Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1932 — Page 1

DEPRESSION IS FOE; PARLEY MAPS BATTLE Hoover Tells Industrial and Finance Leaders Main Crisis Is Whipped. PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Better Credit. Effort to Provide Jobs, Aid to Farms Held Needs. <IUt Tucker'd Storr nn f>i>nnpil* runlerenre. P *tr Six) BY LYLE C. WILSON InltM Pr* stnfY Corrr.ponfiynl WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—President. Herbert Hoover today assured banking and industrial leaders from all parts of the country, gathered In conference here, that the major financial crisis of the depression has been overcome The President said confidence and hope were reappearing. He explained that the conference of banking and industrial committees of the twelve federal reserve districts had been summoned here to plan the next moves in the antidepression war. Mr. Hoover addressed more than 200 bankers and industrialists in the auditorium of the new commerce department building He was the first of nine speakers.

Tell* of ImmeHiale Needs The President cited a program of Immediate needs as follows: 1. Better distribution of credit. 2. Co-ordination of effort to provide employment, 3. Agricultural relief. He called for “equitable plans for sharing available work.” “Asa matter of national policy,” Mr. Hoover said, “the shortening of hours is necessary, m>t alone to meet the need of the moment, but it may be necessary to take tip the .slack in the future from the vast and sudden advance in labor saving devices." But Mr. Hoover said direction of systematic efforts to shorten hours is “not properly the function of government,” Credit Must Be Used Mr. Hoover trrtd the assembled bankers and industrialists that credit is available, but in many sections is “flowing inadequately in directions which would stimulate consumption of goods and employment. In this connection. Chairman Fort of the home loan bank board informed the conference that he was seeking nation-wide suspension of home mortgage foreclosures for a period of sixty days. Fort said the treasury had ordered national bank receivers to suspend foreclosures for that period and that the board had telegraphed all state authorities requesting similar suspension. He promised the loan system would be functioning before expiration of the two months. Commodity Prires Stronger Treasury- Secretary Mills said the country for twenty-four months had “been in full retreat, all along the line.” ' More recently the economic curve has shown a tendency to flatten.” Mills said. He continued to explain that, commodity prices had steadied, then moderately advanced; shrinkage of bank deposits and credit had been checked; the bond and stock market has moved upward; the huge outflow of gold has ceased. “Perhaps mast significant of all.” Mills said, “large short term foreign balances which were a subject of anxiety and constituted more or less of a threat to confidence in our credit 1 system, have been reduced from a high of $3,000,000,000 to less than $600,000,000 which probably is a sub-normal average. “All of these circumstances justify the conclusion that the time has come to make a definite and concerted effort to use the present low plateau, upon which we now stand, as a base for the beginning of an upward movement that will make for increased employment and the betterment of business. Experts Are Speakers “It appears from now on the gold movement will be decidedly in our favor." He presented to the conferees the proposal that they create a central committee of banking and industrial committees and proposed creation of sub-committees in each reserve district to carry out various phases of a definite program. Eugene Meyer, chairman of the federal reserve board, told the conferees that the reserve system had carried on despite “defeatism" at home and abroad. Atlee Pomerene. chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. declared that if "clothed with the power of a Mussolini” he would compel every merchant to buy onethird more this year than last, and force each liquid bank to expand credit. Thus, he said, the way would be open to speedy recovery. BOY, if, IS MISSING Newcastle Youth Is Believed to Have Come to Indianapolis. Police today are searching for George Ridout, Newcastle, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ridout. who disappeared Monday night and was believed to have come to Indianapolis. His father told police the boy had been corrected for an impropei act and the youth had left later. The boy was wearing gray trousers and tan shirt and black oxlords. He is tall, weighing 190 pounds and limps, due to an accident several years ago. He has been employed repairing radios, police were Wormed. |

The Indianapolis Times Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, followed by mostly fair Saturday; cooler.

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Left, Mary Magee, in leisure moment garb, and right, dressed as she was to appear today when she made her first parachute leap from a balloon.

HER aunt, fell to her death Aug. 12 in a leap from a balloon, but inday, Friday, double thirteen. Aug. 26, Mary Magee, 17. is set to make her first parachute leap as part, of the program of the Fayette rounty fair at Conncrsville. Mary, who lives at 22 South Rural street, never has been in a balloon, but she shows no fear at thinking of looking over the edge of the basket to the earth 1,000 feet below, then to slip out and to her parachute for a safe landing. Parachute leaping is nothing new to Mary. Her father. Bill Magee: her uncle. “Mile High Huggins, and the aunt who lost her life. Mrs. Edna Huggins, dared death often. Mrs. Huggins was killed at Delphi. Her balloon failed to rise sufficiently for use of a parachute, and she dropped from a height of 125 feet, suffering injuries which caused her death a few hours later. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 70 10 a. m 75 7a. m 72 11 a. m 77 fi a. m 73 12 (noom.. 79 9a. m 74 Ip. m 82

Swapping Oar War Debts to Bring Back Prosperity There are eight or ten million jobless Americans. There are thirty million strapped farmers. There are more than 200,000 American factories looking for orders. 6 There are millions of Americans in daily fear and trembling for their jobs. Those who have jobs have had their incomes cut. Maybe there’s a way out: Read “Swapping the War Debts for Prosperity,” beginning in The Times Monday.

SUBWAY IS ‘BROKE’ N. Y. Transit Lines Put in Receivers’ Hands. By 1 nitrft Press NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—The Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which operates a greater part of the subway lines underlying Manhattan, was thrown into receivership todav on a creditor's action filed in federal court. The action against the $477,000,000 corporation, which operates 117 miles of subway and elevated road, was fixed in behalf of the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company. CONFESSION HELD VOID High Court Orders New Trial in “Entertainer Bureau" Case. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26 Efforts of Buron Fitts. Los Angeles district attorney, to prevent, a newtrial for Mrs. Olive Clark Day were blocked by the state supreme court. The high court Thursday affirmed an appellate court ruling that an alleged confession on which Mrs. Day was convicted of operating an illegal "rental bureau" of girl entertainers. was procured in disregard of the rights of the defendant. Anew trial was ordered.

This is the first of two stories about "Gold Huntinc in Indianapolis." BY ARCH STEINEL THE old wheeze about “gold being in them thar hills” will have to be revamped to “thar’s gold in them thar apartment houses. Buddie—if you can get it.” The change, and it’s as true in Indianapolis as in other cities, dates back to the year of 1928, B. D. (before depression). And a man behind an ironwicketed window at 423 Lemcke building can tell you how that wheeze shifted, and how goldmining was transferred from the placer claims of California or the tunnels in Alaska to the Indianapolis kitchenette by men and women who are beating the depression. The§se gold hunters don’t carry

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932

SOCIETY QUEEN FUNERAL SET Mrs. McCormick to Lie in State: Burial Saturday. (Other Details. Page One. Second Section) By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—The graystone mansion at 1000 Lake Shore drive where Edith Rockefeller McCormick lived in more affluent days was reopened today so her body could lie in state there. The funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday in the drawing room on a lower floor where Mrs. McCormick, as queen of the city's society, had entertained notables from many lands. Mrs. McCormick died from cancer late Thursday in her Drake hotel apartment just across the street from the mansion she closed because of financial stress.

FIND DIVORCEE SLAIN BACK OF BEER FLAT Woman's Head Crushed; Suspect Caught In Indiana Freed. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 26.- The body of Victoria Flazak. 35, a divorcee, w'as found dead Thursday on the rear basement steps of a south side building which contains a. beer flat, with the back of the head crushed in. Christ Budisin was held at Cedar Lake. Ind.. as a suspect, but Chicago officers who went there to question him said they were convinced he had nothing to do with the woman’s death. LAKE ROUTE ls Listed Motor Club Suggests Week-End Trip to Maxinkuckee. A week-end motor trip to Maxinkuckee. second largest lake in the state, through Culver military academy, was recommended to city motorists today by the Hoosier Motor Club. Route, covering a distance of 115 miles, is over road 29 to Logansport;. thence on road 25 to Rochester and to Argas on U. S. Road 31. From Argos the route is on road 10 through the two points.

a pick or a sluice pan when they climb apartment house stairs, instead of mountains for their gold. And the man who knows them best partly is responsible for these hunters of gold turning profitless days of job-hunting into salaries that., in some cases, have averaged as high as $75 a week. The man is Benjamin Hershon, manager and owner of Standard Gold Smelting and Refining Company. Behind his iron-wicketed window he deals with those on their "uppers,” who pan the homes of the city, the old stocks of heirlooms. for old gold. Ancient watches, bar-pins that Great-Grandma Mary "Whoozis gave as a wedding present to Mama, baby rings, old spectacles, discarded crowns of teeth, and othej pieces of the yellow metal

20 CENTS AN HOUR ‘PAY’ ON BRIDGE JOB Meridian Span Contractor Blames State Commission for ‘Starvation’ Wage. MINIMUM IS URGED Highway Chiefs Make No Effort to Keep Scale Up, Is Charge, For 20 cents an hour, laborers are toiling beneath a blazing August sun, seven days a week, in the construction of the new bridge over White river at Meridian street. The laborers are working ten hours daily, giving them a weekly wage of about sl4. Stipulating only that our workmen be paid a “living wage.” the state highway commission accepted bids from contractors based on the 20-cent scale without attempting to obtain higher wages for the men. it is charged. Complaints by workers charge the “living” wage actually is a “starvation" wage. The bridge is being constructed to provide a straight-line link between North Meridian street and Road 31 to eliminate the present curving route through Broad Ripple.

Contractor Denies Blame James T. Cunningham of the Cunningham Construction Company, contractor for the bridge, admitted that, the 20-cent scale is in effect on the job and that machine men and skilled workmen are paid an average of 40 cents hourly. Competitive conditions, and not the individual contractor, are to blame for the low wages, Cunningham said. With the highway commission accepting lowest bids for work, each contractor is forced to bid on the basis of a low scale if he expects to get a contract, Cunningham pointed out. Lost Previous Contracts “I am not proud of the wages paid | here.” Cunningham said, “and, if I possible. I gladly would increase the | scale. Our company did not start wage cuts, but we are forced to bid j on*a low scale if we want jobs.” Earlier in the year, Cunningham said, his' company attempted to hold to a 26-cent hourly minimum, but lost several important contracts | when other bidders dropped “to as low as 15 cents an hour” for labor. “We have about sixty men work- ! ing on this job. and about twenty of i them have been with us for years,” j Cunningham said. “Some months j ago our skilled men were making | as high as 80 cents an hour, but i they did not complain when it was j necessary to cut them to 40 cents. Minimum Scale Urged “Every day men come out here and beg for work, saying they will be glad to take 10 to 15 cents an hour just to have a job. But we can't hire them, because we have all the men we can use.” Cunningham pointed out that the contract price for the Meridian ■ street bridge is $162,000. Two or ; three years ago, when the bridge j first was considered, it was estimated that as much as $400,000 would be spent in completing it, Cunningham said. “We can’t afford to lose work by trying single-handed to pay higher wages, but if a minimum wage would be set and all bidders required to observe it, we would be glad of it—and I believe the majority of contractors feel the same,” Cunningham asserted. It is expected that the bridge will be completed in May.

WALKER COUNSEL DENY LINK WITH SHERWOOD Missing $3,000 a Year Clerk Is tured as Big Business Man. By l nited Press ALBANY. N. Y.. Aug. 26.—Russell T. Sherwood, the lawyer's clerk who deposited $1,000,000 during the time he is represented as being Mayor James J. Walker's financial agent, was depicted at the mayor's ouster hearing before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt today as a man of great business activity. Several witnesses were called by Walker’s counsel in an attempt to prove that the New York executive had no connection with the abnormally large banking accounts of the $3,000 a year clerk. Sherwood has been missing since the Hofstadter investigation—out of which the ouster charges against Walker grew. He was subpenaed in Mexico City as a witness, but ignored the summons.

form the pannings that the city Klondikers toss under Hershon's wicketed window. u n n “'T'HEY work a street at a time. In fact, I've known companies of them to come into this city who've been making city after city, going from house-to-house and buying old gold and re-sell-ing to me or other refiners and smelters in other cities,” he explained. “There's one man in Indianapolis who lost a lot of money in real estate. He was broke. Today he's earning about *35 a week picking up gold trinkets and odds and ends of rings and watches from city householders, who are hard up and need the money.

Fog Blanket Hides Sea Hop Plane By United Press LONDON. Aug. 26.—Fog banks off Ireland and a steady, drizzling rain over half the Atlantic lay todayin the aerial path charted by America's two young bachelor ocean fliers. The fliers left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Thursday in their monoplalne Green Mountain Boy in an attempt to reach Oslo without a stop. Although a dozen or more transAtlantic ships are on the north Atlantic, the big red plane, piloted by Clyde Allen Lee and John Bochkon, apparently had not been sighted. Lee and Bochkon roared away from Harbor Grace at 5:02 a. m. (eastern standard time). They expected to reach the Norwegian capital within thirty hours. Unless they have met with heavy headwinds, they should have neared the Irish coast early today. Family Ready to Hop By United Press PORT MENIER. Anticosti Island, Aug. 26.—Colonel George R. Hutchinson and his “flying family” hoped to take off in their huge Sikorskyamphibian today on the third lap of their leisurely trans-Atlantic flight. Their next stop will be at Hopedale, Labrador.

TROOPS READY IN FARM RIOTS Strike Center Seethes as More Fighting Looms. * (Copyright, 1932. by United Press' COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia„ Aug. 26. —Pottawattomie county, hotbed of the lowa farmers’ strike, seethed today as city, county and state officials co-operated with representatives of the strikers to eliminate possibility of greater violence and possible bloodshed in this trouble zone. Tear gas attacks, gunfire, stormy court sessions, threats to break open the county jail—even a death and serious injury resulting from the accidental discharge of a riot gun in the jail—have vied in keeping the community in a constant state of excitement. Attorney-General John Fletchor has been asked to solve this question: Would it be legal for Sheriff Percy Lainson, spear-head of the law forces in Pottawattomie county, ’to appoint a deputy sheriff to stay with the pickets on each highway leading into Omaha from Iowa? The deputy's duty would be to keep order in the ranks of the farmers, and at at first rejected by Lainson as impossible under the law. Presence of a deputy, of course, would serve to aid the strikers in flagging down trucks attempting to crash their lines with milk and other products. Meantime, approximately 3,000 strikers were “standing by” along the several highways leading into Omaha, awaiting word from the peace councils. At Camp Dodge, Des Moines, busses were held in readiness to transport troops here if the situation warranted, although the Governor told Sheriff Lainson he believed the latter had things well in hand.

MEET FOR $119,000 Special Assembly Cost Is Estimated. The recent special session of the legislature will cost within SI,OOO of the $120,000 appropriation. William P. Cosgrove, deputy state auditor, estimated today. The entire cost for the senate was $36,098.01. Cosgrove announced. The house of representatives required $62,327.62, making the total cast for both houses $98,425.63. Practically all of the $21,574.37 balance will be used for printing the acts and journal. DIES LOOKING AT CROSS Suicide Carves Emblem on Tree Serving a? His Gallows. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—Michael Kuligowski, 57. carefully carved a cross on' an oak tree in Douglas park. Then he tied a rope around his neck and hanged himself from a limb —gauging his position so that he could gaze upon the cross until he died.

“I pay him SSO a week average for the gold brought in, for which he probably doesn't pay more than sls to $20.” “Then.” continued Hershon, there's another old man here who has been operating for three or four years. He is more successful than most of the gold-hunters for hes got a line thats his own exclusively.” Hershon says the old man works in this manner: “He goes to the door of the home. If the housewife answers the door, and says she’s busy and has no time to hunt for any old gold she might have, the old man stops her with. But. lady, here's 50 cents. 11l give it to you just to hunt for some old gold. Just anything will do.’ “The result is the woman finds 0

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JUDGE AGAIN FREES DRIVER IN DRUNK CASE Identification Not ‘Positive,’ So Claffey Once More Goes ‘Clear.’ FAMILY OF FIVE HURT Only One of Six Cops Is Called and His Memory Is Foggy. So far as charges under criminal law' are concerned. Rudolph Claffey and his associates apparently have nothing to fear, records revealed today. Twice within a month Claffey has escaped punishment on charges which included Dlind tiger, driving while drunk, drunkenness, carrying a concealed weapon, and reckless driving. In ooth instances he was released in the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Claffe.y's latest victory over the law took place Thursday, when he and three other men were arraigned before Sheaffer on charges which resulted from an automobile collision Sunday. July 24. causing injury of a family ox five—the parents and three children. One of the latter is still a patient in city hospital. Family Hurt in Crash After being at liberty under bond provided by A1 Farb, professional bondsman. Claffey, 1507 East Thirty-eighth street, and the other men were arraigned Thursday. Others accused were Don Carson, 608 West Thirtieth street; Phil Wag. schal. Colonial hotel, and Paul Rust, 704 North Capitol avenue. Claffey was charged with reckless driving, drunken driving, drunkenness and carrying a concealed weapon. The other three faced the latter two charges. The four were in an automobile which struck the car of Leo Hemelgran, 335 North Bancroft avenue. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Mary Hemelgran; their children, Mary Catherine, 9; Thomas, 6, and Annie, 2. The crash occurred at Twentyfirst street and Sherman drive. All the family and Carson were sent to city hospital by police. Mrs. Hemelgran was the only one of the famjjy conscious. Identification Not “Positive” Despite testimony that the speed of the car Claffey is said to have been driving was fifty to sixty miles an hour, he was not convicted of any charge. Sheaffer ruled that there w f as lack of positive identification as to who was driving, although police reports said Claffey was at the wheel and the same reports said “all drunk” in reference to him and his companions. With exception of the drunkenness charges, all were dismissed on motion of S. C. Bodner, defense attorney. Judgment, was withheld on drunkenness charges against Wagschal and Rust. Although six policemen visited the scene of the accident, only one. William Fischer, patrolman, w'as on the witness stand. He failed correctly to identify any one of the four defendants. Other officers at the scene were Lieutenant John Sheehan, Sergeants Kent Yoh and Martin Fahey, and patrolmen William Marks and John Wilson. Pistol in Car, Say Police The car in which Claffey and the other men were riding contained a loaded .38 calber pistol, the police reported. None of the accused would admit ownership in court, and the weapon charge was dismissed. A fifth man is said to have fled from the scene of the crash, carrying firearms described as “several” and “three.” Bessie Sullivan. 1509 East Thirtyeighth street, was the owner of the automobile. She and Claffey were arrested July 20 on blind tiger charges, following a raid by Sergeant Wayne Bear and squad, in which it was reported 176 quarts of bottle beer and twenty-eight gallons brewing were seized. Sheaffer on July 27 sustained a defense motion to suppress evidence and the two were discharged. Mary Catherine Hemelgran, suffering from head and spine injuries, has been in the hospital more than a month and relatives said today that physicians have given them no assurance as to when she will be able to leave. None of the occupants of the other car. according to the Hemelgran family, have offered any financial aid or otherwise evinced any interest in the matter.

him a ring or pendant or an old watch. He pays her for it but rarely will she accept the 50-cent hunting offer.” Hershon shows the novice goldhunters how to test, on the doorstep. the quality of the metal which they seek to purchase and resell at a profit. He coaches them in their sales talk. • One theatrical company, most of them girls, got broke near here last year. They came into Indianapolis and canvassed the town for gold and more than made expenses," he said. MOM HERSHON’S gold purchases from the jobless is but onefourth of his business. He started it eighteen months ago as the depression became*-* reality and )

59 RACE PLANES ROAR INTO CITY; 25,000 LOOK ON

Wins Trophy

Helen MacCloskey

Petite Helen MacCloskey, 22-year-old amateur flier of Pittsburgh, added another laurel to her crown this afternoon when, as the first woman to land at municipal airport in the national air derby, she annexed the Marott trophy. The trophy was awarded by George J. Marott. She was third to land at the field in the East St. Louis, 111 -Indianapolis leg of the flight.

MINE LEADER'S HOMEBOMBED Strikers Gather Forces for Another Invasion. (“Little Eeypt.” the eoekpil of Illinois and center of mine strike turbulence, storT on Paee 18.) By L nited Press TAYLORVILLE. 111., Aug. 26. Bombing of a striking mine leader's home todfiy was the ominous prelude to another invasion of the southern Illinois coal field, announced by officials of the strikers for next week. Leaders declared reinforcements had been promised from mine regions in Oklahoma. Indiana and Kentucky for the next drive into “Little Egypt,” where an army of 18.500 invaders was routed Wednesday night by bullets. The front porch was blown off the home of Raymond Tombozzi, strike leader, here. Occupants were shaken from their beds, but none in the house was injured. Plans of the miners protesting against operation of southern Illinois mines under a $5-a-day wage scale to reinvade Franklin rounty, scene of the “battle of Mulkeyville,” were announced at Gillespie. Mass meetings were called to decide on the exact date and tactics. No decision had been rpached as to whether the men would go armed or would rely on their fists ACTRESS ASKS DIVORCE Lillian Albertson Declares Mate Was Cruel to Her. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—Lillian Albertson, former stage star and now a producer of musical comedies, has filed suit for divorce against Louis O. Mac Loon, theatrical producer. Mental cruelty is the chargp. She declares that Mac Loon forgot to come home at nights and used abusive language when chided for his alleged wandering ways.

not a stepping-stone to prosperity. Purchase and refining of gold and other metals from filings, sweepings and dust in jewelry companies, dental offices, and the re-sale of gold to dental practitioners forms the bulk of his business. He estimates he has added approximately $35,000 in hidden gold, gold that was not in circulation, to the nation’s gold reserves in the eighteen months of dealing with the city “miners and persons who are victims of unemployment who sold their antiques. “And those who come here of their own accord to sell their old gold there's another story, toe.' Hershon added. (To Be Continued) r

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Cleveland Pilot Tears Off Landing Gear Stopping at Wrong Airport. HUNT IN TOUGH LUCK Pacific Flight Leader Gets Only 135 Points at East St. Louis. Swooping out of the west before a crowd of nearly 25,000 spectators, fifty-nine racing airplanes in the national Cord cup race landed today at municipal airport after flight from East St. Louis, 111. First 'plane to touch the ground was piloted by Art Carnahan. Bloomington. 111., who landed almost neck in neck with Roy Hunt of Norma Okla.. holder of first place in the Pacific division. Although landing behind several of the lap leaders. Chappy Lenox of New Haven. Conn., flying a Travelair, maintained first place in the Atlantic division with total of 1,032.3 point. Hunt, in the Pacific division holds the lead with 1,591 points. Only One Accident Only accident marring the flight from the Missouri city occured when Sam Segue of Cleveland, flying a Waco in the Atlantic division, “washed out" a landing gear when landing at Hoosier airport, northwest of the city, by mistake. He was not injured, and said he expects to continue in the race after repair of the plane. First aviatrix to reach the local field was pretty Helen MacCloskey, 22-year-old amateur Pittsburgh flier, maintaining third position in the Atlantic division. Os the total of fifty-six planes to start in the Pacific division several days ago, forty-one were to reach here today, thirteen of the planes definitely are out of the race. Two Out, Two Missing In the Atlantic division, twentyfour of the twenty-eight starters were to land here, with two definitely out of the race and two other, planes missing. Positions of fliers in the Pacific division as they landed here are: Hunt, first; Carnahan, second: Eldon Cessna, Wichita. Kan., third: Miss Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, Cal., fourth, and J. S. MacDonald, fifth. Miss O'Donnell's plane was sixteenth on the field. Following Knox, leader of the Atlantic flight, were S. C. Hoffman, Cincinnati, second; Fred Dorsett of Augusta, Ga., third; Miss McCloskey, fourth: J. H. Mays, fifth, and Melville Robinson, Mt. Clements, Mich., sixth. Though! He Was First Hunt played in bad luck Thursday night. Believing he was in the lead to cross the line first at East St. Louis, he was beaten by Cessna. Instead of getting 225 points for being the first across, Hunt received only 135. He said that he learned Cessna was close, flying below him, for a considerable portion of the way to the line. “Thrill was provided for spectators during arrivals of the plane when Don Rae and Jerry Weserling, Lansing, Mich., stunt fliers, “bajled out” at 2,000 feet, guiding their parachutes to the center of municipal airport. Despite threat of showers, residents from Indianapolis and vicinity jammed the airport field with autos, many making a holiday of the occasion by bringing picnic lunches. State Officials Attend The airport grandstand was alive with color as air fans by the hundreds cheered the arriving fliers. Many city and state officials were in attendance and two committees from the city and civic clubs greeted the fliers as they maneuvered their planes into position ready for takeoff to Cincinnati later in the afternoon. The Atlantic division took off at 1:45 and the Pacific group at 2:30. The transcontinental race will end at the Cleveland air races Saturday, after a final stop at .Dayton. Accompanying the racers were a number of stunt fliers who performed for spectators. The local stop is sponsored by officials of the south side block aid plan who. through a 35-cent admission fee, will raise funds with which to provide milk for undernourished children. State Flier Guest Among the distinguished visitors during the stop was Clarence McElroy, Medaryville <lnd.) flier who wandered for days through Central American jungles a month ago after his plane crashed McElroy was brought here this morning by plane from Medaryville by Charles E. Cox Jr., airport superintendent, accompanied by Police Captain Otto Ray and Police Lieutenant Frank Owen. The reception committee for the racers was headed by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Luncheon was served the fliers in the airport hangar. BIBLE IN “ GAY DRESS Kentucky Patriarch Hears His Own Funeral Eulogies. HOLLAND. Mich.. Aug. 26. Bibles are vividly colored to induce the Arabians to read the Scriptures, according to Mrs. G. D. Van Peursem. missionary to Muscat, Arabia, for twpnty-one years. All Orientals like showy colors, she said, so the Bibles are colored to attract the Arabs’ curiosity.