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PARTIES FOR LEGISLATORS AREJARED Lafayette Utilities Chief Tells of Spending $3,500 in 1927 Session. FOUGHT AGAINST BILLS Lobbyist Airs Procedure to Influence Indiana Lawmakers. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 7.—Frank O. Cuppey of Lafayette, Ind., spent $3,500 during the 1927 Indiana Legislature season, or about S6O a day, entertaining members of the. Legislature and others, he told the Federal Trade Commission late yesterday at its inquiry into activities of public utilities. “The entertainment,” Cuppey said, "was limited to braekfasts, luncheons, dinners and theater parties, possibly with some taxicab rides thrown in. I was entertaining some of the men four times a day.” The work was done while he was acting as a legislative agent of the Indiana committee for public utility, he said, and was to guard against the passage of bills unwanted by the utilities, especially a bill abolishing the public service commission. Mostly ‘Expenses’ Cuppey first testified that $2,000 had been paid him as salary and $1,500 for expenses. He thought he had spent some of the salary money for expenses, he said, but when Healv asked him if his income tax return would show what proportion went to him personally, he testified that, practically all had gone to expense. “You worked for nothing,” asked Healy. The witness said that he virtually did, but that he was drawing his salary as secretary of the Indiana Telephone Association, and as manager of the Lafayette Telephone Company, while in Indianapolis. He had done legislative work in the 1925 session for the telephone association as well as the State utility committee in 1925, he said. His expenses were about $1,600. Made No Payments He added members of the committee living in Indianapolis met every week to discuss the Vork of the Legislature with him, and those living outside came in every two weeks. He kept no statement of the way the money was spent in 1927, he said, but denied paying any directly to any members of the Legislature, paying any bills for them, or bringing in witnesses to testify at legislative committee hearings. Neither did he pay expenses of any utility rpen coming to the city, he said. “Did you make any return to the Government in your income tax statement of the money you received for your services? asked Healy. “I don’t remember.” “If you did, you must have known hov much you retained.” ‘The fact is,” “cuppey answered,” mrst if not all of the $3,500 went for expenses.” Entertained Often “Can you tell us how many times, jou entertained the members of the Legislature?” “No, sir, I was entertaining some four times a day, all the telephone men knew me and seemed to expect me to entertain them when they came to town. Some members of the Legislature was in the parties I entertained.” Commissioner McCullough, in charge of the investigation asked wfiat Cuppey’s legislative duties were. He explained that they were principally to watch adverse bills and to get acquainted with the situation with regard to them. “I didn’t appear before any committees in 1927, although I did at two sessions before that. Sometimes I would talk in hotel lobbies to members and others as an educational proposition as one business man to another. Our public is prejudiced against utilities and I tried to remove that prejudice.” “You thought, with the Legislature in session that was a good place to begin?” interjected McCullough. When Cuppey said he wasn’t interested in a bill allowing cities to establish their own plants and didn’t remember such a bill, Healy said, ‘‘Perhaps you’re not just clear what Mellett said about that,” and recalled the witness to read Mellett’s testimony. Then Cuppey recalled such a bill. BURY AX VICTIM HERE Hold Funeral Today for Jesse L. Voris, Killed in Terre Haute. Funeral services for Jesse L. Voris, 45, who was slain at Terre Haute, were held this afternoon at Finn Brothers undertaking parlors, 1639 N. Meridian St., and burial was at Crown Hill Cemetery. Voris, who was an interior decorator and resident here for some years, was struck over the head with an ax by George W. Sulser, 56, Terre Haute, in an argument over a drink. Surviving are a brother, Carl Voris, and sister, Mrs. Florence Herzig, both of Indianapolis, and the mother, Mrs. Mary E. Kenyon, , Terre Haute, ■, ... .

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GAS HAWKS KIDNAP GIRL AND WOMAN; SUSPECT IS HELD ON CHILD’S STORY

School Girl Is Slain in Midnight Duel Over Boy

By NEA Service Missoula, Mont., July 7. Because two girls, quarreling over the divided attentions of a young man, stepped out of an automobile on a lonely road to “settle it” with their fists, one of them is dead and the other is in jail here today on a charge of first degree murder. The prisoner is Mrs. Sylvia Thurston, 17. The dead girl is Doris 'Wentworth, 16-yer.r-old high school girl. ' The strange fight between them took place after midnight on a road near Missoula. Mrs. Thurston, who eloped with William Thurston when she was but 15, was at her home in Milltown, near here, at midnight when a party of friends stopped in an auto. In the car were Doris Wentworth, another girl and three boys, among them George Kolppa, 18. Doris and Sylvia are said to have been at odds for weeks over Kolppa. After the joyride started Doris and Sylvia began bickering. A“ length, according to comrades, they agreed to “get out and settle it.” The car was stopped and the two girls went down the road to fight it out. Suddenly two revolver shots were heard. Doris was found lying in the road with two bullet

WOMAN FLIER AND AIDS ARE FETED IN NEW YORK; BOSTON PLANS WELCOME

Trans-Atlantic Trio See See Pictures of Start of Historic Flight. Ru United Press < NEW YORK, July 7.—Formal engagements for Miss Amelia Earhart and the two men with whom she flew across the Atlantic were spaced widely today, to permit them rest before their reception in Boston, which promises to be more tumultuous than the greeting here yesterday. Miss Earhart, Wilmer Stultz, pilot, and Lou Gordon, mechanic, will be guests of the Women’s City Club at luncheon today, and will see “Show Boat” guests of Mr. and Mrs. Florenz Ziegfield. After the show, Miss Earhart will be driven to the home of George Palmer Putnam, publisher, in Rye. She and her companions will spend tomorrow at the Westchester-Bilt-more. , In one of the interviews granted by Miss Earhart after her arrival, she said she smoked “a little” and preferred three sports—flying, tenius and rding. The fliers saw pictures of the start and finish of their trans-Atlantic flight ir. the Friendship at the Paramount last night and later attended a performance in the Palace for the benefit of the Olympic fund, where they were introduced from the stage by Eva La Gallienne. A siik American flag carried on the flight was auctioned by Charles Winninger, of “Show Boat,” and bid in by him for $650.

In the Stock Market

(Bv Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, July 7.—The impression we gained from Friday’s market action was that we may be entering a period where neither buying nor selling will be sufficiently strong enough to develop any definite price trend. This situation is brought about by conflicting factors of fundamental as well as of technical character. The credit situation is still sensitive, with many perplexed by the suddeh eace in money rates sfe they were by the quick and abnormal advance a few days ago. The continuation of gold metal purchases and shipments does not tend to sooth matters any. On the other hand, commercial activities are being conducted on satisfactory basis and the future promises results which are likely to be generally more profitable than last year, Therefore until matters shape themselves more definitely, signs point toward a trading market.

PET TAKEN FROM CRIPPLED BOY, GIVEN TO GOVERNOR; PLEADS FOR RETURN

Bn United Press TVTEW YORK, July 7.—The gu- ’ bernatorial menagerie became the talk of New York State today. The month-old spotted fawn which the State conservation department gave Governor Alfred E. Smith when he was nominated for President, turned into a bugbear, while the State and a large part of the Nation watched with sympathy and amusement. "First ballot,’ the fawn was

Sylvia Thurston wounds in her body, while Sylvia stood over her, automatic in h£ nd. Doris was taken here to a hospital, where she died before dawn. Sylvia was taken to the police station.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, July 7.—Early stock market dealings today were again quiet and without much feature. Price movements were exceedingly narrow and stocks showed little disposition to move out of the trading area that has characterized dealings for the past few days. Good buying, however, continued in some of the recent speculative leaders like General Motors, Steel and Radio, all of these issues making small advances. Special issues like Warner Brothers, Nash and Studebaker were fractionally higher, the latter issue selling at a f -ther new high for the movement. .Jail order shares continued active around their previous close, while considerable steadiness was displayed by the railroad shares under the leadership of Missouri-Kansas-Texas, which rose to a further new high on the movement. Tllinois Central was also in some demand. Oils continued their improvement of the previous session under the leadership of Pan-American B. Atlantic Refining, however, was steady around the 148-level. New York Stock Opening —July 7 Allied Chem 173 Am Can 88 Vi Am Tel & Tel 177% Am Linseed 109 Vi Anaconda 69 Armour ''A” 19'/ Beth Steel 55% C F & I 60% Chrysler t 74'/ Curtis , 110 Corh Products 73 V'* Lodge 14 Vi Gen Electric 152V< Gen Motors 192 Va Goodyear ... 48V* Hudson Motor 83% Hupp Motors 58V* Kenn Cop 91% Marland 36 Mont Ward 157% Nash 87 Pan Amer Pete B 44 Packard 77% Paige 32% Pullman 83 V* Phillips 38% Radio 184 V* Real Silk ; 28 Rock Island ...., 115% St. Paul 35 Sears-Roebuck 113% Sinclair 24 Vi S O Cal 69 S O N J 44% Studebaker 72 U S Rubber 29Vi U S Steel 137% Wabash 76% Willys-Over 22% Yellow Truck 34% Wright 160 New York Curb Opening —July 7 Am Gas 163 Vi Am R Mill 93 Cities Svc 67 Cont Oil 16% Ford Canada 560 Humble OH : 79 )4 Imp OH 61 Int Pete 4uV4 Prairie O <& Gas 48V* Servel Inc 13% Stand Oil Indiana 75% Stand dll Kansas T> United L & P A 26% Vacuum Oil 76 V 4 Warner Bros B 34

named, when it was added to the Governor’scollection ot pheasants, monkeys and love birds at Albany last week. But the histc ry of the spotted fawn is another story. Charles S. Carroll, who owns a hotel at Indian Lake, N. Y., said he rescued the baby deer when it strayed near his hotel more than a week ago. He built a pen for it and his son, Charles S. Carroll, Jr., who is crippled and has to spend his days in a wheel chair,

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928.

Screams of Victim Bring Help From Farmhouse; One ‘Sheik’ Freed. “Gas hawks” kidnaped a 36-year-old woman and attempted to atttack her early today. A man in a coupe drove a screaming girl southwest on Kentucky Ave. so fast police were unable to catch him. A 32-year-old man is held on a charge of attempting to entire a 12-year-old girl into his machine near Riverside Park. Mrs. Doris Mathews, 36, of 43 N. Bevillle Ave.. was the kidnaping victim. Mrs. Mathews, employed at the Betsy Ross tearooom in the Indiana Theater, left work shortly after midnight and attended a dance until 1:15 a. m., she tolci police. She went to the Circle Motor Inn to meet friends and there a man she had met three years ago at Ravenswood approached her. Refuses Ride Invitation She refused to ride home with him and when her friends failed to arrive, walked to Washington St. to take a street car. While waiting for a caF, the man drove up with a second man in his machine and she consented that he take her home. When they reached Beville Ave., however, the ma nrefused to stop, saying he would take her to a restaurant to eat, Mrs. Mathews said. Instead of driving to a restaurant, however, they drove southeast of the city to near the home of C. L. Burton, R. R. 9, Box 545( where the two men attempted to attack her. The woman’s screams aroused Burton and other members of his family and as they approached the car to investigate she escaped from the automobile before the men had opportunity further to harm her. Girl Tries to Escape Burton took Mrs. Mathews to his home and called police. She was able to give police only a meager description of the gas hawks and could not remember the name of the man she had met at Ravenswood. The coupe carrying the screaming girl, who was attempting to get out of the machine, was sighted at 1:30 a. m. at Kentucky Ave. ind the Belt Railroad by the crossing watchman. The car was being driven very rapidly, he said. He called police and Motor Policemen McClure and Viles cruised out Kentucky Ave., but were unable to catch up with the speeding car. Alex SamardziefT, 32, of 3240 W. Tenth St., is held In the investigation of the attempt to lure a 12-year-old girl from the Sunday school picnic she was attending at Riverside Park Friday afternoon. The man invited her into his car and offered to buy her "a good dinner,” the girl said. She ran to a group of other children on the picnic ground tnd the man followed. Their screams brought two Riverside golf course caddies, who chased the man away. Admits Being in Vicinity

The description given by the caddies led to the arrest of Samardzieff later. He said he had been tn the neighborhood and that a girl ran from him, but denied any attempt to get her into his machine. Lewis Goble, 22, of 2727 Stewart St., was condemned by Special Judge Theophilus Moll as a “tin horn sheik” in municipal court Friday afternoon, but was freed of the charge of aiding in the kidnaping of Miss Nora Lee, 16, of 4100 E. Twenty-First St., several weeks ago. He was held for grand Jury action on ,v charge of impersonating an officer. Judge Moll ruled the evidence showed that the girl was not forced into the machine in which Goble and Lester Bright were riding. Bright is charged with forcing the girl to drive with him to near Danville, Ind., and attacking her after Goble had been left at his home. PLAN STATE NOMINEES National Party to Get on Ballot by Referendum Vote. Referendum vote for selection of State candidates of the National party in the fall election will begin at once and be completed July 15, John Zahnd, the party’s presidential candidate, said Friday night at a meeting in the English. of the party were urged to circulate petitions for each candidate so their names can be placed on the ballots. Petitions will be filed with the Secretary of State.

made a pet of the animal, feeding it fro ma nursing bottle. u "nnHE fawn became the boy's only playmate,” Carroll said. “He can’t play with other boys, because he had infantile paralysis several years ago and can’t use one side of his body. I never saw him so happy as he was with the fawn. "I called the conservation inspector, Morgan Leland, at Glen

HINT MAGNATE DID NOT FALL FROMM Rumor That Loewenstein May Be Alive Improves Stock Markets. COULDN’T OPEN DOOR Tests Show Impossibility of Man Walking Out of Cabin in Flight. Bn United Press LONDON, July 7.—Speculation as to the fate of Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, who disappeared on a transchannel flight in his own Fokker plane, continued today with varying theories offered. A tug. chartered by Ronald Drew, returned to Dover today without having found a trace of the body of the Belgian millionaire. Drew, pilot of the Fokker plane, believed he knew just about where Loewenstein was reported to have opened an outer cabin door and walked out of the plane. The tug searched the channel at the spot and found no traces of the man who has become so familiar throughout continental financial circles as result of his widespread and ambitious financial programs. Door Wouldn't Open But from Paris came reports that differed either from the suicide or accidental death decisions that had been reached. Experts at Lebourget Field took aloft a Fokker plane similar to that used by Loewenstein. They reported back that the cabin door could not be opened by a man because of the wind pressure—both from the ordinary channel atmospheric conditions and from the wind being shot back by the propellers—would prevent opening the door from the inside. Members ’ the Fokker plane had reported th. Loewenstein had disappeared after he had left the main cabin of the plane, announcing he was going to the retiring room. Later, they said, they found the cabin door had been opened and that Loewenstein apparently had mistaken it for the door leading to the retiring room. The financial reaction from Loewensteins' disappearance, so marked the first day, has changed for the better.

Markets Much Improved The continental markets were much improved Friday. Berlin, Pari#, London and Brussels all had shown declines when the first word of Loewensteln’s disappearance were published. But Friday all of the markets were improved. London markets opened stronger and held that tone for most of the day. Even the stocks In which Loewenstein was known to be interested were Improved, although not up to the level they had been prior to the disappearance of the Belgian financier. On the Berlin market the stocks, in which Loewenstein was known to have an interest, rose from 20 to 30 points Friday, The Improvement was credited to a quieting statement from the Loewenstein bank and the report—even though thoroughly unconflrmed and purely speculation that Loewenstein might possibly still be alive. / BAPTISTS VOTE ON WAR Peace, Dry Issue Up; San Francisco Gets 1930 Conclave. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo„ July 7.—Tile 1928 convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union entered its closing session today with members preparing to vote on resolutions favoring prohibition and world peace through outlawry of war. The prohibition question was placed as the paramount issue in American life by Dr. John W. Elliott, Philadelphia. The convention voted to hold its 1930 meeting in San Francisco. Detroit was selected last year as the 1929 convention city. WIDEN HUNT FOR BODY River Will Be Dragged From Broad Ripple to Rocky Ripple. Police extended their search for the body of Miss Myrtle Lostutter, 16, of 2192 N. Oxford St., who was drowned Wednesday in White River at Ravenswood, down the stream to Rocky Ripple today. Police dragged as far as Broad Ripple Friday without success.

Falls, and he said that by all means I should keep the fawn. • Then one day Leland came and took the pet away. He said the Governor wanted it and he would £ave to take it to Albany. He and his helper chased it around the pen and injured it before they caught it. "My boy cried and his mother took him into the house. I have had to tell him that his playmate will be brought back in a few days.” \ V

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TECH SCHOOL BIDS MiN 0. K. Jungclaus Company Will Erect Auditorium. Bids for erection of Arsenal Technical High School auditorium were approved and preliminary steps taken for the relief of crowded conditions in public schools at a special meeting of the board of school commissioners Friday night. Contracts amounting to $195,955 were awarded in the auditorium project, William P. Jungclaus Company receiving the general construction contract for $130,506. The building is to be completed within 120 working days after the contract is signed. Other bids approved included: Freyn Bros., heating and ventilating. $33,622; Strong Bros., plumbing, $12,837; C. L. Smith Electric Company electric wiring and fixtures, $18,990. The bid of the Robbins Electric Company, $232 lower than C. L. Smith Electric Company, was thrown out because an insufficient certified check was attached General construction plans were drafted by Vonnegut, Bohn and Mueller, architects, and the J. M. Rotz Engineering Company prepared plans for heating and ventilating, electrical work and plumbing. In an effort to relieve crowded conditions in the schools, the board authorized Albert F. Wal' ran, business director, to confer :th the State tax board relative to the proposed $600,000 bond issue for additions to schools Nos. 43, 47 and 68, and for the purchase of a site for and erection of anew school, No. 80, at Sixty-Second and Bellefontaine Sts. plantraffTcstudy Hawthorne Group Appoints Improvement Board. In an attempt to Improve traffic conditions on W. Washington St„ where five fatal accidents have occurred in five weeks, the Hawthorne Community Association appointed a committee of cooperation Friday night at the community house, 2440 W. Ohio St. Committeemen selected by the Rev. Clarence G. Baker, president, are: Mrs. P. C. Kellt, the Rev. T. J. Simpson and E. C. Wheeler. Dr. L. M. Sartor. W. H. Oliver and Homer Gaddy were named to obtain better lighting facilities. The Rev. M. L. Collins, Mrs. Nettie Bay and the Rev. L. H. Kendall were seelcted to obtain improvement and enlargment of the Washington High School athletic field. Dr. E. T. Gaddy, Miss Zertis Peck and Harry Dorsey were appointed as a street improvement committee. W. E. Lemem, Andrew Wald, C. H. Royster and William J. Clark were named as a tax Investigating committee.

Carroll said' he did not believe the Governor had asked for the fawn or that he would want to keep it when he knew its history. “I think someone merely wanted it to curry favor with the Governor,” he said. # # tt CARROLL has written to Smith and George B. Graves, the Governor’s executive secretary, has withheld the letter from Smith until he can get a report

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BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, cai., July 7.—if you had an opportunity to become a South Sea Island princess with an option on $2,000,000 in pearls or a Hollywood motion picture actress, which would you choose? That is the problem that confronted Raquel Torres, Mexico’s latest contribution to America’s cinema colony. ' A short time ago young Miss Torres returned from the island of Papeete in the South Seas after four months’ work on a picture. non AS the heroine the actress had to live much in the same manner as the natives of the island. “Little White Princess,” the natives called her. Festive ceremonies were held in Raquel’s honor by various tribes and chieftains. “I enjoyed all the affairs—they were thrilling and made me feel important,” exclaimed the girl. “At each ceremony I was dressed in gay robes and ornaments whiqji they said were fashioned especially for me. a it it “'T'HE night before we were to sail X for home old Chief Mehevi, who had played a small part in the picture, came to my thatched bungalow and asked me to marry him. “I was to be princess of the tribe, paH ruler of the island and stepmother to his nineteen children. “A whole train of men followed him, carrying large chests of shells, herbs, trinkets and other things. All of these were to be mine, he said. “And besides I would receive his rights to the $2,000,000 pearl deposits on the island.” But Raquel couldn’t be entreated or bribed to marry Chief Hehevl. “I would rather own one small home here than all of his pearls and have to live on that island,” she dccl&rsd* “And anyway, when I marry 1* want a young good-looking man—not one who Is almost ready to die of old age.” SET WARREN PARK VOTE Election on Incorporation Will Be Held Aug. 14. County Auditor Harry Dunn today set Aug. 14 as the date for an election on the proposed incorporation of Warren, Park, an addition between Sixteenth St. ’ and Tenth St., east of Arlington Ave. Residents of the section petitioned for the election. William H. Cooper, Warren township trustee, said there are 157 adult residents in the addition. FIREWORKS AT PARK Irvington Legion to Stage Patriotic Display Tonight. Irvington American Legion post will stage a fireworks exhibition at 9 tonight in Ellenberger Park, according to Merrill Woods, post commander. The display was postponed from the Fourth of July. Ray T. Milbum, Robert D. Kendrick and James E. Mendenhall are committee members in charge.

on the fawn from the conservation department. "The Governor would be the last person to deprive a boy of his pet,” Graves said, explaining that the conservation department offered the fawn to the Governor, and that the Governor agreed to take care of it. Meanwhile, a broken-hearted crippled boy on the shore of Indian Lake awaits the processes of departmental Government to restore his playniate. \

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ROME FLIERS WAIT REPAIRS TO END DASH / - . Cancel Plan to Complete Flight in Borrowed Plane. LANDING GEAR BROKEN Latin-America Eager to Honor Two Men for Ocean Feat. BY U. G. KEENER United Press Staff Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7.—ln the little coastal city of Natal, Majors Arturo Ferrarin and Carlo Del Prete, who flew here from Rome to establish anew long distance flight record, awaited today while repairs were completed on their Savoia monoplane. Once the repairs are completed the two calm-faced Italian fliers will start down the Brazilian coast line—soaring over towns and cities that are eager to welcome them and cheer their feat—to Rio De Janeiro. A great welcome awaits them here. Ferrarin and Del Perte had intended leaving this morning in an airplane offered by the Latecoere Airplane Company, but .after a conference with the Italian ambassador by telegraph, decided against the flight. Probably they will await now until their own plane, the same craft in which they established a new endurance-flight record and a new long distance record, is reconditioned. This should take about a week. Fly Through Dense Fog Flying through a dense fog. with their gasoline almost exhausted, the two Italian war flyiers made a sudden landing on the beach at Touros Thursday night. They had been in the air fifty hours and fifteen minutes. They had flown more than 4,000 miles to establish anew long distance record. They were weary. Their flight had not been completed—that is they had not reached their destination of Buenos Aires—but the impenetrable fog prevented (heir continuing. After flying almost blindly about Natal, stopping in going southward by storm and prevented from finding the Latecoere flying field at Natal by fog, the two finally chose the apparently long smooth beach at Touros for a landing place. Landing Gear Broken

Their heavy machine stuck in the sand, the wheels digging in as the plane roared to a stop. As it landed the landing gear was broken. Ferrarin and Del Prete were far from the welcome that awaited them in Buenos Aires, in Rio de Janerio and even in Natal where their plane already had been sighted and had brought hundreds to the street. They were in a territory unknown to them. But within a few hours an airplane went down from Natal and rescued the two, taking them back to Natal and to the first part of the great celebration that the LatinAmerican countries are ready to give to the Latin fliers. Land at Lonely Spot Immediately they sought rest. Neither had rested much in the long fifty hours through the terrific heat over the African desert, the dark and almost blind hours over the south Atlantic and finally the hours when they fought through the dense fog and storm In Brazil. They had landed once near Natal at a public bathing beach. It was a lonely 6pot and the fliers started from there desiring to make Rio De Janeiro. They went south but ran into a bad rain storm and had to turn back. They passed Natal the second time searching for the Latecoere field. The fog made it impossible for them to see this field and they finally discovered themselves over water. Turning inward they saw a smooth beach and Just as their gasoline started giving out, came to a landing. Cancel Flight Plan It was then their wheels sunk in the soft sand—the big Savoia Marchetti monoplane weighing about three tons without its fuel load—and the landing gear was broken. They were rescued by Lieutenant De Pecker and taken to Natal. There they retired and later were offered the Latecoere plane to continue flying to Rio De Janeiro, a decision that later was cancelled.

In The Air

CONDITIONS AT 0:30 A. M. (Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Armlngton and Donald McConnell, Government aeronautical observer, i South wind 4 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.02 at sea level; temperature, 81; celling, unlimited; visibility, 5 miles. Child Dies of Poisoning Bit Times Bperial BURNETTSVILLE, Ind., July 7. Ardella Bonnell, 2, is dead of poisoning after swallowing half the contents of a bottle filled with medicinal tablets. Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m 72 9 a. m 78 1 8 a. m... 74 10 a.