Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1932 Edition 02 — Page 1

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FIELD OF FORTY EXPECTED TO QUALIFY FOR START IN WORLD’S SPEED CLASSIC (Trials Will Close Officially at 4 This Afternoon; Cleveland Driver Succumbs to Injuries. MECHANIC IS INJURED SERIOUSLY Seven Pass Test in Friday Grind; Triplett’s Run Features; 39 Have Won Places in Lineup. With a field of forty starters virtually assured, qualification trials for the 500-mile Decoration day motor sweepstakes will end at the Indianapolis motor speedway at 4 this afternoon. The final day’s trials started at 10 this morning, with at least ten drivers preparing their mounts for the tests. Thirty-nine machines already have qualified and should more than forty pass the 100-mile-an-hour minimum apecd mark, the slowest qualifiers, no matter what day they qualified, will be eliminated.

Thirty-eighth car to qualify was a Brady special, driven By (ieorge Mackenzie of Eddington, I’a. His average speed .was 108.151 miles an hour and Bis fastest lap was the fourth at 108.630. He was followed by A1 Jordan, in Jiis four-cycle Liontamer Miller Special, whose four-lap average was 311.290. Jordan’s fastest laps were the first and third at 111.649. Eight Others to Qualify Eight other drivers and cars rcparded as certain to qualify before the deadline are: Leon Duray. in his two-cycle Mallory Special: Gene Haustein in Tulio Gulotta's Marr Special; Sam Ross, in a four-cycle Miller; Zeke Meyer, In the fifth Studebakcr; an unnamed driver in the Hoosier Pete Special, and Jimmy Patterson, in a Duesenberg. Tragedy again rode with speed at the mammoth track Friday when Milton Jones, 388-year-old Cleveland driver, lost his life when his machine crashed and plunged over the wall on the alwavs-dangcrous southeast turn. Wednesday, Harry’ Cox, 28-year-<>ld riding mechanic, was killed at the same spot, when the car in which he was riding hurtled over the wall. Control of Car Jones, one-time motorcycle ace, Josi control of his machine on the turn, and after hitting the inside wall, hammered through the top pide of the track, tearing up seventeen feet of the concrete wall. The driver and his riding mechanic, Harold Gray, 24, were rushed to city hospital, where Jones died at 5:30 of a crushed chest and Internal injuries. Gray today still lay in serious condition. He suffered a badly fractured left arm, lacerations and internal injuries. Two other minor crackups occurred shortly before the Jones tragedy. The first came when Dusty Fahrnow's Goldberg Special blew a tire on the northeast turn. The machine careened into a wall, but yahrnow righted the car and pulled to a stop. He was towed in. unjuirt. but the machine was damaged flight ly. Hall Hits Wall The other occurred a few minutes later, when Ira Hall, Terre Haute mar, who qualified his Duesenberg t a 114-mile-an-hour speed, roared ■up the back stretch. Entering the north turn. Hall found his throttle ptuck. Before he could turn off the switch the machine slammed into the outside retaining wall. Hall managed to control the car and limped into the pits. He was unhurt, but the car was damaged. Mechanics asserted it would be ready by Sunday. Ernie Triplett featured Friday's qualifications, when he piloted his four-cylinder Floating Power Special at a speed of 114.935 miles an hour. Six others qualified, including Juan Guadino, the Argentine star. Guadino qualified at a speed of 107 466 miles an hour. Directly outside the Speedway gates this morning were lined up mere than a dozen automobiles from various points of the United States. All are parked there to wait until 6 a. m. Monday, when the Speedway gates will be thrown open. Practically all Is ready for the Itnnual motor classic, and the track will be closed all day Sunday while the crew of Speedway workers cleans the bricks of all oil and grease. No cars will be allowed on the track until Monday morning, when they will be allowed to motor past slowly to take their positions at the gtarting line. Police Work Is So Interesting! Jgir Cnitrd PrttM EVANSTON, 111, May 28.—Police business Is varied these days. A lost turtle and a stray pony were apprehended within a few hours of each other and returned to their respective owners by lynx-eyed officers.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and continued cool tonight with probably light frost in exposed places; Sunday fair and slightly warmer.

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TRAINS, BUSSES FOR SPEEDWAY Special Service Arranged for Race Fans. (Motor Route* on Pasr 51 Special train and bus service for Speedway race patrons has been arranged for Monday by the Big Four railroad and the Indiana Street Railway Company. One-minute bus service will be provided by the street railway company. with busses leaving Illinois and Market streets and the Circle, over two lines. One way fare will be 10 cents, with transfer privileges from all city street car lines. Big Four shuttle trains will leave the Union Station at intervals of fifteen minutes, starting at 8 a. m., with round-trip fare of 50 cents. From 10:30 to 2 p. m. trains will run every thirty minutes, if necessary, officials said. Return trips will be made until all patrons arcserved. The special bus line, leaving at Illinois and Market streets, will go west to Capitol, south to Washington, west on Washington to Tibbs avenue, thence on Cossell road, Grande avenue and Tenth street to Main street, Speedway and the race track entrance. At the end of the race, busses will be lined near the Speedway entrance for the return trip. •RIDE' VICTIM DIES Refuses to Name Girls Who Shot Him Fatally. By United Prr** DECATUR. Ala.. May 28—Two girls, who took 19-year-old Jack Carter for a ride four months ago, remained unnamed today because their victim, died, refusing to talk. Carter had known for weeks he would die; doctors had told him death would come to him at any moment: sheriff s investigators had pleaded with him for the whole story of the “ride.” The Pulaski iTenn.i youth refused to talk. He did say that he met one of the girls at a dance, but that he didn't know her full name, nor the name of her companion. They drove a coupe, he said, and picked him up on the street the night of Jan. 20. They drove him to a field near Athens, Ala., where they shot him. CHILD KILLER IS FREED Eight-Year-Old Girl Absolved of Blame In Playmate's Death. By United Pm* TOLEDO. 0., May 28—Eight-vear-old Alice Staniszewski. who accidentally shot and killed a playmate in a game and then tried to drown herself, was absolved of blame today by Coroner Frank Kreft. An inquest was dispensed with because of the girl’s hysterical condition.

Colorful Graduation Day Navy Weddings at Annapolis Banned

By L'nitfd Pres ANNAPOLIS, Md.. May 28.—Naval academy graduates, after this year’s class, probably will be forbidden to marry until they have served two years as full-fledged officers. Authoritative information indicates that a regulation to this effect anil be applied to all future Annapolis graduates. Naval officers feel that the ensigns have so much to learn during theli first two years of active service tyt they shoud not be dividing

GARNER DENOUNCES HOOVER OPPOSITION TO HIS RELIEF BILL

Criticises President for Failure to Co-Operate on Jobless Aid. By United Preu WASHINGTON. May 28.—Speaker John Garner today defended his relief program as a real benefit to the “masses.” and attacked President Herbert Hoover for failure to co-operate. In a formal statement, the Speaker replied to the President's charges that the Garner $2,146,000,000 relief plan was "pork barrel legislation.” He declared that the Democrats had not really expected the President to co-operate ‘in any matter benefiting the masses, and those who might be termed the middle class of American people.” "The President’s allusion to the proposed public works program as a pork barrel’ comes with poor grace,” Garner said, “from one who demanded that congress co-operate with him in passing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act. “It would be just as logical to refer to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as 'pork barrel’ for the banks, insurance companies, railroads and financial institutions of the country. “It is not a ‘pork barrel’ nor can any other program which will extend aid in this period of distress be termed such.” Charges Inconsistency The Speaker charged the President with “utter inconsistency” in his attitude toward public works for unemployment relief, quoting at length from the chief executive’s campaign speeches, in which he urged $1,000,000,000 worth of construction. “There can be no question,” Gamer said, "that the program of public works he so ardently advocated in 1928 is as necessary today as it was then, and that the expenditure at this time will have a far reaching influence in the restoration of normal conditions. The Speaker re-emphasized that his proposed gasoline tax would more than pay the interest and sinking fund requirements of bonds to be issued for public works. He estimates yield from this levy at $42,000,000 annually. The reconstruction finance corporation, the Speaker added, while it has benefited large Institutions, has not resulted in aiding unemployment conditions. “It is obvious,” he said, “that the relief to the masses, promised by administration leaders, has failed to materialize.” The principal difference between the two points of view on a balanced budget lies in the matter of increasing the public debt, though this is not brought out clearly in either statement. Estimates Cost Too High While the gasoline tax would prevent unbalancing the federal budget, so far as current expenditures In 1933 are concerned, the amount of bonds issued for such of those public works as are not revenue-pro-ducing would be added to the public debt. However, the administration plan for "balancing” the budget docs not include any sum for the annual debt retirement payment. Hoover in his message estimated that the interest and upkeep of postoffice buildings to be constructed under the Garner plan would cost $14,000,000 a year, while rent and upkeep of buildings now in use amounts to lens than $3,000,000. Garner figures, however, that his gasoline tax will yield $42,000,000 a year, only half of which will be needed for Interest, with the rest available for maintenance of completed projects. Hoover, In addition to denouncing the Gamer plan as endangering a balanced budget, also characterized it as "the mo6t gigantic pork barrel ever proposed to the American congress,” and “an unexampled raid on the public treasury.” Hoover Lashes Measure “It apparently is expected that the cupidity of the towns and sections will demand that their congressmen and senators vote for this bill.” said Hoover. “I just do not believe that such lack of intelligence or cupidity exists amongst the people of the United States. . . . Our nation was not founded on the pork barrel, and it has not become great by political log rolling. "I hope that those many members of congress of both parties who, I know, will oppose this bill, will receive the definite support of the people of their districts in resisting it."

[their attention between their new profession and wives. It is understood that the rule would have been applied to this j year’s class, except for the reluctance of authorities to disrupt the graduates’ plans on short warning. Officials have decreed, however, that there shall be no marriages on graduation day, next Thursday. Midshipmen can not marry while they are still in the academy, and in past years there has been a constant succession of weddings in the famous old Annapolis chapel, im-

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The secret marriage of Peggy Rice (above), dance hall hostess, and Robert Randolph, social registerite son of a distinguished New York family, has been revealed. SWIFT, PACKER, DIES IN FALL Drops Six Floors at Home; Health Was Bad. By United Pm* CHICAGO, May 28.—Edward F. Swift, 68-year-old packer, who began a distinguished industrial career as a cattle buyer for his father, the founder of Swift & Cos., died today in a fall from a sixth-story window of his Gold Coast apartment home. Swift, who was chairman of the board of Swift & Cos., and planning to leave next week on a vacation trip to Europe for his health, fell in full view of his chauffeur, Henry Dice, who waited to take his employer to the office. The body was clothed in pajamas, Swift having finished breakfast only a short time before the fall. Charles Henry Swift, brother, issued a statement which said his brother had been in poor health for several weeks, and, on advice of his physician, he had arranged to leave Tuesday for Europe. His affairs are In excellent condition, the statement said. Later at the Swift home, Richard Head of the Swift offices, said the fall was an accident, and expressed the theory that Swift had fallen from the window as he opened it. Swift arose at his regular hour of 6:45 a. m., the family said, ate breakfast In pajamas and bath robe, and then went to the sunroom of the apartment from which he fell. Known as a fresh air advocate. Swift was presumed to have opened the window, which stuck at times, and toppled out before he could regain his balance. WARNS ON BOGUS COIN Mazey Urge* Speedway Visitors to Watch Their Change. Beware of counterfeiters was the warning issued today to race fans who will visit the Indianapolis motor speedway Monday. Charles Mazey, secret service operative. cautioned race visitors to observe carefully any change they may receive at the speedway inasmuch as races and other places waere crowds congregate are the favorite spots of "passers of the queer.” Mazey said several excellent counterfeit half dollars have been passed here this week. Hourly Temperature* 6 a. m 48 10 a. m 48 7 a. m 49 11 a. m 48 8 &. m 50 12 a. m..... 49 9 a. m 50 1 p. m 53

! mediately after graduation exercises. Tucked away In the desk of one high official is an envelope inscribed “sex stuff." Inside areclipi pings and newspaper pictures of [ past graduation day weddings, at which the new ensigns and their brides inarched out of the chapel : through lanes of newsreel cameras and admiring friends. It was all very spectacular, but jin the view of academy officials it ! turned the graduation exercises ini to a “three-ring circus.^

! ASSAIL SALES LEVY IN HOT SENATE FIGHT •Soaking the Poor’ Label Placed on Measure by Foes. ■ GREEN RAPS PROPOSAL •It Will Stir Discontent/ Says Labor Head in Message. By United Pm* WASHINGTON, May 28.—Senate opponents of the manufactures sales tax assailed it today as a "soak the poor” policy of taxing those least able to bear the burden. Senator Robert L. La Follette ißep., Wis.) read into the record a letter from William Green, president of the American Federation ! of Labor, predicting it would "inflame the minds’’ of distressed workers. Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., I Miss.) challenged manufacturer tax senators to come out in the open, and settle the question with a seni ate vote, while Senator James Couzens (Rep., Mich.) denounced the sales tax system as a "monstrosity.” Green’s letter said that "enactment of the sales tax would inflame the minds of distressed workers until the present unrest would be greatly exaggerated.” Workers Are Defended ICouzens told the senate he was tired of hearing men like Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and others i who “defend the 50,000.000 workers” | I assailed as demagogues. Charges that newspaper publishi ers had been persuaded at the White House or elsewhere to for- | sake opposition to the manufacturj ers’ tax echoed in the chamber as the counter offensive to the Walsh sales tax amendment got under way. - Senator C. C. Dill (Dem., Wash.) offered to the tax bill an amendment to fix the stock transfer tax at M of 1 per cent. Dill attacked the New York Stock Exchange as “a parasite, which has swallowed the legitimate business of the country.” He told the senate that the exchanges had become gambling institutions in which the insiders used ! mr' ed cards and loaded dice. He j cited testimony from the banking ! and currency committee market in- j vestigation to show that big I operators, possessed of exclusive in- i formation, move the prices of stock at will. Harrison Assails Foes Senator Harrison said some members of the senate "courageously” were voting unpopular taxes and that the budget had almost been balanced according to the treasury recommendations, but that other senators were "floundering In the dirt.” “We read In the papers now,” Harrison continued, plainly angry 1 and disturbed by the tactics of the sales tax bloc, “that the President has called to the White House the leading publishers of the coun- ; try, and that there was discussed ; this general sales tax which has been before the country. “We see now that every effort, j every method is being employed to, browbeat this senate into accepting the sales tax.” Senator William Borah (Rep.,j Ida.) told questioners that he believed sales tax advocates were hop- j ing eventually to substitute that: form of taxation for the income tax. Fess Gives His Version Senator Burton K. Wheeler * (Dem., Mont.) asked about a mom- j j ing paper story which attributed to ! Senator Simeon D. Fess (Rep., O.) the assertion that President Hoover was “four square behind the sales | tax.” | Fess stated emphatically that he had called at the White House Friday night purely for the purpose of discussing “preliminaries of the con--1 ventions ’’ Fess said he had been met by newspaper men as he left the White House, and that they had asked i him about the sales tax. • “I frankly stated,” he continued, I “that I was of the opinion that as between the high excise taxes and the sales tax the President would favor the sales tax. I did not quote j the President because he did not mention it to me.” COofsNAP TO END Warmer Weather Forecast, for Race Day. Fair weather will reach central Indiana today and linger through Sunday and Decoration day, J. H. ! Armington, weather forecaster, preI dieted today. Although a cool area Is moving eastward through the central west, conditions in the northwest give promise of fair weather Monday for race enthusiaots, Armington said. j Tonight will be mostly fair, continued cool. Temperatures will touch j a low mark between 38 and 40 degrees. he said. Sunday temperatures will rise j slowly, and probably continue to climb through Monday, it was fore-j cast. j

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Carmel Myers By United Prc* HOLLYWOOD, May 28— Carmel Myers, motion picture actress, was the proud mother of a tenpound 12-ounce boy today. Miss Myers, who is the wife of Ralph Blum, and the Infant were reported to be in excellent health.

HEROIC STORIES OF SEA RESCUE TOLD

By United Pres* BOSTON, May 28—Stories of I skill and courage, including that of one man driven mad by his fight for life in the flooded hull of the steamer Grecian, were brought here today by survivors aboard the City of Chattanooga, which sank the freighter Friday. Vernon Parker, one of the twen-ty-nine survivors landed here on the City of Chattanooga, was trapped in the engine room when the Grecian was rammed. Water poured in on him from above, blocking his only exit. Tantalizing, fear-provoking shouts of struggling men on deck reached him as he fought for ten minutes In the swirling waters to climb a POLICE KILL CHILD Girl Caught in Cross-Fire of Gunmen Chase. By United Preu CHICAGO, May 28—Marie Leisch. 15-year-old school girl, was dead today from a bullet wound suffered when she was caught In cross fire of two police squads in pursuit of a fleeing gunman. The bullet passed through the girl’s heart, and she died as police were taking her to a hospital. SEEK SAFETY DEVICE FOR AIR AMBULANCES Consider Plan to Put ’Chutes on Cots of Patients. By United Prr* WASHINGTON. May 28,-Army air corp technicians are working on devices by which helpless patients in ambulance planes could be dropped safely to earth In case of trouble with the plane. Attachment of a parachute to the patient's cot is one of the suggestions being studied by experts at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Tex., and Wright Field, Dayton, O. The patient would be strapped to the cot. The army last year transported 100 stretcher cases by airplane. So far no accidents have befallen the ambulance planes.

Children to Ask Hoover to Free Dad From Jail

! 3y l ||itrd I'rrsi WASHINGTON. May 28.—The Feagan children, who came from Detroit to appeal to the nation's ; highest official for aid in freeing their father were told by President Hoover today that he “would be glad to use my good offices" to help them. WASHINGTON, May 28—Three ' courageous children who traveled i here alone from Detroit hoped fervently to win today with interces- : sion of the President of the United • States to free their father from tail. The children are Bernice, Irene and Clifford Feagan, aged 13, 11 and 10, respectively. Their father. Charles R. Feagan. is held in Detroit on a federal charge of stealing an automobile from St. Joseph, Mo. Simply. Bernice explained their mission. ' “We hope to see the President. We just want to tell him about 1 father. Father is innocent." The appeal to President Hoover • was Bernice’s idea. She recalled j that her mother used to know Wali ter Newton, secretary to the Presi- ! dent. Friends an£bus line officials i helped her arranpr the trip. II ,

INDIANA AND CIRCLE WILL CEASE BUSINESS JUNE 9; FEAR RACKET TERRORISM Decision to Quit Operating Comes After Thousands Are Routed From Playhouse by Stench Explosions WOMEN PATRONS VIOLENTLY ILL Police Chief Admits There Is Little Hope of Halting Thugs in Campaign • of Lawlessness. Threatened with a reign of racketeer terrorism, the Indiana and Circle theaters, largest playhouses in the state, will close their doors the night of Thursday, June 9. The theaters will remain closed indefinitely. Notices to this effect were posted today fn both houses. Decision to cease business in Indianapolis, for months, at least, was reached today, following concerted attacks with stench bombs in both theaters Friday night.

Three bombs were hurled n the Indiana and two in the Circle. Two of those in the Indiana scattered fumes on

j ladder that led to safety and life. He reached the deck, blinded and choked by water. He fell exhausted. Then he became delirious, believing 1 himself still fighting his battle for life. For three hours fellow sailors held him, until his delirium was stopped by hypodermic injections. Four seamen perished in the crash ' off Block Island. Three others were i injured so painfully that they were transferred to the marine hospital on Martha’s Vineyard. Os the twenty-nine survivors still ; aboard the Chattanooga when she docked today, eight were suffering injuries. Sharing hero honors in the rescues were Captain C. G. Borum of the Chattanooga, who with full steam ahead managed to keep the prow of his vessel stuffed firmly into the gaping hole it had torn in the Grecian's side amidship, and a Negro fireman on the Grecian. The Chattanooga’s bow was enough of a stopper to keep the foundering craft afloat for fourteen minutes. During that time, the Grecian’s lookout, Tom Nottage, a lanky, rawboned Negro from Baltimore, dared death by going below, and arousing those who had slept through the crash. “She was shipping water like Niagara Falls,” Nottage recounted hours later. “We didn’t have much time.” But he stayed below long enough to make sure that all hands were on deck. After twenty-four men had climbed aboard the Chattanooga over its bow, Captain Borum backed away and the Grecian sank at once. APE SAILS FIRST CLASS Pet of Travelers Allowed to Enter U. S. From Paris. By United Pm* NEW YORK, May 28 —Suze, an ape garbed in a tan sweater and blue shorts, arrived as a first-class passenger on the Mauretania Friday, and immigration officials were asked if she could enter the coun- j try under the quota laws. Customs officials finally let her in on payment of duty. She Is the pet of Mr. and Mrs. Wood Kahler, Just returned from Paris.

The three arrived Friday night, tired and a bit bewildered, but confident. The local manager of the bus line took them in charge and arranged to escort them to the White House this morning. Bernice said the automobile in question belonged to a man named | Van Zandt of St. Joseph. She said ■ her father didn’t steal it, but with the owner’s permission took It to Detroit in an effort to sell it. “On April 7,” she continued, “two policemen—maybe they were detectives—came to get father. They told him he had stolen It. He hadn’t at all. “Father signed extradition papers without knowing what they were. Clifford went to a lawyer, and we got the Governor to refuse to sign them. “Then they arrested him under the Dyer act, which is a federal law about stealing automobiles, and they want to take him to Missouri. “I am going to ask the President j not to let them take him. I’m just going to tell him what father has done, and that he is not guilty of * what they are accusing him."

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the main floor and the other was broken at the entrance to the howling alley.

The ventilating system carried | the stench through the playhouse !in a few moments. More than a ! thousand people left the Indiana ! and several women in the audience were forced to call medical aid. No Way to Fight Attack One bomb tossed in the Circle did not break. It exploded this morning, however, in the hand of a theater attache, as he was carrying it out. In view of the fact that the fumes from the bombs penetrated floors to such extent that, they can ! not be eliminated, even with blow ’ torches, and because of the fear ! that future attacks can not thwarted, it was decided that the only course possible was closing of the theaters. Police were notified and a special detail of plain clothes men was sent through each theater today by Po- ' lice Chief Michael Morrissey. View was expressed by theater men that there w’ould be no way to guard against attacks of this character, and that the lives of many of the thousands of patrons of the two theaters would te endangered, if any attempt w r ere made to fight off the racketeers with their own methods. Walkout Threat Falls “It means that racketeering has broken out in full force in Indianapolis, and that we are facing the ; same kind of terror reign that has ruled in so many of our other large j cities in recent years," one official ! declared. Three electricians, whose services were not needed, were cut from the Indiana pay roll recently. The matter was brought up at a union session and the Indiana posted as "conditionally unfair.” Asa result, notice was served that stagehands, motion picture operators and musicians would walk out Thursday night. The walkout did not materialize at that time, however. The Indiana and Circle theaters are owned by the Skouras-Publix Theater Company. The Indiana was opened in June, 1927, and is rated the finest house of its kind in the state. The Circle has been operated for fifteen years. 175 Men to Lose Jobs Value of the Indiana theater is estimated near the $2,000,000 mark, and that of the Circle at approximately $750,000. Closing of the theaters will mean that at least 125 men will lose their jobs. Effect of the closing also will be felt by film exchanges and other allied industries. Police continued their Investigation today. Chief Morrissey said he would have squads go through both theaters as often as possible. ‘ However,” the chief declared, "to apprehend offenders of this kind, it would be necessary to have a man behind almost every seat, so stealthily can they work in the darkness of a crowded theater. “I understand that there has been trouble with the electrical workers in the theaters, but I do not know who is to blame." SUN SPOT BIG ENOUGH TO ENGULF WORLD SEEN Two Earths Size of Ours Easily Could Be Placed in Disturbance. I'ij Science Service WASHINGTON. May 28.—A sunspot so large that it would engulf the earth now is on the face of the sun. It is a single spot with a total diameter of 22,000 miles. Two earths of the size of ours, 8.000 miles across, easily could be placed within this disturbance in the atmosphere of the sun. Observations made at the United States naval observatory here by C. B. Watts, astronomer in charge of solar studies, show the spot is just beyond the center line of the sun.