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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-09
SnoiU Storm Forces StinsOh, Haldenlan
 to Abandon Fight

DETROIT. Mich. March 9 A sudden snow storm forced Stin- son and Haldeman to abandon their attempt to smash endurance flight records after being in the air about 20 hours,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-09

ltieu q IeldpSt lu udyS dSO.
 While one of the worlds lead ing merchants. Rodman Wana. maker marked his career for pos terity by his support of aviation and public work.
 Tt is not a dream he said once, that within a few years we shall be able to enter an aircraft in New York on Friday afternoon, be in London on Saturday. spend the weekend, there and return to New York in time for business Monday"
 Wanamaker did not plot the fll- ture of aviation, but he stimu lated the progress of it. His hand in it's development was simply that of amateur enthusiast. As d young man he believed the air would some day connect two con tinents, and lived to see daring aviators of three countries cross the waters of the Atlantic in one hop.
 Designed ArpIane
 In 1914 Wanamaker helped de- sign, and had built. the "Ameri- ca" hydroplane. with which he proposed to cross the Atlantic. The project was abandoned when the war broke out and the Amer ica" was turned over to the Allies.
 After Lieutenant CommandeT Richard F.. Byrd flew over the North Pole, he paid tribute 10 Wanamaker's service to aviation at luncheon in his honor.
 So far did Wanamaker's inter est in the conquest of the air carry him that if became his hob by fo acquire for public exhibi tion, when possible. the aircraft
 (Contlnued on Page Seven.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-09

ATLANTIC CITY, March g. Rodman Wanamaker died tod ay from uraemia The veteran mer chant came here a month ago to recover from a cold He was ap parently recovering until he sui fered a relapse 10 days ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-09

A. J. QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 9.-Alas- ka Juneau mine stock is quoted today at I.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-03-09
Proposed Merger of T,eo Big Companies
 Called Of, Report

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, March 9 --The prospective merger of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Corr pany and the Inland Steel Com pany. which would have set mp the third largest steel company in the country, has been definitely called off.
 Official announcement said the heads Of the two companies found 1t impossible 10 carry the agree nlent into effect.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
DEMOCRAT CHIEFS
REFUSE TO WORRY

they will leave matters as they are.
No active campaign work win have
to be undertaken until the con-
gressional campaign of 1880, and
this will involve no activity on a
national scale. National sentiment
of the party will not be tested until
1892.
There is no concerted demand for
the scalp of John G. Raskob. chair
man of the Democratic national
committee. His activities we're
criticized by anti-Smith groups and
others in some normally Democratic
states of the south which bolted thu
Smith ticket. Some demands have
been made for his resignation, but
Smith people say he does not con
template reSigning.
Most of the Democratic senators
who have returned thus far have ex.'
pressed belief that the party is il.
better shape than it was after tbs
John w. Davis defeat in 1924. II
gained large numbers of votes in
cities usually Republican and its
leaders do not profess to be worried
by the boiling of Florida, Virginia,
North Carolina, and Texas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
KiWanianS Are Addressed
by Radio From Plane
at 1000 Feet.

"Ladeees and gentlemen-intro-
ducing to you the peerless, fearless,
daredevil parachute jumper, Mistah
Lester c. Nagley.
"Mistah Nagley will thrill you,
chill you, astound you with his
death-defying leap for life from this
plane.
Are you ready Mistah Nagley?"
"Yes." The answer came weakley,
and then the peerless, fearless
parachute jumper, better known as
the secretary of the Kiwanis Club,
strobe forth.
He was greeted with cheers by the
more than 100 Kiwanians at the
indianapolis airport for the clubs
aviation day"
Nagley, a parachute strapped on
his back and a flying helmet fitted
on his head, prepared to enter the
plane.
"POOr Lester
poor Lester, knew him we'll"
II feel sorry for his children. Too
bad, to be LETT without a father at
their age"
HE has a chance, though. You
know those parachutes do open
sometimes"
Nagley paused uncertainty anG
felt the parachute, then the chorus
was resumed.
This will give the club a fine
chance to hold a memorial service"
But what messy way to COM
NIT suicide"
That was enough for Nagley. He
unstrapped his parachute.
"Jump" Only One Feature
Nagley's parachute leap" was the
big feature of the afternoon, but
other features we're plentiful. A fly
ing circus was staged and the clue
members heard a message from the
sky.
Colonel John S. Fishback, eXecu-
tive chairman of the Indianapolis
chapter, National Aeronautical As
ISOLATION, speaking on a radio send
ing set in a plane more than 1000
feet up, addressed the club mem
bers, who were grouped around re-
ceiving set at the airport.
More than fifty club members
took plane rides over the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
NAB Three And
SOLVE KILLINGS
Captured and Confess Is
Minutes After Murder.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Within fiji
teen minutes after three Negroes
held up and killed a druggist here
last night, they were captured, had
confessed to that killing and an
other, and we're booked for both
murders.
The holdup and capture climaxed
night of police activity that in
Guided clearing up of third murder
and the Sherman hotel robbery last
week.
Peter Lucas, As, was killed last
night in his South State street drug
store by the three Negroes, Morgan
Sevan, %; Napoleon Grover, 10, and
Van Dontaerax, %, when he offered
resistance.
A squad of police was on the trail
in a few minutes and ran down the
trio in an apartment house. After
a brief gun battle, the three Negroes
surrendered and confessed.
At the police station they ad
mitted killing Matthew Luck, Negro,
in a. drug store noldup Sunday
night. Luck was bystander.
The third murder cleared up waG
that of Roy A. Flynn, shot to death
in a West Side saloon Nov. %, 1927.
Mike Quirk, 40, had been sought
as the slayer. He was seized last
night as he returned to his home In
Forest Park.
Frank Colosimo, 10. former bus
boy, admitted tipping off a bandit
gang which obtained the $6,922 pay
roll in the Sherman hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
PUSH HEALTH BILL
Proposed Law Sent Out to
Clubs Of State.

Copies of bill to empower cities
and counties to employ a full-time
health officer are being sent out to
women's clubs and others interested
by DR.. william F. King, state health
board secretary.
Included with the bill also is a
terse presentation of budget requests
to be made to the legislature by the
state health department and a
chart showing appropriations for
health departments in other states.
In twenty states listed, Indiana,
with $180,500 annually, has the low
est appropriation.
The health officer bill provides for
creation of a health commission in
ell counties, and cities of 10000 or
more. A full-time health officer
would be employed by the health
commission at a salary not to ex-
coed $4,000 annually.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
Resolution Providing for
$4,000 Bond Issue
May Be Offered.

Reports that city council may be
asked to adopt a preliminary resp
luton for a municipal airport Mon
day night we're current at city hall
today.
Mayor L. Ert Slack, who has been
silent about airport activities, was
out of the city on a hunting trip
and could not be reached. Coun-
cilmen Herman P. Lieber and Ed
ward w. Harris, Frank H. Sparks,
Norman A. Perry, H. Weir Cook and
Edward B. Raub Jr., park board
attorney, compose the mayors air.
port committee.
Members said the committee had
held no meeting since the Chamber
of Commerce citizens committee
recommended Site 80, north of Ben
Davis, more than a month ago.
Some committee members have con-
ferred individually with the mayor.
It was indicated the ordinance will
provide for $675,OO0 bond issue,
the minimum stipulated by statute
for an airport. The bond issue
would be ample to put the field in
shape, build approaches and
hangers, it was said.
City officials are said to be agreed
generally on Site 8, south of Ben
Davis, rather than the one favored
by the chamber. Council finally
will determine location of the pro-
posed landing field.
Reports indicated the resolution
will include specifications and prices
on four sites. The other locations
probably Will be No. 7, adjoining
Mars Hill airport, and No. IS, north
west of the city.
The price asked for No. 8 was
1929 ,O0C, compared with $388,000 for
No. 30.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
BIDS OPEN ON
81 MILES OF
ROAD NOV. II
State to Make Start on zoe .
Mile Program as Soon
as Possible.
TWO GRADING PROJECTS
Some of Most Important
Routes in Indiana System
Included.

Bids for 67.5 miles of the proposed
30O-mile paving program for 1929
will be opened by the state highway
commissioners Nov. 81, it was an
nounced today by Director John D.
Williams.
First letting includes some of the
most important roads in the system.
Williams says. In every instance
these projects are continuation of
pavement which eventually will ex-
tend across the state or are neces-
sary trunk connections, he asserts.
The November letting also in
cludes two grading projects.
The 67.5 miles will be awarded in
eight construction projects, ranging
from five to eleven miles in length.
One Along South Shore
They are described by williams
as follows:
State Road 40 from Valparaiso to
Chesterton, SIS miles in Porter
county. This road joins U. S. 20
opposite the Dunes State park en-
trance on the Lake Michigan south
shore.
State Road So from Remington
to Rensselaer,. eleven miles In Jas
per county. The road is paved from
Chicago to Rensselaer, and this
project extends the pavement south
to the intersection with U. S. "a.
State Road "a from Wabash to
Huntington. sixteen miles in Wa
bash and Huntington counties. This
is the last gap under contract be-
tween Monticello and Ft. Wayne.
Includes Greensburg Route
State Road 20 from shelbyville to
GreenSburg, twenty miles in Shelby
and Decatur counties. The road is
paved between Indianapolis and
Shelbyville.
State Road As from Huntingburg,
Jasper, to HaySville, 1875 miles in
Dubois county. This is the last gap
between Evansville and French Lick
and West Baden via Roads 81
and As.
The heavy grading and bridging
OF the Patoka river valley, between
Jasper and Huntingburg, was COM
pleted more than a year ago and
the entertainments have settled suffi-
GENTLY to permit paving next spring.
Grading Projects
Heavy grading projects were de-
Scribed by Williams as follows:
State Road 81 across Clear Greek
valley, near Harrodsburg in Monroe
county, for a distance of a half
mile. Grading was held in allegiance
until this time, to complete the big
bridge over Clear creek and to
bridge the Monon railroad. New
grading to bring the highway to
these bridges will proceed.
State Road 81 adjacent to Eel
river bridge, just northwest of
Worthington. This project is about
three-fourths of a mile long and on
relocation to avoid a steep hill and
one very dangerous turn.
Each grading project and reloca-
ton of the highway in order to
make travel safer, means abandon
ment of one of the few remaining
covered bridges on state roads in
Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
SUGGEST NEW JUDGE

Letters Besiege Jackson Over VAN
derburgh Bench.
Dozens of letters and kilograms
are coming daily to the Office of
Governor Ed Jackson in the interest
of candidates for the seat on the
Vanderburgh superior bench to be
vacated Dec. /, by Judge Edgar
Durre.
The Judge is to retire to head the
trust department of the Old Ma
tional Bank.
The county bar association recon-
mended John Brady as first choice
and E. G. Henning as second choice
to the Governor. No action will be
taken until Durre leaves the bench
it was announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, Now 15.-Judge
Clarence w. Dearth of Delaware
circuit court interprets patriotism
in terms of obedience to the dry
law. Alonzo McShirley, World war
veteran, who was wounded In &C
ton and is now suffering from
tuberculosis, received no clemency
from Judge Dearth after pleading
guilty to being drunk.
They gave him whisky in the
trenches" Clarence Benadum, at
torney for McShirley asserted in
asking clemency. Nov, because he
comes back and takes a drink, they
send him to Jail. Times certainly
ha' changed"
1.-THE last election showed that. 1t
showed that the country is against
the VETS" the court replied.
We'll anyway" Benadum re-
torted, ''it showed that the country
is satisfied with its bootleggers."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
MAILMEN TO ELECT

Officers of Letter Carriers Body List
Nominations.
Hoosier city branch, No. SO, Ma
tional Association of Letter Car
riers, have nominated officers for
the coming year. An election will
be held at the December meeting
at the DeniSon.
Those nominated: Lowell Wads-
worth, incumbent, and Edward l..
Minish, for president; John Stettler,
recording secretary; William Nc
Cutchecn, corresponding secretary,
and Charles r. Shellenberg, treas
urer.
Shellenberg, city hall postman,
has served as treasurer for five
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15

throughout the world, and in 1924
left for the Pacific coast, where
he enacted the oox episode. Dis
covered on the vessel, Sparks was
put off when it reached Honolulu.
Still persisting in his desire to
preach, Sparks built a small boat
and set out for the Holy Land
from the Hawaiian island city.
Months passed and no word
came from Sparks. Then his boat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
PRISON
NEEDS PUT AT .
HALF MILLION
Legislature to Be Asked for
Large Sum to Erect
New Buildings,
PROBATION PLAN URGED
Penal Population Could Be
Reduced, Secretary of
Board Believes.

Indiana legislators will be asked.
to appropriate nearly 100000 for
new buildings at the several penal
institutions, according to budgets
now on file with the board of ac-
counts.
Yet an increased adult probation
program might curtail the constant
" growing penal population SO
that such huge Expenditures would
be unnecessary, in the opinion of
John A. Bromn, secretary of the
state charities board.
He cites the case of Massachusetts,
where no new prison buildings have
been necessary for twenty-five
years. That state leads all others
in the matter of adult probation,
he says.
Penal Population Drops
AS a result, the penal population
has decreased from 6,877 in 1914 to
5,373 in 1927. During the same
period in Indiana, the number of
prisoners has increased from 3,1l4
to 5,738. A similar increase is noted
in the majority of other states,
Brown declares.
From social standpoint, adult
probation is very advisable" he as
serts. 1T is not entirely a matter
of the saving of dollars and cents
to the taxpayers, although that is
obvious.
There is no reason why a sane
minded first offender should be sent
away without giving him or her "a
chance to try again. Oftentimes
they learn things by contact with
hardened persons behind the prison
walls that cause them to continue
on the downward path, with great
detriment to society.
Probation Is Advised
could they be saved by a single
chance, surely it is advisable to give
it to them.
mo state of society shoutld I'M
prison persons out of a mere spirit
Of revenge"
That the building programs asked
by the several penal institutions are
needed sorely is shown in please at
tached to the budgets by the super
intendentS.
Warden Walter H. DAILY of the
Indiana state prison at Michigan
City requests a new dollhouse to
cost $159,800 and a $4,000 factory
building.
He points out that AIS prisoners
are sleeping in factory buildings,
two-thirds in dormitories and only
$40, fewer than one-third, in proper
cells.
Buildings Are Needed
At the Indiana state farm, Green
castle, two new dormitories to cost
5000, an $18,500 industrial build
ing. and a $4,000 chapel are re-
queSted. Here also attention is called
to overcrowding.
Superintendent Andrew F. Miles
asks a $4,000 dormitory and $4,000
trade school at Indiana state refor-
matory, Pendleton.
Adult probation has been a slow
process in this state, according to
Brown. In Massachusetts, officials
have been working at it for more
than fifty years.
Under the present plan in Indiana
a state department head is APP
pointed by the Governor and local
courts may have their own proba-
ton officers.
In Massachusetts, the probation
is in charge of experts, employed by
a nonpartisan board, which selects
the department head without politi-
cal consideration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
SEEKS TWO SONS HERE

Father Fears for Safety of Pair,
Missing Since Oct. 81.
r. L. Follett, Boswell, Ind. to-
day is making an effort to locate
his two sons, Stanley, q, and
Charles E., 81, here.
The two young men last were
heard from at Upton, Ind, Oct. 81.
At that time they we're selling en-
velopeS and letterheads. They
we're driving Ford sedan and were
reported en- route to Indianapolis.
Follett said his sons carried more
than 500 in their pockets and he
feared something had happened ito
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15

The missing mans parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Sparks, live here
and his sons make their home
with them.
Despite the legal steps which
make her son dead, at least in the
eyes of the law, the mother has
not lost hope that some day he
will return and spends many
hours watching for him from a
window Of her home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
FINAL CHAPTER FOR HoosIER BELIEVED cANNIBAL VICTIM

was found moored on the shore
of an island in the Philippine
group, known to be inhabited by
cannibals. No trace of him has
been found since.
Frank H. Sparks, a brother,
has been appointed administra-
tor of the estate, consisting of per-
sonal property valued at $4,000,
which will be preserved for the
wanderers children, Thorman, II,
and Donald, 9. -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
DISABLED VETERAN
DENIED CLEMENCY

Judge Dearth ended the passage
of words by saying:
1.-THE soldier who has fought for
his country should b. more patriotic
than anyone else about obeying her
laws"
r1cShirley was fined $40 and costs
and sentenced to thirty days in Jail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
DISCUSSES FAR EAST

College Processes Speaks to Mems
Club of CarrOlltOn Church.
Mysteries of the ear East and
customs of Jerusalem were discussed
by Prof. John j. Haramy of Indiana
Central college before the Carrollton
Avenue Mems Club, at Carrollton
Avenue Reformed church, Wedne3-
day night.
Haramy was born in Jerusalem.
and is a graduate of Indiana Uni
versity. Following service in the
American army during the World
war, he was a newspaper CORES
pendent in Egypt, Palestine and
Syria, returning to the United
States in 1924.
The Sahara Grotto glee club sang.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
Lindbergh Poem Wins

BIZ United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, Nov. 15.-
Mrs. Margaret Ball Dickinson,
member of the English department
at Valparaiso university here, has
been awarded first prize by the
British Poetry Society for the best
poem on Lindbergh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
BM limited Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Demo-
cratic leaders assembling here for
the opening of congress are mani
Testing no chagrin at the political
outlook.
Generally they are not talking
about recognizing or overthrowing,
but speak both publicly and private
" of building up from the 14,500,-
900 vote basis provided by Governor
Alfred E. Smith.
For the present, leaders indicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
COUNCIL MOVE ON
AIRPORT FOR CITY
is REPORTED NEAR
POOrAndienCe!

BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov.
15.-Stating that the marathon
dances are "inhuman and
cruel" Mrs. Henry B. Ess,
heading delegation represent
ing six organizations, appealed
to city authorities to prevent a
marathon being staged here.
Final action on stopping the
marathon was withheld until
city officials could consult
hackers of the contest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
Orders ECONOMY Campalgn

By United Press
BUCHAREST, Nov. 15.-Premier
Manu-. launching a drastic economy
campaign, ordered the sale of 200
automobiles belonging to the vart-
Gus ministries. In the future,
Manu- said, each minister will use
one government automobile each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15

By Times Special
DERU, Ind, Nov. 15.-Appoint-
Il ment in Miami circuit court
here of an administrator FOR the
estate of Ira G. Sparks is the
final chapter in his colorful life
which included packing himself
in box labeled merchandise
which was loaded on a Pacific
ocean liner.
Sparks, carpenter here, said
he had a divine call to preach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
START SKATE MARATHON
Grind on Rollers to Begin at Ger
mania Hall; 80 Pairs Entered.

Another marathon starts tonight.
This time its a roller skating
grind, and will be held at the old
Germania hall, 81 South Delaware
street, under auspices of the Con-
vention City post. Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Thirty couples have entered. They
begin skating for $1,000 in prizes at
7:30 D. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
100 COMMUNISTS SLAIN
200 Taken Prisoner in Battle With
Chinese Nationalist.

Chinese Nationalist.
By United Press
HONG KONG. Nov. 15.-One
hundred communists were killed and
more than 200 taken prisoner in a
two-day battle with nationalist adj
vices to Hong Kong said today.
The battle began at Shektong
City In the Fayuen district.
The communists have had a
stronghold there for more than
year and recently the radical leader
was ordered to retreat to Chingoi,
from where he was routed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-15
UTILITY VALUE BOOSTED
Tax Board Increases Estimate on
Indiana Electric Corporation.

Following review of valuation of
the Dresser power station of the
Indiana Electric Corporation, an In
Sull utility, made by Vigo county
authorities, the state tax board in
creased the $1,1oo,OOo value by $780,
600. They also added to the $2000,-
600 valuation, $251 ,430 for material
and supplies. Total valuation of
company properties in the state is
$8,196,000.