Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tomor-" row afternoon or night. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Temperature—Highest, 85, at 5:15 p.m. yesterday: lowest. 64, at 5:30 am. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 ST, PAGES. Saturday's _Circulation, 99,458 Sunday’s Circulation, 107,871 The Epening TWO CENTS. 'HIRTY-FOUR () Means Associated Press. AMUNDSEN FOUND, VESSEL REPORTS; NOBILE IS RESCUED | Russian Icebreaker Beficved in Touch With Explorer and Seaplane Crew. , = N \\'A\SIIINGTO.\V'. D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1928— Entered as second class matter post office. Washington. D. C. SMITH’S VICTORY HELD CERTAIN; DRYS RALLY TO REED AND MOODY; DELEGATES POUR INTO HOUSTON 30.736. o. CAUCUSES STYLED THE THING | Qhio Offers 40 FOR SPEED AND INFORMATION yotes to New ! Yorker. ; et ‘LATE ARRIVALS ' SWELL PHALANX | Enforcement Is Cry of Mis- sourian. STRESSES FRAUD AS VITAL ISSUE SWEDISH FLYERS T0 GO IN SEARCH OF ITALIA MEN Democrats Declared to Be Staging Great Pre-Convention Show at Houston, With Color, Music and Personalities Aplenty. | Hunt for Missing Survivors of Dirigible Planned—General to McKELWAY, Return for Companions. Staft Correspondent of The Star it prefers in the way of candidates. | This information will be an immense relief to Senator Harrison. He hasn't |Indiana Is Reporled h‘ov:iz‘?z m;};xfl. i :{u;}c"f\-’ ;]gh“ the slightest idea, according to fllc% R l clans, spelled wi a you please, | sense of his interviews with the press. y eady to Support \ Governor. are gathering and by tonight Houston | what the Mississippi delegation is to | BY BE st of Vice Presi-| dential Names Increases. ~ Nobile Taken First To Supervise Hunt For Other Partie: will be chock full of Democrats. All|do. and according to the sense of his morning long, and it will be so un:i) | Statements to the reporters he is burn- | late tonight, the blare of trumpets and | I to find out | | the crash of cymbals echoed (hmugb‘ e fipnhPS to Gov. Moody. of Texas. Gov. Moody, according to the | BY GEN. UMBERTO NOBILE. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON. June 25.—On the eve of the Democratic national convention 2nti-Smith forces are seeking desperate- 1y to form a battle line that will hold sgainst the New Yorker. | Some of the dry opponents of Al Smith are turning. to Senator “Jim"| Reed of Missouri, a wet, and Senator Reed has hoisted his flag for them to rally round | Others have their eyes fixed on the vouthful governor, Dan Moody of Texas, | hoping that he may prove a Moses Jead them out of the wilderness. But Moody is having trouble riding his own delegations, on which ther are con- siderable numbers of Smith men. Local politics alone has kept the Smith senti- ment in the Texas delegation quiescent | up to this time. | Discounted by Smithites. | While the Reed supporters were claiming gains today as a result of | Senator Reed’s statement, they were discounted by the Smith men, who de- clared that the only votes rallying to Reed if any were anti-Smith under any circumstances. Gov. Dan Moody came forward with & dry plank statement declaring for the strict enforcement of the prohibition jaws and specifically approving the eighteenth amendment. Some of the Smith supporters said | they saw nothing in the Texas gov- | ernor’s plan for a declaration for law enforcement which could be objection- able to the New York governor. Tom Love, veteran Texas itician and former vz:;fl&n:ll Mm‘l{ “If we adopt such a E.t- form plank and nominate it will be like denouncing erime and nomi- nngg‘ the devil™ e declaring any attempt to repeal it, wflmm prohibition. £ faithful, & f:l::'e;‘ romising the - glem enforcement of the wohiuunn% 1 am confident such a plank will be | offered in this convention and that we | will be supported by the Democrats of | { Texas.” Protects Loyalty. “The serious thought of the souLh! s in favor of prohibition and its en- Torcement and in my judgment, if any | improvements are to be made in the prohibitoin laws, these improvements should be made by the friends of pro- hibition and no attempt on the part of the enemies of prohibition to emascu- late the laws can be tolerated. I do not believe that the delegates from | other sections of the country will be| controlled by the environs of the few | places in this Nation that are opposed | 1o prohibition, but it is my judgment v will recognize the serious thought | of the South wherein is the heart and | sou!l of the Democratic party. “No attempt should be made to draw sn overdraft on the Democratic loyal- ty of the South.” Gov. Moody said that Texas Demo- | Kan: crats want an agricultural on the | basis of equality for the farmers with other business. | He said they wanted the cormpuon[ ©f the Republican party denounced, and continued “We also want the Demo- cratic party 1o take a forward position n the great moral issue of prohibition. | n which the public mind feels in. sely. Any quibbling upon these mat- | s unthinkable.” | The convention is to open at moon| tomorrow, 1 o'clock Washington time. | ning day will be given over| to the keynote speech, which | celivered by Claude G. Bowers | York, temporary chairmen. Bid for Dry Support. « i of Tennessee and George of | along with Evans Woollen of | e expected by the drys 10| “pit" toward halting Gov.| e upon the presdenuial | Senator Reed issued 2 yesterday, in which he | lared against the New | poszl of having the various| e the alcoholic content ¢ within their borders. @ here a frank bid tcr‘ ne presidential race. understood 10 have of some of the dry ported McAdoo four | part they look o are doing thelr best nt the nomination of Gov. the Democratic leaders ates, however, insist drys will not as & 1 the Reed stand- Smith for the nomi- pposition to the late W Southern States, plea was for the Demogcrats e the anti-corruption standard ihe Wepublicans in the guise of “This in my opinion, the great ue, and with its statement I would rest content,” seid Senator Reed, “but for the fact that recently prohibition 25 been forced w the front by ¢ ¢ Republican party and | uished delegate to this Reference to Mack tly Senator Reed had refer- * Norman , national com- teeman from New York and & ith erent, who said on his arrival Houston that Smith was oppored probibition and favored letting the fstates decide what should be the al- tent of beverages as proposed in the lew York referendum “1 shall. therefore, frankly state my (Coutinued on Page b, Column 3. | man_ already had | attracted attention was that from Penn- on may have been for-| Missouri, they say, but not in he | they would the streets as delegation after delega- tion rode in and sought places to| caucus. The first thing an up-to-date delega- i tion does on arriving in a convention | city is to caucus. There is the Mis- sissippi delegation, for instance, which, arriving today. will caucus this eve- ning. During the caucus it will inform Senator Pat Harrison of Gulfport what way he talks to the reporters, can hardly wait until the delegation he is supposed to control has a caucus. But it is surprising how quickly the delegations act after they have a caucus In Kansas City, for instance, the Penn- sylvania delegation had a caucus and within two minutes after it started the door peeped open and a man whispered to a bunch of reporters, “It's Curtis. “(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) | | ANTISMITH CANP SEER LAHONA Hopes to Win Support of? Strife-Torn Delegation | in Caucus. By.the Associated Press. | HOUSTON, June 25.— Anti-Smith leaders were concentrating today on the salvation of Oklahoma, one of the last cutposts in their campaign as the Okla- homa delegation, torn between Smith and Reed, prepared to settle the course of its 20 votes at a caucus late today. Both the Smith and Reed groups in | the strife-torn delegation were making claims and with the battle growing warmer, the delegates decided to post- pone a caucus meeting originally called for noon until 4 pm. ¥ Senator Reed has confidently counted on the Oklahoma delegation, which is controlled by the unit rule and there- fore bound by the decision of the ma- jority of its delegates. Meanwhile another conference of leaders of the newly organized anti- Smith group under the leadership .of Daniel Roper of South Carolina, was | called for late in theday. Caucuses Today. Whether Gov. Smith will be nomi- nated on the first ballot, as many of his supporters believe, may be determined by nightfall. | On today’s calendar were the caucuses | of a dozen or more State delegations | whose exact line-up on candidates has not been disclosed. Party leaders, in both the Smith and anti-Smith camps counted on those get-togethers to fur- nish an accurate line on what the con- vention balloting has in store. Claim 700 Votes Already. i ‘Those keeping a close tab on doubtful | delegations had their eyes particularly on those from such States as Arkansas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas and Missis- sippl. They were watching also the delegates, pledged to support favorite sons, from Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and | 538, Without counting in this group of States, the Smith managers figured their bagged around 700 votes to go over he would need 73315, and they were looking to the doubtful delegations to furnish the votes to make him the nominee. The political foes of the New York Governor also were counting on this block of States to give them enough convention strength to stave off Smith’s nomination, and they refused to con- cede that their antagonist could make inroads sufficient to make him a winner. | Eyes on Pennsylvania. One of the big State delegations that sylvania. The Smith men have been claiming 66 to 6973 of the 76 delegates; the opposition, 26. One prediction coming from the anti-Smith camp was that some of the Pennsylvanians allied with the Vance McCormick faction | might support Newton D. Baker of Ohio. Senator Reed also has been counting on at least eight votes from the Keystone State. | As for the Texas, Arkansas, Missis- sippl and Virginia delegations, the Smith managers hope to pick up a batch of votes from them after the first ballot, even if they fail to make the grade on the first. For the most to Ohlo, Indiana and Nebraska for second ballot support rather than first { Near Texas Delegation Majority. There were reports going the rounds today that Smith had close to a major- ity of the Texas delegation of 40. | There also were predictions that the delegation might decide to give its first | ballot support to Jesse H. Jones, the banker and newspaper publisher, w10 nad a big part in bringing the con- | vention 1o his_home town of Houston. | And on all sides there was @ tendency | to keep an eye of young Dan Moody, the Governor of Texas and chairman of the delegation, who 15 & dry. Bome of Gov. Bmith's most deter- Houston Swelters In Heat Wave With No Relief in Sight By the Assoclated Press.. HOUSTON, June 25.—The Per- spiring Democratic hosts seem to be in for a hot time with the maximum temperature approaching record height and not much change in sight. Coats were disappearing and shirtsleeves going up. A maximum temperature of 91 degrees was reached at 3 p.m. yes- terday and the heat continued with very little change throughout the day and night. A minimum of 74 degrees was the coolest mark dur- ing the 24 hours, ending at 7 o'clock this morning. Forecaster Dainger- field was unable to hold out much prospect for cooler weather. Houston's maximum temperature for yesterday's date was 97 in 1915, .so that Sunday’'s 91 was the high- est in 13 years on that date. Humidity was high early todav, 91 being recorded at 7 o.m. . D.C.PLANK TOGET HOUSTON HEARING Resolutions Committee Will Consider Representation for Capital. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Staff Correspondent of The r. HOUSTON, June 2§.~The resolutions committee, which is to build the party platform, will grant a hearing on the proposed plank indorsing national rep- resentation for the more than 500,000 residents of the National Capital. This | assurance was given last night by Sen- ator Key Pittman of Nevada, who is to e chairman of the resolutions commit- tee, to John B. Colpoys, chairman of the State central committee and delegate from the District, who was by the citizens' joint committee, repre- senting more than twoscore of ‘most. prominent civic, patriotic and fes- sional organizations in Was| , to take charge of an organized effort at the convention to have this plank adopted. Even if the national representation plank is not included in the party plat- form, a resolution will later be offered from the floor of the convention, declar- ing that the convention favors the en- lrutxcr;isement of c"fy residents at the seat of Governmen them rep- resentation in the elm vote and voice in Congress. Senator Pittman has Mr. Colpoys that as much time as possible will be allowed for presentation of the {;len in behalf of the voteless people of he District of Columbia. Mr. Colpoys submitted a list of authorized spokes- men for organizations and individuals who will appear before the resolutions committee on this plank. This list is as follows: Mr, Colpoys, joint citizens' committee and the Washington Central Labor Unlon with 65,000 members in 72 afil- iated organizations; John F. Costello, national committeeman for the District of Columbia; Mrs, J. Borden Harriman, natlonal committeewoman: John Henry Kirby, president of the National Coun- cil of State Legislators; Robert N. Har- per, assistant treasurer of the Demo- cratic national committee, and treas- urer of the congressional committee, representing the Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations in Washington: Frederic Willlam Wile, who has represented the citizens' joint committee on this subject in addressing varfous conventions throughout the Combs of Kansas City, a delegate who 1s a member of the House District com- mittee and authorized to speak for the chairman of that committee, and Sena- tor Millard H. Tydings of Maryland, - . EXTRADITION NF BELA KUN IS REFUSED BY AUSTRIA mined foes have decided that if Arkansas and Mississipp! go over to his causc | be ready to throw up the | sponge and admit defeat. In the Arkansas delegation of 18, of which the | Smith leaders lay claim to mor ! a majo are Joe Robinson, who s | 1 be permanent convention chairman, | and bis senatorfal colleague, Thaddens | Caraway. Some forecasts today weie that the delegation would go to Robin son on the first ballot, others that majority would be on a Smith by wWagon Like Robinson, who frowned on ef- | forts tw have his home State delega- | tion, pledged 10 him. Senator Harrison of Mississippl urged the 20 delegates (Continued on Page 5, Column 8.), By the Associated Press VIENNA, June 25-—The Austrian government definitely refused today to comply with the demand of Hungary that Bela Kun, fiery communist who in- augurated a “red terror” in Hungary in 1919, he extradited. The refusal ‘was based on the political character of the charges Trial of Bela Kun will begin in Vi enna tomorrow on_charges that he tered Austria under a false German passport Kun has been under arrest since April 28, and police then asserted that he wias cngaged in & plot to Inaugurate a fresh communistic regime in Hungery under Lhe patronage of Moscow, country and radio talks; Representative ! | By the Associated Press | HOUSTON, June 25.—Meeting again | like a reunited company of old com- | rades, the Democrats of East and| West trooped into Houston today and joined hands under the high flung ban- ner of Smith of New York. Caucusing as they came, the fast gathering delegates to the national convention turned into certainties many of the promises of support on which the Smith men are relying for a quick nomination when the bailoting begins later in the week. An offer of 40 of Ohio’s 48 and the expectation of similar pledges from various other States led the Smith lieutenants to pre- dict that before nightfall he would have enough delegates openly and publicly pledged to him to bury remaining op- position in a first ballot landslide. The one discordant note of the whole big parade arose from a far-outnum- bered contingent of dissenters, dry and anti-Tammany, and chiefly from the South. But it was a shrill, somewhat deflant note, and it may be heard again from the floor of the convention, which opens at noon tomorrow. Foes Still Claim 400. Some of the Smith enthusiasts, who said they based their opinions on re- ports from such favorite-son States as Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas and Tennessee, put the ultimate strength of the anti-irreconcilables at around 200 votes, out of a convention total of 1,100. The anti-Smithites themselves are claimi lroung. 'Wghbut they refused W] tes they hope to get the votes, o3 News of the willingness of the Ohioans to swing 40 to Smith on the first roll call preceded the delegation into Hous- ton. Coincidentally, the S8mith people also herd that Indiana likewise, after voting for Woollen in her turn on the u?hlhetlul roll, might switch the bulk | of her st of 30 to the New Yorker u would insuré a first-ballot nomina- As arriving delegates awell hun- dreds the waiting phalanx he:zsd the New Yorker, it became apparent even to his still defiant enemies that he was on the very threshold of definite vietory. The boldest estimate of the minority him left him within votes of the nomination. No other man so situated ever has failed of a quick and decisive tri h. So satisfled were his followers t many of them were tal of running mate for Smith place on the ticket. names by pre-convent Woollen, Indiana’s favorite son, found at once a place of special eminence. Robinsen Is Boomed. Senator Robinson of Arkan: among the others ardently Wmdw; some sections of the Smith bloc of dele- gates, but the net conclusion of all the talk was that the time for a definite measurement of vice presidential stat. ures had not yet come. The final hours before convention day prohibition became more than ever the center of such disagreements as re- mained for the big party conclave and its committees to iron out. While a bandless. ballyhooless, almost voiceless Smith headquarters received arrivin, delegations with modulated words o? welcome, there was much tumult else- mk:fre. ind prohibition was its dominat- note. Senator Reed of Missouri, who stump- ed many States against the quiet S movement, started the excitement by firlng off a statement declaring the :}fhuenm amendment must stand un- better method is found for dealing with the situation. Called & wet many times by prohibition leaders, the Mis- sourian’s utterance was embraced im- mediately by these leaders, and it ap- peared likely that he might have at- tracted to his slender column of dele- gate strength some anti-Smith dele- gates who otherwise would have voted for others. Drys Renew Campaign. Just how this was to affect the final balance, or at what point it was in- tended to cut into the Smith majority, was not apparent. But the Reed state- ment greatly encouraged the drys and set them to work all over again, under the leadership of Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina, In an attempt to organ- ize a bloc sufficient to veto his nomina- tion and write into the platform the kind of ultra-dry plank they want. Smith headquarters said nothing. Some of the lesser Smith lleutenants, however, passed the word around that even while Reed was preparing his state- ment and Roper was gather] his band of drys, there b been d- wagon accessions to Smith In such num- bers that a first-ballot nomination could be accomplished almost without a strug- gle, if it were desired. ‘The &xmlnemhl balloting will not be reached before Thursday, or ibly Priday. The deep-dyed lm.l-smllh - tingent, centerl largely in the South, Insists that with! space of time all things are possible in tics. 'To which the Smithites reply that once a presidential band wagon starts on Its way, nothin, rt of & political earth- quake can stop it. Brief Daylight Sessions, ‘The convention program is not yet complete, but leaders are considering a plan that would confine the daylight sesslons within the briefest possible lim- its and leave the real work of the con- vention to be done at night. On convening at noon tomorrow the convention, after the make up or vari- ous committees has been announced, will recess until 7 pm, Central stand- ard time. Shortly after that hour Claude . Bowers, as temporary chair- man, will deliver his keynote address. Sam Houston Hall, the square wooden superpavilion bullt specially for the oce casion and christened yasterday by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, was all dressed and walting today for the mammoth show that 1s to be heard by milllons and seen (Continued on ns 5, Column 2) STEWARTINDICTED BY GRAND JURY Perjury Charged in Alleged Falsity of Answers Before Senate Committee. Perjury is charged in an mdmmentl reported today by the grand jury| against Robert W. Stewart, chairman of | the board of directors of the Standard 0il Co. of Indiaha. The charge is based on the alleged falsity of answers given by Col. Stewart when called to testify before the Senate committee on public lands and surveys February 2, when he was asked about the disposition of Lib-| erty bonds of the Continental Trad- | ing Co. | Col. Stewart was acquitted June 14, after a trial on an indictment alleging that he had refused to answer the ques- tions propounded by the Senate eoln-‘ mittee. new indictment is in three counts. g e R nied that he knew of the ition " the ‘Tradin| in truth and in fact he knew about the distribution, actually himself received 8$759,- alicges that Stew count alleges ew- he had personally received the bonds when in truth and in had received $759,500 worth of The third count asserts that Stewart denled he had any conversation or Kknowledge that would lead him to be- lieve that any ha resolutions 282 and 294, which orig- inally authorized the inquiry into the leases of naval oil reserves, and reso- lution 101, directing the investigation into the Continental Trading Co. and its activities. It was in furtherance of | this inquiry, it is stated, that Col.| Stewart was called before the commit- | tee and the questions alleged to bc‘ pertinent to the matters under consid- eration by .t‘he committee were pro- inded to him. Wrt was Stewart's testimony that caused John D. Rockefeller, ir., to de- mand his resignation as chairman of the corporation’s board of directors. At_the committee hearing last Feb- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 4, DRY FORCES DRAFT | ENFORCEMENT PLANK 31 Organizations Join at Houston to Demand Candidates Who Will Support Law. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, June 25.— Representa- ! tives of 31 national dry organizations today drafted a plank for submission to | the resolutions committee of the Demo- | cratic conventon calling for the noml-i nation of candidates openly committed by “thelr utterances, acts and records’ | to a positive enforcement of the eight- eenth amendment and its supporting | laws. The‘mpmpoael lsy unanimous! a prou-acuyi conference at which va- rious aspects of the prohibition situa- tion were dlmumd,d s "‘mp- vas made raes Canino the Methodist | Cannon, Jjr., o hmpnl Church South, and the Rev.! Edwin C. Dinwiddie, a former superin- tendent of the Anti- League. | The proposed plank would declare for a “positive, clear-cut declaration plafl,-j ing the support of the party and nomi- nees to & program of vigorous and ef- | clent enforcement of the elghteenth amendment and necessary supporting legislation.” plank was agreed upon | the dry leaders after | NEW TRAFFIC RULE ARRESTS DELAYED Motorists will not be arrested for violation of the more than 60 new| trafic regulations which went mwi effect yesterday until a revised edition of the traffic code has been printed and distributed. | A general order issued to the police force today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent, directed the officers to stop all violators, however, and Instruct | them in the proper observance of the new rules, but not to make any arrests Rather than order wholesale arrests for violation of the new rules, Maj. Heese feels that a reasonable time sgould be allowed for motorists to learn them. ‘The order contalns a list of all of the changes, and directs the police to atudy them carefully, 1 Plane Aids Escape Of Army Officer Facing 20 Years By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, June 25—Maj. Baldessarre, army officer who was about to begin a 20-year sentence for shooting a man, is believed to have escaped in an airplane after leaving the barracks where he was confined, disguised as a woman. The major was stationed at Men- doza and was being investigated on suspicion that he had accepted a bribe to exempt youths from mili- tary service. He shot the investi- gating officer in the back and was court-martialed and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment on an is- land, for which he was to leave on the next ship. NATS DEFEAT A'S | | | INFRST GANE, 32 9th Inning—Braxton Hurls Good Ball. BY JOHN B. KELLER. die{Take Contest With Rally in Washington defeated the Athletics In; the first game of today's double-header | at Griffith Stadium. The score was 3 to 2. | | Garland Braxton and Jack Quinn | | were pitching rivals. About 5,000 were | in the stands as the contest got under d| way. FIRST INNING. PHILADELPHIA—Dykes fouled to Ruel. Braxton tossed out Cobb. Bluege threw out Hale. No runs. WASHINGTON—Rice dr: out by Barnes to Simmons. No runs. SECOND INNING. PHILADELPHIA—Simmons to center. Foxx fanned. Miller fouled | in substance™ of the treaty Boley also fanned. No runs. |the United States WASHINGTON—Goslin doubled to | to ing , Boley to left _center, Braxton Hale threw to Ruel. center. Reeves sacrificed, bunting Foxx. Judge singled to center, scor! Goslin. Bluege forced Ju Dykes. Ruel singled to sending Bluege to third. walked, filling the bases. out Rice. One run. THIRD INNING. PHILADELPHIA — Cochrane singled to left. Dykes Quinn toook a third forced Cochrane, KELLOGG REVEALS | | | | | | By the Associated Press. {as an instrument of national policy in agged a bunt down the first base line and was thrown | to slfn kes. Harris grounded to Dykes. | diately | | singled | was a modification “in form though not | | strike. | to| brokers, Reeves, and Reeves, trying for a double play, threw the ball to the Washington dugout, Dyke fumbled Col making second. Judge pop drive, but got the " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | BOX SCORE—FIRST GAME | PHILADELPHIA AB. Dykes, 2b.. Cobb, rf Hale, 3b Simmons, If... Foxx, 1b Miller, cf Boley, R Cochrane, ¢ Quinn, p Totals....... WASHINGTON AB. Rice, rf. Harris, 2b. Barnes, cf Goslin, If Reeves, ss Judge, 1b. Bluege, 3b... Ruel, c. Braxtom, p......cooaivannane l?fl‘b!fl:&fl?fi& SCORE BY INNINGS 1 Philadetphia . 0 Washington.. d In~Judge, Miller, Goslin (a—Gostin, Miller. O u‘LI‘n—-"'r-u 2, ¥ ases — Gaslin. i 1o Barnes to Bt | e WAR BAN CHANGES Peace Treaty Text Sent to 14, Nations Shows Revisions | in Form Only. | Drafts of a treaty which Secretary | Kellogg is confident will “bring man- kind's age-long aspirations for universal | peace nearer to practical fulfillment | than ever before in the history of the world” tbday awaited action at the| capitals of 14 nations. Growing originally from the proposal of the French foreign minister, Aristides Briand, that France and the United States join in a compact renouncing and outlawing war between each other, the drafts were delivered on Saturday to the governments of Australia, Bel- gium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, , Great Britain, India, the Irish Pree , Italy, Japan, New Zealand. Poland and South Africa. An explan- atory mote from Secretary Kellogg ac each. Under the proposed treaty. the text ?{“'Neh was made public yesterday, signatory nations would “ declare * * * that they condemn re- course to war ° * ¢ and renounce it their relations with one another.” In addition, they would agree “that the settlement and solution of all dis- putes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which | arise among them shall never be sought except by pacific means.” In the preamble, it is made clear that should one signatory power “seek to promote its national interests by resort to war. all other signatory nations would be freed immediately of their obligations to the offending state the treaty, and that the latter would be “denied the benefits" of the compact. In his note, Secretary Kellogg de- clared that the United States was ready the treaty as proposed imme- and expressed the hope that the other nations would be able to aceept it | promptly and without qualifications. 1 He pointed out that the new draft by | in were made, ')"l;‘slm or complical - tions, it_was possible in this way (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | ——— | STOCK BROKER SHOT. June 25 (®).— manager to_avoid WICHITA, Kans, Cornell Larsen, local for Strandberg-McGreevy & Co., stock was shot in the back by a dis- gruntled customer in an argument over | some securities in Larsen's office today. In a statement to police Larsen named Clarence J. Foy as his assailant. | An X-ray was taken to determine the | seriousness of Larsen's injury. | | | 1 | R. 1 0 0 o 1 o0 0 [ 0 2 H. 1 | Nobile to Seek Missing | lon | carried too far to the south it | have been missiny BASE SHIP CITTA DI MI- LANO, VIRGO BAY, Spitz- bergen, June 25 (Via Stefani Agency, Rome) (#).—When yes- terday morning Lieut. Lundborg landed near our tent, I told him he ought to take off Ceccioni on his first flight, then Behounek, then Troiano, then me, then Viglieri and Biagi. Lundborg refused. He told me he had reeived orders to take me off immediately, for I could give directions for searching for the others. He insisted firmly and my comrades also insisted firmly that I should leave first and that 1 would make them more tranquil for every event- uality. So I was forced to yield against the dictates of my heart and also to avoid delay. At the time the plane deparied Ceecini was well. I turned over direction of the group to Viglieri. 1 hope to embrace them soon and I hope divine providence will allow me again to see the others. By the Associated Press. Spurred by the rescue of Gen. Nobile. the international group of airplanes and ships in Spitzbergen waters bent every effort today to rescue the remain- ing stranded men. Swedish flyers on the vessel quest at Cape Henlopen were ready to fly to the Nobile camp again, particularly to res- cue Lieut. Lunborg, Swedish fiyer. whose plane overturned on his second trip to the camp. Unconfirmed dis- patches reported that the Russian ice- breaker Krassin was in communication with Roald Amundsen and the five men of the French seaplane which dis- appeared a week ago while flying to Nobile’s aid. The base ship Citta di Milano has left Kings Bay for Virgo Bay to be closer to the scene of the rescue work. ly | Gen. Nobile, whose leg was injured, .s aboard her. AMUNDSEN REPORTED FOUND. Rassian Ship Believed in Touch With Explorer. LONDON, June 25 (#.—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Paris quotes the newspaper L'Information as publishing a report from Moscow that the Russian ice breaker Krassin is in communication with Roald Amundsen and his five companions missing, in a seaplane. ‘The dispatch said that Russian avia- tors would attempt to rescue the men with a Junkers plane which is aboard the ice breaker. The Krassin sailed from Bergen for Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, last week and was to cover virtually the same route lwhich Amundsen had planned to fol- low. Amundsen was accompanied oy Liet Dietrichsen, Norwegian explorer, and ‘The | four French naval airmen, under the command of Rene Guilbaud, noted fiyer. PLANS NEW EXPEDITION. Survivors of Dirigible Italia. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 25 (#)—~Gen. Nobile. rescued br a Swedish plane from the ice floe on which he had been marooned since May 25, to- day was determined to lead a new ex- pedition into the Arctic in search of missing survivors from the dirigible Ttalia. Seven men who were in the balloon part of the airship when it crashed on the polar ice cap, Imurln% Nobile, were his immediate concern. They had drifted to the east, and he believed he could lead a rescue expedition to them. Nothing has been learned of the fate of these men since the Italia crashed. Although there were ample supplies aboard the craft to enable them to withstand the rigors of the Arctic for a ng period. there was ve fear for their safety. If the balloon had been mn&m have come down in the open water be- tween Spitzbergen and Franz Josef It was expected that Nobile soon woul! | recover sufficiently from fractures and exposure to fly to reconnoiter the area where he believed they might have come down. This desire to go to the aid of his missing companions was believed to | have led to the rescue of Noblle first. Aside from those in the balloon part of the Italia the searching parties were xious to trace three members of the rew who were with Nobile, but who since May 30, when they started afoot for land. Plane Lands With Skis. A Swedish plane equipped with skis made a l-ndtnf“snlumy near Nobile's camp on the near Foyn Island, a feat which the Italian rescue rs here Glemcwosnumuf . 0 . thought impossible. A little later took off with the mnjured his five b A‘:' bB”(’hll\ Tel dispatch { ge "5;:”‘ from Copenhagen said that the Italian legation at Oslo had received ward that the Swedish Strait, which separaies West Spitzber- gen_from North East Land, where he i I uin MeGowan, Connelly v " Continued 2, Colimn &)