Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1932 — Page 1

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NEBRASKA TO FIGHT STRIKE OF FARMERS Governor Bryan Orders All Sheriffs Swear in Deputies Army. TEAR GAS IN BATTLE Woman and Child Hurt in Attempt to Run Picket Lines, Is Charge. BY T. W. INGOLDSBY In I ted Press Staff Correspondent OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 24.—Striking farmers of lowa and Nebraska today extended their picketing operations on a constantly widening front while authorities took added precautions to guard against outbreaks of violence. Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska sent orders from Lincoln to county sheriffs in the Nebraska strike area to deputize additional men to “uphold the law.” Sheriff Percy Lainson of Council Bluffs. la., prepared to swear in seventy-five deputies after strikers, angered by use of tear gas bombs, disregarded his warning that he would “drive every picketeer from Pottawattomie county roads.” Governor Issues Orders Lainson announced defiantl ythat Pottawattomie county would “put •'>,ooo men in the field if necessary to break up the strike." Governor Bryan’s orders were issued to State Sheriff Endres. The Governor told Endres to have all county sheriffs from Douglas county north to deputize whatever number of men was needed. * Reports came from Sioux City, la., that charges had been made that a mother and her child were subjected to physical violence while trying to run the picket lines near there. Five men, said to be farm pickets, W'ere arrested on complaint of Mrs. George Lebeck, who said the men twisted her arms, and otherwise abused her and her child when she left her automobile to remove barricades from the road. Complete control of roads leading to Omaha was the objective of the hundreds of farmers gathered along highways near this city, one of the major livestock centers of the nation. Stop Produce From lowa After violent disorders early, all truck shipments of livestock and produce into the Omaha market from the lowa side stopped. Truckers no Jonger sought to break through the lines around Council Bluffs, la., just across the Missouri river. Most Nebraska highways leading to Omaha still were open, but strike leaders forecast a complete blockade as Nebraska framers showed increasing interest in the movement. At the Omaha stockyards it was admitted that no truck shipment had been received from lowa for several hours. Ordinarily, from 1.500 to 2.000 lowa hogs are received by truck. Today only 330 were on the docks, and all but three of these had come in early today, escorted by special deputies, sworn in by Sheriff Lainson. Tear Gas Is Used Tear gas was used by sheriff’s deputies as the angry pickets sought to stop a fleet of trucks being convoyed through the lines near Glenwood, la., by officers. Choking, their eyes streaming, the strikers fell back for a moment. Then they reassembled on the highway in a threatening group, apparently ready to use any means to cut off all access to the Omaha market from the low’a side. The tear gas episode culminated a series of disturbances which resulted in arrest of three strikers, firing of a shot by a Council Bluffs Ga.) patrolman, and a free-for-all fist fight between officers and strikers. The fighting occurred when pickets invaded Council Bluffs in an effort to cut off the Douglas street bridge, which leads from the lowa city into Omaha. Unload Car of Kogs Violence was not confined to the Omaha area. At Danbury, la., another attack on railroad property was made by some fifty men. Entering tb .ailroad yards, they broke the seal on a freight car and herded a load of hogs, destined for the Sioux City market back into the stock pens. “Load ’em up and take ’em back home,” the men told M. Barry, farmer who owned the stock. He offered no resistance. About 300 men and women watched. Strike leaders asserted that the men who broke into the car were “enemies rather than friends of our movement.” They characterized the action as a deliberate attempt to discredit the strike.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 90

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Deluse Named to State Post by Roosevelt

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Otto P. Deluse, life-long Republican, today accepted the Indiana chairmanship of the Roosevelt League of Business and Professional Men, under the Democratic national committee. Democratfc leaders were jubilant over the fact that Deluse, long known for his staunch Republicanism and for his prominence in business circles, had deserted his party for their candidate. Among his other activities, Deluse served on the committee of the national Chamber of Commerce to study economic conditions and advance remedies. He is a past national president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, has been prominent in the campaign for old age pensions and stabilization of employment. He also Is president of the Western Furniture Company and a former president of the Board of Trade.

GUILT DENIED IN LODGELDTTERY Sen. Davis Not Present as Five Enter Pleas. By United Pregg NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Five of the seven individual defendants indicted last week for sending, or causing to be sent, lottery tickets in interstate commerce were arraigned in federal court here today before John C. Knox. They pleaded not guilty. Senator James J. Davis was not present, nor was his codefendant, Theodore G. Miller. The two indictments in which they ane named were set down for Aug. 30 for pleading. Conrad H. Mann, who was indicted with Frank E. Hering, is slated for trial Sept. 19. The indictment naming the Western Union Telegraph Company and M. J. Riviz was set down for trial Sept 26. Bernard C. McGuire and Raymond Walsh, who were named in all four indictments, also entered a plea of not guilty. McGuire was released in $2,500 bail and SI,OOO bail was fixed for all the others. FREIGHT SLASH ASKED Southern Indiana Coal Fields Cite Kentucky Competition. Petitions filed with the public service commission ask reductions in freight rates from southern Indiana fields ’o distributing centers in Evansville and Mt. Vernon. Filed by Coal Trade Association of Indiana, the petition alleges reduced rates have been allowed in western Kentucky fields, placing Indiana shippers at a disadvantage. The three fields are Linton-Sulli-van, Princeton-Ayreshire and Boonville.

DRIVER BRANDED KILLER BY JUDGE, SHOWN MERCY

‘'lf I do say it myself, I think I have the ability to make cars go.'' Thomas Newgent, 26, of 2049 North Alabama street, declared today in municipal court three where he faced a reckless driving charge. James E. McDonald, judge pro tern., admitted Newgent was right about his ability to drive, but declared : “Young man, you are nothing but a killer. I think ninety days on the penal farm would keep you from being a menace on the roads.” However, a fine of $25 and costs and a ninety-day farm term for reckless driving were suspended, but a three month’s driving license revocation stands. A fine of $1 was imposed for improper license plates and a charge of failing to have a certificate of title was dismissed. Newgent escaped injury Tuesday when an automobile he was driving at a speed witnesses said was eightyfive miles an hour, dashed into a cornfield when it left the road after a wheel collapsed. The accident occurred on State Road 52, four miles northwest of the city. Probation of four months was im-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1932

BACK POLICE CHIEF’S STAND ON EETIONS Safety Board Upholds Order Not to Assist in Serving Writs. Stand taken by Chief Mike Morrissey that police are not to assist constables in carrying out eviction writs was supported by the safety board today at a special meeting attended by representatives of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Major Herbert Fletcher, representing the police department in the absence of Morrissey, was instructed by the board to have police available if necessary at any time to “disperse mobs and maintain order.” Charles R. Myers, president of the board, ordered Fletcher to investigate statements made by constables and members of the real estate committee that police had stood by while constables were manhandled and prevented from removing household goods from premises. Mrs. Rhodu M. Morrow of the Family Welfare Society, present at the request of Myers, stated that the budget of the society would not permit payment of rents except “in the case of widows or invalids.” Family Welfare Funds Low “I do not know what we will do this winter,” she said. ‘‘Our limited funds will not permit us to pay out $30,000 a month in rentals. “In cases of evictions we are concerned now in finding shelter for small children, regardless of the attitude of their parents, some of whom would stay all night in the street with their babies.” C. G. Jacquart, who was spokesman of the real estate committee, stated that “no agent or owner wants to evict tenants into the street, but at times it is necessary. Every real estate owner in town has carried tenants six months and more before taking action.” Charges that police had failed to control crowds at evictions was made by C. W. Freeman, special “constable,” who said the police sat in a squad car while a crowd prevented him from loading evicted furniture into a truck to be taken to storage. Constable Is Witness George Davis, a constable, told the board a police squad car drove past without stopping while he was being roughly handled by a crowd at 558 Traub avenue. He said men in the crowd attempted to force him into a truck loaded with men who came to the scene to prevent the eviction. Attitude of Morrissey regarding police assistants was attacked by Oliver M. Clark, representing the J. G. McCullough Company, on the grounds that “it encouraged resistance to constables.” He also blamed newspapers for printing Morrissey’s statement and accounts of evictions. , From a legal standpoint, police powers do not include serving justice of peace writs, Herbert M. Spencer, assistant city attorney, pointed out to the committee in stating that the duties of police are confined to “preserving order.”

SPURNS WET PLANK Senator Caraway Not to Be Bound by Pledge. By United Pregg WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Senator Hattie W T . Caraway, just back from an Arkansas primary in which she outran six male campaigners, said today that she would refuse to be bound by the repeal and beer plank in the Democratic party platform. Mrs. Caraway revealed that campaigning with Senator Huey P. Long (Dem., La.) was one of the most interesting experiences of her life. In the automobile of the “kingfish,” and accompanied by two sound trucks, Mrs. Caraway and Long covered the state.

posed on Newgent Aug. 10 by Judge Clifton R. Cameron because a car he was driving had no muffler. Fiften persons were found guilty of speeding today by McDonald. Speed ranged from thirty-five to fifty miles an hour. In some of the cases fines were suspended and, in others, the costs.

VISIT TO CITY IN FAIR TIME IS PERILOUS VENTURE FOR FARM DOGS

FIDO of the farm is in danger of his life if he's not kept at home to chase corn-cobs, field rabbits, and shoo straying chickens during the week of Sept. 3 to 9. If Fido is tied on to the run-ring-board of the agrarian’s car, and brought to Indianapolis during state fair week, his chances for seeing the happy huntingground of dogdom—the boneyard where T-bones grow on bushes—are multiplied several hundred per cent. It is estimated by workers of the city sanitary department from canine mortality statistics that an

Franklin County Sheriff Masses 1,000 Deputies to Bar Invaders. BY GEORGE E. SCHUPPE United Press Staff Correspondent STAUNTON, 111., Aug. 24.—A motorized army of 10,000 miner-pick-ets started from Staunton at 9:55 a. m. today to invade southern Illinois coal fields. Martial tunes of the Staunton municipal band heralded advance of the 800 flag-draped automobiles and trucks, the vanguard of a host that “strike” leaders declared would swell to 2,000 vehicles carrying 25,000 men. Meanwhile, in Benton, county seat of Franklin county, first objective of the invading army, Sheriff Browning Robinson marshaled approximately 1,000 special deputies. He picked several hundred armed men from the ranks and detailed them as an advance guard to proceed to the Jefferson-Franklin county line. Sheriff Masses Own Army “No strikers are coming into Franklin county,” Sheriff Robinson told his men. "You keep them out.” The men stood grim, their rifles, shotguns and revolvers loaded, waiting orders. In mines in the county they guarded several thousand miners hoisted coal under the $5 a day wage that men from the mines farther north protested is not a living wage. While the civilian guards, all sworn as special deputy sheriffs, stood in ranks on the Benton courthouse lawn, four officers of the Illinois national guard arrived and called sheriffs and state’s attorneys from Franklin, Peru and Williamson counties to a conference at Benton. It was reported Governor Louis L. Emmerson had dispatched the officers to the trouble zone as observers. Cheered by Wives, Children Thousands of wives, mothers, sisters and children of the invading picket caravan lined the streets of Staunton cheering as the men started. The miners waved and shouted goodbys. Their marching orders were given by Arthur Hughes, strike leader. “If you have to fight, men,” use your fists.” Hughes said none of his force had weapons and that a “peaceful march” was hoped for. A large American flag flapped in the breeze from the truck that bore the r,hirty-five piece band. Behind it stretched a caravan more than two miles long. On the sides of the cars and trucks, between flags and bunting, were placards proclaiming the home towns and local unions of the strikers. As the main army moved southward from Staunton, a force of 1,500 men left Belleville at 10 a. m. to join the main body en route. A second detachment of 1,500 was recruiting at Belleville. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 85 7a. m 71 11 a. m 88 Ba. m 77 12 (noon).. 87 9 a. m 83 1 p. m 89

Motorman Hero Saves Child Under Car Wheels

Climbs Out on Fender of Speeding Interurban and Rescues Baby. By United Press LORAIN, 0., Aug. 24.—A motorman climbed out on the fender of his speeding interurban car near here today and snatched a little girl from the tracks just in time to save her life. The hero was Bill Lang, third oldest motorman on the Lake Shore electric line from Cleveland to Toledo. The girl was Leilia Smith, 3. Leilia had taken her doll, “Elvira,” for an airing, and was tossing pebbles at the trolley rails, when the Lake Shore limited came around a bend at fifty-five miles an hour. Lang saw r the child on the track, but she looked like a package until the train drew closer. Then he saw it was a girl. He jamed on the brakes, applied sand to the rails, and clambered through the door of the cab to the fender while the car whizzed on, pilotless with perfect timing, he scooped the child from the tracks. Then he started up again, and flew into Lorain at sixty miles an hour to a hospital. Leilia's head was cut and bruised, and her arm was injured, but doctors said she would recover. When they looked for Lang to congratulate him. He was back on the train, en route to Toledo.

average of between 60 to 80 dogs are killed daily on the city’s streets during fair week. Other weeks of the year an average of 30 dogs a day is considered a fair average. This means that 7,950 dogs die from auto bumps, street cars, illness, and old age in one year's time. And from this estimate the city's dog population is estimated roughly at 80,000 pets. But city-bred dogs are more facile, more wise, in dodging the motorcade on city boulevards during fair week than are the farm Fidos.

FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK IS LIKELY_ HERE Indianapolis One of Twelve Probable Sites of New Credit Units. CAPITAL AT $5,000,000 Five Buildings Here Now Available; C. of C. Drive Factor. (How Federal Home Loan Banks Work, Pase Two) Indianapolis is one of twelve cities in which a federal home loan bank will be established, it was reported in Washington today. Selection of • this city, if decided on, would be the reward of an intensive campaign led by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Marion County Building and Loan Association and Indianapolis Real Estate Board, with the co-operation of various organizations of statewide scope. If the bank is located here it would have a minimum capital of $5,000,000. Official announcement of location of all twelve banks will not be made until selection is completed. Chairman Franklin Fort of the bank committee today said no final decision has been reached concerning the location of the banks. Pledges Co-operation Asked whether Indianapolis was rceiving consideration as the location of one of the branch loan banks, Fort replied. “We have considered practically every city of any size in the United States, and most of them against our will.” “Fullest co-operation with those in charge” was promised by Louis J. Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president. “We are ready to carry on now toward immediate establishment of the institution,” Fermor S. Cannon, president of the building and loan association, said. Dan W. Legore, Real Estate Board president, pointed out that the city ranks second in home ownership among those of its size. Buildings Available Among those active in the local bank campaign is Felix M. McWhirter, Indianapolis banker, and a vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Senator James E. Watsoif is another supporter of the campaign. Five buildings are available to house the bank if Indianapolis is selected. They are: Continental building, Monument Circle and Meridian street. City Trust building, 108 East Washington street. Washington Bank and Trust Company, Senate avenue and Washington street. Farmers Trust Company, 150 East Market street. Meyer-Kiser building, 128 East Washington street.

TOY MAKERS STRIKE 3,500 in New York Demand Pay Raise, 40-Hour Week. NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—A strike was in effect in doll and toy shops here today, with more than 3,500 workers out. Lack of standard hours was one cause of the walkout. The toy and doll makers ask 35 per cent increase in wages, a forty-hour week, abolition of night work and recognition of their union.

TREASURER TO ASK FUND TO COLLECT BACK TAX

His income reduced sharply by laws passed during the special session of the state legislature, Timothy P. Sexton, Marion county treasurer, prepared today to ask the county council for an additional appropriation to pay deputies for collecting delinquent taxes. While Sexton did not state the amount he may ask, some estimates place it as high as $50,000. Before the new laws, Sexton received 6 per cent of the 10 per cent penalty imposed for tax delinquency, but this is reduced to 2 per cent. He asserts that he can not pay collecting deputies from such a share of the penalty. Sexton also complains that since the passage of laws which relieve

AND it is because of this that the large increase in dog deaths in fair week is attributed to the farmer, who just can’t resist bringing Rover to the fair along with Blue Bell, champion boar. “He permits his dog to stray and a straying farm dog in the city is worse than an immigrant at Ellis island. He doesn’t know the traffic regulations Every auto horn to him is a challenge to race,” warns one of the city sanitary department officials who loves dogs. “Then, too,” he adds, ‘‘the dog .gets lost easily. A. farmer .that

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With the grewsome Union county farm murder of Mrs. Eleanor Gunsaulie apparently solved, officials of Liberty, Ind., today prepared for a special grand jury session Monday to ask indictment of Mrs. Nellie Kumer, confessed slayer suspect, on a charge of murder. The slaying was discovered last week when Mrs. Gunsaulie’s body was unearthed from a shallow grave. The grave being examined by Sheriff Dan Chapman of

SEES ‘CHAOS’ IN WALKERODSTER Mayor’s Counsel Warns of Business Dangers. By United Press ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 24.—New York City would be placed in a state of chaos if Mayor James J. Walker were removed, John J. Curtin said in a brief filed in supreme court today to augment his motion to stay the Walker removal hearings before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Curtin entends the Governor has no power of roval under the Constitution. “The city government will, as a practicalmatter, be almost entirely prevented from functioning; every act of the president of the board of aldermen, who under the charter would succeed him, wotrld be questioned, every act of the board of estimate, in the meetings of which sat, would be questioned,” Curtin concluded. “We submit, the courts, which have always been the bulwark against unlawful usurpation of power, are not helpless and without power under these circumstances.” Today’s proceedings promised to be the longest yet with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to begin the session at 1:30 p. m. and to continue it until 11 p. m., with perhaps a two-hour recess. The Governor’s decision to hold night sessions was made at the close of the proceedings Tuesday night. The hearing, now in its third week, has required mych more time than ordinarily planned.

much of the stringency of former measures on tax delinquency, payment of taxes has lagged. Whatever amount Sexton decides to ask for delinquency collecting deputies will be in addition to his regular budget request of $115,665 for 1933. The office was operated this year on a budget of $96,462. In the 1933 budget, Sexton asks that the salary of his chief deputy be increased from $3,000 to $4,000 a year; cashier, $2,400 to $3,000 and other employes from an annual total of $39,900 to $54,900. Annual income of the treasurer is estimated at from $89,000 to SIOO,000, the bulk being from the percentage of the delinquent tax penalties he received on the 6 per cent basis.

values his shepherd dog makes it possible for that dog to be lost or stolen through his carelessness in bringing him to a world he knows nothing about.” The visiting-list of dogdom during state fair week is figured at 2,000 guests of every breed and description, and out of that number approximately 180 are destined to gnaw their last bone in Indianapolis. Dogs, because of their greater numbers and the fact that they live outdoors, outnumber cats five to one in the mortality lists of animaldom.

Wayne county (left) and Sheriff Albert Allision of Union county is shown in the upper photo. Lower (left) —Guy Gunsaulie, husband of the dead woman, who was grilled in connection with the killing, but released when Mrs. Kumer (right) confessed Monday that she shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Gunsaulie last week after a three-day quarrel over a dish of tomatoes. Mrs. Kumer was employed as a domestic at the Gunsaulie home, scene of the crime.

Plane Suicide Jobless School Teacher Goes for Air Ride; Smiles, Leaps to Death.

By United Press Annapolis, Md., Aug. 24. Somewhere in the green fields near Annapolis today lay the body of an attractive school teacher who chartered an airplane, smiled at her pilot, and dove overboard in a 2,000-foot plunge to death. The woman was Miss Marjorie Fletcher, 37, of Forrestville, N. Y., formerly a high school teacher at Oberlin, O. She had been unable to obtain anew position. Death of her mother a few months ago deepened her despondency. She often spoke of suicide to friends, with whom she had been staying in Washington for some time. Tuesday Miss Fletcher set the luncheon table at her friends’ home. She set one less place than usual. Then she withdrew her lr.st money from the bank. At Washington airport she chartered an open plane for a flight to Annapolis. Pilot Roger Scott said she seemed to be enjoying the flight. She looked back twice from the front cockpit, and smiled at him. When Scott peered over the side of the plane momentarily to check its course, Miss Fletcher stood up and stepped out of the plane. a a a “AS she started down,” Scott said. “Her body half turned, and I saw her face—it had a tense, anxious expression like you see on parachute jumpers when they go over the side. Then she reached out.” It seemed to Scott that in that fraction of a second she had decided she did not want to die, and was stretching out her arms in a desperate effort to save herself. “I dropped the controls and snatched for her arms. Only a few feet separated our hands. “But I could not reach any further.” Searching parties tramped the fields until dark looking for her body. They resumed the search today. Light Quake in Philippines MANILA, Aug. 24.—An earthquake of light intensity was felt here early today.

'T'AKE Monday, the city sani- ■*- tary department handled 49 animals and out of that number, five were cats, two were goats, a squirrel and a hog made up the rest of the list and all of the remainder were dogs. “Os course this percentage will fluctuate. Some days the number of cats dying will nearly equal the dogs but for the most part the dogs lead the death-list,” one worker explained. Citizens desiring to call the sanitary department to have a pet taken away should phone Belmont 2144.

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OCEAN RACE FAILS; FLIERS FORCED OOP Vikings Escape With Cuts When Ship Crashes in Newfoundland. FIGHT FOG, HEAVY RAIN Vermonters Land Safely; Flying Family Ends Initial Trip. (Pictures on Pare Five) BY JOHN T. MEANT United Press Staff Corresoondent ST. JOHN'S Newfoundland, Aug. 24.—A nonstop race between the American monoplanes to cross the Atlantic was ended in Newfoundland Tuesday night when one plane crashed on Placentia bay while the other had to make a safe landing at an obscure point. The huge Sesqui plane, Enna Jettick, piloted by the Norwegians, Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen, cracked up at Darby’s Harbor, Paradise sound, on Placentia bay. it was learned this morning. The ship was wrecked, but the two men escaped injury. They were forced to come down at 7 a. m., eastern standard time, Tuesday, after fighting through the darkness of a heavy rain. The monoplane Green Mountain Boy, piloted by Clyde Allen Lee and John Bochkon, made a safe landing at Burgeo, about 300 miles from Harbor Grace. Lee and Bochkon, who flew Tuesday from Barre, Vt., landed at 5:30 p. m., eastern standard time, Tuesday, and took off again at 8 a. m. today for Harbor Grace. Meet Stormy Weather Fatigued after their return here Lee and Bochkon rested today preparatory to renewing their flight to Oslo, Norway, tonight or early Thursday. The fliers reached Harbor Grace at 7:20 a. m. (eastern standard time) from near Burego, where they spent Tuesday night in their plane. With good luck, they had sighted the only safe landing place along the coast Tuesday night, a three miles long beach of soft sand over which the monoplane bumped in a safe landing. Both planes met with stormy weather as they flew northeastward toward Harbor Grace. The rain and fog prevented persons on the ground from seeing them, save for about half a dozen times, and then the planes could not be identified definitely. Giant flares were burned at the Harbor Grace flying field throughout the night, but before dawn it became apparent that both planes were down. Newfoundland aviators were preparing to take off in a search of the island when word was received from both teams. Solberg and Petersen sent word that beyond a few bruises and scratches they were not hurt in the crash. Terrain Dangerous Solberg and Petersen took off from New York Tuesday morning at 4:43 eastern standard time, intending to stop at Harbor Grace only long enough to refuel before heading across the great circle for Europe. At 9:18 a. m. the Green Mountain boy was in the air from Barre, and prospects of a trans-Atlantic race were bright until stormy weather developed between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. From the Nova Scotian coast on eastward, the two planes encountered weather of the most severe sort. Planes were sighted along the southwest coast of Newfoundland late in the afternoon, but there was no means of identifying them. Then, with the coming of darkness, they disappeared, except for the drone of a motor heard over two or three coastal towns during the evening.

Ready to Renew Hop By United Press f ST.. JOHN, N. 8., Aug. 24.—The “flying family” of Colonel George R. Hutchinson—eight persons in a giant Sikorsky ambphibian— prepared to take off today on the second lap of a flight to Europe. Colonel Hutchinson, accompanied by his wife, two small daughters, a navigator, radio operator, cameraman and mechanic planned to lift his big ship into the air and head for Labrador or Harbor Grace before noon. The lesisurely flight includes stops at Greenland and Iceland. The plane took off at 10:07 a. m. Tuesday at Floyd Bennett airport, New York. Six hours later Colonel Hutchinson landed at the St. John airport. All the way up from New York, his two daughters, Kathryn, 5, and Janet Lee, 6, spent their time either watching the sights that swept by beneath them, or playing with their dolls. Colonel Hutchinson said he will fly to Greenland from Labrador, then to Iceland and the Faroe islands, and on to Edinburgh, adapting his schedule to weather conditions. “We’re in no hurry,” he explained. After reaching Edinburgh, the flying family will tour Europe by plane. With the Hutchinson family in the ten-seated ship are Peter Redpath, navigator; Norman Alley, cameraman; Gerald Altiflsh, radio operator, and Joseph Ruff, mechanic. The plane has two 425-horse power Pratt and Whitney Wasp motors, and carries 330 gallons of gasoline. It is equipped with a radio set for both sending and receiving.