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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
FAMILY HUNTS
BODY Of FAMED
WAR AVIATOR
Remains in Grave Thought
to Be Those of Another
Soldier.
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press staff Correspondent

PARIS, June 19.-Fifteen years
after he fell to his death inside the
German lines after a stubborn air
battle above Verdun, the family OF
Victor Chapman, first flier Of the
famed Lafayette Escadrille to die
in combat, is convinced that the
body buried under his name in the
American army cemetery at Sures-
mes is not his.
After hostilities ended, friends
hunted out the grave of Chapman
and found a cross, well inside the
old German lines, which bore on
one side the name of Victor Chap
man and on the other the name of
German soldier.
Study on ELIMINATION
The tomb was excavated and two
bodies were found, one with bits
Of German uniform and one with
French equipment.
The remains of the French SOL
der were carried back to Paris and
buried in the Suresnes cemetery,
but recently the body was exhumed
to permit comparison Of teeth and
other identifcations.
Chapman's former French me-
clanic, other Americans in the For
eign Legion and members of the
family have found great differences
in the teeth and shape of the body,
which now leads them to believe
that for twelve years they have
been honoring another in the grave
of Chapman, and that he will lie
forever in an unmarked grave.
Dies in Combat in 1916
Chapman, a great-great-grand-
son of a signer Of the Declaration
Of Independence, John Jay, and a
son Of John Jay Chapman, essay
list and poet of Barrytown and New.
York, was last seen In action
when he accompanied Raoul Luf-
berry and Norman Prince over the
German lines near Verdun.
French airmen saw Chapman's
plane dive straight down and break
into pieces well inside the enemy
lines
The American had been fighting
five Germans, That occurred July
%, 1916.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
OHIO EXPECTING
LOCUST HORDE
Due to Reappear After II
Years of Dormant Life.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WOOSTER, o., June 19.-An in
vasion of Ohio by the "17-year To-
Gusts" or cicadae is expected this
month by DR.. Warren Spencer, pro-
fessor of biology at Wooster COL
lege.
The last general appearance OF
the locusts was shortly before the
beginning of the World war. Their
return can safely be expected this
year, according to DR.. Spencer.
Their temperance will mean
their return to open air and light
after q seventeen-y period of
dormant life. Through this long
stage they have lain in the soil,
their mouth-parts sunk into a root
let from which they have extracted
nourishment.
They will mate, the female spe-
cies will hatch their eggs to pro-
duce young somewhat ant-like in
form. The young will make their
way out to the end of twigs and
remain until the larvae is shaken
off by the wind.
The eicadae will fall to the ground
and crawl about until it locates a
crevice into which it can remain for
the next seventeen years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
Sees Stars


By UntTe0 Press
TRENTON, N. j., June 49,
John r. See of Paterson filed
suit for divorce today, charg-
ing that his wife hit him with
everything in the house." in
Guiding the family cat.
In addition to hitting him
with the cat, fishes, a can Of
condensed milk and anything
she could lay her hands on"
See charged that she boosted
openly to neighbors that she
had John well trained"
Once when he dared to take
some money out of his pay en-
velope to buy groceries, Mrs.
See met him in front Of the
postofhce, he charges, and beat
him on the head with an UNI
brella.
On one occasion, he charges,
she threw red pepper in his
eyes because there was an ir-
regularity in his pay envelope,
and at another time she hit
him with an ak, for a similar
reason.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
CORNSTALK GAS
TO LIGHT FARMS
Scientist Obtains Heat by
Dieting Bacteria.
BvUnited Press

81 On1Ce0 PYeSS
TOPEKA, Kan, June 19-Gas
from cornstalks and sewage to light
farms and cities and turn the
wheels Of commerce sounds like a
wild dream, but perhaps after all it
will really work" the June issue Of
Capper's Farmer says.
Details are set forth in an ar
ticle by Lionel K. Arnold of Iowa
State college outlining experiment
tation of DR.. A. NJ. BusWcll, Uni
versity of Illinois scientist.
The article says DR.. Boswell has
proved conclusively that gas can
be generated in stable proper
tions from these substances. Diet
ing of billions of bacteria is the
basis for the operation.
"He CDR. BuswelD took some
shredded cornstalks in the labora-
tory" Arnold relates, favored them
with sewage and fed them to bac-
terra that had established a repu-
tatiOn for making methane. or
marsh gas. He was not disappointed
for they made great quantities of
the gas"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19

At the age Of "a Edward A.
PTofst, Civil war veteran Of Green
view, Ill, is the father Of an eight
and one-half-p pound son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
SPENDS HIS VACATION
CAPTURING RATTLERS
Seattle Insurance Man Goes in for
Thrills in Big Way.

By United Press
SPOKANE, Wash, June 49,
Golf1ng, camping, fishing, boating
and loafng are common enough
forms of vacation enjoyment, but
Paul j. Martin, Seattle insurance
man, has way of his own for re-
taxing and resting each year.
He spends his vacations in the
rattlesnake country near here, cap
turing specimens.
Martin is an honorary member
of the National Antt-Venine So
ciety, and is one of the northwest's
authorities on snakes.
Almost every summer he spends
much of his vacation capturing rat
tiers and supplying geological 'coIlec-
lions with Washington's specimens
of poisonous reptiles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
U. S. CITIES TO
JOIN HANDS IN
CHARITY DRIVES
Winter Needs of JobIesS
Spur Plans for Fund
Campaigns.

BIZ Scrfpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON. June 19.-Com-
munity chests everywhere, acting on
a suggestion of the Presidents emer-
gency committee for employment,
will cooperate to raise local funds
to help the unemployed this winter
j. Herbert Case of New York,
president Of the National AssOci-
alton Of Community Chests and
Councils, today formally accepted
the proposal for a concerted cam
paign for funds. The suggestion was
made Saturday by Fred c. CroXton,
acting head of the Presidents COM
mittee, at the associations national
convention at Minneapolis.
Not To Be Pooled
Funds raised will not be pooled
FOR national disbursement, however,
but will be used in the areas where
gathered
Cases announcement, together
with a statement telegraphed by
Croxton to the Scripps- Howard
newspaper showed no plan was on
foot TO raise a national fund. over
and above the regular chest quotas,
for relief Of unemployed on a ma
tional scale
Some accounts Of the Minneapolis
meeting indicated raising Of a $780,
OoO.ocO fund for relief of the idle
was proposed under administration
auspices.
The drive now planned by COM
naunity chests will include the regu-
lar, or augmented, chest quotas, and
thus will be used for a variety Of
purposes and not solely to help the
iobless
Red Cross Holds Of
Some accounts said also the
American National Red Cross has
been invited to join in the cam
paign, and raise from 100000 to
100000. This invitation was given,
IL was learned, but the Red Cross
has declined to join.
The chests program, now that it
has accepted Croxton's suggestion,
will be to schedule at one time as
many Of the various drives as pos
sible, SO that they can benefit from
national effort, published as such.
In addition, in towns of $4,000 pop
ulation or more where there are no
chests, the association will give help
in charity campaigns in the way of
leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
GREED FATAL TO SNAKE
King Reptile Tries to Swallow Big
COttonmOuth; PeriShes.
BIZ United Press


BENTON, ILL.,, June 19.-Robert
RlcA1ahan, a farmer living near
here, thought he had found a new
kind of reptile when he saw what
appeared to be a six-foot snake with
two tails and no head, writhing on
the ground near his home.
Close investigation revealed that
a king snake had attempted to
swallow a cottonmouth. Both snakes
we're about four feet long. The king
snake, writhing In agony, had sue
ceeded in swallowing half of the
reptile-but that was all. Two feet
of the cottonmouth yet remained
to be swallowed when the king
snake died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
MILLIONS TO BE MOVED
Silver Dollars Will Be Taken From
Old Mint.

2 fVTFUN Noo
NEW ORLEANS. June IGNORE
than six million silver dollars will
be moved from the old United
States mint to the customs house
here. preparatory to renovating the
mint for federal prison.
Holdup men, however, would have
a difficult time getting away with
it even if the transfer were unpro-
tected. The silver is held in 6,875
sacks, with one thousand dollars in
each sack. And each sack weighs
sixty-four pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
SLAP COSTS $500 FINE
Waitress Says Injury Was Worth
$4,000; Judge Disagrees.
BIZ NEA Service

BIZ NEA Service
CLEVELAND, June 10. - Two
years ag John Carey, city fireman,
years ago John Carey, city fireman,
ment of a meal check, she contends.
Consequently she estimated that
she was injured to the amount of
$4,000. But Judge White and the
Jury didn't think she was hurt that
bad. She was awarded $500,
which makes the slap costly enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19
Charges on killed Cattle

bU UWIttu TTt55 , . :,
ABILENE, Tex, June 49, -
Charging that her cattle were poi
soned by oil leaking from the COM
panys pipeline during a break last
year, Mrs. Fronia Arnes has sued
the United Producers Pipeline
Company for $5,871.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-19

The bureau Of fire protection. The
bureau announced that its survey
showed that 50 per cent Of the fires
were preventable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
CANISTER KILLED
IN AUTO SMASH-UP
Benny Butler Furnished
Liaison by Which LingIe
Slayer Was Trapped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 29.-Benny Butler,
a reputed gunner of the Danny STAN
ton and Capone gangs and the pal of
Leo Brothers, convicted killer of Alfred
Lingle, came to his death yesterday.
Bullets had felled him before, but
they were not the instrument to finish
him. His automobile shot past a stop
light, witnesses said, crashed into an
other car. and overturned. Butler was
dead when they picked him up.
It was he who furnished the liaiSon
by which the detectives seeking the kill
er of the Tribune crime reporter, Alfred
''Jake" Lingle. kept in touch with the
suspected murderer. His telephone
wires were tapped. Butler always was
in contact it'll - theirs, and l,6utaAl
his instrtiflentality the investgatUfs
finally captured their quarry.
Two years ago today Butler was shot
and wounded seriously when the police
tried to capture and question him in
connection with the Staying of Enrico
Arduini, a saloonkeeper. He was later
released.
A year ago this month another hood
1um, resenting Buffers alleged atten-
tons to his wife, shot him. Then
Butler joined the gunner OF Danny
Stanton, reputed Capone beer boss of
the South Side. Last April, too. he was
arrested for investigation of the Easter
morning murder of three men in the
Blue Moon Inn.
Thomas Burke, who said he was
business agent of the Theatrical JAM
tors Union, was driving the car in
which Butler rode to death early today
Burke was cut and bruised, not seri-
ously. and was held under guard at a
hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
Irish University Honors American

BELFAST, Northern ireland, April
20 R).-Queens University will confer
the honorary degree of doctor of science
on Hugh Hampton Young. professor
of urology and director of the Urolog-
ical Institute of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity at Baltimore.
DR.. Young is an Ulster man by de-
scent. The date of the ceremony was
not announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

crimes while he was military commander
OF Oriente Province.
This investigation. he was told. Is
under way at Santiago, principal city
of Oriente. Ortiz was arrested after Gen.
Albert Herrera, his superior. was ad-
vised of six indictments issued by the
Santiago court of instruction implicat-
ing him in several of Al mysterious
deaths which occurred during his ten
ure in the eastern part Of the island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
CUBAN MAYOR ARRESTED
A Alleged Murders Laid to orse-
MO Ortiz Under Inquiry.

HAVANA. April 90 (P).-Maj Orsenio
Ortiz was technically arrested during
the night at Campo Columbia, aviation
field near Havana, and ordered to await
a further investigation of his alleged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

Havana to See May Day Strike.
HAVANA, April 20 (P,.-Street car
men today announced 24-hour strike
to take place May /, International La
Dor day. Other organizations are ex-
pected to join in the demonstration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29

OF Norborne. Mo. was chosen the most
beautiful girl in the University of
Missouri, at Columbia, and reigns as
queen OF the student yearbook.
"A. P Photo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-29
INFRINGEMENT ALLEGED

Judge Restraints Use of Film Car
toons in Temporary Order.
LOS ANGELES, April 90 lP-Fed-
eral Judge George Cosgrave has issued
q preliminary injunction restraining the
F4the Exchange Inc, and the Van
Beuren Corporation from use of mo-
ton picture comic cartoon which the
Walt Disney Productions Inc, alleged
was taken from its Mickey Mouse"
series
Trade mark infringement and unfair
competition was charged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Negro and White Workers Interest IN Scottsb0yo
Frame Ub Promises Increase IN DAILY Circulation

Tables for last week show total circulation
of 1892 which, when special orders of $40 are
deducted leaves solid circulation of 1885,
Tables for this week show total circulation of
81 .329 and with special orders of SO deducted
solid circulation of 81 279.
Special orders of $40 plus drop of 500 in
Luzerne, Pa. order after the coal strike brings
the total drop to LAO, SO that decrease of only
$40 shown in this weeks tables the gain in cir
culation is 470. (Of these specia lorders, 1926
should have been taken off week ago.
Highest Gain in Detroit.
The highest gain for the week is in Dist Z,
Detroit, principally due TO putting on the dis
trict page for the first time. This is quite an
achievement for Detroit which has been one
of the latest to join the string of district pages
Next comes Dist. Is, Calif with an increase
of i45 aided largely by an addition of III in
San Francisco Dist. Chicago goes up 81. a
slight Improvement over last weeks boost of
81.
The biggest drop of 604 is shown in Dist, 3,
Phla, due to 500 coming off special orders to
Lugerne during the mine strike and decrease
of 100 in Chester, New gains of 200 in Phila-
delphia and 80 in Trenton do not yet show in
these tables Dist !, Boston, drops DOL taking
off last weeks special orders of 2o4 Dist S,
Pittsburgh, takes off ia, also due to temporary
orders being dropped. Dist. 4. Buffalo, took off
So from drops in Rochester and Buffalo. Dist.
H. Seattle, drops 81, resulting from decrease in
the Portland bundle.
Some Hints on Building Route.
Salty Dick, one of the N. Y. Red Builders best
sellers, gives few points on building a per-
manent route.
Map out your territory, distribute back num-
bers of the Daily Worker marked sample copy
to every family in your district. Place as many
copies as possible into the hands of the prospec-
tive customers mentioning that it's working
class paper Have a CHEEKY, friendly tone. In
case no one is at home, push the sample copy
under the door or behind the knob. Do not
clutter up Railways with sample copies and do
not put them in mail boxes
Two comrades should distribute 5000 copies in
three days, after which they are ready to solicit
for subscriptions The section and units should
give as much assistance as possible with volun-
teers for house toulouse canvassing. In greet
ing the prospect, remind him of the sample copy
you left. asking what he thought about it, A good
time to call on workers is during rainy weather.
also evenings and Sunday mornings when they
are apt to DO horne,
ne aure IA plaee the psFsr where the Gus
sgEsE AaAts v Aa4A iH1paa VIII ths .svk-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
$1,000 WORKERS
OUT In NORWAY
Fight Against w az e
Slashes

OSLO, Norway--As already repor-
ter, 43 900 workers of various indus
tries and trades were locked out on
the 10th of April. Together with the
10000 striking paper workers, there
are thus $1,000 workers out. On the
day of the lockout the transport
workers of a number of towns went
out on sympathy strikes. The prin-
tiers are also threatening with SYM
pathy strikes. In most of the pro-
vincial towns the bourgeois press is
no longer appearing as a result of
printers strikes. In the industrial
town Of Sarpsborg the lockedrout
workers demonstrated in front Of the
printing works Of the two local bour-
geois dailies and demanded that they
be closed down during the struggle.
The printing employers we're COM
PEELED to agree, as otherwise the prin-
ters would have gone ON strike al
together.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Steve Katoyis | l. ID
Branch Continues to
Set Example: 10 Join

NEW YORK.-Steye Katoyis branch
of the International Labor Defense
continues to set other branches a
good example which they are all too
slow in following. Last night the
branch held an open air meeting at
Seventh st. and Ave. B. Wednesday
night 1t will hold one at 10th St. and
Second Ave. The next night there
will be one at 14th st. and Univer-
sity. All these meetings are mob
citations for May First. and rally
defense for the 0 Negro boys at
Scettsboro, and for the five workers
the silk mill owners>are trying to
frame into the electric chair at
Paterson.
Speakers are from the branth and
the Young Defenders. Last week at
these open air meetings, 10 workers
signed to Join the T. l.. d.; IS pampll-
let's and 4s Labor Defenders we're sold,
and distributions made Of other Labor
Defend, Defenders, lsst|etk az e. e TIE e.. 1 ~
Ws.4lfA 4''' s''-'A~ -" '''''- =. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29

ers; show interest in their problems, and you
will lay the basis for permanent growing route.
Utilize back numbers of radical literature;
Sport and Play, Solidarity, Labor Unity, Labor
Defender, Young Worker, etc. Route carriers
should carry as much free literature pos
sible for distribution. 1t breaks down resis-
lance In obtaining new readers for the Daily
Worker.
You viii lose some customers from your routes,
and should therefore maintain constant cam
paign for new readers. Avoid the police as much
as possible; they will do you no good. Become
Worker Correspondent; send in working class
news picked up from your daily rounds. Initia-
tive good judgment and cheerful disposition
will build successful carrier routes and the fu-
ture circulation of the Daily should show de-
cided increase by the end of the year. Always
remember, when talking to your customers, to
ask them to assist you in getting new readers
and holding the old ones"
Use Dailies for Scottsboro Campaign.
Added circulation of the Daily Worker is seen
in the near future arising from the campaign it
is conducting to free the nine Scottsboro, Ala,
Negro youths from electrocution. Indication of
stimulated sales is revealed in Kansas City where
a Negro worker who never sold the Dailies be-
fore, disposed Of SO copies the first day he went
out. With mass protest meetings being ar
ranged throughout the country, and the need for
the widest possible populariSation of one of the
most brazen frape-up cases, the necessity for
Daily Worker mass circulation Of the Daily
Worker is imperative Tables for the next few
weeks will reflect these increases. and will re-
suit in new recruits among Negro and white
workers for selling the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
NMU DISTRICT
INVENTIONS
70 Oragnize the Metal
-
Miners

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 24-The
Metal Mining District of the Ma
tienal Miners Union will hold its
convention on May 10. The coal min
ers OF Ohio District will hold their
convention on May II, and the Penn
sylysais District on May 1924, The
Illinois and the Anthracite Districts
will hold their conventions in the
near future.
These conventions are to prepare
tlas union for the struggle against
misery and starvation prevailing
throughout the industry. They will
be the starting points of struggle
against the hetYayers Of the Howat as
well % Of the Lewis type. These con-
vsntions Will establish definite dis
trfet lssderships, which will be devel-
opsd later on a sectional basis. The
conventions will generally strengthen
the union.
Extensive preparations are being
carried out IN all the three districts,
In the Metal Mining District two
full-time organizers are working for
the convention, including many ac-
tive rank and file members. In Ohio
extensive preparations also are being
made. In the Pennsylvania District,
Sectional Conferences are being held.
Some so mass meetings and as
many organizational meetings will be
held prior to the conventions. All the
locals will hold special meetings to
discuss the problems confronting the
union, United-front meetings will be
held wherever possible in order to
elect delegates. Tens of thousands Of
leaflets will be printed and dis
trihuted
Unemployed councils are being Or
ganized and will be represented at
the conventions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-29
Details of March

Following are the latest details of
arrangements made for the hunger
march in different cities
In Cleveland the march will start
at ! p. m. from the Public Square,
following the May Day demonstra-
tons which begin there at IL noon.
The rs jobless delegates elected by
the Unemployed Councils and other
workers organizations throughout the
city, viii b accompanied by the May
Day demonstrators along st. Clair
Ave, as far as S5th St., where a send
off demonstration will be held. Fol-
lowing that, the marchers will pro-
coed south on East 55th to Broadway
and then to city limits along Broad
way, More jobless delegates will join
the march at Bedford and Mortified
where the first stopover will be made.
At Akron where the narchers will
stop over for the night on May . a
mass reception will be held in Perk-
ms Square. Twenty-Five Akron and
Barberton delegates will poin theh
unnger march the next morning and
synlpathizers will accompany, the
marchers to the city limits.
In Youngstown, the march will
start after the May Day demonstra-
ton on the square. The SO unen-
ployed delegates, drawn from Warren,
East Liverpool. Niles. Struthers and
Campbell as we'll as Youngstown. will
be joined by five more at Salem
where their first stopover will be
made. and by another five at ALI
ance, on May 2. Twenty delegates
drawn from Canton, Uhrichsville,
Dover and New Philadelphia will join
the march in Canton. There will
thus be 1873 hunger marchers in all
when the lines of march merge in
Massillon on May 8, here Harvey
CsCoxey') Shrock will reopen his
Free Food Kitchen for one day to
food the nlarchers, and he will also
give them the welcome address. Mas
siilon city authorities will provide
shelter for the nnarchers in the city
auditorium. Five more unemployed
delegates will join the march from