Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1933 — Page 13

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ILLINOIS VOTES FOR DELAY ON REPEAL ACTION Senate Sets Election Date on Prohibition Issue for April, 1934. By 7 imci .Special SPRINGFIELD, 111.. April 20. The Illinois state senate killed chance of state action this year on the movement to repeal the eighteenth amendment by voting Wednesday to postpone the election on the issue. Originally set for June 5 of this year, the election will be deferred until April 8, 1934, by the senate decision. Downstate senators defied the wishes of Governor Henry Horner and swung to their support several Democrats who broke away from organization leadership. Politics was the answer to their action. They expressed fear that, if the repeal vote was taken on the same date as the Judicial election, several judge candidates would be harmed. They refused to listen to any appeals to change their verdict. After a bitter debate, the house of representatives Wednesday passed the beer regulatory bill. It was approved by the two-thirds vote necessary to make it effective upon concurrence by the senate and signature of the Governor. BRIDGE TOURNEY TO START HERE TODAY Mid-West Champions in City for Contract Play. Recognized bridge champions from the middle west will participate in the seventh annual interclub contract bridge tournament, which opens this afternoon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Teams are entered from Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Ft. Wayne, Detroit and Centralia, 111. Among the better known players participating are Maurice Maschke, Eddie Wolf and Henry P. Jaeger, who head a Cleveland delegation of six teams; R. W. Halpin and C. N. Rilling. Chicago, and Joe E. Cain and Walter Pray, Indianapolis, contract pair champions of the American Bridge League.

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AIR TOURISTS SOAR 14,000 FEET OVER ANDES Pilot Takes Oxygen as Plane Speeds Past Peaks on Pan-American Trip

Thi* i* the fourth of six articles by C. R Allen on fils flixht round South America on the Pan-American Airways. In today's story he flies from Buenos Aire* to Anlofacasta, Chile. BY C. B. ALLEN, Times Spatial Writer IAM in Buenos Aires—city where American dollars are at a premium, subway fares are a dime, I and polo is the popular sport. And a pity it is that the fly-by-night I’ve become can spend so little time in a place where everything looks so gay. I drive with Pilot Hank Shea to the French airport to see the Arc en Ciel in which Jean Marmoz j just has crossed the Atlantic. It's wooden and incorporates no new ideas. I lunch with Leigh Wade, United States army round-the-world flier, now an American aircraft | agent in Argentina, and we’re ! amused because a Kellett autogiro | just has drawn a tremendous paid • admission. Back home you can't j keep 'em out of your hair. Then, after little more than this, I must return to the Pan-Amer- j ican airport to prepare for the 750-mile flight cross-continent to Santiago, Chile, first leg of my journey home. I have finished the 7.400-mile flying boat stage. I’d like to linger in this bright and highly civilized city. But the pampas and the Andes beckon. And I board a Wasp-motored Ford monoplane, the San Felipe. From j now until I arrive at the Canal Zone, I shall be traveling Pan- j American Airways, where co- I pilots are radio operators, too, and j the ship carries a crew of only J three. Twenty minutes out Pilot Clif- ! ford E. McMillin beckons me to j the cabin door. He points to two huge spires rising from the town of Lujan, pinnacles of the largest church in South America But it is hard to grow romantic about this part of the world, for there is little to fill the eye except dust haze over pampas, cattle and ostriches, farmers stacking alfalfa, grasshoppers spattering against the Ford's windshield and wings From here until we reach Mendoza such is the dull, gray picture. But at Mendoza the steward and porter lug two oxygen tanks aboard. We are about to climb the highest air route in the world —over the snow-capped Andes. The oxygen tanks have been connected—one to a series of pipes running around the walls of the cabin, with an individual valve and length of rubber beside each seat, the other to a similar system serving the control cabin. IT really matters little if the cabin supply fails and the passengers drop off to sleep till the ship reaches lower levels.

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Such an experience has no narmful effect on normal persons. But for the pilot to pass out—well, this mut not and doesn't happen. "We start using oxygen at 12.000 feet,' pilot McMillin tells me, “though most of us probably could go up to 18.000 or 20,000 feet without it and suffer, no ill effects. "The idea is to maintain your normal alertness, strength and reactions all the way over. This is one of the roughest runs in the world when the wind is bad. Sometimes a pilot has to fight the controls with everything he’s got to keep the ship right side up and headed on her course.” Well, we are ready for the experience. Three passengers are strapped securely in their seats. I brace myself in the doorway to the control cabin. At 3:20 we take off. We have 2.000 to 3.000 feet clearance over the first barren peaks and ridges. At 3:30 the altimeter chows 10,500 feet. Specks of white on a rounded hill-top to our left resolve themselves into a grazing herd of sheep. At 3:40 McMillin points down to a tiny village and an emergency landing field. Like the railroad 3.000 feet below us, we are going through Uspalatta Pass. a a a Occasional air bumps rock the plane. Once or twice we ride into vertical currents that drop us 500 to 1,000 feet with

. i.. •■ i' l ..no iiu .mini- J, I:: t 1 I j ,; l ;;. ( J i., ~ ' W fecfs Ut 11 an< * SU^el * n ° e *~ ! right. At 4. with the altimeter ■ I 1,,. ns in t,u, nn, ... . .... 10,510 fret Specks of whi'-win ' *"*T ' * ' a rounded hill-top to our left Mount Aconcaqua. highest peal resolve themselves into a grazing a in thp w< * stprn hemisphere, past herd of sheep. which Mr. Allen flew. points b nan .|$L miles from Mendoza in an houi air bumps rock and twenty minutes, making i ride into vertical currents that ........ „„ half hours by train-' drop us 500 to 1,000 feet with a a , j a t 20.000 feet, but we had topped , “So I played oxyen on his moot] —— \ — ~ ~ " the rugged range at 14A00. And, and nose and pretty soon had hin to tell the truth, no one really around. Every time he’d ge

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sickening suddenness or thrust us buoyantly upward. We are about 12,000 feet now and McMillin takes his first oxygen gulps. The fountain pen, with which I am jotting these

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notes, begins to act up. Ink rolls down my index finger because the bubble of air, which gets into a pen at sea level, has swollen to great proportions. Aconcagua, 23,080 feet, highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, rises into the mist at our right. At 4, with the altimeter at 13,500 feet, we pass abreast the majestic peak, and I look dowm on the zig-zag tracks of the Transandine railway, sheltered by snow sheds, as it struggles up to the tunnel entrance in La Cumbre Pass. At 4:05, boosted by a sudden updraft to 14,000 feet, we sail through this notch in the crest of the Andes. A Christus, cast out

of melted cannon used in the last war between these neighbor nations, guards the Chilean-Argen-tine border. “Sooner,” says the inscription, “shall these mountains crumble

Ford monoplane in which C. B. Allen crossed South American continent. i- to dust than the peoples of Argentina and Chile break the peace which at the feet of Christ the Redeemer they have sworn to maintain.” tt a WE slip easily down the western slope. Another illusion has been shattered. I had been told ever since leaving New York that the Andes had to be crossed at 20,000 feet, but we had topped the rugged range at 14fiOO. And, to tell the truth, no one really needed his oxygen tube. Pilot McMillin hastens to explain that’s it's not always so calm in this particular pass and often aviators have to climb dizzy heights. But I find it hard to believe that the Andes possibly could be a perilous range as I look down at Laguna de Inca's blue waters,

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Mount Aconcaqua, highest peak in the western hemisphere, past which Mr. Allen flew. set like a sapphire in the brown mountains. Santiago is in sight in the distance. We have covered the 150 miles from Mendoza in an hour and twenty minutes, making a total of seven hours for the entire 750 miles. It is thirty-six and a haif hours by traina n n T SPEND the night in Santiago, and scarcely before the stars have disappeared I am on wing toward Antofagasta with Pilot Donald C. Beatty. He’s the same Beatty who made movies of head-hunters in South American jungles, gathered data for the Smithsonian Institution, an army-trained pilot and a radio engineer. And he tells me a tale of his wife’s kitten he w'as ferrying from Buenos Aires just to prove to me that there is such a thing as altitude. "We had come through the mountains fairly high—2o,ooo feet or better,” he says. “I was using oxygen right along. Looking back at the kitten, I found it stretched out, dead to the world. “So I played oxyen on his mouth and nose and pretty soon had him around. Every time he’d get woozy I'd give him another shot, but he was airsick for three days when w'e got him nome. “You can't teach a cat to chew gum and .swallow or hold its nose and blow to equalize pressure in the eustachian tubes.” On the run up the coast, Chile insists that a military observer

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ride in every plane. This is to make sure there is no violation of regulations forbidding flight over fortifications—a .eminder of the warfare that breaks out in this territory sporadically. But everything looks peaceful to us. We soar over fertile farms, idle copper mines tinging the hillside a bluish green, mountain ridges red with abandoned iron workings. a a a OUR first stop is at Ovalle. This moment out to stretch our legs, despite the grim ?urroundings. only makes the last leg to Antofagasta more delightful. Ow Andacollo, busy with a gold rush; over Puerto Colorado and a corner of the Pacific; over idle nitrate plants wrecked by scientific discoveries—we made our way. And reaching Antofagasta, we re told a grand story on cx-Presi-dent Hoover that is worth the entire trip to hear. Hoover was making the South American cruise between his election and inauguration. and he invited a Bolivian delegation aboard to join him in a banquet. Well, the Latin-Americans have the quaint notion that a banquet means a lot of eating. And some of them fasted all day in anticipation. But what Mr. Hoover actually offered them was a handshake, sandwiches and cofee. The entire delegation marched off the battleship directly to the nearest restaurant. Next: Over Inca-land. BUSY SPRING FOR KING English Monarch to Hold Five Royal Courts: Health Improved. By United Press LONDON, April 20.—The busiest spring and summer since he was taken ill in 1928 are scheduled for King George. His plans already include five royal courts at Buckingham Palace —instead of the usual four—many opening and other ceremonies, visits to agricultural shows, race meetings and other functions. This unusually heavy list is taken as an indication that the king’s health is everything to be desired. Fist Fight Fatal to Youth By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April 20. Injuries suffered by Carlos Pine, 16, in a fist fight at Tecumseh Tuesday night, caused his death Wednesday. Sheriff William Baker arrested Andrew Senoglio, 17, after a preliminary investigation.

HUGE RAKEOFF IS CHARGED IN BEER INQUIRY Lake County Importer Will Make Million in Year, Taxpayers Say. By United Press HAMMOND. Ind., April 20 —All phases of the legal beer business in Indiana were being investigated today by the secret committee of the Hammond Taxpayers' Union. Findings will be reported to Governor Paul V. McNutt, according to Leon J. Granger, president of the association. In its first report, the secret committee charged that Michael J. Kiernan, East Chicago. Lake county iimporter is receiving eight times as much profit on each case of import- ! ed beer as the state is able to collect in taxes. "Kiernan makes a profit of two j cents on each bottle of beer im- ; ported into Lake county," the re- ! {Xtrt said. His total profit for a case is 50 | cents, approximately eight times the I state tax of 5 cents a gallon. “Kiernan should become a mil- | lionaire within a year. This is merely a legalized racket and the Hammond taxpayers' union is going to take action to stop it.” Granger said the secret committee obtained its information in con- | ferences with wholesalers and rej tailers. He pointed out that the ! importer makes his profit almost | without touching the beer. He i merely imports all out-of-state beer | into the county and distributes it I to w holesalers. J Kiernan is city Democratic chair- ; man of East Chicago.

BACKS POOR AID BONDS No Conflict Exists ir the 51.50 Law, Attorney-General Rules. No conflict exists between the $1.50 property tax limitation law and issuance of poor relief bonds, Philip Lutz Jr., has ruled. Bonds have been unable to find a market because of bond attorneys pointing out that no mandate to cover their payment beyond the $1.50 limit is contained in the iaw. Lutz opinion is based on legislative intent. WIECKING TO PARLEY Deputy Attorney General to Attend Banking Conference. Fred Weicking, deputy attorneygeneral, will represent Indiana at a midwestern states conference on banking problems at Des Moines, la., Saturday.