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Evening star., 1932-09-16
Redmen to Go to Baltimore.

AsHEvILLE, N. G., September Is up.
Leaders OF the Improved Order OF
Redmen, which Is holding its biennial
convention here yesterday, said Balti-
more undoubtedly will be selected Tor
the 1884 convention. The order was
founded In Baltimore In 1884 and two
years from now will celebrate its cen
tennial.
Evening star., 1932-09-16
.LUTHERANS END SESSION;
PHYSICIAN GIVES ADDRESS
Third Annual District Convention
to Be Held in Baltimore
Mart Eanfeno ber

DR.. L. Krause, Baltimore physician,
was principal speaker last night before
the closing session of the Eastern Dis
trict Convention of the American Luth-
eran Church at Grace Lutheran Church.
DR.. Krause discussed What Is the
Church's Duty as to Sex Education?"
The third annual district convention
will be held next September in Grace
Lutheran Church, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1932-09-16
Refuse to Fight In Glass.

BURLINGAME, Calf, September is
R.-Not all snakes and spiders get
along as badly as the st. Charles, ILL.,,
pair.
Burlingame police pointed to a black
desk at headquarters. They have lived
together for three days and still mo
contest"
Evening star., 1932-09-16
SNAKE is RELEASED
AS RAGING SPIDER
WINS EPIC BATTLE
Continued From First Page.)

was or not, but figured that to save
argument and prevent the matter from
reaching international proportions it
would be wise to intervene"
Inasmuch as the snake went away
under its own power, Mayor Langum
said he had no alternative but to give
the decision to the spider.
He was going strong at the time
Of intervention" he added. Further
more, the spider was in better condi-
ton. He kept up his strength on q
diet of flies while the snake was get
ting nothing to eat"
OTHER SPIDER VICTORIOUS.
Evening star., 1932-09-16
MANCHUKUO SENT
SOVIET WARNING
Railroad Still Is Owned by
Russia, Answer to Pro-
test States.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, September 10 Soviet
Russia, on the eve of Japan's recogni-
ton of the new State of Manchukuo,
informed Manchukuo officials the Chi
nese Eastern Railway in Manchuria is
still the property Of Russia and jointly
managed by both parties on the basis
Of the old Peiping and Mukden agree
ments, 1t was disclosed today.
The declaration was made in a note
from Soviet Consul General Slavutski
at Harbin to officials of Kirin Province,
part of Manchukuo. The note was in
reply to . protest from the Kirin diplo-
matte comnnissary over alleged with
drawal from the Chinese Eastern to the
Soviet Ussurisk Railway OF number of
locomotives.
The locomotives, the Russian consul
said, were part Of lot purchased for
the Soviet railways and stranded on
the Chinese Eastern during the period
Of allied Intervention after the war,
in 1858.
There can be do doubt of the right
Of the Soviet government to use or
dispose Of the locomotives" the consul
said.
U. S. CONSULs WORRIED.
Evening star., 1932-09-16
Amateur Cards

BALTIMORE, September l6 R.--
The cards in the morning rounds Of the
semi-f1nals in the National Amateur
Golf Championship Tournament be-
tween Ross Somerville and Jesse Gull
ford, and between Francis Outmet, de-
tending champion, and Johnny Good
Evening star., 1932-09-16
WOMEN PLAN SESSION
Democratic Educational Council to
Hear Engineer.

The District Women's Democratic
Educational Council will meet at 7:30
pm. Monday in the Jefferson room OF
the Mayflower.
j. B.. Carper, mining engineer and
former partner Of Cecil Rhodes in
Africa, will be the speaker.
Evening star., 1932-09-16
FOREST FIRES RAGING
less In California Tract Estimated
Already in Millions.

VENTURA. Calf. September Is R.
Fire ragged fiercely today In the Santa
Barbara National Forest and forestry
oficials said possibly 10000 acres Of
brush and timber land had been burned
over. They estimated the loss at mil
lions Of dollars.
A strong wind from the ocean In.
creased the intensity Of the flames,
fire areas were cut OF control.
Evening star., 1932-09-16

boat scue for oca and cobuors svg
and 23o pHlAyeWuns ct 4:30 pm.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
BLOCK EXPLAINS
WALKER DEAL
Tells Why of Joint Broker
Account With Mayor.

By United Press
ALBANY, NJ. Y, Aug. 23.-Paul
Block, New York newspaper pub
Usher, explained today the friend
ship for Mayor James j. Walker
that led him to open a point bro
kerage account with the mayor, on
credit, from which Walker received
nearly $250,000 in profits.
Block, called as a defense witness
in the mayors trial before Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt to de-
termine Walkers fitness to- hold
office" said he had known the
mayor seventeen or eighteen years.
Block said the joint account was
opened in 1927, and that he recalled
the mayor having suggested the
purchase of "one stock-a copper
stock"
AS profits rolled in, Walker drew
from the account, either by check
or cash.
Whenever he received the cash, y
he said, "he drew a check for it,
Block backed up Walkers previous
testimony tending to prove that in
the event the account met with
losses, the mayor would have been
expected to pay his share of them
There were loSses?" he was asked
by John j. Curtin, Walkers counsel.
Yes" Block replied. "They were
apportioned from the prof1ts-half
of mine and half of Mr.. Walkers.
Block denied that ANY official
favors whatsoever" had been OBJ
tanned by him from the mayor, "and
none whatever before he became
mayor"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
LIBERTY DEATH
IS CONFESSED:
GUN IS FOUND
Mrs. Runner Tells Third
Story, Admits Crime and
BareS Hidden Weapon.
VICTIMS MATE CLEARED
Row With Mrs. GunsauIie
Over Dish of Sliced
Tomatoes Is Fatal.
By Times Special

d L tHt6S Cp6Ctub
LIBERTY, Ind, Aug. 23.-Find-
ing of rusty, time-worn revolver
secreted in the wall of a dingy attic
was believed by authorities to have
solved a crime which shocked Union
county this week, following confess
sion of Mrs. Nellie Runner to the
Staying of Mrs. Eleanor Gunsaulie.
After hours of grilling in the Lib
erty city Jail, Mrs. Runner early to-
day signed a third confession, ad-
mitting the killing and lead au-
thorities to the hiding place of the
revolver.
In previous statements, Mrs.
Runner first confessed the killing,
but later repudiated this confession,
and in a second confession placed
the blame on Gunsaulie, who was
absent from the home at the time.
Husband Is AbSOlved
Sheriff Herbert Ellison was pre-
pared to sign an affidavit charging
the woman with murder, and she
will be arraigned probably Monday
before Circuit Court Judge Roscoe
G. O'Byrne, he said.
Confession of Mrs. Runner to the
murder absolved Guy Gunsaulie
husband of the dead woman, of the
Staying. He had been grilled re-
peatedly by Ellision and Charles r
Baker, prosecutor, since discovery
of the bullet-torn body of his wife
After signing the third confes-
sion, Mrs. Runner led authorities to
the attic of the Gunsaulie home, and
withdrew the revolver and hand
bag from a hole in the plastered
wall. The handbag was that OF
Mrs. Gunsaulie, whose body was
found in shallow grave near the
home.
Quarrel for Three Days
Mrs. Runner, in the purported
confession, that she and Mrs. Gun
saulie quarreled Wednesday preced-
ing the killing over a dish of sliced
tomatoes, which Mrs. Runner, a
domestic in the home, had thrown
away.
The quarrel continued Thursday
and Friday, according to the con-
feSsion, when Mrs. Gunsaulie struck
Mrs. Kumer on the face with q
bucket.
A fight then ensued when, &C
cording to Mrs. Runner, Mrs. Gun
saulie seized a revolver. Mrs. Ku-
mer said she grabbed the weapon
fired twice at her assailant, killing
her instantly.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

it again for at least four years.
Chairman James A. Farley Of
the Democratic national commit
tee, came to town recently and
announced:
I'VE have 1000 poems and
slogans which we are considering.
Anybody want a poem to keep"
IRON an unimpeachable source
Il today we're obtained three
samples of the slogans submitted
to the Democrats.
1. Roosevelt and Repeal"
2. Roosevelt and No Secrets"
8. Substitute White Mule for
White Elephant"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

The street car riot in Cleveland
reduced the general conditions to
simplest terms.
1--WE won't pay fares" pas
senger shouted. The corporations
have stolen our money" A free-for-
all fight ensued in which three rail-
way employees were beaten.
Plans went forward for a march
of $4,000 Illinois coal miners, pro-
testing aaginst a $1.10 a day wage
cut under new contract, to march
on mines in the southern part of
the state where fellow miners are
at wor kat the reduced scale. Two
men have died from bullet wounds,
many hurt and hundreds have
been threatened.
A mass meeting of telephone sub
scrlbers was called at Hutchinson,
Kan, to determine the next move in
their fight to force the telephone
company to lower rates. The tele-
phone users insist on a reduction of
81 month.
At Tift1n, O., crowd of approx
mately 5000 Seneca county taxpay-
ers marched on the county court
house late Monday demanding i'm
mediate reduction of salaries and
merging of certain Offices as a
means of reducing the tax bill.
Farmers left their fields and
merchants closed their stores to Join
the marchers.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

County budget-makers today de-
MED a rumor that they would adopt
a drastic program of salary slash
ing and job elimination to stay
within the $3.50 tax limitation law.
Confronted with the job of prun-
ing expenses to the minimum, coun-
cilmen declared it would be utterly
impossible" to keep the levy from
going over the limit.
Fixed expenditures, from which
there is no apparent escape,
threaten to increase Marion county's
rate to SO.
I'VE will do our best to be fair
to taxpayers, but we can not do
the impossible" Walter G. Boetcher,
council president, announced.
Report that the council had
adopted a three-point program,
which it hoped would curb a rising
tax schedule, was described as a
pipe dream" by Boetcher.
Councilmen will be forced to pro-
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
TWO PLANES VIE FOR HONOR
OF REACHING NORWAY FIRST
IN FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC
Vikings Have Five-Hour Edge on Vermonters
in Dash to Harbor Grace for Start
of Hazardous Sea Exploit.
FAMILY ALSO TO BEGIN OCEAN HOP
I'm Waiting With Hungry Arms, Is Message
of Ex-Cycle Racers Bride of Year
Already at Oslo Goal.
BY United Press

The north Atlantic already crossed by aplanes at least
of times today drew further aeronautc endeavor
with the possibility of a the hazardous
Thor Soberg and Carl Petersen left New York for Har
Dor Grace Newfoundland from where they will take off for
Oslo, Norway.
few hours later, Clyde Lee and John Bochkon left
Barre V also for Habor Grace from where they will start
to Oso
of being the first
Norwegian capital
Meanwhile Hutchinson famiyGeorge wife and two children
Brunswick eisurey Atlantic
crossing They plan stops Greenland
Captain flew from Ireland to New
Brunswick preparing fly back to England this week
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
COUNTYS TAX
TO GO OVER LIMIT

vide $1,669, 1853 to retire bonds next
year. This alone will require levy
of IS cents. In addition, they face
an assessment value decline of 1876
per cent and huge tax delinquency.
Budget-makers predict so per
cent reduction in expenditures will
be necessary, if the rate is to come
within the $1.50 limit.
OF the forty-four divisions of
county government, thirty-three de-
partment heads have submitted
budgets calling for appropriations
greater than last year.
Moreover, the county faces a poor
relief burden of $685., 5,539. A 20-cent
levy will be required to cover this
item alone, it was pointed out. The
current county rate last year was
20 cents.
Combined rates Of state, county,
school city, civil city and townships
could not be more than $1.50 under
the tax limit law. These units Of
government required at $2.79 rate in
Marion county last year.
Councilmen will cut salaries Of
county officials, as outlined by the
general assembly, but won't serious
ly touch wages Of department en-
ployes, it is believed. Salaries of
employees were cut 10 per cent last
year.
THE council does not propose to
eliminate all positions not abso-
lutely essential to the function Of
government" Boetcher said.
1T is our aim to treat taxpayers
and employees as fairly as possible, "
he concluded.
The 1888 levy probably will be
fixed at a figure required to meet
operating expenses.
This can be done by a provision
of the tax limit law creating the
county board of tax adjustment, i'm
powered to raise the rate above the
maximum by an emergency clause
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
Living Cost Is Starting Up,
But Workers Earnings Drop

Cincinnati, Columbus, Fall River,
Milwaukee, Newark, New Orleans,
Peoria, Portland (Me.), st: Paul and
Washington, per cent; Birming-
ham, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis,
Mobile, New York Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Portland (Ore), Prov
idence, Richmond, st. Louis,
Savannah, and Springfield dll.), 1
per cent, and Charleston Is. Co.,
Louisville, Memphis, New Haven,
Norfolk, Omaha, Salt Lake City, and
Seattle, less than 5 of l per cent.
In eight cities, food prices de-
creased during July. These we're
Kansas City, Atlanta, Houston, San
Francisco, Butte, Jacksonville, Los
Angeles and Scranton.
Wholesale prices of most other
commodities as we'll as food took
another step upward in August, &C
cording to the bureaus figures.
Farm products mounted from
47.s to 49.4 compared with the 1926
average of 100.
Foods advanced from 61.9 to 62.5:
hides and leather products from SO 8
to 70.2; metals and metal products,
including motor vehicles, plumbing
agricultural implements, from 1872
to 7s.4, and textile products from
52.5 to So.
Fuel and lighting wholesale costs
declined from 73 to 72.9, building
material from 69.6 to 69.4 and chem
icalS and drugs and houSefurnishing
products remained stationary.
Building permits decreased 30.5
per cent in July from the month of
June, the bureau of labor statistics
announces after a check of 351
Identical cities.
Employment decreased 4 per cent
in manufacturing industries in
July, the bureau found, and manu-
featuring pay rolls were 10 per cent
less than in June.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
5000 See Takeoff
By United Press

By United Press
BARRE, VT, Aug. ga trans
Atlantic air race loomed today when
the rebuilt monoplane Green Noun
tain Boy took off for Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, at 1918 a. M, east
ern daylight time-leSs than five
hours after another plane had left
New York for the same destination.
Both planes have Oslo, Norway,
as their ultimate goal.
Clyde Allen Lee, 24-year-old Osh-
kosh -(Wis) aviator, was at the con-
trolls as the red Stinson monoplane
scared away from the Barre-Mont-
pelier airport. Beside him as relief
pilot was John Bochkon, %, of
Brooklyn, a Norwegian.
Fog Delays Takeoff
julius Robertson of Negaunee,
Mich, who was to have gone as CO.
pilot, but who was supplanted by
Bochkon, witnessed the takeoff
along with perhaps 5000 Ver-
monterS.
Fog delayed the takeof for sew
eral hours, but a bright sun finally
burned away the haze.
II don't know whether it will be
race or not" Lee said. ST can't
tell for sure until we get to Harbor
Grace. It may be a race across,
if they don't get too much of a
head start on us out of Harbor
Grace"
The young midwesterner, an air
man with eight years experience,
and Bochkon, who has had six
years experience, both were conf
dent that they would bring the
Green Mountain Boy down safely
at Oslo about thirty-two hours after
leaving Newfoundland.
Oshkosh Is Spurned
Originally, Lee was to have made
Oshkosh the starting point of his
flight. Claiming that Oshkosh has
not provided proper finances, how
ever, he erased the words Oshkosh
B'Gosh" from the plane and
brought it here as a result of local
contribution of $1,000.
On the red plane we're the words
Green Mountain Boy, and under
meath, "Barre-Montpelier, the gran
ite center of the world" The plane
carries no radio.
Aboard the plane when it left
here was 200 gallons of gasoline.
The supply will be increased to 450
at Harbor Grace. The fliers carried
chocolate, concentrated vegetables,
and bouillon cubes, and four gallons
of drinking water.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
CITY LIKELY TO
Get LOAN BANK
Location of Federal Unit
Here Is Reported.
BY WALKER STONE

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - The
federal home loan bank board is ex-
pected to announce this week that
one of the home loan banks will
be located in Indianapolis.
The board announced today that
it had decided to establish a total
of twelve banks, the maximum
authorized by congress, but refused
to name the cities wherein the
banks would be located, saying
boundaries for the home-loan dis
trict had not been determined def
initely.
A member of the board, however
told The Times correspondent that
a practical agreement had been
reached to carve home-loan 6is-
trict out of Indiana and Michigan
and with headquarters at the Hoo
sier capital.
The decision to locate a bank at
indianapolis is the result of an in
tensive drive by Republican and
Democratic leaders and building
and loan associations of Indiana.
Indiana and Michigan building
and loan companies will be asked to
subscribe $5,000,000 in capital stock
for the new bank,
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

miles an hour, and observers feared
he would be forced to attempt a
landing without the wheels of his
plane at this terrific speed.
To do so, they said, almost would
certainly prove fatal.
Doolittle had taken the plane up
for speed tests after having done
some repair work. Once off the
field he pulled in the landing gear,
specially constructed to permit
greater streamlining of the ship,
and put the little biplane through
its PAGES.
AS he came down to land, me-
chanics saw the famous airman
working madly at the levers.
Within a few feet of the ground
he gave up the struggle and zoomed
his ship, resuming his circling about
the airport.
Othed jilots went aloft to shout
encouragement, but there seemed
no way in which they could be of
material aid.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

Mr.. Bowling is the musical
comedy actor, who entertained the
delegates at the Democratic ma
tional convention while every
body else on the platform rushed
out, apparently to try to call
Speaker John N. Garner on the
long distance telephone.
After that performance he was
placed in charge of the slogans
songs and Snappy sayings de-
partment. His job was to evolve a
snappy jazz tune, and he went
right to work-making hey-hey
while the sun shines.
The rumor today is that Eddie
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23
RetraCe Morse Route

By United Press
FLOYD BENNET AIRPORT, New
York, Aug. 23-Two descendants
of the Vikings of old toook off at
daybreak oon an areial journey in
tended to retrace the route of the
Norsemen across the Atlantic ocean.
Thor Solberg, an old-time mo-
torcycle racer, and Carl Petersen,
who was with Byrd in the Antarctic,
set Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, as
the first and only stop on their prof.
ected flight to Oslo, where Sol
berg's bride of year awaits him.
Their Bellanca sesqui plane took
off at 4:48 a. m. eastern Stand
ard Time), heading directly for
Harbor Grace.
Solberg was at the controls as
the plane lifted after a 2,500-foot
run on the 4,200-foot concrete path.
More than 300 friends saw the
Norwegian fliers off. HJordis Pc
terSen, the radio operators wife,
kissed him good-by as he climbed
into the cockpit.
They expect to follow the great
circle route to Scotland, then head
east to Oslo. Solberg estimated he
would reach Oslo within twenty
four hours after leaving Harbor
Grace. The distance from Harbor
Grace to Oslo is about $500 miles
over the proposed route.
Take 25 Sandwiches
The fliers took with them a gall
lon of coffee, gallon of tea, five
gallons of water, twenty-five assort-
ed sanwiches, a package Of zwei-
bach, some soda pop and chewing
gum. They carried several pack
cts of letters for friends.
The sesquiplane has a red fuse
lage and yellow wings, a cruising
speed of ninety miles an hour, a
top speed of 13O miles. It's fuel
tanks carry a capacity load of 1850
gallons of gasoline. Solberg
planned to carry only 900 gallons on
the first leg of the fight.
The plane is equipped with re-
tractable landing gear and power
full short and long wave radio set.
Petersen, an experienced RADIO oper-
ator, said he will keep in constant
communication with ships and land
ing stations. The call letters of the
set are KHNLO, and the wave
length used will be 1923.
Solberg, pilot and navigator, born
in Floro, near Oslo, thirty-eight
years ago. now lives in Brooklyn.
He came to the United States in
1924, and has had 1000 hours in the
air. In Europe as an amateur mo-
torcycle racer he won a race from
Oslo to Paris in forty-eight hours.
Married Minnesota Girl
Solberg married a Minnesota girl
of Norwegian descent, less than a
year ago. She sailed for Norway in
June.
When you get here, your Ingrid
will be waiting for you with hun
CRY arms" she said in a message
to him this week.
Peterson will relieve Solberg at
the controls in an emergency. He
received pilots license after train
ing in a Chicago aviation school in
1927. He, also, was born in Norway.
IN the little town Of Bare.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-08-23

By United Press
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Aug. 23.-
The Hutchinson family left Floyd
Bennett field today on a 4,500- mile
air trip to London that will take
them over the North Atlantic.
Their giant, bi-motored amphibian
plane, christened the Flying Family,
took off for st. John, N. B., the first
leg of the fight, at 11:07 a. m. with
George R. Hutchinson, Richmond
Va.) aviator at the controls.
Hutchinson was accompanied by
his wife Blanche, his daughters
Kathryn, 8, and Janet Lee, s.; Peter
Redpath, navigator; Joseph Ruff,
mechanical engineer; Gerald AltliS-
sih, radio operator, and Norman
Alley, motion picture cameraman.
They hoped to reach st. John
within six hours.
From st. John it is planned to
fly to Port Manner, Anticosti island,
at the mouth of the st. Lawrence
river, thence to Hopedsle and Main,
Labrador, and then over 626 miles
of water and ice to Gotthaab,
Greenland.
Next they viii cross to Angams-
saik and Reykjavik, Iceland,
whence they will go to the Farce
islands; Edinburgh, Scotland;
Chester, England, and London.
The Flying Family is a ten
passenger Siworsky amphibian. 1t
has two 425-horse power wasp mo-
tors, and can carry a useful load of
5000 pounds.
Hutchinson has been flying about
seven years.
In the past four years his family
always has accompanied him, and
it is estimated that in that time
they have flown more than 100000
miles.
Last year the Hutchinsons visited
every state in the union in a
21,000-mile tour.