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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
AIRPLANES ARE
CREATING new
LEGAL TANCLES
Mrs. WiIIebrandt Predicts
Industry Must Meet Pio-
neer Court Troubles.
BY GILBERT SWAN
United Press Sports Writer

LOS ANGELES, July 15.-In the
early days of the railroads, a whole
lot of people looked on these new
public carriers as new sources from
which clever man could get money
for nothing-and so the railroads
were bombarded with all kinds of
previously unheard-of lawsuits.
The fiedgling business of COM
mercial aviation today is in precise
ly the same situation. Being some
thing entirely new. it is constantly
running into situations to which ex-
listing laws do not seem to apply
and. like the early railroads. is en-
coNntering tangle of new and I'M
usual lawsuits.
She'll Tackle New Problems
That is one reason why Mabel
Walker Willebrandt gave up her po-
sition as prohibition prosecutor for
the United States government to
become chief legal adviser for the
Universal Aviation Corporation.
She told me about it shortly after
she had arrived in Los Angeles in
one of the corporations luxurious
transport planes; told me of this
brand-new legal field in which she
is going to help mark the right-of-
way.
When in 1926 congress prescribed
certain air rights, it cautiously over
# sG0x1ni,oAY14
main" And since certain flying
fields have been forced to display
beacons, who is to say that tomorrow
any ordinary citizen may not be Or
dered to put a light on his roof to
point the way to safety?
Here is another example. On Long
Island a golf course adioins an air
port. Planes occasionally make
forced landings on the golf courses
fairWays, to the anger Of the golfers
and the ruination of the turf. Be-
sides. when they sail along close to
the ground they ruin puts and
cause many a topped drive.
The golf club, therefore, is pre-
pairing to build a Sixty-foot fence
on its boundary line to prevent this;
the airport people say this will ruin
their flying f1eld-and nobody knows
exactly what each party's legal
rights in the matter are.
That sort of thing" said Mrs.
Willebrandt, is one Of the chief
reasons why I have become a legal
counsellor for aviation. I am still
young enough to be interested in
new ideas and in pioneering. The
questions which aviation is raising
are largely those which were raised
by the railroads in their infancy.
Fears Golf Minded Jury
Take that dispute between the
airport and the golf club on Long
Island. Suppose that lawsuit is tried
before a jury. Will that jury be
air-minded or golf minded? My
wa ter, if any, is that it will be golf
minded. It is accustomed to golf
links, but it isn't accustomed to the
Whirring of motors overhead. And
therein lies my particular problem!
When 1 was flying in the first
passenger plane Of the Universal
Aviation Corporation, I could look
down and see the sheep, COWS and
pigs stampeding to get away from
us. Back in the days when the first
railroad trains were entering the
western territory, you would find
that many lawsuits arose in Just
that way-through the stampeding
of livestock. We are looking for
MANY such suits
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
Automobiles Cause Four of
Week-E Fatalities
in Indiana.

Seven deaths by violence was the
toll in Indiana over the week END,
four fatalities being due to auto
mobiles and three to drowning.
Mrs. Emma KretZman, 81, near
Kokomo. was killed when automo-
bileS collided at the intersection of
the Miller and Huntington roads
Her husband. the Rev. Robert Kretz-
man, was severly injured. Oliver R.
Stiverson, Fit. Wayne, driver of the
other car. is being held on a man
slaughter charge.
Gerald Haviland. IL Geneva. was
killed four miles north of Portland
when an automobile upset after a
tire burst. Dale Huey. %, Geneva,
uncle of the victim. suffered a skull
fracture.
Joseph Freeman. 80. Templeton.
father of four small children, died
in q Lafayette hospital Of injuries
received when struck by an auto
mobile.
Charles W. Brown, 81. La Grange,
was killed instantly when struck by
an automobile while walking on a
road twelve miles east OF here.
Arthur johnson, %. Elizabeth,
drowned in the Ohio river near New
Albany. after waving good-by to his
sweetheart. Miss Bertha Johnson. 25.
New Albany.
Alfred Ravner. 81. farmer near
Versailles. succeeded in saving
young brother from drowning in
Laughrey creek. but lost his own life.
Kenneth Keller. Is. Oolitic. was
drowned while swimming in an
abandoned stone quarry. He sank
tweny feet from shore after becom-
ing exhausted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
Doctor Hurled Out of His
Wagon: Pedestrian
Is FeIled.

Two hit and run automobile
drivers were sought by police to-
day and more than fifteen persons
are recovering from injuries sus-
tanned in week END accidents.
DR.. w. NJ. Curl, Sc, of els West
New York street, driving a horse
with wagon. was hurled from the
wagon into the street and sustained
injuries to his right leg when the
horse was struck by hit and run
driver at New York and PennSyl-
vania streets early today.
According to witnesses, DR.. Curl
had the green traffic light and the
machine ran a RED light as it
struck the animal. The horse was
hurtly badly. DR. Curl was taken
home.
Elijah McCord, 80, Rural Route Is,
Box 210, Oaklandon, suffered frac-
tire Of one leg and body bruises
when struck by a hit and run mo-
torist while walking on the Pendle-
ton pike, near Fl. Benjamin Harri-
son Sunday night.
Others injured, according to police
reports, were: Herman, 10, and
Edward Mayhem, Is, Ben Davis;
Howard Cox, 1882 East Ohio street;
Ray Ostine, 507 South Holmes ave-
nue.; Norman Worth, II, of 1882
North Beville avenue; Miss Hilda
Bookatman, IS, of 833 South Merid-
ian street: Miss Harlina Owens, IA,
Negro, Jefersonville. Ind: Galeta
Pearl Wilson, 6, of 1918 North Key
stone avenue; Mrs. Carey Dixon. so,
Of SGT South Central court; Miss
RoSyline Barrows, 3148 Fall Greek
boulevard; Miss Winifred Larsen,
Is. of 4010 West Sixteenth street;
Rauph Peckham. %, of 2130 Sugar
Grove avenue; Artie Reed. g, of 2009
East Forty sixth street; Catherine
Booth, 8. of 1706 Spann avenue. and
Vera ScarbrookS, 7, of 812 South
Capitol avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
COUNTY HIRES EXPERTS

The firm of Bevington-Williams,
Inc. consulting engineers, has been
retained by the board Of county
commissioners to plan and supervise
installation of a heating plant at
the Marion county tuberculosis hos
pital. The project will cost $4,000,
Commissioners explained today
that they engaged the engineers TO
insure a good job. The county
seldom employs engineers for build
ing projects.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
MISSING FATHER
OF TWO HUNTED
AT EVANSVILLE
Murder and DeSertion The
cries Held by ReIa-
tiveS in Case.
BIZ Times Special

EVANSVILLE, Ind. July Is
Missing more than a week after tell
ing relatives he was going to meet
some fellows who will drive me to
Rumsey, KY, Tully Ashby 80, is be-
ing hunted by police as members Of
his family alternate between theo-
rieS Of muredr and suicide.
AShby'S wife and two children
were guests of relatives in Rumsey
for two weeks and Ashby planned to
go there and accompany them back,
July 4. On the evening of the pre-
ceding day he told his mother about
being driven to Rumsey. Since then
all trace of his has been lost.
A few days before he was to leave
for the Kentucky town, AShby wrote
an eleven page letter to his wife,
saying he was lonely, declaring:
There will be no more going
away and leaving me at home. We
will stay at home and starye to-
gether or all go away at the sans
time.
The letter had the following post
script:
See the difference in our letters?
I think you could write more, or is
there somebody else to keep you
busy? Kiss the kids for me"
AShby stated in the letter that
the men he referred to in CONVEX
sation with his mother were driving
only to Calhound, five miles from
Rumsey. He said he would tele-
phone his wife from the former
town. She went there, but he did
not appear Before leaving his par
ents' home Ashby returned a bor-
roWed revolver to his father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
RIVER BOATS TO
RACE TUESDAY
Woman viii Pilot One Ohio
Vessel.

Bp ynited Press
CINCINNATI. July 15.-The col
orful reign of the old numbering
side wheeler will be revived here
tomorrow when two river steamers,
the sturdy Tom Greene and the
fleet Betsy Ann, bid for speed SUI
premacy OF the Ohio river The
only Ohio river woman pilot will be
at the wheel of the Tom Greene.
Behind the impending race lies a.
story of years of friendly rivalry;
of competition that began on the
Mississippi when the dingy square,
bowed boats we're the chief mode of
travel.
The main topic Of conversation
today vas which will win.
The Betsy Ann" says Frederick
Way, her master, lis the fastest
boat on the river. She was built
for speed and she will outdistance
the lubberly Tom Greene"
And my boat" says Tom Greene.
young master of the ship bearing his
name. can easily beat the Betsy
Ann or any other boat and that
goes for my brothers boat, the
Chris Greene"
The Chris Greene. Sister-ship Of
the Tom Greene, beat the Betsy Ann
in q tight race last fall and her
master Immediately claimed the
river speed title.
Chris will be challenged after to-
morroW's race, regardless of the out
come.
The race will begin at 5, over a 81
mile course to New Richmond. Cap
tain Greene's mother, the only
woman on the Ohio to hold a pilots
license. will be pilot of the Tom
Greene. Greene and Way are the
youngest masters on the river,
Greene is 25. and Way is 28.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
CITY POWER FIRMS
VALUATION IS REDUCED
State Tax Board Clips S6S2,45O;
Error Alleged.

The state tax board today clipped
S632,450 from the valuation origi-
nally set for the indianapolis Power
and Light Company. Phillip zoer-
cher. tax board member, explaining
that the reduction was largely be-
cause of q clerical error in the origi-
nal compilation rather than the
result of reconsideration.
With today's change. the new
valuation on which the utility will
pay state taxes next year is $31,-
5O8,775. Originally the figure was
s32, 141, 225 as compared with the
valuation of $23,6o7 900 year ago.
The tax board recently reduced
the Indianapolis Water Company's
original valuation by approximately
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
MISSIONS TALK TONIGHT
New Moravian Church Will Hear
National ReliainuS Chairman.

The Rev. S. H. Gapp, Bethlehem,
Pa. chairman of the national board
of religious education Of the Mora
Wan church, will speak tonight at
the new Second Moravian Episcopal
church, Thirty-fourth and Hovey
streets.
The address on missions will be
the second in a series of celebrations
in connection with the opening of
the new church. The Rev. Vernon
W. Couillard. pastor. conducted COM
munion services Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
MEN CONVENE

approximately 200 statesmen and
distributors are attending the Sec
onG annual convention Of the Prest-
O-Lite Battery Corporation which
opened today at the indianapolis
Athletic Club.
Nearly three times as many bat
tories have been shipped in the first
six months this year as we're shipped
IN all of 1928.
Convention sessions are in charge
OF H E. Komitch sales manager. An
airplane fight over the city and
other entertainment will feature the
convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
D. 0. K. K. GROUP DRILLS

At the annual picnic at Brookside
Sunday afternoon. members of the
drum and bugle corps of Shambah
Temple No. 139 Dramatic Order
knights OF Khorassan, held final
drill and inspection before their
participation in competition at the
national D. o. K. K. convention TO
be held in Winnipeg, Canada, Aug.
IL TO II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
PARACHUTE JUMP FAILS

Ina Dahl Riverside park mas
cot was being given first aid to-
day by park carpenters after receiv-
ing a broken shoulder in fall from
a balloon Sunday.
Parachute ropes became entan-
gled. causing the wooden bathing
beauty TO drop rapidly to the
ground. Residents believed the
form of Ina" to be that of a hui
man being and called police Peoria
& Eastern Railway employees held a
picnic Sunday at the park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
RAIL MAIL HEAD HERE
William VI. Collins Addresses In
dianapolis Branch Members.

William M. Collins. national presi-
dent of the Railway Mail ASsocia-
ton, spoke before the members Of
the Indianapolis branch Saturday
night at the Denison hotel.
Three delegates from the local
branch will attend the national con-
vention at Columbus, O.. the first
week in September. The double
quartet from the vomen's auxiliary
of the branch will sing at the con-
vention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
BRINGS
DEATH TO SEVEN
CHURCH GROUP ELECTS
Cromer Aldridge Heads Brethren's
Young Peoples Division.

Cromer Aldridge of Anderson, to-
day headed the young peoples di-
vision of the southern district Of the
church of the Brethren.
Officers we're elected at the clos
ing session of the annual conference
at Grace Church, Thirty
Second street and Capitol avenue.
Other officers: Clarence Bowman,
Hagerstown, vice-president; Miss
Lena Wagner, Indianapolis, secre-
tary: Miss Vera Johnson, Muncie,
secretary at large. The Rev. R. L.
Showalter of Anderson installed the
new officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
CONFERENCE is CLOSED

The Rev. ]. o. Winger of North
Manchester spoke Sunday afternoon
at the closing session of the annual
two-day young peoples conference
of the southern district of the
Church of the Brethren at the
Grace church. About one hundred
delegates attended the conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO

Miss Charlotte Meek, o. OF
Greenfield, received serious injuries
about the neck and body when
struck by an auto at Sixteenth and
Capitol avenue today.
She was taken to Methodist hos
pital where she is employed in this
office Abe Brodsky, 10, Of HOB
South Illinois street. driver of the
car. WAS not held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
Hurrying Man Hurt

FRANKFORT. Ind. July 10
While hurrying through q storm to
close his home windows before at
tending a birthday party in honor
of his wife. Emmett Pippenger fell.
dislocating his right knee cap and
breaking a bone in his left hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
Christmas Tree in July

~ IfmCN NDCcI0I
EVANSVILLE. Ind. July 15.-
July Christmas tree, loaded with
gifts. stood in the St. Lucas, Evan
gelical church here Sunday. Gifts.
donated by Sunday school children,
will be sent to an Evangelical mis-
sion at Raipur. India. They will be
distributed Christmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
Wife CHARGES Mate Punched

NEWCASTLE, Ind, July 15.-Mrs.
Bessie Mikels charges her husband,
Finley Mikels. At, tortured her by
pinching her legs with wire shippers
and as result he faces assault and
battery charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15

WHEN damp DAYS, sud len
w changes in weather, or expos
IRE to a draft makes joints ache,
there is always quick relief in
Bayer Aspirin. 1t makes short work
OF headaches or any little pain. lust
as effective in the more serious
suffering from neuralgia, neuritis,
rheumatism or lumbago. No ache
or pain is ever too deep-seated for
Ba7er Aspirin to relieve. and It does
not affect the heart. All druggists,
with proven directions for various
uses which many people have found
invaluable in the relief OF pain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15
POLICE SEEK TWO
HIT-SKIP AUTOISTS
Cat Objects
tOSQneeSe
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
ROSSVILLE. Ind. July Is
Fred Kinzer, 5-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Biven KinZer, at
tempted to run cat through
a wringer on the family wash
ing machine. The animal pit
and scratched the child so
badly that he is under the care
Of a physician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15

Miss Edna Weaverof 1915 West
Pruitt street (sta ndingl first prize
winner in the bathing beauty con-
test at Mcclure beach Sunday,
and seated Miss Gertrude Cert
chen of 1920 Holiday street, who
won second place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-15

Smartly tailored Of fine
mohair and alpaca in grey
and black. Cool, dressy
and comfortable. Ideal
for office wear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
HEAT EXPERTS
CLAIM WEATHER
SAFE AND SANE
u. S. Bureau Remembers
Hotter and Colder Days
in Long Ago.

BIZ ScriDps-HoU0rd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-OP man
weather has been having more fun
than usual with suffering humanity
the last six months, but scientists Of
the United States weather bureau,
hopping their steaming brows in
sist that nothing abnormal has hap
pened.
Perhaps the widest variation il
temperature has been at Bismarck.
N. D, which had a United States
low of 40 below zero last Feb. 10,
followed by 100 degrees on July 81
"a range of 143 degrees. And if
you are dissatisfied with the brand
Of heat in your old home town, you
might try Phoenix, Ariz. which for a
whole week had maXimums of from
102 to 1903.
But nothing general or alarming
has happened to the weather. We
nave had better summers and colder
winters" said DR.. Preston c. Day,
meteorological expert of the wealth
er bureau.
The bureaus reports show that
January and February we're unus-
ually cold west of the AIleghenies,
March and April so generally warm
that unwary fruits burst into bloom
as far north as Michigan, followed
by spell of cool and rainy weather
in May.
Nor was the whole country swell
tered under a continued heat blank
ct this summer. Killing frosts were
reported from the upper peninsula
of Michigan and in central Wiscon-
sin the week of July 23-the same
week that Bismarck had 100 de-
grees of heat and Oklahoma City
reported l04. Temperatures that
week were rather too low" for corn
in the eastern corn belt.
"As to our own cold weather in
the midwest" he said, cold polar
air is always flowing down. One
snow storm having blanketed the
mid-continent, the snow acted like
a mirror and reflected away the
suns heat into space. You might
almost say it made the sun colder,
since its heat was greatly lessened.
But we haven't had anything
really remarkable. 1t has been 81 in
Washington, but remember 107.
And speaking Of cold winters, do
you remember 1882"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
MONK TO BE HONORED

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N. Y,
Aug. 2. -Gregor Mendel, the Aus
TRAN monk who founded the mod
er science of genetics, is to be re-
membered with a monument erected
in his native village Of Neu-Tit-
schein, Czecho- SloVakia.
A group of scientists in Czecho-
Slovakia have undertaken to raise
$4,000, Of which they have now COL
lected $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
PENSION FOR FEDERAL
OFFICERS ADVOCATED
Officers Killed on Duty Prompts
Texas Judges Observation.

BIZ Scriops-Hopdrd NspsDGDer Alliance
Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. 2.-County
Judge E. B. McClintock today adj
vocated a law to provide pensions
for the families Of federal officers
killed in enforcing federal laws.
Il think every officer killed or
wounded in line of duty, whether
he be federal, state, county or city
officer ought to be treated just as
are soldiers in the matter of pen
sions," he said:
The judges observation was
prompted by the death of Evan
Scotch. killed in enforcing prohi-
bition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02
HOOVER PARDONS I
Restores Civil Rights to IS
More.

By ScripDs-Ho,Oard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Pres!-
dent Hoover has granted seven full
pardons to federal convicts during
his first five months in the White
House, according to justice depart
ment records.
In addition Hoover has restored
civil rights to former prisoners in
thirty-f1ve cases and has granted a
dozen combinations of sentences.
New cases are being submitted
every day and there is no record yet
where the chief executive has re-
fused clenency.
Pardons are usually initiated
through the justice department and
are not acted upon at the White
House until a recommendation has
been made by the attorney general.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-02

Real gold dust is one of the ma
terials used by an artist who spe-
cializes in miniature paintings, some
of which measures only half an inch
across. He uses magnifying glass
in his painting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-05
By
T E. PHILLIPS
| OPPENHEIM
u Copyrisht, 1929, by North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance and
Metropolitan Newspaper Serv-
ice.

ever. Something in her expression re-
minded me of the moment when we
had met upon the threshold of my
room at Breezeley mansion, when the
red light was burning upon my wall.
Some fear seemed to have been born in
her.
Those things don't happen. do they
not in real life?" she murmured. I'VE
are in search of one man out of 7,000,-
900, and we are scarcely likely to find
him the first time we dine together in
a public restaurant. Besides" she went
on, although I have a great idea of
Joseph, I can't really imagine him
dining with dukes-there is duke
there. isn't there, besides cabinet
minister? I think we shall have to go
little farther afield for our victim.
Lady Bonofar's reception rooms still
seem to me a more likely place"
Our meal drew on towards its end,
but 1 noticed, to my annoyance, that
the man who had so manifestly shown
his interest in my companion had in
no way abandoned it. / summoned my
maitre d'hotel and whispered in his
ear. He bowed and departed.
II have asked him to get me list
of Farondon's guests" 1 explained.
THAT fellow looks at you all the time.
Have you ever seen him before, that you
know off"
II can't exactly remember that I
have" she replided, yet there is some
thing about him--how foolish we are!
We have worked ourselves into this
state, you know. Anyhow, if your
waiter succeeds in his mission, we
shall know who he is"
The maitre d'hotel returned pre-
sently and laid little strip of paper
by my side. My companion and I
read it together:
Lord Farendon
The Hon. Peter GateSon
Mr.. r. G. Croome. NJ. p.
Mr. PraySon Taylor, M. p.
Sir Godfrey Mandon
The Duke of Medchester
Mr.. X"
I looked up at the Maitre d'hotel.
Which is Mr.. X.?"
1.-THE gentleman seated at his lord
ships right. sir. He is guest who does
not wish his name in the paper"
My companion and 1 exchanged
glances.