The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 1

emai... Bie CEOS Saw . Pen WEATHER FORECASTS Showers probable tonight and@ Wednesday. Cooler. « ESTABLISHED 1873 anawcutelvareoestetooniit ine nace BALLOON RAGE (From Reatem BE. J. Hill Lands Huge Gas IS ia ail. Bag ‘The Detroit’ at ff Baxley, Georgia DISTANCE IS 725 MILES | —- i Goodyear VI, Also United| a». States Entry, Is Second Place Winner Detroit, Sept. 13—(}—E. J. Hill, Detroit pilot, today was unofficially accredited as winner of the annual James Gordon Bennett balloon tro- phy race, Piloting his “The Detroit,” an estimated distance of 725 miles from the starting point here, Hill brought the bag down at Baxley, Georgia, last night, 50 miles farther south than the second place Goodyear VI, also a United States As unofficially tabulated by tical association Washington the other leading balloons finished as follow: Third and fourth—Barmen, Ger- many, and Lafayette, France, 660 miles (tied). r e Fifth—Hispania, Spain, 640 miles. \ Sixth—Belgica, Belgium, 600 miles. The remaining nine entries were strung out along the course between the finish line and Detroit as far north as Sugar island, in Lake Erie, off Sandusky. off Sanciitthe Change Likely Although the official standing in the race will not be announced pend- ing a check of the balloon baro- graphs, promoters of the: race here were of the opinion little change oyer the unofficial t»hulation is likely. victory of Hill marks the sec- cedteanescurtve year that the United States has won the event and gives this country the edge over Belgium lin the trophy competition, During the 16 years in which the event has been held the United een se a d off Tirst place six times and Bel- Ke five. Germany Switgerland have won twice each and France once. Linton Farmer Gets 20 Bushels an Acre . Yield of Hard Wheat ~ A yield of No. 1 hard wheat aver- aging 20 bushels to the acre is re ported by J. 1, Wells, farmer livin near Linton, who has just finishe threshing. Rye ran 25 bushels to the acre on his farm, Mr. Wells said. Corn is coming along well, he said, but will need about 20 days to make a good crop. Some rust damage was done on farms in his vicinity, Mr. Wells reports. huge balloon, Here is a photograph of the last word received from Paul Redfern, Georgia to Brazil flyer. It was dropped to the ship Christian Krogh, 200 miles off the coast of Venezuela. Below is Nils Nodtvedt, who braved a shark-infested sea to pick’ up the message from the flyer. COOLIDGEIS OPPOSED 10 _ SPECIAL MEET However, Before Reaching Final Decision Washington, Sept. 13.—()—Presi- dent Coolidge will investigate fur- ther before reaching a final decision as to the necessity of a special ses- sion, either of congress or the senate. His original opposition to a special session will stand, however, unless his inquiry discloses a real necessity for such a call. At the White House today it was aid that such advices as the presi- it had received in the short time since his return to Washington had been that there was no necessity for Two Are Drowned —at Winona, Minn. | fic" ccnvening of congress ahead of = its regular meeting time. Winona, Minn. Sept: 13-—()—| The president hgd been urged to John J. Milan, Winona, truck + man, ‘call congress together earlier than and Margaret Coyne, Minneapolis, ithe date set for its convening, Decem- +yere drowned in the Mississippi near |bey 7, to deal with flood control und the bath house here late yesterday. lother legislation. An alternative ad- Police recovered the’ bodies ‘4st vanced was to have a special session night. the of the senate to deal with the Vare- The drowalne ii double tragedy, of the hi aving lost a oy cance overturned in Lake Winona dary this summer. f } ———————_ Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. today: Temperature at 7 a.rm.-. Highest yesterday ...... Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. m. Highest wind velocity Smith election contests. Both these roposals were opposed yesterday by Senator Curtis and Representative Tilson, senate and house Republican leaders. TREASURY OFFICIALS STUDY TAX REVISION Washington, Sept. 13.—(#}—Tax revision, one of the major problems for the new congress, is being care- fal fees g Persia offic ie . they y that so many 4 factors would enter into the equa- 69| tion before congress meets in De- 0| cember that they had not yet formu- lated any definite program jin: their estim e 8 upon fi; Temps. ures thus far available, officials do ds ea not expect the treasury to have this & = ZS FE | tiveal year anything like the half S € 2 94 | billion dollar surplus which it had i] ial $3 last year and which was applied to | & “Be | retirement of that much of the public 89 57 0 Clear | debt Some do not anticipate a sur- 86 $1 0 Cloudy | Plus in excesa of $300, 5 ‘85 63 .10 P Cldy. In is connection attention is 78 64 .38 PCidy.| called that much of the surplus of the 86 60 0 PCidy.| past years been made up from 82 44 09 PCidy.| back tax payments, liquidation of 82 47 0 Cloudy | loans to the rail and the sale 83 86 O a of surplus war materials. 67 © PCldy.| These sources of extra revenue m4 60 0 Pcldy. are rapidly drying up, # is 81 49 0 PCldy.| asserted, and the government 85 Z 0 Ch nae must look almost entirely to 85 ef ry Cloudy current receipts to meet current ex- 85 68 0 Clear | Pen! ‘i r the revnue laws in force Lisbon ... 90 57 0 Clear during the past few years, f Minot .. + 82 60 0 Clear |ineome has: .not lost pace Nepeleon : e H ciouey with actual coat wt embinag ...+. re! and the Williston .. 80 2 Be paid, ean two -is Reaatat to be Mgerhead, as - 86 Forecast, for Bismarck and vicin- widened. by the increased costs bayer orecnmaneal sysretion during ity: Showers probable tonight and $Oe eee toe oars ie poner nd Wed . Cooler, and ferm re~ Sar’Nowth Dakota: Showers prob-| ments Raval expansion ore Seaates amet | oe War. Vetneen sae tenegeeets| Caen Loder Capel precipitation oceurred in the ‘ Indianapolis, Sept western’ f the Dakotas and from the acky “Mountain region westward to rt. 18.—(P)}—Henry Shi jomine of near Columbus, Indians, civil war veteran, has been gra: the iyvaenarr sa, eens also oc-/ R, “ ed in Great, Temperatures are al $ a. parole of 10 days from the state average from the: Plains prison at Michigan City by Governor ward. Moderate tem) Jackson so that he may attend the G. A. R. encampment now in session at Grand 9, Mi Romi vail ffom the Roeky wn in 1913 to serve a life westward to the Pac , iS W. ROBERTS, | was aia Sst term for the murder of a neighbor. ‘Official in charge. , DETROIT PILOT Typhoon and Tidal Wave! IS WINNER OF |Take 100 Lives in Japan Will Investigate Further, Rush of Selling-Follows Large’: Lisbon and 89 at Amenia and Fes- 1] States today than there was a year it “|Girl Determined Villages in Neighborhood of HOTTEST SEPT. mee tse 12 IN HISTORY Missing—Houses Collapse ‘Forecast of ‘Fair and Warm- ; and Tram Service Stopped er’ Gives No Promise of Immediate Relief _ Tokyo, Japan, Sept. (#)—More | . than 100 persons were drowned and many are missing, vietims of a ty-' HEAT CAUSES 1 DEATH phoon and tidal wave whieh inun-/ ene dated villages in the neighborhood of | Sa the city of Kumamoto on the island | Montgomery, Ala., Has 98 of Kiushiu, say dispatches received, by Avihi, Above—towa Cities Above 90 For Five Days ; The scene of the storm was report- ed near Omura, where the American{ round-the-world plane, the Pride of! Chicago, Sept, 12-(P)—The mid- Detroit, is waiting to take off on its‘west stewed and sweltered today un- next hop to the Kasumigaura naval | der a heat wave swept by hot south- ; Station near Tokye, jWest winds from the great central (Omura is about 22 miles north-' plains of the Platte, Arkansas and west of Kumamoto and is about 10; Missourt river valleys, miles northeast of Nagasaki, which{ No immediate relief was promised was reported in previous dispatches; by the day's forecast of “fair id to have been in the path of the ty-| warmer” nor did the Chicago weather phoon.) man see a possibility of lower tem- re was an unconfirmed report|perature for two or three days to in Tokyo that besides the 100 or more| come. drowned, 1,000 persons had perished] Iowa cities generally have re- in one town’ near Kumamoto. ported temperatures of more than 90 Dispatches from Osaka said that!degrees for five days, while Chicago, the typhoon was the most severe in/with a 92, experienced the hottest decades and that a number of im-|September 12 in its history. ortant buildings in Nagasaki and nly one death from prostration umamoto had been damaged. It/ was reported during the wave. was believed that the rice crop of the] Montgomery, Alabama, with a tem- island of Kiushiu had been consider-| perature of 98 degrees, was the hot: spot of the-nation, while only three tesa readings of less than 90 degrees came REDUCTION IN Franei ably damaged. One thousand houses are said to ibe inundated and destroyed in Kum-|out of the gulf states, Almost every jamoto by the tidal wave, teport from the west central states reached these high marks, Osuka, Japan, Sept. 18—()—| The upper Great Lakes district was Nagasaki and other nearby towns!the only portion for which relief in ‘the province of Kiushiu were {through showers was. forecast. struck by a typhoon this morning. eles Many houses in Nagasaki collapsed, |SUMMER-LIKE WEATHER telegraph poles were blown down and! PREVAILS OVER STATE itram ‘service stopped. The other| Midsummer weather, rather than|Files Mandamus Action in Places affected suffered similarly, that associated with fall, prevailed ., North Dakota Monday and was| District Court Against over due to continue today. A return to autumn was scheduled for ha oo and Wednesday, however, with the prediction: “Showers probable; cool- bat Equalization Board NEW BREAKS IN reported equally summer-like tem- peratures, The mercury rose to 90 Charging that the state board of equilization did not act in good faith GR AIN PRICES: Kapeet Berta aa tetra: (ae establishing, a valuation upon its a mandamus action in district court here seeking to prevent the board from certifying its valuation at $33,251,982. As established by the equalization board at a recent meeting the valua- tion of Soo line property for ta: tion purposes was placed figure. A temporary restrai been issued to prev senden. The lowest temperature {registered here Monday night was 69, while at 7 a. m. this morning the temperature was 74. Bism@rek’s maximum temperature Sunday was Increase in Canadian Pro- duction Estimate Chicago, Sept. 13.--()—Big new! 87. breaks in wheat and corn values took! place early today following an unex- pected large increase of the official estimate of Canadian wheat produc. OF CRED (! ORN ining order has proceeding with the work of cert ing the Soo line valuation to the at ditors of the 32 counties tion. In a rush of selling, wheat prices dropped 5%% cents a bushel, and corn 3%. B State Auditor John Steen. f Leading authorities here said today | power to rally. Inf Sinbitanenis menkanas.of the thy | Kitchen said, shows that the corn market was due largely to sympathy|¢p5 ? € with the uction of wheat, but was al-| the” htt jbearosied smpeldly during faith but purposely as a matter of so a result of cdntinued fine weather! iy the western and southern part of expediency and because of disinclina- for maturing the corn crop. Many'the state already are ripe enough to ‘ion to place a value upon railroad orders to stop losses both in wheat | nick, | Property generally, and plaintiff's and corn were automatically forced | Vagaries of the weather, he said, Property in particular, materially less into operation, and continued to bring! transformed what than it had been valued in previous about a semi-demoralized condition) sure shortage of years,” the complaint avers, in each of the leading grains. | The further charge is made that the equalization board has for years | WHEAT PRICES GO DOWN followed the policy of placing high ON WINNIPEG EXCHANGE valuations on railroad property and Winnipeg, Manttoba, ‘Sept 13.—() tions were generally favorable to the that each. successive vear extends its —Wheat prices sank sharply at the’ small grain crop. ok : i influence into the yee ene and oper opening of the Winnipeg grain ex- Rremotee Threshi ia ! utes to strengthen upplication of tha change‘ today, reacting tothe bearish| j¢numetee len wr s somewhat remarkable, Kitch- policy. The railroad contends that dominion government crop report ise! en sai, that when the small grain ever since 1922, and even before that, sued yesterday {crop was safely out of the way the its valuation has been at least §12,- The early decline ranged from 24/ weather should turn warm and cause 000 too high each yeur and that i @3% cents, October and May deliv-}the development of corn which re-, this year the valuation is $15,000,000 ery undergoing the maximum loss. | |eently has been apparent. Another too high, Unless curbed by ‘the "The. trading pit was virtually| important factor, he suid, is that re- courts, the complaint alleges, the flooded with offerings with very; cent fair weather throughout most of state equalization board will contin weak support in evidence. Liverpool: the state has promoted threshing op-' to levy excessive valuations on ri jeables which were lower also, acted erations, road property. The petition also al- as a bearich infuence. IX a recent bulletin the federal leges that if its request for a per- All the coarse grain commodities’ agricultural department advised farm- manent injunction is not granted, the were carried gownward, oats dropping erg to make plans for obtaining seed Soo line will be forced to pay % to 2%; flax 1% to 8 cents lower; corn for next year, pointing out that and contrary to law.” The: hi~h valuation was not set by the board “mistakenly and in good ation reaching his office, rd corn into a reasonably safe prospect. Corn was late and did not approach maturity as rapidly as had been hoped. At the ‘same time, however, weather condi- 605 in taxes over and above its rigl barley % to 15% cents down, and rye the indications were that it would: ful share. The correct valuation, it 1%@3% cents below Monday's close. be scarce, “Much of the corn in the contends, is $20,840,509. [corn belt and northward is so far, WHEAT PRICES PON behind that it has little chance t MINNEAPOLIS ‘mature sufficiently tor ase . Minneapolis, Sept. 13.—(7)-—Wheat frost,” the bulletin sai prices here dropped 3% to 3% cents’ letin urged femmers te tive wink today following the Canadian gov-| they held over from ernment's crop report, which said. to Case In it 4 The case is regarded as of especial importance here since: it calls into question the-equalization board's val- uation of all railroad property in the state, Be 508: Line sine he case other rail js are expect o tile te teeny 4te similar actions for reductions in their ondition. | "Paper welnatians. 4 F a rs in case were served on fields in the noxth: wikahows of the equalization board today. After reading the complaint will keep in Although many ern and eastern parts of the state ne orb ave Bees fronted inaleg in Tax Commissioner Thoresen com- sections will produce enough north-; mented that the railroad company ern grown to meet the demand,! “evidently is attempting to evade Kitchen said. ‘ He advised, however, Payment of-its fair share of the tax to Continue Plans h , pars Ks that farmers will do well to obtain a Son sans ae RR For Ocean F' \t sufficient’ supply of good seed corn fe pe nee the ke ae ligh Sr:See A8 Reasible: Harge Dersia te in rapes brought it, 13.—P)— G b Il the railroads jointly against neeeeemmen ts (seoes eee wisir plana. D. Not ‘Coming | - | tke sauaiisaton board, iy 0 7 ago. In the later trading, wheat re- covered % to 1% cents. Ri value as fixed in t judication fy te Aponte, “Ameriean iy Back,’ t Is Back, | o reater than the value assessed sl rw 11 o’elock today for is year, said, Wheeting “y . Va. where she will Says town Man E Boat ane: Meas consult financial backers of the| —< | “The valuation as fixed by the ht. = * St. Paul, Sept. 13.—()—That North f court was reduced because he plane was forced down here | Dakota oming back” was denied the board took into account economic last, night owing to the lack of fuel, |by ror C. B, Buckley of James- | conditions affecting railroad opera- as the result being blown off its town, N. D., in St, Paul Monday. -{ tions and finaneial returns from their course from ‘Tampa, Florida, to| North Dakota is back, the mayor investment, this despite the fact that ‘Wheeling. when and the harvest will im- the ph; hopped an already good agricultural sh an increase. The reduction co-pilot and navigator; Ed Cornell and business situation. vin the taxable valuation of the rail- of Winter ra re| yor Buckley attended the state roads has been fully as great as the Thomas H. McCardle, Lakeland; fair here last week. 4 ( ened on page three) =, t-Season | CHICAGO HAS | Where World Fiyers WillMect Test =i Above is a scene on Sand Island, of the they leave Tokio on the home stretch. roperty, the Soo Line railnead. has|the world monoplune Pride of Detroit few a’ ntion ine aitriet to" ave 1 at that . State Tax Kasumigaura neat Tokyo at 8 o'clock Commissioner Thorstein H. Thoresen tomorrow morning, arriving through plane’s p which the line runs, unless the vaiua- William S$. Brock, to tion so certified shall be only 60 per flight across the Pacific, the general . oy ight appreciate its curat. effect upon that the Canadian government cro} cent of the value fixed by the board,'opinion of Japanese aviators and all but desperate situation. | fepert, indicating nearly’ 60,000 000|Kitchen Predicts Sufficiency | °c" of,the value fixed by ¢ jforelgners hore was that their trip| "paring the pears. immediately” pre- bushels larger produc y would end at Kasumizaara, ceding the adoption of the Constitu- Canada this season than during 1926! - This Year—Slope Pros- Hegri tenting, September 29 | ae: ea eae tion the. mobs drove our Congress is about the most bearish document | ts ] learing in the case has been set WEATHER MAY KEEP FLYER: from Philadelphia into New Jersey, published in recent years. A drastic pects Good for ptember 2. - ‘FROM BREAKING RECORD TIME | “shot-up” the court houses in Massa. cut of Liverpool quotations today EES le in Ate camplaias ~ Eallrona) Tokyo. Sept. 13.--“®)—Unfavorable | chusetts, events illustrative of the added impetus to the selling flurry Confdence that plenty of seed corn © rte that om poare Pt - he weather today continued as a menu Reneral situation throughout the jhere, and, notwithstanding heavy | will be produced in North Dakota this other railroads “erbnrecily destened, it? the hopes of the American rounds ;country. buying Ao eolless mentite Sor: pracigns year was expressed here today by i and wilfully. contrary 46 the judg. the-World flyers, William S. Brock Benes wae arith auyhere tron «sellers, the icago wheat m i issi ly . y rt R ¥ r, Sel ; “ two and a ha cents on the dollar failed to develop any quick sustained culture chiens commissioner of agri- stone of the members of said board and Edward F, Schlee, to circle the two and a half cents ou the do -| The Japanese air men regard the wrote William Grayson: face approximate! y Ly sical veluation of all the lines; rop Chanler, noted art{fat and former Heat Wave MIDWAY ISLANDS ers when Midway Islan roup, goal of the round-the-world ff, ay Island group, goa aps The flight from Tokio to the Midway Islands and th ‘© via Honolulu, as shown in the map, is regarded as the supreme test of the flight. | CONSTITUTION Dearrngrod, WASSAVIOR I by Sterna DARKEST HOUR —— {Out of the Vale of Confusion, Pride of Detrcit at Omura, | It Rescued U. S. From Only Few Miles Southeast Threat of Anarchy ef Storm Scene =a Editor's Not The anniver- nary of the adoption of that little- known masterpiece, the Constitu- tion, is Sept. 17. This in the sec: ond of a series of 12 articles telt- ing the story of the famous code and analyzing its import. Tomor- row: The Men Who Wrote the Constitution. BY HARRY ATWOOD Tokyo, Sept. 12--()—The round | ‘was not believed harmed by the yp wave which struck tl jshiu today, according to dispatches from Nagasaki. The monoplane in at Omura, only a/ a Sem eales southeast of the storm | President, Constitution Anniversary The Nagasaki advices said the | Ber cade cca pa plane probably would hop off for, [7 order to appreciate fully the tremendous change ‘orderly prog’ in our nation: from chaos ta 88 Which was effected iny by the adop- tion of the stitution, it is necessary to review as a back- ground the conditions that: prevailed in this country at the time of its adoption, so that we may adequately probably ubout 3 p. m. | Although there were:no further re- ports regarding the intention of the ‘lots, Edward F. Schlee and continue their globe in less than record time of 28 down to nothing, credit was ruined, and, one-half days. : , ; { pepale, pakale , and discipline at a | With upproximately 10 days left b. in which to set a new record, the} As Washington Tells It flyers remained stranded ut Omura | Fr esr epee ated ou sapatcee MMS, Mice (ee. durine. 1768, 1786, and the: fiunt patt were forced down Sunday while en of 1787—the years immediately pre- “ ceding the writing of the Constitu- route from Shanghai to Toky PF ahingtons, letters to Ee fe After. tele naccnd, ational | "Tokeo friends were filled with pathetic ex- pastaisay. ibLiin winteinns Pride Pressions of despair, telling them how “sesed eke natal otticn, futile hud semed the efforts. of the of Detroit, dJapsacse naval officers sot noe aytul was the meohe one af (Dinara anponiiesd) today that TO" torsos unrearal the inte, Neather observations indicated they “"Rear in mind: that the ‘Constita: could not hope ‘to hop:off before tion was signed September 17, 1767, ran: .' On October 7, 1785, one year and le, fhe aviators apparently eleven months before the Constitu- remained firm in their intention to tion was adopted, Washington weete complete the hazardous flight across to James Wacrent the Pacific, Japanese flyers ndded «We ure descending into the vale warnings to those of friends of confusion and darkness.” ‘ica and here in an effort to di ssuade On July 26, 1786, less than one them from continuing by plane fur- year and two months before the Con- ther than Tokyo. stitution was adopted, Washington Proposed flight t6 the tiny Midway islands, 2,480 miles over landless jt ocean from Tol suicidal, they made this hop, they “Be the causes what they may, is shameful and disgusting. We If seem e'ther not capable or not willing would then to take care of ourselves.” 1,900 miles of , open sea in reaching Honolulu, andj , 2,400 from that point to the American mainland, Now drew revolver surprised the couple in the car, ‘which was parked along the high- way. Isadora Duncan to - Marry Noted Artist New York. Sent. 13.—(P)—The New; Verge of Anarchy On November 5, 1786, about ten , Months before the Constitution was {anon ted Washington wrote to James | Madison: Policeman Shoots | niNo day was ever more clouded ry than the present... . Ve are fast i His Former Chief verging to anarchy and confusion. — . A constitution, well guarded Bluefield, W. Va. Sept. 13.—()— and closely watched ‘to prevent en- A city policeman, John Williams, 37, Croachments, might restore us.” ‘today faced charges of ha: killed He wrote numerous letters in aj his former chief, D. Dow Dillow, 40, vein similar to the ones from which who was shot to death on a lonely brief excerpts are quoted here, de- road across the Virginia state line scribing conditions in terms of con- from here last night while seated in fusion, anarchy, and chaos. with Williams’ 92- Under such conditions of ¢haos , year-old wife, Gertrude. ; and despair, fifty-five’ men met at Williams sent for officials follow. Philadelphia and framed the Con- ing the stitution. He It took slightly more than four . months to write the Constitution, al- most a year to have it ratified by the states, and another year to set up the covernment under it. Yet, with- ‘in three years, conditions had 0 |ehanged and Washington had 86 re- covered from his depression because of the beneficent effect of the Con- stitution that he began writine let- ters of cheer and hope to his friends. Unparalleled i History York American today says Isadora’ On ieee” 3, 1790, approximately Duncan, dancer, will be tried in three years fromthe time the con-| board Nice on October 11 to Robert Winth- yontlen. was called, Washington wrote to La Fayette: hasband of Lina “You have, doubtless, been in- Sergei Essenin, Misy Duncan's late formed, from time to time, of the husband, hanged himself after she happy progress of our affairs. The; ‘ divorced him, (Continued on page three.) liere. 4 | Lieutenant James V. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [asm] BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927 ‘ WRECKAGE OF OLD GLORY FOUND Midwest Swelters Under Pos PRICE FIVE CENTS a. BY STEA '3 PASSENGERS | OF ILL-FATED SHIP MISSING | Parts of Other Planes Report- | ed Found at Two Widely Separated Points | FLYERS’ WIVES HOPEFUL i Ry Secrets of Nungesser-Coli, St. Raphael and Carling Flights { May Be Learned New York, Sept. 12.—-()—Water- jlogged wreckage reported found at {three widely separated points at sea {teday provided clews regarding 10 jbrave adventurers who vanished into [Atlantic skies in their great gamble {against the deep. || The north Atlantic began yesterday (to yield its secrets concerning the {lost monoplane Old Glory, and pos- sibly the lost expedition of Nunges- jser and Coli, the monoplane St. Raphael, which carried _ Princess Lowenstein- Wertheim, and the mono- plane John Carling, Wreckage of the Old Glory was reported found by the steamship Kyle, a rudder and part of an un- identified plane were found on the beach near Newquay, Cornwall, Eng- Tand, and a French fishing schooner reported having sighted _airpl: wreckage three weeks ago 300 miles east of Halifax. No trace of the | flyers was reported. Partly Submerged The schooner sighted the wreckage partially submerged about 250 miles off Sable Island, a graveyard of the Atlantic. In a report to the French hosp ship Jeanne D’Arc, now at Halifax, the schooner advised that the plane was a “yellowish color with black lettering.” Douglas Muir, a newspaper man of St. Johns, N. F., on board the steamer Kyle, sent the following message from the ship, wihch had been char- tered by the New York Daily Mirror to search for Old et B “Located wreck of Old Glory, lati- tude 51.17 north, longitude 39.23 west, at 4:30 p. m., no signs of crew, Particulars follow.” 600 Miles East of Newfoundland After its fall the Old Glory evi- dently had been washed by the waves to a position 100 miles northeast of the one it occupied when it broadcast i ppeal for help, and its position as ve hours out of Newfoundland, east.” The wreckage was found about 600 miles east of Newfoundland, in an area that had not been traversed by the four ocean liners that joined in the search, Old Glory took off from Old Or- chard Beach, Maine, last Tuesday with Lloyd Bertaud and James D. Hill, veterans of the air mail, as pilots, and Philip A. Payne, managing editor of the New York Daily Mir- ror, as passenger. It was last sighted by the S. 8S. California about 350 miles off the Newfoundland coast. Four hours later the SOS was picked up by the steamers Carmania, Lap- land, Transylvania and American Merchant. Charles Nungesser and Francois i hopped from Le Bourget for New York on May 8, and disappeared. On August 31, Princess Lowenstein- Wertheim, with Colonel Frederick C. Minchin and Captain Leslie Hamilton, left. Upavon, England, tm the St. Raphael for Ottawa, Captain Terrence B. Tully Medealf and their plane Sir John Carling, bound from London, Ontario, to London, England, left Harbor Grace, N. F., September 7. Wives Are Optimistic The advices regarding the wreck- age of Old Glory caused Mrs. Lloyd Bertaud an@ Mrs. Philip A. Payne to be optimistic regarding their hus- bands. “It is possible that some boat with- out wireless picked them up,” said Mrs. Bertaud. “We might not hear for two or three weeks, and they could still be safe.” TO ARBITRATE NELSON CLAIM Demands on State Highway Commission to Be Threshed . Out Soon Preparations are being made here for the. first arbitration of a claim against the state highway commission under a law passed at the last leg- islative session, The law provides that in disputes between the highway commission and contractors an arbitration commis- sion shall be appointed to settle the matter. The highway commission is to select one arbitrator, the contrac- tors another and the two so named shall select a third, / The case in which the law is being called into effect involves a contracy by Padgett and Wallace for the ii provement of a road in Nelson coun- ty. A New York. surety company which signed their bond also is in- volved. John W. Carr of Jamestown has been named as arbitrator for the contractors but the man to represent the highway commission has not yet nm nam The contractors de- faulted on the job but claim $97,987.68 which the highway commission has refused to allow. Under the law both parties to the and dispute must submit to the arbitration in writing their claims regard- ing the case. The use of the shell of fresh- water clams in making buttons is causing the species to beeome ex- tinct in some sections. Pre