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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
year-old Constitution.

work begun in 1923 after Old Iron
sides, officially known as the U. S.
S. Constitution, long had rested as
an all but forgotten relic at the
navy yard.
Thursday this one-time terror of
the sea, built in George Washing
tons day, will leave in tow for
Portsmouth, N. H., the first of sew
enteen Atlantic ports to be visited
during a tour which will end at
Yorktown, Va, Oct. 16.
Speaking at the recommissioning
exercises, DR.. Curtis D. Wilbur, for
mer secretary Of the navy, declared
that Old Ironsides links the present
with the past, and for at least an
other hundred years, will link the
present with the future"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
IS CHARGED
Man, SIS, Indicted for Car
License Statements.

An aged man was indicted today
by the Marion county grand jury
on a charge of perjury for swearing
falsely to statements before the sec
rotary of state in obtaining a
chauffeur's license.
Austin Boots, SIS, of Greenfield,
falsely obtained the license June %,
the indictment charges, although
his drivers license previously had
been revoked at Greenfield.
Authorities stated this the first
instance of person indicted for
falsely getting a permit to drive an
automobile, since the drivers license
law became effective in this state
two years ago.
Boots is charged with appearing
before Notary Public Amos c. Hux-
ley and testifying that he had never
had drivers license before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Cleveland Gets Excited
BIZ United Press

By Jntfcd Press
CLEVELAND, July IA squadron
of aerial police was preparing to
greet Harold Uatty and Wiley Post
this afternoon as the world fliers
neared Cleveland for their final re-
fueling stop.
Excited crowds were gathering at
municipal airport where the record
smashing airmen are scheduled to
land the Winnie Mae after the
1,600-mile trip from Edmonton, AL
berta. SpeciGl police were detailed
to handle the huge crowds.
Aerial traffic over the port will be
suspended when the Winnie Mae is
sighted. The fliers' schedule calls
for an immediate take-off after re-
fueling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
BIZ United Press

BY United Press
BOSTON, July 1.-Restored to her
erstwhile glory by the penny con-
tributions of American school chill
dren. Old Ironsides was recomnis-
stoned today almost within sight
of the spot where she was first
launched 1874 years ago.
While hundreds of men, women
and children looked, on, naval and
civic dignitaries attending the re-
commissioning exercises at Boston
navy yard paid glowing tributes to
the famous frigate whose feats in
war and peace fill many pages of
American history.
Today's colorful ceremonies cli-
NAKED three years of restoration
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Mrs. Post Waiting
By United Press

by Ontte0 FfeSS
NEW YORK, July 1.-The hours
were passing all too slowly today for
a young Oklahoma housewife and
middle-aged oil operator.
Secluded in their hotel rooms and
somewhat awed by the sensation
that the globe-circling airmen have
created throughout the world in the
short space Of a week, Mrs. Wiley
Post and F. c. Hall have found the
last few hours of the flight the most
difficult of all to wait through.
wiley will finish it all right"
said the pilots 2l-year-old wife.
He Is the best flier in the world"
"And Gatty," added Hall, the UNI
assuming hacker Of the Winnie
Macs flight, sis the worlds best
navigator. AS for the plane, 1t was
the best that money could buy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
INVITE PUBLIC TO CAMP
July 4 Program to Be Held at TT.
Benjamin Harrison

Invitation to the public to visit
the citizens military training camp
at Fl. Benjamin Harrison July 4
will be extended by Colonel H. D.
Seton, camp commander, IN a
broadcast from 7 to 1880 Thursday
night over WFBM. The camp band
of fifty-one pieces will play.
On July 4, the program at the
fort will be a parade by the entire
student regiment. followed by an
address by Meredith Nicholson. A
polo game between the Eleventh in
fantry and The Rolling Ridge teams
viii be played n the afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
LEWIS TO BANK POST
Becomes Manager Of Peoples In.
vestment Department.

Montgomery S. Lewis, assistant
manager Of the Peoples State bank
investment department. since 1925,
has been appointed manager of the
department. He succeeds Raymond
D. Jackson. who resigned to enter
the investment field at the head Of
his own concern, Felix M. McWhir-
ter, president, announced today.
M. r. Warrender, a salesman in
the department for six years, was
promoted to head the sales division
Of the investment department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Hoover to Dine Filters
BIZ United Prcsa

NJ L fNtt0 2ftcN
WASHINGTON, July 1.-Fresi-
dent Hoover will honor Wiley Post
and Harold Gatty by inviting them
to have lunch with him at the
White House, it was announced to-
day.
Mrs. Hoover has watched with
keen interest the record breaking
flight. rrading Of the fiiers' exploits
daily in the newspapers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
Finny Business
$4,000 Pints of Whisky
Fed to Fish at U. S.
Pouring Party.

not a f1shin' seine for fish in
NJ sanea
Put it to work, then, down where
one Indianapolis sewer spills into
White river, and jam the four
wheel brakes on your amazement at
whatever the meshes may disclose
when the nets lifted.
For deep in the muddy stream
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
SPRINKLER is BURNED

Firemen Tuesday night extin-
guished a flaming truck on South
street between Illinois and Meridian
streets.
The cab Of the vehicle nearly was
destroyed by the flames. The fire
started from faulty manifold. The
truck was an 1,800-gallon capacity
water sprinkler, owned by the city
street department.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
ON DECLINE
Dropped 2.S Per Cent in 1880 Under
1920 Figure.
By United Press

WASHINGTON, July The bu-
reau OF the census announced TO-DAY
that 4.3 per cent of the population
10 years Of age and over was iIIit-
crate In 1880. This marks a de-
crease Of % per cent from the cen
sus Of 1920. In 1870 the percentage
Of illiteracy was 20.
The number of persons recorded
as illiterate in 1880 was 4,2S3. TAG. a
decrease Of 648.156 in ten years. The
number Of illiterates has declined
about IS per cent during period in
which the population Increased 1861
per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
New York Set Too
BIZ United Press

BY United Press
!. NEW YORK, July New York
will extend to Wiley Post and Har-
old Gatty a welcome equal to or
surprising the tumultuous Lind
'bergh reception Of 1927, it appeared
today.
The official reception and the
spontaneous tribute Of the city's
millions will make the day memoir
able to the men who are creating
aviation history. The mayors re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
SeIigman Is on Staff

Sidney j. Seligman. 1901 Park
avenue, is chairman of the Indiana
university student board of editors
of the Indiana Law Journal, off,
cial publication of the Indiana State
Bar Association, dispatch from
Bloomington stated today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
SCORES MARBLE FOR
FARM BOARD ATTACK
Public Service Group Might Better
Be Abolished, Says Taylor.

uDAC SCA VIC OIOup Might O0CtcC
Be Abolished, Says Taylor.
Defending the federal farm board
against an attack by Chairman
John w. McCardle of the public
service commission, Louis Taylor,
president of the Indiana Farm
Bureau, asserted that farmers do
not want the federal plan abandoned
but might approve abolition Of the
public service commission.
"It is strange that a board created
for agriculture should be attacked
and destroyed, not by those for
whom it was created, but by rep
resentatives of the utilities" Taylor
said.
McCardle had urged abolishme.t
of the federal farm board in a tel
egram to Senator James E. Watson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
MACDONALD TO SPEAK

Will Be Honor Guest at Independ-
ence Fete of American Society.
BIZ United Press
LONDON, July ii. Ramsay
Macdonald, Great Britain's Labor
premier, will be the honor guest
and principal speaker Thursday
night at the independence day din
ner to be given at the Savoy hotel
by the American Society in London.
In the absence of United States
Ambassador Charles G.. Dawes,
Raymond Atherton, counsellor of
the American embassy. will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
MUSEUM TREK BEGINS
Trucks Carry Young Explorers" on
Relic Hunt in Southwest.

Two covered wagons" were
rumbling west from indianapolis
today bearing members OF the fifth
annual prairie trek of the Chill
dren's museum into the American
southwest in search Of relics and
photographs for the museum col
lection.
Ten boys were in charge of Hills
L. HOWE, tour director; Gordon H.
Thompson, field work leader, and
Herbert A. Sweet, in charge Of COM
missary on the tour. The trucks
viii cover more than $500 miles
on the trip
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
PAVING CONTRACTS LET

j. N. Morgan & Sons, Inc, Awarded
Shelby Street Work.
Contracts for paving Shelby
street from Carson and Sumner
streets to Troy avenue, and from
Cruft to Sumner streets, were
awarded j. N. Morgan & Son, Inc,
today by the works board.
Bid for the first section was $6,211
and the second, $7,189. Works board
members announced today that
with preparation of the city budget,
Wilbur H. Winship, street commits
sioner, will take over departments
maintaining both improved and
unimproved city streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
PULPWO0D BAN LIFTED
Lowman Asserts Convict Labor
Charge Is Unproven.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July Assist
ant Secretary Of Treasury Lowman
announced today that charges that
convict labor had been used in pro-
duction of cargo of Soviet Rus
sian pulpwood now held at New
York had not been proved and that
the cargo would be admitted to this
country. The pulpwood was i'm
ported by the Amtorg Trading Com
pany for the International Paper
Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
LAYS DISMISSAL TO
POLITICAL INFLUENCE
Negro City EmpIoye Denies Fight
ing With Fellow Worker.

Negro City Employe Denies Fight
ing With Fellow Worker.
Charges that political differences
resulted in his discharge as a traf-
f1c department repairTnan, were
made today by William johnson,
Negro, 613 Wilmington avenue.
Johnson, who with James Jones,
Negro, was discharged by the
safety board Tuesday declared he
end Jones had not been fighting
instead of working. The informa-
ton presented the board was that
the men had been in a series of
arguments.
johnson today insisted he was a
Democrat and had contributed to
the campaign fund last fall. He
showed receipts for contributions
totaling $50 paid to an attorney for
a city hall board.
According to johnson, Jones also
was discharged due to political in
duence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
RADIO TO AID DRIVES
Community Fund agencies to Take

Community Fund Agencies to Take
to Air In Fall Campaigns.
Radio talks over nationwide
networks will be used by community
fund agencies of the United States
in the fall drives for funds, David
Liggett, executive secretary Of the
Indianapolis Community Fund told
members of the council Of social
agencies here Tuesday at
luncheon at Christ Episcopal
church.
Reports on the work Of the ma
tional conference held in Minnea-
polls, MINI, recently were read.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01

ception committee, caught some
what unaware by the flights breath
less speed, hastily was forming
citizens committee to escort the fiji
erS to the metropolis after they set
their cleaning white monoplane
down at Roosevelt field this evening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01

today there must be some queer
piscatorial antics, and, for that
matter, who's to say a few inspired
fish won't adventure from their
native pools for few cockeyed dry
land maneuvers.
Be not surprised, therefore, If
your eyes reveal the awesome spec
tacle of club minnow shagging a
giant bass through back alleyway,
or if on some baking sandbar a
company Of carp do squads east
and west and dance a hula on their
fan-shaped tails.
For they say that the f1nny COM
munity near the sewer mouth today
is on spree that will be juicy
scandal for neighboring-and per-
haps enviouS-colonies for many
day.
TINTED STATES MARSHAL
~ ALT MELOY and the local fed
eral dry agents are hosts for the
party.
Tuesday afternoon they dumped
$4,000 pints Of genuine bonded
whisky into the sewer. And there's
a heat wave on now, too.
Meloy, three deputy marshals and
fifteen prohibition agents took
turns at bottle-smashing throughout
the afternoon. dumping the liquor
into a thirty-foot trough leading to
the sewer opening in the basement
Of Federal building.
The liquor was confscated in
Evansville last winter in a freight
car billed to Chicago from Alabama
as lumber. The car was loaded par
TALLY with lumber and the LIQUOR
was stored in caverns built Of two
by-fours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
YOUTH TAKES POISON
Lovers Quarrel Blamed; In Serious
Condition at Hospital.

A lovers quarrel after five years
Of courtship, Tuesday night result
ed in Bruce Kimmon, %, of 2010
West Michigan street, taking poison
at his sweetheart's house. He is in
serious condition at the city hos
pital.
Miss Esther Wills, 114s UdelI
street, told police that the quarrel
started shortly after Kimmon's ar
rival at her home. She said he
went into the bathroom and swal-
lowed the poison.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
FORECASTS
DEPORTATION
Major General Pities Man Who
Gets in Way OF Aroused
Public Opinion

South Bend. Ind. Feb. l8 -tPp-
Alphonse Capone, Chicago's gangland
chief, will be deported to Italy when
public opinion is aroused. it was pre-
dicted by Major General Smedley D.
Butler in an address here Tuesday
night.
when public opposition is
aroused" Butler said, "Capone will
go back to Italy but I can't talk
about Italy,"
The remark was one Of a few re-
ferring indirectly to the Mussolini-
Butler embroglio made before the
Knife and Fork club, whose men,
bers he addressed on the subject of
the causes and cures of crime.
God help the man who gets in the
way of an aroused public opinion"
said the Marine commander. who re-
Gently was censured for a speech In
which he related an episode Of which
he had been told, describing Premier
Mussolini of Italy as a hit and run
driver.
1--WE had an experience OF that
SORT" he added.
For the most part Butler confined
his remarks to a description of his
administration Of the Philadelphia
crime "flareup" a few years ago. He
recommended the constant shifting
Of policemen from one beat to an
other as a means of putting a stop to
corruption.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
Nickalls Scores
Lady AstOr's Talk

London, Feb. 18.-'P-In all his
years as 4 rowing coach in the United
States, Guy Nickalls, famous Oxford
oarsman. declared in a letter print
ed Wednesday, drinking athletes
showed their superiority every time
over teetotalerS.
The letter was his contribution to
the controversy which began when
Nancy, Lady Astor, told the house of
commons that England lost on the
cricket field because her players
drank.
I'm my W experience as an oars
mar over % years." Mr.. Nickalls
wrote. i was never beaten by a tee
totaler. I represented my country in
my f~orty-second year and I drank all
the alcohol, wine and beer 1 could
buy, beg or borrow"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
'Gring0 Customs Are
Scored by Mexicans

Mexico City, Feb. 18.-P)-A vigor-
u campaign against "Gringo Gus
TOMS in the National university.
backed up by a terror committee" OF
upper classmen. Wednesday counted
among its casualties a freshman in a
nearby hospital with a bullet wound
in his leg.
AS a consequence of the fracas,
which occurred in the school Of plas-
tic arts, university authorities We'd
nesday considered prohibiting all
carrying of pistols by students save
by special permit.
The shooting occurred when the
freshman, Manuel Jimenez Ceballos,
who wore sideburns, rebelled at hav-
ing his head shaved by senior STU
dents. He broke away and ran where
upon the student who had been ap-
pointed barber drew his gun and shot
HIM In the leg.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
EPISCOPAL RECTOR
RESIGNS HIS POST
Retirement of Rev. Eliot White
Caused by Companionate
Marriage Advocacy

New York, Feb. 18.-(P]-The resig-
nation of the Rev. Eliot White from
the staff Of Grace Episcopal church
because Of his militant advocacy Of
companionate marriage stirred the
ecclesiastical world Wednesday.
The Rev. DR.. w. Russell Bowie.
rector of the church, one of the most
fashionable in the city. issued a state
ment saying DR.. Whites resignation
had been accepted and that his name
had been removed from the church
calendar.
MI. Whites controversy with his
superiors is a sequel to the recent ac-
tivity of Ben Lindsey, advocate Of
companionate marriage. AS chairman
Of the speakers committee, MI. White
invited Lindsey to address the New
York Churchman'S association. When
Bishop William T. Manning protested
White led the members in a move
ment to override the bishop and
Lindsey spoke.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
Deadlock on Muscle
Shoals Plan Broken

Washington, Feb. 18.-(P-The TO-
year-old deadlock between house and
senate over Muscle Shoals legislation
was definitely broken Wednesday.
The senate conferees and q major
ity of the house managers signed a
compromise agreement for operation
of the governments $3.50, 900 ,O00
power and nitrate plant and the re-
port will be submitted to the house
Thursday.
The agreement provides for govern
ment operation of the power plant,
lease of the nitrate plants for pro-
duction of fertilizer and %by-products
If possible. and government con
struction of power transmission lines
for distribution Of electricity from
Wilson dam.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
journalism Schools
Backed by Educator

Chicago. Feb. 18.-R1-Asking what
he described as "only a sympathetic
and helpful attitude on your part"
Frank l.. Mott, director of the Uni
versity of Iowa School Journalism, ir
an address prepared for delivery be-
fore the Inland Daily Press associa-
ton Wednesday. described to practic-
ing newspapermen workings Of the
Schools of Journalism.
In discussing the technical train
ing offered by the schools Of journal
ism, Mr.. Mott took exception to the
statement that newspapermen could
be better and more rapidly trained
in newspaper offices than in the
schools. This viewpoint is disappear
ing, he said. since nearly everyone
has come to the belief that the trial
and-error method OF learning is ex-
pensive and inadequate as compared
to the work given in a well-conducted
school,.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18

She gave them a dressed hog.
some vegetables, and cooking
utensils, and her only speech was
q smile.
Bring the utensils back" she
asked them, and then retired,
while the itinerant group made
merry.
Next morning the men were
gone, and so were the utensils.
Years passed. She learned to
read. write and speak English. She
remembered the event and wrote
the general"
II was just q green country
girl" the letter said, couldn't
write English. Just saw your
name mentioned in ths papers,
ana ! guess you are stil broke.
So all ! want Is an apology"
Coxey said m apology will not
be Forthcoming.
Nome of his 1894 army came
from Mipl,csota. he says.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
WARNING IS ISSUED
ON COAL EXPLOSIONS
Bureau of Mines Head Describes
Them As Coming Hazard
in U. S. Mining

New York, Feb. 18.-tF-Coal
which explodes like soda pop is a
coming hazard in American mining.
Warning about this strange type OF
mine burst was issued Wednesday by
George S. Rice, chief mining eng.-
neer of the U. S. Bureau OF Mines
in a talk to the American Institute OF
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,
The explosions are cold - no
spark starts them-but they are eX-
tremely dangerous. They are caused
bv an instantaneous outburst Of gas
that has been stored under high
pressure in rocks, but particularly III
soft coal.
The explosive gas frequently is eX-
actly the same stuff which charges
soft drinks. namely carbon dioXide.
The surrounding earth forms the
container. which, like a bottle, makes
a big blow-up possible when miners
picks puncture a deposit OF gas-un-
pregnated coal.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-18
MRS. anna ARNOY'S
STORY OF HUSBANDS
DEATH READ OJURY
Brother-in-Law Says Woman
Admitted to Him Body Was
Full Of Poison

Glasgow, Mont, Feb. 18.-F-Mrs
Anna Berrigan Arnot's story Of the
death of her husband, j. E. Arnot
former Glasgow banker, was read to
the jury at her sanity hearing
Tuesday in the form of a statement
dictated last September to the deputy
county attorney while she was In the
hospital.
It was made in the presence of
Walter E. Arnot. her brother-in-law
She will be tried for Arnot,s murder
If found sane
The statement declared the death
was due to poison swallowed by mis-
take for stomach powders on the eve
ming Of Aug. II. She was quoted as
admitting she removed his body to
the basement of their home IN a
sheet. The statement eXonerated
from any participation in the case
her son, Robert, and Mike Safarik,
a laborer whom she incriminated IN
a verbal statement made at the hos
pital a day earlier.
Walter Arnot testified the woman
was highly excited, poorly clothed
and unkempt each time he saw her
during 1880. He said she called him
at Conrad the night of Aug. 16 and
told him her husband was gravely Ill.
He said Mrs. Arnot called him up
stairs the day on which she was asked
to sign the permit for an autopsy and
told him the "body was full OF pol
son."
"tOh, they have their alibis,'" he
quoted her as saying. She would not
tell him, he said, whom she mean:
by "they."
Several acquaintance here OF Mrs.
Arnot were called as witnesses We'd
nesday. They said she had acted
strangely.