Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 168, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1931 — Page 9

NOV. 23, 1931.

Lord of the Skies —No. 3 five airplanes TO BE HOUSED INSIDE AKRON Upper Fin on Mammoth Ship Is as High as 6-Story Building. BY ERNIE PYLE Srrlnn.-Howard Aviation Editor WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—1n the lower interior of the Akron, right between the crew's quarters, which I described Saturday, is the airplane hangar. At present it is only a vacant space, 70 by 58 feet. There is nothing in it. But by next spring a floor will be built in, a trapdoor put in the bottom, cranes and overhead rails installed and five airplanes put in. Across the top of this hangar space runs the catwalk, connecting the living quarters on either side of the ship. The bottom of the big gas bag in this “frame” forms the roof of the hangar. Once more we climb to the catwalks running the length of the ship, and walk aft. A few steps and we come to the first engine room. Engine Room of Metal This room is set back inside the dirigible, five or six feet from the fabric exterior. Like the other rooms. It is riveted on to the multitudinous girders of the dirigible’s framework. The room is 8 by 8 feet. The walls, floor and ceiling are of metal. In the center, on a heavy base, sits a huge twelve-cylinder water-cooled Mayach (German) engine. At least one mechanic stands by each engine continually. An aluminum door leads from the engine room to the catwalk. And just opposite the door is a large window leading out to the propeller drive shaft and the propeller itself. Change Cylinder in Flight In the engine room, with the door closed, one never would know he was in the air. He might as well be on the ground, or in a submarine. It is just the same whether the dirigible is in its hangar or a mile in the air. They changed a cylinder during flight the other day. There are eight of these engine rooms, four on each side. All along the catwalk, hanging from the girders, are big gasoline tanks. Finally, we reach the end of the catwalk, back near the tail. A gas bag blocks our passage. So we either can turn one way and walk down steps toward the entrance to the lower fin, or we can turn the other way and start’ climbing a metal ladder right up the side of the ship, on the inside, of course. If your heart is weak don’t do either. Just turn around and go back. If You Fell Off You can see, due to the airship’s curved hull, that if you kept climbing up this ladder you would be hanging, face up, by the time you got to the top. They have arranged for that. After you have gone up a little way. you step out on to a platform landing, turn around and continue up a ladder which allows you to face toward the interior of the ship, instead of toward the outside. When you reach the top, you come to another catwalk, which runs the entire ltfngth of the ship, right under the “backbone.” If you were to fall off this catwalk, you would fall on to one of the big helium gas bags, and simply crawl back again. Like Fifteen-Story Fall But if the gas bags weren’t there, and you fell straight through to the bottom of the ship it W'ould be equal to falling out of a fifteen-story building! Sailors constantly patrol this up.>er catwalk to see that everything is all right. At the forward end is an observation platform. The man on duty there has a throne all his own. He is the highest man on the ship and he sits alone and survays the world. From the rear end of the catwalk one climbs back into the upper vertical fin. This corresponding fin on an airplane is about the size of a table top and as thick as your hand. But on the Akron it is as high as a six-story building and as wide as your living room. The navy once considered putting the crew’s quarters in the lower fin, and would haA T e, except that the weight would have, upset the ship’s balance. To get to the lower fin you crawl down a series of skeleton ladders. Although the fin really is a very small part of the whole dirigible, it is so big you could set up housekeeping in it. The bottom of the forward part of the lower fin has been converted into an auxiliary control car. It has big glass windows and is the best point in the dirigible for sightseeing if you’re not addicted to air sickness. When the Akron hits a bump the nose goes down and the tail goes up. and if you're in the tail you sometimes go up several hundred feet. In this fine control car are compasses and rudder and elevator controls. If something should go wrong with the controls in the main car forward, the controls in the fin can be connected merely by throwing a clutch and the dirigible steered from the rear. G. M. C. ENLARGES ITS TRUCK DEPARTMENT Extensive Drive for New Business Is Planned by Manager. W. C. Rodocker, manager of the General Motors used truck department, announces that his company is planning an extensive drive for new' business this winter. The department has moved its headquarters from Kentucky avenue and Oliver street to larger quarters at 430 North Capitol. Three new salesmen and four mechanics have been added to the pay roll and still further expansion is expected, Rodocker said. ' **We believe that conditions are definitely better," Rodocker declared, "and we are going to prove it. We expect to see real results, because we believe the business is there to get for any one who will go out after it.”

Mum 64 Years By United Pres PANA, 111., Nov. 23.—A few days before Christmas In December, 1867, 7-year-old George A. Pifer watched three men rob and murder Elijah Russell, a wealthy farmer. He kept his silence for sixty-four years and Russell’s disappearance remained a mystery. Today the crime was revealed after I\fer told police his story and R - ssell's skeleton was dug from the grave where the boy watchr and the slayers place it. Pifer told authorities he had held his secret through the years because he feared for his life if he should name the criminals. Now the three are dead. Despite the fact . the countryside has changed completely, authorities found the grave without difficulty.

GIANT FIRMS WILL CLASH IN TELETYPE WAR Western Union-Postal to Fight for Nation's Business Against A. T. & T. BY CHARLES A. WARDLE United Press Financial Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union Telegraph Company, veteran of years of competition in the communications business, talked today about his company’s lates battle for that business over “teletype” printers. He described the operation of the new automatic printer system, which enables one to send and receive telegraphic messages over a typewriter keyboard as conveniently as one may telephone to any other person operating a similar piece of equipment. The new systems were announced Saturday by the American Telephone <fe Telegraph Cos. on one hand and jointly by the two telegraph companies, Western Union and Postal, which dropped four decades of competition to co-operate in the new business war. Carlton Not Worried Asked if the American Telephone’s simultaneous entry into the individual "teletype” sending field would mean serious competition, Carlton said: “Asa matter of fact, I slept unusually well last night.” The Western Union-Postal Telegraph announcement came almost simultaneously with the A. T. <fe T. announcement, and of that, Carlton slyly remarked: “We finished neck and neck on the publicity for it, didn’t we?” Both organizations are convinced their facilities for teletype messages are superior. Asa matter of fact, so far as the subscriber is concerned, the mechanics of making a message call will be practically identical for the two groups. When a subscriber wishes to send a message, he will press a button on his machine, equivalent to lifting the telephone receiver from its hook. This will light a small signal in front of an operator at a central switchboard. Type Messages in Privacy The operator, in answering, will plug into the calling line and print the letter “O,” signifying that the service is ready. The calling subscriber then will type on a typewriter keyboard the name or location and number of the desired party, which will be published as in a telephone directory. The operator will switch through the call. When the called party answers, the operator drops out, leaving the two subscribers to type messages back and forth in privacy. The bill, at the end of the month, will be for the number of messages, their long-distance mileage, and their time, just as telephone calls are now billed to subscribers. Transmission of messages between patrons of Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph and Cable Company has been worked out without complications, according to officials. FOUR HURT JN FIGHTS Negroes Shot and Stabbed During Week-End Brawls. Fights Sunday resulted in injuries to four Negroes. William Talley, 30, of 1206 Vs North Senate avenue, was shot in the leg during a battle with Roy Gregory, 27, of 341 Darnell street. Both are held by police on a series of charges. Police are probing a fight in which Mack Scears, 908 Vi Colton street, was cut and his left arm broken. He is held on a vagrancy county. Assailants of Major Paris, 26, of 964 Pierson street, and Richard Haynes. 39, of 422 Blake street, are sought by police. Both men were cut severely in brawls.

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BY BEN STERN T> ATTLE for the Democratic nom- -■-* ination for President next year moved into Indiana over the week-end. It probably will continue here through Dec. 28, when Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, and an outstanding presidential possibility, is scheduled to deliver an address at Winchester. The occasion is the annual Wilson daj dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Club there and Baker eminently and particularly is qualified to be the principal speaker, because of his close relationship in ideas and political thought with the war President A record crowd is expected, because Baker has not made a public appearance in this state for many years and also as a result of the important position he occupies in the present political picture. There is an excellent possibility that a delegation pledged to Baker, if not by vote, at least in sympathy, may be selected at the state convention next June. a a a Although Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York's Governor, is popular in Indiana, there is an undercurrent of feeling among Democratic managers here that a middle-westerner wotfld make a better choice for the presidential nomination and Baker

CRUCIAL FIGHT IN TRUCK-RAIL WARISBEGUN Hearing Is Started on Move to Operate Network of Auto Lines. Biggest battle in the economic warfare between rail and truck shipping interests in Indiana got I under way in the house of representatives today at a hearing before the public service commission. Matter involved is a series of pei titions filed by the newly organized Store Door Delivery, Inc., asking certificates of public convenience and necessity to operate a network of truck lines from Indianapolis to all corners of the state. Legal big guns, representing steam and electrical lines and railway express companies, were on hand to combat this latest offensive of the truck men. Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson, who has been assigned most of the highly controversial petitions since becoming a member of the public service commission, is presiding. ' ~ Young Is Sitting In Ralph Young, chief of the commission's bus and truck division, is sitting with the commissioner. For the first hour, lawyers from noted firms in Indianapolis and throughout the state were introduced as representing the protestants. Railway union officials also were on hand to combat the move to extend truck line competition. Cuthbertson himself is a one-time member of a railroad brotherhood. Tom Snyder, veteran truck industry organizer, was the first wiV,ness for the petitioners. He is secretary and treasurer of the company and Charles S. Raugh is president. He told how seventy-five trucks now are operating out of the Central Union truck terminal here, of which he is president,. Os thirtytwo lines, only fourteen have certificates from the public service commission, he testified. The others have been refused on the grounds of lack of public necessity and convenience, he declared. Objections Are Outlined But they operate anyhow, as contract haulers, Snyder explained. This -brought a query from Cuthbertson as to whether he was handlig merchandise at his warehouse for ‘‘those operating illegally.” The answer was, ‘‘Yes, upon orders of the shippers.” In the opening statement R. F. Davidson outlined objections which will be built up by the steam roads. He said they will attempt to show that there is no real public necessity and convenience for the Store Door Delivery Company service. “There now are 150 truck lines operating in the state in competition to the railroads,” he asserted. “We have objected to individual lines, and now we are here to oppose this wholesale trucking movement. “Our evidence will go into the matetr of wages and protection of the home and job for the working man. It will cover the matter of taxes in the various counties through which the steam roads operate.. It will deal also with the matter of public safety on the highways and highway costs.” Statements Are Seconded J. A. VanOsdol, Anderson, seconded these statements for the electric lines, which now are all Insullowned. He said they expected to show that public necessity and convenience, under the utility law, means what is best for the general public, and not any certain group or class. John Powell, who filed a motion asking that the warehouse terminal and other Snyder companies be made parties to the petitions, said he appeared to protect certified buck operators against a company “acting as a fictitious corporate agency.” An attorney for the Railway Express Company said he will show that they already give store door service and nave been doing business over Indiana steam roads for ninety years. The hearing, which continued this afternoon, filled all the 100 seats in the house, largely with legal talent. These petitions, of which more than twenty have been filed and which cover the state, according to a map introduced in evidence, are considered the climax in the truckrail warfare. Bus Rates Are Slashed Rate reductions on round-trip tickets between Indianapolis and other principal points on their system were announced today by officials of the Grayhound bus, lines. The fares amount to a little more than the one-way price, officials say. Tickets are good for a seven-day return limit.

is the outstanding possibility from this section. Whether it may or may not have a real political basis, the visit of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago and Illinois Democratic leader, and John F. Curry, New York Tammany chieftain, to French Lick over the week-end was too important to be considered merely a coincidence. Cermak is out with a favorite son candidate. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, while Curry is in the peculiar position of looking on the one hand to A1 Smith for orders and on the other to Governor Roosevelt, with whom he is attempting to maintain cordial relations. a a a There has been much talk by observers that Curry would welcome an alliance with Cermak and others to “stop Roosevelt,” because of the Governor’s order for the Seabury probe of Tammany, but whether he discussed this with the Chicago mayor is unknown. Both men have a common ground, in their opposition to prohibition, and this may have been the principal topic of the conference. But admitting that both have maintained otrict silence concerning their talks, there can be no doubt that, whatever the trend, it was almost wholly political scan you imagine them merely discussing the weather?

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RASKOB LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR WET DEMOCRATIC PARTY

90,000 Contributors to War Chest Asked to Reveal Stand on Dry Law. BY RAY TUCKER Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—National Chairman John J. Raskob’s long-awaited move to commit the Democratic party to the anti-prohi-bition side in the 1932 presidential campaign materialized today, when he circularized 90,000 contributors to the 1928 campaign fund in an effort to obtain their opinion on the question. Raskob’s letter set forth his own wet views, and included a plea that the Democrats return to a policy of “state’s rights and home rule.” He asked for an immediate reply, so he might place the results of his canvass before the national committee when it meets here Jan. 9 to select a convention city and discuss a possible platform. The movement drew immediate attack from party drys, as did Raskob’s first advancement of his views at the national committee parley here last March. Right Is Questioned Drys questioned his right to take the step, assailed his choice of money contributors as typical Democrats, and insisted this method insured the jury would be “packed” against the dry laws. He pointed out that 54,875, or a majority of the 90,000 contributors, resided in the wet and wealthy states of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio and Louisiana. Wets, however, contended the chairman had the right idea in demanding that the party refuse to pussyfoot. They also contended he simply was seeking majority opinion in the best way possible. It also was noted that the chairman’s questionnaire permitted registration of all shades of opinion, including a decision as to whether economic problems had become so dominant that the wet-dry issue ought to be subordinated or neglected altogether. Cites Wickersham Report The other questions asked whether there should be any definite declaration, whether the eighteenth amendment should be resubmitted, whether to conventions or to the legislatures, whether the party should ask repeal, or Raskob’s own “home rule plan.” This contemplates anew amendment permitting dry states to remain dry and wet states to set up their liquor systems. Citing the majority report of the Wickershain commission as favoring a change, Raskob declared conditions have not improved. Only by adopting a “sound, constructive, straightforward platform,” insisted the chairman, can the millions of young men and women who wil cast their first vote in 1932 be attracted to the Democratic party.

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Brothers Posing as Girls /Seek to Spur Name Change Action. Efforts to obtain an early court hearing on petitions of the Armstrong brothers, of near Summitville, to change their names from Geneva and Nola Lee to Gene and Noel were being made today. Startling announcement of the husky farm “girls,” aged 33 and 31, that they were men, after a lifetime of masquerading as women, still was the principal topic of conversation in Madison county today. Legal action started by the “sisters” last week differs from ordinary change of name petitions in thfct Judge Carl Morrow, in this instance, will be asked to change their sex legally as well as their names. Whether or not the court will accept their testimony regarding their sex, or will require medical examination, could not be learned. In asking that the petition be filed, the Armstrongs explained to the family attorney, Arthur C. Call, Anderson, that their parents, who died several years ago, “had made a mistake,” and that they wished to take men’s names. Since childhood the two always have appeared in public in women’s attire. For the last several years, however, they have worn overalls, for convenience, while working on their farm near Summitville.

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MOTHER SAVES TWOCHILDREN Carries Them to Safety After Blast, Fire. Grasping two small children in her arms when a small oil heater exploded Sunday in an upstairs room, Mrs. Joseph J. Bering, 656 East drive, Woodruff Place, carried them to safety. In the resulting fire, the home and furnishings were damaged more than SI,OOO. Mrs. Bering had lighted a bathroom heater, preparatory to bathing ing a daughter, Elizabeth Louise, 3. Mrs. Bering returned to the downstairs with the child, and shortly afterward the stove burst into flames. Joseph Jr., 4, was near the bathroom when the blast occurred. He ran downstairs and informed his mother. Seizing a kettle, Mrs. Bering filled it with water and, returning upstairs through a dense cloud of smoke, attempted to extinguish the blaze, which was spreading through the entire upstairs. Mrs. Bering then ran to the first floor, and carried the children from the house. She was under the care of a physician today from the effects of the smoke. Fire of undetermined origin caused damage estimated at more than $4,000 to the Hub Furniture Company, 414 East Washington street, early Sunday morning.

‘CRASHES’JNTO JAIL Cops’ Car Hit by Youth They Are Seeking. James Sloan, 19, of 445 Gerard avenue, literally “crashed” the city prison gates Sunday night. Sloan was wanted by police for questioning. So Radio Patrolmen Anderson and Vailes were dispatched to the west side to search for the youth. Hardly had the officers Sparked their automobile, when they nearly were tossed to the street by a crash in the rear of the car. Leaping out, they gave chase and captured the driver. It was the man for whom they were searching. Sloan’s automobile, said the officers, had improper license plates and the motor number had been obliterated. Sloan was charged with reckless driving and vagrancy, and was held in default of high bond. Suicide Attempt Fails Drinking a quantity of poison in a drug store at Tenth street and Arlington avenue, Friday night, Mrs. Louise Rehm, 20, of 270 South Downey avenue, was reported recovering in city hospital today. The suicide attempt was caused by despondency over domestic affairs, police said.

RAILWAY LABOR TO MAKE FIGHT ON WAGE CUT Carriers Plan Immediate Action to Enforce 10 Per Cent Slash. By United Pres* NEW YORK. Nov. 23.—A railway wage dispute was under way today, with executives planning immediate action toward a 10 per cent reduction and labor set to fight what it termed efforts to make it “pay a dole to idle capital.” Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio, and chairman of the railway presidents’ committee which has been conferring with labor representatives here, announced the executives’ intention Sunday, after a final conference between the two groups. His statement was made after he had received a letter from David B. Robertson, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives’ Association. informing him the trainman would not accept a cut voluntarily. “Bigger Dollar” Cited The employers’ first step toward reduction is expected to develop in early regional conferences to draft a formal notice to be served on representatives of the employes of individual lines. Labor’s fight will be planned by a meeting of the 1,500 chairmen representing all railway unions at Chicago, Dec. 8. The presidents asked labor to accept voluntarily a 10 per cent cut for one year because tlaey said they Tonsidered it essential to restoring prosperity in the industry. They argued the reduction in the cost of living would leave the workers’ wage, even atfer the cut, capable of purchasing “substantially more* than could have been bought under present wages when they went into effect. 8,000,000 Affected Labor's reply stressed the human side and insisted capital’s “obligations to the human beings dependent upon this industry ought to take precedence.” Robertson’s letter intimated it was unfair to decrease labor’s share of the revenue dollar so that the capital share might be increased. Robertson pointed out that approximately 1,750,000 workers comprise the railroad unions, representing probably 8,000,000 persons dependent on the industry. He said 500,000 of this number are unemployed and another 500,000 have only “the insecure promise of less than a subsistence wage.” Still another half million may expect to earn only “a little more than subsistence,” he stated. He pointed out that union members have been contributing to their fellow workers for two years.

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No Din(er)o By United Pres* BALTIMORE. Nov. 23.—Foreign Minister Dino Grandi knows ho wits feel to be without a cent in his pockets. At mess Sunday, the young statesman had to borrow money from Commendatore Leonardo Vitell when the collection basket was passed. Anxiously he leaned toward the member of his party and told him of his plight. Grandi had to borrow again for the second collection. He had been credited with S4O tips to chauffeurs who piloted him about Washington.

VETERANS ASK GIFTS OF FOOD FOR DESTITUTE 1,000 Thanksgiving Baskets Is Goal as Requests Swamp V. F. W. Swamped by requests for Thanksgiving baskets for the needy, Veterans of Foreign Wars are making a plea for more supplies to fill baskets to be distributed Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 3 o'clock from its relief station at 29 West Ohio street. “We had intended to give needy families about 300 bushel-size baskets,” said Arthur Gresham, national legislative chairman of the V. F. W„ today. “But with hundreds of requests being received in every mail, Veterans of Foreign Wars will attempt to take care of at least 1,000 families.” Six thousand pounds of potatoes and turnips, flour and large quantities of canned goods are needed, Gresham declared. Each basket will be filled with fifteen pounds of potatoes, a like amount of turnips, five pounds of flour, a small picnic ham. bread and eight cans of vegetables. Cards are being mailed today to families selected by the V. F. W., with the co-operation of the Indianapolis clearing house. This is done to avoid duplication in the relief work. Seven pests and auxiliaries of the organization are assisting in preparations for the distribution of Thanksgiving baskets. E. A. Fox, commander of the Seventh district and of Frank Harold Pennsy post, is assisting Gresham in preparations for the relief work. All funds available from the advance sale of tickets to a benefit circus to be given in the Riverside park arena, Dec. 28, are being used in the work, Fox declared.

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GENERATORS AT NEW PLANT ARE SET IN MOTION Power and Light Company Doubles Production at Harding Street Unit. One of the best equipped of its kind, the new Harding street generating plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company was opened to the public today. Producing 75,000 kilowatts power, the plant doubles the production capacity of the company, and represents investment of millions in construction and equipment. Light company officials say it can care for the industrial and domestic growth of the city many years. Free Buses to Plant From the new plant runs a fiftymile 132.000-volt high tension line, carrying power to four new substations at Morris street and Warman avenue; Thirtieth street, west of Flackville; Fifty-sixth street and the Nickel Plate railroad, and at Five Points, southeast of Beech Grove. These four stations will distribute the power to twelve district substations, from which it will be stepped down to a power for average use. Free transportation was provided in buses today, and will be supplied Tuesday and Wednesday to persons wishing to inspect the new plant, located on White river west of Harding street. The buses leave offices of the company, on Monument Circle, hourly between 8 a. m. and 4 p. m. 250 Tons of Coal Hourly Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan are to be among guests at a luncheon in the plant Wednesday. The building, approximately as high as a six-story office structure, houses two big generating turbines, boilers, and other auxiliary equipment. Provision has been made to store 75,000 tons of coal a short distance from the plant, and the fuel is fed to bunkers supplying the boilers on a belt at the rate of 250 tons an hour. CHUCK’S CAR IS HOME Battler’s Mother Pays $3 Tow-in Fee and Drives Auto Away. Charles (Chuck) Wiggins is a motorist again today, but through no fault of his. Saturday the battler's car was towed in and he announced to the police department he wouldn’t pay $3 to reclaim it because it wasn’t worth that much. But, while Chuck was broadcasting his song and dance, his mother, Mrs. Ruth Brown, acted. She went to the impounding garage, paid the fee and drove the car to her home.