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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
A Sop To Sopwith

"I do not feel vindicative at my treat ment at the hands of the New York Yacht Club" says Sopwith, challenger for the Americas cup, "but do feel completely disillusioned." He admits his own mis- takes as skipper, but laments that he found the races "run as big business, something he was not prepared to contend with" He speaks also with appreciation of the cordiality and good will shown him by the American public
 The New York Yacht Club regards the cup as its exclusive property and always controls the races. It has often been urged to yield the trophy and its defense to American yachtsmen in general, making such races truly national. Other Ameri- can yachting centers, such as Boston, Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, San Fran cisco and Miami, ought to have a fair chance. There is not much chance, how ever, that the New Workers will consent to making such races anything less than "big business sport for metropolitan multimillionaires.
 There is no reason why other American yachting groups shouldn't get together and give Sopwith or any other foreign yachting groups chance to race, on toler able terms, against yachts really repre- senting America and not costing vast fortunes to build and sail. Why shouldn't leading American yachtsmen throughout the country organize and put up an American cup to be raced for with yachts of limited size and cost by Sopwith or anybody else?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
Selected Poem
ALIGNMENT. (By Harold Willard Gleason in the New York Times,)

the New York Tmes.) You say Gale stoner's gone? I want to know! Of course his back was bowed, his hair was gray
 ing
 But. shucks! many years he'd been surveying Right here In town it kind of seemed as though A curious critter, Cae-he made such show Of godliness, condemning to perdition All nelghbors off the path of prohbition-- And yet some people thought--course, I don't
 know His plumb-b bob used to swi Ing n little mite Whichever way he caught the glint of money His transit lined up levels tarnai funny When Squire Catett nodded. left or right! Which makes one wonder. now. if ever he Wl sight the beDchmarks of Eternity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

Too many nations now are crawling through fences and dragging guns behind them by the muzzle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

The statesmen, it is said, have definite ly given up all idea of disarmament for the present Unfortunately it is not the statesn1en, but the common people, who do the fighting when war comes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

How's the government going to pay that huge deficit? Why, it's very simple. Selling new postage stamp issues to col lectors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

sIn multitude of counsel there is wis., dom," said Solomon. But not much punch, pep and action. One-man businesses suc- ceed oftener than partnerships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-08

should not lay dark eggs,
 Q. How long dc parrots live in n'l captivity?
 A. They have been known to live sixty years. 7. 0. Who comprise the governing body of the Smithsonian institu- ton?
 "A. It is: governed by B board of regents consisting of the vice. president of the United States, the chief justice of the. U. S., three members of the senate, three mem bers of the house of representa- lives, and six, citizens, appointed by joint resolution of congress.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
KHAN TO MEET
NEAR KOKOMO
Fiery Cross to Burn 5 Days
Beginning June 80,
Program Says.

The fiery cross of the Ku-Klux
Khan will shed its baleful glow in
the vicinity of Kokomo for five days
beginning June 80, according to pro-
gram plans disclosed today.
Invitations announcing "a ire
mendous Ku-Klux Khan celebration
to which other realms are invited"
are being broadcast, The Times
learned.
The meeting, scheduled for Mel
falfa park, four miles west of Ko-
komo, is to be held June 80 through
July /, 2, and 4.
In red and blue letters, the invi-
tations disclose that mail arrange
mentS have been made, food and
music will be provided and a con-
tinuous program is assured.
H. B. Doc) Farrell, state organic
er of the X. K. K, with headquar-
tiers in the knights of Phythias
building, said two degrees, the
Knights of Camelias and knights of
Mystic Forest, would be given.
Religious services and pageant
will feature one Sunday of the
meeting. The state organizations
meeting will be held at 10 a. m.
July 4. Delegates from Ohio, Mich
igan, Kentucky and Illinois are ex-
pected to attend the sessions. James
A. ColeScott, Columbus, O., imperial
representative, will be one of the
speakers, Mr.. Farrell said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
Speedway Crowds Begin of City for Annual Classic

Governor Paul V. McNutt will
head box party at the annual
Understanding.
Mail will not be delivered in the
residential sections tomorrow. Usual
holiday deliveries will be in vogue
downtown. All city, county, federal
and state offices will be closed.
Banks, business places and depart
ment stores will shut up shop. ~
The days more serious side will be
observed by Memorial day parade
at 10 a. m. followed by rites for the
war dead at the Soldiers and Sailors
monument. AT p. m. the general
memorial services will be held at
Crown Hill with Frederick K. Lam
dis, Logansport editor, as the
speaker.
Rites were to be held today at the
Grove of Remembrance, Garfield
park. under auspices of Hamilton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

Usher, yesterday at municipal air.
port. They will be the guests of
Colonel and Mrs. E. S. Gorrell and
Colonel and Mrs. E. v. Ricken-
hacker.
L. P. Fisher, president of the
Cadillac division OF General Motors,
was an early arrival at the Claypool.
Gene Tunney, former heavy
weight champion, was due by plane
today with a group of New York
sport writer's.
A trainload of Ford dealers will
leave Detroit tonight to attend the
race.
Thirty United States army ships
from Selfridge field, Mt. Clemens,
Mich, and from Rantoul, ILL.,, are
expected here race morning.
Joe Dawson, winner of the 1912
race, has reservations at the Co
lumbia Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

Speedway gates hold their quota
of campers waiting in line for the
starting line. Tourist camps are
tanning.
West Sixteenth street looks like a
country carnival with its hamburger
stands, cane-racks, and soft drink
purveyors.
Roadhouses on the city's outskirts
scurried for bacon to care for the
sandwich trade. Orchestras let out
notches of dance speed in prepara-
ton for race night fox-trots.
Beer emporiums are prepared for
the thirsty.
City workmen are busy stringing
banners informing visitors that one
way traffic holds forth on race day.
Amelia Earhart, speed flier, was
one of the first of the prominent
arrivals. She flew in with her huS-
band. George Palmer Putnam. pub
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

Every ones racing-to Indian
apolis
Highways from the compass
points, excursion trains from bor-
dering states, bus loads of men in
white and two-tone Suitings and
women in flowery gowns and droopy
hats, cohverged on the city today
for the Memorial day 500-mile race.
Even the pulse of citizens was
stepped up many miles per hour.
The grocery boy stepped on the gas
a little more firmly on his rounds
in tuneup of spirits for the an
nual classic. Once again the whole
town is definitely race conscious.
Hotel rooms are at premium.
Homes on the National road are
making their annual HAY" by bed
ding down drivers of cars with
every color of license plate in
the nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
FAIR WEATHER IS
PROMISED FOR RACE
Slight Chance for Rain,
Says Arlington.

The weather man smiled benignly
on race fans today and gave his
blessings for mild, but slightly
cloudy day tomorrow.
Although the skies will be dark
ened by drifting clouds, the rain
which has been brewing on the At
lantic coast is not expected to play
the role of the big, bad wolf" for
Speedway enthusiasts.
Always somewhat cautious in pre-
dieting the tickle weather, j. H.
Arlington, local meteorologist, said
There is not much chance of rain
coming anywhere near Indianapolis
tomorrow"
From the standpoint of both spec
tators and participants, the weather
outlook is nearly perfect for tomor-
row. The gruelling sun which has
beaten so mercilessly on the brick
oval in years past, will be obscured
at least part of the day.
Variable winds will cool the air
and temperatures will remain in
the seventies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

Berry chapter Service Star Legion.
Hilton U. Brown was to be the main
speaker.
Other services scheduled for Me-
mortal day in cemeteries are at New
Crown, Mount Jackson, Glen Haven
Memorial cemeteries and at Fit.
Benjamin Harrison.
The Indians and Louisville
Colonies will play afternoon and
night games at the American AS
ISOLATION ball park.
All-night dances are planned at
several bathrooms tonight and to-
morrow night.
Movie theaters have scheduled
special programs for race week.
Amusement parks tidjed up for
capacity crowds. Groceries did a
rush business today on chickens,
pickles and sandwich filings.
Everyone's raclng-to and in In
dianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
DROUGHT AND
INSECT HORDE
MENACE CROPS
Wheat Burns in Fields;
Minnesota Farmers
Pray for Rain.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, May 29.-Dry weather,
chinch bugs and grasshoppers
plagued the American farmer today
with the threat of a major crop
failure. Scattered rains fell in some
sections but they were so light as
barely to lay the dust of one of the
most extensive droughtS in recent
history.
The weather bureau reported
light showers at La Crosse, Wis,
and Watertown, N. D., and the
weather forecast gave some added
hope in the form of unsettled con-
ditions in several of the dozen
states where dry weather has taken
on almost the aspects of a dis
aster.
The rain thus far reported, how
ever, was insufficient to swell
streams and rivers that have fallen
so low as to make water shortage
a reality in many towns and to en-
danger the fish left gasping in scat
tered pools OF warm wafer.
Bugs Destroy Barley
Broad fields of wheat turned pre-
maturely brown under the broiling
sun that sent temperatures climb
ing rapidly toward the one hundred
mark.
Reports from grain traders agents
sent to survey the situation showed
the crop badly burned in some sec
tons and in Others damage was
reported such that even with good
rains Immediately only half crop
will be harvested. Many fields will
not be cut at all.
Added to the ravageS of dry
weather insects took their toll. From
Earl Park, Ind, came a report that
one 120-acre field of barley was
plowed up today because of damage
from chinch bugs.
In the Canadian wheat belt grass
hoppers were reported Matching
with extreme rapidity In nearly
every section.
Wheat Price Lower
Despite the flood of unfavorable
weather and crop reports, wheat
prices on the Chicago Board of
Trade worked fractionally lower as
traders changed over to the selling
side after pushing prices almost to
the dollar mark.
At Minneapolis the magical dol
lar figure became an actuality.
In Fergus Falls, Mimi, all bust
ness was suspended at noon today
while resident f1ocked to a church
to pray for rain. The services we're
under the auspices of all churches
in the city and will be held daily
until the drought is broken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
TOLEDO FEARS
Renewed RIOTS
Troops Are Rushed to Three
Factories as UnruIy
MODS Gather.
By United Press

By United Press
TOLEDO, May 29.-Threat of
further rioting caused national
guardSmen to be rushed to three
automotive parts manufacturing
companies today while federal ne
diators strove unavailingly to bring
peace on Toledo's troubled labor
front.
While one detachment patrolled
the riot-torn Electric Auto-Lite
plant, scene of disturbances which
killed two men and injured scores
last week, other troopers were called
out by Colonel William A. Marlin
for riot duty at the Bingham
Stamping Company and Logan
Gear Company.
Army officers were informed that
unruly crowds, armed with bricks,
stones and clubs, had gathered
about the two plants.
1.-The situation is growing very Sc
rious," said Charles P. Taft, chief
fede al mediator.
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DR.. Dafoe, a country doctor treat
ing case which the worlds leading
physicians would want nothing bet
ter than to attend, kept the tiny
mites of humanity alive and felt
that perhaps they might all pull
through.
Mrs. Dionne, %, was already the
mother of six children, when nature
surprisingly enlarged her family by
five. The quintuplets were born
early yesterday, one of the very few
cases where all babies survived for
more than a few minutes.
Or. Dafoe gave as much atten-
ton to the mother as to the babies,
the largest weighing three pounds,
four ounces, the two smallest, two
pounds, four ounces when weighed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

together. The combined weight of
the five at birth was thirteen
pounds, six ounces.
Mrs. Dionne was in poor health
during all of her pregnancy and the
doctor was not pleased with her
condition. He felt no doubt but what
he would pull her through.
Father a Bit Dazed
The father still seemed startled.
H~ didn't know how he would pro-
vide for his large family, but felt
sure God would provide way.
The five babies were in huge
clothes basket atop a bureau next
to their mothers bed. They re-
ceived their first earthly meal this
morning.
We've got our hands full all
right" said DR.. Befoe, who had re-
manned with his charges all night.
We've got to feed those little
buffers with an eye dropper."
Mr.. Dionne lowering about, adj
mitted he was proud and said he
had very good reason to be. He is
struggling to keep up the mortgage
payments on his farm and is one of
the few in the district not receiving
relief payments. He does not intend
asking for them now.
House Built of Logs
The farm house is built of logs
and is very old. 1t has four small
rooms. The windows are still board
ed up against the rigorous Ontario
winter.
A Kings county bounty of three
pounds sterling was given to Mrs.
Dionne today. The bounty is given
to mothers of tripletS or more.
The couple were married nine
years ago. The father is only five
feet seven inches tall, weighing 1913
pounds, while his wife is slightly
smaller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1884
Contents Not Color

NEWSPAPER judged by what it prints rather than by the
n than year The Indian
general and adding
having appeal rather than to emotion Its
clean and conservative 1t does
strain for sensatonism.
generously The
which Will 1earleSSy
special privilege print the truth far it is humanity
possible to determine it.
trying make a and better Tfmes-a news
paper will the community but which will be
readable.
In keeping with this policy questioned the eye specialists
Indianapolis whether the pink which The
printing editions difficult to
white that black White paper
the best guarantee against eyestran.
Therefore service to its readers The Times Will dscon-
May 81 On that day all editions
will appear white paper.
After all, contents, not color, that counts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
DILLINCER, PALS
REPORTED HERE
Police Kept Busy by Report
on Americas No. |
Desperate.

Sinister influence of John Dillin-
ger, phantom bandit" lowered
over Indianapolis last night and
early today as thousands arrived in
the city for the annual Speedway
classic.
Police were kept on the jump as
reports of the Indiana despreado
centered in this city. Local and
state police we're informed by
former neighbor" or Dillinger's in
MooreSville that he had seen the
notorious gangster, with three other
men, in a black sedan at Thirty
first street and College avenue last
night.
The black sedan, according to the
informant bore Indiana license
plates but he was unable to recall
the numbers. The informant told
police that he had known Dillinger
many years and was certain of his
Identification.
From Westf1eld today came re-
ports that three business men of the
community are convinced that they
saw Dillinger, his companion, George
(Baby Face Nelson and two women
there recently.
The supposed gangsters ate sup
per in the town and filled their
gasoline tank at a local gas sta
ton. After remaining in town an
hour, the gangsters left Westfleld,
going north. they said.
Refuting the statement of Homer
Cummings, United States attorney
general, who believes that Dillinger
is dead, Captain Mattt Leach of the
state police told members of the
Indiana University Club, he believes
Dillinger to be very much alive"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
DOUBLE GUARD PLACED
OVER PANAMA CANAL
LOCKS, OFFICER SAYS

By United Press
CRISTOBAL, G. T., May o.
The military guard on the
Panama canal locks has been
doubled, it was reported today.
A high army officer said the re-
port was true, and added:
Perhaps those who are guard
ing the canal are sensitive about
something"
1t was recalled that during the
recent naval maneuvers, when the
fleet passed through the canal in
a speed test, extraordinary war;
time precautions were taken to
guard it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
j. s. OFFERS TO SLASH
NAVY AT ARMS FARLEY
Generous Gesture Toward Peace of World
Startles Worried Delegates
at Geneva.
NORMAN DAVIS OUTLINES PLAN
America Also Willing to Join in Control of
Munitions, Conference Is Told;
German Return Asked.


GENEVA May 29-The United States went squarely
record for peace the world conference today by
offering to reduce it's navy and to join international
for control of the traffic in America also de-
cared willingness consult with other nations in
of trouble.
The action marked climax in the long and losing
struggle for disarmament at Geneva.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29

to Indianapolis today.
Promptly at 10 a. m. tomor-
row the pace car piloted by
Big Bill RAIDER will roar away
from the starting line, and the
thirty-three speed creations which
survived elimination tests will be on
their way in the worlds greatest
auto race.
Once around the track the pace
car will pull off on to the apron
and colorful Colonel Roscoe Turner
will flag the carefully groomed race
machines into the long grind.
With an advance sale report 80
per cent heavier than last year,
indianapolis Motor Speedway Off
Gals today predicted the largest
crowd in four years, with 10000
set as the probable figure.
Hotels Are damned
Hotels were famed today as
thousands from all parts of the
country poured into the city in a
steady stream. The line at the
Speedway gate grew steadily, but
the big push will not start until
early tomorrow morning, when the
merry throng will converge on the
huge speed plant for the annual
gasoline carnival.
Only one former winner will face
the barrier tomorrow. Louis Meyer,
one of the greatest drivers of all
time, who roared across the finish
line triumphant in 1928 and again
last year, hopes to establish an
all-time mark of two consecutive
victories and three wins. Tommy
Milton, retired, is the only other
double victor.
Fred Frame, 1882 winner, was
eliminated from the 1884 classic by
a laSt-minute Smashup yesterday.
Barreling into the northeast curve
at 120 miles an hour during a prac-
tice spin, Frame miraculouSly es-
capped death when the left steering
arm on his. front-wheeler, one of
the fastest cars on the track,
snapped suddenly. Frame had no
control over the car, and it ca
reened madly down the back
stretch, striking the inside wall on
the northwest curve.
Both Escape Unhurt
Al Thiesen, dirt track racer who
was out for ride with the veteran
star, and Frame both escaped un-
hurt. Frame and his mechanics
labored furiously to get the speedy
little buggy in shape before the 4
p. m. deadline for qualifying tests.
At 400, the car was on the track,
but A. A. A. officials ruled the trials
ended.
Another popular favorite with
Speedway crowds will be missing
from the starting field Pete Kreis,
handsome Knoxville (Tenn.) vet
eran, hurtled over the wall on the
southwest curve last Friday and
plunged to his death against tree.
Harry Hartz's Miller front-wheel-
er was demolished, Young Bob
Hahn, mechanician and Pacific
coast dirt track racer, also was
killed. Both died instantly.
But many other veteran favorites
Turn to Page Ten)
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ington; Linn Hay and Clarence
Martin Indianapolis, former SUI
preme court justices; Elmer @.
Lockyear, Indianapolis, former ap-
pellate judge, and Conner Ross,
Whiteland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
GENERAL JOHNSON TO
RESIGN, CAPITAL HINTS
Shifts in NRA Personnel Give
Credence to RumOrS.
Copyright, 1884. bv United Pressl,

Copyright, 1884, by United Pressl
WASHINGTON, May 29.-Shifts,
in NRA personnel and policy coin
eide today with new reports that
Administrator Hugh S. johnson will
resign soon and that the White
House has been canvassing possible
successors.
General johnson has denied he
would quit.
One usually we'll informed source
said w. Averell Hartman, railroad
magnate and recently powerful in
NRA, was among those suggested
for job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
CHILD HIT BY TRUCK
Girl, 9, Suffers Head Injuries;
Taken to City Hospital.

Alma Marvel, 9, Flackville, suf-
fered serious head injuries today
when she was struck by a truck
driven by Glenn Webb, 30, Frank
fort, and thrown twenty-five feet
into the air at Thirtieth street and
state road So. She was sent to city
hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-29
GIRLS DEATH BATTLES
SACRAMENTO POLICE
Daughter of State Official Found
Dead From Burns.
By United Press

D CUIJtU ITBSS
SACRAMENTO, Cal, May %
Conflicting evidence of murder and
suicide confronted police today in
the mysterious death of pretty
Virginia Johnson, %, daughter of
state treasurer Charles G.. johnson,
a gubernatorial candidate.
The girls hame-seared body was
found in garage behind an apart
ment building. Kerosene had been
poured over her clothing and a
torch applied, burning her features
almost beyond recognition.
Inclined to assign her death to
murder, detectives also considered
the suicide theory.