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FARM STRIKERS STOP TRAIN AND FREE LOAD OF CATTLE; U. S. INTERVENTION LOOMS Federal District Attorney in lowa May Act to Prosecute Leaders; Stock Left ' on Rail Right-of-Way. ECONOMIC STRIFE OVER NATION Age-Old Human Wants Prompt Outbursts in Half Dozen Focal Points; Street Car Riders Riot Over Fare Demand. By United Press OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 23.—Federal intervention in the farmers’ strike appeared as a possibility today after 300 men stopped a freight train at Emerson, Neb. A car of cattle consigned to the Sioux City livestock market was unloaded and turned loose along the right-of-way before the train was permitted to proceed. Advised by G. C. Porterfield, secretary to Governor Charles Bryan of the farmers’ action, Federal Attorney C. E. Sandall went into conference immediately with his chief deputy, Ambrose A. Emerson. “If I find federal statutes have been violated, I shall begin prosecution at once,” Sandall said.

Strife Over Depression’s Grip Is Rising in Many Localities

Bv United Pres* Men fought with their fists, argued, schemed and went to law in a half dozen local centers of economic strife over the nation today. The age-old human wants—hunger, the need for shelter, the will to exist—prompted the outbursts. They took the form of a roit in a street car by passengers who refused to pay fares, of a rebellion of thousands of coal miners against a pay cut, of a “strike” by farmers enraged at low prices for their produce, of a revolt by subscribers in a telephone system against service rates.

Closest to the soil was the revolt of the farmers. Tired of theories and projects that failed to make their oats and cream and hogs sell for more in the markets, they massed along countryside highways, stopping citybar r.d trucks and trains, dumping mi!’:, berating those who tried to run he blockade, engaging in fistfigh . A Omaha and Council Bluffs, 200 fa s picketed highways against in 'd produce. I ng them was white-haired Jr lawn of Woodbine, la., who sa would willingly go to the p iary for five years if it wc .esult in bettering conditions on le farms. The 60-year-old 10.. i, a farmer all his life, braved the sheriff’s threat that the picket leader was risking prison. Sioux City, la., faced a milk shortage because producers failed to agree to a distributors’ contract proposal and because pickets lined the roads, turning back milk trucks. Only six head of livestock reached the stockyards. Elsewhere in lowa, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois the farm “strike” slowly gained momentum and held the threat of bloodshed.

Living Cost Is Starting Up, But Worker’s Earnings Drop

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Stall Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The cost, of living definitely has started upward, although the earnings of workers are continuing their downward course, the bureau of labor statistics reported today. The average wholesale cost of all | commodities increased 6-10 of 1 per cent in the week ended Aug. 13. In July wholesale prices advanced 1 per cent over those for June. Foods increased 3' 2 per cent in July as compared with June, and continued to climb in August. Retail prices had increased 1 per cent up to July 15, the last date for which figures are available at the bureau. Grocers said here today that they plan to put increases into effect on goods for which they have had to pay greater wholesale prices. Meanwhile, the bureau of labor statistics reports that employment decreased 3 per cent and pay rolls decreased 6.1 per cent in July in sixteen major industrial groups with 63,417 establishments reporting. In July, 1931, the index number of pay rolls in these establishments was 60.3 as compared with the 1926 average of 100, and in July of this year, the index number of pay rolls had dropped to 36.2. Employment was recorded at 55.2 this July and 71.7 a year ago. The labor department's most recent figures on retail food prices show increases in forty-three out of fifty-one cities up to last July 15. Pork chops went up an average of 29 per cent; strictly fresh eggs, 10 per cent; round steak and lard. 9 per cent; sirloin steak. 8 per cent; chuck roast, 7 per cent: rib roast, 6 per cent; plate beef, 5 per cent; sliced ham, 3 per cent; sliced bacon, leg of lamb and sugar, 2 per cent. Flour, rolled oats, rice navy beans, canned tomatoes, coffe and prunes showed no change in price during the month, and the following foods decreased in cost; Cabbage. onions, canned salmon, potatoes evaporated milk, oleomargarine, cornmeal. pork and beans, hens, oranges, tea, macaroni and various canned products. The greatest increases in retail food prices were reported in July from Detroit, Indianapolis, and Little Rock, where prices Increased 5 per cent. In Baltimore and Boston the increase was 4 per cent; Bridgeport, Cleveland, Manchester and Rochestcr, 3 per cent; Buffalo, Chicago,

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The street car riot in Cleveland reduced the general conditions to simplest terms. “We won’t pay fares,” a passenger shouted. ’The corporations have stolen our money.” A free-for-all fight ensued in which three railway employes were beaten. Plans went forward for a march of 25,000 Illinois coal miners, protesting aaginst a sl.lO a day wage cut under anew contract, to march on mines in the southern part of the state where fellow miners are at wor kat the reduced scale. Two men have died from bullet wounds, many hurt and hundreds have been threatened. A mass meeting of telephone subscribers was called at Hutchinson, Kan., to determine the next move in their fight to force the telephone company to lower rates. The telephone users insist on a reduction of $1 a month. At Tiffin. 0., a crowd of approximately 6,000 Seneca county taxpayers marched on the county courthouse late Monday demanding immediate reduction of salaries and merging of certain offices as a means of reducing the tax bill. Farmers left their fields and merchants closed their stores to join the marchers.

Cincinnati, Columbus, Fall River, Milwaukee, Newark, New Orleans, Peoria, Portland (Me.), St: Paul and Washington, 2 per cent; Birmingham, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Mobile, New York Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland (Ore.), Providence. Richmond. St. Louis, Savannah, and Springfield (III.), 1 per cent, and Charleston (S. C.), Louisville, Memphis, New Haven, Norfolk. Omaha, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, less than .5 of 1 per cent. In eight cities, food prices decreased during July. These were Kansas City, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Butte, Jacksonville, Los Angeles and Scranton. Wholesale prices of most other commodities as well as food, took another step upward in August, according to the bureau’s figures. Farm products mounted from 47.9 to 49.4 compared with the 1926 average of 100. Foods advanced from 61.9 to 62.5; hides and leather products from 69.9 to 70.2; metals and metal products, including motor vehicles, plumbing, agricultural implements, from 79.2 to 79.4, and textile products from 52.5 to 53. Fuel and lighting wholesale costs declined from 73 to 72.9, building material from 69.6 to 69.4 and chemicals and drugs and housefurnishing products remained stationary. Building permits decreased 30.5 per cent in July from the month of June, the bureau of labor statistics announces after a check of 351 identical cities. Employment decreased 4 per cent in manufacturing industries in July, the bureau found, and manufacturing pay rolls were 7.9 per cent less than in June.

DEMOCRATS MUSTER 1,000 SLOGANS, SONGS FOR VOTE DRIVE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The Democratic party has stepped out ahead of the Republicans in the presidential campaign by mustering 1,000 slogans, two songs and Eddie Dowling. They could have had a human fly. too. but the national committee decided against it at the last moment. They also had to tell the balloon man—apparently a fellow who can swell up to twice his normal size—that they didn’t have any opening at the moment, but that they would take his name and address and let him know if anything turned up. 03

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1932

Doolittle Is Air Prisoner; Can Not Land

WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 23Major James H. Doolittle, famous air ace, landed his plane safely at the airport here at 12:55 p. m. today after a thrilling hour trapped in the air in which he faced possible death or injury. By United Press WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 23.—James H. Doolittle, famous speed flier, faced death above the Wichita airport today. Trapped in the air when the retractable landing gear of his fast plane, stuck in the fuselage making a landing impossible. Doolittle in a monotonous circle above the field. Beneath, mechanics and excited spectators looked on in constant ex-

pectation of a crash, as the audacious airman, who holds the trans -continental speed record, fought with levers which control the! landing gaar in an! effort to pry it! loose. Minimum speed i of the fast Laird plane is ninety

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miles an hour, and observers feared he would be forced to attempt a landing without the wheels of his plane at this terrific speed. To do so, they said, almost would certainly prove fatal. Doolittle had taken the plane up for speed tests after having done some repair work. Once off the field he pulled in the landing gear, specially constructed to permit greater streamlining of the ship, and put the little biplane through its paces. As he came down to land, mechanics saw the famous airman working madly at the levers. Within a' few feet of the ground he gave up the struggle and zoomed his ship, resuming his circling about the airport. Othed jilots went aloft to shout encouragement, but there seemed no way in which they could be of material aid.

BLOCK EXPLAINS WALKER DEAL Tells Why of Joint Broker Account With Mayor. By United Press ALBANY, N.. Y., Aug. 23.—Paul Block, New York newspaper publisher, explained today the friendship for Mayor James J. Walker that led him to open a point brokerage account with the mayor, on credit, from which Walker received nearly $250,000 in profits. Block, called as a defense witness in the mayor’s trial before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to determine Walker’s "fitness to hold office,” said he had known the mayor “seventeen or eighteen years.” Block said the joint account was opened in 1927, and that he recalled the mayor having suggested the purchase of “one stock—a copper stock.” As profits rolled in, Walker drew from the account, either by check or cash. “Whenever he received the cash,” he said, “he drew a check for it.” Block backed up Walker’s previous testimony tending to prove that in the event the account met with losses, the mayor would have been expected to pay his share of them. “There were losses?” he was asked by John J. Curtin, Walker’s counsel. “Yes.” Block replied. “They were apportioned from the profits—half of mine and half of Mr. Walker's. Block denied that “any official favors whatsoever” had been obtained by him from the mayor, “and none whatever before he became mayor.” SEPARATE IN LOVE TEST Couple Takes Three-Day Honeyn moon, Part for Months. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 23.—Just before their marriage, Marianne Elizabeth Carter and her fiance, Jack Moffett, decided that theirs would be a three-day honeymoon, after which they would part for several months before deciding whether they would join each other again. If, after this remarkable exhibition of will power, the two decide to reunite, they will go to Hong Kong to complete their honeymoon. COP PLACED ON TRIAL Testimony of brother officers and neighbors of traffic policeman Omar’J. Lee, 230 North Pershing avenue, was heard today by the safety board in Lees trial for drunkenness and conduct unbecoming an officer. No verdict was given by the board, although it was said by Charles R. Myers, president, that a decision might be given Wednesday at the board’s special meeting.

Mr. Dowling is the musical comedy actor, who entertained the delegates at the Democratic national convention while everybody else on the platform rushed out, apparently to try to call Speaker John N. Garner on the long distance telephone. After that performance he was placed in charge of the sloganssongs -and - snappy - sayings department. His job was to evolve a snappy jazz tune, and he went right to work—making hey-hey while the sun shines. The rumor today is that Eddie

LIBERTY DEATH IS CONFESSED; GUNJSFOUND Mrs. Kumer Tells Third Story, Admits Crime and Bares Hidden Weapon. VICTIM’S MATE CLEARED Row With Mrs. Gunsaulie Over Dish of Sliced Tomatoes Is Fatal. By Times Special LIBERTY, Ind., Aug. 23.—Finding of a rusty, time-worn revolver secreted in the wall of a dingy attic was believed by authorities to have solved a crime which shocked Union county this week, following confession of Mrs- Nellie Kumer to the slaying of Mrs - . Eleanor Gunsaulie. After hours of grilling in the Liberty city jail, Mrs. Kumer early today signed a third confession, admitting the killing and lead authorities to the hiding place of the revolver. In previous statements, Mrs. Kumer first confessed the killing, but later repudiated this confession, and in a second confession placed the blame on Gunsaulie, w’ho was absent from the home at the time. Husband Is Absolved Sheriff Herbert Ellision was prepared to sign an affidavit charging the woman with murder, and she will be arraigned probably Monday before Circuit Court Judge Roscoe C. O’Byrne, he said. Confession of Mrs. Kumer to the murder absolved Guy Gunsaulie, husband of the dead woman, of the slaying. He had been grilled repeatedly by Ellision and Charles R. Baker, prosecutor, since discovery of the bullet-torn body of his wife. After signing the third confession, Mrs. Kumer led authorities to the attic of the Gunsaulie home, and withdrew the revolver and a handbag from a hole in the plastered wall. The handbag was that of Mrs. Gunsaulie, whose body was found in a shallow grave near the home. Quarrel for Three Days Mrs. Kumer, in the purported confession, that she and Mrs. Gunsaulie quarreled Wednesday preceding the killing over a dish of sliced tomatoes, which Mrs. Kumer, a domestic in the home, had thrown away. The quarrel continued Thursday and Friday, according to the confession, when Mrs. Gunsaulie struck Mrs. Kumer on the face with a bucket. A fight then ensued when, according to* Mrs. Kumer, Mrs. Gunsaulie seized a revolver. Mrs. Kumer said she grabbed the weapon, fired twice at her assailant, killing her instantly. WOMAN AIR SUICIDE Plane Passenger Leaps to Death, 1,800 Feet Up. By United Press ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 23.—A young, attractively-dressed woman leaped to death from an airplane three miles west of here today. The plane was flying at an altitude of 1,800 feet when she jumped. In her pockebook, found in the frr,nt seat of the open cockpit plane in which she rode as a passenger, was a sheet of stationery engraved “H. C. McConaughy.” HAYFEVER HEREDITARY Doctors Find Tendency Goes on to Children. B.y Science Service NEW YORK, Aug. 23. —Hay fever, sick headache or migraine, and other forms of the group of illnesses classified under the head of allergy, or sensitiveness to foreign proteins, are transmitted as distinct hereditary tendencies. So declared Drs. M. E. Richards and R. M. Balyeat of Oklahoma City, in a paper presented here today before the third International Congress of Eugenics. The two investigators arrived at their conclusion through a study of family histories of patients coming under their care at a hay fever and asthma clinic. Full pedigrees of both maternal and paternal sides of fifty-three families thus were obtained. THREE DIE IN PLANE DIVE Pilot, Two Passengers Victims as Ship Bursts in Flames, Crashes. By United Press ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 23.—A pilot and two passengers were killed at the Alexandria airport Monday night when a plane burst into flames and fell to the ground from a height of 500 feet. The dead were: James Howell, pilot, of Washington; Miss Ann White, Bealton, Va.; Frederick Ehrenfeld of Washington, D. C.

has a song called “Row With Roosevelt.’’ That will make three songs so rthe Democrats. They already have “Anchors Aweigh” and “Happy Days Are Here Again.” “ A NCHORS AWEIGH” will be l\- rendered wherever a band is involved, because, according to the Democratic national committee. it is a good march time. “Happy Days’’ will be held in reserve until somebody mentions the depression, and then the Democrats will let ’em have it. It was by accident that the v

A FAMILY AFF-AIR

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Mr. and Mrs. George R. Hutchinson and daughters Kathryn, 8, and Janet Lee, 6.

By United Press BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 23. The Hutchinson family left Floyd Bennett field today on a 4,500-mile air trip to London that will take them over the North Atlantic. Their giant, bi-motored amphibian plane, christened the Flying Family, took off for St. John, N. 8., the first leg of the flight, at 11:07 a. m. with George R. Hutchinson, Richmond (Va.) aviator at the controls. Hutchinson was accompanied by his wife Blanche, his daughters Kathryn, 8, and Janet Lee, 6; Peter Redpath, navigator; Joseph Ruff, mechanical engineer; Gerald Altlissih, radio operator, and Norman Alley, motion picture cameraman. They hoped to reach St. John within six hours. From St. John it is planned to fly to Port Manier, Anticosti island, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, thence to Hopedale and Nain, Labrador, and then over 626 miles of water and ice to Gotthaab, Greenland. Next they will cross to Angamssalik and Reykjavik, Iceland, whence they will go to the Faroe islands; Edinburgh, Scotland; Chester, England, and London. The “Flying Family” is a tenpassenger Siworsky amphibian. It has two 425-horse power wasp motors, and can carry a useful load of 3,900 pounds. Hutchinson has been flying about seven years. In the past four years his family always has accompanied him, and it is estimated that in that time they have flown more than 100,000 miles. .Last year the Hutchinsons visited every state in the union in a 21,000-mile tour. DENIES SUSPECT’S PLEA Prisoner Must Face Bank Charge in Indiana, Judge Rules. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 23. Justice Frederic De Young of the Illinois supreme court refused a writ of supuersedeas today to Reinhold Fleuker and he will be turned over within twenty-four hours to Indiana authorities to face bank robbery charges at Hartford City. The writ had been sought in a petition by Attorney William Jaffe in which it was declared that Fleuker never had been in Indiana and that he was in Burlington, Wis., at the time the Hartford City bank was robbed. ARGUE PATERNITY “TEST Court to Decide Wednesday on Use of Blood Analysis. Whether a man denying the paternity of a 6-year-old girl shall submit to a blood test in an effort to settle the issue will be determined Wednesday afternoon at a hearing in juvenile court before Russell Newgent, referee. * Howard Griffin. 37, of 319 Cleveland avenue, resisting efforts to compel him to pay for support of the child, has signified his willingness to submit to the test. Divorced wife of Griffin, now Mrs. Margaret Horn, 24, of 3525 Roosevelt avenue, contends he is the father. She asserts the child was born four months before she and Griffin were deviorced in October, 1926. Dives on Another; Gashes Head Four stitches were required to close a wound in the head of Harold Corbett, 12, of 939 Prospect street, when he struck another boy Monday night as he dived in the Garfield park swimming pool.

Roosevelt forces acquired “Anchors Aweigh.” They were perfectly satisfied with “Happy Days” until they got to the Chicago convention. There, according to Norman Baxter of the Democratic publicity department, Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland had “Anchors Aweigh” for his song. But the organist made a mistake and played “Anchors Aweigh” during a Roosevelt demonstration. Everybody liked it, so the Roosevelt forces adopted it. They figured Ritchie wouldn’t be using

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CITY LIKELY TO GET LOAN BANK Location of Federal Unit Here Is Reported. BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. —The federal home loan bank board is expected to announce this week that one of the home loan banks will be located in Indianapolis. The board announced today that it had decided to establish a total of twelve banks, the maximum authorized by congress, but refused to name the cities wherein the banks would be located, saying boundaries for the home-loan district had not been determined definitely, A member of the board, however, told The Times correspondent that a practical agreement had been reached to carve a home-loan district out of Indiana and Michigan and with headquarters at the Hoosier capital. The decision to locate a bank at Indianapolis is the result of an intensive drive by Republican and Democratic leaders and building and loan associations of Indiana. Indiana and Michigan building and loan companies will be asked to subscribe $5,000,000 in capital stock for the new bank. CITY ON CURTIUS TOUR Former German Foreign Minister Is Expected After Oct. 3. By United Press BERLIN, Aug. 23.—Dr. Julius Curtius, foreign minister in the Bruening cabinet, will leave for New York Sept. 4 to spend three months on a lecture tour beginning in San Francisco Oct. 3. Los Angeles, Kansas City, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Washington are on his itinerary. Tries Suicide by Poisoning Following an attempt at suicide by poisoning at her home, Mrs. Leona Botto, 33, of 846 Broadway was sent to city hospital Monday night by police, who said she refused to make any statement as to the cause of the act or the kind of poison taken.

COUNTY’S TAX LEVY TO GO OVER LIMIT

County budget-makers today denied a rumor that they would adopt a drastic program of salary slashing and job elimination to stay within the $1.50 tax limitation law. Confronted with the job of pruning expenses to the minimum, councilmen declared it would be “utterly impossible” to keep the levy from going ovei* the limit. Fixed expenditures, from which there is no apparent escape, threaten to increase Marion county’s rate to $3. “We will do our best to be fair to taxpayers, but we can not do the impossible,” Walter C. Boetcher, council president, announced. Report that the council had adopted a three-point program, which it hoped would curb a rising tax schedule, was described as a “pipe dream,” by Boetcher. Councilmen will be forced to pro-

it again for at least four years. Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committee, came to town recently and announced: “We have 1,000 poems and slogans which we are considering. Anybody want a poem to keep?” m m • FROM an unimpeachable source today were obtained three samples of the slogans submitted to the Democrats. 1. “Roosevelt and Repeal.” 2. “Roosevelt and No Secrets.” 3. “Substitute White Mule for White Elephant.”

TWO PLANES VIE FOR HONOR OF REACHING NORWAY FIRST IN FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC Vikings Have Five-Hour Edge on Vermonters in Dash to Harbor Grace for Start of Hazardous Sea Exploit. FAMILY ALSO TO BEGIN OCEAN HOP Tm Waiting With Hungry Arms,’ Is Message of Ex-Cycle Racer’s Bride of Year Already at Oslo Goal. By United Press The north Atlantic, already crossed by airplanes at least a score of times, today drew further aeronautic endeavor with the possibility of a race over the hazardous course. Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen left New York for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, from where they will take off for Oslo, Norway. A few hours later, Clyde Lee and John Bochkon left Barre, Vt., also for Harbor Grace, from where they will start to Oslo. There was a possibility the two craft might race over the course—which already has claimed many lives —for the honor of being the first arrival in the Norwegian capital. Meanwhile, the Hutchinson family—George, wife and two children—left New York for St. John, New Brunswick, on a leisurely trans-Atlantic crossing to London. They plan stops in Iceland and Greenland. Captain James A. Mollison, who last week flew from Ireland to New Brunswick, was in New York, preparing to fly back to England this week.

5,000 See Takeoff By United Press BARRE, Vt., Aug. 23.—A transAtlantic air race loomed today when the rebuilt monoplane Green Mountain Boy took off for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, at 10:18 a. m.. eastern daylight tame—less than five hours after another plane had left New York for the same destination. Both planes have Oslo, Norway, as their ultimate goal. Clyde Allen Lee, 24-year-old Oshkosh -(Wis.) aviator, was at the controls as the red Stinson monoplane soared away from the Barre-Mont-pelier airport. Beside him as relief pilot was John Bochkon, 28, of Brooklyn, a Norwegian. Fog Delays Takeoff Julius Robertson of Negaunee, Mich, who was to have gone as copilot, but who was supplanted by Bochkon, witnessed the takeoff, along with perhaps 5,000 Vermonters. Fog delayed the takeoff for several hours, but a bright sun finally burned away the haze. “I don’t know whether it will be a race or not,” Lee said. “I can’t tell for sure until we get to Harbor Grace. It may be a race across, if they don’t get too much of a head start on us out of Harbor Grace.” The young midwesterner, an airman with eight years’ experience, and Bochkon, who has had six years’ experience, both were confident that they would bring the Green Mountain Boy down safely at Oslo about thirty-two hours after leaving Newfoundland. Oshkosh Is Spurned . Originally, Lee was to have made Oshkosh the starting point of his flight. Claiming that Oshkosh has not provided proper finances, however, he erased the words “Oshkosh B’Gosh” from the plane and brought it here as a result of a local contribution of SI,OOO. On the red plane were the words Green Mountain Boy, and underneath, “Barre-Montpelier, the granite center of the world.” The plane carries no radio. Aboard the plane when it left here was 200 gallons of gasoline. The supply will be increased to 450 at Harbor Grace. The fliers carried chocolate, concentrated vegetables, and bouillon cubes, and four gallons of drinking water.

vide $1,669,358 to retire bonds next year. This alone will require a levy of 15 cents. In addition, they face an assessment value decline of 16.6 per cent and a huge tax delinquency. Budget-makers predict a 50 per cent reduction in expenditures will be necessary, if the rate is to come within the $1.50 limit. Os the forty-four divisions of county government, thirty-three department heads have submitted budgets calling for appropriations greater than last year. Moreover, the county faces a poor relief burden of $895,539. A 20-cent levy will be required to cover this item alone, it was pointed out. The current county rate last year was 29 cents. Combined rates of state, county, school city, civil city and townships could not be more than $1.50 under the tax limit law. These units of government required at $2.79 rate in Marion county last year. Councilmen will cut salaries of county officials, as outlined by the general assembly, but won’t seriously touch wages of department employes, it is believed. Salaries of employes were cut 10 per cent last year. “The council does not propose to eliminate all positions ‘not absolutely essential to the function of government,”’ Boetcher said. “It is our aim to treat taxpayers and employes as fairly as possible,” he concluded. The 1933 levy probably will be fixed at a figure required to meet operating expenses. This can be done by a provision of the tax limit law creating the county board of tax adjustment, impowered to raise the rate above the maximum by an emergency clause.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

Retrace Norse Route By United Press FLOYD BENNET AIRPORT, New York, Aug. 23—Two descendants of the Vikings of old toook off at daybreak oon an areial journey intended to retrace the route of the Norsemen across the Atlantic ocean. Thor Solberg, an old-time motorcycle racer, and Carl Petersen, who was with Byrd in the Antarctic, set Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, aS the first and only stop on their projected flight to Oslo, where Solberg’s bride of a year awaits him. Their Bellanca sesqui plane took off at 4:48 a. m. (Eastern Standard Time), heading directly for Harbor Grace. Solberg was at the controls as the plane lifted after a 2,500-foot run on the 4,200-foot concrete path. More than 300 friends saw the Norwegian fliers off. HJordis Petersen, the radio operator’s wife, kissed him good-by as he climbed into the cockpit. They expect to follow the great circle route to Scotland, then head east to Oslo. Solberg estimated he would reach Oslo within twentyfour hours after leaving Harbor Grace. The distance from Harbor Grace to Oslo is about 2,500 miles over the proposed route. Take 25 Sandwiches The fliers took with them a gallon of coffee, a gallon of tea, five gallons of water, twenty-five assorted sanwiches, a package of zweibach, some soda pop and chewing gum. They carried several packets of letters for friends. The sesquiplane has a red fuselage and yellow wings, a cruising speed of ninety miles an hour, a top speed of 130 miles. Its fuel tanks carry a capacity load of 1250 gallons of gasoline. Solberg planned to carry only 600 gallons on the first leg of the flight. The plane is equipped with retractable landing gear and a powerful short and long wave radio set. Petersen, an experienced raido operator, said he will keep in constant communication with ships and landing stations. The call letters of the set are KHNLO, and the wave length used will be 36.23. Solberg, pilot and navigator, born ■in Floro, near Oslo, thirty-eight I years ago, now lives in Brooklyn. He came to the United States in 1924, and has had 1,000 hours in the air. In Europe as an amateur motorcycle racer he won a race from Oslo to Paris in forty-eight hours. Married Minnesota Girl Solberg married a Minnesota girl of Norwegian descent, less than a year ago. She sailed for Norway in June. “When you get here, your Ingrid will be waiting for you with hungry arms,” she said in a message to him this week. Peterson will relieve Solberg at the controls in an emergency. He received a pilot’s license after training in a Chicago aviation school in 1927. He, also, was born in Norway, in the little town of Bare. Amelia to Take Off By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23.—Amelia Earhart Putnam plans to take off Wednesday on her delayed transcontinental non-stop flight, she said today. “I dislike delaying my flight,” Mrs. Putnam said, “but there are unfavorable winds today.”

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