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SOUTH STARTS REPEAL TEST; PREDICT VICTORIES BY WETS

Alabama and Arkansas at Polls Today; Tennessee Ballots Thursday. COUNT MAY BE CLOSE States Year Ago Had Been Considered Impregnable Dry Strongholds. By I’nlted Press The drive to repeal the eighteenth amendment underwent its crucial test today as the first states of the traditionally dry south to consider the issue, voted on the twen-ty-first (repeal) amendment. The states w r ere Alabama and Arkansas. Tennessee will vote Thursday. If wets take two of the three states, repeal is believed likely this year. Drys believe that by winning two out of three they will be able to delay repeal until 1934. and perhaps retain the eighteenth amendment in the Constitution. Sixteen states so far have voted repeal. Wet victories were forecast today in both states, although the results were pxpected to be close, and in Arkansas the drys were believed to have some chance. Moral Issue, States’ Rights A year ago both states were considered impregnable dry strongholds. The campaigns in Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee bore a close similarity. The drys fought on the moral issue and concentrated on the “church vote.” Repeal means return of the saloon, they argued, and in speeches, posters and advertisements urged the moral duty of keeping liquor away from mankind. Many posters featured biblical quotations. The wets campaigned on the issue of states’ rights, and demarded support of the Democratic plariorm and a Democratic President. The south, preponderantly Democratic, prosecuted its Civil war on the states’ rights issue. Light Vote Expected A light vote was anticipated in both Arkansas and Alabama. Both states levy a poll tax, and the depression forced many citizens not to qualify. The repeal score to date: For Repeal—New' York. New Jersey, Rhode Island, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Delaware, Wyoming, Indiana. Wisconsin. Massachusetts, Connecticut. New Hampshire, lowa. ■West Virginia, California. Against Repeal—None. Arkansas and Alabama, voting today on repeal of the eighteenth amendment, will lead the south in a solid parade against prohibition, in the opinion of Postmaster-General James A. Farley. Farley Sees Wet Victory Pausing in Chicago to greet General Italo Balbo while en route from Memphis, Tenn., to Milwaukee for an Elks convention, Farley predicted that “no southern state will break step in the repeal parade.” In Memphis last Saturday. Farley recalled to Democratic leaders of several southern states the party's pledge to repeal the eighteenth amendment. Farley believed Alabama and Arkansas would v ote against prohibition by more than two to one. "Tennessee will follow suit on Thursday and Oregon on Friday,” Farley said.

•FORCED MOTHERHOOD' IS BLAMED FOR WARS Overpopulation Major Cause of Strife, Women's Congress Told. By I nilrd Pn * CHICAGO. July 18 —Forced motherhood was attacked as a major cause of warfare by Mrs. Wynaendts Francken Dysernick, feminist leader of The Netherlands, in an address before the International Congress of Women today. “There is no hope for making a world secure while many parts of it are so overpopulated.” she said. "Overpopulation is one of the principal causes of war. Japan and Java are overpopulated due to ignorance. "But there are countries where women are educated, and where men are now driving women into forced motherhood and a renewed overpopulation that inevitably must cause war.” Times Index Big Bend—The Last Frontier— A Series 9 Book-a-Day 5 Bridge 5 Broun Column 10 City Briefs 13 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 15 Dietz on Science 14 Editorial 10 Financial f3 Fishing 5 Hickman Theater Review 11 Kirby Cartoon 10 Lippmann Column 13 Nudist Colonies—a Series 9 Obituaries 3 Radio 11 Serial Story 15 Sports 1 Vital Statistics 13 Woman’s Page t

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 58

Forced to Toil in Penal Farm Quarry When 111, Victim of ‘T. B. ’ Charges Brutal Beatings Inflicted When He Collapsed, Ex-Inmate Alleges; Guards and Officials Accused of Wanton Cruelty. This is the sixth of a on conditions at the state penal farm. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer Lungs wasted by disease, a victim of the Great White Plague, was beaten with cane and blackjacks by keepers at the Indiana state penal farm, according to charges made to The Times. Well men have been beaten at the farm. Beatings, starvation diets, chains and handcuffs have been a regular

farm routine, affidavits allege. Guards have admitted beating the well inmates. One of the guards and the assistant superintendent of the farm, E. L. Arment, admit in signed statements that they beat this sick man. They starved him, the victim declares, fed him on bread and water, and yet tuberculosis specialists say that a fattening diet is a requisite of treating* the disease that creeps on man and takes him—sometimes quickly. Branded as Staller They, farm officials, worked his weak bateria-laden lungs at hard, sweaty labor, along w’ith the well inmates. No rest cure. The only rest cure was being handcuffed to a cell on a diet of bread and water. They said he was stalling when he refused to work. They gave him a superficial examination and said that he—Daniel Roy Shipper of St. Louis—showed no signs of tuberculosis. But in possession of The Indianapolis Times ifi a notarized statement of Dr. J. J. Singer, head of the chest service of Barnes hospital, St. Louis, that Shipper was under his care three times in 1930 for chronic pulmonary tuberculosis. Handcuffed to Bars The farm keepers placed him in a cell for eighty-nine hours, according to their own admissions, on one occasion, and for fifty-one hours at another time. During the daytime he was handcuffed to bars. The farm officials starved, handcuffed and beat a youth whose sole offense against Hoosierland society was that he was a suspicious person. arrested in Vincennes on a charge of vagrancy and fined SSO and costs. But at the time of his arrest about Jan. 13, Shipper says, he had some small change and a bus ticket en route to his home in St. Louis. The farm keepers would not take his word that he had been in hospital after hospital for tuberuclosis. They wouldn't even take the time to find out the truth of his statement, he declares. Sent to Quarry “Staller! Malingerer!” they shouted at him, interspersed with curses and blows, wheh Shipper complained that the labor to which he was assigned was too hard. They sent him back to quarry labor. They sent him back to rock dust to add to the rebellion of lungs that should have been breathing clean, free air. evidence indicates. And they built for him, according to one affidavit in possession of The Indianapolis Times, a special steep incline to use when he pushed wheelbarrows full of mud. Just a little extra punishment which a guard wanted to give him for protesting a true illness that they called "faking.” No kindly X-ray at the state farm vouched for the truth of Shipper's tale of lung trouble. The farm's doctor did not check his case history with St. Louis physicians. Chronic Case of T. B. But The Times did check that case history and it shows that if Daniel Roy Shipper stalled in his work at the farm because of lung trouble that he had a right to stall and that he is what doctors call a "chronic case of T. B.” It shows conclusively that' clerical work and the easiest job at the farm would be none too easy for one afflicted with the disease from which he suffered. "I struck him one blow with a blackjack which caused no injury, and which subdued him.” admits Arment. the assistant superintendent in charge of the farm's discipline. •'I then grabbed a cane that was leaning against the watch house and (Turn to Page Four) RESUME WATER HEARING Public Service Commission Chief Engineer Appears as Witness. Hearing in the Indianapolis Water Company's federal court fight for higher water rates was resumed today before Albert Ward master in chancery. Appearing as a defense witness. Harry V. Wenger, chief engineer of the state public service commission, gave $20,006,801 as valuation of the water company's properties as appraised by the commission, April 1, 1933. Til is i s $2,500,000 less than the valuation on which present water 'tes are based. The water comJ. er, is attempting to T.e rate.; based on its appraisal of pproximately $38,000,000.

UNIONS SEEK CITY PAY BOOST Building Trades Council Proposes Increase in Wage Scales. Wage committee of the building trades council today proposed wage increases for various trades, pointing out that since a wage contract was entered into Jan. 15, 1932, with pay based on cost of building materials, the latter have increased in price 14 per cent. The committee composed of Otto M. Mueller, G. C. Wright and Merritt Harrison, proposes that the newpay be retroactive to July 1 and remain in effect until Jan. 1, 1935. Among the suggested wages are: Carpenters, $1.14 an hour; bricklayers, $1.48; cement finishers, $1.07; electricians. $1.37; hod carriers brick layers, 86 cents; plaster and mortar workers, 91 cents; iron workers. $1.32. and painters, $1.14. CAR DIVES INTO CANAL Woman Driver Smashes Through Barricade; Not Injured. Driving her car through a wooden barricade into the canal at the Fourteenth street bridge Monday night when lights from an approaching automobile blinded her Mrs. Grover Shank, Negro, 40, of 2954 Paris avenue, was removed from the water unhurt. Raymond Daniels and Arthur Board. Negroes, 1438 and 1430 Northwestern avenue, respectively, waded into the water and brought her ashore. MILK MEN TO CAPITAL Lieutenant-Governor, Committee Go to Confer With Wallace. Lieutenant-Governor Clifford Townsend and five members of the joint producers and distributors milk committee left today for Washington to confer with Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, on approval of the new state milk code. Members of the committee besides Townsend are Carl Hedges and Harvey Hartsock for the producers and Albert Busher. Guy Roberts and S. O. Dungan for the distributors.

No Man Worth It, Beauty Says After Trying Suicide

She learned about men from her husband. Mrs. Betty Harvey Nott. 21. pretty blond wife of Frank Nott, admitted it today when arraigned before Municipal Judge Dewey E. Myers on a vagrancy charge following an attempt at suicide Monday by inhaling gas. She was discharged. Mrs. Nott, 226 East Vermont street, attempted to end her life in the apartment of Paul Lang, 408 East Michigan street. "This is the girl who tried to kill •herself yesterday,” an officer announced to the court. "Why did you do that?” the judge asked. Oh, that husband of mine threatened to kill me. so I thought I'd beat him to it,” the pretty wife explained. "You must never do that again,” Myers warned. I wouldn t do it again for any man in the world.” she replied. Notes written by Mrs. Nott before she buried her head in her arms on a table in the apartmen*

Naked Truth In a Catskill mountain retreat, naked men and women are seeking after health, hunting "more natural beauty.” Women artists, business girls, pastors, Wall street brokers frolic in the nude, bask in the sunshine, take long walks, unclad over the hills. Shocking? Not in the least, they declare. They tell their story in the first of three articles on nudist colonies appearing today on Page One, Section Two. Wa^r ll for th*> second story Wednesday in The Times.

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BOYCOTT MAY BE RECOVERY PLAN WEAPON Public Will Be Asked to Blacklist Stores Who Ignore Codes. MUST LIMIT HOURS Immediate Wage Increases to Be Required Under Program. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 18. The public will be asked within a few i days to boycott wholesale and retail i firms who do not agree to immedi- : ate limitation of work hours' and | wage increases, and also to boycott the products of manufacturers who do not enter into such agreements. The administration is working out its plan for boosting purchasing power on these lines, it became evident today. Much of the delay in | announcing the plan has been caused by the necessity of designing, | making and distributing emblems I which may be displayed by business ! firms agreeing to the temporary | wage and hour scales. For nearly two weeks the recovery administration has been engrossed with the problem of how to keep purchasing power in line with rapidly rising prices. In Hands of Public It has been unwilling to undertake anything in the nature of a "blanket order” to employers, and it has been somewhat skeptical of results to be attained by an appeal for voluntary action by employers, although the textile industry has put a temporary schedule into effect without being asked. These problems have led to the apparent conclusion that the key to the situation lies in the hands of the consuming public. C. F. Horner, chief of the recovery administration’s public relations division, has had his staff hard at work during the last week on posters and placards for the drive in behalf of purchasing power Most of these bear a patriotic emblem, an eagle, a flag, or a conventionalized design embodying the national colors, and the phrase "We Have Doi\e Our Part” or something similar. Propose Federal Label These placards would be displayed in stores agreeing to observe the short work week and minimum wage scale at once. Tags or stickers would be attached to manufactured articles from shops complying with the agreement. The coat and suit industry even has proposed that a NIRA label be attached to all its products to indicate production under conditions of fair competition. Details of the boycott plan only remain to be worked out. In general it is understood to have the approval of the President and of the industrial recovery board which discussed it Monday. Meanwhile, the administration still is silent on terms of the schedule it will ask the country to observe. Bullet Wound Is Fatal By United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind.. July 18— Raymone Fowler, 35, died Monday night of an accidental bullet wound suffered two weeks ago while he was cleaning a revolver.

kitchen, and opened all jets of a gas stove, indicated that she. her husband and Lang were the principals in a love triangle. She wrote that Nott was not to be permitted to see her in death, and absolved Lang of all blame for the suicide attempt. After being revived by police and fire department first-aid squads. Mrs. Nott was taken to city hospital and treated. She had recovered fully today.

Romances of Celebrities Bud, Bloom, Wither

By United, Press LOS ANGELES. July 18.—There certainly never was a lapdog that weighed 250 pounds, and when Angelus temple tried to make one of David L. Hutton Jr., he decided to

divorce Aimee Semple McPher-son-Hutton. Hutton's manager said today. "Dave is tired of being a pet poodle and o g.” Harry C. Brandon, the manager. said in explaining the divorce a c tion. "He's going out on his own. A certain clique at the temple wouldn't let him make money outside the tern-

pie and the clique wouldn't pay him for working in the temple. He married Aimee and not the clique nor the temple. He's tired of being pushed around by the temple." Mrs. McPherson-Hutton. still convalescent from a recent operation, was reported hurrying home from Paris.

Sued for Balm Mrs. Fred Duesenberg Made Defendant in SIOO,OOO Love Battle.

Mrs. Isle Duesenberg, city social leader, charged in SIOO,OOO suit with alienation of affections.

Widow of Auto Manufacturer Stole Affections of Julian M. Hopkins, His Wife Charges. A LLEGING that Mrs. Isle Duesenberg, 3290 Fall Creek boulevard. -**- widow of the late Fred S.. Duesenberg. automobile manufacturer, has alienated the affections of her husband, Mrs. Maude A. Hopkins filed suit today in superior court five asking SIOO,OOO from the attractive widow. Julian M. Hopkins, 1512 North Meridian street, apartment 23, is the husband in the case. He is general manager of a life insurance company.

The complaint filed by Carl E. Wood and the law firm of Johnson & Zechiel, alleges that Hopkins and Mrs. Duesenberg have traveled together, visiting cities outside of Indiana. Further, it is averred, the widow has given Hopkins large sums of monejr and gifts of jewelry, clothing and other articles for the purpose of “winning his affections.” "Endearing and affectionate letters” have been written by Mrs. Duesenberg to Hopkins, his wife charges. n n a CHARGING that the defendant is seeking to thwart Mrs. Hopkins in collecting any judgment she might recover, the complaint alleges that on June 20, this year, Mrs. Deusenberg conveyed to her son, Denny Donald Deusenberg, the property at 3290 Fall Creek boulevard, for a consideration of sl. This conveyance, it is averred, has been recorded in the office of the Marion county recorder. By terms of the transfer, the complaint states, the son is forbidden to transfer or incumber the property, and the arrangement is to remain in effect until Feb. 27, 1939. The Hopkins couple was married March 25, 1929, and separated Feb. 25, this year, acording to the complaint. Mrs. Hopkins has a divorce suit on file in superior court one. RELEASE OF O’CONNELL IS EXPECTED TODAY Nephew of Albany Political Dictators Already Free, Rumors Say. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y„ July 18.—Release of Lieutenant John J. O’Connell Jr., kidnaped nephew of the O'Connell brothers, dictators of the Albany Democratic dynasty, was expected hourly today by persons close to the family. Rumors also persisted in political circles close to the O'Connell clan, that the 24-year-old national guard officer and brewery official already had been liberated by his abductors, ■who had held him since midnight, July 7. The family, however, denied the reports.

By United Press MINDEN. Nev., July 18.—Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, wife of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, was granted a divorce here Monday, and immediately

after the heari n g Roosevelt prepared to fly to Chicago, where he was expected to meet Ruth Googins, Ft. Worth debutante. whose name was linked with his when his marital troubles first became known. Mrs. Roosevelt. although not present, won the decree on a cross - complaint :o Roo s e velt’s

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suit charging “extreme cruelty.” Mrs. Roosevelt, heiress to a Pennsylvania steel fortune, retains custody of their 8-months-old child. William Donner. Roosevelt will have visiting rights and provide for the child's support. No alimony was asked or granted.

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SURVEY OF SCHOOL COSTS jIVEN BOARD Cole’s Findings May Cut Local Tax Needs. A survey of minimum school costs, which may halve the local tax raised to qualify for state aid, was presented to state board of education members today by George C. Cole, .superintendent of public instruction. Members pondered the matter and are expected to announce their decision this afternoon. The survey was approved by William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. It was said by school men to be the most comprehensive study of costs ever made in the state. The work was done by Cole single handed and drew high praise from Governor Paul V. McNutt and board members, it was said. HARRIMAN IS MISSING; FORFEIT $25,000 BAIL Bench Warrant for Aged Banker Issued; Fled Monday. By United Press NEW YORK. July 18.—Joseph W. Harriman remained on the missing list when his sanity hearing was called in federal court today, and Federal Judge Francis G. Cassey ordered forfeited the $25,000 bail on which the eccentric banker has been at liberty. A bench warrant for Harriman's arrest was issued. Harriman, gray - haired former president and chairman of the Harriman national bank, now in liquidation, was sought in New York city, in New Jersey and on Long Island, as fears grew that when he slipped away from a nursing home in midManhattan Monday he went with thj intent of committing suicide. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 81 7a. m 69 11 a. m 83 Ba. m 73 12 fnoon).. 85 9 a. m 77 1 p. m 87

By Times Special SACRAMENTO. Cal., July 18.— The tinkle of wedding bells can be heard today as Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight champion pugilist, and Hannah Williams, New

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York musical comedy star, plan for their future as they rest in Reno. An c i 1 Hoffman, Max Baer's manager, declared that the couple expect to step to the altar at Reno today, but friends say that they believe the ceremony will be held here, after they arrive to file notice of their intention to marry. Members of the Dempsey party were especially

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pleased to learn today that Baer, conqueror of Max Schmeling. and leading contender for the heavyweight title, had become reconciled with his wife. Dorothy Dunbar Baer.

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Seventeen Hours Ahead of Record, Oklahoma ‘lron Man’ Lands at Novosibirsk; Takes Off 2 Hours 36 Minutes Later. BATTLES HIS WAY THROUGH FOG American Airman Refuses to Sleep, but Accedes to Urgings of Soviet Officials and Takes Rest of Ten Minutes. By United Pres* MOSCOW, July 18. —Wiley Post, headed from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk, Siberia, on his flight around the world, was sighted at 11:50 a. m. Moscow time today (2:50 a. m., Indianapolis time) at Krasnoyarsk, 400 miles east of Novosibirsk. By United Tress * NOVOSIBIRSK, Siberia, July 18.—Wiley Post, American around-the-world flier, took off at 11:55 p. m. Monday (Indianapolis time) for Irkutsk, 870 miles away. He was 17 hours and 4 minutes ahead of the record he and Harold Gatty made two years ago. Determined to lose no time, Post said he hoped to halt only briefly at Irkutsk, for refueling and to have his plafe overhauled, and then press on to Khabarovsk, in eastern Siberia. “The Novosibirsk-Irkutsk stage will be easier than that from Moscow here,” he said before he left. “I had the lousiest sort of weather." He expected to cover the distance in seven or eight hours. Post, when he took off, was 68 hours and 45 minutes out

Jaws Pop Open And Stay That Way Eight Hours When Ada Indulges in Huge Yawn.

to 2533 Baltimore avenue VJ —woman with lockjaw,” droned the police radio in the early morning hours today. Patrolmen Glen Mangus and Harrison Wenz were prepared for a tetanus victim. But there was more. Instead, Ada Turner, 19, Negro, of that address, had her mouth open and just couldn't get it closed. Mangus and Wenz called a city hospital ambulance, but the doctor in charge wrestled unavailingly with Ada’s jaws. Plainly, hospital treatment was indicated, they decided. However, Ada balked when she arrived at the hospital, and indicated. by somewhat unintelligible noises her resistance to taking any anesthetic. a a a REFUSING treatment, she went home and tried her own cure of smacking herself in the jaws with her fists. This had worked once before when Ada found herself in a similar predicament, but it failed her today. After an eight-hour yawn, Dr. William Mack was called. Dr. Mack tugged and twisted, but Ada's jaws put up a great battle. The doctor took time out and returned to the attack. Just when it began to look like a draw, Dr. Mack got a hold resembling one of the choice numbers in Jimmy Londo's repertoire and Ada’s jaws snapped back into place. And so today, Ada sits looking longingly at food and caressing her complaining mandibles. She doesn't open her mouth very wide, either, when she discusses her endurance yawn. ana “T WAS going t 6 bed about 1 A o’clock this morning,” explained Ada, “and I was powerful tired. Just as I was getting in bed. I gave a powerul ‘gape’ and ‘bang’ went my jaw. I just cofildn't get my mouth closed, “I’d been to church and I guess the sermon was a little long. Anyhow, I was powerful tierd “I guess I must have given the daddy of all gapes this time, but I sure am going to be careful after this when I go to bed.”

By United Press HOLLYWOOD. July 18—June Knight, radio songstress and budding screen actress, was not surprised, but was “very pleased” to learn of the reconciliation between

Baer and his wife, Dorothy Dunbar Baer, she told the United Press today. "Max's return to Dorothy very probably will be the very best thing for them both,” she said. “My relations with Max never were predicated on his abandonment of Dorothy. They had separated—presumably - permanently—long before we met. I recently suggested to him several times

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that he go back to her, and I honestly think he’s done a wise thing. “Fond if him? Os course; he's a nice kid. But I'm not fond enough of any one to want to take him away from his wife.”

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of New York, where he took off Saturday. He had spent 48 hours and 54 minutes in the air, and but 19 hours and 51 minutes aground. Os the 15.400 miles he must make on his globe circling flight, he had covered 6.500. He must get back to Floyd Bennett airport, New York, before 7:01 p. m. (Indianapolis time) Sunday to better his record with Gatty—B days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. A veritable iron man, who had slept but once—at Koenigsberg, Germany—since he left New York, Post arrived here from Moscow at 9:19 Ip. m. (Indianapolis time) Monday (9:09 a. m. today, Novosibirsk time). Takes 10-Minute Rest Civil aviation authorities, newspaper men and Miss Fay Gillis of Minneapolis, were at the field to greet him. He swept down to a perfect landing. Airport officials, anxious that Post should be in the best of shape, urged him to sleep. He consented to lie down for ten minutes with his eyes closed, but remained fully awake. Then he was off, after a halt of but two hours and thirty-six minutes, on his way to Irkutsk. He will follow the Trans-Siberian railway all the way across Siberia. Flew Whole Route in Fog It was raining at Irkutsk while Post was here, but the weather further along his route was favorable. From Kharbarovsk but three planned hops remained—Khabarovsk to Fairbanks, Alaska, 3,000 miles; Fairbanks to Edmonton, Canada, 1,450, and Edmonton to Floyd Bennett field. New York, 2.200. “I flew in fog all the way,” Post said of his flight from Moscow to Novosibirsk. “I could not even see land for half the route.” Italians Finishing Visit CHICAGO, July 18.—Thousands of Chicago admirers gave their final salute today to General Italo Balbo and his intrepid transoceanic aviators, who Wednesday will start the long flight back to their base at Orbetello, Italy. A parade down wide Michigan boulevard was arranged today as the concluding public gesture to the fliers. Officials in charge of reception for the armada planned the parade as a city-wide demonstration of Chicago's praise of the epochal flight. While General Balbo was guest at numerous state and civic affairs Monday, many of his men spent their time carefully going over the motors of their twenty-four seaplanes in preparation the return flight. The planes, tiding at moorings in the Chicago harbor, where they landed late Saturday, were refueled and tuned up under direction of Colonel Carlo Tempesti. According to present plans, the planes will zoom from the lake early Wednesday, turn eastward and follow the lakes-canal routs to New York. They will remain in New York a week or more. General Balbo said it was probable the fliers would go to Washington to see President Roosevelt. Monday night the fliers wera guests at a dinner tendered by Harry S. New, United States commissioner to the exposition. Later they were guests at a ball given by Prince Pontenziana, royal Italian commissioner to the fair, and Ital-ian-American groups.

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WAR MOTHER BETTER Mrs. E. May Hahn Improving afc Home of Son. Mrs. E. May Hahn, one of four World war mothers injured in an automobile accident near Kansas City, Mo., Friday, is at the home of her son, Dr. E. Vernon Hahn, in New Augusta, where her condition is said to be improving. She suffered a compound fracture of the left leg near the ankle, and bruises, according to Dr. Hahn, who said that internal injuries at first bc’icved serious were not, and she has recovered completely from shock.

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