Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. iU, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler today: tomorrow fair and continued cool; gentle to moderate northwest and north winds. Tempera- ture—Highest, 90, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page 5. No. Entered as second class post office, -Washington, Senate Hopes Fade I 1,219— No. 30,770. BLANTON TRAILING | IN SENATE RACE; ~ NAYFIELD AHEAD matter D C Run-off Expected Between, Incumbent and Connally in Texas Contest. MOODY FAR IN LEAD OVER 3 OPPONENTS Xove, Enemy of Smith, Losing Ground, With Name Left Off Ballot. DALLAS. Texas, July 28 Feturns frem 194 of Texas' 253 coun- ties. none complete, indicated Iate to- night that the balloting in today's State-wide Democratic primary had been unusually at. ‘Earle B. M Senator, standing for renomination which is tantamount to election, led a six-cornered fight. but he was far from the fre-' & majority quently Based upon fleld would be primary next month with Tom Con- nally, Representative from the eleventh district. Blanton Is Far Behind. Thomas L. Blanton, Representative from the seventeenth district, and Al- vin Owlsey, former national commander of the American Legion, were farther down the list. ‘The vote Mayfield, 67.922; Connally, 64,903; Blanton, 39.478; Owsley, 43,001; Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, 8,935; Jeff McLemore, 4351, In the scattered returns from the same 194 counties, Texas’ youthful gov- ernor, Dan Moody, had a clean ma- jority over three opponents. He was pressed closely by Louis J. Wardlaw. ‘whom he. assailed in campaign speechss as having been put :orvmlbylnmr] Gov. James E. Ferguson. in an effort to regain control of the State by a “back- door™ entrance. The votes cast for William E. Haw- Smith. The vote: Moody, 139,183; Wardlaw, 78,331; Hawkins, 9,301; Wilmans, 5,290, Scattered United States shifting tide of votes (hen[ counted, indications were Senator May- forced into a run-off | | ! REPRESENTATIVE BLANTON. WHITE RESUMES ATTACK ON SHITH |Kansas Editor Seen Challeng- ing Governor to Debate on His Wet Record. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 28.—Resuming his attack on Gov. Alfred E. Smith today, | William Allen White, editor of the Em- poria, Kansas, Gazette, said two weeks’ | investigation into New York State rec- |ords had substantiated his previous | statement that Gov. Smith had sup- member in the New York Assembly. Mr. White said he had employed two experts to delve into the journal of the Assembly for Gov. Smith's record, and | e now was prepared “to face the gov- | site, the gambler and the prostitute.” Says He Obeyed Tamma: “I am not a trained debater, | ported the liquor interests while a| he Sund WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION | Star, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by ‘The Sta:'s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery, ASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1928 —NINETY-SIX PAGES. 0P Means Ausociated Pross. OLYHPE QARRE EADS N FARNON: FRANG EENTERS Accepts Dutch Apology After Gatekeeper Strikes Team Official. | | | ATMOSPHERE CLEARS ON EVE OF GAMES Ray, Hahn and Wyckoff Hold America's Hopes in Con- tests Tomorrow. N J. GOULD, | 2 { Press Sports Editor. | AMSTERDAM, July 28.—All because | one obscure Dutch gatekeeper punched | one French secretary in the eye and | barred French athletes from practic- | ing in the Olympic Stadium, the | shadow of international controversy hung for hours today over the whole pageantry of the ceremonial opening | of the Ninth Olympiad. The world's greatest athletic con- vention, surrounded by the most im- pressive gestures of peace and good | will, was thrown into sudden uproar when the French, after what they con- sidered successive insults yesterday and | | today at the hands of the gatekeeper, withdrew their entire delegation from the opening parade. At the same time French authorities delivered an ulti- ;mltum threatening to withdraw from | the actual games unless “satisfactory | reparations and apologies” were forth- coming. | | | { i Threatened to Quit. ‘They were forthcoming this evening. were accepted and the French will send their stars into the athletic battle to- morrow, but it required a conference of the highest athletic as well as dip- lomatic officials of the two nations be- fore harmony was restored. The in- cident was declared closed and the good will thereof toasted in champagn» after the Dutch Olympic committee submitted formal apologies and sum- marily removed the offending gate- keeper. - ‘The whole incident was based on a wmpnr;nvely Mvmndhpuu h:nd mis- understanding as well as per! some official Dutch laxness. o The affair had its birth Friday when the French atletes, Mwmfl&d by Paul of Athletic mm:n.a;?cm 9 they n promised r who aggrava Mericamp with to Pranz Reichel, sec- SQUASH YER THERES S BUE. OME BITTER STUFF () THERE, JUST FOPrHE SARE. " COMMENTS ON THE CAMPAIGN. FIVE BADLY BURNED INPRISON BLAST 20 Other Convicts Injured in Film Explosion—3 In- mates Escape. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., July 28.—Five con- victs at Blue Ridge State Prison Farm. ' No. 2, near here, were probably fatally burned, 20 others suffered severe burns | about the body and a prison guard nar- | rowly escaped death tonight when a | box of moving picture films exploded in a dining room of the farm. Sixty-five convicts were watching the regular Saturday night show when one | of them @ lighted cigarette in a box con the films. Instantly was a terrific explosion that | 'w the convicts into a state of panic. Both doors leading out of the din- shrieking room were locked. The E‘mn- Jjammed at one door where C. . Dunn, guard, was at his post out- Throat Paralysis Causes Boy’s Death After He Stumbles By the Assoclated Press. BRAINERD, Minn, July 28— Paralysis of nerves in his throat caused the death today of George Figge, jr. 11, after he stumbled over a stick. Dr. Earle F. Jamieson, who at- tended the boy, said there were no marks on the body to indicate he had suffered serious injury. Ex- amination of the spinc and verte- brae also showed neither had. been affected by the fall. George was with two playmates when he fell. He asked one of his companions to strike his back to help him breathe more easily. He became weaker and died half an hour later. COOLIDGE UNVEILS MEMORIAL TODAY | | BETCHER! | REPUBLICANS PLAN RALLY AT TOPEKA Hoover May Attend Notifica-| tion of Curtis—Work to Hold Parleys. By the Assoclated Press. A national rally of Republicans at | the notification exercises for Senator Curtis, vice presidential nominee, at | Topeka, August 18, with the possible attendance there of Herbert Hoover is | contemplated by party leaders. The suggestion that Mr. Hoover might | be able to stop over at Topeka on his | return from Palo Alto, Calif., where he | will be notified of his presidential nomi- | ation August 11 was made here today but a definite announcement to this| effect was withheld pending further word of Mr. Hoover’s plans. | Will Leave Soon. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS CAPITAL TRACTION REVALUATION MAY FOLLOW FARE BID TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE Ford and Magnates May Fight to Own Antiquated Organ : Instrument Believed to Be That Presented Church | Church, Newport, in 1733, and which | | Christian Church, Portsmouth, at the | years thereafter and it is believed that | buy it. In 1733. By the Assoclated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I, July 28.—For | the first time since he became one of | the world's richest men, Henry Ford is | perhaps going to find his desires | thwarted. Rhode Island millionaires and a bishop of the Protestant Epis_ copal Church are prepared to give him battle, with a little antiquated pipe organ now in the Christian Church at Portsmouth as the casus belli. If the organ in question proves to be the organ which George Berkeley, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, presented Trinity | was removed from the church many vears later to make way for a large and batter one, Mr. Ford, who has en- | tered into negotiations for its purchase, | cannot have it, says Bishop Darlington of Pennsylvania, John Nicholas Brown, former Gov. R. Livingston Beeckman and others. If it proves not to be the Berkeley organ, he will be allowed to take it} away and thus add what undoubtedly is a treasure of its kind, even without definite historical connections, to his collection of antique musical instru- ments, now housed in Dearborn, Mich. 1t is known that members of Trinity Church were greatly interested in the time of its formation and for .many the little old organ now in the church was sent there from Trinity. Mrs. Amonzo Borden, member ‘of the church board for many years, says that when the organ now in use there was instal- led the builders of the instriment said that the old organ, removed to the church gallery, was one of the oldest they had seen. There are indications that the old Portsmouth organ has been re-cased and it is known that the case of the original Berkeley organ was kept in Trinity Church and new “works” and pipes placed in it. Neither Mrs. Borden nor her husband, members of the church for many years, knows anything definite of the early history of the organ. In them and qther members of the church board, however, is vested full authority to dis- pose of it as they see fit. It was Rev. Russell Clem, pastor of the church, who first told Mr. Ford of its existence and suggested to the Detroit man that he amined the instrument and began negotiations for its purchase. Hearing that Mr. Ford was after the organ, old Newport residents who knew more of Rhode Island church history that the automobile magnate, began to nquire into the history of the instru- ment and connect it in their minds with the noted Berkeley organ. g s, STARTS NON-STOP Agents of Mr. Ford later ex- | h Public Utilities Commission Considers Plan to Estimate Worth of Property. QUICK METHODS URGED IN FORMING ESTIMATES Cql. Brand Favors Percentage Plan. Services of Noted Engineer Are Sought. The Public Utilities Commission is seriously considering a revaluation of the Capital Traction Co. before it turns attention to the company's application for & raise in fares, it became known A straight 8-cent cash fare or an alternative of a 10-cent cash fare with four tokens for 30 cents is sought by the company. A public hearing on the Proposed fare increase has “een sched- uled tentatively for September 10, but if the revaluation is ordered it will have fthe effect of delaying action on the petition and assure Washington street car riders of a continuation of the present fare until the valuation is com- pleted. A detailed inventory such as the commission made of the Capital Trac- tion Co.'s property in 1919, would take a year, according to Col. Harrison Brand, jr, vice chairman of the com- mission. But this is ndt in the commis- sion’s mind at this time. Either a per- centage or so called unit method of valuation is in contemplation. Percentage Method. A valuation by either of these abbre- viated systems could be months, and Col. Brand believes the result would serve substantially the same purpose as a comprehensive sur- vey of everything the owns hmmmntmmnmm&; Col. Brand seems inclined to favor e percentage method, which he said would provide the commission with a tangible valuation figure in even less time than the unit system, The la! method of valuation is made by termining the value otmeeommun".mmm o{nmflm retary lympic committee, | side of the structure, and J. H. Robin- | was followed by a formal appeal to the | son was on duty inside. The latter was | Senator Curtls will leave Washington | coAST-To-COAST HOP 5 early next week for Topeka to await | { Will Go to Little Minnesota, Dutch authorities who apologized and | knocked to the floor by the convicts, to remove the r. | who trampled him, injuring him in- | Town to Dedicate Monument | the notification ceremony at which he | will deliver the keynote of his campaign. | Jack Knight Leaves New York for agreed ga Reichel asserted this not only failed rnally in the mad scramble to escape | ot oytly, SNt to b | fertlly [h. the mat st o It will be the first of many speeches | done but that when the French team |from the flames which quickly enveloped } threatened with martial law. Three Left Off Ballots. Former State Supreme Court Ji william E. Hawkins, another of Moody’s three opponents, threatened day to prosecute those barring his and other from the foresworn support of Bmith, Democratic pre: PTne nam name o ‘wilmans of Dallas, the fourth candidate for governor, and State Senator ‘Tom Love of Dallas, candidate for lieutenant vernor, were lefib‘?‘fl the ballots of counties as “bolters.” wr’)’ennmmv conclusive results of the election may not be known for iwo days, especially in the close races. be- cause of the immeise size of the State and consequent tardiness of returns from some sections ARIZONA FLOOD VICTIMS TRY TO SALVAGE GOODS ®inal Mountain Cloudburst Causes $400,000 Damage—No Lives Lost. Br the Associated Press MIAMI, Ariz., Ju men, women and this fiood-swept mining ci digging out their operty Ve cioudburst in tains late yesterday of water down damage check of noon. The damage to Jight bulldings, putomobiies ust] Gor. to- Gov. Al E. sidential nomi- 28.—An army of which sent a wal on Miami , | have left his Charles | ¢ Hawkins, Mrs. Edith dren, citizens of | ity, today were | debris-covered | caused | spproximately $400,000, a | he city indicated this after- copper mines and base- ago over 18-carat in . Smith's Assembly record. Challenge Is Seen. “Gov. Smith, with all his intelligen | with all his honesty, with all his cour- age—which no one 10 questions—seems i high qulhfla:mn‘o‘: v. upon the evils of Tammany bu | half of the friends of Tammany." | The rest of the statement said: Charge of Subserviency. “No Klansman in a boob Legislature, cringing before a kleagle or a wizard, | was more subservient to the crack of | the whip than was Al Smith—ambi- | tious and effective and smart as chain | lightning—in the Legislature when it | came to a vote to protect the saloon; to shield the tout and to help the scar- let woman of Babylon, whose tolls in | those years always clinked regularly in | the Tammany till. i "I have assembled this detailed rec- | ord, giving the page and the paragraph |of the journal and the photograph of {those pages, not to prove that Gov. | Smith is as wet as a collle dog coming | out of water with a stick in his mouth, but to prove that in the legislative | pool Al Bmith was in fact retrieving | for Tammany. It is not the humidity {of his votes, but the subserviency of them that should interest the Ameri- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) UNITE ON CANDIDATE. All Cuban Parties Favor Re-Elee- tion of Machado. the Pinal Moun- 1 oday witnessed the spectacle, rare in Latin-American politics, of all the major political parties in the country combining in the selection of a candi- ments 0f stores by the tons of Water' gate for the presidency. was swelled by the accompanying wind Many buildings Jost their roots and some were blown | Gerardo Machado and lightning storm. down. but no Jives were lost every business eomplet Virtual ment in waters Geep. DR. WU TO NEGOTIATE. Chinese Envoy Named to Work on New Treaty With U. 8 SEATTLE, July 28 (#.—Dr. C. C. Wu. envoy of the Chinese Nationalis government 1 the Institute of Interna tional Relations which adjourned yester- day. was unofficially informed today of his appointment as the Chinese repre- sentative for negotiation of a new Chinese-American commercial treaty. He said he would take up his new | task immediately upon bis return Lo Washington where he expected his official appointment notification and his nstructions would be awalting him 1 in places stood four feef Wounded Dry Agent Dies. LEAVENWORTH, Wash.. July 28 ). | Ludwig P. Johnsen. Spokane, dry agent, who wes wounded in a gun battle »»l tween Federal and county officers here | WeGnEGag ks afternoon. establish- was fiooded by the high The Conservative, Liberal and Popu- lar parties formally notified President their indorsement of his candidacy to succeed himself at the November elec- | tions, t | of party leaders at palace. Benor Machado will be unopposed at | the elections. the presidential ! lof the French Olympic committee, and tor | the French minister to Holland, as HAVANA, Cuba, July 28 (#)—~Cuba | this afternoon of The notification ceremony was held in the presence of a small group | this morning reappeared and again | early this afternoon dressed for the parade, the same warden barred the way, whereupon the athletes decided not to participate in the ceremonies or to take the Olympic oath. Special Oath Needed. As a result. when harmony finally was restored tonight it was necessary that a special oath be administered. This was taken by Plerre Lewden, veteran high jumper, on behalf of the entire team with Count Clary, president ‘» witnesses. The French themselves in spite of their indignation would have been re- luctant to withdraw and thus spoil good prospects of Olympic achievement by such star runners as Sera Martin, 800- meter record holder, and Jules La- Doumegue, 1.500-meter ace, as well as fencers, cyclists and other strong title contenders. Consequently they lost no time in accepting apologies of the somewhat bewildered Dutch officials. The decks were cleared meanwhile for the opening of competition tomor- row in which Jole Ray in the 10,000~ meters, Lioyd Hahn in the 800-meter preliminaries, a sprint quartet led by Frank Wykoff in the 100-meter trials, 400-meter hurdling stars and high | Jjumpers and shot putters carry Ameri- can hopes against the strongest of rivals from Pinland, Germany, Britain and | Prance. ROBBINS, HURT IN PLANE, MAY RETURN HERE TODAY Assistant Secretary of War Has Broken Shoulder Blade and | Two Fractured Ribs. | By the Associated Press SOMERSET, Pa., July 28.-Assistant Becretary of War Charles B. Robbins, injured when he fell in the cabin of a plane in which he was on his way to Washington from Columbus, Ohlo., was | resting comfortably in & hospital here late today with a fractured shoulder | blade and two broken ribs, He planned to leave here tomorrow for Washington, probably by rail Robbins was hurt as the plane was returning to his seat In the cabin after being in the pllot’s cockpit. With him in the plane were the pilot, Liput. El- wood Quesada, and three enlisted men. The plane was brought down here and the Assistant Secretary was removed o the hospital Robbins had just completed an n- spection tour at Columbus, having visited Fort Thomas, Ky., Camp Knox, Louisville, and other points, n t By the Associated Press. The rapidly expanding field of alr transportation was listed last night in a radio address by Postmaster CGeneral New as proof that “the air mail has more than justified its existence and is here not only to stay, but to grow.” There s in the United Btates today a greater number of factories turning out airplanes than there 1s bullding automobiles,” he said. He compared his prediction made six months ago that 3500 planes would he Wullt this yesr with the present “prod! ly” growing | Air Mail H;s More Than Justified Itscl{ Says Ncw: Announces Rate Cut to 5 Cents | need and sald that this number ap- | peared to be an underestimate, Mr, New sald that beginning Tuesday, when the new air mafl rates go into effect, a l-ounce letter may be carried across the country for b cents, as con- trasted with the rate of 24 cents in 1926 and the present charge of 20 cents, or 10 cents per half ounce The business of making and ope | ing planes has now ined the pro- | portions of & $100,000,000 business an- nually,” he declared. He noted that there were less than 5000 Pullman cars operating today and in 1027 there flying over S8omerset. He stumbled while | mander of the American Leglon, sailed the frame building. Guard Dunn stopped the convicts with his drawn revolver and calmed them. In the excitement, three pris- | oners escaped from their guards. They | were trailed by bloodhounds and their capture was momentarily éxpected. | A dozen ambulances from Houston raced to the scene of the fire after be- ing summoned by Fire Commissioner | Allie Anderson, one of the first city of- | fictals to reach the prison farm. Pive of the 20 most seriously burned | convicts were loaded into the am- | bulances as fast as they reached the farm and were brought to a Houston hospital in an effort to save their lives. Little hope was entertained, however, that they would live. ROBBER GETS $431 FROM GROCER’S WIFE Colored Man Follows Woman to| ‘Hiding Place of Day's Receipts in Store. A colored man, who last night pre- sented a $20 bill to Mrs. Philip Tepper, 4601 Hunt place northeast, in payment for some groceries that he had just or- | dered, followed her to a back room of hey store until he discovered the hiding place of $431, and then took the money at the point of a pistol. Mrs, Tepper had been left alone in their grocery store by her husband | when he went to deliver an order. Just as he was leaving the colored man en- tered and ordered a chicken and other | things. When the order was ready he presented the bill Remembering that her husband had counted the day's receipts and then hidden them in a box of oatmeal in the living ciulrtrm, she went there and the man followed so quietly that she did not hear him until she had revealed the hiding place of the money. After the robbery the man fled through a rear door, making his escape. Legion Head Off to Hawaii. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 (#) - Edward P. Spafford, National com- today for Honolulu, where he will at- tend the sesqui-centennial celebration ! in honor of the landing of Capt. Cook in the Hawallan Islands. He was ac- companied by Mrs. Spafford, Would You Like To Be an Aviator Hurtling down through the air at the controls of a biplane going scores of miles an hour, the motor roaring and the wind shrieking t you? Making a first solo mdlng ns the ground tilts up and rushes at you in a dizzy blur? How would you like this expe- rience? Don Brown, reporter, who has done no flying before, has been sent by The Star and the North American Newspaper Alllance through a complete flylng course at_a flying school He will show you, in a serles of short, vivid articles, just what this experience would to you, as well as scores of other thrill- ing tests the aspiring fiyer must o through now before he quall- es a8 a pllot, rticle ap- to Gettysburg Heroes. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. CEDAR ISLAND LODGE, BRULE RIVER, Wis., July 28—For the first time since leaving Washington for his vacation in the North woods, nearly seven weeks ago, President Coolidge to- morrow will break his official silence by making an address at Cannon Falls, Minn,, incidental to the unveiling and dedication ceremonles at the Cole Wil- liam Colvill Monument. For him to do this it will necessitate having breakfast at Cedar Island Lodge before 7 o'clock in the morning, and a train ride to and from Cannon Falls, which is in the southern part of Min- nesota, of more than eight hours. He will be accompanied on this long one- day journey by Mrs. Coolidge and thelr son John, Everett Sanders, his secre- tary; Col. Osmun Latrobe, his military alde, and Col. James_Coupal, his phy- sician, as well as by the customary number of secret service guards and the attendant newspaper correspond- ents and news reel and news camera " the return trip late tomorrow aft- ernoon Secretary of Agriculture Jardine will board the train at Minneapojis and will return with the party to_the Sum- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2. TODAY’S STAR PART 0! 28 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12 News of the Clubs—Page 12 Army and Navy News—Page 14. Financial News—Pages 20, 21 and 23 Political Survey of the United States— Pages 24 and 25, Veterans of the Great War—Page 22 PART TWO—8 PAG Editorial Section—Editorials torfal Features, Reviews of Summer Books Radlo News-—Page 5. Fraternal News—Page 6 PART THREE—I4 PAGES. Soclety. Y. W. C. A.—Page 8 Community Centers—Page Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10, Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 11 Around the City—Page 11. PART FOUR—14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. NH:"R of the Motor World—Pages 5 to 13 and d Edl- Page 4. Screen Aviation—Page 13, District National Guard—Page 14. Marine Corps News—Page 14. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—8 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Serial Story, “The Eye of Lucifer'— Page District_of Columbia Naval Reserve- Page 1. —8 PAGES. Magazine Section--Fiction and Humor Civilian Army News—Pa GRAPHIC SEOTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures, Don Brown's pears in The Star's aviation sec- were fower than 700 steam locomotives and 300 Pullman cars manufsctured, Hon today. COMIC SECTION—4 PAGES, Mutt and Jeff; lut.'l-r Fellera; Mr. and Mys,; High Lights of History, : which the Kansas Senator will make | as party leaders are now counting on | his carrying much of the burden of | active campaigning for the ticket. Taking advantage of the Republican ceremonies in the West, Chairman Work | of the national committee plans ”mei party conferences on his way westward | with the first one scheduled for next | Saturday in Chicago when committee- men and committeewomen of the Mid- dle West will be called in. Another will be held in San Francisco August 13. Senator Fess, of Ohio, temporary chairman of the Kansas City conven- tion, will preside at the notification of Senator Curtis. Committee is Named. The committee named by the na- | tional convention to attend the cere-| mony includes Willlam E. Snead of | | | | | Birmingham, Ala.; A. L. Thomas, Pres- cott, Ariz.; Andrew J. Russell, Berry-| | ville, Ark.; Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- | brandt, California; Charles W. Water- | man, Denver, Colo.; Ernest E. Rogers, | New London, Conn.; D. M. wuwn.[ Dover, Del.; Lawrence Y. Sherman, Daytona Beach, Fla.;, W. H. Harris, | Athens, Ga.; Mrs. H. W. Clouchek, Twin | Falls, Idaho; John M. Mitchell, Mount | Carmel, Ill.; Walter J. Riley, East Chi- | | cago, Ind.; J. Reed Lane, Davenport,| Iowa; D. E. Dunne, Wichita, Kans. Charles W. Roark, Greenville, Ky.; Wil- liam L. Brow 1. Cummings, South Berwick, Me.; Wil- | lfam C. Albrecht, Baltimore, Md.; John | M. Bush, Negaunee, Mich,; Mrs. Wini- | fred N. Campbell, Slayton, Minn.; A.| M. Redmond, Jackson, Miss.; Gov. Sam | Baker, Jefferson City, Mo.. C. H. Me- | Leod, Missoula Mont.; Mrs. Margretta | L. Dietrich, Hastings, Nebr. | Thomas R. Varick, Manchester N. H.; | Mrs. Elizabeth C. Verga, Audubon, N.J.; George E. Breece, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Mrs. Miriam A. Schindler, Albany, Y., W. H. Gragg, Boone, N. C.; Bar- bara R. Parkinson, Willow City, N. Dak.; Katherine Kennedy Brown, Dayton, Ohio; W, L. Thompson, Portl James Thompson, Erie, Brown, Providence, R. Saluda, S, C.; R. E. Montgomery, Dak.; J. B. Criswell, Knox- .; Henry Zweifel, Fort Worth, | Hurshell Bullen, Logan, Utah: A. W. Foote, Cornwall, Vt; Henry | Crockett, Pulaski, Va.; Walter M. An- | derson, Wenatchee, Wash.: Charles | Wright, Ceredo, Va.. Arthur M. | Sells, Florence, W Willlam Rogers, Green River, Wyo.; Arthur Frame, An- | chorage, Alaska; C. C. Glover, Wash- | ington, D. C.; Robert W. Shingle, Hon- | | olulu, T. H.; W. Gilhouser, Manila, | }r;.‘ 1. Henry Besosa, San Juan, Porto | co. The Chamber of Commerce of Topeka is arranging a civic celebration for the notification. The visitors will include @ group of Senator Curtls’ friends from Kansas City, who will travel to Topeka in a special train, . M. Jones, N. | at 150 mile: Los Angeles—Expects to Land in 25 Hours. By the Associated Press. OOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y, July 28. —Jack Knight, one of the oldest pilots in the air mail service. took off at 4:28| o'clock this afternoon in a Buhl sesqui- plane on & non-stop flight to Los Angeles. Knight was given leave of absence from his air mail run Dbetween Cheyenne, Wyo., and Omaha, Nebr.. in order to make the flight for the Buhl | ., which has its headquarters at Marysville, Mich. ~The flight was un- | dertaken to study the feasibility of transcontinental commercial passenger | service. In the first attempt Knight was un- able to get the plane, a Wright-motored “air sedan ' into the air because of its heavy load of 350 gallons of gasoline. On the second try he got into the air, howeer, after a run of 3,400 feet. He | expected to make the trip In 25 hours. | Knight was accompanied by Ettienne | Dornay. designer of the ship they used | and also designer of the French Spad | planes during the war. . COSTES T0 C STES TO CROSS OCEAN | SOON, HE SAYS IN FRANCE Lecompte, La.; William | Awaits Favorable Turn of Weather ate | | | to Keep Promise of Visit, Made to Lindbergh. PARIS, July 28 (Special).—The French aviator Costes, who made a record flight around the world with Hispano-Suiza motor, were read: start across the Atlantic. The plane flew perfectly during a test hour. Costes will take it from Vil Coubly to Le Bourget Tuesday, and he says he will hop as s%c:n as weather conditions are (-vor-r able. “I promised Lindbergh this little visit.” he said. “I shall go via the Arores, of course. That is the normal air route to America.” The plane is Costes’ own. bought it from the Breguet Co. will be accompanied by Belloute, who holds a certificate for air navigation. ly to} | He He BRITAIN BETS BILLION. Tax Paid on Only Half of Total,| | Committee Finds. | LONDON, July 28 (®.—The total annual betting In Great Britain is es- timated by & special House of Com- mons committee at $1,000,000,000. Of this amount, the committee reported, the 313 per cent betting tax was not paid on more than half. The story of an ambitious and con- selentious convict who earned enough money to pay his fine after escaping | from the penitentiary and then return- ed to square accounts, was revealed yes- s B T, MG chief cler! a N chief clerk of the to Frank Sebring, Police Court here. ted g ‘r’n’l’\;lo‘!‘&" .oll co?‘m . Arves e o deady ‘iun udes oorys O, Sukam In Augusf Escaped Convic? Returns to Pay Fine After Two Years' Freedom Earning It sentenced him to 364 days with an option of & fine of §300 or 360 more days. Caplan was committed to Oc- | coguan August 19, 1933, On Novem- | ber 22 of the same year he escaped. Nothing was heard of him for more than two years. ‘Then on January 11 of this year he returned to w and presented a certified for 4500 to take care of the second part of his untlln%o' He_then l\;:“nnm to serve ou s unfinished which exp Qtober | and Col. Brand said he would lfl‘ln{: | Lebrix, said today that he and his ma- | & conference with him with a view Roy W. Martin, Las Vegas, Nev.; | chine, a Brequet with a 600-horsepower | Obtaining his ideas on the valuation peace | ington Summer to preliminary investigation of the ‘!eny of the traction company. Conducted Previous Inquiry. pilsbury: Ror legra ry, however, tel hed that he would be unable at this Sme to be of service to the commission. The ply disheartened the mission, he admitted, is now searching for another valuation engineer who is familiar with the conduit railway sys- tem. Col. Brand said the primary purpose of seeking the service of Mr. P?lbbur.v was to have him make a preliminary study to determine whether a new val- uation should be made before the com- mission proceeds with consideration of the higher fare application. To Interview Maltbie. Dr. Milo B. Maltbie, the New York valuation expert, engaged by the Sen- District committee to study the proposed transit merger plan, is expect- od to be of great assistance to the com- mission in its study of the Capital Traction Co. case. Dr. Maltbie now is in New York, but he plans to return here this week to resume his question. [ . TWO BROTHERS KILLED AFTER TRIVIAL LAWSUIT Two Others, Acting as Peacemak- ers, Are Wounded in Shooting Fray in Oklahoma. By the Associated Press KEOTA. Okla. July 28.—Two men were killed and two wounded here today in a shooting fray on thé town's main ur‘:'e! As the aftermath of a trival law- suit. Sam and Henry McCann. brothers, are dead: Judge Low was shat through the cheek and neck and Dick Pyatt was shot through the nl,(m. J. D. Qreenwood afd his son sur- rendered to City Marshal John Kuy- kendall and were taken to the county Jail at Stigler. = The prineipals in the affair had just come the courtroom of Henry mm ustice of the peace, who had a small sult brought by Greenwood against the McCanns. Low and Pyatt were shot while acting as makers, OLDEST MORMON DIES. Utah Man Believed to Be Last to Remember Joseph Smith. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 28 (. Harrison Sperry, 96, the nl"