Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1932 — Page 3

APRIL 25, 1932.

FINAL BLAST TO BE FIRED TODAY IN MASSIE CASE Third Prosecution Alienist Will Submit Report Today on Sanity. BY DAN CAMPBELL fnitd Freni Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, April 25.—Written reports by a third prosecution alienist were ready for the jury today as a final stroke against Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie's claims he was insane when Joe Kahahawai met violent death. Dr. Joseph Catton of San Francisco was the lone remaining witness to be heard in Hawaii’s greatest murder trial before closing arguments and Judge’s instructions send the case to a panel of mixed whites and browns for deliberation. The lengthy Catton report supplements testimony of two preceding psychiatrists who believe Lieutenant Mass*e was sane throughout the interview that ended in Kahahawai's death. This was in direct contradiction to statements of two defense experts who said they believed Massie was temporarily insane and not responsible for his acts. Stage Set for Darrow Again With the completion of Dr. Catton's testimony the stage again was set for Clarence Darrow. As chief defense counsel he will make the closing plea for Lieutenant Massie, his society matron mother-in-iaw, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, and two navy enlisted men. Albert Jones and Edward Lord. Darrow's whole defense is based on the claim that Lieutenant Massie was insane, hence no crime was committed, and neither he nor his co-defendants are responsible for the Hawaiian's death. Prosecutor John C. Kelley, bolstered by the three alienists, contended, Massie calculated the “nature and consequence,” of his act, and therefore, with the others, was guilty. By their own admissions, he added, the four conspired to kidnap Kahawawai, and he argued this was at least proof of manslaughter. Believed Officer Sane The four are charged with second degree murder for the alleged slaying of Kahahawai in retaliation for an attack on Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, the navy officer’s young wife. If the prosecution’s experts outweighed in number those of the defense, the accused four counted the story of the attack to offset any disadvantage in the minds of jurors. Doctors Paul Bowers of Los Angeles and Robert Faus of Honolulu were refused permission to examine Lieutenant Massie, but both testified they believed the officer was sane at the time—that he knew the difference between right and wrong. PICTURES PLIGHT OF PORTO RICO JOBLESS Child Feeding Director Asks Aid in Campaign for Food. Speaking at the First Friends church Sunday, Clyde F. Armitage, regional director of the Porto Rico child feeding committee, declared that, in comparison, the United States and other depression-hit countries are prosperous. He Is aiding in a fund-raising campaign being conducted through the press and by mail. Two-thirds of Porto Rico’s 1,500,000 population is unemployed, Armitage said. Lack of food makes the island people susceptible to tropical diseases, he stated. One dollar will buy a meal a day for a month for each child. The child feeding committee is headed by James R. Beverly, governor of Porto Rico. Theodore Roosevelt, former Governor, is chairman. Committee members include William G. Everson, former Muncie pastor, who resigned as major-gen-eral in command of the United States militia, to accept a pastorate in Denver, Colo. 200 TROOPS MOVE OUT OF OHIO MINE FIELDS 400 Remain on Guard as Snipers Draw Machine Gun Fire. tt’i United Press CADIZ. 0., April 25.—A depleted force of 400 state troops was left on duty in the striking Ohio coal fields today to cope with sporadic outbreaks that followed withdrawal of 200 national guardmen from the area. Snipers fired upon a detachment of troops six miles out of here late Sunday, but fled in rout when the guardsmen swept the ground with machine gun fire. No one was injured. APPOINTED TO SENATE Atlanta Publisher to Fill Term of William J. Harris, Ay United Peers ATLANTA. Ga., Ap.il 25.—Governor Brevard Russell Jr., of Georgia today appointed Major John S. Cohen to succeed the late Senator William J. Harris (Dem.. Ga.), un- 1 til an emergency election can be held next fall. The Governor at the same time announced his candidacy for the unexpired portion and will qualify for the fall elections. Major Cohen is national Democratic candidate for Georgia and publisher of the Atlanta Journal. GIRL EVANGELIST TALKS Faith in God Greatest Asset, Says U’ldinr Utley. “Faith in God. anchored in Jesus Christ, is the mo6t priceless possession in the world.” Miss Uldine Utley, 20-vear-old girl evangelist, told an audience of 8,000 Sunday at the start of her three-week campaign in Cadle tabernacle. She will preach at 7:30 tonight on “Windmills of Holland.” She will dress in a Dutch girl's costume, obtained on a recent tour of Europe. Spend $250,000,000 in Canada WASHINGTON, April 25.— United j States tourists spent $250,000,000 in Canada last year, the commerce department reported today.

DEATH TRAILS AIR SPEED KINGS

Jimmy Doolittle Is Outstanding Survivor Among Aces

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B’l SKA Serrii e. DEATH has “put the finger” on aerial speed kings and the record shows that it is only a question of how long before he strikes. Most of America’s finest have perished in the race to annihilate time. And of those left, Captain Frank Hawks lies in a hospital slowly winning a struggle with death. When Hawks crashed at Worcester, Mass., recently he put the climax on a record studded with spectacular deaths. Lowell Bayles, Thompson trophy winner; Dale Jackson, who turned to speed after setting endurance records; Parker D. Cramer, Cyrus Bettis, Commander John H. Rogers, who piloted the first navy plane in its unsuccessful attempt to fly to Honolulu; Art Smith, Shirley Short, “Speed” Hollman and a dozen others have been killed in the heat of fighting time and space. The outstanding survivor, practically unscathed after scores of hazardous flights, is Major James Doolittle. And keepers of the record point to the history of speed when they ask, “How long will he escape?” IS ft St BUT the barriers of time are being pushed back steadily Year by year speed has show an increase. Fearless fliers already have traveled around the world in eight days, crossed the United States between dawn and sunset, crossed the Pacific ocean in 49 hours, and proved it possible for a man to breakfasts in Ottawa, take lunch in Birmingham, Ala., and eat dinner in Mexico City on the same day. Having already attained the flashing speed of 415 mils an hour, they now are sighting their marks at 500 miles an hour. Lieutenant A1 Williams, former navy speed king, now in commercial aviation, says he is sure this can be achieved.

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Fearlessly pushing back the barriers of time and space to speed up air transport for the world, aerial daredevils constantly are gambling with death. One by one they fall in the struggle. Major James Doolittle, inset at left, is the outstanding exception, thus far virtually unscathed. Captain Frank Hawkles, center, is in the hospital following a crash at Worcester, Mass., in which he was lucky to escape with his life. The late Lowell Bayles, shown at right, was killed in the wreckage of his plane after traveling 300 miles an hour at the Detroit air races. He won the Thompson speed trophy. Sketch map shows some important distances and how speed has shortened them.

Air Speeds Erase Space Between • Time Mileage Memphis-New York 4 hrs. 50 min 1,157 St. Louis-Indianapolis 52 min 240 Indianapolis-Chicago 46 min 183 Chicago-New York 3 hrs. 20 min. .. . g 912 Ottawa-Mexico City 11 hrs. 45 min 2,400 Mexico City-St. Louis 6 hrs. 35 min 1,500 Schenectady-New York 35 min 135 San Francisco-Los Angeles.... 1 hr. 29 min 475 Birmingham-New York 3 hrs. 50 min 860 Cleveland-New York 2 hrs. (scheduled) 584 Pittsburgh-Washington 41 min. (scheduled) 302 Omaha-Chicago 2 hrs. 23 min. (scheduled)... 493 San Francisco-Chicago 17% hrs. (scheduled) 2,274 Cheyenne-New York BV2 hrs 1,700 St. Paul-New York hrs 1,322

Though no plans have been announced, this summer may see an attempt for such record. Meantime, the speed kings of the skies “get theirs.” An outstanding example of the last year was the death of Lowell Bayles, winner of the Thompson trophy classic, who crashed to his death at 300 miles an hour at Detroit. Another was “Speed” Holman, killed while traveling better than 250 miles an hour at th e Omaha air races. nun HAWKS, who narrowly escaped death, is famous as one of America’s greatest flyers, with numeroous speed records to his credit. He has flown from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours and 25 minutes. He has had breakfast in New York, flown to Havana for lunch and then got back to New York in time for dinner.

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On a European visit last year, he arose in Paris, ate breakfast in London, lunch in Berlin, and returned to Paris in ample time for dinner. On that day he flew 1,386 miles in nine hours. Major Doolittle, former army ace, beat Hawks’ trans-continental record, flying from Los Angeles to New York in ll’ hours and 16 minutes. Then, not satisfied with that, Doolittle turned around and flew back to St. Louis to spend the night. He is the biggest winner in man’s gamble with time. tt tt u THE fastest speed ever attained by man was recorded at Calshot, England, last September when Lieutenant G. H. Stainforth of Great Britain piloted a navy seaplane at 415 miles per hour.

In the Schneider cup races held at the same time, Lieutenant J. H. Boothman permanently won this trophy for England with an average speed of 340 miles an hour. The United States did not enter. Compare this speed with the maximum attained in the first Schneide: cup race in 1913. That year, the victor made forty-five miles an hour. > Aviation offers no clearer instance of the progress it has made in annihilating time and distance. Today, with a network of airmail and passenger lines covering the nation, it is possible to post a letter in New York City in the afternoon and have it delivered in San Francisco the next day. tt tt tt A HALF hundred commercial airlines, operating on regular schedule, carry thousands of passengers between distant cities each day, covering vast distances in a mere fraction of the time required by other means of transportation. These lines are carrying now nearly a half million passengers yearly. Less than five years ago, they were carrying only 50,000. They now fly 45,000,000 miles a year. Pioneering by speed kings like Hawks and Doolittle has done much to make this record possible. They have blazed the trail. But the race to overcome time and distance has been a costly one. During the last three and a half years, nearly 1,000 pilots have been killed in the United States, but nearly a half billion miles were flown during that time. And the race still goes on.

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CRUISING YACHT MAY BE OFF ON KIDNAPPABLEY Norfolk Negotiator Sails on Mysterious Trip Off Virginia. Bv United Press NORFOLK, Va., April 25.—The yacht Marcon, with John Hughes Curtis and Edwin B. Bruce, Elmira (N. Y.) capitalist aboard, was out today on another of the cruises which have become the principal feature of local negotiations with a group representing themselves to be the kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Returning only Sunday from a two-day cruise in the eighty-five-foot Diesel motored Marcon, Curtis rested at his home part of Sunday night, and made his way to the yacht. It had been moored in hiding in one of the thousand pine -walled inlets of the bay/ after moving from the Little Creek train ferry terminal of the Pennsylvania railroad. There was no word of the Marcon at local maritime offices, and no report of it had been received in Virginia capes. A Baltimore report put the Marcon this morning off Cole’s point, near the mouth of Patuxent river. This was regarded as possible, because the Marcon usually has cruised in the direction of Baltimore. But a yacht resembling the Marcon, a motor cruiser belonging to the Case threshing machine family, left here Sunday for Baltimore and would have been in that vicinity this morning. Wherever the Marcon was, it was assumed she was seeking to communicate with the men Curtis believes to be the Lindbergh kidnapers. On the 'last cruise, Curtis

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No Crooner By United Press WASHINGTON. April 25 Major-General Herbert Crosby, formerly of the army and now a District of Columbia official, was speaking at a congress of parents and teachers here. A young mother read the program and exclaimed: “Oh, is that ‘Bing’ Crosby, and will he sing Good Night, Sweetheart’?” The general heard about it. When he got up to speak he began: “I regret to say that I already have disappointed half of my audience by not being •Bing’ Crosby.”

and Bruce fished for mackerel while they were cruising slowly about. The very Rev. Dean Harold Dob-son-Peacock and Rear Admiral Guy H.| Burrage, U. S. N.. retired, were in town today, apparently with i nothing to do but await Curtis. MRS. UPDIKE IS GIVENJPRCE Ex-Congressman’s Wife Get Custody of Children. Mrs. Charlotte M. Updike of In- | aianapolis, wife of Ralph M. Updike, former congressman from Indiana, was awarded a divorce today lin superior court one. She charged ! cruelty and inhuman treatment. In a decree signed oy Lewis A. Weiland, judge pro tern.. Mrs. Updike was given custody of four children and was awarded $166 a month support. The children are Ralph Jr., 12; Arthur TANARUS., 9, and Gene H. and Jeannine, twins, 3. Updike did not contest the suit. They were married Nov. 28, 1918, and were separated in December, 1928, shortly before Updike went to Washington for a term of congress. Later, Mrs. Updike was forced to sell the home to support herself and children, she charged. 1

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