Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1932 — Page 1

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DEMOCRATS ARE AHEAD IN CLOSE MAINE ELECTION

Republican Drive Bosses Admit Brann Leading in Governor Vote. HOLDS EDGE OF 2,035 Few Precincts Are Out and Donkey Brays Political Victory Song. (Raymond Clapper's Election Story, Par* Two) BY MARTIN KANE Tnltrd Press Staff Correspondent PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 13. Rock-ribbed Republican Maine apparently has gone Democratic, Republican headquarters admitted here today. The Republican campaign leaders conceded that Louis J. Brann, Democratic candidate for Governor, held a lead of 2.000 votes over Burleigh Martin, with a handful of tiny rural precincts still out. Not only did it appear that the Democratic candidate for Governor had been elected, but two of three Democratic candidates for congress held growing leads. Edward C. Moran Jr., in the Second district, was leading John T. Nelson by 2,500. and John G. Utterbach, in the Third district, was leading former Governor Ralph O. Brewster by the same margin. Brewster has served three terms as Governor. Only Republican Ahead Carroll L. Beedy, Republican candidate in the First district, apparently was the only Republican congressional candidate elected. His lead was about 2,500. With all of the state’s 632 precincts, except the few tiny rural ones tabulated, the Governor vote stood: Louis J. Brann (Dem.) 118,337 Burleigh Martin (Rep.) ...... 116,302 Various estimates placed Brann’s final margin at 1,800 to 2,200 votes. Every one of the three congressional battles was extremely close. In the First district returns from all but ten of 145 precincts gave: Representative L. Beedy (R), 36,402. Joseph E. F. Connolly (D), 33,711. Returns from all but twelve of 213 precincts in the Second district gave: Edward C. Moran Jr. (D), 40,825. Representative J. E. Nelson (R), 38,233. Returns from all but twenty-nine of 274 precincts in the Third district gave: John G. Utterbaek (D), 36,786. Ralph O. Brewster (R), 34,237. It was the closest Maine election since 1880, when the Democratic candidate for Governor won by 174 votes. The two unreported communties were the town of Sanford, largest in the state, and two wards in Lewiston, Brann’s home town. Observers Are Astounded The Democratic vote astounded Rome political observers, for not only did it appear that Brann was elected, but several other high elective offices held for years by Republicans were endangered. Brann carried his own home own for Lewiston by a large majority, unless missing precincts are top heavy with Republican surprises. He carried Martin's home town, Augusta, by 93 votes. He also carried Martin's county. Republican leads, thin enough to begin with as the outlying rural vote was reported, dwindled when the heavy wet city vote was recorded. And as these votes rolled in, Democratic headquarters joyously echoed withe the political war song. "As Goes Maine, So Goes Ihe Union.’ History has shown that to be only a half truth, but it made no difference to Democrats today. Inroads Are Amazing Faces were grim at Republican campaign headquarters. Modestly optimistic statements were issued ail night long, until they announced that Brann was conceded to hold a lead. Democratic inroads on normally Republican strongholds were amazing. even to some Democrats. Republicans won the state by 83.000 in the last presidential year state election. Their majorities have averaged 40,000 since 1920. Their lead never has been below 36.000 since women won the right to vote. All Democratic candidates were wet. All Republican candidates, except Martin, had committed themselves to the bone-dry Republican state platform. Martin -did not mention the liquor issue. Observers were divided in their opinions as to whether prohibition or the depression counted heaviest in the campaign. Worked for Heavy Vote Democrats, realizing on an opportunity to win because of unrest, plus what they felt was the more acceptable party platform, made their strongest bid for victory since 1914 when a Democratic Governor and one eorurressman were elected. Maine haa elected Democratic Governors only twice since the Civil war, previous to 1914. Harris M. Plaisted won in 1880 and thirty years later, his son, Frederick W., also was elected on the Democratic ticket. Oakley C. Curtis won in 1914 by 3,300 votes. Democrats did their best to bring out a heavy vote this year. Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, a staunch Alfred E. Smith supporter, stumped the state with Senator David I. Walsh, another Massachusetts Smith leader. Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion. did his bit as*a stump speaker. The Republicans called on their own senators, White and Hale, and Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, except possibly a local thunderstorm this afternoon or tonight; somewhat cooler.

VOLUME 44—NUMBEK 107

SIREN IS VILLAGE’S NEW CURFEW SIGNAL All Children Under 16 Must Be Indoors by 6 P. M., Law Says. By Unit'd Press ENGLISH, Ind., Sept. 13.—A shrieking fire siren has replaced a tolling bell as curfew signal here, but the thirty-three-year-old law will be enforced as strictly as ever, according to night marshal Vollie Smith. The curfew applies to persons under 16, and provides a penalty of $lO for disobedience. Until Nov. 1 it will be blown at 8 p. m. After then, and until May 1, it will sound at 6 o’clock. SACRIFICE OF HEALTH ASKED to cunAXES Spokesmen Would Eliminate Infant Welfare Clinics to ‘Save’ City. Drastic slashes in 1933 city budget appropriations for the recreation department failed to satisfy representatives of tax relief organizations, who demanded an additional slice in government expenditures at a special city council meeting Monday night. Abolition of school medical inspection and infant welfare clinics has been advocated, it was learned. Further curtailment of city department functions through reduction of appropriations will be opposed strenuously, city officials asserted. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan has stated that further reduction in the budget would prevent proper operation of local government. It is known that tax relief representatives had urged the medical inspection and school nursing corps be abolished and that infant welfare clinics, which have reduced mortality rates in the city to onethird the figure of former years, be "thrown out.” William H. Book of the Chamber of Commerce denied that the representatives had urged elimination of school health programs or had sought to abolish infant welfare clinics. Demands Further Slash James R. Branson of the Marion County Association for Tax Reduction, acting as spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, demanded that supply items, already said by city officials to be reduced below safe margins, be slashed $116,000. Other recommendations included another 10 per cent salary cut for city employes, reduction of $26,000 in items providing for new equipment, decrease in police personnel by nonfilling of vacancies, and transfer of funds in spite of advice from the city legal staff that such moves are against state statutes. Expected public demonstration at the meeting failed to materialize, when fewer than sixty persons, of whom nearly a score were city employes, attended the session. Only one "civilian,” O. P. Foreman, addressed the council. Want More Cuts Announcement of plans for the protest meeting was made last week, after presentation of the proposed budget to the city council. Although assisting in preparation of the budget and securing adoption of all recommendations on which the three groups agreed, representatives of the tax relief bodies expressed themselves as dissatisfied with reI duction amounts. Under the proposed levy of $1,319 this year, $284,388.74 less will be raised by taxes than under the 1932 levy of SI.OB, Sullivan pointed out in a letter to council. Retirement and interest on bonds issued by previous administrations, necessity for paying expense of a primary and city election next year, and increase in utility bills were j cited by Sullivan as handicaps under which the city labors in efforts | to reduce governmental cost. Valuation Drops Far Reduction of more than $121,000,000 in assessed valuation of Indianapolis property, and necessity for providing for tripled delinquency expectation, also handicaped efforts to hold the levy nearer the limits of 1932, Sullivan said. The council and city department heads will consider the budget Friday night. A public meeting is scheduled for Monday night at which the budget must be approved finally.

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Hard-Riding... S' TAN BALL was a hard-riding, straight-shooting cow puncher. I No one would have accused him of sentimentality and no one would have expected him to walk deliberately into danger because of a pretty blue-eyed girl. On both counts, however, Ball was guilty after he met Dona Dela. WATCH FOR IT, BEGINNING

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1932

INDIANA SAFE, ROOSEVELT IS ASSURED HERE Candidate’s Train in Brief Stop on Way to Tour of West. WILL SPEAK IN TOPEKA Democratic Leaders Greet Standard Bearer and Cheep Him On. Assurance that Indiana is safe within the Democratic fold was given Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt here today by Indiana party leaders, as the Democratic nominee for President paused briefly at union station, en route west for a speaking tour that will carry him through twenty-one states. Governor Roosevelt, smiling and elated over impending Democratic victories in Maine, asked eagerly for latest election returns from that state as he was greeted by Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic candidate for United States senator; Paul V. McNutt, candidate for Governor: Frank C. Dailey, party leader and I candidate for Governor in 1928; j Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, and R. j Earl Peters, Democratic state chair- ' man. Discusses Political Picture While friends of the Governor have insisted that the 8,000-mile junket primarily is for the purpose of obtaining a first-hand knowledge of the nation’s economic ills, the nominee has not hesitated to discuss the national political picture both here and en route. The Governor indicated he might have a statement to make on the ! controversial bonus question before he returns east, as he has been the target of numerous requests for clarification of his stand, the latest being the appeal of former Governor Alfred E. Smith. Os Smith, Governor Roosevelt said he is “all right” and “a good Democrat.” Included in the Governor's party on the “Roosevelt Special” are Joseph P. Kennedy, Massachusett’s leader; Arthur Mullens, national committeman from Nebraska, and Breckenridge Long of Missouri, former assistant secretary of state in the Wilson administration. Speaks at Topeka Governor Roosevelt is scheduled for the first of four major addresses Wednesday afternoon at Topeka, Kan., with his subject based c-n agriculture and methods for its rehabilitation. He made no talk here, waiting for his public Indiana appearance until later in the fall, when 40,000 are expected to attend a state-wide rally at the fairground or Cadle tabernacle. Peters was added here to the Roosevelt party, going as far as Terre Haute, where another brief halt was scheduled. Happy as He Boards Train BY FREDERICK STORM United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL. Sept. 13.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, en route to tour the west, paused in Cleveland today long enough to say he was “very happy” over the Maine election results. Roosevelt boarded his train twenty minutes before its departure from Albany at midnight. Shouting good-naturediy, “California, here I come,” he posed for photographers and then conferred earnestly for a few minutes with Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, candidate for the nomination for Governor. Pointing to the Panama hat he was wearing, Roosevelt told the crowd: “I am a bit out of season, but I’ll need it for the California ■weather.” Mrs. Roosevelt and James, John and Franklin D Jr., the six-foot sons of the Roosevelt family, were with the Governor when he boarded the train. James remained with his wife. Mrs. Roosevelt will join the party |at Williams. Ariz., on the return 1 journey east. Garner to Join Roosevelt I By l nited Press DALLAS. Tex., Sept. 13.—Speaker i John N. Garner, Democratic nominee for the vice-presidency, paused in Dallas long enough today to predict a sweeping victory for the Democratic ticket in November. The Speaker was en route to Kansas City, where he will join Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. He will accompany the presidential candidate to Topeka for a conference on campaign plans. REGISTERING AT PURDUE 1,100 Freshmen Are Expected to Be Enrolled at University. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 13. Registration of freshmen at Purdue university for the 1932-1933 term started today. It was expected that 1,100 new students would be enrolled. During registration of upperclassmen Monday, approximately 1,800 were enrolled.

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Lower Left—Three in a row and another friend:hip is formed among freshmen. These misses began their first day of college. They are (left tc right) Miss Charlene Meredith, 3025 North Meridian street; Miss Jane Crawford, 2863 North Pennsylvania street, and Miss Elysee Crosier, 421 Poplar road. Right—Miss Eileen Brennan, 1438 South Meridian street, left, and Miss Edna Mae Bertram, 154 Arizona street, started their first day with a campus stroll.

INSULL CRASH SECRETS TOLD ‘lnside Story’ of Failure Fiied in U. S. Court. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 13,—An eighty-four-page chapter of the “insjde story’’ of the rise and fall of Samuel Insull was filed in federal district court today as a receiver's auditor’s report on Insull Utilities Investments, Inc., showing a $226,510,976.81 deficit. The report, which also included ten exhibits and covered three subsidiary companies, detailed assets of only $27,473,364.80. It was the first official account of the involved financial maneuvering that preceded the colossal crash of the Insull hierarchy of utilities and holding companies last spring. Reports of other receivers are expected in the next few weeks. “Most of the securities owned by the Insull Utilites Investments, Inc., were pledged to banks for loans,” the report, prepared at the direction of the receivers. Calvin Fentress and George A. Cooke, stated. •FEAR’ DEATH" FIGURE GETS 60-DAY TERM B. H. Rynerson Is Sentenced on Child Neglect Charge, Benjumin H. Rynerson, 34. of Rushville, who was taken into custody Aug. 8, following the death from heart disease of Robert Brake, 75, father of Mrs. Ida Bayne, 2524 College avenue, Rynerson’s sweetheart, was sentenced to a sixty-day jail term today by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler on a child neglect charge. No charges were filed against Rynerson as a result of the aged man’s death. Mr. Brake ran from his home, police were told, when Rynerson threatened to attack him, and went to the home of a neighbor, wheie he fell dead. In court, Rynerson denied making any attempt to strike Brake. HARTFORD CITY BANK ROBBERY TRIALS SET Fleuker Hearing Will Start Nov. 11; Woman's on Oct. 10. By United Press HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Sept. 13. —Trials of two persons charged with complicity in the robbing of the Citizens State bank here Oct. 2. 1931, were set during the opening day of the September term of the Blackford circuit court. Trial of Reinholt Fleuker, Burlington, Wis., charged with being the gunman in the robbery, was set for Nov. 11. Mrs. Irene Gentry, Muncie. accused of providing a hideout for the bandit gang, will go on trial Oct. 10. SECRET COP RADIO PLEA Congress Urged to Pass Law Ban Pickup of Police Broadcasts. Passage of a bill by congress prohibiting use of receiving sets designed to pick up police radio broadcasts was urged in a letter today to Representative Louis Ludlow by Charles R. Myers, safety board president, following a police officer's statement that automobiles believed owned by Chicago gangsters are being equipped in Indianapolis with such sets.

Open season on classrooms and professors was inaugurated officially today with the return of hundreds of students to Butler university’s campus. Classes will start on fall schedule Wednesday, a sign of summer’s end and a season of football and class work. Upper Left—Miss Jane Williston (right), 3055 North Meridian street, a senior, and Miss Adelaide Smith, 3540 North Meridian street, second-year class member, toured to the Fairview campus.

Thurman Suit Bares Story of Watson Agent Trickery

John Owens Posed as His Friend, Worked to Aid Springer, Is Claim. * M. Bert Thurman, once the closest political advisor of Senator James E. Watson, wants an accounting from John Owens, now accredited as being the closest of the secret agents of Watson. In a suit filed today at Noblesville, Thurman asks the court to permit his agent, Josiah H. Andrews, to check books of the Owens dairy company in which, Thurman alleges, he was persuaded by Owens to invest SSOO in the days when Owens was professing undying allegiance to the Thurman-for-Governor movement. Thurman charges that Andrews, equipped with power of attorney, tried to ascertain financial condition of the company, that he presented himself during business hours but Owens has refused to let him discover what happened to the SSOO that was taken from him in the deal. Political Treachery Charged While the formal complaint merely recites the refusal of Owens to permit an examination of the books, behind the suit is another story which Thurman relater as one of outstanding political treachery. “I bought SSOO worth of stock "in Owens dairy because he said he needed the money and professed to be my friend,” says Thurman. “I had endorsed his notes for $5,000 and also notes for S6OO for money he said he needed for taxes. Now he refuses to let me know anything about the affairs of the dairy. “I trusted Owens so far that when, three days before the Republican state convention, he came to my office and asked for the privilege of being my floor manager, I welcomed his assistance. “He sat down with me. I knew that he professed friendship for Watson, and was at times, in conference with him and had been a very brief time before the convention. I saw no reason to suspect his offer. Worked for Springer, Is,Claim “I went so far as to outline all the strategy that I had formulated in order to advance my interests. I gave him the lists of delegates who had pledged themselves to me. “I gave the names of those who, I believed, might turn to me if their first choice for the nomination was withdrawn. “Owens took over the job of keeping my friends in line and of going after the necessary support in the event of prolonged balloting. The next day my real friends warned me that Owens was acting in a most mysterious manner for one who had been named floor manager. They reported he was working for Springer, ind using the lists that I had given him.” Owens is reported to be the most regular visitor to the headquatrers of Watson on the occasion of the senator’s visits to Indianapolis. Taxicab Driver Is Robbed Two Negroes robbed Clarence Huffman, 24. of 2820 West Vermont street, of his taxicab, $i and a fountain pen and pencil valued at $7 Monday night, ester he had driven them from downtown to Pennsylvania and Forty - sixth streets and then to Twenty-first and Harding streets.

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STORM HEADING ON GULFCOAST Inbound Ships Are Forced to Battle Gales. By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13.—A tropica! disturbance swooped in toward the Louisiana coast today, bringing squalls and heavy seas to the shore line. The storm apparently was about 100 miles southeast of the tip of the Mississippi river delta. Inbound ships battled gales all night. The tide was two feet above normal at Gulfport, Miss. An east wind was blowing. Rains extended throughout the section. SLAYING JSJHARGED Officers Fail to Find Body of Man Feared Killed. Two searches by deputy sheriffs failed to reveal the body of a man whom it was feared was slain by a railroad detective Monday. William Sandercook, 23, of Ferndale, Mich., an unemployed printer, who left home eight days ago, came to the sheriffs office on Monday night with a statement that the detective had knocked the man from the box car with a blackjack and threw him down an embankment. Deputy sheriffs made a search Monday nigjit and today, but found no trace of a body. Reports are current that an officer, decidedly “hard boiled,” has been removing men from .freight trains in the vicinity where the search was made—the Pennsylvania railroad and Big Eagle creek. 9 FINED FOR GAMING City Man Gets Suspended Sentence for Operating Gambling House. Penalties were imposed today by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on nine persons arrested Sept. 5 when police raided the home of Morris Polasky, 1001 South Capitol avenue, where they charged gambling was in progress. Polasky was fined $lO and costs and given a thirty-day penal farm term, the latter suspended, on conviction of operating a gaming house. The other eight persons were convicted of visting a gaming house and fined $lO each. Judgment w'as withheld on charges of gaming. CUBS DEFEAT GIANTS National League Leaders Take First of Double Header. By Times Special NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The Chicago Cubs, National League pace setters, downed .the .New .York Giants today, 3 to 1, in the first half of the scheduled double header. Hartnett and Root hit home runs for Chicago. Score: Chicago 000 001 110— 3 5 1 New Yoork 000 010 000— 1 4 2 Root and Hartnett; Bell. Fitzsimmons and Healey.

‘FLYING FAMILY’ IS SAVED; CHEAT DEATH IN CRASH Colonel Hutchinson and Party Found Alive and Well on Barren Greenland Coast; Plane Is Wrecked in Forced Landing. FACED END BY COLD, STARVATION Band of Eight, Including Mother and Two Small Daughters, Discovered by Steam Trawler in Deserted Region. (Pictures on Page Three) By United Press ANGMAGSSALIK, Greenland, Sept. 13. Colonel George R. Hutchinson and his “flying family” were saved from a death on the barren Greenland coast today when they were found alive and well at Ikersuak Fjord. Their airplane was wrecked. The steam trawler Lord Talbot, first vessel to receive Hutchinson’s SOS signals, found the family early today. Later in the day, the trawler landed the “flying family” near Angmagssalik.

The amphibian airplane in which eight persons were flying to Europe was forced down on the open sea at 3:10 p. m. Sunday. The discovery of the little band, huddled ashore after their airplane had been wrecked, saved them from likely starvation or death from cold in a deserted region. The privations would have been especially severe on Mrs. Hutchinson and her two daughters, Katherine, 8, and Janet Lee, 6. A flotilla of craft ranging from trawlers to Eskimo canoes had searched the sea since Sunday for the missing family, while airplanes

American Nurse Takes Off From N. Y. on Nonstop Flight to Rome

„ . (Picture on Paice One, Section Two) .3 By United Press FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, N. Y., Sept. 13.—The plane American Nurse, with two men and a woman aboard, took off today on a projected nonstop flight to Rome, 4,200 miles distant. The huge Bellanca plane roared into the air at 6:17 a. m. (central standard time). William Ulrich ..as at the controls of the “flying medical laboratory” with Dr. Leon M. Pesculli and Miss Edna Newcomer, nurse, as passengers.

BEATS WIFE; BLAMES MEDICINE; FINED $5 ixty-Day Farm Term Is Suspended; “Sinus Relief” Caused Trouble. Overdose of a medicine for relief of sinus trouble caused him to become mentally deranged, was the defense of Theodore Bowers, 1233 Ashland avenue, when he was arraigned today before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on a charge of wife-beating. Bowers was fined $5 and costs and give na sixty-day penal farm term, the latter being suspended. His brother-in-law, Stanley Kelley, 1238 Ashland avenue, who engaged in a fight with him to protect Mrs. Bowers, and who also faced an assault and battery charge, was discharged. COFFIN’S 'OLD GUARD’ HOLDS SECRET PARLEY Hint Meeting Is Held to Select G. O. P. State Senator Candidate. “The old guard dies, but never surrenders.” Just the opposite of Napoleon’s crack regiment of dragoons is the "Coffin gang” which sometimes surrenders, but never dies. The Coffin “old guard” gathered again Monday night at the Inland Bank building at a meeting attended by ward chairmen and guarded today with the utmost secrecy by those in attendance. Although none of those summoned would be quoted on outcome of the meeting, it was reported reliably to* day that the purpose was to select a Republican candidate for state senator from Marion county to run in place of Senator Edgar Perkins, who resigned to take a place on the state industrial board. FOR SALE —ONE BARREL ASSORTED FALSE TEETH City Purchasing Agent in Quandry; ‘What Am I ‘Bit’? He Says. “What is the value of a barrel of false teeth?” is the question being asked today by Albert Losche, city purchasing agent. This afternoon is the annual appraisal of discarded ec uipment and other items at the city hospital. Among the items which must be appraised for sale as junk is the barrel of false teeth, of assorted sizes and styles. “What am I bit'?” Losche asks. 116-Year-Old Woman Dies By United Press JERSEY CITY, N. J„ Sept. 13. Mrs. Dora Meyer, believed to be the oldest woman in New Jersey, and among the oldest in the country, died Monday night at the age Os 116. Filling Station Robbed of S3O While Daniel Seckler, \053 Udell street, was greasing an automobile at a filling station in the 700 block West Washington street, where he is attendant, a thief stole S3O from a cash register.

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flew over Denmark strait seeking to spot them. Aboard the amphibian plane were Hutchinson, his wife and two daughters, and a crew of four; Peter Redpath, navigator; Joseph Ruff, mechanic; Gerald Altfilisch, radio operator, and Norman Alley, cameraman. The flying family left New York Aug. 23 and flew to St. John, N. B. Hutchinson made the next stages, to Anticosti island, on to Godthaab, Greenland, and to Julianehaab, without incident, except for paying a fine of $l3O for landing in Greenland without permission. The plane was lost south of Angmagssalik after leaving Julianehaab and following the south Greenland coast.

j.ne mgnt was designed to be a scientific expedition, with the physician studying the physical reactions of Ulbrich and Miss Newcomer to fatigue, atmospherical conditions and the gases from the motor. The American Nurse carried 850 gallons of gasoline. Ulbrich expected to average more than 130 miles an hour with his 420-horse power Wasp motor. That estimate would require about thirty-five hours for the flight. Favorable Tail Winds The plane, the same one used by Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon in their round- the-world flight, was reconditioned. Ulbrich mapped a course that would take the* American Nurse out to sea from Cape Cod. Then, flying the southern route over ship lanes, he would head for Cape Finestere, Spain. bnce over Spain the American Nurse’s course would be across the Mediterranean to Florence, Italy. There Miss Newcomer planned a parachute leap to commemorate the honor of Florence Nightingale. Miss Newcomer is a former Broadway dancer and night club hostess. Weather charts indicated the fliers would have favorable tail winds for two-thirds of the crossing, when they would enter a storm area. Ulbrich hoped to dodge that or fly above it. Asa good will omen, Dr. Pesculli carried a woodchuck as mascot, appropriately named “Tailwind.” The larder of the American nurse was stocked with three roast chickens, aviation biscuits, tomatoes, fruit, chocolate candy and honey and tea tablets. Pilot Is Experienced A water condenser was included also for use should they be forced to land at sea. In the absence of a radio set, the plane equipped with life savers, and a dynamo light which is capable of being seen twenty-five miles. Ulbrich, both pilot and navigator, is a veteran flier with 3,800 hours in the air. He was born in Copenhagen thirty-one years ago. His home is in Mineola. Dr. Pesculli, w r hose home is in Yonkers, is a gynecologist. He was born in Italy and came to America thirty-two years ago. Miss Newcomer, 28, is an undergraduate nurse who holds a limited commercial pilot’s license. She has had about 150 hours in the air and in addition has had instructions in parachute jumping. Her home is Williamsport, Pa. LAKE TAX VALUATION DISPUTE INTO COURT Temporary Injunction Against State Board Is Issued. By United Press GARY. Ind., Sept. 13.—A temporary injunction against the state tax beard issued by Circuit Judge E. Miles Norton, today blocked temporarily an order of the board for increased valuations of urban real estate in Lake county. The order was issued to prevent the valuation of $367,000,000 returned by county assessing officers being set at $388,000,000 on or der of the state board. „