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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
IDOL QUITS SPEEDWAY FOR WIFE


I Owe of a beautiful woman and
IL a chubby 4-year-old boy has
triumphed over the lure of Mis-
tress Speed.
Pete De Paolo, idol of the
Speedway race fans, has declared
that he has driven his last race.
The man who drove in 1925 the
fastest 500 miles ever made in an
autopobile has declared that he
will risk his neck no more-be-
cause his pretty wife and little
Tommy De Paolo, whose shoes
adorned his car three years ago,
when Pete won the Indianapolis
classic, need him.
De Paolo. an automotive en-
gineer of note and skill, has de-
cided he can make more money
and earn more lasting happi-
ness for himself and his little
family by pursuing the normal
life of a professional man.
The announcement was made
IN a dramatic setting.
De Paolo intended to drive in
the race Wednesday. But his car
crashed in time trials late Sat-
urday and he was injured. He
was sent to city hospital.
n y II
LIS left arm and back were
l. lwrenched and he suffered
from shock. He was improved
Wednesday morning, so DR.. Will
liam A. Doeppers, city hospital Su-
perintendent, and his nurse, Miss
Edna Caster. granted his plea that
he be permitted to see the race.
A city ambulance took him to
the track and he was carried into
the press stand on a stretcher.
Miss Caster and Mrs. Dick Dobbs,
Los Angeles, Cal, wife of the
owner of the car De Paolo was to
have driven, accompanied him,
They were the first women ever to
enter the press stand on race day.
Pete stood the ordeal of watch
ing the race for a while (and it
was an ordeal for him) and then
he tainted. He was rushed to the
Speedway hospital and revived.
It was while the driver was ly-
ing in the hospital observatory
watching the cars speed around as
best he could that the announce
ment that was through driving
came.
"It's harder to watch a race
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
DOgged Death
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, May 81
Death won a double victory
over science and the efforts of
men here.
A baby, II hours old, died
twice.
The first death" occurred
when the infant was 7 hours
old. Injections of adrenalin,
use of an inhalator, ether baths
and spanking were resorted to
by flremen, nurses and physi-
clans to revive life.
After a long struggle, a faint
wall rewarded the efforts. The
infant, born to Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Herman of Alhambra, in
a Los Angeles hospital, lived
and apparently was normal for
several hours, when it sue
cumbed again.
Firemen and the child's IA
ther gave blood for tranfusions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May 31.-Prospects
of series of big mergers in the
AUTOMOBILE industry caused con-
centration on motor shares in the
New York Stock Exchange today.
Shares of Chrysler and Dodge,
whose companies just announced a
consolidation, sold off in profit
taking.
The Chrysler-Dodge combination
is believed to be the forerunner OF a
series of mergers to build a COM
pany equal to or greater than Cen
eral Motors and Ford. The new
unit would embrace not only other
motor firms, but manufacturers of
automobile equipment as well.
1t was learned confidently today
that a merger is under way to in
clude the Jordan, REQ and Pierce
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
0BREG0N'S CHIEF AID
DISMISSED IN SCANDAL
General jose Alvarez Is Accused in
Silk Smuggling Plot.

General jose Alvarez Is Accused in
Silk Smuggling Plot.
By United Press
MEXICO CITY, May 31.-Gen,
Jose Alvarez, chief of the presiden-
tial staff and long considered one
of President Gales closest advisers,
has been dismissed from the serv-
ice and faces energetic" punish
ment for reasonable acts-thus pro-
viding Mexico City today with the
greatest scandal of the present pres
idential regime.
The noted general, who played an
important part in the governments
action against the Catholic Church,
was dismissed in connection with a
silk smuggling pot.
1t was said thai Alvarez had been
charged with forging the presidents
signature to documents permitting
entry of silks into Mexico at va
riouS border points.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

than drive it," he said, "but I'm
through. Next year I'll watch 'em
from a box"
y
DYSTANDERS we're skepcical
ID They reminded him that
other drivers have "sworn off"
only to "get the bug" as race time
drew near and break their resolu-
ton.
mo, never again." declared De
Paolo emphatically. "The family
needs me-"
The wife and child did not ac-
company Pete this year. While
his condition was reported as
only fair" due to the strain of
his stretcher ride to the race
Wednesday. he is expected to be
able to return to him home in
Los Angeles in a few days.
De Paolo did not announce
what he expects to do, but it is
understood he will resume his en-
gineering work for the REQ COM
pany at Los Angeles. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dobbs probably will accom-
pany him home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
HALL GAINS 8 VOTES

Congressman Updike Loses 81 in
Ballot Recount.
Archibald M. Hall, candidate for
Congress in the recent primary,
gained three votes and Congressman
Ralph Updike lost 81 in the check of
six precincts today by recount COM
nlissioners. The figures differed on
mutilated ballots.
In the surveyor race, Henry
Campbell incumbent, gained "a
votes and Paul Brown lost 25. Four
teen precincts of the First Ward
have been recounted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Several Bags Fall, Afire, as
Violent Storm RakeS
Pennsylvania.

BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 81
The 1928 elimination balloon race,
in which two pilots we're killed, two
injured and several bags burned in
an electrical storm was won today
by Capt. E. w. E. Keyner's Army
No. entry, which landed at
Weems, Va.
Capt. Kepner and his aid, Lieut.
w. o. Eareckson, brought their
craft to earth at 6:1O a. m. today,
nearly twelve hours after it had
taken off from Belts Field, Nc
Keesport.
The Army No. entry was the
only one of fourteen balloons which
survived the violent rain and cleo
trical storm which struck the Pitts
burgh vicinity shortly after the
start of the race.
The bags were tossed about in
the wind, struck by lightning and
forced to the ground within a few
hours after they had weighed off
from Belts Field.
Announced by Association
The landing of the Army winner
was announced by the National
Aeronautic Association in Washing
ton, which received a message from
Captain Kepner, telling Of his safe
landing a few miles from Weems.
The pilots killed we're:
Lieut.. Paul Everett of the U. S. A.
No. 3.
Walter w. Morton of the City Of
Akron.
Everetts aide, Lieutenant Ent,
escaped injury, but w. T. Van Or
man, pilot in the Akron balloon,
was injured.
Make Parachute Jumps
Morton and Van Orman we're
forced to make parachute jumps
from their balloon near Green's
burg, Pa, when the big craft was
buffeted about in the air by high
winds.
The Army balloon in which Ever
EFT and Ent we're riding was struck
by lightning near Youngstown, Pa.
Neither Everett nor Ent used his
parachute.
A third craft was struck by light
ming near Youngwood. 1t was the
City of Cleveland, piloted by j. F.
Cooper. c. K. Wollam was the as
sistant. Cooper was injured when
he rode down in the basket under
the blazing bag, but Wollam made
a parachute leap and escaped.
Balloon in Flames
The army balloon was flying low
when the lightning struck it. The
big craft suddenly burst into flames
and whirled the short distance TO
the ground. Ent remained in the
basket Of the burning craft.
The City of Cleveland, however,
was flying at 2 1000 feet altitude,
when lightning struck it. Cooper
was dazeed and Wollam could not
revive him to start a parachute
glide.
Cooper finally released the gas of
the craft and leaped overheard in
parachute at 1000 feet. Cooper
came down in the basket and was
injured, although not seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Soviet Sends Aid
BIZ United Press

Bb Ontted Press
COPENHAGEN, May 31.-Russia
today started relief measures in
tended towards learning the fate
of the dirigible Italia, last heard
from six days ago when it was re-
turning from a fight to the North
Pole.
The Soviet ice breakers Sedoff
and Lenin, both carrying several
airplanes, left from Siberian waters
on an expedition to the north from
where searching flights : will be
started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
REOPEN ATTORNEY CASE
Coroner Orders Inquest Into Death
Of Chicago Prosecutor.
BIZ United Press

BU On1t6d PfeSS
CHICAGO, May 31.-The ma
chine-gun murder of Assistant
States Attorney William A. Nc
Swiggin, one of the most notorious
killings of Chicago's gang wars,
again will come before a coroner's
jury Monday.
Coroner Oscar Wolff sent notices
to six prominent business men, who
originally began action on the case
shortly after the assassination in
April, 1926, to meet in his Office.
1t was believed that the order to
reopen the inquest was merely to
allow the coroner's case to be closed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
BALLOON RACE Is WON BY
ARMY PILOT; TWO KILLED
BY BOLTS OF LIGHTNING
TraUeL by Air

Systematized crosse continent
air-rail passenger service on an
elaborate scale soon may be-
come a reality, as the result of
joint arrangements made be-
tween big railroads and a new
aviation enterprise with which
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will
be connected.
The Times will begin Friday
a series Of four stories by w. R.
Yahner, staff correspondent,
telling of his vacation trip
across the continent in a lux
urious plane, Indianapolis be-
ing on his itinerary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
NO SWEETHEART BUT FATHER EMBRACES MEYER

son prepare his Miller Special
for the race. He had been in the
pits all day. He shed tears Of
JOY when his boy got the check
cred flag and was among the first
on the track when the winning
car rolled in.
The youth flung away a bottle
of pop, traditionally the first
thing handed winning driver,
and without leaving his seat went
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

into a close embrace with his
father.
n
IT KNEW he would win if he
Il had a good car" said the
father, who lives with Louis, his
son, Edward, Jr., a dirt track
driver, and their mother at South
Gate, Cal
"I was here last year and
watched him drive relief. So this
year helped him get his good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
RADIUM SUIT D0DGED
Attempt to Settle With Five Women
Out of Court Is Made.

Bu United Press
NEWARK, N. j., May 81
Mystery surrounded the attempt
today to settle the $1,250000 suit
brought by five women against the
United States Radium Corporation
Of Orange, U. j.
Federal Judge William Clark of
Newark, left his Office for Ian un-
known destination, although he ad-
mitted he was going to attend a
conference at which an effort would
be made to settle the cases out of
court,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
By United Press

BIZ JHifcd PrcSs
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Presi-
dent Coolidge will establish his
summer White House at Cedar Is
land Lodge" the estate Of Henry
Clay Pierce, on the Brule River,
% miles from Superior, Wis.
While no definite date has been
fixed for the Presidents departure
from Washington, it is understood
he and his official party will leave
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
FL.|ERS Speed
OVER PACIFIC
TO HONOLULU
Southern Cloud With Crew
of Four Hops for
Hawaii.
AUSTRALIA Is GOAL
Fair Weather Waits Avia-
tors on First Leg of
Air Venture.
AUSTRALIA is GOAL
BV United Press

Bp United Press
OAKLAND AIRPORT, California,
May 31.-Capt. Charles Kingsford-
Smith, accompanied by three COM
panions, started at 1858 a. m. Coast
time) on his long-delayed trans
Pacific fight, with Honolulu as the
first stop.
Kingbford Smiths plane, the
Southern Cross, got under way un-
der excellent weather conditions.
The plane was starting an at
tempt at the longest ocean flight
ever undertaken, 7,778 miles, from
California to Australia.
With Smith were Charles P. UIm.
relief pilot; Lieut. Harry Lyon, Jr.,
navigator; James Warner, radio
operator
Kingsford- Smith and Ulm are
Australian fliers of long experience,
formerly of the British royal air
force.
Lyons is a graduate of the United
States Naval Academy. Warner was
radio operator in the United States
Navy.
The giant monoplane started down
the runway at 8:46 a. m, but the
center motor went dead. Kingsford-
Smith cut off the other two motors
and the plane stopped.
The plane came back and started
again, making an easy take-off with
Kingsford-Sm at the controls.
The Southern Cross rose graceful
ly despite the seven-ton load car
ried.
) Filters Confident
Twelve hundred gallons of gaso-
line we're in the fuel tanks for the
2,400 mile first lap Of the flight.
The wings of the plane cleaned
in the morning sun, as the ship
turned to the northwest and sped
toward the open ocean past the
olden Gate. A light haze covered
the sea.
The plane will be guided during
the first part of the flight by the
radio beacon at Crissey Field, San
Francisco.
Midway between San Francisco
pick up the radio beacon at Wheeler
Field, near Honolulu. Kingsford-
Smith indicated it would take ap-
proximately twenty-five hours for
the fight to Honolulu.
I'VE will eat lunch in Honolulu
tomorrow" said Kingsford- Smith
fully confident his plane would COM
plete the 2,400-mile hop.
Abandon Life Rats
He estimated the Southern Cross
would make speed of from 95 to
100 miles an hour at the start, later
increasing its speed slightly as the
weight of the fuel load was cut
down.
The crew decided not to carry life
RATS or other safety devices on the
flight.
THAT would only increase the
weight of the plane and we will not
reed them," Kingsford-Smith said
4 hack saw was put in the cock
pit of the plane to be used in
cutting away the three heavy en-
eines in case of forced landing.
With gasoline tanks emptied by
emergency valves and the engines
cut away, Kingsford-Smith is con-
fident the lane would remain a1oat
for hours.
Garry Three Radios
Warner expected to make hourly
reports of the position of the plane
, N land stations along the Cali
fornia coast and in Hawaii and tc
ships at sea.
The plane carried three radio sets
one of them supplied with power
by storage batteries so that a mes
sage for aid could be sent out even
if the motors were disabled.
Nine vessels were reported early
today along the route. All we're ad-
vised to keep constant lookout.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

A FINE old custom of the In
4 n dianapolis Motor Speedway
nearly went by the boards on
Wednesday.
No fair women rushed to the
track to kiss Louis Meyer, the
winning driver. But he was
kissed, nevertheless, by his father
Edward Meyer, Sr, came here
several weeks ago to help his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31

car. And Louis won because he
knew what was under the hood
and how to treat it. He drove a
race that proves something be-
sides the mechanism deserves
praise for victory.
'You know, Louis lives a clean
life. Otherwise he could not have
driven this race without relief
and been as far from exhaustion
as he is"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
GEORGE ADE JOINS IN
DRY MEASURE BATTLE
Hoosier Author to Help in Move to
Repeal Law.

George Ade of Brook, the Indiana
author, is one of twenty-one new
members of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, accord
ing to a United Press dispatch from
Washington today.
Pierre S. Du Pont, chairman OF
the association, announced that the
body would work for the repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment and
substitution of legislation to regu-
late the distribution of liquor. He
said the dictatorship will be in
creased to 200 members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
GOVERNOR IN N. J. SEEKS
WAY TO HELP FARMERS
Calls Meeting of Business, Rural
Men to AnaIyze Depression.

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., May 31.-Gov-
ernor A. Harry Moore said today, he
had called a conference to be held
in the State capitol June S to
analyze the cause of agricultural
depression in New Jersey and to
find some means of alleviating
present conditions.
That is the first definite effort
made to give concerted aid to
agriculture in the State by business
men, bankers and farmers.
The program includes discussion
of better marketing, development of
city markets, establishment of
standard grades of milk, eradication
of tuberculosis in cattle, control of
insect invasions and need for rural
electrification.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
COOLIDGE TO 0FFICIATE

bU ORtteH FTcSS
WASHINGTON, May 31.-Presi-
dent Coolidge will lay the, corner
stone of the new $685., 900 American
Red Cross building here this after
noon. The building will be dedi-
Gated "to the heroic women of the
World War"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
Confer on Lincoln Drive

State Conservation Director Rich
ard Lieber- conferred with Mayor
L. Ert Slack today in the interest
Of the Lincoln Memorial drive.
Slack named a committee this week
to cooperate with the Indiana me-
mortal committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
AUTO MERGER PROSPECTS
SEND STOCKS TO PEAKS

Arrow companies. Jordan and REQ
stocks both attained new record
levels on the stock exchange, while
Pierce-Arrow equaled its high.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
IT DIDN'T
TAKE LONG

PENNSYLVANIA, N, 931-2 nice Sleep
ing rms; So to s4. Ii. 4674.
for this little Room for Rent
ad in The Times to bring selec-
ton of roomers to inspect this
vacant room. Had lots of calls
and rented the room to splen-
did party said Mrs. j. F. San
derson, 931 N. Pennsylvania st.
You, too, can get results like this
if you write a good ad and place
it before more than 250,000 daily
Times readers. Call MA $500.
You can charge your ad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
POISON THEORY FAILS IN
DEATH OF INDIANA GIRL

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Little,
Alexandria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
TIMES EDITOR SPEAKS
Boyd GurIey Addresses Members of
Real Estate Board

Boyd Gurley, editor The Indian
apolis Times, spoke at the In
dianapolis Real, Estate Board lunch
con today His subject was "The
Failure of the Citizen"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-31
SHOPPERS Guide

Do your Fridays shopping
from the advertising in this
issue:
Banks-Fletcher Savings g.
Trust Co.
Department Stores-L. S.
Ayres & Co., Goldstein Bros,
Globe Store.
Financial - Fletcher Ameri-
can Company.
Furniture-Kirk Furniture
Company, White Furniture
Company.
Mems Wear-L. Strauss & Co.
Shoes-Thrift Shoe Store.
Women's Wear-Seligs, Nor
rison's, Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
Men Run Britain,

Of the 2s7.l40 persons employed In
British government Offices, 223,67S are
men and 1928 are women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02

All notices for this column should be
sent 10 3oO7 Twenty-siSth street north
cast BIZ noon on the Wednesday pre-
ceding the Sunday On which puoiiciVy
is desired
Mrs. f, Il. Kalmbach of the District
of Columbia Congress Of Parents ana
Teachers attended the thirty-secono
annual convention OF the Natiohal
Congress at Cleveland as delegate
from the District of Columbia, and also
served on the national committee on
exhibits for the convention, MRS,
Kslmbach reported briefly on the en-
hihits to the State organization As
follows:
The exhibits at the 1928 convention
Of the National Congress OF Parents
and Teachers consisted of I'VE mann
divisions, namely, the exhibits oi the
work of the cooperating agencleS, tile
national department exhibits. the puo-
Ncity exhibits. tie section reserved Ter
State posters and the national ONCE
room.
Notable among the exhibits OF the
cooperating agencies were those Oh
the Boy Scouts, the American Library
Association, the Playground and Recre-
alton Association of America, the Girl
Scouts, the National Child Welfare AS
Sociations, the Campfire Girls, the Ma
tional Education Association, the
American Social Hygiene Association,
the Children's Bureau Of the U. ). De-
partment of Labor, the American Dem
tai Association. Better Homes III Amer
lea. the American Medical Association,
and the American Humane Education
Association E9ch Of these natloll3l
oycaniga items showed by means o. post
ers and other displays the y 2 OF
work done hv them. ard supplied p2In-
phlets explaining this work in detail
and suggesting ways in which their
work could be used by tbs local or
State Parent Teacher Association
The national departments Of the
Summer roundup and the Child Wei
fare Magazine had large booths dis
PLAYING in an attractive way the work
being done in the one case To SEND
Young America TO school unhandicap-
ped by remedial physical defects. ana
on the other the services offered to
parent-te teacher workers by the national
organ-the Child Welfare Magazine.
The publicity exhibit occupied an
entire room in which the publicity
classes we're held daily. This room
proved to be the center Of interest of
the entire convention, as workers from
the various States were able TO get a
better idea of the work being done IN
ether States by observing the publicity
OF those States than by almost any
other means. Here let me stress the
Importance of the publicity scrap
books, which formed large part of
the publicity exhibit The States
which are making the greatest advance
in parent-teacher work naturally have
q rich publicity field, and careful
perusal of the publicity scrap book of
those States supplied sister States
with invaluable inspiration and ideas.
Most Of the convention delegates spent
some time studying these books, but
one and all regretted the lack of time
for more thorough research along this