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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
AIRPORT Land
PURCHASE UP
Council viii Get Ordinance
Providing $4,000.

An ordinance appropriating $4,000
to buy the north entrance to the
municipal airport will be introduced
in council tonight.
Before leaving Saturday for
French Lick. Mayor L. Ert Slack
requested Smiley N. Chambers, as
Sistant city attorney, to draft an
ordinance appropriating the balance
in the airport fund. The money was
obtained from premiums on the
bond issue and sale of crops.
Councilmen agreed to buy the
tract recently at a closed conference
with Mayor Slack. A seven-acre
tract west of Banner avenue ans
south of the National road will be
acquired through condemnation pro-
ceedings. Sterling R. Holt, city con-
troller, owns part of the property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
GIRL Slayer
FEARLESS Of
CHAIR DEATH
South Bend Prisoner Tells
of Love for Victim and
His Little Sons.
VOICES WISH FOR END
q Want to Die Since He's
Dead Now PanSy Funk
Says in Cell.

By Times Spect1J
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. 19.-
The girl who calmly killed the man
she accused Of being the father OF
her unborn baby is undisturhed by
the prospect of death in the electric
chair, but she fears she will never
again see the two little sons of her
victim.
Miss Pansy Funk, 20, shook her
bobbed hair and defiantly confessed,
"Sure. shot him." as police ques-
toned her following the death OF
Jesse Nader, %. She fired a bull
let into his chest. Firing at her own
breast with a revolver, she received
only flesh wound.
The girl had been Mader's house
keeper following his separation from
his wife. Mrs. Francis Nader. One
dav the wife came back. For few
hours both women were in the
home.
Then Miss Funk, referred to by
the wife as that girl left. Mrs.
Nader remained but a short time.
She told police she was witness to
caresses bestowed upon her husband
bv the woman who few days later
ended his life.
Mrs. Elizabeth McMullen succeed
ed Pansy as housekeeper. She was
present the day Pansy returned, re-
ouesting Nader TO Come on down
to the street. 1 want to talk to
you"-the words that started a stroll
from which he never returned.
In letters written before the
shooting but which we're never
mailed. Pansy revealed her attec-
ton for Nader and his children,
Colin, 3, and zerl, Q. She wrote
her mother:
"The kids call me mama" and
how love them. But 1 guess 1
lust have to forget all about it.
Another missive, written to Nader
on a Christmas card, bearing the
printed words, Peace, Joy, Cheer,
ends with the words, i love you,
Jess
Harry Taylor, st. Joseph county
prosecuting attorney, announces his
intention of pressing a first degree
murder charge, conviction on which
will mean death in the electric
chair for the girl.
"I want to die sir he's dead
now" the girl sid ~ signing
a confession. She LIS not men
toned any ideas she may have re-
garding a defense, nor has she con-
suited an attorney. Her only visit
or in Jail has been an aunt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
CHR|STEN Time
FLIGHT PLANE
Endurance Ship Named
Red FIamingo by Company.

The indianapolis Flamingo today
was selected as the name for the
plane to be used in the nedurance
fight to be started early next week
by Lieutenant Walter R. Peck, COM
mander of Schoen field, Fit. Benja-
min Harrison, and Lieutenant Law
renee Genaro, army reserve f1ier.
The plane, q Flamingo all-metal
monoplane, manufactured by Metal
Aircraft Corporation, Cincinnati, is
to ARRIVE here this week and will
be used in series of pre-fight tests.
Hoosier airprt will be the refuel-
ing base. A Travel-Air monoplane
will be used for the refueling plane,
with two emergency planes in readi-
ness.
Lieutenant Perry, Dayton, army
reserve fier, will pilot the refueling
plane.
1t is planned to fly the monoplane
from Hoosier airport to New York,
from there to Los Angeles and back
to Indianapolis as part of the en-
durance flight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
WOMAN AND TWO MEN
TRAPPED ON MOUNTAIN
Rescue Party Starts to Aid Three
in Precarious Spot.

Rescue Party Starts to Aid Three
in Precarious Spot.
BIZ United Press
DENVER, Colo, Aug. ia rescue
party. directed by Robert Collier,
head of the forest ranger service in
Estes National park, started out
early today to rescue three persons
trapped on the east face of Longs
peak.
DR.. Albert STACKER. a Boulder
(Colo0 dentist, his wife and c. w.
Thiemeyer, are believed to be the
persons who Sunday night appealed
for aid from their precarious posi-
ton on a narrow rock ledge facing
a fall of 1000 feet.
Forest rangers tried several times
to &C nmunicate with the marooned
party. but the only information they
got were faint shouts of help"
Owing to darkness it was impossible
to attemptla rescue.
Two pc sons have lost their lives
in the last three years at the spot
where the climbers we're perched.
The climbers violated park rule
in attempting to ascend the peak.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
WIDENING PLAN
IS APPROVED
Board of Works Backs Up
Recommendation.

The board of works today decided
to proceed with the widening and
resurfacing of Delaware street from
Massachusetts, avenue to Walnut
street on recommendation of City
Engineer A. H. Moore.
A remonstrance on the project did
not contain majority of property
owners. Failure TO obtain major
ity of signatures on the remon-
STRANGE against paving between
tracks on Michigan from Sherman
drive to Emerson avenue also failed
to block the improvement.
Moore recommended award of the
paving of Belmont avenue from
Wyoming to Morris street to the r.
M. Bowen Company. The bid on
concrete was $10,732.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
CALIFORNIA TO
GET FUGITIVE
Fred Coons Is Wanted for
Los Angeles HoIdup.

Case of Fred Coons, alias A. P.
Jones, %, who is held in Jail under
$25, 600 bond as a fugitive from JUS
tice, was continued today by Mu-
nicipal Judge Paul G. Wetter until
Aug. 81.
Coons was captured at Twenty
fifth street and Central avenue by
Detectives John Giles and Roy
Reefs, when he went to the Shell
house Warehouse Company to make
inquiries about goods he had stored
there.
Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said
Coone probably will be turned over
to Los Angeles, Cal. authorities who
have warrants for him on charges
of robbing the Seaboard State bank
there.
Coons was sought by police in
connection with the $4,000 robbery
of the Citizens State bank at Plain
field, Ind, two years ago. Mrs. Rose
Buckingham, alleged companion OF
Coons, is to be tried in Hendricks
county for alleged completely in the
Plainfield robbery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
STATE LEGION TO
HAVE BUSY DAYS

of the Legion members. Chef Aus
tin and his company, including
Jewel Million, will put on the show
at the Richmond airport, west of the
city on the National road.
A boxing exhibition of thirty-two
rounds will be held Monday night
in Athletic park. In case of rain,
it will be transferred to the COLI
scum. Two dances, Saturday and
Monday nights, will be conducted in
the pavilion of the park.
Business sessions will be held in
the Trivoli theater, and the Legion
Auxiliary will meet in Reid Memo
rial church. A number of social
affairs have been arranged for the
visiting women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
RED ACES BUDDY
BOOSTS AVIATION

at hand when airplanes will be as
commonplace as automobiles.
1.-THE United States is far behind
in the air. With the wealth that
you have, you should be leading
the world. But you Americans have
just awakened. Lindbergh's New
York to Paris flight gave you the
needed squirt to develop your air
facilities"
The German noble visited Gary
for the second time within year,
stopping on his return from Ha-
wall. where he has large interests
in the sugar industry. He lists his
hobbies as flying, airplane develop
ment and travel. He is credited with
bringing down thirteen planes dur
ing the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
DRAG WHITE RIVER FOR
BODY OF DROWNED MAN
Oscar Meyers Loses Life to Save
Wading Children,

Efforts were continued today to
recover the body of Oscar Meyers,
a. of HAS Church street, who
drowned n White river, five miles
northeast of Martinsville. Ind,
Sunday.
Mrs. Eva Meyers, the widow, and
Mrs. Edna Shanks, his stepdaughter,
risked their lives in vain attempts
to rescue him and were saved by
Paul ShankS, husband of the step
daughter.
Meyers lost his life trying to save
his two children. who waded into
the river beyond their depth.
Shanks dragged them ashore.
The widow, stepdaughter and chill
dren, Ruth. 9, and Robert, 5, sur
vive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
TO STOP
DOG RACE BETTING

In ruling on the case, Judge Paris
said the state was not justified in
asking for such an extraordinary
writ as an injunction. He cited In
diana laws on gambling as providing
an adequate remedy and suggested
that provision authorizing seizure
of gambling equipment and arrest
of alleged operators was the proper
statute to invoke.
Prentice did not announce what
action he plans. The track has not
been in operation since week ago
when George C. Kopp, Clark circuit
Judge, issued a temporary restrain
ing order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

RU Times SnecinL
GARY, Ind, Aug. 19.-Baron Karl
Friedrich Won Hirsehfeld-H agelberg,
who served Germany during the
World war as a flying buddy Of
Baron Manfred Won Richthofen, the
Red Ace" visiting in Gary, urges
the importance of a properly located
airport for the city.
Gary needs to develop its air.
porta facilities" the baron declared.
1.-THE creation Of properly located
airport in your city, which is known
all over the world for its remark
able progress, will make for an even
greater progress. In my judgment,
aviation will be the making of many
cities. I believe the time is close
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

BIZ Times Special a.
JEFF'ERSONVILLE, Ind, Aug. ID.
Betting at a dog race track near
here. a project sponsored by the To-
cal American Legion post, is to be
carried on without interference by
the law. at least for the time being.
Sitting as special Judge, John M.
Paris of New Albany dissolved a
temporary restraining order against
operation of the track with betting
and refused to issue a permanent
Injunction as asked by Walter Z.
Prentice, Clark county prosecuting
attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
ICE DAM BREAKS AND
FLOOD SWEEPS PUNJAB
Indian Villages Will Suffer New
Privations as Result.
BIZ United Press

EIIkdtlOHo do hcouiIs
BIZ United Press
KARACHI. India, Aug 19.-An
enormous volume of water, released
by the breaking of the famous Skyok
ice dam at Yapchan, Kashmir prov
ince, India, is sweeping down the
River indus, a devastating flood,
,uundating plains and causing sert-
GUS damage.
The flood has already reached At
took in the Punjab where today it
was within four and half feet OF
the previous flood record of 1882 and
still rising slowly. The bursting of
the dam will add to the plight Of
hundreds of Sind villages where
population was destitute and cholera
was already raging as the result Of
previous floods.
The flood will also render inn
measurably worse the plight of sixty
villages in the forest area of Kha.r-
pur state which recently was sub
merged owing to breaks in tho
River Indus banks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
CATHEDRAL CROWDED
21,765 Visit Scottish Rite
During Open House.

Figures from Scottish Rite officials
today showed that 21,765 persons
visited the new cathedral durinS
open house last week. The largest
attendance for one night was 1850.
registered Friday.
Rite officials announced that COM
mencing Tuesday a guide will be in
regular attendance to show mem
bers and friends through the cathe-
dral. Regular trips will be made at
9 and 10 a. M, and at 2, 3, and 4
p. m. each day. Visitors are to be
vouched for by a member of the
Rite.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
HOSPITAL PREDICTED
Ludlow Promises Veterans
Care in State.

Prediction that the next session
of the national congress would pro-
duce a veterans hospital of 300 beds
in Indiana, was made by Repre-
sentative Louis Ludlow of the Sew
enth Indiana congressional district,
at the Service Club in the Lincoln
today.
The hospital will include facilities
for the regional offices OF the veter-
ans bureau, he said.
Ludlow also declared he is making
efforts to have Indiana veterans
employed in making the fifteenth
census next year.
Evans Woollen Jr. presided at the
meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
SECRETS

They are seen occasionally with
this man and that, but their
young lives, at present, anyway,
are void of the heavy and serious
affairs the average small town
belle knows.
Of course, just anything in
trousers isn't going to create a
riot in this feminine circle But
there is a splendid opportunity
with an interesting future for the
bright and personal young man
with plenty of money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
SETS 340-MILE GAIT

BIZ United Press
CALSHOT, England, Rug. ia
speed of $40 miles an hour was at
tanned today by flying officer Atch-
erley, member Of the British
Schneider cup team, in test for
the coming international seaplane
competition. experts estimated.
Atcherley flew Gloster- Napier 4
over the Schneider cup course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
Raiders Get Five More

BIZ United Press
GARY; Ind, Aug. 19.-Five more
persons arrested over the weekend
in the drive to dry up the Calumet
district, will be arraigned today on
liquor charges.
Among the six arrested were MIR.
and Mrs. Stanley Lakoca, H. L.
Ryan, Max Weber and Steve Breaz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
HEAVENLY STEED RIDER
Natives of India Gather 'FHorsehair"
Shed as Charms.

BIZ United Press
RANGOON, India, Aug. 19.-Su-
pertitious jungle folk in the region
OF Pyinmana, 225 miles north of
here, are securing the countryside
seeking a peculiar f1lament which
strewed the ground coincident with
two earthquakes in the last ten
days.
The natives believe that the fila
ment, which resembles horsehair,
dropped from some fabulous steed
of the heavens and are preserving
it as a charm against illness and
disaster
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
TEN DEAD AS STATE
TOLL OF VIOLENCE
Sz0eet Home!
BIZ Times Special

DECATUR, Ind, Aug. 49,
Bees buzzed Home, Sweet
Home al the residence here Of
the Rev. A. R. Fledderpohann,
pastor of the Reformed church.
Investigating a buzzing sound
he had noticed for several days,
the minister found a, swarm of
bees busy between walls of the
house. After driving the in
sects away at the cost of a few
stingS, he took possession of
fifty pounds of honey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

a few of those who admit they
have no regular boy friends:
Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn,
Mary Brian, Alice and Marceline
Day, June Collyer, Gwen Lee,
Sally Eilers, Raquel Torres, Anita
Page, Lois Moran, Barbara Kent,
Alberta Vaughn, Lois Wilson.
Mary McAllister, Loretta and
Polly Ann Houng, Helene Cos
telIo, Renee Adoree, Sharon Lynn,
Alice White, and so on and on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

Nowhere in the world are there
50 many eligible, attractive, we'll
dressed. smiling young women.
Beauty to the male eye is as dull
as sin.
Thus the men become indiffer-
ent. selfish. Bored with beauty.
they forget those little details that
every woman loves. They forget
to send flowers, to provide cigar
cites, to order a meal properly"
AS evidence that this isn't in
credible fiction, here is a list Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

get less male attention outside of
working hours than the average
small town f1apper. and many of
them are stars who raise the
American male blood pressure
from 10000 movie screens each
day.
This is the situation as revealed
by a writer for Photoplay maya
zine in the current issue of that
monthly. There are at least twice
as many eligible girls as men in
the movie capital-more If you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
School Head Chosen Again

Ba Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind, Aug. 19.-Mark
H. Mccullough has again been
elected superintendent of schools for
Hendricks county by township trus-
tees, thus settling dispute which
arose because he was ineligible for
the Office when first elected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19

hunt around for all the extras
and occasional players. For every
boy who sets his heart on a movie
career there are at least three
girls who bring high hopes here
to Hollywood.
q -
MOT only are there more
l y women than men, but the
men who are in Hollywood are
surfeited with beauty" explains
the Photoplay correspondent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
rH Times Snecial

ri 7 fhiFN NNffttUt
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 49,
l. l. Here's one for the paradox
hunterl Right here in Hollywood,
heart of the reel romance indus
try. real romance is faring as
poorly as a bootlegger in Paris.
And all for want of men.
The sad but simple fact is that
there are scores-nay, hundreds,
Of beautiful blondes and vivid
brunets in the screen colony who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
Truck Driver Killed

LOOGOOTEE, Ind, Aug. ia
heavily loaded truck overturned
east of here today, killing Paul
OBrien, Loogootee, driver. His skull
was crushed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
FALLS TWO STORIES
Youths Nose and Knee Broken at
Atkins Plant.

Marshall Beneziel, 10, of BIT East
South street. suffered broken nose
and fractured knee when he fell
from a Second-story window at the
E. c. Atkins & Co. plant, 402 South
Illinois street. He was taken to city
hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-19
BANDIT KILLED IN NET
Policeman Hidden in Store Breaks
Up Attempted Robbery.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
DETROIT. Aug. l9.-When two
bandits attempted 10 hold up a
Hanover shoe store shortly before
9 o'clock this morning a policeman
hidden in the store shot and killed
one of the robbers, but the other
escaped.
The dead man was shot five times
by the patrolman detailed to the
store because Of police information
that the robbery was planned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-23
ARMY N
ORDERS

Leave of absence is granted to each
OF the following named 9ffcers; Major
five days; First Lieut. Uzal G. Ent.
Air Corps. extension two days; Captain
Edmund P. Easterbrook. Chief of Chap
lains, ten days.
Major General B. Frank Cheatham, the
Quartermaster General; Major General
Charles H. Bridges, The Adjutant
general, Brigadier General Ewing f.
pointed to make complete study of the
housing of the War Department acti-
vities in Washington D. c" together
s s9 5as nesd f0 pp the erection OF
1 Colonel Harry c. Barnes, Coast
Artillery Corps. is assigned to the 95Oth
Coast Artillery Regiment.
Colonel George NJ. Ekwurzel Medical
Boston, Massachusetts,,
Captain Nicholas H. Cotbs, Finance
Department. is assigned to duty in the
pffice of the Chief of Finance, wash
First Lieut.. Burnte R. Dallas, Air
Corps, will re1oin his proper station at
Rockwell Field, California; r.-.
Coast Artillery Corps to the Chemical
Warfare Service Is announced.
Lieut. Col. Kenyon 4. Joyce Cavalry.
duty with the General staff Corps at
his headquarters.
Lieut. Col. George r. Alltn. 18th Field
Artillery to Baltimore, General staff
Lieut.. Col. Clarence Lininger. 3rd
Cavalry to Fort Hayes, Ohio, to Fifth
Corps Area for duty with the General
staff Corps
chief of staff Of the Eighth Corps
Area. Fort Sam Houston. Texas
The promotion of each of the fol-
lowing named officers Is announced:
cUARTERMASTER CORPS
Thomas NJ. Knox, to Colonel; John p
Hasson. to Colonel; Everett D. Barlow,
to Lietenant Colonel; Edwin NJ Scott
William A. johnson, Engineer Corps
to Lieutenant Colone'
CAVALRY
Frank T. McNarney; to Colonel: vii
we'll, to Major: Otis Porter, to Major.
Albert r. Ives. Field Artillery, to
William c. Hanna Coast Artillery, to
INFANTRY
Frederick J. ostermann, to Lieuten-
ant Colonel; william J. Connolly, to
lieutenant Colonel Felix Emmanuelli
to Lieutenant Colonel; Pascual Lopez
to Lieutenant Colonel; Lawrence w.
FagE, to Major; Leon G. Harsr, to
Hermann c. Dempwolf, to Major.
william 5: shuttlsworth Dental
Harvey /. Rice Medical Adrninistra-
tive Corps 10 Captain.
Captain Samuel 3. Kimbls, Ordnance
Department to Rock Island Arsenal fro
duty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-23
LIE DEVICE ENDS
MYSTERY IN
MURDER

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Nov. GA
mystery of six years standing is
believed to have been solved with
the alleged confession Of Becasto
Mayer, in the Washington state
Prison, to the Staying of James
Eugene Bassett. 27-year-old An
napolis man who disappeared
from Seattle, Wash, in Septem-
Der, 1923.
Bassett had gone to Seattle to
BOARD a steamer for the Philippine
Islands, where he had accepted a
Government position. He sud-
denly Disappeared and. all indica-
tons were that he had met with
foul play.
Arrested In Oakland
Some time later, Mayer, in COM
pany with a woman, Mary Smith.
whom he said was his mother,
was arrested in Oakland, Cal.
He had Bassett's automobile and
watch. A check-up revealed that
Mayer had long criminal record.
There was not sufficient evil
dence to support the theory Of
the police that he had murdered
7assett, but Mayer was sent to
prison for life under the Wash
ington State law which provides
life Imprisonment for habitual
criminals.
The case was apparently closed
and was forgotten by all except
those interested until today when
Bassett's father, Frank P. Bassett,
who is connected with the Mary
land State Library here, received
a message from the District At
torney in Washington who prose
cuted Mayer that the man had
confessed to the Staying of the
Maryland man.
Lie DetectOr" USED
The alleged confession was said
to have been obtained by means
of a new lie detecting apparatus.
Mayors attorney is objecting on
the grounds that the use of such
apparatus is illegal. Mayer now
vigorously repudiates the con
| fession."
Police are searching in the Bat
terhill Cemetery near Seattle in
hopes of finding the body of
Bassett.
BaSsett's father said today he
has been confident ever since his
sons disappearance that the rnys-
terry would be solved. Bassett was
a veteran of the World War,
having served in the aviation
corps.