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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Climax of Trial Comes as
Youth on Stand, Denies
Killing Girl.

BIZ United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, tTay 81
Attorneys for Virgil XII i today
planned presentation o. testimony
which they hoped would clear the
2o-year-old Gary high school ath-
lete OF charges Of numbering Arlene
Braves,
The climax of the trial, which is
Kirkland's second, came late Fri
day, when the youth denied all
charges against him, although ad-
hitting he had been intimate with
Miss braves, whom he professed to
love, at the Gary liquor orgy last
autumn, which ended in her death.
II loved her." Kirkland told the
jury. 1--WE were engaged to be
married. I couldn't have killed
her.
He denied charges that he had
attacked her or invited his pals"
to do so.
Answering questions of ProSecu-
tor John Underwood, he said Ar
lene consented to his advances at
the party and previous, but said:
81 didn't know any one else had
attacked her that night
He said Miss braves became in
toxicated at the fatal party, attend
ed by II others, and fell from a
chair.
kirkland said he slapped her sew
eral times in an effort to bring her
out Of a drunken Stupor."
II knew Babe for three years"
said Kirkland after he composedly
had detailed his early life and told
how he became a star high school
football player, thereby attracting
Miss braves attention.
II dater her about twice week
all during that time" he continued.
Kirkland added that he had been
intimate with her on perhaps a
score OF occasions.
Kirkland told of ''Strip-p poker"
game which he said he played with
Miss braves, girl named Dorothy
Holmes and John Churchill, a Gary
youth who testified against him. He
said they played a few hands" but
that when the girls were reduced to
their underclothing they refused to
play longer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23

Flying Future

One of Americas most IA
nous aviators has written a
splendid series for NEA and
The Times on THE Future OF
Aviation" He is John A.
Macready, former chief test
pilot for the army at McCook
field, Dayton, and holder of
several altitude records.
Interest of the nation today
is being conferred on aviation,
because of the great army
maneuvers with nearly TOO
planes moving in a mass for
nation to attack" Chicago,
New York and other big cities.
AIacready became interested
in aviation at the beginning of
the World war. After his
graduation from Stanford he
obtained a commission in the
air service. and was In charge
Of flying at Brooks field.
In 1921 he began his record
breaking altitude flights. Dur
ing his service at Dayton, he
made fifty flights above 10000
feet and ten above $4,000. In
1923 he made the first nonstop
flight from New York to San
Diego.
He resigned from the army
in 1926 to enter commercial
aviation work.
The first article, Air Pas
senger Travel to Cost Less
Than Rail Travel" will appear
Monday in The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
GIANT FLEET
Of AIR SET TO
ATTACK n. Y.
Area Now Inhabited by
100000 Persons to
Be Wiped Out
FLYING FIELDS SoGGY
Steady Rain During Night
to Make Problems More
Trying for Aviators.

By United Press
NEW YORK, May 23.-The ele-
ments were big factor in decree
ing today whether the largest city
in the United States, theoretically,
will be destroyed in massed at
tack by 671 airplanes-the greatest
and most impressive aerial demon
stration ever held by the United
States army.
Nearly the entire complement of
the arny'S air forces were grouped
at five airportS surrounding Man
haitian today, awaiting the word
which will send them into the air
to wipe out" an area inhabited by
some 100000 persons.
An almost continuous rain through
out the night, mixed with thunder
and lightning, left the fields
drenched and soggy today, making
takeoffs and landings extremely
hazardous.
Demolished" Other Cities
However, the weather forecaster
predicted strong sun would soon
dry up the fields and the planes
would be able to take of on schedule
for the maSsed attack.
The massive peace-tine air as
Semblage, composed of bombers, OBJ
servation, pursuit and attack planes,
landed at the airports on Long
Island Friday after completing more
than 100000 air miles since last
Friday, during which time the craft
either demolished" or protected"
many cities in the middle west, in
Guiding Chicago.
When Brigadier- General Benjamin
D. FauloiS flashes the word, planes
will take off from Roosevelt Field
No. No. and No. 2, Mitchell Field.
Valley stream airport and Farming
dale. flying up Long Island and
across Long Island sound into Con-
necticut.
Combat Mythical Air Fleet
There they will Ioiter around in
the air until the entire assemblage
is present. The corps will then
move down the Hudson river In a
parade nearly twenty miles long.
The first unit is scheduled to
reach New York City shortly be-
fore 3 o'clock. The fleet will then
spread out into two tiers, led by
the pursuit group and closing with
the national guard units.
Over upper New York bay, COM
poSite demonstration group of the
army air corps will engage in COM
bat with the mythical enemy planes
which are attempting to lombard
the city.
The remained of the assemblage
will skirt Brooklyn and fly over
Barren island to take part in the
formal dedication by Mayor James
J. Walker of the Floyd Bennett air.
port, the city's first municipality
owned and operated air terminal.
The planes will then dip In fare
well salute and soar high into the
skies again to fly back. to their
temporary airportS, before again
taking of for an attack on Boston
and New England.
The giant panorama will be
broadcast by three radio networks
and witnessed by several million
persons in New Jersey, Connecticut
and New York. One of the broad
casts will be made from the worlds
tallest building-the Empire State.
Others will be from special planes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
BARNES CRITICALLY ILL

Former Circus Owner, Recently
Stricken, UndergOes Operation.
BIZ United Press
IND1O, Cal, May 23.-AI C.
Barnes, IS, former circus owner,
who was stricken with pneumonia
several days ago while en- route from
Los Angeles to his ranch near here.
was said today to be in a critical
condition.
A delicate operation to drain his
lung was performed at the COM
munity hospital late Friday by
Barnes personal physician, DR.. Rus
sell M. Grey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Time I'm
With
Lap List

For use of Speedway fans at the
qualification trials today, the fol-
lowing time chart, designed espe-
cially for use on the two-and-a-
half-mile brick Indianapolis track,
is published by The Times.
Although the qualification speeds
are announced at the track, test
runs are not and this chart for
years has aided many fans who use
sion watches on the shedding cars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Yeggs Fail in Church Robbery

Cutting through doors and break
ing glass in the basement of the
Broadway M. E. church, Broadway
and Fall Creek boulevard, burglars
looted the Office and knocked off the
combination of the safe, but were
unable to open it, police were told.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
BRAND May Keep Post

By ItnteS BpecluB
PARIS, May ga movement led
by the women of France to persuade
AriStide BRAND to reconsider his
resignation as foreign minister, ap-
peared today to be near success. The
veteran internationalist returned
Friday night from Geneva.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
He VACATIONS ALONE;
WIFE ASKS DIVORCE
City Woman Charges She Was Left
at Home Many Times.

Husbands-take notice!
Don't get the vacation urge OF
beaches and fishing for trout in
ripping mountain streams without
asking the wife to accompany you.
In suit filed today in superior
court one, Mrs. Coral L. Hornaday,
1120 North Pennsylvania street, Apt.
3, charged that her husband took
three or four vacations annually,
but left her home.
She said that since she and Rob-
ert Hornaday were married in Sep
TENDER, 1922, he only once has
taken her with him.
In addition, she charged that
periodic absences at night, we're
unexplained by Hornaday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Read Parrish

Fashions for men, women,
and children, the newest styles
in home furnishingS-youu
keep pace with their changes
If you read Amos Parrish every
day on The Times Home Page.
There's variety galore in his
offerings for next week. Here's
how they'll run:
Monday-VeTSatile Silk Suits.
Tuesday-Serviceable Tennis
Dresses.
Wednesday Mems Sun
Bathing Swimming Suits.
ThurSday-Furniture for the
Yard.
Friday - Cool Dresses for
Warm Evenings.
Saturday - Decorative Sum
mer Costumes.
You keep In step with all the
styles II you read Parrish ex-
clusively in The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Attorney 70 Speak

By Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind. May 23.-Albert
stump, indianapolis lawyer. viii be
the Memorial day speaker here. The
program will be given Sunday after
noon, May 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
SHOOTS AT TEAMsTER
Young Bandit FIees After Victim
Refuses to Heed His Demands.

A youthful gunman fired one shot
at William Doyle, 302 West Ray
street, teamster, Friday night as
Doyle was bedding down his horse
in stable at 325 West Ray street.
Doyle told police the bandit
entered the barn and ordered him
to raise his hands. When Doyle re-
fused to heed the command the
youth fired once and fed. The bullet
was inbedded In boards far above
Doyle's head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Ex-PRESIDENT'S
GRANDSON SHOT
John N. Garfield Believed
Suicide in Ohio.

By Times Special
MENTOR, O., May 23.-John N.
Garfield, grandson of the martyred
former President, James A. Gar
field, was found shot to death in the
ballroom of his home here Friday
night, it was learned today.
Sheriff James Mahoney Of Lake
county said after an investigation,
he believed the victim had shot
himself. One gun shot wound was
in the head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Mexican Congress COnvenes

By United Press
MEXICO CITY, May ga spe-
cial session Of congress convened
last night, but was unable to begin
immediate consideration Of It's most
important problem, the newly draft
ed labor law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Injuries Cause Death

By Ttmes Special
VEEDERSBURG. Ind, May a.
Monroe Helms is dead of injuries
suffered In an automobile accident
which brought instant death to
George Dobbs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
American Mayors Tour Normandy

american mayors Aour Normanay
By United Press
LIE HAVRE. France, Nay 23-The
seventeen American mayors visiting
France departed today for Rouen
and Deauville. the famous resort
and gambling place. on their tour
OF Normandy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23

By United Press
SAN JUAN, P. r., May 23.-The
Unionist party, meeting at Ponce,
has launched a Yefinite movement
for complete independence Of Porto
Rico
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
HOney7nOOnerS

MIR. and Mrs. John Mccormick
By United Press
HONOLULU, T. H, May %
John Mccormick, Hollywood film
executive, and his bride, the for
mer Mrs. Janet Gattis, were
honeymooning today in Hawaii
after a wedding ceremony that
had been delayed by legal COM
plications.
Mrs. GattiS, socially prominent
in Beverley Hills and Washington,
D. c., was to have been married
to Mccormick last Tuesday.
The ceremony was deferred
when Colleen Moore, film star and
former wife of Mccormick, failed
to obtain a final decree Of divorce
rad Weigand.
Miss Moore later obtained the
decree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
TYPICAL u. S. FAMILY
TO BE HEARD ON AIR
NBC-WJZ Network to Broadcast
Interview at 10 Sunday.

Interview of Americas typical
family, the Merrill J. Browns, 4l44
Carrolllton avenue, will be haerd
over the NBC-WJz network at 10
a. m. Sunday, it was announced to-
day. WLW will carry the pro-
gram.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown and their
son John, IS, and daughter Louise,
IS. recently were selected by the
American magazine as the typical
family in the nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23

Weather conditions at 8 a. m:
North wind, 9 miles an hour; tenn
peratu-e, 81; barometric pressure.
30.34 at sea level; ceiling, broken
cloudiness. unlimited: visibility, 10
miles; field, good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
P0RKERS END WEEK 5
TO 10 CENTS LOWER
Cattle and Calf Markets Display
Little Action.

GIttkC ACNHOMs
Hogs ended the week with prices
of 5 to 10 cents from Fridays
averages. The bulk, 140 to 800
pounds, sold for $685. to $6.70; top
price paid was $6.75. Receipts were
estimated at 1000; holdovers were
1913.
Cattle were nominal with all
kinds sharply lower for the week.
Receipts were so. Vealers held
steady at So down. Calf receipts
were 100.
Not enough sheep were on hand
to make a market, new arrivals
numbering SO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
Haiti Seeks to win Rights

BY UftIed freSS
PORT Az PRINCE. Haiti, MAY
23.-Pursuit Of negotiations with the
United States for rehabilitation OF
the national rights OF Haiti was an
nounced IN q declaration on foreign
policy made to the chamber ana
senate Friday night By the newlyf
formed cabinet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
DEADLOCK ON WHEAT
Both American and Soviet Proposals
Completely Out Of Picture.

By United Press
LONDON, May 23.-American
OPT osition to the wheat quota
proposals supported by Soviet Rus
STA and other countries at the in
ternational wheat conference ap-
peared today to have won a VIC
tory, but to have launched another
debatable suggestion.
The American recommendation
of general restriction of production
seemed equally out of the picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-23
CLUBMAN is PINCHED
But He's Not the Bondholder Type:
He Carries One.

Found by police standing at Sew
enteenth street and College avenue
with a two-foot club, Albert Nc
Reynolds, Negro, address unknown,
was held today on vagrancy charges.
He told motor police Curtis Barge
and Claude Kinder that he was
waiting for his wife"
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
HONOLULU RIOT
DRAWS TROOPS

HONOLULU, Dec. IA GN.S0,
United States Marines continued
on guard today after they had
halted a series of riots that fol-
lowed a mistrial for six men
charged with criminally attacking
a young married woman.
One of the defendants was
taken to precipice, stripped to
the waist, and beaten by a group
of men who tried to force a con-
fession from him.
Two men are under arrest and
Naval authorities notified officials
at Washington every effort is be-
ing made to learn the identity of
the mob leaders.
Two women have been granted
permits to carry firearms. The
Naval shore patrol has been
trebled to 40 men and two Of
ficers.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
PRISON MUT|NY
Of 70 FAILS

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Dec.
IA 0.N.SO Bates, Su-
perintendent of prisons, today
confirmed the report of a mu-
tiny in the Federal prison.
Bates said 20 prisoners in the
boiler house refused to man the
boilers in an attempt to throw
the prison into darkness as a
means of melting riot among
other prisoners.
The anticipated riot was
thwarted by the combined day
and night guard force, Bates
said.
While Department of Justice
agents circulated among prisoners
searching for clew to help un-
ravel Fridays bold delivery plot, it
became apparent today that Earl
Thayer. the 65-year-old mail rob,
ber, succeeded where his six deS-
perate comrades failed. Despite
the use of bloodhounds and air
planes, the search for the aged
convict has failed to unearth a
single trace of his whereabouts.
Of Thayer's young companions
three lie dead, one is in the
prison hospital suffering from u
wound inflicted during one of
the gun battles, and the remain
ing two are in solitary confine-
ment.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
SWISS PUT END
To REICH PACT

BASEL, Switzerland. Dec. Ii
UN.S0 .-ForeshadoWing repercus
Sions on the deliberations of the
Yocslg Plan advisory committee,
assembled here to determine Ger.
many's capacity to pay, Switzer,
land today abrogated her CONNER
cial treaty with Germany.
The treaty will become inopera.
tive after February 4.
Swiss remuneration of the treaty
abruptly ended pourparlers under
way here for several weeks past
The meetings had been held in an
effort to find means of prevent.
ing dumping of German goods in
Switzerland.
Since publication of the Wig,
gin report, setting forth Ger
many's financial situation. Ger.
man manufactured goods have
poured into Switzerland for cash,
while Swiss exports to Germany
were handicapped by the interna-
tional "standStill' agreement on
German credits and the conse-
quent inability of Swiss exporters
to obtain payment.
Switzerland has nearly $1,000,
100000 in short-term credits and
commercial debts frozen in Ger
many. The Swiss proposed to
pay for German imports with
frozen commercial payments, but
the Germans refused to agree to
this proposal.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
TOKYOTIGHTENS
NANCHUR|A
POLICY
New Government Expected
to Send 10000 More
Troops to Area

TOKYO, Dec. II G.NS.)
Confirmation was obtained in
authoritative circles today that
the new japanese government
Of Premier Tsyuoshi Inukai
will adopt a stronger policy to-
ward China.
This is the most important
shift in the international field as
abandonment of the gold stand
ard, effective today was in the
domestic program of the new
ministry.
The cabinet will issue no for
NAL declaration of its purposes
other than that which Premier
Inukai authorized his spokesman,
Kiyondi Namba, to make to In
ternational News Service yester-
day.
More Troops Likely
But its Chinese policy will be
based on the declaration of the
Taraka government that Japan
will brook no disturbances in
Manchuria.
The government is expected
to yield at once to the request
of General HOMO, military COM
mander in Manchuria, for the
dispatch of 10000 additional
troops. .
An embargo on the export of
gold went into effect throughout
the empire today in accordance
with the first official act of the
new cabinet.
The Tokyo stock exchange was
closed today temporarily after a
brief session, in which stocks
Jumped sharply under the new
financial policy. Exchanges in
the provinces also closed for the
period of adjustment
Lost Confidence Feared
1t was generally agreed the
change would have an immediate
effect for the better, although
the permanent value of the step
was questioned. Loss of conf
dence in Japan by foreign ma
tions was cited as a major OBJ
lection.
The gold embargo's first effect
was to check the shipping Of 80
million yen (about $15,OOO,0OO)
which was to be sent to the
United States.
While the financial situation
was the chief topic, the person
mel of Premier Inukais cabinet
came in for its share of criticism.
The main objection raised was
the appointment of Kenkichi
Yoshizawa, the premier's son-in-
law, as foreign minister.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
CO-OPS DEFEND
FARM BOARD

The big farm organizations Of
the nation will wage a fight for
investigation of the grain and
cotton exchanges if Congress de-
cides to investigate further the
Federal Farm Board, according to
Chester A. Gray, legislative repre-
sentative of the American Farm
Bureau, who said:
1--WE see no need Of further
inquiry into the farm board.
A statement of the boards Op.
eratiOnS was laid before the
Senate Agriculture Committee.
"WhiIe we do not oppose
such an investigation, if one is
ordered, we will demand that
the grain and cotton trade and
exchanges also be investigated"
Several resolutions proposing in.
quiry into the operations of the
farm board have been introduced
in Senate and House.
A resolution of the American
Cotton Cooperative Association.
sent to the Senate Agriculture
Committee today, defended the
farm boards operations in cotton.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Puritans Defended
In Clinchy Sermon

The real Puritan was not a
fanatic on "blue laws nor
intolerant toward other churches,
the Rev. Russell j. Clinchy said
yesterday in a Forefather's Day
sermon at the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church. He said:
I'VE are free because of the
Puritan passion for liberty and
we shall not discard the
Puritan until we find greater
words in the human language
than God, man, liberty and
duty"
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
Arms Rules Shanghai
After Red Outbreak

SHANGHAI, Dec. IA GN.So
Shanghai again was under mar
tial law today after a Communist
uprising, quelled Only after fast
action by a machine-gun corps.
Taking advantage of an anti
japanese meeting in the Chinese
quarter of the city, the Reds
stormed Kuomintang National
ist) headquarters. raided a police
station and carried off the in
Spector.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
SCORES Perish
IN OCEAN GALE

LONDON, Dec. IA GN.SD.
The toll of lives taken in terrific
gales which swept European seas
over the weekend mounted to
nearly four score today.
Shipping Was paralyzed.
The italian naval tug Teseo,
which foundered off the coast
of Sardinia, went down with
number of sailors. The italian
warship Trieste rushed to the
scene and rescued the ships Off.
GERS and many of the crew, but
between 80 and 40 were believed
to have been lost.
The guard ship of local fish
ing fleet was wrecked off the
coast of Algiers with a loss of IL
lives. In the Mediterranean, a
French submarine chaser was re-
ported missing with 13 aboard.
It was believed a gale may
have been responsible for the
sinking of the rum-running steamer
Venus, which went down in the
North Sea with II aboard.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14
It's All Very Solemn, All Very Exciting;
That Battle at the Green Baize Table
-Telephoto by Interna tional

pencils, telephones, and anxious
eyes. They received the news
from the tapping girls and few
to their telephones. They com
posed,' they wrote, they dictated
the simmering news.
So the quarrel of two years
is being fought to the death,
Four nights week for five
weeks Mr.. Lenz's official one.
two-three will cross swords with
the approach-forcing of Culbert-
son.
In the past they have not
spared to call each other names.
They have not shrunk from hag.
Cling at the table. Their is no
love lost between Mr.. Culbertson
and Mr.. LenZ.
The Washington times., 1931-12-14

moved but she made no sound.
Her husband was equally silent,
moving dourly, deliberately, smil-
ing sourly at the game.
Sometimes Mrs. CulbertSon said,
Please, please" or Nov, now"
in her soft voice. Sometimes Mr..
Jacoby rushed choking from the
room-and maybe ordered a steak.
Looking Wordsworth
Mr.. Lcnz sat with his chin on
his breast, looking like a por-
trait of Wordsworth, watching
the play with suspicious broWS
together, refusing all emotion.
The only one of the four who
betrayed a little human weak
ness was Mr.. Jacoby, the plump
young insurance broker, who
plays by strange bluffs and
psychic bidding.
Once he buried his head in
his hands on the table, once he
burst into peal of hollow
laughter, and once he left the
room abruptly and came back
making strange faces.
Discreet secretaries sat lip
right beside the table, delicately
licking their pencils, relaying
the play of every card to a
waiting, a breathless world.
News of each card flipped on
their notes under the eyes of
the umpires and sped into the
next room. There half a dozen
desperate girls multiplied it many
times on their chattering ma
chimes.
In the next room waited a
dozen young men. They had