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SIX-DAY HEAT WAVE BROKEN BY HEAVY RAIN State Crops Are Helped by Downpour: Dry Weather Had Hurt Corn. 1.71 INCHES FALL HERE Temperature 75 at Noon, and ‘Cooler' Forecast for Tonight. Central Indiana's terrific heat wave of six days was broken today by the first heavy rain in three 1 week. 1 -, which brought relief to residents and saved thousands of dollars' worth of crops. Before the break, however, ten lives were lost in Indiana Sunday Nine of the persons drowned were swimmers who sought relief from the scorching temperatures and the i other was a farmer who fell dead from heart attack, induced by the heat. First indication of the weather change came late Stunday, when clouds banked in the north, and breezes brought, the mercury down from the 97 high mark of the afternoon First rains were reported in the north section of the state. 1.71 Inches of Rain Here In the two hours from 7 to 9 today. 1.71 inches of ram fell. Other recent rains were on July 2 and a small amount July 15. J. H. Armington. weather bureau i chief, said that with the temperature at 75 at noon and with cloudy weather predicted, there was nc j danger of the mercury rising to | boiling heights today. Cooler ' weather also is forecast for tonight, j Farmers in the seared areas of central and southern Indiana have j been watching the skies for the last week, hoping for rain. The corn crop has been damaged badly and cattle were suffering from effects, of the burning sun which scorched i pasture lands. Heat Damages Corn Crop Heat and dry weather already have damaged the corn crop 40 per cent, according to M. D. Guild oi the Farmers' National Grain Corporation. who predicted the ram would benefit soy oeans and remainder of the corn crop Soy , bean raising is a remunerative occupation with Marion county farmers, and continued drought would have hit the farmers hard. ' With practically all the wheat and oats crops harvested.’ Guild said, "soy beans will receive the greatest benefit from the rain. j Street Surfaces Explode Soon after the rain started, police received calls of exploding street surfaces. This occurred at Pine and Market streets and at Virginia avenue and Alabama street. Indianapolis' heat record was established Saturday afternoon, when the mercury hit 99. Hottest in the state Sunday was at Cambridge City, where it was 101 Tempera--tures of 100 were reported at Angola and Marion, but dropped rapidly with advent of thundershowers Sunday night Two Illinois brothers. Joseph Koubek Jr.. 21. and Oldrich Koubek. 18. drowned in Fish lake, near l a Port“. Oldrich was drowned when he attempted to save his brot Iter's life. Several Are Drowned Staging a heroic but futile attempt to save her brother from drowning. Miss Stella Hatfield lost her life in the Tippecanoe river, near Winamac Sunday Body of her brother. Willard. 32. later was recovered. The girls body had not be<*n found earlv today. Others drowned: John Dean. 7. of Brazil, in a Terre Haute mill pond; Herschel Rhodes. 12. Gary, in Cedar lake; Burl Dud jeon. 40. near Bluffton: Claudius Priest. 25. of Cromwell, in Papakeechie lake and Clayton Hough. 10. in Wabash river near Merom. John Short, 79. Bedford, farmer, died of heart attack caused by the heat. PEACEMAKER SLASHED Simon Reed Joins Traffic Altercation; Goes to Hospital. Trying to be an arbitrator in a street argument doesn t pay. decided Simon Reed. 22. of 1420 Shepherd street, today Simon told police he saw two strange men quarreling at Shepherd and Howard streets, over an automobile collision He entered the "discussion" in favor of one of the debaters. The other slashed him on the right arm; then both fled. Simon went to city hospital convinced that arbitmg is a thankless job. Times Index Book a Day 14 Bridge 14 Broun Column 4 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 5 Dietz on Science 14 Doug and Mary—A Series 2 Editorial 4 Financial 13 Fishing 14 Ford Near 70- - A Series .... 3 Hickman Theater Reviews 8 Hobby 6 Industrial Page 7 Lodge Page 8 Radio 11 Serial Story 15 Sporta 12 Wta:e Penal Farm—A Senes 5 Taiburt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 13; Woman a Page 6

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 63

Post Recovers From Record World Flight Grind

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Rest was the primary item on Wiley Post's program at the end of his record world solo flight. Here you see the Intrepid flyer as he relaxed ai his New York hotel, with Mrs. Post looking on. * a a •

NEW YORK TO FETE AIR HERG Flight to Oklahoma Will Be Made Late This Week, Is Plan. Hit I nit* rl prt nn NEW YORK July 24—Recovered from (he gruelling grind of his record breaking flight around the world. Wiley Post set out today to receive the applause of New York and the nation He will be guest of honor at luncheon, dinners and receptions today and Tuesday and on Wednesday he will receive the noisy and dramatic welcome New York accords its heroes—a parade up lower Broadway to city hall through a shower of ticker tape and shredded newspapers. Thursday or Friday. Past hopes to hop off for Oklahoma, where his home admirers plan to outdo the honors accorded him in New York. Post's first thought todav was for his monoplane, the Winnie tyae. and he called up the field to be sure it was being guarded properly from souvenir hunters. Post landed his at Floyd Bennett field Saturday night, completing the first solo flight around the world in the record time of seven days eighteen hours and forty-nine minutes. Tlic toughest part of the trip, he said, was when he landed at Flat. Alaska It was here he broke the propeller and damaged the landing gear. "I thought it was going to be a pleasure trip." he said, "but the weather made it turn out otherwise. I hit every kind of weather imaginable Up over the Yukon it was 6 degrees below zero, and I liked to froze to death, and when I got down here it was 90 degrees, and I liked to smother to death.’ CODES TO BE FORMED Engineers. Surveyors to Start Work at Sesssion Tuesday Night. Preparations of working codes will be started Tuesday night at a meeting of ctviil and mechanical engineers and surveyors in the Antlers. Emett G Fowler, president of the Indianapolis Engineering Society, will preside.

Baxter Resents ‘Grab’of Library Offices, Resigns

Accusing Governor Paul V McNutt of "impropriety' in "commandeering six ofTices of the new state library." Arthur R Baxter. Indianapolis capitalist, today resigned as president of the state library building commission. In a lengthy letter to the Governor. Baxter taxed McNutt with a breach of faith in attempting to install some offices of the highway commission and the conservation commission in the new library building. Baxter returned anew commission sent him by the Governor, pointing out that lie had understood that the entire problem of offices had been threshed out Before the building even was started. McNutt sent a letter to the commission thanking the members for thei- "co-operation in relinquishing six offices" in the library building. "This was the first intimation I received." said Baxter in his letter to McNutt, "that any such action had been taken or completed, or even ccntemp ated. because never had the comm ssion any such request put betore it by you or any one else. "Your expression of appreciation is wholly unwarranted, since we extended no co-operation, because none even had been requested. “The space you have commandetejd," Baxter continued, const:-

Howdy, Pal Dignity Flees as Balbo and Post Meet First Time in N. Y. BY H. ALI EN SMITH Tnilrri Pro** Slaft (nrrr*pondMit VIEW YORK. July 24.—Wiley Post, the man who flew alone around s he world, and General Italo Balbo. who led the greatest mass flight of history, met for the first time Sunday in front of nine movie cam ras fifteen press photographers, four radio microphones and about twenty newspaper reporters. There were four fights. The meeting took place in the Hotel Roasevelt, where Post is making his headquarters since completion of his record-smash-ing flight around the world. All the efforts of the volatile Balbo and the modest Oklahoma pilot to lend a bit of dignity to the affair went for naught. The Italian air minister called at the hotel and was ushered to a large public room, where the various cameras had already been set up. The still camera men were to have the first shot at the two famous fliers, much to the disgust of the movie men. who already were fighting with the radio men about whose microphones should be shown in the pictures. The quarrel between the still camera men and the movie men concerned an electric light bulb, alleged stolen from the room where the movie cameras had been set up. facing an American and an Italian flag, a globe, two palm trees and a gilded table. The affair reached such a pass that one of the newspaper photographers approached a movie man and said: "You lousy so-and-so. Id take a tripod and beat the brains out of your head if you had any.” Past stepped forward. Aw. come on now.” he urged "Let’s get it over with. Where’s Colonel Balbo? Come on. colonel." "General.” said Ambassador Augusto Rosso. "General Balbo, Mr. Post." The general and Post took their places in front of the flags and potted palms. The radio men began speaking softly into microphones. The whirr of the cameras was (Turn to Page Twoi

tutes not only six important rooms, but includes the office of the state librarian "To my mind." he concluded, "the action you have taken is plain misappropriation, if not illegal. Certainly the manner of appropriating this space is hardly according to propriety. I am unwilling to take part in any such program and hence my resignation."

Recovery Code in Effect at Once in Many Cities

THOUSANDS of merchants and manufacturers in all parts of the countrv will put the President's emergency re-employment plan into effect at once, without waiting to receive pledge forms, so great is their enthusiasm for the blanket wage and hour code proposed Friday by the President. The following Scripps-Howard dispatches containing a cross-section of the national reaction indicate that the plan will have the support of an overwhelming majority of employers. SAN FRANCISCO—LocaI Retail Dry Goods Association adopts forty-hour week. sls minimum wage, affecting 8.000 employes, at once. President of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce urges all employers "to indorse the agreement, and to cam- out its spirit without waiting for forms or other information from Washington." Members ctf emergency relief administration warns that "much depends on the representation workers get.” COLUMBUS. O —Chamber of Commerce organizes campaign committee of civic leaders. Retail Merchants' Association promises full co-operation. Five thousand new jobs will be created quickly and 10.000 workers will get wage increases, estimates show. Local steel plant Puts min:mum wage schedule into effect for general labor and raises other employes 15 per cent

Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler tonight.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933

GAMBLES AWAY SIO.OOOJN LOOT Suspect Admits Embezzling From Chicago Firm, Say City Detectives. Ten thousand dollars in cold cash tossed away on the ponies! That was the story today, said police, of natty William Paul Porter. 30. of 421 North Delaware street, who was arrested on a charge of embezzling that sum from rh- Walgreen Drug Company in Chicago. Porter confessed the mbezzlement, announced Chief Mike Morrissey. and has signed waivers for his return to Chicago. Porter, detectives said, was an expert accountant with the Walgreen company and was a highlv trusted aid in a responsible position. Last Oct. 5. he disappeared from Chicago, and SIO,OOO in cash was discovered missing. Attired in expensive clothes as he was arrested today, detectives said Porter told them he had gone to Florida, where he lost almast every penny of the SIO,OOO on the horses. Detectives here obtained a clew that Porter was keeping company with an Indianapolis girl. They finally discovered her address and. while watching the Delaware street house today, saw Porter emerge. They arrested him and obtained the confession, they said. He had been in Indianapolis seven weeks, said Detectives John White. Albert Kelly and Ed Tutt, who made the arrest, and they added that he did not "have a dime" on his person when taken to headquarters.

Co-Operation Pledged to Wells in Revival Drive An increasing throng of industrial leaders from Indianapolis and all other parts of the state filed into the office of Francis Wells, director ! of President Roosevelt’s national industrial recovery act, today to pledge

co-operatin and support. Seated behind a big desk in the offices of the United States Department of Commerce in the Chamber of Commerce budding. Wells received a delegation from the Indianapolis Retail Grocers' Associa- , tion, L. F. Shuttleworth of the Associated Retailers of Indiana, and representatives of the Indiana Manufacturers' Association in the morning. Later today he will see representatives of the state Chamber of Commerce, the local representatives of General Motors Dun & Bradstreet. and half a dozen nore leaders of industry. "We have started with a rush.” Wells announced, "I have found nothing so far except °nthusiasm and promises of co-opera; on. My appointment book is full for every hour of the day this week ” The new industrial recovery director said that more than 90.000 Indiana employers will receive letters from President Roosevelt, to be mailed from Washington Thursday,

Horror Night Youth Pinned 9 Hours Under Car With 2 Dead Companions. HU Timm Special FT. WAYNE. July 24.-After a night of horror during which he was pinned under an overturned auto beside two dead companions. Howard Johnson. 19. of Ft. Wayne, was rescued by farmers. Johnson was in a car with Edward Van Hulle 50. and Emiel Caluew, 46. both of Ft Wayne, when it overturned in a ditch on a lonely lane, eight miles southwest of here. Van Hulle and Caluew were killed immediately. Johnson, knocked unconscious in the crash, later regained his senses. He found the bodies of his friends at his side. Injured seriously. Johnson, for nine hours, made futile efforts to free himself from the wreckage. Each attempt was unsuccessful, and the horror of the situation and his attempts to release himself caused Johnson to faint at intervals. Early today his screams for help were heard by neighbors Johnson is in Lutheran hospital here, suffering from internal injuries, cuts, bruises and mental shock resulting from his all-night experience. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 74 10 a. m 70 7a. m 74 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 75 9 a. m 70 1 p. m 79

asking for co-operation in the new federal measure to promote business. Wells stated that his office would be the clearing house for the agreements which the President will ask heads of all Industries throughout the state to sign, pledging agreement to the new federal measures to promote shorter hours and higher wages. The threatened boycott which may be held over the heads of industries unwilling to subscribe to the President's program will not be enforced in Indiana except as a last resort. Wells declared. "Since my return from Washington Sunday,” he said "I have found employers more than willing to come along. The boycott in Indiana looks like a needless weapon.’ ’ Six employes of the local United States department of commerce office will be put back to work Tuesday, having been let out by the (Turn to Page Eleven I

DENVER— Chamber of Commerce meets in extraordinary session to pledge support, to re-employment plan. Mayor appoints special campaign committee of business and civic leaders. Newspaper symposium shows ‘‘war-time enthusiasm for New Deal philosophy.” a a a EVANSVILLE— Two local firms announce wage increases and a third establishes the forty-hour week Public response enthusiastic. Labor leaders wire protest against selection of a campaign committee by the local Chamber of Commerce head. BUFFALO—Housewives here enthusiastically pledge themselves to "look for the sign." Retail Merchants Association meets Wednesday to plan co-operation. Erie county Democratic chairman predicts that "women will do their part even more than they did in 1917 and 1918.” PITTSBURGH—WhoIe-hearted favorable response registered by department. food, furniture and shoe stores and local steel companies. Carnegie Steel. United States Steel and Jones <fc Laughlin announce that recent 15 per cent wage boost will apply to white collar workers also. Chamber of Commerce organising campaign committee. HOUSTON—RetaiI Merchants’ Association wires President Roosevelt that it will co-operate. J. Welng&rten. Inc., operating eleven of the Turn to Page Sixteen)

DEATH CLAIMS MILD STUART, CITY EDUCATOR Assistant Superintendent of Schools Was 111 for Several Weeks. SERVED CITY FOR YEARS Played Great Part in Tech and Manual Highs’ Development. Milo H Stuart, assistant superintendent of city schools and recognized as one of the leading educators in this section of the country, died at 4:45 today at the Methodist hospital. He had suffered several weeks from a malignant bowel disease. The serious nature of the illness was discovered early in June, and he underwent an operation five weeks ago. Mr. Stuart had held the assistant superintendency about two and onehalf years, prior to which he served as Arsenal Technical schools principal from 1912 to 1930. Mr. Stuart began teaching in the town of his birth, Sheridan, Ind., where he became high school principal and later school superintendent, following his graduation from Indiana university in 1898. Latea he took graduate work at the University of Chicago. After teaching a short while at Manual Training high school here he accepted principalship of the Cleveland high •school, St. Paul, Minn., for two years, 1907 to 1909. Then he accepted principalship of Manual, which at that time was overcrowded greatly. To relieve this condition, use of some of the old buildings of the Arsenal site was obtained to care for Manuals overflow. For four years, 1912 to 1916, Mr. (Turn to Page Eleven! GABBY STREET FIRED AS CARDS’ MANAGER Frankie Frisch to Manage Club Through 1934. By 1 nilril Pm* ST. LOUIS, July 24.—Manager Gabby Street of the St. Louis Cardinals was discharged today and Frankie Frisch, the "Fordham Flash,” has been appointed to the managerial jx*t for the remainder of 1933 and will continue through 1934. President Sam Breadon announced. Street’s discharge today came at a time when the Cardinals were in fifth position after a long losing streak. Breadon has been dissatisfied with the showing of the team for some time.

A Rising Peril Pollution of streams that once were havens for fishermen and bathers of state is a rising menace to health in Indiana. Year by year the peril rises, some of it due to greed of industries, some of it to indifference of the public and city, county, and state officials. It is time for Indiana to awaken. It is time that the public should know of conditions. The Times, on Tuesday, will present the first of a series of articles on pollution of state streams, showing how the glory is gone from such famed pleasure spots as Riley's old swimming hole and Gene Stratton Porter's Limberlast. Read this series, then join with thousands of sportsmen in the state in united action for correction of these evils.

Relief and Crime Take Huge Sum in City Funds

Indianapolis taxpayers are spending each year on each man. woman and child an amount of money equal to an annual tax levy of 27 cents collected on two $5,000 homes for social services to those people living in a small portion of the city. This is the money spent for felonies, misdemeanors, juvenile delinquency, city hapital. venereal disease, public poor relief, insanity, extinguishing fires, and the Family Welfare

Entered S*cond-Cla Matter at PostofTiee, Indtanapolia

‘AIR SWEETHEARTS’ CRASH NEAR GOAL OF ATLANTIC HOP Mollisons, Recovered From Cuts, Bruises of Connecticut Crackup, to Be Passengers Into New York. LANDING ‘WITH WIND’ DISASTROUS British Fliers Ignore Warning Ship, End Up in Swamp; ‘Jim Couldn’t See,’ Amy’s Explanation of Disaster. BY JOSEPH F HEARST rnitril Prr* Staff forrrapondrnt BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 24.—Tames and Amy Mollison. Britain’s “flying sweethearts,” recovered from the cuts and bruises they suffered Sunday night when theb’ plaro cracked up near nere at the end of a trans-Atlantic flight, will go on to Floyd Bennett field, New York, their original destination, at 5 p. m. today. But their plane, the Seafarer, will not carry them on the last stage of their journey. It was so badly smashed when

TRUNK MURDER RAREDRY FIRE Charred Body Is Found as Farmers Fight Field Blaze. By Timm Special LOWELL. Ind., July 24.—Flames billowing through a hay field on the farm of John Hartman, five miles south of Cook, today bared a grewsome murder mystery, in which the body of the victim was stuffed into a trunk and partially burned. Farmers, relying to fight the blaze, discovered the trunk. Saturated with kerosene, it was burning flerrely, the fire spreading to the dry hay in which it had been hidden. The body was charred almast beyond recognition, but Lake county officers were able to ascer'ain that the sldin man was about 24 years old. 5 feet 6 inches tall and black haired. He had been shot in the back of the head, stripped to his underwear, wrapped in a blanket and then placed in the trunk. Two theories were advanced. Franklin Petrie, deputy croner of Lake county, and Ernest Blunk, deputy sheriff, believed the killing was the work of Chicago gangsters. However. Chief Deputy Carroll Holley of Crown Point, after investigation. declared it as his belief that the murder was a "triangle" killing, as a blue pillowcase and a pair of women's white gauntlets were found near the trunk. The only other clew to the crime was given by neighbors of Hartman. who told officers that they saw a green sedan parked near the field where the trunk was found. Three men were in the car, they said.

84 LOW SCORE FOR WOMEN'S EARLY GOLF Lafayette, Indianapolis Players Lead In Annual State Tourney. Alice Belle English, Lafayette, and Elizabeth Dunn. Indianapolis, led early qualifiers today in the annual state women's golf tournament with 84 each at Indianapolis Highland Golf and Country Club. Miss Dorotbv Gustafson, South Bend, one of the favorites to win thp tournament, completed her eighteen-hole qualifying round with 89 She was out in 45 and back in 44 Miss Dunn took a43 on the first nine and 41 on the second Miss English put together a pair of 425.

Society, causing an economic drain on the remainder of the city Other governmental sendees are in addition to this sum These facts were made public today by the Indianapolis Community plan committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, of wbich Joe Rand Beckett is chairman T s four people in thus section make vp a family, this annual cost for one family equals $109.16. This is a family cost equal to the 27-cent levy on eight 55.000 homes per annum. If this ratio of expenditure were carried out in the entire city, it would mean that the city would not be able to carry such expense and would be faced with certain bankruptcy. This economic drain amounts to $27.29 paid each year for every man, woman, and child making up onlv 10 per cent of the population of Indianapolis. Other districts have a cost of only *4 An amount equal to 20 cents of the tax rate on all real estate and personal property in Indianapolis is drained from the community in providing these public services for this tenth of the citizens. In dollars, the total of thus economic drain due to expenditure of tax money and charitable contributions on this 10 per cent of the citizens is 81.035,72# for these services. Twenty-six per cent of all money (Tarn to Page Eleven)

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it came down in a bo£ adjoining the Bridgeport airport Sunday night. Instead, they wfll be carried to New York in a Sikorsky amphibian, piloted by Ralph Wlckford. The exhausted fliers wrrp put to bed at Bridgeport hospital Sunday night after they had been treated for slight cuts and bruises. 80 Miles Short of Goal They were forced down eighty miles short 01 their goal when their fuel was exhausted. Their huge, twin-motorpd biplane appeared over the Bridgeport airport at 10 Sunday night, thirty-nine hours after they took off from Pendine Sands, to carry Britain’s most famous fliers on their ‘greatest adventure " Sunday, the plane had raced down the North Atlantic coast, after successfully negotiating the treacherous east-west Atlantic crossing. At Floyd Bennett field, New York. 30.000 people waited. The plane circled the Bridgeport field. Tiny Tasker, field manager, thought the pilot was about to land with the wind, a procedure disastrous on a field so small. Fred Moeller, Northeastern Air Service pilot, hastily went aloft, then landed against the wind. The example had no effect. Mollison Radiy Cut Mpllison. who was piloting the Seafarer, brought it down with the wind. His ground speed was sixtyfive miles an hour and it carried him over the field boundary into the swamp. Airport attendants, racing across the field toward the wreckage, heard Amy's voice: ’’Hello, there! Hello, there!" They found her sitting on the ground beside the WTeckage Mollison was stretched out on his back unconscious and his wife held hia head on her lap. At the Bridgeport hospital, thirty stitches were taken in Mollison's forehead to close a long gash. Amy'* left hand was cut. Both slightly were bruised. They were both highly nervous and exhausted. They spoke of their flight in monosyllables, and went to bed without giving an interview with the scores of newspapermen assembled at the hospital Husband's Nerves Shattered They told Dr. I. L. Harshbarger, staff surgeon, that they encountered headwinds and forgot mast of the Atlantic crossing and it was "much worse" than they anticipated Mollison was in such a state of nerves that hospital attendants gave him a drink of whisky. He gulped it down and made a wry face. "That's awful stuff." he exclaimed, but it won t stop me from having another." Amy, after her finger had been bandaged, asked for a cigarete. Thereafter, until nurses led her and her husband off to a private suite, she busied herself in ducking photographers. Harshbarger said Mollison told him that Amy flew the plane for a good part of the flight, but that he was at the controls when the landing was made. The surgeon said Mollison's larger cuts were across the forehead and the bridge of his nose Harshbarger said the Mollison* told him they made slow time across the Atlantic, ran into fog over the Nova Scotian and Maine coasts, and battled headwinds all the way down the New England coast. Mollison gave the doctor his explanation of the crash as the latter stitched the gashes in his forehead “The only good reason for our cracking up was that I was Jolly well worn out," he said Mrs. Mollison, however, said it was because "he couldn't see." ROOSEVELT ON HOOKUP President to Make Nation-Wide Appeal Tonight on Radio. President Franklin D Roosevelt will go on the radio tonight from 8:30 to 9 (Indianapolis timei, presumably to deliver an appeal to the nation for support of the national industrial recovery act. The President also is scheduled to speak on the radio Tuesday night to the Governors’ convention .In Sacramento, Cal. Tonight's hookup will include both national chains:.