Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1931 — Page 2

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EXCITED GOTHAM PREPARES FOR WORLD FLIGHTS END

JUBILANT EAST IS READY FOR DARINGAIRMEN Throngs Flock to Field at Cleveland as Post and Gatty Near. HOOVER IS ENTHUSED Globe-Girdlers Will Be Guests of President at Luncheon. (Continued from Page 1) the plane. Mechanics had it ■wheeled out onto Portage avenue, a broad pavement which gave them a two-mile straightaway into the wind. Had Good Sleep A steady rain during the night had made the airfield soggy and the runways were too water-logged for a safe start from their uneven, soft surfaces. The avenue was cleared and lined with hundreds of Edmonton citizens, who cheered and waved and shouted enthusiastically in the rain as the big white plane gathered headway and was off into the mists to the southeast. "How did you sleep?" the fliers were asked as they inspected the Winnie Mae. "Great,” Post replied. "And we’re feeling fine as fiddles,” Gatty added. The world fliers, heroes for a week’s amazing work in this imagi-nation-inspiring feat, hoped to make the 1,850 miles to New York in about fourteen hours. They will have circled the earth in eight days and about twelve hours if they do —beating by far the record set by the Germany dirigible of twentytwo days in July, 1929. Land In Hard Rain Tuesday The globe-circling team brought their white monoplane down here at 4:37 p. m. in a driving rain. The mud at the airport was so thick after a steady down pour of the past twenty-four hours that the craft became stuck and had to be hauled from the mire by a tractor. The two men left Fairbanks, Alaska, at 3:20 a. m. (7:20 Indianapolis time) and for the first part of the trip flew over desolate territory. For nearly five hours no word of their flight reached the outside world. The first word came from a point 200 miles from White Horse, Yukon. They next were sighted at Fairview, 360 miles north of Edmonton. Their progress was recorded again as they flew over the Northern Alberta line. The next communication point to sight them was only twenty miles from Edmonton. A vast crowd was awaiting the fliers’ arrival here, some having stood for hours in the steady downpour. Travel at High Speed The average speed from Fairbanks to Edmonton was about 175 miles an hour. It was said unofficially that the Winnie Mae traveled the last 350 miles of the trip at a .speed of approximately 200 miles an hour. All the way around the earth to Edmonton they made phenomenal time, racing across land and sea with almost express-train precision. They were on or ahead of schedule from the time they left Roosevelt field a week ago Tuesday morning—and the precision of their performance has been one of the amazing phases of their record achievement. They left New York at dawn on July 23 and with a stop at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, flew on across the Atlantic without incident. They landed twice on their way to Berlin, once at Chester, England, and again at Hanover, Germany, but stopped only briefly each time. After a short sleep at Berlin, they hurried on to Moscow. They had planned only to refuel and spend an hour or two in the Soviet capital, but a banquet was ready in their honor and they spent the night, getting little sleep before proceeding on the perilous flight into the across Siberia to the Pacific.

Stop in Siberia Stops at Novo-Sibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagovestschensk and Khabarovsk were made on the rapid cruise across Silberia wastelands. Their longest halt was at Khabarovsk, where they remained nearly twenty-eight hours and slept soundly for the first time since leaving Roosevelt field. Then they started the long and hazardous 2,300-mile flight over the North Pacific toward Bering Strait and Nome, Alaska. The fliers reached Nome at 8 p. m. Monday (Indianapolis time.) From there on across the North American continent the journey continued with the mazing rapidity and expert precision which has made it one of the marvelous exploits of aviation history. Cleveland Gets Excited By United Press CLEVELAND, July I.—A squadron of aerUU police was preparing to greet Harold tatty and Wiley Post this afternoon as the world fliers neared Cleveland for their final refueling stop. Excited crowds were gathering at municipal airport where the recordsmashing airmen are scheduled to land the Winnie Mae after the 1.600-mile trip from Edmonton, Alberta. Specuf.l police were detailed to handle the huge crowds. Aerial traffic over the port will be suspended when the Winnie Mae is sighted. The fliers’ schedule calls for an immediate take-off after refueling. New York ‘Set,’ Too By United Press . NEW YORK, July I.—New York ■will extend to Wiley Post and Harold Oatty a welcome equal to or .surpassing the tumultuous Lind’bergh reception of 1927, it appeared today. The official reception and the spontaneous tribute of the city’s millions will make the day memorable to the men who are creating gviation history. The mayor's re-

Old Ironsides , Restored to Her Erstwhile Glory , Takes to Seas After 134 Years

“Old Ironsides” as she looked (upper left) under full sail more than a century ago, when she was the finest fighting frigate in the United States navy. On the left below is the unusually long bowsprit which made her so maneuverable.

GOAL MERGER URGED Reorganization Necessary, Says Senator Davis. By United Press WASHINGTON, July I.—A plan for rehabilitation of the soft coal industry through consolidation of weak companies into the hands of a few strong concerns, is being formulated by Senator Jim Davis (Rep., Pa.), former secretary of labor under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Through mergers, Davis believes, the bituminous coal industry could put itself on a firm basis like the steel industry. He recalls that thirty years ago, the steel trade was suffering from difficulties like those that now beset coal, and for much the same reasons. Wage cutting, unemployment, strikes, low earnings and other troubles of the coal industry, Davis says, are traceable directly to cutthroat competition. Consolidations designed to remedy these ills would not be held illegal under the antitrust laws, he believes. PAVING CONTRACTS LET J. N. Morgan & Sons, Inc., Awarded Sfielby Street Work. Contracts for paving Bhelby street from Carson and Sumner sreets to Troy avenue, and from Cruft to Sumner streets, were awarded J. N. Morgan & Son, Inc., today by the works board. Bid for the first section was $6,211 and the second, $7,189. Works board members announced today that with preparation of the city budget, Wilbur H. Winship, street commissioner, will take over departments maintaining both improved and unimproved city streets. MACDONALD TO SPEAK Will Be Honor Gnest at Independence Fete of American Society. By United Press LONDON, July I.—J. Ramsay MacDonald, Great Britain’s Labor premier, will be the honor guest and principal speaker Thursday night at the Independence day dinner to be given at the Savoy hotel by the American Society in London. In the absence of United States Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, Raymond Atherton, counsellor of the American embassy, will preside.

Seligman Is on Staff Sidney J. Seligman, 1201 Park avenue, is chairman of the Indiana university student board of editors of the Indiana Law Journal, official publication of the Indiana State Bar Association, a dispatch from Bloomington stated today. ception committee, caught somewhat unaware by the flight’s breathless speed, hastily was forming a citizen’s committee to escort the fliers to the metropolis after they set their gleaming white monoplane down at Roosevelt field this evening. Mrs. Post Waiting By United Press NEW YORK. July I.—The hours were passing all too slowly today for a young Okluhoma housewife and a middle-aged oil operator. Secluded in their hotel rooms and somewhat awed by the sensation that the globe-circling airmen have created throughout the world in the short space of a week, Mrs. Wiley Post and F. C. Hall have found the last few hours of the flight the most difficult of all to wait through. “Wiley will finish it all right,” said the pilot’s 21-year-old wife. “He is the best flier in the world.” “And Gatty ” added Hall, the unassuming backer of the Winnie Mae’s flight, “is the world’s best navigator. As for the plane, it was the best that money could buy.” Hoover to Dine Fliers By United Press WASHINGTON, July I.—President Hoover will honor Wiley Post and Harold Gatty by inviting them to have lunch with him at the White House, it was announced today. Mrs. Hoover has watched with keen interest the record-breaking flight, trading of the fliers’ exploits daily in the newspapers.

By United Preta BOSTON, July I.—Restored to her erstwhile glory by the penny contributions of American school children, Old Ironsides was recommissioned today almost within sight of the spot where she was first launched 134 years ago. While hundreds of men, women and children looked, on, naval and civic dignitaries attending the recommissioning exercises at Boston navy yard paid glowing tributes to the famous frigate whose feats in war and peace fill many pages of American history. Today’s colorful ceremonies climaxed three years of restoration

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Husband Asserts He Spent ‘Gift’ on Food for Wedding Party. By Times Special CHICAGO, July I.—Philip Paolino is a fellow who does things in a big way and his wedding back in 1928 was no exception. Revelation of his ideas about what constitutes a little wedding snack came Tuesday before Superior Judge John J. Sullivan as Mrs. Paolini asked temporary alimony in Philip’s divorce suit charging cruelty, and also demanded SSOO, a gift to her, she said, when they were married. “But, your honor, the SSOO wasn’t given to her,’’ argued Philip, it was for both of us. You see, it was this way: “I had the SSOO, all right, but I told her instead of giving it to her, I’d spend it on a wedding party. First, I bought 1,500 buns for sandwiches and we had ninety-eight pounds of hot dogs “You didn’t go out to the ball game in the afternoon and pass out tickets at the gate, did you?” interjected Judge Sullivan. “No, judge, but I’m a big eater and we had a lot of friends,” explained Phillip. Go ahead, said Judge Sullivan, dazedly. “Well,” continued Philip, “we had 100 pounds of peanuts His honor’s eyes bulged somewhat further from his rubicund countenance. “And 750 dill pickles and a barrel of beer,” concluded Philip triumphantly. His honor’s high blood pressure now had about reacßM the boiling point and court attaches were beginning to feel sympathetic pains of indigestion. “And,” said Philip, “there were as many of her friends there as mine and she at as much as I did—even if I did maybe drink more of the beer.” Still blinking, Judge Sullivan agreed Philip needen’t repay the SSOO, but should pay $5 a week temporary alimony. PULPWOOD BAN LIFTED Lowman Asserts Convict Labor Charge Is Unproven. By United Press WASHINGTON, July I.—Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman announced today that charges that convict labor had been used in production of a cargo of Soviet Russian pulpwood now held at New York had not been proved and that the cargo would be admitted to this country. The pulpwood was imported by the Amtorg Trading Company for the International Paper Company. MUSEUM TREK BEGINS Tracks Carry Young “Explorers” on Relic Hunt in Southwest Two “covered wagons” were rumbling west from Indianapolis today bearing members of the fifth annual prairie trek of the Children’s museum into the American southwest in search of relics and photographs for the museum collection. Ten boys were in charge ofHillis L. Howie, tour director; Gordon H. Thompson, field work leader, and Herbert A. Sweet, in charge of commissary on the tour. The truck* will cover more -than 4,500 miles on the trip.

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The broadside guns, comparable to the modern turret guns, which raked decks of enemy ships, are shown in the upper right. And below Is the stern, showing the rudder of the gallant 134-year-old Constitution.

work begun in 1928 after Old Ironsides, officially known as the U. S. S. Constitution, long had rested as an all but forgotten relic at the navy yard. Thursday this one-time terror of the sea, built in George Washington’s day, will leave in tow for Portsmouth, N. H., the first of seventeen Atlantic ports to be visited during a tour which will end at Yorktown, Va., Oct. 16. Speaking at the recommissioning exercises, Dr. Curtis D. Wilbur, former secretary 6f the navy, declared that Old Ironsides “links the present with the past, and for at least another hundred years, will link the present with the future.”

Finny Business 13,000 Pints of Whisky Fed to Fish at U. S. Pouring Party.

GOT a fishin’ seine for a fish insane? • Put it to work, then, down where one Indianapolis sewer spills into White river, and Jam the fourwheel brakes on your amazement at whatever the meshes may disclose when the net’s lifted. For deep in the muddy stream

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today there must be some queer piscatorial antics, and, for that matter, who’s to say a few Inspired fish won’t adventure from their native pools for a few cockeyed dry land maneuvers. Be not surprised, therefore, if your eyes reveal the awesome spectacle of a chub minnow shagging a giant bass through a back alleyway, or if on some baking sandbar a company of carp do squads east and west and dance a hula on their fan-shaped tails. For they say that the finny community near the sewer mouth today is on a spree that will be juicy scandal for neighboring—and perhaps envious—colonies for many a day. nan UNITED STATES MARSHAL ALF MELOY and the local federal dry agents are hosts for the party. Tuesday afternoon they dumped 13,000 pints of genuine bonded whisky into the sewer. And there’s a heat wave on now, too. Meloy, three deputy marshals and fifteen prohibition agents took turns at bottle-smashing throughout thß afternoon, dumping the liquor into a thirty-foot trough leading to the sewer opening in the basement of Federal building. The liquor was confiscated in Evansville last winter in a freight car billed to Chicago from Alabama as lumber. The car was loaded partially with lumber and the liquor was stored in caverns built of two-by-fours. ILLITERACY ON DECLINE Dropped 2.3 Per Cent in 1930 Under 1920 Figure. By United Press WASHINGTON, July I.—The bureau of the census announced today that 4.3 per cent of the population 10 years of age and over was illiterate in 1930. This marks a decrease of 2.3 per cent from the census of 1920. in 1870 the percentage of illiteracy was 20. The number of persons recorded as illiterate in 1930 was 4,283,749, a decrease of 648.156 in ten years. The number of illiterates has declined about 13 per cent during a period in which the population increased 16.1 per cent.

GASOLINE USE GAINS June Report Shows $46,289 Increase in Tax. Largest gasoline consumption recorded in Indiana and a $46,289.86 increase in gas tax collections was reported today by Joseph M. Tracy, collector. In the June report of the department, it was set out that total collections for last month were $1,729.830.03, he increased based on figures for June, 1930. June collections on gasoline taxes were on May gallonage of 43,378,781, an increase of 1,290,277 gallons. Delinquent accounts aggregated $7,833.20. Total refunds to farmers for gasoline used in carrying out farm work was $144,553.63, the report showed. LEWIS TO BANK POST Becomes Manager of People’s Investment Department. Montgomery S. Lewis, assistant manager of the People’s State bank investment department since 1925, has been appointed manager of the department. He succeeds Raymond D. Jackson, who resigned to enter the investment field at the head of his own concern, Felix M. McWhirter, president, announced today. M. R. Warrender, a salesman in the department for six years, was promoted to head the sales division of the investment department.

NINE INDICTED BY GRAFT QUIZ JURY

Accused Include Two Lake County Commissioners on. Fee Grab Charge. By United Press CROWN POINT, Ind., July I. Seven business men and two Lake county officials are under indictment today after a grand jury investigation into gambling and assorted irregularities in contracts for public work. The officials indicted Aje James Black and William Linton, county commissioners. With Eugene Carpenter and Ross Smith, they are charged with irregularities in awarding contracts and obtaining fees. Five .business men of Gary are charged with renting property for the expressed purpose of operating gambling resorts. They are Dr. Carl Boardman and John B. Burke and Adolph Deutsch, hotel owners; Leslie R. Bain and D. S. Fruse, real estate dealers. The commissoners are charged with negligently paying SBO,OOO to Smith, who is head of the Hammond Inspection Company, as fees for inspecting road materials used by the county. Smith is accused of filing false claims for fees and accepting SBO,OOO for work which cost only $1,700. Another of the indictments charges Carpenter with perjury in connection with an allegedly false affidavit which he filed with a bid for supplying furniture for the county treasurer’s office. INVITE - PUBLIC TO CAMP July 4 Program to Be Held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Invitation to the public to visit the citizens’ military training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison July 4 will be extended by Colonel H. D. Selton, camp commander, in a broadcast from 7 to 7:30 Thursday night over WFBM. The camp band of fifty-one pieces will play. On July 4, the program at the fort will be a parade by the entire student regiment, followed by an address by Meredith Nicholson. A polo game between the Eleventh infantry and the Rolling Ridge teams will be played 1a the afternoon.

PAVING BATTLE NOW MAY NOT REACHJOURT Ogden Insists All-Blacktop Bids Are Illegal; Is Ignored. Blacktop and cement forces may not have their day in court, despite preliminary arrangements, it was reported at the statehouse today. The suit to halt the state highway commission from proceeding with contracts let on “all blacktop” specifications may be dropped, it was learned. Whether dropped or not, Director John J. Brown of the state highway department has a letter from the attorney-general’s office saying the commission’s all-blacktop bids are illegal; and although a deputy attorney-general will appear at the’ court hearing, no effort will be made to defend the commission contracts. Ogden On Record The letter puts into record form the rift between Attorney General James M. Ogden and the commission. It is signed by Ogden and two deputies, Joseph M. Hutchenson and Connor Ross. The latter will represent Ogden at the suit hearing scheduled for Marion circuit court Thursday. Both Brown and Ogden’s deputies refused to make the exact content of t heletter public. Ogden is out of the city. Injunction was asked by Robert E. O’Connor as a Fort Wayne citizen. He is a member of a concrete contracting firm. Advice Overriddden Ogden advised that no blacktop contracts be signed until the suit is settled, but Attorney Merle Walker is reported to have secured approval of Goevrnor Harry G. Leslie, Brown and the commissioners to sign the contract for blacktopping the Huntington to Columbia City road involved in the suit. The contract was signed last week. The attorney-general declared this violated an expresssed agreement and added to his determination to withdraw from the suit. O’Connor’s attorneys filed a supplemental complaint Tuesday naming the Putnam Construction Company, Ft. Wayne, the contractors, as co-defendants with the commission. Should the work be halted by temporary injunction, a huge bond would have to be posted by O’Connor, and he may withdraw on that account, it was reported. PERJURY IS CHARGED Man, 55, Indicted for Car License Statements. An aged man was indicted today by the Marion county grand jury on a charge of perjury for swearing falsely to statements before the secretary of state in obtaining a chauffeur’s license. Austin Boots, 55, of Greenfield, falsely obtained the license June 23, the indictment charges, although his driver’s license previously had been revoked at Greenfield. Authorities stated this the first instance of a person indicted for falsely getting a permit to drive an automobile, since the driver’s license law became effective in this state two years ago. Boots is charged with appearing before Notary Public Amos C. Huxley and testifying that he had never had a driver’s license before.

No Foolin’ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 1— Lloyd Hamilton, screen comedian, was hunting work with renewed vigor today for he had been warned by Superior Judge Walter Guerin that if he didn’t pay $15,000 back alimony to his former wife, he would be forced to serve some time in the county jail. Hamilton pleaded that he hadn’t worked since February when he appeared to answer a court order obtained by his former wife, Mrs. Ethel Hamilton. Judge Guerin said he would send the comedian to jail next week unless he made some arrangements to pay the SSOO monthly alimony due the former Mrs. Hamilton.

SPRINKLER IS BURNED Firemen Tuesday night extinguished a flaming truck on South street between Illinois and Meridian streets. The cab of the vehicle nearly was destroyed by the flames. The fire started from a faulty manifold. The truck was an 1,800-gallon capacity water sprinkler, owned by the city street department. City-Wide Service Ejfktcher (Trusty dfompang LOANS AT SEASONABLE RATES FOB ALL WORTHY PURPOSES The Indianapolis Morris Plan Company DtUwwe mnd Ohio Sta. allay ISM STANS' AT aij. GROCERS

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Attempt to erect a radio aerial was fatal to William Smith Turpin, 6497 Broadway, today. He was electrocuted on the roof of the Indianapolis Glove Company, 1317 North Senate avenue. He was manager of the glove company.

ELDER RECEIVES BUDGETPLEAS Safety Board Request Is SI,OOO Higher. Budget requests of various city departments have been submitted to William L. Elder, city controller. For safety board administration in 1932 $13,425 has been requested, compared to the budget of $12,675 under which the department operated this year. Increases include $l5O for printing and advertising and SI,BOO to employ a civilian bookkeeper to replace the present bookkeeper, Paul Malcom, city fireman, who will be returned to duty with the fire department. Decrease of $1,200 is proposed in dismissal of an assistant police surgeon. For the city dog pound a budget of $6,900 is asked. This is the same as for this year. The municipal garage asks $73,762. This year’s budget was $75,567. A large part of the decrease is due to reduced gasoline prices. The city assessment bureau asks $15,930, the same as for this year. For the buildings department (maintenance of municipal buildings) $41,620 is asked, compared with a budget of $42,930 for this year.

SCORES M’ARDLE FOR FARM BOARD ATTACK Public Service Group Might Better Be Abolished, Says Taylor. Defending the federal farm board against an attack by Chairman John W. McCardle of the public service commission, Louis Taylor, vice-president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, asserted that farmers do not want the federal plan abandoned but might approve abolition of the public service commission. “It is strange that a board created for agriculture should be attacked and destroyed, not by those for whom it was created, but by representatives of the utilities,” Taylor said. McCardle had urged abolishment of the federal farm board in a telegram to Senator James E. Watson. YOUTH TAKES POISON Lover’s Quarrel Blamed; In Serious Condition at Hospital. A lover’s quarrel after five years of courtship, Tuesday night resulted in Bruce Kimmon, 23, of 2010 West Michigan street, taking poison at his sweetheart’s house. He is in serious condition at the city hospital. Miss Esther Wills, 1148 Udell street, told police that the quarrel started shortly after Kimmon’s arrival at her home. She said he went into the bathroom and swallowed the poison.

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INDICT EX-BANK SECRETARY FDR EMBEZZLEMENT \ Cornelius Holloway Faces, True Bill In $150,000J Shortage. * Charged with embezzling $150,000 in funds of the Indiana Savings and Investment Company when he was secretary of the firm, Cornelius E. Holloway, 27 East Thirty-seventh street, today was indicted in criminal court on charges of embezzlement and grand larceny. County prosecuting authorities said the money has been repaid the trust company by the firm with which it is bonded. Holloway is alleged to have lost the money playing the stock market. He will be arraigned within the next week before Judge Frank P. Baker. Brokers Are Sued Suit already has been filed in federal court by the American Surety Company of New York against Thomson & McKinnon, local brokerage firm, for $50,000, charging the brokerage company knew the money he lost was that of the company by which he was employed. Due to reimbursement by the bonding company, the Indiana Savings and Investment Company is not affected. According to information presented authorities, Holloway lost the money in the general smash of the market two wears ago. Both civil and criminal actions were delayed. In the civil action, checks totaling $196,500 are listed as having been drawn from the company’s account by Holloway. In addition, $22,500 cash is listed. Charged Paid to Brokers It is charged these funds were paid to Thomson & McKinnon between Sept. 1, 1928 and Nov. 14, 1929, as coverage for stock margins. Twenty-six other indictments were returned by the grand Jury, which is expected to make another report this week, its statement perhaps bearing on the investigsution of House Bill 6. Included among those indicted: Herbert A. Ralls, for alleged embezzlement of $2,800 in funds of the Hare Chevrolet Company; Frank Coe, alias Cole, Negro, and Howard Graves, Negro, 2128 Highland place, charged with first degree murder.

LAYS DISMISSAL TO POLITICAL INFLUENCE Negro City Employe Denies Fighting With Fellow Worker. Charges that political differences resulted in his discharge as a traffic department repairman, were made today by William Johnson, Negro, 613 Wilmington avenue. Johnson, who with James Jones, Negro, was discharged by the safety board Tuesday declared he and Jones had not been fighting instead of working. The information presented the board was that the men had been in a series of arguments. * Johnson today insisted he was a Democrat and had contributed to the campaign fund last fall. He showed receipts for contributions totaling S3O paid to an attorney for a city hall board. According to Johnson, Jones also was discharged due to political influence. RADIO TO AID DRIVES Community Fund Agencies to Take to Air in Fall Campaigns. Radio talks over nation-wide networks will be used by community fund agencies of the United States in the fall drives for funds, David Liggett, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Community Fund told members of the council of social agencies here Tuesday at a luncheon at Christ Episcopal church. Reports on the work of the national conference held in Minneapolis, Minn., reecntly were read.