Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1931 — Page 3

JULY 11,1931.

‘AROUND THE WORLD IN THREE DAYS!’PREDICTS HA WKS

INSISTS FLIGHT IS PROBABLE IN NEAR FUTURE Rapid Progress of Aviation Path to Miracles, Says Speed Ace. * WEATHER BIGGEST PERIL Cites Post-Gatty Flight Major Step Toward Accomplishment. BY DEXTER H. TEED NF.A Serlee Writer NEW YORK, July 11.-Captain Frank Hawks, speed king of the skyways, believes the world-girdling record set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty will be broken. Back from Europe, where he established nine new speed marks, Hawks hopped Into his ship at Montreal and lowered the time from there to New York. *- And now this personable young tnan who counts that day lost when he doesn’t hurtle through space at nearly four miles a minute looks at the past and predicts the future. i He believes that a high-speed |?lane, probably with two pilots, a reduction of the time actually spent on the ground, and better navigation instruments will be essential factors in the assault on the PostGatty record. And as he glances at what has been accomplished in t he comparatively few years since Nellie Bly astounded the bicycle era in 1889 by going around the globe in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes, he believes progress dictates that the mark will be trimmed down to little more than three days. 200 M. P. If. Ordinary “I believe the cruising speed of ordinary planes will be increased 30 to 35 miles an hour in two years,” he declared ‘‘The tendency is toward high-speed planes, and it won’t be long until 200 miles an hour is ordinary speed.” "That flight of Post and Gatty was a great feat,” he said. "Nobody can tell when it will be surpassed. but with aviation making such progress, it shouldn’t be very •Jong.” And here is what will happen when it is broken ,as Hawks sees it: Using a high-sped plane, one as fast or nearly as fast as his, the record-seeking pilots must plan everything in advance. The ship must be re-fueled quickly at points chosen before the beginning of the flight. Arrangements must be made so that one pilot can sleep in the plane while the other directs it through the skies. Meeting the hazard of the weather. the pilots will do exactly what Hawks has done. They won't wait, .for they will be able to outrace storms or climb above the clouds and fog. Os course, the navigation instruments now being improved so rapidly will help.

Must Disregard Weather “If they break the record they Won’t be able to wait for good weather,” said Hawks. “They’ll have to push on—and with one of the Blower planes, those which pull up out of bad-flying territory so slowly, there wouldn’t be a chance.” In the case of Pangborn and Herndon who will attempt to break the record, success must depend almost wholly on reduction of ground time and how they cope with the weather. Their plans is thirty miles an hour slower than the Winnie Mae, which spent nearly half the time on the ground on the World flight. Post and Gatty averaged 145 miles an hour while in the air. Pangborn and Herndon, however, are also veteran flyers, and their plan is to keep on flying with few pauses. Aid in Latest Instruments They wilj take a chance with the •weather, and since they have nearly all the modern flying instruments they will be equipped to cope with conditions in the most scientific manner. Hawks, though, believes they will find their slow plane a handicap in lowering the Postpatty mark. The two Frenchmen, Joseph Lebrix and Marcel Doret, have a faster plane for their round-the-world flight, which is to start from Paris, but flying by way of Tokio they may encounter worse weather than they Would on a more northerly route. Their experience in being in the *ir seventy hours and ten minutes last month, when they claimed to have broken the record for closed circuit flying with a mark of 6,500 miles, will help them, Hawks admits. Not Interested Himself Hawks has considered a round-the-world flight—but that is all. He says h.is interest never even has reached the planning stage. But he Is careful to say he doesn’t know What will develop in the future. He predicts a rate of 500 miles an Jjour may be reached. But when? *Bad to prophesy,” is his answer. But 300 miles an hour? That’s different. That is here. FOKKER RESIGNS POST Quits as Engineering Chief of General Aviation Corp, By United Pree* NEW YORK. July 11.—Anthony H. G. Fokker, airplane designer, has •resigned as director of engineering of the General Aviation Corporation and the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America, both General Jdotors subsidiaries. * The resignation was effected at a board meeting Friday. Fokker will remain as director and stockholder, however. I No Respect for Law PITTSBURGH, July 11.—Never again will Charles M. Keeley, police chief at Lancaster. 0., park his auto in Pittsburgh without locking the doors. Friday night he left the doors unlocked and thie.ves stole his badge, a suitcase containing several *ult and a 100-year-old revolver.

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Captain Frank Hawks, speed king of the air, here is shown with a model of the ship in which he has smashed a score of American and foreign records. It will be a similar type of plane, he believes, which will lower the globe-circling mark set by Post and Gatty. CADLE TO BE SPEAKER Address Sunday at Tabernacle to Be on “If I Were the Devil.” E. Howard Cadle will “play the devil” in Cadle tabernacle Sunday afternoon at 2:30, he said today, announcing he would deliver here a lecture on "If I Were the Devil, How I Would Run Indianapolis.” He has invited police and city officials. A local automobile car washing firm wii give tickets to car owners atending, for one free wash.

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BY BEN STERN GROWING possibility that the Democratic strategists may forego the opportunity to reorganize the national house of representatives and by absences give the Republicans a topheavy majority which will result in the latter party naming the next Speaker, brings to the fore again the name of “Farmer’s Friend Fred” Purnell, of Attica, for that honor. If Fred were named Speaker of the national house he would be in a much stronger position to pit himself against Senator Arthur R. Robinson for the senatorial nomination in 1934, it is pointed out. As it is, the Ninth district congressman would be the gainer if Bertrand H. Snell of New York -were elected Speaker, as that would make the Hoosier the chairman of the most powerful house committee, that on rules. It is this committee which dips into the thousands of bills introduced each session and designates those to be called up for immediate discussion and action instead of being permitted to die a-borning in the hopper. a a a Many reasonshave been advanced for the possible selection of Purnell as the next Speaker. Democratic tacticians frankly declare they prefer the Republicans to reorganize the house than their own party. By foregoing the opportunity to wrest the reins from their adversaries they can absolve themselves from being forced to shoulder any of the blame which is expected to accrue if the next congress fails to pass remedial economic legislation. As the division exists today the new house will be composed of 218 Republicans, 216 Democrats and one Farmer-Laborite who, in all probability will vote with the Democrats. They also might be able to seduce two insurgent Republican votes, or see to it that some members of the majority be absent and so assume the driver’s position. A house rule is that in selecting a Speaker only those members present and in their seats may vote. a a a All of tliis conjecture comes to naught if John N. Garner of Texas, leader of the minority group, succeeds in having his party make a determined bid for power in order that he be named Speaker. The two outstanding Republican contenders for the gavel are John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, majority floor leader, and Snell, head of the rules committee. Both are easterners and middlewestern representatives think this would not bring them fair repreSHOOTING IS PROBED Mars Hill Man Wounded in Right Knee. Deputy sheriffs today were investigating the mysterious shooting late Friday of George Crowe, 32, of Mars Hills, found at his home suffering from shotgun wounds in his right knee. Crowe, deputies said, told a story of having gone to the residence of Sherman Ball in Mars Hill and asked for a drink. Crowe told them Ball shot him. Authorities were unable to find Ball or any members of his family, but said they learned two men rode Crowe in their car for more than an hour, attempting to bandage his wounds. Crowe is held in the city hospital detention ward on a vagrancy charge.

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WORKS BOARD DEPARTMENTS PARE REQUESTS Ask $15,085 Less for 1932 Than They Received This Year. Budget requests of various city departments under the works board for 1932 show a reduction of $15,085.83 from the appropriation for 1931. The reduction, shown in requests submitted to City Controller William L. Elder, is equal to nearly Yi. of 1 cent in the tax levy. The total works board budget request for 1932 Is $1,493,747. The various city department budget requests will be studied in the controller's office and additional reductions made where possible. Department budget requests approved by the works board are: Works board administration, $932,454.17, decrease of $7,945.83; municipal airport, $20,000, same; Barrett law department, $15,930, same; city garage, $73,762, decrease cf $1,805; public buildings department, $41,220, decrease of $1,710; city engineer's department, $156,028, decrease of $17,600; street commissioner’s department, $254,353.20, increase of $13,975. The street commissioner also has a separate budget of $200,000 representing anticipated gasoline tax fund receipts. The $17,600 decrease in the engineer’s budget represents supplies and equipment cuts totaling $2,600, together with $15,000 eliminated by transfer of improved streets maintenance from the engineer’s department to the street commissioner. While a $13,975 increase is shown in the street commissioner’s budget request, this actually is a $1,025 decrease, inasmuch as the budget contains only $13,975 of the $15,000 released from the engineer’s budget by the maintenance change.

sentation. Purnell therefore looms as a compromise, it is said. Hope of the speakership will, it is believed, keep Fred from making a determined bid for the G. O. P. nomination for Governor next year. Besides, he really doesn’t want that, his friends say. His ambition is to be senator. So there you are—he, at least, can afford to pick and choose. WITT, HAMILTON IN PENDLETON Taken to Cells Under Heavy Guard. Awaiting trial for the alleged gun slaying of Lafayette A. Jackson, May 27, Louis E. Hamilton and Charles Vernon Witt today are in the state reformatory at Pendleton. Under heavy guard they were taken to the institution by deputy sheriffs Friday on approval of the move by Governor Harry G. Leslie. They are to be tried in Lebanon this fall on first degree murder charges. The case would have been tried here Monday but for a change of venue obtained by Ira M. Holmes, defense counsel. Under the venue change, both would have been kept in the Boone county jail. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker asked that they be taken to the reformatory, describing them as “desperate characters.” 'SEERS' R( WOMAN ‘Voodoo’ Cure Costs $5 and Clothing. The voodoo is gone, and so are $5 and several articles of wearing apparel once owned by Mrs. Clyde Newsom, Negro, 306 East Michigan street. Mrs. Newson told her story to police today after gypsies who promised to "take away the voodoo” failed to return her clothing and money Friday afternoon. She said the women told her sickness from which she is suffering would disappear and that they took the money and clothes, despite her protests. SUICIDE IS FRUSTRATED Bottle of Poison Knocked From Woman’s Hand By Mate. A bottle of poison hurled from her hand as she attempted suicide Friday night, Mrs. Eva Ash, 46, of 1428 West Raj' street, today is recovering at city hospital from burns on her hands and face. Her husband told police his wife had been despondent for several weeks and that he arrived at home Friday as she was preparing to swallow the poison and knocked it from her grasp.

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LOST IN JUNGLES! That’s How ‘Landlubbers’ Felt

I This is the third of a series of stories hr Edward C. Fulke. Times Staff writer, on his experiences durinr an outboard motor boat trip on the Ohio and Ken- . tucky rivers. BY EDWARD C. FULKE WHAT the Kentucky river lacks in majesty it has in dignity. ; Marganed turned into its mouth on ' the fifth day, leaving the broad Ohio ; behind. Dense foliage bent over the stream i on both sides. A breeze apparently ; never has caressed the stream's sur- : face. Oppressive heat and the sun’s glare weighed heavily on two sunj burned landlubbers.

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Very timidly "Skipper” fumbled for a hunter's horn and blew two blasts. Miles slipped past. Habitations were as rare as the wind. Every bend in the river was just another milestone in the longest route that ever ran between two points. Government lock; No 1 loomed ahead. Crew of the Marganed, irritable as are all tired travelers, rose to its first threat of mutiny. “Skipper” maintained the United States would never lock the Marganed. Just a sixteen-foot boat with a' motor that sounded like a buzz saw. She was just too small. "Crew” fumbled a "belaying” pin with murder in his eyes. "We’re gonna go through or bust,” he said slowly, and very determinedly. “Blow your horn, you idiot. They’ve gotta hear you,” he yelled. Very timidly “Skipper” .fumbled for a hunter’s horn, kept for just such an occasion, and blew two blasts. m a a LIKE magic, half a dozen men poured out the watch house, dragging all manner of tow-lines, mooring ropes and hooks. “They’re gonna hang us,” muttered Crew. ‘Skipper’ was spellbound. This was one occasion when taxation was self-explanatory. Marganed bounded easily into the lock, and ‘Crew’ scrambled up the high wall. ‘Skipper’ was left alone with his fears. Gates clanked, hinges squeaked, and the roar of water in the vat drowned out all other sound. Marganed swung dizzily at her mooring, as a torrent rushed in from the upper gate. The effort it required here to lift Marganed nine feet would have raised the Chrysler building. We felt indebted to the government. Past the lock, the cruise of the Marganed became serious business. Kentucky at this point couldn’t boast a habitation or a home. Livingstone wrote about darkest Africa, and neglected the dreariest section of the earth. a a a ILLS pressed us on every side. Drift clogged the river—drift that chills the spirit of every outboard boatman, and sends the propeller spinning. Drift lanes eventually led into ponds of still, scum-covered water. Stale fishy odor lay in waves on the sultry river. White skeletons of dead trees lined the banks. Hawks circled lazily above. “Buddy, if I ever get out of this I’ll never come back,” ‘Skipper’ confessed. The Kentucky river has fishes. They are of a vicious species. Once an ugly creature, fully three feet long, leaped out of the water, floundered on the deck for several seconds, then fell back into the water. After that, it seemed that every spoon-nosed catfish in the Kentucky river took a ‘pot-shot’ at. the Marganed. They capered up and EXPERT TRUSS FITTING AT 128 W. WASH. ST. STORE Abdominal Supports find Shoulder Brace* HAAG’S CUT-PRICE DRUGS I Three-Piece Dining Ann Cft I Room Suite $4/DU I ■ EASY TERMS g Sl_ Lewis Furniture Cos. -If H|”A United Furniture iff a *44 S. Meridian St. ||J NOW 1359 fc. Washington St. —g— j 136 N. Pennsylvania St. BTOKFS *303 W. Washington St. ★ Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK South eo* Corner of Market and Ponntylvani*

down the sides of the boat until their frolicking became anything but rational. a a a AFTERNOON was wearing away. The whine of the motor had made life one lusty howl after another. “Let's stop up here and get some fresh water,” yelled ‘Crew,’ pointing toward a village that sizzled on a hillside. Marganed bumped into a steep bank below the village. The stillness was oppressive as the motor “quit.” "Well, buddy, get out and do your stuff.” It was the ‘Skipper's’ suggestion. No answer. “Cold water won’t go so bad right now, will it, Bud?” But Buddy still did not answer. He probably hadn’t heard. He nudged me in the ribs. I turned around. "Let’s get out of here,” he said in an undertone, adding, "Look what’s looking.” I followed his finger direction up the bank. The sight was as rcynantic as Zane Grey’s fondest handiwork. a a a BEAUTIFUL, fully six feet tall, a woman stood staring down at us. She held a rifle across her hips. “Hello,” I said. She did not answer. "Nix,” said Buddy, “she’s tough.” I said "Hello” a second time. She only stared. "We ain't welcome her, pal; I can see it in her eyes,” said Buddy. True enough, we weren’t welcome. In record time the Marganed put the armed beauty out of view. Evening was coming on as the very bewildered crew of the Marganed pressed on through the “swamp” land looking for a place to dock for the night. (To Be Concluded.) STATEPAVINGS ‘BLOWING UP' Heat Wave Is Blamed for Roads Damage. Torrid weather of more than a week ago caused 100 blow-ups of rigid type pavement on state roads which cost the state highway department about $6,000 to repair, it was said today by Director John J. Brown. This is the greatest number of such occurrences in more than six years. Forty blow-ups occurred in the Greenfield district alone. Several breaks developed during the heat wave on the National road. Average repair cost was estimated by the maintenance division at S6O. free wheelinq/y speaking fyefon h&tofa - Free iv/w&Z/M C ' m will go/ and A tv/toe/inS FREE Wheeling adds a “lark ’ element to motoring. Folks who used to be a little bored or blase, maybe, at the idea of “going someplace in the car”, now jump at the chance. You start someplace. You don’t just motor—you Free Wheel, well maybe, a fifth of the way at intervals. It’s a circus. Momentum carries you sailing and you save gas and oil. It’s fun, and it’s free! You can have the joyous thrills of Free Wheeling today in a real Free Wheeling Studebaker at sß4s lowest priced Six with Free Wheeling as standard equipment—engineered from tip to tail to give you its fullest benefits in its finest form. Get the thrill of your young life—get behind the wheel 1 ■free wheelinq originated bg Studebaker *845 mi thm factory The Baxter Cos. Distributors Sales and Service Lincoln 1527 i 1142 North Meridian Street

BOOZE SEIZED, MAN HELD AS RUM SMUGGLER Five Arrested When Cops Force Auto to Curb, Begin Search. Their car forced to the curb near the federal building Friday night, three men and two women were arrested by police after it was alleged they were transporting twelve gallons of alcohol. Sergeant John Eisenhut said he had been watching for the car and that it had returned shortly before from Chicago. The liquor, he said, was found in gallon cans packed behind the rear cushion of the back seat. The special compartment was opened by pulling a concealed ring in the car floorboard. Those arrested; Harold E. Pitts, 47, of 1309 North Pennsylvania street, transporting and operating a blind tiger; James O'Hair, 32, of 729 North Pennsylvania street; Ernest Ormerod, 3528 Graceland avenue; Miss Martha Myers, 1309 North Pennsylvania street, and Miss Jean Wetzel, 20, of Sipo, all charged with vagrancy, pending investigation by federal authorities. Eisenhut said his attention first was attracted to the car when he saw it failed to have a tail light. Raiding the residence of John Simms, Negro, 59, near Oaklandon, deputy sheriffs Friday night said they seized a still, mash and quantity of liquor. He was charged with operating a blind tiger and illegal operation of a still.

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In Memoriam Pilgrimage to Be Made to Frenoh Grave of Quentin Roosevelt.

Ry United Press PARIS, July 11.—American friends, war veterans and French admirers will make a pilgrimage Tuesday to the lonely grave in the Aisne valley rear Counonges-En-Tardenois where Quentin Roosevelt fell in air combat on July 14, 1918. Quentin is buried where he fell, his first grave being dug by the Germans who picked him out of the wreckage of his plane. They marked the grave with a wooden cross, of the same style as marked the graves of Germans, and on it inscribed: "Quentin Roosevelt fell here in combat, July 14. 1918.” They realized they were burying the son of the former President and tended his grave piously. Unlike the graves of other American soldiers buried by the Germans, this tomb was prepared like a shrine. German soldiers made a rustic fence around it with birch branches, and it remained shat way until advancing American troops found it. OVERCOME BY EXHAUST Recovers at Hospital From Effects of GaGs in Garage. Overcome with monoxide gas late Friday while working under his car in a garage, Charles Roney, 40, of 1547 ‘Sheldon street, is recovering today at the city hospital. Roney told police he had the motor running and crawled tmder the rear of the automobile to make an adjustment. He was found by a taxi driver, who passed in the alley in the rear of Roney’s home.

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BOGUS MONEY GANG BROKEN, SAY OFFICERS Three Men and Woman Are Arrested in State Cities. With arrest of three men and woman in two Indiana cities, federal authorities believe they have halted the operations in this state of an extensive counterfeiting gang which has passed hundreds of bogus bills. Charles Maxey. Indianapolis, secret service operative, arrested Avy T. Downs of Clrakshill, and Georg® B. Brugh in Lafayette Thursday, while Hoy A. Brugh. son of Georgy B. Brugh, and Hazel Kennedy c 4 Lafayette were arrested in Brazil. This latter arrest occurred whew the woman attempted to pass a bogus $lO bill at a drug store. Brugh, it is declared, admitted having passed approximately 100 of the bills in Logansport, Peru and South Bentjl. His plan was to make a small fortune and then retire to the chicken-raising business. The four will be bound over to the federal grand jury for the northern district. QUIZZED IN DRUG FIND U. S. Sleuths Question Driver of Car Containing Narcotics. Federal narcotic authorities today were to question Manuel Savage, 427 West New York street, who was arrested by police on vagrancy charges Friday night after a quantity of narcotics was said to have been found in his auto.