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Evening star., 1928-01-12
GROUP ENDORSES
BILL FOR AIRPORT
Beard of Trade Committee
Urges Early Start Be
Made on Project.

Nisualizing the possibility Of great
DEVELOPMENT Of commercial air trans
roriation 10 and from Washington in
The next decade. the newly organized
aviation committee uf the Washington
Board Of Trade yesterday afternoon
Endorsed the hill drafted by the Dis
trict Commissioners authorizing the
establishment Of a municipal airport
on tn, Gravelly Point site.
Holding that the tremendous growth
in aviation now in progress in the
United States is making provision of
adequate airpcrtS and landing fields a
real necessity. the committee urged
that an carly start he made on the
development OF a local airport and
authorized appointment Of special
subcommittee TO study its cost and the
amount which should he appropriated
year by year until the project is COM
.pleted.
The action by the committee FOL
lowed an outline Of the plans OF Dis,
trict officials for the airport presented
TO the committee by Maj. W. +. f.
Ccvell. Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner. who last Summer made sur
vey Of sites of the proposed District
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
VVid070 S0bs Denial of G1tilt in
Killing Her Husband With Knife

trial was resumed this afternoon.
T. Ernest Mahorm, the widows
attorney, tried to show that a con-
fession of hers, introduced by the
State Monday, was obtained under
duress. Mrs. Carson denied the
paper was read to her by detectives,
and said she signed 1t because she
was threatened with the electric
chair.
Defense witnesses today were M.
M. Mahoney, treasurer of Moose
lodge and Mrs. Mahoney; James
Anderson, lodge secretary; his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Beulah An
derson; Louis Laker and Charles
Laker, brothers of the woman on
trial, and Mrs. Mary E. Clark, jail
matron.
Mrs. Carson is on trial for volun-
tary manslaughter.
The trial moved swiftly Monday,
the first day. A jury was completed
by noon, and before adjournment
the State had finished its case.
Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack
introduced as a States exhibit the
butcher knife, used in cutting sand
wich bread at CarSon's counter, with
which the State alleges the woman
stabbed her husband Just above the
heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Witness for Oil Man Admits
Taking 7-Day Trip on
Private Car.
ADVISED FALL TO LEASE
Balm, Mine Bureau Director,
Is on Stand for Defense
in Trial.
BY HERBERT LITTLE

United Press Stan COrresDOndent
WASHINGTON, April II. - The
Government attacked testimony of
major defense witness in the
Harry F. Sinclair conspiracy trial
today by showing that H. Foster
Balm, mine bureau director, who ad-
vised leasing of Teapot Dome, spent
seven days on Sinclair's private car.
BruSk, abrupt questions by Prose-
cutor Owen j. Roberts, elected this
from Balm after Balm told the jury
that he and others had advised Fall
the naval reserve was in serious
danger of being drained.
Roberts also got Balm to admit he
never told the Senate Teapot Dome
Committee what he testified for
the defense today-that he and Fall
considered leasing Teapot Dome to
Gulf and Pure Oil companies, but
rejected them because it might en-
barraSs Secretary of Treasury
Mellon, of Gulf, and Vice President
Dawes, then budget director and a
Pure Oil stockholder.
Attack Bain's CredibiIity
Balm testified for the defense that
Fall threw aside" any suggestion
that Standard Oil companies be in
vited to bid because their Standard
Midwest interests already had a
dominant position, if not a near
monopoly" on Wyoming oil.
A Government attack on the
cfedibility of Balm elected a state
ment from the witness that when
he advised Senator Kendrick, Wyom-
ing, on April 10, 1922, that Teapot
Dome had not been leased, he knew
that Fall and Sinclair had signed
the lease on April Z. Secretary of
Navy DENLY signed it April IL.
Rebutting the Government, Sin
clair lawyers brought out that Rani's
seven-day ride in Sinclair's private
car was in October, 1922-six months
after the lease. 1t was an official
inspection trip" of the oil fields,
Balm said.
Testimony striking at Harry F.
Sinclair's defense in his conspiracy
trial weS offered at a hearing of the
Senate Teapot Dome committee to-
day.
TestifieS on Memorandum
Clarence Chase of Ell Paso. Texas.
son-in-law of Albert B. Fall, tes-
titled that Fall himself probably
prepared a mysterious unsigned
memorandum found in the commit
tees files several years ago.
The memorandum appeared in
unexplained manner while the
committee was investigating Falls
lease of Teapot Dome.
1t described as a Joke" the idea
that Fall was to start a hunting
lodge with Sinclair at the Three
Rivers, N. M, ranch.
In subsequent oil trials Sinclair's
defense is that he gave $233, 900 Lib
erty bonds to Fall, not as "bribe"
for the lease, but to buy an one
third share in the ranch whereon
such lodge was to be built.
Fall himself has taken similar
position.
Therefore, committee members
were surprised at ChaSe'S testimony.
Chase said Fall was the only man
who knew enough of the facts at the
time to prepare such a memoran-
dunn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
HINT At Jury
TAMPERING IN
JACKSON CASE
S. H. Colbert Called Before
Grand Jury; Mystery
ShroudS Quiz.

Samuel H. Colbert, Negro truck
farmer, Wayne Township, one of the
jurors who upon courts instructions,
found Governor Ed Jackson not
guilty in his conspiracy trial in Feb
ruary, today was called before the
Marion County grand jury.
Prosecutors refused to discuss Col
berts appearance, but it was un-
derstood that the grand jury was
inquiring into a report that an at
tempt was made before the Jack
son trial opened to approach Col
bert, then only a prospective Juror,
as to his attitude toward the case.
Confers With Remy
Colbert appeared at Prosecutor
William H. Remys Office about 9
a. III. After half an hour oil confer
ence, Colbert went before the jury.
Later Remy, with a sheaf Of notes in
his hands, went before the jury.
Governor Jackson was found not
guilty of conspiracy to bribe former
Governor Warren T. McCray when
Special Judge Charles M. McCabe of
Charlottesville instructed the jury
that the State had not proved that
the alleged conspiracy had extended
to time within the statute of linz
itationS.
The jury, accordingly went out
and Immediately returned with not
guilty verdict.
Would Be in Coffin Panel
At the time the State and de-
fense questioned the talesmen for
the jury, Colbert was subjected to
the same minute examination as
to his past life and connections, as
were all other prospective jurors.
Nothing indicating that he had
talked with anyone about the case
was developed.
Colbert is a member of the regular
panel and as such would be called
as prospective juror for the trial
of George v. Coffin, Republican
county chairman, charged with the
same offense as Jackson, set for May
2 before Special Judge McCabe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
SUZANNE MAY WE'D
RICH CALIFORNIAN
Baldwin Returning to U. S.
for Divorce, Rumor
Along Riviera.

By United Press
NICE, France, April 17.-Baldwin
M. Baldwin, California millionaire,
intends to marry Suzanne Lengler
after all, according to rumors cir
culated here.
Baldwin is said to have left the
Riviera, after visiting the Lenglen
family here, and is returning to the
United States for the reported pur-
pose of obtaining a divorce.
After that he will return to
France and, according to the
rumors, marry the incompatible
Suzanne, queen of the tennis
courts"
Both Suzanne and her parents re-
fuse to comment on the rumors.
Baldwin long has known the Len
glens. He returned to France from
the United States at the same time
Suzanne did, in February, 1927.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
?. 7. A. FIGHTS
RETIREMENT
OF TEACHERS
Protest Meeting Held and
Petition Circulated to
Aid Ida B. Geary.
MOVE CALLED UNJUST
School Board Faces Clash
on 0uSting Veteran
Instructors.

A petition asking that Miss Ida
B. Geary, principal Of School 49,,
Lexington and State Aves., be re-
tained by the school board was be-
ing circulated today, following a pro-
test meeting held by the Parent
Teacher Association Monday night
at the Victory Memorial Protestant
Methodist Church, Woodlawn and
Villa AYES.
Similar protest meetings in other
school districts where veteran teach
ers may be retired are expected.
Names of about 200 parents al
ready have been affixed to the petit
ton, which is to be presented to
the school board at the next meet
ing, when the board plans to take
action on an automatic old age
teacher retirement rule.
Call Move Unjust
1--WE are not attempting to tell
the school board what to do, but we
do feel that an injustice is being
done Miss Geary in retiring her at
this time" Mrs. Carl N. Hadley, 1851
English Ave, association president
said.
Miss Geary is 68 years old, but is
as healthy and active as a teacher
of 40 years, and she has expressed a
desire to continue for at least
another year.
ITO my knowledge, she hasn't
missed day of school in years.
Why couldn't the board have called
these teachers before it and dis
cuss the matter, giving them an op-
portunity to retire quietly, without
making the matter public?"
Board members we're criticised for
their retirement plans: 1t was
stated the board planned to make
tIle-~rute~aine4t4ele all teachers who
are SO years old, without including
the proposed forty-year service
clause.
Union Fight Promised
Frank Cramer, member of the
Boilermakers' Union, declared Com
missioner Charles w. Kern, as busi-
ness agent of the Sheet Metal Work
ers' Union, for years has been fight
ing retirement of older union men,
bers.
''Now he Is reversing himself en-
tirely in the old age idea, wanting to
retire these veteran teachers be-
cause of cid age. The matter will
be brought up at union meeting"
Until 1 prove the information
have, I won't give names" he said.
However, I understand that a
woman is leading this move and has
declared she was going to get these
old teachers who wouldn't cater to
her at one time"
A number of parents spoke at the
meeting, praising Miss Geary and
telling of their children's love for
her and their desire to have her
think well of them. Many of the
parents were Miss Geary's former
pupils.
A vote on whether she should be
retained resulted In every person
present, both adults and children,
raising their hands in eager assent.
Miss Geary has taught in Indian
apolis for thirty-seven years, Of
which eighteen years have been
spent at School 80.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Scared? NeUer
State Dancing Cham
pionS Recover From
ShiverS; On to Chi

INDIANA champions in the Ma
L tional Eccentric Dance contest
that's thrill.
The first time outside the
State of Indiana alone-that'S an
even bigger thrill.
Those were the two thrills that
chased little shiverS up and down
the backs of John and lone TVl-
lis, % S. Neal ST., today when
they left on the noon train for
Chicago to enter the national
dance contest in the Trianon
ballroom Wednesday night
The brother and the sister have
been together since childhood.
Never have they been separated
from each other and their mother
and father. OF course they have
travelled. Once they went to Ohio
with their mother, and again they
journeyed into Illinois. Again with
their mother.
Several weeks ag othey won first
place in preliminary contest at
the Indiana ballroom under di-
rection of The indianapolis Times.
They though they didn't have a
chance to win the big prize. But
they did, last Thursday night.
n
IN their first burst of enthu-
Il siasm they forgot that they
had to leave home and mother to
face twenty-nine couples from
other cities in the national title
fight.
When they did realize what it
cant for them, they were scared
TO death.
won't it be awfully cold in
Chicago?" asked lone.
And who will take care Of us?"
echoed John.
When assured by George F.
Florey, managing director of the
Indiana Ballroom, that everything
had been prepared for their recep-
ton, they were satisfied.
When the brother and sister
climbed on the train at noon to-
day, lone turned to The Times
representative with, "Say, Mr.. Re
porter, we're not afraid now. And
we'll bring back that big silver
loving cup with us, too. Good-by.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
TRACK DELAYS
CARS FINAL TESTS

Drivers of the Stutz Black Hawk
and Hispano-Suiza cars today
awaited improved weather before
making final tests for the interna-
tional twenty-four hour race that
is to be run off at the Speedway
Wednesday and Thursday. Both
cars were on the track Monday
night to accuStom the drivers to
night driving.
Flood lights are being placed on
the curves to aid the drivers. G.
T. Weyman, owner of the foreign
entry, and Robert Bloch, relief
driver, pushed the car over the
bricks Monday afternoon in what
some said was near record stock
car time
If rssA continues today the track
will d31 overnight and Speedway
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
BREMEN READY
TOMORROW TO
LEAVE ISLAND
KoehI Sends Word Flight
Will Be Attempted;
Goal Unknown.
IRISH FLIER TAKES OFF
FitzmauriCe Is Expected in
Quebec Some Time
Today.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
MONTREAL, Quebec, April IT.
Determined on flying their sturdy
Junkers airplane Bremen to Mitchell
Field, L. L, Capt. Hermann Koehl
and Baron Gunther Won Huenfeld
hoped to take-off from ice-bound
Greenly Island Wednesday morn
ing.
A message was received here from
Koehl saying that the attempt to
fly out of the icy territory, on which
they were forced to land Friday,
would be made. He gave no de-
tails.
Fitzmaurice Takes Off
Koehl and Won Huenfeld re-
manned at Greenly Island even
though Major James Fitzmaurice,
their comrade on the thrilling trans
Atlantic venture, left Monday with
Duke Schiller, the Canadian relief
pilot. 1t was presumed they had
continued repairs on the Bremen,
which was damaged when the
forced landing was made last Fri
day.
The message from Koehl gave no
indication what destination would
be selected for the Wednesday flight
or whether the two daring Germans
would attempt to make their tri-
umphal tour straight down to New
York.
Major Fitzmaurice and G. A.
Duke Schiller are understood to
have started from Natasquan for
Murray Bay. They should arrive
there this afternoon.
According to present plans, Fitz-
maurice will go from Murray Bay
to Quebec City by special train.
Fitzmaurice had intended to go to
New York to get parts needed to
make repairs on the German plane
Bremen, in which he flew with his
two German companions across the
Atlantic.
1t is now believed, however, that
with the arrival here of the Junkers
plane with Miss Herta Junke-s,
daughter Of the Bremen's designer,
Fitzmaurice will change his plans.
Miss Junkers said today she did
not know whether to fly to Quebec
or Murray Bay to meet Fitzmaurice
or to await him in Montreal.
Work in Freezing Cold
United Press reports from Point
Amour told how the two Germans
Koehl and Won Huenfeld-worked
in freezing cold to repair their
transatlantic plane. They were re-
ported to be almost exhausted from
the trying hours of the flight acnoss
the Atlantic and subsequent repair
work at bleak, wind swept GreenIy
Island.
Meanwhile the task Of getting
word Of these three air adventures
the first to make a westward
crossing Of the Atlantic-becane
more and more difficult.
The strong winds seriously de-
layed communications.
The little Point Amour station has
been deluged with business and the
messages. to and from the fliers
have piled up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17

officials say because of the banked
track it should dry in about two
hours of clear weather. If it is
raining at l p. m. Wednesday, the
time set for the start, the race
probably will be postponed few
hours if there is any chance for
improved weather. If the inclement
weather continues, the race will be
postponed until p. m. Thursday.
The race will be broadcast at 6
p. m. Wednesday and Thursday to
English and French followers over
WGY, General Electric Company's
radio station at Schenectady, N. Y.
WFBM, Indianapolis Power and
Light Company station, will give
hourly bulletins Wednesday after
noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Suicide Defense Indicated;
CoIIapSeS at Mention
of Wedding.

Mrs. Clara Carson, 25, of 1888 S.
Meridian ST., on trial in Criminal
Court for Staying her husband,
Joseph Carson, 35, denied the fatal
stabbing, from the witness stand to-
day.
Sobbing intermittently and COL
lapsing at the mention of their we'd
ding in October, 1926, Mrs. Carson
told the jury that her husband
struck her to the floor at a drinking
party Feb. II, and the next thing
she knew he was staggering to the
telephone to call the police, blood
spouting from his breast.
The inference was left that her
defense will center around the pos
sibility that Carson, operator of
sandwich stand in Moose Hall, 135
N. Delaware ST., committed suicide
after a slight family argument" "
Testimony today included the
statements that when Carson was
drinking, he was morose and mel
and had threatened to
commit suicide at such times.
Mrs. Carson's direct testimony
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
H. w. Buchanan SuCCumbs
at Hospital; Councilman
With Shank.

Heydon w. Buchanan, 45, of 1884
w. Morris ST., city councilman dur
ing the last Shank administration,
died at st. Vincent's Hospital at
800 today.
Coroner c. H. Keever declared
death was due to pneumonia, after
post mortem.
There was no evidence Of poison,
Keever said. First reports at the
hospital were that Buchanan had
taken poison and inhaled chloro-
form.
Before he was taken to the hos
pital last Wednesday, Buchanan
had taken some chloroform to ease
the pain from an abscess on one
lung, members of his family said,
but there was no evidence that this
was a cause of death, Keever de-
clared.
Buchanan, an undertaken, had
been i'll and suffering from nervous
troubles for several years. Police
said he twice had attempted to end
his life. His first wife ended her
life two and a half years ago.
Buchanan formerly was active in
Democratic affairs. He also was
active in a number of lodges. He
was member of the Baptist church
and the Masonic lodge.
Besides the widow he Is survived
by four sons, Heydon Jr., IA;
Charles, IL; James, Z, and Marion S;
daughter, Ethel May, Z; two
sisters, Mrs. Harry L. Dickinson and
Mrs. Mary McAra, and his mother,
Mrs. Neavada Buchanan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
FLOOD CONTROL
BATTLE STARTS
U. S. Must Bear Whole
Cost, Reid Declares.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 17.-Protec-
ton of Mississippi valley residents
from destructive floods will be i'm
possible unless the Federal Govern
ment shoulders the whole expense,
Chairman Reid of the flood control
committee declared today, in open
ing House debate on the Jones' Reid
bill.
He criticised requirement of local
contributions, advocated by Presi-
dent Coolidge in some form.
There is in the bill no provision
for local contributions" Reid said.
There can be none if Congress in
tends to protect the lives of its
citizens from these destructive
floods.
mo levee system can be effective
unless it is unified, coordinated, and
complete, and should any levee dis
trict fail to pay a contribution
necessary under the reclamation
theory the whole plan would fail.
Nearly every levee district is or
will soon be bankrupt. There is no
possible way for them to get money,
as they are unable to sell any bonds,
because of the default in bonds
already issued"
President Coolidge looks upon the
flood control bill as it passed the
Senate as the most exorbitant pro-
posal during his presidency and
possibly during the Nations history,
it was made known at the White
House today.
The President is known to look
with marked disfavor upon the vast
expendituresScalled for by the bill,
which, in his opinion, may amount
to $1.500.000,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
CASE TO
OPEN MAY IA
Date Set by Judge Garvin
After 2-Week Delay.

Earl Klinck, former aid of D. c.
Stephenson during Stephenson'S s
reign Of power in Indiana, will go
to trial for part in making a false
affidavit, May IA in Marion Crimi-
nal Court, it was decided Monday.
The date was set by Special Judge
Thomas E. Garvin, after a delay of
two weeks in which attorneys on
both sides attempted to find dates
on their calendars agreeable to all
parties.
Klinck Is charged with being ac-
cessory in the illegal use of a notary
seal. He is charged with partici-
pating in the procuring of an il
legal affidavit to the effect that
witness was paid to testify before
Senator James A. Reed that James
E. Watson carried a Klan member
ship card. 1t developed that the
signature on the reported affidavit
was forged.
Other trials in the Indiana po-
litical corruption probe set on the
current jury calendar: Martin
Frankfort, real estate dealer, former
partner of Boynton ]. Moore, un-
der two to fourteen-year sentence
for bribery, May 7; County Repub-
lican Chairman George v. Coffin,
attempt to bribe former Governor
McCray, May 2, and former Coun-
Gilman Claude E. Negley, bribery,
April 80.
Cofin's trial will be before Spe-
cial Judge Charles NJ. McCabe of
Charlottesville. Motions for change
of venue or judge have not been
filed by attorneys for Negley or
Frankfort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Coolidge Gets Word
By Unitcd Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 17.-Presi-
dent Coolidge today received the fol-
lowing telegram from the Bremen
crew at Greenly Island, via Point
Amour:
Deeply moved by your very kind
message OF congratulations The
German-Irish crew of Greman air.
plane Bremen hope to reach the
great Republic Of U. s. A. very
soon, when they will personally ex-
press their great appreciation of and
THANKS for your sympathetic inter-
est in their work"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
Gotham Plans Welcome

BIZ Trftod Pr ee
NEW YORK, April 17.-New York
began preparations today to give the
German-Irish fliers an elaborate re-
ception rivalling the one accorded
Col. Charles Lindbergh when he re-
turned from his Paris fight. Baron
Won Gunther Huenefeld, Maj. James
Fitzmaurice and Capt. Herman
Koehl will be the center of admiring
throngs for a whole week. Lunch
cons, theater parties, a water
carnival and an official dinner are
only a few Of the features on the
program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-17
BACKS BANK INTERESTS
Gary Senator BIames Democrats for
Baking Legislation.

Democratic leadership in the Leg
islature was blamed for defeat of
needed banking legislation by G.
Oliver Holmes of Gary, State Sena-
tor and Indiana Bankers Associ-
alton president, in a reply today to
charges Of Earl Crawford, candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor.
Defending the State banking de-
partment and the Office of State
treasurer, Holmes said: "Private
banking interests who are opposed
to proper supervision and regula-
ton of banks have found their
voice right along in the Legislature
through strong Democratic leader
ship. This Democratic opposition
generally has been strong enough
to defeat the much needed legisla-
ton"