Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1933 — Page 1

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SOLDIER ADMITS MURDERING WIFE, POLICE ANNOUNCE Conscience-Stricken Sergeant Returns to Scene, Calls Cops; Woman’s Death First Believed Suicide. OLD CLIPPING TELLS OF TRAGEDY Army Man Shot Mate to Death for UsingDope, Alleged Confession Says; Planned to Kill Self at Home. Returning conscience-stricken to the house where he is said to have admitted murdering his wife nearly a year ago, Sergeant Otis H. Edge, Company E, Eleventh Infantry, overcome with grief, stopped at a filling station at Sherman drive and Massachusetts avenue early today and called police to come and get him. “I want the police to come and arrest me,” Edge told Captain John Mullins on night duty at police headquarters.

Arriving at the filling station, police were met by the soldier. He was taken immediately to police headquarters, where he is said to have confessed the murder of his wife Helen, 40, in their home East Thirty-eighth street near Pendleton Pike, on the morning of Jan. 5, 1933. Solemnly the soldier handed detectives a yellowed newspaper clipping bearing the following story of the tragedy: "With a smile, Mrs. Helen Edge, 40, wife of Sergeant Otis Edge of Ft. Harrison bade her husband get the family car from the garage in the rear of their home on R. R. 12, Box 45. Argued Over Trip •Sergeant. Edge left the door of the house open and started for the garage. As he did so. he heard a shot from the house. Returning he found his wife's body lying on the floor in the bedroom. The woman, according to Edge's story to Deputy Sheriffs Edward Kasenbroc.k and Gus Gatto. had blindfolded herself and then pressed the muzzle of a .32 calibre revolver against her forehead and fire one shot. "Dr. E R Wilson, deputy coroner who investigated the death of the woman, said the couple had exchanged a few slight words just before the woman pressed the weapon to her forehead. The trouble arose. Dr. Wilson said, when Edge refused to take his wife to the cemetery that she might place flowers on the grave of her former husband. “Edge said he proposed a trip to Indianapolis instead, according to the coroner, and the soldier believes that his wife was not satisfied with the proposed trip.'' "Besides the husband, tw-o children by a former marriage. Claude, 12. and Noel. 10. survive. The children were not at the house. A neighbor. Mrs. Eva Apt. was called by the husband and notified the sheriffs office.” "It Got Me” The detectives finished reading the newspaper account. Edge braced himself against the table in the detective bureau and sadly shook his head. “I've been on detached service with the Civilian Conservation Corps in Brown county,” he said. “Down there in the woods, 'it got me' and I couldn’t stand the strain any longer. I decided to go back to the house where I shot Helen, and kill myself. Then on the way, I thought I would call the police instead. ' In a shaking hand. Edge wrote the following alleged confession, which was witnessed by L. U. Baker, Everett Steele and James Sentney. "My name is Otis E. Edge. Sergeant, Company E, Eleventh Infantry, on detached service at Nashville, Brown county. On Jan. 5, 1933. at Lawrence, ind., on Thirtyeighth street close to Peacock Roost, in the afternoon about 2 o'clock, in the bedroom of my home. I shot and killed my wife Helen with a .32ealiber gun. "I threw the gun on the floor. Her broth°r now has the gun. as far as I know. I told her that if I caught her using dope again I would shoot her. That is the reason I killed her. We were continually having trouble over the two children.” Dr Wilson and the deputy sheriffs who investigated the case originally said that they had been mystified at the timp of the supposed suicide by the position of the gun. Mrs. Edge had been shot through the left temple and the gun lay at her right side. Dr. Wilson said he had probed the wound and found the course of the bullet downward from the top of her skull. He was reluctant. he said, to pronounce her death a suicide. Sergeant Edge was formally charged with murder, following his alleged confession. Times Index Berg Cartoon 14 BLACK HAWK 21 Bridge 9 Broun 14 Classified 18. 19 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 21 Editorial 14 Financial 20 Hickman-Theaters 4 Hunting 9 Lippmann . 20 Radio 22 School Page 8 Sports 16. 17 State News 22 Woman's Pages 6. 7

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OFFICIALS FIGHT OVER AUTOPSY Bitter Controversy Waged by Investigators in Wynekoop Case. By 1 nitnt Pn a* CHICAGO. Dec. fi. Anew mystery brewed today in the eerie operating room murder of Rheta Wynekoop. as bitter controversies seethed among officials investigators. Despite rigid secrecy orders, charges of a "bungled autopsy” and "incompetence” flew between the coroner's office and state attorney's investigators. Dr. Thomas L. Dwyer, pathologist, who made the first autopsy. has been discharged from the coroner’s staff and anew autopsy has be°n made. Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, Rheta’s mother-in-law. and Earle Wynekoop. the slain girl's husband, are being held on murder charges. Rheta was found dead in her moth-er-in-law's treatment room with a bullet wound and chloroform burns on her unclad body. Dwyer claimed that despite his discharge from the coroner’s staff, he is making microscopic examinations and will be prepared to take the witness stand for the state. The state's attorney's office said Dwyer would not be called as a witness. Dr. Jerry Kearns and Dr. John G. Frost, who replaced Dwyer, made a new autopsy in Indianapolis, and included a brain examination which Dwyer admitted omitting. This examination was expected to reveal whether Rheta suffered from a mental disorder. A full report on the new autopsy was expected by Friday. After Dwyer's first autopsy there was some confusion as to just what had been found and secret reports were said to hare been made. Meanwhile Dr. Wynekoop was reported recovering from recent distress as the result of a heart ailment. Her trial has been set for Jan. 4. before Judge Joseph B. David, in criminal court. U. S. TO GET 51.000.000 Italy Will Pay ‘Token’ on Dec. 15 Installment. By I'nitrd Prraa ROME. Dec. 6.—ltaly will make a ' token” payment of $1,000,000 on its war debt installment due the United States December 15, it was announced today. The payment was decided on at a meeting of the Fascist grand council.

Two Policemen Quizzed in City Girl's Suicide ‘Their Story Doesn't Ring True,’ Says Chief Morrissey in Suspending Officers: Probe Ordered.

Chief Mike Morrissey announced today that he had suspended patrolmen John Davidson and E. M. Hamilton in connection with the mysterious death by poisoning of Miss Leona Norkus. 18. 818 North Tacoma avenue. t

The policemen will stand suspended pending further investigation into the case of the girl, who died at city hospital after being found unconscious at Fountain Square on Virginia avenue early yesterday. "The policemen's story doesn't ring exactly true to me.” said Chief Morrissey, "and I have assigned detectives to question them. I can not conceive of their idea in following the girl to the hospital some time after they had sent her ahead in an ambulance. Why didn't they go right along with her.’" The neat little cottage at 818 North Tacoma avenue, where Leona lived with her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rank Norkus, who adopted the girl when she was only 3 months old. was a scene of grief today as the family prepared for the funeral. "She was a fine girl," said Mr. Norkus. "but I believe, she was the victim of a dual personality—like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you know She would be fine for quite a spell and then take a notion to disappear suddenly. "We had not seen her for several days prior to her death. She was attending a sick woman in another

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight and probably Thursday; lowest temperature tonight near freezing; warmer Thursday.

Flouting of No-By-Drink Rule and Fewer ‘Drunks’ State’s Repeal Greeting

Here's the repeal "morning after” for Indiana. Open disregard in Indianapolis and the northern part of the state of the no-by-the-drink regulation. Arrival in Indianapolis and other large cities of higher percentage beer. Fewer arrests in Indianapolis for drunkenness than on the preceding day when whisky was illegal. Arrangements by restaurant and beer establishments to stock up on wines. Beginning of legal attacks on the constitutionality of the Indiana regulatory laws in their present form.

FLOUTING of the excise department's regulations forbidding the sale of hard liquor by the drink was becoming more prevalent today in Indianapolis and the extreme nortnern portions of the state. Dozens of downtown resorts were selling highballs, priced variously at 20 and 25 cents each. All were of the whisky and ginger ale type. Some were composed of a base of bonded whisky, but were much smaller than those made of gingerale and a medium grade of ‘‘corn” whisky. Several downtown restaurants were staying within the law by serving apertifs constructed of blended wines. These were retailing at 25 cents apiece and two for 35 cents. The Indiana regulations provide that wine may be served by the drink and in any quantity as long as it is not fortified by the admixture of spirituous liquors. Defiance of the regulations laid down by Governor Paul V. McNutt and the excise department under Paul Fry was open in the Calumet area, where liquor dispensers are forced to contend with Illinois competition. Informed of flagrant violation, Governor McNutt said: "The action speaks for itself.” He explained that no enforcement by the state is possible, except that of using the threat of license revocation. Wine stocks in Indianapolis generally were low, dispensaries blaming this on the delay in the issuance of the Indiana regulations. Whisky wholesalers said they had placed no orders for whisky in half-pint quantities, which had been suggested as an answer to the "poor man's problem.” First rumblings of legal assaults on the Indiana regulations echoed today in Indianapolis and Muncie. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker intimated there is a possibility the law may be unconstitutional because of discriminatory powers vested in the excise director. At Muncie, City Judge J. Frank Mann served notice he does not intend to be guided by the opinion of Attorney-General Philip Lutz, which holds that prescriptions are not necessary to purchase whisky now that repeal is a reality. Judge Mann asserted there is nothing in the law allowing purchasers to dispense with prescriptions. However, Muncie police officials announced they would make no arrests for selling whisky without prescriptions. Judge Baker said he was studying the law closely and announced that "many able lawyers have voiced the prediction the law will be found unconstitutional.” "The ease with which whisky now may be obtained legally at drug stores leads me to anticipate that the bootleg establishments and law violators soon will be selling whisky by the drink, if they have not already begun to do so.” said Judge Baker. Only seven persons were arrested for drunkenness yesterday in Indianapolis, police records reveal. On Monday, the last full day in which prohibition reigned in theory, there w r ere nine arrests for drunkenness. Police officials and other observers united in the opinion that repeal was ushered into Indiana, officially at 4:31 ’2 p. m. yesterday, with the utmost of decorum. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 a. m 32 7a. m 37 11 a. m 32 Ba. m 34 12 (noon).. 33 9 a. m 33 1 p. m 33

part of town, but left there suddenly and mysteriously. I was shocked when the Rev. R. H. Mueller, pastor of the First Evangelical church, told me that he had identified Leona's body at the city morgue. "I can not give any reason for her attempting suicide.” Mrs. Norkus continued sadly, "except this wild ’ streak which she occasionally displayed. She was a fine looking girl and had a beautiful soprano voice. Sometimes she sang in the church choir.” Funeral arrangements for the girls burial have not been completed.

Roosevelt ‘Square Guy,' Famed Adventurer Says

B<j l nitrri Frr* * ST. LOUIS. Dec. 6.—Tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "the most honest guy and the squarest shooter we’ve ever had in the White House." was paid here last night by Captain Irving O'Hay. United States Army (retired), in-ternationally-known soldier of fortune, in an address to the twen-ty-seventh annual banquet of the ; Traffic Club of St. Louis. i

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933

ASK FUNDS FOR HOSPITAL UNIT Flower Mission Officials Present Plea to Federal Board. Proposal of the Indianapolis Flower Mission to advance approximately $30,000 in cash and $30,500 in securities for the construction of a unit at the city hospital to care for advanced cases of tuberculosis was made today before the Federal Public Works board. Meeting with city officials and beard members, officers of the mission offered the entire savings of the organization to make possible the $90,300 project to care for the more than 450 open and advanced cases of tuberculosis in Indianapolis. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan said the city is unable to issue bonds at this time to care for its share of the additional $30,000 cast of the project. Under the proposal, the federal government would loan the entire $30,000, the city repaying 70 per cent over a period of years. Mrs. David Ross, mission president. said the organization would transfer all its cash and securities to the city so the balance needed by the city could be raised

Cinderellas Once upon a time a glorious Cinderella, miracuously changed from a sooty little girl to a dazzling beauty, went to a ball and danced with a dashing prince. Today’s "Cinderellas” will be entertained and rewarded with a cinema presentation of the Lyric theater Thursday, Dec. 28. They will be the girls who have obtained six new subscriptions for The Times and have been awarded their Cinderella dolls. When the doors open at 11 in the morning, all these girls who have been laboring so industriously for the prize Cinderella will be admitted free to the Lyric theater. The admission ticket will be showing of the Cinderella doll at the theater door. This theater party is the extra special reward, a Christmas gift, for the busy workers. The contest still is open to any girls who will obtain six new subscriptions by Dec. 18.

MAINE, DRY LEADER, JOINS WET STATES All Delegates Vote for Repeal Amendment. By Tutted P ten it AUGUSTA. Me., Dec. 6.—Maine, the original prohibition state, today became the thirty-seventh state to ratify the twenty-first (repeal amendment to the federal Constitution). Os the eighty delegates elected to the convention Sept. 11, a total of seventy-two answered the roll call when the convention met in the house of representatives hall in the statehouse. The voting began at 11:17 a. m. and required only eight minutes, all seventy-two voting wet in ac-i cordance with the popular vote. The legislature is in special session considering liquor and revenue legislation. STATE DISTILLERY SOLD TO CANADIAN COMPANY Price for Lawrenceburg Plant is $2,400,000 and Stock. Btf United Press MONTREAL. Dec. 6.—The Distillers Corporation-Seagrams. Ltd., has announced purchase of a distillery at Lawrenceburg. Ind.. for $2.400.000 and 172.623 shares of the Canadian company's stock. The distillery, one of the largest in North America, was purchased from the Rossville Union Distilleries, Inc., and the transaction marks the entrance of the Canadian company into the American field. The purchasers will be able to use their stocks of American type rv and Bourbon whiskies to blend with the product of the Indiana plant, it was explained.

"Because your old man voted for Abraham Lincoln you think Roosevelt is a bum, and you rap him.” Captain O'Hay said at the high point of a two-hour-long address of humor, homely philosophy and common sense bristling throughout with the unexpurgated language of the World war trenches.

POLICE SEEK WITNESS IN MASON CASE Owen Simmons, Watchman at Murder Scene, Disappears. TRIAL TO END TODAY Jury Will Hold Fate of Alleged Officer Slayer Late in Afternoon. A squad of Indianapolis detectives today was assigned to the task of tracing Owen A. Simmons, 55, of 2412 Guilford avenue, one of the principal witnesses in the murder trial of William H. Mason, charged with the machine gun slaying of Lester Jones, Indianapolis police sergeant. The hunt for Simmons started ; after polce chief Mike Morrissey i was notified that Judge Fred E. j Hines, presiding judge in the Ma- i son trial, had announced the disappearance, in the courtroom at Noblesville. In a sensational announcement, after dismissing the jury, Judge Hines said he had notified detectives chief Fred Simon here that Simmons had not been seen since : last Wednesday. Simmons was a watchman at the | Peoples Motor Coach Company here j where Sergeant Jones was slain in j answering a holdup call. Simmons testified last week in the Mason trial. Final Pleas Heard BY JAMES A. CARVIN Times Staff Writer NOBLESVILLE, Dec. 6.—Following completion of the defense argument and final statement by the I state today, the case of William H. i Mason, charged with murder of Indianapolis Police Sergeant Lester j Jones, was to be given to the ujry j this aftenoon. In event of a finding of guilty,: the verdict will be equivalent to j ordering death of Mason in the electric chair, since conviction on a charge of murder in commission of a robbery carries a mandatory death penalty. In his closing argument to the jury today Floyd Christian, defense j attorned, made a long 'Speech ini which he stressed “the indefinitive- j ness of the alleged identification of Mason made by patrolman Michael j McAllen, the policeman who de- j dared during the trial that "Mason shot at me and I at him.” The final argument of the state will be presented by Floyd Mattice, Marion county chief deputy prosecutor. Floyd Beelar. Hamilton county prosecutor, who has aided Marion county officials during the trial, made the first of the state arguments to the jury yesterday, and; branded Mason as "a 1933 model! criminal, who kills any one in his ! way.” Defense Uses Fireworks In contrast to the deadly quiet; •summary of evidence employed by j Mr. Beelar, Mr. Christian resorted j to forensic fireworks in his plea for Mason's acquittal. Throughout his address ran references to Miss Betty Clark, Mason’s common law wife, as a "little woman” and "a brave little girl.” Mason's sister. Mrs. Marie Wolff, who also aided the defense in preparing an alibi for Mason, was referred to frequently. Mr. Christian charged Mason is a victim of mistaken identity and declared Edward Miller, whose indictment for the murder has been nolle prossed by the state, was the fifth man' at the attempted holdup of the Peoples Motor Coach Company garage in Indianapolis, Feb. 7. Stabbed Times Reporter "I' don't want you to disregard the fact that this little woman was i living with Mason outside the bonds of matrionmy, but I want you to remember she rather would have a , wedding ring than anything else in the world, because she loves this man.” Frequent reference was made to Miss Clark's arrest and conviction in Marion county criminal court in 1925 for assault and battery with intent to kill. She declared from the witness j stand she had stabbed with a peri ! knife a man named Miller when she ! was arrested by Indianapolis police j after she escaped from Clermont j girls’ school. From the files of The Times and j the memory of Dick Miller, veteran Times police reporter, the stabbing was recalled today. Reading of the testimony, Mr. Miller recalled the incident, which he verified from The Times' files. Mr. Miller had accompanied a po- 1 lice emergency squad to a house on Hovey street in search of two girls escaped from the school, one of whom was Miss Clark, then known as Mabel Clark. As the girls were being taken to police headquarters, with Miller seated in front of them. Miss Clark suddenly whipped £ small jenife from the bosom of her dress and stabbed the reporter.

“Depression?" he asked. “Not caused by the World war, but by your own selfishness. I ask you ! in the name of God how any of those eggs can be worth $150.000 a year. How can any one spend SSOO in a day?” "Stop worrying!” Captain O'Hay, upon whom Richard Harding Davis based his composite character, in “Soldiers of Fortune,” and characterized by |

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Boys —All Kinds —Are Calling You to Help in Struggle Against Cold

BOYS . . . With freckles . . . bow-legs . . . some with hair like straw-stacks . . . imps that can’t keep their scuffed toes from dancing . . . ones with squeaky voices . . . boys that still look up and wonder when they'll ever be as old as a man . . . fatherless, motherless, boys ... all nations . . . all creeds. . . . But all are boys in the Clothe-a-Child campaign of The Indianapolis Times, waiting for some one to clothe them for Christmastime. Ooooh! there’s oodles of girls, too, but it looks like early donors just can’t balance the scales. They, or at least lots of them, want girls to doll up in fancy dresses, trim ribbons to tie. And one boy in a letter puts the idea over when he writes to The Times with: "Gosh! I can't get nothing in my family. My older sisters get it all. If they's clothes they get's them. And me. I got shoes without no soles much,” he writes. ts n n NOW this masculine protest undoubtedly is just kneebreeches envious and scornful of anything feminine, but it does seem true to date in the Clothe-a-Child drive that the girls are getting an edge on the boys. And "Lucias” .... why, if the drive had a bushel of "Lucias,” it seems they’d be cared for and all because one girl asked for aid who had the name of “Lucia.” “Mary” and "Anna” and "Dorothy” are abundant. Call Riley 5551—and ask for Clothe-a-Child editor of Times. You will receive name of needjr school child, 5 to 12 years of age. Each child has been checked for need by social service division of public schools. Community Fund reilef agencies provide the names of worthy children to be clothed. You clothe the youngster, or we’ll do it for you. That’s your Christmas, the child’s, and that’s our Christmas. One donor suggests that if all the "Aunt Marys" of the city each look their namesake, that the boys of the campaign would be compelled to find pseudo "Uncle Johns” to keep up with the deluge of “Aunts.” One firm has a novel manner collecting funds for the boys and girls they take to clothe. A pledge card is passed arouhd to employes

Prohibition Still Rules Ford's Industrial Empire Motor Magnate's Threat to Quit Manufacturing Is Not Mentioned; Employes Given Warning. By Vnitrd Pres* DETROIT. Dec. 6.—Prohibition still prevails throughout Henry Ford's industrial empire. man once quoted as saying, "If booze ever comes back to the United States, I am through with manufacturing.” will continue to demand abstinence from intoxicants by those who work in the giant motor world he has created. I

Ford will not close his plants, as he was quoted as threatening. But, he will enforce prohibition in his plants. He will emphasize previous instructions to his thousands of workers to abstain. Officially, Ford was silent on repeal of the eighteenth amendment. His spokesmen refused to comment. From sources close to the manufacturer, however, the United Press learned that he is not greatly disturbed by the return of legal liquor. Ford believes, it was said, that America has profited by prohibition and the government will know how

Irvin Cobb as a "connoisseur of war.” explained the constant flood of profanity with which he embellished his address as follows: “Blasphemy is an indefensible insult upon the Creator; cursing is heaping ill-will upon your fellow man, but profanity is an Irish gentleman s mode of expression about which you can't do a damned thing.”

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LINDBERGHS SAFE IN BRAZIL AFTER SPANNING ATLANTIC Cheering Thousands Greet Flier and Wife as They End 1,870-Mile Flight From West Africa. NATAL BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED Seaplane Covers Distance FYom Bathurst in 16 Hours as Anne Handles Radio Like ‘an Expert.’ By l nitrd Prras NATAL, Brazil, l>ec. G.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flyinjr a true course for 1.870 miles, arrived in their seaplane in Natal harbor at 11:55 p. m. (Indianapolis | time) today after a spectacular flight from Bathurst, British ; West Africa.

and they pledge 50 cents weekly throughout December to clothe their children. n n n “ r T"'HAT way it doesn’t hit any x of us in a lump and we find we can always clothe more children than we first expected to,” explained an employe of the firm. Every child in th< campaign has been checked for worth and need by the social service staff of the Indianapolis public schools and Community Fund relief agencies. Throughout the year the social workers of the school board come into direct contact with the children. They know their needs. Relief agencies of the Community Fund can not hope to make the 1933 Christmas, or any Christmas, a festive day. Their funds must be stretched rubberlike throughout the year. Want a freckle-faced boy? Want a curly-headed girl? Call Riley 5551. Donors to the Clothe-a-Child campaign follow: Miss Vera Holstein, girl. Mrs. E. S. Barber, girl. Group of Girls, office, G. & J. Tire Company, girl. Employes of Wadley Company, two children. Just Another Santa Claus, girl. A Sunday School Class, girl. I Want Two Again, boy and girl. In Memory of Dorothy Helen Farber, boy. Little Girl in Irvington, girl. M. and Mrs. Eddie Meyer, two girls. Mr. Woodruff Place, girl. G. C. Welch, hoy and girl. Mrs. H. R. A., hoy. Mr. and Mrs. John N’ewlin, girl. Mrs. North Alabama, girl. I XVant Helen, girl. Mister Nira, boy. Indianapolis Times—Editorial department. two children: Girls of Times, girl; Mailing Room, child; Advertising Department. child; Composing Room, child; Circulation Department, child; Engravers and stereotvpers, child; Pressroom, child. Job’s Daughters No. 11, girl. Mrs. G. 8.. boy. Mrs. Central avenue, boy. Building Department. City Hall, girl. Craig's confectionery. No. 2, IP North Pennsylvania street, boy. Irvington Santa, girl. Robert Glover, girl. Mrs. Frank Lindner, girl. Mrs. S., a girl. Mrs. E. J. M., girl. Mrs. East Michigan, girl. Pretzel Bell. Illinois and Market, three children. White Castle System, four boys and three girls. Senator and Mrs. Jacob Weiss, boy and gir). Cynthia, girl. A Good-hearted Lady. girl. Mrs. East-side, twin boys. A Lecturer, boy. Bread Wagon Driver Robbed Carl Kaugher, 44. of 623 Orange street, bread wagon driver, reported to police early today that he was held up and robbed of about $lO by two Negroes in the 1000 block Maple street.

to control liquor now that it has been returned. The ardent dry and life-long friend of abstinence is convinced now. as ever, that the saloon will not come back to Michigan. It w>as the saloon he fought vigorously during the pre-prohibition era. In the statement attributed to him in 1929, he was quoted as saying: “I would not be bothered with the problem of handling over 200,000 men and trying to pay them wages, which the saloons w’ould take away from them. I would not be interested in putting automobiles into the hands of a generation soggy with drinks. Gasoline and booze do not mix, that's all. “With booze in control we can count on only two or three effective days of work a week in the factory. That w’ould destroy the short day and the five-day week, which sober industry has introduced. When men drank two or three days a week, industry had to have a ten to twelvehour day and a six or seven-day week. With sobriety, the working man can have an eight-hour day and a five-day week with the same or greater pay.”

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[ The Lindberghs had traversed the South Atlantic ocean, in a straight airline, landing at 1 p. m., sixteen hours out of Bathurst. The flight completed 19,000 miles of aerial touring since their departure from New York on July 9. The Lindberghs came down to a j city that had declared an unofficial ! holiday in their honor. They were greeted by cheering thousands swarming on every vantage point along the rocky shores. Rowboats, motorboats and launches jammed the river Potengy where it ! sweeps into the ocean near the 1 splendid new Pan-American naval | airport. All business had been suspended | since noon, and the entire popula- | tion joined to the reception J the most notable ever given a visit* | ing celebrity. The successful, long flight, at a J steady, average speed of a little more than 120 miles an hour, was marked by Colonel Lindbergh's rigid following of his true course, and by j the excellent workmanship of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh who handled the radio controls in masterly fashion. Throughout the long flight the plane was in constant communica- ; tion with shore. At times, Colonel I Lindbergh surrendered the seaplane control to his wife, and himself assumed the radio operator’s post. "True Course” Held The flight for any other aviators would be the thrill of a lifetime. It took the Lindberghs across a stretch of sea broken, from coast to coast, only by the rocky little Fernando Da Noronha group of islands off the Brazilan coast. In length, 1.870 miles, the flight over water was only eighty miles less than the distance Lindbergh covered on his New York-Paris flight between the Newfoundland coast and Valentia, Ireland, Passing over Fernando, Colonel ! Lindbergh had held a "true course” from Bathurst—so true that a | straight line, ruled on the map, I would mark his continuous direc- ■ tion for the 1.750 miles he had covered to this point. Mrs. Lindbergh impressed wireless operators on the American side with her skill as a radio operator. Her messages buzzed acrass in perfect code. Five Months’ Tour In their flight today the Lindberghs were returning to the* western hemisphere from a five months' air tour perhaps never approached in its importance to the future of I aviation. It was a trip to obtain for the Pan-American Airways Company specific data on flying conditions over selected sections of the Atlantic. When they left Bathurst they had covered 18.000 miles. They left New York July 9. They hopped off at North Haven, Me., to see their son Jon at the Morrow summer home there. They went on to Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, bleak Labrador and frozen Greenland, It was thought they might stop there, for even in late July and early August it was late In the flying season. SECURITIES ACT STAYS Roosevelt Does Not Plan to Weaken Law in Any Way. By Vnitrd Pn aa WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—President Roosevelt has no intention of weakening the 1933 securities act in any way, it was stated today at the White House.

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS 11 r SHOPPING DAYS : 1J TO CHRISTMAS