Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1935 — Page 1

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GROSSARTPAY CAN BE HELD UP BY COUNTY Strict Application of Law Can Deprive Auditor of S3OOO. SALARY SSOO A MONTH Treasurer Can Use Funds for Delinquent Taxes, Statute Shows. Strict application of an Indiana statute may operate to deprive Marion County Auditor Charles A. Grossart of his salary checks for six months or longer. Record in the County Treasurer's office show Mr. Grossart delinquent in his real estate taxes for three of the four years he has been in office. The unpaid taxes on 14 Center Township lots and on Mr. Grossart's residence on N. Meridian-st date frora 1931, the year he took the auditor’s office, and include 1932 and 1934. T'.ie total sum delinquent is in excess of S3OOO. Mr. Grossart’s salary as auditor is SSOO a month. The 1933 taxes on these properties were paid, the records show. The payment was made in November, 1933. Accepted Arrangement The tax moratorium law passed by the 1933 General Assembly provided that 1932 taxes (payable in 1933) must be paid before prior delinquencies could be lumped and satisfied on the 10-year, 20-payment moratorium plan. Mr. Grossart, having satisfied this provision by paying taxes in 1933, accepted the moratorium arrangement for the 1930 and 1931 delinquencies. The first moratorium payment became due in May of 1934 and the second became due in November of that year. Records do not show that either payment was made. Nor were the 1934 taxes paid, according to the books. It is the duty of the County Auditor under the 1933 moratorium law to recharge moratorium delinquencies on the current duplicate. This was not done in the case of Mr. Grossart's properties, the records show, though the 1934 delinquencies : are so entered. Law Is Cited The law under which Mr. Grossart may be deprived of his SSOO-a---month salary checks reads: “It shall be the duty of the treasurer of each . . . county to deduct from any money due from such .. . county to any person whose name is found on such delinquent tax list a sum equal to the amount of such delinquent tax and pay the same into the county treasury in satisfaction of such delinquent taxes . . .” The next section of the law dealing with the failure of the treasurer to perform this duty reads: “Any officer who shall fail to perform the duties . nposed by the two preceding sections of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than 10 nor more than 100 dollars.” Mr. Grossart has recently returned from a vacation in Florida. Grossart Makes Statement Mr. Grossart said today: * I feel that no statement is required from me in the matter. I owe tlie taxes. It has been my misfortune to be unable to pay them. “In 1932 my name and the description of my property was on the lists of delinquent advertising copy sent to both papers publishing it. If they were omitted from publication I have no knowledge of how it happened.” Mr. Grossart said he had been forced to go to Florida the first of this vear because of illness.

MISSING BOY ALIVE, RETURN IS EXPECTED Chicago Lad to Be Brought Home in Few Hours, Police Say. By Vnitrd Prr<t CHICAGO. April 17.—Police announced today that Richard Max Perrot. 4-year-old boy missing 13 days, is alive and would be returned to his home within a few hours. Police Capt Thomas Condon said investigators have established the whereabouts of the red-headed youngster, a mute since birth. The child disappeared April 4 after being seen in a candy store with a mysterious “thin man.” HARRIMAN OUT OF RACE 17. s. Chamber of Commerce Head Not to Seek Re-election. By In ilfd Brent WASHINGTON. April 17—President Henry I. Harriman of the United States Chamber of Commerce will not be a candidate for re-election, it was revealed today. Mr. Harriman, it was understood, believes that three years should be the limit of a president's service. No suggestion as to his successor was made. PRISON STRIKE “ ENDED All Bat 78 of 1056 Ohio Convicts Return to Posts. By I'nited Prett COLUMBUS, O. April 17.—The passive resistance strike of 1056 Ohio Penitentiary convicts ended today when all but 78 of the men returned to their tasks in the prison factories. The 7* strikers will be placed In solitary confinement, prison officials said.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 32

Son Turns ‘Occidental,’ Puzzled Chinese Father Asks American Justice

CHARLIE YEE was absent from his regular haunts today. Even his life-long friend, Willie Moy, didn't know where he w?s. Charlie last was seen trudging down Indiana-av, muttering into his grey beard. Yesterday, Charlie left his ironing long enough to have his 15-year-old son, Elmer, arrested and taken to the Juvenile Detention Home. “He won’t mind me—he won’t go to school," Charlie told them, and they led Elmer away. Charlie resumed his ironing, musing on the strangeness of youth in America, where parents are not worshiped and obeyed implicitly as they are. or used to be, back in the Orient. The bewildered oriental finished his ironing and disappeared. it a a CHINESE friends of Charlie commented today on the series of misfortune that has befallen the laundryman. All his life, since coming to this country when he was 13, Charlie has been economically tethered to a restaurant or a laundry. For 25 years he owned and operated a restaurant on Indianaav. During the depression, he became ill, and was taken to City Hospital for an operation. When he :ecovered, his business was gone. Cheerfully. Charlie went to work for Willie Moy in Willie’s laundry, where he has been employed since. His troubles failed to daunt him, until his son. Elmer, “went Occidental.” Willie became fond of what his father termed “trashy” magazines making heroes of gangsters. The youth became smitten with wanderlust. Last September, Elmer quit school and hitch-hiked to the West Coast. Charlie can’t read or write English. He never had time for study. a a a T'HEN, when Elmer came back the first of March, Charlie forgave; but insisted on school. He would talk to the boy in their humble home at nights. He would give him" the wisdom of age. He would expect obedience. But the next day Elmer would roam the streets. So Charlie had him arrested. Elmer explained today in the Detention Home, that he respected his father, admirrd him, and would obey him but for one factor—his clothes. “I'm ashamed of them,” he said. “Other boys in the class are dressed so much better. I like to read and I like to learn. I went to 10A. But somehow ” Char.ie has great confidence that th> judge can say something to Elmer that will make him understand that parents are to be obeyed. Elmer thinks the judge can do something about it. Elmer, scrupulous polite, sparkling .if eye. respects his father— But they live in worlds as far apart as China and America, and Elmer knows it. and his father doesn't. And what will the court do ?

WEST ALARMED BY NEW DUST THREATS Dirt Clouds Extending Into Stratosphere Reported. By United Prct GARDEN CITY, Kas., April 17. Reports of a dust storm raging at 23.000 feet, almost in the stratosphere. spread new misgivings through the West today. Miss Laura Ingalls, aviator, said that dust was so thick at high altitudes her motor would not function properly. Her experience indicated to a dust-wearied and dust-victim-ized people the terrific strength of the storms that have laid waste thousands of farms in eastern Colorado. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and easterrf New Mexico. Representatives oi five Southwestern states who came here to plan a regional campaign' against soil erosion returned to their homes with the acrid taste of dust in their mouths. M L. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas led the conferees to Garden City. They were accompanied by a dust storm that turned day into night at 2 p. m.

Bluecoats Baffled! Bookie Battle Big Bust 7 Boys Back Betting Brazenly

Chief's Pride, Irish Image, Splurge. Wise Player. Hope Eternal, Grandma's Boy. Evening Hour, and Last Signal. They re all running today, boys, and you find them at Arlington Downs and Havre de Grace. And while they’re running in those places, boys, you can bet them right in this town. Because, today, the word goes down the levee that the bookies are at it again, whether by raucous loud speakers or by the old custom of taking the $1 and $2 bets over the counter. Os course, the boys who really knew the ropes never have mussed a bet in this town since the word went out that the bookies were closed and since the flying squadron of Chief Mike Morrissey flew around but didn't nab any bookie shop operators. But now you can pick your pony agvm, boys, without the ’slightest Icat* of Chief Morrissey s tying

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PARIS RELEASES AMERICAN SPIES Couple to Be Deported in Secret to Balk Possible Gang Vengeance. (Copyright. 1935. by United Press) PARIS, April 17.—Marjorie Tilley Switz, Vassar graduate and intellectual spy, was freed today by the French government, which, in return for the release of herself and her aviator husband, Robert Gordon Switz, received evidence against 21 of Europe’s most notorious spies in an international ring. The American couple, faced with potential vengeance by the gang they betrayed, probably will be deported secretly. They had made, during the 16 months of imprisonment in which they had been kept apart and questioned separately, “a full confession” of the conspiracy, and had admitted that Switz, whose first contact with the ring's agent was made at a Long Island airport, had risen to become co-head of the espionage headquarters in Paris. They admitted obtaining valuable documents and pictures of French military defenses. The name of the country—or countries—for which they worked was not revealed, but both Moscow and Berlin were reported involved. Contradicting earlier reports that Mrs. Switz worked “for the thrill and excitement” and that she and her young husband received very little money, it was revealed today that they got lavish expense money and salaries. Mrs. Switz, for instance. received 90,000 francs (currently $5940), officials said. When today’s trial ended, with freedom for the Switzes and sentences ranging from three years to five years for others, including two young mothers, the Americans were returned to the damp, grim prison where they have been secluded for more than a year, to pack their belongings. "We are going to rest somewhere,” said Mrs. Switz. “But we have no plans now.”

CORRIDOR POLES KEEP UP ATTACK ON NAZIS Shock Troops, Entering German Homes, Destroy Furnishings. By United Press DANZIG. April 17—The Polish majority in the Polish corridor continued its attacks against the German minority today, especially through the "shock troops” of the Sokol organization. Sokol members were reported to be entering German homes and destroying furnishings. However, there was no renewal of violent public demonstrations, such as those of several days ago in which at least one German was killed, windows smashed, shots fired and Germanspeaking citizens beaten.

squadron. Some say it’s flying blind; some say it's got too much ballast in those 16-pound sledge hammed the chief provided each member with some few days ago and is grounded The idea of the sledge hammer, the chief said at the time, was to batter down secret doors to get* at the bookies and their customers and their equipment. But the squadron found no secret doors. Some say the bookie shop doors are open, and they’re hard to see* that way. Back again are the radio announcements that tell the betters when the hosses line up and how they finish—all the pre-bookie-war trappings—and the convenient history that the dopers pore over for hours before they risk their bets. A bookie shop is a study hall—the scholars sit around a table and seriously scrutinize the past records of horses an*. their future hopes. A

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1935

TRANS-PACIFIC RECORDS SMASHED, AIR LINER LANDS AT HONOLULU

FROST DRIVES FRUIT CROP TO VERGE OF RUIN Foodstuff Prices to Rise, Is Fear Following Severe Freeze. Indiana growers and housewives took another staggering loss last night as heavy, extensive frosts increased the damage caused by the late spring blizzard of the night before. The crops already were crippled by the driving gales and subfreezing temperature, but last night’s severe frost struck another terrific blow that is expected to cause foodstuff prices to rise. The losses were counted greatest among the $300,000 peach crop, the large apple crop, spring flowers and shrubs, early vegetables, plums and pears. Oats, wheat and hay were reported badly retarded. Housewives with some knowledge of economics of food supply could see many ways in which the freeze would result in high prices when the equalizing process sets in. Milk Prices May Increase Aside from fruit and vegetables, the price of milk may increase, dairy farmers felt, because hay was affected seriously by the cold. The eight counties surrounding Indianapolis that form the local milk shed annually average 724,276 tons of hay production. This is fed to dairy cattle. Warm spring rains coming in from the Southwest are expected to aid the retarded crops materially. Although sunshine is badly needed to ripen the crops, there is no immediate prospect of sunshine, the United states Weather Bureau here said. Back of the normally warm wave gradually drifting In from the Southwest, which brought the temperature here up to 41 at noon, is a cold area on the Pacific Coast that may follow through to the East, forecasters said. Much Seed Is Killed Beets, canning cabbage, radishes, alfalfa, young clover, peaches, pears, apples, plums, shrubs, oats and wheat all felt the devastating effect of first the lashing winds, freezing temperatures and finally the frost. Much germinated seed was reported killed last night. The frost hit all sections of the state except some portions of the Southwest section. The large peachgrowing counties, Knox, Daviess, Lawrence, Jackson, Monroe, Jefferson, Sullivan, Gibson and Warrick, with an annual total of 978,211 bushels of peaches, felt the frost with varrying intensity. Apple Crop Hard Hit The apple crop, which had escaped heavy damage from the wind and cold, was reported as attacked severely by the frost. Many apples are grown in Morgan, Johnson and Marion counties. Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Paoli, Columbus, Cambridge City, Ft. Wayne and Marion had the most damaging frosts, the Weather Bureau reported. The beautiful spring flora will be particularly damaged, because little effort was made to save it from frost and cold. The blossoms on unguarded fruit trees near Indianapolis were wilted and fallen off today. Many early spring flowers planted by householders were killed. QUARANTINE IS ORDERED Minneapolis Acts to Curb Spread of Scarlet Fever. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, April 17.—A blanket quarantine, affecting 35,000 children under 7, was ordered today to prevent the spread of a scarlet fever epidemic w,hich already has claimed 11 lives. A total of 407 cases were reported yesterday. Kindergartens will not reopen Monday. Churches and theaters, were asked to co-operate. The quarantine will last until May 5.

scholastic quiet prevails, except for the radio, and bookies know that the noise of a sledge hammer splintering a door would seriously upset their studious patrons and distract them from their meditations. Nevertheless, the bookies with cynical assurance are open again, knowing all the while that Chief Morrissey's flying squadron still has those sledge hammers, still brand new after weeks of searching for a target. Approximate situations of bookie shops said to be now open and running full tilt are north of the city, near White River; on New Yorkst near Meridian-st, on Union-st and on S. Illinois-st. The most casual inquiries developed that information; there was no secrecy about it. Thus, apparently, passes into history a race between police and bookies, with the police left at the wire. •%

New Deal Slashes Back at Huey Long Tactics; Kingfish Cries Defiance Ickes Can Go ‘Slambang to Hell/ Roars Louisiana Czar as Interior Secretary and Relief Chief * Open Fire on Political Dictatorship. (Copyright, 1935. by United Press) WASHINGTON, April 17.—The New Deal today answered Senator Huey P. Long’s attacks with drastic action intended to squelch him and perhaps upset his political dictatorship over Louisiana. 1. Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins seized control of Louisiana

LEAGUE VOTE HITSATNAZIS Counci! Approves Resolution Condemning Germany for Treaty Violation. (Copyright. 1935, by United Press) GENEVA, April 17.—The League of Nations Council today approved a resoultion rebuking Germany for violating the Versailles Treaty and providing for a committee to study the question of imposing penalties on future treaty violators. Denmark abstained, because France, Great Britain and Italy, joint sponsors of the resolution, would not soften the condemnation of Germany for violating the treaty in decreeing compulsory army service and inaugurating a military air force. Those who voted for the resolution were: Argentina, Chile, Mexioo, Spain, Turkey, Italy, France, Great Britain, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Australia and Portugal. Thus there was a 13 to 0 vote and in the name of the 57 nations belonging to the League, scattered over all the earth’s surface, Germany’s action was formally condemned. Maxim Litvinov of Russia, who wanted stronger condemnation and stronger penalties, made a lastminute effort to amend the text. The Allies opposed him. He wanted the resolution changed so that not only European but all treaty violations should be punished. He seemed to be thinking of Japan. (It is the phrase “the peace of Europe” which limits the effectiveness of the resolution.) Litvinov accused Germany of cherishing hqpes for revenge and conquest in his speech. “All states which love peace have the right to arms to protect their security,” he said. “But should arms be granted to a nation which not merely is seeking revenge but also is cherishing unlimited territorial ambitions?”

RINEHART RETURNS TO CITY, GIVES BOND Ex-City Banker Voluntarily Appears in Court. Mark V. Rinehart, former vice president and director of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust . Cos., today appeared voluntarily in | Criminal Court to answer charges lof embezzling bank deposists contained in affidavits filed in the court Saturday, The $15,000 bail set by Criminal Judge Frank P, Baker when the affidavits were filed was provided by Clarence H. Keehn, vice president of Kingan & Cos. Clyde H. Karrer, judge pro tern, approved bond. Mr. Rinehart was the first of the four bankers named in affidavits to appear in Criminal Court. He arrived here Monday from his Louisville home and began arranging provisions for bail. Mr. Rinehart is charged, through bank employes, with accepting a deposit from the Roberts Restaurant, Inc., of $312.63, on Oct. 27. J. Edward Morris, president of the W. Washington-st. institution, was found dead in his garage, a victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. ST. LOUIS GREETS POST Famed Flier Makes Stopover After Take-Off from Lafayette. By United Pre* ST. LOUIS, April 17.—Wiley Post, stratosphere flyer, landed at Lambert Field at 10:40 a. m. today in his monoplane, Winnie Mae. He took off from the Purdue University airpot, Lafayette, Ind., at 8:30 a. m., headed for his home in Bartlesville, Okla. Times Index Auto News 8 Beautiful Indianapolis 6 Bridge 12 Broun 15 Comics 21 DIONNE BABIES 3 Editorial 16 Financial *} 17 Let’s Go Fishing 19 Pegler 15 Radio 7 Sports 18- W Story of Esther 14 TV A 15 Woman's Pages ....13-13

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unemployment aid. 2. Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes ridiculed the Senator’s “share-the-wealth” campaign and threatened to rescind Louisiana construction allotments. Long, entrenched in the state capitol at Baton Rouge, answered with characteristic attacks on the “Brain Trust Cabinet” and advised Ickes “to go slam-bang to hell.” “Blast Back His Ears” He asserted he would return to the Senate Monday to “blast back his ears” and resume his tirade against President Roosevelt himself, Postmaster General James A. Farley and the entire Administration. Mr. Hopkins made Frank Peterman, anti-Long factionist, his Louisiana relief director. Federal funds will go direct to him for expenditure and not to Gov. O. K. Allen, the customary procedure. The appointment of Mr. Peterman, who, as state Senator, voiced opposition to Long some time ago, will prevent the Kingfish from playing any part in caring for Louisiana s needy, Mr. Ickes’ barbed invectives came after he had been advised that Long was pushing a bill through the assembly creating a board to direct expenditure of all Federal money loaned or granted municipalities for construction projects. Approved by Roosevelt “No PWA money is going to be used to build up any share-the-wealth political plan,” he said. “I don’t th'.nk Senator Long and his ‘Legislature’ is going to dictate to us how we’ll run our program in Louisiana.” Long, he said, “evidently is going to share the wealth by keeping people from working—making it a new and profound economic theory.” Belief that Mr. Ickes’ words were approved by President Roosevelt was strengthened when the PWA director, after a 30-minute conference with the chief executive, matched Long in swearing. “I Simply was following a damned good precedent in threatening to rescind Louisiana’s allotments," he said. “I know it is damned good because I established it.” Refers to Old Action He referred to his action two years ago when Gov. Joseph Ely asked him to make Massachusetts a lump PWA allocation and allow a state board to administer its expenditure. Mr. ickes refused. The New Deal has a stake of almost $50,000,000 in Louisiana, PWA ' iotments to date total $37,344,638. including $26,340,038 Federal and $11,004,600 non-Federal allocations. FERA gave the state $19,073,777 for relief last year, 97.9 per cent of all the money spent there for unemployment aid. Communities added $415,338, or 2.1 per cent, and the state nothing. Federal relief grants this year have been running more than $750,000 a month, reaching $805,613 for April.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 31 10 a m 39 7a. m 32 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 33 12 (noon).. 41 9a. m 35 Ip. m 42 Tomorrow’s sunrise. 5:03 a. m.; sunset, 6:26 p. m.

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Why the World War Didn't End a Year Sooner • ————^— llll6 Hindenburg line COULD have been smashed ... the World War COULD have been won . . . before one single American soldier gave up his life in a European trench! ♦ Hindenburg himself admitted it In his memoirs. But a fatal blunder . . . "an insane egotism" Lloyd-George called it . . . recklessly wasted human resources in a hopeless objective and postponed what Hindenburg termed “the only attack of the World War with imagination” until it was too late. ——— William Philip Simms, in an article as moving and dramatic as a masterpiece of fiction, tells Olfl Page 16 of you the absorbing story back of this blunder. __ And what Simms reveals is not IVV IJ A I S hearsay. He himself was there. ■ ' * ><J With his own eyes he witnessed the momentous and dramatic T I A A T C events of this lost opportunity. I I /\/\ r V Read his gripping article ... I l fT t w

COMPROMISE BONUS BILL IS GIVENSENATE Harrisor. Plan Introduced: Believed to Have Support of Roosevelt. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 17.—The compromise bonus plan worked out by Senator Pat Harrison (D.. Miss.), an Administration leader in the Senate, was introduced in Congress this afternoon. President Roosevelt withheld comment on the bill, but it was believed he would accept it if passed. Some representatives of veterans at once opposed it, but it was believed they may later accept it in view of the President's- determination to veto more expensive plans. Mr. Harrison would make bonus certificates mature in 1938 instead of 1945. They could be converted immediately into 3 per cent bonds. Veterans who wanted cash right away could sell the bonds, losing only the interest they otherwise could obtain until 1938. Mr. Harrison said this would cost $500,000,000 more than the present bonus law, but far less than the Patman bill, passed by the House, to pay the bonus with $2,500,000,000 in new money. In the House, the battle of the Townsendies to substitute their plan for the comparatively small old-age pensions so the Administration social security bill approached a decision. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns predicted they would muster “not more than 54 or 55 votes.” Debate should end tomorrow, with voting then beginning on amendments.

FILIBUSTER FACING ANTI-LYNCHING BIU Indefinite Delay Promised by Southerners. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 17.-A bitter clash of sectional and social feelings was threatened today by plans of Southern to filibuster against the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. Opponents of the bill claimed they could delay it indefinitely. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo <D., Miss.), said he could consume at least 10 dagg of the Senate’s time if necessary. First tirade against the bill came from Senator Ellison D. Smith (D., S. C.). “When the bill is taken up,” he shouted, “the Senate will be thoroughly advised of what has caused the very humiliating necessity of going outside the law at times to vindicate the sanctity of our firesides and the virtue of our women.” PERRY DIVORCE CASE TESTIMONY RESUMED Indians Ball Club Valued at $252,000 by Realtor. George Whelden, real estate operator, today testified for Mrs. Mae Perry in her suit for divorce and $1,000,000 alimony in Circuit Court that the Ind.anapolis Baseball Club property owned by her husband, Norman A. Perry, is worth $252,000 and the site of the Dennison Plaza is worth $7891000. The trial was resumed before Special Judge Fred Gause after adjournment Saturday when it was testified by a certified public accountant that Mr. Perry’s personal property, exclusive of real estate, was worth more than $1,800,000.

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Pan-American Clipper Ship Makes Trip in 18 Hours 31 Minutes. •LOAFS’ DURING FLIGHT Pilots Slow Up Giant of Skyways to Keep Craft ‘on Schedule.’ By United Pccm HONOLULU, T. H., April 17.—The Pan-American clipper ship, blazing a commercial air trail across the Pacific Ocean, landed in Pearl Harbor at 12:21 p. m. (Indianapolis time) this afternoon after a triumphal flight over the city of Honolulu. The clipper ship, a four-motored Sikorsky monoplane, completed the 2400-mile overwater hop from Alameda, Cal., in 18 hours 31 minutes, shattering all speed records for air travel between the United States and Honolulu. Faster time could have been registered by the clipper ship, but the crew of six veteran Americans voluntarily "wasted” more than a halfhour flying over Honolulu to allow crowds to view the ship in flight. Despite this fact, the clipper beat the previous record time by * hours and 17 minutes. Six Navy planes formerly held the record of 24 hours 48 minutes. Army Planes Form Escort The luxury airliner, bearing the first load of mail ever flown across the Pacific Ocean, left its termina” at Alameda at 5:50 p m. yesterda\ The ship will be flown back to California without trasversing the remainder of the Pan-American Pacific airways, which embraces a route from Alameda to Canton, China. Future flights are planned to China. Thirteen army planes raced out to meet the clipper over Diamond Head and formed an aerial escort for the craft as It soared over Pearl Harbor. 5000 Assemble at Harbor The sky was heavy with clouds and rain was falling as the ship cruised over the city. A crowd estimated at 5000 persons, including Gov. J. B. Poindexter and many Army apd Navy officials, assembled at Pearl Harbor to welcome the fliers. The ship circled low. cruised over the city, then disappeared into tho clouds off Diamond Head. It reappeared and again flew in wide circles, exploring the city and entrances to Pearl Harbor. The ship could have arrived even earlier, but cut down its speed to conform with the estimated schedule and to avoid disappointing the thousands assembled to watch the landing.

Equipment Proves Success Completion of the flight, directed by Edwin C. Musick, captain of the Clipper, marked the first attempt to bridge the great circle air span since Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm and two companions perished when their monoplane, Stella Australis, fell in the sea early last December. Fate of the Ulm expedition added a grim eulogy to the praises of the six men aboard the Clipper and demonstrated the efficiency of the craft’s directional equipment. At 11 a. m. (Indianapolis time) speeding westward 102 miles from Honolulu, the fliers reported they were flying at 1200 feet elevation with their ceiling just 300 feet above. They had taken radio and compass bearing and found themselves "right on course.” At that time, they reported a visibility of 12 miles. Driving onward at a speed of 140 miles an hour, they sighted Diamond Head at 11:36 a. m., signaling success of the pathfinding air venture and further attesting the accuracy of their radio and celestial navigation. As the plane winged over its great circle course. Its half-hourly radio reports advised officials here of a progress that was steady but uneventful. After r#aching the half-way mark of a 2400-mile flight within nine hours after the take-off, Musick. who has flown 1,000,000 miles without a serious accident, slowed down the speed of his four motors to 135 miles, then to 105 miles.

FAILS TO UNDERSTAND COURT ORDER; JAILED Liquor Defendant Thought He Had Been Freed by Judge. Bernard Hackman. Dubois County farmer, turned up casually in Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell’s office today to explain that he had not appeared at the court's spring session because he thought he was free. Hackman said that last fall when he pleaded guilty to possessing a still that a deputy clerk had refused to accept his SIOO fine. Judfe Baltzell pointed out to Hackman that he had not been fined. Instead. judgment had been withheld until the spring season. Hackman was remanded to jail today by Judge Baltzell pending an investigation by Adolph Kruse, Federal probation officer.