Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1934 — Page 10

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'FIERPONT trial FOR MURDER TO START MARCH 6 ‘Trigger Man’ Faces Lima (0.) Court: Copeland Is Given 10-Day Delay. While March 6 was set as trial day in the case of Harry Pierpont. notorious leader of the Indiana “terror mob.” Harry Copeland, another member of the gang, was taken Dack to Michigan City after winning a ten-day stay in court. Pierpont was arraigned in court in Lima, 0., with Russell Clark, a third member of the gang. Both are charged with the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarbcr of Lima. When they refused to plead. Judge E. E. Everett entered pleas of not guilty and set March 6 for Pierpont s trial. Charles Makley also faced the Lima court yesterday and was granted a delay. Captain Matt Leach of the state police expressed grave doubt that Copeland ever would be arraigned in Putnam county for participation in the holdup of the CentraJ National bank at Greencastle, where $75,000 was stolen Oct. 23. Captain Leach said that Copeland was brought to Greencastle on the statements of officers of the surety company which bonded the bank. These officials, according to Captain Leach, said that Copeland would make a full statement. In court, however, the gangster declined to answer questions concernnig the holdup. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED Business Branch Library Lists NBA Treatise Among Others. New books received in the busi- | ness branch library, Meridian and Ohio streets, are Handbook of the NRA by Federal Codes, Inc.; “Liberalization of the Life Insurance Policy Contract.” by Amheim. "Mod- j ern Money.” by Bonine; "Job Insurance," by Ewing; "Financial j Handbook.'* by Montgomery, second j revised edition; "Economic Nation- j alism.” by Hodgson, and “Twelfth Annual of Advertising Art,” compiled by Art Directors Club.

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‘Alice in Wonderland’to Be Essay Contest Topic SCHOOL children of Indianapolis will be able to find money and other delights back of the wonderful mirror in "Alice in Wonderland.” The National Council of Teachers of English has prepared a study-guide of Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland,” which has been made into a movie by Paramount. To increase interest in Carroll’s masterpiece. The Indianapolis Times announces an essay contest open to every boy and girl in Indianapolis who now is going to school. • Alice in Wonderland" opens at the Apollo today. A total of $75 in cash, ten copies of the special movie edition of “Alice in Wonderland ’ and “Through the Looking Glass,” and Charlotte Henry's <the Alice of the movie* own book which she kept during the making of the picture and which contains the actual autpgraphs of W. C. Fields, Cary Cooper. Richard Arlan. Alison Skipworth, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charlie Ruggles, Mae West, Jack Oakie, Bing Crosby, Dorothea Wieck and many others. an m ALL that the school boy and girl has to do is to write an essay, based either upon “Alice in Wonderland” (combined with “Through the Looking Glass"), or the movie. The essay is not to exceed 250 words. You do not have to see the movie to enter the contest. Just read the book. Three leading citizens of Indianapolis will be named as judges. The decision of the judges is to be final. No one employed by the Indianapolis Times, the Apollo theater, the Paramount exchange or a member of the families of the judges will be eligible. .Neatness will be considered by the judges after the subject matter is considered; also age will be considered so children in the grades will have an equal opportunity with those in high school. a u u THE name of the child, age, school and grade must be plainly written on each entry. Children will be placed on their honor to receive no aid in writing their essays. For the ten best essays in the fiflal opinion of the judges, $5 each will be given. For the second ten- best, each child will receive $2.50. For the third ten best, each child will receive anew photoplay edition of “Alice in Wonderland,” autographed by Charlotte Henry. There also will be an additional grand prize, the book containing the Hollywood autographs while Miss Henry was making the movie. This book will go to the child writing the best essay and of course will be one in the first ten best list. It will be on display in L. S. Ayres Sc Cos. window, starting tomorrow. Address all essays to the Alice in Wonderland Editor of The Indianapolis Times. All essays must reach The Times not later than midnight Saturday, Feb. 24.

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EARLY TRIAL IS URGED FOR TRIO IN SIOMDER Prosecutor Will Insist on Speedy Justice in Pastor Slaying. An early trial of the three principals in the $lO murder of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former Wabash Methodist minister, will be demanded by the state, Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson said today, following the return of true bills against the trio by the Marion county grand jury yesterday. Two-count indictments, charging first and second degree murder, were returned against Mrs. Neoma | Saunders, Theodore Mathers and Masil Roe. One count charges each of the prisoners with murdering the slain pastor “with premeditated malice.” The second degree count merely charges murder, without the “premeditated malice” allegation. Mrs. Saunders is the widow of the slain minister. Police say she paid Mathers, her husband's friend, $lO to obtain someone to kill Mr. Saunders. Mathers is alleged to have committed the crime himself. Roe is alleged to have driven the car in which Mathers killed the minister, Feb. 2. All three are alleged to have signed purported confessions. churgiTschool ASSEMBLY SET Religious Training Workers to Hear Address by Dr. J. R. Schutz. Combined groups of adults and children’s workers of the church schools of Marion county will hear Dr. J. Raymond Schutz, in a meeting at the Central Christian church Tuesday, Feb. 20. Dr. Schutz is president of the Indiana Council of j Religious Education, and professor of socialogy in Manchester college. He will speak under the auspices of the Marion county Council of Religious Education, and will have as his subject “Christian Training Through the Home.” Mrs. Otto Parris will direct the youth choir of Third Christian church ,in special music. Accordion numbers will be given by Robert Rothman of the West Michigan street Methodist church. Karl Ziegler, president of the council, will preside. ALLEGED INTRUDER IS SHOT BY HOUSEHOLDER Negro Victim in Critical Condition at City Hospital. Lee Adams, 45, Negro, shot in the head yesterday afternoon as he, it is alleged, attempted to force his way into the home of Frank Hopson, 29, of 933 North Alabama street, is in a critical condition at city hospital today. Adams called at the Hopson home to see a woman who is employed there to care for the two Hopson children. Hopson claims that Adams threatened him with a knife and brick when he was ordered to leave. Hopson was en route to the county trustee’s office yesterday to obtain food when he returned home to get his identification card. The scuffle ensued. Hopson was arrested on a charge of assault and batten' with intent to kill. Witnesses were James Wilson, 408! 2 Massachusetts avenue, and Charles W. Griffin, 815 North Pennsylvania street. AMBASSADOR BULLITT EN ROUTE TO MOSCOW Envoy Declines to Comment on Far Eastern Situation. By L'nited Press NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—William C. Bullitt, American ambassador to Russia, was aboard the liner George Washington today, to resume his post at Moscow. He declined to comment on any phase of far eastern affairs. URGES LEGISLATION TO OUST SHORT SELLING House Committee Hears Investors Corporation Head. By l'nited Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Fred Y. Presley, president of the National Investors Corporation, urged the house interstate commerce committee hearing on stock market regulation yesterday that “short selling be legislated out of existence.” PARKED CAR IS LOOTED Watch, Necklace and Ring Included in Stolen Articles. Clarence Murnan, 1117 Comer avenue, reported to police today that a zipper bag containing a baby’s milk bottle, a lady's white gold watch, a small necklace and a ring, and other articles valued at a total of $35, were stolen from his automobile, parked at State and English avenues, last night. SCOUTS TO HOLD RALLY City Championship Event at Hail Tomorrow Night. S. L. Norton, assistant Scout executive, will be in charge of the city championship Boy Scout rally at 7 tomorrow night in Tomlinson hall. MUSTARD, CAMPHOR ENDS ACHES, PAINS Rheumatic pains, lumbago, sore feet. I stMf neck, headache, toothache, bruises, | sprains and swellings are quickly re- j lieved by "Skoot Liniment,” which contains mustard, camphor, menthol, oil ' wintergreen. and other penetrating agents. Skoot Liniment positively will not blister. It is not greasy, will not discolor clothes and has pleasant odor. Skoot Liniment is guaranteed to end any pain in 15 minutes or money refunded. 35 cents at Hook's, Haag’s, Walgreens and druggists everywhere. —Advertisement.

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Progress in aviation is shown vividly by a comparison of one of the old army planes (above) used in 1918 on the first air mail line, with one of TranscontinentalWestern Air’s new speedy, de luxe passenger and mail planes (cenDRAMATIC announcement that the government had canceled all air mail contracts and that the army would take over the air mail routes starting next Tuesday came as one of the biggest news stories of the year. Newspaper articles on the sensational order and the charges of collusion in bidding on contracts, which caused it, are read avidly by nearly every newspaper reader. But to one Indianapolis man, the announcement that the army will fly the mail, is of even greater interest, bringing back memory of 1918, when the army inaugurated the first scheduled air mail service in the country. He is Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, who was one of the original quartet of postoffice department aviators who took over the air mail operation from the army. Equipment available for flying the mail today presents quite a contrast with the early day planes used when air mail service first was started, he recalls. Mr. Shank has kept a scrap book of aviation pictures from the early days of commercial flying down to the present. Included in the scrap book, nearly a foot thick, are many pictures of the old army planes used on the first air mail line, operating between New York and Washington. a a u THE army opened this route May 30, 1918, using both army planes and army pilots. At that time Mr. Shank was at Love field, near Dallas, Tex., as an instructor for army pilots. He accepted an invitation from the postoffice department and became one of four civilian pilots who took over the mail service Aug. 1, 1918, using the old army equipment, which consisted chiefly of Curtis JN-5 biplanes, better known as Curtis “Jennies,” and Standard bipianes. These planes had a cruising speed of only about 80 miles an hour and were scheduled to make the 235 miles trip in three and one-half hours. On one occasion, Shank recalls, he ran into headwinds and the trip took 5 hours, 10 minutes. With fast present day equipment, the trip has been made in much less than one hour, he said. Flying the mail in those pioneering days, he recalls, was anything but a lark. “Not only were we flying ships that did not have the performance of present day airplanes, but we had none of the scientific aids now enjoyed by mail fliers, such as beacon lights, emergency landing fields, accurate instruments, constant ground-air radio communication, weather reports, and directional and landing radio beams for blind flying and landing,” he said. BUB “T OOKING back on it now, it J-/ seems we were flying through fog most of the time. Many times when fog closed in under uS, we had narrow escapes in landing. “I recall one time when, while flying under a fog bank only about 100 feet above the earth, with visibility almost nil, suddenly a battleship in New York harbor loomed up. I was flying lower than the top of the mast and I barely had time to swing my plane and dodge the mast. As I flashed over the deck, I heard the sailors shouting at me.” On another murky day, he recalls, the fog was so low that he became lost in attempting to reach the landing field on Long Island. Following an elevated railroad line into the heart of Brooklyn to the terminal, Mr. Shank recognized and began following the railroad line leading to Queens, flying about fifty feet above the track, just below the low-hanging fog. bub SUDDENLY, he heard a terrific noise beneath him. and at the same time was enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke. A train

ter) to be placed in service soon. Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, who helped pioneer the air mail service, is shown Hower) in the cockpit of one of the old war period planes being loaded with mail. was passing under him, headed in the opposite direction. The fog held the black smoke and destroyed all visibility. Swinging sharply to one side, fearing at any moment he would 'crash because of inability to see, Mr. Shank soon got outside the range of smoke, and then flew along the edge of the smokeblackened cloud line into Queens. From there, he knew the way to the airport like a book, and landed safely, flying practically blind. Mr. Shank remained in the air mail service until April, 1919, when he resigned to enter commercial aviation. Incidentally, he is the only member of that original quartet alive today. One of the four, Max Miller, was killed a few years later while flying the mail between New York and Chicago. Another, Edward V. Gardner, was killed while testing new airplanes. The third, Maurice A. Newton, died a natural death. SPEAKS ON GERMANY Mutual Insurance Association Hears Mrs. Dybwad. Mrs. Rosemary Ferguson Dybwad spoke on her experiences in Germany yesterday before the Mutual Insurance Association at the Columbia Club. Mrs. Dybwad, daughter of Dr. John B. Ferguson of the Irvington Presbyterian church, was an exchange student at the University of Leipzig from 1931 to 1933. She formerly was a student at Western Reserve college, Oxford, O.

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TRAFFIC CLUB CHIEF NAMES BOARD HEADS Committee Chairmen Are Selected by New President. Committee chairmen of the Indianapolis Traffic Club were announced today by M. C. Stafford, newly elected president of the club. The appointments of the chairmen are as follows: Dinner. O. G. Hagemsnn; luncheon, G. P. Rutherford; golf, Lyon Liston: entertainment, Sam Ziffrin; membership, P. R. Van Tresse; finance, E. G. fraj ternal, Mike Wolf; contact, L. E. Banta; publicity, F. C. Farrington; Ohio Valley advisory board, H. B. McNeely; advisory, L. L. Fellows. Members of the board of governors to serve this year are Mr. Stafford, Mr. McNeely, Mr. Hagermann, Mr. Van Tresse, T. J. Faulconer, G. A. MacNamara, H. J. Filby, M. D. Collins, William Ward, C. | A. Wagoner, R. C. Stoelting and W. !L. Sondgrass. Mr. MacNamara was elected vice-president and Barton ! L. Mather, secretary-treasurer. The first meeting under the new ; officers will be held Tuesday at 35 i East Maryland street.