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he Sy WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1924112 PAGES. - G.0.P. OFF TO FLYING START![JRY ARENTS DRVEN - HERRIOT SEES U 5. ART | WEATHER. Fair today; tomorrow _increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer, followed by showers and thunderstorms; moderate northerly winds. Temperature for 24 hours ended at 10 o'clock last night: Highest, 77, at 6 p.m.; lowest, 60, 4a.m. Full report on Page 5. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” Entered as second-class matter 1,003.—No. 29,265. post omes Wasbington. D. & 12 DIE IN TORRENT BACKING PLAN FOR AFTER CLOUDBURST; Campaign Now Under Way Promises to| INTER-ALLY PARLEY Prompt Execution of Dawes | Report Held First Step | to European Accord. fied Ticket BY N. 0. NGER. And now the great presidential campaign of 1924 is under way, promising to be one of the most bitter political conflicts in many years. The Republicans are about fortnight ahead in practical preliminaries for the campaign. They took a fiying start yester- day in the reorganization of the national committee with its new officers. From this hour on the | Republican organizations, national and stute, will be “on their toes.” The Democrats are hardly ex- W to under way until after Jul unless Mr. MeAdoo nto convention with votes to put him over on carly ballot and unless the wrink the prospective Dem- ocratic platform can be ironed out sooner than is now apprehended. The most salient feature of the publican situation at this hour the delight with which Repub- licans have greeted the nomina- tion of their candidates and the intense enthusiasm and confidence which th, nominations have aroused throughout the party. The unanimous sentiment thus MES: FRIENDSHIP WITH BERLIN FRENCH PREMIER’S AIM a Cabinet Formed Ignores Minority Parties— ‘Young Blood” Main Characteristic. Dy $ Cable to 5 World me New 14 —"An inter lied seems to me to be indis- | T believe the United States convinced of the necessity.” This| announcement was made by Premier Herriot to your correspondent, who | s able to give the first details of the | poiicy which the new government | intends to inaugurate immediately and which has only been outlined heretofore. Determined likely lonely The Star Copsright, and PAR: conte: ¥ ns an pensable. to reject all methods | to compel France to plough a | furrow in international poli- | Herriot declared he takes office | this evening with the set purpose of | s L MPADOO ON WAY EAST tone o et o | 70 BOSS HIS CONTEST co-operation,” he | 5 3 o e Convention Chiefs Find Hard Job nternational unity can we avoid | Seating Democratic Delegates. All Want Down Front. Paris-Berlin Accord Sought. Iis efforts for international soli- fuvoring the development of revolu- | tionary forces in Germany. We know as well as others the | from German nationalism | ermanism, but we believe | poul guarantees and risks and common policy with the » latter will aid us in pre- | “ny spirit of revenge from iermany to renew the offen- WALSH MAY BE CHAIRMAN Homer Cummings Slated for Head of Platform Committee. | By the Associated Press. . that better than allowing | W YORK, June 14 —éign; of the “rance to bea i a -1 . e K i 1m.:ur1:‘lhe lrurdvn of an in-| near approach of the national Demo- k pation of the Ruhr? | cratic convention began to multiply Dawes Report as Safeguard. today as national organization offi- “The Dawes report offers as the | cials, subcommittee chieftains, boom «ns of returning to this policy of | leaders, delegates and just plain for it implies, in the Democrats began drifting in to size event of Germany failing to fulfill| Up the pre-convention situation. the conditions laid down, all the Cordell Hull, chairman of the creditor governments shall act to- | Party, held a series of conferemces gcther to compel her to respect en- With J. Bruce Kremer, vice chairman; sagements. | Norman E. Mack, national committee- So we must get busy right away |man from New York; Scott Ferris of with the experts' report and have | Oklahoma, Thomas B. Love of Texas, it working without any more delay.” | Isadore Dockweiler of California and Herriot expressed the conviction | Edward Quinn of Massachusetts. that “the German debt must be in-| Mr. Dockweiler began drafting ternationalized and at the same time a | plans for the seating of delegations, solution must be found for inter-|preliminary to a formal session allied economic problems.” Monday of the subcommittee, which 1t was in this connection that he | will allot positions on the convention announced his intention to call an | platform. international conference, explaining MecAdoo Coming East. “these various questions obviously cannot be dealt with or settled by| Workers for Willlam G. McAdoo s | announced their candidate was en |route from California and would ar- Wants Germany in Leagwe. | rive next Wednesday to take per- The admission of Germany to the | Sonal charge of his campaign. league of nations is another project| GOV. Smith, already on the field fguring at the top of the new |Of action. spent the first day as his premier’s program and forming part | 0N campaign director in making two of what he calls his “gencral peace | 0UtdoOr speeches, attending a Flag o raien | day dinner, reviewing a parade of Stressing his ambitions in this re- | Masons and distributing toys to Bast s Side children. #pect, he opened his mind as follows: Sl “The international policy, of which| The National League of Young | the league of nations is the center, | Democrats, which has opened head- must sbake off the character of |quarters, announced through Guy H. passivity and resignation and become | Woodward, president, that the league active, positive—it must, in fact, take |had been organized In Kansas, its Sis (Gitenaive |cloventh state, and that it had leased «Why shouldn't just and generous |an auditorium where convention pro- jdeas be pushed with as much ardor |ceedings at the Garden would be and impetuosity as doctrines of vio- |transmitted by a radio to a large| lence? overflow audience. =Peace cannot be founded solely on | 2 i precautions. Peace cannot be made P Iak iERy & R ! against or without peoples. The| AMuch of the pre-convention gossip support of the masses is indispensa- | centered on speculation as to who ble, but it is not obtainable by con- | woyld be permanent chairman of the straint. convention. The name of Senator me co-operation, Be Bitterly Fought—Party Satis- Is Strong. far leard from Republicans is that Coolidge and Dawes is a mas- terful combination. ¥ The Republicans take unbound- ed satisfaction in the agreement of opinion that the hitching up of this team assures harmony in the party, with no prospect of a fac- tional split. The middie west combines with the east to pull to- gether in easy stride, with no balk- ing. This statement, of course, ap- plies to regular Republicans, pro- £ressives and conservatives, and does not contemplate including Senator La Follette's followers, who are classed as non-Republicans by the regulars, RE T The Democrats are not letting the Republicans slumber peaceful- ly in their dreams of satisfaction and hope. They already have laid down a barrage on the platform and the candidates of the enemy. The Democratic national commit- tee opened fire yesterday with a frontal statement quoting a num- ber of Democratic senators in | _sharp_criticism of the platform. (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) LAYS TURRET BLAST TO LOW AIR PRESSURE Sailor, Survivor of Explosion That Killed 48 on U. §. S. Mississippi, Describes Flareback. MAY MEAN WIDE INQUIRY Other Ships of Fleet May Have Similar Defect. By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, June 1l4—Lack of sufficient air pressure to clean out the | great l4-inch gun barrels in turret No. 2 of the battleship Mississippi | was the first evidential clue offered | today to the board of inquiry investi- gating the cause of Thursday's dis- aster which cost forty-eight lives. So low was the air pressure in the | apparatus that blows out the rifie barrels and closes the breaches, that the latter had to be shoved home by hand after the second salve, aceord- ing to testimony of Francis Majeswki, Plugrhan, whose duty it was to close | the breach. He was one of three| sailors who escaped uninjured from | the turret that became the tomb of his mates. { Naval experts pointed out that lack | of thorough cleansing of the gun barrels of fumes and gas after each discharge heightened the danger of | ignition of powder left in the barrel | or of any fresh charge that might | be rammed in. The plugman’s testimony. said naval officers, if substantiated might result in a fleet-wide investigation of every big gun to determine whether | a similar defect existed on other ships of the Navy. Members of Court Silent. Members of the court of inquiry, however, refused to comment on the evidence, reserving their statements for their final reports. The investigation will be continued Monday and there is a general air of expectancy throughout the fleet, the prevalling belief being that the line of evidence offered by Majeswiki will be emphasized in the examination of other witnesses in an effort to fix | definitely the cause of the explosion. The man who is believed to know most about what ooccurred in the fatal moment within the ship's turret is lying aboard the hospital ship Re- lief, seriously burned. He is F. J. Rynes. chief turret captain, whose sta- Make Partner of Berlin. (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) “Germany, thercfore, must be given an interest in the solution of he reparations problem. We must sociate her with us in our task. And that brings us to a question— solves it—the admission of the nan Reich to the league of na- tions and the council. It is amazing was not realized sooner what a at moral success Germany's ad- sion to the league would be The future policy of Germany de- ds much more than is thought| upon the policy of the allies, particy. (Indians larly on that of France and Britain,| This message was recieved here to- toward her. A modus vivendl be- |day from Richard O. Marsh, leader of tween France and Germany is there- |the expedition into the previously un- fore desirable.” |explored wilderness of eastern Pan- | ) |ama, which already has cost the lives Bees (EWE Mat sl om: lot two members of the exploring Herriot seemed pessimistic regard- | party. Marsh's message said: inz events in the far east, predicting | and b By Cable to The St COLON, Canal Zone, June 14—The Marsh Darien expedition has discov- ered white Indians and will sail for ew York in three weeks with the King of the Darien and two white I “The white Indians 1 am bringing | that the United States' decislon cpn- | gith the King of the Darien are a | rning Japanese imm‘b‘"h»lo"‘ ‘:’]‘” | boy of nineteen and a girl of twenty- serious consequences 1o thef,,, mney are golden-haired, blue- whole world, with Inevitable clashes,| ooy ana -whné-:dnned. Thei bhac due to the necessity for Japan find- . gre covered with long, downy ing room abroad for her surplus pop- | ypjte hair. They are not the stand- | ulation.” ard Albino type, but look like very He added: primitive Nordic whites. We have make a peaceful | e 4 ‘Nowy | discovered many strange, primitive e Chmfl‘m?mmin et? :.n ufi,::-’, white Indians with evidence of a very ;*”hfl‘;“*J ‘w_":’l her ‘be obliged |2nclent civilization. We have se- u)mbe.g!n,n :l’ruxglan o' for exiatonce fhat| COTed" & 1aigs stinclogionl collection;| ving pictures.” fon, for |and fine mov ; :‘.:;‘l‘ogsi::’lmll::!:::nu:;:::‘;:a: o aoT | In adaition to Marsh, who is a civil ¥ engineer and explorer, the party, RADICAL CABINET FORMED. |which sailed from New York January M g | {13, included Prof. John L. Baer, { enthnologist and anthropologist of | the Smithsonian Institution and also | of the faculty of Ueorge Washington University; Dr. H. L. Fairchild, geol- oglst of the University of Rochester, | and Dr. Charles Breder, ichthyologist of the American Museum of Natural have “Evidently Japan will invasion of Mon- By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 14.—Edouard Herriot, Jcader of the coalition of the Left which won the recent election, has after a governmental erisis of four- teen days, in many respects un- (Continued on Page 2, Column Z2.) Golden-Haired, Blue-Eyed Indians ‘ With White Skins Found in Darien The explorers met hardships and | dangers from the beginning, enter- ing the jungle from the Atlantic side along the Chucunaque River. About two months ago a young attache of the Panamanian government, who! was assigned to the expedition, suc- cumbed to exposure and disease, and | two weeks ago Prof. Baer died of | chagres fever. | Many attempts have been made to penetrate the savage Darien region, since the occupancy of the Spaniards early in the sixteenth century, but all previous efforts have failed. The | Indians were treated so cruelly by the Spaniards that they swore eter-| nal enmity to the white man, and all | who ventured up the Rio Darien on | the west or the Chucunaque on the | east have been killed. A determined | effort was made by the Germans in| the spring of 1908 with the Von| Tueber expedition. Only one-half crazed man, who left the party be- fore they reached the country of the Darien Indians, returned. Before entering the Darien, mem- bers of the expedition predicted that if the white Indians were found the discovery would be among the most important of modern times . in.its bearing on anthropological research into origin of American racial cul- tures, which may profoundly affect scientific conclusions as to the origin and spread of human races. (Copyright, 1024, in U. Canaca, Great Pritain and South Ameriea by North Ameri- precedented in French history Column 6.) | History in New York. can Newspapers Alliance and the Rochester Times-Unlon.} i ‘ | the connection was made and {coming to their rescue. got wind of it and gradually dimin- | BESIEGED BY OB {Four D. C. Men, on Raid in Leonardtown, Bluff Crowd Until Help Comes. REINFORCEMENTS SENT BY HEADQUARTERS HERE Kept Prisoner Six Hours; Shooting by Prohibition Officer Caused Trouble. From a Staff Correspondent LEONARDTOWN, Md, June 14 Cornered in a room on the first floor gathered outside and dared them to from Washington bluffed the crowd into believing an automobile load of policemen from Washington was com- ing to their rescue, and after spend- ing six hours singing rag-time songs spirits, were rescued by two of their brother agents, who arrived from | Washington and dispersed the crowd. | Agents Thomas E. Wheeler, Robert |H. Willlams, 2. J. Tutt and W. | Burrell, reaching Leonardtown early | this morning on a search for stills operating in the vicinity, left their car just outside of the town while they tramped through woods and marshes to find and confiscate three stills. Returning, they their automobile gone and a crowd walting for them, making dire threal but using no weapons. Seek Safety In Hotel Things got hot enough for the pro- hibition agents to seek safely In the hotel. They ducked into a room on the first floor with the crowd at their heels, slammed the door, locked it and drew their guns. But the crowd paused on the porch veral min- 'utes of tense waiting, the crowd made telephone. Every effort was met by the tele- phone girl's polite answer that the “line is busy." After an hour’s effort the agents got Lieut. Burlingame of No. 9 precinct on the wire. connection was cut off. More trying, and finally Lieut Burlingame an- tion. “I've got {én men here. Tl get permission, it I can, and shoot them down there in a ca said the lieu- tenant. Crowd Shouts Threats. More waiting. while the érowd be- locked door, shouted threats and dared the agents to come out. One of the agents, Wheeler, can play began to dash it off, while the other three, with guns in hand., stood by the piano and sang. The crowd, meanwhile, kept up their noise. The telephone rang again. It was Burlingame, telling the men that he couldn’t get permission to send aid, but he had notified prohibition head- quarters and two agents in an auto- mobile were on their way. Conversation Disperses Crowd. making loud and distinctly audible remarks concerning the size and gen- eral efficiency of the squad of police ished, although enough men were left to keep the prohibition officers pris- oners. After six hours' imprisonment a car dashed into Leonardtown, its siren shrieking. The mob, now grown thin, vanished. The car drove up to the hotel, the agents jumped in, and were whisked away to Washington. The visit to Leonardtown today by the prohibition agents was their third in three consecutive days. They came down Thursday, raided some stills, and went home. They came vesterday, raided more stills, and went home. Coming this morning, Leonardtown and vicinity were taken by surprise. The agents left their car, a hired machine, with the chauf- feur guarding their coats and papers, near town and struck out through a swamp. First they found an oid and ap- parently deserted house with a one- hundred-gallon capacity still, the mash warm. They destroyed it and struck out through a swamp. other still, this of 500-gallon capacity, and destroyed that. Sometime later, they found a smaller still, destroyed that, and sent one of their number, | Burrell, car. He returned, panting from a hard run, with the news that their car and the chauffeur had been chased out of back to town to get their Leonardtown at the point of u gun. | Halling a Ford that rambled along the and drove into Leonardtown. There the mob was waiting for them, and they were chased into the hotel. The agents said that the trouble had its origin several weeks ago when Wheeler, one of the ugents, got in a row with Argue Jones of Peters- burg, Va., who was in Leonardtown, and shot him, wounding him slightly. Since then, they said, Leonardtown has been “laying” for them. Jailed on Jury Bribe Charge. NEW YORK, June 4.—William J. ‘Fallon, prominent criminal attorney, who has been sought by federal au- thorities since May 2, when he failed to appear tor trial on charge of brit- ing a petty juror, wes placed in the Tombs tonight in default of §35,000 of a hotel here tonight, while a mob | and banging a piano to keep up their | The crowd | They located u-;s“s Baby Fall, Leaps Headlong open the door, four prohibition agents | no further effort to come in, and the | agents tried to reach Washington by | They started | to tell him their troubles when the | { Institution, gan to grow and men pounded on the | ragtime on the piano. He sat down and | | during the session just closed {MOTHER DIVES INT road about that time they jumped in| nelShbOTS ART GALLERY PLANS READY IN DECEMBER discovered | $7 000,000 Capital Project to Be Pushed at Next Session of Congress. PLATT IS MAKING DESIGN Lodge and House Members to Ex- pedite Measure. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14—Plans for the proposed National Art Gallery building in Washington will be sub- mitted to Congress at the next ses- n. the American Federation of Arts announced today. An appropri ation measure authorizing the con- struction of the art gallery not to exceed $7,000,000 was offered at the last session of Congress by Senator Lodge, and the federation ex- pressed confidence that the necessary session. Congress aiready has set aside a| 078 o HIS LAST CHANCE. | TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—52 Pages. General News—Local, eign. National Politics—Page 4. | Maryland and Virginia News—Pages 21 and 23. Schools and Colleges—Pags 22. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 36. Around the City—Page 42 The Civilian Army—pPage 43. D. C. National Guard—Page 4 News of the Clubs—Page 47. Financial News—Pages 48 and 49. Radio News and Gossip—Page 50. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 52. National, For- PART TWO—I4 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 10. PART THREE—I2 Pages, a cost | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Seriai—“One Year to Live"—Page 3. Spanish War Veterans—Page 3. Music in Washington—Page 4. swered. He was told of thefr situa- | funds would be provided at the mext|arn sng- Navy News—Page 4. | Motors and Motoring—Pages 5 to 9. site for the building, and Charles A. | Platt of New York Is at work on the plans and design. He was selected by the regents of the Smithsonian which the custodian of the National Gallery of Art ACTION TO BE SPEEDED. The groundwork for legislation in the next session of Congress for ap- propriations authorizing the National Art Gallery building was prepared Th was done by the introduction of Sena- tor Lodge's bill, by a nation-wid campaign of education by the Amer- “(Continued on Page 4, a BANDIT BAND S Two Men Wounded in Pursuit of Quintet in Auto on Foray in Indiana. MARION, Ind., June 15 (Sunday).—, Five bandits in an automobile swooped | down on three Indiana towns last night. | committed daring robberies in the cen- 5 | ter of each and seriously wounded two | {men who gave chase. At an hour they were still at large. The robbers first appeared City, near here, and then sped Jonesboro and Upland, robbing grocery store in each town. Marshall A. G. Lunsford of Upland and Jess Nelson. who gave chase, were both shot. early Gas into a covery is doubtful. Automobile posses were hurriedly formed and are scour- ing this section. i 0 WELL T0 SAVE LIFE OF CHILD Into Narrow, Rock-Walled Pit; Neither Is Injured. Special Dispateh to The Sta: BELVIDERE, N. J., June ll,—The:» quick wit and reckless courage of Mrs. John Sadline of Oxford, a little village near here, today saved the life of her two-year-old son John. The mother was chatting with in her yard on School street when chance directed her glance to the rear of her home. She saw her son, playing at the edge of a well, slip aside its cover and plunge headlong into It. ‘Without an instant’s hesitation, she ran to the well and dived headlong into it. By good fortune—for the well is only six feet in diameter, is lined with masonry, is twelve feet deep and had only four feet of water in it—she neither struck her child nor hurt herself. Instead she righted herself and al- most instantly found the child. With one arm she held him, and with the other and her feet she worked her- TAGES | 'HOLD-UPS IN 3 TOWN The prohibition agents then began | Nelson was paralyzed from the | waist down by the wound and his re- | { | 10 and 11 Review of New Books—Page Boy Scouts—Page 11. . PART FOUR—1 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S Pages. Magazine tures. The Rambier—Page Section—Fiction and Fea PART SIX—10 Pages. Classified Advertising. Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. GRAPHIC SECTION--8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 Pages. | Mr. Straphanger; Reg'lar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. Mr. e ATTACKS WOMAN, " THEN KILLS HIMSELF Benjamin F. Roberts Ends Own Life When Victim Goes to Call for Help. Special Dispateh (o The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 14.—At- tacking Miss Ora Dwyer, thirty years old, with a blackjack in her home at Del Ray, Arlington county, this after- | noon, Benjamin F. Roberts, twen seven, also of Del Ray. inflicted two deep scalp wounds, and then killed himself with a revolver. Roberts and Miss Dwyer had been friends ior a long period, and it is believed by ac- quaintances that Roberts’ for Miss Dwyer had not been favor- ably received Roberts, an employe of the bureau of engraving and printing in Wash- ington, met Miss Dwyer, also an e ploye of the bureau, in Del Ray this afternoon and walked home with her. He asked for a book, she told the coroner. The book had been borrowed from him Hit With Blackjack. They went ment and to the kitchen. no argument, no talk of love, she told Dr. B. H. Swain, coroner of Ar- lington county, who conducted the investigation and issued a death cer- tificate naming suicide by pistol shot as the cause. In the kitchen, Miss Dwyer declared, she was attacked with a blackjack as she leaned for- ward to light an oil stove. A struggle followed, during which she escaped and made her way, half consciously, to the front porch to call for aid. Roberts seemed to have re- linquished the attack and went to an- other room. Here he was found a few moments later by Town Sergeant A. F. Driscoll, with life ebbing. The wounded man was taken to Alexan- dria Hospital, where he was pre- nounced dead upon arrival. Miss Dwyer also was rrshed to the self up to the level of the ground.|nhospital, where she was treated by where the neighbors she talking to took the child and helped ber out. Neither was hurt, had been ! Dr. M. llmr D. Delaney. Although suffer- severely from the wounds and the (Continued on Page & Column 1) affection | into the Dwyer apart- | There was | | 'HUGE MAIL ROBBERY SOLUTION SEEN NEAR Positive Identification of One Sus- pect Expected to Clear Case in All Details. BANDITS' TIPSTER TRAILED Wounded Man Said to Have Con- fessed Gang Head Shot Him. ted Press. GO, June 14.—A quick solu- of the hold-up | a Chicago, Mil- | wauk 1ul mail train a few |miles from Chicago by bandits who |obtained money and bonds valued at upward of $1,000,000 was predicted by the police tonight after two mail clerks had positively identified a man |as one of the train robber: | J. H Wayne. desperately wounded, jand believed by the police to be the | bandit who was shot by a companion who mistook him for a mail clerk during the robbery. is the man idén- | tfled as one of the bandits. With | three other men and a woman, Wayne |was taken into custedy in a spec- | tacular raid on a flat as the result | 2 tip that the bandits would be tourd there. | At first Wayne told the police that {he was shot while near Hammond. |Ind., by a woman by the name of |Miss Margaret Ray. Later he said 2 sootlegger shot him. Five bullet wounds were found in hi body, and doctors said he probably would die | The other suspects are Walter Me- Comb and his wife, whose flat was ‘ru\dnd. and Paul Wade, who said he {lived in Tulsa, Okla., and James Ma- {honey, whe were found in the flat | By the | cHIC |tion of all | Thursday Solution Seen Nea | “We are maKing rapid Pprogress in e case and expect to reach a solu- tion before long.” Mathew Zimmer, |deputy superintendent of police, said {in announcing identification suspect. Meanwhile Sheriff Peter M. Hoft- man, after a perusal of his records, said that a description of one of the l‘lwfl“dllfi tallies almost exactly with that of Tommy O'Connor, Chicago murdered, who broke jail three years | ago. five days before he was to have | been hanged A new $1,000 bill and a $300 bill | | were fund in Wayne's clothing and a | 'SLOOQ bill was found in “'fldl".“i | pocket erial numbers of the bills do not correspond with those of any | of the money thus far stolen, it was announced after a hurried check. 1d to Be Aviator. Wade was reported to an aviator and this fact led to a re- al of the theory that the bandits | escaped in an airplane seen near the | | scene of hold-up the morning after the | robbery. The known loot was infreased to- day to $447,000 in cash and bonds, but | lit admitted that more than this | amount is missing and unofficial | sources placed the loss at between 1$1,000,000 and $3,000,000. Postal in-| spectors and government agents were | | devoting a great part of their time | to investigation of the theory that| | “TContinued on Page 4, Column 1.) | T | {ADMITTED SLAYER HEARS! JUDGE ADVOCATE DEATH | Murderer Expected to Get Life Sen- | | tence by Guilty Plea-—Case i Is Continued. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 14—Russell Scott, | former Toronto promoter Who turned hold-up man and shot and killed a drug clerk last April, heard Superior Judge Lindsay declare his opinion today that he ought to be hanged. Scott recently pleaded guilty to mur- der, apparently expecting a prison sen- tence. When Judge Lindsay declared that “there is a class of cases that demangd the extreme penalty, and this is of that | class” Scott's attorney broke into | weeping, and impiored the court to al- low Scott to withdraw his plea of guilty. But the court sald, “There are no mitigating circumstances here." The judge continued the case until | Wednesday without passing sentence. | of on have been was | | 0SS 15 §1,000,000 Six in One Family, Three in Another, Victims of Flood in Tennessee. THOUSANDS OF ACRES ENGULFED; CROPS LOST Four Persons Seriously Injured: Child, Trapped in Tree Three Hours, Is Saved. | By the Associated Press JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., June 14 Twelve known dead, four seriously injured, more than a dozen houses, barns and mills demolished, twenty miles of the Appalachian division of the Southern railway made impase- able, with parts washed away, and thousands of acres of farm land ruin- ed, with the total loss estimated at $1,000,000, constitute the toll of the most disastrous cloudburst ever re- called in this section. It appeared to have its center near Hunter, Siam and Cardens Bluff and on Little Ston Creek and Blue Springs Creek, wher a house in which were two familic went to pieces, taking nine lives. The dead are: Mrs. Cecil Lewis and five children, aged fourteen, ten, fou and two years and four months; B mith, his wife and seven-year- old son, Willard, all of whom were the Lewis house a six-year-old daughter of N. G. Ellis, an uniden fied sawmill hand and A. B. Irick of Fish Springe, Tenn Four dwellings, a storehouse and & mill. with considerable live stock were washed away in the vicinity of Siam four small houses Fisi Springs went with the tide Houses destroyed the Hunte section include those of P. F. Smith, J. Oliver. D. P. Lewis, Ellen Mor- ton, Mrs. C. W, Smith and Y. Vaughan, Ed Smith, Bruce Smith James Lewis and Cecil Lewis; also the mill of Alfred Bowers and four sma!! houses at Fish Springs at Injured Boy Trapped In Tree. The storm came without a warning jast night and early today, and its fury was grap! cally told by Ceeil Lewis and his sons, Walter and Charles, seven and cleven years of age, who were brought to a hospi- tal in Johnson City, suffering from bruises and cuts, the younger bov having his cheek cut open through into his mouth, in which condition he remained in a tree top three hours waiting for the waters to recede. Lewis said that he was thrown from his house when a wall of water he estimated to be twelve feet high filled with rock, earth and trees, struck the house. After being washed down the valley a short distance, he reached the bank, and made h to the house of a neighbor, Edward Smith. As he entered the house, it was struck by the torrent. which turned the house completely around Lewis was again thrown outside, but landed against a bed wire fence and escaped. His two sons, Charles and Wailter, escaped by catching the branches of a tree, almost submerged The younger boy caught the tree, and pulied his brother up and there they remained until the receding waters allowed them to climb down. A neigh- bor, attracted by their cries, came to their aid and they were hurried to a hospital. is way Bodiex Are Recovered. and of the been The bodies of Mrs. Smith son have been recovered bodies of the Lewis family have recovered. A six-year-old daughter of N. G sllis was washed away while her father was attempting to rescue other members his family from their home. Her body was found later with the dress caught against barbed wire fence The unidentified sawmill hand was swept into the river, and likewise no trace has been found of the body of A. B. Irick, who was Swept away while attempting to walk from Fis Springs to Butler. All communica- tion out and east of Hunter, six miles from Elizabethton, and from Hampton, four miles to the south. was cut off with the destruction telephone linex, washing out of rai roads and demolishing of roadwa Information as to the extent .of the storm was not received until parties who walked a distance of about twenty miles reached Elizabethton Tracks Washed Out. The tracks of the Southern Rail way, Appalachian division, were washed out in seven places between Hunter and Carden’s Bluff. About four miles beyond that point the tracks were deeply covered with earth, boulders and trees; an em- bankment between Fish Springs and Butler was washed out for a dis- tance of ‘200 feet, and several tres- tles were made unsafe. Remidents of Fish Springs, fleeing trom the storm, abandoned their houses as the water rose, and first took refuge in box cars. A number gathered in a church, remaining there the remainder of the night. The highways were strewn with boulders, logs. trees and earth. Waters of the Watauga are said to have risen eight feet in a single hour, forcing campers to higher ground. Power lines of the Watauga Power Company, whose plant is operated at a fifty-five-foot dam across the ‘Watauga, near Slam, were put out of commission. Water which had been flowing over the dam at a depth of three inches, suddenly rose until a torrent five feet deep was sweeping (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) her none t of