Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1938 — Page 1

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DRIVER IS HELD TO GRAND JURY IN AUTO DEATH

Accident Here 25 Days Ago Marked Last Traffic Fatality.

60 MOTORISTS ARRESTED

Seven Injured in 13 Accidents; Four Are Killed ‘Outside County. -

Oscar H. Wilson, R. R. 7, Box + 65, today was bound to the Marion County Grand Jury.on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death 25 days ago of Mrs. Minnie Blessing, 56, of 5815 E. Washington St., the last city traffic fatality. Judge Charles J. Karabell of Municipal Court allowed Mr. Wilson to. go free on his own recognizance. Yesterday the case of Donald Warren, 2257 N. Illinois St., charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the traffic death of Mrs. Martha Smith, 65, of 1919 N. Illinois St., June 18, was continued in Municipal Court until next * month. Judge Karabgll suspended $1 and costs fines on two WPA truckers today who were charged with driving over the .center line of the four-lane Road 67, but warned them that it was a violation of the State law. Both Judge Karabell and Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Police Accident Prevention Bureau head, said that by not obeying this law motorists were making four-lane highways the most dangerous of all. Sixty persons were arrested overnight, and seven were injured, none seriously, in 13 accidents in the city. Ten motorists were fined a total of $3 in court this morning and $86 was -suspended. Fifty * motorists were to appear in court this afternoon. Meanwhile, traffic took four more

lives outside Marion County. Verna Witt, 30, of Chicago, was

reported recovering at St. Vincent's Hospital from injuries she received in a crash of two: taxicabs and a truck at 42d St. and Guilford Ave. Louis Woerner, 1715 Park Ave., was charged with failure to stop for a preferential street after his car struck one driven by Harold W. Staffor, of 5802 Beechwood Ave. at 30th and Dearborn Sts. Several persons escaped injury in two crashes, one at 229 E. Washington St. involving two autos and a streetcar, and the other in the 500 block Indiana Ave. involving five ‘autos. In the latter wreck, John Smiiley, 23, of 1221 N. Sheffield Ave., was charged with failure to have a driver’s license.

Boy Dies at Wabash

Of Crash Injuries

WABASH, Aug. 11 (U. P).— Funeral services were arranged today for Jack Bramlett, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bramlett, * Urbana, Ill, who died of a fractured skull ‘received ‘when he rode his bicycle into the path of a truck.

Two Dead as Trucks Collide Near La Porte

LA PORTE, Aug. 11 (U.P.).—Emory James, 36, of Detroit, died of burns in Holy Family Hospital here today, second victim of a collision of two trucks on State Road 2 a dozen miles east of here earlier today. Roxie R. Floor, 42, South Bend, driver of the other truck, died instantly of a fractured skull. Two unidentified South Bend youths dragged Mr. James, horribly burned, from the flaming cab of his truck and he was brought to the hospial where he died four hours ater.

Driver Arrested on Manslaughter Charge

LA PORTE, Aug. 11 (U. P).—Indiana State Police today held Thomas Lawless, 33, of Beverly Shores, under $5000 bond in the County Jail here cn charges of manslaughter in the death of James Shellenberger, 68, of Rolling Prairie. * Mr. Shellenberger was’ injured fatally last night on U. S. 20 near his home. Lawless was arrested at Three Oaks, Mich. Coroner Daniel Bernoske said Lawless will be held pending an inquest into Shellenberger’s death. : Rr ——————————————————————— ENGLISH WOMAN DIES AT 108

MANSFIELD, England, Aug. 11 (U.P.).—Mrs. Ann Stansall, said to be - the oldest person in England, died. today at the age of 108. She never consulted a doctor or wore * glasses until she was more than 100 and was a regular movie fan.

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By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. .— New

Dealers suffered a setback today in attempting to hold their lines in the Senate, through defeat of Senator James P. Pope of Idaho, even as President Roosevelt revived the

“purge” movement by going after the scalp of Senator George (D. Ga.).

phases: First, to hold incumbent New Dealers up for re-election and, second, to oust incumbent: conservatives and anti-New Dealers who have fought the Administration. Thus far the New Deal ‘‘purge” directors have made no headway in the second phase, and now, with Senator Pope's defeat, they are one down in the first objective. That is, they have a net loss of one as iar as incumbents go.

‘Purge’ Dwindles

President Roosevelt personally is given credit for retaining two incumbents, Senators Barkley (Ky.) and Thomas (Okla.). He did not intervene personally” in the Idaho 1. % on behalf of Senator Pope, though both Postmaster . General Farley and Secretary of State Hull made gestures for him recently. The President made no comment on the results of the primary. Tuesday’s primaries saw renomination of two New Dealers toward whom the President, himself, made mild gestures on his recent trip— Serators Bulkley (Ohio) and Mrs. Hattie Caraway (Ark. It is becoming obvious that the “purge” movement, once widely. heralded, has dwindled considerably. Its original scope included Senators McCarran (Nev.), Adams. (Colo. and Lonergan (Conn.), but the President wiped off the scores in the face of apparent victory by ‘these Senators. : President Roosevelt still could recoup to some extent if he could achieve the defeat of Senators George, Smith (S. C.) and Tydings (Md.). He needs at least one vic(Continued on Page Three)

FIRE PERILS INDIANA TOWN, LOSS $4000

TOPEKA, Ind, Aug. 11 (U. P — Firemen from nearby towns battled a fire which threatened to spread and destroy this small community late yesterday. Fanned by a brisk ‘wind, the fire destroyed the Ed Wolfe’s -feed mill, and a filling station and an implement room in the Joe Eash Building. Officials estimated damage at

Lagrange, Wolcottville, Ligonier and Rome City were called.

Roosevelt Sees South Advancing

The “purge” program had two"

$4000. Firemen and equipment from’

President Roosevelt prepares to leave his special train at Warm Springs, Ga., for a brief rest before two speeches in Georgia today. In the first at ‘the University of Georgia, he noted advances the South has made economically and socially under the New Deal. : > » t 4 8

F.D.R. Revives ‘Purge’ With Speech in Georgia

NATIONAL POLITICS ROOSEVELT hints opposition to George and Talmadge. ‘PURGE’ needed to balance loss of Senator Pope. MRS. CARAWAY'’S opponeni refuses to concede defeat. WILLS spends $1886 in Indiana Senate campaign. COMMITTEE chairman purge balked by Sheppard.

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ATHENS, Ga, Aug. 11 (U. P).— President Roosevelt began his cam-

| paign in behalf of the Senatorial | ambitions of Lawrence Camp today

with a speech on the University of Georgia campus. The occasion was not appropriate

for a direct attack on Senator George, conservative, anti-New Deal. Democrat, Mr, Camp's. -0ppo-

‘nent in the party primary Sept. 14, 4 seks “to

whont™ Mr. Roosevelt se “purge,” but the audience understood one reference in his appeal for a reformation of the South’s economic structure, as a backhanded

‘slap at Senator George and former

Governor Eugene Talmadge. Mr. Talmadge also seeks Senator George's seat and is a much more bitter anti-New Dealer than he. After receiving the honorary degree of doctor of laws in a campus ceremony in which Governor Rivers presented the parchment, Mr. Roosevelt completed his address, with these remarks: * . Constant progressive action

is better than following either those |

who want to slow up or those who promise they will hand you the moon on a silver platter a week after they are elected. “At heart, Georgia shows devotion to the principles of democracy. It has occasional lapses, but it really does not believe either in demagoguery or feudalism dressed up in democratic clothes. You of the university are greatly responsible for the present and the future. Well are you doing your part. From today onward I share proudly and more fully in that part.”

Real Fireworks to Come Mr. Roosevelt yesterday stated flatly that he hoped Mr. Camp

would be the next Senator from Georgia. Therefore, his audience this morning was keyed to interpret his remarks. Some of his auditors felt that his reference to those “who want to slow up” and to feudalism, was intended for Senator George, and his reference to. “the moon on a silver platter” and to deniagoguery was intended for Mr. Talmadge. . Senator George's Senate career (Continued on Page Three)

PERU PASTOR ENTRY IN TOMATO CONTEST

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce today announced that the Rev. Howard Crim, Peru, is the first entry in the State tomato picking contest to be held at Southport Aug. 24 in conjunction with the first State tomato show at the Claypool Hatel. Prizes totaling $400 will be awarded, the winner of the contest to be given $50.

Deputy Coroner Hugh K. Thatcher

him all City Jail attendants who came into contact with Mrs. Marie Carter, 49, who “became ill” in the jail yesterday and died at City Hospital shortly afterward. Mrs. Carter had been arrested by police as a mental patient. She was taken first to City Hospital where an interne reported to Dr. Thatcher

thing wrong with her except that she appeared to be a rather violent mental case.” The interne reported that because there were no beds available, she was sent to the jail. Shortly before Dr. Thatcher: issued

head of the State Corrections Di-

today ordered police to bring before | avi

that he was unable “to find any-|

his order to police, John H. Klinger,

vision, issued a statement declaring that nr ally should :

Mental Patient's Death Brings Quiz of Jailers

‘be kept in jails if it could be

ided. ty and County authorities, apprised of Mr. Klinger's statement, said the facilities for keeping mental patients in hospitals here were “inadequate.” “Most of the time, there are no hospital - facilities and there is no other place but jail to keep.them,” aoe. Sheriff Charles McAllister

Chief Morrissey could not be reached for comment but Acting Police Capt. R. A..Pope said that “we have to take them to jail because there is often no other plase to. take them.”

Dr. Thatcher said that his in-|

vestigation was in the “preliminary stage” and that he did not believe the woman’s death was caused by a

forehead wound’ which she: had re-| The

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938

MERIT SYSTEM

S$ APPLIED TO OSPITAL JOBS

State Institution Employees . Face Immediate Test Of Qualifications. -

ELIGIBILITY TO BE FIXED

New Plan Is Not Result of Recent Central Death, Gottschalk Says.

The Indiana merit system will be used to select employees of all State hospitals for the insane, Thurman Gottschalk, State welfare administrator, announced today. The announcement followed 5 meeting yesterday of five State institution superintendents in which a program to begin immediate testing of present personnel adopted. Committees will be set up by the State Welfare Department to supervise tests, which will be given all employees in the State institutions, Mr. Gottschalk said.

Began Plan Months Ago

Regulations defining eligibility for employment, to become effective when the Merit System goes into effect in about two months, will be

worked out. Mr. Gottschalk said the adoption of the merit plan was not a result of the death two weeks ago of a patient at Central State Hospital. “The institution of the new system was decided on long before the situation at the Central State Hospital or at the Richmond Hospital occurred,” he stated. “We began working on it two months ago.” The administrator said that institution heads had agreed that the personnel they have received in the past 18 months “has improved.” Pa hs of the merit system to cover State hospitals followed Mr. Gottschalk’s decision to place all responsibility for conduct of personnel upon institution superintendents. : System Termed ‘Model’

The Indiana merit plan, in oper-

‘ation sirice July 1936, has béen de--scribed as & “model setup) by Pub-

lic Administration Service, Inc. of Chicago. It has covered the Public Welfare Department, the Unemployment Compensation Division, the State Employment Service and 92 County Welfare departments. Hospital heads also decided ' to adopt the use of metrazol and in-sulin-shock treatments for dementia precox. Dr. George C. Stevens, State Welfare psychiatrist, and Dr. Lillian Moulton, recently appointed to the department’s psychiatric staff, probably will supervise first test of employees and draw up plans for rating attendants under the merit system, Mr. Gottschalk said. Under the provisions of the Indiana Merit Plan, now in operation, new employees added to State hospital staffs will be required to serve a six-months probationary period in which their qualificatins for the job will be determined. Meanwhile, Roy Sherman, Central State Hospital attendant, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an elderly patient two weeks ago, was granted a continuance in Municipal Court yesterday to Sept. 14.

CORRIGAN TO GET PLANE PERMIT BACK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.. —Director Dennis Mulligan of the Air Commerce Bureau told Douglas Corrigan today that the Bureau would return his plane permit provided he removed one of the gas tanks which barred forward visibility. Corrigan agreed to make the change and Assistant Director Howard was assigned to inspect the tiny Curtis Robin monoplane which carried Corrigan to Ireland and fame. Thee plane now is at Roosevelt Field, Long Island.

2 LOCAL MEN GET

C. M. T. C. AWARDS

Awards of merit were made to two Indianapolis men and an Ohio youth today for outstanding work at the Ft. Harrison Citizens Military Training Camp. The awards were given hy Col. F. L. Snider, camp commander, to Utley E. Larkins, 2046 E. Michigah St.; Richard M. Giddens, 925 N. Hamilton Ave., and Jack E. Warrington, Newark, o. Meanwhile, Lieut. Col. Cleon Mount, Tipton reserve officer, will take charge of the camp this afternoon, relieving Col. Snider of Washington. Col. Mount is serving his third tour with the C, M. T. C. He was on duty in 1929 at Ft. Knox,

1Ky., and at Ft. Harrison four years

ago.

EX-UNION OFFICIAL’S RESIDENCE BOMBED

DETROIT, Aug. 1 (U. P).—A

' police guard watched the home of

Richard T. Frankensteen, deposed vificial of ‘the ‘United Automobile

was

Church,

| ment, Police said a black powder bomb ne

Aw, Nuts!

The Squirreliest Thing About This Is SelfDefense Stuff.

© It seems it was easier to spell squirrels than shoot them yesterday

_when the season opened in 69 south-

ern Indiana counties. (Anyone can get a master’s degree with a thesis on how never to misspell “squirrel,” “barrel,” - “embarrass” and such words. y esterday the hunters went out the southern woodlands and ound that it was so dry that they could not avoid snapping twigs as they walked and the squirrels heard them and all got away. The State Conservation Depart-

ment said there was not a squirrel |

fatality. Last night, however, it rained hard over a large part of the open season counties and hunters expect better luck. The department said anyone going squirrell (ooops) hunting in exceptionally dry weather would get a squirrel only in the off chance of having to shoot in self-defense.

INSULL LEAVES 14 MILLION DEBT

Financier’s Will Lists Cash Of Only $1000; Oland’s - Estate to Wife.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1. (U. P).-— Samuel Insull’s will was filed today. He left $1000 in cash and listed debts at $14,000,000. That was all Mr. Insull retained from the. $4,000,000,000 Midwest utilities empire that he built between his immigration from Eng-

land in 1881 and the business depression of 1930. Mr. Insull died in Paris last month after collapsing in a subway. The will was drawn in June, 1932,

a week after Mr. Insull resigned

from the control of holding and operating companies which distributed light and power to half the United States. It was just before he fled i Europe under threaf of prosecuon. : His son, Samuel Insull Jr, was named executor and instructed to

pay all debts. Any residue, the will

added, would go to the widbw, the former actress Gladys Wallis. She had remained by his side during his voluntary exile, his return to trial and exomération and his subsequent life on a $21,000-a-year pension from one of his utilities. The operating conlpanies survived

the collapse of the pyramided finan-

‘cial structure over them and Sam- | uel Jr., still is employed as an exec-

utive of one of them, Commonwealth Edison.

Wife to Get Most Of Oland’s Estate

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 11 (U. P)— Warner Oland, although separated from his wife, Mrs. Edith Shearn Oland, left most of his estate to her,

it was disclosed today when his will was opened. The will was dated May 11, 1937, and had not been changed, although

Mrs. Oland was. awarded separate |

maintenance, last summer. Mr. Oland’s estate was listed as “in excess of $10,000,” and the will named a bank as executor. Mrs. Oland will leave her Santa

Barbara home this week-end for.

New York to sail for Sweden to attend funeral services for the actor who created Charlie. Chan on the screen.

MARKET IN MILD

RALLY AFTER LOSSES

(Market Details, Page 19)

NEW- YORK, Aug. 11 (U. P).~— Stocks made mild rallies in midafternoon dealings today after an irregularly higher opening had been displaced by losses ranging to \2 points in leading issues. Trading was quiet. Sales for three hours approximated 580,000 shares against. 500,000 ih the same period yesterday. -U. 8. Steel and Chrysler both came back to moderate fractional gains after early advances in the issues ranging to a point had been substituted by small losses.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

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Condor type monoplane Brandenburg

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Russian-Japanese Truce Halts Border Fighting

IN THE FAR EAST—

MOSCOW—Both sides compromise in border armistice. TOKYO—Bugles sound “cease firing” order at front.

SHANGHAI—Japan rushes 25,000

reinforcements up Yangtze.

HANKOW--Amerivan-opera toy college campus bombed. IN EUROPE—

HENDAYE—Spanish Loyalists beat back two Rebel attacks. LONDON—Britain warns Italy to halt aid to Rebels. GUTWASSER, Czechoslovakia—“Martyr’s” funeral elaborate.

IN THE AMERICAS—

WASHINGTON--U. 8. and Britain to share Pacific islands. HAVANA—New nonpolitical Cabinet installed in Cuba. SANTIAGO—Chilean President warns against revolution. BUENOS AIRES—Gran Chaco peace treaty ratified. NEW YORK~—City to be encircled by antiaircraft guns (Page 2).

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TOKYO, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—Japanese and Russian troops who for 31 days had faced each other as

enemies on the Siberian. frontier, stopped their undeclared war today by virtue of an agreement between their Governments: Advices from the fighting zone said that promptly at the armistice hour Japanese buglers sounded the “cease fire” and that the order was relayed to men in advanced posts - officers’ mouth that the little war, which had orphaned some hundreds of Japanese and Russian children — had ended. It was indicated that the “cease fire” order reached the front oniy a little while before the noon deadline. Dispatches received here long after the armistice hour reported that there was brisk firing along much of the front as late ds 11 a. m.

549.909 GRANTED FOR SCHOOL AT BEN DAVIS

PWA to’ Aid Construction of

8-Room Addition.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The PWA today allottted $49,909 for the construction of an addition to the Ben Davis High School in Marion County, Indiana. The grant represents 45 per cent of the total cost of the $110,000 propect. The addition is to be two stories high and will be of brick construction. The addition is to contaiiy eight new rooms to house industrial arts and agricultural classes. Herbert McClelland, Wayne Township Trustee, is to be in charge of the construction plans.

15-YEAR-OLD BOY GETS LIFE CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 11 (U. P.). —Fifteen-year-old Lindbergh Heist Trent was sentenced : to life imprisonment today by ‘tribunal of three Comrthon Pleas judges for the murder of Shirley Ann Woodburn, 6, whose mutilated body was found on a wooded hillside here last Memorial Day.

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whistles and word of.

MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—One month ..of undeclared -war between Russia and Japan on the Siberia-Manchukuo-Korea frontier ended today in an agreement which offered hope that the diplomats of

tle peaceably a dispute which for years had threatened to involve ' their countries in a conflict of world importance.

PEIPING, Aug. 11 (U. P.). —Many persons were reported killed today when Chinese guerillas wrecked a train near . Paoting, 50 _ miles south of here. The wreck was described as one of the worst in North China history. The train carried Chinese and Japanese civilians and an undetermined number of Japanese troops.

The Russian and Japanese War Offices sent urgent messages to their headquarters at Vladivostok, Siperia, and Kojei (Seoul), Korea, 1a the early hours of this morning ordering formal cessation of fighting at noon, Far Eastern Time (9:13 p. m. yesterday, Indianapolis Time). Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru = Shigemitsu reached the agreement for an armistice—in reality for what it was hoped would be a definitive end of the fighting— at a conference which lasted, with one interruption, from 7 o'clock last night until midnight. Under their agreement, the Russian and Japanese troops are to remain on the line which they had occupied at midnight, so that any fighting after the moment of the agreement here would be ruled out of calculations.

Commission to Include Four

' Further, a mixed commission consisting of two Russians and two Japanese-Manchukuans, is to be established to demarkate a frontier which has been a matter of angry dispute ever since Japan seized Manchuria from China in 1931, to ‘form the puppet state of Manchukuo. Both Russia and Japan made concessions of importance in an effort to prevent a war which (Continued on Page Three)

City Cooled by Storm, Church Damaged: - Breezes Sweeping Eastward Over U.S.

TEMPERATURES am... 75 lam... am... 9 12 (Noon). 8am... lpm... Ca. mi..; 19 2p m.... 10 a. m...; 81

Relief from five da days of 90-degree lg py a ec and one‘half hour rain and an electrical storm last night and early today. During the storm, lightning struck the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran 502 E. Ohio St. causing fire which did damage of several thousand dollars. The Weather Bureau forecast was for cooler temperatures tonight, with fair weather tonight and tomorrow.

The fire at the church was dis-'

coveréd a few minutes after 2 a. m. Firemen worked two hours to exit. * Starting in the base-

apparently, had heen placed in the | th

garage al ‘the rear of the house. blast the garage

more than $5000. The exact amount, he said, cannot be determined until the extent of damage to the $10,000 pipe organ is discovered. Yesterday, for .the fifth consecutive day, the temperature topped

| the 90-degree mark, reaching 92

degrees at 2:30 p. m. The high temperature for the summer, 94 degrees, was set Sunday and equaled Tuesday. The average temperature yesterday was 84 degrees, or nine degrees above normal. - Since July 16, maximum temperatures daily: have exceeded 85 degrees, the Bureau officials said. :

Lightning Strikes At Two ‘Farms in State

~ PLYMOUTH, Aug. 11 (U. P).—A bolt of lightning struck the barn on the Harry White farm’ near Argos

arpet in | caren pignt Fire. whish Mijoved |and

henhouse were destroyed with loss estimated at $10,000.

Relief to Extend To New England

By United Press -

A mass of cool air, borne by northwest winds, swept over the central plains area today and brought temperatures down from record highs to near seasonal averages. The cool front was expected to reach as far east as New England by tonight. Temperatures dropped sharply: in parts of the Southwest and in the Northern Mississippi Valley early today, the first break in stifling heat which has covered most of the coun- " for four days. . S. Weather Forecaster 3. R. Lid predicted thundershowers for the Ohio Valley and southern Mis-:

lakes regions, western Pennsy

Moscow and Tokyo might now set-

souri and light rains in the lower |

ERLIN

oyd Bennett Field Reached After 25 Hours.

|RECORD 1s SET

Tests Feasibility .of Mail, Passenger Service.

BULLETIN FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (U. P.)=The German monoplane | Brandenburg arrived here at 1:50 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) today, completing the first westward nonstop . flight over the 3900-mile course from Berlin to New York in 24 hours and 57 minutes. -

FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, N, Y., Aug. 11 (U. P).—The German monoplane Brandenburg sped toe ward this airport today on a record: nonstop flight from Berlin to New York. ; At 9 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), 20 hours and 7 minutes after take ing off secretly from Staaken Aire drome near Berlin, the four-engined, all-metal plane was reported flying over the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, less than 600 miles northeast of Boston. : It was the first westward undertaking of the 3900-mile course which the late Wiley Post covered in 24 hours and 45 minutes, New York-to= Berlin, in 1933. The flight, sponsored by Deutsche Lufthansa, was to test the feasibility of 24-hour mail and passenger serve icy across the North Atlantic bee tween the two cities. The Brandenburg is a Focke-Wulf Condor type plane powered by four Hornet motors built by the Bavarian Motor Werks and each capable of generating 720 horsepower. - Although the craft is of a type designed to carry 26 passengers, it took neither mail nor cargo on the test hop. The crew members were Capt. Alfred Henke, pilot; Rudolph von Moreau, copilot; Paul Dierberg, flight engineer, and Walter Kober, radio operator.

Plan Nonstop Return

The fliers planned to return to Berlin nonstop as soon as possible after landing here. Kenneth Behr, airport manager, said he understood they might také off on the return trip immediately after \ refueling. Other sources said, however, that they probably would snatch a few hours of sleep first. The German Aero Club asked Mr. Behr to time the plane's arrival officially. Commander Robert P. Donohue of the Coast Guard base, here, established contact with the Brane denburg when it was over the Mage dalen Islands and informed Capt. Henke that everything was in readiness at the airport. Coast Guard aviators estimated it would take about five hours for the plane to fly here from the position ree ported at 9 a. m. " The Brandenburg turned the core pvzr of the course to New York over Newfoundland early this morning.

German Public Informed

By Newspapers EERLIN, Aug. 11 (U. P.).—The public here knew nothing of a Ger= man plane's nonstop flight to New York until newspapers published the News Bureau announcement made this afternoon. In the National Zeitung ane nouncement, the only. news pube lished in advance, it was emphasized that the flight was an experimental

one, not aimed at breaking any records.

German Embassy Had Expected Flight

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U. P.). German here said today that the nonstop flight of a German * plane from Berlin to this country replaces one of the Manis by German catapult planes, of which 12 had been scheduled for this summer, They said’ that’ officials at the embassy here had not been notified of the takeoff, but had been days, such a flight for several ays. |

GAMBLING REPORT TO BE INVESTIGATED

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Acting Sheriff Charles McCale lister today announced he will ine vestigate personally the published report that a gambling casino is operating northeaast ' of the Fair Grows, Just outside the City

According to the report, the establishment is equipped with elaborate gaming devices and by a large staff of attendants. ; “1 don’t know anything about the ‘case except what I read in the news~