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J. A. ALLISON IS DEAD AFTER SRIEFJLLNESS Pneumonia Takes Life of Multi-Millionaire, Long Resident Here. FOUNDER OF SPEEDWAY Heavily Interested in City and Florida Realty and Other Projects. James A. Allison, multi-million-aire capitalist and manufacturer, died Friday at 6:50 p. m. in his home, Riverdale Springs, West Riverside Dr., of bronchial pneumonia. He would have been 56 one week from today. Funeral services tentatively have been set for Monday afternoon at the home, the Rev. Edwin W. Dunlavy, pastor of Roberts Park M. E. Church, officiating. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Allison was founder with Fisher of the Prest-O-Lite Company and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and president and owner of the Allison Coupon Company and extensive manufacturing and real estate interests here and at Miami Beach, Fla., had been in precarious health, but only seriously ill since .Sunday. While in the East, where he was married Sunday to Miss Lucille Mussett, his former secretary, he contracted a heavy cold. Arriving at Riverside Springs Thursday afternoon, he was ordered to bed and his condition became grave at once. From Friday morning until the time of his death, adrenalin and oxygen were resorted to, in an effort to save him. About noon Friday he lost consciousness and died without regaining it. Dr. John M. Cunningham of Indianapolis was in constant attendance, assisted by Dr. T. E. Atkins, Mr. Allison’s Miami physician, who with Mrs. Atkins accompanied him on the trip north from Miami Beach July 1 Divorced in June Mr. Allison was divorced June 23 from Mrs. Sara W. Cornelius Allison, whom he married in 1907 at Colorado Springs. They had no children. His mother, Mrs. Myra J. Allison; one sister, Mrs. W. H. Adkinson of Orlando, Fla.; and one brother, N. C. Allison, 2801 Sutherland Ave., and the widow, Mrs. Lucille Mussett Allison, survive him. Mr. Allison was born Aug. 11, 1872, at Marcellus, Mich., the son of Noah S. and Myra J. Allison. The family removed to South Bend, then came to Indianapolis in 1880. Educated in the public schools here, Mr. Allison sold newspapers and was a messenger in his spare time. When his father established the Allison Coupon Company, the son entered the print shop, an essential part of the business, and became its president and owner when his father died. Mr. Allison’s fortune was builded Upon a small start in the Prest-O-Lite Company, which he and Fisher founded in 1904. The first plant was located in a small shed at Pennsylvania and Twenty-Eighth Sts. It was consolidated with the Union Carbide Company in 1920. Builder of Speedway He again was associated with Fisher in construction of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1908, the two retaining the majority interest in the world-famed oval until its sale last year to Detroit interests. Mr. Allicon and Fisher remained directors under the new ownership. Mr. Allison was president and treasurer of the Speedway Realty Cos., which developed the factory and townsite near the Speedway. With Fisher again, Mr. Allison was vice-president and treasurer of the Globe Realty Cos. He was instrumental in reorganization of the Fletcher American National Bank in 1923 and until his death was a director and one of its largest stockholders. Heavy Interests in Florida Mr. Allison’s great financial holdings in Indianapolis had a parallel in Miami Beach, where he established a winter home several yeai> ago. His home on Star Island in Biscayne Bay became a show place. It was one of the largest and most costly in Florida. A $24,000 addition recently was completed. He was director in the First National Bank of Miami and principal owner of the Miami Ocean View Company, real estate development corporation with valuable property hodlings. In Florida, as here, Mr. Allison was closely associated with Fisher in some of his developments. At tremendous cost Mr. Allison constructed an aquarium on the Miami Beach shore of the county causeway which, a year after its inception, was stocked with a collection of fish second only to the aquarium of Naples. Business and social leaders of Miami and Miami Beach today sent messages of condolence to the family here, while Mr. Allison’s Indianapolis friends and associates joined in expressions of bereavement. Mr. Allison was interested in various charities and civic movements here and in Florida. He was a member of Roberts Park M. E. Church, Oriental Lodge, F. and A. M.: a Thirty-Second Degree Mason, a Knights Templar and member of the Columbia Club.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 64

Branded Death Plotters

NEA Mexico City Bureau. Here are the first pictures of the alleged conspirators in the assassination of President-elect Obregon of Mexico to reach the United States, Mexican authorities having at last permitted them to be photographed in jail. 1, Concepcion Acevedo, a nun, who is alleged to have had knowledge of the intentions of Jose de Leon Toral, Obregon's slayer; 2, Maria de Altimira; 3, Josefina Acevedo, the nun’s sister; 4, Ignacio Trejo; 5, Josefina Morales Trejo: 6, Jorge Galardo Pavon. The nun, Maria Altamira and Pavon, a cousin of Toral, have been indicted.

CLEAR UP FARM AND DRY ISSUES Hoover Will Take Definite Stand on Speech. By Times Special PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 4.—Herbert Hoover has taken a definite stand on farm relief and prohibition in his acceptance speech, which is to be delivered at the opening of his Republican presidential campaign here a weey from today. The nominee has been informed by his friends that the public is awaiting his statements on these two subjects of political discussion with more interest than in other issues. He, therefore, has treated them with the importance he believes they warrant, the United Press is informed. Hoover’s position on the two issues officially has been published before. He is opposed to what he considers “socialism” in farm relief; he is not sympathetic with the Mc-Nary-Haugen bill, and he favors an efficient government aid system for development of cooperative marketing. varFgets better Rallies After Relapse, but Recovery in Doubt. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., After a relapse that at the time was regarded as the beginning of the end, Senator-elect William S. Vare, Philadelphia Republican leader, rallied and today a bulletin said he was in the best condition since he was stricken last Wednesday night. While Vare’s recovery still is in doubt, his physicians are more optimistic, than any time during the past three days. Bury Unidentified Man 81l United Press RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 4.—Rush County authorities today continued their efforts to identify the body of a man found in a wheatfield Monday, following a Masonic burial conducted here Friday. A Shriner’s emblem was found on the man’s coat. Officials of the Indiana bureau of identification joined in the attempt to identify the man immediately before the funeral.

PREDICT HOLT TO ASK $1.15 TAX LEVY FOR CITY

Sterling R. Holt, city controller of the Slack adminnistration, probably will recommend a $1.15 tax rate for 1929 in the appropriation ordinance which will go to the council Manday night. Holt continued to check department requests today in an effort to reduce the 1929 request to a figure which will be raised by that levy. Requests of practically all city departments have been cut by the controller and mayor. The proposed rate will be an increase of 12.5 cents over the 1928 rate. It is understood the city general levy will be 63 cents, compared with 56.5 cents last year. Mayor L. Ert Slack has declined to reveal his stand on the budget. It

ARREST 13 IN GAMBLING RAID Officer Watches Game Until Spotted by Lookout. Thirteen men, bagged in a single raid at 1531 Southeastern Ave., face gambling charges today. Sergt. Leroy Bartlett said he watched the game at that address Friday night until seen by the lookout, when the game ceased as officers rushed the place. They obtained no money as evidence. Edward Love, 47, of 339 S. Gray St., was charged with being keeper o fthe place and Ogie J. Cooper, 34, of 439 N. Jefferscn St., with gaming, visiting a gambling house and interfereing with officers. Others arrested and facing gambling charges gave their names and addreses as follows. Madford Lucas, 34, of 236 Villa Ave.; Thomas Edens, 21, of 1712 Southeastern Ave.; James Fykes, 21, of 1712 Southeastern Ave.; Joe Grio, 40, of 237 S. State Ave.; Willis Budy, 61, of 245 S. Randolph St.; Fay Thompson, 25, and William Baird, 26, of 222 Detroit St.; Roger Walker, 23, of 1712 E. New York St.; Clarence Freeland, 39, of 230 S. tSate St.; John Sullivan, 21, of 549 Parker Ave., and Francis Loque, 26, of 140 McKim St. Four others were arrested by Dailey in gambling raids Friday night. Hartwell Thixton, 22, of 6406 College Ave., was charged with carring concealed weapons and keeping a gambling device. Charles M. Sharp, 62, of 476 Massachusetts Ave., George Schaubhutt, 46, of 438 '/a N. Noble St„ and John Byas, 61, Negro, 517 Spring St., were each charged with keeping gaming devices. Lewis Rodgers, 45, of 529 Leon St., was charged with disorderly conduct and assau.t and battery. FALL 300 FEET; BRUISED Auto Goes Over Precipice; Turns Somersaults, Smashes. BRADDOCK, Pa., Aug. ‘ 4.—Andy Churick and Joe ShedlOck were only slightly bruised when the machine in which they were riding plunged 300 feet over a precipice here recently. The auto somersaulted several time in the way down and was a complete wreck when it landed on the lower level.

is understood the mayor is anxious to keep the rate within a figure which he can defend before the public and the State tax board. Edward W. Harris, council finance chairman, who sought in vain to sec the budget before it formally reaches the city council, will begin the committee’s study next week. It is reported that Slack ordered the budget cut as low as possible, only necessary increases being allowed. Police Chief Claude M. Worley’s request for 150 more policemen is said to have been cut to “practically nothing.” It is reported that the 3-cent thoroughfare levy for street straightening and widening has been reduced to lVi or 2 cents.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG, 4, 1928

FLOCK GUARDS STATE PASTOR AFTERTHREAT Anonymous Letter Warns Minister to Quit Town by Aug. 13. TWO CLIQUES AT WAR Feeling High in Spencer as Older Members ‘Bolt’ Baptist Church, BY CHARLES E. CARLL SPENCER. Ind.. Aug. 4.—Ready to fight to the last to save their youthful pastor, the Rev. Frank Dewey MrFadden, from threatened danger, faithful members of his Baptist Church today united to stand constant guard over him. McFadden was threatened in an anonymous letter mailed to him in July from Franklin, warning him to get out the pulpit of the church "or else.” The unknown writer typed the letter July 13 and gave McFadden until Aug. 13 to flee from this little town. But instead, McFadden declares he will not desert his charge and is prepared, with the support of his friends, to face anything that might occur. According to plans being made today, citizens will start a vigil Sunday evening before he begins his night’s preaching and will stand by until Tuesday, Aug. 14. Flock to Guard Pastor They will guard him, his parsonage and the church through Sunday night, all day Monday and night into Tuesday, when they believe that the danger, if any, will be passed. The receipt of the letter is a climax to events that have led to partial disruption of the church through a battle between the older ancl younger members. McFadden has sided with the youngsters. This has offended some of the older members, and-about fifty “bolted" to hold services weekly in the basement of the courthouse. This occurred after a fire in the church last July when the interior was destroyed. Plans for raising money to reconstruct the edifice met with disapproval, with the young people declaring their rights to a room in the new structure which had been particularly selected by older church members. Asked to Resign This was followed by a committee waiting ort “Mac,” as he is known to his young followers and asking his resignation. He refused to leave. And in the fact of what may come, he says: "I will stick to the last. I will not leave now.” W. E. Treadway, deputy prosecutor for Owen County, has the matter of letter writing in hand. He has held a court of Inquiry, questioning several local persons, but has been unable to learn anything definite. Two girls. Miss Mary Starnes, 17, and Miss Mary Bolen, 18, church members, examined all the typewriters they could find in Spencer, but this did not produce any clew. Girls Go Sleuthing The girls canvassed the town in three days and although refused admittance to many houses, Treadway said they obtained 100 typing samples. Out of this number only one bears any similarity to the one used in writing the threat letter. It is proposed, if State authorities are unsuccessful, that the matter be* turned over to the Government for investigation. Feeling is high here over the matter and it is discussed on all four corners of the town square and in homes. It is considered in a serious light. Some residents say they will be highly insulted if called before Treadway In the investigation. Even the Ku Klux Klan ghost has been dragged out of the cabinet because of the remarks and accusations of Catholicism that were contained in the letter. McFadden Tells Story “The hard feeling originated some time ago,” McFadden admitted. “I tried to handle the situation, but so far I have not been successful. I have done all I can for the young people and have gained much membership from their ranks. “I understand young people’s work has been stressed here before and I presume that was why I was sent here. “I am of the opinion the typing samples may uncover something. I’m taking precautions, but I’m not losing a lot of sleep. I imagine that if the circumstances become too serious we could depend on law enforcement agencies, in addition to my friends who have volunteered help.” DIES FROM ALCOHOL Albert Lytle Found Dead by Father. Alcohol poisoning caused the death of Albert F. Lytle, 46, of 2519 N. Pennsylvania St., according to the verdict of Coroner C. H. Keever. Lytle’s body was found at the foot of the stairway in his home at 5:45 p. m. Friday by Baltzer K. Lytle, 77, of 3512 Salem St., his father.

SHOWERS FAIL TO ARRIVE AND CITY SUFFERS IN HEAT

9 and Naughty By Times Special FT. WAYNE. Ind.. Aug. 4. Donald Nelson, 9, is a case today for juvenile officers as a result of stealing an automobile. His small size enabled him to barely reach the footpedals to operate the car, which belonged to Arthur Ott. When first taken into custody, he gave a false name, and although In his own home and in the presence of relatives, dashed out a back door in flight. He was captured a little later by a State policeman.

KAISER STRUCK 14 YEARS AGO Anniversary Finds Powers Ready to Sign Pact. R’J United Press Fourteen years ago today German armies advanced into Belgium, marking the first major maneuver in the world's history. This anniversary finds the major powers of the world preparing to sign in Paris an antUwar pact as designed by Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg of the United States. England and France already have agreed upon a naval agreement somewhat similar to that proposed at the Geneva disarmament conference, which failed. Copies of the agreement have been sent to the major powers for their consideration. In Moscow today, however, there was a discordant note. The Communist Internationale, at the annual meeting, issued a manifesto warning that another war was imminent.

How the Market Opened

8 ,/ United Press zNEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Friday’s advance was extended in the early dealings today in the Stock Exchange. Chrysler was an active feature, rising 1% points to 75V while Dodge preferred certificates were up 2 points at anew high price of 84%. Other motors were active and higher, while gains were predominant in the remainder of the industrial list. Weekly trade reviews were distinctively optimistic, pointing out improvement in crops, higher prices for hogs, fewer failures, increased car loadings, sustained steel production at a high rate and an advance in the weekly food index. Fall sales in many lines are exceeding a year ago. All of this helped sustain the rise which was in progress in the late dealings Friday. National distillers, Postum, Radio, Electric AutoLlite an da long list of others gained a point or more. Following the lead of the Dodge and Chrysler issues, higher prices were noted in Hupp, Packard and several of the motor equipments. Montgomery Ward rose fractionally to 187 Vi, but Sears-Roebuck eased off Vi to 123 in light turnover. Atlantic Refining declined s\i points to 157 Vi and then regained a point of the loss. General Motors held at 187V4, up %, while United States Steel was unchanged at 140’i. New York Stock Opening —Aug. 4 Allied Chem 176% Amer Can 94% Amer Car Foundry 92 Amer Loco 92 Amer Tel and Tel 175% Anaconda 66 Armour (A) 20% B. & 0 105 ! Chrysler 85 Cons. Gas 143 Va Curtis 103 General Electric 150 General Motors 187% Goodyear 52% Hudson Motor 82 5 / Hupp Motors 60 Kroger 109% Mack 89 y 4 Mid Conti Pete 31 Mont Ward 137% NY NH & H 55% Pan-Amer ePte <BI 44'/* Packard 75 Paige 33 Vi Phillips 40 >8 St Paul pfd 47 Sears-Roebuck 123 Sinclair 28 S O Calif 58V, SONY 35% S O N J 45% Stew Warner 92>i Studebaker 72‘a Union Carbide and Carbon 159 V, U S Steel 140 Vi Willys-Overland 22 <i Warner Bros 65% New York Curb Opening —Aug. 4 Amer R Mill 87% Cities Service 65'i Cont Oil 17% Durant 12 V, Ford (Canada) 549 Gulf OH 130 Humble OH 81 Imp OH (Canada) 68 Int Pete 39 Marmon 46 Ohio Oil 64% Prairie Oil and Gas 48Vi Prairie Pipe 191 Service Inc 14% Standard Oil. Indiana 77 Standard Oil. Kansas 24 Standard Oil. Ky 129 United L and P (A) 25% Vacuum Oil 79% Warner Bros )B) 59%

In the Air

CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A M. (Compiled lor The Times by Government -Weather Observer J H. Armlngton and Donald McConnell Government aeronautical obser"er ' Celling and visibility unlimited; barometer, 29.97; wind, south 13 m. p. h.

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Torrid Week-End Prospect Sends Hundreds to Lakes and Woods. . Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m.... 72 9 a. m.... 78 8 a. m.... 74 l(ha. m..,. 81 Failure of the predicted thunder - storms to arrive caused the city today to continue to swelter without relief. There was every indication |of a red hot week-end and the ! citizenry were making plans accordj ingly. I Although wet weather again was ! promised, trips to lakes and woods ' are planned by all who can get away from the sun mirroring pave- ! ments. i Tourists today were spreading the word that driving at present temperatures is not so cooling, either, with heat waves writhing and dancing along the miles of shiny concrete. At midnight the mercury stood at 75 and the lowest point was reached at 7 a. m. today, when it dropped 3 degrees, only to take a new start at 72. By 9 a. m. it was back to 78 and going strong, as on Friday, Thursday and the rest of the days this week. The high point Thursday was 89 in the afternoon. A brisk breeze, as on Friday, continued and afffforded some relief. Citrus fruit business boomed and ice consumption increased. Home brew establishments are doing the best business of the season, many persons seeking relief in the foam as others do at the various rivers and pool of the city, all of which are crowded. 32 Dead in Heat Wave By United Press Thirty-two deaths from prostrations, drownings and lightning is the toll exacted during the twentyfour hours by the heat wave in the eastern half of the United States. Chicago bore the burden of the fatalities, with other deaths reported from Boston. Providence, R. 1., Erie, Pa., and New York. Several hundred persons were overcome by the stifling heat throughout the east. For the third consecutive day, the weather bureau has forecast relief for New York City in the form of rain. So far its average has been .000. Thousands of tenement dwellers on New York's east side sough • relief on roofs, on fire escapes and in the small neighborhood parks. Kindly firemen opened hydrants and mobs of children, attired in makeshift bathing suits, disported in the cold spray until nearly midnight. y The grassy slopes of the more exclusive Riverside drive were covered with sweltering persons seeking a breeze from the Hudson River. Heavy showers today brought relief to Chicago after a forty-eight-hour siege of heat and humidity. During the night the temperature went above 90 degrees and suffering was acute through the city. Thousands of persons slept on lakeside beaches, while in the tenement districts, firemen constructed portable shower baths in the streets.

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—As we enter the week's last day of trading we find unchanged conditions in the stock markets two most important factors—credit and buesiness. Insofar as business is concerned, the outlook is uniformly optimistic. High production is being maintained in steel, motor and other basic industries while even some of the laggards. such as soft coal, are beginning to show some indication of doing better. In credit, however, the outlook remains poor. In fact most signs point toward increased stringency. It is evident, however, that some of the markets biggest interests are paying no attention to the credit problem and are going right ahead with their activities. This action should be welcomed by most of us as an opportunity to take some profits and lighten long stocks. Lightning Injures Woman By United I’ress RICHMOND, Ind.. Aug. 4.—Mrs. Edith Lambert, living east of here, is recovering from injuries suffered when burned and dazed by lightning Friday while milking cows.

HUNT POLICE SLAYERS BELIEVED SEEN IN CITY

Police today are investigating the possibility that the slayers of Motor Policeman Paul Miller were in Indianapolis Friday. Three men in a large automobile with a rifle and three automatic pistols in the rear seat stopped him at Washington and Rural Sts. Friday eveniiife. according to Leßoy Mathins, 14, of 326 N. La Salle St., and asked if police still are “searching for the men who killed Miller.” When he replied “yes” the men drove east at high speed, the boy said. Mathins was selling papers at the corner. He walked to police substation No. 6, Sherman Dr. and New York St., and reported to Motor Policeman L. E. Fanning. By that time the men had such a start

POLISH PLAHE IS REPORTED IH MID-OCEAH BY STEAMER; DUE IN NEW YORK TODAY No Trace of Machine Is Seen at Islands •Where It Was Thought It Might Land If Weather Conditions Were Bad. FOG AND HAZE ACROSS ATLANTIC Radio Message Says Fliers Were TOO Miles to Northwest of Azores Early Friday Night; All Seemed Well. x Du Time* Sprrinl . . LONDON, Aug. 4.—The British steamer Amakura radioed today that at midnight (E. S. TANARUS.) an airplane circled her in mid-Atlantic. By United Press . . _ , LONDON, Aug. 4.—The British steamer Port. Hunter reported this morning she had intercepted a wireless dispatch from the steamer Artec, telling of sighting at sea a biplane, believed to be the Marshal Pisudski, in which two Polish aviators are attempting a nonstop flight from Paris to New York. The position mentioned in the dispatch would have placed the biplane almost due north of the Azores on the regular route to the northern coast of North America. The message from the Artec said the biplane passed over at. latitude 44 degrees and 22 minutes north ancl longitude 24 degree, 8 minutes west. It was flying in a westerly direction. ——.—— TMio manning H is;* nnpflrod

WATCHMAN IS BADLY BEATEN Three Burglars Seriously Injure Man. Burglars seeking to break into the office of the Lincoln Loan Company, 203 W. Washington St., brutally attacked William Leeyman, 52, watchman at the Lorraine Hotel, Washington St. and Capitol Ave., early today, detectives believe. Leeyman was found sitting on the curb in front of the hotel at 2:30 a. m. by Sergt. Frank Rowe and squad. He was covered with blood from eight cuts on his head. Three men approached him while he was sitting in the hotel entrance and without warning began beating him with blackjacks, Leeyman said. He was taken to city hospital. Police believe the thugs had planned to break into the loan office next door to the hotel, and were frustrated because Leeyman was sitting there. The hotel is closed for remodelling. OWES LIFE TO BUCKET Air in Container Keeps Workman From Death in Cave-In. By United Press READING, Pa., Aug. 4.—Christopher Kirchner owes his life to a water bucket. He was working in a sewer excavation when it collapsed, burying him completely. When freed thirty minutes later fellow workers found the bucket over his head. The attending physician said the air in the container had saved Kirchner from suffocation. ‘LINDY’ TOWN GROWS Nebraska Hamlet Shows Increase in Buildings. Ry United Press BLOOMFIELD. Neb., Aug. C.— Lindy, anew town fourteen miles northwest of Bloomifield, is growing mone rapidly than was expected. Seven new buildings have been completed in the past three weeks and more are being contemplated. ISLAND WITHOUT CRIME LONDON, Aug. s.—The nearest thing yet discovered to approach “heaven on earth” is the little island of Eigg, in the Inner Hebrides There is no record of a police case within living memory m. the natives, according to the report brought back by scientists and historians who have visited there.

a chase would have been futile. According to the boy the car carried a license which records show was issued to Mrs. A. R. Morris, 2141 S. Seventh St., Terre Haute. Police are checking to determine whether her license plates or car have been stolen. Motor Policeman Miller was shot July 17, by two men at Station and Twenty-Fifth Sts. The men, one of them wounded, are believed to have hidden in that neighborhood for a night and day and then to have fled from the city. Dozens of police combed the neighborhood for several days and a number of suspects were arrested, but the slayers slipped away. Several teams of detectives still are working on the case.

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The machine disappeared over the water, the intercepted message said. All seemed well with the plane and it apparently was functioning properly. If the plane sighted was the Marshal Pilsudski, it was roughly between 600 and 700 miles northeast of the Azores at the position stated in the Port Hunter’s message. The time given would have been about 10:40 p .m. Friday, (eastern standard time). Expected in Gotham Today Should their flight be successful, Majors Idzikowski and Kubala, would land in New York—Mitchell, Roosevelt or Curtiss fields—some time after noon today. Their flight had been planned via the Azores, where they should have passed about dusk Friday. But no trace was seen of their cream, white and blue sesquiplane. The plane does not carry a radio. These two former war enemies— Kubala having flown with the Austrians when Idzikowski was a Polish pilot—picked bad flying weather for their attempt. Forecasts from over the Atlantic told of fog and haze. But on the first part of their flight they were aided by a strong tail wind that shot their heavily loaded machine along at a maximum speed. They hacf expected to run into head winds on the last part of their flight from the Azores. Two Almost Fatr'lsts But these two men are almost fatalists. They were told of bad flying conditions. They were warned of other trans-Atlantac disasters of Nungesser-Coli, of Hinchlifle and Miss Mackay, of Princess Anne of Lowenstein-Wertheim. In Polish they said the word that means “What of it?” and ordered full ahead for their plane and rolled down the long Le Bourget runway. They circled Paris and passed out of view in the morning haze Sixty miles off Lorient their craft was sighted by the fishing boat Pingouin. Careful watch has been maintained since then for a view of the trim French plane that the Polish Government purchased for the trans-Atlantic attempt. But there was a fog and mist that would have prevented sight of the craft unless it was within half a mile of the watcher. May Try Direct Route There was a possibility that after reaching the Azores ‘ the fliers would not try to strike off to Newfoundland and thence continue down to New York. Some predicted that the weather conditions as they are the two gallant Poles might decide on a direct route into New York. It would be anew route for the trans-Atlantic flight and one generally considered less favorable than the Newfoundland course. Fogs and bad weather conditions were reported from the Grand Banks. Wage Negotiations Lag TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 4. Coal mine operators and miners today were marking time in theii' wage scale negotiations pending the outcome of a similar conference between Illinois miners and operators. This announcement came with adjournment of the Indiana conference between Indiana operators and miners until next Monday, late Friday.

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