Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1930 — Page 1

‘Handful of This , Pinch of That’ Make Champion Pies

Mrs. T. C. Williams, Ho osier pie-baking champion

COUNTY’S TAX RATE SLASHED

New Center Township Levy Represents Drop of 4.2 Cents. (School tax details; page six.) Marion county council today fixed the county tax rate at 35' 3 cents on each SIOO of taxable property. Unofficially tabulated, the total 1931 tax levy in Center township, Indianapolis, including county, civil city, school city, state and Center township rate will be $2,788. The new Center township rate represents a drop of 4.2 cents as compared to the 1930 rate of $2.83. Reached after three days, the county rate is % cent lower than planned, due to unexpected clipping of $57,000 from the county commissioner’s budget. The 1931 county rate is 2*4 cents lower than the rate in effect this year. At the session today the council piled up a total of about $207,000 in budget cuts. The slashes will be felt by many county employes and provide for decreases in maintenance. Rap Welfare Society About $55,000 was lopped off the annual cost of supporting orphans at today’s session. The budget of luvenile court sought SIOO,OOO for that purpose, and was criticised by rouncilmen for “extravagances” when they cut the allowance in half. Councilmen said the act is aimed at the Family Welfare Society, which Wednesday failed to explain to the coincil’s satisfaction how orphans are being managed in domestic homes. The commissioners’ budget, as approved, includes a $157,000 item which the county must pay to the state under court compulsion. The amount accumulated for two years when the county was unable to pay the state for maintaining prisoners and inmates in state institutions. Deny Other Requests Denying other requests, council slashed a total of $76,000 from the commissioners’ budget which this year reached $1,851,115, highest point in the office’s history. Wednesday the council cut salaries of eight county judges $3,000 a year; dropped pay of court reporters, bailiffs and pages, and cut $28,900 off the juvenile court budget. A high point of the session today was the council’s refusal to allow the grand jury $5,000 to finish the primary election fraud probe. This was asked by Earl R. Cox. special probe prosecutor, and Criminal Judge James A. Collins. State Levy to Be Fixed Operating expenses of all offices were shorn, totaling about $107,000, The SIOO,OOO balance constitutes pay cuts. Additional appropriations totaling SIOO,OOO were allowed today by council. Funds will be used to pay expenses until the end of this year. Rates composing the total levy follow: City. $1.10: county, 35'.’ cents; Center township. 33 cents: state. 29 cents, and school city, sl.Ol. The state levy will be definitely fixed at the biennial conference between Governor Ifarry G. Leslie and state department heads. TEST ‘AUTO MORONS' Nursery Blocks Jigsaw Puzzles May Cost Drivers Use of Cars. R|. T'niterl Press * EVANSTON. 111., Sept. 4— The Evanston traffic court was stocked today with nursery blocks and jigsaw puzzles for a “moron test' which will be given to motorists who persist in violating traffic laws. Drivers whose mental age doesn't equal the legal driving age will be deprived of the use of their automobiles for periods as long as one year. powerJncrease asked Mormon Radio Station Petitions for 50,1100 Watts Permit. fit’ t ititnl r ‘rt sm \ WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Station KSL. Salt Lake City, applied to the federal radio commission today for permission to increase its power from 5.000 watts to the maximum. 50.000 watts. The station is the property of the Mormon “ lurch.

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On the Wagon! Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 4. —An empty water wagon was the scene of a fire here on Wednesday. Boys, playing inside the wooden tank, started the blaze while roasting potatoes.

POISON POTION KILLS MOTHER Children Suffering From Acid Burns. Bv United Press PORTLAND, Ind.. Sept. ,4.—Mrs. Carrie Powell, 32, died today of selfadministered poison, and two children, Joseph, 6, and Elizabeth, 5, were in the Jay county hospital suffering from acid burns after apparently battling fiercely against their mother’s attempts to force the deadly fluid down their throats. Harry Powell, the husband and father, returned home for lunch and found his wife and two children after battering down a locked door. Mrs. Powell died half an hour later. Joseph was expected to recover, but Elizabeth’s condition was critical. Mrs. Powell was released two months ago from the Easthaven hospital for the insane at Richmond, Ind. Despondency over ill health was believed responsible for her act.

What to See at Fair

TONIGHT Running races on lighted mile track and "Hawaiian Nights” pageant, 7:30 p. m., grand stand. Horse show and vaudeville in Coliseum, 7 p. m. FRIDAY (Indianapolis Day) Cat show in building west of new Poultry building. * Horse pulling contest 9 a. m. to noon in front of grand stand. Horseshoe pitching contest 8a. m. to noon in fx-ont of grand stand. Indiana university's stage show, 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m., I. U. building. Harness races at 1 p. m., featuring the $2,000, 2-year-old trot. Farm Bureau quartet sings 10 a. m. to noon in tent west of grand stand. Concerts by Kryl's, Arndt's, Boy Scouts bands. Sale of beef calves in Coliseum, 1 p. m. Society night at horse show in Coliseum at 7 p. nx. Running races on lighted mile track and “Hawaiian Nights” pageant. 7:30 p. m., grand stand. BIG BUILDING IS SLICED Wall Is Chiseled to Avoid Paying $25,000 for Inch of Land. Bu T'nitrt! Prrxx PITTSBURGH, Sept. s.—To avoid paying $25,000 for one inch of land of an adjoining property on which the King Edward apartment building allegedly encroached, owners of the apartment had workmen chisel from four to five inches from the outside wall of the seven-story structure.

Lewis Labor Secretary Boom Fails, Friends Admit

Bn Times Special WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—An intensive campaign to bring about appointment of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, as secretary of labor, virtually collapsed today when Lewis’ friends admitted informally they had not been able to put their candidate “over the hill” at the White ...w,* > f r*.

BY ARCH STEINEL Baking seventeen prize-winning pies—twelve of them firsts—and not being able to bake one today for her own family is all in the life of Indiana’s pie “champ.” For Monday, Mrs. T. C. Williams of 1643 College avenue, won seventeen ribbons out of the twenty pastry events she entered at the state fair. Today Mrs. Williams at her home could not answer the family’s demand for a chocolate p,ie. She was forced to let her daughter mix the dough, because of burns she suffered Sunday in baking the champion dough.

STATE LAGS IN DROUGHT AID; U. S. WORRIED Failure of Indiana to Act on Relief Program Stirs Comment. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Failure of Indiana’s branch of the emergency drought relief organization, set up under President Hoover’s personal direction last month, to provide the necessary credit facilities for immediate operation of the national relief program, is giving federal officials much concern. Illinois, Ohio, lowa and Kentucky, the only other middlewestern states which have suffered as heavy ’osses as Indiana, already have provided state-wide credit machinery through which emergency loans for seed may be negotiated with the federal intermediate credit banks. No report, however, of such organization has reached Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde from Indiana. Agriculture department officials decline to comment on the failure of Indiana state officers to help with the program. They feel, apparently, that the state organization will come through. However, some crop experts handling the emergency program have called attention of the officials in charge to the situation in an informal way. Crop Losses Heavy With only one-third of the normal August rainfall, Indiana suffered losses of additional millions of dollars in crop deterioration. For the state at large, according to official reports prepared for Secretary Hyde by the United States weather bureau, the August rainfall was the smallest for any single month since 1881. In August that year, the total precipitation also was one-third of the normal. But in 1884, when the state experienced the most damaging drougth of the last half cen'tury, the August rainfall was 55 per cent of the normal. Whereas the state experienced 63 per cent of a normal rainfall in March, April and May this year, and 68 per cent in June, the July precipitation was only 53 per cent of normal. Then the August drought killed off all hope of a come-back for the crops, with 33 per cent of the normal monthly rainfall. Corn Crop Decreases Exact production estimates for the state will be available from the bureau of agricultural economics on Sept. 10. Meanwhile, experts estimate unofficially that the corn crop for the entire country will be 25 per cent smaller than last year. To a lesser degree, the same situation’.prevails as regards all other basic crops. Indiana farmers have not been compelled as yet to sell their livestock for want of feed. Instead, many counties report that farmers are using their reserve stocks, hoping to realize a pasture ci-op of some sort between now and winter, to tide them over to next year. That is why every day’s delay in setting up the emergency machinery for seed loans is regarded as vital by the government experts. In another month all hope of realizing this tide-over pasture crop will have to be abandoned. Government Asks Information Further detailed reports on Indiana drought suffering are expected to be published by the department of agriculture in a few days. Ten days ago the department sent out 120.000 special questioni naires to its regular crop correspondents throughout the country, asking exact information on every aspect of the drought. Indiana got several thousand of the questionnaires. A number report that although elaborate paper organizations have been set up, little actual relief work is under way. It is this condition which is giving federal officials grave concern. With the southern half of the state reporting serious drought damage in every county. Indiana is one of the principal victims of the entire area. Thirty-five Indiana unties are on today's revised list of areas on which emergency conditions are seen by reporters for the President's relief commission.

For several weeks, Lewis’ name has been nigh on the list of those under consideration and a visit to ; the White House by the miners’ chief last week seemed to confirm a rumor that he had been decided upon for the prospective cabinet vacancy. Today, however, it was learned in i official quarters that Lewis was un- > able to indorsement of a

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“But I can trim it off with my hands,” she volunteered as the photo was taken of the pie she didn’t bike. “How much water do you use, mother?” asked her daughter, Mrs. Barbara Nohr, as she mixed the pie dough. “You’ve got me,” replied the state’s pie champion. “You see, I never measure. I can’t give you a recipe for my pie dough, for it’s always a handful of this, a pinch of that,” she told her visitors. “Dad likes her blackberry cobbler best of all,” declared her daughter.

G. O. P. WILL ‘TAP’ CANDIDATES FOR CAMPAIGN COST

‘Big,Boys Broke,’ Is Gloomy News Passed Out by State Leaders. BY BEN STERN “Hoover prosperity” has affected the President’s own party in Indiana. Candidates for state office today were told at a meeting behind locked doors, to dig down into their jeans and “shell out the wherewithal, because the big boys who contributed in the past have been ljit so badly that they can’t contribute.” “It is up to the candidates to bear the brunt of the budget, whjch will total more than SIOO,OOO for the fall campaign,” J. T. Moonnan, retired capitalist and head of the campaign exchequer, told the aspirants. Moorman, who has handled the financial details of campaigns since “way back yonder,” was pessimistic about the raising of campaign finances. Candidates Must Pay He told candidates they would have to contribute 10 per cent of two years’ salary. This means that candidates for the appellate and supreme benches must pay $2,000; secretary of state, $1,300: treasurer and auditor, $1,500 each; clerk of the supreme court, SI,OOO, and superintendent of public instruction, SI,OOO. Call for the meeting was secret and the candidates met in the appellate court library, stationing Charles Richardson, Negro court orderly, at the door to keep out reporters. Charles Biederwolf, clerk of the supreme court, when questioned regarding the meeting, declai-ed: "Oh, we just are discussing speaking dates and meetings.” Hard to Get Money But a few minutes later Moorman was seen hurrying to the library on the fourth floor. “This is the toughest campaign we have had in all my experience when it comes to raising money,” he said. “And w'e are going to need plenty of it, because the budget will run more than SIOO,OOO. “As no senators are to be elected, we can not expect any financial aid from the Republican national committee and it is up to the state committee to raise the funds. “All the big men upon whom we depended in the past have suffered losses on the stock market and can’t contribute.” Campaign to Be Hot One Moorman warned that this year’s campaign will be hard fought and large amounts will be expended. “The money expended, of course, can’t approach the figure spent by Will H. Hays in the 1920 campaign, for he left the state committee $200,000 in debt,” Moorman later declared. Following the meeting, the candidates declared they had discussed speaking dates. SEEKS SENATE SEAT Illinois Woman to Oppose Mrs. McCormick. Bu United Press DOWNER S GROVE, 111., Sept. 4. —Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neil, Illinois’ first woman legislator, and long a party foe of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for United States senator, will seek to oppose Mrs. McCormick in> the November election as an independent candidate, she announced today. She intends to run as a dry. FLOAT MORGAN YACHT Vessels Pull Corsair Off Rock at High Tide; Loss Not Heavy. Bu I'nitrd Preßf* DARK HARBOR, Me., Sept. 4. Corsair 11. J. P. Morgan's $2,500,000 yacht, rode at anchor today off the summer estate of Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, having been pulled off Lobster rock at high tide. Damage during the twenty-four hours it was aground is not believed heavy.

sufficiently representative group of labor leaders. The White House, thereupon, was forced to turn to other candidates. Although William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, is understood to have sponsored the Lewis boom, lesser figures in the A. F. of Lr entered vigorous as did a large section of the miners' orgaoizaUwu

“I think I make better mince pies, the “champ” averred, as she told of winning firsts with apricot, blackberry, apple, blueberry, cherry, gooseberry, mince, plum, pumpkin, raisin, raspberry and pineapple. In 1929 sne entered sixteen pies and won fourteen ribbons in the fair’s culinary department. One year her candy won seven blue ribbons. “But I didn't enter candy this time. Maybe I will in 1931,” she said. “Where’d I learn to bake pastry? From my mother. She could beat me,” modestly declared the champion. r~

‘ Reds ’ Reds When some pal yells “Red!” at Howard Bowles of Brazil, he’s not sure whether they’re calling him or his pen of Rhode Island Reds. Howard’s hair is identical with the color of his pullets’ feathers. The pen won first prize in the 4-H Club poultry exhibition.

FARMER KILLS SELFINBLAZE Fires Home, Injuring His Wife and Son.* Bu United Press MUNCIE, Sept. 4.—Apparently demented, Dumont Lotz, 65, Delaware county farmer, poured gasoline about his home in Royerton early today, ignited the oil, killing himself, critically injuring his wife Nannie, and ‘Causing lesser injuries to his son, John Lotz, 23. The wife’s condition is grave. There is little hope for her recovery. Details of the tragedy w 7 ere difficult to obtain, the wife and sdn being unable to talk at a hospital here. Lotz served as trustee of Hamilton township for eight years and was active in educational circles, at one time being a member of the faculty of the Oregon State university. Two daughters were not at home at the time. MEYER TO BE NAMED Hoover Decides on Appointee for Federal Reserve Governor. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—President Hoover has decided to appoint Eugene Meyer Jr., former head of the federal farm loan board, as governor of the federal reserve board, it was learned authoritatively today.

You Can Buy That New Suit Cheaper 9 who have been coaxing husbands to discard that /ns old, shabby suit will welcome this tip. And, perhaps, those husbands w r ho dote smart clothes, but never would confess it, will follow their wives’ advice when they hear this. It’s good news. Prices on men's sxiits are back to pre-war levels. Not since the doughboys donned their proud khaki and marched away in 1917 have lower prices been quoted on good clothes. Clothing materials of'the best lines are costing less. This allows* clothiers a chance to pass on substantial wholesale reductions to their customers. This is not exactly new—it has been going on for several months. However, just now, fall suit sales in Indianapolis stores have brought forth unexpected further reductions. Some merchants say clothes haven't sold so low since 1913. These sales will last a few days yet. Husbands who follow their wives’ advice now will not be sorry later. The Indianapolis Times

MYERS HEADS BUREAU County G. O. P. Speakers Will Be Directed by Attorney/ The county Republican central committee’s speakers' bureau will be headed in the fall campaign by Howard M. Myers. Indianapolis attorney, according to Clyde E. Robinson, county chairman. The speaking campaign is to start six w r eeks before the election, Nov. 4, and will be closed with what is hoped to be a record breaking county rally. STRANGLED BY FENCE Man Falls. Neck Caught Between Pickets; Chokes to Death. Bu Unit eel Press WORCESTER. Mass, Sept. 4. George Grant, 31, choked to death when he fell and his neck became caught between two pickets of a fence around his yard.

| The violent fight now raging beI tween the miners’ international and the Illinois district organization, a fight which long ago advanced to open defiance of Lewis’ leadership and an ugly series of court engagements, also was understood to have lessened Lewis’ chances. The Illinois group is the largest subdivision in the mine:# organiza-

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300 KILLED, 1,000 HURT AS TROPICAL HURRICANE WRECKS SANTO DOMINGO

FAIR DISPLAYS DRAW STATE'S LEGISLATORS Record-Breaking • Crowds Predicted by Officials for Today, Friday. Indiana’s legislature met unofficially today and without call when senators and representatives took front seats at the state's livestock exhibition, the Indiana state fair. Today was "Governor’s and Legislature” day, and from the handshaking and the “Howdy Toms” around the grounds and near the tents of the Republican and Democratic parties it was apparent that both parties had buried the hatchet deep in enjoyment of the fairest of fairs. Boy Scouts with membership badges or in uniform were admitted to the grounds free. Elated at Wednesday's paid attendance of 44,000, fair officials foresaw record-breaking daily figures for today and Friday. First Race at 1 P. M. Hereford and Jersey cattle, Belgian horses, and Shropshire, Tunis and Cheviot sheep, with Hampshire hogs formed the center -judging attractions of the day. At 1 p. m. the first heat in the feature harness race of the afternoon, the L. S. Ayres Cos. 2:10 trot with a $5,000 purse, was scheduled to go to the post. Renewed agitation for a state legislative appropriation for the construction of a fireproof racetrack grand stand was seen by officials as the solons queried them regarding the fireworks blaze Wednesday that ignited the grandstand’s roof. A thousand pounds of explosive ■ was ignited opposite the grand stand during the afternoon’s racing. A cigaret stub is believed to have caused the impromptu display. Several rockets fired the grand stand’s roof. A near panic was averted by police. Judging to End Friday Guards were redoubled today around the boxes containing fireworks for tonight’s display to prevent a recurrence of Wednesday’s accident. Judging at the fair ends Friday with Society night at the horse show, one of the day’s headline attractions. Friday also is the final day for the Grand Circuit races. On Saturday the Curtiss-Wright aerial pageant and auto races will be held in front of the grand stand.

ART BANS DAWES’ PIPE Sculptor Refuses to Include It as Part of Model for Statue. Bu United Press PARIS. Sept. 4.—Charles G. Dawes, American ambassador to Great Britain, laid aside his famous underslung pipe for the sake of airi today. Dawes was sitting for the completion of a bust of himself by Jo Davidson, American sculptor, and Davidson refused to include the pipe as part of the model. 700 Trout are stolen Thieves “Loot” Private Pool at Eastern Sports Club. Bn United Presf* HAVERHILL, Mass.. Sept. 4.Police today were hunting the thief or thieves who stole 700 young trout from the private pool of the Haverhill Sportsmen’s Club.

tion and its contributions to the I international treasury before Illinois set up its independent international union at Springfield, last March, were a large part of the funds sustaining the Lewis regime. With this important section of his own organization vigorously resisting his appointment to the cabinet, President Hoover was persuadedfcto turn U> other material.

City Almost Is Wiped Out by Storm Moving Toward Florida. MANY LEFT HOMELESS $15,000 Cabled to Scene of Disaster by American Red Cross. By United Press A violent tropical hurricane, moving westward toward Cuba and Florida today, left the West Indies city of Santo Domingo almost entirely destroyed, and in urgent need of food and medical supplies. After eighteen hours of suspense in which the Dominican republic's capital was cut off from communication, cable service was restored and the first definite reports from All-America Cables said Santo Domingo was “50 per cent” destroyed. The most reliable estimate of the dead made by All-America officials was 300. Officials said about 1,000 persons were believed to have been injured. Over 15 Millions Damage The company’s advices said the city of approximately 50,000 population needed urgent aid and that the American Red Cross would be asked for help. The cable company's office was flooded and the houses of the capital which were unroofed by the first burst of violent wind Wednesday, were wrecked. Damage to the city, including the destruction of the home of American Minister Charles B. Curtis, was estimated at more than $15,000,000. An enormous number of persons were homeless, many of them suffering from Injuries. The sum of $15,000 was cabled to Minister Curtis in Santo Domingo by the American Red Cross within a few minutes after being informed by the state department of the extensive damage caused by the hurricane. The money will be used for the most pressing emergency needs, principally to buy food, with additional funds promised as soon as it can be learnd how much will be needed. Radio advices from San Juan, Porto Rico, also reported great damage at the British island of Dominica, southeast of Santo Domingo, where twenty persons were killed. Headed for Florida The hurricane, which moved north and west from Dominica, struck with greatest violence at the Dominican republic capital and then appeared to veer northward from Haiti—on the western half of the same island—toward northern Cuba and Florida, centering this morning over the extreme northwestern part of Haiti. Observatories repoi-ted the storm center was likely to reach the northern coast of Cuba within twentyfour hours and the Florida coast in thirty-six hours or two days. The Dominican republic, which was not entirely recovered from the last West Indies hurricane, which took a heavy toll of life, already was suffering from economic depression and the effects of a governmental transition when this new disaster struck. Insane Men Run Wild An insane asylum was demolished and the inmates escaped, running wildly through the terrorstricken city. Officials were making efforts to capture them. The greatest damage appeared to have been done in the city itself, outlying regions reporting less severe damages and probably lower casualties. Many buildings were demolished, some of them the larger buildixigs of the capital. Houses were unroofed and debris and uprooted trees scattered throughout the city. Storm Over Ocean Bu United Press HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 4.—The hurricane which struck Santo Domingo Wednesday was reported west of Haiti today, moving northwest over the ocean. EXPECTS BUSINESS”GAIN “Dragging in Bottom Now,” Hoover Told by Group’s Chief. Bu f nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Business is “dragging bottom” now, but an upturn may be expected in the; later winter or early spring, Joseph j E. Mills, president of the National i Purchasing Agents, Detroit, told! President Hoover at the White House today. CRIPPLE, 77, IS JAILED Unable to Pay Alimony, Sentenced to Serve Six Months. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 4.—William Hudson Donald, 77, became today j the oldest member of Chicago's; “alimony club.” He began a six months’ jail sentence imposed because he was $646 behind in his alimony payments to his 74-year-old wealthy second wife, who left him, he said, after he became crippled thirteen years ago and was unable *o work any snore,

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FRENCH OCEAN FLIERS SPEED ON TODALLAS Escort of Planes Accomi pany Aces From Cincinnati to Louisville. Bv United Pres* A millionaire's check for S2S,OwJ and the adulations of a southern metropolis beckoned aviation's newest heroes across eight states today, on the last span of their one-stop flight from Paris to Dallas, Tex. A second air triumph seemed tdl be almost within their grasp as Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte in their sesquipland Question Mark sped westward fron< New York at better than 100 miles an hour. Less than two days after theisr arrival in New York, first in history* to fly all the way from Paris in on® hop, the French aviators left Curtiss airport on Long Island at 5:54 (central standard time). The Question Mark had completed more than half of its hop from New York to Dallas when 1C was sighted over Louisville at 12:33, Skies Clear for Hop When the Frenchmen flew over* Cincinnati they were joined by a squadron of escort planes as they followed the Ohio river to Louisville, Ky. Dallas, the fliers have pointed out, will be the official termination of the ocean-spanning flight that began at Le Bourget airdrome last Monday morning. There they will receive the $25,000 offered by Col. William E. Easterwood Jr., Texas millionaire, for the first Paris-New York-Dallas flight. Captain Coste said he thought the flight today would take about fifteen hours, putting him and Bellonte into the Texas city around 9 o’clock tonight. Government forecasters said the weather is favorable for the trip. , Impressive Climax to Fete A singularly impressive climax wound up New York's great reception to the Gallic airmen Wednesday night. They were guests at a dinner of the German-American society at the Hotel Roosevelt with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Cap+ain Wolfgang von Gronau and his companions—all conquerors of the Atlantic. The seven guests of honor, presented simultaneously by Mayor James J. Walker, arose before the 500 cheering society members and clapped hands. The banquet hall rang with shouts of “Hoch!” “Vive!’* and “Hurrah!” and Mayor Walker declared he had never seen a “more splendid step toward world peace.’* Guests With German Fliers The German fliers, just returned from Chicago, sat down beside Coste and Bellonte and chatted affably with them in French. The Frenchmen gave Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh a private dinner last night, to which only a handfull of close friends were invited. That dinner, incidentally, led to] one of the most amusing incidents* of the day. After it was over the guests wen* to the Ritz-Carlton, where Field Malone, noted attorney, was giving another dinner in honor of William Allen Jowitt, the British attorney-general. There they met and were presented to Mayor Walker, who escorted them to the German society affair. Question of “Etiquette” As they arrived at the door on their way out, a delicate question ofl etiquette arose. Captain Coste insisted that Mrs. Lindbergh go out the doorway first. Mrs. Lindbergh insisted that Capt, Coste precede her. Coste argued th point. So did Mrs. Lindbergh. Finally, Coste turned to Colonel Lindbergh and suggested that ho take the lead. But the colonel only smiled and insisted that Coste be first. They half bowed to each other, gesticulated and argued. Mayor Welker came to the rescue. He studied the point for a. moment, then turned to Coste. “You are a captain, are you not?'* asked the mayor. “Yes,” Coste responded. “And you,” said the mayor to Lindbergh, “are a colonel?” Lindbergh only smiled. “Now,” said the mayor, “what the colonel says goes. You are first, my dear captain.” BANDIT SHOT TO DEATH Trio Throws Gas Attendant to Cot Where Gun Was Hidden. Bu United Press POMEROY, 0.. Sept. 4—W. R. Athey, filling station attendant at Hobson near here, shot and killed an unidentified bandit and routed two others early today when they attempted to hold up his station. The robbers made the mistake of throwing Athey on a cot, under a pillow of which he had concealed a revolver. Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 56 10 a. m 71 7a. m 59 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 65 12 (noon),. 7S 9a. m,.... 63 Ip. m,.... 79