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The Washington times., 1930-10-10
BOYD, CONNOR
ARE WITHIN
zoo MILES
Of GOAL
Aviators in Old AirpIane
of Levine Found Favorable
Weather Across Atlantic

CROYDEN, Eng, Oct. 10 GIN.
S)-The American monoplane
Columbia, carrying Capt. j. Enrol
Boyd and Lieut.. Harry P. Connor
on an attempted nonstop ocean
flight, was sighted by the Scottish
steamer Virgilia about 200 miles
west Of Penzance, England, at
2:20 p. m. today (9:20 a. m. East
ern Standard Tine), according
to word received here.
The report indicated the daring
attempt Of Captain Boyd and
Lieutenant Connor to conquer the
Atlantic in a nonstop flight had
virtually been crowned with sue
cess.
The cheering word of the fiers'
sighting followed a blank period
of almost IL hours during which
no word was received Of their
progress. They took off from
Harbor Grace. Newfoundland, at
1920 q. m, yesterday.
Their last previous sighting Nsas
at $40 p. m. yesterday Wa3ert'
kSA1AAA% was EGGNA4 440AA1 NlkG 1J<A1AGEA4s@
tria, 400 miles off the Newfound-
land coast.
Like their weather-beaten craft,
which three years ago carried
Clarence .. ChamberiiIl and
Charles A. Levine from Roosevelt
Field to Germany. the fIiers have
long since seasoned themselves In
the arduous task of long-distance
| flying.
Flew to Bermuda
Both flew to Bermuda and
back With Roger @. williams last
July.
Under the expert navigation Of
Connor, the airmen left the main.
land determined to dash across
to Croydon Airdrone within %
hours. which would beat all fly.
ing records for the 2,500-mile hop.
With the exception Of a few
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
TODAY'S SCRATCHES
HAWTHORNE


FIRST RACE - AllegrettO. Sun B.,
stormy B.. White Hoops, Prince ClOi,
Black Stockings.
SECOND RACE-LIttIe Rumpus. Bot
o. Worry, JabOulay.
THIRD RACE-Kate Geary, Bill
LOOney. Black Diamond. Easter.
SIXTH RACE--ROck CPusheF. Parti-
cipatp. P0mpOn. HaC. Make. True Boy
SEVENTH RACE - Our Pal. The
Senator. Try Again, Biddy Shipp, Over
fire Force.
weather, clear; track. fast.
LOUISVILLE
FIRST RACE-My Hobby, Chatter
Black. Paul G, Hamilton. Shackelford
SECOND RACE = Laferia, Dorpat
Moira. Lady Gibson. Fair Mamma. Prin.
THIRD RACE-Bob Blackburn. su.
pryse Anger. Kalxie DoOlles. WOndIOt
JaE Scooter. Big Sandy. Cadet Graham
FOURTH RACE-Agapanthus, EIstar
Busy Thaka. Royal YeOman. dOnnIe
SIXTH RACE--BattIe sweep, Town
Limit. The Duke.
SEVENTH RACE-Grand King, Ia
PalOma. Super Toy Advance Agent
Sweet Face. lGIyolne.
Weather, clear: track, fast.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
4 DIE IN BOSTON
Of BAD RUM

BOSTON, Oct. 10 Q.N.S). /.
Four persons, including one
woman, were dead today from
poison liquor and between 500
and 600 persons were in hospitals,
many suffering from paralysis
and blindness, while rumblingS
continued over whether officials
had been lax in prohibition law
enforcement during the American
Legion Convention just ended.
Hospital authorities said that few
of the hospital patients we're le-
gionnaireS. ::
Nine defendants. including one
legionnaire from Little Falls, N
Y. were arraigned in Federal
court for alleged violations Of the
Continued on Page 2. Cot. ~
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
CONVICTED As
MD. STILL
GUARD
Ex- Congressman Silent, De-
Iected at Outcome Of His
Trial; Was Own Lawyer

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 10.
Manuel Herrick, onettime member
of Congress from Oklahoma and
picturesque figure whose love af-
fairs and aerial stunts enlivened
his political career, today was
sentenced to six months in Jail
by Judge Morris IA. Soper in
Federal court here.
Herrick was convicted OF op-
Grating q still In Charles county,
where he was trapped by Federal
agents. I.
ne did not try to put up any
defense for his acts, although
when arrested he claimed that
he was acting as an indercover
agent for the prohibition unit.
In the next few days the ex-
congressman win be taken to the
Maryland State Penitentiary to
begin his term.
Herrick was downcast when he
appeared in court today and was
apparently resigned to the in
evitable. His trial was brief, the
testimony Of the dry agents who
caught him tending the still
being unconteSted.'
Herrick was employed by a
group Of bootleggers at a wage
Of So a day, and had accepted
this employment, it was said,
only after all other means Of
gainful employment had been
closed to him.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
Pdy-LOdd Paris Hop
DELAYED Till Oct. 20

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 I.N.S)
Postponement OF the trans-atlt n,
tic flight of William s. McLeren
and Mrs. Beryl Hart to October
90 was announced today. Nc
season for the delay was given.
The flierS plan a New York to
Paris Tight with a pay-load. They
plan to make the hop with stops
at Bermuda and the Azores.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
ACE OFF TO ATHENS
Times Staff Photo

ROME, Oct. 10 QNS0.-WingI
Commander Charles Kingsford.
Smith, Australian ace, attempting
to lower the record for a solo
flight from England to Australia,
hoped off from here today for
Athens.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
Exchange in Britain
SuSDendS Member

LONDON, Oct. 10 0.NS0.-The
British brokerage firms of Doug
las r. Dunn and II. T. Munro
were posted as defaulters on the
London stock exchange today.
The news was, a tremendous
blow to the exchange on the
heels of suspension Of Prince and
Whitley from the New York stock
exchange for insolvency in deal.
ings on the London exchange.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
THE WEATHER

Fair and continued cool tonight and satur-
day. Gentle northeast winds. Temperature
yssterdsy Highest, u; lowest S.
Full Weather Report on Page
rhe WashlnEton sinner the only Afternoon paper
this city patshIHs the dRpachep International
NewP Service and Universal service
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
Laura Ingalls, Hops
East From Glendale

GLENDALE, Calf. oct. 10
Q.N.S0 .-Undaunted by weather
reports Of adverse flying condi-
tionS, Laura ingalls,, noted St.
Louis (Mo0 girl pilot, hoped off
from Grand Central Air Terminal
today in an effort to hang up o
woman's west-east air record.
Miss Ingalls, was flying a small
biplane, equipped with an 85-
horsepower motor.
The Washington times., 1930-10-10
Official Race Program
Today at Laurel
weather clear; track, fast.
FIRST RACE

Scratched-Mouthpiec Brighton, our
ohnny, suneros. Fire Town. Probation,
Zine Sweeper, Shylock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
That Macdonald Hearing

California added another chapter TO her unique
Interpretation Of American justice yesterday. The
addition came in a hearing Of the latest version Of
John MacDonslds story Of his role in the Mooney
Billings case.
In the supreme court chambers in San Francisco
the seven members Of the court laid aside their
judicial robes. They deserted their overstufed chairs
at the bench and went into an unprecedented huddle
about the tables usually reserved for counsel.
Then, appointing one Of their own number-Asso-
ciate Justice Preston, who also will sit in judgment
Of the facts-to the role of prosecutor, they began one
OF the weirdest extra judicial proceedings ever seen
In an American court.
BY way of opening, Chief Justice Waste announced
that this proceeding, which has attracted such atten-
ton, Is not in any sense a court hearing, and for that
reason will be conducted informally. Yet we shall
require that : be conducted with all the tormaltles
which members Of the bar particularly accord to a
court session."
The court was not a court. Yet upon its findings
and recommendation will rest the fate and the free
dom of Warren K. Billings and Thomas j. Mooney.
Then ensued a scene which would have seemed
fantastic to an Anglo-Saxon mind had it been re-
ported from some tiny, decadent monarchy. John
Macdonald. 58-year-old shell of what never had been
much OF a man. was put through a griIing, by one
Of his judges doubling as a prosecutor. such as prob
ably has not been duplicated since the days Of the
w-ttchcraft trials in Salem. Mass.
Macdonald, voluntarily coming into the 1nrlSdlc-
ton Of the court to face possible Indictment for
perjury. sought only to testify that his testimony
the only testimony on which the conviction of Mooney
and Billings now rests-was p~erjured.
without being given opportunity to make a direct
verbal statement, this man, an obvious psychopathic
liar. with the mentality of a child of 6, was set upon
BY one Of the men called to judge him and was
dragged and prodded through a haze Of fact-fogging
questions, the main purpose of which seemed to be
TO whitewash the record of ex-District Attorney
Fickert and the police officers whom Macdonald
swore induced him to commit his original perJurleS
at the trials of Mooney and Billings.
The entire line of questioning indicated much
greater concern for the public officers whose conduct
has cast a cloud upon California justice than Tor
the two men serving their fourteenth year on teStl-
mony. all Of which now is provenly or admittedly
periured.
That the hearing demonstrated beyond queSuon
that Macdonald is a hopeless liar is, OF ITSELF OF
little consequence. He admits that he lied on every
previous appearance in court. It would not be dih-
cult to believe that he was equally untruthful
yesterday.
Even so, there was indelibly written INTO the rec
ord i~rrefutable evidence of the injustice of keeping
two men in prison another single day on the now un-
corroborsted evidence of a man mentally incapable
Of the truth, even when he obviously tried to tell IT,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
Squirt Gun or Fire Hose?

.ow IN connecticut drank a pail of paint which
had ham left on the around by a party employed IN
the United states geological survey. The owner Sueo
the government. The matter was carried through
COZ ness and the claim allowed. 1t cost $1,000 70
vabGats a claim for $3.50. Was this good politics or
good business?
The eminent publicist, DR.. Charles AuStln 6earu'
does not think it was and says so in his article on
asr,,rt Cun Politics" in Rarper's Magazine. He
offers samples Of the vast number OF petty oilS WHICH
absorb the attention OF congress and prevent it from
baying smple time TO conslccr really ~frst-rate issues.
The tariff and power problem suffer when con-
sress IS considering wrethef it will permit a Crow
Indian to sell 500 worth of land.
Beard proposes to remedy this abuse OF trlVlalty
bv transferring the disposition of more and more
business to the administrative departments. In the
case of such instances as the COW which drank the
paint. he would take the matter entirely from con-
eress and let the proper administrative head settle
the issue. He merely woul0 report It's disposition 10
congress
In more important cases the administrative de-
partment would take action and report 1t to con-
eress This settlement of the case would be valid
unless o-ountermanded by congress in, say sixty days
In the case Of still more crucial problems the al
mnistrative heads might be allowed to recommend
the solution to be adopted. but it would not go into
operation unless accepted Vy d JOWO
congress. Handling of such matters would be
facilitated by developing the habit of Summonlng
members of the cabinet to sit in on congressional
sessions when the particular issue was under dis
cussion.
DR.. Boards proposals undoubtedly are sound Tne
cvnic VIII ask if We could expect congress to be in
telligent with all the time in the world on its hands
AT least We may answer That more time would not
reduce the intellectual powers Of congress.
1t would have more opportunity to apply those
which exist to Muscle Shoals and the tariff ScheouleS
II il was not absorbed with considering the grant OF
500 for damages to properly done during the Civil
var. It could toy with the fire hose rather than the
SQUIRT gun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
IT SEEMS TO ME By RFgGS

Friday afternoon I might be con-
Sumed with unpequited affection.
In fact the emotion could be so
keen and penetrating that I would
be moved to sit right down and dash
off the great American novel. Just
to spite her.
Yet, generally I have managed to
stave off the impulse for an imme-
date orgy of work calculated to
make me forget about the gnaWing
pain in my soul. I've compromised
by asking somebody to go on a late
party and telling him or her about
it.
It's better to tell it to some her,
if ones available. After the first
couple of hours a man is apt to get
bored listening to a friends tale of
unreQuited love.
OF course, you may be able to find
some male friend who is suffering
from the same complaint, but then
you both talk at the same time and
pay no attention to each other.
Probably women are just as bored
at hearing these long drawn out
r~ecitals, but they seem to have cul-
tivated the trick of pretending in
terest.
I suppose some of them get such
a lot of practice. Even when you
know that she's not really listening
at all, a clever girl will throw in a
mot really!" and a too bad!" at
appropriate intervals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

types in Importance is that result
ing from bad eating habits.
Rapid and careless eating is a
prominent habit among Americans.
A Frenchman, observing the condi-
ton among us, called us all "tachy-
phages," which is a highly scientific
term meaning rapid eaters.
The average American bolts Us
breakfast, rushes to a a or train,
gets out thirty minutes for lunch
con, or if he takes longer spends
go per cent of the time in confer
ence or at the bridge table or eats
luncheon off an edge of the desk
so that he can get away to the golf
course at 1870.
Dinner in the average American
home is a hurried performance so
that the family can get to the first
show at the movies, listen to Amos
and Andy, or get in three double
rubbers of bridge before bedtime.
Few modern adults have any con-
ception of the important food sub
stances or of the quantity neces-
sary for healthful growth and easy
digestion.
Poor chewing of food gives the in
terror mechanism a lot of difficulty,
because it is necessary for the diges-
tive juices such as the saliva and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
Much Dyspepsia Due to Fast Eating

the ~secretions of the stomach and
intestines to penetrate the boluSes
of food that are swallowed. Too
much chewing reduces the food to a
fluid consistency which fails to ex-
ercise properly the masculate OF the
digestive tubes.
Under these conditions the ma
chinery breaks down rather soon.
exactly as a furnace built for an
thracite goes to wrack and ruin I'M
der soft coal and Stag, and exactly
as a motor built for high test and
ethyl gas fails to operate properly
under the refuse that is poured into
the tank at fy-by-night filling sta
tons.
Sooner or later the whole diges-
tive mechanism gives up in disgust.
The secretions become underacid
or overacid. The movements get too
great or too slow.
Then the business man knows
something is wrong. He feels full
after the first few bites of food. His
abdomen is distended.
He eructs gas, complains of heart
burn, his tongue is coated, he loses
his appetite and he has joined the
great mob of dyspeptics that help to
make the patent medicine manufac-
turerS rich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
nm OOAT FREDERICK
* FANON by LANDS

Mr.. HOOVERS request, delivered the instant the
wi naval treaty was ratified, for a list of the
senators who voted against it would seem to be a
plain declaration of war, since Mr.. Hoover has known
for months the names of the gentlemen who conSti-
tuted the opposition.
Everybody who reads the papers knew their names,
for they have been impaling the pact upon the barbS
of their oratory since corn planting time, so Mr..
Hoover's attitude is a big type warning that he pro-
poses to snatch their royal peacock feathers.
THIs does not mean that he intends to take away
i thelr garden seeds or their horse books for he
has no authority over those ancient privileges, but
it does imply that hereafter when he shakes hands
with them it will be with a husking glove.
It means that when the treaty's opponents here
after shall visit the office of the Great Father, he will
look at them as if contemplating a foreign particle
in the soup; the old hale and hearty comradeship will
be missing, all the old riotous emotions will be pad
locked and henceforth and forever it shall be the
Arctic stare.
1T will mean also that the offending senators will
i find their patronage gone. for several of Mr..
they would not consider recommendations for Office
which we're made by senator's who did not do what
the President told them to do, the late Mr.. Taft being
one Of them.
But should Mr.. Hoover frame his hates and at
fections along the lines Of support and opposition
in the matter Of this treaty, he viii find himself in
a strange environment. for he will be casting the
evil eye upon Moses. Hale and others who have been
his stalwart supporters, and asking Norris LaFollette
and others Of his erstwhile opposition whether they
will have one or two Jumps with their cocoa.
. . .
WE would suggest to the executive that If he
wv wishes to challenge the senate to a ten-round
bout that he do so n some matter in which the pub
lie is interested, for about this naval pact there is
more indifference than about any other issue OF the
last generation.
1t was expected to curl our bangs, but it did not
bend one hair.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that everybody
outside of the District of Columbia regards the naval
treaty as a case of much ado aboE nothing. mas
much as aviation has put upon til scrap pile the
very ships which this treaty proposes to regulate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
A Fourth of It's Ours

The poet who said 1T takes a heap Of livin' IN a
house to make it home" forgot to mention another
requirement.. It also takes some money.
willard K. Denton. president Of the Metropolitan
League OF Savings and loan Associations. is warn
ing the young people of the land that they should not
turn the Observation-Disclosures Live into the home
uhsch-they-own until hey are ready to pay down at
last Is per cent of the cost in cash.
Nor should they buy a home whose cost is more
than three times the sum of the family's income, he
says.
The last statement is very easy to understand. No
che should invest beyond his income. But the first
is a little more pulling. There are a great many
families who own their homes who might not have
done So had they had to pay rent all the time that
they we're saving up for the one-fourth down invest
msnt.
They experienced the keen pride Of ownership
and we're able to plant rose bushes and turnips and
onions on their own ground so much earlier than if
they had waited. Because they had bought, they
wanted to save and hasten the moment Of fuIl pos
session. Otherwise. they might have taken the
money out Of TIE bank and bought a bettz car o. z
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
Law Can't Do lob

THERE are cases, of course, in
L which the drug habit resulted
from legitimate treatment to over
come pain, but they are few and far
between. The bulk of this business
goes back to a horde Of unscrupu-
lous hijackers who r teaching the
young and immature to Gust try
it,"
Like every one of our major prob
lens, the drug habit goes back to
unWise, unguarded youth, to failure
of older people somewhere along the
line.
The notion that we ever al stop
drug habit by selling struggled goods
here and there or %arresting the
smugglers now and then may be all
right, insofar as it soothes our
conscience, but it doesn't get us any
where.
AS long as a new crop of drug adj
diets is produced every year, the
traffic will continue to flourish.
SO, too, will other kinds of traf-
fic.
This idea that We can purify or
perfect society with mechanical
systems for the restraint or protec-
ton of grown-ups, that we can make
things safe without exerting our
selves to help children form the
right kind of habits, that we can
dispense with the old-faShioned
home, throw away moral standards,
and let the law clear it up after
ward, is little more than a good
alibi for lazy parents and politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30

Sun Spots Are One of Most
Interesting Features Stud
led By Astronomers.
DAVID DIETZ.

GUN SPOTS const.Sue one OF the
- suns most interesting features
and n of the suns greatest mys-
teries. Daily studies of sun spots
are part of the regular program OF
several of the worlds greatest OBJ
servatories.
The sun is photographed daily at
these observatories, so that a COM
plete record of the number. size
and position of all sun spots can be
kept. The observatories engaged in
this work include the great Mt. VIII
son observatory in California, the
Meudon observatory in France, and
the Kodaikanal observatory in
India.
Many astronomers feel that a
complete knowledge of the cause
and behavior of sun spots would re-
suit in a complete solution of many
of the most battling problems con-
corning the sun.
Sun spots are the most c%onspicu-
Gus features upon the surface Of
the sun. They become visible as
dark spots upon the suns surface
when a telescope equipped with the
proper dark eyepiece is turned upon
the SUN.
Occasionally, sun spots of such
great size occur upon the sun that
they become visible without a tele-
scope when the sun is view through
a piece of heavily smoked glass or
a very dark Photographic negative.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
~ZHO.SSS
8HittB
HENRY FORD'S BIRTH
ErsI~y IN


July 80
ON July 80, 1868, Henry Ford.
~ American manufacturer, was
born at Greenfield, Mich, the son
Of a farmer.
He began early to develop an in
terest In mechanics, but when he
finished his education at the district
schools his father put him to work
on the farm.
After three years OF this, Henry
went to Detroit to work for $3.50 a
week in a machine shop. Con-
stantly working with engines. Ford
later was made an engineer and
machinist with the Detroit Edison
company.
After hours he worked on the
building Of a gasoline motor car.
When it was developed he left the
electric company and went into
business for himself.
In 1903 he organized and be-
came president of the Ford Motor
Company. which has become the
largest automobile manufacturing
establishment in the world, and the
third largest industry in the United
States.
In 1925 the company had assets
of about $1,000. ZOO, 900, and had in
its employ some 100000 persons d.
rectly and an equal number indi-
rectly.
Ford was a pronounced pacifist
before the Word war and sought by
a peace mission to bring the war
ring nations into conference. Con-
vinced his errand was hopeless
however, he returned home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
Questions and
AnSzWerS

Are egoist and egotist synOny-
nous?
i. An egoits is one who subscribes
to or practices the doctrine that the
supreme end of human conduct is
the perfection DR. happiness of the
ego-self, and that all virtue consists
of self-interest. An egotist is one
who thinks and talks about self, or
the spirit that leads to such prac-
tice; self-exaltation.
What firm published "Sad GIRL"
by Vina Delmar?
Harcourt, Brace & Co., New
York.
What are palentology and petrol
ogy?
Palentology is the branch Of BIZ
oIogy that treats Of TIE ancient life
Of the earth or Of fossil organisms.
Petrology Is the science Of rocks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-30
Done More Dangerous

MORPHINE, when you come to
wi think of it, seems a pretty
strong argument against the doc
trine of free will and personal I'D
erty.
In theory, a man has just as much
right to take dope as he has to take
a drink. In theory, he will not
abuse the privilege if he is any good
In theory, it is none Of societyS
business if he makes a beast OF HIM
self. In theory, the Harrison act is
little different from the Volstead
act.
But more people are afraid OF
dope than hooch, because it is a
strong drug.
The case is one of relatively,
rather than principle.
In spite of all we can say about
the ~sacredness of personal liberty
we are perfectly willing to deny 1t
under certain circumstances.