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. » s, —_— SATHER. W (U 8 Weather Cloudy tonight Closing N. Y. Markets, l’agel 10 and 11 Burean Forecast.) and tomorrow; con- hest, 69, at 1 p.m. v 30 am. to- red as oflice, N 30433, B Wa second class matter shington, D. HUNT FOR REDFERN PLANNED; NO WORD HEARD FROM FLYER Three Seaplanes Prepared for Search From Bahamas to Turks Island. AVIATOR DUE TO REACH BRAZIL BY EARLY TONIGHT Sponsors Not Alarmed, However, as Course Is Out of Touch With World. Br the Associated Press, MIAMI, Fla., August —TPrepara- tions were being made here today Bdward Niramier, head pilot leading commer waters, to send to the Baham aviation unit in these three seaplanc ON FIRST LEG Brock and Schlee Leave | Newfoundland for Eng- land This Morning. Earth-Girdling Trip in Big Monoplane. By the Associated Press. | HARBOR GRACE. Newfoundland, | August 27.—The monoplane Pride of Detroit hopped off for Croydon, Eng- land, at 5:14 am., Eastern standard time, tods The Sti William S, F. Schlee, off on the set a new the world. Weather Is Perfect. Arriving yesterday afternoon from Old Orchard, Me., the plane was re- fueled and 1 ready for a start today to take advantage of the splen- did weather which had attended the flight thus far. Dawn today again found the weather well nigh perfect. son-Detroiter, which carries Brock, pilot, and Edward Detroit business man, is first leg of an attempt to record for a trip around e s Island to s as far south | the mono- | r the ¥ wick, pped off Thursc . for South A a. Brazil Awaits News. { RIO DE l\\l 1RO, August (2). —Dispatc Pu and Pernam- | buco at this morning s h! those cities without news of Redfern, SPONSORS NOT ALARMED. | | | e Iru k were Aviator Believed Near Goal 1f He Has Escaped Mishap. BRUNSWICK, Ga., August 27 (®.— With the blackness of two moon nights behind him, Paul Redfern t day sped his giant monoplane through its second and on- ward to the s ary flight | to Brazil, unless a whim of nature or mechanics has stopped him short in a | tropic region out of touch With an eagerly waiting world. Only once in his journey have even vague tidings been received of this newest Viking of the clouds. Thurs- day night a vessel reported him about 300 miles east of Nassau, Bahama but this information remains uncon- firmed. Scarcity of news was not lated into alarm. how course that Redfern Ja him over virtually land. Continued si come portent of dan of his planned a early . tonight if he flies to Rio de Janeiro or near mnoon today if low fuel supply or another cause prompts him to swerve eastward to Pernam- buco, on the coast. Might Land at Para. One further contingency would land him at Para, northwe: buco and almost 1,500 miles directly north of Rio de Janeiro, the major objective of the daring pilot, who tapulted inte space from Glynn Isle, iear here, at noon Thursday. Pars was his intended landing adverse winds and weather forced too id consumption i trans- for the ut carried seas and nce will not be- er until the hour has passed— of the local committee sponsoring the flight. Radio stations, ships and light- houses sprinkled on and mnear his southeasterly route across the equator ave alert to his voyage and plan to flash to the world the first news they ve of Redfern or his plane. Ama- teur wireless operators throughout the southeast, as well as operators of powerful government and commercial stations, are keyed up and listening in for the slightest bit of information concerning the pilot’s whereabouts In Brunswick, where tions were made and f stupendous attempt he Young wife is anxiously awaiting niews, although she, like the othe particularly interested in the aviat progréss, has kept her confidence in his success, realizing that his fully plotted course afforded no hou by-hour check on his 4,600-milg journe through the clouds. Encountering Good Weather. Adding to the zeneral belief that Redfern’s ambuco, are r yorts of Go meteorologis that he will encounter favorab weather conditions through practical- | all of his transequatorial jump, pecially over those dubious stretches of ihe lower Alantic and the Carib- bean Sea. whose treacherous reach am of lllg,hl met no unforeseen mis- By his pre-flicht computations, Redfern today should b v northeastern part of Brazil, @ acrosgs Dutch « na and blazing a yiew aerial highroad over the high mountain ranges. In the Pascaraima Range one Deak, Roraima, jtself 8,600 feet in hes nd Red- fern must put these « ow and behind him before he can cross the great Continental Plain, with its vast Tnexplored morasses and jungles. 1t-was here that Redfern w pected to make his choi Jeetives—it unforeseen circumstanc J%ad not already landed him at Para. 3¢ his great Stinson-Detroiter mono- Piane is still whirring harmoniously and his fuel ply_has not been depleted when | es the moun- 1 motor's and his own will swing eastward i wili bring him up o Redfern’s ambit de Janeiro were reac v Jim approximately Ie of Brunswick east of it. TI charted to i1 nse of the tri over the great circle, .. which has been ca s south ated at ) | over a much | A light wind blew from the north- west at about 10 miles an hour, while visibility was excellent. The record of 28 days 14 hours and ) minutes for globe-girdling, which | Brock and Schlee hope to break, was set last year by Edward 8. Evans and Linton Wells,” who used ships and trains as well as airplanes. The distance between Harbor Grace and Croydon, near London. is 2,350 miles. Plane in Good Shape. The Pride of Detroit has already negotiated easily at an average speed of about 100 miles an hour, a hop from Curtiss Field, N. Y., to Old Orchard, Me., and that of yesterday of about 1,000 miles to Harbor Grace. ONUMENT URGED FOR DOLE FLYERS Memorial at Golden Gate Proposed—Services to Be Held 700 Miles at Sea. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 27.—A lasting memorial to the miss- ing Dole flyers, a monument just out- side the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, the-spot over which the three planes moved out into the Pacific, is proposed by the San Fran- cisco Examiner editorially. “We owe these 10 heroes this trib- ute,”. the Examiner says. “They flew for America, not only for the prize. This country’s supremacy may yet de- pend upon the complete mastery of the 2,400-mile sky trail to our terri- tory in midpacificc. When that mas- tery is perfected the lessons learned in the Dole flight will lie at the basis of the achievement. Let us hope un- til hope must be abandoned and then let us act to memorialize, in lasllng beauty, this Donner party of the air.” (The Donner party, which attempt- ed to cross the plains in the early days, all died by cold, starvation or at the hands of Indians before reaching California.) Memorial at Sea Planned. A movement to hold a memorial at sea September 16 for the seven flyers missing in connection with the Dole ir race has met with unanimous ap- proval, Tons of flowers are expected to be placed aboard the Matson liner Maiu by relatives and admirers of the flyers —these to be cast upon the Pacific waters some 700 miles west of San ancisco on September 16, one month fter the exciting start at Oakland, Calif., of the first aerial race to Ha- waii. A clergyman aboard the Maul will be called upon to deliver the eulogy in the memorial servicesand passengers bound for Hawaii are to form the chorus, singing anthems as floral of- ferings are tossed from the steamer’s decks to line the great circle for miles. « c officials responded readily to the memorial suggestion and heads of the Matson Navigation Co. offered the services of the Maui. Navy Search Continues, The Navy's search along the ocean lane toHonolulu was stll in progress to¢ I Richard H. Jackson, com- mander-in-chief of the Pac¥fic ficet, re- iterated aboard his flagship, the dread- naught California, in San Francisco Harbor that the sea quest would be abandoned only with the abandonment of all hope of finding the aviators. ‘With the search on this side of the Pacific virtually concluded subma- rines, mine sweepers, six destroyers and a light cruiser still were carrying on the hunt in the western sector and stretch of water 500 miles | northwest of the main Hawailan niser Omaha and six ¢ vere continuing their sweep nf the Midpacific toward Honolulu, where they are due Monday. | Twenty-three submarines and three uxiliary craft were combing an area extending 500 miles southeast of the | Island of Hawali, an equal distance northwest of Kaul and 300 miles south of Honolulu. | ALOHA NAVIGATOR GIVEN $1,000 HONOLULU, August 27 (#).—Capt. FIRE HEMS IN FAMILY * Flames Sweeping fooesteotiior: gon Believet Spreading. NE, Oreg., August 27 in’ their home by a 1 on Nelson Creek, neur her a family of five or six was endangered by the raj spreading flames today Four other families livin the burning area were ) forest El A lemmed in homes an believed #afe. York Pa Reports Snow. YORK, Pa rs in this city snow flakes several of August todity Itowa the is the f - in but dents say that Cier BAW SHOW in August o believed | Paul Schluter, navigator of the mono- | plane_Aloha, st 1_pri ler in (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) (2l [Seek to Set New Mark for| WASHINGTON 'FLYERS START OVER ATLANTIC OF WORLD RACE Proposed Itinerary Of World Aviators WILLIAM S. BROCK. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, August The expected jumps in the Pride of Detroit’s flight around the world, follow: Miles. Harbor Grace, N. F J London, England. Stuttgart, German: Belgrade. Jugoslavia. Constantinople, Turkey Aleppo, Syria Bagdad, Iraq Bender Abbas, Per: Karachi, India *Allahabad, India Calcutta, India Rangoon, India Tourane, French Indo- China .. . Hong Kong. Tokio, Japan (Radio Beac on) 1,82 ’D Sand Island of Midway Islands (Radio Beacon). Honolulu (Radio ancon) San Francisco. Cheyenne ... Chicago Detroit . Harbor Grace 2,350 460 610 500 590 485 885 Total mileage............ Total flying time about ‘hours. BOMB IS HURLED AT DANCE, ONE DIES Explosive Thrown From Rail Tracks Onto Open-Air Floor Near Nice. By the Associated Press. NICE, France, August 27. sons were injured, one fatally, explosion of a homb thrown from-a railroad track into an open-air dancing establishment at Juan-les-Pins, near here, last night. The bomb fell between dances, other- wise more persons would have been hurt. The dancers fled precipitately, leaving all their effects behind. Louis Toledo, a Russian, one of those injured, died this morning The police, who at first thought the out- rage the work of anti-Fascists, now are inclined to believe the bomb was thrown by an anarchist who hoped to injure some of the wealthy foreigners gathered at the fashionable Riviera resort at the present time. Three French citizens and two other Russians were known to be injured by the bomb. It is stated that a number of others were wounded, but refused to make themselves known to the au- thorities. No Americans were in- volved, HOOVER PUT FIRST BY WYOMING EDITORS Convinced He Will Be G. 0. P. Choice, They Say After Inter- view With President. — By a Staft Correspondeut of The Star. SYLVAN PASS, YELLOWSTONE NATIQNAL PARK, August 27.— President Coolidge yesterday received half a hundred members of the Wy- oming Newspaper Editors’ Associa- tion, who have been holding their an nual convention in Yellowstone Park. It was the concensus among these editors that Herbert Hoover will be Wyoming’s choice for the Republican presidential nomination next year. ‘The opinion also was expressed that Wyoming Democrats have switched from McAdoo, whom they supported in 1924, to Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York: A presidential * preference poll of these editors resulted in 33 votes for Sec y Hoover and 2 for former Gov. Lowden of Illinois. SCHLEE AND BROCK In the 5 Pride 0{ DCtl’O;t - Hop Off for Flight Around the World The story of their adventure will be told by the aviators in signed articles to be published in Washington exclusively in The E_venmg A Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SATURDAY, NANKING CAPTURE IS REPORTED BY SUN CHUAN-FANG Shantungese General Takes Former Seat of Chiang’s Nationalist Regime. AMERICAN DESTROYER DAMAGED BY GUNFIRE Southern Forces Claim Northern- ers Forced Back Across Yangtze River. By the Associated Press. PEKING, August 27.—Capture of Nanking, former seat of the National- ist regimé under Chiang Kai-Shek, claimed for Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang's Shantungese or Northern army Nationalists Claim Victory. SHANGHAIL, China, August 27 (@), —The Natfonalists (Southerners) claim to have driven the Northern troops back the Yangtze River yes- terday after disarming the majority. The Nationalist military authorities state that they have taken over both “the Shanghai-Hangchow and Shang- hai-Nanking Railw: ing to the northwest and southwest, respectively) and repaired thé breaks in them. They also state that they have rushed 8,000 men from Hangchow to Chin- kiang, on the south bank of the Yangtze east of Nanking. There is no traffic on either railway line other than troop movements. S. VESSEL DAMAGED. Armament Nearly Pierced by Heavy Firing of Chinese. SHANGHALI, China, August 26 (®). —So heavy was the fire against the United States destroyer Noa by Nan- King Nationalists from the south bank of the Yangtze River about Chinkiang Thursday that the Noa’s armament was nearly pierced at various points where hits were scored. Officers of the Noa reported that the destroyer encountered the fiercest firing 40 miles below Nanking, when unusually heavy ammunition was used against the American craft. The Noa reached Shankhal tonight, and bore evidences of the attack. The destroyer replied with machine guns and automatic rifles, Spring- flelds, firing 3,000 rounds at the at- tackers, who were hidden in high grass on the south bank of the Yangtze. There were no American casualties. Admiral's Boat Attacked. The Americans were unable to ascer- tain if there had been casualties among_their attackers. The Yangtze patrol flagship Isabel, varrying patrol commander, Admiral Hough, arrived just ahead of the Noa. This vessel also was attacked by Nationals and returned fire. The attack occurred while American ves- sels were convoying three British commercial steamers from Nanking to Shanghai. Officers of the Noa re- ported that all foreign shipping in the Nanking section of the Yangtze is again subject to attacks by both Northerners and Southerners, who face each other from the north and south banks, respectively,® of the river. The name Nanking has been almost a by-word in the present Chinese internal struggle. Holding sentimental value in the eyes of the Nationalists because it contains the Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Nationalist movement, the city, situated on the south bank of the Yangtze River, also has considerable military stra- tegic value as a railway terminus and as the “gateway” between northern and southern China. Scene of Outbreak. Tt was in Nanking that the anti- foreign outrages of last March 24 curred, involving the loss of Amer- ican and British lives and the looting of the consulates. Naval vessels used their guns to protect the retreat of some of the foreign residents, and the remainder were allowed to reach the river only after threat of a hombard- ment of the Chinese military posi- tions. This affair occurred after the entry of the Southern or Nationalist troops. It was after consolidation of the Na- tionalist occupation of the city and the further advance of the Nationalist drive to the north that (n. Chiang Kai-Shek set up his separate govern- ment, splitting_from the old Nation- alist regime at Hankow. Chiang resigned two weeks ago after severe military reverses, asking the Hankow authorities to take charge of the revolution and urging unity against the north, LINDBERGH MAY VISIT CHINA WITHIN YEAR Says He Might Go There to Pro- mote Aviation at End of American Tour. By the Associated Press. FARGO, N. Dak., August 27.—In another year Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh may be in China. Extended an invitation to that coun- try on behalf of the Cantonese govern- ment by Dr. Tien Lai Huang, who was a guest at the banquet in Col. Lindbergh’s honor here last night, Col. Lindbergh said that upon com- pleting his present work in America he might go to China’. “Promotion of aviation in China is the purpose of the invitation to the transatlantic flyer,” Dr. Huang said following his interview with Lind- bergh. Dr. Huang is concluding a four-month good will tour in America. Sioux Falls, S. Dak., was on Col. Lindbergh's itinerary today. * RAIN DELAYS OLD GLORY. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Au- gust 27 (#).—With raindrops dripping from its golden wings, the monoplane 0Old Glory huddled at the runway top today above a sodlen field that avia- tors sald would prevent a hop-off on its non-stop flight to Rome until Mon- day at least. Experience has shown that it takes a full 48 hours for this fleld to dry out after a drenching, and at mid- morning the rain was still falling into an inch of water that covered the mud of the grassless runway. Radio !’_rggaggkbge_ AUGUST 20, 19 —'J‘lllB’l‘Y- ¢ Foening St 'WO PAGES. # service. (P) Means Associated Pre: PRESIDENT ON WAY BACK T0 DAKOTA Executive and Party Enthu-| . siastic Over Beauties of Yellowstone Park. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG Staft Correspondent of The Star. SYLVAN PASS, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, August 27.— Happy and enthusiastic over all the beauties and wonders of nature they saw during their tour through Yel- lowstone Park, President and Mrs. Coolidge started back today for the Summer White House in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Enjoy Trip Immensely. They enjoyed this trip immensely and both expressed themselves as wishing they could remain longer in the park to see more of the countless places of interest and scenic grandeur and to prolong the restful vacatior that has been theirs since arriving in the park nearly a week ago. The return journey was started from the Grand Canyon Hotel, where the presidential party arrived at noon yesterday, shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. Because of the drop in the temperature overnight and prepara tory to the seven-hour motor ride to Cody, Wyo., where the President's special train will be boarded to carry the party back to the Black Hills, everybody was bundled up. The happy little caravan, with the President and Mrs. Coolidge in the lead, made a brief stop at Sylvan Pass, the east entrance to the park, to permit the members of the party to look upon this beauty spot, a colossal cleft on the west slope of the Absa- roka Mountain range. Sylvan Pass is 8,600 feet above sea level, the highest altitude reached. The trail over which the caravan of cars will pass on the way to Cody is through a country both rugged and colorful in its beauty. Nearly the en- tire distance was traveled within close view of the Shoshone River. Thirty miles of it is through the Sho- shone national forest. Caravan Starts Early. The President's caravan got an early start this morning so as to reach Cody in time to permit the special train to leave at 1 o'clock this after- noon. According to the present sched- ule, Custer, S. Dak., 15 miles from the Game Lodge, will be reached about 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. The train will be run into a siding to permit the members of the party to sleep until 7 o’clock. Breakfast will be had aboard the train and then the motor trip to the ,Summer White House will follow. Discussing their visit to Yellowstone with. friends, the President made it very plain that he was deeply im- pressed with all he saw. He said he enjoyed every minute of his stay in (Continued on P‘lxe 2, Column 1) LEVINE HAS FIST FIGHT ON PARIS BOULEVARD Says American He Never Saw Be- fore Insulted Him on Street. By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 27.—Charles A. Le- vine, who flew to Germany with Clar- ence Chamberlain and whc hopé fly back to the United States w Maurice Drouhin, engaged in a fist fight with another American on the boulevard near the Overa today and said he won. “I never saw the man before, but he insulted me and I took a crack at him. I used to be a boxe.,” Levine said, adding that those who had heard reports that he received any scars in the battle were welcome to visit him at his hotel and see for themselves that he had emerged from the com- bat unsaathed. His opponent, he said, was named Brocik. “I am itching to start the flight to the United States, but the weather is too bad at present,” Levine added. Late this afternoon he went out to Le Bourget field,where his monoplane, the Columbia, is housed, and where news of the fight had preceded him. —_— FORCES TO BE REDUCED. Allies to Take 10,000 Soldiers Out of Rhineland. LONDON, August 27 (#).—The Armies of Occupation in the Rhine- land will be reduced to 60,000. Word to this effect was received at White- hall today in France's reply to the British memorandum suggesting a re- duction to 56,000, A three-power definite agreement has been reached, it is stated, provid- ing that France reduce her forces by 8,000, Great Britain by 1,000 and Belglum by, 110000 oo e Deputy Slays Man And Self Over Log Washed in by Sea By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 27.— ren C. Smith, 65, deputy ff at San Leandro, near here, late last night shot and killed Ed- ward A. Hayne, 36, in a quarrel over owne ip of a log on the beach, brought in by the tide. Smith then committed suicide, shooting himself. BOY DIES, 2 HURT AS FIRE RAZES BARN Brother, 4, Critically Burned, Mother Injured — Children Had Played With Matches. $pecial Dispatch to The Star. ALJXANDRIA, Va., August 27. Richard O. Roberts, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Robbrts of near Fort Humphreys, was burned to death, his 4.year-old brother, Robert, was criticaily injured, and their mother was severely burned when the barn in which the boys had been playing, with matches was destroyed by fire’ today. The mother was burned in attempt- ing to rescue her boys from the verit- le inferno into which the hay-filled ame structure was converted a few moments after ignition of the hay by one of the matches. She and Robert are in the hospital here, while the body of Richard, burned beyond recog- nition, lies in a nearby undertaking parlor. Boys Playing With Matches. According to H. Clapp, son of former United States Senator Clapp, whose home is about a mile from that of the Roberts, and who isted fire- men from Fort Humphreys and Mount Vernon in preventing spread of the flames, the boys got hold of some matches this morning and decided to experiment with them in the hay loft. Roberts, a short time later, was cted to the barn by the screams of the children, and, simultaneously, by the dense clouds of smoke wi l(‘h were beginning to pour out of the sec- ond story of the barn. She rushed to the building, whic by this time of flames within, and en- deavored frantically to enter the struc- ture. Each time she was driven back by the confla; tion. Her face and ms were seared by the heat during her futile fight to rescue the boys. Finally, aged to crawl to a hay windov loft, where he dropped to the ground. The other hoy was too badly burned to follow. His b until the entir leveled. The father was in Washington at the time. He hurried here on being ad- vised of the tragedy. Both parents are in a state of collapse. Barn Quickly Burns, The fire did its work so quickly that volunteer firemen from Mount Vernon and the military reservation were unable to be of nce, be- yond preventing spread of ‘the flames. The Roberts’ place is about two miles below Mount Vernon, across Dogue Creek from Fort Humphreys. . Rain Halts Tennis Tourney. FOREST HILLS, N. Y., August 27 (®).—Rain today caused the postpone- ment of the semi-finals in the national women's tennis championships until Monday. The finals will be held Tues- day it the weather permits. : _———— Chilean Envoy Leaves for City. VALPARATSO, Chile, August 27 (#). Davila, newly appointed : Ambassador to the United States, is sailing today to assume his Do PROTEST PLANNED INSAGCD FUNERAL Mourners to Be Limited So Procession Can Pass State- house Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 27.—Determined to maintain their protest against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti to the end, the defense committee has decided to do without a band and limit the number of mourners so that the funeral cortege tomorrow can pass the Statehouse and the Common where police have arrested nearly 300 persons engaged in previous demon- strations. Granted a permit by the street com- missioners to form an imposing line of march, when the bodies will be carried to Forest Hills for cremation, the committee was checked by the police, who declared the procession must take the direct route and avoid the Statehouse, where further dis- turbances were feard. With less than 200 persons following the hed#mes, the committee is enabled, under the city ordinances, to defy the police and pro- ceed by any route desi Ovposition of the health mmmisslom er to the plan to have the coffins car- ried on the shoulders of mourners through the streets has resulted in the decision to use hearses. Directly fol- lowing these will come automobiles carrying Mrs. Rosa Sacco and Miss Luigia Vanzetti, wife and sister of the executed men. They have remained in complete re. tirement the past two days while thou- sands streamed past the red coffins as they lay in the small dimly lighted funeral parlor in the North End Ital- ian quarter. Red flowers predominate in the tributes to the anarchists which con- tinue to pour in and which now cover the walls of the parlor as well as the caskets. On the ribbons which deck the offerings are inscriptions such as “Glory to the Heroes of Anarchy” and “The Martyrs of Massachusetts.” SYMPATHIZERS FIGHT POLICE. Two Thousand Prevented From Reach- ing U. S. Consulate in Cherbourg. CHERBOURG, France, August 27 (#). — sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers, 2,000 strong, fought a pitched battle with the forces of law and order from 8 o'clock last night until lopg past midnight in an effort to reach the American consulate. About 15 of them attained the goal at midnight, but in charge of policemen who had arrested them, the consulate being transformed into a temporary police station. Realizing there was no chance of getting the better of the police and soldiers, the others then dispersed. Although at times the encounter was a savage affair, the mob throwing stones at the defenders of the con- sulate from behind a barricade of coal wagons and barrels, no great harm was done. A large number on both sides received minor hurts, but no- body was seriously injured. Windows of the Military Club and other build- ings and street lamps in the district were smashed. The manifestants were opposed, in addition to the police and soldiers, by mounted gendarmes and firemen. The latter brought their hose into play, forcing back the crowds at various points with streams of water. The concentrated movement against the consulate followed a meeting of protest against the electrocution of Sacco and Vanzetti. NEW YORK POLICE DEFIED. Committee Plans to Parade Ashes De- spite Orders. NEW YORK, August 27 (#).—The ashes of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be paraded through New York_streets Monday in deflance of (Continued on Page Column 7.) Haunted Houst Ghost Laid as Farm Hand Says Woman Hired Him to Oust Husband By the Associated Press. BELLEFONTE, Pa., August 27, Two officers slept two nights in a “haunted” house before they laid the “ghost” which for years is said to have tried to force W. J. Walker from his farm here so that his wife could secure control. The “ghost” and two alleged ac- complices are under bond for hearing as the result of a confession obtained, State police say, from Gurney Smull, the farmhand *‘ghost,” who says he was hired by his employer’s wife. Walker, on the verge of nervous collapse, appealed to Sheriff Robert Taylor and State Motor Patrol Cor- #oral T, B. Afllar for protection sev: » eral days ago. The two spent two nights in the farm house. The first night the sheets were snatched from their beds as they slept, and a white- clad figure vanished among the out buildings as they watched from thei: window. Next day, warnings to all occupants to flee were found daube about the interior of the house in red fluid resembling blood. That farmhand and “ghost” were of the same stature aroused the patrol- man's suspicions, however. Close questioning of the man resulted in a signed confession, he said. ~Mrs. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Ye:terdayl Circulation, 96,230 TWO CENTS. U.S. WARNS CALLES 10 AID AMERICANS AT BESIEGED MINE Department Here Supports Embassy’s Demand for Protection. 18 BEING THREATENED BY SYNDICATE OF REDS Troops Reported on Way to Help Foreign Subjects at Jalisco Fail to Arrive. By the Associated Pres The reported besieging of 18 Ameri- cans and 11 British subjects in their homes near the American-owned plant of the Amparo Mining Co., in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, prompted the State Department today to instruct the American emba: in Mexico City to keep the matter of adaquate pro- tection for Americans well before the Mexican government. Approval also was cabled for the embassy’s action in making represen- tations and in demanding protection for American lives and property at Amparo, where a group described as composing a “red syndicate” was said to have occupied the mines and be- sieged the American and British re: dents. ‘While President Calles was report- ed in Mexico City dispatches to have instructed the military authorities to protect the mine company officials, up until Friday mornin, Consul Joseph C. Satterwhite advised the State De- partment, no Mexican troops had ar- rived on the scene. The State Depart- ment did not regard this dispatch as necessarily contradicting the Mexico City advices, because it was possible that action might have been taken after the consul's report was for- warded. Second Attack This Week. This is the second attack on Ameri- cans in Mexico this week. Earlier in the week Miss Florence Anderson of Los Angeles was shot and fatally wounded during an attack on her train by a band of Mexicans, near Acopo- it. While awaiting further details to- day of the seizure and the safety of the barricaded Americans, Washing- ton Gevernment officials were inform- ed in official press dispatches that the Mexican government had already taken measures to assume charge of the situation and afford military pro- tection to the beseiged officials of the company, a silver mining concern. ‘Whether the seizure was a protest against the Sacco and Vanzetti exe- cutions ~ was -mot determined in reports received by the State De- partment from its Guadalajara con- sul. But it appeared in all prob- ability to be related, as the con- sul, Joseph C. Satterwhite, had re- ported last Sunday that labor agita- tors had attempted to incite the Am- paro workers to take action again foreigners in the event of the execu- tion. His first reports of the incident, however, only said that the occupa- tion of the mines was by a “red” syn- dicate, & President Calles was reported in Mexico City dispatches to have in- structed the military authorities of Jalisco to afford full protection to the company's officials, while reports to the Mexican capital's newspaper said there was no violence nor were the lives of the Americans and Brit- ishers endangered in the seizure. President Calles also ordered the de- partment industry te take charge of the situation to effect a settlement. Flooding of Mine Feared. The foreigners at the mines, with the exception of the 30 beseiged per- sons, had. left for Guadalajara, 40 miles away, according to the State Department advices. The mining properties were reported to be suf- fering considerable loss through stop=- page of work and are in danger of being flooded. The managers of the Amparo Pie- dro Bola and Amazapan mines also were said to have reached Guadala- jara, saying they had been compelled to leave their offices by armed mu- nicipal forces obeying instructions from the state authorities. That Consul Satterwhite had feared the outcome of the anti-foreign propa- ganda in the region was revealed by his report that he had drawn the at- tention last Sunday of the federal mili- tary commander at Guadalajara to the threatening situation. The governor of Jalisco, Margarito Ramires, is said to have made a visit to the mining district to effect a termination of the conflict. For the time being the American embassy at Mexico City is in charge of the situation. The embassy officials immediately made vigorous representa- tions to the Mexican government for federal military protection for the be- seiged Americans and the mining properties. News of the pursuit of the bandits in the west coast state of Nayarit who caused Miss Anderson’s death has not yet reached the State Department. Troops Fail to Arrive. Up to Friday morning neither fed- eral or state Mexican troops had reached Amparo, the State Department was informed in a message reaching here today from Consul Satterwhite. Although Satterwhite’s telegram and ‘Walker and Miss Velma Miller, a Summer boarder, were arrested short- Iy, after, the assurances which the Mexican acting foreign minister gave to the American embassy that the military had the Amparo situation “in hand™ were both dated yesterday morning, the State Department pointed out that they need not necessarily be in con- tradiction, since they might have been flled at different times. Satterwhite said that he had been informed by telegram from Amparo that the governor of Jalisco was ex- pected at Amparo, but no details were given regarding the safety of the Americans and British held there. CALLES PROMISES AID. MEXICO CITY, August 26 (P).— President Calles has instructed the military commandant of the State of Jalisco to afford full protection to of- ficials of the American owned Am- paro mine near Guadalajara and its mining properties, seized by radicals. The department of industry will take charge of the situation in an effort to effect a settlement of the conflict. President Calles and Secretary of In. dustry Morones held a conference this afternoon to discuss the affair. e et