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GUARDS AT PENAL
FARM STEAL FOOD,
INMATES CHARGE
Meat, Cheese, Butter and Lard Hidden in
Refrigerator, Spirited Away by Em
ployes, Ex-Prisoners Assert.
ACTING CHIEF DENIES ALLEGATIONS
Watered Milk Fed to Men, Say Former
Kitchen and Dairy Workers; Bribe
Accusations Made.
This is the fifth of a series of stories on conditions at the state
penal farm.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Time* Staff Writer
Watered milk is served the 1,000 petty offenders at the
Indiana state farm.
Whole milk is served the farm’s officers.
Butter is served only on Sunday to inmates.
The keepers eat butter
every day.
Those statements are made in as-i
fidavits to The Indianapolis Times |
by a former inmate of the farm's
dairy and one youth who worked in |
the kitchen of the institution |
which, by legislative act, is for cor-;
rection and rehabilitation of erring
petty offenders of the state.
“I have helped cut milk for in
mates. We get eighty gallons of
milk a day from the cows and then
we'd cut that, outside of .the officers’
milk, with one-half water and one
half milk,’’ swears Chester Noblet
former inmate, who worked at the
farm dairy.
‘Cut’ Milk Is Served
Admission that cut milk is served
the inmates is made by Harry W.
Wissel, acting superintendent of the
farm, with, "During certain times of
the year when the milk supply is
just a little low it sometimes is
necessary to add a little water to
the milk to supply a sufficient
amount for the entire population.”
“We get eighty gallon of milk a
day,” declares Noblet, and yet that |
amount of milk is said to be suffi
cient to serve twice that number of
inmates and serve them whole milk.
Sworn statements of other in
mates tell of the weak watery fluid
called “milk” which was served to
them.
Noblet, in his affidavit, charges
that he gave butter at the rate of
two pounds a week to four guards,
in addition to the farm's officers
who rated it, Harry H. Wissel, act
ing superintendent, and E. L. Ar
ment, assistant superintendent.
Cream Every Morning
He further charges in his affidavit,
“ got a pint of cream each
morning and one gallon of milk
when he was supposed to get but
a quart. He slipped us smoking
for the extra milk.”
"The inmates,” asserts Noblet’s
affidavit, "got butter once a week,
on Sunday morning. We got from
thirty to thirty-five pounds a day
from milking about sixty cows.”
With from ten to twelve pounds
of butter being given daily to the
farm's guards and officers, accord
ing to Noblet's sworn statement, he
says, "we turned over an average of
twenty-five pounds daily to the
storeroom. I don't know what use
that, was put to except when the
men got butter on Sunday.”
Enough for 1,500
But city restaurant men say that
one pound of butter will serve from
50 to 80 persons and that twenty- j
five pounds would serve between
1,500 and 2,000 persons, depending
on the size of the pats of butter.
Yet the 1,000, approximately that
number, inmates of the farm were
served butler but once a week, ac
cording to Noblet and other inmates
in their signed sworn statements.
Wissel in a statement denied the
sale of milk or butter by farm of
ficials and declares that Noblet's ac
cusation that four guards bribed
prisoners to slip them butter is,
false.
But in another paragraph of his
statement dealing with charges
made by Noblet, the acting head of
the farm says in part, "We always!
have sold milk, cream, smoked
pork, fresh vegetables, and other
items, of which we have a surplus
to the officers.”
"We never have sold butter, inas
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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 57
Prison Expose
Thousands of Times readers
have read the startling dis
closures of conditions at the
Indiana penal farm. Many
others wish to read them. For
the convenience of those read
ers who missed the first in
stallment of this series, the
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SPEED PLANS FOR
POSTOFFICE WING
Authority to Rush Work
Given Architects.
Authority to complete plans for
.the new federal building wing here
as soon as possible has been given
McGuire & Shook, Indianapolis ar
chitects, according to Wilbur B.
Shook, member of the firm.
“We hope plans will be completed
and bids will be received this vcar
so that construction of the project
may begin,” Shook said today.
Further indication that Washing
ton officials are speeding plans for
erection of the federal wing was
seen today in a visit of an Eastern
architect to this city.
The representative was to confer
with McGuire & Shook, it was re
ported.
2 Die in Crash Believed
Engineered by Ex-Convict
Four Others Injured: Complete Probe Ordered After Note
Is Found in Dead Man’s Pocket.
By Uniterf Press
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., July 17.—An automobile accident which killed
two persons and injured four others near here was investigated today
on the theory that it was planned deliberately by an ex-convict
Those killed were Fred Brown. 50. Boggstowm. who was paroled from
the state prison recently on robbery charges, and Freda Davis 13
The injured were Florence Davis. 11; Mr. and Mrs George Reed
Boggstown, and Daniel Brown, brothed of Fred. Reed and his wife are
stepfather and mother of the Davis girls.
Sheriff Elisha Crosby ordered complete investigation of the case
aftei finding a note in Fred Browns pocket. The note was addressed to
Mrs. Reed and was dated April 29. 1933. It said in part:
■'lda. you have brought this all on
yourself, and I hope you sutler for
it as long as you live. If you had
let Florence be friendly with me
and talk to me she should be with
you till today. But as you have
chosen to keep away from me I am
taking her away from you for good,
and I am going with her.
"There never was a little girl that
I liked so well. She has been my
favorite from the start because she
is pure and sweet, and she would
have stayed that way as far as I am
concerned, for I would have as soon
cut my throat as to have harmed
the little thing in any way.
"FRED.’
Reed and his wife told the sheriff
that Fred Brown was driving when
the car left a straight stretch of
road two miles south of Acton late
Saturday. But Daniel Brown in
sisted that Reed was driving, and
this was substantiated by Warren
Lee. Boggstown, who said he saw
Reed behind the wheel a short time
before the accident.
Coroner Thomas Cattmell planned
an inquest to determine who was
responsible for the accident.
Sheriff Crosby found two other
notes, one from Fred to Florence
and the other from Florence to
Fred. The follow:
"Dear Florence:
"I will always like you very much,
but I can't ue friendly with you
when you hang around Dan and
talk to him. Half the ".me I say
anything to you you won ‘ answer
me. but you always laugn and talk
with Dan. FRED.”
Florence replied
"Fred I like you and you like
me as you have said beure. But
I think I am too young to 'alk about
getting married. T don't hmk any
way that I will get married.”
FLORENCE”
Daniel Brown also was a former
prisoner. He and his brother were
paroled to the Reeds.
Mrs. Foreman
Woman Is Named Head
of County Probe Group
by Judge.
Mrs. G. W. Gordon
DESPITE an announced inten
tion to investigate basebali
pool ticket sales, Criminal Judge
Frank P. Baker permitted the new
county grand jury to begin its
duties without special instructions
today.
Baker's only reference to an in
vestigation which might be re
quested by him was a statement:
"I have no matter to present to
you at this time. Perhaps I will
have later on, and then I will give
you the names of witnesess and
facts for your investigation.”
At the close of the routine in
struction of the jurors, Baker an
nounced that he appointed Mrs.
G. W. Gordon. 1503 Park avenue,
as foreman. Mrs. Gordon is the
first woman member of the grand
jury in the history of Marion
county.
In his comment to the jurors,
Baker stressed the fact that de
fendants or their attorneys had
no place in the grand jury room.
“The grand jury room is not the
place for a trial,” Baker declared.
‘ Neither is it the place for a de
fendant to explain any of his
acts. No defendant or his attor
ney should be permitted in the
grand jury room.”
Baker also cautioned the jury
against returning indictments
without sufficient evidence, point
ing cut that irreparable damage
can be done to reputations,
which, at times, are the most im
portant things people have ”
STEAL MUSIC, DRINKS
Eleven Pints of Whisky, Accordion
Taken From Dentist's Office.
Music and strong drink apparent
ly are the weaknesses of burglars
who some time between July 13 and
today robbed the dental office of
Dr. M. A. Jensen, 3004 Central ave
nue, apartment one.
Dr. Jensen today discovered the
lass of eleven pints of medicinal
whisky and a concert accordion,
inlaid with mother of pearl and
semi-precious stones, valued at SSOO.
BODY OF AGED MAN
IS FOUND IN CREEK
Victim, 81, Missing for
. Twenty-Four Hours.
Body of Adolph Mazurette, 81, of
3490 Fall Creek boulevard, a
drowning victim, was removed from
the creek at Thirty-third street by
police today.
Circumstances of the drowning
are not known. Mr. Mazurette, who
was accustomed to wander from
home, had been missing since il:30
Sunday morning, according to his
half sister, Mrs. Celia Skinner, of
the FalJ Creek boulevard address.
Randall H. Jones. 3374 Fall Creek
boulevard, told police he saw the
aged man Sunday with a bundle of
newspapers under an arm. walking
near The point where the body was
found.
William Muser, 16. of Chicago, a
guest at 410 East Thirty-first street,
saw the body in the water as he
walked on the creek bank this
morning.
250-Pound Husband Charges Aimee
With Cruelty and Asks for Divorce
By United Pri ss
T OS ANGELES, July 17.—Aimee Semple McPher
son-Hutton. internationally-known evangelist,
i was sued for divorce here today by her third hus
band. 250-pound Davis L Hutton, Jr., an obscure
choir singer until his marriage.
The portly singer accused Mrs. McPherson-Hut
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1933
LITHUANIAN OCEAN FLIERS KILLED;
POST LEAVES MOSCOW FOR SIBERIA
BANKER FREE
FROM ILLINOIS
KIDNAP TRAP
Lair of Abductors Near
Collinsville Believed
Found by Sheriff.
By United Press
ALTON. 111., July 17—Discovery
of a “cold, concrete underground
cell,” led investigators to believe to
day they were close on the Lrail of
the abductors of August Liter, 77-
year-old retired financier, who was
liberated early Sunday on the
“Bluff road” one mile west of Col
linsville.
Sheriff Peter Fitzgerald, who with
department of justice agents as
sumed charge of the investigation,
announced he had found a sub
cellar to a garage in the rear of a
home which fitted Luer’s own
description of the kidnapers’ lair
where he had been held captive for
five days. The place was only a
mile and a half from where the
aged banker was released.
Deny Ransom Paid
“I don't think it was a kidnaping
ring that had Mr. Luer,” Sheriff
Fitzgerald said. "My opinion is that
it was some Collinsville ‘punks'.”
Members of the family denied
that any ransom had been paid for
their father’s release. Other reports
persisted that SIO,OOO had been given
to the abductors.
The aged man was resting today
at the home of his son Herman in
North Alton. The family physician
pronounced that the aged banker
was in “good condition.”
Luer, who was dragged from his
home last Monday night by two
men and a woman, was released
about a mile from a roadhouse,
when late revelers were dancing to
the music of a phonograph.
The exhausted banker trudged to
the roadhouse and called his son. (
Son Tells Abduction Story
In a statement to the United
Press, Herman Luer told the story
of the kidnaping and release of his
father in the following words:
“My father said his eyes were
taped from the time he was ab
ducted from his home. The kidnapr
ers drove him around for about
three hours before placing him in
the hole or basement where he was
held for five days. Apparently they
changed cars four times, he said.
“He was given food each day,
mainly sandwiches of white bread
which were against his doctor’s
orders, because of his poor health.
He said he ate some of them, and
also hardboiled eggs and oranges.
“At no time during his captivity
did he hear from the voice of the
woman who aided in the abduction
from his home. They treated him
kindly, he said.
“You’re Going Home”
“Saturday night, my father said,
they came to him and said, ‘You’re
going home.’ They carried him up
a stairway and put him in an auto
mobile. After driving about half
an hour, they told my father to get
out and walk to a hous? about a
mile down the road.
“My father heard the Chicago &
Alton train pass shortly after mid
night. and he knew his general lo
cation.”
Luer s story and his d°scription
of the place where he was held,
led authorities to the abandoned
garage where Sheriff Fitzgerald said
he was certain the kidnapers had
hidden their captive.
LOG ROLLS, KILLS BOY
Child, 5, Crushed to Death During
Play in Lumber Yard.
By United Press
COLUMBIA CITY. Ind., July 17.
—Harold Eugene Roberts, 5. son of
Harry Roberts, was crushed to
death and his brother, George, was
injured slightly at a lumber yard
here today when a log rolled on
them.
FOREST MEN TO MEET
Conservation Leaders to Hold Con
ference Here Tuesday.
Conference of civilian conserva
tion camp superintendents and tech
nical staffs will be held Tuesday in
the office of Virgil Simmons, state
conservation director, it was an
nounced today.
Van Orman to Code Board.
By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 17.
Harold F. Van Orman, Evansville,
has been appointed to represent In
diana hotels at an industrial code
meeting in Washington, July 26.
Van Orman was appointed by Al- >
•fred Thornburg, president of the In- !
diana Hotel Association.
ton of mental cruelty and recited a long list of
asserted cruelties, based for the most part on the
evangelist's recent actions in Paris.
Hutton said publicity attending everything done
by Mrs. McPherson-Hutton led him to file the suit.
In the action he charged the evangelist per
mitted "intimate details of their private life to be
discussed publicly.”
NEAR GOAL WHEN HALTED BY TRAGEDY
1, M JHHbPp#/ A
M j|
mM iuA y s Ilk*
Captain Stephen Darius (left) and Stanley Girenas, whose bodie:
were found today in their wrecked plane in Germany after a crash oi
their attempted New York-to-Lithuania flight.
STATE ‘MINUTE
MEN' PROPOSED
Al Feeney Wants Vigilante
Organization to War on
Bandits.
A pointed challenge to criminals
in Indiana was announced today by
Al Feeney, state safety director,
who proposes an organization of
"minute men,” who will be ready to
act promptly on notification by a
hook-up of the new state police
radio system and telephones.
A meeting will be held in Feeney's
office Wednesday to open Marion
county’s part in a state-wide pop
ular subscription campaign to pro
vide funds for the radio system.
Total cost Is estimated at sloo,otjo,
of which Marion county's share
would be $13,000.
Feeney stated he has written to
police officials, bankers and vigi
lante groups throughout the state,
outlining his plan and asking assist
ance in selecting “minute men.’
In carrying out the plan, Feeney
said most of the motorcycles now
used by state police will be discarded
and replaced with small, speedy
automobiles. These cars would be
stocked with firearms, including
sawed-off shotguns, gas guns, and
first aid kits.
CITY MAN DIES IN
SINKING OF TANKER
Parents Learn of Death;
Goes Down With Ship.
Identification of George B. Bin
ninger, 26, as one of seven men who
sank with the oil tanker Cities
Service Petrol in the Atlantic Friday
night has been made, according to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Binninger, of 260 lowa street.
Two sisters, Miss Elnora Binning
er and Mrs. Elise Meisberger, also
live here.
Binninger was listed as a wiper
on the ship’s roster. He left home
several years ago. He formerly
worked in a downtown hotel.
PICK COUNTY CHAIRMAN
Eugene Ehinger Named Democratic
Leader in Huntington.
By United Press
HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 17.
Eugene Ehinger has been elected
Huntington county Democratic
chairman to succeed John C. Crosby,
recently appointed acting postmas
ter. Ehinger is a member of the
county council.
Suicide by Gas Attempted
by Beautiful Young Wife
Death by inhaling gas was the
way out of a domestic triangle at
tempted today by Mrs. Betty Har
vey Nott. 21. beautiful blond, in the
apartment of Paul Lang, 408 East
Michigan street.
Found unconscious in the kitchen
of the apartment, which was filled
with gas from a stove on which
all jets were open, the young wom
an. wife of Frank Nott, refused to
go to a hospital after being re
vived by police and fire department
first aid squads.
DELAY COUNTY’S
GAS TAX SHARE
‘Cut’ in Funds Withheld by
Auditor; Payment Ex
pected Soon.
Marion county’s share of the state
gasoline tax, which has been with
held by the state auditor, is ex
pected to be turned over to the
county this week, it was announced
at the statehouse today.
Meanwhile the county commis
sioners were planning to follow ac
tion taken in St. Joseph county to
mandate payment. Final decision
was to be reached at a meeting of
the commissioners this afternoon.
The county has $25,583.33 com
ing, but the auditor’s office was
holding it up because of $114,573
owed the state for clothing Mar
ion county institutional patients.
St. Joseph county officials were
to confer this afternoon with Pleas
Greenlee, secretary to Governor
Paul V. McNutt, and Lawrence F.
Sullivan, deputy state auditor, re
garding payments there.
St. Joseph county has failed to
give the state its share of the
property tax.
HUSBAND, 70, IS SHOT
OVER BAG OF COOKIES
Woman, 35, Critically Wounds Mate,
Who Refuses to Share Goodies.
By United Press
PETERSBURG, Ind., July 17.
Mrs. Tom Price, 35, Petersburg, shot
and critically w T ounded her 70-year
old husband here when he refused to
share a 10-cent bag of cookies with
her.
“He was starving me to death,”
she told police when they demanded
an explanation of her act.
Mrs. Price was held without bond
pending outcome of her husband’s
condition.
BUS LINES INCREASE
WAGES 10 PER CENT
135 Employes of Three Concerns
Benefit From Action.
Wage increases of 10 per cent
were announced today by the Grey
hound Lines, Inc., Indianapolis &
Southeastern and Great Eastern
Stages, Inc., bus lines.
The increases already are in effect
and are applicable to approximately
135 local employes of all three lines.
Greyhound Lines, in announcing
the increase, said it was hoped that
rapidly improving business in the
bus industry would allow the restor
ation by Sept. 1 of the remainder of
the 25 per cent decrease which
was necessary in effecting operating
economies.
Revived to some extent after win
dows of the kitchen had been raised
Mrs. Nott fought frantically against
use of inhalator by the first aid
squads.
In order to facilitate removal to
the hospital, police arrested her on
a vagrancy charge
She was found with her face
buried in her arms on a table after
police had boosted William Craw
ford, 36, Negro, janitor, through a
transom.
On the table was a letter and a
note.
The letter, in part, was as follows:
Please don't let Mr. Frank Nott
see me or touch me. Don’t tell him
where you are sending me. Tell my
mother not to let Frank Nott come
to my funeral and by all means
don't let him see me.
The note, in part, read:
"Paul, please don't leave me.”
In the letter Mrs. Nott declared
Nott is "all to blame for this” and
"Paul Lang has nothing to do with
it.”
Other occupants of the apartment
building told police the Notts had a
violent quarrel a few days ago.
Entered as Second-Class Matter
at Postoffice, Indianapolis
Oklahoman Far Ahead of Record in Attempt
to Set New Time Mark in Daring
Dash Around World.
KOVNO PLANE CRASHES IN GERMANY;
Apparently Becomes Lost During Night in
Darkness Near Berlin After Success
in Hop Over Atlantic.
Rt United Press
While Wiley Post, Oklahoma aviator, sped on his rec
ord attempting flight around the world, tragedy overtook
two other airmen who attempted a flight from New York to
Kovno, Lithuania .
The bodies of Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas,
Lithuanians, were found in their wrecked plane near Soldin,
Germany. They had flown the Atlantic, but apparently
were lost during the night in the darkness around Berlin,
and cracked up in the woods near Soldin. about sixty-five
miles northeast of Berlin.
Post was flying toward Novosibirsk, Siberia, from Mos
cow, on the third leg of his round-the-world flight.
Two Airmens’ Lives Lost in Hop
Seemingly 111-Starred From Start
By United Press
BERLIN, July 17.—The shattered wreckage of a plane and two
bodies lying among its strewn mail sacks were found near Soldin, Pom
erania, today, writing another tragic chapter in the history of trans-
Atlantic flying.
Authorities identified the bodies as those of Stephen Darius and
Stanley Girenas, Lithuanians, who left New York Saturday morning on
an ambitious project to fly to Kovno, capital of Lithuania.
The plane was found in the woods
five miles from Soldin. From scat
tered reports which came in dur
ing the night, the unlucky pair of
fleirs had wandered about in the
darkness, unable to find a landing
place, until they eventually crashed,
either from motor trouble or be
cause their gasoline had given out.
The flight had seemed ill-starred
from the start. Taking off with
semi-secrecy from New York, be
cause they lacked authorization, the
Lituhanians almost cracked up at
the take-off.
Globe Girdler Stops in Moscow
Only 3 Hours, to Repair Plane
By United Press
MOSCOW. July 17.—Wiley Post, continuing his swift flight around
the world on his attempt to break the record he and Harold Gatty set in
1931, took off at 5:15 p. m. today (8:15 p. m., Indianapolis time) for
Novosibirsk. Siberia.
His next scheduled stopping place,
a 1 mast midway across Siberia, is
approximately 1,580 miles from
here.
The daring Oklahoman, who took
off from New York Saturday, halte'd
briefly at Berlin and Koenigsberg,
Balbo to Lead Italy’s Sky Fleet
to New York on Wednesday
By United Press
CHICAGO. July 17.—Italy's air armada of twenty-four seaplanes
was groomed today for a flight Wednesday to New' York City the first
stage of the return flight to Orbetello, Italy.
General Italo Balbo and his ninety-four officers and men, heroes of
the greatest mass flight in history, received the plaudits of Chicago and
the world fair.
FOLLOW DAD’S ADVICE,
SON, NOT HIS ACTIONS
Highway Commissioner Tells Angler
Son to ‘Keep Cool’; Falls in Lake.
By United Press
LAKE WAWASEE, Ind., July 17.
—“Keep cool, don't lose your head,”
shouted John W. Wheeler, member
of the state highway commission,
shouted to his son John, Jr., 11, as
the latter struggled with a three
pound bass he was reeling in Sun
day.
But the elder Wheeler forgot his
own advice. He tumbled into the
lake from a bridge.
DIES IN FIRE PLOT
Mother Fatally Burned in Attempt
to Kill Three Children, Self.
By L ulled Press
WINDSOR, Ont., July 17.—Mrs.
Annie Brookbanks, 43, mother who
set fire to rags and papers under the
beds of her three children and then
fired her own clothing, died of
burns today.
The children escaped with minor
burns.
LINDYS READY TO HOP
Study Weather Reports for Flight
to Greenland.
By United Press
CARTWRIGHT Labrador. July
17—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh studied weather reports
today, to pick a starting time for
their flight to Greenland. They ar
rived here from Newfoundland Fri
day.
BEER FOR SANTA CLAUS
Permit to Retail Brew Is Granted
at Famous State Town.
Santa Claus will have 3.2 beer.
A permit to retail the new brew
was issued today by Paul P. Fry,
state excise director, to Frances L.
Weaver, restaurant proprietor at I
Santa Claus, Ind.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
They managed to fly the Atlantic,
but fog. darkness and perhaps lack
of sufficient navigating facilities
caused them to be lost almost with
in reach of their goal.
Inhabitants of the village of Ber
linchen, near Soldin, heard the roar
of a low-flying plane about mid
night.
Occupants of a suburban lumber
camp reported shortly afterward that
an unidentified plane had trained a
powerful searchlight on the camp.
and stopped in Moscow only three
! hours while minor adjustments
J were made to his plane.
When he left here, Post was thir
teen hours and nine minutes ahead
of the Post-Gatty record.
From the moment of their arrival
Saturday afternoon, after a com
parative fast flight by stages from
Orbetello, they had been feted al
most continuously.
The airmen planned to spend
several hours today going over
their shiny planes, in preparation
for the flight home. A scheduled
trip to Lake Geneva, Wis., was can
celed.
At noon today they were to pay a
formal visit to Mayor Edward J.
Kelly. They planned to rest in the
afternoon, and attend a dinner given
by Harry S. New, United States
commissioner to the world’s fair, in
the evening, and a grand ball at the
Century of Progress at night.
The fliers were enjoying their visit
immensely, displaying as much
enthusiasm as school children at a
circus. They waved and blew kisses
to pretty girls, and laughed and
joked heartily.
Although only a few speak Eng
lish, they quickly made themselves
at home in the colorful world fair
surroundings.
The only serious moment of Sun
day’s busy round of activities was
when they paid tribute to their
comrade. Sergeant Mechanic Ouit
avalle, who was killed when one of
the ships overturned at Amsterdam
on the first leg of the flight.
After a banquet for the airmen,
during which a message of greet
ing from President Roosevelt was
read, the roll call was read. Each
flier responded with a "present.”
The name of Sergeant Quintavalle
was read. A moment of silence,
then the entire company snapped to
attention and in unison answerdn
"present.”
Earlier in the day the aviators
toured tne worlds fair. They for
mally paid their respects to Gover
nor Henry Horner and Rufus
Dawes, president of the exposition.
Throngs followed the airmen
wherever they w-ent. Even when
they went to Holy Name cathedral
for mass said by Cardinal Munde
lein they could not escape admir
ers. At the church ceremony a con
gratulatory cablegram from the
pope was read.