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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
BEACH MOURNS
FOR LOCKHART
DaytOna Flags Half Mast
for Driver.

BIZ United Press
DAYToNA BEACH, Fla, April
26-Daytona Beach-center of the
automobile speed world-was in
mourning today for Frank Lockhart.
25-year-old race driver, who was
killed Wednesday in an attempt to
set new worlds record.
All flags were at half-mast by
proclamation Of Mayor E. H. Arm
strong.
F. E. Moskovics, president of the
Stutz Motor Company. was expected
here today to take charge of flu
neral arrangements. The body prob-
ably will be sent to Los Angeles for
burial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
DRY AGENTS ON RAID
5 Places Visited in Miami
and Wabash Counties.

Liquor raids we're conducted today
in Miami and Wabash counties by
five Federal dry agents under
George L. Winkler, deputy dry ad-
ministrator.
Agents held arrest warrants for
John Kenworth, poolrom operator
at Peru, and his employee, Tom En-
DRY; Sam Cash, confectioner, Peru;
Clarence Simpson, living five miles
northeast of Peru; Mary Griffith,
Peru, and Irish" O'Brien, Wabash.
UNDERGONE agents who procured
evidence reported the 12-year-old
son of Simpson, in the presence of
several younger children, served
them drinks of white mule" then
drank a large glass of the fiery po-
ton himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
Never Had knowledge Of Other Frauds,
Former G. O. P. Cha irman Declares;
Admits He Overdrew Accounts.
BY WARDS GATHERING
Witness Grows Confused as u. S. Attorney
Pounds at Him; Dramatic Scene as
EX-Banker Testifes.
BY CHARLES E. CARLL
Times STAFF COrresDOndent

FIT. WAYNE Ind April 26--Clyde A. WaI6 former Re-
publican State chairman today began his effort fight his
to through of evidence of deacatons from
small town which Government witnesses have heaped
him in Federal Court here in the last three days.
Since Valentine D. Weaver former president of the First
National Bank of La Grange Ind suddenly switched his plea
to guilty Wednesday afternoon Wab former vice president of
the bank in the trial upon charges of violation
of and conspiracy to violate the national banking law
The Government rested Wednesday afternoon.
Wab went on the stand this morning his attorneys
preparing motion instructed verdict to be presented
whom he defense rests
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26

damage was expected, as the course
they traverse to the Gulf is unin-
habited swamp land.
Cotton fields and melon patches
in Georgia lay deep under silt and
damage was expected to run into
millions of dollars. The Alabama
river at Montgomery was rising
steadily, threatening communities
below. 1t was believed, however, the
crest would be reached today-prob-
ably forty-eight feet.
After forty eight hours under six
feet of water, Brewton, Ala,
gradually was assuming normally
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
Dead Dud
Corpse Gets Up and
Runs When Coroner,
Police Arrive.

a dead" man came to life to-
"A day when police and city
hospital ambulance, with one
corpse already inside, drove up in
front of a rooming house at BIT
E. Vermont st.
Called to a rooming house at
418 E. Ohio ST., operated by Mrs.
]. B. Peitz, police found Charles
Fries, 35, relatives unknown, dead
in a chair in his room. Mrs. Peitz
had found Fries when she entered
his room to clean 1T this morn
ing.
Coroner G. H. Keever pro-
nounced death due to natural
causes and a city hospital ambu-
lance was called to take the body
to city morgue.
In the meantime a call had
come to police headquarters that
there was a dead man at the E.
Vermont st. address, and the
operator at headquarters relayed
the call to the police at the Ohio
st. rooming house.
Police and coroner went directly
to the Vermont st. rooming house
with the ambulance.
There Mrs. Mary Gayer, taking
care of the place in the absence
of the proprietress, led them to
a room of the dead" man. She
had shaken him vigorously when
she went into the room to clean
it, and he showed no signs of
life, she said.
Police gave a few shakes, pre-
paratory to removing the corpse
to the morgue.
The dead" man jumped up,
pointed to his ears, and ran.
Police learned from other room
ers that the man is deaf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
FLEE HOMES IN SOUTH AS
OODWATERS POUR OVER RIVER BANKS

and further rise of ten feet was
predicted before Monday.
More than 5000 were homeless
and several thousand others ready
to evacuate their homes in north
west Florida, where flood waters of
the Chocowatchee River have taken
six lives and caused property and
crop damage estimated at more
than 100000.
Thirty houses were washed away
at Century, Fla, by the swollen Is
Gambia River. Although further
rises were reported in the Ocmulgee
and Oconee Rivers, little additional
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26

BIZ UNttCu PfCSS
ATLANTA, Ga, April 26.-Addi-
tional thousands of families fled
their homes today as weather bureau
officials predicted further rises in
southeastern rivers, already at flood
stage.
Entire communities in the Tom
bigbee River valley of Alabama
sought higher ground. That river
became the most menacing Of the
swollen streams.
A major portion of the rich cot
ton lands in Sumter, Choctaw and
Marengo counties is under water
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26

today as the Escambia receded.
The flood menace was somewhat
alleviated in Mississippi as the Peal
and Upper Tombigbee held their
level. Railroads today sought to
repair broken telegraph lines and
replace roadbeds and bridges swept
away by the waters.
Scores of highways throughout
the six States still we're under water
and traffic virtually was at a stand
still.
Flood waters in Arkansas we're
moving steadily toward the Missis-
sippi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
RELIEF plane
TAKES filters
FROM ISLAND
Ocean Airmen May Make
One Stop, Then Hop to
New York.
HURRY FOR FUNERAL
Crew of German Craft Hope
to Attend Bennett
Last Rites.
HURRY FOR FUNERAL

NEW YORK, April 26.-Baron
Won Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann
Koehl and Maj. James Fitzmaurice
will attend the funeral of Floyd
Bennett in Washington, Friday,
provided they arrive here early
enough, Grover A. Whalen, chair
man of Mayor Walkers reception
committee, said he had been in
formed today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
ADMITS TRYING TO ROB
Negro Says He Needed Money to
Attend Mothers Funeral.

When Joseph Summers, 10, Negro,
Bowling Green, KY, was captured
by the emergency squad trying to
enter the Green Garage, 1881 N.
Illinois ST., early today, he said he
was trying to get money to return
to Kentucky for his mothers fu-
neral.
Lieut.. Fred Drinkut and his men
surrounded the garage and Patrol
man Harry Nagelsien found Sum-
mers hiding He is being ques-
toned regarding several recent bur-
glaries in the vicinitl. He had for
merly worked at the garage, but
was discharged Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26

Acquisition of property abutting
the Delaware st. bridge at Fall
Greek on the north was urged by
Mayor L. Ert Slack in a letter today
to the park board.
Slack proposed purchase of the
two blocks south of Thirty Eighth
st. between Talbot Ave. and Wash
ington Blvd, to develop wide ap-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
BRIDGE PARKWAY
URGED BY SLACK

proach and parkway on the north
side of the bridge.
The Mayor expressed the view
that additional property be acquired
south of the bridge to enlarge the
approach. He voiced disapproval of
issuing permits to erect filling sta
tions or other business structW es on
the corner properties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
UPDIKE BACK IN CITY
Returns From Washington to Push
His Campaign.

Ralph E. Updike, Seventh district
Congressman, returned from Wash
ington today to push his campaign
for denomination on the Republican
ticket against a field Of six OPP
ponents.
Updike was to speak tonight be-
fore the Indiana Woman's Repub-
lican Club at the Columbia Club,
and at neighborhood meetings at
1887 Baltimore Ave. and 2443
Arsenal Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26

ment proposed by Glass and accept
ed by Walsh.
A provision that the Senate insist
on Stewards prosecution for the
offense he committed against the
Senate" was adopted as offered by
Heflin
The Senate's action was unani-
nous.
Senator Glass (Dem), Virginia,
said Stewards testimony clearly in
dicated he had lied to protect his
partner in crime, Sinclair"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
STATE APPOINTEE QUITS
Harvey Cushman Resigns From
Post in School Department.

Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent
of public instruction, today an
nounced that Harvey Cushman, au-
ditor in the State aid department
of Wisehart's office, had resigned.
The resignation is effective Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
PERJURY CHARGE
MAY HIT STEWART
Hard-Hearted

IN Hitcd PrCsS
NEW YORK, April g.
Police Sergeant Patrick Nc
CURE shattered a long st and
ing suicide theory when he
shot himself through the heart,
was still alive and then put
two more bullets into his heart.
The policeman still had
strength enough to shoot him
self through the brain. Then
he died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
Basket Baby

BB United Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 26.
"A motorist narrowly missed
a market basket in the middle
of the road here Wednesday
night. Stopping, he found in
it a blue-eyed, dimpled girl,
aged 6 days, in expensive en-
broidered baby clothes. Au-
thorities, suspecting the child
was deliberately left in the
path of automobiles, are
searching for the parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
Mad K)night

y y IFITfTU 7 TT6N
MILWAUKEE,, April 26.-
Mrs. Evelyn Hoepfl filed suit
for divorce here today, charg-
ing that her husband August
removed the coverings of her
bed one night to wrap them
about his sweetheart, who had
come home with him from a
party.
Mrs. Hoepfl charged the only
wearing apparel he ever bought
her was two pairs of stockings.
which he later took away to
give them to the other woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
Asked $4,000; Given $3.50
BIZ United Press

BU UNlJtU TTtS5
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 90
Opal v. Dunn, plaintiff in a $4,000
damage suit against Louis OFT,
Company, for personal injuries re-
ceived when she was struck by a
car driven by the defendant, was
awarded $3.50 by a Superior Court
jury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-26
ITALIA LEAVES SUNDAY
Mobile Plans to Resume Polar Flight
in DirigibIe

STOLP, Germany, April &c. Cen
eral Umberto Mobile has decided to
start for Spitzbergen Sunday, if
weather permits in his polar airship.
Italia.
At Spitzbergen, he will make final
preparations for his flight across
the North Pole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

also announces three other types Of
award. The first Is certificate OF
merit" to be awarded person or persons
performing a first-aid or life-saving act
which is adjudged meritorious and
where personal risk may or may not
be involved.
The second is certificate of appre-
ciation," to be awarded physician or
an adult holding a Red Cross senior
first-aid certificate or a senior member
of the life-saving service in good stand
ing who has rendered at least 300 hours
volunteer service in term OF three
wears or three seasons, after receiving a
first-aid instructors appointment. first
aid certificate or certificate III member
ship in the Red Cross life-saving Serv-
ice This 800 hours volunteer service
may be rendered by teaching first AID.
swimming and life saving, water drills
and boating. promoting first-aid con-
tests, swimming and life-saving meets
and campaigns or other Red Cross
methods of first aid, water safety and
protection.
The third award is service medal,
and to be eligible for this medal per-
son must have received, or be ellglbie
for certificate of appreciation" and
have completed in addition thereto 200
hours volunteer service in term of
two subsequent years or seasons in the
same manner as described. The mimi
mum volunteer service required for tins
award is 500 hours IN term OF f1ve
years or seasons
A $5,000,000 steel plant is to be built
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

the United States, who also Is president
Of the Red Cross.
The applications will be passed upon
by a committee on awards and by the
central committee of the Red Cross.
The First Aid and Life Saving Serv-
ice also announces three other types OF
award.
The six limitations governing issuance
of the medal follow: First conclusive
e, ,dence must be submitted that the
person or persons performing the ACT
in saving. or attempting to save the
life of fellow being, voluntarily rlsKeo
his or her life: second, 1t must be
shown that facts relating to the act
were not due to negligence of the per-
son or persons performing the act:
third. 1t must be shown that expert Red
Cross first aid or life-saving technique
was used at the time the act was per-
formed. and that the victim would un-
doubte6ly have persisted except for the
prompt, intelligent and trained service
rendered. fourth, individuals are only
considered eligible If they have official
" completed. prior to the act, one or
more of the Red Cross first aid or life
saving courses: fifth, such heroic acts
must be brought officially to the at
tention of the national headquarters OF
the American Red Cross here within
one year of the date of the episode. the
award to be made as soon thereafter
as the claim is substantiated; sixth,
medals shall be awarded the person or
persons performing the act, or, III case
of death, to the widow, widower or next
Of kin.
The first-aid and life-saving service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
RED CROSS OFFERS
MEDALS FOR VALOR
Substitutes Awards for Small
Cash Prizes as Having More
Appeal TO Recipients.

Heroic acts of life saving, in which
the person performing the act riSked
his own life. are to be recognized by
the award of a gold medal by the
American Red Cross, it was announced
yesterday by Chairman John Barton
Payne. This new medal supplants the
for,,cr method of small cash awards
and a certificate, as the Red Cross felt
the recipient would place greater value
upon permanent recognition OF his
act. such as is embodied in the medal
Since there is no limitation placed on
the number of these medals Of valor.
application may be made at any time
subject to six rules governing aware.
With the medal will go parchment
certificate signed by the President OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

coalition cabinet headed by the Social
ist Premier Staining endeavored TO
abolish entirely Denmark's armed forces
under the plea that since they were not
large enough really u defend the
country they were merely a useless
financial and social burden.
This attempt failed, owing to the
resistance of the landing. This body
is unparalleled as a rock of conserva-
tism. Nothing but landslide could
shake it. The fact that the Socialists
were able to make any gains at all is
az, index of the discomfort and economic
crisis of the country since def1ation and
sterilization. Practically. however, the
results of the election for the Socialists
were nil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
SOCIALISTS SHAKE
DANISH CABINET
Conservatives Still Hold
Sway, However, on Econ
cmy Program.
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWER.

BY Cable to The Star and CHICAGO Daily
News. Copyright, 1928.
COPENHAGEN, September 15.-Thc
long promised Socialist storm shook but
did not destroy the Conservative cabinet
in Fridays election to the Danish upper
house, the landing.
The Socialists. utilizing the growing
unemployment and the unWillingness of
the cabinet to spend money in policy
of social assistance and larger doles to
unemployed, managed to poll some Co.
900 votes more than at the last election.
The Socialist desires for even more
complete taxation elimination for the
poorer classes and abolition of the army
must wait for fulfillment. It will be
remembered that three years ago the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

was shot during session of Parliament
by government deputy.
The letter was one the widow had
sent Sir Eric Drummond, secretary gen.
eral of the League of Nations. asking
that the League institute an impartial
inquiry into her husbands death. 1t
also set forth familiar Croat views that
Croatians were treated as an inferior
race and denied elementary justice.
The widow did not spare King Alex
ander in her denunciation and this was
the ground for the seizure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
PAPERS ORDERED SEIZED
FOR PRINTING LETTER
Charges of Raditch's Widow Bring
Ire of Jugoslav Gov
eminent.

Ely the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, September
15.-Seizure was ordered today of all
newspapers which printed the text of
a letter signed by the widow of Stefan
Raditch, Croatian peasan leader. who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

A $5,000,0 900 steel plant is to be built
at Newcastle, New South Wales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Fine SILK pOplin bon
nets, in wonderful as
sortment Of styles and
sizes. White, pink and
S soIs as S Si9s ST 40
as $2.98.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
BY lone QUINBY

CHICAGO, June f.-"Back stairs"
politics and not King George" gets
the blame for the latest British
American problem, which a local
politician has taken upon himself
to solve.
The problem is the yearly STAN
pede of two and three thousand de-
butante daughters and wives 70
crash Buckingham palace gate in an
effort to be presented at the court
Of st. James. A large representation
from Chicago. it is said.
Contending. the gate crashers get
royal bids through local politicians,
thereby embarrassing the ambassa-
dor to Great Britain and injuring
American dignity, Representative A..
J. SABBATH. from Illinois, has sought
to correct the situation through a
resolution introduced jointly in con-
gress, but which in the rush seems
TO have been lost sight Of.
The resolution was designed TO
put an end TO the custom of "Ameri-
can women debasing themselves be-
fore kings and queens, and embar-
RAISING the American government in
doing"
America is being subjected to
ridicule by the scrambling Of Ameri-
can title worshipers and social
climbers for tine privilege OF max
ing weird genuflections before their
Britannia majesties and other crown
cd heads" Representative SABBATH
says, in backing up his contention.
IL Is nigh time to put an end 10 this
undignified performance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
Greenland Future
In Shark Catching

COPENHAGEN. up With the
growing scarcity Of leather, Denmark
II entering extensively into manufac-
ture Of leather from shark skin. the
latest move being an attempt 10
establish a shark skin factory In
greenland. to employ 800 native
workers.
Although the 800 workers wouId
have earned more than the whole
greenland community earns today
the Danish trade monopoly IN Grcen-
land has forbade establishment III
the factory. The yearly income of
the $4,000 persons living in Green
land IS today about Sl0O, COO, or less
than $40 q head.
Sharks are now caught in Green
land BY Eskimaux in one-man canoes
called kayaks. The sharks. in man
cases. are practically as big as the
canoes.
One Of the officials Of the Dan
ish shark skin industry, speaking n
iisning ard tanning experts. said
that the shark skin INDUSTRY offers
4 wider scope of possibilities than
PROBABLY any other modern industry.
AN ana motorcars included.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
MENU OF RAIL.
LAUDS' VALLEY
San Benito Advertised
BY Pennsylvania
Railroad

Pennsylvania railroad dining ear
menus during the current week are
carrying an article about San Benito.
Texas, especially prepared for this
purpose by the San Benito Chamber
of Commerce.
The article u one Of a series on
representative cities which the Penn
sylyania is placing before its patrons
IN this manner. The dining-car
menus are especially prepared with
a view to providing patrons with in
teresting and informative reading
material while their orders are being
made ready.
The attractions and advantages of
San Benito will in this manner be
brought TO the attention Of some sew
enty or eighty thousand patrons Of
the Pennsylvania railroad, that being
the average number Of passengers
served IN the dining cars during a
weekly period. The article follows:
lone of the nations most prom
ising orchard sections, as well as
newest, is the Lower Rio Grande
~Nalley-that triangular area Of about
one million acres in the extreme
southeastern part Of Texas, which
AA~3 y GE[A NAG4G tue nAU GI4nuG
eMpties in to the Gulf OF Mexico.
Twenty years ago this vast tract was
a waste of mesquite and cactus: to-
day 1t is being rapidly transformed
into an American Valley of the Nile
through irrigation and intensive de-
velopment.
"The rich a~lluvial soil and the tenn
perate climate adapt this region es-
pecially to the production Of citrus
fruit, cotton, and winter vegetables.
This provides a remunerative year
round agricultural program.
The development in the last dec
ade has gone far toward converting
the Lower Rio Grande Valley into a
veritable semi-tropical garden. Be
tween 1900 and 1000 carloads of
oranges, or about 500, 900 boxes, will
be shipped this year. and approx
mately an equal quantity will be re-
tanned for home consumption. II Is
expected that within three years
more than 10000 carloads Of citrus
fruit will be shipped out Of this dis
triet each year. The rapid develop
ment Of this industry is indicated by
the fact that only eleven cars were
shipped in 1911.
"At the present time about ~
100000 grapefruit trees are planted
On a total Of approximately 10000
acres, and within a few years these
orchards will be producing more
grapefruit than any other area Of
similar size in the country.
"ln addition to its prominence as a
citrus fruit region. the Lower Rio
Grande Valley has been developed
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-07
COLLEGE RANK
CROWSSLOWLY
Kate of Increased En-
rollnent Begins to
DwindIe

WASHINGTON CP-The fast rate
cf increase in the NUMBER of seekers
OF higher education in this country
Is slowing up for the first time in
many years.
While the number Of students in
universities and colleges continues to
increase, figures compiled BY the
FEDERAL Bureau Of Education show
that in 1926 the increase over 1924
attendance was only 1875 per cent
compared with the increase in 1924
over 1872 by q per cent.
In 1880 only about 10000 stu
dents attended institutions Of higher
learning compared to the most recent
1igures, which show that more than
eoU,UOO are now enrolled.
The bureau ascribed the increased
attendance at colleges to greater
prosperity Of the people, WIDER va
riety of courses and to the growth
OF the high schools, which have
qualified millions Of young Ameri-
cans for colleges.
High schools have a total attend
ance Of 4.i32.O00 compared to $751;
600 in 1880, but preparatory schools
show fewer students now than in
1900. The latter schools are the
only class OF educational institutions
that has shown declines in attend
ance IN this country.