Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1927, Page 1

W (U, & Weather Bureau Fair and continued cc morrow partiy cloudy, v ature. Temperature: Highest, lowest. -m Full report on page 7 ATHER. Foreeast. ) old today ising temper to at 2 pm he i WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION unday Shar. Ihe Star 1s Sunday mwornu nd service w 90 cents per month, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” delivered every evening 4nd ng to Washington honies at Telephone Mamn 3000 il start immediately avs matger post D. WASHINGTON, D. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1¢ ) o= - — 122 PAGES. (#) Means Associated Pres: FIVE CENTS SUBMARINE SUNK WITH CREW OF 43 HEN HIT BY COAST GUARD SHIP; FATE OF VICTIMS IS IN DOUBT S-4 ¢n Trial Trip l WASHINGTONIANS ON SU as Crash Sends Her Down. 1 Attempt to Victims Y in Failure. PROVINCETOWN, Mass ber 17.—The men, the cre marine S-4 the vessel | deep water ¢ te 43 ofii wit Coast lision stroyer Pauldin Whether 1} was ed drowned, or whe merely bled made it impossible for her to come to the still was unknown Those who ed the collision fcared, however, that a major ma- rine disaster had resulted, compar- able to the loss of the submarine S-51 in September, 1925. When that vessel was sunk in collision with the steamship City of Rome, off Block Island, 33 officers and men perished Submarine Struck Amidships. The destrover, off patrol duty off Provincetown, was making for the harbor. Suddenly her lookout the S-4 running submerged ahead. There was no time to swerve from the course and the vessels crashed. The destroyer made port with her lower hold flooded. The Paulding was struck amidships, but the point at which the submarine felt the force of the blow was not known. Damaged S The S4 wene down lb;‘uuwld ! Boats that crul about the place for hours found nmvm giving the faint hope that the’submarine’s hull had not been pierced. A frésh breeze | And vough seas hampered the work of | the small boats taking part the Svork of rescue. The S-4 went down a bare 1800 yards from the shore off Wood End Coast Guard Station, which is situated on the outer, or ocean, side of the har- | bor. The water at that point is very deep, which, it was admitted, would increase the difficulties of raising the sunken vessel. The Paulding's wireless message re- porting the collision Started a rescue | fleet from the New London Coast) Guard and Submarine bases, and from the Boston and Portsmouth, N. H navy yards. The submarine tende Wandank was the first to reach the position of the collision. The Wood }ind Coast Guard Station sent its life- hoats to search for p but without result §-1 on Trial Trip. The Paulding is a T40-ton d: which was turned over by the > the Coast Guard ser while as the same cla somewhat smalle and was built Yard in 1919, She was making her standardization trials after an her mauling when the collision occur "T: was impossible to undertake ef forts 4 early tonight be cause no vessel had reached the scene “ith the necessary equipment for the purpose. The Wan » si buoys 10 mark the exact pol which the submarine had gone Pontoons 10 he used in lifti Yion were sent from New 1 jt was not expected that they be here before tomorrow mornir Paulding Badly Damaged. The Paulding was beached at Long Point Light in Provincetown Harbor ‘When it became apparent that her hull | hail been damaged badly. A merber of her crew named McGinley w seriously scalded by the bursting of a Steam pipe after the collision. He Sill be taken to the hospital here to MOrrow. A survey th gicated that the wats 20 fathoms in avhere the S84 went ¢ and crew all crus her machinery and surface, wi saw dead Sinks at Once. tely, in tsmout at down opera ndon, but would War s f at male by Jan FROM C(REW pubmarine ndank on the p gunk today Guard destroy 15 communic sunken vessel @evices, but obt A from ceived at the .. said that the :~yhn went down W tor about 100 fert « bumped over her The message from gaid Periscope . up suddenly a little on our e " submarine lifting 1 the iderably out of the water forward oo the forward part of the ¥ n4 conning tower ripping « lar from our stem aft on the port side 20 feet. ahou o periscope and after part of the submarine were nighted as she wen down listing to port. ot one of the Cew Was seen. b O About 100 feet o mped along over the su \'I‘N about to round White wood nd for Provincetown submarine was man where 1l in collision with 1 e Paulding, enc with tonigh ned no respon messi the Pault and conn port Paulding Pauld ine s1di Buo and t nd su 4 cuvering or st A i < mad was lower Jifel Jtely and sear Aiately A was planted mandant notified hantvandank tonix a sounding line to_reach the effort wis he and the com tempted 1o wid ver diver t the g lighte en abandoned T. COMDR. WIL] CALLAWAY. CHARLES A. FORD. LIEUT. ,’ffi:‘tfl KEN ! Kanrocrer GRAHAM N. FIT(C of Disaster, OFFICERS AND CREW OF S The following list of the officers and w helieved abeard the S-4 was given out by the Navy Departinent last night. It was explained that the Jist included a1l men assigned to the vessel, some of whom might not have been on the sgel when it met with the mishap. Lieut. Comdr. ¥ Jones, in com mand, Hennessey. Okla. His wife and two children reside at Halethorpe, Md. Lieut. Comdr. W. F. Callaway, 201 Shepard Chevy Chase, Md., avy Board of Inspectors and Sur- street, % Lieut. Graham Newell Fitch, 2400 Twentieth street, Washington, D. C. Chs A. Ford, 1016 Montana ave- nue northeast, Washington, D. C., vilian, chief draftsman for the avy Board of Inspectors and Sur Lieut. J. A. McGinley, 818 Swede street, Norristown. Pa. Lieut. Donald Weller, Crew: Walter Thelma nus lar B i southe e I hop, radio hop, 12 Pennsylvania st, Washington, D. € rdinand Bethke, engine man. { cian's mat man, Wisconsin Clara Bethke, 40: Wisconsin Rapid: Earl Welsh. Boone, Wife, M 484 North Boone, 444 dena, Henry Father, If, Hanay Young Samu Joseph Mothe! bama Leighten Mrs. M. 1 snue av ter, Filomena Tedar, Carl Harold wich ter. Gladys Bright, Tenn. James Mother, mart, Ga. Rudolf James mate. Father, Johnson Mrs. Los Angeles, | Wife, | Mother, Minnie | bert { Frank Mother, street, t oger Kath igefield Park Leslie Short Mo. « street, Boonville, _Donald_ Fre ifth avenue > Los Robles, Brown, el lat 701 Sultana drive, Fitzge Stevens even Providence, Mariano Tedar, mess attendant. Sis Naramis, dental Negros, Philippin Islands. ‘White, Nannie White, Rose Roger Rose, Delia, Al- 1o Wis. Mother th hief electri Josepline ¥ Pasa fireman. Brown lives id, Ga. seaman, 18% Ala- 5 Ocet- Sis- City. fireman. Rock- electrician’s man prpedo kK Edison 5 Short vk torpedo 304 man. Spring ki electri (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) RESCUE APPARATUS SUBMARINES SET SPEEDED T0 WRECK DISASTER RECORD Submarine Tender Leaves Submersible Craft Have Pro- | vided Many of Greatest Ma- | rine Tragedies of Decade. Portsmouth for Scere of Disaster. By the Associated Pre PORTSMOUTH, —The submarine eft the Navy Yard here at Provincetown raise H., tender Bushnell 7 o'clock Mass., ittempt the sub- which was sunk today h t Guard ulding Bushnell ¢ 0 operatic it for 1o an to sS4 on the Co de = who div vhy rried s at ke permit a nditions <0 1% equipped with Uit oM. d the Bushnell huilt the fourth vessel in pparat madr, mand of in cor which w2 at Yard he e, is the serious the Orleans a N1 next le Haibor The loss of life 1925 storm. 31 s sunk with off Istand n September 11 DIVERS ON WAY. Speeding to S-1 Disaster. NEWPORT, R. 1. December 17 (A).—Eleven divers from the Diving School of the Nav: under command Mathews Mass dttempt 1o sS4 | Naval Crew of Lieut. F. E. tonight to rescue the the take the in of part crew divers of the they will Faleon the expected to arrive st disaster hy dayhee join the submarine which left New London & equipm whment three sides whe tender vith di The de treks ¢ ing the personnel te police escorted the the Massachusetis i their nd in Ma inued on Page 2, Column 2) Isla journey December | wnth, ! ne of 1 1 Torpedo Station, | started for Provincetown, | tha wrip | cuup. | marine By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December Sub- 'ALL BELIEVED | TO BE ON SHIP Of fi('iais Q News — Wilbur Orders Search. News of the sinking of the sub- marine S-4 off Provincetown, Mass., ciartled the Navy Department here and Secretary Wilbur remained at his ofiices nntil a late hour last night personal charge of the mobiliza- all agencies which were directed to iocus their attention the submarine and her im- prisoned crew. Four Washingtonians are believed to be aboard the submarine and their friends besieged newspaper offices and the Navy Department for infor mation regarding the progress of the rescue work Capt. Adolphus Andrews, - manding the submarine base at New London, Conn., was ordered to dis- patch all available vessels to scene of the disaster at once. m of rescue upon Washingtonians in Crew. The missing four Washingtonians are: Lieut. Comdr. William Franklin Cal- laway, 201 Shepherd street. Chevy Chase, Md.. submarine expert for the Board of Inspection and Survey of the Navy Department. 1 t. Graham Newell Fitch, junior grade, 2400 Twenticth street, who at- tended the School the Central High School here. Walter Bishap, naval radio oper- whose wife’s home is given in Department records at 1228 | Pennsylvania avenne southeast. Charles A. Ford, 1016 Montana (avenue northeast, civilian, chief draughtsman for the Board of In spection and Survey. Force and otified. The families of Lieut. Comd way, Lieut, Fitch and Mr. Ford were notified early last night of the acei dent and told that every possible ef- |fort was being made to rescue the | men. At the same time they were | informed that little hope was being Families Are Thompson, _engineer. | . e Wife Alatie. TThomseat) BE8 LCineane| Lo LY. I8 CATALEMENL Tof | e Aafe street, San Francisco. | ma Walter Ross Tolson, seaman, Fountain ¢ of those on board the suh- marine, Mrs. Bishop could no: be located, “We are mobilizing every aid to raise the submarine as quickly as pos- ble,” said Secretary Wilbur, “but this will depend on diving conditions |and the buoyancy of the submarine. Pointing out that the submar weighs 900 tons and that the lift'r buov will lift about 600 tons, Wilbur said that Capt. B. J. who supervised the raising of the will g0 by airplane tomorrow mornins from New York to the scene of the disaster, The submarine was operating on its regular stand tion tests,” said Secretary Wilby “The area for this is located purposely 20 43 not 1o he in the ordinary steim <hip lanes, Conditions there are ideal for this work, as there is deep water land it is close to shore. marine was struck by a destroy | ing 18 knots there is propably little hope that any one survived, hut we will endeavor to learn at the ear liest possible moment by sending div ars down to communicate if possible List May Not Be Correct. Accompanying Secretary Wilbur when he arrived at the department soon |after 10 o'clock was Capt. W. R. Sex | ton. head of the material department | ot Naval Operations. Officers at the | Navy Department as soon as they | heard of the disaster began checking up on the list of officers and crew. Tt was exp'ained that the list as finally made public might not be cor- rect as to detail, as it was not entirely up to date. It was explained also that apparently 20 | mersibie fighting craft, while forming | some of the men supposed to be on the 1 comparatively world's greal navies, some of sma rs of the The st the loss Istand, . 1 in the sinking collision with 19 past of the when 24 of the the City tember Oth: shown as by the records were The American collision with lant Canal in In 1915 suby a steu Ocean entrance 19 n the outstanding submarine 8 m o er part of e furnished marine dis- decade ai 51 ofr ter k Killed in a ibmarine ot Rome accidents o undersens craft Associated Pr the in at At ) 1l three men lost, Honalulu of 22 lofficers ani men of the -4 42 Rescued in 197 In December 1922, trapped 8 hours und the 5-48 went to (I [open hatch. All v Bridgeport, Conn. 1 In August a bo new 42 men ater when ttom with an rescued. unnamed first trial trip at Kobe, with the large: recorded loss in submarine history, 8 | Japanese” undersea boat sank on its | i and sank. men were killed when the craft listed March 19, 1924, 49 lives were los the Japanese submarine No. 43, in col- lision with the | Tatsuta off Susebo | January fo. 1924 {men of the British were lost off Portland ollision with the | Resolution In September. 1 ebustinng L during men ahc ‘ Mareh 2 ot Gibraltar (Continued on Page 1922, a Japanes 43 British’d Ven aneavers off S during war Rritish battleship officers hmarine Insland adr 124 in a ught 1o 1alian sub ) was with 50 nes suhmarin Column 7.) the | Panama | were | The | accident happened on a trial cruise off and ! submarine when she went down might not have been aboard, while others not mentioned in the list might have gone aboard ut the last minute. Lieut. Comdr. Callaway has rounded out 1wo years' serviee with the Navy Department in Washington, and in the nest few tailing him for residence in W During his ashinglon. the Arst ir his naval career, e has been attached to the Board of Inspection and Survey as & submarine wuthority and in such pacity made frequent trials and text runs on new. modified and over hauled naval craft. He left Wasiing [ lon Monday, expecting to return home @ few davs before Christmas, Mo., November 7 allaway was ap Academy from upon gradu sea duty. | Born in Clinton 1884, Lieut. Comdr. nted to the Naval 1t State in 1907 and tion w igned to submarine duty {In 1917 he served ahoard submarine ,ind continued in this duty wntil tf of the world war. Later he | commanded the submarine R-19. Wife Collapses. In 1921 he was sent as an inspector of machinery o the Bausch Sulzer Co of St. Louls and the following went to the Asiatic Feet in command of submarine division No. 12. Lieut Comdr. Callaway's next of kin are his wife, who was in a state of collapse last night; a 6-year-old [ son. William F. Callaway, his father, Jerry (allaway, of Clinton, | Md.. and a brother, Peyton, who is a | midshipman at the Naval Academy ! Lieut. Fitch is not vet | He was horn February 26, 1 1 | Fort Logun H. Root, Ark. He ix the son of Col. Graham D. Fiich, a retived of the Army. Hix father and mother live at 2400 Twentieth street her and were almost overcome last I nizht when they were notified of the After attending the loeal schools Filch wes appointed to Naval Academy by- tha President tinued on Page 2, Column ) t & the | If this sub. | very | months expected orders de- | ’ Four Members at% |2 | CHANGES IN 6040 DL HAYBEASKED D. C. Heads Indicate They Will Urge Reduction in Committee Personnel. The District Comm prob ably will recommend to Congress this week several minor mo itions in | the bill introduced in the House by Represen. \tive Zihlman of Maryland Lo restore the 60-40 hasis of appropri ating for the District. The bill already has heen the Commis for oners | referred ansidera to ners .v:m{ = | Duck, Migrating From Iceland, Is Shot at Cape Cod By the Pres BOS Decembe A Enro pean on, a species of duck which flew across the Atlantic from leeland, was shot on Cape Cod re. cently by Herbert Windeler, member of a Boston insur firm. A lez band on the bird bore the name of Peter Skovgaard, Vi horg, Denmark TON GIRL'S BODY TOSSED AT FEET OF FATHER tion and report, and while thes have Victim of Kidnapers Thrown repl Build wounld ot of decided on their ated at the District that they likely in the personr proposes 1o | definitely it was indi in vesterday urge a reduction the commiitee it to recommend annually what the cer ga contributions of the Federa) and District Govarnments should be | The Zihlman hill provides foF a com | mittee of 15, consistin: of five Sena tors, five Representatives and five citi zens named by the Commissioners The Commissioners. it was . he- leve that a_commitiee of seven mem | bers would be sufficient. The personnel of the commitiee | under th- plan to be proposed by the Senate and House District committe: or some other member designated by each of them the chairmen of the Senate and House | appropriations committee: | of the budget, a commissioner nated by the Board of Com and a citizen of the Di nated by the Comm e The Commissioners also believe that this committee should recommend the -alio of contribution between the Fed- eral and District governments for two-vear period instead of annually s proposed in the Zihlman bill. Otherwise the hill is ald Lo meel their approval, and a report v | it adoption with the proposed amend ments is expes d to he 1 n up. 'DROPS BATTLESHIP FUND. {chalrmen of the ginz | 4 . Reichstag Deletes First Install- ment From New Budget. EERLIN, (#).—The Reichsta debating the Re a vole of 38 to 17 been December which has b budget, today adopled by A motion introduced | by a Prussian deputy that the sum of 9,300,000 marks, the first install- ment toward construction of « ¢ | templated new battleship, should be | deleted from the budget. | The Prussian deputy pointed oul | that it had been difficult to make the 192 | second installment of hardly be raised in 1 struction would last that con- ) long | sel would become obsolete before it | night, | was completed. ' TODAY’S STAR 36 PAGES. National PART ON General News foreign. haols and Colle Veterans of the Great Army and Navy News Spanish War Velterans District National Guard Local, and Pages War News Page Around the City—Page | Parent-Teacher Activities | News of the Clubs—Pas D, A. R. Activities—P” Radio News—Pag PART TWO—I8 PAGES and Art Page 39, 45. Fditorials Notes of Review of Washington and Other Tales of Well iKnown Folk—Page PART THR 12 PAGES. Amusements—Theuters and the Photo | play | Music—P: 5 Motors and Motorin; P Serial, “The Amazing Page 8. Fraternal News—Pages 9 and 11. Civilian Army Page 11 | PART FOUR—1 PAGES. Pink Sports Sectior PART FIVE—8 PAGE Magazine Section | ART SIX—10 PAGES. | | sified Advertising. Pages 1, Financial New GRAPHIC SE( | World Events in Pictu COLOR SECTION— PAGES. Matt and Jeff: Reg'lar Fellers: Mr and Mrs; Hig his of History. es & and 1. Chance''— 8 N—10 PAGE es. the ves- | Commissioners would consist of the | gy s | 7:35 o’clock tonight ins desig: | proceed to the corner of Fifth str | budget balance and that the | Verne 1,000,000 could | Jast | [ | | phoned 1o 1 After a trap From Car as Parent Gives Ransom. Marian Parker, 12 Kidnaped last mutilat ot bunk ofticial's dauzhter rhursday was tossed ont of an tomobila tonight at the fest of her father, Percy M. Parker, who had gone to an appointed street corner in the northw n of the city, carrying )0 in v demanded by the ahducte First examination vealed that hoth 1 noon, m mene of the hody re- had Leen cut off the director | close to the body ephone call at tructing him to Parker received a wnd place with $1,500 in gold and his daughter would be returned to him there. Manhattan certificates Goes to Corner. distracted and nearing coded 1o the street cor- the mon arriving there The [ colla pse ner with shortly ter 8 o'cl A few minule small roadster parksr's automobils his daughter in the driver nd was told by that the litile girl was asleep. “Here's your child," h Parker. e me the money low instructions. She s asleep. Parker handed the Kkid the $1.500 in the $20 sid certificates des. ated hy the kKidnaper. According 1o the ement, the man after taking the mone drove ahead of the father a littls way and elimbing out of the e Jaid the body of the girl on the grass in front of a house a few doors up the street m Sck was lured from th Junior High School grounds Thursday noon hy man who vepresented that her father was fll When she faled to return home at Parker communicated with school authorities and when told of the ruse, notified police. One of the most intensive man hunts onducted in southern (Califorma 1 night and increased in scope hourly. As soon as the man had driven Parker frantically to his ¢ ter's side, clasped her in his found was d A wite h her proc rrived alon h up he I seat the ide the Kidnaper said to and fol is Lured Marian Mount arms ar s0 tightly wround the at the flesh had been into & gaping wound. The wire was run around the of the head and to he fae ve it was thrust through her eye he head of the ltte hut otherwise wi that first_examination further mutilation, Hundreds vpon hundreds of tives, deputies and peace the Los Angeles district flash that the kidnaper hid and with the tragic me police headguar mendons drive was on to fiend il was ex S0 wrapped isclos no dete officers | nited i Appeared ssage tele tra the rs a4 find CAMPAIGN 15 SEEN TODRAFT COOLIDGE Hilles Edict Viewed as Open- | ing Drive for Renomi- nation. BY GOULD LINCOLN. Demand for the renomination President Coolidge, voiced by Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Re publican national committee, at a Re- publican dinner in Syracuse, Is the {orerunner, it is believed in some quar- of another Coolidge-for-President notwithstanding the Presi- dent’s reiterated assertion that he does not choose to run Such a movement will find adherents States. But many political leaders in Washinzton today are con ced that il dent’s wish will he observed, and also that he would not accept the nomination if it came 0 him. His statement to the national committee when he received that body the White House is regavded gen erally as baving definitely ended the mutier. Senator Fess of Ohio, who has heen one of the most earnest sup- porters of the plan to draft the Presi dent since the Black Hill statement of August, admitted vesterday that there med no probability of the Repuo n national convention nominating President, unless a deadlock should arise. Deadlock Is Scouted. for a deadlock of vice Lers movement in many lic the But 1 do not look now,” said Senator Kess. The effort of Mr. Hilles to breathe new life into the plan to draft Presi- dent Coolidge is regarded also as a move (o solidify the Republican or- sanization in New York and to hold together the delegation from the Em = to the convention next Juna, York leaders had planned to this thronglt a delegation ns Hughes The complish instructed for Charles former v of § But Mr. Ilughes has spoken in un- mistakible torms selt_out the Hughes had strongly favored his nomination wnd had expressed the opinion that the Prexident was dfinitely out of the running. In Syracuse, therefore, viee chairman of the natipnal commit tee executed a complete about face. It is no secret that New York Re- publicans huve favored the renomina- tion of Mr. Cooli or barring that. nomination of Mr. Hughes, believing that with either of them, it would be easier to carry the State against Gov. Alfred <mith, it he ba the Demo- cratic nominee, than with any other Republican nominee. The New York Republican organization has been more » less shot to pieces in recent | years, so much so that the State now | has a Democratic Governor and two | Democratic Senators and a majority of the New York delegation in_the House. The Republicans of New York | are, therefore, most anxious to show a united front in 1928 and to have a na- tional ticket which will make it easier to earry the Republican State ticket to vietory, toc Aimed At Hoover. The 1:nd for the drafting of Pres. ident Coolidze is rezarded here, too, as an eifort to head off the movement in New York for Secretary Herbert Hogver of the Department of Com- merce. Mr. Hoover has no little strength hoth up-State and in the city ¢ New York, xo much that it is re- arded ax practically certain he il have some of the New York delagation to the convention unless it can be so- lidified about some other candidate. Certain inte I New York City are reported to opposition. 1o nomination of Mr. Hoover The Hoover hoom for President has gathered momentum since the second statement of President Cool idge and withdcawal of Mr. Hughes (Continued on Page 4, Column 1. of picture. Until be in Trapper. One Leg Bu;-ned Off. Crawls 15 Miles to I:l:t»tLWait Delayed Rescue By the Assoclated Press CORDOVA, Alaska, Decemaber 17.— lying alone for more than a month in his cabin in the wilds of interior Alaska, with one leg burned off nearly to the knee and the other foot badly injured, Nick Raworth, a voung veteran. was taken pital A Hospital sald he had a chance On November line 1% dovan on the tacked by a hew fought but lost tle worth, it attendants 1 that aperating north of Co ulkana River. was at- The trapper's dog his own in the unequal hat- hear then turned on Ra knocking him unconscious, bly to save his master's life, | Raworth said that he could re- member nothing from that moment until he regained consciousness to |'find one les nearly burned off and ! the foot of the other leg badly burned. | Evidently he had previously regained | consciousness and built a fire, but | passed into u coma again from shock and loss of blood. Suffering intense agony, Rawarth erawled more than 15 miles to one of | his cabins where he lay week after | week, scarcely able to secure food and water. He was found by an Indian trapper, who packed the ¢ team to Copper Center. 30 miles away. From there he was taken to Chitina where he was placed aboard a | and taken to the Kennecot Hospital, 3 { { He hes taken him- | M. | ent statement, Mr. Hilles | the | the | ppled man by dog | train | MOTHER OF LINDY 10 FLY T0 MEXICO FOR YULE HOLIDAY Will Start Trip Tomorrow in Tri-Motored Plane From Detroit Field. | JOURNEY IS SEE™ AS GOOD WILL BOOST State Department Announces Pro- posal—Tellez Extends First Official Welcome | Br the Assc A 1 take when Mrs. by Mexico sen American good peoples will Detroit Mondas new me vor toward neighbor to the air at Evangeline Lindbergh airplane her City for sets n holi ont to join son the Christmas Flying Ford plane Ford Brooks. n a trimotor a r Co.. and iloted st Lind, rimself, w H l mother i vard to cover licen: « pilot the company’s sta as dauntless as swiftly south da a little greater n three or four s an aerial dist 1t that hours to write 1nee in 27 in the than her son negotiated his latest epic sages of aviation history Seen as Aid to Good Will. Evidence of great value stimulation of good will between the States a Me: which Is re v's flight, mother's the | United Washington offic |in Col. Lindber: foreseen in the trip to ioin her son fact that announcement of Mrs, Lind bergh's plans came from the State Department. There can be no doubt that they regard these two voluntary | messengers of American friendliness s important factors in the campaign of rapprochement with Mexico, whic! President Coolidge launched with th selection of his close friend, Dwight W. Morrow, as Ambassador to that country. Because of it co, ved not only but a Ppropos was clear in the importance from the | viewpoint of international nd 1 | tions, the disclosure of Mrs. Lind bergh's plans came from the Depart ment of State. The plane in which Mrs, Lindbergh plans to make the re turn trip also, h Brooks. veteran of thousands of hours of flying, at tn controls, will leave Detroit at 10 a.m Monday and go by way of St. Louis San Antonio and Tampico to the Mexi can capital, crossing the horder at Brownsville, Tex. Stops for refuelinz will be made both going and returninz at St. Louis, San Antonio and Tam pico, where the distinguished passen- ger and her pilot will have opportu- nity to rest and sleep. But to guard | against any mischance, State Depart- ment orders have been rushed to con- suls along the route in Mexico and at the horder to be on the alert to render every assistance. Morrow Is Notified. | Formal notification of Washington's | approval of Mrs. Lindbergh's adven ture was also rushed to Ambassador Morrow so that the certain co-opera- tion of the Mexican government to in- sure the safety and comfort of the mdther of the transatlantic flyer could be obtained. Ambassador Tellez, here in Wash ington, however, needed no words from higher Mexican authority to support his prompt assurances that Mexico, both her government and her people, would be waiting with open arms to greet Mrs. Lindbergh and share in her delight at the Christmas re-union with her son, so far from home. t of the way, from the time the big plane picks up the Mexican coast line above Tampico, Mrs. Lindbergh will he seeing the same country over | which “Lindy” sailed in the non-stop dash from Washington to Mexico City that has enshrined him anew in the hearts of those around the world ideals of human possi- courage and | who cherish bilities in_cool-headed | resourcetulness. Whether he will fiy | down in the Spirit of St. Louis to greet her high above a foreizn land and escort her to the Mexican capi- | tat is not known here. Brooks, a fiver of the highest standinz. expects to make the jour- (Continued on Pas QUEBEC AROUSED OVER 2 BURNINGS Police Vigilance Redoubled Over Catholic Institutions—Train Passengers Scanned. | By the Assuciated P QUERE 17 ing within two days of two children’s homes the of The Good hepherd with a loss of 30 lives | brought a redoubling of police vigil- ance today over Catholic Institutions. | Detectives scanned carefully pas- senges on all outgoing trains in search of suspicious persons. The | origin of both fires continued a mys- tery. | The break | in a buildin | Berchman's b and the which 14 December The burn- ot Sister out last night of fire housing the St. Jean cding house for boys ouis Acedemy. from boys narrowly escaped ) death eaused a hysterical outburst lon the part of residents who still | were mourning the loss of 50 lives in the fire that on Wednesday night de- the Hospic St. Charles. stormed nearby buildings where the refugees of the two fires were taken and demanded they be permitted to take them to their homes. Militia was called to restore order and the children finally were turned over to residents who carried them to homes outside the danger zone. Two persons were in a serious con dition today as a result of last night' blaze. Sister Ste. Victoire, a nurse in the academy, leaped from the top florr into a fireman’s net with a sick boy in her arms. Both suffered seri- ous injury as a result of the 90 foot drop. The other boys ranging in age from 5 to 12 years were led to safety by nuns Search of the ice-coated ruins of the Hospic St Charles was continued by firemen as fourteen inmates of the institute wers still unaccounted for,