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—Aviation— ATLANTIC HAS BEEN SPANNED BY 63 PLANES 51 Flights Were Nonstop, Lindbergh’s Thirteenth, Aero Digest Recalls. BY ERNIE PYLE Seripm-Howard Aviation Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—So far there have been sixty-three flights across the Atlantic ocean. .. . Fifty-one of them were non-stop. . . . Lindbergh’s was the thirteenth crossing and the fifth non-top. . . . The first successful flight across was by the navy NC-4 boat In 1919. The magazine Aero Digest has compiled a complete history of all ocean flights. The American air mail system, at present, consists mostly of trunk lines, and only the larger cities are served. . . . Representative Clyde Kelly (Rep., Fa.) hopes to remedy this situation by setting up a myriad of short "feeder” lines, running through small communities all over the nation. . . .He will ask congress to help. . . . Kelly is sold on the automatic air mail pickup —rice for these routes. The San Francisco Bay Airdrome has 102 arrivals and departures of scheduled planes every day. .. . Tony Fokker, the famous plane designer who fought with the commerce department after the Rockne crash, is now in China. . . . Clarence Chamberlin, New York-to-Ger-many flier, is selling real estate in New York and getting fat. Signalmen Have Lonely Jobs The "lighthouse keepers of the airways” lead lonely lives. . . . They tend the emergency fields along the nation’s aerial highways. . . . There are 351 of them. . . . Some are at fields so isolated they don’t see a human for weeks. . . . Even on the New York-San Francisco transcontinental airway, there are 151 lonely field tenders. . . . William E. Lee, a high school boy of Alexandria, Va., has built a model airplane for the King of England. . . . It is an 11-inch model of the Schneider cup racers. . . . Cost him $3 and three weeks’ work. . . . The British embassy here will send it to King George. . . . Pilot Arthur Lybarger, who flies the high-speed passenger plane of Continental Airways into Washington from Chicago, always sends his wife a telegram as soon as he arrives. . . . T. &. W. A. Grows Stern Leland Jamieson, who flies the night air mail between Richmond and Atlanta for Eastern Air Transport, writes air fiction stories on the side . . . And sells them to the magazines, too, a lot of them. . . . Mrs. Clifford Ball, wife of the general manager of Pennsylvania Airlines (Washington - Cleveland), io a pilot, owns her own plane ana recently flew across the mountains from Pittsburgh to Washington Wthout losing her way once. . . . On the way back her scarf blew off five miles out of Washington. . . . But it caught on the tail, the wind held it there, and the scarf had a 200-mile open-air ride to Pittsb' gh. . . . x* division superintendent of T. i W. A. (New York-Los Angeles) rode on a plane without issuing himself a Y>ass. . . . Both he and the pilot •'too carried him were warned it meat/ their jol'j li they ever did it again. . . rhat was to impress upon the.'* .he importance of having a record of every! passenger on every plane before it leaves the ground. . . . Airlines are getting businesslike. . . . Drives 70 Miles lo Work George Hnldcman, the man who flew Ruth Elder nearly across the Atlantic, has resigned as test pilot for the Bellanca people, to organize anew aviation department for the Fidelity Investment Company of Wheeling, W. Va. The banking firm now has two planes, and will get more soon, to haul bank directors from one place to another. Pilot Serrno Jacob, veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille, flies for Eastern Air Transport out of Newark, N. J. . . . But he lives in Ridgefield. Conn., and twice a day drives the seventy-eight miles to the airport. Pacific Air Transport (Seattle-San Diego) gives away short-wave radio sets to farmers and mountaineers along the route, so they can hear radio conversations between planes and ground stations.

PREDICTS PROSPERITY British Almanach, Noted for Its Accuracy, Forecasts Future. Bu United Press LONDON, Dec. 11.—World prosperity will return next year, according to the prediction of Old Moore’s Almanach for 1932. British annual publication, which li-.tv. iecent general election and i ion of a national government. The Almanach alsc made the following prophecies: Famine, disease, and pestilence in Russia during the next three years; illness or death of a member of the British royal family in April; a grave naval disaster in May; hostilities in the near east in midsummer; more settled conditions in India; a British government crisis in July. GIVES LIFE FOR FRIEND Evansville Girl Dies Trying to Save Friend From Deadly Gases. Bu United Press DETROIT, Dec. 11.—A 20-year-old girl, who came here a month ago from Evansville, Ind., was dead today, victim of a futile attempt to same the life of a dying friend. The girl, Miss Mildred Johnson, daughter of Mrs. Anna Coomes of Evansville, was asphyxiated with Alex Gregoire, 30, and Mrs. Mabel Grandmason, 30, by fumes from a defective water heater. Miss Johnson and Gregoire were overcome, police said, when they went to the rescue of Mrs. Grandmason. Business Man Dies Bit Times Special FAIRMOUNT, Ind., Dec. 11.—Funeral services were held at Wabash for George W. Vestal, 34, Fairmount business man, who died Monday. He came here from Wabash five months ago.

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State Official Pleads for Practical Shelters for Winter Time. Plea for farmers and sportsmen to provide shelter for game birds during the winter is set out in a bulletin issued today by Walter Shirts, chief of the fish and game division of the state conservation department. “Before snow flies is the time to get busy,” Shirts advises. “State deputy game wardens will aid in developing practical shelters, as they did last year. “Swamp borders, weed patches, brushy fence-rows and protected sides of dood lots or ravines provide good places for distribution of grain. Shocks of corn may be moved nearer to the haunts of birds and provide good cover. Use your ingenuity and build shelters. You maj? amply rewarded next spring by the coveys in increased numbers.” The bulletin also cites the new game laws. Open season for quail and ruffed grouse ends on the evening of Dec. 20. Daily bag limit is fifteen birds w’itxi a limit per person of forty-five in possession. Wilson or jack snipe may be taken lawfully until Dec. 31, with a daily bag limit of twenty. Rabbit season is open until Jan. 10, with a limit of ten a day and sale of rabbit is permitted during the open season. Trapping season for fox, possum, skunk, mink, and muskrat is open until Jan. 15. A license is required for trapping and a dealer’s license to buy or sell fur.

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CHICAGO IN NEW CRISIS Legislative Session Adjourns, Problem Rapidly Growing Worse. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 11. —v Further unfavorable developments in the Chicago financial situation came today as the special legislative session went into adjournment over the week-end, little nearer a solution of the problem than when the meeting opened. In Chicago, the county board announced funds for widows and orphans’ pensions for the year were exhausted and that payments to the blind would be reduced. Sanitary board employes were unpaid for the third day and officials said there was danger of default on their bonds. The South Park board reported operations would be curtailed to insure bond payments. Christmas Special—s i o QO I MatcheJ Golf Irons Perfectly matched and balanced Irens. I chromium elated, steel shafts, leather 1 grips. Snorts Dept—Second Floor. VONNEGUT’S Downtown. 120 E. Washington St. (Neighborhood Stores) Irvington. Fountain Sciuare. Belmont g Branches All Over Town I 4fletch*ttet I L (Tompani) J

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THIEVES LET MOISTURE RUIN ART TREASURES $150,000 Titian Is Spoiled Beyond All Hope of Restoration. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Dec. 11. —Titian’s $150,000 “Ecce Homo” probably has been ruined irretrievably and Rembrandt’s “Christ”’ seriously damaged in their four and a half years in the possession of thieves who had cut them out of their frames in the Moscow museum of fine arts. Victor Lazerev, director of the picture galleries in that museum, said today that he entertained only small hope that the Titian masterpiece can be restored, even partly. Buried in a tin box outside of Moscow more than two years ago, it was found ruined by moisture. The Titian had been valued by foreign and Russian experts at $150,000. Head Is Undamaged •M. Lazerev showed Rembrandt’s “Christ" in the process of restoration. Fortunately, the head remained almost undamaged. Large areas in other parts of the masterpiece, however, have lost their original colors. The thieves had spread a thick layer of glue on the stolen masterpieces and covered them with white paper. The years underground, however, spoiled this preservative and allowed moisture to penetrate. The Rembrandt in its undamaged state was valued at $400,000. How the vandals’ work will affect the price is not yet clear. Suffer Less Damage The other paintings stolen are less valuable and have suffered less damage. They are Carlo Dolce’s “St. John” and Correggio’s “Holy Family.” The Correggio painting was made when the artist was only 16 or 17 and he has another of the same composition in the Pavia museum. The Dolce, likewise, is a replica of another “St. John” in the Kaiser Friedrich museum in Berlin. The paintings were stolen in 1927 by an artist named Kokoriev and an electrical worker named Fedorovitch. The artist was obviously familiar with the values of the paintings and went straight for the best after the two of them climbed through a window. LAWMAKER IS GUEST Ship-Travel Rail Club Honors Marion County Legislator. William Conner, state representative from Marion county, was a guest at a card party and dance Thursday night in Tomlinson hall, sponsored by the Ship and Travel by Rail Club. Approximately 700 persons attended. J. M. Dill, Railway Express Company general superintendent, in an address, advocated legislation as a means of remedying financial ills of railroads.

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dead. He was followed by Henry Pannier, 57, farmer of Evansville, 111.; Willie Green, 31, Negro, Easfc St. Louis, and at 2:15 a. m., the body of James Jackson. 31, Negro, East St. Louis, was lifted from the chair. Jackson was singing as he died a hymn which Deputy Warden Oscar Miller said the condemned man had composed ih his last hours. His robust voice rang out “Master, in meet you at tne beautiful gates. He’s waiting for me there,''—as the current was turned on. Jacksoa was convicted of the murder of his wife, Johnson as the slayer of a railroad detective shot in a holdup, Pannier for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schuling, and Green for killing an East St. Louis grocer in a robbery attempt. When special glass used to pass ultra-violet rays becomes too opaque, it can be treated by heat and brought back to flormal again.