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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-10
"ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY"

Conversations were begun be- tween the secretary of state and the Canadian minister at Washing ton on November IA looking to the framing of treaty for the devel- opment of the St. Lawrence seaway. The negotiations arc continuing. I am hopeful that an agreement may result within a reasonable time enabling us to begin work on thsi great project, which will be of much importance economically to Canada and to the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-10
"MExICO"

"The period for hearings before the general and special claims commissions between thls country and Mexico expired In August, 1881. Pursuant to a resolution oi the senate under date of February 2S. 1881. and under instructions from the department of state. the American ambassndor at Mexico City Is carrying on negotiations with the Mexican government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
WARNING REVEALED
Girl Saw Trio at Shooting;
Told to Keep STILL
By United Press

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, May 2s.-Jean
Riley. motion picture actress, who
declares three men ran from the
Hollywood Office of Charles Craw-
ford, politician, after he and Her
bert Spencer were murdered, was
told by police to go home and keep
her mouth shut" Special Prosecutor
w. Joseph Ford said today.
Ford reluctantly made the adnis-
sion to newspapermen after Miss
Riley was said to have made
statement about it.
Miss Riley declared the men she
saw running from Crawford's Office
we're Spencer, who was mortally
wounded; David H. Clark. municipal
judge candidate now charged With
the slayings, and Ray Radke, Craw-
ford's secretary.
She asserted she attempted to re-
port to police soon after the Staying
to tell her story but was instructed
10 depart and yenain silent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
VATICAN is GUARDED
Troops Patrol Borders to
Prevent Disorders.
BY United Press

By United Press
ROME, May 28.-Anti-reIgious
disorders and violent demonstra-
tons against the pope in Rome,
traditional stronghold of Catholi-
ciSrn, resulted in strong military pa
trolls being placed around the Dor
ders of the tiny Vatican state today.
Approaches to the papal state
were guarded by a company of in
fantry, under orders to suppress any
demonstration.
Detectives watched side entrances
and troops patrolled the Victor
Emanuel bridge leading to the dis
trict.
The disorders which caused the
precautions occurred in the last
three days when Fascist students
and Catholics held demonstrations,
attacking each other
Fascist and Catholic newspapers
Joined the attacks, each charging
the other with den hostility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
SUNNY WEATHER
FOR RACE DAY
U. S. Bureau Pledges Clear
Skies Will Prevail.

The gods smiled on racing drivers
and more than a hundred thousand
fans today, and through their oracle,
the United States weather bureau,
promised sunny skies and moderate
weather for the annual 500-mile
speed classic at Indianapolis Motor
Speedway.
Apprehensive lest a rainy area
concentrating in the midwest should
center on Indianapolis Saturday,
weather bureau officials this morn
ing peeked into their focusing in
struments and found that clouds are
due Indianapolis tonight, and out
of town again Friday after a few
showers.
Saturday will be fair, J. H. Ar
mington, senior meteorologist, pre-
dicted. Temperatures which have
run high the last two days, and
which may ascend even higher to-
day, are scheduled to drop slightly
while the clouds gather and dis
perse tonight and Friday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
FULL FIELD Of FORTY TO
START IN SPEEDWAY RACE,
BANNER CROWD FORECAST
Forty-Seven Cars Qualify, but. Sowest
Mounts Are Barred by Ruling
of A. A. A.
A AND B GRANDsTANDs SOLD OUT.
Thrilling Battle Predicted for Lap Prize
Money; Diesel Will Be Center
of Interest
of Interest.
BY NORMAN E. IsAAcs

indianapolis today became more than the cross
roads America thousands of visitors hronged the
city, awaiting the annual 5O0me at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway Saturday.
Thousands more are due in today and Friday and
Speedway officials predict that the attendance will equal
1905 banner mark.
With all the mechanical creations in tptop shape for
the race and preparations virtually complete, it
nounced that the huge grand stands and at the track
sold out and that only few seats remained in c.
There were seats available, however, in other grand
stands and they expected to be almost filled when the
field of forty pulls from the starting line at 10
Saturday morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
FLYING WITH DINNER
Rickenbacker to Be Guest
at Airport Tonight.

Night flying will feature the din
ner meeting to be held at $50 to-
night in the Municipal airport
hangar, under auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce aviation
committee.
More than $50 industrial execu-
tives, commercial leaders and city
officials are expected to attend the
meeting, which will honor Colonel
E. v. Rickenbacker, indianapolis
Motor Speedway president.
Colonel Rickenbacker, World war
ace, will make the principal ad-
dress. Louis j. Borinstein, G. of G.
president, will be POSTMASTER. Dick
Miller is chairman and Joe Rand
Beckett is vice chairman of the
chambers aviation committee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
CHAIN STORES GROUP
FLAYS TAX RULING

Indiana Case May React Unfavor-
ably to Consumer, Is Claim.
By United Press
NETWORK, May 2S.--Opposition
to chain store tax measures as
discriminatory, was voted at a
meeting of the executive committee
of the National Chain Store AS
ISOLATION today.
Members agreed that a recent SUI
preme court decision UNFOLDING
the Indiana chain store tax estab-
lished dangerous precedent.
There is a distinct threat against
the consumer in such legislation, -
said Robert w. Lyons, executive
president of the association.
"It may be expected to lead to the
same abuses which have character
lied the gasoline and other taxes
in various states"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
Same First Names, Same
Street in Same Town for
Two Girls.

With the same baptisn1al names,
having played together as young
Sters with the same doll in the
same town, on the same street,
and having been graduated from
the same high school, Miss Dorotha
Mae Rigor and Miss Dorotha Mae
Petty of Connersville, will be grad
uated at the same time from the
nurses training school at st. Vim
cents hospital, tonight. \
And that's not all, for we in
tend to practice nursing In the
same town, our home town, Con-
nersville," Miss RigorS said today.
Not Going to Wed
Their matrimonial inclinations-
or, rather, disinclinations-are sim
liar, for both declare: Were go
ing to nurse and not get married"
IT guess we first decided to be
nurses when we lived across the
street from each other in Corners
vile. We'd play nurse to our dolls.
Then we decided to go in training
after we graduated together from
the Connersville high school in 1927
SO we both went to the same hos
pital," they explained.
They're Both Modest
"About the only thing the two of
us can't do together is work on the
same nursing case. It's just hap
pened that we've never been on the
same ward or worked on the same
case at st. Vincent's," they said.
She's a better nurse than am, :"
ayerred Miss Rigor.
"She's a better nurse than I an, .
retorted Miss Petty in the same
way.
Thirty-tI1ree nurses will receive
their diplomas from the TT. Rev.
Joseph Chartrand, bishop of the
Indianapolis diocese, at the thirty
second annual commencement of
st. Vincent's hospital school of
nursing tonight at 8 in the Louise
de Marillac auditorium of the hos
pital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
IMPEACHMENT ASKED
Tennessee House Commit
tee Urges Horton Custer.

By United Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 28-1m-
parchment of Governor Henry H.
Horton was recommended to the
Tennessee house of representative
today by a committee of five of its
members.
The committees recommendation
followed a two-day extension of re-
ports Of an investigating committee
that had examined administrative
activities of the Governor in con-
nection with the tie up of millions
in state funds in closed banks last
fall.
Articles Of impeachment will be
drawn Immediately Representative
John Upton, chairman of the COM
mittee said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28

Picard told the chief of To-
cal police over the telephone
he had scared to the height
which was his goal, a point
never before reached by man.
, He described the trip as wonder
full, and the voyage over the Alps
as especially beautiful.
The balloon, he said, behaved
magnificently and was always in
complete control. It was not even
damaged In landing on the glacier,
he said.
Excited Worlds Imagination
Consequently, the delicate scien-
tif1c instruments in the gondola and
the charts and observations Of the
trip were expected to be preserved
to science.
Picard was reported to have re-
turned to the mountain this after
noon to retrieve them.
The local newspaper quoted him
as saying the trip was "a great
scientific success"
Piccard's trip in his oxygen cham
Der to the raref1ed and bitterly cold
regions above the earth excited the
imagination of the world.
But before the start and after
his landing, the quiet unobtrusive
scientist was calm and matter-of-
fact, insisting that as the father of
four children he was not riSking his
life and was confident of the safety
Of his expedition.
In Air for 1S Hours
He was little thrilled by the rec
ord height he had achieved, but ex-
hibited quiet satisfaction over the
scientific results obtained. e
The trip, beginning just before
4 a. m. Wednesday at, Augsburg
and ending shortly after 10 p. m. in
the Gurgl range of the Tyrol, last
ed eighteen hours.
Grave anxiety was felt Wednesday
and during the night when the bal
loon did not land, as the oxygen
carried was sufficient for only ten
hours.
However, it was pointed out that
the oxygen would not be drawn on
all the time in the air, but only
when the balloon was in the upper
atmosphere.
Why Was Descent Delayed?
The complete story of the amaz-
ing journey remains yet to be told.
In the absence of any explanation
of why Picard did not come down
sooner, it was assumed that when
the balloon descended within about
$4,000 feet of the earth, it en-
countered strata of vary tempera-
lures which made it inadvisable to
attempt an immediate descent.
An unconfirned dispatch said
Picard told his rescuers he had
reached a height of 10000 meters
52,4S0 feet or just under ten miles
The highest ever before attained
by man was 43,168 feet, reached by
Lieutenant Apollo Soucen, United
States navy, in an airplane last
June.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
z ARRESTED IN
Store HOLDUP
Suspects viii Be GriIIed in
Jackson, Cop Shooting;
Find Bloody Auto.

Two men were held here and in
Lebanon today for questioning in
what police believe is the first clew
to bandits who shot Lafayette A.
jackson, Standard grocery chain
owner and Detectives Charles Bauer
in a holdup attempt Wednesday.
Jackson is lying critically wounded
in st. Vincents hospital, while
Bauer is recovering in city hospital.
After talking with John Ballard,
Westfield restaurant employee, de-
tectives went to 3713 Schofield ave-
nue., home Of Grant Bruce, where
they found Bruce in bed, with the
house locked and shades drawn.
Talked of Auto Accident
1t was there, Ballard said, he and
two friends took two men early to-
day, after they appeared in the
restaurant, one barefooted, and one
obviously hurt. They told Ballard
they had been in an auto accident
In Bruce's home was found a
quantity of ammunition for a AS
caliber automatic pistol, the type
with which Jackson was shot. No
gun was located, and his auto was
gone. Bruce said he loaned it
Wednesday night TO Pat O'Brien
Bruce has police record as
rum runner.
Bruce told detectives he was
drunk Wednesday night and could
not remember any visit of the men
from Westf1eld. They had disap-
peared this morning. More than
twenty-five gallons of, alcohol were
found in Bruce's home and he is
now under federal indictment on a
liquor charge.
In Lebanon Wednesday night q
car bearing license issued to
Bruce halted at a filling station.
Suspicious actions of three men in
its drew attention of the Boone
county sheriff and an aid, who saw
two men flee as they approached the
machine. O'Brien was caught, and is
held there for possible identification
as one of the bandits who staged
the holdup and gun battle here.
Bloody Auto Found
The auto in which the trio drove
to the Standard Grocery head
quarters at 419 East Washington
street, was found early today at
Concord and Michigan streets, bull
let riddled and bloodstained.
1t was left there according to four
neighbors, about p. m. Wednesday
by a man who walked away. He
was young, slender and wore a straw
hat, brown suit and mustache.
The car was stolen in Shelbyville
last Friday and Daniel Yarling, the
owner, came to Indianapolis today
to recover it.
Police today also we're considering
a phone call from a woman near
Shelbyville, who said two men, both
shot, we're taken to a camp along
Flat Rock river, near Shelbyville,
Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
TICKETS WON'T BE USED
-Four Speedway Stubs in Purse
Stolen to Get Keys to Auto.

There are four seats in grand
stand D at indianapolis Motor
Speedway that w. H. Johns, 2007
College avenue, has informed the
world had better not be used by
anyone but himself Saturday, even
though he hasn't the tickets for
them
The tickets we're in a purse that
an auto thief stole from his house
to get the keys to his car Wednes-
day. The car Is missing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
The Lineup.
FIRST ROW

FIRST ROW
r.,u.. S ou.l1
Russell SnowberEer Russell Eight liz. 7e6
Bill Cummings Empire State Spl.) 112.5eS
Paul Bost Empire State SpI.) 49,. 112.I2E
SECOND ROW
Deacon LitE CMaley Specially 80. 111.SSI
Ernie Triplett Buckeye -Duesenb'rk) 111.oSs
Babe Stapp (RigIing. HenninK Spl.) 1lo.125
THIRD ROW
". II. Gardner Nutmeg state SpI.) ZOE. SEQ
Fred Frame HartE-DuesenberE) -. 103.275
StubbIefieId (Jones-Milier Spl) -. 100. 7s7
FOURTH ROW
Ralph Hepburn Harry Miller Spl.) 1898
Phil Pardee (DuesenberK) 10000. 1o7.71S
Luther Johnson Orchards spL)... 1o7.652
FIFTH ROW
L. Schneider (Bowes SeaI-Fast SpI) 1o7.sIe
CLIFF Bersere CLEO -Royale) ....... Ioe.7sl
Chef Miller MAR Specially $500. lo6.1SS
SIXTH ROW
ice Russo tUnnaued carl ........ 10. s22
Dave Evans (Cummins DieseD $500. s6.s71
Billy Arnold CHartE-MiIler Spi) -. 116.oso
SEVENTH ROW
Tony GuIotta (Hunt Specially. 49,. III. 7s5
Jimmy Gleason (DuesenberK) .... 11I.AO0
Francis Quinn Quicker Tappet SpI) 111.s2i
EIGHTH ROW
Frank Farmer tJones-MiIler spl). 1os.ses
Phil Shafer (Shafer Eight .... 1O5I0S
John Boiling Morton & Brett Spl.). 1o2.s6O
NINTH ROW
Louis Meyer (SAmpson SplO ..... 1is522
Shorty CANTON III Miller SpL) 49,. l1Osa
Frank Brisko tBrisko-Atkinson). 80. 106.2s6
TENTH ROW
Fred Winnai CBowes Seal Fast 80. los. $3.50
Leon Duray Il. Duray Spll ........ 1os1sA
George Hcwie &C. n. h. Spl) lo2ss4
ELEVENTH ROW
Al Aspen (Alberti Spl.) .......... 1o2.SOe
George WinKerter (WinKerter) 80. 10o1Sa
Harry Butcher butcher Spl)...... Ss343
TWELFTH ROW
Eugene Haustein CFronty SpI) .. 1os ss5
Myron Stevens Jadson SpiD ..... 1o74ss
Billy VIM (Hoosier Pete spI) ~ 1o5405
THIRTEENTH Row
Sam Ross Gross Specially ... 1o4. $40
Lou Moore Boyle Valve spI). ..... 1913 res
Herman Schurch tHoosier Pete spD 1o2.s45
FOURTEENTH ROW
Joe Hun Goldberg Bros. spI) h.. IOz. ss6
The following cars, which quail
fed, but we're eliminated because Of
speed, are reserve cars in case any
machines in the official starting list
drop out:
Ted Chamberlain miller S. L. spL) ssIs2
Rick Decker miller Spl.) ...... 9s.0ei
L. L. Corum (Stutz BearcaD.. 1880
Bill Denver (B. & n. Spl) ........ ss.os5
C. C. Reeder "copper" spl) ....... 1888
Joe Thomas (Finneran SpLD $500. 81. 48s
$Pete Kreis coleman Spl) ...... 1e2.sso
Scar Withdrawn after qualification because
of mechanical trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
SET new AIR MARK
Florida Pair Still Up on
NonrefueIing Flight.
BIZ United press

By United Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 2s.-
Walter Lees and Fred Brosy, flying
Diesel-motored oil-burning Pack
ard plane, broke the worlds non
refueling endurance fight record at
Jacksonville Beach today.
AT 11:10 a. M, eastern standard
time, the plane continued to soar
smoothly through the air, having
surpassed by an hour the old time
OF Is hours, % minutes. The fliers
will land about. sunset.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
BAN TAX FUND SHIFTS
Ogden Holds Trustees Are to Have
No Latitude on Budgets.

No shifting of civil and school
township funds will be permitted
to trustees in keeping their bud
gets for the next two years within
the 1880 limit.
This ruling was made by Attor-
ney-General James M. Ogden today
in an opinion to Lawrence F. Orr,
chief examiner of the state board of
accounts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28

Forty-seven cars passed
the qualification tests, but
the slowest six gasoline
driven machine were elimi-
mated because of the A. A. A.
ruling providing that only
forty cars may start.
One car, that of Pete Kreis, was
withdrawn after qualifying, because
of mechanical trouble.
Diesel in Race
Of the forty, one is the Curnmins
Diesel, an oil-burner, one of the
two cars in the starting field which
qualified at a speed less than 100
miles an hour, and it was remarked
freely at the Speedway that it, too,
would have made the 100 mark had
Clessie l.. Cunlmi11s, its owner and
builder, and Dave Evans, its driver,
not desired to have the honor of
being the first qualif1er.
The Diesel was allowed ten
-an-hour handicap" being as
sured of a staring place should 1t
make so mifes an hour. It, however.
qualified at SO, while faster gasoline
cars were ruled out.
The gasoline mounts eliminated,
however, were not more than one,
two and three miles an hour faster
than the Diesel, which qualified
with a stiff wind handicapping it on
the back stretch
The pole" position in the race
is held by Russell Snowberger in a
home made" car. The motor is
a Studebaker President eight and
experts at the track predict the fine
showing of the semi-stock model
may increase the interest in the
race.
Innovations are Promised
Second and third positions in the
front row are held by the pair of
Empire State Specials, Bill Cum
1nings in the 'front.' drive and Paul
Bost in the rear drive.
A thrilling. battle for lap prize
money, for which 500 lap is
provided, is promised by Snow
berger, Cummings, Bost, Billy
Arnold, the 1880 winner; Louis
Mayer, the 1928 winner, and Shorty
Canton, second in the 1880 race.
Several innovations in motor car
design will be exhibited in the race
Saturday, aside from the oil
burning Diesel.
Leon Duray, holder of the track
record, will start in his two-cycle
sixteen cylinder car, which carries
positive displacement super
charger.
Aside from the Duray creation,
three other sixteen-cylinder cars
are in the race, one driven by Meyer,
another by Canton and the third,
a Goldberg front-drive, by Joe Huff.
Miller creations are pre-
dominant in the list of starters and
only about eight Duesenbergs will
start.
Two Ford Motors in Race
There are two Ford-motored cars
in the classic race, one a Tucker
Tappet Ford Special, to be driven
by Francis Quinn, and the other a
Fronty Special, to be piloted by Gene
Haustein.
The most popular of old time race
drivers and the most famous, Ralph
DePalma, failed to qualify his car
late Wednesday, after he had driven
it overland from California.
The A. A. ruling that no cars
would be qualified after 7:04 p. m.
Wednesday deprived De Palma Of
his chance of breaking into the
starting lineup. The famous Ralph,
however, had shown almost moth
ing" in his test runs and probably
he could not have qualified the car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
Warn on MONEY Orders

Warning against cashing money
orders for strange persons was is
sued today by A. G. Garrigus, fed
eral postofice inspector here, as
the result Of q message from the
Cincinnati ONCE that two men who
had stolen number Of money
orders at Denver, Colo, we're
headed toward indianapolis today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
AMELIA WILL CROSS
NATION IN AUTOGYR0

Notco AFAdtEh uOpS fFOu NeNhIh ;
indianapolis on Schedule.
BIZ United Press
NEWARK, N. j., May 28.-Ame-
liza Earhart, flying an autogyro,
started today on a transcontinental
fight, in easy stages.
Starting from Newark airport at
s:04, eastern daylight time, she
planned to halt at Harrisburg, Pa,
about noon for gas, and then pro-
coed on to Columbus, O., to pass
the night.
indianapolis is on her schedule
for Friday.
Her autogyro will fly an average
Of eighty TO ninety miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
BUS LINE TO PETITION
NEW 7-cENT FARE
Free Transfer Service to Tech High
Also to Be Asked.

Also 10 be ASKED.
Petition for new 7-cent fare,
free transfer bus line serving Tech
nical high school and east Indian
apolis will be filed with the works
board by the l.. j. Smith bus COM
pany, it was announced today.
The line would operate east on
Market street from the circle. north
on, Arsenal avenue to Tech, east on
Michigan (taking on no passengers
on Michigan to State, south on
State to Market and back to the
circle.
Petition Of the company for two
other lines, one serving the south
side and the other operating from
the circle to Butler college, already
is pending before the works board
Approximately ten new buses will
be purchased for the lines, Smith
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
Sullivan, Gas Group Meet

Conference of Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan and members of a COM
mittee representing trustees and
directors of the city utility district
was held today for discussion of
steps in the acquisition of the Cit
liens Gas Company by the munich
patty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
Scientists Land
Alice in Balloon
Bring Craft to Earth on Glacier Peak in
Austria After Flying to Height of 10 Miles
Pare
pictures on Page /. Second sectiOn)

mi Press
INNSBRUCK Austria, May 28-Professor Auguste
Picard returned to civilization today after balloon trip
the outer reaches of the earth atmosphere announcing
that he had made valuable scientific observations
Picard and his companion, Charles Kpfer landed in
the closed aluminium gondoa of their balloon at about 10
o clock Wednesday night glacial peak seventy-ve miles
southeast of here.
They spent the night the glacier, which is about 25
900 feet high and made their way today to the village
Gurg, perched among the mountain valleys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
SURRENDERS AFTER
W0UNDING RACKETEER
Chicago Loop Workers Witness
Shooting by Union Agent.

Shooting by Union Agent.
CHICAGO, May %. = Loop
workers, thronging past Van Buren,
and State streets, watched today
while D. j. Weber, business agent
Of the Window Cleaners Union, per-
haps fatally wounded Dan Agoa, a
minor racketter, and fired three
more bullets into his body.
Weber surrendered to Leo Gem
erich, patrolman, who witnessed the
shooting while on his way to report
for duty, and told police he fired
in self defense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-28
Doctors in Session

By Times Special
LEBANON, Ind, May 2s.-The
annual meeting of the Ninth Dis
trict Medical Society is in session
here today, with doctors and their
wives from nine counties in attend
ance,