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and wires were leveled in the same
locality when the twister swept on
wards toward the downtown section.
1t had exhausted itself, however,
by the time it reached. the business
district.
The twister was the forerunner
of a December.like tstorm. which
lashed Columbus last night. Snow
flurries whipped through town. dis
rupting traffic and doing consider.
able damage to crops in nearby
farming areas.
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. May
3 Q.N.S0.--Coast guardsmen and
police today were searching waters
of the southern tip Of Lake Michi-
gan near here for a biplane seen
to dive into the lake during rain
and sleet storm.
A lighthouse tender reported that
the plane, flying low, suddenly
dipped into the waves and van
ished. choppy water has hindered
the search.
The plane apparently was priv.
ately owned as a check-up re-
vealed that no air mail flyers
operating in this section were miss
.. .
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moreland county brought heavy
damage to farm and fruit crops, tore
down buildings, endangered the
lives of scores of motorists and in
duced the death of Fred Gentsch,
l6, from heart trouble. Gentsch was
working in a baking plant at Her.
mimic when the storm struck with
terrific force, and the shock is be-
lieved to have caused his death.
New Alexandria and Mt. Pleasant
were hit hard by the furious winds.
Eight buildings were heavily dam
aged at the former place, and in Mt.
Pleasant four houses were blown
over, A dozen injured were being
cared for today
Telephone poles blown across
roads endangered motorists and
others escaped death or serious in
jury when the storm turned cars
over or swept them around on the
highways.
Morgantown and Clarksburg,
w. Va, also felt the force of the
elements, with windows smashed,
trees uprooted and crops damaged.
Harrisburg and other sections of
central and eastern Pennsylvania to-
day wepe checking up on damage
done by high winds and rain that
swept those sections Of the State.
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Father, Twin Daughters
Killed, Mother Injured,
When Home Blows Away

NOKESVILLE, Va, May g.
Three members of a family were
instantly killed last night when
their home was demolished by the
tornado which swept this section
of Virginia. A fourth member of the
family lies seriously injured in
Fauquier county hospital at War
renton.
Charles Allen, about so. and his
twin daughters, 16 years old, were
killed Mrs. Allen was rushed to
the hospital, suffering from internal
injuries. shock and possible frac.
ture of the skull.
A man named Laws, believed to
be a worker on Aliens farm, was
also killed in the crash of the
home.
News of injuries and damages in
the rural section around this town
is coming in very slowly. The only
telephone circuit in working order
is to Washington and trees and
other debris have the highways
blocked.
Besides Mrs. Allen, eight other
persons injured in the storm last
night were taken to the Warren.
ton Hospital. Some Of the eight are
said to be suffering from serious
injuries.
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Washington awoke today to find
that the city had weathered the
high winds and rain storm with
but slight damage.
The wind will blow hard from
the northwest ali day and will
probably die away tonight, the
Weather Bureau said. Later in
the day 1t may rain.
Trees and electric power wires
suffered the greatest damage during
the storm. Police reported that
approximately 100 trees had been
hurled to the ground or badly
damaged by the gale.
Trouble crews of the Potomac
Electric Power Company worked
feverishly all night untangling
power lines torn down by falling
trees and by the high wind.
Two Persons Injured
Only two persons were injured
during the storm, Edward Noland,
IA, of the $500 block wisconsin
Ave. N W.. and Preston King, 13,
of the 2700 block Wisconsin Ave.
N. w.. touched a trolley pole
charged with electricity at Fulton
and Garfield Streets. They were
thrown to the ground by the shock
and were taken to their homes and
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were As children attending the school
at the time the "twister" struck.
The Baptist and Episcopal
Churches were completely demol-
ished and the Methodist Church
was blown from its foundation.
Invalid Escapes
Mrs. Emily Bolts, i'll and confined
to her bed, escaped from death or
serious injury when the wind blew
her house down, leaving her bed
room standing while the rest of the
house was scattered for hundreds
of yards.
The homes of r. M. Johnson, F.
L. Pulliam, and the Misses Updyke
were demolished. No injuries were
reported here. The estate of r. w.
Miller, half a mile beyond Wood
vile, was badly damaged.
Meager reports reaching here in
dicate that the mountain streams
throughout the county are bank
full and overflowing and blocked
roads into the section.
Woodville is deep in the noun
tains about miles from Sperry.
vile.
The storm followed the route of
the Southern railroad. At Catlett,
20 miles north of here, number
of dwellings, were unroofed and
twisted from their foundations. Sew
eral persons were brought to Cul-
peper for medical treatment.
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Three Killed, Many Injured,
As Wind Hits LGytOnsUiIIe, Md.

Three persons are dead and sew
eral others injured as a result of
= terrific storm that swooped down
upon Laytonsville, Md, last night.
Laytonsville Is about five miles
from Gaithersburg.
The dead are:
Mrs. Bowie Childs, 80 years old.
Florence Childs, s years old.
Hampton Childs, Is years old.
The storm demolished the home
of Bowie Childs, 50-year-old
farmer near Laytonsville. All Of
the dead and injured were re-
moved from the house.
The injured are:
Bowie Childs, fractured arm, lacer.
atiOns, bruises AID other injuries.
Fielder Childs. q 2O-year-old son,
bruises and shock.
Bowie Childs' wife, shock and
decorations.
James Leizear, an employe Of
Childss suffering from bruises and
shock.
The house was demolished about
3 o'clock last night, but it was not
until almost o'clock this morning
that all Of the bodies Of the dead
had been removed.
Hampton Childs, the son who
died, was taken from the wreckage
suffering from @ fractured skull
and other injuries and died at the
Montgomery County General Hos
pita1, Sandy Spring, Nd, at s
o'clock this morning.
All of the injured are in the
County General Hospital, where they
are being treated by DR.. ]. w. Bird,
ne bodies of the dead are at
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under the apple blossom tree, their
old trysting place, and the fact that
Peacox went back and garroted his
victim to make sure.
Although the young radio me.
chanic, who faces the electric chair
for the confession of his crime, lost
one friend he gained another.
Stanley Hart, another boyhood
chum, met Peacox while detectives
were taking him over the trail OF
the crime.
I'm with you." said Hart.
Later young Hart said:
"I blame Dorothy for all of
Earle's troubles.
Drugs Play Part
Peacox, amateur scientist and
criminologist, conducted experiments
with drugs, it was learned today.
An investigation is under way to
determine If this penchant had any
connection with the crime.
The finding Of a desecrated burial
vault one-half mile from the Peacox
home in Mt. Vernon suggested the
possibility to police that the young
murderer planned at one time to
dispose of the body of his slain wife
in this vault.
A pair Of blood-stained gloves was
reported found near the vaults
door which had been forced open.
Frances Newman Murray, one of
Peacox's sweethearts, was still held
as a material witness. The MUIR
derer planned that she should be
his alibi witness but authorities abb
solved her of any connection with
the crime.
Authorities are planning further
efforts to adduce evidence that would
show Peacox was acting with pre-
meditation and full knowledge of his
crime when he killed his pretty young
wife.
A trip to the scene of the crema-
tion was followed by silence on the
part of Capt. Michael Silverstein,
who refused to divulge whether, in
his opinion, evidence of premedita-
tion against Peacox had been
strengthened.
Brother WithdrawS
What had promised to be brother
versus brother courtroom drama was
dispelled today when Robert E.
Dempsey, PeekskiIl attorney, an
nounced he would not act as trial
counsel for Peacox.
Roberts brother, James E. Demp.
sey. jr., is an assistant district at
torney in the office of District At
torney Frank A. Coyne, who has an
nounced he will move for an early
trial for Peacox when the evidence
against the accused man is presented
to the grand jury on Monday.
1t is believed that Peacox plans a
self-defense plea and will fight on
this ground to save himself from the
electric chair.
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One Dead and Damage
Running to a Million
Done i'm PENNSYLVANIA

PITTSBURGH, May Q.N.S).-
One death, uncounted injuries and
an estimated $1,000,000 property loss
was the toll enacted from Pennsyl-
vania by wind and rain storms which
ripped through the State yesterday.
A miniature tornado, sweeping the
Indian Creek valley near Connells-
vile, left in its wake seven injured,
scores suffering from minor hurts
and damage mounting to 100000.
The general store and 10 other build.
ings at Davistown were demolished;
A bridge was swept away and homes
unroofed throughout the section.
Cyclonic winds ripping through
the south and east portions of West.
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ing the night when trees fell across
the tracks. Wreck crews were held
in readiness and chopped the trees
away as soon as they blocked the
lines.
Six tents were blown down at the
Tourists Camp in Potomac Park.
Several families were drenched try
ing to save their scattered belong
ings.
Window Blown Out
A plate glass window was blown
out of the second floor Of Lans-
burgh's department store.
The fire department was kept
busy all night chopping passage
ways through big trees blocking the
streets.
Superintendent of trees, Clifford
Lanham, will start an intensive
survey today to determine how
many trees were damaged and are
in need of repair. Small branches
Uttered every street in the city.
Trees UprOOted
Trees were reported uprooted at
the following locations in the north.
| west:
Thirty.one hundred block Chain
Bridge Rd.; Twenty.sixth and F
Sts.; Virginia Ave. and G St.;
Twenty-fourth and G Sts.; Nine.
teenth and E Sts.; Eighteenth and
G Sts.; Eighteenth ST., and Virginia
Ave; Seventeenth St., near c ST.;
Nineteenth and Z Sts.: 300 block
Fourteenth St.; Ogden and Oak
Sts.: Thirteenth ST., and Spring
Rr.: Howard and Reservoir Rds.;
3400 block Fourteenth ST.; Klingle
and Adams Sts.; Rock Greek Ford
Rd.. near Nebraska Ave; New
Jersey Ave, and F ST.: 700 block
Sixth ST.; Third and C Sts.; Second
and D Sts.; 400 block Third ST.;
First and C SITS; Third ST.. and
Pennsylvania Ave; 200 block c
ST.; Swami and Fourteenth SITS;
Champlain st. and Kalomara Rd.
k22OO block Champlain St.; Nine.
teenth ST., and Oregon Ave-; Nine.
teenth and r SITS; B and Four.
teenth Sts.; Twelfth and K SITS;
2400 block Chain Bridge Rd.: Foxall
and Hawthorne SITS; 5000 block
Cathedral Ave. and Twentieth ST.,
near r.
Trees were blown down at the
following locations in the south
west:
Eighth and 1 Streets; 400 block
Eighth Street; Eighth Street, near
F and 200 block Tenth st.
In the southeast:
Eleventh and G Streets; 800 block
/ ST.; 500 block Eighth ST.; Eleventh
and d. and 500 block Sixth st.
| In the northeast:
Seventeenth st. and Benning
Road; 100 block Second St.; first
block Third Street; 800 block C St.;
Fourth st. and Massachusetts, Ave;
Fourth Street and Maryland Ave
nue.; Second Street, near l Street,
and 700 block E st.
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many parents hurried away with
their children soon after the dis
aster.
A house-to-house canvass of farm
homes throughout the l0-mile radius
Of sparsely settled country will be
started today to determine if all
children are accounted for.
With all lines of communication
interrupted, newspapermen were
forced to relay their reports, and
for time wild rumOrs were afloat
as to the magnitude o. the human
toll taken by the twister.
Rye Cove is ALMOST inaccessible.
It is situated in the mountains sew.
eral miles from Natural Tunnel. Aid
from nearby towns has been sent
and all possible doctors and nurses
in the territory are making or have
made their way to the scene of the
tragedy.
Other buildings Suffer
Beside the schoolhouse a number
of other structures were de-
molished. Several homes are said
to have suffered from the storm
and a number Of barns were
wrecked.
Approximately 400 pupils attend
the school it was declared.
The telephone operator here, who
has been in contact with the scene
of the catastrophe says she was
told the building was struck by
lightning as it was being de.
molished by the storm.
All bodies of the dead and the
injured have been removed from
the wreckage, she was told.
A great amount OF damage to
communicative apparatus was done
by the storm. The telephone and
telegraph communication into the
little village was completely severed.
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dead, injured, and missing.
Two persons were killed. nine
were injured and six prisoners are
missing.
First reports of the tragedy, which
occurred about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, put the number of dead
at six, and said that 81 prisoners
had fled when the near.tornado
demolished their place of confine-
ment.
More than 200 prisoners were in
the cell block in the wing, when
the twister descended upon the
bastile. Both the east and west
walls toppled outward, which was
declared fortunate as a greater
number of persons would have been
buried if the tons of bricks had
fallen inward upon the occupants.
All of the killed and injured
were serving minor terms for
drunkenness or traffic violations.
The dead are: Deril Devore, 3S,
and Henry Washington, At, negro.
Otto Malotti. 81. is expected to
die.
A filling station was demolished,
small houses were uprooted, trees
were uprooted and telephone poles
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SINCLAIR To co
To JAIL ON
MONDAY

Whether Harry r. Sinclair, multi.
millionaire oil magnate, will be sent
to the District work farm at Occo-
guam, Va, to make bricks and do
some farm work, or whether he viii
spend three months in comparative
idleness at the city jail was ques-
tion that had local authorities ap-
parently in a quandry today.
The Welfare Board Of the District
of Columbia washed its hands of
the matter by announcing that it
would make no decision.
Apparently this leaves it up to
the jail authorities.
Coming Monday
When Sinclair surrenders himself
Monday, he will be questioned
about his health and put through q
physical examination. II his physi-
cal condition is normal, he probably
will be sent to Occoquan for manual
labor about the farm; II not, he
probably win be incarcerated for 80
days in the District Jail where the
principal labor Is keeping the cells
and corridors clean.
In any event, the oil magnate's
associates will be the usual run of
prisoners-bootlegg petty thieves,
alcoholic inebriates, and chronic Of.
tenders, both white and black.
Evasion At An End
Sinclair is expected to present
himself to the U. s. Commissioners
here on Monday. The papers in his
case will be inundated to the clerk
of the District Supreme Court to-
morrow, marking the end of the
25-day period since the U. 8. Su.
preme Court found him guilty Of
contempt of the Senate and at
firmed his sentence.
George p. Hoover, counsel for the
oil magnate, has notified District
authorities his client will no longer
seek to evade the sentence.
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run between 100000 and $4OO, 700.
Alexandria claimed in its petition,
which was filed in December. 1927,
that it needed the additional terri
tory for it's natural development.
The city asserted that it must have
more space for residential develop
ment as well as business improve
ment.
The county will be dealt the
hardest blow in the loss of revenue
from the Potomac Yards. This
amounts to thousands of dollars a
year and is returned to the county
for virtually no service rendered, as
the railroads police the section
themselves and also provide fire
fighting equipment.
The territory includes, virtually
all of the jefferson magisteIial dis
trict, one of the three comprising
the county.
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George Barber's funeral parlors. at
Laytonsville, Md.
Fire departments from Gathers
burg, Sandy Spring and Rockville
answered to the appeal for help and
aided in removing the dead and in
jured from the wreckage and in
Transporting the injured to the hos
pital at Sandy Spring.
Apparently the disaster at Lay
louisville was the only serious dam
age done in that district The torn
did slight damage when it blew down
many trees in the district, some of
them blocking the roads.
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Woman Killed When
Twister Sweeps Down
On Harmony Grove, Md.

HARMONY GROVE Nd, May
8 u,N,S.l-One woman was killed,
half a dozen persons were injured,
and thousands of dollars property
damage was caused by the terrific
twister that swept up out of Vir.
ginia and struck this little com.
munity late last night.
Mrs. John ]. Shanks was killed
when the storm unroofed and al'
most demolished her home. Her
husband was injured, as were half
a dozen neighbors whose homes
also were struck.
The peak of the storm lasted but
little more than Is minutes In
that time, however, dozens Of
houses and barns were unroofed
and torn from their foundations,
orchards uprooted. and telephone
lines put out of commission,
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broadcasting apparatus attached.
They supposed that the reds ring
leaders directed the riots from this
automobile.
Socialist party headquarters ap-
pealed to the workers mot to
permit themselves to be misused by
bankrupt COMMUNISTS who need a
few corpses to get new basis OF
agitation, and. therefore, mobilized
the 'slum proletariat'."
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TALKS ON BOTANY

Ernst Artschwager, I ri S
Drechsler and Victor F. Tapke, will
give brief illustrated botanical talks
before the Washington Botanical
Society, in the assembly room OF
the Cosmos Club. next Tuesday
night at s o'clock.
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70 DEAD AND 228 HURT
IN ONE CATASTROPHE;
SOME IN DEBRIS
Continued
hyserical fear from the schoohouse, reduced to
matchwood.
Parents Rush to Tragic Scene

Despite the immediate and complete of
munication parents from outlying sections where most
of the children lived quickly learned of the disaster and
within short time arriving at the in monde
script conveyances ranging from ancient automobiles to
farm wagons.
Arnbuances from Kingsport, Bristol, Gate City and
of separating those beyond aid the living begun
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The IL dead Schoolgirls and the
teacher were laid to one side and am
bulance surgeons supervised the
hasty loading of 3S of the most dan
gerously hurt onto a Southern Rail-
way train at Clinchport.
Tracks were cleared fox the train
and it sped over clear tracks into
Bristol, where the sufferers were
rushed to hospitals. Six of the chill
dren, taken to Bristol, werN reported
near death.
Four others were placed in
ambulances at Rye Cove and taken
to Kingsport, Tenn, where one
was reported dying. Doctors and
private families at Clinchport opened
their homes to 36 others and
scores Of seriously injured students
by parents in the first moments of
relief over finding their children
alive. .
The 15 known dead are:
AVIS RUNYON, grade school
teacher.
JAMES CARTER, Ia.
POLLY Career, IA.
AVA CAREER, IL.
RUTH cox, 18.
MILLIE STONE, IA.
NORMA FLETCHER, IA.
BERNICE FLETCHER, 5.
JANE Career. IA.
LILLIAN LONE, !.
WAVE FRANKLIN, 12.
BERTHA DARENELL.
MAE DARNELL.
DELLA BISHOP, IL.
MISS - BISHOP, IA.
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Check-up Delayed

Officials estimated that a com.
plete check-up of the injured will
not be available for at least day
and a half, due to the factthat en-
rollment records We're destroyed and
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2 Killed, 9 Hurt, s Prisoners
Escape As Jail Is Wrecked

COLUMBUS Ohio May 3GNs3 yesterday
of
suited
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Official Program
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FIRST RACE
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T0DAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NationaI-"Sq Crooks" comedy
melodrama, at 2:20 and 800 pm.
Belasco-"Chauve Souris," Balieff's
revue, at 2:30 and $50 pm.
Blossom Time" operetta. at
$40 pm.
Strand-"Merry Whirl," burlesque, at
ais and S:15 pm.
Rialto-"Show Boat" photoplay. at
2, 4;3O, Z and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Voice of the Citv" at
IL am, 1:l5,. $3.50. $40, 8 and lO:l5
pm.
FOx-"True Heaven" at 1920, 2:45.
4:45, 8 and 10 pm.
Earle Nothing but the Truth" at
1885 am, lao, $40, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Little Theater-"S hiraz," from IL
am. to IL pm.
Metropolitan-"Close Harmony" at
1880 am, 1910, 2:30, 4:22, 6:l2. s:04
and 9:57 pm.
Columbia-"The Iron Mask" at 1925
am. 1:20. 3;15, 5:1o, 7:25 and CPS
pm.
Ambassador Party" at 6:15,
sos and Gas pm.
Tivoli-" Show Folks" at 2, 3:55, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
Central-"The Spieler," at 1880, 2.
$3.50, 5, $50, and $50 pm.
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CADETS TO STAGE
DRILL TOMORROW
Competition for Cups and
Medals to Be Held at
Wilson Stadium.

The annual regimental competitive
drill of the Washington High School
Cadets of Divisions l to g. .ill be staged
IN the Wilson Stadium at 3 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, at which time four
regiments of the corps will compete
for the school officials gold medal
and silver cup offered by the military
instructors in the school system.
Following the drill awards earned by
cadets in previous events will be pre-
sented by Stephen E. Kramer, first as
siStant superintendent of schools.
The judges for the regimental drill
will be Maj. Thompson, Lawrence, In
fantry, U. s. A. Capt. Alexander r.
Boiling, Infantry, u. s. A., and First
Lieut.. Easom J. Bond, Infantry, U. S. A.
The regiments. with their commanding
officers. will march on the field to COM
pete in the following order:
First Regiment, Central High School,
Cadet Lieut.. Col. Arthur l.. Conn, COM
handing, pm.
Fourth Regiment, Western High
School, Lieut.. Col. Frederick H. Cutting,
commanding. $3.50 o'clock.
Third Regiment, Eastern High
School, Cadet Lieut.. Col. Max Miller,
commanding, 4 pm.
Second Regiment, Mckinley High
School, Cadet Lieut.. Col. Oscar Guilden-
horn. commanding, 4:30 pm.
The awards to be conferred following
the drill are: Gold medal given by
school officials to Cadet Maj. Charles
r. Denny. commanding officer End Bat
Italian, 4th Regiment, Western High
School, winner of annual battalion
drills, and the col. Cragie Cup" given
by Lieut.. Col. Wallace M. Cragie, U. S. A.,
professor of military science and tactics
in the schools, to the battalion: gold
medal to Capt. Franklin A. Thomas,
commanding officer of Company K,
Western High Schools war game team
victor; silver cup, given by Maj. Gen.
Anton Stephan to Company K as a
unit: gold medal to Capt. Cradle H.
Mitchell, commanding officer LIST Regi-
mental Band of Central High School,
and silver cup to the band as a unit.
Cadet Sergt.. Walter A. Glass of Com
pany K, Western High School, will re-
ceive silver medal given by the 3rd
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PLAN TRI-M0T0RED PLANE
FOR FLIGHT TO LONDON
Pasadena Broker Arranging for
Aerial Navigator to Hop Off
From Los Angeles.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PASADENA, Calf, May Cecil M.
Hackathorn, Pasadena broker, today
confirmed an announcement in Han
over, N. H., that he was aiding in the
construction of tri-motored airpIane
here in which Capt. Harry w. Lyon, jr.,
aerial navigator. planned to fly from
Los Angeles to London.
Hackathorn, who is member of the
brokerage firm of his father, S. e,
Hackathorn, said he expected Capt.
Lyon to arrive here within 80 days to
inspect the plane, which is to be ready
for the fight in July.