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ENDURANCEPAI
FORCED DOWN
Jackson, 0'Brine Land at
CALHOUN Mark.
BIZ Tnitcd Press

BIZ Cntted Press
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15-Dale Jack
son and Forrest O'Brine, once more
the worlds champion refueling en-
durance fliers, were disappointed
today because 100000 hadn't mate
rallied from their efforts.
BY making a safe landing in the
monoplane, The Greater st. Louis"
at $50 a. m Sunday, after a flight
of CAT hours, the filters won back the
title, lost to the Hunter brothers last
month. They surpassed the Hunt
ers' time by more than ninety
three hours.
Both blamed a crack in the motor
crankcase Tor their descent. Oil
splashed out over the cabin windows
and motor and soaked into the mag
neto, short circuiting it, Jackson
said.
There we're contracts, either
signed or offered, totaling $4,000
for advertising, movie talks and
state fair appearances, but the men
had gone aloft with the 100000
idea in mind and were disappointed.
Doctor examined the men and
said they had not lost weight and
appeared in splendid physical con-
dition.
William Quigley, chief mechanic
of the flight, inspected the motor.
He said he could not find a crack
in the c1ankcase, "but if the boys
said there was one, there must be-"
What Oscar Parks, manager of
the fight, pointed out as the crack
was only scratch Quigley said.
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BIoonpjn Joke?
Pink Boomers Blossom
Into CIeW in Theft
at PooIroom.

TT was a blooming pink plooIAer
Il of a trick that some one played
on Austin johnson, 25, OF 1884
West Thirty fourth street, he de-
clares, and, because Of it, he's held
at police headquarters today on
vagrancy charge.
Saturday night as he finished
his work as soda jerker in the
Board of Trade billiard rooms ne
put his hand in his pocket and
drew out a pair of pink boomers.
Robert Miller, Negro Janltor OF
the billiard hall, saw the bloom
ers in his hand.
Sunday the billiard room was
robbed of a quantity of cigaretS.
Miller found the pink boomers
ON the floor. Detectives arrested
Johnson, who says the boomers
don't belong to him, and that
some one put them in his pocket
for a Joke and that he left them
living in the poolroom.
His alibi on being questioned
regarding his whereabout at the
time of the robbery is, 81 was with
my sweetheart"
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TOY GOLF CHAMPS
TO PLAY TONIGHT

Jeanne Schlosser, Plaza course,
Michigan and Pennsylvania streets.
Mrs. Flora Kinder VS.. Miss Louise
Leonard, Putt-a-R Round course, 3345
Madison avenue.
Mrs. Myrtle Banta VS.. Miss Rosa
lind Pugh, Fairway Velvet Greens,
Southern and Madison avenues.
Mis- Mary Jane Meyers VS.. Miss
Florence Brown, Tom Thumb,
Fifty-sixth and Illinois streets.
Mems fight pairings and courses;
w. A. Baker VS.. Morris Mcintyre,
Original Tom Thumb, Thirtieth
street and Kessler boulevard.
G.. Abbott and John Maloney,
Playground course, Thirty-eighth
street and Fall creek.
Theodore Siener VS.. Gilbert Ma
lone, Mapleton course, Thirty eighth
and Illinois streets.
Ted Wolf VS.. Burke Whitaker,
Ten-Em course, Tenth street and
Emerson avenue.
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Control of Rum Traffic on
Florida East Coast Is
Believed Motive.

By United Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 10.
Desire to gain control of gambling
business and liquor traffic on the
Florida east coast was aScribed to-
day by Sheriff w. B. Cahoon as the
motive for an alleged conspiracy to
assassinate Governor Doyle E. Carl
ton of Florida.
Three men, charged with con-
spiracy against the life of the chief
executive, were arraigned today.
Their bonds were set at $500. They
are Fred o. Eberhardt, Tallahassee
publisher and long foe Of Carlton;
Frank Rawls, Jacksonville, a for
ner convict, and Henry Halseman,
Jacksonville, professional bondsman,
also held on charge of violating
the prohibition law.
Forty gallons of liquor and still
weer found in Halseman's home at
the time of his arrest.
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SAVE 300 ON
SINKING SHIP
High Seas Pound Founder
ing Liner During Rescue.

BV United Press
PAGO PAGO, Samoa, Aug. 1S.-
The steamship Tahiti, on which
three hundred persons sailed gaily
northward from Wellington for
San Francisco six days ago, sank
in the South Pacific today, after
rescue of her passengers and crew.
Aboard the MatSon steamer
Ventura, the 173 adult passengers
and two infants, who sailed on the
Tahiti of the Union Steamship COM
pany we're safe, after many hours
in which the disabled and water
filled ship on which they left We'll
lington was pounded by strong
running sea.
The Ventura, speeding from the
scene of the rescue toward Page
Page, had ended another heroic
mission of the coral-reefed southern
seas, and her master, Captain w.
r. Meyer. wrote his version Of the
thrilling story.
Ventura has taken all passengers
and crew from Tahiti and aban-
doned vessel" was the message he
handed his radio operator. Ven
tua proceeding Pago Page"
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THREE BURN TO
DEATH IN CAR
Vacation Party Hits Tree;
Driver Believed Asleep.

BIZ United Press
VEEDERSBURG, Ind, Aug. 18.-
Three persons we're burned to death
four miles south of here today when
their automobile left the pavement
and caught fire after crashing into
a tree. The dead are:
Julia Eckhart, Is, of Buck Greek;
Opal Heimback, 10, Frankfort, and
Blaze Metzger, 20, Lafayette.
Truman Cline, another occupant
of the auto, was seriously injured
and was removed to the Crawfords-
vile hospital where it was believed
amputation of both legs may be
necessary.
The party was returning from a
vacation spent in Nashville, Tenn,
and authorities expressed the belief
that Metzger, driver of the car, fell
asleep at the wheel.
The bodies we're burned almost
beyond recognition.
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First round match play in The
Times city-wide toy golf tourna-
ment is scheduled tonight at eight
courses with eight men and eight
women competing in eighteen-hole
matches.
All first round matches will be
PLAYED at 8 and all contestants are
urged to make every effort to re-
port to the manager Of their match
course a few minutes before the
hour. In event of each winning
an equal number of holes at the
end of eighteen, extra holes will be
played until one contestant gains
a hole advantage. Complete title
brackets and other tourney news
may be found on page 2.
Opponents and courses for won-
ems fight matmaes:
Miss Virginia Quigg VS.. Miss
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BILLINGS AND
MOONEY CASE
NEARING END
Fourth, and Probably Last,
Week Sees High Hopes
of Bomb PardonS.
BY MAX STERN
Times staff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.-The
supreme court Billings pardon hear
ing that opened here July % as the
result of the finding of the missing
ueriurer. John Macdonald, today
entered it's fourth and probably last
week. with hopes high for early re-
lease of the famous convict, Warren
Billings, and his co-vlctlm, Iom
Mooney.
AS Billings was last weeks star, SO
Charles M. Fickert, former district
attorney, is expected to take the
stage center this week.
F'ickert, Mooney-Billings prosecu-
tor-in-chief in 1916. is to share hon
ors with Billings counsel, Edwin
Mckenzie, who will take the stand.
Fremont Older, local editor, who
obtained Estelle Smiths perjury
confession, and Duncan Matheson,
ex-police captain, to be recalled to
denv some of Estelle Smiths ro-
mancing stories, are scheduled TO
testify.
Achievements Outlined
The hearing now is in its last
phase.
Here. briefly, are achievements OF
the trial from the defense view
point:
Not one of the many witnesses,
including the entire battery Of
prosecutors of the old days, took the
stand to urge continued incarcera-
ton of the pair.
Matheson, highest police official
in charge of the case against them,
urged pardons on the ground that
the circumstantial evidence used
has proven insufficient to hold them.
jim Brennan, ex-Fickert aid, who
prosecuted Billings, continued to
urge pardons on grounds Of social
expedience."
Ed Cunha, MONEYS prosecutor,
urged parole.
Captain Charles Golf, Matheson
understudy, urged pardon for
Mooney, but thought Billings guilty.
Even Fickert publicly has stated
that he doesn't want to be asked
whether he favors a pardon.
The prosecutions list of 1857
principal eyeWitnesses all have
proven perjurers, and most of
them actually were absent from the
scene Of the crime.
Macdonald Is Bust"
Macdonald, only witness beside
Frank Oman to have seen"
Mooney and Billings at the explo-
sion scene, has been relegated to
absolute limbo along with his
compatriot Oman.
Estelle Smiths conflicting stories
of who placed Billings at the sup
posed rendezvous of the bombers
have been denied by her former
employer, Dr. Joseph Shane, by
Matheson, Billings and others.
incidentally, her story, if true,
would have provided Billings with
another perfect alibi.
The fact that the six judges who
heard Billings at Folsom failed to
60 into the actual planting of the
bomb, is taken to indicate that
they no longer believe in the old
prosecution theory or have faith
in its witnesses,
The two alibis of Mooney and
Billings have been presented and
apparently accepted.
Pictures showing the MONEYS on
the roof of the Eiler building at
1853, at 2:O1 and 2:O4. the latter
two minutes before the bomb ex-
ploded 6.O66 feet away. are in evil
dence.
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FACES CALL ON
DROUGHT AID
Predict John J. Brown May
Resign as State High
way Director.

Possibility of special session of
the legislature, called by the Gov
ernor to provide drought relief
funds and ref1nance the state high
way department, doomed today.
The matter was to be taken up
at the first meeting of the drought
commission in the Governors office
this afternoon.
Another prediction, made at the
statehouse, was the possibility of
resignation of John j. Brown, direc-
tor of the state highway depart
ment. That department has ex-
ceeded it's budget almost from the
beginning of the time that Brown
took Office, and now is paying in
terest on $1,600,000 of borrowed
funds.
Ogden Rule Bars Loan
A special legislative session may
be necessary because James M. Og-
den, encouragement, has ruled the
state can not borro money to match
federal aid for roads, extended at
this time as a drought relief meas
ure.
Under the plan, Indiana has
$3,172,253 in advanced federal aid
coming, in addition to $2,09S,0o0 in
unclaimed balances which the high
way department has failed to col
Iect because of failure to have plans
approved and qualified by the fed
eral bureau of roads.
In an opinion to Governor Harry
G. Leslie, Ogden cited the law to
show that the state can not borrow
money, in anticipation of automo-
bile license and gasoline taxes, for
the state highway department.
When the federal aid was made
available now instead of in Janu-
airy. federal authorities ruled each
dollar advanced must be matched
by the state.
Since the state highway depart
ment already has exceeded its
budget and borrowed $1,600,000 Of
the cities, counties and towns share
of the state gasoline taxes, the only
cash reserve of the state is wiped
out.
Leslie Asks Ruling
Brown has asked an additional
81, 100000 be borrowed for current
expenses of his department, with
out consideration of drought relief
plans.
Returning from the Governors
conference with President Hoover
Saturday, Leslie unfolded a plan
of borrowing $1,000,000 for the state
highway department maintenance
division, and getting another 81 ,000,-
900 in federal aid.
He proposed spending this money
in labor and grading on state roads
in southern Indiana, thus giving
employment to men and teams from
the burned out farms.
Governor Leslie wrote to Ogden
for an opinion in the matter, which
was delivered today.
Delegations Arrive Early
Southern Indiana delegatiors ar
rived at the Governors office carly
today to report on the pitiable
plight of their communities.
Former Mayor Marcus Sulzer Of
Madison, accompanied by Joseph
Cooper, former jefferson county
prosecutor, and Harry Nichols, Re
publican candidate for state treas
urer, came to urge a special legisla-
tive session, if the Ogden opinion
can not be circunlvented.
A delegation from Martin county,
headed by Guy c. Hanna and j. A.
Wood, county agricultural agent,
came to indorse the highway labor
plan. It would absorb the people
who are apt to become public
charges if State Road As is prepared
for construction at this time, they
said.
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GAS STATION SUIT ENDS
Special Judge Young Takes City's
Case Under Amusement.

Special Judge Howard Young, OF
Marion circuit court, today took
under advisement petition of the
city for an injunction against the
Lincoln Oil and Refining Company,
to prevent operation Of a filling
station at Kessler boulevard and
Lafayette street.
Closing arguments in the injunc-
ton suit were heard this morning
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ST 800 GOODS STOLEN FROM
STORE: SAFELOOTED OF S., 900

on the first floor OF the tire COM
pany and used tools and punches
to crack the office safes.
Fleeing into a police trap, Earl
Chism, 81, Negro, 427 North Capitol
avenue, was captured today after
he is alleged to have attempted to
crack the safe of the Lathrop-Moy
Company, 41S North Capitol avenue.
The alleged thug had battered the
doors of the huge strong box, knock
ing out most of their concrete con-
tents, and left a collection of tools
in front of the safe when he fed,
police declared.
Yeggs who hammered the COM
bination of safe in the poolroom
owned by Ed Lowe. at 1915 South
eastern avenue early today. OBJ
tanned sos and two reviewers.
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One alleged yegg was captured,
others were successful in cracking
three safes. and burglars raided a
clothing store in a crime wave that
swept Indianapolis over the week
end.
Saving through the basement
ceiling. thieves entered the r. G.
Bennett & Co, 251-253 Massachu-
sets avenue. and stole seventy-five
suits, shirts and ties, valued at more
than $500.
The robbers gained entrance to
the basement of Bertermann Bros,
florists. next door to the clothing
store, through window and then
through trap door to the clothiers
to cut their way through the first,
doort
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RAIN AIDS FARMERS
Scattered Showers Relieve
Drought Areas.

Scattered rains throughout the
state. totaling more than two inches
in some localities, further relieved
drought-Stricken areas late Sunday.
At Vincennes rain poured to reach
% inches Sunday night. Northern
Indiana also received heavy rains,
with rainfall reaching 1.67 inches in
some places.
However, according to weather
reports, areas south of Indianapolis
centering around Bloomington and
Columbus received only 90 to .04 of
an inch. indianapolis received -02
Of an inch.
Eighty-degree temperatures are
predicted for today and Tuesday.
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GUSHER PERILS LIFE
Oklahoma Crews Strive to
Check Oil Well.

: OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 1S.-
Fire hazards, accompanying oil and
gas mists from a wild oil gusher in
the city limits, endangered life and
property today.
The gusher, brought in by G. G.
Julian, former figure in the defunct
Los Angeles Julian Petroleum
Company, developed a leak and blew
wild late Sunday.
Emergency crews attempted TO-
day to stop the flow by pouring &C.
ment into the hole.
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Yeggs cut through stone wall,
twenty-siS inches thick, to get into
the Guarantee Tire and Rubber
Company, 121 South Illinois street,
early today and obtained $1,000
They cracked two safes, one of
which contained ledgers and files
and from the second stole leather
wallet and a money bag.
The thieves made their way from
the Fair building, 10 Jackson place,
across roof to a vacant storeroom
at go McCrea street. and smashed
a window to enter. They attempted
to batter through the second floor
into the tire company, but aban-
doned the plan and removed the
blocks from the basement wall with
a crowbar.
They did lot tampes with safe
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INDIANAPOLIS MONDAY, AUGUST 10 1880

Reports of the damage have been exaggerated
greatly, perhaps for the benefit of Europe Europe
has been out of the market for a long time fear
ing our enormous surplus. The fact that the country
will produce rs per cent Of full crop should bring
Europe back into the market"
According to Babson. the country is at its worst
stage of depression in twenty-five years.
THERE is as much money as there ever was" he
i said. "The trouble is that it is not in circua-
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Business ON Upgrade in t. s. Farm Sections Says BabSOn

ton. The only sure cure for a depression is the
circulation of money"
Babyson is not in favor Of curtaiment Of crops
Rather he would advocate the curtailment of farm
ers.
THE farmer should be licensed like any other
professional or business man. When a man signifies
his intention of becoming farmer, he should have
to prove that he will be good farmer and that he
will not attempt to raise crops where crops as
suredy will not grow he said.
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OMAHA, Aug. 1s.-Business in the agricultural
~ sections distinctly is on the up grade, and dur
ing the last quarter of 1880 business in this region
should show marked improvement said Roger W.
Babson widely known economist and statistician,
who gave his first public interview since the STOCK
market crash last fall here Sunday
Babson is en- route to the west to make personal
inspection tour of business and crop conditions
There should be steady improvement in busl-
ness in the middle west, and during the next twenty
wears the farmer is in for an Of constantly IN
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creasing prosperity" he asserted. However, I do
not care to redict there will be general advance
in 1881.
THE farmer will be The first to recover from
i the business depression, he said.
THE farmer was the first to go down and he
will be the first to recover. Real estate should be
the next Manufacturing will be the last to recover
because it was the last to suffer.a
Seventy-f1ve per cent Of the corn crop VIII be
saved he said.
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which to check his fall
Eaker barely missed the house
and landed on a cement sidewalk.
His only injuries were a sprained
ankle and a few bruises.
The plane, a Boeing pursuit ship,
buried itself in the ground only a
few feet from where Eaker landed,
near st. Elizabeth's government
hospital.
It was Eaker's first forced para
chute jump, although he has made
voluntary jumps before.
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FORMER LEGION CHIEF
LASHES AT BR00KHART'
Recent Charges of Drunken Revels"
stir Members Wrath.

Recent Charges of Drunken Revels"
Stir Members Wrath.
BIZ United Press
CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 18.-Recent
charges attributed to United States
Senator Smith w. Brookhart OF
Iowa that all American Legion con-
ventions are drunken revels,
came under the fire Of Hanford
NfcNider, former National Legion
commander and United States min
lister to Canada, in an address be-
fore the Ohio department conyen-
ton here today.
THE American Legion McNider
said, lis one organizations that has
the right, if any has, to dictate its
own behavior. 1 have attended
many conventions and American
Legion conventions are better be-
haved thar three-fourths Of the
meetings which have nothing To
celebrate"
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POLITICAL ISLANDER HIT
knights of Columbus Form League
Against Defamation.

BIZ GHitCd Press
BOSTON, Aug. 15-The first
step toward establishment of a
League Against Defamation was
taken at the forty eighth annual
convention of the knights of Co.
lumbus here Sunday night.
1t is believed by its sponsors, ac-
cording to William Cardinal O'Con-
nell, that the new league will have
direct influence on political cam
paigns Of the near future.
Belief that the country is being
deprived of the services of able
leaders due to scurrilous and de-
fa1natory political orations has led
knights of Columbus officials to
establish the league.
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NEW BARRYMORE RISES
Ethel Colt, Ninth Generation Mem
Der to Make Stage Debut.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.-The stage
debut of Ethel Colt, ninth genera
ton member of the noted Barry
more theatrical family, will take
place in Cleveland, Aug. 90, ac-
cording to an announcement here.
Miss Colt will play with her
mother. Ethel Barrymore, in Scar
let Sister Mary" a Standardization
of Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer prize
novel about Gullah Negroes in
South Carolina.
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.LUCKNER SHIP AT CUBA
Thirty Three American Youths Get
Naval Training Under German.

BIZ United Press
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 18.-Thirty-
three American boys Of wealthy
families are here on the yacht Mo-
pelia, owned and commanded by
County Felix Won Luckner, famous
sea devil of Germany's wartime
navy. The yacht is on the last leg
of a Caribbean cruise.
The boys received thorough
course in seamansllip under one of
Kaiser Wilhelm's famous adniralS
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SEES SUICIDE OF MATE
Bride. Federal Agents Present as
Check Suspect Kills Self.

bN Mo- FTfSN
KANSAS CITY. Mo. Aug ls.-
In the presence of his bride Of
three days and federal officers who
had gone to question him, James
Kelly. 20, shot and killed himself in
his hotel room today. Kelly was
wanted in Wichita on bad check
charge. it was said. and had been
posing as a secret service agent.
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ing failed to come
out of a spin.
Eaker's escape
was a narrow one.
He did not man
age to free him
self from the fall
ing plane until a
few hundred feet
from the ground.
When his para
chute opened ne
was directly over
a house with only
about 100 feet in
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GARY, Ind, Aug. 18.-Mrs. Mabel
Smith, seeking a divorce from John
B. Smith, alleges he was engaged in
the liquor traffic and that it brought
persons to their home.
She asks 81 200 alimony. The couple
was married less than a year ago.
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QUAKE TOLL is 1,475
Deaths in italian Disaster
Counted Officially.

BIZ Trited Press
ROME, Aug. 18.-The total death
roll in the recent earthquake in
Italy was 1,475, the official bulletin
of the Fascist party said today.
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WESTERNER SETS PACE
Gladys O'Donnell Leads First Lap
in WOmen's Air Derby.
BIZ United Press

Bu United Press
SAN DIEGO, Cal. Aug. 16.-Led
by Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach,
competitors in the 1880 Women's air
derby left here today the second
lap of their cross-country flight to
the national air races in Chicago.
Because of her fast time in Sum
days run from Long Beach to San
Diego, Mrs. ODonnell was the first
to wheel her plane to the starting
line and take of for Calexico, the
MONDAY stop.
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SCORE MILK WAR RIOTS
City Rural Market Feud Violence
Condemned by Both Factions.

WW Z TITNI TTTNI
KANSAS CITY. Mo, Aug. Is
marketing feud between rural pro-
ducers ant city distributors in the
Kansas City area joined today in
condemning incidents OF violence
reported IN the wake Of boycott.
Civic leaders appealed to repre-
sentatives Of both factions for ar
bitration.