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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
Ga-Ga!
It's the Heat That Makes
EN- Do 1t: All ACES,
All Sizes.

DOLCE will tell you this is
4 caused by heat, but Bobby
Heckroth, 2, of 3116 Park avenue,
keeps the why and wherefore"
strictly to himself.
This morning when dawn's
breezes we're stirring the trees
Bobby was missing from his bed.
Someway, somehow, he had made
his way out of the house, the
doors of which had been locked.
An hours search by his par
ents resulted in Bobby being
found on Central avenue, four
blocks away, toddling along in
his pajamas.
The reason Bobby can't explain
his reason for the act is that at
his age vocabularies consist of
one-Syllable words.
n Il
Pleasant Playmate
"COMETHING just came over
~ Wilbur Lear, Negro, 25, of
$3.50 indianapolis avenue Wednes-
day night.
Consequently he is charged with
assault and battery with intent to
will.
Strolling past the residence Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

Tow-in trucks held no terror to
Indianapolis motorists today after
city officials announced impound-
ing of cary will be discontinued I'M
til Tuesday, at least, pending sec
ond amendment of the new traffic
ordinance.
The council Monday night will
consider clauses decreasing the area
of the parking ban during the
morning hours OF to 9:15.
Superior Judge Joseph r. Will
liams, who is ready to issue an in
junction against enforcement of the
law in a business mems protest case,
told city attorneys today that he
will withhold action pending moves
of the council and temporary aban-
donment of impounding.
However, cars parked in safety
zones, alleys and in front of fire
plugs still will be hauled to ga
RACES, it was announced.
Discontinuance of tow-in steps
was ordered late Wednesday by
Traffic Captain Lewis Johnson after
Williams had threatened immediate
issuance of the halt writ without
hearing additional city tstimony in
support of the law.
Confer With Mayor
Suggestion has been made that
criticism of the arbitrary collection
of impounding fees by police might
be removed by providing an alter
native of going into court and risk
ing higher penalty.
Decision to retain this traffic or
dinance practically in its present
form was reached at a conference
of the city council safety commit
tee, safety board and citizens traf-
fic committee with Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan Wednesday afternoon.
Those present we're favorable, to a
reduction of the area under ban,
making the territory include the
section bounded by Ohio, Delaware
and Maryland streets and Capitol
avenue. Plan to start the ban at
8 a. m. instead of 7 a. m. was dis
carded.
Points brought out by those at
the meeting included:
Purpose of the ordinance was not
to injure business of downtown
firms, but to help it by driving out
the all-day parker and making
parking space for shoppers later in
the day.
Admit Sucker Futility
The old sticker ordinance can not
be enforced.
That fair trial of the ordinance
would prove downtown business
helped rather than hurt by the ordi-
nance.
That enforcement of the ordi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
PLANES IN MID-AIR
COLLISION; q KILLED

Lieutenant K Austin Rogers, Co.
lumbia, Mo-, pilot of the other plane.
Flying Cadet Endicott Longacre
OF San Antonio, passenger in Rog-
ers' plane.
The planes were flying at an alti-
tude of 400 feet when they crashed.
They came down four miles from
the field.
Rogers was giving Longacre a fly
ing lesson. Major Hart was here
for special training. All were killed
instantly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

FOURTEEN men and three wom-
Il en- sweltered in cells at the
county Jail today awaiting action
of courts on vagrancy charges and
unable to provide bonds from SIS
to $4,000 to obtain their freedom.
Many of them have been in Jail
several days and viii have several
more to wait before the courts,
which seldom try an individual
strictly on vagrancy charges. hear
their cases.
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The fiers left Harbor
Grace, New Foundland, at
1925 a. m. indianapolis
time) Wednesday, and flew
INTO heavy, cloudy weather
over the Atlantic. Their
speedy plane carried them
safely through the difficult
stretch and early today the
steamer Kennebec reported
them 700 miles off southwest
ern Ireland.
After their earlier difficulties the.
weather around the British Isles
was ideal and they were next res
ported 100 miles off Lands End bv
the United Fruit steamer Mava ar
l 40 a. m. ~
The weather over France was
CLOUDY and rainy, however, and the
plane next was sighted when #
passed over Linz, Austria, 23O miles
from Budapest, at 1920 a. m. and
a short time later it flew over
Vienna.
IL was the first flight from New
YORK TO Vienna and was made in
extraordinarily fast time. The two
lllers expected to claim a prize of
$4,000 which they said had been
for the flight by Lord
Hothermere, British newspaper
a friend of Hungary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
Hope Is Brighter


PARIS, July 16.-The German
crisis brought a swift move today
to have the problem considered at
a meeting of American, British,
French and German statesmen.
After a conference with State Sec
rotary Henry L. StimSon and Ar
thur Henderson, British foreign sec
rotary, the French government de-
cided to invite Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening and Foreign Minister Ju-
Illus Curtius of Germany to come
here at once for a preliminary con-
ference prior to a general meeting
in London.
Today's developments gave hope
that Germany's troubles would be
solved by concerted international
action with the United States rep
resented.
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days; Louis Clover $1,000, three
days; Frank Brown, $1,000, one
week; Charles KittrilI, $500, one
week; Harry Mahoney, $4,000, eight
days; Willie Lewis, 81 900, six days;
John Wright, $1,000 one wcct. Carey
Osny, $500, eight days; George
Beverly, $4,000. eight days; Mrs
Charlotte Foster, SIS, four days;
Mrs. Flossie Moody $1,000, eight
days, and Miss M. B. Herbert, $500,
eight days.
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Grafton until told by police or os&er
authorities.
The Indiana law on vagrancy sets
out that a person mere than IA,
able to work, but who does not,
either through failure to seek it. or
through refusal to accept employ
ment, is vagrant. The law states
the person shall be charged in court
as vagrant and receive fines, on
conviction, Of SIS to $50.
In recent years Ysgrancy charges
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
STORES .RANSACKED
500 at One Place Is Only
Loot of Thieves.

Cutting a heavy screen, burglars
early today looted the safe of the
Central Metal Parts Company, 421
North Capitol avenue, of $500, police
we're informed.
Ransacking three other places,
burglars failed to obtain any loot,
police reports stated.
These were: Stout shoe store, 318
Massachusetts, avenue combination
hammered off safe; Quaker State
Oil Company, 416 South West
street, and D. and D. Transfer Com
pany, 416 West South street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
HOOVER LAUDS SOCIETY

Praise Christian EndeavOr Move
ment Over National HOokup.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 16.-The
Christian EndeaVor movement was
praised as a mighty national and
international force for good III a
speech broadcast nationally by
President Herbert Hoover today. 1t
was directed particularly to the
fftieth anniversary convention OF
the International Christian Endea-
vor Societies in San Francisco.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
DIZZY HEIGHTS
ARE REACHED
BY MERCURY
City SWeIteTs and GazeS
Hopefully at Skies for
Possible Aid.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
Weather Experts Refuse to
Bulge From Their
Predictions.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT

Scattered clouds that formed this
afternoon checked the mercury'5
rise and were the hope of Indian
apolis for a break, if only tempo
rary, in the heat wave that forced
the thermometer to 81 before
noon.
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that police received a call of
robbery at the hardware store Of
Charles Koehring, 882 Virginia
avenue.
The man with the breeze idea
had turned thief.
When last seen fleeing down
Virginia avenue he carried a large
fan, valued at $40.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

Banks reopened after a
two-day emergency holiday.
Although there was a far
reaching stoppage of bust
ness, owing to sharp restric-
ton of banking transactions,
Germany was calm and the'
pOpulace was visibly relieved.
There appeared to be general pub
lie feeling that the government was
in complete control and that con-
crete plan to combat the crisis had
been evolved. Fear of extremist
trends toward Communism or Fas-
cism no longer was in evidence.
Calmness of the throngS awaiting
their turns outside savings banks
was the outstanding impression
gained in a two-hour round of fif-
teen main branches. Police were
stationed at bank doors, but they
had no occasion to intervene, al
though many depositors we're re-
jected-all those seeking to salvage
their deposits to put them away at
home or to buy merchandise.
Only Few Exceptions
The new decree permitted pay
ment only for salaries, wages or
taxes.
Applications chiefly were small
tradeSpeople, tailorS and hairdress-
ers, who were compelled to submit
only authenticated pay rolls of en-
ployes and who did not receive a
mark more than enough to cover
their pay rolls. Similarly, taXpay-
ers were given exactly the amount
of their taxes.
Only few exceptions were noted.
Those who had been without jobs
for a long term and who were not
receiving state support we're per-
mitted to draw a maximum Of SO
marks Slightly under $12).
A foreign office statement said
that after the Bruening- Curtius
conferences in Paris, German, Brit
ish and French statesmen would
proceed to London for a conference
there on Monday.
AT noon the Darmstaedter Und
National bank (Danatbank), which
remained closed this morning as
other banks resumed business, re-
opened and began paying out for
payrolls and taxes as provided by
government DEGREES. 1t was eX-
pected to aid in restoration of con-
hdence, as the closing of the Danat-
bank last Monday was one of the
major factors in precipitating con-
fusion.
French Not Too Drastic
The Bruening- Curtius trip to
Paris makes visits to Berlin by
Macdonald, Henderson and Henry
L. Stimson, American secretary of
state, superhuous, it was said at
the foreign Office today.
1t was understood Henderson
and Stimson, comforting Wednes-
day with Aristide BRAND, French
foreign minister, failed to provide
adequate mediation in the Franco
German tension. Henderson there
upon concluded it was futile to go
to Berlin and suggested that the
German statesmen proceed to Paris
Immediately.
The French were not expecteC
today to prove too drastic in their
current political demands upon
Germany, so prospects were i'm
proved for a compromise on the
proposed Austro-G German customs
union project, construction of the
second vest-pocket battleship, and
other disputes between France and
Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
CABINET WILL RESIGN

Spanish President Announces RuI-
ing Body to Quit Next Month.
By United Press
MADRID, July 16.-Niceto Alcala
zamora, provisional president of the
republic, announced today that the
cabinet expects to resign next
month.
The resignation would pave the
way for a return to normal consti-
tutional government under the con-
stitution to be drafted by the
CorteS. now in session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
GERMANY Paws Debts

BASLE, Switzerland, July 10
Germany paid in full the uncondi-
tional annuitieS and also services
on the Dawes and Young plan late
Wednesday, an authoritative state
ment from the World bank said to-
day.
Part of the payment was adj
vanced to the German railways and
part to the German government.
while part remained as a Reichs-
bank credit in the Bank for Inter
national Settlements the statement
said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

Use OF the vagrancy charge to
hold persons for suspicion or inves-
tigation by police has drawn the ire
of the indianapolis Bar Association
on several occasions. It has been
suggested that law be enacted to
specify the actual reason for which
the suspect is held
Under the use of vagrancy charge,
it is impossible for persons to learn
the actual reason for their incar-
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Harry Smith was arrested July 9
and is held on $1,000 bond on a
vagrancy charge. His is the longest
wait of the fourteen held, as he
is not to get a hearing until next
Wednesday.
Others held, their bonds and the
length of time between arrests and
scheduled trials:
Manuel Segrove, $1,000. three
days; Vincent Vaughn, $1oo. three
days; Tony Sampson, $4,000, eight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

By United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. July 16.-
-Four army f1ierS were killed when
two airplanes crashed in midair
over Brooks field here today.
The dead:
Major Charles V. Hart of Penn
sylvania, medical corps officer and
one of the few flight surgeons with
a pilots license.
Captain Charles j. Chamberlin
of New york City, a national guard
officer, passenger in Harris plane
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

home after speaking at the annual
stag dinner at the Avalon Country
Club. The car in which his son.
Kenesaw Lands, was a passenger
collided head-on with an auto
driven by M. D. Miller of Kokomo.
Miller, slated on vagrancy
charge, told police he must have
fallen asleep at the wheel. His car
swerved to the left side Of the road,
directly in the path of Lands auto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
Justice ErrS

By United Press
CHICAGO, July Lion last
March II burglars stole $50.
a Masonic emblem from Will
liam Niemeyer.
Eugene Piantkowski, 10. and
Bruno KaSper, %, were
charged with being the bur
glars. Kasper, whose friends
testified as alibi witnesses
was indicated. Piantkowski
had an alibi, but no witnesses.
He was sentenced to prison for
from one year to life and still
is there.
Police Wednesday night ar
rested Nick Berndniek and
Joseph Koopshtck on charges
Of burglary. In Berndniek's
pocket they found Niemeyer's
emblem.
The men confessed. police
said, that they had committed
the crime for which Plant
kowski is In prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
GIRL RED FACES EXILE
Hearing for Youthful Blonde Strike
Leader Is Delayed.
b. United Press

d z WTItU ITt6S
BOSTON, July 16.-Hearing of
the case of Ann Burlak, %, the
scarlet-skirted blonde leader of the
Rhode Island mill strikers, who
faces possible deportation as an al
legged alien, was postponed today
by Mrs. Anna C.. M. Tillinghast, i'm
migration commissioner.
Miss Burlak, a leader of the
Communistic National Textile
workers Union, is held incommuni-
cado in detention quarters of the
East Boston immigration station.
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day, suff e r n G
from injuries sus-
tanned Wed n e S.
day night when
he was hurled
from his car in a
crash on state
Road 81.
Series of exam
nations were con-
Quoted today by
physicians at the
hospital and ex-
tent OF the in
iuries were not
announced.
Lands was re-
turning to his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
CLAIMS PULPIT TITLE

Louisiana Minister breaches With
out Halt for 2 Days, 10 Hours.
By United Press
COTTON VALLEY, La, July 16.-
The Rev. D. A. Sandifer, 40, today
declared in a hoarse voice that he
held the worlds championship for
nonstop preaching.
For two days ten hours and thirty
minutes he held forth in the First
Baptist church here, exceeding by
some thirty Eight hours the previ-
Gus record for endurance exhorta-
tionS.
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The morning
rise in tenpera-
ture was phe-
nonenal, rising
to 90 at 9 a. m.
Throughout the
state tempera-
ture marks in
the high COS
were reported
and farmers in
the north = CEN
trail part of the
state feare d
their crops faced
ruin unless rain
falls soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
GERMANY'S FEARS GIVE Way
TO AIR OF Confidence AS
BANKS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Money Is Paid Out to Meet Salaries, Taxes;
Threat of Fascism Subsidies With
Promise of Financial Relief.
CROWDS ORDERLY IN WITHDRAWALS
Populace Accepts Belief Government Has
Crisis Well Within Control; Expect
Lenience in French Demands.

BERLIN, July 16-Confdence began to return today to
Germany "racked for days by fear uncertainty and acute
financial distress.
AS Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign Minister
JULIUS Curtus prepared to to Paris to take part in
conference with world leaders it felt generally that
Germanys crisis could be averted that the interna
tional situation a whole had improved
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Injuries he suffered when struck
by a hit-and-run motorist at Me-
ridian and Sixteenth streets Sat-
urday night were fatal early today
to Carl Yoh, 81, of 1864 North
Pennsylvania street.
Yoh was hit by an auto later
identified as that of De Won Wicks,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
CYCLIST is INJURED
16-Year-0Id Youth Is in
Serious Condition.

Struck from his bicycle at st.
Paul street and Fletcher avenue by
an automobile this afternoon, Den
Eel Tanner, Is, of 1119 Spann ave-
nue., was injured seriously when the
cars wheels passed over his body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
OFFERS FLIGHT BACKING
st-Gatty Hop Sponsor Puts Tn
Bid to Finance New Trial.

By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 16.-F.
G. Hall, wealthy Oklahoma oil man
who sponsored the world flight of
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, Nn-
nounced today he would back a,:-
other world flight in an attempt to
break the record of the monoplane
Winnie Mae.
Hall indefinitely announced that
Post and Gatty, who are in New
York "cashing in on their flight"
would net be asked to participate
in the new fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
NO PLAY FOR HOOVER
AL Plans Are Abandoned for Vaca.
ton Trip This Summer.

ton Trip This Summer.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Hard
work and much of it is President
Hooyer's schedule for the remainder
Of the summer.
While many government officials
are away resting or travelling. the
PRESIDENT has abandoned all plans
Tor a vacation trip, it was said au-
thoritatively today. He expects tn
remain at his desk throughout tho
hot months, except for short visits
to his mountain retreat in Virginia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
5000 PLEDGE SAFETY
Big Four Railroad Workers Join in
indianapolis Drive.

One of the largest units to enter
the drive to obey all traffic and OBJ
serve all safety rules movement is
the Big -Four railroad here.
More than $500 employees of the
company signed the individual safe
ty pledges Wednesday, which were
turned over to Police Chief Michael
MorrisSey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
WAGE THREAT VOICED
Boost in Freight Rates Needed I'd
Maintain Levels, Is Claim.
~ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 16. - The
railroads plea that present wage
levels can not be maintained unless
freight rates are increased was put
informally to the interstate COM
merce commission today by ]. j,
Pelley, president of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad.
Pelley testified today in the conn
mission hearing on the railroads
request for Is per cent increase
in freight rates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
LAD, IL, HURT IN FALL

Goes Sprawling at PIa-~ funds;
Suffers Minor Conclusion.
Unsteady feet on a playground
swing sent Lloyd Woodruff, II. Of
422 South Highland avenue, sprawl.
ing on his head on a public play
ground in the rear Of 402 South
Hamilton avenue Wednesday night.
He suffered bruises and a minor
brain conclusion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

II, son OF the Rev. +.
S. C. Wicks, pastor Of
the ALI Souls Unitar-
ian church.
Wicks was arrested
at municipal airport,
where he is a city
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ART
Taking the Air

a S the heat increased Wednes-
L n day one man in Indianapolis
found his mind revolving on the
single idea-cool breezeS.
The idea grew to such degree
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charged with assault and battery
and failure to stop after an acct
dent. He told police he stopped,
became frightened, and drove away.
Coroner Fred Vehling this morning
said he knew nothing of the case
and could not say whether Wicks
would be reslated on a man
slaughter charge.
Yoh is survived by the widow and
two stepdaughters. His was the
ninety-second traffic death in the
county this year.
Alarmed over the terrific auto
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16
2 CONFESS ARSON PLOT
Suspects Being Returned to State
in Barn Burning.

Albert Fowler, arson division chief
in the state fire marshars Office,
today received telegram from
Harry M. Smith, deputy, saying
that Ne is returning from Iowa
City, Ia, with two arson suspects
who have confessed the crime.
They are Memo and Levi Bon
TRACER, who are charged with burn
ing a barn of Joseph Bontrager on
a Lagrange county farm Feb. IA. Al
though all have the same name,
none is related, Fowler said.
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lands BADLY
HURT IN CRASH
Logansport Editor Is in
Serious Condition.

Frederick Lands, Logansport
editor and author, is in serious con-
dition at st. Vincent's hospital to-
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past" a horse owned by John Per-
kins, $50 Minerva street, indie
pendent ice dealer, when the ami
NAL bit stable hunk out of his
right arm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-16

Two-year-old Paul Shanahan
wasn't so very happy at st. Vim
cents hospital today. Try as he
did, he just couldn't make a smile
come up when The Times photog-
rapher trained her camera on him.
But better and brighter days are
coming soon. Before long the pains
that jabbed his little chest for al
most week will have been forgot
ten.
Mrs. John Shanahan, his mother,
couldn't explain the biting pains her
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A Horse ON Him

r VEN the kings or the ice
Z mans horses are liable to
take turn to oddities this hot
weather.
John Mckay, Negro, $40 Cotton
avenue, told police he "just walked