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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
SLAP AT LESLIE
DENIED BY BUSH
Lieutenant Governor Says
Stories Were Erroneous.

Lieutenant Governor Edgar D
Bush today voiced vigorous denial
of a story given wide circulation
with regard to removal of state re-
lief Offices Of Dr. John H. Hewitt
from Bush's Office.
"Stories in The Times and in 9TH
er papers stated that I had told
Hewitt that he would have to move
his Offices because I did not like his
boss and insinuated that I had
taken a slap or two at Governor
Leslie" said Bush. "As a matter
of fact, I said nothing that even
resembled that.
Il made no remarks of any kind
that might be considered as attack
ing the Governor.
cat the end of the legislative ses-
sion, DR.. Hewitt came to me in the
corridor and congratulated me on
the way had conducted senate ses-
sions. I thanked him.
Then he said he supposed he
would be moving his offices into the
rooms which occupy, now that the
session was over, to share quarters
with me.
81 told him that he would not,
as 1 had decided to use the Offices
myself until the end of my term.
Leslie was not mentioned; Meth
er did I speak in any spirit of ma
lice to DR.. Hewitt or any one else.
ANY such quotations ascribed to
me were wrong and unfounded."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
M0T0RMAN SLUGGED,
ROBBED BY NEGROES
Bandits Jerk Trolley and Attack;
Grocer Loses 800.

Injuries so severe as to require
hospital treatment were incurred
Saturday night by a street car mo-
torman slugged by two Negroes who
robbed him of a money changer
containing an undetermined amount.
The motorman, Charles Hancock,
So, of 1928 Newman street, told po-
lice that after boarding the car,
operated on the one-man basis, the
trolley pole was pulled from the
wire by the Negroes and he was
struck twice on the head.
Heaviest loser in weekend rob-
berries was Al Ford, 80, robbed of
500 in a grocery and meat market
at 224 West Ray street, where he
is manager. Three men took part
in the robbery, which was witnessed
by two employees of the store, Lewis
Meisberger, 1904 Union street, and
Gus Dang. 922 Union street.
Loot of SIS was obtained by
bandit in robbing filling station at
1901 Madison avenue, police were
told by the attendant, Delbert Hib-
ner, 1414 Leonard street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
demonstrators Fight Bond
Issue of $48,6O0 for
Sipe Road.

demonstrators to proposed
$48, 800 bond issue by Washington
township to construct the Sipe road,
an extension of North Illinois street,
were heard today by the state tax
board The tax commissioners took
the bond issue under advisement.
Opponents of the issue declared
that it was real estate scheme to
open an acreage development and
that it placed an additional burden
on the farmers in the township.
Brandt c. Downey, receiver for
the Washington Bank and Trust
Company, declared that the defunct
bank owned much acreage in this
section and that if the road is con-
structed it will increase the value
of the land and also enable the bank
to dispose of the real estate.
Construction of the road would
within five years place enough real
estate on the township tax duplicate
to pay the cost of the road several
times over" Downey said.
H. c. Stevens, who said that he
represented the receiver OF the Wild
bank declared that $500 depositors
in that institution would be bene-
fitted by the road which would en-
able the sale OF seventy three acres
in that section which has cost the
bank $4,000. Forty acres are plat
ted for sale at present.
''This merely is real estate de-
velopment scheme" declared G. w.
Beckett, who headed the remon-
strators, and it simply is adding a
tax burden" Other DIRECTORS we're
Frank Dawson, William Haver-
stock, and John Nimmick.
A seventy-foot right of way has
been obtained for the road which
will have an eighteen-foot pave
ment, Bruce Short, county engineer,
testified. An eighty-foot bridge,
twenty-eight feet wide is part Of the
construction r1on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Einstein Is Called Only
Living Genius by Savant

pean stock with the blood of the
new world, shows forty-three no
tables in 300 years. (S
And those of us who take pride in
America as the land of invention
will be surprised to learn that per
sons of French blood stand first in
the field of patents" as shown by
tabulGtion of the inventions on rec
ord in Washington.
Other charts show that wander
lust and bald-headedness are trans
mitted to younger generations by
women, although women themselves
rarely are affected by either trait.
More than 100 scientists from
Europe are in New York for the
opening of the sessions today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Applications to Go Back to
Institutions in Home
Neiqhborhood.

BIZ tpps-Howord Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Home
owners desiring to borrow money
direct from any of the new home
loan banks will find their task beset
with difficulties, it appeared today,
following announcement Of the fed
eral boards policy.
Applications for direct loans will
be referred back to lending in
stitutions in the neighborhood
where the property is located,
Franklin w. Fort, board chairman,
has announced.
While this policy does not definite
ly bar direct loans, it is expected
to involve such complications and
delay as to render this provision Of
the act imperative.
The provision-for direct loans was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
400 Total Score for All His
tory; Few Found
Among Rulers.
BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-In all his
tory there have been only 400 men
Of genius, and only ten or eleven OF
these have been rulers over men,
according to DR.. Charles G. Hurst of
Cambridge, England.
DR.. Hurst, with charts and book
lets, graphs and genealogical tables,
with much talk Of chromosomes and
inherited characteristics, will illus
trate his theories Tuesday, at the
third annual International congress
of Eugenics.
DR.. Hurst has developed what he
terms a genetic formula on inheri-
lance, in twenty years Of research.
His studies go back to the crusaders,
with royal families the chief sub
jectS of his work.
Incidentally, although he says "it
is difficult to rate living humans,
and only posterity can give man
his proper station" he gives DR..
Einstein the highest rating of liv-
ing genius, ranking him with OAR
win and Newton.
Lauds william of Orange
"Einstein," he says, "is about the
only man living to whom would
give 10, the classification of
genius"
Among rulers, DR.. Hurst calls
William of Orange the outstanding
genius. with Peter the Great of
Russia, Frederick the Great of
Prussia, and Napoleon on a similar
pedestal.
In these ruling families, the sci
enlist finds that their capacity for
brilliance is due in SO per cent of
cases, to heredity, and in about 2
per cent to environment.
Idiocy and genius often have run
in the same family, DR.. Hurst has
found. The sisters and brothers
of a genius" he says, ARE more
apt to be idiots than to be medi-
OGRE"
AS a corollary to DR.. Hurst's
studies, DR.. Harry H. Laughlin Of
the Carnegie Institute of Washing
ton, has been making a special
study of presidential genius. Thus
far he has analysed Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt.
In The lineage Of the first Presi-
dent of the United States, DR..
Laughlin shows there were twenty
six men of note in a period Of 176
years, beginning with the Rev. Law
renee Washington of oxford, Eng
land, in 1902, and ending with
George Washington Parke, soldier,
merchant and playwright, in 1881.
Lincoln Tree Analysed
Lincoln's chart shows twelve out
standing men in 1876 years, includ-
ing men also found in Daniel
Boone'S family tree.
The Roosevelt tree, an example
Of the mixture of northern Euro
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Miller, daughter of an Australian
minister, had been an accom-
plished athlete and tournament
swimmer despite her size.
She had married j. M. Keith
Miller, an Australian journalist,
at an early age. Tired of the pro-
sale life of a housewife and cray
ing excitement and adventure, she
had gone to London in 1927, to
seek them.
At dinner party in London she
met the tall, handsome, smiling
Captain Lancaster-who had been
wartime captain in the royal
air force at the age of 20.
Their admiration was immedi-
ate and mutual, despite the fact
that Captain Lancaster had a
wife and two children and she
had a husband. The latter since
has divorced her.
On Oct. IA, 1927, they left
England in a small open cockpit
plane, the Red Rose, on a 1900
mile flight to Australia.
Mrs. Keith Miller had been
aloft only once before the take
off-an occasion when Captain
Lancaster had taken her up to
show her what airplane riding
was like. On the long trip to
Australia, he taught her to fly.
II n II
TINE story of that journey-the
L longest flight ever made by a
woman-is one of the sagas of tn
air.
Caught in sandstone be-
tween Palestine and Bagdad, the
two were forced to descend at a
Royal air force past in the desert.
ert.
A piston damned when they
were crossing India, forcing them
down. Shortly after leaving Ran
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22

COON, Burma, a poisonous snake
was found coiled in the cockpit.
Mrs. Keith Miller killed it.
At Muntok, Batavia, their plane
overturned in a take-off and Mrs.
Keith-Miller got a broken nose.
Their ship was rebuilt at Singa-
pore and they continued on via
Java and Timor, finally arriving
in Australia on March 10, 1928.
The last 500 miles was flown
over dangerous ocean seldom ira
versed by steamer.
Their f1ve-year friendship be-
gan on this epic air voyage. They
have been flying companions ever
since.
The two came to America for
the Cleveland air races of 1880
and in october of that year Mrs.
Keithe-M Miller set a new transcon-
tinental record for women by fly
ing from New York to Los An
geles in Is hours and Al min
uteS.
In December, 1880, she lost her
bearings in storm while flying
from Havana to New York, and
made a forced landing in the
jungles of Andres island, in the
Bahamas.
Guided by natives, she walked
sixteen miles to the nearest wire
less station and from there noti-
fled searchers-whoh had given her
up for lost-that she was safe.
Later, she and Captain Lancas-
ter moved to Miami to make
their home.
Next. The triangular love affair of:
/. Helen Hayes, "BrOadway's bright
est STAR and mother of the celebrated
"Act of Cod baby.
2. Charles Macarthur, the noted play
wright, who wed her after his divorce
from his first wife.
3. Carol Frink, the Chicago girl re-
porter who was the first Mrs. Macarthur
and is now suing the renowned actress
for 100000 with which to heal her
wounded heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
LEADER GIVES PRIZES
Children Receive Rewards for Work
in Letter Contest.

Winners in the word-forming con-
test conducted by the Leader store,
Washington and Delaware streets
have been announced by the judges
E. A. Tapscott, Judge William
Sheaffer and Robert Wolf.
First place was awarded James
Pecsok, 10, of 4575 Guilford ave-
nue., while Robert c. Wilhelm, II,
of 613 North Bosart avenue, and
Paul Peterson, Is, of 326 South
Grace street, won second and third,
respectively.
Others rewarded by the judges
were: Russell Shirley, Sara White
side, Pershing Griswell, Laura De
La Cruz, Carl Rice, Courtney Wad-
dell, Amber Childress, Mildred
Brown, Marguerite Hail and Jane
DaWley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
PAY CUT ACT FOUGHT

Huntington City Officials Accept
"Under Protest." Plan Suits.
Huntington city officials have
announced their intention of chal-
longing the constitutionality of the
uniform salary reduction act passed
by the special legislative session.
Mayor z. T. DUNCAN and other
city officials at Huntington have
decided to accept their salaries "un-
der protest" and file suit to recov-
er at the end of their terms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
DirectLOan From Home
Banks Put Under Curb

inserted in the bill at the insistence
Of Senator James CouZens (Rep.,
Mich.), and other senators who con-
tended that, without such an
amendment, lending institutions
would be the chief beneficiaries of
the system. Couzens intended this
provision to be widely used.
Fort indicated that, in the event
local lending institutions reject an
application for a loan, it will be
unlikely that the board or regional
bank will grant it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
FIRST DRINK IN THREE
YEARS BRINGS FINE
But Father of Three Wins Court
Mercy on Wife's Plea.

NANANg bA hAAG lCds
His first drink in three years
caused Herman Knots, 1919 Hart
ford street, to face charges of
drunkenness and blind tiger today
in municipal court, before James E.
Mcdonald, judge pro TEN. A COM
panion of Knots, Clifford Grisson,
1874 Linden street, was charged
with drunkenness.
Knots, father of three children,
who says his earnings are only $12
a week, was accompanied in court
by his wife. He was fined $40 and
costs, the latter suspended and
placed on probation for ninety days.
Fine of same amount, with costs
suspended, was imposed on Girls
son.
The two men were arrested on
Saturday after Knots said he drank
two-thirdS of a pint bottle of liquor
for which he paid so cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
SHOOTS SELF; KILLED
w. ]. Paugh Ends Life While Fam
lily is Attending Reunion.

Dependency over i'll health and
financial reverses resulting from
the depression caused suicide Sun
day of w. j. Paugh, SO, R. R. l, Box
$40, in his home while the family
was attending a reunion at Gar
field park.
Placing a shotgun against his
chest over his heart, Paugh used a
stick with nail in it to pull the
trigger.
Besides the widow, he leaves three
daughters, Mrs. Ruth Koch, r. r. 8;
Mrs. Rachel Flokring, r. r. 5, In
dianapolis: Mrs. Airline Hurt, r. 2,
Greenwood; two sons, Harold and
Frank Paugh, at the parents home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Threatens County Bankruptcy

By JnIted Press
HAMMOND. Ind, Aug. o.
Threat of suit to throw Lake
county into involuntary bankruptcy
confronted officials today from H.
P. Peters, general manager of the
B. A. Railton Company of Chicago.
Peters is seeking to collect 500 900
for food furnished indigents in
North township.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
THEY LEFT THE HORN
But Thieves Take About Everything
Else in Stripping Car.

When Paul finder, 4466 Wash
ington boulevard, Sunday APP
preached his automobile parked at
East and Michigan streets, he near
~ failed to recognize it.
During his absence, thieves had
stripped the car of its top. wind
shield, side windshields, side cur
tainS and rear view mirror.
He reported to police headquar-
tiers that the accessories were
valued at $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
COUNTY COUNCIL
FACES BOOST IN
1888 TAX RATE
30 Per Cent Hike Looming
Despite Enactment of
$3.50 Limit Law.

Prospect Of 40 per cent increase
in the county tax rate, despite the
$3.50 tax limit law, faced council
men today as they gathered for first
of their annual budget meetings.
The current county rate is 20 cents
They are prepared to make dras-
tic cuts in budgets of thirty three
officials seeking increased appropri-
atoms for 1888 and will keep ex-
penditures in other departments at
minimum, they declare.
However, a so per cent reduction
in expenditures will be necessary,
If the rate is to come within the
limit.
County property is assessed 1866
per cent lower than last year and
indianapolis assessments have been
reduced III per cent, it was pointed
out.
Face Poor Burden
In addition, the county faces a
poor relief burden Of 1895 $50 and a
sinking fund budget totaling S1,O82,-
600. These items stand as obstacles
to any tax relief in 1888.
County Auditor Charles A. Gros-
sart will place budget requests to-
falling S2984,852 before councilmen.
The 1893 request for the county
general fund, for operating the for
ty-four departments of county gov
eminent, Is $1,7079 1874 compared with
$l,669,358 appropriated last year.
A sinking fund levy of Is cents
VIII be necessary, it is estimated. to
retire county bonds. The current
rate is 81 cents.
Experiment Is Expensive
An experiment in financing that
reduced this levy cents last year
is proving expensive, county officials
declare. Burden Of retiring bonds
TO be distributed over a period OF
years by proposal submitted last
year. But it has been necessary to
sell the new bonds at high inter
est rates.
buuBeeC making ottlclals, realiZ-
ing the futility of limiting the rate,
have announced they will fix the
1888 levy at a figure required to
meet operating expenses.
This can be done by a provision
OF the $3.50 tax limit law creating
the county board of tax adjust
ment, consisting of three members
of the council, the county auditor
and three members to be selected
by the circuit court judge.
This body is empowered by an
emergency clause to raise the rate
above the maximum
Therefore, some officials estimate
Marion county taxpayers will pay
nearly So taxes on each 500 taxable
property the coming year This
will include the civil city and school
city rates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
CHARITY BASEBALLERS
TO PRACTICE TUESDAY
so Candidates Seek Places on CITY
Hall Team.

Hall Team.
First official practice of the squad
of players trying for positions on
the city hall baseball team which
will face the courthouse team Satur-
dry at Perry stadium for benefit of
charity, will be held Tuesday after
noon at Riverside park.
John Noonan, manager of the city
squad, is reported to have more than
fifty players who are working for
berths on the team. Definite in
formation on the merits Of the can
didates will be obtained by Noonan
Tuesday, he said today, to assist
him in naming starters for the con-
flict.
City and county employees selling
tickets for the game reported today
that advance indications point to a
large crowd Proceeds of the ticket
sale, with not one cent for ex-
penses," will be placed in the city
poor relief fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
AMELIA DELAYS FLIGHT
Aviatrix Expected to Hop Today,
Los Angeles to New York.

Aviatrix Expected to Hop Today,
Los Angeles to New York.
BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22.-Amelia
Earhart Putnam, woman trans
Atlantic flier, Sunday deferred for
twenty-four hours her proposed
takeoff on nonstop fight from
Los Angeles to New York. Mrs.
Putnam said she will leave this
noon, weather permitting.
She will not attempt a record
fight, since her plane cannot carry
enough fuel for high speed nayi-
eating all that distance.
BARRE, VT. Aug. 22.-Weather
reports were unfavorable today and
Clyde A. Lee and John Bochkon de-
layed the start Of their trip to
Harbor Grace to take of for Oslo,
Norway. They likely will start Tues
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
cooLIDGE'S COUSIN DIES
Auto Accident in California Is Fatal
to Three.

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Aug.
22.-Charles B. Coolidge, 81, Of Los
Angeles, killed with his wife and
another woman Sunday in an auto
mobile accident 100 miles northeast
of here, was tentatively identified
today as a cousin of former PreSi-
dent Calvin Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
AUTO CRASHES, BURNS
ST. Louis Couple Escape With
Bruises in Brazil Mishap.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
BRAZIL, Ind, Aug. 22.-When an
auto in which they we're riding ran
over an embankment, catching fire.
after collision with another car
eight miles west of here on the
National road, Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adtle Stecht Of st.
Louis, escaped with minor injuries
and are recovering today at a hos
pital here. The car was demolished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
BUSINESS QUIZ OPENS
South Bend Scene of Federal Probe
on Competition.
By United Press

~ Gffttcu russ
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. o.
The Shannon congressional COM
mittee investigating the extent of
purported government competition
with private business opened its
midwest session here today. Wit
nesses representing concerns from
Boston to Denver were scheduled
to be called.
Operation Of a government barge
line on the Mississippi and con-
Meeting rivers was the main topic
at the South Bend meeting.
Railroad and shipping interests
sent Bruce Dwinell, chief counsel
Of the Rock Island lines, and nearly
a dozen other witnesses to appear
before the committee.
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so he could sign them and, failing
in this, forged Clarke's name.
He said he was sure Clarke
would have signed the suicide
notes, had he been able.
I ANCASTER explained he had
IL bought the fatal pistol in st.
Louis to give to Miami friend in
return for borrowed weapon that
he had pawned in Ell Paso.
He denied that his bed was I'M
rumpled as though he had not
been in it that night.
Mrs. Keith Miller said Lancas-
ter had come to her room, aWak-
ened her and informed her that
Clarke had killed himself.
By means of Captain Lancaster's
diary, introduced at the trial, the
prosecution unfolded a story of
the British war flier's burning
love for the chubby little Austria
liam aviatrix-who weighs only 90
pounds and so small that she has
to be propped into her seat with
cushions to reach the plane con-
trolls.
Samples of entries Captain Lam
caster made during his western
business trip-while Clarke and
Mrs. Keith Miller remained in
Miami to write the book-are as
follows:
Thursday, March 10, San An
gelo, Tex.-Wire from Chubbie.
God bless her. How dear she is
to mel"
Thursday, March "a, FL Paso,
TeX.-No news from Chubbie. She
has disappointed me far more
than this damned expedition"
Monday, March %, Ell Paso,
Tex.-Letter from Haden Clarke
and Chubbie.' Very disappointed.
Looks as though Chubbie just
dashed off a note as a sort of
duty. Haden a little more enlight-
ening; hope he is keeping his
promise to me-
"Wednesday, March 80, Nogales,
Ariz.- No news from Chubbie.
Why does the child not write?"
Saturday, April 2, Los Angeles
Russell shows me two of Mrs.
RS letters. One says 'Chubbie
and Clarke came around tonight,
and they we're all ginned up. 1
really think now that Clarke has
gained Chubbie's affections and
that Bill has lost them {.
Mental agony. He'll"
ENTRIES Of similar vein con-
IL tinued almost up to April 20,
the day that Captain Lancaster
flew into Miami from st. Louis.
1t was early the next morning
that Clarke was found shot
through the head.
At the trial, Mrs. Keith-Miller
defended Lancaster in her testi-
mony. She said she had loved
Clarke and had contemplated
marrying him, but insisted that
her love had since faded because
she had found that Clarke had
lied to her
She refused to say whether she
still was in love with Lancaster.
She did say, however, that she
still was very fond of him"
A witness produced by the state
testified that Lancaster had
threatened to get rid" of Clarke.
Lancaster denied it.
Numerous defense. witnesses, in
GLIDING doctors, supported Lam
casters claim that Clarke had
shot himself.
Il Il
TTAD Haden Clarke lived to
l. L finish his book on the two
lovers whose fame as daring avia-
tors was worldwide, it would have
been a colorful story even with
out the tragic chapter that his
death provided.
Dinlinutive Mrs. Jessie Keith