The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 August 1936 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNPjR, GREEN(’ASTLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.

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ALSO _ I'OBEYK CARTOON AND I.AI (ills & FLASHES

rENNSMA WIA SLOW TO ERASE TOLL ROADS

built the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, was formed in 1792, There was a turnpike boom until 1880. after which time the state gradaully usurped the entire highway system.

HARRISBURG, Pa. 'UP'-Few of

the many motorists who drive over Pennsylvania's 38,000-mile ribbon of highways today realize that in 1830 1 there were 2,r>00 miles of private toll

roads in the Commonwealth. Last of these privately owned rotds

were eliminated only six years ago. j ThP statp so f t ball tourney will get loll toads, usually termed turnpikes i underway next week in various secbeeause of the piked barriers restrict- tional centers. Grecncastle will be the ing travel on privately owned toll sectional center for teams from Put-

TOURNEl SENT WEEK

roads in the isth and 19th centuries, were created after the Revolutionary

War.

nam, Parke and Vermillion counties. Entries close at noon tomorrow and according to Marion Crawley, the lo-

Tho first toll road company, which cal schedule will be drawn in the af-

ternoon. AH Putnam teams interested in the tourney are asked to get in touch with Crawley before Saturday | noon. Indications are that several | teams from the three designated i counties will compete. FRANCE SPONSORS AIR \IAR \- TIION, PARIS TO INDO-CHIN.V PARIS. (UP) The longest and ■ most arduous race in the history of [ aviation. 13,629 treacherous miles from Paris to Saigon in French Indochina. will start from 1^ Bourget airport at dawn Oct. 25. with filers of a dozen nations competing for nearly $80,000 in prizes. The race will be under the joint sponsorship of the Aero Chib of France and the Aero Club of Indochina. The aerial “sporting code” of the Federation Aeroautnque Internationale will he used, according to the French air ministry. The air ministry announced that at the conclusion of the gruelling contest it will buy the winning plane, preserving it as a means of encouraging high speed design. Entries have been received from British, French. German and Italian aviators and negotiations are underway to induce two of America’s outstanding pilots Col. Roscoc Turner and Capt. James G. Haizlip to enter The entry fee is $339, of which half will be handed over to the winner of the race. The route of the contest will be by way of Paris, Baghdad. Allahabad. Siagon and return by way of Allahabad. Baghdad, Cairo and Paris. The first leg of the long flight will be the most gruelling. 2.392 miles from Paris to Baghdad. The next stage, Baghdad te Allahabad, is only 92 miles shorter and the stretch from Allahabad to Saigon measures 1,930

miles.

On the return trip the fliers will make a hop of 798 miles from Baghdad to Cairo and one of 1,995 from Cairo to Paris. The contestants will be required to halt at the charted control points but may stop off at between points if necessary. If, however, they do not make the first leg Paris to Baghdad in non-stop flying they must make one of the other full legs on the way to Saigon non-stop. Gasoline tanks will be sealed at Paris. Baghdad and Allahabad by representatives of the Aero Club of Fiance and there will be officials along the route at intermediate points to care for planes which may land between the control points for refueling. Each plane will carry two

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Rustlers are again riding the trails in the southwest. But the 1936 model of rattle-raider is a small-time racketeer who wears store clothes ami operates with a truck. Ho and his accomplices, like th* rustlers of yesteryear, go into action at night. They spot a likely looking hinl. drive their truck to a secluded spot, “cut out'' a portion of the herd, and load them onto the truck. They then drive to some distant hideaway, slaughter and dress the beeves, and take them to n srket the next morning, thus disposing of the evidence. Hundreds of thefts have been reported in the southwest and scores of convictions obtained.

sealed barographs, one official and one as a check The contest nits will he required to report at Le Bourget three days before the schedule start and their planes must carry certificates of navigability. The pilots will he required to have transport licenses or European "tourisme” or cross-coun-try permits. Furthermore, each plane must carry a two-way radio set either of the code type or voice

type.

Not more than two fliers will be allowed in a plane hut there is no objection t" solo entrants pro vising

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an automatic or “robot” pilot is carried. So strict are the rules that every pilot will be weighed-in on the morning of the take-off to mane sure that he does not weigh more than 176 pounds, the maximum. The entire 13,629 mile:; must he covered in 90 hours including an allowance of 4 hours for 8rest at Saigon. On arrival at Saigon a plane will be allowed one-hour refuelling and check-up of mechanical parts. It then will be impounded in an enclosure flanked by guards for whatever portion of the 48-hour rest period the

pilot choses to remain at Saigon. Another hour for further checkup will be allowed before start of the returnr trip. Any plane which fails to report at the fixed control points along the route or which docs not return to Paris within 12 days of the takeoff will be disqualified. A member of the crew of any competing plane can be replaced only once during the entire race. Distinctive colors have been assigned to the planes entered from various nations. Then French entries for instance will have the'r surfaces

painted bright blue fne planes will b( . . I ones white and the Italian pluj No color has been assigned I American entries yet. In addition to the speed! handicap contest will be staid the same course onen only 3 motor transport planes eapj flying with full load ana om| engine at an altitude of not la 6.500 feet. Th< . I least 621 miles with a ".indf miles an hour force Theymal a payload of at v;et 771 pint two man crew will be allo.vedl

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Stunned by the shock of her husband's tragic death plunge fr° n ' Seattle Wash building. Mrs Marion Zioncheck, widow of the playboy of congress'', was forced to depend for support on h<>r tei. Mrs Jesse Stitt of Blytheville. Ark., and Coroner Otto M)' etadt, after viewing her husband s body, above.