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32. NO. 208. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 193J. Entered as Seeond-Clas Matter at Post Offce, Indiana is.

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VAN NUYS RAPS 9LAVCHAKGES FOR FIGHT ON CRIME SOUGHT State Expected To Keep Tax on Gross Incomes U. S. Rejects Japanese Proposal for Equality On Tonnage of Navies Hull Asserts America Bases CM ML Three Groups in McNutt Committee Fail to Agree on Any Substitute System Most of 12 Million Yearly Return Goes for Salaries of Teachers-School Control Big Issue. STATE PRIMARY HALPLANS Senator Takes Sides of House Members Who Fear McNutt Sees It as "Backward Step." BT EVEKETT C. ATKINS.

baaapeUe 8tar Kama. 1S7 attraal BaiUlaf. WASHINGTON, Dec. Frederick VanNuys, leader of the anti-McNutt Democrats of Indiana, tonight issued a blast against con templated repeal of the primary law by the Indiana Legislature. The senior senator aligned himself with the Indiana House members in favor of retaining the present law under which representatives in Congress are nominated in a primary.

Senator VanNuys asserted that repeal would represent a "backward step in the progress of Democratic government." Deplores Drift From Ideals. He deplored that an emergency economic situation had caused the administration to drift far from "our old Jeffersonian ideals of popular government" but declared that with economic recovery there will be a rapid return to local self-government. The senator's statement, issued at a time when the Legislature session is near at hand follows: "I join in the expression of most of the members of the lower House of Congress against hepeal of the Indiana primary law. Such repeal would not be in keeping with that decentralization of political and economic power toward which all our energies will be bent as soon as we have recovered from the present "Emergencies" Justification. "We have drifted far from our old Jeftersonian ideals of popular government during the last two years and our only Justification is lodged in the fact that imperative 'emergencies' demanded such action.

"Devastating industrial and economical conditions called for the grant of unprecedented powers to the executive and administrative branches of the government, but those grants of power are only temporary. "As soon as the country recovers, the restoration of government will be as rapid and complete as was the building of the present emergency program. "The repeal of the present primary law would not be in keeping with this future legislative policy which I hope we may be able to enter upon very soon. Opposes Repeal. "No emergency exists for taking from the people the right to choose their representative In Congress and those local officers now covered by the present law.

The repeal of that law would, in my opinion, be a backward step in the progress of Democratic government." The VanNuys statement gives sup port to the recent plea of Representative Louis Ludlow, addressed to all members of the Indiana General As sembly, that the primary law relating to congressional nominations be retained. Ludlow favors the principal of the primary law and, like VanNuys, asserted that repeal would be a backward step and in violation oi tne progressive philosophy of Woodrow Wilson. Both Ludlow and VanNuys ignore the state platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties declaring unequivocally ior repeal. Sides With Representatives. This is the second time recently that VanNuys has given support to the position taken by the Indiana Democratic members of the congressional delegation.

A month ago he declared it a "deliberate affront" when Governor McNutt was charged with an attempt to dictate the appointment by the Federal govern- CONTINCED ON PAGE TWO. Indiana Committee Will Put Program Before Legisla tureAsks Alibi, Appeal, Venue Tightening. Nine changes in the criminal code to make justice more swift and certain are recommended for considera tion by the Legislature in a report of the Indiana Committee made pub lic yesterday. The committee, which is non partisan and made up largely of representatives of business and professional organizations, has had the assistance of Indiana University law school in preparation of the report Changes In Code Proposed. The changes in the code designed to prevent the criminal from "beat ing the law" are aa follows: 1.

Separate trials for joint defendants charged with felonies would be. entirely discretionary with the judge. Under the present system any defendant can ask for a separate trial, which can not be denied. 2 A defendant planning to offer a detense of alibi shall give notice of such defense to the prosecution prior to the trial. 3.

Indictments and affidavits shall be subject to liberal rules of amendment. More Power to Supreme Court, 4. For the purposes of appeal, exceptions to instructions shall be taken before the retirement of the jury. At present the defense can object and claim reversible error after the verdict is given. It also is proposed to give the Supreme Court power to make rules governing appeals and the power to amend the criminal code.

5. Take from juries the power to fix sentences; provide for one or more alternate jurors to prevent delay If one of the regular panel dies or is discharged and place in the court the duty of examining jurors. Selection of jurors from bystanders would be abolished and suitable facilities should be provided for women jurors. Summons on Minor Cases. Provide for the.

issuance of summons to defendants in minor criminal cases (such as traffic violations) instead of taking the person into custody by warrant or' arrest. This would give police more time to devote to more essential matters, minimize the activities of professional bondsmen and do away with much petty tyranny. 1. Make provision for preservation of evidence in preliminary hearings in felony cases which will be ad missible as evidence in the trial of the case. Curb For Venue 8.

Change of venue to another county or another judge merely for the purpose of delay or to harass the prosecution would be minimized by another proposal. Defendants in criminal actions asking a change of venue would be required to swear that the change was not for the pur pose of delay and that the defense waives the right to any further con tinuances. When a case is venued the new judge would be required to give it precedence over other cases and set the trial within twenty days In event this is impossible a special judge would be named from an ad joining county by the chief justice of the Supreme Court 9. If the defendant in a criminal case refuses to testify in his own case the trial judge and the counsel for the defense and for the prosecu CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. Bolivia and Paraguay Expected to Fight Decisive Battle of War.

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 29. ('') Paraguay's and Bolivia's biggest armies tonight were slowly coming to grips in their battle for possession of Bolivian oil fields. The engagement, in which an estimated eighty thousand troops, evenly divided, will take part, was expected to be decisive in the three-year-old Chaco war. With developments lacking to confirm reports from La Pat yesterday that Gen.

Jose Estigarribia's Paraguayans had launched their long-expected general offensive, scattered fighting and skirmishes in several sectors gave evidence that the rival tacticians were sparring for an opening. Villa Montes, principal Bolivian army base, and the oil" fields lying behind it on undisputed Bolivian territory, were apparent objectives of the Paraguayans. A Paraguayan raid from the north in an effort to outflank the stoutly intrenched Bolivians, certain the "second Hindenburg line" they had prepared Was impregnable, appeared 80,000 TROOPS SPAR FOR CHACO OPENING By ARTHUR BRISBANE. Some Plant Will Drown. Where It Equality? They Cured One Indian.

Nice Ocean Party. TWENTY-POUR hours, from this midnight nd big Wes will be celebrating, with joyous drink-ing and shouting, the arrival of another yew. Many young people will make excellent resolutions early on New Tear's eve and drown them a little later, discovering excellent reasons for breaking resolutions as the night wears on. Such is foolish humanity; the weakness of one is the opportunity of the other. Stalin, ruler of Russia, who calls himself "general secretary of the Communist party." has been busy producing machinery to make Russia an industrial nation and is now concentrating on human beings who run the machines.

He decides that the ablest among' the men shall get higher wages than the others, by way of encouragement All men may be created "equal." but when you put them working side by side you observe that something has happened to the equality. Far from being equal the most Striking thing among men is their Inequality, in Intelligence, character and ability to work. Don Quixote's Sancho Pansa said, truly: "All men are as God has made them, and sometimes worse." If men were equal, there would be no need of prisons, chain gangs, electric chairs, gallows, guillotines and German headsmen. At Hempstead, Long Island boys found a rusty Iron cage and inside It a human skeleton, with an Iron spike driven through one of the bony eye sockets. The Iron cage, said to be 300 years old, with barely room for a human body, had a tight compartment for the victim's head, like some torture contrivances of the middle ages.

Pirates were at first suggested but it is now thought more 1 probable the skeleton belonged to some Indian punished by early settlers as a warning to his follows. The Indians thought Long Island belonged to them when the whites came, and radical steps were needed to convince them of their mistake. The late Mavroyini Bey, the Turkish Sultan's representative at Washington, when any one referred to Turkish massacres of Armenians, would ask, blandly: "Where are your Indians? I see no Indians." Recollection of the complete Indian-killing job that this nation did In the beginning should make us slow to criticize. Next summer our ships of war, venturing almost to oriental waters, will engage in far-flung war games covering more than five million square miles of the Pacific ocean. How interesting THAT will be, and how rapidly those ships would come running home to hide away in port if a few large bombing planes should sail out from Asia, from Tokio or Russia's Vladivostok, over those 5,000,000 square miles of Pacific, and drop explosive bombs and poison gas bmbs on the battleships.

However, while peace lasts, it is an amusing game for naval officers who like to walk up and down a smooth deck, preferring that to flying. Aa airplane with four passengers crashed among trees in the Adirondack forests during a blinding storm. Miraculously, all passengers escaped injury. The pilot radioed: "We are safe, but lost, and are building fires to help you find us." Great excitement in aviation circles, but the lost will be found. We are all lost in space on this little rotating airship called the earth, sailing through the ether more than a thousand miles a minute.

We haven't the faintest idea where we are, whither we are bound, when or why the journey started or what happens to use when we leave the earth-airship after our three score and ten. And the eighteen hundred million human passengers on the earth worry not at all. A mouse uninjured in the lost airplane would not worry either. It would not know enough. We are like that mouse.

(Copyright, 1934, by King Featurca Syndicate, Inc. International copyright and all other rights reserved.) Mislaid Check 6 Yeart Ago; Suet Cloted Bank SPRINGFIELD, Dec. Six years ago H. A. Smalley, Van Buren, saw mill owner, received a check for $725- He dropped it in a desk to' answer a phone call.

The message was a summons to St. Louis. Smalley forgot all about the check until the other day. He went to the bank and the bank was closed. Now he's suing "preferred creditor." PET DOG'S LOYALTY SOMEWHAT PAINFUL TO INJURED MASTER Speco to Tfce Indianapolii Sor.

ROCHESTER, Dec of a pet dog was exceedingly painful to Perry Wilson, 82 years old. who was pinned under his automobile last night. Mechanical trouble developed and Wilson had crawled under the car after jacking up a wheel. The jack slipped and Wilson was caught under the wheel. The dog realized that his master was in trouble, stood guard but refused to let strangers approach.

Finally, a friend drove up. The dog recognised him and permitted the friend to release his master. Wilson suffered serious abdominal injuries. SAAR VOTE REMARK SENT GIRL TO JAIL Elsa Sittell Said She Would Cast Ballot Against Germany. WALDMOHR, Germany, Dee.

29. t) Miss Elsa Sittell of New York, held in jail here for a week, was revealed tonight as an American Saar-lander en route to vote in the Jan. 13 plebiscite, her arrest following upon her remark she was going to vote against the Saar territory's return to Germany. The girl, held incommunicado in the village's one-room jail, was taken into custody by the town's one policeman and was charged with making derogatory remarks about the government of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. Vice Consul Goes to Aid.

American Vice Consul George Makinson, at Frankfort, arrived tonight at Zweibruecken en route to aid the American girl and was expected to arrive here tomorrow. Miss Sittell was born in the northwest part of the Saar territory near Merzig and came from Paris to cast her ballot at the plebiscite. Soon after her arrival, the townspeople said, "she started talking rather freely." Why Miss Sittell stopped in the village straddling the frontier was not explained unless the delay was to fulfill bcrder formalities. (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press.) AMERICAN HELD IN SAAR. Arrested For Not Having Permit to Enter Territory.

LONDON. Dec. The arrest of Chester Wat-kins, an American, said to live in Georgia, was reported tonight in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Saarbrucken. Watkins, the advice said, was arrested by police at Mettlach, in the Saar, twenty-nine miles from Saarbrucken, because he did not possess a special permit necessary to enter the Saar territory during the pre-plebiscite period. Cruiser, Eleven Aboard, Missing Off New Jersey NEW YORK, Dec.

29. (U.P. The 100-foot cruiser, Glory, with eleven persons aboard, was missing off the New Jersey coast tonight and the coast guard began search for her. The ship left Sheepshead bay Wednesday for Florida and was sighted passing Sandy Hook. It has not been reported since.

ever, for they established radio contact long enough during the day to say they were unhurt Later their radio failed. The last heard from them was at twilight "It is very cold up here and we would like to have help soon," they radioed. Then, "Our battery is about dead now." Three of the four men in the plane are pilots. Ernest Dryer of Cleve- i lttVtrl ar a a In AAmmeanl at 4 ltj brother, Dale copilot; Vandenberg Advocates Middle Road Course, Criticizes New Deal Trends. WASHINGTON, Dec 29.

3')-A liberal Republican party "neither floundering to the reactionary right nor staggering to the radical left" was urged tonight by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. The Michigan senator was one of the few G. O. P.

Senate leaders up for re-election in 1934 who survived and his victory has brought him mention as a possible future Republican presidential candidate. In a letter to Chase Mellen chairman of the New York County Republican Committee he suggested a full discussion of party views during the next two years and a party convention in 1936 in the nature of a "free parliament of uninstructed delegates" through which would como new leadership and a representative creed. Puts Human Rights First The spirit of Republican liberalism, Vandenberg said, should be that "human rights are superior to property rights but the latter are part of the former and both must take firm order under the constitution." Commenting that he was referring to "permanent trends," Vandenberg said, "It is not the tme liberalism to deliver America to the concen trated grip of domineering bureau cracy, or to build up invincible executive authority at the expense of the other presumably independent branches of government No less an authority than Jefferson called this toryism. Attacks Price Control. "It is not true liberalism, again, to encourage monopoly, and its sinister price-control of the American family budget.

It is not true liber- alism to waste the civil service or to prostitute the merit system or to play politics with human In the letter Vandenberg advocated legislation such as "unemployment insurance, retirement pensions, minimum wage laws, the demonitization of war, the termin ation of investment rackets, the end ui lax exemptions, etc. The Republican party, Vandenberg added, should always stand for effective protective tariffs. He contended that underconsumption was the economic fault today and could not be corrected without protection. Gasoline Truck Blast Endangers Oil Plant BALTIMORE, Dec. explosion of a gasoline truck early tonight endangered the American Oil Company plant at nearby Curtis Bay, but the fire was quickly brought under control.

In an unexplained manner, 7,500 gallons of gasoline, just loaded into a tank truck, exploded, spreading flames high into the air and showering nearby tanks. A large oU tank near which the truck was standing was enveloped in a spray of flame, but did not catch fire. The fire spread to the company's wharfs and damaged them to some extent while truck and trailer burned. No one was injured. Fireworkt to Greet 1935 From Atop Piket Peak COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec.

29. One of the most unusual New Year welcomes shooting off fireworks atop Pikes Peak will have Its annua renewal Monday night. Members of the AdAmAn Club of Colorado Springs plan to make the celebration the most spectacular since the event first was held. Awaiting club memebra at' the Peak's summit are a ton and a halt of fireworks, ready to discharge a salute to 1935. Residents 100 miles distant have reported seeing the display.

THE STAR TODAY CONSISTS OF 7 PARTS Part I General News, Sports, Autos and Financial. Part 2-Want Ads. Part 3 Society, Amusements, Travel, Radio and Building. Part 4 Editorial, Art and Book Reviews. Part 5 Magazine.

Part 6 Gravure. Part 7 Comics. LIBERA Position on Security Principle, Stresses Attempt to Lift Armament Burdens Off World's Peoples-Ready to Reopen Negotiations Before 1936. SAIT0 ACTS FOR NIPPON WASHINGTON, Dec. The Japanese government today denounced formally the Washington naval limitation treaty, whereupon Secretary of State Cordell Hull immediately rejected her proposals of actual naval equality between Japan, Great Britain and the United Statea.

In a formal statement issued soon after Japan had given notice of termination of the treaty, Hull declared the United States did not consent to the principle of actual equality in naval tonnage for all nations. He said the American principle concerned equality of national security rather than actual naval tonnage. His statement was regarded as a pointed answer to the statements issued earlier in the day by the Jap anese Foreign Office and the Japanese ambassador here, both declaring that Japan would be content only with equality in naval tonnage with the United States and Great Britain. Nations Still Far Apart. Hull's statement indicated that the United States and Japan still were poles apart in their naval viewpoints.

The statement in part said: 'The American government has to. day received the Japanese government's notice of intention to terminate the Washington naval treaty. We, of course, realize that any nation has the right not to renew a treaty; also that any movement toward disarmament, to be must rest on agreements voluntarily entered into, "This notification is none the less a source of genuine, regret to us, believing as. we do. that the existinr treaties have safeguarded right and promoted the collective interests of all the signatories.

Equality Status Is Crux. ''The recent, conversations at London which have been carried on in a Spirit Of friendahln and annA -rJll 1 hav revolved arounnd ih. whether a movement of international co-operation and disarmament can rest on the principle of equality of armament rather than on the principle of equality of security. "Each nation naturally desires and we stand unalterably for that view to be on a basis of absolute equality with other nations in the matter of national security. experience teaches that conditions of peace or measures of disarmament can not be promoted by the doctrine that all nations, regardless of their varying and different defensive needs, shall have equality of armaments.

Provide for Sovereign Bights. "What has been achieved up to the present time toward insuring conditions of peace has been based on a community of objective, a community of conception of the genera interest and a community of effort, "The treaties thus far concluded have involved no invasion of the sovereignty of the participating governments and they have provided, with all proper respect for such sovereign rights, that the. armaments of the participating nations be established by voluntary undertaking on a proportionate basis. Treaty In Effect Until 1936. "Notice of intention to terminate, the Washington naval treaty does not mean thati the treaty ceases to be in effect as of the date of notification; the provisions of that, treaty remain enforced until the end of 1936.

"There consequently Remains a period ot two years within which the interested nations may consider the situation that would be created by the abandonment of the naval treaties; and the American government is ready to enter upon negotiations whenever it appears that there is prospect ot arrival at a mutually satisfactory conclusion which would give further effect to the desires of the American government and the American people-and, It Is believed, that ot the ether governments and peoples concerned that the nation of the world shall not be burdened by avoidable or extravagant expenditures on armament." Saito Delivers Message. The Nipponese empire which only fifty years ago had a navy composed mostly of native sampans, threw down the gauntlet challenging Great Britain and the United States In short, 100-word note which etatei merely that Japan was terminating the treaty in strict accordance wit Its provisions. Simultaneously both the Japentes Foreign Office and the Japanese t- CORDELL HULL. WASHINGTON, Dec. of State Cordell Hull met Japan denunciation of the Washington naval treaty today with a statement that the United States refuses to consider the Tokio demand for full tonnage equality.

U. S. May Not Return to Gold Standard, Wallace Tells Science Session. PITTSBURGH, Dec. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.

Wallace today told the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science that we may be entering a century-long period of rise in prices and added we may not return to the gold standard. "For all tPe know to the he said, "we may be entering upon another 100-year long rise in prices such as was seen in the century be' ginning with 1815." Wallace said "There is a possibility that the United States may not re turn to the gold standard, but. we may be feeling our way toward a goal which logical minds can not perceive at the moment." Speaks Informally. The secretary, though not sched uled for an address, spoke informally at a session of the association called to discuss the progress of world re covery. He spoke briefly at the re quest of Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who was chairman of the meeting.

Wallace assured his audience that the United States was well on the way to prosperity but issued a warning to statisticians and business analysts that "certain psychological tendencies" may be more significant than barometrics or econometrics in charting the course of recovery. Inexplicable trends, he said, often occur in economic history that can not be predicted by the usual formulae. Production Increases. Alluding to a previous speaker who dealt with recovery in England, Secretary Wallace stated that from 1914 to 1929 the per capita production of goods in the United States had exhibited a steadily rising trend, reaching its peak in the latter year. On the other hand Great Britain, he said, had not risen above its prewar level except for occasional spurts.

Consequently the United States had a farther way to travel to reach its 1929 status than the United Kingdom. "I believe," the secretary said, "that recovery in the United States has reachd that of Great Britain and perhaps has proceeded a little farther. I think that future hope lies rather with the United States." Old Pittol Discharges; Man, 70, Diet of Wound BRANTFORD, Ontario, Dec. 29. Seventy-year-old Malcolm Mc Gregor read that all firearms, no matter how old, must be taken to authorities for registration.

He took down a revolver which had lain unused for years. It was dusty and he prepared to clean it before presenting it at the police station. It discharged. An ancient pellet lodged in the man's bip. He died at a hospital.

Al Smith to Celebrate Birthday; Politict Out NEW YORK, Dec. Smith prepared to celebrate the inauguration of Governor Herbert Lehman tomorrow but in a strictly non- political way. It will be Al's 61st birthday, and he has a resolution to keep. "On my birthday to hell with poll- tics," he roared. A birthday cake with sixty-three candles two for good luck was on a desk in the former Governor's office, Mrs.

Babcock, Suffrage Pioneer Reader, It Dead DUNKIRK, N. Dec. Elnora Babcock, prominent In the early days of the women's suffrage movement, organizer of the first political club in Chautauqua county and superintendent under Susan B. Anthony, died here today. She was 82 years old.

RISING PIES ENVISIONED 1 PROPERTY LIMIT, TOPIC BY MAI RICE EARLY. Continuance of the gross income tax for another two-year period by the 1935 Legislature appeared probable yesterday because of the inability of opposing groups to agree on a substitute system. Within the membership of the special committee of twenty-two named by Governor Paul V. McNutt to study taxation and make recommendations, there are three schools of thought They are: 1. The group which believes that Indiana should cont'nue the present gross Income tax for at least two years without fundamental change.

2. The organized farmers asking for a doubling of the present gross income tax rates. 1 Retail merchants asking for a per rent tax on retail sales of tangible property (other than food, fuel, Ice and prescription drugs) as a substitute for the gross income tax. The latter group insists that the present tax system is wrong because it pyramids levies on sales of producers, wholesalers and retailers. In addition, they insist, it is unfair because it is difficult to pass the tax on to the consumer.

Labor Hostile to Sales Tax. Labor representation on the committee is hostile to aax which must be passed to the consumer with each retail sale by means of a tax receipt or stamp. All states bordering Indiana now have some form of a retail sales tax. The committee will renew its discussion of the various phases of this tax problem Wednesday when it also will take a stand on the allied subject of strict limitation of property tax rates. The gross income tax is now producing about $12,000,000 a year.

Most of this revenue Is applied to the payment of part of the salaries of all public school teachers. When the school budgets were made last fall revenue from the gross Income tax was anticipated up to July, 1936. This fact is being offered as a reason for delaying any radical change in the tax system. Absolute Limitation Sought. Pressure is being, brought by sev eral groups to establish an absolute limitation of the property tax rates by repealing the emergency clause in the present law.

Should this be done It ultimately would force the establishment of some new tax or an increase in the rates of the gross in come tax. It Is being recalled that the passage of the original $1.50 rate limitation law in the special session of the Assembly in 1932 forced adoption of the gross income tax in the following session. Groups urging the strict limitation Include the farmers and real estate interests. The study commission has before it a proposal that all rates be limited to $1 in rural sections and $1.50 in cities. But levies for the retirement of public bonds and to CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

WEATHER FORECAST Jim Crow says: Clarence Darrow can not see any I ovement In the world In spite of the fact he has been here seventy-seven years. Forecast for Indiana for Sunday and Monday: Cloudy, rain or snow in south portion, possibly snow in north portion, colder in extreme south portion Sunday; Monday generally fair. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for Sunday and Monday: Cloudy with rain or snow Sunday; Monday generally fair, not much change in temperature. United Statea Weather Bsrcaa special Report for The ladlaaapolia 8Ur. ALMANAC OF THE DAY, Sua rlaei 7:07 Sun sets WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.

Relative Humidity. m. 94 pet Noon 89 pet 7 p. m. 76 pet Precipitation.

Amount during 24 hours ending at P. m. 02 Total amount ilnce Jan. 1, 1934 J8.S3 Accumulated departure from normal since Jan. (deficiency) 14.73 Temperatures.

7 a. m. Dry 37 Wet 37 Maximum. 45 Noon. Dry 35 Wet 34 7 p.

m. Dry 31 Wet 29 Minimum So For the Sam Data La it Year. 7 a. it is FLARES ADD HOPE IN SEARCH FOR PLANE ALBANY, N. Dec.

29. JPj A report that two flares had been seen go up from a heavily wooded section twenty miles west of Gloversville tonight sent a searching party Into the sparsely settled area looking for four men lost since last night when an airliner was forced down. The report came from John Leek, a storekeeper in the village of Lasselsville, who said he and four other men saw the flares from a hilltop where they had gone to stand watch. The flares, he said, shot up in quick succession shortly after 9 p. the time the occupants of the disabled plane were instructed by radio to send up their signals.

A party of volunteers and state reported it had seen no signs of the troopers immediately set out across I men. five miles of broken country on foot They were known to be safe, how- toward the spot from which the flares came. Adds Hope to Search. The report of the flares gave new hopes to the weary searchers who had been combing the foothills of the Adirondacks for more than twelve hours for the missing men. It came only a few minutes after a sister ship of the fifteen-passenger Curtis Condor had returned from a daring trip over the Adirondacks flying more than an hour in a blinding the searching snip CONTINUED ON PACK TWO.

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