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STATE Will RUSH POISON DEATHTRIAL Walser Confesses Part He [' Played in Killing Boy for Insurance. ■WE NEEDED MONEY’ Husband Admits Preparing Fatal Drink and Tells | of Motives. Bn United Press MARION, Ind., June 4 A wretched husband and wife, their full parts in the poisoning of a schoolboy for his bit of insurance at last admitted in signed confessions, will be made the objects of swift administration of justice, Prosecutor Edward C. Hays promised today. Just as a formality , warrants charging first degree murder will be sworn out against Arthur and Dorothea Walser, the husband, a matured man of 29, the wife a girl of 16, who have admitted the bizarre plot to kill her cousin, Clifford Cox, 12. The machinery of the law will swing into action Monday, when a special grand jury will meet. Hays will ask the return of indictments charging first degree murder. Early Trial Sought Hays, nearing the end of his first term as one of the youngest to sit in the office of prosecuting attorney of Grant County, asserted today that early arraignment and trial will be sought. The young prosecutor himself will prepare and handle the State's completed case. Walser's confession was obtained Friday night, after an Indianapolis chemist had reported that arsenic found in Clifford's stomach would have killed any person, and after Dorothea had sobbed out her part the crime. B Both admit the motive, to get $445 in Insurance. Dorothea blames her husband, says she feared if she did not poison Clifford he would do away with their 2-months-old baby. Tells of Murder Plans This Walser does not deny. The husband relates that he directed his wife to buy paris green. The mixture of arsenic compound and lemohade he admits he prepared with his own hands and does not say Dorothea assisted him. When he met Clifford on the only business street of the Quaker city of Fairmount the sam£ morning, and learned the boy was coming to see the baby, he returned, he swears, and told Dorothea how to proceed. The day after Clifford died in agony, he says he warned Dorothea not to-say too much: The motive he admits. Needed the Money “We were terribly hard up,’’ says this husband, who was not able to provide for his family and bought his wife only $4 worth of clothes in a year. Remorse he now writes into the Story. “My conscience hurt me ever since,” he cries. "I wish I never had helped poison him.” The State will add to this document the charge that the murder had been, planned for a month or more, s The Walsers held insurance no: only on Clifford's life, but for Lucille, their infant daughter, and Helen. •Khey paid the premiums with borrowed money. DEMO MEET NEXT WEEK Indiana Editors to Gather at Wyandotte Cave. Leaders of Indiana Democracy will attend the summer outing of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association next Friday and Saturday at Wyandotte Cave. The list indtyles Thomas Taggart, dean of Hoosier Democrats; State Chairman R. Earle Peters, Secretary Michael Williams, Albert Stump. United States Senate nominee last year, National Committeeman Charles A. Greathouse, and Walter Myers, who ran for mayor in Indianapolis in 1925. Interest will center in prospective State ticket candidates, and it is expected that resolutions placing the State. Democratic press definitely behind Evans Woollen, Democratic possibility for President of the States, will be adopted. CHURCH MAN TO PRISON / Janitor Found Guilty of Statutory . Charge. * Bn Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind . June 4. After deliberating fifty hours, a Clark Courity jury found Janies Nixon, 64, janitor of St. Luk’s Reformed Church: guilty of a statutory tfense against Mary Elizabeth Bair, 14, his grand niece. Nixon, hose penalty was recommended at five to twenty-one years in the State Prison, announced he would ask a new trial. .Ambassador Apt. Hotel. Ri. 1311. Comfortable, beautiful, reasonable. , u • —Adv.

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Walser Confession That He Slew Boy

The confession of Arthur Walzer in the Fairmount poisoning case fol“I, Arthur Walser, of Fairmount, Ind., make this statement of my own free will and without any threats or promises being made, and knowing that whatever I say may be used against me. “I am the husband of Dorothea Walser and knew Clifford Cox, my wife’s cousin. I gave Dorothea my coupon book and told her to get some paris green. I knew that if Clifford died I would get part of the money. “On Friday morning, May 27, I mixed a glass of paris green. I had seen Clifford Cox on Main St. In Fairmount a little while before and Clifford told me he was going to our house to see the baby. Later I went out to the front of the house and told Dorothea to tell Clifford the glass was on the cabinet. “When I saw Clifford lying in our back yard, and I knew he had drunk paris green, I was afraid to tell anybody what Clifford had drunk. “My conscience hurt me ever since. I wish I never had helped poison him. On Saturday morning. May 28, 1927, I told Dorothea when she started to Vetors (Clifford’s grandparents), not to tell everything she knew “We were terribly hard lip and needed the insurance money on Clifford Cox. That was the motive."

FLOOD GROUP TO HEAR PLANS Resolutions for Prevention Up at Closing Session. Bn United Press CHICAGO, June 4.—'The resolutions by which members of the flood congress hope to create action to bridle the flood waters of the Mississippi river, will be presented, at the closinl: day of the Congress today. The resolutions committee is headed by Senator James E. Watson. Indiana, and for two days has listened to hundreds of proposals for preventing disastrous floods. Specific plans have been submitted beforca sub-committee. The resolutions finally decided upon will bring to a close the meeting called by mayors ot Chicago, New Orleans and St. Louis to decide on petitioning a definite form of flood relief. Nicholas Longworth, speaker in the House of Representatives, was to address the delegation today. His views were expected to coincide greatly with those of other government officials including Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and Maj. Gen. Edgnr Jadwin, chief of army engineers.

Opening Markets

Bh Ihitcd Pres* NEW YORK. June 4.—The reaction which depressed the stock market. through most of the session yesterday was arrested in leading issues jn early dealings today, with General Motors leading the list with a spurt of nearly two points to 199 after opening % lower at 197%. United States Steel also sold off at the opening, but quickly turned about, rising to 123%, compared with its initial price of 123 1 /*. Houston Oil was an outstanding feature, soaring 5% points to 154*4. The remainder of the market was irregular, but fluctuations were narrow. Friday’s substantial losses in active stocks throughout the list caused a flood of margin calls to be sent out overnight. Although brokers reported a generally good response, many traders decided to retire from the market rather than risk the possibility of further reaction and selling of this kind as well as of the necessitous variety subjected the general list to renewed pressure in early dealings today. New York Stock Opening —June 4 Amer Can ,?!>v Amer Loco J ’ - ‘ Amer Smelting . joo Amer Tel and Tel ;,167 ■ Anaconda Raid win Loco -J;,: Calif Pete si,** C. F. & T. .. A 221? Chicago & Northwestern ???* Chrysler 45*. Cont Can Cont Motors Corn Products Famous Players .1.“ Fink Tir* *2 >’ Genera! Electric J General Motors 191% Hudson Motor jO Hupp Motors . . . t Houston 100 'Krnn. Cop., 63 % Mack HI Marland 36% Mont Ward 66% N. Y. Central 151’. N. Y.. N. H. Ik H 50’, Nash . . . fl3'Xorthern Pacific ''* Pan-Amer Pete (B) •>7% Pennsylvania fi.,’, Phillips 43'.. Radio 46% Tsrp Iron and Steel 66’* Rock Island 104 '4 Scars-Roebuck . jjti So. Pacific lli standard Oil Cat *>3% Standard Oil. N. J... 36J4 Shelly 37', Studebaker #O% Texas Oi! 48% Timken ....101*% Union Pacific 1 ' c ’, U. S. Rubber 4,' U S. Steel 123% Wabash 75’'-Willys-Overland 19 - f New York Curb Opening —June 4 Bid Ask. Cities Service 46% 45% Cont Oil If‘4 17% Durant 9 9% Ford (Canada) 435 459 Goodyear 53% 54 Humble Oil 56 06% Indiana Pipe ... 68 69 Int. Pete 29% 29% Imperial Oil (Canada) .... 43% 43% Marmon 53% 54% Ohio Oil 56% 57 Prairie Pipe 164 16*!? Prairie Oil and Gas 47% 4,% Reo 21 % 32 Stuta 13 13% Standard Oil (Indiana) .... 66% 67% Standard Oil (Kansas) .... 16 16% Slandard Oil (Kentucky) . 112% 114 Vacuum Oil 124 124% LOCAL LIVESTOCK OPENING Hogs—Receipts. 7,000: market, 5 to 15c lower: top, $9.45; bulk, $8.7547 9.40. Cattle—Receipts, 200; market, not established. Calves —Receipts, 300; market, fully steady; best vealers, sl2. Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 200; market, steady to strong.

VACCINATION PROBE ORDERED Test Case in School and Health Boards’ Order. Hearing on petition for a temporary restraining order to prevent the health and school boards enforcing the order that children and teachers be vaccinated for smallpox, was to be held today before Judge James M. Leathers, Superior Court Room 1. Petition was presented by attorneys representing Walter E. Baun, 2411 N. Gale St., who filed it in behalf of his boy William and all others similarly situated. It is alleged the boy was sent home from school three times because he had not been vaccinated, in direct violation of the compulsory attendance law. It was alleged Baun signed an exemption slip for his son. Wood to Introduce Cal Bn limes Special HAMMOND. Jnd.. June 4 —Representative Will R. Wood, from Tenth* Indiana district, today cabled his acceptance of an invitation to introduce President Coolidge when he speaks here on Flag day, June 14. dedicating Wicker Memorial Park. Wood, now in the Philippines, cabled that he was returning to Indiana immediately to visit Hammond.

CHICAGO LIVESTOCK OPENING Hogs—Receipts, 7,090: "market, slow; appears, weak: holdovers, 9,000. Cattle —Receipts, 200. Sheep and lambs —Receipts, 4,000. Chicago Grain Opening Bu Int ted Press CHICAGO, June 4.—Wheat—July, off ’gC; September, off %e. Corn — July , off %c: September, unchanged. Oats —July, up 'gc; September, up Vic. Provisions, steady. PERU STORM SWEPT 1 Houses Inroofed; Rivers on Ram page Near Warsaw. pfiRU, Ind., June 4.—Houses were unroofed, porches blown away, trees uprooted and garages demolished by a terrific windstorm with tornado characteristics which descended on a section of the east end of Peru early today. Damage will amount to several thousand dollars. No one was infar a§ could be learned. No wind was noticed in other sections of the city, although a heavy rainfall was general. WARSAW, Ind., June 4.—A cloudburst early today sent the Tippecanoe River and other streams in Kosciusko County on a rampage, flooding basements of business places and residences. Three inches of water fell within an hour, damaging the corn crop here. SISTER IS PRISONER BRAZIL MAN FEARS e Woman Writes That She Is Held Against Her Will. A Brazil (Ind.) woman was being held prisoner somewhere in Indianapolis today, according to a letter

received by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson today from C. E. Kinsman, her brother, of Brazil. She is Mrs. Lena Nelson. Kinsman wrote Chief Johnson asking aid in finding, her. Kinsman's letter follows: About three weeks ago my sister left here for your city to obtain employment. We have not heard from her since, just a short note

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saying she was detained against her will, and could not come home. According to this postmark there must be a soldiers’,camp near your city. Please investigate and see if you can locate her. She 1s 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, is a blonde and is 32 years old.” Chief Johnson has ordered an investigation, A J , HdfckJ

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927

MAYOR WON’T BE HERE FOR ARRAIGNMENT Duvall Plans to Leave Sunday for Police Chief Convention. NO DEFENSE MOVES Say Defendant Need Alot Appear in Court Monday. Mayor Duvall will leave Indianapolis Sunday morning and drive to Windsor. Canada, with Police Chief Claude Johnson and Detective Sergeant Arthur Reeves to attend the international police chief's convention. He will not be in Criminal Court Monday, arraignment day. when he and his brother-in-law, William C. Buser, city controller, are supposed to plead to charges of making fraudulent election statements. Duvall also Is charged with violating the corrupt practice act. "You bet I am going,” Duvall saiA •‘l'll be leaving here with Chief Johnson Sunday.” "Then you won't be in court Monday?” he was asked. “No. guess not,” he answered. No Action Today His attorneys, John C. Ruckelshaus and Eph Inman, said no action will be taken today. “AH motions will be filed Monday,” Ruckelshaus announced. It is expected attornej s will flic a motion for change of judge from Judge James A. Collins. According to attorneys it will not he necessary for defendants to be in court if this is done. If the motion is honored, three members of the bar will be named for the prospective judgeship. The State will strike off one name, tiie defense another and the remaining lawyer formally will be appointed. More Witnesses Meanwhile Remy and his aids, Special Deputies John W. Holtzman, and Emlscy W. Johnson, were to call more witnesses in the alleged political corruption probe, which is continuing. Friday, the prosecutors interviewed among others Roy Shancberger. former board of works president; W, C. Brass, W. C. Brass Company, low bidder on voting booths last year by county commissioners: Frederick “Davennort. former city purchasing agent's assistant; William S. Corner, former city engineer's office employe, and Elmer R. MulUn, tinner, with a shop near the business of .1. E. Hogle, 5525 Bonna Ave., nephew of Cassius L. Hogle, commissioner's president. LIFE TERM FOR PATRON Man Killed Woman Restaurant Owner Over Cigarette. Bn Times Spe-cinl WASHINGTON. Ind.. June 4 Ota Hatfield, Vincennes, was sentenced to life imprisonment in State Prison last right after a jury, deliberating five hours, found him guilty of murdering Nell Anderson, restaurant owner. Hatfield killed the woman 4n an argument which followed her order that he throw away a cigarette he was smoking. PASTOR DIES IN CRASH Wife and Child Hurt—Adjusting Luggage Fatal. Bu Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., June 4. The Rev. C. J. Swain, Portland United Brethren Church, was killed and his wife injured seriously when their automobile crashed Friday, into a telephone pole on Rd. 3, near here. A daughter, Mary, 5, suffered minor,injuries as did three other girls, Mary Axe, 19, and Lucille Bryan, 17, Portland, and Martha Butcher, 17, Geneva. The car struck fresh gravel while Mr. Swain was adjusting luggage in the rear. The party was returning from,a three-day missionary conference at Columbus. Mr. Swain is survived also by three other children.

School House Shelters Petting Flaming Youth

Indianapolis “flaming youth” has found .anew sanctum sanctorium in which to pet, namely, public school buildings at night, school authorities have trrM police. Youths go to school at night, but often not- for traditional “three Rs. Reading, Riting and Rithmatic,” they have added a fourth. “Romeoing." Police intend to add a fifth, “Routing." According to the daily police bulletin issued to all patrolmen, “a complaint has been received from the school board that almost eevry night school houses in the city are being entered ;u* 'petting parties’ are be ing staged. Watch school buildings in your district and visit them as often as possible." ~

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Bn Lnitrd Press GARDEN CITY, L. 1., June 4.—Mrs. Grace Nova Levine, who fainted at Roosevelt Field today when her husband, Charles Lc\ •*e, left for Europe with Clarence Chamberlin without telling her good-by, turned Epartan a few hours later, after Mrs. Chamberlin comforted her at the Garden City Hotel. “If my husband is courageous enough to fly to Europe. I am courageous enough to stay at home and take care of the children,” Mrs. Levine said.

There are two children—Eloisc, 9. and Ardith, 9 months; Levine is a manufacturer of airplanes, not an aviator, and Mrs.* Levine, untrained in th© stoicism with which fliers’ wives stay ouietly at home while their husbands trust

Police Captain William Youcham was told a few minutes before the flight started to guard Mrs. Levine. He was one of the few who know Levine’s plan. When Levine clambered into the cabin just as the plane started down the runway for the first attempted takeoff, the captain told her Levine was going for a test flight Mrs. Levine, incredulous, ran toward the plane.

She reached for the side of the cabin—and the craft started down the runway. Youchum snatched her away barely in time to prevent an accident. Mrs. Levine screamed. She pressed a handkerchief to her lips and swayed as if she were about to faint. The plane stopped. Airs. Levine, convinced that her husband did not

Chamberlin and Levine waved as the plane eained speed. It left the ground and pointed into the air. The motor roared. The plane gaine dspeed, circled the field, headed over Long Island. The smile on Mrs. Levine’s face faded. She stared woodenly at the speck of white. Gradually she realized that her husband was off for Europe.

“H can't be going, be can't," she screamed. Then she fell limp. Friends held back th** crowd and Mrs. Levine was revived. She wept and grew hysterical while bystanders assured her that Levin© had

$1,250 IN RINGS TAKEN Short ridge Girl Loses Diamond Rings. A Shortridge High School girl who wore $1,250 worth of diamonds rings to school Friday does not have them today. Miss Marie Noel, Noblesville, Tnd.. who lives at 3302 N. New Jersey St., reported to police she removed the rings while she washed her hands in one of the Shortridge lavatorie3 and when she reached for them found them gone. MAN, 101, FINDS SOLACE Cut Off With SI in Wife's W ill, but Gets All of Pension. Bu United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis . June 4.—A grizzled fellow, Francis Collins, 101, and hardened to the vicissitudes of life. Even in the will of his wife, who died recently leaving him a lone dollar. Collins, a Civil AVar veteran and inmate of the soldiers’ home, found some solace. “You see," he explaihed, “she has been getting half my pension and now I'll get-it all.”

Complaints are most numerous from schools west of Madison Ave. and south of Washington St„ the bulletin says. Four schools were reported entered Thursday night. Within the last two weeks at least a dozen have been petered, police say. In some cpses miscellaneous articles were stolen and vandalism committed, but usually the offenders “pet," authorities believe. A pair of shoes stolen from another school several nights ago found in School 49. 192 W. Morris St., today. A man and a woman, who had entered the building by breaking glass in the front door were Been leaving during the night.

their lives to wood and canvas, was unable at first to withstand the shock. Mrs. Levine herself was, in a way, a more dramatic figure than the two men who set out for Europe, one in knickers, and one In a business suit.

intend to go, laughed with hysterical relief and turned to talk to friends. She paid no attention while the plan® wa.i jockeyed into position for a second attempt. Then the plane started again. Mrs Levine was not to be hoaxed a second time. She laughed and waved her handkerchief.

done a brave thing when he kept her in ignorance of his plans, to prevent worry. “Ton ought to be proud of him," John Carist. Levine's chief engineer. _said.

AIR MAIL SHIFTED Private Firm to Carry N. Y.Chicago Business. Bu T-imes Special WASHINGTON, June 4.—Uncle Sam will quit carrying his own air mail within the two months. Last obstacles to the transfer of the service to private contractors are removed by decision of Comptroller General McCarl sustaining Postmaster General New's award of the New York-Chicago contract to the National Air Transport Company. This award had been assailed by the North American Airways, Inc., ot Cleveland, a lower bidder. New ruled the latter company out because of the connection with Charles A. Levine, Bellanca airplane, Columbia backer. He declared the department of justice is still investigating transactions of Levine in wap supplies. The Chicago-San Francisco service, awarded to the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle, is expected to begin July 1. the New York-Chicago line, Aug. 1. ‘THIRD RAIL’ SHORTED Brewery, Real Saloon Raided— Suspects Are Held. A real brewery, the first uncovered by city police since prohibition, and a saloon, with 'everything from a 'third rail” to free lunch and pretzels, were raided Friday night by Sergt. Clifford Richter and squad at 113014 S. Meridian St. The brewery was found on the third floor and th saloon on the second. Storerooms are on the first floor David Grady. 40. 620 W. Morris St., and son, Nick, 29, Detroit, were arrested as owmers and operators. Two men and a woman, alleged customers, were arrested on vagrancy charges. A total of 554 quarts of beer was in addition to manuXaauring apparatus. .

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LINDBERGH OFF FOR HOME LAND French in Noisy Farewell at Cherbourg. Bu l lilted Press CHERBOURG, France, June 4. — Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh started him today on the U. S. S. Memphis at the conclusion of an unprecedented fortnight in which the lowly and those of high estate combined to honor the hero of the greatest sporting event of modern times.

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the Memphis, announcing that all fares would be donated to the families of Captains Nungesser and Coli, French aviators missing, a/ter attempting a Paris-New York flight. The flier was escorted to Cherbourg city hall as soon as lie and his motor escort arrived from Lessay, the airfield near here, after a flight from Le Bourget Field, near Paris. The official reception took place there and thence the flier went to the Maritime, station where he dedicated a marble plaque commemorating his pasasge over Cherbourg, May 21, en route from Nw York to Paris. BOY FINDS EXPLOSIVES Wabash Child Carries Fuse and Cap Around. Bu Times Special WABASH, Ind., June 4.—Enough explosives to "blow up city hall” was found in the pocket of Maxwell Clevenger, 12, by his father, and given to police to destroy. The boy bad found a nitroglycerin fuse and cap. and unaware of the danger of his find, put them in his pocket.

Contest Entrants Owing to the large number of entrants, all contestantsin The Times and Publix Theaters Opportunity Contest are requested to report at the Circle Theater Sunday morning at 9:30.

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CHAMBERLIN, LEVINE HEAD TOWARD SEA Columbia Plane in Dramatic Take-Off From Roosevelt Field. DESTINATION UNCERTAIN Berlin, London, Paris and Moscow Listed Just Before Take-Off. • j Bu United Press ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y„ Juna 4.—The. monoplane Columbia early today shook off the shackles of injunctions and feuds which have bound It to the ground for weeks and took off for an unknown destination. ostensibly Europe. The craft carried Clarence D. Chamberlin as pilot and Charles A. Levine, president of the Columbia Aircraft Company, as passenger. Neither was dressed in flying clothes. The plane heavily loaded, took off at 6:05:27 a. m. on its second attempt. On the first effort, a few minutes earlier, Chamberlin brought the plane to a stop without trying to leave the ground. "We may go to Berlin, we may go to London,” said Chamberlin Just before lie left. "We may go to Paris, Rome or even Moscow. It all depends on our fuel supply." Drama at Start The take off of the Columbia was dramatic —even more dramatic, perhaps, than Capt. Charles Lindbergh s start for Fails from the same runway two weeks ago. Chamberlin, clad In knickers and a windbreaker, was in the pilot's seat, and it began to appear that he,would emulate Lindbergh's feat of flying alone. Nothing had been said of who would accompany him. Then, as the engine warmed up, Charles Levine, president of the company that owns the plane and sponsor of the flight, ran to the side of tit© cabin and climbed in. He was In street clothes and did not even wear a hat. Halted by Weather The Columbia had been fully prepared for the flight yesterday, in readiness for a star: in the late afternoon. Bad weather conditions forced a postponement, but the plane was left with a full load of fuel, Including auxiliary tanks, and it3 engine hud been tuned up. Just before 6 Chamberlin, satisfied with the way the engine was running. showed he was preparing to start down the runway. The crowd had reached 2,000. The weather was perfect—a slight northeasterly breeze blowing out of n blue sky flecked with creamy cloudy. Levine, listless and excited, suddenly ran from the crowd at the side of tfie plane and crawled into the closed cabin. The crowd was stunned. The plane started down the runway and the crow - d broko into cheers. The craft stopped, returned. started again and nosed up in a perfect takeoff. It circled the field and headed northeast. It was a perfect bit of melodrama to match the heart throbs of the Lindbergh takeoff, when curly hair and the grim determination of a youngster cottglvl the hearts of the crowd at. the field as they later caught rails, Brussels and London. Heavier Than Lindy's The official weight of the plane when it took off was announced as 5,650 pounds. 550 pounds more than the weight of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. The Columbia is slightly larger than the other plane. The plane carried 388 gallons of gasoline in its main gasoline tank and two auxiliary tanks, and in addition was understood to have had aboard five 12-gallon cans as an genoy supply, if the wind is not too strongly against the plane, It is estimated it can travel 4,500 miles. The plane did not carry a wireless set, even its weak 20-mile emergency set having been thrown out to save weight just before the start. Carries Fond Supply Contrasting with the and canteen of water’carried by Lindbergh on bis flight, the food supply in the Columbia included: Two vacuum bottels of chicken soup, one jar of malted milk tablets, one dozen oranges, ten chicken sandwiches on toasted nye bread. .Tolju Carisi, factory superintendent. of th° Columbia Aircraft Company, (Uipervired the final preparations fOT the flight. Carl F Sehorry. secretary of the contest committee of the National Aeronautical Association. sealed the barograph, thus preventing the plane from coming to eartli and rising again without, the stop being recorded. The surprising entrance of Levine into the flight left spectators at the field,almost stunned. Although the president of the company which built the Columbia has flown often aa a passenger, he has no official standing as a pilot. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 71 9 a. m 6? ,7 a. m 71 10 a. 8 a. m.-, ... 68 " .

Lindbergh boarded a launch for the Memphis at 3:17 p. ni. (10:17 a. m., eastern daylight time). Fluttering flags and screaming sirens bade him a last good-by. It appeared that all the vessels in this port bad tied their sirens down. A score of hydroplanes flew overhead. Cherbourg declared a holiday in Lindbergh's h o n or. The ferries look excursionists to

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