Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 1

WEATHLER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Considerable showers tonight a cloudiness, probably nd tomorrow; not much change in_temperature. ‘Temperature, 84, at !'lsw%m. yester- day: lowest, 66, at 4 a.! lay. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,731 ntered as £eco post office, Wa NOBILE IS SIGHTED AND FOOD DROPPED BYPLANE TOPARTY OF STRANDED MEN Italian Flyer Finds Six of Dirigible Crew Off North-| east Land, Base Ship Is| Notified by Maddalena. DENMARK NOW UNEASY OVER AMUNDSEN’S FATE | No Word From Veteran Explorer| Since He Left by Air Monday | Night on Searching Flight." May Be at New Base—To Try to| Locate Others Missing on Ice. | B the Asso | OSLO. 3 June 20.—The | base ship di Milano at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, notified the Italian | legation here today that Maj. Madda-| Jena, Italian fiyer, located Nobile's| camp off Northeast Land and dropped provisions for the stranded men there. There are five men with Nobile. The figer took off from Kings Bay at 6 o'clock this morning on a second reconnaissance of Northeastland in his Maj. Maddalena returned to Kings | Bay at 1:50 o'clock this afternoon and reported that all appeared well with the men, who have been held in the{ grim grip of the Polar Sea ever since May 25, Wi to the | Southampton. nd class matter shington, D. ( WASHINGTON, \ ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only ev: in Washingto service. Associated Press ening paper n with the news nlion,dl 03,8'{0 Yeste(dny's Circnl #) Means Associated * TWO CENTS. Press. But Her Only Int BY AMELIA EARHART. By Cable to The Star and the New York Times. LONDON, June 20.—London at last. A swift flight from Burry Port, South Wales, yesterday morning—in which we just scudded over the tops of the beauti- ful Devonshire hills at 100 to 120 miles an hour—then Bill, Slim and I were in There was a gorgeous reception there with cheering crowds and a kind speech of welcome by the jord mayor, who, strangely enough, is addressed as “Mister Mayor,” although a woman. Then a ride in a big limousine to London. But it is not this wonderful, kindly reception I am thinking of tonight as the experiences of the past two days begin to sort themselves out in my mind. It is just what this flight means —what it amounts to—first to aviation in general, then to other women and finally to myself personally. To_ begin with, it has been based largely on Dick Byrd's ideas—Comdr. Byrd, who flew to the North Pole and who is about to try the desolate wastes of the Antartic. Dick felt that the next step in the progress of aviation ought to be a transatlantic flight with a multiple engined plane instead of a plane with a single engine: and ought to be some kind of seaplane, preferably one with pontoons. That is why he let us have the Friendship, the only MISS EARHART FORGETS SELF | IN GIVING CREDIT FOR FLIGHT Praises Stultz, Gordon, Byrd and Plane, Aviation Has Been Benefited. erest Is Hope That triple-engined plane in the world equip- { ped with pontoons. i The plane_was originally built for his | expedition. It is a beauty. It has just | made the fastest transoceanic hop since | that of Alcock and Brown. It averaged | 112 miles an hour all the way. It was | Byrd's idea, too, that Stultz ought o] be the pilot. The result shows how good his judgment was. Navigating practically all the way “blind”"—that is, by instruments only— and most always just with the magnetic compass and drift indicator, Stultz was not a mile off the course when we passed over Valentia and Queenstown and alighted on the South Wales coast | after more than 2,000 miles of flying. Perhaps some people have been think- ing this was just another flight, but it | SORROWED COMNS N D0 LONDN Luncheon With U. S. Ambas- sador’s Wife Among Flood of Engagements. WOMEN THRONG HOTEL ENTRANCE TO SEE HER Stultz and Gordon Off on Tour of Streets—Take Fame in Calm Way. was not. We have come to a place in aviation where the need is for technical | advancement more than spectacular | | stunts. The flight of the Friendship is | | intended to point the road toward the | seaplane instead of the land plane as a | | means of flying across oceans, and mul- | | tiple-engined planes instead of single | | engined. i | Whether the regular passenger-carry- | ing planes to cross the Atlantic in the future wiil be flving boats in which the passengers will sit within the hull, or planes equipped with pontoons is a matter for further experimentation and designs. The flight of the Priendship demon- strated one thing—that a plane equipped | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 6) | RADITCH'S NEPHEW SLAINAT BELGRADE Stefan, Peasant Leader, One of Two Wounded in Parlia- ment Fracas. By the Assoclated Press. VIENNA, June 20—Dispatches from report that Paul Raditch, day | o8 nephew of Stefan Raditch, the peasant leader, was shot and killed, and Rad- itch, himself, was one of two men wounded by a fanatic in the Skuptchina i j w28 L i 2 § i | i i ] o § ¥ T ever, are still confident Te- ‘Amundsen’s safety, as it has r to let people hear has accomplished ve set out to do. been his rule neve: from him before he whatever he might ha: OTHER EFFORTS FAILED. Relief Comes to Nobile After Several Weeks' Work. EINGS BAY, June 20 (P).—Maj. ! Maddalena failed in a reconnalssance of #ix hours yesterday to locate the m:tn.mmflundm‘ Lieut. Lief Diet- other was wounded in the fracas Belgrade rupted. this morning. Munisa Ratchitch, described in the report as a government supporter, was handed over to the police as the as- sassin. Raditch and his nephew, both of whom have long been opponents of the vernment, were in attendance at the g0 meeting of Parliament when the as- sault occurred. member of Parliament between ~communication _sbroad has been inter- One and Paul Raditch, who has played a some- subsidiary role to that of his in Jugoslavian declaring that Mussolini was prepar- ing for war with Jugoslavia. QUESTION RADITCH'S SANITY. Members of Parliament Ask Alienists’ Test of Leader. { By the Associated Press. ment, asking that Stefan Raditch, the peasant leader and long a stormy petrel of Jugoslavian politics, be exam- ined by alienists with a view to deter- mining his sanity. This action richsen and Rene Guilbaud, who left Tromsoe, Norway, Monday night in a French seaplane to join in the Nobile yescue work, were Jong overdue at Kings | Bay today. There were many rumors concerning them, but all lacked con- firmation. | May Be at Advent Bay. | One report was that the fiyers had| continued on 1o the north of Northeast | Land and were engaged fn searching| for the survivors of dirigible Italia It was thougnt probable, how- | ve gone | Kings Bay | This 1 nd it was | Yikely that they could reach there with- out Kings Bay being informed i (Rumors in Oslo that Amundsen and | his companions had found Gen. Um- berto Nobile subsided when neither the Norwegian government nor the Pre or Dallen legations nor family could co stations in Spi Norway had received n's | o | Zbergen and north | Official | which are in com- s with Nobile through the p Citta Di Milano, had 1o such | report.) | Unsiuceessfu) efforts also were made | k piloted by Luet- 20w Mol and his rooned perty to the no Met Great Difficulties. rs said that they had en- eountered great difficulties in looking for the marooned oen and their red vent among the jce floes and the water lenes between them. The sun shining brightly on the ice made observations aimost impossible Two other large planes have arrived here 1o join in the relief work. ‘They gre the Bwedish plane Upland, which will probably de sng for three men who have been miss- ing since May 30, when they staried weross the ice from the Nobile party end the second a large I'alian plane piloted by Maj. Penz. A patrol of {wo students of the Alpine Cilub and two Alpine troopers left the o Pe [ g 2, Column 2 h of Spitz- | ote its efforts o search- | Parliament caused by Raditch remark- | ing that Deputies were always absent when important measures are voted upon, adding, “They will presently file into the room like dumb aimless cat- tle.” This provoked Toma Popovich, & Government party Deputy, to shout: “You'll lose your head literally in this very Parliament one of these days. I shall see to that myself.” STATES PLAN PARK. North Carolina and Tennessee Of- ficials Meet Here Tomorrow. RALEIGH, N. C., June 20 (®)— North Carolina and Tennessee authori- ties will meet tomorrow at Washington in the office of Secretary of Interior Work 1o further plans for the Great ’| Smoky Mountain National Park, The North Carolina Council of State has just authorized State Treasurer Lacy to borrow $2,000,000 on short- time notes, in anticipation of the sale of long-term bonds be issued later, that North Carolina may have avall- al the cash necessary for her part of the purchase price of lands in the park | area, junderstood his supporters planned to {open a headquarters for him today. followed an uproar in| CONVENTION VAN REACHE HLSTON Cordell Hull Is First Candi- date-on Scene—Smith Men Due Tonight. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex, June southeastern Texas city, where the Democrats will open their national convention Tuesday, took on new life today with the arrival of the first candi- date “or the presidential nomination, Tordell Hull of Tennessee. Mr. Hull dismissed questions concern- | ing his candidacy with the statement it was too early to make campaign Ppredictions. He explained that he came a week early because of his dutles as a| member of the convention committee on | arrangements and as national com- | mitteeman from his State. It was 20.—This Reed Office Open, msanm:mmluu‘?i , who is expected to arrive the | e part of the week. manager Sccompanied by Nom . ose E. Buf- falo publisher and national eom:m::- man from New York. Frank Hague of New Jersey, who has been mentioned as convention floor manager for Gov. g-mttt::d.“ probably will reach here With the invasion of committeem: and campaign workers under way, mfi siderable interest has centered on | yarious proposals for the party plat-| form. Farm relief and prohibition fur- ;Ihhed the basis for many of the in- formal discussions. Clem Shaver, chair- m]nn of the national executive com- na ::ee and Jesse H. Jones, Texas' fav- | ol son, repeatedly have declared the | farmers denled admittance at the Re- | publican convention will be given an op- portunity to present their case here. Will Seek Wet Poll. Louis A. Cuvillier, chairman an - eral counsel of the National Cor?aflm- tional Liberty League of America, has x'.‘.';"’."',‘fff, hfé wulmuek & plank favor- endum liqxg; e each State on the louncement that the you Te'm governor, Dan Moody, wx};uléhfl‘l} rive Sunday was expected to start a rally of dry forces. He will head the State delegation of 40, instructed to| work for a dry plank and a candidate in sympathy with it. He has let it be ;mfl .g;az het hf.avon a prohibition nger n thal the Republicans. ¥ a00mid ity Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Joplin, Mo, vice chairman of the national com- mittee, has declared in favor of a plat- lur‘m that above all else will be short. “People have neither time nor in- clination to read long party declara- tions,” she sald. “Let us give the peo- ple a platform short enough that it will be read and that will contain no platitudes.” Meanwhile, local committees were completing arrangements for the enter- tainment of upward of 50,000 visitors. Many of the early arrivals have gone to the beach at Galveston until the end of this week. DENY CANCER CONTAGION. French Doctors Give Ruling in Re- ply to Inquiries. PARIS, June 20 (#).—The French Academy of Medicine ruled in the course of a plenary sitting yesterday that cancer is not contaglous, The ruling followed discussion relative to inquiries to the municipal council of a town bordering the Seine, a few miles from, Paris, deploring the creation of a hospital for the treatment of cancer | because infection might thus be carried | to residents of the district { | When He Visits ™ By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, June 20.—A romance with & girl he never saw has led to the recapture of Frank McDougle, escaped Alabama convict. MeDougle, while serving a sentence in Kirby Prison, Mongomery County, Ala. for receiying stolen goods, star ment of &4 magazine. an engineer engaged in & bl struction project. Last October he caped, but continued to correspond with 1 |Romance Traps Escaped Convict B cor- respondence with & girl in_Astoria, Long Island, through & “Pen Pals” depart- He gave his ad- dress as Kirby Camp and told her he con- ese Correspondence Girl” the girl from various citles. As he left ewciln town he wrote where he would be next. About a month ago, however, the girl lost his address and wrote to Kirby Camp. The letter fell into the hands of the prison authorities and the New York police were notified. They learned MecDougle was expected (o visit the girl'’s home and established a watch, When he arrived at the house he was arrested, He was held in Long Island By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 20.—Miss Amelia Earhart, Boston social worker and first woman ever to fly the Atlantic, faced | the world today, just as Lindbergh | once did, in borrowed clothes. ! The American girl, who arrived in | London vesterday with Wilmer Stultz | and Louis Gordon, her companions in | the transatlantic flight of the mono- plane Friendship, was wearing a loose- | fitting flowered dress this morning | when she held a little reception in the sitting room of her hotel suite which was rapidly becoming a bower of flow- ers sent by friends and admirers. “Everything I've got to wear at pres- ent is borrowed, but then I'm not vain she said, and her hesrers agreed that | she wasn't. Many Engagements Ahead. Miss Earhart was greatly refreshed after her night's rest. Her gray eyes were lustrous and there was color in her pale cheeks. This morning she began filling her engagement book and it will keep her busy. On Saturday she will be the guest of Mrs. Alanson B. Houghton, wife of the American Ambassador, at a luncheon, while on Monday the woman’s section of the Air League of the British Empire W\ll. give a public luncheon for her. Today's program included a luncheon with Mrs. Frederick Guest, sponsor of the flight, and a shopping trip. Talking to London’s assembled news- paper men today, Miss Earhart declared firmly and emphatically that during her brief stay in England she did not ‘y‘mt to be the subject of “hero worship.’ o “I have done nothing to merit it, she said. CLOVER HAY? | Heading this slate, MINE BLAST KILLS 10 Workers Escape Explo- sion in West Virginia Soft Coal Drift. By the Associated Press. MORGANTOWN, W. Va, June 20.— Five miners were killed and seven others injured seriously early today when an explosion occurred in a mine of the National Fuel Co., near here. All other men in the mine escaped or were rescued alive. ‘Two of the injured were not expected to live, The blast occurred shortly before the night shift was due to leave the work- |ings. Twenty-two miners were in the Attitude Toward Limelight. Capt. H. H. Railey, who made the Londgn arrangements for the fight, then | land carrie interposed the remark that Miss Ear- hart was distressed that she was occu- pying the limelight at the expense of Pilot_Stul tz. “That's Iustxlhig mh" ML&!I u;l;:t interrupted. “It use I am a - an t,hft 1 have been forced into the spotlight. The credit for the success of the flight is due Stultz. He con- trolled. the plane throughout and was just spl gl Hundreds of spectators, mostly wom- en, blocked the sidewalks hart's hotel, overflowed into the street and held up traffic when the airwoman started to the home of Mrs. Guest for luncheon. There was & rush toward her as she | erossed to the waiting car and some of the women attempted to embrace her. It was only with difficulty that the fiyer got on her way to the guest home. Flyers to See City. Stultz and Gordon, the other two- thirds of the Priendship's crew, started out early today to get what thrills they could from London sights. The youth- ful mechanician of the plane is likely to get a lot of them. Yesterday, com- ing to London by road from South- ampton, he saw the first high silk hat of his life. The automobile in which he and Stultz were riding was caught in & stream of fashionable limousines returning from the Ascot races. Slim then saw not o:lg his kflnt u:g T, bu: something he didn't know ray high hat, which headgear is in ?uhion at Ascot. “What is this” he exclaimed, rade?” pflMlss Earhart, on the same trip to London, was intrigued by a group of English schoolboys dressed in Eton cos- tume of dignified black coat, long trou= sers, broad starched collar and high sk hat. Gordon s a cheery, whole-hearted youth who takes the Atlantic flight most casually. He got a great }lulh over the fact that the Friendship's lit- Ye store of provisions included some pemmican, which is the mainstay of Arctic explorers. Joke in Snowstorm. When the plane encountered a snow- blm'x:l‘,e Gordol:l suggested it was time ;10 get out the pemmican. It was 'h_e w‘: brought joy to the Friendship's v:rer by sighting land. On the last nulu"?‘ the flight, from l*lu‘l'!'yH iz; lf“mlé r he took thing: peang 1 ry all the ay. lv:IeyAllmmc fiight, and he was making r lost time. upArl(()A.-r their arrival at Boulmmgwn, Slim_delayed the landing party from the Friendship for several minutes by methodically going about hiss work of Sovering up the engines, oblivious to the ;aiting ashore. He did not mzm“n“n‘:u‘m Picllcd than if he had e first caller Mgnh';:nrhnrt today was Ray Atherton, o affaires of the American em é.'.‘;'y’.”wm presented formal congratula- tions. 8he pl{nnx u‘; 8O elo the Embassy 9 night for a dance. u‘b‘llhls?lv::mm't was exceedingly pleased with the congratulatory messages she celved from President Coolidge, Sec- Tetary Kellogg and Gov. Fuller “of chusetts MB‘S“‘.!‘“W.-..M. as she expressed it, she intends to improve herself in_her Drofession. BShe hopes o see how Eng- s on its social service work. expressed o desire to visit the various settlements and especlally Townbee Hall, educational and soclal center In London’s east side. Newspaper men interviewing her did not seem to understand why she had flown the Atlantic with Wilmer Stultz and Louls Gordon in the Friendship and they asked many questions in an effort to determine the reason. She denfed that her flight had been & race with Mabel Boll see which would cross the ocean first, She stated emphatically that she did not intend to capitalize on her adventure by en- tering the motlon pictures or going on the vaudeville stage. ‘Was it true, asked one reporter, that she made the flight to obtain funds to 1ift the mortgage on the family home- She mine at the time and of this number 10 escaped or were rescued. Most of them suffered injuries of a less serious na- . 8. ‘The men who escaped received pain- ful burns. xplosion was the first in the The e: history of the mine, which is owned by Davis Elkins of New York. SHIP ASKS FOR HELP TO CURB STOWAWAYS Eight Desperate Men Causing Trou- ble on Australian Liner. ‘Warship Requested. By the Assoclated Press. COLOMBO, Ceylon, June 20.—The British cruiser Enterprise has received a wireless message from the Australian commonwealth liner Jervis Bay, out of Adelaide on June 9 for London, stating that she was having trouble with “eight desperate stowaways.” The message asked if there were any warships in her vicinity, placing her track at 1,780 miles east and 42 north of Galle, Ceylon, proceeding toward Colombo. The Enterprise, which is stationed in the East Indles, replied: “No war- ships in vieinity. Report if_situation serious.” It is thought that the mileage east 292-Year-Old Rule Broken at Harvard . FIVE, HURTS SEVEN fn ™ML Mo Faver CAMBRIDGE, Mass,, June 20.— ‘The president and fellows of Harvard College have broken a rule of 292 years standing in order that a senior, Dinsmore Wheeler of Chicago, who has been seriously ill at the college infirmary, might receive his degree. ‘Wheeler, ill since the early Winter, was unable to take the final exami- nations. His excellent record and the rec- ommendations of his professors were instrumental in having rulings thrust aside. Physicians said the degree might help him to recover. TEN HURT AS TRAIN HITS STRAY HORSE Animal in Center of Trestle Wrecks W., B. & A. Cars Near District Line. | | | | | | ing the track after striking a on a trestle just outside the early today, a two-car train of the Washington, Baltimore & An- napolis line plowed along until it had cleared the cut spanned by the bridge- work, then overturned, injuring 10 of the 12 passengers. Only one of the vie- tims is belleved in serious condition, but seven were still in hospitals today. The wreck also plunged Annapolis into dark- ness for two hours. One of the cars struck a pole carrying the feed line from the Benning Power plant to that town and broke it off. The accident haphened at Springman Curve, between Seat Pleasant and Huntsville, Md. The man thought most seriously hurt is Jacob Karbownlzek, 48, a Russian, 224 South Ann street, Baltimore. He is in Casualty Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg and internal injuries. Others Injured. ‘The others injured, all of whom are expected to recover, are: Phillip Oster, 39, 1528 Gales street northeast, the motorman; Harry J. Dutton, 52, 2417 Jefferson _street, Baltimore, the con- ductor; Sophle Lee, colored, 20, 949 Pear street, Baltimore; James A. ‘Thorpe, colored, 28, 1800 S street; Duke L. Slaughter, colored, 30, 3203 Eleventh street; Wilillam Lee, colored, 21, Borden, Va.; Matina Plummer, colored, 25, 1525 of Galle was picked up incorrectly and should be 780, as the figures given would place the ship off her course. Ship Has 600 Passengers. LONDON, June 20 (#).—The London offices of the Commonwealth line sald today that they had heard nothing from the Jervis Bay although she carries a short wave wireless capable of communicating with London. Agents of the line said that the steamship had 600 passengers and a crew of 120 aboard. WHITE RIVER LEVEE MENACED BY FLOOD Back Water Causes Unforeseen Rise Against Dike Protecting 50,000 Acres. By the Associated Press. GEORGETOWN, Ark, June 20.— Peach Orchard Levee, across the White River from here, was bearing the brunt of the swollen stream's attack today and engineers feared for its safety. Back water from the Little Red River, released by levees cracked during last year's flood, spread over a large area west of here and emptied into the White River near Peach Orchard Bluff, causing an unexpected rise. The main levee, which extends about seven miles along the Woodruft County bank of the river, was softening. En- gineers sald “anything might happen.” About 35 miles north, at Jackson Ba- {uu, another crew was to_hald he embankment. Alread: White River there is almost a foot higher than Iast April and still mlnL The Peach Orchard Levee protects about 50,000 acres of tillable land. A break there would andln?r McClelland, 3““ and other nearby plantation WS, stead in America? City Court yesterday to await extradi- tion, The police declined to reveal the ) | nanw of the girl, “No,” said Miss Earhart, “that's ab- surd. My profession 1s social work, This s my vacation, . Radio Programs—Page 30 , Columbia road; Paul Edgar Frisby, 2514 Q street, and Louis Chillari, 447 C street southwest. The two latter and the motorman left the hospitals after treatment. The first that was known here of the crash, which occurred about 1:30 o'clock this morning, was when Dutton went to Chesapeake Junction and called police assistance. Acting Chief of Detectives Charles Mullen immediately dispatched all police reserves to the scene and re- quested ambulances from Emergency, Casualty and Freedmen's Hospitals. Because of the distance from any road to the scene of the wreck it was fully & half hour before any assistance could reach the injured. Police and ambulances were led through a fleld by the Seat Pleasant Fire Department, but were forced to abandon theif ma- chines more than a city block from the wreck. It was then necessaty to carry all of the more painfully injured glnlck to the ambulances and automo- es. ‘The version of the wreck, as given to- day by Oster, the motorman, was that he was rounding the curve on the last “{Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) Says Store Still By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 20—A temporary Injunction today closed the wine cellar of the Iate Dr. Pearce Balley, noted neurologist, to the executors of his estate. The lngxtncuon was granted by Sur- ate O'Brien on application of Pearce Balley, son of the neurologist, who com- rlntm that only about 94 of the orig- nal store of 640 bottles of liquor re- main. The executors are Charles N. Black, former trustee of Princeton Uni~ versity, and Robert Thorne, a Wall street lawyer. Young Balley, who is a law student At Columbia University, brought an ae- tion last March seeking the removal of Black, who is his uncle, and Thorne as executors of his father's $1,000,000 estate. At that time he charged they had “felontously consumed” 450 bottles v J0OMEDTRIOFACE CHARSTIL HOPING | None of Busch Siayers Has| Yet Given Up—Proctor Sees Family. | Nicholas Lee Eagles, John Cline| Proctor and Samuel Moreno are spend- | ing their next to the last day on earth |at the District jail still hoping. | With their last chance to escape death in the electric chair Friday morn- ing apparently gone, none of the three condemned has given way to despair HOOVER CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE SLATE ISREADY FORO.K. Dr. Work “Hopes” Report Is True That He Is to Head National Group. LEADERS TO SELECT OFFICERS TOMORROW James W. Good Mentioned as Likely to Be Named to Vice Chairmanship. The slate of officers for the Republi~ can national committee was Wi into shape today at a series of political conferences behind the doors of Secre- tary Hoover's office, and tr remains only the formality of its ratification by the special committee of Republican leaders who will assemble here to- MOrTow. appears, will be Wi Secre- Dr. Work was name of Dr. H tary of the Interior. and following his conft ence he indicated to reporters his w ness to take the committee leader- Questioned concerning a press state- ment to the effect that he would be the new chairman, Dr. Work smiled and said he hoped the report was true. He refused definitely to confirm or deny that he had been chosen for the chair- manship by Mr. Hoover. Despite the prevailing opinion that Dr. Work is Mr. Hoover’s selection as head of his campaign board of strategy, George Akerson, Hoover's personal as- sistant, announced today that no deci~ sion has been reached in this connec- tion. He said the decision would rest with the committee of 24 from the na- tional committee, which meets tomor- row at noon in executive session at the Willard Hotel. Slate Is Made Up. Akerson added, however, that his chief and the Republican vice presi- dential nominee have conferred with a number of members of the commit- tee and that the meeting “probably won't be very long.” From this state- ment was drawn the inference that the { committee will have ready for its pe- | rusal a tentative list of officers for the of some miraculous intervention at the | Youth Gets Writ Closing Wine Cellar: iast moment. Proctor especially clings stubbornly to the hope that some step yet remains to be taken to save him. Throughout the morning the 19-year-old murderer was engaged in conferences with his mother, Mrs. Roberta Randall of Jopiin, Va.; his sweetheart, Miss Leila Lauder Johnson, 2008 F street; his spiritual adviser, Rev. George W. Dow, director of the Episcopal City Mission, and his brother, Ralph C. Proctor of New York. Family Has Hope. Members of the family themselves still have some hope, according to the brother and last-minute plans to defer the execution will be made this after- noon at a conference between the con- demned man, his mother and his at- torney, Wilton J. Lambert. Other visit- ors expected this afternoon, according to Proctor's brother, are another broth- er, Walter Proctor of Baltimore, at whose home the condemned man was arrested, and & sister, Mrs, Viola Proctor Eagles, who also is a sister-in- law of Nicholas Lee Eagles. Eagles made one unsuccessful move to help himself today by appealing to Reva Cooper, now an inmate of the Ivakota Farms School, near Fairfax, Va. She was present on the night the trio started out on their highway rotbery program, ending in the shoot- ing of Policeman Busch. Eagles asked ) her to give a statement as to what she saw before they left. Girl Fails to Aid. Eagles was in the hopes that she would say Proctor possessed a gun, thereby contradicting the steadfast neg- ative statements of the condemned youth, and giving him an opportunity to make further statements that he maintains would tend to show he did not kill the policeman. The Cooper girl, who is serving a sentence for complicity with Eagles In a highway | robbery in Virginia a few days before | the murder, was unable tc shed any | light on this question. The appeal was made through Louis D. Tanenbaum, at- torney for Eagles. Eagles was without visitors this morn- ing except for Rabbi Rosenbloom, his | spiritual adviser. Moreno was visited at 7 am. by Rev. Father Nester of Holy | Comforter Church, who administered | holy communion. He later was visited | by his mother and also by his sister | from Providence Hospital. Visitors Create Tension. Sobbing relatives of the condemmned | men are helping bring about an in-| creasingly tense atmosphere at the jail, | where no official notification has been received from the Department of Justice | national organization previously ap- proved by both nominees. The Lst should require only the formal stamp of approval of the special committee, it was understood. Officers to be elected, in addition to a chairman, are two vice chairmen, a secretary and a treasurer. The post of first vice chairman is as al- most of equal importance to the chair- manship, and it was thought likely that James W. Good., Hoover’s pre-conven- tion manager, has been nominated for that office. Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury and one of Hoover's ardent supporters in New York, joined in the conference between Hoover and Work. ‘When he emerged from Hoover's office he announced to newspaper men his readiness to bet “even money” that the Commerce Secretary would carry Smith’s home State. He declined to discuss campaign plans. Sees Committee Members. Hoover already has talked over or- ganization matters with one-third of the members of the special committee appointed to select a chairman and other officers here tomorrow. He saw two of them this morning—Pat Sul- livan of Wyoming and David W. Mul- vane of Kansas. He conferred yester- day with four others, C. Bascom Slemp of Virginia, Mrs. A. T. Hart of Ken- tucky, R. B. Creager of Texas and Clarence Hamlin of Colorado, and Raiph Wwilliams of Wyoming, chairman of the special committee. He previously had conferred with W. W. Atterbury of Pennsylvania. Other members of the special com- mittee due here late today or tomor- row morning are Earl y, Ver- mont; Lawrence Maschke, Ohio; Lewis K. Liggett, Massachusetts; Mrs. Guy P. Gannett, Maine; Miss Bina West, Michigan: Mrs. W. Reginald Baker, West Virginia; Mrs. Grace S. Burl- ingame, Missouri: Mrs. Virginia White Speel. District of Columbia; Mrs. O. P. Clark, California; Roy O. West, Illinols; Charles A. Ra 3 Mrs. Manley O. Fosseen, 5 Mrs. W. B. Lowndes, Maryland, and Mrs. Dorothy Cunningham. Charles D. Hilles of New York, who was & leader in the “draft Coolidge" movement, has wired that he will be unable to attend the meeting because of illness. The committee tomorrow also will decide a number of campaign problems, mcluding the date and place for notify- ing Hoover of his nomination. It ‘is expected the formality will take place early in August at Hoover's home in Palo Alto, Calif. Takes Vacation Soon. The presidential nominee probably will remain here only a week or 10 days more before taking his annual vacation at Palo Alto. He will clear that the appeal for been turned down by Presi Such notification is not necossar, ever, according to Maj. W. L. Peake, who will have charge of the executions. The three partook of the customary | breakfast, consisting of puffed rice and | milk, bread and butter, frankfurters | and coffee, this morning. The constant | succession of visitors is helping them keep their minds off the ordeal ahead. The order of the execution has not been determined upon Maj. Peake said, and will depend upon the condition of the men Friday morning. 1 | | Shrinks Despitc Suit| of his father's liquor and also that they had misappropriated more than $30,000 | from the estate. This action s now before a referee. At the time the original complaint | was filed Black, at San Francisco, said | he had consumed the liquor to keep his nephew “from going o over it." ‘The present complaint sets forth that Thorne when visited by young Balley's attorney made out a check payable to the estate for $3.619 and sald that made himselt and Black full owners of all the liquor in the wine cellar. Young Bailey in an afidavit attached to his latest complaint cha that the liquor is still disappearing from the wine cellar. A hearing on & perma- nent injunction will be held R-ld Dr. Bailey died in 1922 The wine chv lar is located in the Bailey home in Katonah, N. Y, up various matters of departmental routine before leaving. With the farm question greatly dimin- ished in importance by the conciliatory attitude of Senator McNary and various farm organizations in the Middle West the possibility of & stop-off in W Branch, Iowa, or some other Mid We: ern point for a farm speech appears remote. The only interruption in the progress to the coast will be a visit to the Summer White House in Wis consin, it is understood. While this visit would be largely in the nature of a mark of respect to President Coolidge, it is known Hoover would like to discuss with the executive & number of points concerning campalgn policies. An optimistic report on the situation fn New York State was given Hoover today by Allen Fox, an active booster of the Secretary i that State, and Mrs, Ruth Pratt, New York City's first wom- an alderman. Representative Wurchach of Texas was another ealling during the morning. Curtis Clears Desk. Except for a political conte: A Senator Reed 0oL early l'l::l“:h‘)n‘: ing, Senator Curtis held firmly to a resolve to devote himself today malnly to the task of clearing his desk hess Sccumulking inée the Honl Gl umul e \\\g‘v\'ntkm. s o nator Smoot, who was chatrman of the committee on resolutions which pre- sented the Republioan platform at Kansas City, has just arrived in Wash- ington and b tely got ito com- munication with the vice presidential ;:vmh\te. The iwo conferred at some UM th comvenabes S e T (Continued on Page 3, Column &)