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STATE FACES BITTER WAR OVERBRIDGE Kentucky to Demand Probe Into Use of Indiana’s Highway Funds. BROWN IS CHALLENGED Neighbor Is Wrathy Over Delay in Constructing Evansville Span. tbu Times Snerint EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Aug. 25.—Demand for explanation of Indiana's highway building expenditures will be made by the state of Kentucky unless the Indiana highway commission at once awards contracts for construction of the Evansville bridge across the Ohio river. This was the threat Assistant At-torney-General Clifford E. Smith of Kentucky has made in a letter to Director John J. Brown of the Indiana highway commission, the Evansville Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, learned today. That the Indiana commission has been letting road building contracts which may hinder the Ohio river bridge project was the statement in Smith’s letter to Brown. Smith's letter, contained financial statements recently called for by Indiana officials to determine whether Kentucky’s funds definitely arc available. Kentucky Cash Ready Smith states that if the Indiana commisison is not satisfied with the financial statements, Kentucky will agree to have its share of the bridge cost available in cash on fifteen days' notice from the Indiana commission. Commenting on the Indiana commission’s plea that it is embarrassed by unexpected completion of road contracts, Smith charges the Indiana commisison has continued to award road contracts since Feb. 10, 1930, when it filed a statement (while the bridge case was pending in the United States supreme court) showing that it had appropriated money for the bridge and had unpledged funds available. Regarding recent opinions by At-torney-General Ogden of Indiana on specific questions from Director Brown, Smith challenges Brown to submit to Ogden full documentary evidence furnished by Kentucky regarding the availability of its funds for the bridge. Smith believes If this were done, a ruling entirely different necessarily would be made. Request Is Ignored Smith recalls that, on Aug. 6, he requested the Indiana commission to supplement its statements filed in the supreme court last Feb. 10 with a statement showing the estimated amount of revenues available for the present biennial period, including contractual obligations incurred to that date. He says that the Indiana commission lias not furnished this statement, nor replied to his letter. He then says: "Unless prompt action is taken by your commission to award a contract or contracts for the Evansville bridge, I shall have to insist upon a statement showing the number and amount of contracts awarded by your commission since the decree of the supreme court of the United States was entered may 14. 1930, as. in view of the present situation, this is very material.”

WAR VETERAN CARRIES BULLET IN LEG 67 YEARS Simon Pincus, 86, Sits in Hospital Today; Says He Feels Fine. J>u United Pres* BROOKLYN, N. Y„ Aug. 25. Simon Pincus, 86, was permitted to sit up in his wheel chair today, and he said he was “feeling fine,” except for the after-operation pain in his right leg where a Confederate bullet had lodged sixty-seven years ago. Pincus was 19 when he was wounded Dec. 13, 1862, in a skirmish with southern soldiers preceding the battle of Fredericksburg. “Just a scratch,” they said, and he was soon back on the firing line. Last summer his leg began to ache. An X-ray showed the presence of the bullet. TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE ERROR BASIS OF SUIT Goshen Man Alleges Mistake in Price Figure Caused SBIO Loss. Times Bnrcint GOSHEN. Ind., Aug. 25.—Alleging an error in a telegram, Louis Batchelor of Goshen has filed suit for SBIO against the Western Unior Company. According to Batchelor, he wired his brokers in Chicago to sell forty shares of stock he owned when the price reached 60. The alleged error consisted in making the figure 79, a price not attained by the stock. Jt was finally sold at a price which caused a loss of SBIO. recovery for which Batchelor seeks. New Cancer Treatment Tested £./ United Press LONDON, Aug. 25—In an article in the British Medical Journal Dr. H S. Souttar, surgeon of the Loudon hospital, revealed he is conducting a series of experiments in cancer treatment with an element known as “radion,” a heavy gas, formed by decaying radium. Culver Cadet Fatally Hurt /> Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., Aug. 25.—Injuries suffered in a glider crash at Cuiver Military academy where he was a student, caused death in a hospital here of Richard Edwards, 17, Dayton, O.

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Doctors Choose to Save Man; Let Woman Die Bu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.—Medical scitnce answered a question almost parallel to the famous Edison “desert problem,” when able to save only one of two persons—a man and a woman—doctors chose to let the woman die. The controversy aroused here today by the physicians’ decision which meant life for Irving S. Johnson, 25, and death for Miss May McClough, 30, centered about the question of whether women always should be considered. Johnson, married and the father of a 14-month-old boy, was being given artificial respiration under the children’s hospital’s only : espirator when Miss McClough was brought in, suffering from respiratory paralysis and in immediate need of respiration treatment. The doctors decided to keep Johnson under the apparatus because he was married and his recovery practically was assured if the treatment was kept up. Miss McClough died a short time later. The fact that she was single and doubt that she would respond to treatment decided doctors not to give her first consideration.

YOUTH KILLS 2 U. S, OFFICERS IN FEAR FRENZY ‘Have Good Time and You Can’t Go Wrong’ Refuted in Boy’s Death. Bn United Press RAINY RIVER, Ont., Aug. 25. The bullet-pierced body of Emerich Frenett, 21, small-town youth who needlessly killed two United States immigration officers in a frenzy of fear, today refuted his philosophy of “have a good time and you can’t go wrong.” Frenett died Sunday night with a handcuff still fastened to his wrist, placed there when police at Fort Francis, Ont., attempted to arrest him for a minor traffic violation. The slain immigration officers were: Lawrence Doton, 30, Ranier, Minn., and Samuel Jones, 27, Warroad, Minn. The officers were making a routine inspection of a Canadian National railway passenger train early Sunday before it crossed the international boundary at International Falls, Minn. Fearing they meant to arrest him, Frenett shot down the inspectors and fled into the woods west of here, where he was surrounded by a posse and killed. Doton was shot without warning as he stepped through a doorway of one of the coaches. The halfcrazed youth then held trainmen and passengers at bay until the train reached Enid, Mont., where he dashed down the station platform, collided with Jones and sent several bullets into his body. Backwoods settlements were terrorized when word spread that the maniacal slayer was at large. Hundreds of men joined posses and cornered Frenett in a shack near here. He was shot down as he made a break for freedom across a clearing. Friends of Frenett at Ft. Francis, his home town, described him as a carefree youth whose main object in life was a good time. He had attended a dance Saturday night before he first became involved with police.

TAKES BANDIT’S GUN Bakery Driver Foils Theft; Fires at Holdup Man. Grappling with a bandit, Loral Tansy, 4106 East Tenth street, Model bakery driver, early today wrested a revolver from the robber and shot at him five times as he fled after the struggle. Tansy told police the bandit jumped on his truck at Ritter avenue and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks and pointing a gun at him, demanded he stop the truck. Tansy said he grabbed the bandit by the neck and took the gun from him. He said he fired five shots as the man fled into a nearby woods. He saia he believed one of the shots took effect. USED SMOKE SCREEN IN ESCAPING, COPS CHARGE Motorist Is Arrested Later, Held on Several Charges. Allegedly using a smoke screen To escape police Sunday, Aaron Nieman, 31, of 3102 English avenue, was arrested an hour later and held by police today. Police said Nieman speeded past a police car at Bloomington and Washington street. When the officers pursued they said he released smoke that nearly caused the police auto to be wrecked. The car driven by Nieman was found later, but he denied making the smoke-screen, asserting that is the way my car acts. WIFE’S JEWELS STOLEN Barber Arrested at Terre Haute Faces Larceny Charge In Chicago. /> United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 25.James Mcßride, 55, barber, has been returned here from Chicago to face grand larceny charges after his arrest here several days ago, accused of the theft of his while’s jewels. Mcßride, according to his story to police, went on a spree and took the jewels while intoxicated. He said he intended to return them when he became sober. It is not anticipated that charges against him will be pressed. All the jewelry having been recovered. Fall Results in Death Bu Times Soecisl MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Aug. 25. —Charles Allison, 40, is dead of a skull fjpeture suffered when he fell to the floor of his store on being stricken iIL

WOMEN FLIERS SET FOR LAST HOP 0[ DERBY Daring Stunters Amaze Throngs at Air Races With Tricks. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 25. Women monopolized the spotlight at the tenth annual national air races here today, with the arrival of the women’s Pacific air derby this afternoon scheduled as the outstanding event of the day. The five remaining contestants, who started from Los Angeles eight days ago, zoomed into Milwaukee today for a noon stop. They were to speed on for Curtiss-Wright airport here after a short stay in Milwaukee. Mrs. Gladys O’Donnell, the young Long Beach, Cal., mother, who holds a big lead, led the way into Milwaukee shortly after 10 o’clock. Doolittle, Doret Thrill Crowds It was a day for the women at the air races, but they were not to “steal the show” altogether, with such fliers as A1 Williams, Marcel Doret of France and Jimmy Doolittle on hand. Williams roared into Chicago late Sunday to aid his old friend, Doolittle, in demonstrating that American built planes can do the spectacular stunts performed by Doret in his little 400-horse power Deiselmotored French fighting ship. Doret and Doolittle thrilled a crowd of almost 100,000 Sunday. The French ace raced in front of the stands at 200 miles an hour, cropping the grass as he went, then suddenly turned the nose of his allmetal ship straight up as 100,000 persons gasped in astonishment, he climbed straight toward the skies for some 1,800 feet. Art Killips Is Winner Veteran airmen declared no other plane could duplicate the stunt. So Doolittle taxied out his new Travel - air mystery ship, did a series of daring maneuvers, then swooped across the field, turned the nose of his plane upward and did just what the Frenchman had done. Two derbies ended Sunday. J, Wesley Smith of Philadelphia won the Atlantic Class B derby from Hartford, Conn. Art Killips of La Grange, 111., finished first in the Miami-to-Chicago derby. Art Davis of Lansing. Mich., was second.. While demonstrating • his glider early today at the races, Kenneth Carr of Yypsilanti, Mich., crashed. His glider fell ninety feet and Carr was taken from the wreckage unconscious. He was hurried to a hospital. DYING MARQUIS INVITES FRIENDS TO ‘FAREWELL’ Many Attend Religious Rites of Extreme Unction at Bedside. Bu United Press , , PARIS, Aug. 25.—The debonaire Marquis Boni de Castellance, onetime husband of the former Anna Gould, has provided his friends with a grand gesture, despite his serious illness. The marquis, whose left side completely is paralyzed, recently sent his personal card to all his friends announcing the day and hour the priest would render him extreme unction. Many accepted his strange invitation, and following the religious rites he announced the ceremony had marked his official withdrawal from society and the world. He then shook hands with each of j his friends and bade them adieu. DEATH IS THREATENED Chief of Milk Strike Guards Told He May Be “Put on Spot.” Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 25. While leaders in Kansas City’s milk strike called a parley to stamp out violence, the chief of guards employed by city wholesalers to combat attacks on milk trucks announced he had received “a death threat” today. David Hawley, employed by Kansas City milk distributers to protect their trucks from raids allegedly inspired by suburban dairymen who seek a higher wholesale price, said he was told by telephone he would be “put on the spot” unless he withdrew the guards.

M’INTYRE TOY GOLF CHAMP

Maurice Mclntyre today was king of Indianapolis miniature golfers, following his 1 up triumph over Mrs. Mary Jane Meyers, women’s champion, in the finals of The Times city-wide tourney, Saturday night at Butler Terrace course, Fifty-sixth and Illinois streets.

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FEAR KIDNAPED GIRL, 10, MAY BE MURDERED Statewide Hunt Is On for Farmhand, Believed to Be Demented. POSSES SEARCH WOODS Threatens to Kill Child If Police Are Notified of Abduction. Bu United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Aug. 25. A farmhand, believed demented, kidnaper of a 10-year-old girl, was the object of a state-wide search today. The kidnaper, Claude Dellinger, 27, left behind him a note in which he threatened death to Betty Jane Foster if police sought to find him. Since Saturday, when Dellinger, former employe of Ernest Foster, visited the Foster home, aroused citizens have made a fruitless search for the child. The Kankakee river .bottoms were dragged and revealed no evidence. Death Is Threatened A note left by Dellinger read: “I have planned to do this thing for a year, but never had enough money until now. I’m in love with this girl and am taking her with me. They have been trying to keep us apart, but now I’ve got her. I will kill her if police are notified. But she will not be harmed otherwise.” Police of Indianapolis and Kokomo, Dellinger’s former home, were asked to aid in the search. Foster said Dellinger Saturday night visited the Foster farm, where he had worked for five years, and took Betty Ann and three other children for a ride. 100 Farmers on Hunt He returned the children to the Foster home within an horn - , pushed the other girls from his automobile and drove away with Betty Ann. Foster returned home to fine the note signed by Dellinger. Foster and his neighbors waited an hour before notifying authorities. Sheriff Burney Maxwell spread the alarm throughout several counties and called for volunteers to aid in the search. ’ It is believed Dellinger may have taken the girl for revenge, because another man took his place on the farm.

MOTORISTS WARNED 300 Failing to Pass Tests Face Arrest. More than 300 motorists who failed to pass automobile inspection on safety lane last week will face arrest Wednesday unless they report to Lieutenant Frank Owen, head of the police accident prevention bureau, with auto defects corrected, Owen declared. HORSE TRAINER DIES SUDDENLY AT TRACK Stricken With Hemorrhage While Working at Fairground. Alexander Wishart, 60, of 931 East Forty-second street, for many years a horse trainer in Illinois and Indiana, died today of pulmonary hemorrhage while exercising a horse at the state fairground track. He had lived in Indianapolis five years and handled a stable of colts for Indianapolis owners. Prior to coming to Indianapolis, Mr. Wishart had charge of the Maple Lawn farm stables at Delavan, 111., for ten years. RELATIVES ARE~SOUGHT James F. Rafferty Dead in Michigan; Police Seek Sister. Indianapolis police today were asked to seek relatives of James F. Rafferty, who was found dead Saturday in a hotel room in Sturgis, Mich. A sister of Rafferty is said to live here. WISCONSIN JUDGE DEAD Supreme Court Member Passes Suddenly of Heart Attack. Bu United Press MADISON, Wis., Aug. 25.—E. Ray Stevens, 61, of Madison, justice of the state supreme court since 1925, died unexpectedly from a heart attack at his home here early today. His death resulted in the fifth vacancy on the supreme court bench during the present term of Governor Walter J. Koehler. BUSINESS SCHOOL OPENS Heavy Enrollment Begins at Central College for Fall Term. A heavy enrollment began today at the Central Business College, Architects and Builders’ building, for the fall term. Enrollments will continue through Sept. 2, according to Fred W. Case, principal.

A fifteen-foot putt on the final hole, after Mrs. Meyers had squared the match on the thirty-fifth greet, gave Mclntyre the crown. Mrs. Meyers missed sending the match into extra holes when she misjrrt her second shot by inches anewtook a par 3. Mrs. Meyers battled gamely and staged frequent rallies to force the

Girl, 3, Is Killed by Auto

Running in front of a car driven by Durbin Tacoma, 21, of R. R. 8, Box 157, at noon today, Betty Lou Hogan, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hogan, 1755 East Raymond street, was instantly killed in front of her home. The child was playing in the street at the time the tragedy occurred. She ran from behind a clump of weeds in the parkway into the auto’s path.

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YOUTH DIES IN SOCIETYJLOUP Tragedy Result of Guests Thinking Robbery Joke. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Aug. 25.—A society holdup ended in tragedy early today because the forty party guests, who were to have been the victims, refused to believe it wasn’t a joke. Miller Wilkinson, 21, Princeton student, was shot and killed by the bandits. Two of the gunmen, Angelo Bell, 20, and his brother, Mike, 16, were wounded, and all three were captured by police. The bandits invaded the suburban home of R. S. Dunham, wealthy realtor, where a party was in progress. “Stick ’em up” the bandits commanded. A titter of laughter ran through the crowd. Half the guests believed it was a stunt to add a thrill to the evening. One of the women guests, a slim girl, whose name is unknown, walked up to the bandit leader and whipped his handkerchief from his face. He leveled his heavy rifle at her. Young Wilkinson leaped at him and knocked the rifle from his grasp. Other men guests attacked his two companions and the holdup resolved itself into a hand-to-hand battle on the lawn of the mansion. Wilkinson knocked the bandit leader down and stood over him. One of the others fired and the youth fell. The Bell brothers were wounded by the bullets of police, whose arrival ended the battle. GIVEN 10-YEAR TERM Cincinnati Doherty Manager Admits Embezzling. Bu United Press CINCINNATI,, Aug. 25.—A. W. Shafer, former $75-a-week district sales manager of Henry L. Doherty & Cos., whose stock market manipulations were held responsible for wrecking of two banks here, pleadof guil;y today when arraigned in crimini'l court on charges of embezzling $210,000. He was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Shafer, whose stock market losses were said to have aggregated more than $1,500,000, was accused of misapplying funds of the Doherty company. BANKER SERIOUSLY ILL S. W. Strauss, Well-Known Financier, Reported Sinking, Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—5. W. Straus, banker and financier, who has been ill for the last three weeks, is in a serious condition today.

title holder at top speed. On the first eighteen holes Mclntyre von six holes and Meyers five, while seven were halved, giving the champion a 1 up advantage. Mrs. Meyers was one up after the twentieh hole, but lost five straight holes before winning the twenty-seventh to be 4 down with 0 to play.

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BY ARCH STEINEL BALLOONING, jumping out of blimps with a parachtue, and cracking up in gliders, is great sport, but there’s nothing like “playing horse” on Dad’s back for a thrill, in the opinion of Donnie Crawford, 4, of Cleveland, the world’s youngest balloonist. Donnie, who is visiting with his parents, I/r. and Mrs. Don Crawford, at the home of C. C. Underwood, 2442 North Pennsylvania street, during the convention of the National Exchange Clubs, has dived earthward with a parachute from a 1,000-foot altitude. Today Donnie is sore. “My balloon hit a wire. I—l—won’t get to go up here. I was going to go up with a dummy. The dummy jumps, then I do. But now my balloon’s burned,” he reported sadly. nun DESPITE Donnie’s aerial feats he g°ts a kick out of taking a ride on his father’s shoulders, playing “tag” with the “kids, 5 and being bought circus balloons to play with. And although Donnie presented Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd with an invitation today to attend the Gordon Bennett international balloon races in Cleveland—his father is manager of the races—he’s nota bit “ritzy,” and even admits a whipping or two. Asked what he was whipped for he says, “You’d be surprised.”

HURL BOMB AT CAR Calcutta Police Executive Shoots Two Assailants. By United Press CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 25.—The automobile of Sir Charles Tegart, police commissioner, was bombed today as it moved through traffic in the heart of the business section of the city. The police commissioner drew his revolver and shot two of his three assailants. One man died as police seized him. Another was wounded by the bomb explosion. The third was arrested. Bu United Press PESHAWAR, India, Aug. 25. British troops clashed with warriors of the Wazir tribe today while advancing against hostile forces along the border. One British officer and eight soldiers were killed. Troops were disarming natives in the villages when fighting started. WOUNDS 2; ENDS LIFE Estranged Husband Kills Self After Shooting Wife, Clerk. By Unitetl Press SPRINGFIELD, 0., Aug. 25. Roy G. Staley, 35, Dayton, killed himself in the Arcadia hotel here early today after shooting and wounding his estranged wife and Harold M. Smith, 21, hotel clerk, behind whom the woman sought shelter. Mrs. Staley had sued her husband for divorce. Cleveland Pastor Drops Dead By United Press MONROE, Mich., Aug. 25.—The Rev. Bruno Zielenski, 32, of Cleveland, dropped dead here Sunday I night as he came out of the water at Erie Beach, where he had been ! swimming. Acute dilation of the heart was given as the cause. Hourly Temperate res 6 a. m 67 10 a. je. 74 7 a. m 69 Ula. m 78 8 a. hu... 71 sl2 (noon).. 80 9sa. 72 Ip. m..... 83

“I slammed on my brakes as quick as I could, but I didn’t see her in time,” Tacoma told police. He was arrested. Manslaughter charges may be filed against him following a coroner’s verdict. The parents and seven other children survive. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

CITY WILL ACCLAIM BYRD, FLYING HERE FROM CHICAGO TO EXCHANGE CLUB PARLEY

Safe Is Safe “This safe is open.” Yeggs who entered the William Ehrich Sheet Metal Company, 1628 Bates street, removed the sign early today and went to work on the cash box, but fled before obtaining any loot. Officials of the company said the sign was placed on the safe several weeks ago after yeggs had blown a previous safe and wrecked it.

$50,000 ‘GIFT' TO HELEN KANE AIRED IN COURT Money Given to Her in Payment of Loan, Actress Says. R)< United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Helen Kane, actress appeared at a bankruptcy proceeding here today to explain a “gift" of $50,000 by Murray Posner, an admirer. The Bond Dress Company, in which Posner had an interest, recently failed, and the gift to Miss Kane was included in its list of assets. The actress told Peter B. Olney, referee, that money given her by Posner was not a “gift,” but payment of a loan she made to him. Asked to explain in detail, Miss Kane said Posner and she went out a great deal together last spring when he visited her in Hollywood. Being unknown there, she said, Posner’s checks could not be cashed. But “everybody knows Helen Kane," she added, and so she footed the bills for entertainment on Posner’s promise that he would return the money. She said she could produce canceled checks amounting to $27,281 to prove her statements. Asked about the balance, she said these checks had been lost when she moved from city to city. ocemTpuhe down Forced to Land Twice After Atlantic Voyage. Bu United Press QUEENSPORT, Nova Scotia, Aug. 25.—The trans-Atlantic Dormer seaplane piloted by Captain Wolfgang von Gronau, was forced by fog to descend at Sheet Harbor, about half way between Queensport and Halifax, advices received here said. The seaplane departed for Halifax, 130 miles, at 5:50 a m. today. The plane was forced down here Sunday en route from Cartright, Labrador, after crossing the Atlantic by way of Iceland and Greenland, starting from Germany. Von Gronau was accompanied by E. Zimmer, second pilot; F. Albracht, radio operator, and E. Heack, mechanic. BABY KNOCKED INTO AUTO, CARRIED OFF Hit-Run Driver Charges Through Safety Zone; Five Are Hurt. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.—A hitrun driver speeded through a pedestrian safety zone Sunday night, injured five persons and knocked a 2-year-old boy from the arms of one of them. The impact tossed the baby into another automobile. A few minutes later the child was found more than a mile away. He was sitting calmly on a lawn, none the worse for his strange ride. The baby, Ignacio Tarin, was held by Miss Agnes Lopez, a friend of his mother. The driver presumably set the child down in a quiet district. BANDIT TRIO GETS $64 Ice Company Substation and Soft Drink Parlor Held Up. Three bandits held up and robbed the Capital City Ice Company’s substation and a soft drink parlor, 3100 Madison avenue, this morning and obtained $47 of the ice company’s money and sl7 from the j soft drink stand. HIT “BY STREET CAR Man, *3, Is Near Death of injuries Suffered Sunday. ; John Waltz, 73, of 1218 South Sheffield avenue, is near death to- | day in the Methodist hospital from i injuries he suffered Sunday when I struck by a street car at Morris and Kappas streets.

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Famous Explorer Will Arrive Here Shortly After 2 P. M. Plans for reception of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd at Mars Hill airport today were altered only slightly this morning after Byrd announced he would fly here from Chicago without an escort, Herold M. Harter, National Exchange Club secretary said. The escort of army and navy squadrons and planes of other noted fliers participating in the Exchange

Club’s “Famous Fliers” night pro- . gram at Cadle 11 ab e made to- | night will arrive I later in the afterI noon. Byrd gave no I reason for his re • I quest that the csI cort arranged to fly with him from national air races in Chicago to this I city be withheld until after his departure. He will

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arrive here shortly before 2 p.m. Tonight Admiral Byrd, will be guest of honor at a dinner given by Governor Harry G. Leslie in the Riley room of the Claypool. At the tabernacle, Byrd and a group of distinguished aviators, participating in the air races, will be introduced and will speak. Other Noted Fliers to City Among them will be: Marshal Pietro Colombo, Italian speed king; Marcel Doret, French flier. Captain Fredrich Lohse, German representative at the air meet; Captain Frank Hawks, holder of the transcontinental speed record; Amelia Earhart, noted aviatrix, and Paul Siple, Erie, Pa., boy scout, member of the Byrd polar expedition. Several notables of the air who will be on tonight’s program were on the air races program and probably will not leave Chicago before 3 this afternoon. Major-General Frank Parker, Sixth corps area commander, wW proffered a flight of army ships f%r the Byrd escort, was to fly here with a service squadron sometime this afternoon. A naval fleet also was expected. Hawks to Fly Here Although Captain Hawks had not arrived in Chicago early today, he was expected to accompany other air aces to Indianapolis, where he is scheduled to make his first public appearance since breaking transcontinental speed records recently. Clifford Henderson, general manager of the air races in Chicago, will fly to the city late this afternoon with a plane load of nationally prominent figures in aviation. On the field wall be an official reception committee of more than 250 Indianapolis business men, together with a crowd expected to be one of the largest ever to greet a distinguished visitor. From the airport a parade was to convey Byrd to Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument, where Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan was to present the explorer with a medal voted him by the city. Following brief ceremonies on the south steps of Monument, the parade was to be dismissed by Guy K Jeffries, past national president of Exchange Clubs. Cadle Program at 7:30 Program at the tabernacle, which will be opened to the public at 7:30 p. m., will begin with band and drum corps concerts, after which Jeffries will introduce Mayor Sullivan who will welcome the delegation of fliers. Governor Leslie's welcoming speech will be followed by a response by Muller, and Cy Caldwell, flier and writer will be the first of the aviators to speak. Admiral Byrd will be presented, after which Lieutenant Walter Hin- ! ton, Washington, D, C., pilot of the I first plane to fly the Atlantic, will speak, and the European fliers will ! be introduced. Others to be presented will include: General Parker, Rear Admiral Walter S. Crosley, commandant of Great Lakes Naval Training station; Captain John Mcßeady, Miss Marjorie Stinson, Colonel Harold E. Hartney, Major H. Weir Cook, Lieutenant H. H. Maxwell, P. G. B. Morris, John M. Vorys, William E. Arthur, Frank A. Tichj enor. Casey Jones, commercial aviator, i will speak and Henderson will invite Exchangites to attend the air J races in Chicago, i While minds of most Exchangites j centered on the arrival of air heroee, delegates assembled for their open*. 1 tag convention session at the Clay-' mol this moral** v