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This Is the first of six daily stories on the life of Lon Chaney, the screen's greatest character actor, by Dan Thomas, Hollywood correspondent of The Times and NEA Service. In his subsequent stories, Thomas will tell more about this amazing actor and his work in the hideous roles that made him the movies’ greatest male drawing card for years. , • BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer 'Copyright. 1930. by NEA Service, Inc.) " HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28. —Lon Chaney, dead, is as much a mystery as was Lon Chancy, alive. The star whom Hollywood never really knew and the greatest character actor in the history of motion pictures has carried to the grave with him his silent, retiring personality, which was as baffling as any of the weird roles he played in the films. For no one m Hollywood, except for a few—and a very few—intimate friends, ever really knew Lon Chaney. Unlike most movie idols, Chaney hated the tinseled life that most of them led. He made few public appearances, he attended practically no brilliant "first nights,” he shunned gay parties, he wore heavy glasses as a disguise to protect himself from hero-worshippers, he refused to discuss his personal life with interviewers, he was happily married, he lived quietly with his family—and his art.

For Chaney found greater pleasure in donning rough clothes and fishing for trout, with a pipe between his teeth, in the solitude of a mountain stream; in tinkering with an amateur’s movie camera and developing his own films, just for the

LINDYS ESCAPE FLAMES PERIL ON CITY STOP Plane Set for Takeoff as Gasoline Is Spilled Under Ship. The good luck that Las won for Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh the soubriquet of ‘Lucky Lindy,” stood him in god stead at Stout field, Mars Hill airport, here today, when a hundred gallons of gasoline accidentally were spilled beneath the rearing plane in which the Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were about to take off. The famed flier and his wife had stopped briefly at the Indianapolis airport for refueling before proceeding to Chicago ' ,r the air races. The pair came to ndianapolis from Columbus. Accidentally Pulls Wire The refueling completed, Colonel Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh had resumed their places in the Lockheed special's cockpit when Lindbergh accidentally pulled the wire releasing the safety valve on the bottom of the gasoline tank. Gasoline deluged the concrete runway, with the extreme danger of becoming ignited by the roaring motor. Before Lindbergh sensed the trouble, a hundred gallons of gasoline spread a menacing carpet beneath the ship. Shuts Off Motor Airport attaches rushed for fire extinguishers as Lindy shut off his motor. Heated by its flight from Columbus. the motor barked a few more times and halted to the immense relief of the crowd. The colonel alighted and directed refueling from the refueling truck. Mrs. Lindbergh gave no evidence of alarm. In a few minutes the pair were winging their way to Chicago. WILL BENEFITS HOMES Orphans, Aged Women Institution to Share in Estate. The Indianapolis Orphan’s home and the Home for Aged Women will receive large portions of the estate of Mrs. Inez Hamilton Howe, according to the will on file today in probate court. Residue of the estate consisting of $50,000 in personal property and $30,000 in real estate, after apportionment to relatives, will be divided equally between the two institutions. Beneficiaries are a daughter, Miss Sue Howe and a grandson, Hamilton H. Howe. ACCUSED M4N~IN~SUIT Columbus Resident in Counterfeiting case Now Divorce Defendant. Du l nited Press COLUMBUS. Ind.. Aug. 28.—Mrs. Alta Brumfield has filed suit for divorce from Harold Brumfield, who a year ago was arrested on a federal charge of counterfeiting. Cruelty is alleged in the suit. The couple is said to have clashed frequently because the wife gave information to authorities which led to a raid on a garage where alleged counterfeiting equipment was kept and arrest of Brumfield. ACCUSED IN AUTLTTHEFT Man Forced from Freight Train Took Car, Police Charge. Charged with vehicle taking today. after he i* alleged to have been caught stealing an automobile here Wedneodav night, George Graves, 25, West Point, Ky., told police he had been kicked off a freight train, and could think of no other way to get tack to his Kentucky home.

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fun of it; in reading heavy books on penology, which had made him an authority on crime and its prevention; in trailing, like a shadow, cripples and other deformed characters whom he encountered on the

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Gangway! Guns roared and torpedoes exploded at midnight Wednesday at Merrill and East streets. Over the wire at police headquarters came the report: "Gangsters are having a gun battle.” A police emergency sped to the scene. “We were just initiating some of the boys around here into our baseball club,” was the explanation offered by several youths who were questioned by police.

WARN RACING FLIERS Safety Is Plea, Following Deaths of Two. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 28. —The national air races continued today with fliers warned to observe closely all rules of safety, following the death |of Lieutenant J. P. (Duke) De j Shazo. crack naval flier Wednesday, j Louis Weiner, concessionist, was struck by the wheels of the navy plane as it struck the earth in flames during a race. Twelve other persons received cuts and bruises from pieces that flew from the wreckage. Colonel Arthur Goebel arrived Wednesday as the last of the five fliers in the nonstop Pacific air derby. His elapsed time gave him second place in the event won by Wiley Post, Oklahoma City flier. BANDITS GET $125 Drug Store, Three Gas Stations Victims of Holdups. Bandits obtained $lB5 in a series of holdups Wednesday, according to police records today. - Two gunmen obtained $125 at J. H. Taylor pharmacy, 2060 North Illinois street. William Huston, 21, attendant at ; the Phoenix oil station, 601 Ken- ; tucky avenue, was robbed of S2O, he t told police. Bandits obtained S2O from Howard Rogers, attendant at a Great Western Oil Company station, Twenty-fifth an Illinois streets, and later, Thomas Sells of the National Refining Company station, 2565 Madison avenue, was robbed of S2O, they told police. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 64 10 a. m 85 7a. m 70 11 a. m 88 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 90 9 a. m 80 1 p. m 9U

PLAN JOBLESS MEETING Unemployed Council to Convene at Statehouse on Labor Day. The Unemployed Council of the ! Trade Union Unity League will . meet on the statehouse steps at 2 I p. m. Monday for a Labor day dem- : onstration. A bill demanding unemployment insurance with a minimum of $25 I per week for each family of unemployed will be presented at the meeting. The bill is to be presented i to the state legislature as well as to congress. Prince’s Former Wife Weds Bu I nitrd Press RENO, Nev\, Aug. 28.—Willis W. Caffrey, Reno automobile salesman, and his. bride, the former Dorothy Cruickshank Snyder, who was divorced in Paris last may from the reputed Serbian prince. Nicholas Georgevitch, were honeymooning today. They were married here Wednesday. '

i street, so that he might watch them and observe the*particular peculiariI tics of a distorted limb, or a certain i twitching muscle, or the glassy stare lof a blinded eye and thus portray these human defects in some w T eird character in the films. an tt THE hideous faces, like some terrible apparition straight out of a horrible nightmare", that made millions of movie-goers shudder were the results of a lifetime of hard work in the twin arts of makeup and mimicry. And their price was the selfimposed torture of cruel, but deftly hidden, face clamps that warped the features; of chemicals used to simulate hideous scars; of a milky glass eye, worn under the lid, to feign the empty stare of a blind man, or a tightly laced straitjacket that bound his legs or his arms behind him and made" him look like an armless or legless circus freak. For Chaney suffered for his art—literally. In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” he wore a sixty-pound

Hal Duncan Floors Rex Lease, Film Cowboy, and Darkens Orb. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 28. Rex Lease, motion picture cowboy, who recently paid a SSO fine for blacking the eye of Vivian Duncan, member of the famous sister dancing team, nursed a black eye himself today, reportedly inflicted by Hal Duncan, brother of the actress. A dinner four crowd in an exclusive film colony case was thrown into confusion Wednesday night when Duncan met Lease as the actor was leaving and suddenly, a host of spectators declared, planted a blow on Lease’s eye. Charles Eaton, owner of the case, described the battle as one-sided, saying only a single blow waMtruck. “Are you Rex Lease?” the brother of Rosetta and Vivian Duncan was quoted as inquiring. The actor admitted his identity and the next moment he was sprawling on the floor. A friend picked up the fallen actor and took him away. Lease was in seclusion today, so the possibility of court action was in doubt. Previously it was rumored that Nils Asther, film leading man, who recently married Vivian Duncan in Reno, Nev., was stalking the cowboy combatant. Lease was scheduled for a hearing at the Malibu justice court July 31 on a charge of battery preferred by Miss Duncan, but he appeared several days prior to that time and paid a SSO fine. The blonde half of the famous “Tepsy and Eva” team accused him of striking her when she resisted his attempts to kiss her at a screen colony party. She was taken to a hospital and later underwent an operation on her nose to clear the discoloration of her injured eye.

MUCH-MARRIED EUGENIA ASKS FOR ANNULMENT Charges Husband No. 5 Misrepresented Social Standing, Earnings. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES. Aug. 28.—Eugenia Bankhead - Hoyt - Butt - Lee, daughter of Congressman W. B. Bankhead of Alabama, prepared to appear in court today in c\est of an annulment of her marriage to Howard Lee, aviator and sportsman. Her marriage to Lee was her fifth. Four of them were terminated by divorce or annulment. Mrs. Lee testified Wednesday that Lee had misrepresented his social standing and told her he earned $24,000 a year as an official of an aviation company. Mrs. Lee promised the judge this will be her last marital venture if the annulment is granted.

BUSINESS TO GROW General Improvement Is Predicted by Babson. Bu United Press ALBANY, N. Y., Aug.' 28.—Roger W. Babson, business statistician, predicted here today that business conditions throughout the country generally will be improved in the next i'ew months. He declined to forecast conditions in 1931. Babson has just completed a 10,000-mile tour of the west. “Business is going to pick up this fall and winter," Babson asserted. Brubeck Given City Job Frank Brubeck, 1004 North Bancroft street, today was appointed deputy city controller in charge of school city funds. He succeeds Arthur C. Thomas, 2225 North Dela - ware street, and will assume the post Oct. 1.

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metallic jacket to twist his body into a horrible shape; his face was so distorted with clamps, false teeth, putty, wax and whatnot that he had to take his lunch through a straw. “Sometimes,” Chaney once told me when he wat. filming “Mr. Wu,” his greatest Chinese character, “it is all I can do to get through a day's work. It is the way I have to tape my head to draw up the outer corners of the eyes that causes the pain. My left eye is so sore today that even the slightest touch anywhere near it brings tears.” a an CHANEY’S artistry of makeup was acquired, but mimicry he o&me by naturally. The story goes back to a boy in Colorado Springs, Colo., whose parents were deaf-mutes and whose mother was an invalid. Being compelled to use the sign language, he learned the art of pantomime by talking with his fingers. Soon he found that he could do things—oy enacting various experiences at school, etc. —that would make his sick mother laugh. Then he began to tell her stories, not by reading to her, but by acting what he had read in books and" magazines. It was during this period he learned the first elements in makeup. He found that by painting his face to make himself appear funny as he enacted the stories he could amuse his suffering mother all the more. THE four children in the Chaney family—all of whom were normal—v ere never r ally in poverty, but it was necessary for them to quit school at an early age and go to work. Lon, always a lover of the rough outdoors, got his first job as a tourist guide at Pike’s Peak. His ability (Turn to Page 7) JEALOUS WIFE SLAINBY MATE Woman, Who Killed First Husband, Shot to Death. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 28—Mrs. Frances Kirkwood Van Clief, who stabbed her husband to death two years ago in a jealous rage, was killed Wednesday by the man she married less than ten months later, police believed today. The woman’s body, with a bullet wound through the temple, was discovered Wednesday night in a Brooklvn rooming house. Beside it was „,*e body of her husband, Eugene Van Clief, 35, who had died of a wound near the heart. Investigators said Van Clief apparently had killed his bride and then taken his own life. Neighbors said the shooting followed an all-night quarrel between the couple over Mrs. Van Clief's jealousy. She was heard to accuse her huso and of being friendly with another woman. It was this same jealousy which figured in her acquittal two years ago when she stabbed Dr. Glenn Kirkwood, 26-year-old veterinary, in their cottage at Sunnyside, L. I. The jury in that trial, which attracted nation-wide interest, listened sympathetically to her stories of “other women.” BANK BANDIT SLAIN Posey County Man Shot by Posse in Illinois. Bu United Press MT. VERNON, Ind., Aug. 28. Barney Caldwell, 33, notorious Posey county criminal, was shot and killed by a posse in White county, Illinois, Wednesday as he attempted to escape after robbing a bank at Omaha, 111. Caldwell fled with a woman believed to have been Mabel Patrick, Mt. Vernon.

DIES IN PLANE LEAP Young Widow Jumps from 3,000 Feet on Way to Husband’s Funeral. Bu United Press BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Suicide of a young widow from an airplane near Frankfurt was reported today. Mrs. Elfriede Amlinger, 22, en route to Berlin Wednesday to attend the funeral of her husband, a German army aviator who was killed in a recent crash, jumped from a height of 3,000 feet. OFFICER, SON MISSING Traffic Policeman Fails to Return Home. His Wife Reports. Police end deputy sheriffs today were searching for Patrolman Joseph Wilson and his son Joseph Jr.. 4. The traffic officer and his son left home. 4323 English avenue, Wednesday at 10 a. m. and had not returned today. Wilson had been 111 spheral weeks.

LESLIE’S PLAN ABANDONED ON DROUGHT LOAN Federal Farm Money and Highway Advances Are Refused to State. STOUT WIRES DECISION Fletcher-American Chief Attended Financial Parley at Capital. Plans of Governor Harry G. Leslie and John J. Brown, highway director, to have the federal government advance $1,000,000 from the 1931 road aid fund, for drought relief work in southern Indiana, were abandoned today. This decision resulted from a telegram from Elmer Stout, president of the Fletcher American National bank, and financial adviser of the state drought relief committee, who attended a conference called by Arthur Hyde, agriculture secretary in Washington. The telegram to Brown declared: “No plans here for relief except by use of existing channels known to you and Governor. Federal farm money impossible.” Advance Was Sought The state at present does not have money available. Leslie had planned to issue certificates of indebtedness to road contractors. Contractors agreed to accept such certificates, if banks would take them over at the face value. James M. Ogden, attorney-gen-eral, has not been asked for an opinion regarding issuance of such certificates, but it has been strongly intimated that he would not approve such a step. Stout also attempted to obtain an advance from federal farm relief funds, and this evidently met with refusal. The highway commission will have about $1,100,000 available Sept. 1 from gas tax. Finished in Record Time Brown intends to use this money to pay contractors whose road construction projects have been completed and will be loath to use this money in southern Indiana because of the excess cost entailed ip using manual labor, as it planned. It would cost the commission 50 per cent more to use all manual labor, it was pointed out. The majority of the state construction has been completed. Roads were finished in record time and the highway department, which thought that it would have months in which to raise the money to pay for the work, must meet the majority of the bills Dec. 1, Brown said.

SLAIN BY GANGSTERS 16 Bullet Holes Found in Body of Man at Gary. Bil United Press GARY, Ind., Aug. 28.—The body of a man, believed to have been the victim of a gangsters’ “ride,” was found early today in an isolated section of Gary. Sixteen bullet holes were found in the body. The victim was believed about 30 years old. Twelve cents were found in the pockets. It was first believed the victim was “Shorty” Vernon, East Chicago hoodlum, but an examination of finger prints disproved the identification. HURLEY TO START ON TOUR OF MISSISSIPPI Complete Inspection Tour to Be Made by Secretary of War. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Final plans were being made here today by Secretary of War Hurley for an inspection tour which virtually will take him from the source to the mouth of the Mississippi river, whose periodic floods thousands of engineers now are working to curb. Leaving here at noon Friday, the war secretary plans to fly to Dayton, o. According to plans, he will remain there overnight and hop next day to Minneapolis. There he will board one of the war department’s river boats, which will be his home for the next three weeks.

REBEL JULES PERU Cerro Is at Head of New Army Government. Bu United Press LIMA, Peru, Aug. 28— Hailed as a national hero and given the reception of a conqueror when he arrived here from Arequipa by airplane Wednesday afternoon Lieu-tenant-Colonel Luis F. Sanchez Cerro was at the head of anew military junta, or committee, charged with conducting the government of Peru today. Sanchez Cerro instigated the original military revolt at the Arequipa garrison which resulted in the overthrow of President Augusto B. Leguia. Wednesday he succeeded the military committee headed by General Maria Ponce and formed his own government.

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Reputed ‘Woman Hater’ on Honeymoon; Can See No Reason for Changing Any of His Views. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent (CopvriKht. 1930. bv United Press) BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 28. Henry L. Mencken, editor and for many years regarded as a “woman hater” because of his tirades on marriage, was embarked today on a honeymoon. He had wedded Miss Sara Powell Haardt, Montgomery (Ala.) -writer, a week before the scheduled date, after leaving to adorn the records of Mencken literature a credo which declared that “getting married, like getting hanged, probably Is a great deal less dreadful than it has been made out.” He had written to the United Press, in answer to a frank catechism, equally frank answers which showed he blieved the slogan “be polite is the keystone for a happy married life, just as it is “the best rule for all human relations.” Married by Old Friend His revelations were given only a short time before he was married by the Rev. Dr. Herbert Parrish, an old friend, of New Brunswick, N. J., Wednesday in the Episcopal Church of St. Stephen, The Martyr, with the formal Episcopal marriage service. Only immediate friends were at the wedding of the author, who had been known throughout the country as the most confirmed of confirmed bachelors. The questions propounded by the United Press and the replies Mencken gave in writing only a little while before the sudden announcement of his advanced wedding follow: Q —Will your wife drop her present name, assuming yours? Will this extend to her future writings? Not a Lucy Stoner A—The bride-elect hails from the ; Confederate states and will thus use my name. Try to imagine a southern woman busting out as & Lucy Stoner. Q —Have you or Miss Haardt decided whether the “and obey” is to be stricken from the usual ritual? A—There is no promise to obey in the Anglican marriage service. Your question reveals a profound ignorance of Canon law. Q—Have you any of the traditioal fluster of a bridegroom-to-be? A—l discern no tremors. Getting married, like getting hanged, is probably a great deal less dreadful than it has been made out. Q—After years of bachelorhood, how did you know you were enough in xove to contemplate and invite marriage? A—l can only say it was intuition. The Holy Spirit informed and inspired me. Like all other infidels, I am very superstitious and always follow hunches. This one seemed to be a superb one. Approves of Honeymoons Q —Will you go on a so-called honeymoon? What do you think of that institution? A—l have no objections to honeymoons, nor to church weddings, nor to wearing a plug hat. In all matters of manner I am, and always have beer,, a strict conformist. My dissents are from ideas, not from decorums. Q —Who is furnishing the new house? Is it an apartment or a separate house with a yard? A—The new home in Baltimore is an apartment. It is on the third floor of a somewhat oldish house. It faces a park in front and a charming yard in the rear. No street car passes the door. From the front windows one sees the monument to George Washington, the first (and last) American gentleman. The apartment has been furnished by the bride-elect, who has excellent taste in such matters. Be Polite, Is Best Rule Q —Who will manage your home? A—My new home will be managed and operated by my wife, as my old one has been managed and operated—and very competently—by my sister and before that by my mother. Q—Can you state any code, or part of a code of conduct to govern married life so as to avoid the clashes which lead rather frequently nowadays to separations and divorces? A—lt seems to me that the best rule for marriage is the best rule for all human relations: Be polite. I am marrying one of the politest of women, and she is getting a husband whose politeness has the high polish of a mirror.

ORDER BARS REFUGEES Italians Without Passports Denied Right to Enter France. Bit I'nitrt Pre* ~ PARIS, Aug. 28—Authorities at French frontier towns have received government orders to turn back indiscriminately all Italians arriving in France without passports. The League of the Rights of Man immediately protested to the minister of interior against the order, considered equivalent to barring the frontier against all anti-Fascist refugees. HURT CHASING POODLE Negro Runs in Front of Auto; Leg Is Fractured. Chasing a poodle in the 900 block North Meridian street today, George Bell, 24, Negro, 26 West Pratt street, ran in front of an automobile driven by Andy Pierson, 40, of 2041 Singleton street. At city hcspital physicians said Bell’s right leg was fractured, and several ribs injur^fL

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MERCURY GOES UPTO 90 MARK Temperature Near Record of July in Sight. Temperatures near record marks of July appeared probable this afternoon as the mercury climbed to 90 degrees at noon. Showers tonight were forecast this morning by the United States weather bureau here, with clouded skies and cooler weather following them tonight and Friday. The government thermometers here reached 90 degrees at 2 and 3 p. m., the highest temperature then recorded since the long drought and heat wave that prevailed through the entire midsummer was broken more than two weeks ago.

JEWEL HEADS G. A. R. Colorado Man Is Elected to High Post. Bu United Press CINCINNATI. Aug. 28.—James E. Jewell, Ft. Morgan, Colo., was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the clsoing session, of the sixty-fourth annual encampment here today. The 1931 encampment will be held in Des Joines, la. Jacob Secrest, Cincinnati, unanimously was elected senior viceccmmander. CITY WITHOUT BANK Two Close Within Hour in Missouri Town of 5,000 Persons. Bu United Press RICH HILL, Mo., Aug. 28.—Merchants in this town of 5,000 transacted business without a bank today. Within the same hour, the Farmers and Merchants bank and the Peoples bank—the only two in town —were closed. QUITS CHANNEL SWIM Elsie West Abandons Attempt After 12 Hours in Water. Bii T/nitrd Press DOVER, England, Aug. 28.—Miss Elsie West abandoned an attempt to swim the English channel from Cape Gris Nez France, leaving the water after twelve hours effort in which she made poor progress.

TROLLEY RUNS WILD Street Car Hits Another on Washington Street. Running wild two blocks on Washington street, a West Tenth street car this morning crashed into the rear of a Garfield park car, at Meridian and Washington streets, injuring a motorman and a passenger. Mrs. Frances Sperlin, 556 Traub avenue, was wounded on the scalp when a fare indicator on the Garfield car jarred loose and fell on her. Ed Farah, 743 North Warman avenue, motorman on the Tenth street car, was injured on the hand. The car’s brakes failed on West Washington street, jumped a switch at Illinois street and continued east, until it crashed into the other car. The vestibule of the Garfield car was demolished. v

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ELECT IMESON AS EXCHANGE CLUBS’ CHIEF Annual Convention Closes With Naming of New National Officers. CITY MAN IS HONORED! Bert Beasley, in Hospital After Auto Accident, Chosen Sentry. Thomas C. Imeson. Jacksonville, Fla., was elected national president! of Exchange Clubs here today at the closing session of their annual con** vention in the Claypool. He succeeds J. P. Muller, New York City. Bert Beasley, Indianapolis, was elected national sentry. He is in the Methodist hospital recovering from injuries received in an automobile accident and was visited byj national officers this afternoon. Other officers elected are: Dr. A, A. Jenkins, Cleveland, 0., first vicepresident; John H. Awtry, Dallas j Texas., second vice-president; Walter Hinton, Washington, D. C., third vice-president; Robert F. Nitsche, Terre Haute, treasurer; Herold M. Harter, Toledo, 0., secretary, and William H. Beck Jr., Griffin. Ga., marshal. Elected Fourteen Times Nitsche was re-elected for thd tenth consecutive year and Harter is starting his fourteenth year a3 secretary. Board members elected were: I. H. Streaper 111, Alton, 111., reelected; Louis Kimball. Salt Laka City; Frank M. Flory, Minneapolis, re-elected; Louis K. Gordan, Fairfield, Ala. “In a year and a half coast-to-coast air travel rates will be as low as $75,” Walter W. Hubbard, past president of the New York City Exchange Club, predicted in the principal address today. Talks on Aviation Speaking on “Aviation and thd Future,” Hubbard declared, “single motored planes will supplant trimotored planes in the near future because experiments show a 1,000horse power single motor superior to three motors/’ Closing convention resolutions asked Exchange Clubs to encourage the pickup system of air mail for use ia small towns and carried recommendations for congress to promote flying clubs by using part of the defense budget for that purpose. Announcement of next year’s convention city was withheld. Memphis, Tenn., was regarded a strong contender. Visiting ladies were entertained today with a trip through the Van Camp packing plant. Several delegates had registered for airplane rides to Chicago to attend the national air races Friday, Exchange Club day at the races. They were to leave shortly after close of the convention.

OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS CITY SEWAGE PLANT Program for Additions to Be Con sidered at Conference. Program for additions to the sewage disposal plant will be discussed next Thursday at a meeting of city officials, B. J. T. Jcup, president of the sanitary board, an., nounced today. Several phases of the plant have not yet been completed and these will be considered. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Wr. William H. King of the state health board, Dr. Herman Morgan, secretary of the city health board, and City Controller William L. Elder and sanitary commissioners will attend. HOOSIER STUDENT BEST John T. Hays of Sullivan Wins Highest Honors at Culver. CULVER, Ind., Aug. 28.—An Indiana student, John T. Hays. Sullivan, won highest honors among" the 134 graduates of the Culver militaty academy summer session. Awards were made to several other Indiana students, including Gordon L. Krauss, South Bend;: William S. O’Donnell, Gary; Edmund H. Davis, Ladoga; Earl G. Triplett, Osgood; Edward L. Springer, Indianapolis: Franklin L. Hascall, Goshen; Rovert C. Dreves, Elkhart; James L. Embrey, New Albany; Richard H. Blacklidge, Kokomo; John C. Ertel, Indianapolis, ANIMAL ATTACKS BOY; Hamilton County Farm Resident! Victim of Unidentified Beast. Bit Times Snerial NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 28. Attacked by an unidentified animal, Frank Tomlinson, 11, suffered a broken collar bone, scratches and. bruises on the Rolla Hobbs farm in northern Hamilton county, on which his father, Harrison Tomlinson is tenant. Nearly all the boy’s clothes were torh off. The boy was driving cows from a woods when attacked. His do* fought the animal for a time, then it turned on the boy. After fighting both for a time, the animal disappeared. Church Session at Muncie Bj/ Times Boecial MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 28.—The eighty-fifth annual meeting of the White River conference of the United Brethren church is in session here at the Riverside U. B. church. Three hundred delegates, representing 150 churches In the conference, are attending meeting.