Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1930 — Page 1

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SOLDIERS ARE ON GUARD IN MARION

Girl Stabs Lover After All-Night Party

JURISTS TO BE PROTECTED IN BILLINGS QUIZ Precautions Arranged to Safeguard Lives on Folsom Visit. ANARCHIST IS DRAWN IN Decision on Pardon Pleas to Rest Until After Aug. 26 Primaries. BY MAX STERN. Times Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9—There Will be no decision on the MooneyBillings pardon applications until after the Aug. 26 primaries. This became evident as the list of witnesses before the seven supreme judges sitting on the Billings pardon plea began to lengthen. Governor C. C. Young will await the action on Billings by the judges and also that of his advisory pardon board on Mooney’s petition before he takes the two cases under advisement. It now appears that the taking of testimony before the judges will consume at least a fortnight yet. This will relieve the Governor of the necessity of acting before the Republican primaries settle whether or not he is the nominee. After that he feels the pardon pleas will be safely out of politics, for whoever gets the Republican nomination in California is assured of election. Thursday next is the tentative date set for the visit of the judges to Billings at Folsom prison, some 100 miles from here, across the Sacramento valley. Plans are being made for hearing Billings in one of the prison’s larger rooms and restricting the audience to newspaper men. Safeguard Judges’ Lives Precautions were arranged today to safeguard the lives of the seven members of the supreme court when they meet in the prison. It is believed the prison session will be the first of its kind in the "United States and it is generally admitted there is an element of risk. The hearing is necessary because the court ruled that Billings should testify personally. The attorneygeneral’s office decided Billings could not be taken from prison, so the court is taking the hearing in prison. Anarchist Drawn In One question stands out—will the Judges permit the alleged conspiracy matter, offered by cx-Assistant District Attorney Ed Cunha. to be Introduced? This matter relates to activities of the anarchist. Alexander Berkman. and his paper. The Blast, in trying to prevent the Preparedness parade. According to Cunha, this “evidence” connects Mooney directly with the Berkman group and Billings indirectly. All this matter was kept from the Billings trial by a ruling of Judge Frank Dunne, who pointed out that since the prosecution was building its case on direct evidence, it could no try the case also on a conspiracy theory. Now that the Fickert-Cunha-Brennan prosecution finds its direct evidence destroyed by the “tangled webb” woven by John MacDonald and Estelle Smith, it is eager to fall back on the conspiracy theory. Story Branded ‘Fancy’ Two more “witnesses” of the 1916 prosecution may take the stand and undergo the ordeal cf cross-exami-nation by the defense attorneys. These are Mrs. Mellie Edeaus and her daughter, Sadie. These two, who testified they saw •looney and Billings at the bombhag scene with their “astral bodies." are anxious to go on the stand again. Their stories have been branded as fanciful. Thomas Stout, a tailor, says now that the women were working beside him in an Oakland clothing factory on the Preparedness parade day. COATS ARE HER JINX Girl Gets in Trouble o<er Beach Variety and Fur Model. Bn Untied Press CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Miss Eleanor Ahrens, 20. has been having trouble with her coats lately. A week ago police charged she wore only a towel to get a coat of tan on a public beach. Friday it was a fur coat, which the officers said she carried from a store without paying for it that got her into trouble. *COLD WAVE’ HITS FIJIS Islanders Forced to Wear Clothes for First Time in Lives. Bn Vniied Press SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9.—A “cold wave" that sent the temperature down to 55 degrees above zero recently caused many residents of Suva, in the Fiji islands, to wear clothes for the first time in their lives. Captain T. F. McManus said today upon returning from a voyage to the ii lands.

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Told by her alleged com-j mon-law husband as they 1 celebrated his twenty-fourth birthday today, that another woman had become a mother of his chiid, auburn-haired Dorothy Jacobs, alias Mrs. Robert Morrison, 24, of 1309 North Pennsylvania street, Apt. 16, is said by police to have stabbed and probably fatally wounded Robert Morrison at their apartment today. The stabbing climaxed what police declare was an allnight carousal in celebration j of Morrison’s birthday. The girl used a large butcher knife to stab the man, police said. According to police she readily admitted the stabbing. Remorseful, as Morrison collapsed, she ran into the hallway and called to Robert Jones, Negro, janitor, to telephone for a physician. “I couldn't stand it when he told me another woman was mother of his baby,” she declared, police said. She did not know where the baby was, or name of its alleged mother, she declared. Police say they found she has lived with Morrison several years. Morrison is in a critical condition at city hospital. The girl was arrested on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill. Police say she had wiped blood off the butcher knife before they reached the scene. RELIEF FROM HEATON WAY Cooler Weather Is Due for Indianapolis. Clouds and somewhat lower temperatures appeared in store for Indianapolis tonight and Sunday, the United States weather bureau here forecast today. Today continued the heat and drought that has made the summer one of the worst in history. Thermometer reading of 90 degrees at 9 a. m. presaged afternoon temperatures of more than 95 degrees. Many cities in the United States Friday reported temperatures above the 100 mark, while in Indianapolis the mercury rose only to 93 degrees. Heavy rains relieved the drought somewhat in North Dakota and Minnesota, and a few showers were reported in Indiana and Ohio. Hudson, Ind., in the northeastern part of the state, had a hailstorm. An additional shower was expected in northern Indiana tonight or Sunday. In Missouri the state superintendent of schools askde postponement of opening of rural schools until cooler weather. In many places water supplies are dangerously low. PORKERS SELL UP 10 CENTS AT CITY YARDS Steady to Lower Prices Hold in Cattle and YeaJers. A 10-cent rise in most classes featured hogs over the week-end at the Union Stockyards. The market showed a firm undertone all around. The bulk, 160 to 260 pounds, sold for $9.85 to $lO.lO, top price $lO.lO. Receipts today were estimated at 2,000. holdovers were 150. Cattle receipts were 200. the market quotably steady. Vealers sold 50 cents lower at sll down. Receipts were 200. Sheep and lambs were steady, receipts numbering 200. Lambs were generally selling at $8.50 down, top price $9. Chicago hog receipts were 9,000, including 7,500 direct. Holdovers were 3,000. Chicago hogs were scarce with no early sales or bids. Best offerings held steady. For strictly choice light weights $lO was asked. Cattle receipts were 500, sheep 3,000. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 77 9 a. m 90 7a- m 80 10 a. m 92 8 a. m 85

STREET CARS CRASH; MOTORMAN INJURED

Plowing into the rear of a Brookside street car at Massachusetts and Ashland avenues this morning, an outbound East Tenth street car was wrecked and Elva D. Dickens. 28, of 1128 Windsor street, West drive, motorman, was injured severely. Eight passengers on the East Tenth street car and five on the Brookside car, escaped injury. A passenger alighting from the Brookside car, iwhich ha/ stopped, was thrown to the street, but left the scene before his name could be obtained by street car employes. Police used axes to free Dickens from the vestibule of the East Tenth street car, which was crushed. His legs and body were crushed and he was taken to city hospital, where his condition is serious.

DROUGHT AREA GOVERNORS TO MEETHOOVER President Directs Relief for Farmers From Rapidan Camp. HOPES FOR RAIN SLIGHT Red Cross, U. S. Agencies Ordered to Act in Any Emergency Case. BY CECIL OWEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—President Hoover was directing from his Rapidan camp in Virginia today another of the major relief tasks which have signalized his public career. Before leaving Friday for his week-end retreat after summoning the Governors of a dozen droughtstricken states to confer here with him next week, the President ordered the White House office staff to remain on duty so he could be in constant touch with the situation. Mr. Hoover also is keeping in close communication with Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and federal farm board members. Executives of the states most seriously affected by the damaging drought of the last six weeks are to come here Thursday to discuss with the President and his advisers the methods to be employed in assisting farmers whose feed crops virtually have been destroyed. Survey Is Under Way Organization of relief agencies in the states to supply feed for livestock and to help farm families whose incomes have vanished under the sun’s merciless rays, will be taken up by Mr. Hoover with the Governors. Meanwhile, with no hopes for early general rains held out by the weather bureau, the farm board and four other governmental agencies proceeded with relief plans already initiated. Reduction in hay rates by railroads are to be approved by the interstate commerce commission; the army has made available its services for hauling water; a survey of the drought damage is under way by the agriculture department, and the farm loan board and farm board are planning extension of ample credits to farm communities. The American Red Cross also has been ordered by Mr. Hoover to stand by to assist in any possible emergency involving human suffering. Confers With Chairman The President conferred with Ernest P. Bicknell, acting chairman of the relief organization, before leaving here for his mountain treatIn issuing the call for the Governors’ conference, Mr. Hoover said organization of relief agencies first must be undertaken by the states, and then the counties, with which federal farm agencies can cooperate. More than 1,000,000 farm families, possessing 2,250,000 horses and mules, 6,000,000 cattle, and 12,000,000 hogs and sheep, live in the “acutely affected area,” the President said. This is about 12 per cent of the nation’s farm animals. Owing to sharp curtailment of feed crops, new supplies must be provided to carry this stock through the winter. Talk of famine is unwarranted, the President said in making public a preliminary survey. This showed the drought mainly has affected animal feed, while the bulk of the human food supply Is “abundantly in hand.” In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: Southeast wind, four miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.97 at sea level; temperature. 90; ceiling unlimited; visibility, 10 miles; field, good.

Dickens told police he applied brakes on his car when the Brookside car stopped. The brakes failed to work, he said and the car hurtled into the rear of the Brookside car, of which A. W. Newlin, 40. 3844 East Thirteenth street, was the sole attendant. George Knapp, 45. of 1926 Commerce avenue, was conductor of the car piloted by Dickens. Arch Toy, 928 North Rural street, William Lee, 2108 Shriver avenue, and Herman Bulor. 2515 North Pennsylvania street, were among its eight passengers. Street car and automobile traffic was blocked for more than an hour, thirty-three street cars being held up while Dickens was rescued from the cay vestibule.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930

Millions Tune In as Lindbergh Lauds Future of Air Travel

Flier Is Heard Throughout World Over Gigantic Radio Hookup. B)/ United Pres* NEW YORK, Aug. 9—Given a potential audience larger than any in history, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in a world-wide broadcast Friday night pleaded the cause of aviation, the industry on which he perhaps more than any other man has focused public attention. Speaking from the smallest studio of the Columbia Broadcasting system—although the most elaborate facilities could have been his had he desired—the noted flier predicted establishment of transoceanic air routes and bespoke the value of uniform flying regulations by all nations. So as to afford Colonel Lindbergh the widest possible circulation of his views—and radio engineers said they believed that between 50,000,000 and 75,000,000 persons would be listening in—he twice within a period of six hours appeared before the microphone. The first time was at 2:25 (central standard time) with Columbia’s short-wave station, W2XE, broadcasting the address to Europe and Australia. Germany, Sweden Use Interpreters The later broadcast came at 9 p. m., at which time the aviator was heard throughout this country on both the Columbia and National Broadcasting Company networks, in England ana Sweden through the international telephone circuit and the British Broadcasting Corporation and in four other continents through three N. B, C. short wave stations. Illustrative of the international interest in Colonel Lindbergh’s talk was the fact that the Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft of Germany had been sent an advance copy so that the speech, in translation, could be read over the air from Berlin at the same time as from New York. Sweden, whence came the airman’s ancestors, likewise arranged for interpreters so that listeners-in of the Stockholm radiotjaenst could receive the broadcast. More Auditors Than King Colonel Lindbergh thus became the first private citizen to have the use of both the Columbia and National networks facilities and was expected to have far more auditors than did King George of Britain when the latter opened the naval limitation conference. Colonel Lindbergh began his eightminute address by pointing out the incident of progress in transportation and progress in civilization. “Every great advance in transportation has forecast a greater unity in world government,” he said. “The Twentieth century brings a third dimension in transportation to a world which has not yet had time to become accustomed to the more recent developments of the steamship and the railroad.” Predicts Trans-Oceanic Routes “The last few years have seen the extension of air lines over every continent. The next few will bring trans-oceanic routes to unite these continental services into a network covering the entire world. ' “To realize the full significance of this development, however, it must be considered as a part of the whole system of modern transportation. For unless some radical scientific discovery revolutionizes our present aircraft we can not compete with ships and railroads in the movement of most articles of commerce. “The airplane augments rather than replaces ground transport. Its mission is to simplify intercourse between countries by rapid transportation of passengers and documents; to bring us in closer contact with other people and to facilitate the negotiations necessary for mutual understanding and trade.” New Era of Commerce Colonel Lindbergh then went on to point out that aviation is bringing about a newer and truer idea of geography. “Aviation brings with it the necessity of uniform regulations ” he said in closing. “The maximum advantages of aiz - commerce can be obtained only by international adoption of uniform flying regulations and in this day of education and progress it seems unnecessary to permit fear and misunderstanding to retard commerce between nations as it retarded that between in dividuals in ancient times. “We should be able to replace an evolution of necessity by a program of intelligent encouragement. The conquest of the air should bring with it anew era of international commerce and agreement.” WORK CLAD IN PAJAMAS Laundry Girls Defeat Hot Weather By Doffing Clothes. Bn United Press WATERTOWN. N. Y., Aug. 9. Girls employed in a laundry here wear pajamas while working during the hot weather. Permission was obtained from officials of the laundry. I

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COUPLE CURSED BY DEAD MAN TO WED

Husband Kills Self Rather Than Give Up Wife to Hated Brother. Bu United Press NEWARK, N. J„ Aug. 9.—Edward Keller and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Florence Keller, have decided to disregard the curse a dying man called down on them as he took his life. Unmindful of Henry Keller’s threat, “I’ll do you more harm dead than alive,” the brother and widow will be married Sunday. Florence Keller thus will wed the man she loved and seek to forget an unsuccessful marriage contracted in pity. Henry, 22, and Edward, 23, had been inseparable ever since youth. They joined the marine corps together and fell in love with the same girl. Married Life Unhappy When Florence told Henry she preferred Edward, Henry attempted suicide and was ill for months. Pitying him and remorseful that she had been the cause of his attempt, Florence agreed to marry him. But their married life was unhappy, and after four months Florence and Edward realized they still loved each other. It was when Edward told his brother that the situation could not be endured and asked Henry to divorce his wife that the latter brought his curse upon them. One day he sat down near a gas jet and began writing notes. “I used to love you,” he wrote to his wife, “but I die hating you and my brother, too.” Wishes for Oblivion He turned-on the gas and continued writing. “This would be a real opportunity for an essay on ‘How It Feels to Sentence Oneself to Die,’ but who cares—it won’t matter a bit 100 years from now. “And then so many damned suicides have an idea that the rest of the world is going to be interested in their theories on ‘the uselessness of living’ or the ‘fascination of death’—horse feathers. They are interested in the prohibition question and the price of eggs—Uj pies.” Then, his handwriting showing the effects of the gas: “I’ll bet Florence and Ed are having uneasy dreams now. It is hard to die when one is young. I wish oblivion would hurry.” TREE CHAMP QUITS - Youth Tires of Lounging in Limbs; Up 606 Hours. “Just tired,” said Palmer McCloskey of 328 North Mount street, as he gave up his limb lounging at 6 Friday night after 606 hours in a tree in the rear of his home. David Smith of Beech Grove, still up a tree at his home, would pass Palmer's record at midnight tonight. Cheeta, limb-lounging cat, owned by Earl L. Paris, passed the 120- j hour mark in a tree this morning.

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How the Market Opened

Bu T'nited Pr< s* NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Further selling developed in the stock market at the opening today with losses ranging from fractions to more than 2 points. Trading was relatively active with several large blocks appearing. Some of the selling represented cleaning out of weakly margined accounts. United States Steel opened at 160%, off %, and anew low on the movement. Westinghouse Electric declined 1% to 136; Sears, Roebuck 1% to 61%; Johns-Manville 1% to 80%, and Radio-Keith-Orpheum 1% to 27%. American Telephone and Telegraph met support and moved against the trend. It opened at 203%, up 1% from previous close. Radio Corporation opened 5,000 shares at 38%, off %; General Electric 3,000 at 66%, off %; Commercial Solvents 5,500 at 23%, off %, and Vanadium 6,000 at 83%, off 171. Warner Brothers opened 7,500 shares at 26%, off 1%, and anew low for the present shares. During the early trading the trend continued toward lower levels. Steel broke below 160, against a previous close of 161 and otner leaders continued to meet selling. A few shares, including Standard of New Jersey, Commercial Solvents, Westinghouse Electric and General Electric made small advances from their initial levels. Vanadium continued under pressure. Chicago Stocks Opening (Bv James T. Hamill & Cos.) —Aur. 9 Openi Open Auburn Mtrs ..107%;1nj Util pfd. .. 91% Sendix Avia 29V*iIns Util 6s 1940 inn* Bore Warner... 28 ;[Calamazoo Stove 50 Cent 111 Sec 24%Manh Dearb 29% Cent Pub Sec A. 27VMarsh Field ... 37% Chicauo Cp com lO'.iMidl United ... 26 Cities Service.. 27%;Mid Util 27% Cord Corp 7'.*lNo Am Lt & Po. 63% Urlesbv Grunow 13%.Util & Ind com. 13 Insull Common. 58%1 BARE TRIPLEIILLING West Virginia Slayings Are Believed Solved. Bis Tn>ted Prrft* NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va., Aug. 9.—A triple murder, discovered through charred bones found on the floor of a smouldering log cab’n near here, was believed solved today through an alleged confession by Melvin Slider, 23-year-old mountaineer. Slider, according to Prosecutor ' George Coffield of Wetzel county, | admitted kiling J- Lot Loudenslager, ! his half-brother, after Loudenslager had killed his own wife, Nora, 45. and his stepdaughter, Annabelle Hupp, 14. Stolen Auto Set Ablaze Two men stole an automobile owned by James Yoter, 1519 Kennington street, from its parking place at Maryland and Illinois streets Friday night, set it afire on Arlington avenue south of Beech Grove and drove away in another ; stolen car which has been parked j nearby. The fire did not cause serious damages/to Yoter’s machine.

RACE RIOTING FEARED OVER 108 HANGINGS Bu Times Special . . . , , MARION, Ind., Aug. 9.—With army precision, double guards in the khaki of the Indiana national guard today patrolled the Negro section of Marion, while the Saturday county seat crowds, peaceful to all outward appearances, discussed rumors of threatening racial strife as a result of the double lynching of two Negroes Thursday night. Rumors that a large number of Negroes were being mobilized at Indianapolis to aid Marion’s 1,800 Negroes in retaliation for the double hanging were current, but were discounted by officials. Groups of curious persons poured into the city from surrounding small towns and the country districts today. In early morning hours downtown streets were crowt.ed. Acutely aware of an undercurrent of racial antagonism which they fear might flame into open warfare over the weekend, officials concentrated their efforts today on preventing gatherings of groups of whites or Negroes.

“Keep moving” was the constant order Friday night of city police, sheriff’s deputies, and state policemen to crowds in the business section. By 11 Friday night, streets were .fairly well cleared and the night was peaceful. That the task will be a difficult one during this afternoon and night was admitted by officials, due to the thousands of visitors and curious pouring into the city. 100 Troopers in City Bodies of two Negroes hanged by the mob Thursday night were to be returned here Sunday from Muncie and burials will be held Monday. State troops will remain in Marion until after the funerals, it was declared today, in belief that return of the bodies for the funerals might be the signal for new outbreaks of violence. Since Thursday night, when a mob stormed the Grant county jail, dragged two Negroes into the streets, beat and hanged them, mutterings of racial hatreds that bode no good have been prevalent, officials who requested presence of state soldiers declared today. The troops, numbering about 100 men in command of Colonel George E. Healey of Indianapolis, were rushed here by special interurbans from Camp Knox, Ky., at request of Mayor Jack Edwards and Sheriff Jacob Campbell, who said they feared any small disturbance might prove the signal for more mob violence. Hold Indignation Meetings Colonel Healey arrived on Friday night by airplane and Company K of Ft. Wayne and Company I of South Bend, both of the One hundred fifty-ninth infantry, reached Marion at 5:30 this morning. The troops marched to the Coliseum, where they will be quartered and patrols of two men each were detailed immediately for the streets, principally those in the Negro section. The quiet that came to most sections of the city after the mob had dragged Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Negroes, from their jail cells and hanged them from Maple trees on the courthouse lawn in the center of the city, did not prevail in “Johnstown,” the home of most of the city’s 1,800 Negro population. One indignation meeting of 400 Negroes was dispersed by police. Negro leaders told officials trouble was brewing and might flare at any moment. Shipp and Smith had been arrested on charges of being two of three Negroes who held up and killed Claude Deeter, a Fairmount youth, and criminally attacking his sweetheart, Miss Bary Ball, 19, of Marion, on a country road. Await Grand Jury Herbert Cameron, 16, Negro, the third prisoner under arrest in the attack, was spirited away from the jail here after his life was saved by a ruse. Sheriff Campbell convinced the mob Cameron was not the third man accused in the crime, after Cameron had been dragged from his cell. White citizens of Marion have been objecting openly for months to leniency which they claim has been extended to Negroes accused of crimes. They contend officials are soliciting support in “Johnstown.” No action against any of the mob leaders is expected until the grand jury convenes in September. AIR ii NEARER o’Brine and Jackson Pass 450 Hours in Air. B United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. 9—A new record within their grasp, Forest O’Brine and Dale Jackson piloted their endurance monoplane, Greater St. Louis, cautiously above Lambert municipal flying field today. A. 9:14 a. m. the former holders of the endurance title passed their 458th hour in the air in their attempt to shatter the Hunger brothers record of 553 hours. Z

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Paris Styles What does Paris decree for winter wear? Every woman wants to know. Next week The Times will carry a series of articles on the winter fashion openings of the famous couturiers of the style capital of the world, by John White of the United Press Paris staff. An authoritative picture of what will be worn during the coming season will be given Times readers. Watch for the first of these articles Monday.

TWO MUST DIE IN COPMURDER Trigger Woman and Man Aid Denied New Trials. Bil United Press NEWCASTLE, Pa., Aug. 9—Mrs. Irene Schroeder and W. Glen Dague were sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of Corporal Brady Paul, state highway policeman, and their petitions for new trials were refused by Judge R. L. Hildebrand today. v The date of their execution will be set by the Governor. The court held there was insufficient evidence to warrant anew trial and that the convicted killers had been judged and fairly sentenced to pay the death penalty by a Lawrence county jury. Pleas for anew trial were based on the claim of the defense that the trial court erred in not permitting the plea of “irresistiole impulse” to rob and murder. The judge also erred in his charge to the jury the defense contended. OPEN AVIATION WEEK Fourteen Planes to Parade Over City at Noon. An aerial parade over the city at 12:30 today will announce the opening of Aviation week in olisFourteen planes, flown by city airport pilots, will take off from Mars Hill airport, circle the city and engage in maneuvers high above Monument circle. Captain H. Weir Cook, president of the Indiana Aircraft Trades Association, organization sponsoring Aviation week, Aug. 9 to Aug. 17, will head the flotilla in a Travel Air. President E. M. Elliott of the Board of Trade and President Paul Q. Richey of the Chamber of Commerce will be Cook’s passengers. 50-DAY 'SET' ENDS . Shipwreck Kelly Plans to Quit Perch Today. Bu United Press ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 9.—Alvin J. (Shipwreck) Kelly planned to come down today from the 250-foot flag pole on which he has been sitting for fifty days, confident that his endurance record would really endure. The “sit” started out as a practice affair, but ended in a contest when Shipwreck learned, from papers that were hoisted to his airy perch above the million-dollar steel pier, that the Hunter brothers in Chicago were spending a few weeks aloft in their airplane. His professional pride at stake, Shipwreck decided he would have to take the “sit” in earnest and pile up a good lead over their record of 553 hours aloft. If all goes well until he comes down, he will have lived atop a 13-inch disc high in the air for 1,200 hours. *