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LITTLE ITALY MOURNS CHILD GANGVICTIMS Fear of Squealers’ Fate l< Locking Lips of Those Who Saw Shooting. MOTHER VOWS REVENGE Scores Compatriots foi Lack of Courage in ‘Turning Up’ Criminals. By United Prciia NEW YORK, July 30.—Siciliar mothers wept and muttered ovei their dead and wounded children today as tight-lipped neighbors, witnesses of withering gunfire that raked a group of playing childrer Wednesday maintained a contrasting silence in the uproar caused bj the child-butchering raid. Police alternately viewed the barrage of bullets in Harlem’s Little Italy, that killed one child and wounded four others, as the result of warfare between rival bootleg rings, and gambling or bookmaking cliques. Several men have been questioned but police admitted this morning they were without a single absolute clew. Their commissioner, Edward P Murooney, issued a satement directed against sale of firearms; public officials were violent in their attack on the gunmen; Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt said it “was damnable, but that won’t help catch them.” Newspapers offered rewards. Fear “Squealers’” Fate But witnesses of the shooting failed to identify the slayers, although a license number later traced was obtained by investigators. The neighborhood feared the socalled gangdom code that spelled death to “squealers.” Among them all, residents of the shabby, densely populated district near East One hundred seventh street where the streets are the playgrounds of the tenement youngsters, one mother spoke her mind. Mrs. Rose Bevilacqua, mother of Michael, the 4-year-old boy shot while he lay in a baby carriage, raid: “We Italians are not courageous enough to come out and tell what we know. There won’t be one person in the street who'll tell. "I wish to God I had seen that car. If ever I set hands on the man who .shot my Michael, I’ll cut him to pieces. But my people will not talk. We fear for our husbands, and fathers, and brothers and sons.” Sobs Over Bier Her neighbor, Mrs. John Vengalli, sobbed and wailed over the bier of little Michael Vengalli, 5, who died while she clasped another child, Salvatore, also wounded, and raced with him to a hospital, not knowing her younger child was dying. She was comforted by Mike's sisters, Rose, 12 and Marie, 9. The boy will be buried Saturday. Sullen silence Wednesday night had displaced happy, carefree laughter, singing, and playing to which the street long has been accustomed of evenings. Visitors swarmed in the block. Sound movie cameras turned out hundreds of feet of pictures of residents, bullet holes in pock-marked brick walls, and of a riddled baby carriage in which one baby barely missed death. Police Cover District Fourteen additional police patrolled the district, already heavily patrolled. There’s a man to every block. Plainclothesmen, fellowmen of the Italian residents, chatted with old friends, and tried to make new one who could give them the slightest clew to the gunmen. Cash rewards offered by newspapers may bring a flood of guarded clews. They have done so before. The New York World-Telegram first offered a $5,000 cash reward, with the comment that “if these child killers escape, civilization can’t.” The New York American offered SIO,OOO for information of the principals in which it called a “dull, witless butchery.” STAUN RECEIVES SHAW Author and Companions Guests of “Man of Steel” for Two Hours. By United Press MOSCOW, July 30.—George Bernard Shaw, on a tour of Soviet Russia, was the guest Wednesday of Josef V. Stalin, Communist leader and “steel man” of the nation. Shaw, Lord and Lady Astor and Lord Lothian, were received by Stalin at the Kremlin. Maxim Litvinoff, foreign commissar, was present. The British group remained from 8 p. m. until after 10 p. m.—a twohour stay, which was unusual. Stalin seldom receives visitors and those received ordinarily may remain only a brief time. sen/robinsoFreturns At Home Here With Family After Lengthy Tour of Orient. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, accompanied by Mrs. Robinson and their daughter, Miss Kathryn Robinson, are at home at 5933 East Washington street, having returned from a tour of the orient which commenced when congress adjourned last March. Senator Robinson is a member of the senate committee on foreign affaire and took copious notes on oriental conditions during his tour. He termed living conditions in wartom China appalling.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 69

Keep Pay Up, Is Advice of U. S. Leaders

DON'T CUT WAGES! That's the advice of national leaders in railroad, utility and mercantile fields, as given

in statements to the United Press today. Present pay levels should be mai n~ tained, in accordance with the request of President Hoover.

That's the view of such notable men as Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; P. E. Crowley, president of the New York Central; J. /. Straus of R. H. Macy & Cos., and others. Read what they say, on Page 8 of this edition of The Times. HEAT WAVETO UNGER IN CITY Two More Torrid Days Are in Prospect. Baked now by almost a week’s high temperatures and a sun blistering the earth from a cloudless sky, Indianapolis and the midwest today faced at least two more days of a midsummer heat wave. > Rains, awaited two days, are just a possibility now, officials of the United States weather bureau here said this morning, forecasting “fair, no temperature change.” If the wave is not broken within a short time the corn crop in Indiana may be ruined. A survey of the midwestern corn area this week showed virtually all districts badly in need of rain. Today’s highest temperature here is expected to equal, if not surpass, Wednesday’s maximum of 95 degrees. Nightfall afforded little relief to heat sufferers here Wednesday, the official reading being 89 in the evening, with a drop to 83 at midnight and a low temperature for the twenty-four hours of 77 degrees at 5:30 this morning. Shortly after dawn the mercury began its ascent again and touched 85 degrees at 9. At noon it had risen to 90 degrees, and still was on the upgrade. The record temperature for this date is 102 in 1913. CLEMENCY DENIED James Pattie Must Remain in Prison. By United Press STATE PRISON, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 30.—Two of the first fourteen prisoners to seek clemency from the state parole board today were granted paroles, eight requests were flatly denied, including those of three serving life terms, and three were continued. James Pattie, former professor, sentenced in 1927 in Spencer circuit court to life, came up on a re-* opened case, but was denied clemency when Michael E. Foley and Jess Andrews, board members, reported unfavorably. They said they had investigated Pattie’s record in Spencer county and would not recommend his release. Those obtaining clemency from the board were Omar De Armond, Fayette county, sentenced Dec. 15, 1930, to one to five years for possession of a still, and Orville Westbrook, Allen county, sentenced March 29, 1926, to ten to twentyone years for robbery. LLOYD"GEORGE BETTER: PLANS VISIT TO U. S. British Liberal Leader May Make World Tour After Recovery. By United Press • LONDON. July 30.—David Lloyd George, Liberal leader, may go on a tour of the world, visiting the United States, before attempting to return to his parliamentary duties, it was indicated today. Physicians attending him said it may be two or three months before he has recovered completely from his operation Wednesday at his London residence. CANNON FIGHfTiNQUIRY Appeals to High Court to Prevent Probe of His Activities. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 30.—Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, appealed to the District of Columbia supreme court in an effort to prevent a senate committee inquiring into charges that he violated the federal corrupt practices act. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 77 10 a. m 88 7a. m 78 11 a. m 90 Ba. m 81 12 (noon).. 90 9 a. m 85 lp. m P 2

COUNTY ACTS TO END POOR FARMMISERY Temporary Dormitory to Relieve Overcrowding at Institution. TRANSFER IS STUDIED Inmates Later to Take Up Quarters at Julietta, If Program Carries. Plans designed ultimately to remove the blot of Marion county’s infirmary, under condemnation by grand juries for fourteen years, were announced today by county commissioners. By employing an architect to draw plans for a temporary dormitory at the poor farm, commissioners, for the first time, cast politics aside and agreed to relieve overcrowded conditions. The move is the initial one in plans, considered for more than a year, by which the state will assume charge of the county’s indigent insane, and the Marion county institution for the insane at* Julietta will become the county infirmary. State Board Urges Move Commissioners were prompted to action by a state board of charities report recommending “temporary buildings be erected to relieve overcrowded conditions and provide additional facilities for increased number of inmates this coming winter.” This report of an inspection by two board representatives on July 16 branded the institution as “wholely inadequate for needs of the county,” and cited the men’s quarters as "poorly planned, decrepit, poorly lighted and ventilated and seriously overcrowded.” The proposed temporary dormitory for 150 beds will solve the infirmary problem for this winter, and remove necessity of aged men inmates sleeping on cold, barren floors and in hallways, commissioners pointed out. Plan Removal to Julietta Ultimate removal of inmates to Julietta, which depends upon action by the 1933 legislature, will correct conditions. Commissioners declared J. A. Brown, state board of charities secretary, favors plans for the state taking over the buildings and grounds of the present poor farm on North Tibbs avenue. This would become an annex to the Central State Insane hospital, to which present Julietta inmates would be removed. “The exchange,” Commissioner George Snider cited, “will save the county more than SBO,OOO a year, spent for its feeble-minded.” This county is the only one in the United States now bearing expe’nse of its own insane hospital, Snider stated. $150,000 Cost to County "A bill introduced at the last general assembly and providing for the transfer would have passed if we had four or five days’ more time,” commissioners declared today. Rehabilitation of Julietta Into an infirmary will entail expenditure by the county of approximately $150,000, estimated cost of an additional building that would house all the county’s infirm poor. Under plans, the incurable insane would be transferred to the poor farm annex, which includes 250 acres of land. Improvements would cost the state about $400,000, it is said. Architect Donald Graham announced he would submit plans for the temporary dormitory within a week. An appropriation or bond issue for the work will be requested of the county council, commissioners said. Commissioners Dow Vorhies, John Shearer, and Snider all visited the poor farm today with the architect. Rail Executives’ Salaries Cut By United Press NEW YORK, July 30.—Delaware & Hudson railroad announced today a 10 per cent reduction in salaries of its executives, effective Aug. 1. Not more than thirty were believed affected.

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By United Prtst Sonora, Mexico., July 30. Four unmarked graves in the blistering wastes and three men who raved insanely in a Sonolta hospital provided a real and tragic answer today to Thomas A. Edison’s famous question as to what a group of assorted travelers would do if marooned in a desert with limited supplies of food and water. Edison's question was imaginary. This tragedy was real. There were other slight differences. Edison named a group of five. In this group there were seven, including a 16-year-old mother and her 45-day-old baby. The party set out from Nogales to Mexicali in a desert stage July 20. Five days ago the stage broke down, 250 miles from apy town. Besides the girl mother and her baby, others of the party all were men. Stranded as they were in the middle of a desert with food and water enough to J&st them only a short time, they faced in

FOUR DEATHS IN DESERT ANSWER EDISON QUERY

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931

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Don’t Pity the Poor Culprit in the County ‘Hoosegow’; He’s Living in Comfort While the Pavements Sizzle.

COUNTY HOME ' LINDBERGHS ON HAZARD BARED JW WAY TO CANADA Detention Wards Branded Hop From Maine for Ottawi Lives of children and attendants C HAVEN ' Jul V 30.A faulty furnace and narrow, x * A |jf Ottawa, Canada, first foreign sto winding stairways in the three-story jH/i j&ft € in their aerial cruise to the orien ipartment building at 225 East ' WHS® I before lifting their heav Michigan street form the hazards, ' |1 ' j Lockheed Sirius monoplane off th in. inspect ion today by The Times :< n ‘ .}< A placid waters of Penobscot bay, th Other conditions at the home, * - U'l4-months-old son and the fainil; with the exception of an urgent If >. r v 'V* \ of Senator Dwight W. Morris, Mrs Toad ro/'rooHnnol fopiUt.ipc flnd T .inHhoT-orVi *C fotViflr

COUNTY HOME HAZARDBARED Detention Wards Branded Fire Trap. BY SHELDON KEY Lives of children and attendants at the Marion county detention home are in constant danger from fire hazards. A faulty furnace and narrow, winding stairways in the three-story apartment building at 225 East Michigan street form the hazards, an; inspection today by The Times revealed. Other conditions at the home, with the exception of an urgent need for recreational facilities and a playground, can not be criticised. Constant attention by the management keeps the home clean and devoid of insanitary conditions. With facilities at hand, the best possible job of caring for children is being done, the inspection disclosed. All rooms at the present home, which is rented by the county for S3OO a month, have insufficient lighting and ventilation.- However, bedrooms were spotlessly clean. Attendants declare their greatest difficulty comes from not having a playground or recreation room. Boys housed on the third floor have no entertainment except a little reading. BAR GROUP TO HONOR CHARLES T. HANNA Services for Former Judge to Be Held in Courtroom. Tribute will be paid Charles T. Hanna, former Marion county superior judge, who died Wednesday, at a memorial to be held by the Indianapolis Bar Association at 10 Friday morning. The meeting will be in superior courtroom five of which Mr. Hanna was first judge, Howard S. Young, president of the association, announced today. The chairman of the meeting will be Judge Charles F. Remy and speakers will include James W. Noel, Earl R. Conder; George Batchelor and William L. Taylor. Members of the resolutions committee are: Thomas A. Daily, James W. Fesler, Ralph Kane, Clarence W. Nichols and James M. Ogden.

By United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., July 30.—Just a year ago tomorrow, Thomas A. Edison, aged Inventor, gave a questionnaire to forty-nine boys seeking the Edison scholarship of a college career, which contained one of the most popularly discussed problems of recent years. The question read: “You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief In the desert. There is enough food left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are:

reality almost the Identical problem which Edison propounded. att a EDISON’S question was directed to a man in his imaginary party. Who, he asked, should be given the water? Who given the chance to struggle back to civilization? Who left to die? This party of seven answered the question by all setting out

' —Times Staff Photos. The coolest place in town—THE COOLER. There’s no getting away from it! The one and only human icebox in this city is none other than THE COOLER, alias the Marion county jail While you’re wishing you were a perpetual shower-bath and mint julep rolled into one, the boys who say their “Now-I-lay-me-downs” in the county’s “hoosegow” are fretting under only an 80-degree temperature and a few steel bars while you’re suffering under 90degree heat. And keeping cool in THE

CAPONE IN COURT TO BE SENTENCED

Picture on Pare Eight. By United Press CHICAGO, July 3.—Federal Judge Janies H. Wilkerson delayed until 2 p. m. the sentencing of A1 Capone today, with a statement serving notice that he would not be bound by any agreement between Capone’s attorneys and federal prosecutors. “This defendant must understand that he can not have an agreement oil the judgment to be entered in tills case,” Judge Wilkerson declared. Capone was chewing gum as he listened to the statement. His jaw dropped, his eyes widened, and he bustled to the side of his attorneys.

“1. A brilliant scientist, 60 years old. “2. Two half-breed guides, 58 and 32. “3. The scientist's wife—interested mainly in society matters, age 39. “4. Her little son, age 6. “5. The girl you are engaged to marry. “6. Your best friend, a young man of your own age, who has shown great promise in the field of science. “7. Yourself. “Which would you choose to live and which to die? “Give your reasons.”

together, tramping slowly across the sands. The weak succumbed and fell by the wayside to die. The others struggled on. The tragedy was discovered by Augestin Pinto of Mexicali, who was journeying from Lower California to the City of Sonoita. He came first upon the broken down stage, then found the body of the girl mother, Rugina M. De Ojeda, with her tiny baby clutched

U. S. OCEAN FLIERS REACH GOAL IN TURKEY; GLOBE GIRDLERS RUSSIA BOUND

COOLER is no job if you know how. Take Ruth, in the top left photo, hanging out a “pretty” near the ice-cooler in the women’s division. or Mike fanning with his paper in the top right photo. Now they know how. And so do the Damon-and-Pythian pair in the bottom photo as they take turn abouts dousing each other. Os course, they were “hot” one time just like we all are. Maybe it was a “hot” car, but who cares when one’s main job these days is keeping cool whether it’s in THE COOLER or the CELLAR.

Judge Wilkerson’s statement was interpreted as a warning that he would not be bound by any negotiations Capone’s legal staff may have conducted toward assurance that the government “would go easy” on the gang leader. Capone faces a possible term of thirty-four years and fines totalling $90,000. Capone came into court 45 minutes early this afternoon to sit nervously awaiting the next move. “I don’t know whether I’ll withdraw my plea of guilty,” he said. “If the government won’t go (Turn to Page 8)

co her breast. He buried them in shallow graves scooped out of the sand. Traveling on, he found next the body of Jesus Orantes and still farther on the body of Jesus’ brother, Ramon. He buried both. a a a QTILL farther on he came upon the three survivors, Vicente Gutierrez, driver of the stage; his son, Vicente Jr. and Juan Ojeda, husband of the 16-year-old girl who had succumbed to thirst and hunger under the burning desert sun. All three men were temporarily Insane. Pinto brought them to a hospital here, where they fought today to win back the sanity which they had lost in the desert. None of the three survivors of the party of seven could tell what had happened, but Pinto said the story was written clearly along the desert trail. It was evident, he said, that, first of all, desperate attempts were made to repair the stage before the seven set out together with their limited supplies.

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LINDBERGHS ON WAY TO CANADA X —■ ■ ■■ ■— ■ m Hop From Maine for Ottawa to Start Orient Trip. By United Press NORTH HAVEN, Me., July 30. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh left their last United States port of call at 1:10 p. m. (Indianapolis time) today and headed for Ottawa, Canada, first foreign stop in their aerial cruise to the orient. Just before lifting their heavy Lockheed Sirius monoplane off the placid waters of Penobscot bay, the Lindberghs took fond leave of their 14-months-old son and the family of Senator Dwight W. Morris, Mrs. Lindbergh’s father. A stiff southwest wind which compelled them to forsake a contemplated landing near the Morrow property, at the west end of the island late Wednesday had subsided as Colonel Lindbergh slid the monoplane over the smooth Waters between here and Vinalhaven to a graceful take-off. Fog which settled over the island during the night had lifted. ASKS CREDIT TRUCE German Reich Head Appeals to World Banks. By United Press BERLIN, July 30.—0n behalf of the Reichsbank and leading German private banks, Dr. Hans Luther, Reichsbank president, cabled to heads of the world’s important central banks today to ask a world credit truce for Germany. A seven-page message outlined a detailed scheme dealing with the 5,500,00 marks (about $1,290,000,000) in foreign short-term credits still invested in Germany. PUBLISHER, 79, IS DEAD William L. McLean, Publisher of Philadelphia Bulletin, Passes. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, July 30.—William L. McLean, 79, president and publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, died today in his home in Germantown. Born at Mt. Pleasant, Pa., May 4, 1852, McLean received his education in public schools, and started his newspaper career in the business department of the Pittsburgh Leader in 1872. SUNDAY TO BE SPEAKER Evangelist to Appear at State Fair Sept. 6, Board Announces. Visitors to the Indiana state fair Sunday, €ept. 6, will have an opportunity to hear Billy Sunday, noted evangelist, in the Coliseum at 3 p. m., the fair board said today. Subject of ills sermon has not been determined. The board also is seeking to obtain him to address 350 boys and girls at 10 that morning. WALES IN CAR CRASH Prince Considerably Shaken in Golf Club Accident. By United Press LONDON, July 30—the prince of Wales, driving his own car, was in violent collision with another car outside the Bunningdale golf club today. He was considerably shaken although otherwise uninjured- He was emerging from the club after a round of golf when the accident occurred.

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Straight Line Air Record Is Claimed for Polando and Boardman. ‘FELT WAY’ ACROSS SEA’ Herndon, Pangborn Land in Wales, Hop to London, Head for Moscow. BULLETIN By United Press BERLIN, July 30.—Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. American around the world filers, arrived here at 7:25 p. m. (12:25 Indianapolis time) today, en route to Berlin. The trans-Atlantic monoplane left London at 2:13 p. m. and made the 575 miles in 5 hours and 12 minutes. After refueling here, they planned to push on without delay to Moscow, a little more than 1,000 miles farther on. BY J. D. QUIRK United Press Staff Correspondent ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 30. (By Trans-Atlantic Telephone From London) Two New England aviators, after a flight of approximately 5,000 miles through fog and wind over the Atlantic and down through Europe, brought their black and yellow monoplane to earth here today, claimants to the world record for distance flying in a straight line. The fliers, Russell N. Boardman and John Polando, left New York at 3:59 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) on Tuesday and landed here at 5:16 a. m., Thursday, making the flight in 49 hours and 17 minutes. Their arrival at their destination, after what must have been thousands of miles of blind flying, was a remarkable achievement of navigation. Met by Ambassador Tlie Cape Cod came down at the Yechilkey airdrome, to be received by cheering throngs. Aided by a strong flowing wind, it circled in to the field in glitteringly brilliant sunshine, which had replaced a cloudy morning. Joseph C. Grew, American ambassador, who had waited for the fliers since 3 a. m., was the first to greet them and shake their hands. The crowd closed in and the fliers were taken to the center of the airdrome, where they were given an ovation. The actual distance of their flight was estimated at 4,984 miles. The fliers emerged from the plane smiling modestly, but delighted by their reception. They seemed a little dazed from their long hours in the air. Welcomed by Turkey j Grew presented them to the I governor of Contantinople, Muhoddin Bey, and other officials. The governor’s spokesman, speaking in English said: “We welcome you to Turkey. Our state is pleased to have the honor of receiving the heroes of a record flight, and appreciate your making Istanbul your distant objective.” Boardman presented the governor with a sealed packet for Mustapha Kemal, president of Turkey. The packet had a parachute inserted under its strings. Polando described the trip as * most successful.” The fliers reached here almost exactly on schedule, within a few minutes of the time they had set. Polando said they lost much time crossing Europe. “We had to feel our way,” he said, “and fly low at times to negotiate the passes.” wind helped us to make up the time lost maneuvering for good air positions.” Polando continued. Off Again for Moscow United Pres* Staff Correspondent CROYDON AIRDROME, England 7 j?’~Z T . he trira red monoplane Miss Veedol, on a dash around the world from New York, paused hero briefly to refuel today, then left for Moscow at 8:17 (Indianapolis time). The fliers, Hugh Herndon Jr. an* Clyde Pangborn, landed at 8:14 a m (2:18 a m. C. S. TANARUS.), their second stop after a successful transcrossing. They spent the night at the village of Moylesgrove. near Cardigan, Wales. Pangborn, despite disappointment at failure to reach Moscow in one cruise, expressed confidence in their venture. “Beteher life well beat the record, he said. “We wouldn’t risk our lives like this unless we were pretty confident.” He said they flew above the few sometimes going up between 4,000 and 15,000 feet over the Atlantic They said they saw the sea only once the whole way over and tod to Ay “blind” through heavy Herndon and Pangborn slept several hours during the night at the Black Lion hotel in Cardigan. They arrived at the hotel without advance arrangements and were not recognized by the woman at th* desk when they entered. “We Jusi flew over from America ’* Pangborn said, “we’d like a bed and something to eat.” The woman thought they were joking with her and was embarrassed when she was assured that the two actually were trans-Atlan-tic fliers. She hurried off at once to order a meal of Welsh ham and eggs-

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