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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
40 YEARS TAKEN OFF LIFE
BY WORLD TOUR ON ZEP,
DECLARES SWISS OFFICER

By United Pres

By United Press
Log of the rd-breaking
round-the-world fight of the
Graf Zeppelin, in eastern
standard time:
August Z
f1.40 P. M.-Left Lakehurst,
N. j., for Friedrichshafen, Ger
many.
August 10
7:02 A. M.-Arrived Fried
richshafen, 4,20O miles in SIS
hours % minutes.
August ID
1926 P. M.-Arrived Toxic,
$500 miles in 101 hours so
minutes.
August %
1:13 A. M.-Left Toxic for
Los Angeles.
August 26
8:35 A. M.-Landed at Mines
field, Los Angeles, about $500
miles in 70 hours % minutes.
August 27
3:15 A. M.-Left Los Angeles
for Lakehurst, N. J.
August %
1898 A. M.-Few over Kan
sas City.
5:24 P. M.-Reached Chicago.
9:39 P. M.-Passed over De-
troit.
Ill P. M.-Arrived over
Cleveland.
August 29
3:06 A. M.-Passed Belle
fonte, Pa.
6:01 A. M.-Sighted ap-
preaching New York; flew
south over city toward Lake
hurst.
6:52 A. M.-Sighted Lake
hurst, having completed trip
round the world in 21 days
7 hours IL minutes.
TOT A. M.-Landed at Lake
hurst.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Budgets for Schools and
County to Be Studied
by Committees.

In an effort to obtain large re-
ductions in the 1880 budgets of the
school city and county, officials of
three indianapolis civic organiza-
tions today began a detailed study
of proposed financial outlays. Under
present schedules the school tax
rate will be increased 80 cents and
the county levy will be boosted 21.5
cents.
Combined with a probable 7-cent
increase in the state tax levy for
1880, Center township taxpayers
stand to pay COS cents more on
each 500 worth of taxable property
than this year.
A federation of civic clubs COM
mittee, composed of Albert Feuer-
berg, Edward o. Snethen and Oscar
F. Smith, is working with the
Chamber of Commerce civic affairs
committee and the Indianapolis
Real Estate Board committee to OBJ
tain reductions.
The Indiana Taxpayers Associa-
ton will appeal the school city and
county budgets to the state tax
board, Harry Miesse, secretary, an
nounced.
A public hearing on the school
city levy of $134 will be held by
school officials at p. m. Sept. 10.
City council will meet in special
session tonight to pass the 1880 ap-
preparation ordinance, fixing the
levy at S1.10, the same as last year,
7-cent cut on the SLIT rate recon-
mended by Mayor L. Ert Slack and
City Controller Sterling r. Holt.
The town board of Woodruff Place
today announced the new tax rates
will be SLOT and the school tax 1872
cents, the same as last year. A
budget for the fiscal year totaled
S17,940, estimating surplus OF
$500 at the end of the year.
Woodruff Place pays Indianapolis
for police and fire protection and
city schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Called DraU,
One Pole Sitter Tired,
Another Cold, Third
Is Sleepy.

Black, gravel-covered embers of
two bonfres on the playground in
the rear of the South Side Turner's
hall, Prospect street and Madison
avenue, today remained as the only
monuments to "flagpole sitting
contest" that failed.
Three boys, John Graible, John
Walker and Lickel Lawrence, living
in the vicinity, today nursed sore
spots from their efforts to establish
a record for continued sitting on the
cross beam of a swing device at the
playground.
Friends gathered round early
Wednesday evening when the con-
test started to give the "sitters"
encouragement. But their enthusi-
asrn Jagged as the temperature
dropped, and only a few remained
to start an bonfire to warm the
"sitters."
Unsympathetic, j. A. Ward, GUS
todian of the hall, ordered the fire
extinguiShed. Cold again got the
better of the youths and their CO.
horts started another fire, which
Ward again ordered put out.
At II p. m. one sitter" was cold,
another hungry, and the third
sleepy, so they climbed down and
went home and to bed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
GAS STATION ATTENDANT
SHOT DOWN BY BANDITS

upward through the neck and
lodged in the left jaw.
Police today said they believed
the bandits were amateurs, and that
Smith was shot either through &C
cidental discharge of the weapon or
because the gunman's trigger finger
trembled nervously.
The pair drove large dark sedan
into the station at Enirichsville.
Neither got out. They ordered three
gallons of gas and rendered 81
bill i'll payment.
AS Smith turned to get their
change their command to "put 'em
up high" rang out. He started to
raise his arms and the gun ex-
ploded.
Smith crunpled to the pavement.
The bandit car roared away III the
direction of the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Passengers While Away
Time in Various Ways
on Trip.
BY G. B. WINSTEAD


NEW YORK, Aug. ga 60-year-
old retired Swiss army officer came
back to New York today after a
flight around the world on the Graf
Zeppelin and proudly announced
that forty years had been lifted
from his life by the eXllilaration Of
the fight.
His was but one of the interesting
stories told by returning voyagers.
Many have wondered just what the
passengers did while the Graf Yep
pelin sailed over the sparsely set
tied wastes of Siberia, ever the At
lantic and Pacific, over mountain
ranges and f1atlands.
That, too, was answered
One man made small maps Of the
country he passed over.
Another - Wealthy William B.
Leeds of New York-played the
gramophone.
A kings physician sought con-
stantly for a thrill and claimed he
found it in the historic voyage.
Lieutenant-Colonel Christoph Ise-
lin, the retired Swiss officer, was as
jubilant as a boy when he told of
the flight and how it had lifted the
years from his life.
II feel sure the next few years
will see a great amount of world
passenger and freight traffic car
ried by dirigibIes. They are espe-
cally useful in countries like my own
Switzerland, for we have no har-
bors," ISelin said,
1.-THE greatest thrill of the trip
for me came in Siberia. After we
had Travelled over the wastes for
two days without sightii- soul We
spied a little shack and outside it
was a man wildly waving greetings"
Leeds said he enjoyed the trip
immensely, and admitted that he
didn't cut his face "any more than
usual" while shaving.
Sir Hubert wilkins, the explorer,
said he enjoyed the trip, but was
glad it's over"
H. Geisenheyner, representative
of the Notwithstanding, got his
biggest thrill out Of passing over
Chicago.
81 never saw so many people in
such a small town" he declared.
H. Won Perkhammer, German
commercial photographer, returned
with more than nine hundred eX-
posed negatives. He recalled that
the Graf Zeppelin started its aerial
tiic across Siberia thirty-nine years
to the day after he began his first
rail journey across the same terri
tory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
RECEIVER is APPOINTED
FOR DEAD DOG TRACK
Barrett Woodsman Will Take
Charge of Club.

Barrett Woodsmall, member OF
the firm of H. H. Woodsmall 6. Co.,
Inc, insurance agents, today was
appointed receiver for the Indiana
Kennel Club, Ltd, by Superior
Judge Byron K. Elliott. The club,
urtil three weeks ago. operated a
dog track on the Allisonville road.
Suit for a receiver OF the dog
track was fled Aug. by Willard B.
Stuart, track employe. who claimed
he had not been paid wages since
May 4. Stuart also alleged the club
was in imminent danger Of in
solvency.
Trustees named in the action
we're Frank w. Young. trustee;
Ralph D. Lanius and A. c. Baxter,
track managers, and John j. Dar-
mody, club treasurer.
Track promoters inaugurated the
investment plan Of betting but this
was halter after one nights &C
tivities by court and police action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Plane Crashes Into Roof of
Factory, PeriIing Lives
of rs.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 29.-Lady
Mary Heath, first woman to do an
airplane loop and one of the pio-
neer women in aviation, was in
jured seriously today, when her
racing plane fell in banking and
imbedded itself in factory roof.
She was testing a plane she ex-
pected to use in a landing contest
and had gone up with Erwin Kirk,
a mechanic.
Their plane was at an altitude
OF only about sixty feet when sud-
denly it went out of control and
roared into the roof of a factory,
wherein Seventy-f1ve men were at
work It was with difficulty that
she was removed and she was un-
conscious when taken to a hospital.
Kirk was injured only slightly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
ALLIES Agree
TO EvACUATE
RHINELAND
Six Powers Reach Accord
on Greatest Problems
Left by War.
YOUNG PLAN ACCEPTED
Last Allied Soldier Will
Leave German Soil
by June 80.
YOUNG PLAN ACCEPTED
BY FREDERICK KUH
United Press staff Correspondent


THE HAGUE, Aug. 29.-Germany
and her former enemies agreed to-
day on a method of settling all
problems left by the World war.
The Young plan was accepted by
Britain, Belgium, France, Italy
Japan and Germany.
Britain, France and Belgium
promised to have the last allied SOL
dier out of the Rhineland by next
June 80.
Some financial questions were left
to be worked out, but they consti-
tuted mostly a question of method
and we're being adjusted rapidly
this afternoon.
Never since the dark days of 1914
has a greater spirit of neighborliness
been shown in Europe than was
demonstrated at the conference
table here today.
Here there is no conqueror and
no conquered" said Aristide BRAND
Of France, and his sentiments were
echoed by the representatives of the
other powers.
1t was agreed that the trouble
some, but minor problem of paying
the costs of Rhineland occupation
after Sept. until evacuation should
be worked out Immediately, and the
big Six" met at 4 p. m. to deal
with it.
The German spokesman informed
the United Press subsequently that
the problem had been settled, Ger
many and France to share the costs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
ALGER is REPORTED
NEAR INDIANA TOWN

and drove away in a Ford roadster
with yellow wire wheels. The AL
gers are wanted for the $3.50 rob-
berry of the Paris Crossing State
bank two weeks ago.
Mrs. Ebert said she had read
description of the pair and was
confident Of her Identification. State
police have run down tips from
cities in Indiana, Kentucky, Michi-
gan and Ohio without success
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Time FLIGHT
PLANE IS Due
indianapolis FIamingo to
Reach City Today.

indianapolis is scheduled to view
its entry for the worlds plane en-
durance record late today, When the
Indianapolis Flaningo is brought
from Cincinnati to Schoen field at
Ft. Benjamin Harrison.
The endurance flight ship is ex-
pected to circle the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument and the flight
headquarters, 622 Chamber of Com
nerce building at about 5 p. m.
Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and
Lawrence Genaro left in Douglas
plane today for Cincinnati to bring
the Flanlingo back.
The Falmingo's endurance flight is
set for early next week from Hoo
sier airport, according to Major
Hollis LIE Roy Muller, fight COM
mander.
Upon it's arrival here the plane
was to be taken to Schoen field,
painted, put through test flights un-
der re-fueling conditions.
A flight will be made to Dayton
for celebration of instruments.
The plane will fly to New York
and return without refueling, refuel
in Indianapolis and continue to Los
Angeles. The plane upon its COM
pletion of the west coast round trip
will remain aloft as long as possible
above Indianapolis.
The indianapolis FlaIningo" is an
all-metal monoplane, powered by a
Pratt & Whitney 425 horsepower
Wasp engine.
Lieutenant A. H. Perry of Dayton,
Robert Shank and Harold G. Brooks
are expected to aid in refueling at
Hoosier airport.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
WESTERN OIL
IS BOUGHT BY
SHELL FIRM
Purchase Involves Cash
Consideration of Sew
eraI Millions.
HEADQUARTERS MERGED
Offices, Warehouse and 213
Stations Transferred
in Huge Deal.

Purchase of the Western Oil Re-
flning Company, one of Indiana's
largest gasoline and filing station
companies, by the Shell Petroleum
Corporation, for a cash considera-
ton said to aggregate several mil
lion dollars, was announced today
by officials of the Western oil firm.
The transaction involves the
offices and main warehouse of the
Western Oil Company, its forty-five
branch bulk stations and 213 filling
stations throughout Indiana and
Ohio, including f1fty-six Indian
apoliS stations.
Officials described the sale as the
largest real estate and property
deal in Indianapolis in several years.
They said it compares with acquisi-
ton of the Merchants Heat and
Light Company several years ago
by the indianapolis Power and
Light Company.
To Combine Headquarters
Headquarters of the companies
will be combined. Heretofore, the
Shell firms headquarters have been
at 2219 West Michigan street and
the Western Oil Company offices
have been at 80 North Meridian
street.
The Western firm built the first
auto service filling station in the
state. This is located at Fall Greek
boulevard and Meridian street and
was followed by the erection of large
downtown service stations and other
branches over the city and state.
Negotiations for the sale were
made while j. H. Trimble, president
of the Western company, was tour
ing Europe, and were handled by
Lucius French, secretary. During
completion of negotiations, French
and Trirnhle held two conversations
by trans Atlantic radio telephone.
One call was made to Trinble at
Paris and the other to Berlin.
Several Offers Made
French and w. H. Trimble, treas
urer, stated that several offers Tor
the western company had been re-
ceived during the last few years.
They said that due to the expansion
of the company in the last eight
years it had been necessary to pur-
chase gasoline from other firms, and
that contact was established with
the Shell organization in that man
ner.
j. H. Trimble, French, w. H.
Trimble and R. E. Trimble, the
company's officers, will continue to
be associated with the new organi-
zation, they said.
The transaction did not include
the purchase of stock in the Trimble
Realty Company, which controlled
several business sites adjoining fill
ing station properties.
j. H Trinble organized the West
ern Oil Refinining Company in 1910.
Charles o. Roemler, Indianapolis
attorney, represented the Western
company in the transaction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
FIND BODY IN HOUSE
Man Dies of Heart Disease
in Vacant Building.

Fred Baker, 58, of 217 North
Holmes street, was found dead in a
vacant house at sos West Chesa-
peake street early today.
Deputy Coroner o. H. Bakemeier
said death was due to heart disease,
and that Baker died about six hours
before Mrs. Fannie Starks, Negro,
proprietor of restaurant at 100
South West street, passed the house
and saw him on the floor.
A widow survives him.
Eugene Jenkins, SIS, Negro, 753
Indiana avenue, was found dead in
his bed early today. Deputy Coroner
L. A. Lewis said he died from al
coholism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
CHINESE PEACE NEAR
Situation Held Promising by
U. S. Observers.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The
Russo-C Chinese situation was de-
scribed as promising by the state
department today. Department
officials said it appeared that Russia
and China were establishing direct
negotiations over their controversy
involving the Chinese Eastern rail-
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
CeIebrate Pavement Opening

A street carnival and fair will
celebrate the opening of the new
pavement on South Elder avenue
from Washington street to the Big
Four railroad tonight. Refreshments
and entertainment will be provided
by the Washington Presbyterian
church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29

Detectives, with only meager
clews, today set about to track down
two nervous" gunmen who Wednes-
day night held up a filling station
attendant, and shot him in the
back before he could obey their COM
mand to stick 'em up!"
The attendant, Samuel Smith, 80,
of 1923 West North street, is in
a critical condition, city hospital
attendants say. The bullet entered
between the shoulder blades, ranged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29

The search for Gene Alger, 21,
state reformatory parole violator,
and his wife Josephine, alleged bank
bandits, was accelerated today after
police received a report that the
couple was near Jamestown, Ind,
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Lawrence Ebert, roadhouse
operator. State Road "a, said the
couple stopped there Tor q meal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
HUGE OIL DEAL ON
Standard to Increase Stock
100000 Shares.

Notice of increase Of 3,00o,0 900
shares in the stock outlay of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
was today filed with Secretary Of
State Otto G. Fifeld. The increase
will boost the company's stock value
SIS. .0OO. 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
MUNCIE MAN ELECTED
National Letter Carriers Choose
z. j. Gainor.

BV United PFCSs
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 29.-E. j.
Gainor of Muncie, Ind, was unani-
mously reelected president here to-
day of the National Association Of
Letter Carriers in the twenty
seventh annual convention.
The entire slate Of national officers
Eas reelected With GaiR06
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
MUSIC HOUSE BANKRUPT
Radio, TaIkies Drive Well-Known
Publishers Out of Business.

3p United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Ths ia
NOUS music publishing house of
Paterson, Berlin & Snyder. today
filed in federal court a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy.
Irving Berlin, at one time a men,
ber of the firm, was not associated
with it in recent years.
Radio and the talking pictures
were given as causes for the down.
fall of the concern.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Americans Urged to Move

BU United Press
TEL-AVIV. Aug. 29.-The United
States consul here today advised all
Americans in this region to move
nearer the sea in event of any ne
cessity of embarking on warship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29

hOHdulIneOan ARABS unlCeQ IN at
tacking Zionists. The famous
mosque of Omar, in Jerusalem,
near the Wailing Wall, was bombed,
the advices said.
By United Press
PARIS. Aug. "a column of $500
BedouinS and Druses is marching
against Jerusalem from the desert,
the United Press was informed to-
day by excellent Syrian sources.
Syrian leaders here were in
formed that a Bedouin-Druse move
ment has been started by Sultan
Atrashe, famous Druse chieftain
and leader Of the latest revolt, since
which he has been hiding in the
desert.
Atrashe is the idol of his peo-
pie and an accomplished military
leader on the order of Abd-El-K -Krin,
famed Riff warrior. He is seizing
the opportunity presented by the
present disturbances to emerge and
seek vengeance.
Atrashe is not animate by anti
Jewish feelings, his senti aents be-
ing violently anti-Europ. an, par
ticularly hatred of the Bril- sh and
French. The Syrian sour les her
said he is marching on Jti'us~iern
at the head of 1000 Bedouins, sup
ported by 300 Druses, all hard riders,
good riflemen and absolutely fear
less. They fight until killed.
Fear General Uprising
Rioting and bloodshed continued
unabated in Palestine today, and it
was feared that a general Moslem
uprising against British and French
rule in Asio Minor might occur if
the trouble is not checked.
Demonstrations were occurring in
Syria, where Moslem feeling rapidly
was becoming infiamed. A fatal
clash took place in Damascus.
A dispatch from Vatican City said
reports to the Pope confirmed the
seriousness of the situation, which
1t was feared would become worse
if the menace of a march Of the
Druses against Palestine is not
checked.
Sheik Hafiz Wahba, counsellor to
King Ibn Saud of the Hedjaz, in a
statement to the United Press urged
the appointment of a neutral indie
pendent commission of non-JewS
and non-ArabS to investigate thor
oughly the claims of both sides. He
warned against armed intervention.
Massacre Survivors Return
New and dangerous" Arabic
movements were reported today
from Sinai and the peninsular sec
tions of the trans-Jordan.
The amir. Abdullah Ibn Husseh,
Is taking all precautions to prevent
al uprising similar to those in other
sections of the Palestine.
Meanwhile, survivors Of the He
bron massacre returned to Tel-Avir
today and reported that fifteen car
loads of dead and wounded were
taken to Jerusalem Saturday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
SN0WDEN LAUDS WIFE

British Chancellor Credits Her With
Victory.
By United Press
LONDON, Aug. 29.-It was re-
vealed for the first time today that
a woman played an important part
in the reparations conference at
The Hague, and perhaps contributed
directly to the agreement.
The Star. in a telephonic inter-
view with Philip Snowden, British
chancellor of the exchequer, at The
Hague, quoted Snowden as saying
If England is pleased, so am I. ]
set myself task. 1t was not an easy
one. Without the help of my wife,
] could never have achieved it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Aged Woman Dies

BIZ Times SpecidI
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Aug, 90
Mrs. o. w. Conley, 80, is dead at
the home of her son, William. Other
children are John w. Conley, Gin
cinnati; DR.. A. L. Conley, India
napolis, Frank v. Conley, Arcadia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
Bow Falls Off Barn Roof

Michael Lynch Jr., 10, of 1923
East Ohio street, was cut and
bruised on the head and shoulders
when he fell twenty feet from the
roof of a barn on which he was
playing Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
GROUPS UNITE TO FIGHT
6O.5-CENTTOTAL CENTER
TOWNSHi9 TAX INCREASE
VETERAN ACTOR is ILL
Raymond Hitchcock Taken From
Train at Kansas City,

BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. o.
Raymond Hitchcock, veteran musi-
cal comedy star and actor, 81 years
old, was removed from a train and
taken to a hospital here Wednesday
night when he became i'll from a
heart attack while en- route from
Colorado Springs to the east.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
U. S. CONSUL is SUICIDE
Envoy Hangs Self at Montreal, State
Department Is Informed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-HaroId
M. Deane, Providence, r. l., United
States consul at Montreal COM
mitted suicide Wednesday by hang
ing himself, the state department
was informed today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
DAMAGE ROLL AWARD
APPEALED IN COURT
Complaint Asks Judgment of $500
From Public Works Board.

From Public Works Board.
Property damage awards made by
the board of public works for the
widening Washington boulevard at
Twenty-ninth street have been ap-
pealed in two suits on file today in
circuit court.
Plaintiffs in the first action are
Alvin NJ. and Mary E. Carpenter
and Perry r. and Nelva E. SylveS-
ter, while the second was filed by
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Leggitt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
300 DIE IN INDIA FLOOD

Reports From British India Indi-
cate Large Death Toll.
By United Press
KARACHI, British India, Aug. 90.
Reports here today said that 800
persons had been killed as result
Of the food of the River Indus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-29
GRAF Yep ENDS WORLD
TOUR IN RECORD Time;
LEAVES AGAIN SATURDAY
King of the Skies, Trailing
Damaged Rudder, Lands
at Lakehurst.
REPAIR WORK is RUSHED
Thousands Watch Giant of
Air as 1t MaieStiCaIIy
Sails to Goal.

(Reoords beaten by Yep detailed on PsEe
One, Section Two.)