Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1931 — Page 5

MARCH 30. 1931

SIAM ORIENT'S SECOND MOST MODERN LAND Sacred Elephants Kept; but King Travels by Plane, Auto. iSj Scripps-II award .Vet cspaprr Alliance WASHINGTON, March 30.—A happy land without racketeers, droughts, stock-market crashes or bread lines is Siam, whose little king and queen will soon arrive here, the first of royal visitors to land on American shores since Queen Marie of Rumania came, the first reigning monarchs of the Orient ever to visit an American President. Those who know Siam only as le home of Bamum’s twins should learn that the domain of the visiting rulers is, next to Japan, the most modern, most progressive and most westernized, yet the most consented independent nation in all of Asia. Its famous herd of sacred white elephants still eat hay in the royal .'.tables at Bangkok, but young King Prajadhipok and his much younger Queen Rambaibhani travel forth in a crested car over the best of paved roads. Elephants still pile teak logs on the sluggish Menam, yet Siam has more than 1.600 miles of railways, great irrigation works, much modem machinery, telephone and 'elegraph systems, and the finest fleet of airplanes in the Orient. Queen Enjoys Self

The well-groomed Siamese gentleman plucks his beard and wears a panung consisting of a piece of calico three yards long and one yard wide, yet labor there commands ’he highest wage in the far east. King Prajadhipok Is supposed to be a direct descendant of Guatama, ‘Light of Asia," himself, yet the outhful king is Oxford-schooled, a devoted movie and radio fan, lover of modern literature, while his queen finds her pleasure in golf. Siam’s burst into the modem era w r as sudden. It came with the reign of the first of three modern monarchs, King Chulalongkorn, the present king’s uncle. Chulalongkorn lived long and fruitfully, and when he died in 1910 many widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters mourned him. But he had modernized his country. Abolished Harem Going about Incognito, he overhauled the graft-ridden army, reorganized the courts, abolished slavery, established postal and telegraph systems, built schools and a university that is named for him. His son Rama VI carried on by abolishing the harem, instituting co-operative rural credits, pure waterworks, compulsory education and vaccination, a metric system, conservation laws for fisheries, the first aerial postal system in the east, encouraging formation of a Pasteur institute, Red Cross, and the Siam Society for the Preservation of Arts. King Rama had one hobby, the Boy Scouts, and under him the Siamese Boy Scouts, called "Wild Tigers,” grew to a famous institu> tion. He, too, was an Oxford man, and so fascinated was he with western ways that he almost forgot to marry. He finally took one wife and died in 1926, leaving only a girl heir. His brother, the present king, ascended the throne.

RETIRED CLERGYMEN’S PENSIONS INCREASED Minimum Is Hiked From S6OO to • SI,OOO a Year. By Times Special NEW YORK. March 30.—The church pension fund announced today that minimum pensions for retired clergymen of the Episcopal church have been increased from <5600 to SI,OOO a year. This increase is to be effective immediately and will benefit approximately 1,200 clergymen, widows and dependents of clergymen now on the pension '■oils of the fund. This increase of 66 2-3 per cent n minimum pension allowances will increase the fund's payments this ■ear to an aggregate of one million dollars. Officers of the fund are Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, president; J. Pierpont Morgan, 'reasurer; Samuel Mather of Cleveland and Monnell Sayre of New York, vice-president. Missing Man Vound liy Times Special EMINENCE. Ind., March 30. Alva Rhea, 54. farmer, who had oeen missing three days, is being returned here by his daughter, Miss Fern Rhea. He sent a telegram to his family, stating that he was at St. John. Kan., and Unable to re•urn alone. He disappeared after ’ashing a bank draft for $1,350. Former Slave Dies Hy Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 30. Mrs. Margaret Burton, Negro, who died of burns suffered in an explosion of a kerosene stove in her home, was born in slavery. She did not know her exact age, but it is believed she was at least 100 years old.

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Michael Burke (above), 16-year-old high school freshman, charged with more than 100 burglaries in St. Joseph Mo., has confessed to killing two men during holdups, police say. Young Burke is the son of a reputable attorney, and was caught robbing the house of Emmett J. Crouse, state senator,

JOB INSURANCE iS 810 ISSUE Roosevelt indorses Plan; Hoover Is Silent. By Scripps-H award Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 30.—Unemployment insurance will be a major issue in the next presidential campaign, developments of the last few days indicate. Following closely on President Hoover’s move to assume control of all federal activities in regard to unemployment insurance, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, at present foremost candidate for the Democratic nomination, has indorsed the principle of unemployment insurance and has asked his legislature to create a commission which may study details of various systems during the next few months. If Hoover and Roosevelt are the nominees of their respective parties they may take opposite sides of the insurance question, or vie with each other in the w T armth of their support for it. Mr. Hoover has not expressed himself on the matter, and Washington has not known how to interpret his activities of the last two weeks respecting it. MILK AT I. U. DANCE JEER FOR OFFICIALS Phi Delts Razz Dean Wells; Bouncer Guards One Party. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 30. —All was quiet on the war-torn fraternity front here today, but many of the brothers and sisters of lodges on Indiana university’s campus enjoyed a laugh on school officials. Chaperoned by Miss Agnes E. Wells, dean of women, the Phi Delta Theta house dance on Saturday night featured alongside the punch bowl, a copious supply of milk. Glasses were filled frequently. Students took the gesture as a jibe at authorities who expelled sixteeen students for misconduct at fraternity parties. At another dance on the campus a burly bouncer was on duty at the door to refuse admittance to those whose breaths carried the aroma of liquor.

POLICE PROBE STORY OF ALLEGED ATTACK Woman Asserts Two Men Entered Home; Found Cut, Bruised. Story of an alleged attack by two men told by Mrs. Helen Majors, alias Macy, 31, of 111 North Chester avenue, who is suffering from cuts and bruises on her arms and legs, was being probed by police today. Mrs. Majors, who rooms with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Toens, was found by them late Sunday night lying injured on the davenport. She told police two men, one a Negro, attacked her. Police found phone wires cut. They said, though, there was no appearance of a struggle and the house was not ransacked. Murder Trial Opens By United Press CONNERSVILLf, Ind., March 30. —Trial of Earl Alexander, 60, charged with second degree murder in the fatal shooting of Ed Hughbanks, 23, started today in Fayette circuit court here. The shooting was said to have followed arguments between the two men over signs alleged placed by Hughbanks on a shack occupied by Alexander. Circuses to Open Sunday By United Press PERU, Ind., March 30.—Two circuses Tom Mix’s Rodeo and Hagenbeck-Wallace—will give first performance of the year at winter quarters here Sunday. The first performance, which is held in an outdoor arena, last year attracted 22,000 people.

NEW AIRPLANE MOTOR TO BE PRODUCED HERE Power Plant for Light Craft Is Developed by Harold Brooks. BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM Time. Aviation Editor Development of anew motor for light airplanes, to be built in Indianapolis and for which a bright future is promised, was announced today by officials of Hoosier airport. The motor, four-cylinder, in-line type, developed by Harold C. Brooks, Hoosier airport secretary, weighs 180 pounds and develops 50-horse power, at 2,100 revolutions per minute. It is expected to be sold at about SSOO. Brooks took one of the motors to St. Louis Sunday to be installed and test-flown in a Curtiss-Wright Junior plane. After exhaustive tests at the Cur-tiss-Wright airplane plant at Robertson, Mo., the test plane will be flown to Detroit to be demonstrated to plane manufacturers at the Detroit air show April 11 to 17. The test at St. Louis is being made at the request of Curtiss-Wright officials, who expect to use the motor as standard equipment in the Curtiss-Wright Junior if the test is satisfactory. Many advantages over the threecylinder air-cooled type motor, now being used extensively in light planes, are claimed for the Brooks Model AF, as it is to be known. These advantages include lessened head resistance because of the inline typ;;* smaller radiator surface

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Mrs. A. M. Taylor of Rock Island, 111., Is shown here with the three fine baby girls, averaging 4 pounds, with which she presented her proud husband. They’re not named yet, but simply identified as Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

and consequent lessened wind resistance by use of Prestone cooling instead of water cooling, and the smoother performance and lessened vibration of a four-cylinder, in-line motor, compared with the threecylinder type. Another interesting feature is that no valve or rocker arm adjustments are needed, and all moving parts are self-lubricated by the engine oil pump, eliminating need for greasing. For convenience, the motor and radiator are built as a unit. This is believed to be the first practical application of Prestone as a cooling liquid in a commercial plane motor, although Prestone has been used to some extent in military motors. It provides adequate cooling with greatly reduced radiator surface. To effect reduction in servicing

and replacement costs, the motor has been built around certain standard Ford automobile motor parts, including the Ford crank and cam shafts and connecting rods. The cylinder block is of anew aluminum alloy developed especially for cooling and is being cast by the Aluminum Corporation of America at Cleveland. Most of the machine work for the motors is being done by the Challenge Guage and Tool Company, Indianapolis, which also is making the jigs and other fixtures required for production. It is expected the motor will be placed in quantity production soon at Hoosier airport. Associated with Brooks in the project are Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, and Walter W. Winslow, Indiana Aviation Corporation president.

THEATER SAFE IS BLOWN OPEN BY CRACKSMEN | Rivoli’s Strongbox Yields $500; Homes Robbed Over Week-End. Week-end receipts at the Rivoli theater, 3155 East Tenth street, went to yeggs who early today cracked the safe in the office, taking between $550 and S6OO. Edmund Eistein, manager, found the safe blown open when he entered the theater this morning. It had been loaded with nitroglycerin, and covered with rugs and blankets to deaden the sound of the explosion. D. V. Isenhour set a trap, a shotgun with a cord attached to the door of his chicken coop, and as a result Onan Harvey, R. R. 1, Box 212, police say, was wounded in the forearm. He is charged with larceny. Walter Reynolds, attendant at a filling station at Forty-ninth street and College avenue, walked into the station Sunday night and faced a gunman, who took $75 and escaped. A Rose Tire Company store at 365 South Meridian street, was entered Sunday night by a burglar who took S2B. Other robberies included: John J. Logsdon, laundry driver. S4O. by Negro gunman: Kroger grocery. 1611 Prospect street. $45. by bandit: Herman Housefield, manager of Kroger grocery. Blake and Michigan streets. S6O, by Negro bandit; Charles Rau. 35 East Fifty-fifth street, jewelry taken from home, valued at $305; O. B. Lawson. 4019 Graceland avenue, clothing, money, and old coins, valued at $169. from home by burglar: merchandise and money, total, SBO. from poultry store at 823 Indiana avenue, operated by B. E. Arbuckle; Benjamin Steed. 116 East Twenty-eighth street. SSO from home.

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Sam Thompson (above), farmer and banker of Quincy, 111., has succeeded Alexander Legge on the federal farm board. He resigned from five years’ presidency of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

BROTHERS DIE IN FIGHT Resume Quarrel and Murder Each Other at Father’s Home. By United Press WALLING, Ky., March 30.—Resuming a quarrel that began at a party Saturday night, Jim Bailey, 43, and his brother John, 45, shot and killed each other at their father’s home here Sunday. A nephew, Denver Bailey, 12, witnessed the shooting. The government of Argentina maintains a station at Laurie island, the world’s southernmost permanently inhabited spot, from which weather reports are broadcast.

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HOOVER ENDS OCEAN VOYAGE Faces G. 0. P. Crisis in ‘32, Politicians Feel. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 30 Lazy days in the Caribbean are over for President Herbert Hoover now. and he now sets out into colder and stormier water. The President has come back from his eleven-day trip to Porto Rico and the Virgin islands, sunburned. thoroughly rested, good humor restored, and a little more improved in the art of handshaking Now enters the critical political stretch which many politicians feel will determine to great extent his fortune for 1932. Mr. Hoover has difficult situations to deal with in farm prices, reduced tax receipts and conditions within the Republican national committee organization. All contain elements of political peril and some factors beyond his control. The general economic situation Is, in the judgment of high administration officials, at a decisive point. Mr. Hoover has numerous speeches booled during the next three months which will permit him to explain his difficulties and appeal foi public support. He will speak to various key groups in several states. British Ship Aground in Fog By United Press LONDON, March 30. H. M. S. Nelson, one of Britain’s two 35.000ton super-battleships, was slightly damaged in a collision during a thick fog with the British steamer West Wales Sunday, the admiralty revealed today.