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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
Three DIE IN
HAWAII RACE
PLANE Crash
Craft Strikes Embankment
and Bursts Into Flame,
Trapping Airmen.
81 United Press

80 United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. TO-
tragedy placed its first mark on the
Dole prize San Francisco-Honolulu
light today, when the winged
RENAME monoplane entered by
ieuts. George Covell and A. w.
Vaggener crashed on Point Iona,
-illing both men and possibly third
nan, as yet unidentified.
The plane took of from the North
Island naval air base at 7:18 a. m.
and the crash occurred a few min
utes later, when the ship struck an
embankment on Point Iona and
burst into flames.
According to word from North
Island, naval mechanics worked
most Of last night effecting repairs
to the gasoline lines of the ship and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
RAY OF hope FUCKERS into
DEATH House; VANzETTI and
SACCO MAY Be GIVEN STAY
The World
Protest

By United Press
Millions throughout the world
today awaited word from Boston,
where Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti are due to go to the cleo
trio chair shortly after midnight
unless last-minute action by the
Governor of the State delays the
execution.
Unrest manifested itself in many
cities in the United States, Europe
and in South America, but although
a mighty protest went up over a
large part of the globe, actual
violence was rare.
Reports to the United Press from
various cities follow:
BOSTON Governor Fuller's
executive council called to consider
respite for Sacco and Vanetti. Thir-
ty-nine pickets arrested at State
Muse.
NEW YORK-Mounted and foot
police break up parades after $4,000
or more hold orderly protest meet
ings. Clubs used, but no firearms.
CHICAGO-Police with tear gas
bomb break up riotous demonstra-
ton. Fifteen arrested. Guards
around buildings increased.
ROCHESTER-Several thousand
clothing workers hold protest strike.
no disorder.
PHILADELPHIA Some dock
workers and others answer one-day
strike call. No disorder.
BALTIMORE Clothing workers
strike. Heavy police guard stationed
at protest meetings.
SCRANTON, PA.-Five thousand
miners in protest strike near here.
LOS ANGELES.-Protest meet
ings guarded by 1000 police to pre-
vent disorder.
DETROIT-Mass meeting, forbid
den by police, is permitted on prom
Use no disorder will result.
GARY, IND.-Police break up
street meeting and arrest four.
TAMPA, Fla.-Cigarmakers' strike.
Homes of Sacco- Vanzetti sympa-
thizers draped In crepe.
LONDON-American embassy vir-
tually isolated by armed police. Vast
meeting planned in Hyde Park to
continue all night until executions.
BUENOS AIRES-Two bomb ex-
plosiors take place with small dam
age and injury to no one. Many
workers on protest strike.
NNnUTATIJA = Tr;,.1 I.,...
General Motors employees on protest
strike.
MONTEVIDEO - Theaters, stores
and most business places closed as
sign of protest. Six thousand at
mass meeting without disorder.
MELBOURNE-Homes of Amer
lean consular officials guarded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10

Coupons Pour Into Offices
Refund Bureau.

Coupons asking help in filing
claims for refunds of 1919, 1920 anc
1921 horizontal tax increases con-
tinue to pour into the Office of The
Times.
The Times bureau of experts will
search the records to determine
how much of a refund is due you
make out the necessary claim sheet
phone you when it is ready for your
signature, furnish notary, and
then officially file the claim-all
without one cent of cost to SUBJ
scribers of The Times.
Agencies and individuals are
charging a fee, in addition to a per-
centage of the refund, for this work
In most instances it is as high as
Is per cent of the amount to be re-
funded.
If you believe that you should
have all the money back which the
Supreme Court has said was ex-
cessively paid, then let this news
paper serve you.
Nearly seven hundred subscribers
of The Times have taken advantage
of this offer.
The percentage charged by those
doing such work would aggregate
more than a thousand dollars on the
claims computed by The Times al
the end of the first weeks operation
Of its bureau.
If you paid taxes in Marion
County in 1919, 1920 and 1921 you
will have refund coming to you
when it is made available.
Your part is simple.
Fill out the coupon which appears
elsewhere in this paper and mail OF
bring it to The Times office.
Your claim will be given a number
to which you can refer in the event
you want to communicate with the
tax refund bureau of this news
paper. AS soon as the claim has
been computed, you will be notified
to come in and sign 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
SLAYER JURORS
FREED MISSING
Former Marshal Rigsby of
Shirley Disappears.
BIZ Times Special

DU IHttS Dp6Ctut
CICERO, Ind, Aug. 10.-Melvin
Rigsby, former town marshal OF
Shirley, acquitted of murder for the
Staying of Herman Riggs, farmer
is missing, and there is a possibility
that certain citizens of Shirley, dis
gruntled by the acquittal verdict,
may have disposed of the former
officer.
Disappearance of Rigsby was re-
ported to Anderson police by his
mother, Mrs. Maud Rigsby, living
near here, who said she could not
account for her sons absence. His
wife, Mrs. Mary Rigsby, lives in An
derson.
Much dissatisfaction was manifest
at Shirley shortly after a jury in
Henry Circuit Court at Newcastle
freed Rigsby. At one time, some
citizens became so outspoken in
threats to get" Rigsby that town
authorities called the Newcastle po-
lice asking for aid, but succeeded in
restoring quiet without assistance.
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munity in the if McCray would to
selected by Coffin prosecutor of this county to succeed VIII
liam Evans sonnaw of McCray who about to resign
The article said that McCray refused and declared that
while he might lose his liberty he had lost his money he
still would keep his self respect.
The Times did not quote any person in making this state
ment
Thus far the of every interviewed has been
identical Each has said that he refused either confirm
deny The Governor alone is yet to be heard from.
In order that there may be question to responsibility
for this article evasion attempted attention distracted
from the question to the truth asy of the statements
the Governor and those to whom he should know
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10

On Saturday the Republican leaders of this State will meet
Lake Oliver Governor undoubtedly will and
should have something to say.
Unquesonably the leaders expect him to make
ment upon article printed in The Times July 25
So that there be question to the nature of the
article the responsibility for its publication The Times
calls attention of the Governor and the public to these facts
That article charged that Dec g. 1928 Ed Jackson then
Secretary Of State left conference which attended by
George " Coffin and the Office of Warren McCray
then Governor Indictment Marion County
courts.
The article charged that jackson offered to furnish $4,000
for attorney fees for the McCay defense and promise of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
Indy Lands in Detroit

BV United Press
DETROIT, Aug. 10.-Col. Charles
Lindbergh landed at the Ford air.
port at 2 o'clock this afternoon and
was greeted by his mother and
Henry and Edsel Ford after fight
from Indianapolis.
Along the roads leading from the
airport to Northwestern field, where
Lindbergh was scheduled to speak,
more than quarter million persons
had assembled. One hundred thou
sand were damned into the field
and these included 10000 children,
taken there by play leaders from 200
play fields in the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
POINDEXTER RETURNING

Ambassador and Kellogg to Confer
on Tacna-Arica Affair.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Secre-
tary of State Kellogg will turn his
attention again to the Tacna-Arica
problem late this month when Am
bassador Miles Poindexter returns
from his post at Lima, Peru.
No special emergency caused
Poindexter's return, state Depart
ment officials say, adding that the
former Senator, after three years
from the United States, decided it
would be well to go over the stu
alton personally with officials here
now while conditions are quiet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
FINISH BANK AUDIT
State Commissioner Will
End Work Today.

Auditing of books Of the ]. F.
Wild and Company State bank is
to be completed today, according to
Luther F. Symons, State bank COM
missioner. Report of the audit will
be turned over to the co-receivers,
Eugene H. Iglehart and Richard L.
Lowther.
The receivers will take over con-
troll of the bank as soon as the
audit is completed and make an
analysis of the report making public
it's findings
Symons attempted to complete the
work Tuesday night. but numerous
interruptions delayed it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
OFFERS BUS SERVICE
Wants to Pick Up PaSsen-
gers on w. Washington.

Permission to offer local bus serv-
ice on w. Washington st. was asked
by the Hoosier Transportation Com
pany, Inc, in a petition filed with
the Public Service Commission to-
day.
The bus company already operates
lines to Ben Davis and Terre Haute
over the Washington st. route, but
is not permitted to give intra-city
service.
A. G.. Harmon, president, said the
fare would not exceed 10 cents.
The line would be in competition
with the indianapolis Street Rail-
way cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
Shaky Prince

BIZ JHltfd PfeSS
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug.
10.-Because he has been forced
to shake so many hands since
arriving in Canada, the Prince
Of Wales has resorted to the
cleft handshake."
The prince leaves the train
at every stop on the trip across
the plains to his Alberta ranch,
and Premier Baldwin is like
wise cheered by crowds at every
station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
SeanCe Hit
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. 10.-A mu-
nicipal court judge ruled 1t
was no crime to hit a ghost"
when he dismissed charges
against Joseph A. Olshaw, who
was accused of assault and bat
terry. Olshaw testified he
turned on a flashlight at a
seance and found the ghost"
was Mrs. Charles Thomson. In
the fight that followed Mrs.
Thomson was hit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
STUDY STEVE EVIDENCE
Transcripts of Former Probes Read
by Grand Jury.

transcripts Of evidence gathered
by county prosecutors and grand
juries during the last year in the
probe into alleged Statewide po-
litical corruption we're being read
again today by the county grand
jury.
The jurors will read the evidence
in order to be familiar with the data
when Prosecutor william H. Remy
and his aides return from vacations
soon.
A report was current at the Court
house that the jury may return in
dictmentS shortly after resumption
of regular sessions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
RETURN BANDITS TO-DAY

Hostetters Expected Here In Custody
Of Officers.
Robert and Howard Hostetters,
charged with the robbery of the
Southport. Ind, State bank in 1926.
we're exepcted to arrive here this
afternoon in custody Of Sheriff Omer
Hawkins and Detective John
Gaughan. They were unprecedented In
Buffalo. N. Y, recently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
FUNERAL PLANS MADE

Pallbearers Selected for Services
for Mrs. Minnie Quack.
Sergeants George Love, Thomas
Bledsoe, John Richter and Fred
Hanley. will be Pallbearers at the
funeral for Mrs. Minnie Quack, SIS,
Of 1146 Spruce st. Thursday. at 2
p. m. at the residence.
She was the wife of Sergt. Charles
P. Quack. Burial will be in Con-
cordia cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
DENY MAY STORE DEAL
Vice President Hits Rumors OF
GimbeIs Buying Chain.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. l0.-N.
L. Dauby. vice president of the May
Company, and manager OF the
Cleveland store of the organization,
said today There is absolutely no
truth in the rumors" that Gimbel
Brothers are taking over the May
string of department stores.
All officials Of the company here
expressed surprise and all inclined
to take the information as a Joke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
SENATOR WATSON ILL:
REPORTED IMPROVING
Suffers Attack of Stomach Trouble
at Summer Cottage.

dJ SuIHfHeT OOttdge.
BIZ United Press
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug. TO-
Senator James E. Watson of In
diana, i'll with stomach trouble at
Linda Iona, his summer cottage
on Lake Michigan, was reported
improved today.
J. v. Kerrigan Of Michigan City,
his physician, said that Watson was
able to be out Of bed for short
periods. He is still weak, but is
gaining strength, according to the
physician.
Watson is spending his vacation at
the lake.
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had advised the flierS against taking
off this morning for Oakland.
At $3.50 a. M, the plane still was
burning, but the bodies of the two
men could be seen in the wreckage
upon which firemen were playing
streams of water.
Third Body Is Found
The third body, believed to be
that of Lieut.. James Dyer, was
found in the wreckage Of the plane
when firemen had extinguished the
flames shortly after 9 a. m.
Covell was plotting the plane,
which had drawn position No. 10
in the Honolulu flight, when the
take-off was made from North Is
land this morning.
The take-off was one of the long
est ever made on the island, the
plane requiring more than one and
one-half miles to gather enough
speed to rise.
Observers said Covell was having
difficulty when he neared the end
of Point Iona and was in the act
of turning back when he struck the
embankment.
Start in 48 Hours
Within forty eight hours the Dole
prize aviators will lurch down the
runways from local aviation fields
with 2,408 miles separating them
from their goal-the Hawaiian
Islands
The entrants here are tuning
their bright-colored charges to the
precision Of a Swiss watch. Mean
while other aviators entered in the
hazardous race, roared through the
air toward the starting mark.
Federal inspectors and Dole race
committee members are seeing to 1t
that no defective plane takes of.
All Of the entrants were expected
to arrive today.
One Woma nto Fly
Captain William P. Erwin, Dallas
f1ier, expected here today, will be
obliged to start alone, because his
wife who had planned to accompany
him has been ruled out on account
of her youth.
Miss Mildred Doran, Flint, Mich,
school marm," is the only woman
fiier left as an entrant. She will
ride with John Auggy Redlar.
The number of contestants is sure
to be less than fifteen, the original
number entered, since one has with
drawn already and other with
drawals are likely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10
BLAST WRECKS HOMES

Explosion Of Mining Company
Lands Injure Six.
By United Press
PICHER, Okla, Aug. 10.-A dyna-
mite charge last night wrecked
several homes here and injured a
half dozen persons here.
The blast occurred on the property
Of the Vantage Mining Company
about 10 p. m, two homes were
wrecked and others near there
damaged considerably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10

Hourly Temperatures
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-10

Above: The Spirit of st. Louis
as Indy gave the city a last
glimpse of I'VE" by circling over
Riley hospital before heading for
Detroit. Below: Child patients
at Riley hospital gazing entranced
as Indy circled over the hospital
four times.
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

reel comedy subject, the latest
Metropolitan World Survey, and
added short reels, plus contribu-
tons of the Metropolitan Sym.
phony Orchestra.
C0LUMBIA-Ronald Colman and
Wilma Banky. in The Magic
Flame" now current at Loew's
Columbia. are TO remain a hold
over attraction for next week.
The story of The Magic Flame"
opens in a tiny one.ring circus
playing the towns along the
Mediterranean. where Blanca
Wilma Banky), the tght.rope
walker and parachute artist. Is in
love with Tito, the clown (Ronald
Colman).
Prince Vittorio, of Ilyria,
travelling incognito, meets Blanca
as she lands from a parachute
jump and Immediately falls in love
with her. He haunts the circus
and incites the antagonism of Tito.
When Blanca refuses to succumb
TO the charms of the prince, he en-.
tees her by forged note to come
ing his advances. she escapes by
making an acrobatic leap from
the window 10 the limb of a tree.
The picture continues to move
swiftly through Tito's adventures
at the court and Bianca's des-
perate efforts TO avenge what she
believes to he an affront. Shorter
features will prevail.
RTALTO-"Tell 1t to Sweeney
is the feature picture at the
Rialto beginning today. 1t is
comedy Of railroad life as it
shouldn't be. co-starring a new
team of farceurs George Ban.
croft and Chester Conklin.
Picture patrons have found
Wallace Berry and Raymond Hat
ton an ideal pair of funsters, and
now comes another team that
bids fair to rival their Paramount
predecessors.
The story centers about a
naughty old engineer and his old
fashioned steed Of the laundering
rails, both relics Of a bygone era
and another engineer of the mod
ern day. OF course there is no.
nance, plenty of it, and this
romance serves to bring about a
series of spectacular thrills in
which a runaway train plays the
principal part. Conklin has the
role of Luke Beamish, the out
of-date throttle-pusher, while Ban
croft is seen as CanMonball Casey.
the Herculean operator of the
crack filler. Beamish's daughter,
Doris Hill. the fiancee of Jack
Sweeney, son of the railroads
owner. meets Cannonball, who
Immediately falls in love with her.
Then the trouble starts.
The Hudnut Sisters and
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

Bare Facts" include Lena Daley,
Princess Mantura. Tessie Sher-
man. Dale and Gertrude OBerion,
as women principals, with twen-
ty.four girls of the chorus hack.
ing them in numbers that
have been staged by Bunny We'll
Feldman and Joe Yule will be
comedy leaders in scenes devised
by Seymour Brown, Of the
Greenwich Village Follies."
Bluey Morey, character imperson-
ator; Ollie Nelson, banjoist, and
Frank McConville, Irish tenor,
will variously assist in putting
over the entertainment.
FOX-The chief attraction at
the Fox Theater next week will
be East Side, West Side," Allan
Dwan's great production of New
York life. taken from the famous
novel by Felix Rosenberg and
featuring George O'Brien, Vir-
GINA Valli, and June Collyer. 1t
is a powerful melodramatic pic
ture of the worlds greatest city.
On the stage will be seen Jams
and Whelan. stars of many of
Charles B. Dillinghams stage sue.
cesses. Beatrice Belken, colora-
tura and Senorita Luana Alcaniz
of the Madrid Opera Company. In
addition, the orchestra of so will
accompany the stage scene of the
burning of Moscow. Gertrude
Lawrence will be heard on the
Movietone. Other advertisements
viii be scenic novelties, Fox News,
and Moviatone subjects. The Fox
Theater Concert Orchestra will
render RELATIONSHIPS 1872" over
ture. which depicts the burning
OF Moscow. presented amid a
lighting and scenic splendor that
Will likely astonish theater-goers.
METROPOLITAN-In Swim.
Girl, Swim" featured attraction
at Cranda!Ps Metropolitan begin.
ming Saturday. Paramount has af-
torded Bebe Daniels another We
hicle which emphasizes her serio.
comic athleticisrn. Now Miss
Daniels becomes aquatic and
demonstrates in the water that
she is well equipped to match her
prowess with that of Gertrude Ed
erie, first feminine Channel swim
ner. who is also prominently cast
In the picture. The story is that
of a coed who, beginning as an
enthusiastic entomologist, ends
her collegiate career as champion
swimmer.
The bill also includes new tive
The Washington times., 1927-10-29
Roseate Estimate of
II. Langdon

One of the Langdon admirers the rudte critics
of stage and including such Robert Sherwood
editor of Life" and host other famous reviewers
perhaps enteans greater for the comedians ability
than Roger Starbuck the famous English critic
The Washington times., 1927-10-29

BEBE'S DELIGHT
is THE CAMPUS
ATMOSPHERE

Every day in the year can be-
long to the undergraduate as far
as Bebe Daniels. Paramount star.
Is concerned. 81 love everything
connected with a university cam
gplis, she says. ''the atmosphere,
the color. the spirit. And because
Of this, would rather make a
motion picture dealing with the
activities OF students than any
other subject / know"
That's how her latest comedy
@Swim. Girl. Swim which comes
20 Crandall's Metropolitan today
and the. Ambassador tomorrow
came about.
II enjoyed making "The Cam
piis Flirr,' says Miss Daniels,
'and at that time l decided that
II the general public liked me in
It, ! would make another. 1t
seems that they did. and so I
asked Lloyd Corrigan, author of
"The Campus Flirt" and a grad
uate of the University of Cali
fornia, to give me another like
i, He gave me Swim. Girl,
Swim.
The story deals with plain
Alice Smith. a coed at a large
university, whose only purpose in
life 1t seems, Is to chase rare bugs
and butterflies. Secretly, how
ever, Alice yearns to be great
athlete. She takes up swimming,
making herself the campus joke
because Of her ideas on the sub
tect, and Is persuaded to ent ar a
forthcoming channel swim.
Strangely enough, in spite of the
fact that she cannot swim. Alice
wins the race Here is the start
Of complications which make
Swim. Girl, Swim" one of the
funniest comedy-dramas Bebe
Daniels has ever made.
OF course, Mise Daniels finally
does learn to swim and this made
possible another great part. For
this role Gertrude Ederle, world
famous as the first woman to
swim the English Channel, was oh.
tained. She is making her frs APP
pearance before the camera. In
the picture she is shown in action
inthe water, and also as a player.
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But
HE THOUGHT
IT FAILURE

The greatest moment of triumph
In the somewhat spectacular for
eign career of John Charles
Thomas left the world-famous
American baritone stunned in the
belief that he had failed dis
mally.
Making his grand opera debut
in the role of Amonasro in
Aida" with the. Washington Ma
tional Opera three seasons ago,
Thomas went abroad to fill an
engagement in Brussels. His sue
cess was instantaneous and so
widely acclaimed that despite the
fact that he was an American he
was chosen to sing the leading
role in the gala grand opera per-
Torrance. which was a part of
the official celebration of the
wedding of the Belgian Crown
Prince. The artist finished the
last note of his great aria and
made his way into the wings
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stellar role is portrayed by
Rudolph Schildkraut.

stellar role is portrayed by
Rudolph Schildkraut.
STRAND-"Make Them Laugh"
is the slogan of 1.-THE High
Flyers" billed for appearance at
the Strand Theater next week,
This Mutual Burlesque produc.
ton carries strong force OF
comics who have, 1t is said, been
furnished with rich material.
Music of the lighter sort and
some of the latest ideas in dance
creations will also feature the pro-
gram. A zestful chorus will sup
port the efforts of the principals
and add spice to the enjnyment.
Chief among those appearing
will he Mike Sacks, the charac-
ter comedian. Francis Farr, the
dancer; Betty June Lee, sou.
hrette; Telma Benton, singer of
iazz songs: John Pagan. dancer:
Tom Briskey. comedian, and
Danny Jacobs, eccentric comic.
Costumes and scienic effects
will beautify the production.
GAYETY-The Gayety Theater
will present as the new weeks offer
ing Of folly and frivolity, Bare
Facts" an Ed. E. Daley produc.
ton featuring girls. scenery,
gowns and comedians. More