Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 1

> WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight: tomorrow fair, warmer; gentle variable winds. Highest, 82, at 3:30 p.m. lowest, 64, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. vesterday; Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 1} and 15 Entered as second ass mat post office ) 30,792 ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press service. Saturday’s Circul Sunday’s Circulati news lation, 92, 102, WASHINGTON, 1. MONDAY, i AUG UST 20, 1928—THIRI ny St 'Y PAGE (/) Means Associated Press. TWO . CENTS. L Flies Across Country HASSELLMISSING | ON DAVS STRAT FIGHT N ROUTE FOR GREENLAND Last Word Sent as Aircraft : | Flashed Position 756 Miles o Off Cape Chidley on Wayt to Mount Evans. | wvons wovwaste COEBEL SETS MARK IS BELIEVED PROBABLE Anxiety Over Long- " Bound for pgle Flight Winner Lands at Sweden—Weather Conditions Re- Curtiss Field After Flight ported as Perfect. A S——— Cros: . ART GOEBEL. ~ T hoto. Portrays Overdue Aviator OTTAWA, Onta: ~The Canadian government wireless service had received no word of the Greater Rockford up to 9:30 am. today. The operators had listened for signals from the missing plane or for reports of its being sighted. | By the Associated Press. " CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., August 20.— | Art Goebel landed here at 11:26 mm.; | after a non-stop flight from California | | which broke the existing record by | | almost six hours. 1 | Goebel stumbled from the stiffness in- | | duced by the long flight as he stepped | CHICAGO, August 20.—Arctic seas out of the plane. He recovered him- | that pound against Greenland's icy | self quicl however, and said that he | shores today concealed the fate of Bert | was not tired. “More hungry than any- | Hassell's attempt to fly from Cochrane, | thing else.” he said. He watchedgthe ‘ e . in | Yankee Doodle until it was safely | Ontario, tc Mount Evans, Greenland. in | lodged in a hangar, unspotted by oil | the monoplane Greater Rockford. | or grime despite the distance it had | Not_since 3 am. central standard| ;oiereq, then turned to greet the small | o) e e 'fi;g&;"m;.‘;fig‘ group which had collected at the field | Cramer. who left Cochrane at noon Sat- | SRS BB y | urday on the second of a good will | First Looked at Watch. | flight from Rockford, Il to Stockholm, | Goebel's first act as he stepped from | Sweden : { the plane, which was the first to make | That last message. picked from the | ihe “transcontinental non-stop flight | = b’;;“:}_‘j;‘:flgfi:‘;;‘“a hrd:;m iromhwest to east, was to glance at his | ! watch. m::lxfl“};- .‘l!th? the h‘g:::esr c‘;l_l | " “Eighteen hours and 58 minutes.” he | dicated in the prearanged code that | i yetord for transcontinental flight the Greater Rockford was 75 miles off | made in the opposite direction, was 26 Cape Chidley, fiying over Davis Strait. | hours 50 minutes 48 seconds, set by e "};&L‘_’a’ufigfiw“‘;gl"ful Lieuts, Johin A. Macready and Oakley 1200-mile fourney toward Mount Evans. | S i3rry Tuoker of Santa Manica, Calif Don Mix, the Madison, Wis.. operator, | sompanion and backer of Goebel on the flight, said he had timed the plane’s arrival above Curtiss Field at11:08 a.m., Eastern daylight time. The monoplane made a few circles of the field before landing at 11:26. Goebel said he had flown at alti- tudes of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet all the way, with favoring winds. The ‘plane over Albuquerque. N. Mex.; Wichita, Kans.; St. Louis. and Colum- bus, Ohio, soaring above the latter city By the Associated Press. area, and the it Evans operator got | the official weather forecaster out of | b'?'h‘: vfofld:‘lhc lnmm:';lor“nix B | at dawn today. ERuERe report wirelessed morning, nk,” sal | *Temperature, 55: maximum, 58: partly | smiling. to Frank R. Tichenor, editor of cloydy all dav (Sunday): surface wind.| Aero Digest, who hurried to the side '.u;‘\:t?p miles; barometer, 28.45; fair | of the plane as it taxied to rest e - Much Fuel Left. Lantiug in Gresalsnd Hoped. | The Yankee Doodle had 90 gallons Mix. who four years ago was in the|nt gasoline left of the 450 gallons stored | Greenland territory as radio man onin the tanks when she left Mines Field. m; g:znel;! m““’fl‘;‘é‘éfin’“’"’m ml‘?‘l_-e .sca!:d { She hmdfa\‘erued 1nso miles an hour. o he gr - | ' was to wire ;g Gre;nl;ldd» but ;nkiued — B‘E& | m? %é’m?"i&';’.‘m’i.‘.:‘ gbeb'fl of Los | ing forced to pick a landing place ‘: val. somewhere along the rocky coast Jine. | M—';'—:,r ih’:::[spz:\mstfi: ','o‘,".’ trans- In such an event, Mix said, it would’| continental flight was 21 hours and 48 be days before Haseell and Cramer | minutes, made by Lieut. Russell L. could get word of their safe descent {0 | Maugham in 1924. That, however, was the outside world, for Greenland is a 'S 1 b Ww& s ) st g W not a non-stop flight. Maugham’s route R LTl wets there, Dndreds 3{|m from New York to San Francisco :nfles —t 3 reds of ;nnfr‘!‘ ;‘l“ stops were made en route for Charles Smith, a_Philadelphia wire- | " afoo By onin g to their plane, Goebel :‘:mg:f:fiu "l;"d“;fd “fiflflmm som- | and Tucker were driven to the Garden ey suuzn““‘w: rd the schoomer | City Hotel for lunch and a rest. Bowdoin, at anchor in Anatalak Bay. | ' 1-brador. The MacMillan operator re- P e conlele el ported that the plane had not been | seen by any member of the MacMillan | party, nor had any message been heard, | despite the fact that the MacMillan | operator had kept tuned on the plane’s wave length of 328 1f Hassell and Cramer succeeded in landing in Greenland. there was spec- ulation as to why they had made no eflort to communicate through their wireless set. It was pointed out, however, that difficulty might ha heen experienced in rigging a‘satisfa tory serial or that the set might have been damaged in landing Weather Conditions Perfect. Prof. W. H. Hobbs, head of the Uni- Goebel Accompanied on Flight by Fi- | nancfal Backer. | LOS ANGELES, August 20 (#).—Col. | Art_Goebel, winner of the Dole flight to | Hawaii last August 17, winged his way jover Middle Western prairies early to- day. past the half-way mark in his non- stop flight from Los Angeles to New York The airman, who brought his craft, the Woolorac, t7 earth first at Hono- Wy in the prize flight from Oakland, hopped off from here at 12:06 p.m. Pa- cific standard time yesterdsy. Indications that Goebels craft, the Yankee Doodle was well along the - route reached here from Albuquerque, Y e chigan expedition 8! N. Mex, where an unidentified plane oo orelessed the Rockford | fiying a mile high passed eastward at Chamber of Commerce. sponsor of the | g:30 pm , M. intain time, less than five flight, that the long delay in the plane’s | ;0 " atter the take-off. arrival could Dot e ouributed 10| Accompanying Goebel in the single e woday - Dray Phect | motored lockhead Vega craft was Harry mm“;d“ sradigreads 0bbe | Tycker, Santa Monica capitalist, an- odery for the safety of the fiyers|10UNced s his financial backer. The e e e i Vers lannounced route lay across Arizons, B e Y ey e, {fom Eimer | Few Mexico, Texas, Oklahome, Kanses e g g Mg ahead to Green-|ajiceouri Illinols, Indiana, Ohio and and to await the arrival of the plane Pennsy! 2. 1t was to the Rockford Chamber of | guccess for Goebel means the first Commerce and said: | time the Nation has been spanned from b "Q:f“ of Hassell West to Emb ]m a nonstop flight. The B, ES. = aviator established a dual record by The Greater Rockford wok off Thurs- | preaking the present nonstop l.um)- day from Rockford and made the flight | continental air record of 26 hours 50 tn Cochrane, Ontario. without incident. | minutes 48 seconds set by Lieuts, John Starting the second leg of the journey | A MacReady and Oakley Kelly, March 81 noon Baturday, the plane appeared 2.3, 1923, MacReady and Kelly flew 1n be making slower time than it had | from New York to San Diego on the fight from Rockford to Ce The Yankee Doodle carried a ca-| rane. Reporting its position pacity load of 450 gallons of gasoline, | George River 398 miles from nearly 300 galions les than the 1725 rane o'clock. Ce gallons carried by MacReady and Kelly time. the plane was mi 69 miles hour An hour ed was over Apisk 26 m from Cochrane speed was 77 mile Radio Messages Hindered rai hours passed e from 1 the provably being th E rong Gibraltar station, communicating with a station yet. Long over- r Fort Coch- king onl . & later Stephenson Renews Fight LAPOR'I d.. August 20 (A | David C. ephenison, imprisoned former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, renewed his fight for | treedom today by filing a new petition | for & writ of habeas corpus before Judge | Richter in Laporie Circuit Court. ' an before further lane reasor INDIANS KILLED FAWCETT, DYOTT REVEALS IN RADIO Overcome Five i)a_\'fi After Crossing River 1925, Learn—Searchers Now in Danger. Brazilian in Rescuers s message has Dyott. who set out at the vear to solve the mysterious diseppearance of the British explorers. Fi men, in the Brazilian wilderness more than three years ago. The imessage herewith was sent by Dyott's operator. Willlam Demello. to Vasco Abren of Rio Qe Janeiro. Abren then relayed the message to Robert Lloyd of Emsworth. Pa. who in turn sent it to William W. McDonald, jr. of Hollls, N. Y. McDonald transmitted the message to The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. just_been received from Comdr BY COMDR. GEORGE M. DYOTT. (Copyrighted, 1628, in all countries by North American Newspaper Alliance.) EAST OF KULUENE RIVER, Brazil, August 20.—I am sorry to report that the Fawcett expedition perished at the hands of hostile Indians during July, 1925, five days after it crossed the Kuluene River, an affluent of the Xingu. e successfully followed Fawcett's trail, although we were hampered by losing much food in the rapids. " Fawcett jungle Indians who went with us their remains in the agreed to show but to the spot. Our position much. our resources have dwindled We afford time to send full details by must descend the Xingu without ourselves will be caught. We have had serfous trouble with the Indians and only avoided a clash by strategy On Way to Para. This message has cost us a great effort to send, but tell our friends that we are on our way out before it is too late. is critical. We have suffered cannot wireless delay or even we we We hope to reach Para at the beginning of | October. - Before the radio signed off Mr. Abren, in el bee Rio de Janeiro, managed to get a personal message back to Willlam Demello, Dyott's operator, asking if there would be any further messages. Demello repited: “This will be the last message by wireless, as we are compelled to drop the apparatus because of its unbearable load.” e The place where Comdr. Dyott received the information which convinced him that Col Fawcett and his party had perished is about 1.200 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro in the heart of the wilderness of Matto Grosso. Following the trail of Col. Fawcett. Dyott and his men had gone as far west as the San Manoel River and swung cast, as Fawcett is supposed to have done. The above radio was not sent out until the Dyott party crossed the Kuluene River, a tributary of the Xingu, approximately 200 miles east of the San Manoel River. The Fawcett- it Expeditions. Nearly four vears ago Col. P. H. Fawcett, the | celebrated British explorer, organized an expedi- tion to uncover the secrets of a lost cilivilization| which he believed hidden somewhere in that vasf| expanse of unknown territory stretching between!| the Xingu and Tapajos rivers in Brazil. Col. Fawcett was accompanied by his son Jack, 21 years old, and Raleigh Rimell, 23, of Los . " The last dispatch Col. Fawcett sent to the outside world was dated May 30, 1925. COMDR. DYOTT. As time ssed various-rTeports came from ——— - -~ Brazil regarding the whereabouts of the Fawcett expedition, but none of them could be verified. A Frenchman named Courteville said he had met a man he believed was Col. Fawcett in November, 1927, in Matto Grosso, but this was subsequently found to be a case of mistaken identity. Despite the failure to hear from him, Col. Fawcett's friends continued to insist that he was still alive in the wilderness of Brazil. They pointed out that the colonel was not provided with an elaborate equipment, rather the reverse, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) ARMY SCOUTSLOST SEHILT RESUMES | INPANAMA WILDS, FLIGHT TO MIAMI \ i |Search Organized for Lieut.fMarine Flyer Lands Nica- ragua-Bound Plane in North Carolina to Refuel. G. S. Beatty and Five Men Gone 18 Days. By the Associated Press By the Associated Press PANAMA, August 20.—Lieut. George | FAYETTEVILLE, N. C August 20, S. Beatty, U. 8. A, and five enlisted | —Lieut. Frank Schilt, Marine aviator, men from Fort Davis were missing |flying a big tri-motored transport air- today in the jungles which they pene- ; plane to Nicaragua, for use of the Mar- trated 18 days ago in an effort to hike | ines there, hopped off from Pope Field across the isthmus The group formed part of a large Fla reconnaissance party, the remainder of Lieut. Schilt landed here at 9:30 am which, headed by Lieut. George S. |for refueling. He waited more than two Stewart, returned to Fort Davis hours for weather reports before re- Stewart reported that on August 15| suming his fi'ght 12 of the party’s pack mules slid Into | a deep ravine about 12 miles from Porto Bello. It was impossible to ex- tricate the animals and Stewart's group returned for assistance, while Beatty and his men pressed on toward Nombre de_Dios. Beatty expected to reach his destina- | tion Friday and instructed Stewart to | send out a searching party in case he failed to report at Nombre de Dios by then. Nothing has been heard from him since. ; A searching party was ordered to be sent out from Fort Davis. Lieut. Ste art and Lieut. Malin Craig, jr, with 20 | men, started for the ravine with equip- ment to extricate the mules, Schilt Hops Off at 5:15 AM. Lieut. Schilt, with three enlisted | men, 15:45 o'clock this morning on the first |leg of a flight to Nicaragua. Last night | Lieut. Schilt decided that owing to the soft and soggy condition of Bolling | Field it would be unwise to attempt a departure with the 3,000-pound load of to Miami without a stop and provide a reserve of a few hours drew a greater part of his fuel load leaving enough to take him to Pope Field, Fort Bragg. Fayetteville, N. C where he pianned on refueling for the flight to Miami Lieut. Schilt will spend the night in | The Beatty party was accompanied |the Florida city and leave for Nica- | by one of the best jungle guides on |ragua if weather conditions are favor- the isthmus and officials expressed con- | able. The rainy season now is at its fidence in his ability to lead the party i height in Central America and the to safety. Beatty was awarded the heavy downpours usually occur in the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery ! afternoons. Hence, Lieut. Schilt has in the World War. planned on an overnight stop at Tela, S o | Honduras, If he finds it inadvisable to | go_on. DETECTIVE ATTACKED. : “The purpose of the flight is to de- { liver this plane to the Marine force HMII()IIVE N. C. Augwt 20 {In Nicaragua,” n;;nl s.-(l'\lm said last CI OT] v ugus! | night. “It is needed badly for trans P:::-rilN“ l.'.':.'."]'fi“':h:“fnvdm:m:l'\lzl\u:v(: porting nlnglnng[vhav can be squeezed c ntc Py g e 8 ity f Ba W; Danitle, fortusia| Ow e oAb, T am_ctasged wikh it teller, accused of murder, was attacked | (5, oo as he Iy aslecp In bis home here (oday| 'Lieut, Schilt 1s nccompunied by Mas- A Unidentifled Deraorn the attack |ler Technical Sergt. Arohle Paschal, Dolce W e et Tiad been | Bssistant pilot; Gunnery Sergt, Omer e uesotin wan temporarlly blinded, |, Adams, radio operator, and Tech- od. L ' nical Sergt. A. Long, mechanic in Canada. set up interference that | snut out reception of the Greater Rock ford's signals. Pinally, at 3 am. Sun day, there came the message that the | plane was 75 miles off Cape Chidley, | over Davis Stralts—the final and most : A ew Yor ¢ hazardous quarter of the hop At Rockford, where the good will flight plane were born and finenced, pnxiety increased as the hours streteh long without word of Hussell and sramer. The plane was due at Mount ans at about 8 am, Central stand- By the Aseociated P NEW YORK, August 20 —In hey scar- robe of office and wearing a 2ol 8 am 1) siand. | geous golden chain that hes predeces- d tme, but vas not until night |,y have worn since the sixteenth cen- at r'o’»«:.v’l‘;;g '"l)t:’;"“;fl:::“m ,"h““‘ tury, there came to New York today che signs of w R fiatase atatton might | 138 ith mayor of “the town and County the Mount Evans wireless trate ine |Of Southampton,” England, her worshin )t haye been able 1o penetrate the |y, .ia Marion Foster-Welch. daylight hours When communication | gie came on the Leviathan, which Swn established with Mount Evans. |ney the flag of the mayors of Bouth- nwever. and word came that Hassell |,000n decorated with emblems put bea mot . srrived the city became | (here during the Wars of the Roses— €inimed g white roses for Lancaster, red roses for Mrs. Haseell the fiver's wife and his | york \Continued on Page 4, Columa 2. As she came up ghe P o aboard s | ‘ Sou;hampton's Grandmother-Mayor Lands Will Visit Here Thursday | MRS. MoCORMICK BUYS PAPER AT ROCKFORD { Candidate for Tllinois Seat in House Acquires Control of Republic Will Not Change Policies city's yacht Macom, an escort of sir- planes hummed overhead and all the | Wl United States Navy craft dipped | {elr flags. For this little gray-haired | grandmother. the widow of & physician. | BY the Atwociated Press also s ex-officlo an adimarl in the nrl} | ROCKFORD, 1I, August 20—Mrs, tish navy and is entitled to & salute Of | iy Hapna McCormick, Republican 1 lafl\rn:n to spend a week In the United | nominee for representative-at-large for Slates, visiting Boston, Buffalo and | Illinofs, has purchased a contralling in- Philadelphin. 8he will visit Washington | tevest In the Rockford Republic, daily Thursday. newspaper, and will become its publish- Her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Marion |er, it was announced today, Paton, accompanies her, Mrs, Foster- ‘The snnouncement stated the political Welch is also an aiderman, a 111619 and | policles of the paper would not head of the city’s departments of health ' changed and T. B, Thompson would and education. Bhe draws no pay, continue as editor, A com- | plications with another tribe prevented our going | | here at 12 o'clock noon for Jacksonville, | took off from Bolling Field at| gasoline necessary to get the big plane | 80 he with- | take | | | | | e UAUTLININ iy i Many of the men are ill with fever and .'/,' I ml Illmlllllllllllllll’l' 1 |THE DONKEY—“YOU BOYS MAKE M I SVITH GOMPLETES ANSWER T0 WHITE AND OTHER CRITICS Defense of His Legislative Record to Be Published Tomorrow. TILT WITH STRATON VIEWED AS CLOSED xpected to Bare Plan for Dry Modification in Acceptance Address Wednesday. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, §taft Correspor of The Star. ALBANY, N. Y., Aug 20.—The de- fensive today. the offensive tomorrow Gov. Al Smith, Democratic nominee for President, is handing out today for | publication tomorrow morning a com- | plete defense of his record as a New | York Assemblyman, attacked by Wil- HOME ANY OLD PLAC KELLOGG MAYSIGN - WITH HISTORIC PEN |Former Envoy to Present | Holder Used by Wilson on Versailles Pact. | By the Associated Pres | | PARIS. August 20.—Onme of the | diplomatic problems with which Secre- tary of State Kellogg will be faced when he reaches Paris will be selection of one of several pens which will be offered him to sign his renunciation of war treaty | The municipality of Havre will pre- | sent him with a huge gold pen and holder on Friday. The pen was de- | | signed by the famous jewel designer. | M. Falize. The- handie-is said to be nearly a foot in length, being beauti- fully ornamented and coniaining a | jewel at the end. | Havre wanted to give the Secretary ! a tremendous reception, but it was | thought in Paris that the ceremonies connected with his coming ought to| take place here. Consequently the | American embassy suggested that the | arrival ceremonles be simple, consist- | ing of the mayor and other authorities calling upon Secretary Kellogg when he | lands, presenting him with the pen and oriefly welcoming him. To Offer Wilson Pen. Robert Underwood Johnson, former American Ambassador to Rome, is com- ing over from London with a pen used | by President Wilson in signing the treaty of Versailles and by several other | presidents in signing historic rlocu-" | ments. Mr. Johnson hopes Secretary | Kellogg will use it The embassy has | severay other offers and will submit {this diplomatic question to the Secre- | tary of State. | “The instrument upon which some pen | wil' be used August 27 is to be upon a large single sheet of thick paper. with | the French and English text in parallel | columns. Linguistic experts in the | foreign office have been having an ab- | sorbing study in the exact rendering of the treaty into the two languages. The | French text. it is understood. will be cabled to Washington for approval, as {there have been some slight changes | in it from the fext submitted o the State Department by the French em- first intention of Becq de | | Fouquieres, master of ceremonies of the | foreign office, was to engross the text | of the treaty n beautiful script, but so | little time now remains that this can- not be done. The present idea is to print the treaty on one large folio cheet sufficient for the text of both languages, each of which will run to 300 or 900 words In Alphabetical Order. | The official text, as proposed by the | American Government in naming” the | rulers of states which would authorize plenipotentiaries to sign the treaty, Dlaced the President of France first and | | the President of the United States sec- | {ond. The French proposal, which the | United States agreed to, places the sig- natorles v alphabetical order. Under | this arrangement Germany as Al-| lemagne, will come first; Belgique sec- ond, Etat Unis third, France fourth | and Grande Bretagne fifth The representatives of Great Britain | will affix seven signatures. Lord Cush- | endun will sign once for the King of the United Kingdom and the second | time for George as Emperor of India Then the representatives will sign for the Irish Free State and the Dominions of Canada. Australia, New Zealand and | | South Africa, Thus, counting the | United States, 7 of the signatures out | {of the 15 will be for English-speaking ! peoples, India not being included | There will be only one orginal which will be deposited tn Washington, the other signatories getting certified coples AMERICAN ENGINEER IS SLAIN IN MEXICO Consul at Torreon Leaves to Re- cover Body-—Troops Will Beek Slayers By the Assoclated Press ‘The slaying of Henry C Scamidt, an American mining engineer, by two men | | at Travador mine, Trinidad, Durango, | was reported to the State Department today by American Consul Jackson at Torreon, Mexico. Schmidt's wife is understood to be in Alameda, Calif. Consul Jackson telegraphed that Gen. Escobar, in charge of the military dis- | trict, had promised to co-operate with | him in every in an attempt to| apprehend the slayers. As there is no | Amerioan consul near the mine, Jack- | son left to obtain the body and take it to Torreon. Gen. Escobar sent & colo- | ael and 16 soldiers to pany _him. | | | | | museum | range Held in Police Slaying CARL Clogtll‘l“l' 10,000,000 Animals Start Mass Trek Game of All Kinds Seen by Expedition Moving on 10-Mile Front. By the Associated NAIROBI. Kenya, East Africa, Au- gust 20.— A remarkable migration of game in the Tanganyika territory is re- ported by Carveth Wells of the Milwau- kee Museum-Chicago Geographic So- clety expedition. the report being made from the party’s first headquar- ters in the Tanganyika territory, where they arrived on July 23 Martin Johnson, noted animal pho- tographer, who is in the same district with Welis. estimated that there are about 10,000,000 head of game mixnl-] ing across the country in a solid mass 10 miles wide and 30 miles long at one spot Zebras were stated to be leading the way in a mass 10 miles wide and 5 miles deep. followed by miles of gnus and other antmals, The explorers’ camp at the time re- ported was situated in longitude 35 east and about 2 degrees southof the Equa- tor. Wells reported that notwithstand- ing this equatorial location, the air was 50 cold he had to sleep in a sleeping bag and wear a thick overcoat and sweater, while he would have been very glad for a hot water bottle at nights, - The party had several exciting ex- periences with animals en route, par- ticularly with one group of eight lions which investigated the car in which Wells was riding, coming to within 15 yards of it and finally slinking awi Dr. 8. A Barrett, director of the Milwaukee Museum, reported that the prospects of securing a fine collection of animals were excellent Cudahy and Goodrich, other members of the expedition, are not only hunting specimens, but have been called upon to keep the whole safari well stocked with fresh meat. After establishing the first camp the exploring party moved on to a base for the ascent of Mount Ruwenzori, part of the range known as the “Moun- tains of the Moon" situated on the border of British West Africa and the Belglan Kongo. The ascent of this was scheduled to begin about Midaugust CRASH DEATI'.IS REPORTED. Four Believed Killed Bus Collision. RED WING, Minn., August 20 (&) Three or four persons were reported to have been ‘burned to death and six or more suffered injuries when a passenger bus, bound from Chicago to the Twin Citfes. collided with a truck near Red Three or TWOHELD IN PROBE OF OFFCERSDEATH Foot Ball Star Taken After 30-Hour Hunt by Al- | exandria Police. Carl Crockett, 20-year-old Alexandria foot ball star, and Thomas Vance, 38, | Washington colored man, today are re- | | garded by Alexandria police as the prin- | cipal suspects in the murder of Police }serztv Elton B. Hummer, who was shot | through the heart at 1 o'clock Saturday | morning as he was making his rounds {of the city. Another colored man, |Graham White of Alexandria is still held. | The young Alexandrian, wio has per- I * | formed brilliantly on the foot ball field with several independent teams, was arrested yesterday at the home of his stepmother, Mrs. Hugh Crockett, 426 {Seventh street southwest, and taken to Alexandria by Police Chief W. W. Campbell. He is booked for investi- gation and is to be questioned at length | today by City Manager Paul Morton | | land Chief Campbell. | | Sudden Claim Causes Arrest. | | Vance was arrested Saturday after-| | noon by Washington police on a charge of drunkenness and taken to the ninth| precinct police station, where he sud-| denly declared without questioning: “I haven't been in Alexandria for two| we * A .45-caliber automatic pistol an lls similar in size and type to! those -believed by police to have been | used In the killing of Sergt. Hummer | were taken from Vance. | The gun, which was taken from Vance | after his arrest by Policeman J. M. Hor- | | ton of the ninth precinct. was sent| | to New York this morning to be ex- amined by Maj. Calvin Goddard, fire- arms expert of that city. ‘The gun, Horton said, was fully load- | ed when taken from Vance, the clip| containing eight cartridges. Horton said | | the gun had been fired some time dur- ing the preceeding 24 hours. This was denied by Vance, who said the gun had | not been fired for some time. Similar shells were found on the | ground near Hummer’s body. Those of .45 caliber are hard to obtain, not being fused by the Army. Neither are they | on sale in most sporting goods stores. Search Reveals Nothing. If Maj. Goddard's examination of the weapon indicates it is the same one which fired the shells found beside Hummer's body, Vance will be taken to Alexandria at once and charged with murder, Capt. Campbell said A search of Vance's home, at 636 L street, yielded nothing having any con- nection with the case, police said | Crockett's arrest yesterday terminated | a 30-hour search by Alexandria and { Fairfax County police, which included | /a raid on the farmhouse of Edward | Finch, a relative of Crockett by mar- riage, in Fairfax County. The youth said yesterday that he had been in the farmhouse at the time of the raid. but left by a window and walked uearly 10 miles through flelds to Barcroft, | Where he caught a bus and came to | Washington. ‘ Chief Campbell scoffed at the rumor | that jealously might have been in- | volved in the slaying. However, he ad- ‘ mitted he had determined that Hummer {had one date with Mrs. Margaret | | Hudgins, who was Crockett's companion | on a party the night of the shooting. Witness Heard Voices. The rumor began at the inquest into the death when Miss Lena Shapiro, who heard the policeman and his mur- derer falking beneath her bedroom window a few seconds before the shoot- ing toox yMace. testified that one of the men said: “This is the last time I'll warn you." A bullet hole in a fence to the rear {of the shoe shop of Frank Ferson, | 226 South Alfred street, just off the alley, where Hummer was shot, aceount- od for the third shot fired. Ferson discov- | ered fragments of lead about the hale, | about elght feet from the ground This | indicates that Hummer was shot just | “(Continued on Page 2. Column 1. | Fever Cases Total 190.000 in Athens. ' WItI"I Famme m By the Assoclated Press NEW YORK, August 20.-The Near Kast Rellef recelved cable Information today that the epidemic of dengue fever which broke out in Athen: ago, has caused 190,000 cases to date that medical service has broken down, and that there {8 a famine in ice, lemons | and milk,. "The ofhle was from Chrlstopher C. | Ice. Milk and Lemons| { lines on this issue. { du liam Allen White, Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, and others, and hav- ing entered his defense, the governor will proceed to the offensive against the Republican party in his speech accept- ing the nomination Wednesday. The governor's defense of his record in the New York Legislature is made in reply to the published charges against him by Mr. White, Kansas editor, before the Ilatter ‘sailed for Europe. Mr. White charged that As- semblyman Smith at Albany 15 years ago had voted in favor of the liquor interests and the saloon, the gambler and vice. Just before he sailed, how- ever, Mr. White issued a further state- ment, in which he said he would not press the charges against Gov. Smith with regard to his votes on legislation | affecting the gambler and organized vice. The White statement was inter- i preted as a retraction in many quar- ters. But recently Mr. White cabled to Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas and director of publicity for the | Republican national committee, he had retracted nothing, and th: if Gov. Smith sought to “wisecrack” his way out he would publish the whole record. The governor’s statement in reply to the White charges, it is known, takes up ad seriatem all the measures upon which he voted as a member of the Legislature, which Mr. White referred to in his original statement. His sup- porters here maintain that the gov- ernor's answer is complete and takes %.mswnd from under the feet of Mr. To Be His Last Word. The Smith statement is to be the last word in his defénse. Whether Mr. White will seek to “come back” at the governor remains to be seen. Anything new in the matter of charges produced by Mr. White might require a further answer by Gov. Smith, but there is no expectation in the Smith camp that the governor will be called upon to say another word on this subject during the campaign. It is held that he will have blown Mr. White and his charges quite out of the water \Yr‘lifle laov]. Stmiég's s}:nemen! is di- rected entirelv to the charges made by Mr. White, it may be considered an answer also to Dr. Straton and any others who may have attacked him on moral grounds, based on his recorded votes in the New York Legislatuwe. There is no mention of Dr. Straton or his charges in the statement, it is said. Dr. Straton having failed to agree to allow Gov. Smith to answer the charges made by him from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church. the Governor considers the Straton incident closed. It is stated here he does not intend to reply to Dr. Straton’s last letter to him, in which the clergyman declared that if he, the governor would not meet him in joint debate in some place other than Calvary Baptist Church Dr. Straton would brand the governor as a “Tammany trickster” and a “coward.” : Matter Seen Closed. The governor is reported to be in- censed at the Straton letter, but to be- lieve that his last letter to the clergy- man demanding a “ves" or “no” answer to his demand that he be allowed to answer Dr. Straten's charges from the same pulpit in which the charges were made. has closed the matter. He might of course, he said. determine later to deal with Dr Strator sists in attacking h nothing to indicate such a course now Interest here is keved to a high pitch over Gov. Smith's answer to Mr. White and alsg in the forthcoming speech of acceptanPe. The belief is strong that Gov. Smith. instead of modifying his stand on prohibition, will clarify the issue so far as he is concerned still further. The governor has a record of stocking to his guns and not back- tracking. His telegram to the Houston convention, saying that he would, if elected, rigidly enforce the prohibition !aws of the land, but that as Chief Executive he would point the way to some modification of the dry laws, mapped his course in this campaign clearly, it is satd. That he will specify just how he will point the way to mod- ification and in what direction is con- | fidently expected Dry Issue Is Major Ome. Prohibition, at least in States of the North and the East. 1s likely to be the major issue of the campaign, with the Democratic general command centerinz its efforts on breaking the Republica: John J. Raskob chairman of the Democratic national committee, has indicated clearly that he believes the wet and cry issue {s the main issue of the campaign, despite the recent address of Mvs. Nellie Taylos Ross, former Governor of Wyoming. a: Charlottesville, Va. Mrs. Ross i & vice chairman of the national committee and she took the stand that prohibition was not and should not be involved in the campaign The Republicans fn New Yorx ‘mave been not at all dissatisfied with the re- port of a $50.000 contribution to the mocratic war chest by Plerre Samuel Pont, who has gone over lock, stock and barrel to the Smith cause and the cause of the wets If Gov. Smith's cam- paign can be aided by $50,000 contribu- tons from his supporters they see no £00d reason why, il it becomes neces- sary, Republican supporters of Herbert Hoover should not make contributions equal In size to the du Pont contribu- | Thurber, acting director of Near East Relief for the Athens area | ‘Thurber .said he had gone without sleep for five nights caring for the pa- tients in the Near East Summer cam; for worklnw nd girls, which -filbm as being tims." ; R Page X tion, Butler Causes Stir. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's n letter to the New York Times, pul - | today, in which he critiolses severely “overflowing with vie- | Mr. Hoover because of his declaration against the repeal of the amendment created a st to the Constitul .I\E ir_here in both Demoeratio (Continued on Page 3, Col