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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
Mobile Fails to Sight
Land Anywhere on Trip
Through Polar Ocean
BY GEN. UMBERTO MOBILE
COMMANDMENTS Chief of
the DirigibIe Italia

lCopyright. 1925, in the United States,
Canada. Great Britain. Germany South
American, Inc World Rights Reservedo
ABOARD THE ITALIA OFF
NOVA ZEMBLA, May lit is
now 1880 D. m. and we are about
40 kilometers southeast of Cape
Leigh Smith.
We are proceeding normally amid
fog and snow, making for the north
point of Spitzbergen.
The wireless has been function
ing perfectly Our supply ship,
Citta de Milano, has been keeping
in touch with us continuously, US
ing a wave length of 2 400 meters,
while the Italia wireless has been
using a 900 meter wave. Beyond
the limit of 1000 kilometers Wed
nesday night, short waves were
used on both sides with complete
success.
tried to flash a radio tele-
gram direct to Rome on Wednesday
evening and might have succeeded
in establishing communication, but
unfortunately some European sta
ton interfered at the wrong mo-
ment and the contact was lost.
Everyone Well On Board
Everybody on board is well.
The Italia is sturdily vending
her way back home" to our good
Citta di Milano at Kings Bay.
A thrilling. but uneventful trip
over lands and waters so few men
have seen before, doubling some Of
the lands that been reported and
checking the outlines of great
islands that are mysteries OF maps.
Over the top of Spitzbergen we
sailed, slowed by head winds and
hampered by ice gathering on the
envelope. We cruised about In the
unknown seas between Franz Josef
Land and the North Pole and after
"a hours turned our fcce toward
Nova Zembla on our return journey.
No Land Sighted
Not having sighted any land l de-
cided to turn about. Meteorological
conditions appeared to make the re.
turn course by way of Nova Zembla
the most convenient.
All on board the ship are we'll. All
through our long trip tho tempera-
ture has been varying between IA
and Is degrees Centigrade below zero
(equalIing approximately to Z de-
grees above zero Fahrenheit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
Two Customs Raids
Net $4,000 in LIQUOR

GLOUCESTER. Mass. May 49,
In a surprise attack, Deputy Col
lector of Customs Thomas F. Finne-
gan and the customs special squad
today captured IL Boston men and
big cargo Of struggled liquor on
the beach at GAINESVILLE.
The 900 cases Of liquor seized was
valued at nearly $4,000, customs
men said. Two motor trucks and
two expensive motor cars were also
seized
Coast guardsmen at Eahant yes.
terdaX selzed a motorboAt carrying
$50 900 worth Of whiskey and three
alleged smugglers off Point Of Pines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18

The fight followed, according to
the statement, and in some way
the battlcrs fought their way down
the steps, where Kellogg pinned
Payne's right arm to his side.
kellogg says he then struck out
with his right hand, hitting the
older man in the mouth, whereupon
he sIumped to the floor.
to the apartment and. in the pres
ence of my wife, told Payne he was
a home wrecker. Payne laughed
and tore at watch chain on my
vest"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18

If she would marry him. She said
she would.
The only reason I restrained my.
self from thrashing. him then and
there was because OF the ina ge of
my two little girls" Kellogg's state
nent said.
When he confronted his wife with
this information, she at first denied
it and then admitted she was
friendly with Payne, the statement
said.
ST told her he was not the man
his conduct showed he was not sim
cere. Probably you are just another
woman in his life."
Soon after this, he said, he con-
fronted Payne and asked him to
cease his attentions to his wife, at
least until she had secured a di.
vorce.
Payne told him that he did not
know what he was talking about,
kellogg said.
Pleaded With Wife
Returning to his wife's apartment
that same night. tne statement
reads, kellogg told his wife he was
going to seek a court order reducing
his alinony. which he had beer
paying voluntarily heretofore, nj
alleged.
His wife pleaded with him moi
to do this saying 1t would cause
unpleasant publicity.
"All right, ! am a fool but will
keep on paying you $176." he re
piled, according to his statement
About a week ago." the state
ment continued, II received an
anonymous telephone message. fol.
lowing which I decided to watch
the apartment. On two occasions
I followed my wife as she left the
apartment house accompanied by a
man, on one of which I followed
her to a nearby park and overheard
the conversation.
Decided to See Payne
81 went to my wife and re,
monstrated with her--then decided
to see Payne When relnon
strated with Payne Ahs prefessed moi
to know what I was talking about
Yesterday afternoon I again wen'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
UNIVERSITIES TO DEBATE

CHAPEL HILL. n. c., May IS
The University of North Carolina
and Johns Hopkins University meet
here tonight in debate on the ques-
ton Of whether the Tinted States
should cease to interiors, With
armed forces in Latin America.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
WOMAN GETS BAIL

POTTSTOWN. Pa, May 1S.--Late
tonight Mrs. Edna Rubright. OF
Stove, who shot her husband with
A. revolver, was, released in $4,000
bail b. permission from Montgopn'
cry County authoratiea
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
/ Saw Couple on Street

On the first night. he said he
saw the couple walking down Euclid
night he followed his wife, accord.
ing to the statement, and saw her
meet Payne In the park at Six.
teentla and Euclid Streets,
h saw Payne kiss Mrs. Kellogg,
be said. and overheard him ask her
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18

wall of the house caved in. = The
second bomb did less damage, only
wrecking the rear porch.
Elliott, his wife. Dele: their
daughter. Gertrude. Il: their son,
Robert. jr.. 81, and cousin, Thomas
Lang, 26. We're in bed at the time.
They were thrown to the floor and
covered with debris, but none was
injured.
Elliott is the official executioner
of New York State. He also Off
ciates in that capacity in Massa-
chusetts and Pennsylvania. When
Sacco and Vanzetti were condemned
to die in August %, 1927, in the
Massachusetts S state pris o n at
Charleston. Elliott was selected as
execntioner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-18
Byrd Holds Audience
AS Firemen Fight
Fire Overhead
q 1nternatlonnl &c. serviee


PLA1NFIELD. N. j., May IS.
Neither intense heat nor the cold
of the Arctic regions holds any
terrors for Comdr. Richard e.
Byrd.
Just as he was to, begin an
illustrated lecture on the stage OF
the Plainfield High School last
night, fire broke out in the stage
hangings over his head. While
firemen who were in the audience
fought the blaze, Commander
Byrd held his ground on the
stage and treasured his audience
of 1000 men and women that
there was no danger.
The members of the audience
kept their seats, and after fire
men had subdued the flames, the
explorer began his lecture on his
flight to the Arctic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
MRS. GOLDEN DEAD
Wife of Former City Pastor
to Be Buried in Ohio.

Mrs. Frances Golden, rs, of the
Hanover College faculty, and wife of
the Rev. Frank o. Ballard, died
Sunday morning at st. Vincent's
Hospital She will be buried at
Athens, Ohio. The Rev. Ballard
was former pastor of Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
Funeral services will be held at 8
this evening at the Flanner e.
Buchanan mortuary. DR.. william
A. Mills, president of Hanover Col
lege, officiating.
Mrs. Ballard lived in Indianapolis
twenty-four years during her hus-
bands pastorate and later moved to
Hanover, where the Rev. Ballard
taught a course in English Bible at
the college
Surviving are: her husband, a
brother, William Nelson Golden of
Pittsburgh, Pa; three sons, Felix
Foster, Birmingham, Ala; William
Reed, New York City; Roger Kings
ley Ballard, Chicago; and a
daughter, Mrs. David F. Smith, In
dianapolis, and eight grandchildren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
REPORTS ON SITES
Locations for City Airport
Recommended. !

Recommendations of A. P. Talia-
ferro, Department of Commerce
airport expert, on the proposed mu-
nicipal airport, approving several
sites under consideration, have been
received by the Chamber of Com
merce.
Mayor l.. Ert Stacks airport COM
mittee and the G. of G. industrial
commission will meet this week to
consider the report.
1t was recommended that the site
be south to northwest of the city
to avoid coal smoke; that it be cas-
lily accessible by road. street car and
other means; that it be sufficiently
large for expansion but not directly
in the path of the citys growth.
Other recommendation con-
cerned: Absence of wires, trees and
built-up factory or residential sys-
TENS, available emergency fields
nearby, drainage, initial cost, avail
ability of water, electricity. gas and
sewerage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Liqht Air Route

Lighting of the c.A4cinnati- Chi
cago air mail 70. e from Lafayette,
Ind, to Chicago, ;FhNs 'een started
by the Postoff1ce Department, &C
cording to information received by
the Chamber of Commerce from
the Embry-Riddle Company, Gin
cinnati, air mail contractors.
The Embry-Riddle Company, in
q telegram, asked the chamber to
use its influence to have the airway
lighted all the way from Cincin-
natl to Chicago. Beacon lights are
to be placed every ten miles.
In order to maintain the present
schedule through the winter, the
telegram said, it is necessary the
route be entirely lighted.
Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, who
on a recent visit to Washington, D.
c., requested that the route be
lighted from indianapolis to Chi
cago, Friday wrote the Postofflce
Department asking the entire route
be marked with night-fying beacon
lights.
Under the present schedule, the
air mail plane leaves Indianapo-
lis for Chicago at 6:15 p. m. day
light saving time daily, returning
early in the morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Plane Speeds Fzo7OerS to
Dealer Here From Utah
Picked This Afternoon, Will
: Arrive Tuesday in
Fresh Condition.

One of the first long-distance de-
liveries of flowers by air to an In
dianapolis firm is found in a ship
ment due here Tuesday noon, con-
signed to the Bertermann Brothers
Company, local florists. The local
firm recently placed an order with
growers in Ogden, Utah, for 1000
sweet peas, to be delivered to Chi
cago in a specially chartered plane,
and trans-shipped to the regular
air mail for delivery here.
The shipment of flowers will reach
Indianapolis less than twenty-four
hours after the blooms we're picked,
near Ogden, this afternoon, and the
altitude of the plane will serve to
keep them completely fresh for de-
livery.
The light weight of flowers. and
their perishable nature, make them
especially suitable for air transport.
local air experts declare, and a
widespread canvass of flower firms,
as exceptionally good prospect for
business, is planned.
MANY other businesses are over
looking a good bet in not adopting
air transport as solution for SINH
lar problems" Donald Mcconnell.
local representative of the Embry-
Riddle Company, air mail contrac-
tors, said in commenting on the
Bertermann shipment. "Air transport
is real factor in the shipping in
dustry Of the country, and is past
the formative and experimental
stage. Europe has a well-deyeloped
commercial air service now, but the
possibilities overseas are not nearly
so great, and it is in long flights that
the airplane does its most remark
able work. These flowers, shipped
by fast express, would take more
than two days longer to reach here
than they do now when transported
by plane"
The firm in Ogden, the Artistic
Floral Company, has a plane which
deliverers 100000 flowers on one
trip, at a total cost of but $780, call
ing at Denver, Chicago, Cincinnati
and Kansas City. Flowers are re-
distributed from jobbing houses in
these cities. The total cost of de-
livery to the retailer is little more
than cent apiece.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Aviation =
new AIR MAIL
RATES MAY spur
ALL-PLANE ERA
Displacement of Trains by
Speedier Routes Looms
as Possibility.
BY RUTH FINNEY

WASHINGTON. lg. 6.-The en-
tire postal system of the United
States may be revolutionized If peo-
pie who use the mails respond en-
Enthusiastically to the new f1ve-cent
air mail rate.
Although the new rate has been
in effect less than week the POST
Office Department already has re-
ceived inquiries from large num-
Der of railroads asking for data on
the popularity of air mail under the
f1ve-cent stamp.
Planes May Replace Trains
This indicates officials believe,
that if it proves people are prefer
ring to pay five cents for fast mail
service instead of two cents for slow
service, the larger railroads will in
augurate air mail lines of their own,
and bid in competition with the in
dependent companies now holding
contracts for air mail delivery.
Thus, within year or two, it
may be that all mail will travel
through the air, with postal clerks
sorting it in fast moving airplanes
instead of railway mail cars; with
the time of transportation cut in
half, and with danger of mail rob-
berries eliminated except at relay
points on the ground.
Volume TripIed
The first step toward putting
clerks in planes now carrying mail
has already been taken, and Post
master General New reports he has
been deluged with applications for
the adventuresome new jobs.
During the first day or two of the
five-cent rate, the air mail tripled
in volume.
The department feels how ever.
that it is too slow to make an accur-
ate estimate of what permanent eff
feet the low rates will have. Word
has been received that many of the
larger users of mail intend to more
than double their air mailings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
KIDNAP Driver
IN TAXI WAR
300 Arrested in Detroit
Outbreaks.
BIZ United Press

bW DHUen PFess
DETROIT, Aug. 5,-A United Cab
Company driver was beaten into in
sensibility and kidnapped by band
of six men this morning, officials Of
the company reported to police.
The driver was carried away in a
large sedan carrying an Ohio Ii
cense, but the United Company
officials were certain the kidnapers
we're employees of rival cab COM
pany.
Several companies are engaged in
a taxi cab war here, which has re-
suited in more than 300 arrests. nu-
merous sluggings and sabotage of
taxicabs. Fifty of the United COM
panys 400 cabs have been over
turned or otherwise damaged in
four days, that company reported
and forty-fve cabs of the Checker
Company's feet of 300 have been
damaged.
The United and smaller COM
panies have not yet reduced their
charges to the FIVE cents a third
mile rate announced by the Checker
Company last week. One cab pas
senger was stoned Sunday and
scores of drivers have been injured
by flying bricks.
Motors have been smashed with
sleoge hammers, upholstering
slashed, windows broken and stencil
bombs tossed into cabs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Nav Jupiter in u. S.

According to advices received here
today, it was authoritatively stated
that Bristol Airplane Company,
Ltd, of Bristol, Eng, designers and
manufacturers of the Bristol and
Jupiter airplane engines, are closing
negotiations with an American firm
for the manufacture and distribu-
ton of the famous Jupiter aero en-
CINE in the United States and its
territories.
While the name of the American
firm was not made public, it was
understood that it was a prominent
manufacturer here, who expects to
get the engine under large produc-
ton in the immediate future, and
their engineers have been studying
Bristol production methods and as
senbly operations in the British
plant for some time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
AIR PROGRESS
DISCUSSED BY
HOOVER, DAVIS
Nominee Talks Over Plans
for Development With
War Chief.
BY PAUL r. MALLON


, PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug. 6.-Plans
for further development of air navi-
CATION we're discussed today by Her.
bert Hoover. Republican presidential
nominee. and Secretary of War
Dwight Davis. the two cabinet off,
GERS most interested in advance
ment of air transportation.
Hoover believer the United
States in the future will demand
speedy air transport Service. The
candidate has taken q deep interest
in development of new aeronautical
methods.
Davis brought the nominee a RE
port of progress in the Army avia-
ton division The War Secretary,
who is on the way to Honolulu to at
tend the Cook sesquicentennial ex-
position, flew here from Los Angeles
with Lieut.. Lester Maitland, trans
Pacific fier. He told Hoover of adj
vances made in Army aviation and
predicted the service would be the
greatest in the world as soon as ap-
preparations made by Congress can
be spent.
The War Secretary was the only
calleA of the day at the Hoover
Campus headquarters. The ncmi-
nee went into retirement after he
completed his acceptance speech
Saturday. He is preparing, he said,
to take a motor trip through the
Yosemite valley. He probably will
start from Pslo Alto Tuesday eve
ming, spending two days in the ma
tional park.
Returning here Thursday, Hoover
will meet DR.. Hubert Work. chair
man of the notification committee,
and others who are coming here
for the acceptance speech Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
COURTNEY and
CREW LAND IN
GOTHAM TODAY
Liner With Rescued British
Ace and Companions Is
Due This Afternoon.
BIZ Tnited Presa

81 CNttSU FT6SS
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-The At
1antic transport liner Minnewaska
neared port today with Capt
Frank T. Courtney and his three
companions, rescued last Thurs
day when their airship, the Whale,
was forced down in the Atlantic
on an attempted flight across the
ocean from the Azores.
The Minnewaska was not due to
dock until late today, because of
the delay due to turning out of her
course to effect the rescue. Grover
Whalen, head of the city welcoming
committee, planned to meet the
ship and escort the f1iers from the
Battery to city hail.
Courtney with E. B. Hosmer, his
millionaire Canadian hacker; Fred
Pierce and H. w. Gilmour were re-
ported in good condition after their
narrowing experience of waiting in
their burned plane, their radio
power gone, for almost ten hours
while transatlantic vessels sped to
their aid.
Three other vessels that aided in
the search for Courtney'S airplane,
will dock today. They are the
North German Lloyd liner Column
bus, the Red Star liner Pennland,
and the Dollar liner President
HAYES.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Indy Escapes Crowds

By CHted Press
NEW YORK, Aug. Cool. Charles
A. Lindbergh has developed a new
ruse to avoid the crowds who
throng to the flying field every time
he arrives.
He landed at Mitchell field Sun
day after a tour in behalf of the
Transcontinental Air TRANSPORT
Inc, and there was a motor car at
each end of the field. Crowds were
at the field as usual.
Two women accompanied Lind
bergh. Although their identity has
not been learned, it was reported
one was his mother. They ran to
one automobile. Lindbergh ran to
another. The crowd was divided
and the transatlantic flier escaped
without the usual reception.
He was reported at the home of
Harry Guggenheim at Port Wash
ington today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Flies to St. Louis

M. c., Loutt, Indianapolis, travel
ing representative of Kendall Re-
f1ning Company, Bradford pa,
flew to ST. Louis today in his Chal-
lenger biplane.
Loutt who visited both Indian
apoliS ana doosier a1rports 5atur-
day, will stop at airports in prin-
cipal cities on the way to Los An
gtles to arrange oil supplies for
f1iers in the transcontinental air
plane race from New York to Los
Angeles early in September to be
held in connection with the Los
Angeles national air races.
Among pilots in the transcon-
tinental race will he George Halde-
man.
Loutt is on the air race reception
committee. He flew here Saturday
from Louisville, KY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
ESTABLISHES SchoIarships

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Aug. g.
To perpetuate memories of sacri-
flee by American soldiers in the
World War, five scholarships to In
diana University have been awarded
under terms of the will of LaVerne
Noyes. Chicago philanthropist. The
scholarships cover contingent fees
of the university amounting to
about $40 each for the coming year.
Only World War veterans or their
direct descendants are eligible. APP
plications are now being received.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
BELIEVES Staying SON
DRUGGED BY ENEMIES
Mother of Edinburg Police Officer
Makes Statement.
BIZ Times SpccidI

BIZ Times Special
EDINBURG. Ind, Aug. 6.-PoSsi-
bility that James Glass, "a, deputy
of w. G. Milburn, preacher marshal
here, was under the influence of a
drug when he shot and killed Earl
Jackson, 81. a week ago, is expressed
by the young officers mother, Mrs.
A. c. Glass, Greenwood.
The mother tod officers at
Franklin, where Glass has been held
since the shooting, that her son can
remember nothing that happened
after he struck Jackson on the head
with a revolver, used a few minutes
later in firing the fatal shot. She
asserts his inability to remember in
dicates he had been drugged.
Jackson was shot after being ar
rested by Glass who said he was
drunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
FIY to Guard Camp

Members of 18th Observation
Squadron, Indiana National Guard,
left Sunday by airplane and bus for
Camp Knox, KY, for the annual
to weeks encampment.
Most of the squadron made the
trip in buses, which left the Ma
tional Guard Armory about 3 a. m.
Pilots and passengers who left
indianapolis airport about $3.50 a.
m. Sunday in National Guard air.
planes for camp, were; Consoli-
dated OH biplane. Maj. R. F. Tay-
lor. squadron commander. pilot, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Still Hope for AmundSen

By united Press
PARIS, Aug. 6. = The French
government has not yet given up
hope that Rene Guilbaud and
Roald Amundsen, who we're lost in
a flight to rescue the Italia crew.
are safe, the dispatch boat Ailette
has left Cherbourg for Bergen to
reload and provision the cruiser
Strasbourg that is searching in the
Arctic area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06

Major General Tyndall, camp COM
handing officer, passenger; OIL
biplane, Capt. Oliver Stout, pilot, and
Lieut.. Earl c. Halstead, Indianapolis
flying cop, passenger; Curtiss Oil.
Capt. George w. Vawter, pilot, and
Lieut.. Raymond Barbin, passenger;
Oil, Capt, Earl Sweeney, pilot, and
passenger; PIT biplane, Lieut.. John
Deter, pilot, no passenger; PT-1,
Lieut.. Cecil Reynolds, pilot, and
Sergt. Harry Mum, passenger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
In theAir.

CONDITIONS AT $3.50 A. NJ.
Compiled tor The Times by Government
Weather Observer j H. Arlington and
Donald Mcconnell. Government aeron-
autical observer
Northwest wind, miles an hour; baro-
metric pressure, 31.12 at sea level;
temperature, rs; ceiling, 800 feet; visibility,
3 miles; fog coming down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-06
Teeth for Fish

By United Press
HULL, Mass, Aug, 4.-John
Barry, amateur fisherman, has
asked police to keep an eye out
for his missing false teeth.
While fishing of Boston
Light, a fish tugged hard at his
line. In the struggle that fol-
lowed, Barry became excited
and yelled to a companion. AS
he did so, his false teeth popped
out and sank in the sea.
In reporting his loss to police,
Barry said the worst of it was
that he lost the FISH, too.