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SOUTH STARTS REPEAL TEST;
PREDICT VICTORIES BY WETS
Alabama and Arkansas at
Polls Today; Tennessee
Ballots Thursday.
COUNT MAY BE CLOSE
States Year Ago Had Been
Considered Impregnable
Dry Strongholds.
By I’nlted Press
The drive to repeal the
eighteenth amendment under
went its crucial test today as
the first states of the tradi
tionally dry south to consider
the issue, voted on the twen
ty-first (repeal) amendment.
The states w r ere Alabama and
Arkansas. Tennessee will vote
Thursday.
If wets take two of the three
states, repeal is believed likely this
year. Drys believe that by winning
two out of three they will be able
to delay repeal until 1934. and per
haps retain the eighteenth amend
ment in the Constitution.
Sixteen states so far have voted
repeal.
Wet victories were forecast today
in both states, although the results
were pxpected to be close, and in
Arkansas the drys were believed to
have some chance.
Moral Issue, States’ Rights
A year ago both states were con
sidered impregnable dry strong
holds.
The campaigns in Alabama, Ar
kansas and Tennessee bore a close
similarity.
The drys fought on the moral is
sue and concentrated on the
“church vote.” Repeal means re
turn of the saloon, they argued, and
in speeches, posters and advertise
ments urged the moral duty of
keeping liquor away from man
kind. Many posters featured bib
lical quotations.
The wets campaigned on the is
sue of states’ rights, and demarded
support of the Democratic plariorm
and a Democratic President. The
south, preponderantly Democratic,
prosecuted its Civil war on the
states’ rights issue.
Light Vote Expected
A light vote was anticipated in
both Arkansas and Alabama. Both
states levy a poll tax, and the de
pression forced many citizens not
to qualify.
The repeal score to date:
For Repeal—New' York. New Jer
sey, Rhode Island, Illinois, Mich
igan, Nevada, Delaware, Wyoming,
Indiana. Wisconsin. Massachusetts,
Connecticut. New Hampshire, lowa.
■West Virginia, California.
Against Repeal—None.
Arkansas and Alabama, voting to
day on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, will lead the south in a
solid parade against prohibition, in
the opinion of Postmaster-General
James A. Farley.
Farley Sees Wet Victory
Pausing in Chicago to greet Gen
eral Italo Balbo while en route from
Memphis, Tenn., to Milwaukee for
an Elks convention, Farley predicted
that “no southern state will break
step in the repeal parade.”
In Memphis last Saturday. Farley
recalled to Democratic leaders of
several southern states the party's
pledge to repeal the eighteenth
amendment.
Farley believed Alabama and
Arkansas would v ote against prohi
bition by more than two to one.
"Tennessee will follow suit on
Thursday and Oregon on Friday,”
Farley said.
•FORCED MOTHERHOOD'
IS BLAMED FOR WARS
Overpopulation Major Cause of
Strife, Women's Congress Told.
By I nilrd Pn *
CHICAGO. July 18 —Forced moth
erhood was attacked as a major
cause of warfare by Mrs. Wynaendts
Francken Dysernick, feminist leader
of The Netherlands, in an address
before the International Congress
of Women today.
“There is no hope for making a
world secure while many parts of it
are so overpopulated.” she said.
"Overpopulation is one of the prin
cipal causes of war. Japan and Java
are overpopulated due to ignorance.
"But there are countries where
women are educated, and where men
are now driving women into forced
motherhood and a renewed over
population that inevitably must
cause war.”
Times Index
Big Bend—The Last Frontier—
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Book-a-Day 5
Bridge 5
Broun Column 10
City Briefs 13
Classified 14
Comics 15
Crossword Puzzle 13
Curious World 15
Dietz on Science 14
Editorial 10
Financial f3
Fishing 5
Hickman Theater Review 11
Kirby Cartoon 10
Lippmann Column 13
Nudist Colonies—a Series 9
Obituaries 3
Radio 11
Serial Story 15
Sports 1
Vital Statistics 13
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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 58
Forced to Toil in Penal
Farm Quarry When 111,
Victim of ‘T. B. ’ Charges
Brutal Beatings Inflicted When He Collapsed, Ex-Inmate
Alleges; Guards and Officials Accused
of Wanton Cruelty.
This is the sixth of a on conditions at the state penal farm.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times Staff Writer
Lungs wasted by disease, a victim of the Great White
Plague, was beaten with cane and blackjacks by keepers at
the Indiana state penal farm, according to charges made to
The Times.
Well men have been beaten at the farm. Beatings,
starvation diets, chains and handcuffs have been a regular
farm routine, affidavits allege.
Guards have admitted beat
ing the well inmates.
One of the guards and the assist
ant superintendent of the farm, E. L.
Arment, admit in signed statements
that they beat this sick man.
They starved him, the victim de
clares, fed him on bread and water,
and yet tuberculosis specialists say
that a fattening diet is a requisite
of treating* the disease that creeps
on man and takes him—sometimes
quickly.
Branded as Staller
They, farm officials, worked his
weak bateria-laden lungs at hard,
sweaty labor, along w’ith the well
inmates.
No rest cure. The only rest cure
was being handcuffed to a cell on a
diet of bread and water.
They said he was stalling when he
refused to work.
They gave him a superficial exam
ination and said that he—Daniel
Roy Shipper of St. Louis—showed
no signs of tuberculosis.
But in possession of The Indian
apolis Times ifi a notarized state
ment of Dr. J. J. Singer, head of
the chest service of Barnes hos
pital, St. Louis, that Shipper was
under his care three times in 1930
for chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.
Handcuffed to Bars
The farm keepers placed him in
a cell for eighty-nine hours, ac
cording to their own admissions, on
one occasion, and for fifty-one hours
at another time. During the day
time he was handcuffed to bars.
The farm officials starved, hand
cuffed and beat a youth whose sole
offense against Hoosierland society
was that he was a suspicious per
son. arrested in Vincennes on a
charge of vagrancy and fined SSO
and costs.
But at the time of his arrest
about Jan. 13, Shipper says, he had
some small change and a bus ticket
en route to his home in St. Louis.
The farm keepers would not take
his word that he had been in hos
pital after hospital for tuberuclosis.
They wouldn't even take the time
to find out the truth of his state
ment, he declares.
Sent to Quarry
“Staller! Malingerer!” they
shouted at him, interspersed with
curses and blows, wheh Shipper
complained that the labor to which
he was assigned was too hard.
They sent him back to quarry
labor. They sent him back to rock
dust to add to the rebellion of lungs
that should have been breathing
clean, free air. evidence indicates.
And they built for him, according
to one affidavit in possession of
The Indianapolis Times, a special
steep incline to use when he pushed
wheelbarrows full of mud.
Just a little extra punishment
which a guard wanted to give him
for protesting a true illness that
they called "faking.”
No kindly X-ray at the state
farm vouched for the truth of
Shipper's tale of lung trouble.
The farm's doctor did not check
his case history with St. Louis
physicians.
Chronic Case of T. B.
But The Times did check that
case history and it shows that if
Daniel Roy Shipper stalled in his
work at the farm because of lung
trouble that he had a right to stall
and that he is what doctors call a
"chronic case of T. B.”
It shows conclusively that' clerical
work and the easiest job at the farm
would be none too easy for one
afflicted with the disease from which
he suffered.
"I struck him one blow with a
blackjack which caused no injury,
and which subdued him.” admits
Arment. the assistant superinten
dent in charge of the farm's dis
cipline.
•'I then grabbed a cane that was
leaning against the watch house and
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RESUME WATER HEARING
Public Service Commission Chief
Engineer Appears as Witness.
Hearing in the Indianapolis Water
Company's federal court fight for
higher water rates was resumed to
day before Albert Ward master in
chancery.
Appearing as a defense witness.
Harry V. Wenger, chief engineer of
the state public service commission,
gave $20,006,801 as valuation of the
water company's properties as ap
praised by the commission, April 1,
1933.
Til is i s $2,500,000 less than the
valuation on which present water
'tes are based. The water com-
J. er, is attempting to
T.e rate.; based on its appraisal of
pproximately $38,000,000.
UNIONS SEEK
CITY PAY BOOST
Building Trades Council
Proposes Increase in
Wage Scales.
Wage committee of the building
trades council today proposed wage
increases for various trades, pointing
out that since a wage contract was
entered into Jan. 15, 1932, with pay
based on cost of building materials,
the latter have increased in price
14 per cent.
The committee composed of Otto
M. Mueller, G. C. Wright and Mer
ritt Harrison, proposes that the new
pay be retroactive to July 1 and
remain in effect until Jan. 1, 1935.
Among the suggested wages are:
Carpenters, $1.14 an hour; brick
layers, $1.48; cement finishers, $1.07;
electricians. $1.37; hod carriers
brick layers, 86 cents; plaster and
mortar workers, 91 cents; iron work
ers. $1.32. and painters, $1.14.
CAR DIVES INTO CANAL
Woman Driver Smashes Through
Barricade; Not Injured.
Driving her car through a wooden
barricade into the canal at the
Fourteenth street bridge Monday
night when lights from an ap
proaching automobile blinded her
Mrs. Grover Shank, Negro, 40, of
2954 Paris avenue, was removed
from the water unhurt.
Raymond Daniels and Arthur
Board. Negroes, 1438 and 1430 North
western avenue, respectively, waded
into the water and brought her
ashore.
MILK MEN TO CAPITAL
Lieutenant-Governor, Committee Go
to Confer With Wallace.
Lieutenant-Governor Clifford
Townsend and five members of the
joint producers and distributors
milk committee left today for Wash
ington to confer with Henry A.
Wallace, secretary of agriculture, on
approval of the new state milk code.
Members of the committee besides
Townsend are Carl Hedges and Har
vey Hartsock for the producers and
Albert Busher. Guy Roberts and S.
O. Dungan for the distributors.
No Man Worth It, Beauty
Says After Trying Suicide
She learned about men from her
husband.
Mrs. Betty Harvey Nott. 21. pret
ty blond wife of Frank Nott, ad
mitted it today when arraigned be
fore Municipal Judge Dewey E.
Myers on a vagrancy charge fol
lowing an attempt at suicide Mon
day by inhaling gas. She was dis
charged.
Mrs. Nott, 226 East Vermont
street, attempted to end her life in
the apartment of Paul Lang, 408
East Michigan street.
"This is the girl who tried to kill
•herself yesterday,” an officer an
nounced to the court.
"Why did you do that?” the judge
asked.
Oh, that husband of mine
threatened to kill me. so I thought
I'd beat him to it,” the pretty wife
explained.
"You must never do that again,”
Myers warned.
I wouldn t do it again for any
man in the world.” she replied.
Notes written by Mrs. Nott be
fore she buried her head in her
arms on a table in the apartmen*
Naked Truth
In a Catskill mountain re
treat, naked men and women
are seeking after health, hunt
ing "more natural beauty.”
Women artists, business girls,
pastors, Wall street brokers
frolic in the nude, bask in the
sunshine, take long walks, un
clad over the hills.
Shocking? Not in the least,
they declare. They tell their
story in the first of three ar
ticles on nudist colonies ap
pearing today on Page One,
Section Two.
Wa^r ll for th*> second story
Wednesday in The Times.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933
BOYCOTT MAY
BE RECOVERY
PLAN WEAPON
Public Will Be Asked to
Blacklist Stores Who
Ignore Codes.
MUST LIMIT HOURS
Immediate Wage Increases
to Be Required Under
Program.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 18. The
public will be asked within a few
i days to boycott wholesale and retail
i firms who do not agree to immedi
: ate limitation of work hours' and
| wage increases, and also to boycott
the products of manufacturers who
do not enter into such agreements.
The administration is working out
its plan for boosting purchasing
power on these lines, it became evi
dent today. Much of the delay in
| announcing the plan has been
caused by the necessity of designing,
| making and distributing emblems
I which may be displayed by business
! firms agreeing to the temporary
| wage and hour scales.
For nearly two weeks the recovery
administration has been engrossed
with the problem of how to keep
purchasing power in line with rapid
ly rising prices.
In Hands of Public
It has been unwilling to under
take anything in the nature of a
"blanket order” to employers, and
it has been somewhat skeptical of
results to be attained by an appeal
for voluntary action by employers,
although the textile industry has
put a temporary schedule into ef
fect without being asked.
These problems have led to the
apparent conclusion that the key to
the situation lies in the hands of
the consuming public.
C. F. Horner, chief of the recovery
administration’s public relations di
vision, has had his staff hard at
work during the last week on post
ers and placards for the drive in
behalf of purchasing power Most of
these bear a patriotic emblem, an
eagle, a flag, or a conventionalized
design embodying the national col
ors, and the phrase "We Have Doi\e
Our Part” or something similar.
Propose Federal Label
These placards would be displayed
in stores agreeing to observe the
short work week and minimum
wage scale at once. Tags or stickers
would be attached to manufactured
articles from shops complying with
the agreement.
The coat and suit industry even
has proposed that a NIRA label
be attached to all its products to
indicate production under condi
tions of fair competition.
Details of the boycott plan only
remain to be worked out. In gen
eral it is understood to have the ap
proval of the President and of the
industrial recovery board which
discussed it Monday.
Meanwhile, the administration
still is silent on terms of the sched
ule it will ask the country to ob
serve.
Bullet Wound Is Fatal
By United Press
FT. WAYNE. Ind.. July 18— Ray
mone Fowler, 35, died Monday night
of an accidental bullet wound suf
fered two weeks ago while he was
cleaning a revolver.
kitchen, and opened all jets of a
gas stove, indicated that she. her
husband and Lang were the prin
cipals in a love triangle.
She wrote that Nott was not to be
permitted to see her in death, and
absolved Lang of all blame for the
suicide attempt.
After being revived by police and
fire department first-aid squads. Mrs.
Nott was taken to city hospital and
treated. She had recovered fully
today.
Romances of Celebrities Bud, Bloom, Wither
By United, Press
LOS ANGELES. July 18.—There
certainly never was a lapdog that
weighed 250 pounds, and when An
gelus temple tried to make one of
David L. Hutton Jr., he decided to
divorce Aimee
Semple McPher
son-Hutton. Hut
ton's manager
said today.
"Dave is tired
of being a pet
poodle and o g.”
Harry C. Bran
don, the man
ager. said in ex
plaining the di
vorce a c tion.
"He's going out
on his own. A
certain clique at
the temple
wouldn't let him
make money
outside the tern-
pie and the clique wouldn't pay him
for working in the temple.
He married Aimee and not the
clique nor the temple. He's tired of
being pushed around by the temple."
Mrs. McPherson-Hutton. still con
valescent from a recent operation,
was reported hurrying home from
Paris.
Sued for Balm
Mrs. Fred Duesenberg
Made Defendant in
SIOO,OOO Love Battle.
Mrs. Isle
Duesenberg,
city social
leader,
charged in
SIOO,OOO
suit with
alienation
of
affections.
Widow of Auto Manufacturer Stole Affections
of Julian M. Hopkins, His Wife Charges.
A LLEGING that Mrs. Isle Duesenberg, 3290 Fall Creek boulevard.
-**- widow of the late Fred S.. Duesenberg. automobile manufacturer,
has alienated the affections of her husband, Mrs. Maude A. Hopkins
filed suit today in superior court five asking SIOO,OOO from the attractive
widow.
Julian M. Hopkins, 1512 North Meridian street, apartment 23, is the
husband in the case. He is general manager of a life insurance
company.
The complaint filed by Carl E.
Wood and the law firm of John
son & Zechiel, alleges that Hop
kins and Mrs. Duesenberg have
traveled together, visiting cities
outside of Indiana.
Further, it is averred, the widow
has given Hopkins large sums of
monejr and gifts of jewelry, cloth
ing and other articles for the pur
pose of “winning his affections.”
"Endearing and affectionate let
ters” have been written by Mrs.
Duesenberg to Hopkins, his wife
charges.
n n a
CHARGING that the defendant
is seeking to thwart Mrs.
Hopkins in collecting any judg
ment she might recover, the com
plaint alleges that on June 20,
this year, Mrs. Deusenberg con
veyed to her son, Denny Donald
Deusenberg, the property at 3290
Fall Creek boulevard, for a con
sideration of sl.
This conveyance, it is averred,
has been recorded in the office of
the Marion county recorder. By
terms of the transfer, the com
plaint states, the son is forbidden
to transfer or incumber the prop
erty, and the arrangement is to
remain in effect until Feb. 27,
1939.
The Hopkins couple was married
March 25, 1929, and separated
Feb. 25, this year, acording to the
complaint. Mrs. Hopkins has a
divorce suit on file in superior
court one.
RELEASE OF O’CONNELL
IS EXPECTED TODAY
Nephew of Albany Political Dicta
tors Already Free, Rumors Say.
By United Press
ALBANY, N. Y„ July 18.—Re
lease of Lieutenant John J. O’Con
nell Jr., kidnaped nephew of the
O'Connell brothers, dictators of the
Albany Democratic dynasty, was
expected hourly today by persons
close to the family.
Rumors also persisted in political
circles close to the O'Connell clan,
that the 24-year-old national guard
officer and brewery official already
had been liberated by his abductors,
■who had held him since midnight,
July 7. The family, however, de
nied the reports.
By United Press
MINDEN. Nev., July 18.—Eliza
beth Donner Roosevelt, wife of El
liott Roosevelt, second son of the
President, was granted a divorce
here Monday, and immediately
after the hear
i n g Roosevelt
prepared to fly
to Chicago,
where he was
expected to meet
Ruth Googins,
Ft. Worth debu
tante. whose
name was linked
with his when
his marital trou
bles first became
known.
Mrs. Roose
velt. although
not present, won
the decree on a
cross - complaint
:o Roo s e velt’s
Hutton
suit charging “extreme cruelty.”
Mrs. Roosevelt, heiress to a
Pennsylvania steel fortune, retains
custody of their 8-months-old
child. William Donner. Roosevelt
will have visiting rights and pro
vide for the child's support. No
alimony was asked or granted.
POST SIGHTED AT HALF-WAY
POINT IN HOP OVER SIBERIA
insist
Br Wr
SURVEY OF SCHOOL
COSTS jIVEN BOARD
Cole’s Findings May Cut
Local Tax Needs.
A survey of minimum school
costs, which may halve the local
tax raised to qualify for state aid,
was presented to state board of ed
ucation members today by George
C. Cole, .superintendent of public
instruction.
Members pondered the matter
and are expected to announce their
decision this afternoon.
The survey was approved by
William P. Cosgrove, chief examin
er of the state board of accounts.
It was said by school men to be
the most comprehensive study of
costs ever made in the state. The
work was done by Cole single hand
ed and drew high praise from Gov
ernor Paul V. McNutt and board
members, it was said.
HARRIMAN IS MISSING;
FORFEIT $25,000 BAIL
Bench Warrant for Aged Banker
Issued; Fled Monday.
By United Press
NEW YORK. July 18.—Joseph W.
Harriman remained on the missing
list when his sanity hearing was
called in federal court today, and
Federal Judge Francis G. Cassey
ordered forfeited the $25,000 bail on
which the eccentric banker has
been at liberty.
A bench warrant for Harriman's
arrest was issued.
Harriman, gray - haired former
president and chairman of the Har
riman national bank, now in liqui
dation, was sought in New York city,
in New Jersey and on Long Island,
as fears grew that when he slipped
away from a nursing home in mid-
Manhattan Monday he went with
thj intent of committing suicide.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. m 67 10 a. m 81
7a. m 69 11 a. m 83
Ba. m 73 12 fnoon).. 85
9 a. m 77 1 p. m 87
By Times Special
SACRAMENTO. Cal., July 18.—
The tinkle of wedding bells can be
heard today as Jack Dempsey,
former world heavyweight champion
pugilist, and Hannah Williams, New
1 .... V, H
jaw j
York musical
comedy star, plan
for their future as
they rest in Reno.
An c i 1 Hoffman,
Max Baer's man
ager, declared that
the couple expect
to step to the altar
at Reno today, but
friends say that
they believe the
ceremony will be
held here, after
they arrive to file
notice of their in
tention to marry.
Members of the
Dempsey party
were especially
Mrs. Roosevelt
pleased to learn today that Baer,
conqueror of Max Schmeling. and
leading contender for the heavy
weight title, had become recon
ciled with his wife. Dorothy Dun
bar Baer.
Kntered as Second-Class Matter
at rostoffice, Indianapolis
Seventeen Hours Ahead of Record, Oklahoma
‘lron Man’ Lands at Novosibirsk; Takes
Off 2 Hours 36 Minutes Later.
BATTLES HIS WAY THROUGH FOG
American Airman Refuses to Sleep, but
Accedes to Urgings of Soviet Officials
and Takes Rest of Ten Minutes.
By United Pres*
MOSCOW, July 18. —Wiley Post, headed from Novo
sibirsk to Irkutsk, Siberia, on his flight around the world,
was sighted at 11:50 a. m. Moscow time today (2:50 a. m.,
Indianapolis time) at Krasnoyarsk, 400 miles east of Novo
sibirsk.
By United Tress *
NOVOSIBIRSK, Siberia, July 18.—Wiley Post, Amer
ican around-the-world flier, took off at 11:55 p. m. Monday
(Indianapolis time) for Irkutsk, 870 miles away. He was 17
hours and 4 minutes ahead of the record he and Harold Gatty
made two years ago.
Determined to lose no time, Post said he hoped to halt
only briefly at Irkutsk, for refueling and to have his plafe
overhauled, and then press on to Khabarovsk, in eastern
Siberia.
“The Novosibirsk-Irkutsk stage will be easier than that
from Moscow here,” he said before he left. “I had the
lousiest sort of weather."
He expected to cover the distance in seven or eight
hours.
Post, when he took off, was 68 hours and 45 minutes out
Jaws Pop Open
And Stay That Way Eight
Hours When Ada In
dulges in Huge Yawn.
to 2533 Baltimore avenue
VJ —woman with lockjaw,”
droned the police radio in the
early morning hours today.
Patrolmen Glen Mangus and
Harrison Wenz were prepared for
a tetanus victim. But there was
more. Instead, Ada Turner, 19,
Negro, of that address, had her
mouth open and just couldn't get
it closed.
Mangus and Wenz called a city
hospital ambulance, but the doc
tor in charge wrestled unavail
ingly with Ada’s jaws. Plainly,
hospital treatment was indicated,
they decided.
However, Ada balked when she
arrived at the hospital, and indi
cated. by somewhat unintelligible
noises her resistance to taking
any anesthetic.
a a a
REFUSING treatment, she
went home and tried her own
cure of smacking herself in the
jaws with her fists. This had
worked once before when Ada
found herself in a similar pre
dicament, but it failed her today.
After an eight-hour yawn, Dr.
William Mack was called.
Dr. Mack tugged and twisted,
but Ada's jaws put up a great
battle. The doctor took time out
and returned to the attack.
Just when it began to look like
a draw, Dr. Mack got a hold re
sembling one of the choice num
bers in Jimmy Londo's repertoire
and Ada’s jaws snapped back into
place.
And so today, Ada sits looking
longingly at food and caressing
her complaining mandibles. She
doesn't open her mouth very wide,
either, when she discusses her en
durance yawn.
ana
“T WAS going t 6 bed about 1
A o’clock this morning,” ex
plained Ada, “and I was powerful
tired. Just as I was getting in bed.
I gave a powerul ‘gape’ and ‘bang’
went my jaw. I just cofildn't get
my mouth closed,
“I’d been to church and I guess
the sermon was a little long. Any
how, I was powerful tierd
“I guess I must have given the
daddy of all gapes this time, but
I sure am going to be careful
after this when I go to bed.”
By United Press
HOLLYWOOD. July 18—June
Knight, radio songstress and bud
ding screen actress, was not sur
prised, but was “very pleased” to
learn of the reconciliation between
Baer and his wife,
Dorothy Dunbar
Baer, she told the
United Press today.
"Max's return to
Dorothy very proba
bly will be the very
best thing for them
both,” she said.
“My relations
with Max never
were predicated on
his abandonment
of Dorothy. They
had separated—pre
sumably - perma
nently—long be
fore we met. I re
cently suggested to
him several times
Miss Williams
that he go back to her, and I hon
estly think he’s done a wise thing.
“Fond if him? Os course; he's
a nice kid. But I'm not fond enough
of any one to want to take him
away from his wife.”
HOME
EDITION
rRI C E TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
of New York, where he took
off Saturday. He had spent
48 hours and 54 minutes in
the air, and but 19 hours and
51 minutes aground.
Os the 15.400 miles he must make
on his globe circling flight, he had
covered 6.500. He must get back to
Floyd Bennett airport, New York,
before 7:01 p. m. (Indianapolis time)
Sunday to better his record with
Gatty—B days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.
A veritable iron man, who had
slept but once—at Koenigsberg, Ger
many—since he left New York, Post
arrived here from Moscow at 9:19
Ip. m. (Indianapolis time) Monday
(9:09 a. m. today, Novosibirsk time).
Takes 10-Minute Rest
Civil aviation authorities, news
paper men and Miss Fay Gillis of
Minneapolis, were at the field to
greet him. He swept down to a per
fect landing.
Airport officials, anxious that
Post should be in the best of shape,
urged him to sleep. He consented
to lie down for ten minutes with
his eyes closed, but remained fully
awake.
Then he was off, after a halt of
but two hours and thirty-six min
utes, on his way to Irkutsk. He will
follow the Trans-Siberian railway
all the way across Siberia.
Flew Whole Route in Fog
It was raining at Irkutsk while
Post was here, but the weather fur
ther along his route was favorable.
From Kharbarovsk but three
planned hops remained—Khaba
rovsk to Fairbanks, Alaska, 3,000
miles; Fairbanks to Edmonton,
Canada, 1,450, and Edmonton to
Floyd Bennett field. New York,
2.200.
“I flew in fog all the way,” Post
said of his flight from Moscow to
Novosibirsk. “I could not even
see land for half the route.”
Italians Finishing Visit
CHICAGO, July 18.—Thousands
of Chicago admirers gave their final
salute today to General Italo Balbo
and his intrepid transoceanic avi
ators, who Wednesday will start the
long flight back to their base at Or
betello, Italy.
A parade down wide Michigan
boulevard was arranged today as the
concluding public gesture to the
fliers. Officials in charge of recep
tion for the armada planned the
parade as a city-wide demonstration
of Chicago's praise of the epochal
flight.
While General Balbo was guest at
numerous state and civic affairs
Monday, many of his men spent
their time carefully going over the
motors of their twenty-four sea
planes in preparation the re
turn flight. The planes, tiding at
moorings in the Chicago harbor,
where they landed late Saturday,
were refueled and tuned up under
direction of Colonel Carlo Tempesti.
According to present plans, the
planes will zoom from the lake early
Wednesday, turn eastward and fol
low the lakes-canal routs to New
York.
They will remain in New York a
week or more. General Balbo said
it was probable the fliers would go
to Washington to see President
Roosevelt.
Monday night the fliers wera
guests at a dinner tendered by
Harry S. New, United States com
missioner to the exposition. Later
they were guests at a ball given by
Prince Pontenziana, royal Italian
commissioner to the fair, and Ital
ian-American groups.
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WAR MOTHER BETTER
Mrs. E. May Hahn Improving afc
Home of Son.
Mrs. E. May Hahn, one of four
World war mothers injured in an
automobile accident near Kansas
City, Mo., Friday, is at the home of
her son, Dr. E. Vernon Hahn, in
New Augusta, where her condition is
said to be improving.
She suffered a compound frac
ture of the left leg near the ankle,
and bruises, according to Dr. Hahn,
who said that internal injuries at
first bc’icved serious were not, and
she has recovered completely from
shock.
Baer