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(U. 8 Woarhor Showers tonight much change in ter Tefnperature—Hi pm. vesterday; low day. Full report on THER. Bureau Forecast.) and tomorrow; not - mperature ighest, 87, at 4:15 est, 70, at 5 am, to- n page 9. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star. as fast as the papers The Star's carrier every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washingcon homes “From Press to Home Within the Hoar’ > system covers are printed. Yesterday’s Cin:ul:!in!l, 98,664 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ered Wa {TON, ond class ma ton. D. e WASHIN B, G THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928- JOR' "Y-IWO PAGE ‘- (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. HASSELL RADIOS FROM OVER CANADA TOWN ON FLIGHT Ilinois-to-Stockholm Pilots Tell of Passing Pardee, Ontario. CROWD OF 10,000 WATCHES TAKE-OFF Pair Gets Away to Perfect Start, With Escort Craft Following. Br the Associated Press MADISON, Wis.. August 16.—Fxperi- mental station SEK at noon today re- | ceived the signals of station “KHAH.” | Bert Hassell's Rockford-to-Stockholm | airpiane. Radio Operator Don Mix heard Operator-Navigator Cramer sending the | signal “E.” | Under an arrangement previous to their departure this advised the Madi son station that the “Greater Rockford” | was over or near Pardee, Ontario, key | letters having been assigned to various | cities over which Hassell expected to| pass at the time arranged for sending | his signals. There was no additional message, | Cramer merely repeating “KHAH— EEEEEE" | Get Good Start. ROCKFORD, IlL, Atgust 16 (P —H. | P. Ferdinand, amateur radio operator, | reported he had received a message | from the Greater Rockford airplane | &t 10:58 central standard time, report- | ing the plane was over Whitefish Point, Mich. Hassell, accompanied by Parker Cramer, co-piiot and navigator, took off at 6:40 am. Central standard time on the first leg of the flight. Their first objective was Cochrane, Ontario. | ‘The pilots make a perfect hop-off | from the airport, circiing over the field until the big e had made an alti-| tude of sbout 1000 feet when it was| nosed northeastward toward Cochrane. | A squadron of escort planes took the| air with the fiyers. { ‘There was some excitement when an- | other monaplane crashed into a fence shortly before Hassell hopped, but no damage was done and the plane joined the cthers in hopping off after Hassell ‘Most of the escort planes were chart- ered by news photographers and re- porters and were at the fleld shortly after Hassell's e was ost to Machesney, proprietor of the | Rockford Airport, returned to the field :20, reporting he had accompanied Rockford as far as Clinton, he experienced great dif- keep up with Has- he last saw the Greater it was speeding northeast on a direct line for Due in 8 Hours. The pair was scheduled to reach Cochrane in about 8 hours, stopping over there to refuel and tune up the jane for a second hop to Greenland| w. ‘Both Hassell and Cramer expressed eonfidence of success as they climbed into the Greater Rockford and waved good-by. They were not daunted by the accident which halted their first three weeks ago when their plane, heavily loaded for one hop to Greenland, was unable to make altitude and crashed in a cornfield shortly after ving Rockford. h‘ large crowd of 10,000 had gath- ered at the when the plane was rolled from its hangar shortly after 6 am. The pilots began warming up | the motors, and without any delay took off 40 minutes later. Weather condi- tions for the flight across Canada were | considered ideal and the Greater Rock- | ford crew was certain it would make | Cochrane on scheduled time. Carry Rubber Boat. From Rockford their course was northeast across Canada to Cochrane and thence on to Mount Evans, Green- land. Prom Rockford to Cochrane is about 800 miles, From Cechrane to Mount Evans it is 1600 miles. The rtlou planned to make a shorter hop rom Mount Evans to Reykjavik, Ice- land, 884 miles, where a base was ready | for additional fuel and oil. Between Reykjavik and the Bwedish coast, their last hop, of Ib-l:'ul 1,380 miles, lies & great ex of open sea. The plane was stocked with smple food supplies and other pro- wvisions for the northern flight. Besid food the pilots carried a collaps rubber boat, an ax, a rifie, hiking out. fits and first-aid kits. e The Greater Rockiord, fully loaded, | weighs about 5,000 pounds and has a wing spread of 46 feet. It can c e persons, although the flight w .| became apparent that some mishap | ) v~.““'1 irued on Page 6, Column 5. RABBI IS CHARGED AS GEM SMUGGLER By the Associated NEW YORK Isak Horowitz day was under $2.000 bond for tk eral grand j ed u ing o ¢ this country Acting on ady sbroad, cus Horowitz on Tuesday on the first he insisted he had in possessions in declaration, but v several jewelry items were described h produced them. The customs men said k hem he was bringing 1s e Vienna jeweler. He sald he was of- Zered $1.000 to bring in $15000 in jew elry and was to receive $5.000 more for smugg! trip dently d shipment this time. The seized jewel: Yiers, four bunc rings, & pi let and a wrist wawch gaughter was wearing the brooch, whick Aug t 16— Bender B rk rabbi, to- e Fed into ation from £ he jeweler, however, had evi of pearls he insisted was given to her by rela-| The brooch was seized, but she; was not held, BONES REVEAL BEAST BIG 'AS WOOLWORTH BUILDING R | | | oy Chapman Andrews Reports Finding Fossil of! Colossal Prehistoric Monster in Mongolian Desert—Other Relies Fill 80 Cases. By the Assoctated Press | | PEKING. A 16.-The head bones of a prehistoric monster unearthed Roy Chapman Andre at the southern edge of the Gobi Desert, Mon- | were described by him as indicating the existence of a colossal “about the size of the Woolworth Building, if the building were in a | (The Woolworth Building, in New York City, is 792 feet . today Andrews, who is the leader of the ral Asiatic Expedition, said ggest strike—one of 5 ever made. This entir We found a monster in the same area in 1 The saddle-shaped head- ed creature discovered on this expedition is be- lieved perhaps to be the great-grandfather of the 1925 monster. Had Peculiar Nose. rea is rich in fc: | The head is very broad and a peculiar fea- | ture is that its nose narrows in the middle and | toward the nostrils. Dr. Andrews said he was more than satisfied with his discoveries. He considered his finds vied with his finding of dinosaur eggs in 1923. The explorer said his discoveries included lots of Baluchitherium fossils and also several splendid skulls of a new type of nasal-horned Titanotheriidae, quite different from any North American Titanotheriidae. TRAGEYOF ORT tomobiles, although the expedition en- countered floods between Kalgan and Peking, against which they battled for Veteran Explorer and Young Nephews Dead of Starvation | quadruped of prehistoric times related | iz to the rhinoceros. Fossil remains of the Near Hudson Bay | animal were discovered in the Gobi | | Peking required four days. Baitle Elements. Half of the expedition returned earlier than they had expected owing to the intense heat of the desert, which ex- ploded several cases of gasoline, causing a shortage of fuel. The baluchitherium was a monster | 20 hours to save themselves and their relics. The journey from Kalgan to | | | Desert, Baluchistan, in 1922, and indi- cate that it stood about 10 feet high and | Buildi g $85,000 worth on a second | uped him and inciuded the full | BY D. B. ROGERS. Special Dispatch to The Star and the North American Newspeper Alliance. TORONTO, Ontario, August 16— Three bodies found in a fonely log cabin in the Thelon River district, west of Hudson Bay, have revived one of the unsolved mysteries of Arctic ex- ploration. A wireless message received at Otta- wa, headquarters of the royal Canadian mounted police, from Staff Sergt. M. A. Joyce, stationed at Chesterfield Inlet, states the bodies have been identified as those of John Hornby, well knowm English Arctic explorer, and his two nephews. The message indicates little information regarding the circumstances attending the deaths is available, but the cause of death is’ attributed to starvation. John Hornby was one of the pictur- esque figures of the North Country. A wanderer and explorer by nature, he had spent 20 years of his life in the vicinity of Hudson Bay, often isolating himself from civilization for years. Returned From England. Two years ago he decided he was getting too old to'defy the rigors of the North any more and he retired to his native England. He did not remain there long, however, for the call of the Arctic soon lured him. He took his two nephews, both boys under 20, that they might serve their apprenticeship in that”school of adventure to which he had devoted his life. The three men entered the Hudson Bay country by way of the Great Slave Lake and were last heard of in the game sanctuary between the lake and Chesterfield Inlet. In June, 1926, the party started out to cross the sanctuary by cance from the Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet. They were planning to reach the R. C. M. P. outpost before Winter set in, for they took no dogs with them. But by the Winter of 1927 they had not reached their destination. | Mounted police patrols were then { cautioned to keep a lookout for Hornby and his nephews, but they were not seen during the Winter. Indians had i seen them in the Fall of 1926, and o trapper who arrived in Edmonton in the Summer of 1927 confirmed the in- formation given by the redmen. Note in Cabin. Later in the same Summer a trapper brought word of a note he had found in an abandoned cabin on the banks of the Casoa River Hornby and read: It was signed oy “Traveling slowly. Flies bad. Shot la fat buck caribou. Hope to see you down the Hanbury this Winter.” The Hanbury River empties into the Thelon River about 300 miles frora Chesterfield Inlet. | Various search parties went out in an endeavor to locate Hornby after it | | | | | | | | befallen him and the boys. An ex- by the name of Hoare, who went p into the game sanctuary to study | animal life there had been instructed {10 keep a strict lookout for the party | this Summer, and Maj. Burwash, ex- | ploring even farther north, was also on | the lookout. The Porslid brothers, ex- | ploring in the same district this Sum- | % mer, reported they had failed to find | any trace of the missing men. | Hornby's last trip before the fatal ex- | | pedition was with Capt. Critchell Bul- lock, another famous English explorer of the Aretic, and was conducted into the same game sanctuary. ght. 1928 by North American News paper Alliance ) Copyr Cannot Be Ra By the Associated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis, August 16—A ated building, sometimes known the Highway Inn and at other times led “The Five-Fifteen” is destined 1o poke its weather-beaten walls into the heart of Milwaukee's new 80-foot boulevard Because of a Government padiock | the structure cannot be wrecked, nor included two laval- | can it be moved, and so, when Cedar- four ir of studs, a brooch, a brace- | paved, this derelict of bygone days will air of Horowitzs | project some 25 feet into the roadway. Biddle street has been widened and | It will also obstruct the sidewalks on the south side of Cedar street Yesterday the city government was preparing to carry on its work of razing N ng. padlockcé l';y Government, was 15 feet long. Titanotheriidae were a tertiary family of hoofed animals. EXPERTS HERE SKEPTICAL. “No Such Animal,” as Far as Records Go, They Say. Reports from Peking of the discovery by Roy Chapman Andrews of the head- bones of a prehistoric monster “about the size of the Woolworth Building” were received with skepticism today by experts pn prehistoric paleontology at the New National Museum. “The message must have been garbled in Aransmission.” was_the view _they (Continued on STIRS INSTITUTE Boston Clergyman Opposes Catholic as President. “Political Parsons” Hit. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Va, August 16.—Cheers, groans and cat- calls from an audience of distinguished political seientists and public officials at- tended a heated impromtu debate on the religious issue in politics at the Institute of Public Affairs here early this after- noon, The trouble started when Rev. A. C. Dieffenbach of Boston, prominent Uni- tarian clergyman and editor of the Christian Register, took the meeting by surprise by arguing that a Roman Catholic should not be elected Presi- dent and that the voters should fac: the issue squarely instead of hiding behind a wet and dry screen. “In this country we say,” said Dr.| Dieffenbach, “that we do not believe in a monarchic conception of God as he is defined in an avowed monarchic church which claims under that God suzerainty over a virtual monarchic state. One church, the church of Gov. Smith, believes in that monarchic God, | as it also believes that he, God, through the Catholic Church alone and exclusively, should rule over us. We have this political theory unchanged through the ages and unchanged at this hour. All her children vow obe- dience to her doctrine and law, and Gov. Smith calls himself a ‘devout Catholic.’ “All the other churches deny the monarchic conception of God and pro- claim the absolute separation of church and state. The Catholic Church in all its history never has relented by a syllable its absolute claims to primacy over the state. The press owes it to the country to face these facts. It mav come to whatever conclusion it will, for this is a country of free- dom, even of freedom to hazard our bondage.” Rebuked by Latane. No sooner had Dr. Dieffenbach fin- ished speaking when Prof. John H. La- e of Johns Hopkins' University leaped to his feet amid vociferous hand- pping and said ‘I riever expected to see the day come when it would be necessary to stand up at the University of Virginia for re- liglous tolerance. They are talking about the Catholic Church of the mid- dle ages. T bear witness as a historian (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) zed to Widen Avenue the buildipgs that still stand between Fifth and Sixth streets on Cedar. Wreckers found @ padlock on the door and, obeying the mandate of the cowrt, declined to touch a single board. The city will continue its work on r-Biddle street. Tunnels will be driven beneath the building to take care of sewers, water mains and light cables, Pavements will be laid up to the building’s edge, as Will the side- walks, A pedestrian detour will be Inid out at the rear of the building, and traffic lights will guide autolsts around the blockade. When the day comes for .| leaves here tonight, ine> will leave Palo Alto at 10 o'clock ;i- OURS GOVERNO! | t HODVER T0 LEAVE PALO ALTO TONIGHT Will Return to California at| End of Campaign to Vote in Home State. By the Associated Press STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif, August 16.—When their special train the Republican presidential nominee and Mrs. Hoover will turn their backs once more on the rolling hills both call home. ‘To Mrs. Hoover it will mean leaving the wide, gracious freedom of terraces and gardens and open countryside for the formal red brick house in Washing- | ton, fronting on a city street and with {only a narrow strip of garden and wood- | ed land beyond. The departure will mean for Hoover the quitting of an office that belies the name with its great studiolike windows wide enough almost to let the whole outdoors in—windows that overlook the warm cream-colored wall with its vine- covered, arching gateway to the garden, and beyond, the wide, sloping lawn, built, it was hoped, for President Hard- ing’s convalescence. Work Will Continue. Mrs. Hoover's duties as head of the busy household will have an interlude while the special train passes the sce- nic splendors of mountain, canyon and desert, pauses in Iowa's green rolling hills and cornfields and then hurries on to Washington But the crowded office hours of cor- respondence, writing and correcting speeches, reading and preparing cam- paign plans will carry on for the nomi- nee without a break across the conti- nent and back to his study with its dark walls and hangings in the Washington house. 5 A special “work car,” with typewriters and the appurtenances of a business of- fice, will be attached to the special train In it the candidate's working staff of a secretary and four stenog- raphers will continue their attack on the endless routine of the work that hedges about a presidential nominee, so that in Washington there will be no pile of the accumulated mail. Will Leave at 10 P.M. Accompanied by, besides Mrs. Hoover, his son Allen and most of the advisers and the newspaper men who came across the country with him a month ago, the Republican presidential nomi- tonight on a special train, arriving at Washington on August 24, This_time Hoover wiil follow the “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 400 PLANES PREPARE FOR MASS MANEUVER Dedication of Lindbergh Field at San Diego to Mark 25th Anni- versary of First Flight. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, ¥Calif,, August The skies above San Diego “were cleared for action” today for the: greatest aerial gesture, in point of number of planes involved in a single | flight, in the history of American' aviation. A mass flight of approximately 400 planes. staged entirely by the Army and | Navy, was ordered at Lindbergh Field | in dedication’ of that new airport and | in commemoration of the twenty-fitth anniversary of the first flight of a heavier-than-air machine. ! Practically every unit of the national | defense, Including the- Marine Corps and National Guard,” had planes on Rockwell Fleld and North Island, re- | spectively, the Army and Navy bases | here. | | Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, after | | whom the field was named, was pre- sumed {0 be heading westward from Cheyenne to attend the dedicatory ex- ercises “UNCLE TOM'S CABIN” BARRED IN ATLANTA 16.— Film Boekings Cancelled After' Protests That Showing of Picture w&ild Be Unwise. By the Assoclated Press ATLANTA, August 16— Uncle Tom's | Cabin” in the new film version of Har- riet Beecher Stowe’s novel will not be | shown in Atlanta. | Following vigorous protests as a res | sult of a private showing Sunday, the | local board of review conferred with the mayor and representatives of the Universal Pictures Corporation, Yes- terday it was announced the Atlanta bookings would be canceled. the lifting of the {»ndluck order, the | gaps will be filled in, Dry Raiders Allow ‘ Preacher’s Flock | To Destroy Liquor By the Associated HOUSTON, Tex, August 16. When officers raided a beer joint next door to the First Church of Christ here last night they obliging- ly waited until after prayer meeting and then permitted Rev. Flaville Colley and his congregation to break up 1.600 bottles of beer and pour out an additional 200 gallons. While waiting the police lounged about the house and answered tele- phone calls, taking orders for beer from all parts of town. OCEAN FLYER DIES FROM OPERATION | | | From Rome to Brazil, Had Leg Amputated. MRS LEE ANSWERS SUIT BY PASTOR Charges Rev. W. T. Reynolds3 Used Liquor and She Tried | to Dissuade Him. Declaring that she knew of the min- | | ister’s fondness for liquor and that she did all in her power to dissuade him from its use, even to the extent of treating and nursing him to prevent him from disclosing his weakness, Mrs. | Marguerite Gu Pont Lee, member of | i the wea! Delaware family, today filed answer to the suit for $100,000 damages recently brought against her by Rev. William Thomas Reynolds, 2700 Connecticut_avenue, a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and for- | mer pastor of Christ Church in George- Maj. Del Prete,, Who Flew| town. In her answer Mrs. Lee also asserts | that she had been paying Rev. Rey- nolds a salary of $200 a month to con- duct the healing service at St. Paul's Church, near Washington Circle, where the minister claims he was disgraced and humiliated by a statement sald to have been made by Mrs. Lee Febru- ary 5. In addition, Mrs. Lee’s answer continues, she allowed the minister $50 a month for incidental expenses. Sought to Protect. Mrs. Lee through Attorneys John C. Mackall and William W. Mackall, de- nies she had any intention of defaming the minister and asserts that any an | | By the Assoclated Press. ROME, August 16.—News was re- ceived today of the death of Maj. Carlo P. Del Prete, who was injured in a plane crash in Brazil after a nonstop flight from Rome to South America.i Maj. Del Prete had his right leg am- | putated in Rio de Janeiro yesterday and, according to, word received here, the | operation was followed by a high tem- | perature and a fast pulse. | Although Premicr Mussolini was ab- | sent when the news of the airman's| death was received a number of South | American diplomats called at the Chigi | Palace to express their condolences to permanent officials there. Many mes- sages of sorrow were received also. News Brings Gloom. The news, which was received in the middle of the forenoon, cast a spell of gloom over the nation which was still in a holiday mood, yesterday being the feast of the assumption, There was general mourning that such a magnificent flight should have ended in tragedy so soon after Gen. Umberto Nobile's fatal polar trip. Maj. del Rete, with Capt. Arturo Ferrarin, hopped off from Montecello Field, Rome, on the evening of July 3 and landed at Touros, 50 miles north of Natal, Brazil, carly on the morning’l of July 6. They were credited witlr| making a non-stop flight of 4,377 miles, | breaking the distance-flight record of 3,909 miles set by Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine in their flight from New York to Germany Better Duration Flight. They were said to have been in the air 59 hours, bettering their own dura- tion flight record of 58 hours and 34 minutes, set earlier in the year. Maj. del Prete was co-pilot and as-) sistant navigator-of Comdr. de Pinedo’s | plane, in which he flew to South and | North America. He narrowly esupedl injury in a forced landing of a United States Navy plane following the fire which destroyed De Pinedo’s plane at | Roosevelt Dam, Ariz. He was being! carrijed as a passenger to the naval basé at San Diego at the time. Maj. del Prete’s right leg was injured on August 7 when he and Capt. Fer-| rarin crashed as they were about to' make a flight at the Rio Janeiro Avi-| ation School. ¢ $50,000 VERDICT GIVEN IN ALIENATION SUIT Carolinian Wins in Action | North Against Clubman After Sensa- tional Trial. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, August 16 Fifty thousand dollars was awarded G. Waillace Bryant by a Buncombe County jury yesterday. just half the amount he had asked in his suit against Henry Westall, prominent Asheville clubman, for alleged allenation of Mrs, Bryant's affections. The jury gave Mr. Bryant | $38,000 actual and $12,000 punitive dam- verdict came after several days | nsational testimony, in which Bryant, who is a patient in a local sani- tarfum for the treatment of tubercu- losis, sought to show that his home was | wrecked as a result of the alleged at- tentions pald Mrs. Bryant by Westall. CnumeY for the deféndant made a motion to have the verdict set aside on the ground that it was excessive, ane Judge H. Hoyle 8ink announced that he would set a time when argument on that point would be heard. ier’ -t d. Those protesting sald the showing would be “unwise,” Radio Programs;—Page 38 all statements made by her were good faith with the belief of their truth, with the desire of protecting the in- terest of the minister and the interest of the healing mission, in which she was so vitally interested.” The statements were made only to Prederick Bataler, | a nephew of Rev. Reynolds, who had accompanied him to the church on that occasion, and in the hearing of William Miller, chauffeur of the min- | ister, and were not intended for the hearing of any members of the congre- gation, she claims. The holding of the healing mission was her own Tdu‘ Mrs. Lee states, and she requested the minister, whom she had known when she was a member of Grace Church, where he was pastor, to undertake the mission. For a por- tion of the time, Mrs. Lee says, she paid $125 a month to Reynolds for the hire of his personal chauffeur. Tried to Change. She tells the court she frequently saew him under the influence of liquor. She did all in her power, she states, to persuade him to abstain and even | treated and nursed him in an effort | to save the healing services. The communication to the nephew of Reynolds, she says, was privileged and not a proper subject for a suit for dam- ages. Miller, the chauffeur, claimed that the minister was sick, she says, but she insisted that he was “drunk and that he should not be allowed to make & spectacle of himself before the other members of sthe congregation.” The minister had retired into an ad- joining room and Batzler and Miller joined him, Mrs. Lee tells the court. In a few minutes, she states, she heard @ great commotion in the room, and, entering, found the minister much en- raged. At the sight of her, she says, he threatened to call the police and have her arrested and became loud and boisterous in his denunciation of her and her brother. ‘The minister, she asserts, followed her into the hall, still denouncing her to other members of the congregation, and continued to follow her until she drove off in a taxicab. EGGS BOUGHT FOR BYRD. | New Zealand Town Gets Ready to Provision Expedition. DUNEDIN, New Zealand, August 16 (P)——Arrangements are in full swing here for provisioning the South Pole po- lar expedition of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd. Among the purchases already made are several thousand dozen eggs. | tended for vodka factories to cultural Total Prohibition For Soviet A !:‘d‘(l Within Ten Years | Workmen Shocked by ‘ Figures’Showing ~ Alcoholices. | ht, 1923, MOSCOW, August 16.—Total prohibi- tion of alcohol in the Union of Soviet | Soclalist Republics by 1938 is proposed by a series of resolutions presented tod: to the Council of People’s Commissars, the Soviet cabinet, by various influential workmen's organizations. Shocked by recent statistics showing that 400,000 workmen out of a total of 6,000,000 were confirmed alcoholics, arrested for drunkenness at least once annually, workmen's leaders who are interested in social reform have been pushing the prohibition movement Seven hundred million rubles were spent for alcohol by workmen last year. The proposals submitted to = the| Council inciude: 1. Abolition of vodka and by within 10 years, no supplementary vodka pro- duction to be allowed during this period. 2. Diversion of 6,000,000 rubles in- work. | 3. Closing of all saloons adjacent to | schools, factories, sanatoria and public | buildings. 4. Prohibition of the sale of vodka at_country resorts and excursion points. 5. Prohibition of alcohol at all offi- cial banquets, jubilees and conventions. 6. Prohibition of the sale of vodka to | children under 17 | 7. Prohibition of advertisements aleohol in newspapers. 8. Appropriation of 10,000,000 rubles | for a hospital for alcoholics and of 15,- 000,000 rubles for new movie theaters. Local authorities in the Donetz Basin announced today the prohibition of the #le of vodka in the state alcohol shops of the Central Workmens Co-Opera- | tives in the Shakty district. The au- thorities at Nijninovgorod have formed 35 anti-alcohol groups following the revelation that 1146000 rubles were spent for vodka last vear by the work- men of one factory district alone. It is understood that any movement | for national prohibition would be ex-| tremely difficult and very dubious of | success, since the government alcohol | monopoly is an immense source of reve- | nue. Nevertheless, prohibition is com- | ing to be a real issue here. 10000.VOTE ERROR N OHO PRMARY Discovery Brings Undeter- mined Race Between Hunt and Locher for Senate. of | | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, mistake of 10.000 votes August 16.—A land) was discovered today when the official count of votes was made. The unofficial vote as tabulated by election commissioners yesterday gave Graham Hunt, Cincinnati, wet, 26.224. ahoga County was 16.22¢4. Locher's un- official vote in the county was 12,939. | This discrepancy cut Hunt's margin of victory to not more than a handful of votes. Announcement of the discovery of the erroncous total in Cuyahoga County came after Locher headquarters indi- cated the secretary of State would be asked to investigate the Cuyahoga County vote. With only 15 preenets in Jefferson County mi: cial State-wide tabulation Locher had a lead of 107 votes. On this basis, the unofficial tabula- tion by the Associated Press showed Locher had 92,998 votes against 92,981 for Hunt. BITTER ELECTION FORECAST. Results of Hard-Fought Primary Still Questioned by Some. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 16.—With Myers Y. Cooper, Cincinnati Republi- can, and Representative Martin L. Davey, Kent, Democrat, picked by Ohio voters to make the November race for governor, political observers already are predicting a battle of even greater in- tensity than that winessed in the Re publican primary between Cooper and Representative James T. Begg, San- dusky. P The neck-and-neck race for the Re- publican gubernatorial nomination be- tween Cooper and Begg went into Ohio political history as one of the most spectacular on record, with the final result still questioned by supporters of the Sandusky Congressman, who await complete official returns from the sec- retary of state. It is doubtful whether the official vote for each candidate will be known before next week. Complete unofficial returns compiled by the Associated Press gave Cooper, & Cineinnati business man, supported by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, a plural- ity of 5568 votes over Begg, who also had dry backing. Attorney General Edward C. Turner, who openly attacked the Anti-Saloon public utility interests, which he charged had joined with the league to control State legislation, was a poor third in a six-cornered race. The final vote stood: Cooper, 259,725; Begg, 254.157. Fred Kohler, former mayor of Cleveland, 25,115; Harry A Shanley, Cleveland, negro publisher, 6840; Harry C Smith, Forest, Ohlo, farmer 16,181; Turner, 90,236, Congressman Davey of Kent was the choice of Ohio Democrats in approxi- mately 80 of the State's 88 counties, leading Peter Witt, former Cleveland (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | Scarch {Ol" TWO NCW Similar to Radium, Made by Scientists! By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, I, August 16— Science’s search for two new elements was announced today by Prof. B. S Hopkins of the University of Illinois at the American Chemica! Soclety Insti- tute at Northwesiern University. “Both should be like radium in being radioactive," said the speaker, who is/ the only American to ever have discov- ered an element—illintum, “and both stiould be short-lived; that is, they should disappear soon after their iso- lation " “The human race has been using some of the elements since very early | Elements. times,"” Prof. Hopkins stated. “No one | knows when such elements as gold, stl- | ver, mercury, copper, tin and lead first found a use among early peoples. These are elements which are found in na- | ture in the uncombined form or are| easily obtained from thelr compounds by simple processes.” He then described the addition of | other elements and their ulalwxump.! describing the discovery in 1914 by which the elements were arranged in order and each given an “atomje num- ber." lghtest element w: in favor of | United. States Senator Cyrus Locher in | the count in Cuyahoga County (Cleve- | Today it was found Hunt's vote in Cuy- | g today from the unoffi- | League and certain | | | | 3 OTES SOLATE N FLODD-SHEP SOUTHERNSTATE ;Tremendous Damage Report- ed as Swollen Rivers Run Over Banks. PREPARATIONS ARE MADE T0 CARE FOR REFUGEES Tornado Levels 50 Houses—Dams Collapse and 16 Landslides Prac- tically Halt Travel Mail Flyer Lost In Flood Area, Planes Start Hunt By the Associated Press. SPARTANBURG, S. C., August 16.—Airport officials reported that John_Kytle, piloting the morth- bound mail plane from Atlanta to Richmond, was forced down somewhere in the flooded area Tast night and has not been heard from. Reports from Campobello, 20 miles north of here, were that an airplane, believed to be Kytle's, was seen over there early this morning, flving low and ap- parently lost. A scout plane was sent in search of the fiyer. ATLANTA, August 16.—Two air mail pilots left Candler Field this morning to search the route between here and Spartanburg for Johnny Kytle, lost mail fiyer. Airport officials here said that at'9 o'clock last night the plane had been reported over Hart- well, Ga. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., August 16.—Draining | a territory drenched by almost inces< | sant rains during the past two weeks, the rivers of three Southern States were | flowing wide of their banks today, the flood waters isolating cities and causing | tremendous damage to crops, highways !and railroads. | From Spartanburg. S. C.; Asheville { and Tryon, N. C., and Macon and Qui ! man, Ga. came reports of flood con- | ditions equaling or surpassing any in | ihe history of the affected sections. | All the menaced area of North Caro- ina was cut off from communication ate last night, but before the lines went | dowr Asheville reported hasty prepara- | tions to care for hundreds of refugees from the French Broad River Valley, where Bee Tree Dam was threatening | to collapse. Mill Communities Threatened. Many mill communities along the | Pacolet River were threatened. with | Tryon, N. C,, already feeling the rush of {flood waters unleashed when Clifton | Textile Dam No. 2, went out last night. Ths suburban mill communities of Beaufiont and Arkwright at Spartan- burg were flooded for the second time within a week and Spartanburg was without gas. Anderson Mill Bridge on Tiger River was swept away. A freakish tornado tore up 50 houses | at Bath, 5. C. yesterday and injured one woman. A score of houses were | da.naged or destroyed by a similar storm |at Newberr~. but no casualties were re |ported. Charleston also reported hea: idamagr from the storm and high water. | Two Dams Collapse. | In Georgia, Quitman appeared the | worst hit, having been isolated by flood | water released by the collapse of two dams on Okapilco Creek. Brice Dam, impounding & 17,000-acre lake, and Mel- | ton Dam, holding 500 acres of impound- | ed water, collapsed yesterday. | Milledgeville, Ga.. was without drink- !ing water and was isolated. Macon had Ibul one :ail line open. and reported the Okmulgee River 2 feet over flood stage, | with another 4-foot rise expected today. {More than 15 inches of rain fell there |in the last few weeks, one-third normal annual precipitation. | Meauwhile, with Quitman itself on high ground. the waters of Okapilco ICreek were joining the already swollen Withlacoochee River, which in was threatening several northwestern Florida resort towns. | Travel at Standstill. | Rail and highway travel through- | out the affected area was practically at | & standstill, with many roads m: il | hasty efforts to rescue stranded trains { and operate by detours. The Southern in the Asheville territory was the last to capitulate last night, but 16 land- slides on two divisions forced a halt | Deputies were placed along main hig! ways around Asheville to warn touris jthat all roads were washed out at dangerous points. One passenger train was reported | stranded near Campobello, 8. C., while two filled busses were held up near Bats Cave, in the same State This week’s flood in the three States is the second within 10 days, both being | caused by heavy rains following gales which blew in from Florida. While clear skies were expected throughout Georgia today the weather ;l 11 | : forecast did not promise as much relief to the Carolinas. CAROLINAS HARD HIT. Heavy Rainfall Adds to Danger Overflowing Streams. CHARLOTTE, N. C., August 18 (#) Western North Carolina today was in the grip of one of the worst floods in its history, with angry streams sweep- ing over their banks and flooding ad- me-‘:: Jertitory ¥ Aberdeen. N. C, reported one Identified dead and four injured, several roofs blown away and one fill- Ing station demolished when the storm struck there at 4:30 o'clock this m ing. The Raeford road in that sect was reported washed out Rivers Still Rising. At Asheville, the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers were reported to be still rising with the crest expected about noon today. The various reservolr and water-power dams were reported to be standing well under the great strain ca by the torrential rains of the last few days. Rainfall for the past 24 hours was 4.16 inches. Practically all the rivers over the Western part of the State are greatly swollen, with a number of them out of their banks. Damage to manufac- turing plants will be considerable in of un- gen, No. 1, and the heaviest was urani- um, No. 92, S the Asheville distriet. officials reported (Continued on Page 2, Column 49~