as she sat in her cell, “but me, I ain’t afraid of anybody.”

OPEN QUIZ INTO MOB LYNGHINGS Marion Prosecutor Receives Warning Threats. Bv United Press MARION, Ind., Aug. 13— An official court of inquiry into the lynching of two Negroes on the Grant county courthouse lawm last Thursday night opened in superior court, this afternoon. Merle Wall and Earl Stroup, deputy attorneys-general, were in charge of the inquiry and a score of witnesses were subpenaed to appear. Authorities have promised that the lynchings will be sifted thoroughly, although Harley Hardin, prosecutor, said the public has evinced no desire to press prosecutions. Hardin made known that he has received two letters threatening his life if he persists in efforts to apprehend members of the mob. johnlPcormack to BUILD IN HOLLYWOOD Famous Tenor Expected to Live Part of Year on Coast. Bv NEA Service ’HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13.—John McCormack, noted Irish tenor, w'ill be back in Hollywood in October.

The famous singer is coming back here primarily to look over the large plot of ground he pur chased shortly before his and e parture last spring. In all probability he W'ill build a home on a portion of his ground with the idea of living here for a few months each year. And he may make

another picture for one of the major studios. Whether he does or not depends largely upon what kind of a financial offer is made to him. He received $400,000 for "‘Song o’ My Heart.” SCOUTS WAR THREAT Ex-Envoy Says Japan-U. S. Conflict Not Likely. Bv United Press WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 13. —The Japanese war threat sometimes held before the people of the United States was attacked by William H. Castle Jr., former ambassador to Japan, today. Castle refuted the argument that trade rivalry might cause a war by showing how the balance of trade between the United States and Japan is in the latter’s favor, w'hile in China the two nations are not trying to sell the same thing. He also scouted the theory that a desire to ow'n the Philippine islands might lead to conflict, asserting that Japan does not seek political expansion. INJURED CHILD BETTER Four-Year-Old Lad, Hurt in Auto Accident, Is Improved. Condition of Stanley Moriellon, 4. son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Moriellon, 54 Kenmore road, who was injured in a motor car accident Tuesday night, was reported “improved” today by physicians at the city hospital. The boy was hurt when the car driven by his father collided with an auto driven by Neal Maginty, 35. of 5326 Hill street, at Rural and New York streets. |

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JACKSON AND O’BRINE SET NEWRECORD Keep on Flying After They Pass Hunters’ Mark; Goal Is 1,000 Hours. WILD ST. LOUIS FETE Endurance Machine Passes New Official Time in Torrent of Rain. BY PAUL H. KING. United Press Staff Correspondent LAMBERT FIELD, ST. LOUIS. Mo., Aug. 13.—Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brine regained the world’s refueling endurance record for air-

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as they passed the Hunter brothers’ mark ai 8:52, but subsided into a heavy drizzle as the new official record was made an hour later. The plane left the ground at 7:11! a. m. on July 21. O’Brine and Jackson dropped a green flare as the record was made. It signified "all is w'ell.” An impromptu parade started o* the field. Men, women and children joined it, despite the rain, which increased at

10 a. m. Bombs containing black powder were set off and sirens screeched. Through downtown St. Louis, fire and factory whistles were blown. Four minutes after breaking the record, the fliers whose

watches appeared to be slow—shell their monoplane down over the field, a few hundred feet above the crowd, then shot to the thousand-foot, level and circled around. They opened the cabin door and waved. Mrs. O’Brine and Mrs. Jackson, were soaked by the rain when they ran out on the field and waved to their husbands. After climbing back to the 1,000foot level, the endurance monoplane again dived, speeding only 150 feet over the heads of the crowd three times in succession and then sped up and resumed its circling course. Wives Provide Breakfast Jackson and O’Brine equaled the refueling endurance flight record of the Hunter brothers at 8:52:30 a, m. and kept on flying toward their goal of 1,000 hours. At 7:45 a. m. the 124th refueling contact was successfully made. Besides breakfast, sixty-five gallons of gas and five gallons of oil were brought up. For breakfast the fliers had canteloupe, cereal, coffee, milk, rolls and ham and egg sandwiches, cooked by their wives. Through the night the orange and yellow monoplane soared in wide circles around the field at an altitude of between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. Hundreds of motorists parked their cars at the airport and spent the night listening to the hum of the circling plane. Crowd Happy During Night Ukuleles and mandolins were produced and popular songs occasionally drowned out the sound of the endurance motor. Broadcasting from the "little orange and yellow bungalow,” as Jackson and O’Brine call their home in the air, became less frequent as the two sought to conserve the radio battery. The problem of remaining in the air became strictly one of whether the motor would stand the strain. The propellor h.is revolved more than 44,000,000 times and the valves of the engine have opened and closed 21,565.000 times. The combined distance the plane has traveled was more than 34,600 miles, and it has consumed nearly 5,000 gallons of gasoline and 220 gallons of oil. Flight Is Private Venture The weather was cool today and the fliers were glad of it. During last week’s heat wave when the temperature passed the 100 mark on six successive days, they had to seek higher altitudes to find comfort. Today they had heavy leather jackets to protect them from the cold. The plane is the same model, and the engine the same type used in the St. Louis Robin flight last year and was a gift from the Curtlss-Robert-son Company. The refueling plane Patsy is a similar ship. O’Brine is a native of Cedar Rapids, la., where his parents stiii live. He is 29 and has been flying six years. Jackson, an aviation instructor, once made a record of 417 consecutive barrel rolls. Sheriff Candidate Dies Bu United Prcia CROWN POINT, Ind., Aug. 13. George W. Horst, 53, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Lake county, dropped dead at his home herd as he arose after eating Tuesday night. He was a member of th® board of election commissioners. Death was ascribed to heart disease.

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planes today at 9:52.30, exceeding by one hour the Hunter brothers’ mark, and flew on with 1,000 hours as their goal. The veteran flier* sailed past the record of 553:41:30 horn - # in their CurtissRobin plane. A torrent of raia greeted the fliers

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