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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
STEVE MEETING SET
Pardon, BackerS to Draw
Up Plans Tuesday.

Backers Of the organization for
Pardon of D. c. Stephenson, formed
last week, will meet at 8 D. M.
Tuesday at 405 Inland bank build
ing to perfect plans for the cam
paign to free the former Khan
dragon from prison.
A number Of letters praising the
move have been received, according
to Elias w. Dulberger, legal asl-
wiser for the group, including one
from Ward B. Hiner, promising
support.
Petitions have been printed and
will be mailed over the state in the
hope of obtaining 100000 signatures
in sixty days. Plans call for at least
one worker in each precinct in the
state, according to H. Kottkamp,
chairman.
Dulberger expects to visit Steph-
enson at the Michigan City state
prison Wednesday to talk over the
campaign.
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ILEANA BRIDE
OF ARCHDUKE
RumanianS Celebrate Union
of Royal Houses.
BIZ United Press

~ CutteO FTeSs
SINAIA, Rumania, July 27.-Pop-
ular celebrations continued today
after the wedding of Princess Ileana
and Archduke Anton of HapSburg.
Ileana, sister of King Carol II and
the archduke were married yester-
day at the royal summer castle here,
where the rugged peaks of the Car
pathian mountains inclose one of
the beauty spots of Rumania.
The princess wore simple we'd
ding gown. Her only jewels were
pearls sent her by Queen Marie of
Yugoslavia, her sister. Archduke
Anton, the first Hapsburg ever to
marry a member of the house of
Hohenzollern, wore a uniform. He
is 30. and his bride is %.
Princess Ileana was ACCOMPANIED
by King Carol to the altar. and
Count Won Halberg accompanied the
bridegroom during the religious
ceremony which was performed at
II a. m, after the civil ceremony
an hour earlier at which Minister
of Justice Hamangiu oficiated.
Archbishop CHAR of the Catholic
church-PrincesS Ileana was bap-
tized a Catholic Saturday, renounc-
ing her Orthodox Authenticated
at the wedding. Father Vladimir
Ghica, brother of the Rumanian
foreign minister, delivered the we'd
ding sermon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
MERCURY TO CLIMB
Fair Weather on Menu for
Several DAYS.

Central Indiana is In the midst
of heat wave that probably will
last through two or three days, but
its temperatures are not expected to
reach the record of the year, SO de-
grees, j. H. Arlington, senior me-
teorologiSt at the weather bureau
here, said today.
Sundays maximum temperature
was 80 degrees at p. m, and this
afternoons heat doubtless will equal
if not exceed that mark, while con-
tinuation of fair weather Tuesday
will see the mercury rocketing
again.
At 6 this morning the thermom-
eter registered II degrees, and three
hours later had added ten degrees.
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! INDBERGHS HOP today on LONG
TRIP TO Orient; WASHINGTON TO
BE FIRST STOP FOR ACES OF AIR
Dwight MOrrOW'S Home in
Maine Will Be Visited
by Sky Riders.
OTTAWA NEXT ON LIST
LeiSureIy Journey Planned
Across Ocean to
Toxic Goal.
BIZ United Press

~ CNtttQ fTCSS
NEW YORK, July 81
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergil
and his wife will start today
the first leg of their Great
Circle" trip, which is planned
to take them across seldom
traversed air trails of Canada.
Alaska, Siberia and Japan to
Toxic.
Their Lockheed Sirius monoplane
is ready at North Beach airport,
Long Island, and will soar for Wash
ington this afternoon. There they
will remain "a day or two" Lind
bergh told the United Press TO-DAY,
and then start northward, perhaps
making a stop here overnight.
In any case, after washington,
they will stop at North Haven, NE,
summer residence of Senator
Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's
father. Thence, their itinerary calls
for fight to Ottawa for an over
night stop, and then launching
forth for journey northweStward
across Canada to Alaska
Trip to Be LeisureIy
1t is leisurely trip they have
scheduled. Though it calls for visits
to out-of-the-way corners of the
earth, on a 7,0O0-mile rout, it has
been plotted carefully, and caches Of
gasoline await them en- route.
From Ottawa, they fly to Moose
Factory and Churchill, and then
across the barren lands" of north
western Canada to Lake Baker and
Aklavik in the delta of the Mac
kenzie river. The Canadian govern
ment has made available caches of
gasoline along this route, and Lind
bergh has seen to that other sup
plies are ready at Point Barrow
and Nome, Alaska.
From that point they will skirt
above the Boring sea to Karaginsk
(Siberia), Petroplavsk (Kamcha tka,
PENINSULA, the Kurile islands. Me-
muro, Japan, and Toxic. Later they
will visit China.
Different Route Planned
Their plans call for a return
flight. but probably not over the
same route, for Lindbergh says that
going over the same route home
would be monotonous."
They carry fifty pounds of emer-
gency food, for the event of land
ing III an out-Of-reach spot: about
the same poundage of water; $50
gallons Of gasoline (average), and
two pistols for game hunting or pro-
lection in wilderness.
The Washington journey is de-
signed to make last-minute CONSUL
tations as to passports. They have
a permit to fly over Russia, and are
advised that they will be welcome
in japan and along the route.
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diet of milk and eggs six times a
day depends upon his physician. He
also has agreed, health permitting,
to broadcast at p. m. on New
York ninety-nine years ago, at
least"
One reason Voorhis is bored with
birthdays is that he has spent three
months, one week and four days OF
his life celebrating them.
There are Others" he said from
the wheel chair in his home, "let
the others have birthdays. I have
had enough. There viii be no
birthday cake. I had my last one
last year. 1 don't want any fuss
now; I want nothing"
What have you learned in the
last year?" he was asked.
"T WON'T answer any silly ques-
i ton like that. OF course, I
have learned things. A man learns
something every da, he lives. I
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feel as well as could be expected.
It is all in the Makers hands. We
must let things take their course"
Voorhis' life has spanned four of
the nations wars. His birthday is
older than Decoration day and oc-
CURED only flfty-three years after
the Fourth of July assumed its sig
nif1cance, but the only thing ne
finds wrong with the world today
is that elevated trains rumble out
side his window and disturb his
rest. He has been carpenter Che
helped build the house he occupies),
excise commissioner, police commits
sioner, police judge and a member
Of the board of election.
His fame is secure; full-length
oil portrait Of him hangs in Tam
many hall and a bust will be in
stalled soon. His refusal to retire
has taken him to his desk every
weekday except for several weeks
last winter when physicians kept
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Society Is Not Safeguarded
Nor Criminal Reformed,
Inquiry Finding.
INEFFICIENCY CHARGED
Barbarity Accusation Is
Hurled at Nations Penal
Institutions.
BIZ Tnited preaa

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July PA new
penal system directed toward ref
ormation of the criminal rather
than punishment was advocated
today by the Wickersham commits
sion. 1t indicted the present Amer
clan system as an almost complete
failure.
I'VE conclude that the present
prison system is antiquated and in
efficient" the commission said.
1T does not reform the criminal.
1t fails to protect society. There is
reason to believe that it contributes
TO the increase of crime by harden
ing the prisoner.
We are convinced that a new
type Of penal institution must be
developed, one that is new in spirit.
In method and objective"
Report Given Hoover
TIE commissions findings and
recommendations were contained in
a 344-page report to President
Hoover on penal institutions. pro-
bation and parole"
Prisons, the commission said.
should "reshape the interests, atti-
tude, habits, the total Character of
the individual so as to release him
both competent and willing to find
a way Of adjusting himself to the
community, without further law
violation"
Contrasting with this ideal. 1t
found most prisons actually to be
obsolete, over-crowded and insan-
1tary places in which the inmates
deteriorate in character and health.
1t found "barbarous methods" of
punishment in use. 1t found little
being done to educate the criminal
and restore him to good citizenship.
In some prisons there are dark
cells or seni-dark cells where men
are kept ON bread and water for as
long as two weeks and sometimes
more than that" the report said.
- oOAAAC B4loO44o Viz lllGIl are
shackled to the doors. In one, at
least, there still is occasional use of
the strait-jacket. Eight prisons
still use the strap. Eight prisons adj
NIT Handwriting men to the doors.
Barbarous Methods Used
Recent prison riots have brought
to light the existence of barbarous
methods of discipline that were I'M
known or denied"
The entire prison system was con-
demned as a failure in three
respects:
1.-THE prison has failed as an edu-
cational institution. No one claims
that men who are released are
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The route will lie as follows:
From New York to Washington
(for adjustment of paper; Wash
ington to North Haven, Me, with a
possible stop at New York; North
Haven to Ottawa; Ottawa to Moose
Factory, on James bay; Moose Fac
tory to Churchill, on the east shore
of Hudson bay; Churchill to Lake
Baker, Just under the Arctic circle;
from Lake Baker to Aklavik, on the
Arctic ocean, at the mouth of the
Mackenzie river, nearly 70 de-
graes north; from Aklavik to Point
Barrow, the northernmost tip of
Alaska, from Point Barrow to
Nome, last point on the North
American continent, across Boring
strait and along the fringe of
northeastern Siberia, down through
the Kamchatka peninsula to Kara
ginsk; from Karaginsk to Petro-
plavsk, Kamchatka: from Petro-
plavsk to Nemuro, Japan, and from
Nemuro to Toxic.
Called LeisureIy Adventure
The route lies over the barren
lands of northern Canada, the tree
less Arctic wastes, the foggy, stormy
islands Of Boring strait, and the
deSolate coast of northern Siberia.
Yet Lindbergh and his wife regard
it as leisurely adventure to be en-
joyed, with no thought of danger.
They will fly black and scar
let Lockheed-Sirius n1onoplane,
equipped with pontoons for water
landing. The country they will ira
verse affords too few places for good
landings to permit use of land
plane.
Lindbergh, srnilingly describing
his plans, said the fight would be
unhurried and there would be no
night flying. Although the trip may
be made in two weeks, he will not
adhere to any strict schedule, and
delays due to weather or other
causes may make the landing in ia
pan much later.
Emergency Food Carried
The Lindberghs will carry fifty
pounds of emergency food, five gall
Ions of water, $50 gallons of gaso-
line and a clothing allowance Of
eighteen pounds each. They will
have heavy clothing along for the
chill Arctic nights.
They will have a 80 revolver and
a .38, which, if they did have to
descend in a remote place, would
permit them to shoot small game
and amplify their food supply.
The plane could carry 200 more
gallons of gasoline, but it will not
be taken along, as the Canadian
government has arranged for the
Lindberghs to have access to the
government gasoline stores, cached
at the stops along their route.
The plane is well-equipped with
radio and expects to keep in con-
slant touch with stations along the
route. Both Lindbergh and Mrs.
Lindbergh have become licensed OPP
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ONE COUNTY BLOCKS
HEFLIN VOTE RECOUNT
Senatorial Committee Is FIouted
by Officials Refusing Ballots.

Senatorial Committee Is FIouted
by Officials Refusing Ballots.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 27.-For
three months the United States SEN
ate has been flouted by officials of
Dekalb county, Alabama, in the
Hef1in-Bankhead senatorial contest,
1t was learned today.
The Hastings subcommittee, which
is investigating the election in which
John H. Bankhead was declared
winner over former Senator j.
Thomas Helm has been trying un-
successfully ever since April 7, to
obtain the ballot boxes in Dekalb
county.
The committee either has been
defled or ignored. The recount of
the Alabama election has been
completed all but this county, and
the boxes are needed so the contest
committee can close its report.
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Limestone Urged for Memorial

Tippecanoe County Historical AS
ISOLATION has passed resolutions urg-
ing use Of Indiana limestone, in
stead Of granite, for the George
Rogers Clark memorial at Vim
cennes. 1t was announced today.
Copy Of the resolutions viii be sent
to the Clark federal commission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
DEATH LIST MOUNTS
Infirmary Disaster Toll Is
40 Now.
By United Press

~ OHifeO PT8SS
PITTSBURGH, July 27.-Injuries,
shock and pneumonia today con-
tinued to take their toll among
survivors of the fire which de-
stroyed the home for the aged of
the Little Sister of the Poor.
The death toll reached 40 today
with the death of a woman, the
fourteenth person to die in a hos
pital since flames swept the insti-
tuition late Friday night, killing
twenty-six and injuring almost 200
OF the 230 inmates, many crippled
and helpless, seven still were re-
ported missing today.
The fortieth victim was Jennie
McConville.
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PLANES IN FIGHT ON
CHRISTOPHER HORDE
Spray Death ON Pests Invading
Fields in Two States.
By United Press

Spray Death on Pests Invading
Fields in Two States.
By United Press
LINCOLN, Neb., July 27.-On the
plains and in the capitals, in the
air and on the ground, farmers and
statesmen Of the midwest rallied
their forces today for a bitter fight
against an invading horde of grass
hoppers which was sweeping the
section bare Of vegetation.
While political leaders took their
appeals for aid to the state and
national capitals, farmers battled
individually and In groups along
main fronts and airplanes droned
through the air. spraying poison
over fields where the hoppers we're
thickest.
Devouring everything that con-
tanned vegetable fiber as they
marched, the grasshopper horde
had laid barren many counties in
South Dakota and Nebraska, caused
much damage along the borders of
Minnesota and Iowa and still was
marching on.
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III for ILeana
N Inited Preaa

BY United Press
LONDON, July q. - An Ill
omen marked the wedding of
Princess ueana of Roumania
at Sinaia Sunday, the Daily
Express correspondent re-
ported.
One Of the tall candles of
the high altar fell during the
ceremony and the princess al
most tainted. Another bad
omen was seen in the appear
ance Of a brown butterfly
which fluttered about the head
of the bride. The superstitious
regard the brown insect as q
token of misfortune.
The correspondent said Ileana
avoided the embrace Of her
mother, Dowager Queen Marie.
after the ceremony.
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BIRTHDAYS BORE TAMMANY CHIEF; HE'S OF TODAY

him in he'd and diagnosed his illness
as exhaustion.
Voorhis' advice is to Tive right, :"
but he waves aside queries of that
nature to return to the elevated
trains clatter.
I'D like to see that uproar ended, "
he said. II hope that something
soon will be done about it. I hope
no one will have to go through what
I have gone through all these years.
Now must either go on through it
or give up the home love-"
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orators, and are capable of han
ding twenty-five words a minute.
The sending apparatus will be in
the cockpit with Mrs. Lindbergh.
The 575-horse power Wright
Whirlwind motor of the plane has
been equipped with a supercharger,
giving it greater power and speed,
but at normal cruising speed ex-
poets to consume about twenty-five
gallons of fuel an hour, giving a fly
ing range of fourteen hours.
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abolish titled and landed gen.
try.
Bring your efforts to a tri-
umphant conclusion" Shaw
said, and after that the
workers of the world will
hurry to initiate you"
Shaw characterized Lady
and Lord Astor and Lord Lo-
THAN. on the platform with
him, as Capitalists and land
owners on an ormous
scale"
They can not alter this" he
said, "but the British prole-
tariat will"
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e II Z 7 &c Z l c
speech S un-
lay d urin g
celebration of
his seventy
fifth birthday
nere.
The Irish
wit and writ
er urged the
r u S S ians to
proceed with
their expert
m e mt, and
limited tina :
other nations,
i n clu in g
Great Britain,
one day would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
UNION HEAD DECLARES
WAR ON RACKETEERS
Killing of Wagon Drivers Official
Brings Showdown Order"

By United Press
CHICAGO, July 27-Declaring
that an absolute Showdown" had
been reached between law and the
racketeerS and that "the interest of
every honest union man is at stake"
Assistant States Attorney Charles
E. Lounsbury ordered today that the
slayer of Ell H. Orr be captured" at
any COST"
Orr, who was secretary treasurer
of the Newspaper Wagon Drivers
Union and a courageous leader in
the fight against racketeering in
Chicago, was killed Sunday by three
gunner who crowded his car over
a curb, riddled it with shotgun slugs
and laughed as they drove away.
Lounsbury said indications we're
Orr was killed because of his sue
cess in driving racketeers from the
union.
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event and doesn't
think anyone else
is.
He is wrong, as
he will find out
when the Gus
tomary queue Of
well-T'iShers as
sembles to con-
gra t u late him,
and, peril aps,
TASK silly ques-
tons" Whether
the line will form
at his Office as in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
TRUSTEES ARE WARNED
Cole Gives Notice School Reports
Are Due by Aug. 3.

George C. Cole, superintendent of
public instruction, today warned
school trustees that the annual
school reports, as Of July 81, must
be in the hands of the county SUI
perintendents by Aug. 8. The county
superintendent then submits the re-
port to Cole.
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Drinks Cleaning KIuid; DIES

While his mother vas cleaning
shoes Sunday, 15-months-old James
De West, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. o. C.
De West, TIA Southeastern avenue,
suddenly seized the can of cleaning
fluid and drank it. He died two
hours later in city hospital.
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BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Press Stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, July 27.-John R.
IN Voorhis, president of the board
Of elections and sachen of Tam
many hall, is 102 years old to-
day, but he isn't interested in the
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SAVE NARROWED GROUP

IaIIG y hts 70 htsCu6 OF ok oITanue
ed on Island.
By United Press
CORPUS CHRISTIE, Tex, July
27.-Four women and two children,
stranded without food and water
for seventy-two hours on Parde
island, ninety miles south Of here,
were rescued today by a group of
men as an airplane few to their
rescue.
An incomplete list of the rescued
party included Miss Fannie Maxey,
Mrs. Tillie Kirscher, Mrs. S. w.
Hale and her daughter, Beulah
May.- marooned on the barren island
whilf on a holiday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-27
HOOVER EXTENDS REST
Cool Weather Caused Him to Pro-
long Weekend at Rapidan.

By United Press
LURAY, Va, July 27.-President
Hoover has decided to prolong his
weekend at Camp Rapidan until
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover and their
guests went to the Virginia Blue
Ridge Friday. Senator Vandenberg
(Rep., Mich), and former Senator
and Mrs. David Baird Of New Jer-
sey left the camp Sunday. Fair,
cool, weather and an opportunity
to rest in isolation from White
House problems caused Mr.. Hoover
to extend his weekend.
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KING RIDES IN DIRIGIBLE
Slams Ruler, Queen Hop in Los
Angeles at Lakehurst.

LAKEHURT, N. j., July 27.-King
Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai
Barni of Siam ard the royal party
left here at 10:45 a. m. in the navy
dirigible Los Angeles for short
flight over the heighboring country.
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TOOthSO11e
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MASON, Mich, July 81
Edward Gardner can't re-
member what it was he drank,
but the Jail dentist says it
must have been stimulating.
1t took all the enamel off
Gardeners teeth. Gardner has
pledged to be careful of his
store teeth when he gets them.
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EDISON TO WORK SOON
Famous Inventor, Ill. to Return to
Laboratories.

By United Press
WEST ORANGE. N. j., July 81
Thomas A. Edison, who has been
indisposed at his home, is expect
ed back in his laboratory in two
or three weeks, according to John
v. Miller, vice-president Of Edison
Industries and brother-in-law of the
inventor.
Edison, it was said today, has
been getting steadily stronger and
should be in normal health within
short time.
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Route Across Northland and Pacific Will Be
One Beset With Perils and Solitude
for Flying Couple
By United Press

NEW YORK July 27CoOne Charles Iindbergh flight the
Arctic and Pacific which
spectacular the ier attempted
years
Accompanied his Lindbergh
than 1000 miles, which chad
he he BLAZING nnnu1t
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Soviet Revolt
Gets Approval
of C. B. Shaw
BIZ Nnfted PreRa

~ Onited Press
MOSCOW, July 27.-George
Bernard shaw approved OF
the Bolshevik revolution in an
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the past or at the home to which
he has been confined recently on
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Hourly Temperatures
$1,000 BANDITS HAUL

Pair Escape After Holding Up
Utility Office Clerks in Peru.
By United Press
PERU, Ind, July 27.-Two bandits
held up three girls and two boys in
the Offices of the Indiana Public
Service Company here today and
escaped with $1,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-12
CLARK GABLE IN "SPORTING BLOOD" OPENS THREE DAY
 RUN AT WARMERS STATE

Clarke Gable, new sensation of Hollywood who is rapidly gaining popularity with talking picture fans. is appearing at Warner Brothers State theater starting to- day in Sporting Blood"
 As may be interpreted from it's title the picture has to do with the race track and all the color and glamour that goes with races in which champions run.
 However, there is also a beauti- full love romance woven through out the plot in which Clark Gable has for the lady of his dreams beautiful Madge Evans. Miss Evans will be remembered by many as the child star who oftened ap- peared with Mary Pickford in the days before talkies were invented. The little girl of then is now a woman and headed for stardom in the talkles.
 Reviews of this picture have all treated 1t as being one of exceD- tional merit. The story. direction and splendid cast have clicked with these hard boiled critics and with their o. K. 1t is always safe ot praise q picture to the sky. Sport ing blood" IS picture that has everything" there's an angle in 1t that will make fl delight those who sec 1t no matter what their enter tainment tastes may be.
 Clark Gable is seen in the finest role he has been given yet. In fact this one might have been made to order" See Sporting Blood' youm enjoy 1t. A supporting pro- gram of equal merit accompanies the feature picture which Is pre- septed promptly at 2:20, 4:45. 7;00 and 9:30 D. m.