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Roosevelt and Sons to Rough It’ at Sea By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., July s.—Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential nominee, will don rugged clothes and go for a sevenday ocean cruise next week, with his four sons, in a forty-foot yawl rented for $l5O, he announced today. The Governor said he planned to leave from “somewhere in New York City’’ early next Monday. The boat will be completely by Roosevelt and his sons, James, Elliott, John and Franklin D. Jr. No one else will be aboard. “We will do all our own navigating, cooking and washing,” he said. “I’ll act as navigator.” “For four years, the four boys and I have been trying to get time to take such a trip, and. just before the convention we decided finally to take it,” he said. The yawl, which will accommodate only five will travel through Cape Cod canal, then up to the eastern seaboard to Portsmouth, N. H. Roosevelt expected to fish and swim and to rest for the rigors of the presidential campaign which confronts him. “Who is going to be the skipper?” the Governor was asked. “I guess we will all do a little of it,” he answered.

FORTY-DAY WAR IS FACING ASSEMBLY Legislature Lines Sharply Drawn as One Bloc Prepares to Battle Attempts to Tap More Sources of Revenue. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Sufficient conflict to consume the entire forty days looms for the special session of the legislature, which will be convened at 10 a. m. Thursday. Adherents cf two schools of thought in regard to tax matters will be present in both house and senate, with numerous organizations providing ammunition through lobbyists on the sidelines. One view, backed by a state-wide swarm of taxpayers’ associations, is that the session should devote itself entirely to cutting governmental costs. The other is that in addition to economy, new tax sources should be tapped, to lift the burden from real estate and personal property. This might mean enactment of personal or corporate income tax laws and a levy on intangibles, which would exempt 75 per cent, with the idea of bringing this hidden wealth to the duplicates.

Both income and intangible taxes have been recommended by the state tax board in the past. Backers of such bills as will lift the burden from land will have a strong champion in Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush, who long has been an advocate of the Indiana farm bureau demand that new tax forms be found. The ‘economy first and last” spokesman will be Senator Joe Rand Beckett (Rep.), promoter of the Indiana Association for Tax Justice. Beckett already has prepared budget cutting bills with the approval of the senate and house cooperative committees. Opposes New Revenue Laws His association is opposed to any new revenue raising measures and will be on hand to attempt to halt enactment of income or intangible tax laws. What the Democrats will do is to be thrashed out Wednesday at a meeting of house leaders, called by Speaker Walter Myers. That some action may be taken to shift utility control so rates can come down more quickly has been indicated. It is held that utility rates are an indirect tax levy and could be dealt with at a special tax session such as this. Repeal of the “obnoxious Wright bone-dry law” is a plank in the Democratic state olatform, and wet leaders may not await the regular session to deal with the matter. A repeal bill already is prepared. Leslie to Read Message Governor Harry G. Leslie will read his message to the special session at a joint meeting of house and senate in the house. Stressing the need for economy and prompt relief for taxpayers, the Governor likely -/ill point out that many moves which appear to be tax-oaving will impair government without bringing adequate relief. He constantly has stressed the Idea that during a crisis like the present it is a poor time to make fundamental changes in basic laws. SPURS REPEAL BATTLE New Jersey Senator Brings Liquor Issue Directly Before Congress. Jin L ailed Pn g* WASHINGTON. July s.—Tire prohibition issue was brought sharply before the senate today, when Senator Barbour (Rep., N. J.) formally moved to discharge the judiciary committee from further consideration of his resolution to repeal the eighteenth amendment.

Guns Take 13 Lives in Old Kentuck’s July 4th

Feuds and Grudges Flare on Bloody Holiday: Sheriff Shot. By United Press FRANKFORT, Kv., July s.—Guns took thirteen lives n Kentucky over the holiday. Most of the slayings were caused by “fits of passion.” One officer and his companion were felled by bullets which tore into their bodies from underbrush, fired by unseen enemies. One woman was among the victims. Feuds and grudges and, in one case, a domestic quarrel lay behind the killings. The dead: Deputy Sheriff William Randolph, shot down from ambush at Three Foints. Harlan county, three hours after his companion, Jim Jones, met a similar death. Holley Holmes, 20, Harlan county, after a quarrel. Emsey Varney, Kimper, Pike county, said by relatives to have been killed accidentally. Lem Bentley and Gene Bentley,

The Indianapolis Times Continued unsettled with probably showers and thunderstorms tonight a nd Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight.

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MA'S ROMANCE GOESONJiOCKS Aimee’s Mother Is Through With ‘Whataman.’ By United Press HERMOSA BEACH, Cal., July —The romance of Minnie (Ma) Kennedy and Guy Edward (Whataman) Hudson blew up with a loud Fourth of July bang, and verbal pyrotechnics which echoed through their “love nest” cottage by the sea. The mother of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, Angelus Temple evangelist and wife of David L. (Iron Man) Hutton, made an Independence day speech of her own in no uncertain terms. She repealed a rift which may end their muclhpublicized marriage of a year. “I am cutting loose,” said Ma, determinedly. “I am getting out from under. And I want it understood that I am not responsible for debts or other obligations he has incurred.” Whataman thundered into the cottage. He had rushed from his beach hotel. “You can say for me that if there is any separation or divorce in this family it is not because I want it,” he boomed. “All I want is a chance to work. Imagine a woman letting a man go looking for work without a dime in his pockets.” RAIN DURING JULY IS 1.23 ABOVE NORMAL Continued Unsettled Weather Is Forecast by Armington. With rain early today totaling .47 of an inch, total for the first five days of July is 1.23 above normal, J. H. Armington, weather man, said today. Total precipitation for the year, however, is .95 under normal, but prospects of more rains within the next twenty-four hours may reduce the figure, it was forecast. Continued unsettled weather with showers and thunderstorms are in prospect for tonight and Wednesday, accompanied by slightly higher temperatures, Armington said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 62 10 a. m 69 7a. m 62 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 64 12 (noon).. 75 9a. m 67 Ip. m 78

near Prestonburg, in a brawl over a school election. Ellictt Craft, Breathitt county, after a quarrel. Taylor Spencer and Miss Mary Colley, shot to death on a highway. Boone Bolling is charged with the slaying. Heywood Raines, 30, Wayne county, after a “grudge” quarrell. J. R. (Lucky Jim) Thomas, 51, killed his bride of sl. few weeks, then committed suicide. Harvey Ruth, Sadieville, after a quarrel.

BY RICHARD C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent OAN FRANCISCO, July 5. Pirate treasure worth $60,000,000 was claimed today to have been found on Cocos isle in Central American waters. But the optimistic persons who invested in the gold-seeking expedition awaited further details. Pieces of eight and gold and silver plate, in quantities exceed-

ARMY FLOS START WORLD GIRDLING TRIP Take Off on First Leg in Attempt to Beat Time of Post, Gatty. BERLIN IS FIRST GOAL Mattern and Griffin Begin Globe-Circling Jaunt From New York. By United Press NEW YORK, July s.—James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, army fliers from the southwest, hopped off today from Floyd Bennet airport on the first leg of a flight planned to beat the round-the-world time of their friends, Harold Gatty and Wiley Post. Their plane droned down the runway, lifted, and soared over Long Island at 5:01 a. m. (eastern daylight time), heading for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, where the huge wing tanks of their plane are to be refilled. If the barnstorming fliers—who lifted skyward this morning with no floats for landing in the ocean, no parachutes for trouble over land, no fire extinguishers or flares—are successful, they will set their plane down here again within 8 days 15 hours and 51 minutes. At noon (central standard time) the plane dropped a note over Cape Freels, 150 miles north of St. Johns, asking for directions. “Point us out the direction of the landing field at Harbour Grace,” the note said. The plane hovered low and men on the cape hastened to reply, signalling by a white flag the direction south to Harbour Grace. The plane headed in that direction. Use Rivals’ Tanks The fliers planned to leave Harbor Grace as soon as possible in a direct flight to Berlin. If they fail in that, they hope to reach Ireland. Their plane’s cruising radius is 3,100 miles. They carry with them the good will of Post and Gatty, as well as the gas tanks from their worldcircling plane, the Winnie Mae. Their flight, like that of the Winnie Mae, is financed by Oklahoma oil men, although the plane is owned by Mattern. The backers are Henry E. Turner, Oklahoma City, and John Mabee, Tulsa. Both Mattern and Griffin are pilots. And both are navigators. Their route calls for refueling in Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Berlin, Moscow, Omsk in Siberia, Novo Sibirsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks in Alaska, and Edmonton, Canada. The plane has a capacity of 550 gallons of gasoline. Its cruising speed is 150 miles an hour. It is powered by a 550-horse power motor. The fliers called their monoplane “Century of Progress.” It is painted red, white and blue. Movie Stunt Flier Mattern is 27. He lives in Ft. Worth, Tex., but was born in Freeport, 111., March 3, 1905. He attended Washington and Lee college and, later, the Western College of Aeronautics. In 1922 he was commissioned second lieutenant in the air corps. He is to be commissioned a first lieutenant this fall. In the army from 1922 to 1925, Mattern, after his discharge, was a motion picture stunt flier. He flew the first refrigerator ship, transporting fish in Mexico, and was a mail pilot between Tampico and Mexico City. In 1930 he became the chief pilot for the Carl Cromwell line between San Angelo, Ft. Worth, Dallas and San Antonio. When Cromwell was killed in an automobile accident, Matterp bought his Lockheed plane, which is the one he is using now. He flew the first tri-motor ship into Alaska, a 1,400-mile trip. Mattern has flown in Mexico, Canada, the United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, China, Japan and Siberia. He has 4,500 flying hours. He has been married six years. Major Within Month Griffin,, 37, lives *n Oklahoma City. He was born Sept. 22, 1895, at Barton, Miss. In 1913 he was graduated from a high school in Lexington, Okla. He worked his way through the University of Oklahoma. In the World war he flew as an officer, in France from 1917 to 1919. Discharged as a first lieutenanc, he now is a reserve captain attached to the Thirteenth squadron attack group at Ft. Crockett, Tex. He is to become a major within a month. In December, 1919, he bought three ships and arranged a flying circus. Later he did test flying for the Nebraska Airplane Company. From 1927 to 1931 he was the Curtiss-Wright manager for Oklahoma. In 1930 Griffin went in for endurince flying and stayed up 304 hours. He has 6,000 flying hours. He has been married three years.

PIRATE TREASURE WORTH 60 MILLIONS REPORTED FOUND

ing the wildest dreams of fiction’s soldiers of fortune, have been discovered, according to a cabled message. Captain R. D. Adams, Lindsay (Cal.) orange grower and a member of the expedition, sent the reports. The expedition sailed from Vancouver, B. C., last February to seek the legendary treasures buried in Central America by “Capt. Graham,” a British naval officer,

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932

47 PLANES TAKE OFF ON ANNUAL STATE AIR TOUR

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Upper—Forty-seven planes starting the Indiana tour today from Hoosier airport were given the “Go” signal by Louis J. Bortinstein, Chamber of Commerce president. He is seen here starting Lieutenant Stanton T. Smith, flight leader, and Herbert O. Fisher, tour director, in an army plane, the first to leave the field. Inset—One of the smallest ships in the tour was the Central Aeronautical Corporation’s Buhl Bull Pup, piloted by Captain Rex Fisher, Indiana state police. Center—One of the most interesting ships on the tour is the Kellett Autogyro, piloted by Guy Miller, Lansdowne, Pa. Lower—Ensign William B. F. Hall, Ft. Wayne, leaves his Travelair cabin monoplane unlocked, for Pittsburgh, his German shepherd dog, the only dog riding in the tour planes, takes care of all who get too near the plane.

LONDON SOCIETY WOMAN, FIGHTING NOOSE, TELLS OF ‘COCKTAIL PARTY’ KILLING

By Times Special LONDON, July s.—The beautiful Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, popular young society woman, fighting a possible death on the gallows, testified today she had lived as the mistress of Michael Scott Stephen, victim of London’s “cocktail murder.” Stephen was found shot to death in Mrs. Barney’s Mayfair apartment after a cocktail party and visit to clubs early on Memorial day. Stephen was a well-known young Londoner and continental dress designer. Stephen had little means, Mrs. Barney said, and she supplied him with money. She is the daughter of Sir John and Lady Mullens and the divorced wife of John S. Barney, American radio singer. Mrs. Barney denied in a broken voice on the witness stand today that she had murdered her lover. Dressed in black and deathly pale, she was on the witness stand for an hour and forty-five minutes at her trial in Old Bailey. Her testimony completed the defense case. “I never wanted to shoot him; there was no one I was fonder of,” she cried. The trial was adjourned until Wednesday after Sir Percival Clarke had finished his address to the jury in one of England’s swiftest murder trials. Mrs. Barney revealed that she had instructed her lawyer a abort time before the shooting to make her will leaving everything to Stephen. Mrs. Barney generally was com-

who became a notorious pirate, preying on Spanish vessels. The cabled “assurance” that the booty would net $60,000,000 caused a hint of suspicion. It seemed too fabulous even to the speculative investors. Many of them were seeking further verification of their good fortune before computing returns. Finding of the treasure was made possible by use of an electric “divining rod” invented by

posed on the stand, but dropped her voice to an almost inaudible whisper when she described how Stephen seemed disappointed in her lovemaking on the night of the shooting, and started a quarrel. He began to,dress, apparently intending to leave the house. Then she threatened to commit suicide, and both struggled for the revolver. She said she did not remember who was holding the revolver when it went off. On re-examination, her counsel, Sir Patrick Hastings, dramatically placed a revolver on a ledge in front of the witness, and said sharply, “Pick up the revolver, Mrs. Barney.” She looked surprised, and lifted the revolver in her right hand. “Have you ever picked up a revolver in your left hand?” “No.” “Are you left-handed?” “No.” Turning to the judge, Sir Patrick said, “That, sir, is my case.” Detective Inspector William Winter testified that when he arrived at Mrs. Barney’s flat soon after Stephen had been killed, he found two letters in the bedroom, one which Stephen wrote to Mrs. Barney and the other which she wrote to him. Both were read in court. Stephen had written the letter to Mrs. Barney at her flat. He dated it the “Love Hut.” In it Stephen promised not to frighten her any more. The letter which Mrs. Barney (Turn to Page 7)

W. s. Clayton, said Captain Adams’ message. Like a taunt to another treasure hunting expedition of recent years Captain Adams declared in his message that the richly laden chests were unearthed within thirty feet of the camp establishe by Sir Malcolm Campbell, famous British race driver, in his search of Coco 6 Isle for the buried loot. Adams stated that removal cf

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Ships to Make Overnight Stop at Evansville; Giro in Field. Forty-seven airplanes descended on Bloomington, Ind., today, the first stop on itinerary of the fourth Indiana air tour which left Hoosier airport here this morning. More than 100 pilots and passengers lunched in Bloomington, as guests of the city, and this afternoon were to hop for Evans vile, to spend the night. Included in the tour were not only conventional types of planes, but a number of “midget” models, a squadron of five army planes and an autogiro. Smith Is Leader Heading the flotilla was Lieut. Stanton T. Smith, Schoen field commander, Ft. Benjai'iin Harrison. Accompanying Smith, the flight leader, was Herbert O. Fisher, tour director. Next in order were Walker W. Winslow, president of Indiana Aircraft Trades Association, tour sponsor, in a Travel-Air cabin monoplane, and Major Charles E. Cox Jr., municipal airport superintendent, in the municipal Fairchild cabin monoplane. A squadron of army planes accompanying the tour was led by Major H. Weir Cook. Other pilots were Captain R. E. Whitehead and Lieutenants Joe T. Shumate, E. H. Jose and R. E. VanLevere. Dog Is Ex-Mascot Ensign William B. F. Hall, Ft. Wayne, carried as his passenger “Pittsburgh,” a German shepherd dog, formerly official mascot of the' navy flagship Texas, where Hall received his naval training. Hall’s plane was entered in the tour by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Ft. Wayne, which has donated a trophy to be awarded the tour pilot demonstrating the greatest regard for reliability apd safety on the trip. Leaving Evansville Wednesday, itinerary includes: Lunch at Sullivan and overnight at Terre Haute; Thursday, lunch at Lafayette and overnight at Michigan City; Friday, lunch at South Bend and overnight at Ft. Wayne; Saturday, lunch at Marion and overnight at Muncie; Sunday, lunch at Connersville and return to municipal airport here. The Kellett Autogiro, piloted by Guy Miller, Landsdowne, Pa., is the first ever entered on the Indiana tour. NEW POSTAGE RATES IN EFFECT TONIGHT Letters Mailed After Midnight to Bear 3-Cent Stamps. Ink flowed freely today as Mr and Mrs. Indianapolis Public busily caught up with their correspondence in an effort to "beat” the new law increasing first-class postage rates from 2 to 3 cents at midnight tonight. All letters received at the postoffice before midnight will be accepted with 2-cent stamps affixed, but mail boxes bore signs warning that letters posted in boxes after the last collection today must bear the new 3-cent stamps.

the fortune—which, if verified, probably would be the largest pirate treasure ever unearthed—was being made under protection of the Costa Rican government. Ground around the spot where the treasure was found was honey-combed with the diggings of previous expeditions, said the cable. There were indications that the pirates had diverted the course of a small stream in order to bury the loot in the creek bed.

PROHIBITION ORATOR’S LASH STINGS MAJOR PARTIES FOR TOSSING DRYS TO SHARKS Keynoter Scourges Republicans and Democrats, Lambasts Platforms, and Hints of Victory in Fall. SOUNDS CHALLENGE TO BIGOTRY Optimism Pervades Convention, Opening in Cadle Tabernacle; Bishop Cannon Is Interested Observer. BY BEN STERN “The Republican ambitextrous, amphibious, and poroua plaster plank is capable of bending in ary direction like a piece of whalebone. It takes off from dry land and cracks up in a still. “The Democratic liquor plank is perforated with cork-

screws and bungholes. There is nothing ambiguous about that plank. It and the candidates are for forthright repeal.” Breathing fire and brimstone at the two major political parties because of their stands on national prohibition, Dr. Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y., so characterized their planks on liquor in his keynote at the opening of the Prohibition party convention in Cadle tabernacle today. He made a prophecy of victory at the polls in No-

vember. Approximately 400 delegates from thirty-eight states cheered their keynoter as he verbally tore the other parties to pieces. A grim smile played around the lips of Bishop James

Cannon Jr., for years the apostle of prohibition righteousness, who is here taking no active part, but merely as an observer. “Moral revolutions do not require and seldom, if ever, receive support of the majority,” asserted Howard. Sees Hope of Victory After citing Biblical and historical examples of the fact that the numerically weak, but morally strong, always triumph, he declared: “And in this hour of the division of the wet supporters into two hostile camps, tneer is the possibility that the candidate of this convention shall become the next constitutional President of the United States.” The keynoter pleaded for a militant and aggressive Prohibition party, independent of the other political parties. “If those national dry organizations an dthose militant religious denominations which repeatedly have warned the President and the Republican party of the penalty they would pay if they betrayed the eighteenth amendment, make good their threats, and prove their professions of loyalty were not empty words; if they will prove their expressions of devotion by their votes, and carry out in good faith the punishments which they have declared they would impose, the next President will be the candidate to be nominated by this national convention. “Parties Should Die” “The two major parties, sectional since the Civil war, surviving out of issues long since settled, ought to die for the good of their country. Then the patriotic men of all sections, of all parties, and of all religions might get together into one progressive party, unite the Democratic drys of the south with the Repblican drys of the north under one banner in defense of the Constitution and the common good. “The dry Democrats of the south, and many of those in the north, must assume responsibility for return of the legalized liquor traffic, if they support that platform. “If they were justified in rejecting Alfred E. Smith, and if they rejected him, as they said they did, not on account of his religion, but because he was wet, even when the Democratic platform was dry, how can they consistently support the ticket now, with both candidates and platform calling for repeal? “Smith did not stand for repeal then; he stood for modification. The party and its candidates are wetter now than was Smith in 1928. Will (Turn to Page 12)

Fight Death 7 Weeks in Jungle; Find Fliers

Two German Aviators Are Rescued From Horrors of Australian Perils. By United Press WINDHAM, Australia, July 5. Two German aviators have been found alive in the Australian bush country where they fought off death by living on snails, gum, leaves and wild life during seven weeks of wandering there and five days adrift at sea. The men, Captain Hans Bertram and his mechanic, Adolf Flaussmann, were discovered by friendly aborigines from the Drysdals mission station, who brought them back to civilization. During their struggle to escape from the wilderness, the fliers once fashioned a boat from a float of their seaplane, and started into the open, sea with the hope of being picked up by a steamer. They drifted for five days without food c- water, the men said. % Once a steamer passed close to them, they

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Heaven for Me, Not G. 0. P., Is Cry of Cadle

E. HOWARD CADLE, evangelist and Prohibition party candidate for Governor, who “wouldn’t accept the Republican nomination because I want to go to heaven when I die,*’ today revealed some bottle and cork statistics of interest to political convention attendee. Cadle, addressing members of his party, said he made a round by round count after the Democratic and Republican state conventions in his tabernacle and found, in the alley: Republicans—Twenty-two empty whisky bottles. Democrats Thirty-five empty whisky bottles. He assured the members of the Prohibition party that their convention, also being held in his tabernacle, would be bottle-less. “I’m not proud of those conventions,” he said. “The Democrats and Republicans have no more chance of removing the eighteenth amendment from the Constitution than the Pope would have of coming to Indiana and reorganizing the Ku-Klux Klan.” Cadle made his charges and stated his opinions in his address of welcome to the party’s delegates. WISCONSIN CO-EDS TO AID PROSPERITY RETURN 200 Pledge Themselves to Eat More, Increase Buying. By United Press MADISON, Wis., July s.—Wisconsin co-eds have launched a movement to help the world buy its way back to prosperity. More than 200 co-eds have pledged themselves to eat an extra slice of buttered bread daily, to buy an extra pair of silk stockings each week, and to buy anew frock and hat and to eat complete lunches. The attitude of the parentts who must pay the bills was not announced. Dies at Tippecanoe Lake Dance By United Press WARSAW, Ind., July s.—Howard Ellis, 22, Rockford, 111., died Monday at midnight after collapsing on a dance floor at Pottowatomie Gardens, Tippecanoe lake. Overexertion was blamed. Ellis had been camping at the lake for several weeks.

.imated not more than u mile Their desperate efforts to attract attention only left them weaker as the steamer continued on its course. They came back to shore, and tried to find their way out of the bush. They, finally, were found on May 26, six miles west of Cape Bernier. Captain Bertram and Flaussmann started from Port Darwin from Batavia in a Junker’s seaplane on May 14. They were not heard from again until weeks later, when natives found part of the plane, and Capt. Bertran’s cigaret case on the shore of the Timor sea. Search for the men was concentrated in the locality where these discoveries were made, but they had gqne to sea on their makeshift float, and had drifted away from the rest of their plane. The fliers said a shortage of gasoline forced them to land and beach their machine. Then they started their aimless wanderings. They were expected to be brought here by launch Wednesday.

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