Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1927, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, pre- ceded by showers tonight; eecler to- night. Temperature—Highest, $3. p.m. yesterday: lowest, 65, at today. Full report on page 9. at 298 | Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 14 am‘! 15 Ch ¢ gning WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. ¢ o. 30,424 WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1927—FOR’ The only ev 1a service. f L 4 I'Y-TWO PAGES. (s (#) Means Associated Pr PACIFIC IS COMBED FOR 2 PLANES LOST ON HAWAIIAN FLIGHT Naval Ships and Aireraft Speed Over Sea to Seek Miss Doran and Golden Eagle. HAWAIIANS LAVISH HONORS ON AERIAL DERBY WINNER More Thani:.’;(i),l)(r}(r)r Cheer as Woolaroc Lands First in Dole Contest. Aloha Is Second. | By (he Asaociated Press Destr ocean nes today con rse of the 2.400-mile Dole fii Honolulu for trace two lost planes Miss Doran, “fving while Hawaii lavished honors on the winners of wers, steamers a d the perilous co to of one bearing Mildred wl teacher”- the first great aerial derby in the monoplanes Woolaroc and Aloha. More than 36 hours out from the starting point at Oakland, the biplane Miss Doran and the monoplane Golden Jiagle were long ! overdue. Grave fears were expressed for the safety of the fv\'e! fivers aboard the missing craft, while all the modern agencies of | communication were thrown into play in the search. Capt. William P. Erwin was ready at Oakland to take his monoplane, Dallas Spirit, over a zigzag course to Oahu in the He planned to hop off some hope of finding trace of the flyers. time today. Arthur C. Goebel, Tollywood stunt aviator, and Lieut. W. V. | Davis, naval officer of San Diego, navigator, landed the Woolaroc first, winning the#Dole prize of $23,000. Second prize of $10,000 was captured by Martin Jensen, Honolulu aviator, and Navigator | Paul Schluter of San Francisco in the Aloha. A cheering crowd of more than 20,000 persons greeted the successful airmen as they landed yesterday aiternoon at Wheeler | Field. NAVY AND ARMY RUSH AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS IN SEARCH OF FLYERS SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 17 (P).—The Navy and the Army or- ganized all their resources in air and on water today to search for the Dole fivers, the biplane Miss Doran and | | | | 'RECEPTION TO GOEBEL, | WINNER, AND JENSEN, | SECOND, IS POSTPONED| HONOLULU, August 18 (@.—| George Bustard, chairman of the Aloha committe of the Chamber of Commerce, postponed plans for a re- the monoplane, Golden Eagle, “which 100k off from Oakland Tuesday in the race of 2,400 miles to Honolulu. In the hope that the planes, carry- ing four men and one woman, might still be afloat on the broad Pacific, nearly 48 hours after they began the flight, the Navy's fast destroyers raced out over the course the pianes fol- Jowed, and began to zigzag along the route in an intensive search. The airplane carrier Langley and the airplame tender Aroostook rushed north from San Diego toward the great circle with decks loaded with irplanes prepared to soar over the Pacific to pick up sight of floating planes or wreckage. The Langley carried thirty or more planes and the Aroostook two. From Crissy Field, San Franesico, 10 planes of the Army were ready to roar out to sea as soon as the heavy fog lifted. Four will &0 beyond the Farallones, miles off the Golden Gate, and the others| will ply up and down tne coas Vessels Warned by Radio. ception, ball and Hawaifan feast in honor of the Dole flight winners be- cause of uncertainty as to the fate of J. A. Pedlar, Jack Frost and their companions, in the missing airplanes Miss Doran and Golden Eagle. The monoplane Weolaroc, piloted by Arthur C. Goebel, movie stunt aviator of Hollywood, vesterday captured first prize of $25,000 in the Dole air race from Oakland to Hawail and Honolu- lu's entrant, the Aloha, with Martin Jensen as pilot, took second prize of $10,000. Goebel and his navigator, Lieut. W. C. Davis, naval officer of San Diego, landed at Wheeler Field near here at 12:23.33 p.m. (Honolulu time), the first fivers in the four-cornered race to reach the goal. The Aloha was brought down on the field at 2:22 p.m. (Honolulu time). and Jensen and Paul Schulter of San Fran- cisco, the navigator, stepped from the cabin to find that they had finished second. Land Two Hours Apart. The Navy sprang into action with| 7he actual fiying time for Goebel 1o 39 vessels of various classi-| yag hours 17 minutes and 20 sec- fications to hunt for the planes along | onds. Jensen completed the trip in 28 the 00-mile course. and among the Islands of the Hawaiian group. The Coast Guard hurried two boats | to sea. 1 Merchant ships were alert, warned | by broadcasting radie. | The search was on almost before the | fwo successful fiyers had won the ames D. Dole prizes of $25,000 and $10,000 by landing yesterday near Honolulu. Interest centered largely in the fate of Miss Mildred Doran, pretty Flint, Alich., school teacher, who, the only woman in the Dole race, was a passen- ger in the biplane named in her honor, the Miss Doran, piloted by J. A. Pedlar of Flint and navigated by V. R. Knope, San Diego Navy lieutenant The other missing aircraft was the shaped monoplane Golden Eagle «wned by George Hear! publisher of | 1he San Francisco Examiner, of thich Jack Frost of New York was pilot and Gordon Scott of Santa Monica, Cal., navigator. | fan Francisco time, Tuesday, just two hours and 16 minutes, unofficial time. Though Jensen and Schulter hopped off from the mainland at 12:34 p.m., minutes before the Woolaroc ‘left the sround, he arrived at Wheeler Field 1 hour and 58 minutes and 27 seconds in the wake of the big biue and yellow monoplane. The flights of the Woolaroc and Aloha consumed more time than was required by Lieuts. Maitland and Heg- enberger, who first made the passage | from Oakland to Wheeler Field seven weeks ago. The lieutenants negotiat- d the 2.400-mile afr route in 25 hours and 50 minutes. 1t was pointed out as the afternoon wore on that the absent planes might still have enough fuel to bring them either to the finish- ing field at Oahu Island, or to one of the other islands of the group. The United States Navy, co-operat- ing to make the flight less hazardous, | patroled 30 destroyers and other craft of its service. In addition, merchant ships Fleet of Vessels in Search. Two acore vessels, more than half of | of all classes established lookouts for | the fly the island waters with some | s Woman, 63, Gives Blood to Save Her hild Br the Associate JEF " CLT 2 ., August 18 ~ A pint and a half of blood given \im by the 63-year-old grand. mother for whom he had called in his delirium, today was bringing Willlam Ortman, back to re- overy after he was almost crushed to death in a mixing machine of the Davis Baking Powder plant here. Mrs. Emily the grand mother, volunteered for the opera \fler two Young men were re “What's the matter with <he inquired geons hesitated age Come on said SACCOVANZETTI Coons, tion cted, s hecansa of the woman RULING TOMORROW Counsel to Ask Supreme Court for Writ of Certiorari if State Denies Plea. Br the Associated Presa BOSTON, August ment tha chusetts Supreme Court on exceptions and a petition for a writ of error in the Sacco-Va public tomorrow morning was at the office of the official reporter of Supreme Court decisions this after- 18 —Announce- noon. It was understood that the four judges, who, sitting as the full bench, | heard arguments on Tuesday, had completed the writing of their deci- sion. 1t was decided, however, not to make it public today. The official r porter said that it would be given out | shortly after 9 o'clock tomorrow morn- { ing. Petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti will be filed with the United States Supreme Court in Washington in the event that the Massachusetts Supreme Court de- nies the petition argued before it on Tuesday, it was made known today | by Michael Angelo Musmanno, Pitts- burgh attorney, who is associated with | the defense. Will Await State Action. Attorney Musmanno said that he himself would go to Washington with the necessary papers, which would be filed with the clerk of the highest court in the United States. He added that he would not proceed to Washington before the State Supreme Court's ac- tion was announced. Intimation that the defense would carry their appeal to the Federal courts was seen yesterday when Arthur D. Hill, ehief counsel, visited the Federal Building and received in- formation regarding the procedure in filing a writ of certiorari. ~Although it is understood a_petition for such a writ must be filed in Washington, it appears likely that an appeal would also be made to a Supreme Court jus- tice for a stay of execution as soon as the petition was filed. In this case it is probable that the defense would appeal to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, now at his home in Beverly, despite the fact that he refused a petition for a writ of habeas corpus last week. Demands Release of Review. The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit- tee has demanded that the United ates Government furnish the Amer- n press with the same review of the case as was released by the State De- partment recently in Argentina. A meeting sponsored by the committee Three attempts to hold meetings on Boston Common in recent weeks have been broken up by the police. The demand for immediate release of the review was made in a letter to cretary of State Kellogg. “The cco-Vanzetti case” the commu- munication read, “far from not being a matter of Federal concern, * * * is now apparently such a vital issue to the Federal Government that that Government formally undertakes the extraordinary task of informing the public of one foreign nation what the State of Massachusetts has done in :{m case of two citizens of another na- on. Both Appear Healthy. “We cannot reconcile this action with the repeated statements of the Presidgnt of the United States, the Attorney neral and your own de- partment that the Sacco-Vanzetti case is solely a Massachusetts affair and of no concern whatever to the Fed- eral Government.” The fact that little more than four days remain of the respite which ved them from the electric chair on the night of August 10, apparentl caused little worry to Sacco and Van- zetti today. Both men ate their breakfast seemingly with as much the decision of the Massa- | etti case would he made | made | GHTING FACTIONS CLASH IN SHANGHAI S TROOPS GATHER ;Skirmishes Occur in Various Parts of City Beset With Soldiers. BRITISH ARE INCENSED AT PLANE WING SEIZURE | Chinese Nationalists Bottled Up When Tommies Cut Railway BY PAUL. WRIE o The and ¢ News ight, 19 AT, Auust 18- Sporadic hting took place In vavions parts of Wednesday night, following he arrival of 2,000 Nationalist troops etreating from Nanking. The troops came partly o the .J Field Park vicinity and partly to North Station out the rumor that five train loads of unorganized Chinese soldiers By Cable axo Daily e were arriving K CANCELLATION OF BORLAND LEVIES Committee Members Advise Commissioners to Drop As- sessments in Two Sections. The soldiers were nnable to proceed southward from Shanghal because the hanghai-Hanchow Railway line had been cut by British soldiers in an at- tempt to force the Chinese to return the wings of a British military air- plane which fell in Chinese territory Thus far the Nationalist foreign of fice is sitting tight. 1t has made no move to return the airplane wings to the British army. although such ac- tion is reported likely. British Tom- mies continue to guard the spot where the railway is cut on the outer edge of the international settlement. Dangers at Shanghai. While this condition lasts, the Na | tionalist troops are cut off from re | treating by rail to the South, and are pocketed at Shanghai unless they | choose to make a tedious march {around the city Cancellation of assessments levied { against certain property owners along T hat Isconfronted hy three, | Massachusetts avenue extended and possibly four, distinet sources of |also in the Capitol View section, for dunger: First, conflict between Chinese | street paving under the Borland law, |and British troops because of the air-| was recommended to the Commission- | plane incident and the resultant cut-|ers today by the special committee [ting of the railwav. Chinese assert|appointed some time ago to consider {that the British committed an act of { ypo merits of applications for such e cancellation. Sécond, danger from former soldiers | ¢an 3 of the northern militarist, Gen. Sun| The committee found that in these Chuan-Fang, and Sun’s sympathizers | two instances the property came with- Shang advancing. { Borland law, because of the character Third, the threat of the communists | o¢ the Jand at the time the assess- who see in the present disturbance | ments were made. It is expected the an opportunity to seize power not only | Commissioners will pass on these two in Chinese sections of the city but in |cases at board meeting tomorrow. here, who propose to capture Chinese |in the classes which the courts have | , if possible, while Sun 1S held should not be taxed under the | iWhi@-Wing Plane ie-Ving Plne (I EADS O AC Ot Cape Charles N ARKET SSUE Dy the Associated Pres NORFOLK, ., Reported discover inged plane adrift in the sea 155 miles east of Cape Charles, led to immediate preparations heing made today for dispatch of a destroyer to the scene. Coast Guard and naval officials, however, were awaiting official ad vices from Washing coast guard headquar said to have received a message from steamer Gulfpoint, which reported having sighted the plane, only one wing of which was above . ‘The only white-winged plane known to be missing is that of Nunges- ser-Coli transatlantic _expedition which vanished on a flight from Paris to New York Comdr. A. C. Read of trans. atlantic flight fame, however, said he did not believe the Nungesser plane could possibly have remained afloat until now. YOUTHS August of a whi Commissioners to Consider Reply to Treasury Query at Meeting Tomorrow. The District Commissioners will consider at their board meeting to- morrow what answer they will be able to make at this time to the query from the Treasury Department yester- day as to how soon the enitre space occupied by the Farmers' Market, be- tween Tenth, Twelfth, B and Little B streets, can be vacated to make way for the new internal revenue build- ing. It is not expected the city heads | will be able to reach definite conclu- | sions on the problem at tomorrow's | meeting, but they will begin consider- ation of the Treasury letter. The communication already has been re- | ferred to Supt. Roberts of the office DESCRIBE in Washington Associated Press news will be held in a Boston hall tonight. | the foreign settlements as well. Fourth, danger in the thousands of Chinese soldiers now under insuffi- cient control. In addition there is irritation among foreigners over dues and taxes levied by Nanking in contravention of treaties. Showdown Is Expected. Chinese soldlers in Shanghai num- ber about 9,000, counting last night's arrivals. Foreign troops total nearly 20,000, as follows: British, 12,000; Americans, 1,100 Marines, Japanese, 000; French, 00 Anamites and 500 ench. The Japanese are all marines and sailors. The opinion spreads that a show- down between foreigners and Chinese must come. king across the Yangtze River. Steamers arriving today report being held up to allow the cannonading to proceed. Nanking officers are trying to arrange with the Northerners to In one case a number of owners along Massachusetts avenue extended filed a suit in equity in the District Supreme Court several weeks ago to {recover the assessments, amounting | to more than $3,500. The Borland law { committee later considered the case | and found that it constituted one of | the situations in which the courts hold | that the Borland law does not appl | Corporation Counsel Bride concur- red in the committee opinion, pointing out that the District could not suc- cessfully defend the assessments in this case, In the other case, involving assess ments amounting to several hundred | dollars in Capitol View, no suit had been filed in Equity Court, but the Borland law committee told the Com- |the assessments canceled, and that therefore similar action should he taken by the Commissioners in this case. —— e Five Tell of Tying Watchman to Chair and Firing Shack After Robbery. The story of how William 69-year-old watchman, was beaten into | unconsciousness, robbed and trussed | missioners that it was identical with |to a chair in his shack which then| Pukow has been bombarding Nan- |a case in which the court had orederd | was set afive to hide the crime, was | related by headquarters detectives to day following questioning of five col ored youths arrested Tuesday night. | The prisoners, detettives say, also hold- THEFT AND MURDER Ross. | | of weights and measures, who man- | ages the farmers' stands. | If the farmers’ sheds are to be taken | down about the end of this year or early in 1928, a considerable time will | elapse before a new Farmers' Market could be made ready, since Congress has not yet provided the funds for the site or for construction. Should the situation take that | course, the question would arise as to | where the farmers would bring their | produce during the interim between | the tearing down of the existing sheds | and the completion of the new stands. { "1t was suggested unofficially from one source at the District Building that consideration may have to be given to some temporary expe- dient, such as finding some space where the farmers could bring their wagons while a new farmers’ market s heing established. The District authorities were repre- sented today as being desirous of be- ing as reasonable as possible in con- sidering the farmers’ situation and at | toaa wit h the Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,288 TWO CENTS. NEW LIQUOR DRIVE WILL BE GENTERED UPONDETROIT AREA “Most Critical Condition in Country Exists There,” Declares Lowman. | SPECIAL MICHIGAN UNIT TO BE HEADED BY STONE | Deputy Administrator at Cleveland Placed in Command of Forces. | By the Associated Press. Declaring that Detrolt presented ‘the most critical condition in law en- | forcement in the country,” Assistant Secretary Lowman today created & separats enforcement district of the of Michigan, which heretofore 1s been joined with Ohio. Thomas E. Stone, deputy adminis trator at Cleveland, was appointed ad- | ministrator of the Michigan district, ith headquarters at Detroit, effective September 1. Lowman indicated that other admin- |istrative changes probably would fol- | low: “We consider that Detroit presents the most critical condition in law en- forcement in the country today,” he said. “This change is part of a plan |of the prohibition, custom and Coast | Guard services to plug up the hole | that allows thousands of cases of whisky to flow into the United States from Canada.” The segregation of the Detroit area was made necessary by the present unsatisfactory condition of enforce- ment there, the dry chief said. His announcement was made following a conference with Admiral Billard, head of the Coast Guard, and representa- | tives of the Customs and Prohibition Bureaus. Stone was called to Wash- |ington to receive his instructions be- fore taking up his new task. Present Official Transferred. | The Detroit suboffice has been in | charge of Thomas Williams, deputy commissioner, who operated under the |administrator’s office at Columbus | Ohio. Prohibition Commissioner Do- ran said that Williams would be trans- ferred to another district. Stone, who is a native of Maryland and resident of New York, has been in the Internal Revenue Service since 1911 and has been in Government | service for 27 years. He was attached to the White House during the McKin- ley and Roosevelt administrations. A customs patrol, in charge ef Col- lector Ferguson, and now opsrating on the Detroit River, will contimus to tunction, it was said, co-orfiinating it: | activities with the new administrative | head at Detroit. Ohio Administrator Retained. The new district, comprising the State of Michigan, will be designated as No. 25. The Ohio and Michigan district, which was divided by As- sistant Secretary Lowman today, was designated as No. 12. ‘W. H. Walker, administrator for the | twelfth district, will retain charge of Ohio, with his rank unchanged. RUM SMUGGLING EASY. The first problem that confronts en- forcement officers in Detroit is some- think like 25 or 30 miles of water front along the Detroit River, with just a mile of water the only barrier between distilleries and breweries in Ontario. For a long distance even the width of this stretch of water is cut by pro- jecting boathouses set up on piles, prevent excessive damage to the city. | British warships are ready to evacuate| 59 ALLEGED RED SPIES the half-dozen foreigners at Nanking. admitted numerous burglaries, the LAiart et oD I i oM Eat du e ups and automobile thefts, and also ginle with the wishes of the Govern- dropped hints that they may know ment. the city. “Christian _Gen.” Feng _Yu-Hsiang is co-operating with Gen. Sun Fang in the latter's campaign against the Southerners. Feng may move on Hankow in a sympathetic drive. There is also evidence of a scheme to mbine Sun Chuan-Fang with Chiang Kai-Shek against Hankow, such a plan being favored by Gen. Ho Ying- Chen, in command at Nanking. Line-Up of Parties. faction of the Southern Natlonalists as opposed to the more conservative Nanking Nationalist faction until re- cently dominated by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. “Christian_Gen.” Feng Yu-Hsiang, who is credited with having a large and excellently equipped and trained army, has heretofore been reported co-operating with the Hankow and Russian radicals. He has been known The British postal commissioner and | his French assistant are sticking in | Hanow represents the radical, often | referred to as the Communist wing or | ARRESTED IN RUMANIA Local opinion at Nanking is that Persons Taken in Bessarabia Are Panion. i Thought to Be Part of Wide- | spread Organization. | By the Associated Press. | VIENNA, August | from Bucharest, the Rumanian cap- { Ital, report the arrest of 50 alleged Russian_spies in various parts of jessarabia. The arrested persons it is added, are thought to be a part |og a widespread organization. Soviet Russia_has never recognized the clause in the treaty of Paris of 1920 awarding the province of Bess- |arabia to Rumania. Bessarabia bor- | ders on the Soviet republic of the Ukraine. Reports of fighting in frontier last April were denied by the Rumanian foreign office. | TRAIN-AIR SERVICE SEEN. 18.—Dispatches | the | omething of the murder Smith, beaten to death when his com- Mrs. Mary Garvan, was slashed near the New York Avenue | Bridge the night of July 13. Police are skeptical of their connection with the latter case, however. Three Others Named. The prisoners were booked as Wil liam F. Eaglin, 19 years old. $08 | Twenty-fourth sireet: Andrew Robin | son, 20, and William Johnson, 18, both {of 716 Rhode Island avenue: Solomon Allen, 17, 306 V street, and Thomas W. Campbell, 17 of 1727 P street. Members of the homicide squad re | ported that the five said three ofhe: | were with them at the scene of the murder of Ross. a watchman on con sin avenue just across the District line. Baglin, according_ to detectives, talked freely of the Ross case, admit ting, the police say, that he and his companions planned to rob the watc! man and then burn the shack to hide th me. of Leon | struetion work being done on Wiscon- | | FOUR IMPLIGATED IN THREE KILLINGS Confession of Suspect Announced in West Vir- ginia Slaying. By the Associated Press. /. Va., August 18.—The | heriff's office announced today that fillard Porter, a suspect held in con- | nection with the slaying of a prohibi- | tion officer and two companions by Is | beneath which rum runners find ready refuge, pursuit under these being next to impossible. There also are wide stretch long Lake Erie where the rum nners with clearance papers for their “ex- port” cargoes may touch, transfer their loads from speedy motorboats to speedier automobiles and get into any of the surrounding territory over smooth roads. The State government at Lansing has recognized the seriousness of the situation, and time after time has put State troopers on the roads, and has established motorboat patrols, but with little diminution apparently of the supply [BRITAIN GETS REPLY TO OCCUPATION NOTE Rhine Problem Negotiations Ex- pected to Bring Cut in Allied Force Quartered There. By the Associated Press. before to switch his allegiance, how- ever. The daughters of KEugene Chen, them belonging to the United States| The Pacific’s greatest aerial rodeo Navy, were cruising over or speeding | brought all the color and emotion joward the path believed to have been | that has made these tropical islands LONDON, August 18.—Great Britain has received a reply to two notes sent recently to France on the subject of enjoyment as at any time during their imprisonment. Sacco is rapidly recovering the Railroad to Study Advantages of | Two milk bottles filled with kerosene [ o 03" 00/ chiners, had made a N | were carried to the shack, it was said, : e Airplane Links. and after the watchman was thrown | confession implicating three of his followed by the missing planes. To vessels on the steamship lanes 10 Hawail the wireless agencies wer broadeasting _directions wver the surface of the waters, w aircraft hopped off from both main Jand and Hawaii to scan the high seas for signs of the missing planes. Capt. W. P. Erwin and Navigato H. Eichwaldt of the Dallag Spirit. whose wind-torn fuse: lage defeated their effort to get aw as entrants in the Dole flight Tues- dav. worked past midnight at the Dakland Alrport to be ready to_take | oft at noon on a searching flight \t the end of which they expected | o land in Hawaii. Two Army planes stood ready at Cri Field, the San Francisco Army ort mwaiting orders to so of thelr cruising radius over the ainland end of the Dole race course. At the Hawailan end of course Army and Navy planes were zoom ing out to scan the broad expanses Swhere it is belleved the fivers may be afloat. For houyancy the Mis, prevared, nnless a 100 & Aito the Pacific prevented the dr ing of gasoline from its tanks. Golden Eagle was equipped to 1anks on wing ends and the re f 4he fuselage with air the turning of a valve from an air tank in t navigator's cabin. Doran Plane Can Float. The biplane carrying Miss Doran, Pedlar and _ Liel Vilas if it has been forced down in e ocean, can remain afloat a full Aay or Mo if the sea is not too Lieut. Ben M. Wya't, navi- &ation inspector of the Dole flizht committee, announced after a scie ai Doran was scent for a search | monoplane | famous. Long before the sun had| peaked over Diamond Head this morn- | a stream of humanity had found | / to the landing fleld. Receive Noisy Welcome. The orowd was noisy, but good na- | tured. All races in the territory were reported. Pretty little Japanese wom- | en in sached kimonos, Chinese in jack- | ets and pajama pants,. Polyne | and Koreans, Filipinos and Nordic blondes made up the welcoming mul- titude. Parking space had been provided by he Army officials for 8,000 automo- bil By 830 a.m. this space was filled and the territorial Hawalias w ined with additional cars for a [ tance of two miles. Army estimates of its T 1o the extent | the crowd grew hourly. At noon it was | stated by the reception committee that | more than 20,000 people had crowded {into or around the field. There would have been 3,500 more, but nature prevented. James 1. Dole, donor of the prizes, owns a large pine {apple canning factor He had intend- ed to give the 3500 employes of the factory a holiday to witness the ar- rival, but warm clear weather the last few days caused such a large | quantity of fruit to ripen that the 1 cannery was forced to continue in | operation. The day was preceded by a hecti night. Theaters kept open to amuse those who could not go to sleep and | to keep them informed of the progress jof the flvers. Bulletins were an- }nouncs-d in the theaters containing | fight news. | In the early morning, with a bright moon over head, hundreds of motor- ixts drove to the field ‘The moon strength that he lost during his long fast, while Vanzetti’s appearance re- mains little changed. When Dr. Joseph the prison physicia visit to the two pri asked Vanzetti how ceived the reply “Fine, thank you.” Holds Thayer Disqualified. Attorney Hill today filed with the full bench of the State Supreme Court a supplementary brief in an- swer to the arguments put forth by Attorney General Arthur K. Reading on Tuesday. The brief was offered for ~the consideration of Judges Braley, Pierce, Carroll and Wait be- fore handing down their opinion. Answering Attorney General Read- T. McLaughlin, paid his daily oners today he he felt and re- a writ of error in a capital case is within the discretion of a single jus- { tice, Attorney Hill said he could find “no’ case whene a single justice has | made final disposition of a petition for a writ of error.” The brief also insisted that Judge Wehster Thayer was disqualified tc preside over the case because of his alleged prejudice concerning which he defense had filed numerous affi- | davits, | Dynamite Reported Stolen. State police investigating the bombing of the home of Lewis McHardy, juror in the Sacco-Van- zetti trial, today turned their atten- tion to the theft of 15 sticks of dynamite from the garage of Joseph Bravo, in Medfield, The dynamite disappeared last Saturday. McHardy's home in East Milton was dynamited early Tues- | | | i | | | ihove, giant searchlights playing over the nd, and the mvriad lights from (Continued on Page 2,jColumn 7 ) | day morning. | George . Neal. State fire mashal, Aued on Page 2, Columa 44 ing's contention that the issuance of | Hankow foreign minister, are on hoard a viver hoat, en route to Kiukiang and anghai. Chen himself is expected | he | PLANE WINGS STILL HELD. | Officials Deny Reports They Have Been | Returned. ! SHANGHAI, China, August 18 (#).—Both Chinese and British officials today denied a report that the Chinese had returned the wings of the British military vlane, seized a | BOSTON, August 18 (P).— plane commercially today may to occupy a place similar to that of the motor bus 15 years ago, and it may be that at no distant date some {of our passenger trains will be co- | ordinated with scheduled airplane | movements, as they are today with our motor coach runs” President |George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine Railroad said today in an an- nouncement of the appointment of a :ommittee on aviation. The committee will include six offi- cials of the road, and will study air transportation as it affects railroads. Fourth Rescue party Fails to Find Trace Of Geologist Lost in Mysterious Cave | By the Associated Preas y CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., August 18. |~ The gloomy, subterranean avenues | of Nick-a-Jack cave, at Shield Mound, renn.. held in mysterious silence to- day the fate of L. 8. Ashley, geologist, o entered the cavern Monday on an_exploring trip. Ashley declared at that time that he would return Tuesday night at the latest. Since then nothing has been heard of him and yesterday a party of friends organized to search for him. They traced him for a distance of 4 miles into the cave, following chalk marks which he had left on the walls. Where the chalk marks ended, foot- prints were found in the moist earth and other marks which indicated that the explorer had stumbled and fallen. Nearby was a sharp declivity which nded as the bank @f an underground | Ashley had fallen into this stream |and that his body was carried away |into unexplored recesses. Further | search was to be carried out today. Ashley has for a number of years been enthusiastic in work of develop- ing the cave, which he claimed ranked as an equal marvel with the more famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. A fourth rescue party returned from the recesses of the cave today with- out discovering any trace of Ashley. Another party will enter the cave with- in a few hours to search a hitherto unexplored cavern. The third rescue party, which is still in the cave is expecteu out dur- ing _the afternoon. Claude McAbee, a guide, who led the searches, sald he is convinced that Ashley had eithher been caught under a rock slide or as fallen into the Off his guard by a request for ' neighbors in the fatal ambush of a cigarette he was attacked, beaten, his | party of ginseng hunters Dockets rified and, while still alive, tied | © Doruty sheriffs and State police, led to his chair and the building then Set |, gy, i mennis Hatfield, in the a e oil. The eight were ! :1::’: s:i:r:nll?.«\o(h\'i\led the 100t janoaneens for two days hunting the Trapped by Alarm. { slayers narrowed their search to the HetoeobE ations were sald | Wooded hills near the scene of the Rl T O raast mine stores, | Shooting as a result of the reported et failed when s | confession. Discovery of several stills icinity led officers to believe apprehension. In one instance, it was admitted, members of the party gave two white men a lift across Key Bridge, and the two men, it was asserted, participated in an attack and robbing of a pe- destrian. Further questioning of the prisoners is being conducted by members of the homicide squad with a view to determining definitely the extent of their operations here and nearby. is probable that the Montgomery County authorities will request the surrender of the prisoners to answer in that county for the slaying of Ros and burning the shack. The arrests were made by Sergt. T Burke and Policemen N. S. Hodkin- n, W. M. Gilfoyle, J. G. Arendes and M. B. Moore of the seventh precinc and R, B. Carroll of the second pre- cinet. MELLON TO SAIL AUG. 30. Sherift Hatfleld remained with his Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, | men in the hills and details of Porter's who has been spending his vacation on | statement to him were not known a cruise of the Mediterranean Sea, will| here. None of four men who had sail for home on August 30, it was| been arrested before Porter was found learned today at the Treasury. was implicated in the confession, it Secretary of the Treasury | was said. the ginseng hunters in camping near | Chauncey Hollow. Porter, one of the residents of the small village at the mouth of Chauncey Hollow, about 2 miles trom the ambuscade scene, was arrest- {ed at his home last night and was re- iported to have confessed to Sheriff Hatfield that he had a part in the !'snooting and to have named Bert Nel- son, Mit Nelson and Isom Curry, also | | residents of the village, as participat- {Ing. | Porter was brought to jail today by { State police after the posse had failed to find the three other men in Turtle i Hollow, not far from Chauncey Hol- low, where Porter said the men had heen hiding in rain-soaked brush since | the shooting. The others were be {lieved to be making their way to Cow Creek, where they had relatives, and turned in that direc- the search today tion. a proposed reduction in the number of allied troops in the Rhineland. The whole Locarno policy of eon- ciliation is involved in the Anglo- French diplomatic exchanges, which have continued for nearly a month, as Germany awaits reduction of the oce cupation forces in accordance with her understanding of the aims enunciated at_the Locarno conference. 1t is believed in London that the out- come of the negotiations will be a re- duction in the French troops by 5,000 or 10,000, which would be followed by a 10 per cent reduction in the small British force of occupation. The foreign office today declined to comment on the tenor of the French note or on the progress of the pego- tiations. e PREMIER JOHN OLIVER DIES IN VICTORIA, B. C. Canadian Politician, 71, Was Re- lieved of Duties by Party Last Month. By the Associated Press. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Au- gust 18.—Premier John Oliver of Brit- ish Columbia died early today. The premier, taking a sudden turn for the worse after several months' illness, died at his home here befére his physician could be called. K Mr. Oliver was relieved of his office duties when a Liberal caucus Jast month nominated J. D. McClean, min. ister of finance and education, as act. ing premier and leader te of . Dun‘. also has been on a vaca- tion urope, is expected to arrive in New Radio Program ) prk tomorrew. i—Page 42 i during the premier’s {liness. the Liberal party in British The premier was 71 years olds ,(