Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 74, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

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STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT FAILS IN 'CRACKUP' Faulty Hydrogen Valve Is Cause of Crash Shortly After Takeoff. (Continued From Page Onn jury to himself or excessive damage to the balloon. Settle took off at 2 a m and had planned to ascend to an a’titude of a few thousand feet, and wait until the suns rays began expanding the hydrogen After gliding ever the rim of the .stadium his craft climbed rapidly to 5.000 feet. The pilot, a veteran navy balloonist and Gordon Bennett race winner, decided he was ’oo high. He pulled the hydrogen release cord planning to descend to about 2.000 fee*. Tlie valve, which had caused some difficulty before the takeoff, stuck Gas escaped rapidly from the bag and the craft sank. Settle quickly tossed ballast overboard but the bag deflated so rapidly he was unable to check the descent. Spotlights from the stadium which followed the balloon upward played on it as it lost altitude. A stream of lead dust which .Settle carried as ballast poured from the bottom of the gondola. Trains Are Rerouted Settle guided the ship down through i maze of wires extending over the warehouse district. The gondola bumped on the rails, rose several feet into the air, and settled again between two sets of rails. The- bag, although nearly deflated, remainfcl upright. Settle leaned from the hatch atop the gondola and called to witnesses: "I'm all right. Notify Soldier Field at once." He then released the remainder of the hydrogen, and the bag came to rest seventy feet away. Flares were posted along the tracks to halt trains. Orders were given to re-route main passenger trains. Thousands at I.anding Thousands rushed to the scene. Many of the 20.000 who gathered in Soldier field to see the take-off saw the ship start to descend and followed it. Police and fire squads were dispatched to remove the balloon and to control the spectators. Almost as many persons were at the landing as at the take-off. Settle was calm as he climbed from the little black and white gondola and supervised packing of the bag. His wife, one of tne last to say good-by to him before he sealed himself In the gondola at the takeoff, was among the first at his side She raced from the stadium in an ambulance to the scene. Flight to Be Tried .Again The takeoff of the balloon, the largest ever constructed, was one of the world fair's most spectacular events. The ship was bunt under supervision of Dr. Arthur Compton of the University of Chicago, and Professor Jean Piccard. The latter's brother. Auguste, two years ago conducted the first flight into the stratosphere in quest of scientific data on the cosmic ray. Sponsors of the ill-fated flight said another would be made. It was possible, they said, that the next attempt would be in connection with the Gordon Bennett balloon races here in September. •STREETS' OF PARIS FAIR DANCER IS PUT IN JAIL Sally Rand Arrested After .Appearance in Chicago Theater. By I hi!- and f" << CHICAGO. Aug. s.—The moral confusion over Sally Rands fan dancing at the world's fair crystallized Friday night when officers escorted her in white pajamas— to a police station from the Chicago theater. The charge against the attractive entertainer was indecent exposure. Arrest of the girl who "made grxxi" at the Century of Progress came after a performance at a loop theater, and not on the midway, where Sally catapulted the city and fair officials into a bitter controversy. Defying police threats. Sally cast conventions to the winds and walked gaily out upon the huge stage of the theater for her matinee appearance. Immediately after she had danced she was arrested. Sally won her first prominence as a star in the "Streets of Paris." a world's fair concession. Her dance started the controversy which eventually drew into its fold Mayor Edward J. Kelly, prominent officials of the fair, civic leaders and at least two judges. RULES ON HOME LOANS RFC to Accept Bonds at 80 Per Cent of Value, McKinney Told. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has agreed to accept Home Loan Owners' Corporation bonds as collateral for loans up to 80 per cent of their face value. E. Kirk McKinney. state loan corporation manager. announced today. The information was received in a letter from William F. Stevenson, home loan bank board chairman, who also advised that banks may use the bonds as collateral for deposits. under a treasury department ruling. GLADIOLUS IN EXHIBIT Growers to Show Flowers at Display at Marott. City gladiolus growers will hold an exhibit in the ballroom of the Marott todav and Sunday. Prizes will be awarded by the Marion County Gladiolus Association. Judging was to start at noon today. The show will be opened to the public at 2 30 and will continue through Sunday. Among the larger exhibits on display will be those of Julies G. Zinter, Edward Gundlach and E. C. Zarmg In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a nr.: North, northeast wind. 8 miles an . hour, ceiling, unlimited; visibility. T S miles, smoky; temperature. 7i; barometric pressure 30.20 at sea level;, general conditions, clear.

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OCEAN HOP TO BAGDAD STARTS Two French Pilots Off on Most Ambitious Distance Flight in History. (Continued From Page One) peninsula, thence into Asia Minor as far as their fuel carries them. The Frenchmen arrived at the field shortly after midnight. Rossi immediately began a minute inspection of the pian and the 500-horse power Hispano-Suiza motor. Codos conferred with field officials and advisers on routes and weather conditions. The huge silver colored monoplane rase gracefully after a lengthy dash down the runway.

A large supply of rations was placed aboard the plane before the takeoff. Included were five baked chickens, three dozen oranges, two dozen bananas, eight quarts of mineral water, two quarts of chicken consomme and seven quarts of black coffee. Codos and Rossi

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hoped to break the 6.625-mile record held by two of their countrymen. Emil Rossi and Lucien Boussoutrol, who flew over a closed course at Oran. Algeria, in March. 1932. That flight lasted for seventy six hours forty-three minutes. With the huge fuel supply and a top speed of 150 miles an hour, they estimated they could remain in the air for seventy or more hours. That time, if weather conditions are favorable, might permit them to go beyond Bagdad, possibly to Karachi. India. CONTRACT SUIT LOST BY LICENSE DEALER State Upheld by Court in Rescinding Agreement. The state of Indiana has the right to rescind, at any time, a contract with a branch manager for the sale of auto license plates, a three-judge federal court ruled here today in dismissing the case of Ralph Wetzel of South Bend, who sought to enjoin Governor Paul V. McNutt’s reorganization law. The state's motion for dismissal was granted by the court, consisting of Judge Evan A. Evans of the circuit court of appeals. Chicago; Judge Walter C Lindley of the Illinois federal district, and Judge Robert C. Baltzell of the southern Indiana federal district. "The plaintiff." ruled the court 'may have been both an officer and an employe, but so far as some of his duties have been concerned, he was bound by the arbitrary provision of his contract which gives to the state of Indiana, whether acting through the secretary of state or the Governor, the right to rescind the contract at any moment." Wetzel, in bringing suit, charged he was threatened with dismissal as a branch manager of the automobile license bureau. He sought the injunction to prevent his dismissal, his suit set out. BROKER TESTIFIES SN WATER RATE HEARING Gavin L. Payne Is Questioned on Utility Investment Return. Gavin L. Payne, broker, testified Friday in federal court that in his judgment, a 5 to 6 per tent return on its investment would be fair to the Indianapolis Water Company. He admitted he held a 7 to 8 per cent return as fair in testifying m the Vincennes Water Company case more than a year ago. but that due to the financial strength of - he local company a lower return is fair. Hearing on the suit was adjourned for the week-end by Albert Ward, master in chancery, after Paul Hansen. Chicago engineer, had been cross-examined concerning the difference in prices given m his appraisal of the local companies property and other properties which he has appraised. 5.000 WILL PICNIC Beth-El Annual Event to Be Hole Sunday Near Avon. Annual picnic of the Beth-El Congregation. Thirty-fourth and Ruckle streets. w*il be held SHnda? at Merritt's camp, near Avon. Games havp been planned for children and adults. A crowd of approximately 5.000 will attiend. said Aaron Glick. chairman of arrangements. A feature will be a baseball game between the Pals Club and Beth-El Men s Club.

Members of the District Recovery Board of the NRA. recently appointed by President Roosevelt to supervise some of the enormous detail of the national industrial recovery act in this state, are shown here. Meeting for the first time Thursday, the board wired the President for instructions as to methods to be pursued by the federal government in dealing with violators of the NRA covenant. Seated, Left to Right—lrving Lemaux, William J. Mooney and L. F. Shuttleworth. Standing, Left to Right—Lewis Taylor. Alec Gordon and Francis Wells. Vincent Bendix and George A. Ball, two additional members of the board, are not in the photograph.

TYPHOON RAKES SOUTH KOREA Heavy Toll of Lives and Property Damage Taken in Storm. By United Proa TOKIO, Aug. 5.—A typhoon raked south Korea Friday night, taking a toll of life and causing property damage estimated at 700.000 yen. Eleven persons were known dead. 16 were injured, and 116 fishermen were missing. More than 1.000 houses were ground into matchwood by the terrific wind. Approximately fifty boats w’ere carried away. Flood water inundated 3,000 residences. COP BALKS AT BEING RABBIT'S •NURSE-MAID' Declines Offer to Take Charge of Errant Wild Bunny. "A copper gets all kinds of queer jobs, but playing nurse-maid to a wild rabbit—well, that's just too much." This was the indignant complaint of Traffic Policeman Dan Smith today. During the 5 p. m. traffic rush Friday, motorists were startled by the sight of a young rabbit dodging cars as it. ran north on Illinois street toward Washington street. Traffic officer Jaseph Adams reported seeing the bunny frisking between automobile wheels from his post at Illinois and Maryland streets at 4:40 p. m. A few minutes later, a man. living out of the city, brought the rabbit to Officer Smith and asked him to take care of it, so it would not be injured. "Well, I'll be ” Smith began. ending with a discreet cough. Then Smith had a happy thought. Calling a young newsboy, he turned Peter Rabbit over to him. The boy later reported he freed the muchtraveled bunny in a commons on the outskirts of the city. ,

PETITION PROPOSES RAZING OF CITY LANDMARK

Petition has been filed with the 1 city zoning commission for ’azing of the Denison hotel, one of Indianapolis' most famous landmarks. Work was started on the Den- , ison in 1870 and in 1880 it was i

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NRA TO RULE HALF OF U. S.— 54 Out of Every 100 WageEarners Are Directly Affected. BY HERBERT LITTLE Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. s.—Fiftyfour out of every 100 workers—more i than 25,000,000 of the nation's 49,000.000 gainfully employed in normal times—will be affected directly by the present universal NRA i extension. Compilation of the 1930 United State census showed this division today in picturing the wide diversification of occupations. Many of the 49.000.000 employed in 1930, now among the 11.000,000 jobless, will get work. Many others on low wages will get direct wage boosts. Most of them will have their hours of work reduced. Sixteen out of every 100 wageearners are farmers and six more! are farm laborers, who with their families, are to lie helped under j the agricultural adjustment act. In addition, about twenty-four ' in every 100 are in higher-paid occupations and work which does not come under the NRA regulations. These include more than 3.000.000 l in various professions, including 1.000.000 teachers, about 2,000.090 retail and wholesale dealers, 1,590.000 domestic servants and almost 1.000.000 in public service. Also exempted are ow ners, managers and j | officials, building contractors, agents, dressmakers, boarding house keepers and most railroad workers. LINDYS FLY OVER GREENLAND ICE GAP Couple Are Safe After Trip. Is Word. Fit/ United Pn * COPENHAGEN. Denmark. Aug. 5. —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindberg have flown acrass the great inland Ice cap of Greenland and were safe today at Ellaoe, on the coast of the sub-arctic island. They i landed beside the Danish expedition ship named Godthaab. The famous flying couple made the flight from Holstenborg, on the western coast of Greenland, where they had been making aerial surveys. They arrived at Ellaoe Friday afternoon, after “an uneventful flight." meager messages from government officials said. FATHER. 3 SONS FLIERS Maine Family Has Total of Four Aviators in ome. By United I'rr ** YORK. M“„ Aug. 5. J. C Breckenridge. 63, and his three sons • all are aviators.

Denison Hotel, Ohio and Pennsylvania Streets.

constructed in its present form It became one of the city's leading hotels in the "gav 905." and one of the most popular patrons of the hostelry was James Whitcomb Riley. The Depison later became headquarters id r the Dem-

RESTAURANTS AGREE ON CODE IN STATE AREA Jobs to Be Given 8.000 Under Program Given U. S. Approval. (Continued From Page One) restaurants employes are to be charged a maximum of 25 cents a meal by their employers. A concentrated drive to put Indianapolis men and women back to work will be started Monday by the staff of NRA officials recently appointed by Louis J. Borinstein. presiaent of the Chamber of Commerce. Charles M Bryan, "colonel" of the local staff headed by Charles W. Chase, president of the Indianapolis Railways, said a meeting had been set tentatively for Monday to consider ways and means of re-employ-ment. Codification of the unemployed and methods of investigating recalcitrant employers who. while displaying the NRA blue eagle, fail to live up to the terms of their covenant with the government, will be discussed. At the proposed meeting Monday the '‘staff" officers will be given instructions on procedure. Leaders in the Indianapolis movement will confer with state unemployment officials to avoid any duplication. Headquarters for the "staff officers" will be established on the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. Companies Comply With Code Indiana Breweries Inc., of Indianapolis. received confirmation of the affiliation of the company, makers of “Mausner” beer with the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink Workers Union of America in acceptance of the NRA code. L. W. Dunham, manager of the Pure Oil Company, Indianapolis division, announced that he had received word today from the Pure Oil Company headquarters that the company had signed the President's NRA code. At a special meeting at the Claypool Friday members of the Indiana State Bottlers’ Protective Association pledged support to the industrial recovery’ administration. 35,000 Agreements Signed William J. Moore, of the Million Population Wrecking Company was elected to head an organization of Indianapolis wrecking companies which have pledged support to the NRA. At the meeting shorter hours and a wqge increase of 20 per cent for employes was adopted. Following a meeting Friday at the Hoosier Athletic Club, food distributors and wholesalers announced that arbitration will be attempted to stop a threatened boycott in the trade. Differences a rase when a group of 1.100 stores, members of the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association. placed a ban on Sunday and night openings and recommended a ten-hour day. Other stores refused to accept the hours and remained open at night and on Sundays. HOME LOAN MANAGERS TO DISCUSS PROGRAM Zone Heads to Map Work at Session. With E. irk McKinney. Four newly appointed zone managers of the Home Loan Owners Corporation, of which E. Kirk McKinney is state manager, will meet during the week-end to perfect plans for a state-wide uniform opening and accepting applications for loans. Distribution of loans is expected to start in ten days. The zone managers are Stephen B. Flemming. Fort Wayne district; William A. Butler. South Bend; J. Clinn Ellvson. Hammond-Garv district. and Leonard E. Rauscher of Evansville. Managers for the Richmond and the Terre Haute branch offices that will come under the direction of state headquarters here have not been chosen. McKinney said today. Appointment recommendations will be forwarded to the central board in Washington early next week. Each district manager will be permitted to choose his owr. district counsel appraiser and office personnel.

ocratic party and much of the early political plots and election strategy were planned in its rooms. The Denison, for many years, has had a transient trade of old-timers who remember it from "way back when.’’

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Here are four Indianapolis recovery leaders recently appointed to the Indianapolis Recovery Council by Louis J. Borinstein. president of the Chamber of Commerce. Thomas C. Howe, president of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, has been busy since the start of the NRA drive getting his constitutents into line. Almus G. Ruddell, president of the Rosary Club, has been active

500 Shots Are Fired in Kentucky Election War

Troops Quell Street Rioting in Harlan After Two Are Hurt. By Z r nited Prem HARLAN, Ky., Aug. s.—National guardsmen broke up a street battle between rival political factions at the Tway Coal Camp near here today after two men had been wounded. * More than 500 shots were reported fired between the rival factions at one of the polling places in today's Harlan country Republican primary election. Dynamite bombs and stones were hurled. One faction fortified itself in the mine commissary, where the ballot boxes were located. The other, led by Theodore Middleton, a candidate for shediff. took up pasitions behind nearby concrete abutments, Jim Crawford, one of Middleton's men. was wounded in the face when a stick of dynamite tied to a lump of coal exploded near him. He may lose his sight. Robert Gilbert's finger was shot off Guardsmen under Adjutant-Gen eral H. H. Denhardt arrested Middleton and T. M. Gibson, superintendent of the R. C. Tway Coal Company, but later released them without charge. Denhardt detailed guardsmen to all of the seventy polling places in the county. They inspected all of the ballot boxes to make sure none had been “stuffed.” One man was shot to death Thursday and another Friday in clashes between the two rival factions in the bitterly contested election. Robert Roark, 35. was killed at Kenvir Thursday, and Joe Lee. 40, was slain In an election quarrel at Wallins Creek. Friday. PARDON BOARD TO HEAR 72 CLEMENCY PLEAS Three-Day Session to Be Resumed Wednesday, Says Coy. Seventy-two clemency appeals will b? heard by the state pardon board when a three-day schedule of hearings is resumed next Wednesday, it was announced today by SecretaryWay ne Coy. There are thirty reformatory and forty-two prison cases scheduled. Five are from Marion county. Ashton Burnett, serving fifteen years on a robbery charge, is the only reformatory case from here. Prison cases include: James Monroe, five to twenty-one years, rape; William Moore, ten years, auto banditry’: James A Young, two to fourteen, embezzlement. and Guy West, ten years, auto banditry. ARREST U. S. FORESTERS 3 in State Camp Charged With Stealing Government Property. By I nitrd Preaa BRAZIL, Ind . Aug. s.—Three Ohio youths in the federal reforestation camp here were under arrest today charged with theft of government property. Camp officials said they sold or sent home clothes they took from other camp workers. The youths are Paul Hartman. 29. St. Louisville. O.: Robert Wray. 22. Carrolton. 0.. and Doyle Hyde. Dellroy, o. Arsenic was used in coloring old-fashioned wall papers, but it was found that individuals could be made ill by arsenic particles coming loose in the air or forming gas.

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among city business men urging cooperation with the President's program. Saul Solomon, acting president of the West Washington Street Merchants' Association, is responsible for much of the enthusiasm of merchants in his bailiwick and J. Harry Miles, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate board, has been assigned to supervise the NRA forces of the realtors.

LUESSE FACES FARM RETURN Labor Agitator’s Parole May Be Revoked: Held at Marion. (Continued From Page One) of stories printed recently by The Times. Leach denied that Luesse was arrested in Marion on orders from his office. "The state police up there arnyded him for inciting to riot," Leach said. Joseph Zimmerman, chairman of the lpgal defense committee, of'the International Labor Defense organization charged that Luesse s arrest was due to his aid in the exposure of the state farm through his own affidavits and others to the Times. Zimmerman said the defense body would fight any attempt to return Luesse to the farm. Luesse was sent to the state farm May 22. 1931, on a charge of interfering with an eviction. He was sentenced to serve one year and given fine and costs of $526. Inability to pay the fine rest lted in his serving twenty-one months at the farm before he was paroled. Leach charged that Luesse had violated his parole in his agitating Officers at Marion declared that Luesse attempted to speak to a group of jxior relief workers who complained about the amount allotted them for baskets. The "strikers” refused to permit him to speak and when he attempted to talk to members in the crowd the arrest followed. ROBS DOWNTOWN STORE Bandit Flees on Foot After Holdup of t’nited Cigar Branrh. A bandit held up the United Cigar store. Pennsylvania and Market streets. Friday night, escaping on foot with several hundred dollars. Entering while Howard Robb 40 of 808 Mills avenue, clerk, was alone in the store, the gunman took $1 from him. and forced him to open the safe. He looted the safe and cash register. ENDS LIFE WITH ACID Suicide Poison Potion Is Fatal to William H. Smith, 57. William H. Smith. 57. of 1002 Collier street, ended his life Friday by swallowing acid at his home, where he lived alone. Smith had been receiving township aid, but was cut off the list last week, friends told Dr E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner. Smith was despondent over this and because of illness, friends declared. The body was found by a friend. Among the most primitive animals living today, science names that *gg-laying mammal. the duckbill, and pouched mammals, such as the kangaroo and opossum.

FIDELITY TRUST CO. General Banking Licensed in ( lass A FIRE INSURANCE and All Other Lines Except Life 148 East Market Street

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HOPE SEEN FOR COMPLETION OF SEWAGE PLANT $400,000 U. S. Loan to Complete City System Is Sought. (Continued From Pace One) year for the two members of the sanitary commission, a nonpartisan board, during construction of the plant At the completion of the project, the commissioners' salaries were to become SSO a month Indianapolis Tennant Is ready to inform the government, is dumping raw sewage into Fall creek. Bean creek. Pleasant run. Pogue's run and White river. New Type System Needed Much of the fault, citv officials declare, lies in the city's system of six-inch interceptor sewers, which, they assert, should be fifteen and twenty-inch sewers to take adequate care of the city's sewage During rains, the six-inch pipe is inadequate and as n result, raw sewage is forced back and dumped into the river from the storm sewers An entirely new system of interceptor sewers is needed, engineers deelare, to halt pollution of the streams surrounding the city. Issue $400,000 in Bonds The present sewage disposal plant and system Is unable to handle more than 50 per cent of the city’s sewage, Tennant says. The other 50 per cent of sludge Is poured into White river, he infers Under Tennant's plan, the ritv Will issue $400,000 in bonds to the federal public works commission, payable in fifty years At the end of fifty years, the city will have paid 70 per cent, its allotment under his plan. The commissioners’ present salaries are $3,078 a year, a cut from $3,600. effected by the municipal government for all city employes. SEIZE SHIPMENT OF PEAS IN LABEL FRAUD Canned Goods Ordered Destroyed by l\ S. Attorney. The drag net of the law closed in upon a thousand rases, more or less, of canned peas in the United States district attorney's office on Friday. Val Nolan, district attorney, filed suit FTiday that stated United States vs. One Thousand Cases, More or Less, of Canned Peas Labeled 'Merritt Brand Sugar Peas.’ ” The canned peas, the suit says, were masquerading around tinder the high-sounding name of "sugar peas,” when in reality they were but poor relatives to this specie called "Alaska Variety Peas." As the peas should know they can not get away with a monicker like that because of food and drug act, the United States desires that they "immediately should he seized and confiscated and destroyed by the United States marshal."

R<ME I Jfc MR A If you patron*s not a niernwt oo ou> evading the t’eal intent of the code through trick methods of compensation, you are only undermining your own livelihood. Increased wages and additional employment are the only means under the sun that will bring hack prosperity. I Jut. unless every man and woman co-operates and makes it possible for merchants and manufacturers to stand the extra overhead, the plan will collapse with a return to conditions that will he far worse than any in the past. Trade where you see the X. R. A. emblem and where you know that employes are being treated according to the real purpose of the code. a a a Speaking of pickups, a news item states that burglaries in city showed a big gain this year over last. On the other hand, what they gained, the public lost. BUB Take advantage of our lubrication special to give your car a real grease and oil refdl at a real price. For we will completely lubricate your car, spray the springs, vacuum clean the interior and drain and refill the crankcase with as much as 6 quarts of Golden Sun Oil, selling regularly at 26 cents a quart. Service any time up until 9:30 p. m. and all day Sunday to 6 p. m. 9 9 9 (Jsf CHIEF TIRE CHANGER MILLER TIRE DISTRIBUTORS