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ATTORNEYS FOR BRUNO WORRIED BY STATE CASE Defense Counsel, Outwardly Scoffing, Retires for Week-End of Close Study; Evidence Has Them on Ropes, Is Belief. NEW WITNESSES COME FORWARD Mechanic Who Says He Painted Hauptmann Car From Green to Black May Be Important Prosecution Figure. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE t'nitrd Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1935. by United Press) FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 12.—New Jersey will trace a total of $19,600 to Bruno Richard Hauptmann and prove timt it is all but S4OO of the $50,000 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh paid to ransom a baby already dead, the prosecution claimed today. This staggering blow against the taciturn German carpenter charged with kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby, was planned even while the State marshaled a great array of experts who will prove beyond doubt, the prose-

cutor said, that Hauptmann j wrote each and every one of the ransom letters sent Col. Lindbergh and his intermediary, Dr. John F. Condon. Hauptmann’s trial was in adjournment over the week-! end while defense attorneys hastily checked off their evidence and witnesses, dismayed at the unexpectedly strong case presented by the State. Although defense counsel maintained an exterior air of confidence and depreciation toward the prosecution evidence, it was known that the week had been one of surprises Bnd disappointment. First. Edward J. Reilly, one of the cleverest of criminal lawyers and chief of Hauptmann's defense, had banked heavily on breaking the story of Dr. Condon. Instead. Dr. Condon positively identified Hauptmann as the ransom collector and by inference as the man who climbed into the nursery window and stole the baby, and remaned unshaken through hours of severe cross-examination. New Evidence Produced The state produced one witness who placed Hauptmann at the scene of the crime only a few hours before it was committed —the first of a series of witnesses who will test it j similarly, it was promised—and two witnesses corroborating Dr. Condon's story. Meanwhile, chance circumstances revealed two pieces of what on the face seemed new evidence —one favorable to the prosecution, the other to the defense. The new prosecution evidence stood up— the new defense evidence was partly discredited even before it was piesented. Mrs. Anna Bonesteel. lunchroom operator in Yonkers, volunteered the statement that Violet Sharpe, servant in the Dwight Morrow household who committed suicide just before she was to be questioned about the kidnaping, waited in her restaurant for over an hour the right of the kidnaping. She earned two blankets and was picked up by two men in a car, Mrs. Bonesteel j said. Painter Tells Story This story might have proved a ' powerful aid to the defense in sub- . stantiating inuendos that the kid- j raping was an "inside" job. but for the fact that New Jersey has statements from three persons who were with Miss Sharpe the same night and from employes of a New Jersey dance hall they visited. The new evidence favorable to the prosecution was volunteered by a Bronx garage man who said he painted Hauptmanns car black a few weeks after the kidnaping. He produced ledgers to substantiate his story. Before it was painted. the car was a "dirty green.” A state witness testified this week that he saw Hauptmann in a "dirty green” car near the LindbergliHopewell estate the day of the kidnaping. Bruno's Writing. Says Expert The state's assemblage of handwriting experts will back up the expert testimony of Albert S. Osborn, the highest paid handwriting expert in the wojjd. who testified yesterday that the script of the crudely phrased ransom notes was identical with that of Hauptmanns acknowledged handwriting. The state will present six or more experts who will dissect the writing and add their convictions to the master's decision. They will take Brunos script, letter by letter and stroke by stroke. There will be experts in German writing and German expression; ex* perts who can take the letter “A" and trace It through every known script In the world and show, as conclusively as a finger print, that a (Turn to Page Three)

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PROBE BRINGS MURDERJMGE Argument Is Blamed for Death of City Man, Father of Six. Funeral services have not been arranged yet for Alfred Norsell, 47-year-old father of six children, who died yesterday of a fractured skull received in a fight over minor damage his car had done to a garage, in the rear of his home, 613 N. Key-stone-av. Held for murder in connection with the death is Ben Shannon, 46, of 1334 N. Lasalle-st, owner of the garage and named by Mr. Norsells distracted widow as his assailant. Mrs. Norsell’s mother, Mrs. Helga Robinsen, in whose name their home is listed, returned today from Appleton, Wis., where Mrs. Norsell was graduated from Lawrence College and where they made their home for many years, and assumed charge of the family. Margaret Norsell, 14, who also heard the argument that led to her father's death and who helped her mother carry him unconscious into the house after the fight, is a senior this year at Technical High School, and will be one of the youngest pupils ever to be graduated from that school. The fatal argument arose, Mrs. Norsell said, when Shannon demanded that her husband repair a few boards his car had damaged from Shannon's garage. She said she heard her husband say he would make the repairs and then, after he had called to her to come out, she heard him fall to the ground. She said she saw Shannon flee and pursued him for about a block, but was outdistanced. Other children in the family are Howard. 11; Cora. 9; Emily, 7; Alma. 2’j. and Faul. 21 months. Five brother, six sisters and the parents of Mr. Norsell live in Denmark. BLAZE DAMAGES GRILL Shorthand School Also Scene of Early Morning Fire. A fire early today damaged the Pennhoff Grill. 23 N. Pennsylvaniast. and the Leisure Hour Shorthand School, above it, to the extent of SSOO. An overheated stove in the home of John Parring. 3261 Ralston-st. caused damage to the extent of more than $250 last night.

Huntington’s Battle of Lights Still on in Court; Mayor Listens to Arguments

BY TIPTON S. BUSH Time-. *aff Writer HUNTINGTON, Ind., Jan. 12. The battle of the lights of Huntington entered i*s 12th day today with both the phantom Mayor, Clare W. H. Bangs, and the supporters of his municipal light plant, and his opponents, the representatives of the Northern Indiana Power Cos., confident that victory was in their grasp. The audience of more than 400 persons which gathered in the Huntington County Circuit Court this morning to hear the closing argument of Fred H Bowers, power company counsel, in favor of the company's restraining order against the municipal plant, and the rebuttal of City Attorney Claude Cline before Special Judge David Smith, Ft. Wayne, wanted fireworks. They had been openly disappointed when the drama of yester- (*

Rain and warmer tonight and tomorrow, followed by colder tomorrow night.

G. O. P. Minority Is Ordered to Steer Clear of House Coalition Democratic Revolt Hint Denied

NAZIS BLOCK JEWISH VOTE, FOESCHARGE Hitler Terrorists Depriving Citizens of Cards, Protest to Commission. (Copyright. 1935, by United Press) SAARBRUCKEN, Jan. 12.—Nazis are confiscating plebiscite voting cards of Jewish residents in the Saar, leaders of the anti-Nazi United Front complained to the League of Nations governing commission today. Members of the Nazi German Front, the anti-Nazis charged, are going among the Jewish residents and asking them how they intend to vote in tomorrow's plebiscite, which is to decide the future of the Saar territory. The Jews, anti-Nazis said, invariably replied that they would vote for return of the territory to Germany and then the Nazirf asked the Jews to hand over their voting cards, thus depriving them of the possibility of voting. Snow Delays Trains The Nazis’ motive apparently was that they suspected the Jews, no mattei what their protestations, would "'ote against return, and the Jews’ declarations in favor of Germany would be b it natural in view of a fear of summary reprisals if it was found they voted against the Reich. A blizzard-like snow was piling up throughout the little Saar today. It had been snowing for 24 hours, and there was no sign of abatement. Communications were disrupted, and the 32 special trains scheduled to arrive today with thousands more Germans returning to vote were delayed. Voting will begin at 8 a. m. tomorrow. Saarlanders, residents and former residents who have come from all over the world, wall decide whether the Saar shall revert to Germany, remain under League of Nations rule or become French. Ballot counting will be started in the early hours of Monday morning and the result will be announced around 8 a. m. Tuesday. Germans Are Confident Germans are confident that the result of the plebiscite will show an everwhelming preference for German rule. There is no basis of computing the probable vote. For comparison there was only the 1923 vote for legislative candidates. Then Catholics polled 160,000 votes, Communists 87.000, Nazis 60.000 and Socialists 45.000. But that was years before the ascendance of the Nazi star and the vote was not for or against German rule. MONON LINE BLOCKED BY FREIGHT WRECK Three Cars Are Crushed in Derailment Here. A car in a Monon freight train inbound from Chicago jumped the track early today at 54th-st and before the train could be stopped three more cars had been piled up and crushed. No one was injured, but the wreckage was not expected to be cleared before noon, blocking the road's main line from here to Chicago. Harry E. Lister, 2608 Broadway, was conductor; W. F. Taylor, 2806 Carrollton-av, was engineer, and Willard Bruzie, Carmel, Ind., fireman. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Shelhorn, who live at 1051 E. 54th-st, where they operate a coal company, were sleeping in a room only a few feet from the track and were awakened by the noise, but found no damage done to their property

day morning's session petered out into an afternoon unrelieved from the dullnes of legal technicalities. The morning session had been marked by applause for Mr. Cline's attack on the power company, derisive lauaghter for a self-contra-dicting remark by Mr. Bowers and, finally, by the dramatic appearance of Mayor Bangs, whose game of hide-and-seek with Sheriff O. E. Johnson had been played merrily since his inauguration New Year's Day. The mayor’s entrance brought forth no demonstration except for a 'moment of whispering and neck craning. Since Judge Smith, following the earlier outbreak of laughter, had warned the audience that another such demonstration would cause him to clear the court. The most confused person in the crowded court room was Sheriff Johnson who, with his quarry at

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,1935

Administration Apparently Assured of Smooth Sledding Following Half-Hearted Threats of Rebellion. With the Legislature adjourned for the week-end, there appeared little prospect today that a threatened coalition in the House between disgruntled Democrats and the Republican minority would materialize. It was reported today that while some of the minority might encourage overtures from some of the Democrats,

the word was passed along by “someone highev up” to avoid any alliances ard to fight along strictly party lines any administration legislation to which they object. Denials were made in several quarters that there are any disgruntled Democrats and that all who might be suspected of defection will go along with the administration program. Rumblings of Revolt Reports of the coalition were lent credence by two developments shortly before the Legislature convened. Rep. Jacob Reisinger (D„ Evansville) was ambitious to be Speaker of the House. He wrote to members of the minority, telling them he had enough support to defeat Speaker Edward H. Stein, if the Republicans would join him. There also was the attitude of the Marion County delegation at its caucus prior to convening. Several members made it plain they do not intend to “swallow’ the administration program merely because it is such. Administration approval alone, it was explained, would not be sufficient to obtain the solid vote of the delegation. Each measure, several members assert, must stand on its merits. Legislative Record Set Members of both Houses went home yesterday with admonitions ringing in their ears. They made legislative history in Indiana when

Labor Backs Bill Calling Upon Militia to Bar Strike Breakers

Use of the State Militia to prevent any person under the rank of superintendent from entering an industrial plant in which there is a strike will be provided in bills to be introduced in the General Assembly with the approval of the Indiana State Federation of Labor and the

Railway Brotherhoods. Civil service for police and firemen also is advocated. Adolph J. Fritz, secretary of the State Federation of Labor, and Alex Gordon, state representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, in a joint statement, disclosed contents of a bill providing for use of militia in strikes. The militia measure, if adopted, would have the effect of preventing the use of strike breakers to operate industrial plants and prevent employes, who remain at work, from re-entering the plants. Primary Repeal Opposed The legislative program of organized labor also included opposition to any effort to repeal the direct primary election law; indorsed unemployment insurance legislation and urged amendment of the oldage pension law by providing monthly payments of not less than sl4 nor more than $25 to beneficiaries over 65 years of age. Recommendation of “full crew” legislation and limiting the length of freight trains was deferred until the return from a Chicago conference of E. L. Kenney, representing the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors; M. H. Miller, representing the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and Mr. Gordon, representing the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The conference was held in Chicago today with Joseph Eastman, Federal Railway Co-ordinator, at which proposals for a six-hour day without reduction in pay; a federal train length limitation law, a full

last in sight, asked the company lawyers; “Shall I serve the papers now?” On advice of the counsel, the papers were served on the mayor. He received them with a broad grin. After the noon recess, Mr. Cline read the city's motion to dissolve the company's restraining order and the rest of the afternoon was taken up by his arguments and quotations from legal authorities in support of his motion. The almost hermetically sealed courtroom grew wanner and warmer. Spectators who had hung on each word during the morning session dozed in their places. The company's attorneys listened impatiently to the arguments of their opponent and snarled at him with questions or tart comments. Mr. Cline in his turn yelped backi his voice quavering and his hands trembling.

they convened, heard the Governor’s message and then came back the next day to start work with introduction of 28 bills in the Senate and 24 bills in the House. Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend told members of the Senate he was pleased w ? ith the alacrity with which they passed several emergency measures under suspension of the rules and with the speed with which the committee work was organized. He said he expected a full attendance at committee meetings and urged promptness in atlendance, so important bills would not be held up. Speaker Stein voiced similar sentiments and objected to starting at 10 a. m. Monday because, he explained, several committees expect to consider bills Monday morning and report back on them in the afternoon. Emergency Bills Pass Republicans and Democrats j'oined in suspending the rules in both houses for the passage of emergency legislation. This legislation included two election bills in the Senate, the appropriations, or assembly expense bill and extension of the delinquent tax sale moratorium for a year. Only one dissenting voice was raised in either house in the suspension of the rules. Representative H. H. Evans (R., Newcestle) explained that he had been told by ‘the folks back home” that the first thing the Assembly would do would be to vote their own salaries. Therefore, he voted against suspension of the rules. He voted for the bill, however.

crew bill and reducing the maximum number of hours railroad employes may work without rest from 16 hours to 12, were discussed. Other Labor Planks Other planks in the Federation program are: 1. Extending the benefits of the workmen’s compensation law. 2. Stricter regulations for the marketing of prison-manufactured articles. 3. Repeal of the state garnishee law. 4. Stricter regulations for “small loan sharks.” 5. Adoption of a state NRA law. 6. Adoption of legislation providing for the furnishing of free text books to the 700,000 school children Os the state. 7. Enactment of an absentee voter’s law with proper safeguards. 8. Legislation requiring the pay*ment of the prevailing rate of wages on all public contracts. Child Labor Amendment 9. Ratification of the child Labor amendment to the Federal constitution. 10. Laws guaranteeing the payment of wages earned. 11. Opposition to the further extension of the laws applying a horizontal cut of 10 per cent in statepaid salaries under SIOOO. 12. Mandatory inspection of state refinery plants. 13. Laws placing all mines in the state under the mining laws. Pension Plans Upheld 14. Support for the firemen and police pension plans. 15. Elimination of the SIO,OOO maximum liability now established by law for railroad fatalities, and substitution of laws permitting courts or juries to fix liability for deaths resulting from railroad accidents. 16. Bills preventing the making of blasts in mines while miners are at work.

TODAY’S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 29 8 a. m 32 7 a. m 30 9 a. m 33 Sunrise tomorrow, 7:06 a. m.; sunset, 4:42 p. m. Sunrise Monday. 7:08 a. m.: sunset, 4:43 p. m. In the Air Westher conditions at 9 a. m.t Wind, east, nine miles an hour; temperature, 30; barometric pressure, 30.30 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, one mile; smoky.

LABOR’S VIEWS TO PREVAIL ON JOB INSURANCE Miss Perkins Loses Fight for Employer to Bear Full Burden. VAN NUYS AT PARLEY Hoosier Senator’s Idea for Joint Responsibility Wins Roosevelt Favor. (Copvrißht, 1935, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—President Roosevelt’s recommendations to Congress for job insurance, it appeared today, will disregard the opinion of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, that employers alone should underwrite the fund. -T’his rift between views of the President and his Cabinet adviser on labor problems was revealed following a White House conference yesterday on proposed social security legislation. The President is known to stand with labor and industry liberals on the sub-committee of experts which advised the Cabinet group that if the insurance tax on industry is 3 per cent on pay rolls, labor should add about 1 per cent of salaries. This view, held by a minority of the sub-committee, is also shared by Senator Frederick Van Nuys (D., Ind ), who has made wide research in this field and was present at the White House meeting. Certain Groups Exempt Senator Van Nuys later said the program, to be drafted in the form of separate bills, will include also old-age pensions, health insurance, maternity benefits and annuities. He believes the job insurance tax will be not more than 5 per cent on pay rolls. High-salaried workers naturally will not share the benefits. Railroad employes have their own pension plan. School teachers, municipal employes, ers in homes and on farms would be exempted, because administrative costs would be too great. One program of economic security proposals, probably with some specific recommendations, will go to Capitol Hill ea*ly next week, it was indicated. Congressional leaders promised speedy action. Heated Debate Due Whether the old-age pension figure remains at SSO per month for needy persons under 65. as advised by the experts, or is moved up or down, is certain to be a hotly debated point in Congress. The Administration hopes for uniformity in state laws to prevent employer opposition to the insurance plans. Sen. Van Nuys said a 5 per cent tax on pay rolls will increase the cost of finished products 1 cent on each dollar paid by consumers. Proponents of labor contribution to the fund feel the workers should share in the cost and administrative authority to the end that they would assist in policing the distribution of benefits. Raps Relief Costs BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Senator Frederick Van Nuys today cited Center Township, Marion County, as a “horrible example’’ of the rising cost of relief administration. Figures there for the last threeyear period form a perfect argument for unemployment insurance as a protection against direct relief in future depressions, the Senator declared. “Relief administration costs in Center Township have risen from 3 per cent of the total expended to 10 per cent and upward through the shifting of responsiiblity from township trustees to the state relief administration,” Senator Var. Nuys charged. “What we need is decentralization right now,” he said. The Hoosier Senator gave out the following: In January, 1933. under trustee's administration salaries represented 3.1 per cent of relief costs; January 7, 1934, under state supervision and using Federal funds, 10 per cent. February. 1933, 3.6 per cent; 1934, 9.1 per cent; March, 1933. 3.1; 1934. 8.2;; April, 1933, 3.7; 1934. 8 Mav, 1933, 4.3; 1934. 12.6; June 1933, 5.2; 1934. 14.6; July 1933. 4.2; 1934. 15.9; August 1933. 5.7; 1934. 14.3; September 1933,‘8.7 1934, 15.1; October 1933, 6.6;- 1934, 12; November 1933, 5.7; 1934. 12. The state had charge in both years after August, the Senator explained. Coy Refuses Comment Wayne Coy, director of the Government’s Unemployment Relief Commission, refused today to comment on Senator Frederick Van Nuy’s charges that relief costs had mounted sharply in Center Township under state administration of relief. Asked directly if he believed the Senator's statement might be another broadside in his political fight against Gov. Paul V. McNutt, Mr. Coy persisted in his refusal to discuss the matter.

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PUTNAM NAMED BUTLER_PREXY Dean Assumes Presidency of School He Has Served for 25 Years. An acting president today became an actual president as Dean James W. Putnam assumed the chief administrative post at Butler University. Named permanently to the office, which he had occupied temporarily on three different occasions since 1930, Dean Putnam was elected at a meeting of Lhe trustees late yesterday and his selection announced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, new Butler director, at a faculty dinner last night. Over the span of a quarter of a century, the new president has been identified with the Fairview school, joining Its faculty in 1909, and last serving as its acting president since Oct. 30, 1933, following the dismissal of the late Walter Scott Athearn. Coming to Butler as a professor of economics, Dean Putnam had previously served as an instructor at Illinois College, his alma mater; Northwestern University and the University of Missouri. He began his career as a pedagog as a school teacher at the age of 18, later receiving the master of arts degreo from Cornell University and the doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Wisconsin. Trustees attending the dinner last night included Hilton U. Brown, board chairman; Will G. Irwin, Columbus, Ind., and Judge Baltzell. Dr. Henry M. Gelston, English department head, acted as toastmaster and Dean Putnam when presented received a standing tribute from the applauding assembly. ‘‘We are all engaged in the furtherance of a common cause,” the new president said, ‘‘and the great' future of this institution will be realized if we all stand together and do our parts.” STOCKS STEADIER; TURNOVER IS LIGHT Resistance to Sales Shown in Early Trading. By Unit'd Prrxn NEW YORK. Jan. 12.—Stocks were steadier today after yesterday’s shakeout. Small selling orders depressed leaders fractionally, but resistance developed and volume shrank in the early trading. Traders who had thrown stocks overboard in the previous session on fears of an adverse Supreme Court decision on the gold clause took a more temperate view of the situation today. Some observers said the selling had been overdone, but the consensus was the market would I continue nervous until the court made known its decision. There weer small gains in various sections of the list, while lasses were held to small fractions in other instances. Many issues opened where they closed yesterday. ißv Thomson Sc McKinnon) 10 AM. Prev. N Y. close. Atchison SI SP, N Y Cent 19 19% Grt Northern 15', 15', Pennsylvania 22** 23 Gen Elec 21% 22 West Elec 38’, 38% Chrysler 38’,337,8 7 , Gen Motors 31 s , 31% Elec Auto Lite 25'* 28’, Briirs* 26’, 27% Bendix 15* 15 7 , Un Aircraft 13H 13*, Anaconda ll>, IP, Int Nickel 29>- 3 23% Allied Chem 134* 2 134% Dunont 94 % 94% Ohio Oil 10 9* SO of Calif 30 * 30' i 8O of Ind 24*, 24 5 , S O of N J 41 42% Am Rollin Mills 21% 21*, Bep Steel 14 14 U 8 Steel 37'* 37% Lori Hard 20% 20% Reynolds B 47 47*, AT&T 103% 103*, Cons Gas 21% 21*, West Union 32', 32 7 4 Armour s*, s*, Gen Foods 33*233 7 , Natl Dairy 18% IS'2 Stand Brands 17 7 , 17% Com Solvents 2l* 21*, Cetanese 32', 32 Am Radiator 14' 2 14% Johns-Msns 52*, 62% Mont Ward 27 7 ,.

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FAMED WOMAN FLIER SPEEDS OVERPACIFIC Expected to Land Some Time About Noon at Airport in Oakland. MOVING AT FAST RATE Aviatrix Averages 165-Mile Clip During First 8 1-2 Hours. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. —Hurtling eastward at an average speed of 165 miles an hour, Amelia Earhart Putnam, first woman to fly the Atlantic, sped through the last half of her solo flight across the Pacific today with chances of success heavily in her favor. As she passed the halfway point on her Honolulu-to-California flight, a tailwind arose to increase the speed of her highwing monoplane. A storm which had threatened to develop along the California coast held off, and weather bureau forecasts indicated that the skies will be clear and fair today. Miss Earhart’s destination is believed to be the Oakland airport on San Francisco Bay. She was sighted at 5:48 a. m. (Indianapolis time) by the U. S. Navy tanker Rampopo 1000 miles from the California coast. At that time she had come 1400 miles from Honolulu in a little more than eight and one-half hours. At her present speed. Miss Earhart should sight the California coast before noon, three hours ahead of the schedule she mapped out before kissing her publisher husband, George Palmer Putnam, an affectionate good-by and hopping off from Wheeler Field, Honolulu, at 9:13 p. m. last night. Reports Every Half-Hour Every half-hour through the flight her calm, fiat voice told of .he progress of her adventurous flight, the first ever attempted by a woman and the first by any flier alone. Each bulletin recorded briefly her altitude—ranging from 7000 to 15,000 feet and noted that she was flying through scattered clouds, or above a thick blanket of clouds, or through clear skies. When she flashed over the Ramopo. directly on the great circle route between the Hawaiian Islands and California, she was flying above a fog, the tanker reported to Navy Radio here. Miss Earhart gave no indications of her position. Evidently she was too busy with flying, navigation and broadcasting problems to observe how close to her destination she was. Radio stations listening for her voice noted that the clock on her plane apparently was two minutes slow. Aside from that everything was going ahead at clockwork precision. Clear Weather Reported At 7:30 a. m., the United States Weather Bureau in San Francisco broadcast a report indicating that clear weather prevailed along the entire coast and that visibility was “excellent.” Four United States cost guard cutters dashed westward to spread themselves along the path she will follow in the last lap of her flight. The cutters were the Shawnee, the Tahoe, Ariadne and Daphne. They put to sea at midnight. The S. S. Monterey, the Matson liner Maliko and other ships also lay along her path. Los Angeles and Oakland airports were ready to receive her. It was at Oakland that Sir Charlej Kings-ford-Smith landed Nov. 6 in the only previous attempt to span the Pacific from west to east. He made it in 15 hours in a slightly faster plane. Miss Earhart had given herself 18 hours, but it appeared he will reach her destination sooner. BALMY WEATHER TO * STAY FOR WEEK-END Temperature Drop Not Due Until Tomorrow Night, The springlike weather which has marked much of what is. officially winter will return to Indianapolis for most of this week-end, Federal Weather Bureau reports indicated today. J. H. Armington, Federal Meteorologist. predicted rain and warmer weather for tonight and tomorrow, with a drop in the temperature due tomorrow night. While he was predicting warmer weather, ths bureau’s thermometer showed a temperature of 33, one degree above freezing. At the Municipal Airport, where the reading frequently is lower, the official thermometer showed a temperature of 30. Times Index Bridge 4 Broun 7 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Editorial .6 Financial 10 Radio IS