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Evening star., 1928-10-31
King Mummer Assumes Throne for One
Night as Subjects Plan Merrymakiing

Old King Mummer takes up his scep-
ter, dons his gaudiest robes, mounts
his throne of harvest plenty and reigns
supreme tonight because it's Halloween.
And. as usual, the King will see to it
that his subjects make merry during
his one-night reign. They always do.
With King Mummer comes his reti-
nue. of black cats, bats, witches, goblins
and hobgoblins and the rest of his eerie
court, and his subjects will bend to his
sway in all the fantastic costumery that
can be raked out again this year from
the old trunk in the attic.
The annual Halloween ball Of the
City Club is one of the principal enter
tainments provided for the merry
maker tonight. 1t will open the Winter
season for the club, and elaborate plans
have been made to bring it up to the
standard of previous Halloween parties
of the club.
All of the hotels and dance cafes of
Evening star., 1928-10-31
MANUFACTURER GIVEN
THREE YEARS IN PRISON
Man Accused of Defrauding Credi-
tors of $1,ooo,ooo Sentenced
in st. Louis.
BY the Associated Press.


ST. LOUIS, october 31.-A high
pressure financial career was ended
here today when David Purity" Jones,
laundry machinery manufacturer, plead
ed guilty of using the mails to defraud
creditors of $1,000,000 and was SEN
fenced in Federal Court to serve three
years in the Federal Penitentiary at
Leavenworth, KanS.
Postal inspectors charged that Jones
had defrauded banks, finance COM
panies and his laundryman friends and
customers through duplicated promis-
sorry notes and spurious chattel mort
cages It was charged Jones sold ma
chinery and took notes in payment.
He discounted the notes with banks
or finance companies and later got re-
newal notes from the laundrymen.
promising he would destroy the original
paper. Instead he sold the renewals
and kept the originals standing.
Jones, who was a former saloon
keeper, was given the nackname Purity
from his advertisements OF laundry ma
chinery, which he signed David Purity
Jones'"
Evening star., 1928-10-31
GROCER is SHOT TO DEATH

CHICAGO. October 81 OP.-Slumped
down in the drivers seat of his own
automobile, the body of Vinci Signorelli
SO years old, grocer, was found to-
day with bullet hole through the
head.
Police made the discovery after resi-
dents of the neighborhood reported an
automobile had been parked in an alley
all night with the motor running. The
slayers, police believe, shot Signorelli
before driving the car in the alley to
abandon it,
Evening star., 1928-10-31
Air Liner Heading Straight
for FriedrichShafen-May
Reach Home Hangar About
Daybreak Tomorrow.
APPROACHES SHORE LINE
IN VICINITY OF NANTES
Expected to Fly Over Lyon, Dion
and Basel-Made Speed of 80
Miles an Hour at Times, Aided
by Strong Winds-Seen Ere
quently by Steamers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LIE BOURGET, France, october
31.-The dirigible Graf Zeppelin
informed LIE Bourget Flying
Field late today that she expected
to strike the French coast in the
vicinity of Nantes about Z pm.
Greenwich meridian time e pm.
Eastern standard time).
The great air liner, rapidly ap-
preaching the end Of homeward
fight from LakehurSt, N. j., to
F'riedrichShafen, notified the fly
ing field that she was travelling
at a rate of so miles an hour. The
boiSterous weather over the Bay
of Biscay was abating.
Nantes is midway between Bor-
deaux and Brest on the western
coast of France, and is on di-
rect line to Friedrichshafen.
May Land Tomorrow.
Aviation experts expressed the
opinion that the Graf Zeppelin
would fly over Central France,
passing over the cities of Nantes,
Lyon, Dion and Basel with the
likelihood that she would reacn
Friedrichshafen about daybreak
tomorrow morning.
Aided by powerful tail winos ourlng
The night. the huge air liner was max
ING extraordinarily fast time, her aver
age speed at times going as nigh as So
miles an hour.
The great airship was reported many
times by steamships, among these
being the Westerdijk and Boulder
pool which reported sighting her.
THE Graf Zeppelin was reported
over the Bay of Biscay at 6:21 am.
Eastern standard time in a message
from her picked up by the British air
ministry. Her course then was ex-
pected to carry her toward Bordeaux.
German experts expected that DR.. Hugo
Eckener would fly across France
straight for Friedrichshafen.
Home Hangar Tense.
The home hangar of the Zeppelin
WAS tense with excitement as prepara-
lions were being made for the recep-
ton of the dirigible and for fittingly
celebrating completion of the first
round trip transatlantic commercial
air voyage in history.
During yesterdays run the Graf
Zeppelin followed northerly course
along the northern steamship lane, but
during the day turned in a Southerly
direction, and made steady progress
last night over a course carrying her
toward France.
MAY DROP BALE OF COTTON.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
Papers Disappear
From Office of
Citizens Service
Secretary of Anti-Bootleg
ging Organization Sus-
poets Theft.

Disappearance of valuable 'inside"
papers of the Citizens Service Associa-
ton, anti-bootlegging organization
formed to aid police in enforcement of
the liquor law, from the Office of the
secretary, DR.. Everett M Ellison, 1920
M street, today, was reported to police.
DR.. Ellison gave police the name of a
man he suspects.
The papers included articles of in
corporation of the organization, the
constitution and bylaws and the min
utes of every meeting since the body'S
formation with the exception of the
last two meetings, DR.. Ellison said to-
day.
The burglar, however, overlooked an
other bundle of papers in DR.. Ellison's
desk containing evidence and data on
bootleggers in the District.
I'VE are planning new campaign"
DR.. Ellison said. Sunday night a week
ago took out my papers on the asSo-
citation and was looking them over
When 1 got through I tied them in a
bundle, marked it Citizens Service As
sociation' and left it on my desk. When
I went out the next morning / left my
Office door open as usual.
when returned about 9 o'clock that
morning could not find the papers. 1t
is my opinion that some one who op-
poses me because I am against alcohol
and AL Smith, or some one seeking the
data have against bootleggers in the
District stole the papers"
DR.. Ellison explained that his delay
in notifying police was due to his be-
lief that he could replace most of the
papers, 'The minutes of the meetings
are the most valuable" he said.
DR.. Ellison said the man he suspects
came to see him almost daily in refer
ence to securing work in the collection
of bills.
The man, he said, gave as reference
a bank in New York City. DR.. Ellison
wrote the bank and had not received
an answer today.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
CONVICTED OIL FAILURE
PAIR FACE SENTENCES
BY the. Associated Press.

BY the. Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, october 31.-At the
end of more than six months of trials
in State and Federal courts, to which
a career of high finance led them, S. C.
Lewis and Jacob Berman, central fig
ures in the Julian Petroleum Corpora
ton failure, today found themselves
Convicted last night in Federal
Court of using the malls to defraud
in connection with the financing of
the Lewis Oil Co., Lewis on eight counts
and Berman on seven, they can be SEN
fenced to prison terms Of Eve years and
fined 81 900 on each count. Sentencing
Of the two men and their co-defendant.
CLARENCE o. Steppe. convicted on one
count was set foy Mondax.
Evening star., 1928-10-31

the city have made special preparations,
too, for the occasion. and many are
already booked to capacity for the
nights revelry.
Maj Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent
of police, however, wants it to be under
stood that revelry and rowdyism are two
separate and distinct things. and issues
the customary general order that the
latter is not to be tolerated in to-
nights doings
Police have been warned to be par
ticularly watchful of the pranks of a
destructive nature which usually accom-
pany the Halloween celebration and
have been part of the small boys pro-
gram since time immemorial.
Ringing of doorbells, indiscriminate
use of peppered feather ticklers, throw
ing of flour, brickbats and the like and
annoyance to peaceful citizens in their
normal nightly pursuits come under
the special rowdyismS Mai. Hesse warns
his force to be especially watchful Of.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
MAY DROP BALE OF COTTON.
Residents of Bremen Expect Zeppelin
to Fly Over City.

BREMEN, Germany, october 81 up.
-Bremeners today wondered whether
the Graf Zeppelin would fly over this
Hanseatic town en- route to Friedrichs-
hafen to drop a bale of cotton weigh
ing 240 pounds which is to be auctioned
off for the benefit of the airship's crew.
The populace saw in the airShip's car
rying of cotton in the first cargo to
Europe by air a symbolic confirmation
of Bremenls Importance as cotton
center.
It was assumed that the bale would
be dropped at the airdrome which al
ready has American associations. Pr
lots Risticz and Edzard made forced
landing there in August, 1927, on a
flight to America from Dessau on the
plane Europa. Clarence Chamberlin
and Charles A. Levine, TRANSATLANTIC
flyers. arrived there from Berlin with
a large group of American newspaper
men in June. 1927, to welcome their
wives. who were arriving on the steam
ship Berlin.
There was much speculation as to
the price the bale would bring. 1t
was recalled that Mrs. Chamberlin had
succeeded in raising the bids to above
10000 marks when she auctioned of
a similar bale.
AIR CURRENTS AID ZEPPELIN,
Evening star., 1928-10-31
ZEPPELIN CARRIES
O1,683 PIECES OF MAIL

The Graf Zeppelin carried 1O1, ,683
pieces of mail back to Germany, for
which the German postal administra-
ton will be credited with $75,7l by the
American Postal Service.
The mail, weighing about one ton,
consisted of 49,745 letters and 51,938
post cards, most Of which were Dispatch
ed from the New York post Office.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
Cornea of Mans Eye, Requiring Removal,
Grated on Anothers by Daring Surgery

by cataract Charles E. Greenblatt
80, was discovered to be suffering from
an eye tumor, necessitating removal OF
his eye. The cornea of Greenblatt's eye
however, was found to be perfect. The
operations were performed simulta-
neuosly and the cornea from Green
blatt's eye set onto Ferguson'S eye as
soon as the cataract had been removed
said, depended upon the tissue of Fer
gusons eye being strong enough to
nourish the tissue of the grated cornea
The outcome will not be known for ten
days or two weeks.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 31.-The IA
miliar figure of speech, seeing with
the eye of another" will become in a
measure an actual experience for a pa
tient in the Eye and Ear Hospital If an
operation by which the cornea or lens
of another human eye was transplanted
onto his eye proves successful.
Opthalmists at the hospital now are
awaiting the removal of bandages from
the right eye of Bert Ferguson, 80, to
see whether what they consider one Of
the most daring and DELICATE operations
on the human eye has been successful.
Ferguson. an inmate of the Home for
the Blind, has lost his left eye, and the
vision Of the right one was impaired
Evening star., 1928-10-31
Asks Rum Ship Be Held.

HAVANA, Cuba, october 81 P).-
Formal requests were made to the
Cuban government yesterday by the
American embassy to refuse clearance
papers to the schooner Rosita of Hon.
duran registry, which is reported en-
gagged in rum running. The Rosita was
forced to put into port here because
of bad weather. and it is considered
likely that she will be detained pend
ing an investigation
Evening star., 1928-10-31
NOTORIOUS BANDITS COT
CATCHES FIRE IN CELL
Jaworski, Partially Paralyzed by
Bullet, Drops Match on Papers
Under Bed.
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, October 31.-Paul ia
worski, notorious bandit, under sentence
to die for killing a pay roll guard, fired
his cot in the county jail here yester-
day, Warden John Mcneil said today.
The warden said the fire was an acci-
dent and it was quickly eXtinguished.
According to Mcneil, the condemned
man was lying on the cot smoking and
dropped a match upon newspaper
under the bed. The paper famed
UP and the cot was set afire. Jlworski
is partly paralyzed, having been wound
ed by bullet fired by Cleveland police
when they captured him several weeks
ago
Evening star., 1928-10-31
CONDEMNATION BEGUN
OF TRIANGLE PROPERTY
Square Between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth and Avenue and B Street
Sought by u. S. Government.

The United States today began con-
demnation proceedings in the District
Supreme Court for acquisition OF four
squares of ground included within the
triangle between Pennsylvania avenue
and the Mall. The squares sought to
be condemned lie between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets and run south from
Pennsylvania avenue to B street.
Citations will be issued against the
owners and others interested in the 81
parcels included in the new proceeding,
and public advertisement will be made
against such interested persons as are
not found. A commission of three citi-
zens will then be selected by the court
to hear testimony as to the value of the
property and to make an award for each
parcel.
Asst. United States Attorneys Gen.
eral Henry H. Classic and A. LeftWich
Sinclair with Asst. United States At
torney James j. O'Leary are in charge
of the Government condemnations. The
four squares are being acquired for the
accommodation of executive offices and
not for any specific building designation.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
AIR CURRENTS AID ZEPPELIN
Radio Station Transmits Weather In
formation to Dirigible.

HAMBURG, Germany. october 81
P).-The marine weather station to-
day forecast powerful western to north
western air currents during the last
stretch of the Graf Zeppelin's flight
from America, making relatively great
speed possible. .-.
The radio station at Norddeigh was in
touch with the dirigible this morning
transmitting European weather in
formation at the airship's request.
Evening star., 1928-10-31

ATHENS. October 81 P).-The
Chamber of Deputies last night ratified
a Greco-American convention regard
ing the control of liquor carried by
Greek ships in American waters.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
COLUMBIA DELAYED.
Transatlantic Flight Held Up Be
cause of Weather.

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, October
81 OP.-Adverse flying weather over the
Atlantic prevented the monoplane CO
lumbia from taking off today on its pfo-
jected flight to Rome.
Roger o. Williams, skywriter. who has
borrowed the plane, with Peter Bonelli,
from Charles A. Levine for the flight,
was at the field during the llorning,
but called the fight off shortly before
noon He said that tonight's weather
report would determine whether or not
take-off would be made tomorrow.
Evening star., 1928-10-31
WEATHER.

%. s. Weather Bureau Forecast.l
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly
warmer tomorrow.
Temperatures: Highest, 52,. at noon;
lowest, 36, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page 9.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
SEEK OWNER OF 'ALKY'
Pursued Men Abandon Car With
123 Gallons.

Police today are seeking the man
whose name was on the certificate
of title Of a machine containing 1913
gallons of alcohol abandoned at
Fifty-Fifth and Pennsylvania SITS.
Monday night.
Chased by Motor Policemen
Roeder and De Vault two men
jumped from the car and fled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
RELIEF PLANE
REACHES Filler
Altman Stricken on Trip to
Bremen in Hospital.

BB United Press
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Lieut.
Muir S. Fairchild, who was stricken
with appendicitis while plotting an
Army airplane bound for Greenly
Island, still was in st. Johns today,
War Department officials said. He
was to be taken to Boston today in
the relief plane sent from that city
to ST. Johns.
If his condition permits, officials
said he will be brought on to Wash
ington in al airplane piloted by
Maj. Howard Davidson, commanding
Officer of Boiling field. Davidson
flew to Boston Sunday with Lieut..
Elwood Quesada, who replaced Fair
child on the expedition.
Fairchild will be taken to Walter
Reed hospital upon his arrival here.
The Army's relief expedition to re-
move the airplane Bremen, in which
two Germans and an IriShman few
across the north Atlantic, suffered
today from the elements that have
made the westward crossing of the
Atlantic so difficult.
One of the Army planes was down
at Tatamagouche, N. S., while the
other was at Trunu. Capt. Ire
Eaker, prominent Army flier as
signed to the northern expedition,
advised thei War Department late
Monday that he had been forced to
land at Tatamagouche.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15

Houston and the unopposed candi-
dacies of two Democrats, Senator
Edward I. Edwards for another
term and Commissioner William l..
Dill for the governship.
Governor Alfred E. Smith OF New
York is unopposed and will get the
States twenty eight votes at Hous-
ton, while the Republican preSlden-
tial preference carries only the
name of Herbert Hoover, but the
vote will not be binding on dele
gates.
Others offices for which nomina-
lions will be made are twelve mem
bers of the House of Representa-
tives, seven State Senators, sixty
members of the Assembly and coun-
ty offices.
Late indications were that the
Republican choice for the guberna-
torial nomination lies between State
Senator Larson and former Judge
Carey
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
PAGE 3

Company, rented by the Citizens
Gas Company, and the total APP
praisal of both companies for 1928
is $13,242,000.
The valuation was increased in
view of the $68O,OOO earnings re-
ported for last year and the fact
that the Citizens Gas Company paid
to the Indianapolis Gas Company
total of $4,000, which in effect
twas taking it from one pocket and
putting it in another" board meme
Der said,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
ROBBERY SUSPECT HELD
Man Arrested for Car Theft May
Be Wanted in Hammond.

Harry johnson, 80, of Chicago, Ill,
arrested Sunday on a charge CT
driving while intoxicated, speeding,
transporting liquor and vehicle talk
ing, is held today as a suspected
fugitive.
A telegram from Sheriff Krug, at
Hammond, Ind, states that he holds
warrant charging William john
son, 90, Of the same description as
the Harry Johnson held here, with
robbing a filling station.
When arrested Sunday, Johnson
was driving a car he admitted he
had stolen at Marion, Ind. john
son collided with an automobile
driven by Albert H. HuntSinger, r..
R. P, Box 1872, at Emerson Ave.
and Washington st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
PRIMARY TODAY
IN new JERSEY
State Contests OverShadoW
National Races.

BIZ United Press
TRENTON, N. j., May 15.-New
Jersey voters are going to the polls
today in one of the most tangled
primary races in years.
The Republican contest for SEN
atorial and gubernatorial nominal
tions, with nine candidates in the
field, far overshadows the selection
of delegates to the national party
convntions at Kansas City and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
CITIZENS Gas
is UP MILLION
Valuation Boosted Despite
Plea for Reduction.

Despite pleas of Clarence L.
Kirk, vice president and general
manager of the Citizens Gas Com
pany that the taxation valuation
of the utility be decreased 100000
for 1928; the State tax board today
announced that the valuation had
been increased a fiat $1,0O0OO0.
The increase from 1921 900 to
1921, 900 provided no increase in
the value of the Indianapolis Gas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
ROCKET POWER
DRIVES CAR SO
MILES An HOUR
Success of German Test
Expected to Aid in De-
veIoping Plane.
By Science SerUice

By Science Service
BERLIN, May ia new method
of transportation with the motive
power furnished by spurts of ex-
panding gases, like the trail of a
Fourth-o f-July rocket, is about to
make bid for practical success.
After secret experimental develop
ment, a rocket automobile has been
given speed tests at the racing track
of the Fritz Opel motor car factory
at Russelsheim near Frankfort,
where it was built. Speeds of slight
ly more than sixty miles an hour
we're attained eight seconds after
the start.
A demonstration before experts at
the Avus racing track in Berlin is
scheduled for the near future. AS
speeds on this track are limited to
a hundred miles an hour, plans are
underway to utilize later a stretch
of railroad track which has been
offered for this purpose by the Ger
man States Railways.
May Work on Planes
The theoretical investigations
which inspired this rocket-propelled
automobile were begun by Prof. r.
H. Goddard, American scientist, who
designed a rocket that would travel
to the moon. Later mathematical
studies were made on the same
problem by Prof. Max Waller of
Munich and Albert Mueller, whose
results were available to the Opel
Companys designing engineer, San
der.
Tests of the rocket automobile are
believed to be merely preliminary
to the construction and launching
of rocket airplane capable of ris-
ing to heights that ordinary pro-
Speller driven airplanes can not pos
Sibly attain.
Journeys to other planets across
the great distances of airless space
are theoretically possible through
the use of the rocket exhaust kick
as the motive power. \ For expert
ments show that the kick of the
exploding rocket charge is just as
effective in a vacuum where there
is no air as it is under ordinary con-
ditions where there is plenty of at
mosphere.
Would Work in Vacuum
Propellers of ordinary airplanes
need the air to work against. The
rocket is effective in vacuum for the
same reason that rifle fired in an
airless chamber would have the
same sort of kick that it would in
! air.
The rocket airplane, once it
, reached the airless outer space or
the upper raref1ed portion of the at
mosphere, would attain great speeds
because of the lack of air resistance.
The Opel rocket auto looks like
a multiple barrelled piece Of light
artillery in speedy retreat From the
rear of the car project twelve large
tubes arranged in rectangle. From
these tubes the exploding gases
emerge with terrific kick which
sends the car racing along the track.
Any highly explosive mixtures can
be used such as light gasoline, alco-
hol, or even pure hydrogen and
oxygen mixtures which give the
geratest expansion for the least
, weight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15

Limited, leaving Indianapolis at
11:25 a. m; the Knickerbocker,
leaving st. Louis for Indianapolis
at 12:45 p. m; st. Louis Limited,
leaving Indianapolis at 2:50 p. m,
and No. 20, leaving st. Louis at $50
D. m.
Mail service on these trains viii,
prove valuable to Indianapolis bust
ness houses, Harms said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
new Rail MAIL
TO SERVE CITY
a. Stations Will Open on
New York Central.

Four railway postoffice stations on
the New York Central Railroad be-
tween Cleveland, Ohio, and st.
Louis, Mo-, with Indianapolis as the
division point, will go into service
May %, Otis K. Adams, Indianap-
oils division chief clerk, announced
The new stations, which will re-
ouire Jour additional railway mail
clerks, will be the Southwestern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-15
PHONE INCREASE ASKED
Liberty Center Company Seeks
Higher Rate.

Petition was filed Monday with
the Public Service Commission by
the Liberty Center Telephol Com
pany, asking for an increase in rates
on the grounds that the present rate
of 81 a month for all types of
phones is unreasonable and INSULT
cient.
The phone company asks the
commission to grant it the right to
charge So for a straight business
lines; SITS for a business party line;
SITS for a straight resident line,
and $3.50 for a party residence line