Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1929, Page 2

9w CHANDLER TELLS OFPAPER STORK Mobile Business Men, Not Utilities Interests, Back Press, He Tells Probers. INVITED JA :Surrendcr Of Gun BY FE. J. HUNTER. (Written Exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alilance ) R. B. Chandler. founder and publisher of the Mobile Press, vesterday made | formal denial that utilities interests had invested in his newspaper, which made its journalistic debut A’ month ago. Chandler testified during the Federal | Trade Commission’s inquiry into reports that power firms were financing Ala- bama newspapers. Charges connecting the Press specifi- cally with the Alabama Power Co. had | been mentioned only by the Frederick 1. Thompson group of papers in that! State, Chandler said. and asserted that ! this pewspaper chain wished to monopo- | lize the Alabama field. Backed by Mobile Men. Chandler said the Press had been founded with the backing of a group of | Mobile business men. Investigation of | reports that power interests were in- | volved was made at the sugeestion of i i | 6-foot PHILADELPHIA, May 18.—Did “Scar- face™ Al Capone, known far and wide through the United States as a king of the Chicago underworld and a leader of gunmen and bootleggers. deliberately accept a year's prison sentence fiom the Philadelphia courts to save himself {rom oeing shot down by rival gang- sters? The Philadelphia police, through Maj. Lemuel B. Schofield, divector of public safety, deny this report, which is common gossip_ in the city's’ under- world. They asert that bedyguard. ‘Chicago Frank™ Cline, ‘were captured “on the level that they had no “deal” with Capone whatever, and that the sentencing of Scarface” and hi¢ professional gin- man protector is simply an exemplifi- cation of the “new order of things" in Capone and his GANGLAND BELIEVES CAPONE Guilty Without Court Fight Held Unlike “Scarface.” THE EVENING New York Orator IL TO FLEE FOES and Rcady Plea Of‘ | pone seemed slightly upset and changed color perceptibly. But this was to be expected from a man who until that; time had been able to boast that he never had served a minute's time in a ! jnil. Throughout the court proceedings | Capone took everyhing in & rather gay- | spirited way. He scemed rather to be a spectator than one of the defendants | in the case. Wears §50,000 Diamond. Sartorially. he was a picture of what the well-dressed gang leader is wearing this Spring. He was attired in a black | suit, with & light pin-stripe in it, and wore a tie which matched the suit. | His top coat was of oxford gray. with the edges taped. His white shirt was of ¢ilk with & somewhat invisible flower | i the material. His shoes were light, vellowish tan, and his hose were black | with white clocks. His hat was soft | of light steel color | Capone 18 a stocky man, about 30, | and has curly hair. He is about 5 LETCHER. Wide Wol SECOND CIRL WINS Photo. BLUE PLANES RAD RED SUPRLY BASE ‘Attack Camz as Complete Surprise and Resulted in Tremendous Damage. BY J. S. EDGERTON, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. FAIRFIELD ~AIR DEPOT, FAIR- {FIELD, Ohio, May 18.—The largest Irald of the war now in progress be- tween the Red and Blue “‘nations” over { an aerial battleground covering the | greater part of Ohlo, was made today {by Blue bombardment and attack planes on the great- Red Army supply | ase just east of Columbus, the Red capital Observation i | pilots having great activity at the Red dépot early this morning, Lieut. Col. H. C. Pratf, commander of the Bllue air forces, total- ing 100 planes, ordered bombardment group from Langley Field, land the third attack group, Maj. J. H. Jouett commanding, to attack. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 0. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929, | i | | | | reported the second | under command of Maj. Hugh J. Knerr., | CRACK NAVY FLYER HONOREVD 5 | 1 | | | | | | FORT SHOKIG NEAR L ROOH Facts Uncovered Before In- quest to Find Cause of Clinic Disaster. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, May 18.—Investigation into the Cleveland Clinic fire, which caused the deaths of 122 persons from 5 generated by blazing X-ray film, went forward today with information that cigarettes were smoked near the film storage room and that the clinic had been warned of the danger. These facts had been uncovered in testimony before an inquest conducted i by, Coroner A. J. Pearse and County | Prosecutor Ray T. Miller, { behind closed newspaper The inquiry was held doors, Mrs. Roosé Reber, charwoman at the clinic, told later of her tektimony. She men were_told. ! testified that men frequently smoked in the basement near the Senator Norrie, Republican. of Nebraska. | Philadelphis following the long probe cigarettes Declining at first to reveal the name | by a special grand jury, which resulted of a man who had agreed to loan him | in ridding the police force of grafte Within five and one-half minutes 36, planes were in the air and on the way to Columbus, nearly 100 miles to the feet 9 inches in height. He takes the | ! name of “Scarface Al from three scars, | room where the film was stored, and the lef! £100,000 for the launching of his news- | Chandler Iater disclosed the } identity of the backer to Chairman Edgar A. McCulloch of the commission and Robert E. Healy, chief counsel.| They assured him they would not reveal the name unless their investigation made it necessary to subpoena the backer. Another witness, Charles O'Malley. a Boston advertising _man. contradicted | testimony offered Thursday by Richard Grozier, editor and publisher of the Boston Post, that he had offered $20.- 000,000 in cash for the purchase of that newspaper on behalf of the Insull power interests. He added, however, that he had represented two New York stock brokers in unsuccessful negotiations to buy either the Post or the Boston Globe | at that figure. D. Paul Bestor, jr.. president of the First National Bank of Mobile. and one of the group spontoring the Mobile Press. faid neither the Alabama Power Co. nor any other utllity concern had | any financial holding in that newspaper. He said he was a director of the Ala- bama Power Co. and the only director of that concern among stockholders of the Press. Tells of Financial Aid. Fdward D. Dewitt of the newspeper brokerage firm of Palmer, Dewitt & Palmer of New York, the fourth and final witness of the hearing, reviewed the part his firm had played in pur- chasing four Southern newspapers for William Laverre and Harold Hall. who were backed by the International Paper & Power Co. His concern also alded. he said, with the disposal of the Chicago Journal, Albany. Knickerbocker Press and the Albany News, which were| bought with financial aid from the In- ternational. 100.000 VISITORS REACH LOUISVILLE TO WATCH DERBY| (Continued From First Page.) place, No. 26, for the start. By co- incidence, Blue Larkspur's main rival, Clyde Van Dusen, drew position No. 25 and the chances of both were consid- | ered to be in danger. In the scramble | of the big field at the getaway either | or both may find difficulties, especially | with so many fast starters to contend | with, ‘As a result prospects increased for a more “open race” with the hopes of | i contenders raised. Voltear, the Grayson-Fisher horse, drew the pole position. No. 3 went to Chicatie, Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbiit's Eastern hope, | and No. 5 to Naishapur, the well liked | son of a former Derby winner, Omar Khayvam, and representative of the San Prancisco sportsman, Chaffee Earl. Minotaur, which ran second in the Preakness, was No. 8, and Karl Eitel, bearing the Apple Blossom colors and hopes of “Bathhouse” John Coughlin of Chicago, was No. 12. In between these iwn were the Waggoner entry | from Texas, Calf Roper, and Efvast, an- other Far Western horse, owned by Baron Long. Nine Experts Pick Blue Larkspur. | On the extreme outside, along with | Blue Larkspur and Clyde Van Dusen, | was _another highly = regarded colt, | Windy City, owned by F. M. Grabner | ©of Chicago. In the consensus of experts, published today by the Loulsville Courier-Journal, | Blue Larkspur was named to win by 9 out of 19, Clyde Van Dusen by 6,/ Naithapur by 3 and Windy City by 1./ Opinion on prospective scratches was | that Boris. Hiram Kelly, St. Ignatius and Paul Bunyan would be withdrawn, | although the latter turned in a good| workout yesterday. Calf Roper and Prince Pat were considered doubtful starters. If the track is thickened by, rain, The Choctaw and Ervast are un-| likely starters. | CHILE GETS ARICA AND PERU TACNA IN | | time explaining and cutting. oft racketeers, There are certain aspects of the case, however, which give an atmosphers of plausibility to the whispers in the underworld that Capone “planted” the arrest of himself and Cline. To begin with. Capone had a hard how he happened to be caught. and the crude way in which he supplied the evidence that finally ianded him in prison has also created suspicion. For several days Capone and Cline were enjoying the vcean breezes At Atlantic City. Peace Treaty Is Signed. “Scarface” says that while there he met other Chicago gang rulers, amon them being “Bugs’ Moran, leader o the North Side gang, seven of whose men were stood up against a wall and shot to death last St. Valentine's day. Capone says that a peace pact was signed by these various gang powers at the seashore for what might be called the “limitation of armaments.” He says they all “signed on the dotted line” that they were to stop all “gun play,” that no gangster hereafter was | to be “taken for a ride.” that machine guns and other weapons of gang war- fare were to be dumped in Lake Michi- | gen and that all were to join forces in | A defensive alliance against the common | enemies, the police and the flock of “stool pigeons” who were suspected of informing on them. Here Capone’s narratives became slightly mystifying. He explained that “Bugs” Moran and the other leaders had started post haste for Chicago to notify their followers of the “peace pact® and to direct them to get rid of thelr guns. i But Cepone, according to his own talk. didn't hurry so much. He lingrred at the seashore for A dav after the others had left, then he started leisurely | by motor car for Philadelphia, where he | expected to take a train for Chicago. On the way up the White Horse pike, about 15 miles from Philadelphia, something happened to his automobile, and the man who for years has always been able to overcome greater obstacles was left helpless on the road. His motor car wouldn't go. and despite the | fact that there are scores of busses, taxis, trains, etc.. in that general vi cinity he was unable to move an’ inch. Micsed Chicago Train. The consequence was that he missed A train leaving North Philadelphia at 3 p.m., on which he had made reserva tions for Chicago, Having missed the train; the motor car took on & new lease of life and he was able to reach Philadelphig at 6:30 pm. two and & half hours before he could get anothe fast train for Chicago. Having all this time to while away, he and Cline went their allisnce with streets, about 4 miles from the railroad station at North Philadelphia, from which he was scheduled to take the train, Half an hour before train time he came out of the movie, with Cline. They ran right_into the arms of two_de- tectives, Creedon and Malone. Cree- don says he once saw Capone at Miami Beach, at the time of the Sharkey- Stribling fight, and he remembered the | Chicago gang chief right off. queerest episodes that has been chroni- cled in “racketeering” annals, “You'ré Al Capone, aren’t you?" safd Malone. & are you The detectives then, according to their stories, each showed Capone a police badge, “while keeping their free hands on-thelr revolvers.” ‘Surrender Guns Voluntarily, “Oh, bulls, eh?” sald Capone, still smiling, blshdly. “All right then, here's my gun” and he handed over a 33- caliber pistol. Cline, who was some paces behind Capone, came up. and when he was assured by his chief that they were “bulls,” he, tco, pulled out a pistol and politely presented the wempon to the detectives. Thus the two men actually handed over, voluntarily. the only evi- dence of lawbreaking (hat the detec- tives were able to show against them. Had they kept quiet, and continued to conceal their “guns” it is doubtful whether the detectives would have sald Capone genially, “Who one on his neck and two on side of his face. Not the least visible | of his adornments was a diamond ring, which he told a spectatcr in the court | weighs 11', carats and is worth about £50,000 | In his talk with Director Schofield./ Capone sald that he has been trying | to gat out of the “racketeering unmv‘" for more than two years, but that it | has been ‘Impossible” for him to cut | away from his gang and the parasites | who prey on gangsters. drawing moey | from them under threats of exposure.| With a girl carry! a efore her He admitted that he has been QOdgINg | in the New. York Gty x'(l‘LI(mul R bullets all his life and that he has|and a boy fighting his way to victory constantly been in jeopardy. He also|in the Chicago finals, the boy-girl ratio has had fears for the salely of his| iy the sixth National Oratorical Contest wife and his 11-year-old boy. | championship. meet here one week from He intimated that he has been in|tonight was set definitely last night at mortal dread since the slaughter of the | g to 2, in favor of the bo followers of “Bu Moran, as it has| Miss Lucille Fletcher, Brooklyn high been generally understood in Chicago | school girl, was victor in the New York police and gang circles that those | meet. and Lee Miller, high school murders were committed by followers of | student of & Chicago suburb won the Capone. | Chicago finals. Those who suggest Capone gave him- | In her victory, Miss Fletcher defeated self up find some support for their ! seven stalwart boys, who, with her, had theory in a slatement made by Mavor | survived eliminations competed in by Harry A. Mackey, after Capone had'the representatives of 200 high schools been sent to prison. The mayor sald he of New York and vicinity, With the Lelieves that Capone s “glad to be in | championship, she wins aiso the thre Jadl month tour of South America and {81,000 in cash, the award of the New “From reports I have received,” said | ?e‘:s:(m,“"“' SR Mr. Mackey, ‘Capone was really run- | Lee Miller, a senior of the Privis ning away from gang which was out | Township High School of Maywoud. Iil. to kill him. If he hadn't been glad to | ® suburb of Chicago, was the winner N ORATORY TEST Result in Chicago, However, Puts Boys in Majority in Championship Race. May Have Fled Fnemies. that | g0 td jail I think he would have fought the case to the last.” 1 Capone is reported to have had a large sum of money in his pockets when of the Chicago hnals. By virtue of the | i | ;oas' The attack planes, which are | the ‘most wicked fighting ships the Army has yet produced, were ordered |to attack first, paving the way for the bombardment of the enemy depot. The | mission of the attack planes was to | neutralize the enemy anti-aircraft fire | with smoke screens and fragmentation | bombs, ! Fire Effect of Division. Air Corps officers pointed out that the 18 attack planes comprising a sauadron have a combined effective fire | of an entire infantry division of 30,000 [ men, with divisional artillery. during {the period of a single diving attack. which is limited to about 100 seconds. During the period of their dive these | 18 planes, each of which carries six | heavy machirie guns, can pour nearly | 65.600 bullets into their target and let g0 144 25-pound fragmentation bombs Owing to the terrific speed of their | dive and the fact that they break out | of the dive at low altitude, the attack planes offer an exceedingly elusive target to ground gunners. % The raid was & complete surprise to the Reds and the altack was delivered | without molestation from the Red air | forces, resuiting in tremendous damage {to the Red base, which is believed to | have been an engineer, ordnance, sup- { ply and general depot for the Red | Army. it was indicated in a preliminary | veport from Maj. Walter H. Frank, Army Air Corps. chief umpire. The | precise amount of damage to the Red two-hour difference in time belween | base has not vet been detcrmined by the New York and the Midwest metropolis | umpires, but it is believed to have been Miller became the last of the eight con- | the most serious blow they have suf- fered since hostilities began at 12:01 to a movie at Nineteonth and Market | he was picked up by the defectives, By | tenders for the national champlonship some this has been placed at $10.000 |0 be determined, although the meet He is known to be a very wealihy man, | 1 Which he won w He is believed to have cleaned up at|$8me hout as the Ne lease $2,000.000 through the operations | Miller's sulject is *Americ which his Chicago gang has conducted ' Uon to Constitutional during the lust five or six vears. (st he s 107 yenrs old. n addition to his Chicago S il Wi has ' Whie harble mansion At Faiy | I BeRIe Wi Island. near Miami. Fla., and recently | Miss Fletcher, winner of the New has been reported to be building an- | York finals last night, is an honor ,student of the Bay Ridge High School other house on Cranberry Lake, at Couderay, Wis. of Brooklyn, where she is president of (Copsright, 1920 by North American News. | the Arista, Honor soclety. She is editor ner Alliauce.) j of her school's magazine and is decid- = ' 5 | Bl atieeatin Sent i the oot e CHICAGO EXPECTS night was her second appearance in the | BLOODY ELECTION | OF NEW GANG LORD National Oratorical Contest. She prev- fously had won the champlonship of one | ___ (Continued From First Page.) York contest. s Contribu- Government,” of the New York region's but was eliminated before reaching the zone finals. | g Her victry is regarded as fortunate | from the viewpoint of the long trip | over seas, mountains and deserts that | will constitute she three-month tour of South America. Prior to 1agt night, | Miss Elizabeth V. Coery of Portland Me., was the only girl scheduled to { make the trip. | Miss Fletcher's alternate, winner of second place in the New York finals, is Wi plans as would appear. Johnny | Torrio, former vice overlord who in- | ducted Capone into the underworld dictatorship that led to racket riches, was glad enough, police recalled, to g0 to jail to avoid the fnevitable menace that is the gang leader's fate. Torrio, even in Jajl, took elaborate precautions against assassination, huyv- ing bullet-prouf shields installed outside his windows. Upon his release he van- | lshed, " ney again, so far as police 0w, to concern himself with Cf TR i Chicago | High School of the Bronx. | years old and plans to enter Yale Uni- rsity next Full, Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York | . Lehman, Acting Governor of New York; who delivered the formal addres as scheduled for the | “districts,” | | Robert A. Green of the De Witt Clinton | He is 16 | ‘Times, presided and introduced Herbert | The general consensus of Chicago po- | lice ofticers is that Capone is sincere. in What happened then is one of the | his statement that he would like to get | “‘out of the racket,” sibility that his ser prison may enal | aid Torrlo. | Seldom Went Armed. It struck many observers as ironie that Cepone, with a score of more se- rious offenses charged to his influence, should have finally been sent to jail for the first time in his gang career on a | charge of gun-toting: particularly so ;‘l!nl(: 2% w ‘, ol\; ull the few gangsters o invariabl Ve i iy y went about un Every law enforcement official here— (?hlel of Police Russell, State’s Al‘l‘i‘nl”l‘l(‘y Swanson, Frank J. Loesch, head of the Crime Commission, nd olhers—ex- pressed high satisfaction with the and they see a pos tence to a year in ble him to do so, as it speedy manner in which the Philadel- | phia courts handled the Capone m:ifl | Such action; Loesch pointed out, woul have been impossible here, the Suprvmg | Court having held that it ‘was unconsti- ! tutional to convict a man for gun-toting unless the gun is found on his person after a warrant for seazching him has { The awards were presented 4o the con testants by George J. Ryan, president |of the New York Board of Educatior | Judges of the finals were Frederick E. | Crane. judge of the Court of Appeals Dr. s | ginia C. Gildersleeve, dean of Barnard | College, Columbla University: Frank H | Hiscock, president of the New York State Bar Association, and Joseph V. | McKee, president of the New Yorl Board of Aldermen. The contest, held in Town Hall. was preceded by an organ recital by Harry F. Seibert. The program was broadcast over Station WNYC. COURT HEARS POLICE ACCUSED AS BRUTAL | Judge Schuldt Gra nts Second Con- tinuance in Disorderly Case to am. Thursday. “The raid is expected to greatly em- | barrass the Red ground forces, which | are concentrating along Durby Creck, 12 miles west of Colum- bus, for the defense of that city against the impending attack of the Blue 1st Aimy. Flashlight Pictures Taken. { Army Air Corps crack aerial photog- rapher, took four flashlight pictures of the Red airdrome at Columbus and of | the Blue airdrome here to demonstrate It was the pletures ul of night aerlal photography. | second time in history such | have been made. The first suc altempt was made by Capt. St over Washington March 3, when he took | pre-Inauguration day pictures of the | Capitol and White House. Last night | Capt. Stevens used a multi-lens camera, | making four exposures on each flash- light cxplosion. His plane was piloted by Lieut. John D. Corkille. A party of Congressmen is expected here this afternoon from Washington in an Army tri-motored transport plane piloted by Lieut. Judan B. Hadden, A speed test of the Curtls pursuit plane equipped with the new cooling fluld and condensed radiator system devised by Air Corps engineers was made here this morning and a speed in excess of 180 miles per hour was made. This plane finished third in a race yesterday with two new Boeing pursuit planes, one of them equipped | with the new National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics cowling. The long distance bombardment flight from this field to New York and back with aerfal refueling over Wash- | ington_both ways today was advanced | from Weduesday to Tuesday. The big | plane, piloted by Lieut. Odas Moon, will | leave ‘here about 10 a.m. Tuesday and will refuel over Bolling Field in the middle of the afternoon and again shortly before midnight. Capt. Ross G. | Hoyt of the office of the chief of Alr Corvs, will pilot the refueling plane. Th: hard-pressed Red air forces, railroad Columbus and at | army regulating center vards and army depot fighters and savage fighting occurred over the entire Ohio war zone. Under cover of the aerlal warfare the biue ground troops of the first Blue army moved closer to the “interna- tional boundary” between Dayton and | Columbus in preparation for an assault upon Columbus, the Red capital, early next_week. After a cessation of fighting yester- day morning to permit umpires to he line of Big| ZLast night Capt. Albert W. Stevens, | the value of the newly developed art| after witnessing the destruction of their | vesterday, sfruck back at the Blue air | | | cause Of bad weather over the Alle- ghanies. Attack on Luken Field. ‘This afternoon the war games will be | suspended while the Army Air Corps demonstrates the latest advances in avia- tion with an altack by the combined Red and Blue air forces on Luken Field, Cincinnati, followed by an acrial review of all the ait forces at Norton Fleld, Columbus. The ‘raid on Cincinoati will' be launched at 2 p.m. today by the second bombardment group, the third attack group and group. The ecity will be defended by the first pursuit group. from Selfridge Fleld, Michigan. Details of the raid will be broadeast from the air by broad- casters of the National Broadcasting Co. over a national network of stations. Following the raid the 200 plane: now in Ohio Wwill réndezvous in the va. | rious combat groups over villages close 10 - Columbus in preparation for the aerial review, which is scheduled . for 4pa ‘The squadrons will fly in formation led by Gen. Foulois and his staff in an observation and two pursuit planes, in the following order: Second and elev- nith, fifteenth and sixteenth observa- fifth pursul, groups, followed by 26 | planes_carrving the staff of the Air Corps Tactical School. Langley Field. . i Following the review all-the pilots will fly to Wright Fiéld, Dayton, Ohio, for & critique on the manner in whi the Cincinnati raid was conducted. |ECKENER REJECTS SABOTAGE THEORY IN GRAF FAILURE (Continued From First Page.) | | day about the Zeppelin, housed in the avens | Cuers hangar from which their own | ill-fated Dixmude went forth five years ago to disasler. Inside the hanga: { French mechanics assisted the Graf® crew. former enemies, In distress, to repair the damage which had incapacitated four of the dirigible’s | five moto The entire atmosphere was one of | friendliness and good fellowship. Eckener this morning was Rear | miral Bintry, commanding the Freneh | naval base at Toulon. “I have a duly of gratitude to ful- Eckener told the French rear ad- miral. thanks to the French efficacious assistance rendered us in our landing.” He was not the hale and hearty man ! e has been pictured in France. On the contrary, he ap| With is eyes bloodshot. He who gen- erally has been so calm had & nervous twisting to his mouth and the left side of his face, plain evidence of the ter- rific strain to which he had been sub- jected during the battle with the ele- ments over Southern France yesterday. He turned to newspaper men: “Won't receplion and welcome afforded e, my crew and my passengers has gone directly to my heart?" It was no secret here that the Ger- man eommander did everything possible to avert a forced landing in France When turning back when off the coast of Spain, it was Dr. Eckener's deep- | rooted intention to make Friedrichs- | hafen under the dirigible’s own power, even though two of its motors were already out of commission. Passengers at Toulon. Passengers, except those who left for Cherbourg and Paris, rested today at Toulon. Two Americans, Syracuse,s N. ¥ George N. Crouse, and Maurice | . Lieut. Alford J. Williams, Navy speed fiver receiving the Distinguished Fly- | ing Cross yesterday from the hands of Secretary the ninety-fifth pursuit | Adams of the Navy. —Associated Press Photo. NAVY'S FLYING -~ ACE IS HONORED Lieut. Alfred J. Williams Re- cgives Flying Crogs in Im- pressive Ceremony. FiAbl 3 | For repeatedly risking his life in test- ing airplanes in'dangerows maneuvers. | | thereby giving the Navy fiyers valuable | data on the handling of machines | | temporarily out of controlLieut. Alford | J. Williams yesterday afternoon wa: | awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross | Iby Secretary of the Navy Chatles | Francis Adams, in an impressive cere- that she never had seen the steel fire door closed. Warned to Remove Films. A report of the Ohio inspection bu- reau warning the clinic to safeguard the building by removing the films was read into the record, Pearse admitted ‘| after the hearing was closed. Pearse, with Miller, declared their n- quiry was “not a blame-fixing affair but an -attempt “to determine exactly what happeried.” The inspection report was filed with clinie officials some time ago, Pearse sald, together with recommendations that the films be stored in a separate bullding. Pearse sald he “Believed” the report mentioned the deairability of sprinklers and ventilation, but said he was not certain. Officials of the clinic today an- nounced that the death list to date in- cluded 122 names. Fifty persons were in hospitals, they said. The number of dead was reduced after they reported they were unable to find three of the reported ‘victims, all of Cleveland. Ben 'Jones, 30, professional foot ball player, was the Inst to die. He had undergone-an operation for the removal of tonsils when the blasts came. Cling- ing to & window sill, he was rescued by | firehen, and then drove to his home at Grove City, Pa.. apparently unhurt. But the brown gas had filled his blood with poison, and, unknowinz, he had been enth bombardment: third attack group, | mony at the Ahacostia Naval Air Sta- tiom. ¥ The award was made in the middle of a hollow square made up of the ! ¥ing slowly from the time of the explosions. | Injured Reported Improved. tion squadrons, and first and ninety- | but now friends | The first man to call on Dr. Hugo | Ad- | “I wish (o express my sincerest | navy for the! ared pale and drawn, | you please. tell your readers that the | v Nathan, New York diamond merchant, | officers and enlisted personnel of the &ir station, on tHe grass plot in the rear | of the executive, offices of the post. |~ The Secretary of the Navy hnd other | | high ranking- naval officers waited for | | about 15 minutes for the arrival of | Lieut. Willlams’ mother and fathet, and | his sister, Miss Prances Willlams, the | scheduled time for the presentation | being 2:30 o'clock and the principal’s | parents not arriving until 2:45 o'cloc | " "Behind the souare of officers and en. listed men, were two of the Navy pur-| suit planes with which Lieut. Williams | | has flown to supply valuable informa- | | tion to Navy fiyers., - | | One of the outstanding feats of Lieut. | Williams was the performance, for the | Although Monnt Sinal Hospital sent airplanes to Toledo for supplies of oxy- gen, the Cleveland sources being ex- hausted. clinic physicians said the 4 jured had fmproved charces of reeos ery today. They reported “great im- provement” in thé more seriously hurt. Mayor John D. Marshall issued a proclamation setting today aside as:the official day of mourning. Several funet~ als were held yesterday. Tihtry-six burials were annuonced for today. A number of city and Federal offi- cials are present from varlous parts of the country to examine the scene of the calamity and provide against such a happening in their homes. They are following investigaticns of Coroner Pearse and City Health Commissioner ! first time in the histcty of aviation, of the outsidé loop. He also made a long | series of inverted flight tests and has een the foremost Navy speed plane | pilot for several years. Prior_to his entrance to the Navy,| | Lieut. Williams was a pitcher for the | | New York Giants. | Navy dignitaries attending the cere- | mony included, Assistant, Secretary of | | the "Navy for Aeronautics David 'S. Ingalls, Admiral Charles: F. Hughes, | chief of naval operations; Rear Admiral | Richard H. Leigh, chief of the Bureau i of Navigation: Rear- Admiral William | A. Moffett, chief of the Bureau of Aero- | nautics; Rear Admiral John L. Me- | Donald, commandant of the Washing- ton Navy Yard: Senator Hiram Bing-| hem of Connecticut, and Dr. George | W. Lewis of the national advisory com- | mittee for aeronautics DAVIS ACCEPTS pression of Approval From ‘ Island Delegation. | By the Associated Press. Dwight F. Davis of St. Louls, Secfe- | with a parachute and 1s | Tavine, suffering only burns about the tary of War in the Coolidge cabinet, to be the next governor-general of the Philippines. In that post he will succeed Henry L. PHILIPPINE: POST Decision Brings Prompt Ex-| H. L. Rockwood, who announced the function of his inquiry was “not to de- termine responsibility or liability, but to prevent a recurrence of catastrophe.” FLYER IS KILLED IN AIR MANEUVER Lieut, Meadows Pinned Be- neath Plane, While Mate Uses Parachute. By the Associated Pres g COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 18.—One man was Killed and another slightly injured here today when two planes which they were plloting in the fa- tional Army air mancuvers crashed over a North Side residential district and fell in flames. | The dead man was Lieut. E. L. | Meadows of the 95th Pursult Squad- ron from . Rockwell Field, San Diegt Calif. He died when his blazing ship crashed in thé back yard of a residence. The second man is Lieut. Fred Salter, Los Angeles, also attached to the 95th Pursuit Squadron. He jumped landed in & i | face. He was taken to a doctors-of- | fice where his injurics were pronounced { minor. 101 Shipsin Maneuver. been slssued Permit an Investigation. check on the results of 24 hours of un- | purried’ to Cherbourg to take the Aqui- | Stimson, now Secretary of State, and | FINAL AGREEMENT| (Continued From Firsg Page) to cells in the City Hall. With the arrest of Capone and his guardian gunman, the underworld taken the chance of lugging them off | be signed in Lima by Senor Rada y | asserted that “it was all in fun.” and It was Loesch's opinion that C; s 2 may have decided to go to prh'ml:m:o refuge from the payment of large sum Accugations of graft to henchmen and to “ra ¢ s as | Judge of police brutality led us A. Schuldt to grant a second interrupted aerial activity, maneuvers | began again at noon yesierday. Sun- down last night brought another halt to the fighting until dawn today. When tania for home. Most, however, in- cluding Mrs. Mary Pierce. the only woman passenger, simply sought hotel accommodations at Toulon, content to will carry forward the traditional as- sociation” between his new office and the War Department, under which it is | The crash occurred during the bigs gest single sham baitle staged thus far in the mimic warfare between the Red and Blue Armies. There were 104 air- the sun sank below the horizon of the | flat Ohio_landscape yesterday honors for the day appearsd to be nearly even, | administered. | planes participating in the maneuvers. 5 etais ; | Forty-two pursuit planes from the Red Stimson was Secretary of War in the air headquariers at Norton Field here cabinet of William Howard Taft, who,|went out to engage in mock combat | himkelf had served as civil governor of | with 15 bomber 2 attack planes and the islands before becoming Secretary |15 pursuit planes from the Blue head- Gamio, Peruvian foreign minister, and that before many hours had elapsed sleep. | Capone dubbed them. who would run to| continuance in a charge of disorderly Emill Pigueroa, Chilean Ambassador. | the Chicago gang king would “beat It will then be sent to the two national | the rap.”. police with storfes unless “taken care | conduct lodged against George Marlo | Parljaments for ratification. To the underworld, it was just an- o ey, { when the defendant appeared In Police et B ip. other one of those cases where & good | MARSEILLES, France, May 18 () — “The fact that he took a plea is the Up-off,” sald one hoodlum. “If he didn't want to go to jall he'd have a Court today. Willlam R. Daily, defense attorney, Blue Forces Suffer Losses. when NEWS HAILED IN MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, May 18 (A .—An- nouncement of settiement of the long- standing Tacna-Arica dispute was hailed at both the Chilean and Peruvian embassies here foday. Bailon Mercado, Bolivian Minister to Mexico, however, was more restrained in his enthusiasm. “If any country has a right to a sea- port it is Bolivia.” he said, calling at- tention to a recent published statement. of his that the Bolivian people never had accepied their isolation {rom the gea. This he attributed to the “victori- ous Chileans” afier the War of 1879 “imposing the law of the victors over the vanquished.” Prohibition Forces Launch Intensive “Dry Derby Drive” By the Associated Press LOUSIVLLE. Ky. May 18— The annual “dry Derby drive launched yearly just before the the running of the Kentuck Derby at Churchill Downs here, hegan in earnest late yesterday when 100 prohibition agents, police and _undercover men. armed with 150 warrants, started sut to mop up the various sup- plies of “Derby liquor.” The drive came as the culmina- tion of two months’ work in ob- taining evidence, and was under the direction of William O. Mays, prohibition administrator for Kentucky and_Tennessee. Early activities of the dry agents led to arresis of 24 per- sons, all charged with violations of the, prohibition law. Admin- istrator Mays. declared every ef- fort would be made to make to- day's Derby A dry one. bright” criminal lawyer would go in, and | flock of lawyers, and talks Feieli fnb soninpancs Lo Blue air forces lost heavily in an un- y the aid of habeas carpus and A loud voice, tie the law and the police de- partment into numeroug’knots. “Blah,” said the knowing element when heard that Magistrate Edward Carney, at a midnight hearing held at the direction of the safety director, had held Capone and Cline in $35000 bail | each, “that merely means that Capone is paying a week-end visit to our beau | tiful city. When's his train to leave? Somehow, the Capone legal battery didn't function according to expecta- tions. His lawyers, Bernard L. Lemisch and Cornelius Haggerty. jr., know all about the writs and processes commonly used to “spring a prison.” but somehow | they couldn't get started. Both Enter Guilty Pleas. They ran around in the midnight air, making a lot of futile noise, while Ca- | pore, their client, whom they never {id talk with until he got into court | sat in the detective bureau and dis | of Director Schofield and other police | chiefs on the trials and tribulations of | gang leader’s life. And then came | the final smash to the “dope” of those | who expectcd Capone to walk out a fre. | man. | There was a hurriedly returned in- dictment charging him with carrying concealed deadly weapons—that is, the | pistol he had handed over to the de- | tectives. He was immediately taken into the criminal branch of the Municipal Court | betore Judge John E. Walsh. A jury was drawn, and then Capone and Cline wound up the show by entering pleas of guilty before a_word of evidence could De produced. Sixtcen and a half hours after the notorious pair had set foot in Philadelphia they were inmates of Moyamensing Prison, which, from the standpoint of those who demand the | finer things this life affords, is prob- | ably the most inhospitable jail on the Esstern coast When the sentence was Imposed, Ca- | coursed at great length for the benefit money in Philadelphia just like it does in Clllcnun,_ | He could have pleaded not guilty, and they | N0 matter what happened, he couid al- | Maho: | ways get bail while his lawyers were taking an appeal to the higher courts | "As long ugo as January, 1927, Caporie declared he was “out of the racket" and has spent much time at his beauti- ful home in Florida. His reputation for being an impla cable punisher of those whose power threatened his revenue continued to stalk him, however, and required a constant, _expensive force of body guards. When the seven men were shot down here St. Valentine's day, the first comment from the leader of that geng. “Bugs” Moran, was, “Only or gang kills like that—(he Capone gang Will Rogers Say. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—This Al Capone that is supposed to be field marshal on Chicago's western front; well, in Miami and Chicago and all the other cities he has been received by the mayor, Chamber of Com- merce and daughters of various revolutions, but he blew into our little City of Brotherly Love here yesterday, and, before his valet could unpack his machine gun, why he had been sentenced to & year in jall for wearing pistols instead of a Vest. That's one of the worst blows against ovr new aristocracy we have had P. 8.—The Zeppelin landed. The gorilla and the woman are coming | over by boat. That kills both vaude- ville engagements. . [ LY the case was scheduled to be d, as a | | deten before Judge John P. on March 13. “1 would like to have this case con- !tinued for a week,” Dally declared, “to | investigate the charge of outrageous | trcatment given the defendant by these | prizefightiug policemen, who seem to | attack a man at the least provocation {to maintain an arrest.” | Alleged to have been disorderly on Meridian strect, the defendant was ar- | rested by Policeman R. L. Jones of the | temh precinet, His counsel contends that policc choked Marlo and used | "rough treatment.” The case was con- | tinued by Judge Schuldt for investiga- | tion and to afford the defense opportu- nity to summon witnesses. FOUR PATIENTS INJURED. | WARM SPRINGS. Ga., May 18 (#) Four patlents taking treatment for fantile paralysis at Warm Sprin; Mc- | | Jin | were recovering yesterday from injuries | | sustained | near here last night | The injured, none seriously hurt, are |John McCarthy of Ontarlo, Canada, bruises and lacerations; Miss Pauline Murrell, Washington, D. C. slight abrasions; Miss Alva Wilson, Mass., suffering from shock and abra- {«lons, and Maurice Feeny, Malone, N. Y. | fractured arm and abrasions. . Car of Canadian Whisky Seized. | NEW YORK, May 18 (®).—A freight | car londed wiih 60 packing cases of {liquor ‘which had been shipped from Detroit was seized in the Westchester yards of the New York Central Railroad today by prohibition agents. The liquor | was consigned to a fictitious Bronx pa- (per company. Tt was estimated to be |worth, "at wholesale prices, about $70.000 The agents sald 1L was of Canadian manufacture, » in_an automobile accident plea of not guilty was entered- by the | Boston, | successful raid on a Red motor field transport column at Hebron. 20 miles enst of Columbus and nearly 40 miles behind the enemy lines, ‘Their losses were due largely to the failure of Blue | pursult planes of the 95th Pur- | suit Squadron to protect them during | the attack. Four of the 15 Blue bomb- ers were hot down,” the umpires ruled. The remaining bombers put up a savage fiight # 4 subsequently brought down eight ¢ .he Red pursuit | planes. / ‘Three more of the Blue bombard- ment planes were destroyed on their | home airport here later in the after-| uoon, the umpires ruled, when a forma- tion of five Red bombers broke through the Blue defense: Blue attack squadrons completed successful raids upon Red motor and animal transportation concentratior { near Lockbourne, 10 miles south of Co-| lumbus, and on a Red infantry camp | nearby, causing severe damage at both points. | Checking up by the umpires at night- | fall yevealed that the Blues had lo seven bombing planes and two obsery tion planes, shot down over Columb during the day's fighting, and that the | Reds had lost eight of thelr fighting | planes. Under the rules governing the maneuvers these planes may be te- ced after six hours by theoretical placements from the rear. During the lull in fighting, Brig. Gen Benjamin D. Foulols, chief of tha air | forces in the field, numbering 200 | planes, accompanied by two of his stafl, Maj. J. W Harms and Capt. Fraok | O'D. Hunter, all three from the War Department in Was Red air force ba: Jumbus, which is commanded by Maj J. H. Reynolds of Mitchel Field. N. Y Early yesterday afternoon an Army | Ford transport plane carrying six news- {paper _and magazine correspondents | from washington landed at Fairfcld. The plane had been held up at Bolling Field, Washington, since Tuesday bes “ The British ria arriving Lere today from India reported that three aboard it had died en route, sup- posedly from smallpox. Sanitary offi- cials invoked a strict quarantine, ex- Those refusing registered their vaccination, be vaccinated had the fact in thelr passports. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers' Home Military Band, at the bandstand, today, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimme; mann, bandmaster; Anfon Pointne; assistant _leader. March, “The American Trumpeters,” Lake | Overture, “Academic Festival”..Brahms | Entr'Acte, J (a) "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life.” Herbert | (b) “A Whispered Thought,” Johnson | Potpourri, “Vienna Folk Songs,” Komzak | Fox trot, characteristic, “Romany Love.” | . Zamecnik | Waltz song, “Auf Wiedersehen," | Greenberg “The Pride of St. Louls,” Lentini | he Star Spangled Brnner.’ T, | Finale, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 18.—Charley Zack's one-man_crusade against the Volstead | hington, visited ihe act finally has exhausted the patience | then abstemious Z at Norton Field, Co- | of Mrs. Zack, who has asked for & his wife as saying, “until this prohibi- divorce. | She said Zack was abstemious when they were married in 1920, a few days before the prohibition act became ef- fectiy With the law in force, how- ever, Zack promptly announced himself as exceedingly peeved. He informed his * wife, her Dill declares, that he| amining all passengers and insisting on | to| | Gen. | Cameron Forbes. Wife Tires of Husband's Anti-Volstead Crusade and Files Divorce Petition of War in the Roosevelt administration Similarly. Luke E. Wright, was gov. ernor-general before he was made Sec retary of War, and Gen. Leonard Waod had been chief of staff of the Army be- fore going to the islands. In compHance with the administra- tion’s desire to have the new governor- general in office before the Filipino Legisiature meets July 16, Davis is ex- | | pected to leave as sdon as possible for Mantla. Announcement of his acceptance of the appointment brought a prompt ex- pression of approval from the Philip- pine delegation here in the interest of | the island during the congressional con- | sideration of tariff revision. which in cludes Speaker Roxas. Senator Osmena and Commissioners Guevara and Osias. He also has been described by Mai. Frank MclIntyre. trade commis- sioner for the Philippines and former chief of the Bureau of Insular affairs, as a “splendid” selection for the post While Secretary of War he showed deep inter in Philippine affairs, the gen- erel recalled, and visited the islands during the governor-generalship “knew his rights, and that nobody could tell him what he could drink.” “I am going to drink steadily,” the k was reported by tion law is abolished.” Mrs. Zack goes on to-state that she put up with Zack’s battle against the Volstead law for nine vears, but finally came to the conclusion tha' the la probably would remain on the books, no matter how much Zack consumed, which ‘was plenty, * of | ght Field, Dayton. It was reported that one of the planes struck the tail of anather, then. burst into flames. An eyewitness said that onc ship suddenly became a mass of fire, then plunged to the earth. The | pilot of the other ship tried vainly to fly it, but it went into a tail spin and piraied down. ‘The crash o approximat | quarters at W curred at an altitude of 15,000 feet. Both pilots altempted {0 use the parachufes. Lieut. Salter was successful, but Lieut. Beadams’ chute caught in the under- carriage of his plane and he was dra d to the ground, with the flames frem the burning ship whipping about him. As he neared the ground he swung under the ship, which landed on top of him. The ship came down in the rear of a residence and set fire o a garage. Aviators Give Versions. Dr. C. M. Valentine. Linden physi- | cian, who treated Salter’s injuries, said that the aviator told him he believed | his plane was struck from below. Licut. Salter was badly burned as his | gasoline tank exploded and. the plane | burst into flames, but he was able to make the leap. ! At a doctor’s office. Lieut. Salter gave this explanation of the accident, which was the first to mar the Army maneuvers which have becn in progr four da: “I was = with the 95th Pursuit Squadron. carrying out an attack on_ | Norton field here were 17 ships in” | my formation. Suddenly we saw a dozen Red planes beneath us and hopped on them for the attack. “Without warning one of the Red | ships cfashed into the undercarriage of |my ship. I was thrown against the | dash- by the impact, but quickly re- | covered control of my ship. Then 1 | discovered that my gas tank had been | punctured and that the ship was afire. I made my get-away as quickly as nos- sible and jumped.