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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
10 DEAD IN COLISEUM FIRE
Lost
as Walls
Collapse

BIZ United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, May
l27.-Flames that started near
a sawdust-covered arena
cracked through the stock
yards coliseum today and took
at least ten lives.
Most of the persons who lost their
lives were caught in a shower OF
emberS and burning brands as the
walls of the huge structure weak
ened by the inroads of the flames,
collapsed.
The building was destroyed, with
loss Of probably more than
$500, 900.
The building was built in 1920.
Cause of the blaze, which started
suddenly and swept the entire build
ing within the period of an hour,
was still undetermined.
1t was in this building that Alfred
E. Smith two years ago sounded his
famous keynote of religious toler-
ance.
Most of the deaths and injuries
resulted when crowds pressed for
ward to see the spectacle and were
caught by the falling walls.
Firemen fought to check the
flames in the auditorium and keep
them from spreading 70 nearby
packing huoseS and at the same
time were hard put to keep the
crowds back.
Several persons fighting to sal
wage parts from automobiles in the
annex were trapped by the collapse
of a wall.
The auditorium is in the center
of the packing house district, known
as Packingtown. The flames leap
ing from the Coliseum threatening
to spread and endanger the sur
rounding plants.
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RANGOON, Burma, May 81
Widespread rioting in which police
fought dock strikers in the streets
of Rangoon had resulted in total
of f1fty-two dead and hundreds in
jured at noon today.
Fighting started Monday and con-
tinued at intervals as police reserves
were summoned in a vain effort to
cope with the rioters. A check of
casualties revealed a total of 746
injured, many of them seriously.
The Cameron Highlanders, Pun
jab regiment and mounted and
military police and civil police
occupied the city. The military was
compelled to fire twice on the
rioters, killing about dozen per-
sons.
The attacking strikers maSsacred
fifteen Indian coolie women.
One of the women was held aloft
over the heads of the surging mob.
She bled to death from severed
arteries.
Many persons were injured by gun
fire, but the frenzy Of the outbreak
had become so violent and so large
in scale that troops and police were
unable to restore order Immediately.
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113-mile-an-hour pace, winning the
coveted ''pole" position from Meyer,
who averaged Ill miles miles an
hour. Cantlon's 109-mile-an-hour
speed put him third in the front
row.
Hartz' machine apparently has
the most speed on the track, with
Meyers sixteen-cylindered Sampson
not very far behind. If both cars
hold up, Memorial day fans should
witness a dazzling battle OF speed
for the 500 prizes awarded the
leader of each lap.
The race Decoration day will
provide an added amount OF inter-
est in that the size Of the cars
entered and qualified vary from
four-cylindered creations to sixteen
cylindered jobs.
The two largest cars at the track
are Borzacchini's Maserati Sixteen,
an italian creation, and Louie Mey-
er's Sampson Special, a sixteen-cyl-
indered machine built in Indian
apolis for the race. While BorEac-
chini's car is of the "V'' type, Mey-
er's is a true twin, the two eight
cylindered motors being placed ver-
tically, each being a separate power
plant in itself with its own cooling
system and carburetion.
There are front-drive Fights, rear
drive Fights, a 'V'' type eight, two
| frOnt-driye tours. and numerous
rear-drive fourS.
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BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 27.-De-
claring he will vote for repeal or
modification of eighteenth amend
ment if the people of his state ask
for it, Senator Jones (Rep., Wash)
asserted in statement today that
the Washington state Republican
convention, which voted wet, repre-
sents but a small fraction of the
state.
Jones, author of the five and ten"
dry law and one of the leading drys
IN the senate, suggested a state ref
erendum to give people the chance
to express themselves on a provision
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
DEMAND JAIL
INMATES GET
MEDICAL AID
City Police Surgeons Only
Used in Examination
of Job Seekers.

Demands that city-paid police
surgeons be called upon for duties
other than mere examination of
candidates for appointment to the
police department were taking
shape today as result of the jail
death of F. E. Sparks, 81, auto
salesman, of $40 East st. Clair
street.
Sparks, thrown into cell at city
lookup on a charge of driving while
intoxicated, remained there I'M
conscious last Saturday for eleven
hours before it was learned he was
injured. He died at city hospital
Sunday night of cerebral hem
orrhage.
Police rules and regulations pro-
vide that police surgeons shall be
called upon to attend all prisoners
at the city lookup who need medical
attention.
In recent years, however, police
surgeons have drawn their salaries
solely for their services in examln-
ing prospective police and fire de-
partnent candidates and in ex-
an1ining policemen or firemen who
report off duty for illness and ask
pension payments or sick benefits.
DR.. Prank Dowd and DR.. Fred
erick Crurn, police surgeons, were
not notified OF Sparks condition,
police admit. Officers say no recent
precedent exists for calling them to
attend prisoners. Under present
plans, the prisoners are sent to city
hospital when it is learned they are
i'll.
Until four years ago, several city
hospital internes were given living
quarters at the city police head
quarters building in exchange for
their services in examing prisoners.
At present no rooms are available
as headquarters, Police Chief Jerry
E. Kinney says.
Need for a physician to attend
prisoners at the lookup and to ex-
anime them was manifested again
today when Ernest Smith, alias Err
nest Ray, 81, was found suffering
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DASSAGE by congress of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill
threatens the country. this veto becomes
the sole hope of relief from which foremost
ndustrasts and economists declare strikes at the very
heart of our industry and prosperity.
In the opinion of this newspaper clear an expression
uttered the relations of mass production and Tor
egn trade American prosperity spoken by during
your campaign for the presidency.
Your cwn utterances believe, constitute complete
Indictment against this tariff BILL Therefore, herewith
take the liberty of quoting from your Newark N address
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So KILLED, SCORES
HURT IN INDIA RIOT
Scotch Hghanders Native Police Pour VoIey Into Dock
Strikers in Streets of RangOon.

at least sixty-three dead and hun
dredS injured.
The dead included fifty-two at
Rangoon, six at Dacca, where a
reign of terror existed over the
weekend, three in Bombay and
one British officer in the Preshawar
district.
A partial hartal cessation of
work. was called in Bombay, with
Hindus and independence volunteers
joining in.
Today's rioting in Bhendi bazaar,
in the central part of Bombay, was
renewal of serious attacks by Mo-
hammedanS on British native police
which began Monday night.
Four platoonS of East Lancashire
troops, called early today, were re-
inforced during the forenoon and
were concentrated in three police
stations in the district and patrol
ing in motor trucks.
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of Sept IT, 1929 and your Boston speech of Oct 15 the
same year:
"a continued surplus" you said, 'of unemployed
workers means decreasing wages increasing hours and
fear for the future To protect labor to maintain its pros
pery abolish poverty must organize our economic
system as provide jobs FOR all who have the will to work.
Behind every job is vast intricate and deicatey
adjusted system of nteocked industries dependent upon
skilled leadership and upon finding market for their prod
ucts at home or in foreign lands The forces of credit
communications transportation power foreign relations
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BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, May 27.-The
Hawley- Smoot tariff bill was
written primarily for agriculture
and increases the protective rates
for agriculture four times as much
as the protective rates for industry
as whole, Chairman Smoot. Of the
senate finance committee, told the
senate today in opening final debate
on the bill.
Duties under the new tariff
schedules will amount to $3.50, 49,
$50 as compared with 1922, 649, 1893
under the present law, Smoot said.
The senate tariff leader presented
an elaborate defense of the measure
which bears his name but which
has been nicknamed the "Grundy
bill"
He compared the bin, schedule by
schedule. with the present law as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Press stan Onrrespondent

NEW YORK. May 27.-Raymond
IN Duncan, high priest of the
simple life, went down to the sea in
sheets today to gather salt water as
q gesture Of sympathy toward Ma
hatma Gandhi and his civil disobe-
dience campaign IN India.
He was followed by fifteen allies
who swung Decent store buckets
and by q curious crowd that iden-
titled Duncan as. among other
things. that fellow who just ar
rived from India" ~Isadora Dun
can" vaudeville performer" and
rchief Long Lance, who's doing 3
publicity stunt"
AIahaLma Ray. dressed u lowing
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white robes and allowing the wind
cavort in and out of his uncut
hair, characterized his march to the
sea as "a sincere gesture Of simple
soul"
He led the way out of his Fiftieth
street wagram Gin English, studio)
this forenoon, marshaled his slender
forces and designated his physician,
DR.. Elmer Lee, as second in COM
mand.
Down Fifth avenue they went, es-
corted by two policemen, and ran
sQuarely into a red traffic light.
A conference Of war followed
after which Mahatma Ray an
nounced he had adopted policy
Of passive resistance to the traffic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
DRY REFERENDUM URGED
BY WESTERN SENATOR

looking to legalizing the sale OF
liquor.
Jones' statement, issued as a re-
suit of the action of the Republican
convention came as surprise in
view of his former unyielding stand
on prohibition.
Jones also issued a statement
concerning the Indictment of Roy
G. Lyle, Washington prohibition adj
ministratcr; William M. Whitney,
his legal adviser, and others.
Declaring he would "clothe these
boys with the presumption of inno-
cence which the law throws around
them" Jones said he believes most
sincerely in their innocence"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
British Fire on MobS
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press staff Correspondent
(Copvright. 1880. by United Press

BOMBAY, India, May 27.-Police
clashed repeatedly with Moslem
rioters today in outbreaks of vio-
lence in the central Bhendi bazar
here and at the Sandhurst road bar
racks.
Guns were fired into the mobs on
several occasions and the rioters
attacked police with showers OF
stones.
Casualties in the fighting since
Monday night were placed at six
dead and forty-fve wounded by
gun fire, in a statement by Red
Cross volunteers of the Indian con-
gress at noon.
The total casualties in the indie
pendence fighting throughout India
in the last two days was raised to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
SEA IN sHEETs-sINcERE GESTURE OF SIMPLE SOUL

lights and would wait until the
signals flashed green.
At Twenty-sixth street the pill
grims already were getting weary.
y =
A N hour and ten minutes still
N to go, Mr.. Duncan" said
Nine. Marie Bernard, a loyal fol-
lower, sitting down on fireplug
and resting her bucket on the side
walk.
That's not long," said Mahatma
Ray, grabbing his robes as the wind
blew hard. "A mere jaunt."
MIR. Duncan'S great walker. /"
whispered Second lin Command Lee.
He walked al over Albania and
eats nothing but vegetables
Once more the expedition resumed
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its march toward the Battery. At
Tenth street they halted for drink
Of water and Mrs. E. w. Meyers and
Mrs. Frank I. Kusnick, who were
out doing their morning shopping
blocked the way.
THAT" said Mrs. Meyers, point
ing to Mahatma Ray. sis Grandee,
that Indian"
II thought" murmured Mrs. Kus-
nick, that the government kept
Indians on reservations.
Reaching the Battery, Mahatma
Ray assured the police there that
he really was Raymond Duncan,
Isadore's brother. and that he want
ed to borrow fifteen pals Of water
from New York harhgE lie took
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and what not must all be kept in tune if steady employ
ment is to be assured.
A FAILURE in any part imposes penalty upon labor
through unemployment Break this chain or relation
ship any point and the whole machine is thrown out of
order cease exporting automobiles to South Amer
lea Europe and automobile workers thrown out of
employment in Michigan.
"The suffering does not stop there. 1t only begins.
The steel mills sacken in Pennsylvania and Indiana. The
mines employ fewer workers Lake Superior And every
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
NEW WORKERS WALK ON
$23, 900; FAIL TO SEE 1T

revealed, picked up $1,000 bill and
another bill of the same denomisla-
ton was found on roof.
Although police refused to dis
cuSs the matter, it was reported that
a package of bills was thrown from
window of the Commodore when
woman and four men were arrest
ed with 100000 in allegedly stolen
jewelry.
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them, turning to salute the crowd
that had gathered.
4
XXTALL STREET trembles at
w the name of Gandhi," said
Mahatna Ray. I'VE send him our
love and loyalty"
Then there arose the question
of walking all the way back to
Fiftieth street, where Mahatma
Bay boiled the water on an cleo
trio plate to get salt.
mo-" said Mahatma Bay, I'm
not q bit tired. / can walk all
the way"
Whereupon he hailed a taxicab.
loaded i full Of harbor water and
went home.
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BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May 27.-Residents
and office workers in the vicinity OF
the Commodore hotel learned to
their surprise that they had been
over and near $4,000 that was scat
tered out in the street in $1,000 and
$500 bills. Police have recovered the
money.
One man, whose name was not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
CAFE EMPL0YE ScALDED

Opening doors of a steam cooker,
said to have been over-f1lled, Her
man Pieper, q, r. r. 4, Box $50,
employee in the Guaranty cafeteria,
Meridian street at Monument Circle,
was Scalded early today by out
rushing steam. He was taken to
Methodist hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
80 CARS ARE REGARDED AS
CERTAIN STARTERS FRIDAY IN
annual SPEEDWAY CLASSIC
"a Now Qualified With Nine More Estimated
Capable; De Paolo Escapes Death
in Rail Crossing Accident.
BY NORMAN E. ISAACS

checup the indianapolis Motor Speedway ooay
and capabilities indicated that only
eighteenth annual running OF Americas historic
Friday the 5OO-mi chase for gold and glory
machines already qualified, trials were 10 con-
Wednesday, with only nine more cars uoI-
fay capable turning the required elghye-
mile an for four laps
speed creations passed the speed tests late Monday
afternoon Indianapolis dirt tracker heading the
list wheeling Duesenbegs around the
platter at speed OF lO6lfS
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DENTIST IS TARRED
AbductorS Warn Against
Attentions to Woman.

BIZ United Press
HAMMOND, La, May 27.--Dr. S.
L. NewSum, 80. young dentist, was
tarred and feathered today by four
unidentified men.
NewSum'S abductorS were said to
have warned him against his friend
ship with a Hammond married
woman.
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DOGS ON NEGRO HUNT

REiDSVILLE, N. c., May 81. - A
large posse, with bloodhounds
searched Caswell county today for
trace of a young Negro, charged
with attacking Miss Annie Thomas,
19-year-old white girl.
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BIZ United Press
WICHITA, Kan, May 27.-Lieu-
tenant Colonel Roscoe Turner, at
tempting a new east-west CONT
mental speed record from New York
to Los Angeles, arrived here to re-
fuel at 1874 p. m. today.
He had flown from Roosevelt
fiels r.. l., in nine hout and forty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
GOOD TURN-ROMANCE
Debutante Keeps Polo Player FROM
Jail; to Wed Him.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, May 27.-Ro-
mance born when debutante paid
a visiting Argentina polo players
fine and saved him from going to
jail in Modesto, Cal, viii result in
the marriage Of Miss Jeanne Hugh
son and Juan Reynal, Buenos Aires.
Announcement Of the couples en-
eaqement was made by william L.
Huehson. millionaire San Francisco
automobile dealer, who said his
daughter was visiting IA BuenaH
Aires.
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miles an nour.
De Paolo drove the high-powered
Duesie tc the track late in the day,
nearly meeting death or serious in
jury at the Big -Four railroad
crossing, at the limits of the giant
Speedway plant.
De Paolo, hurrying to get the car
on the bricks before dusk, discOv-
cred a swift Chicago passenger train
bearing down on him at top speed.
The famous race driver, winner OF
the 1925 race here, slammed on his
brakes and the car slid into a ditch
as the train rushed past.
Machine Unframed
The machine was unframed and
Pete drove it out Of the ditch and
onto the track where Cummings
took the wheel. The 23-year-old In
dianapolis boy, making his first start
on the bricks, swept around the
track twice for warm-up laps, signi-
fed his intention of taking his trial
and whirled out on his officially
timed laps.
The local lad provided some thrills
for the boys in the press pagoda as
he whizzed out of the north turn on
his first three laps. The turn.
coated with oil and grease, afforded
dangerous traction and the speeding
race car skidded each time Cum
mings 'barrelled" in the stretch.
On his fourth lap, Cummings took
the turn low and lost some split sec
onds. His total speed, however, had
he qualified on Saturday, would
have been sufficient to have placed
him on the pole of the second row.
In Eighth Row
The 106-mile- hour gait
settled Bill in the number one posi-
ton Of the eighth row, with Melvin
Kenealy, in Maav Special, holding
the second position in the eighth
row, and Jimmy Gleason on the
outside in his Waverly Oil Special.
Kenealy qualified his four-cylin-
der motor chariot at a speed OF
L0S.327. miles an hour and Gleason
averaged 93.709 miles hour.
william Denver in a Nardi Spe-
cial endeavored to qualify Monday
but quit on his third lap. His mo-
tor died on him and he was ex-
pected to make another trial today
His speed was ninety-one miles an
hour for the two laps he had CEN
pleted.
julius Slade, in Slade Special
failed on his second trial to COM
plete the four laps, and has only
one more chance to qualify. Slade
averaged lightweight miles an hour
for three laps, when something went
'haywire" on his last LAP and he
coasted into the pits, his motor dead
With Speedway officials announc-
ing that 1859 of the 200 laps had
been subscribed for in the lap prize
fund, railbirdS and pit experts to-
day began figuring on thrilling
duel of speed for each of the 500
Lap prizes in the race. The prize
committee today continued its ef-
forts to I'LL the 200 laps by Thurs
day.
Arnold Wins Pole
Billy Arnold, Louie Meyer and
Shorty Canton will wage the early
struggle for lap prizes, with Arnold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-27
GIRL PILOT is KILLED
Young Filler Crashes Into Field Dur
ing Solo Flight.

ing Solo Flight.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May
27.-Margaret Ferguson, II, one of
the youngest girl pilots in the
United States, was killed today in
plane crash near here.
She took off on a solo fight from
Colorado Springs airport and
crashed in a field four miles north
east of the city.
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, one minutes in a Lockheed cabin
monoplane.
His pet lion cub, Gilmore, ac-
companied him.
The present east-west speed rec
ord is held by Captain Frank M
Hawks, who on June q, piloted his
Lockheed-Ve monoplane from
Roosevelt field to Los Angeles in Ia
hours 10 minutes 80 seconds without
! a Stnn.
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TARIFF BILL MADE FOR
FARMER, ASSERTS SMOOT

serting most of the increases are
for the benefit of agriculture.
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Cars Yet to Go

Cars yet to pass their Speed
way qualification trials follow:
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Arnold Wins Pole

Billy Arnold, Louie Meyer and
Shorty Canton will wage the early
struggle for lap prizes, with Arnold
favored to zoom of into the lead
as soon as the pacemaking lap is
continued.
Arnold qualified Harry Hartz'
Miller Front-Drive Saturday at a
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mot likely to take trials.
Smyrna times., 1930-07-09

Hartly and Frederick played
ball on the public school ground on
July 4th, in the morning The
score was to in favor of Hart
ly. In the afternoon Frederick
and Hartly played at Frederick,
the score being z to 8 in favor of
Frederick.
Mrs. r. M. Charlton and chill
dren are visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. ]. Staskiewiz of Syracuse
New York.
Mr.. and Mrs George Scotton of
Philadelphia, spent the weekend
with their mother, Mrs. Lena Scot
ton.
Little Miss Barbara Ann Eich-
holz of Downs Chapel, spent We'd
nesday with her aunt, Mrs. X w.
Truitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Dodd were
visitors on Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs
Richard Loyid of Kenton.
We are glad to note Miss Kath-
tonsil operation Thursday at the
Kent General Hospital is GONZALES
cling at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William West near
town, have been entertaining the
past week, their granddaughter
Miss Julia Boggs of Clayton and
Miss Mary Eta West of Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rodway
had as their weekend guests their
son, Thomas Rodway OF Philadei-
phia, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Press
er and son cf Mt. Ephran. N.
Mr.. W. w. Powell entertained
over the weekend Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Powell and children and
Mrs. Emma Hart of Chester, Mr..
and Mrs. G. S. Patterson and son
of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Seward Daily
and sister, Miss Eva Taylor, spent
Sunday with relatives in Whining
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. K w. T~'Iitt en-
tertalned a. dinner Friday, Mr.and
Mrs. Charles C. Moore and Mrs.
Lester Cook Of Downs Chapel and
Miss Anita Cook Of Eenton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Slaughter
entertained company from Will
mington, July 4th.
Mrs. Howard Schweitzer spent
Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Stafford of Marydel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grafton Heather
and son Grafton, Jr., were guests
Sunday of Mr.. AMI Mrs. Lee Har-
mon Cf Maryoiei.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Schweitzer
and so1 Louis ard Miss Amelia
Boone were guests on Sunday OF
relatives in Wyoming.