The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1927, Page 1

\ : : \ ie BISMARCK WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight and Thurs+ day. Warmer tonight. ESTABLISHED 1873 RELIEF WORK | UNDER WAY IN. TORNADO AREA “Death List Increases one as Renorts Come in From Isolated Places 80 KILLED IN ONE TOWN | a | | | | i Werkers Must Supply Food | as Well as Medical and Hospital Treatment \ Poplar Bluffs, M Mo., May 11— (@)—rne number of known dead ) as result of Monday’s tornado here was increased to 88 today When Red Cross officials mate { a new check of, morgues. { Kansas City, May 11.’.—()—Pros- i} pects of a steadily increasing death list in the huge checkerboard scoo ed out of the middlewest by a seri of tornadoes and storms, in which | if at least 228 persons perished and} if more than 900 were injured, today | m added to the trials of relief workers. While casualty lists in Texag, Ili-} nois, Kansas and Louisiana showed | little change, debris of razed com: ) munities in Missouri and Arkansas ielded more bodies last night and veral injured died in hospitals. 1 Physicians reported that more than iy =6©® score of injured in Missouri and} Arkansas had little chance to live. This, coupled with failure to estab: \ communication with several vil- | lages since the tornadoes struck| } Monday, caused relief agencies to ff estimate the dead would total ap- ) | i lish proximately The Casualty List | Casualty reports for the three-day | rn storm period today showed: Missouri—05, dead nd 400 injured. nsas—68 dead, 350 injured. 5 dead, 100 injured. dead, 35 injured. Kansas—-10 dead, 40 injured. Louisiana—three dead. Wyoming—three dead. e dend. 228 dead, 925 injured. Relief was placed on an emergency basis at Poplar Bluff, Mo., where 80 Star Sues For Million—or More . Frieda Hempel August Heckscher, 79, millionai a million or more.” She has supreme ccurt of New York, ner—Restriction Guard Against Over Pro duction Suggested Washington, May 11 of the leading oil produc: pealed: to the federal gov help in restricting oil and the federal oil board has re plied that the government is rei have ap: of the 95 killed in Missouri met death, As few restaurants remained i necessary to supply food as conditions prevailed in noeiieaiisras Arkansas, where _ resi- dewis of several isolated villages were reported destitute. Weather observers, found little to connect the series of fre: storms that started in Kansas Saturday swooped down..on northern Texa early Monday’ morning and then skipped througb Arkansas to Missouri and finally appeared in Mlinois, Storms Unusually Violent Indications of the violence of the storms found in Arkansas, where small t ers branched off from the central disturbance to flatten farm buildings and isolate many com- munities, Casualties in Wyoming were limit- ed thus far to three persons frozen to death in a blizzard that sent cool winds over the tornado area to aid - settling atmospheric pensikigris. Tipce negroes were the fed persons wn to have been killed in high Wiis in ——— { Weather Report | Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 7 a, m, today: Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation toe? a. Mm. ........ 0 Highest wind hoa 3 is Temps. j es Lia a. Ee sé gS as oe Anienia . 4 pote ineau i Lake Dick nson to assist in any proper manner. The appeal, which embo to solve hospital and salvage striction plan to guard* against over production, was addressed to Secre- ary Work, g¢hairman of the oi board, and was signed by Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil ompany of New Jer Farish, former president of American Petroleum Institute, It declared that over had “recurred this year in malignant as to seem to precedent.” form se was proposed as a solution. “The present plight of the industry "said “and'I feel oil world e government is ready ist in every proper is" retognized by this boar. Secretary Work today,* that the leaders of the realize that th and willing to a manner to mee! are certain fede: the crisis. course,.govern, as well as the police ites and other ions which can- laws of the several local ‘acts and regul: not with impunity be brushed aside even in an emergency. eral oil board will be glad to counsel and advise with the industry and to do everything\within reason and the scope of the law to assist, I, C. C, REFUSES TO RECONSIDER PROPOSED GUT Today’s Order Ends Attempt of Roads to Lower Grain Rates Eastward Frieda Hempel, internationally known German opera singer, is suing ted a pre-marital contract before the pay her $48,000 annually for the OIL PRODUCERS APPEAL TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR HELP IN PLIGHT Secretary Work, Chairman of; ' Gasoline Price Oil Board, Answers That| Government Is Ready to} R Assist in Any Proper Man-: Plan to (P)—Some “| AMUNDSEN TO production, | , and W. Si the production without A cooperative method of control, worked out through joint|Whe is to speak tonight at the city purchase’ of certain producing lands, But the fed- ‘ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDN | French Flyers — Herrick | Warns Start of Plane From America Might ‘Stir Mis- understanding in France’ i ' |. New York, May 11.-—(4)—Notwith- {standing warning by Ambassador Herrick that the start of any Amer- |tean airplane on a flight ty Faris,; | while the fate of Captains Nunges- ser and Coli remained in doubt, Aas stir misunderstanding in plane Columbia today planned their | start for early Saturday. While the north Atlantic was be. jing searched for the missing ai jmen, sponsors of the Columbia seal- ed ‘the plane’s instruments and awaited only favorable weather be- fore starting a 3,800 mile flight, the reverse of that on which Nungesser jand Coli failed. | As joy in France over incorrect news that the war heroes had suc- ‘or |ceeded turned into resentment | against the United States, Ambassa- dor Herrick notified the state de- partment that the start of any plane |from America for Paris might be “misunderstood and misinterpreted,” | Start Delayed Then Charles A. Levine, head of |the Columbia Ai corporation, | owner of the Bellanca plane, said | that the start, which had been set | for Thursday, would be deferred to{ Saturday. Nungesser’s fate undoubt- edly would be knoWn by then, he added. “The finest tribut® we could pay these brave men is to take up the) August Heckscher e financier and philanthropist, which she s ys Heckscher agreed to | of her. life. Reduced 2 Cents attempt where circumstances com-| eduction of ee cents in. the |pelled them to lay it down,” Mr.! {price of gasoline here was announced | Levine said. y bringing the ‘Lloyd Bertaud, navigator of the; to 20.9 cents per gallon. Columbia, said: “We won't go to Standard Oil company, Pure| Paris if they don’t want us. We'll} Sinclair Oil company | fly over and around the Eiffel) nd the Texas Oil company all an- ‘nounced two-eent cuts, ng prices were reduced two cents Ko yesterday. tower, touch our wheels at Lebour- | get and then go to London and land, Ee Cobham Field, “Nungesser and Coli tried to get} | the jump on us and we hoped for} their success as much as any one in France did. Now is our chance.; et’s £0.’ “Those are my sentiments,” said | a Clarence Chamberlin, the plane’s | pilot. ‘ \ Is Blamed French newspapers have blamed | America misleading | weather reports to France and for} the’ dispatches that had erroneously | nced the success of the ex-| ition. Dr, Charles F, Marvin, ‘head of the weather bureau in Washington, said Nungesser had not requested special | ‘AT AUDITORIUM; il Tre: i| ‘Splendid Speaker,’ Says Gov. | Sorlie—Liessman Recalls advice from the weather bureau. The . Hy French meteorologist institute, he Previous Meeting added, receives weather reports, 0 ‘i braadeasts ree aay wireless. ; : hac rans-Atlantie liners, navy and Roald Amundsen, famed- explorer, coast guard ‘boats and French govern- ment vessels meanwhile continued search of the seas. The hunt ex- tended from New York~to the French const. Many authorities look to the region about the Grand Banks, off New Foundland, as a likely source for a message that the airmen are alive. There are many fishing vessels in several hundred square miles com- rising the banks. ‘None is equipped with radio. FORMER CHIEF IS DEAD FROM BAD BEATING Cicero Man Attacked By Gang While Riding in Auto —Assailants Sought | auditorium, is a “splendid speaker” and should be heard by everyone, Governor A. G, Sorlie said today. * Governor Sorlie introduced Am- undsen. when he spoke at Grand Forks a short while ago and declares that his lecture was “fasejnating.” Inasmuch as this is Amundsen’s last lecture tour, he urges everyone to attend it, the executive said. To Tell of Polar Trip *| Amundsen is to tell of his famous j|trip_ by, dirigible from Rome to Teller, Alaska, over the North Pole. Taking off the morning of May 1 1926, from King’s Bay, Spitzberge Amundsen and his associates kn what they had to face, for they ha risked their lives the previous June in an aizplane atfempt to reach the North P The visit of Captain Amundsen here recalled to Charles Liessman, deputy secretary of state, the re- turn to civilization of the noted ex- plorer from one of his first great exploits. It was the discovery by Amundsen of the Northwest passage. During that trip Amundsen was out | | | Take-off Deferred ©. From | Thursday to Saturday to! | Await Determination of | France, owners of the Bellanca Piston j to Mrs. Drop of Mercury Fails to Affect 29 degrees and froze the ground, did not do flowers or fede jday, The mercury must go down to gardens, O.. W. Roberts, degrees to injure grain and then it) will only injured when it is sprouting. As the grain is at the Fpresent time, it will not be damaged | by frost, he s jilac Stee beginilipaciol bloom, and othér flowers were not Linjured, Roberts said. A Soo Line passenger train whien ‘vas marooned in a snowdrift near Plaza Monday = morning was being | train, A. W. said. Other schetule, he s. Mellon, dispatcher here, trains are runcins on s been GRAY WANTS 10, BID FAREWELL TO MRS. SNYDER Is ivaeseoetiea at Prospect of Death—Woman Suffers From Nervousness York, May 11,-—(4)--Henr: would like to bid farewell Ruth Snyder before they die in the electric chair for the der of her husband. Twice since their conviction Mon- day he has expressed a desire to jail j attendants to talk with her “I didn’t want to hurt her,” Gray told Henry Masser, under-sheriff. “The least you her and say goodbye. “I tell you I don’t want her to eal fer. J'm sorry the verdict went | hard against her. I just couldn't ¢ anything else. I told the truth. Nove I feel better.” Will See Each Other Monda: Gray and Mrs, Snyder will see other jin court Monday when th sentenced, After that, they will be| conveyed in separate automobiles ‘i Sing Sing, whe: there will be al opportunity for communication. Gray was described New Judd mur-| of death, but Mrs, Snyder was said te ness, thougn tar from a coliapse, Reports of Collapse Denied Commenting on reports that the woman had suffered a hysterical col- lapse, Warden Frank F. Fox, warden at the county , said: “She is in her arrjval.” At the district attor-| ney’s orice it was said that, for a brief spell of weeping, Mrs.) Snyder had shown no emotion since the verdict, Attorneys for both the man and woman are making preparations for appeals. Thirty days are allowed for the filing of the appeals. Litigation is expected regarding life insuran€e on the life of Albert vder, which totaled $97,000. While the ingurance company has. given no indication of what its attitude will! be, it is thought the matter will be! taken to court. Five Damage Suits Against Amusement Company Combined Moorhead, Minn, May 11.—)— Judge C. A. Nye of the Clay county district court today approved a stipu- lation of both sides to combine five n of touch with the world for three years, Liessman said. Has-Pictures of Ship Liessman, then with the United States navy, officially received Am- undsen upon his arrival at Oakland, Calif, and today dug. up several ie. Chicago, May 11.—(#)—A_ myster- ious heating which was dealt April 28 ‘to Alberth W. Valecka, former pol e | chief at Cicero, a suburb, caused his i death last night. Valecka was taken to a hospital four days ago by Grace Woodrich who! damage suits against J. Alex Sloan, manager of the World Amusement | company, and trial of the case began today. The suits ask total damages of 1 $197,800 and grew out of the death of one person and injury of four others on the Grand Forks, N. D., fair Dunn Cent puendale Fessenden Grand Forks Jamestown . % Langdon . Larimore 4 Williston ... 48 } Moorhead, Minn.. 44 WEATHER poRbeasr Hl For Bismarck and vitinity: Gener- ally fair tonight and = Thursday. + Warmer tonight. H N@cr North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Thureday. Warmer to- 340 lends ) njght. aS WEATHER CONDITIONS High Pre ure, sepeniagiias by, cool I weat! revalls over ain ft States ‘while low. Bee as, over th northern’ Rocky Mountain. region is causing .warmer weather over that jon, Frost occurred at some rth Dakota stations. The weather fe unsettled over the East and in the extreme West while generally fair Paleo prevails over the Plains sand Rocky Mountain region, . ‘North Dakota con and Wheat Re- For the S ending nding May 10, 1927. tm Light’ to ary throughout ree ork Mie sed atly witl m. worl Mine being done, Tame need- wild precipitation be Washington, May territory to the eastern seaboard. allow any reduction: organizations representing’ reconsideration, but today’s terminated the case. 1,768 Loads Weighed During Past Month One thousand. seven hundred and over city seales-during the month of April, ac- sixty-eight loads passed cording to + man, city weigher, presented. to the} C, Re- 76.80. pa commission Monday’ night. for the month totaled ximately three-fourths of ih bri “aap of loads weighed durii contained coal, there 7tonds of that 1 fuel” handled. necond with 133 loader. 11.—@)—The Interstate Commerce Commission to- day refused to reconsider the pro- posal of the Minneapolis and St. Louis and the Soo Line railroads to reduce by, six cents per 100 pounds the rates’on grain from’ Minneapolis Captain A The railroads attempted to make the reduction last summer but after hearings the commission declined to Railroads and the grain trade at Minneapolis petitioned for # order tures of the tiny ship in which undsen made his famous voyage 23 years ago. ‘The ship, the Gjoa, was the object of so many people seeking curios that it had to be towed to the United States navy yard where it was protected from depredations by the public, Liessman. s: undsen spoke to public school pupils this afternoon at the auditorium and will speak again this evening, showing motion pictures of his trip. Plan Celebration at Sanish Bridge)‘: Ryder, N. D., Mey 11.—()—Plans for a celebration.‘which will include a trip through the North Dakota Badlands are being formulated here by E. Fred redeen gs a part of the ‘ation which. wilt mark the open- ilo of the new bri across the sour) river at Boer deen plans to have a number ot'as notables from the state and nation as well as a number of pi nent ‘anadians board a special Soo Line, train which will take them to Sanish to participate in the celebration in-| dealers had antici pete id, cident to the formal opening of ¢! conse uence city officials have ex Following the Sanish celed| t. nded the time limit for pe renum- une 1, eaaeeah ost mpora: ly at loea! re has i said she was to have been married to! him May Her story was that three | ten, satipeatin te running \board | of an automobile in which she and Valecka were returning from a wake! the night of April 28, beat him and/ then fled. Valecka w: chief of police of| Cicero up to 1920 during a period be-; fore the suburb gained notoriety be- cause of the activity there of beer barons and gambler A wom whose name was with- held, was arrested early today. S eral’ men Cicero pol believe tl boating was due either to old grudge dating back to Valeck: days as police chief, or ito jealousy of a rival for Miss Wood- tich’s affections. They discounted a theory of gangland vengeance. Time Limit For House Numbering Moved to June } It required more numbers “1” to renumber the houses and business; places of Bismarck in compliance with the new Srlinanse than aaa Sate Se e -apec davite grounds July 18, 1925, when a racing car, driven by an employe of the World Amusement company, left the track and crashed into a greup of spectators, | eparate verdicts will be returned | in each case. j | {Postal Clerks Will ° Convene in Fargo, first and sec- vention of the gious Dakota state federation of postoffice clerks, which will open in Fargo, May 30. Mitchem, of Spokane. Wash.. vice president of the national fed- eration, will attend the convention. as will Vernon T. Gales of elles City,state representative. A will be taken on matters’ pertaining to the work of postal clerks and the good of the postal service. Officers of the state federation in- clude J. C. Williams of Grand Fores: president; Geo, Kaiser of B: Vics presidenti-and &. J. Telehinan| of Farg6, secretary. * Banks at Wyndmere ' Have Consolidated of Serpe dag oe tion: ik of Honk! on’ 'Wyndmera operatin, the: state: | Le was Soy pune tional Bark, ‘of Wynd- italized al Bai “egy & In- under : . Grain, Flowers A drop in temperature t night) which brought the mercury down to! damage to grain or to| 1 weather forecaster, said to- pulled out this morning by a relict due to] in do is let me pee) tathe Veneers an ENATOR REED, parently unconcerned by the at be suffering from extretne nervous- | as good health as she has been since} rare except | J ‘gress can be the First Na-' Wyndmere with the | today | ng, departments; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [aitam AY, MAY 11, 1927 { Is This Summer White House? a a / | | ! | j | | | { | President saa oe is likely to make ; 000 Victor Lawson estate in Wi: | from Washington The 1,400-acre | the late publisher of the Chicago D: waukee, ing to disp summer home 70 miles from Mil- Above aye two of the residences on the erounat: | i "RE Sd| | Prominent Duluth | Mining Man Is on OCEAN FLYERS | | IN ATLANTIC in mining circles of the Jand Cuy rang y oman \Clarence Morton Boss, 7 Captains Nungesser and Coli Unseen and Unheard From Since Sunday Morning Mesabn years mining | r for! jengineer and mining ‘inspect the Oliver Iron Mining compa a Duluth hospital, d Mich the | weeks, | | ‘COOLIDGE IS | CRITICIZED BY ‘of wi Havre, France, May The liner France, for New York, has Atlantic h. { Cunard line isscuri ora i, 3 nounced that they we Misscuri Democrat Aroused eed tate sternum ; Presi ’s Refus: Captain of the Cunard Cameronia, By President's Refusal to | asking him about a rumor that Call Special sion the Cameronia had word of Nun- gesser, The source of the rumor was unknown, (a) Democrat, y, 3 Senator A. Reed, Missour ed President Coolidge her ast night for his refusal to call a special session of congress to pro: (By The Associated Press) The sea and land gave back no swer today to the incessant calls for an- vide relief for Mississippi flood! word of the missing airmen —Cap- refugees. He declared 11 senators|tains Nungesser and Coli, The radio had approved his suggestion for the} cgrporation, the independent wire- ater less and the navy swept. the wide Denying the president's contention that the government is doing all it| Atlantic with and met io queries can, Reed pointed to the $100,000, 000 a wall of silence. given European sufferers a few The “White Bird” was 44 anxious ago by the United States as o a- NSW Aouk | son for quick government action, hours overdue at New’ York at | “That appropriation was justified,”| o'clock this morning on her flight Senator Reed said, “but it is hard toj from Paris and wa ‘coMagad understand why we cannot provide! in, northwest off Kilrush, Ireland, for our own kith and kin who are suffering from a disaster. “The president's secretary contends that ‘nothing is being left undone that can be done.’ He is wrong. Con- assembled and money’ e appropriated so that the 2, suffering people can be re- and enidemics can be pre- The only im- Sunday morning, th There was a report t the plane was found but this was quickly searching the as off New Ei gland and the Nova Scotia waters while the French gov- ernment has fleet of destroyers heading westward in the hunt for the French aces. So far their efforts to ate the planes have be s. Lookouts on the tran: { liners bound east and west scan the | It is}horizon for signs of the plane, now believed forced down by weight of ice formed on her wings in flight. | lieved, vented or minimized. possibility seems to be to move the president to action. “About all the government can do} wow is to furnish tents and boats. People can’t eat tents or boats. true, as the secretary says, that the president has two of his secretaries on the ground. But to a hungry or drowning man, the presence of a sec- retary is but small consolation.” Feng’s Troops Move to Honan Province Shanghai, May 11.—-()— From meagre news concerning war move- ments in the interior of China, it was learned today that General Feng Yu Hsiang, commander of the Han- kow nationalist a moving | ¢ in force from Shensi.” His troops | Be were reported driving rapidly into | Honan province against the Yyorth- erners’ flank, Feng was ‘said to be personally directing the operations from Tung- | Wireless t F kwan, on the Yellow river. His troops | ght was due to static. | aie have’ occupied Senchow, 80 miles | pply | i ’ jcalculated to last them a little over rom Honan-Fu, the immediate ob- | 19 days, largely caviar and bananas. dective, | Having ‘sailed the seas for years be- fore he took to aviation, Captain Coli ee eee Incorporations . |: | o—__—_—____________~+4 Scant Hopes Remain Scant hopes remained of the find- ing of the missing men, who many ¢ fell into the sea north of the course ef steamships. Oth- | that the “White Bird” ers sug came down in the waters off New- the foundland, aviators smack, ice that id unless: rescu by a fishing fell victims of the hed their fragile planes Paris was steeped in gloom and! despondency today. The bitterness! expressed by some against America use of the reports that the ed States government had failed! to provide adequate weather reports | subsided when it was officially an- }nounced that the failure to receive | wireless reports two days before the tucked uway a fishline and some bait in the corner of the fuselage just before the plane hopped o} PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN IRELAND SAW FLYERS Dublin, Ireland, May 11.—P)—A Ellendale Holding company, $50,- 000; George T. Webb, Cleveland, | Ohio: L. M. Coleman, Black, R. Lacey, James Pollock, {number of persons in southern Ire- Brouillard sad W's, Boom,” ali .of | land claim to Ellendate, |trans-Atlantic plane, which at noon Crosby Masonic Temple associa-| today had been missing about 80 tion, Crosby, N. D., non-profit; au- | hours. thorized _ to held property up to| The plane is reported to have 000; John ‘Bors G. F. Hawk. | d Dungarvan, county Wapactors, Inson,/Cart A. Fall ola John XK. jat 10:10 Sunday morning, Carri- sen and Harry H. Martin: of Crosb; | gaholt, Clare, at 11 o’cléck. Albert H. Makee; Noonan, and Robert | Father M. Madden of Cafrigaholt, Kermit. | 640 miles from the starting point of ‘Mu of Kappa Sigma, Grand{the flight, claims to have been ‘the | Forks, non. Peete saeinclee ized to pels at to see the plane, ‘at Bayou des Glai | abov PRICE FIVE CENTS BAYOU DES GLAISES LEVEE BREAK EXPECTED ‘BERTAUD AND CHAMBERLIN PLAN TO - START CROSS-OCEAN TRIP SATURDAY WOULD FLOOD CENTRAL PART | OF LOUISIANA icc Work Heroically to Bolster Weakened Ram- part at Big Bend RESCUE FLEET IS READY | | Break in Dike Will Inundate Thousands of Acres of Most Fertile Soil Now Orleans, May 11,—~)-—Levees s, about 170 miles New Orleans, wer collapse at any time today, allowing h of muddy water across the Sugar Bowl” of Louisiana, where most of the domestic cane is grown, Word from that section to Adjutant General L. A. Tombs at Baton Rouge said the levee appeared ready tu collapse. The fight had not been given up, * however, and at Big Bend, where heroic efforts of citizens have been concentrated to bolster the weaken- ing rampart, work continued. Should the crevasse occur today it jevees along the Mississippi be relieved, minimizing the 1 break along Bayou des would s|danger of an additi: oil in the state, flooding many houses and driving adgitional ds from their homes to refu- ips. A rescue fleet has been doin the danger zone and s of loss of life have been t reduced, Vidalia Is Under Water Vidal by wate’ tection from La., remained” inundated from a crevasse in the pro- levee that held backwaters the four crevasses in lower Concordia parish, Precautions had been taken at Vidalia and loss of property will not be great. Many citizens moved their household goods to high ground more than two weeks ago, when the levees along the river front semed in danger of collapsing. A $1,000,000 finance corporation for rehabilitation of farmers in the flooded delta of Mississippi was formed at Jackson, Miss., yesterday and b n functioning today. More than ,000 in stock of the corpor- ation was subscribed yesterday and the remainder was expected to be subscribed in a few di Similar are to formed in Arkansas and Louisiana. LINDBERGH 10 START OCEAN FLIGHT SOON Hops From San Diego, Calif. to St. Louis in 14 Hours and Five Minutes be St. Louis, Mo., May 11.—()—From the Pacific ocean to the Mississippi river over night, Captain Charies Lindbergh “hopped” in the mono- plane he plans to fly froni New York to Paris, reaching St. Louis at 8 a. m. today, 14 hours ‘and five minutes after’ his start from San Diego, Ca 55 p. m., St. Louix time, ‘yesterday The first 1,500-mile leg of: his journey to New York. whence he wil take off in a week or 10 days on th trans-Atlantic flight on a jar to that planned for the Co: Nungesser flight, was completed in three hours less than Lindbergh had planned _ before leaving Rockwell Field late yesterday. He expected to arrive in St. Louis at 11 a. today. Lindbergh plans to leave in a day or two in his single ‘seater plane for New York. He said that his flying time was better than 100 miles an hour most of the way from San Diego. Captain Lindbergh is the only en- trant in the ‘Raymond Orteig $25,000 flight who plans to make the frans- Atlantic flight alone. His monoplane has a wing spread of 42 feet and a fuselage 28 feet long. It has a cruis- ing speed of 105 miles an hour, Sorry For French Flyers “I am very sorry that Nungesser and Coli seem to have failed in their brave attempt to cross the Atlantic in the wrong direction,” said Lind- bergh today. “I hope they will be picked up.” “I didn’t see very much but my instruments,” he said when asked for a detailed description of his flight. “Darkness came while I was over | Arizona and daylight 1 found I was over Kai Captain Lindbergh said he would undertake his flight to New York by. daylight and would not leave before Friday. Guest at Banquet A dinner will be given _ Lind- bergh tomorrow night by the Saying SES of the thirty- Fe sion corps, national gua eo ee care tain User "h Son’ Aa is the a RS records, is non. crer made bea araiae pe count: Se f flew al in 1028, @ distance pole Iph Ri hard: % ‘Tt was believed dui tor. Fo Backstrom; Ages that # child browg pelng. eo ae any i 5 “8 a ee OM ents a a ee ee RY Mond i oie ty