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Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness today, followed by showers beginning late this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow showers, not much change in temperature. Temperatures— Highest, 70, at 6 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 49, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report, page 7. 1 (P) Means Associated Pres: No. PRESIDENT FACES OPEN CLASH WITH INFLATION” FORCES Veto Message Tomorrow or Wednesday Will Bring Quick House Vote. 1,574—No. 33,255. SENATE IS FIGURED SURE TO SUSTAIN Showdown in Upper House to Come Primarily on Question of Monetary Inflation. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, President Roosevelt will clash openly with the inflation forces in Congress when he goes to the Capitol this week to deliver in person his veto message on the Patman “greenback” soldiers’ benus bill The expectation is that the Chief Executive will take his unprecedented step of returning to Congress himself & bill of which he disapproves, either tomorrow or Wednesday. The con- gressional leaders were still awaiting word from him last night. all arrangements for a joint session in the House chamber tomorrow were made yesterday, including the print- ing of special tickets of admission to the House galleries. The House by resolution has set aside Tuesday for exercises in honor of deceased members. The resolution specifies that at the conclusion of the memorials, the House shall adjourn. It is confidently predicted the House immediately will override his veto of the Patman bill no matter how im- pressive and logical the veto message may be. Hope Rests in Senate. ‘The next step will take the vetoed bill before the Senate. It is to the Senate the administration is looking in the hope that the President’s veto will be sustained there. Unless some Senators who voted against the original passage of the bill or were paired against it now do a flip flop and vote to override the veto, or absent themselves so their votes will not oe counted, it is mathematically impos- sible for the Senate not to sustain the veto. The showdown in the Senate comes primarily on the question of mone- tary inflation. Supporters of the Patman bill insist it is not inflation— that it is controlled expansion of the currency. But the country believes the bill means inflation and many of --~its supporters are favoring the meas- ure because they think it does. The inflationists in Congress have cleverly managed to hook their in- flation proposal to the proposed pay- ment of the World War bonus cer- tificates. Veterans' organizations | have been prevailed on to go along with them. A proposal to issue green- | backs for the payment of other Gov- ernment obligations or for new gov- | ernmental expenditures would not at this time have the same voting strength in either House or Senate as has the payment of the soldiers’ | bonus. In the first place, there is back of the bonus payment strongly knit veterans’ organizations, as potent politically as the Anti-Saloon Léague in the ol days. Inflationary Propesal. The President’s veto message, it is said, will deal pacticularly with the inflationary proposal in the Patman bill. It will point also to the gener- ous treatment by the Government of the disabled veterans and the con- sideration given in other measures to veterans in need. The President has consistently held that the bonys is | not due the veterans until 1945 and | that available money and credit of | the Government are needed for relief purposes. | A conference of the so-called | “steering committee’ of the Patman- | ites was held yesterday in the office | of Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, to plan for the continu- ance of the fight, first for the Pat- man bill and later for another sol- diers’ bonus measure if the veto is sustained. There were 15 to 20 mem- bers of the Senate and House at the conference. Senator Thomas said after the meet- | ing that every effort would be made to override the veto. He said he ex- pected all Senators backing the Pat- man bill to be on hand when the vote is taken and that messages had been sent o them. “We want to vote promptly and get the matter decided one way or the other,” he said. While the Senate rules permit de- bate on & motion to pass a bill over a presidential veto, Senator Thomas said that he did not wish to make an address and that he did not khow of | any other supporter of the bill who | desired to do so. He said he did not care to discuss future action of the (Continued on Page 10, Column 1.) — e DEPUTIES PATROL ILLINOIS FACTORY Guard Plant After Metal Works Officials Receive New Threat of Attack. By the Associated Press. 1., May 18.—Special deputies tonight patrolled the tactory of the Apollo Metal Works after com- pany officials reported receipts of threats that this morning’s muss at- tack on the plant would be renewed. Unofficial estimates of the damage wrought by a crowd of some five hundred strikers and sympathizers ‘were $15,000. The vandalism, in which the throng was repulsed by tear gas after shaty tering all of several hundred windows in the plant, was the first serious violence of the strike which began two weeks ago. There was no further disturbance after the 40 workmen, who nhad been besieged inside the factory, were es- corted out of the cqunty by officers. The workmen were dismantling equip- ment to be removed to Bethlehem, Pa., headquarters of the Superior Metal . Co., parent firm of the Apollo. Q L] However, | Entered as second class matter post_office, Washington, D. C. Choice of Saar Girl As ‘Miss France’ Is Cause of Near Riot By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 18.—A jury's choice of a German girl as “Miss France” in a beauty contest nearly resulted in a riot among the audience today. A committee headed by Paul Chabas, painter of “Septem- ber Morn,” picked Miss Eliza- beth Pitz, 22-year-old Saar- lander, who took French na- tionality after the recent plebiscite. The decision was greeted with catcalls. Order was re- stored with difficulty. ‘The winner Jater announced she would not accept the title, 50 the jury awarded the crown to a 16-year-old Parisian, Giselle Preville. FO0D FOR 15,000 FAMILIES RUSHED |Chicago Relief Grisis Ex- hausts Fund From Re- cent Bond Sale. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 18.—Emergency food orders were rushed to approxi- | mately 15,000 destitute Chicago fami- | lies today, but many thousands of others in metropolis and State faced the grim prospect of empty cupboards until the relief crisis ends. Charles H. Bond, relief controller, | disclosing the eleventh-hour partial | aid, said he understood the orders were financed with the last of the money previously diverted from a rural rehabilitation fund and pro- vided by a Cook County bond sale. | But officials had nothing for 540,- 000 other residents of the Nation’s second city whose meager supplies have already been exhausted or will run out by next Tuesday. Despair in Many Sections. Despair moved in with destitution in many sections. It was estimated that half of Franklin County's 4,300 | relief clients were without food. Mayors and finance officers of St. Clair County—one of the “flat broke” counties with conditions most acute— met at Belleville in an effort to gather $29,000 to help the needy. Mayor James Crow of East St. Louis frankly described the state of affairs as “desperate” in asking Federal in- tervention to prevent disorders and succor the jobless. Little aid has been dispensed in that county this month. The final Illinois Emergency Relief Commission dollar there was spent last Monday. Some 1,400 demonstrators have con- ducted organized protests at East St. Louis and Belleville. Poverty Without Aid. In other districts hundreds of the | impoverished have been on their own | resources for days. Some township and county taxing bodies have stepped into the breach. Local charities have assumed part of the load. Merchants, bakeries and milk depots have do- nated rations. Soup kitchens have | been set up in a few schools. The 15,000 wanderers housed in| Illinois’ transient shelters were con- fronted with an uncertain future. No money was available for their meals, but they will be permitted to sleep in the stations. Chicago landlords tempered busi- | ness with mercy. They agreed to halt evictions until the stringent period has passed. Hospitals and clinics of- fered to care for indigent clients. Hopes of the State’s 1,200,000 un- employed centered upon the State Capitol at Springfield. There Gov. Henry Horner will broadcast an ap- peal for public support of his pro- gram to reopen relief stations by in- creasing the sales tax from 2 to 3 per cent tomorrow night, Tax Bill to Be Pushed. Administration leaders will seek to push the tax bill through the House of Representatives next Tuesday. Adoption would enable the State to furnish $3,000,000 a month as its share of relief costs. Once the measure is enacted, Harry Hopkins, F. E. R. A. administrator, is ready to resume Federal grants, and the Re- lief Commission will renew operaiions, Republican opposition has defdited the legislation four times. Meanwhile, the jobless prepared for their third “hunger march” Tuesday on Springfield to demand restoration of relief. Many persons deprived of public aid by the breakdown of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission have obtained jobs. Dixon reported the opening of two factories had absorbed much unemployment. —— JEFFREY NEAR DEATH Former Ambassador to Uruguay Sinking Rapidly. NEWPORT, Ark., May 18 (#).—Un- conscious since Tuesday, R. E. Jeffrey, former United States Ambassador to Uruguay, was reported near death tonight. Jeffrey, an outstanding figure in State and national politics since 1901, was being mentioned for a diplomatic post under the present administration when he was stricken with paralysis in September, 1934, He has been WASHINGTON, D. C, GLASS HURLS DEFI AT ROOSEVELT ON BANK OWNERSHIP “Not Too Late” to Press for Clause in Omnibus Bill, He Says. THOMAS IS PREPARED TO PUSH AMENDMENT Statements by President and Mor- genthau Held Threat to Speed Present Measure. By the Assoclated Press. A direct challenge to press officially the Government-owned Central Bank proposal advocated by Secretary Mor- genthau was hurled at the adminis- tration yesterday by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia. 4 He said it was “not too late” for Mr. Roosevelt to seek inclusion in the omnibus banking bill before his Sen- ate subcommittee of the idea of Fed- eral ownership of the Reserve System which the President said Friday would solve a great many problems. This was after Morgenthau openly indorsed the plan before Glass' subcommittee. But some Senate foes of the bill to strengthen the Reserve Board’s powers over money and credit regarded the Roosevelt and Morgenthau statements more as a threat that unless the om- nibus bank bill received approval, the | more drastic legislative step would be | | asked. Coughlin Asked to Appear One Senator, who refused to be quoted, even contended the adminis- tration wanted the pending bill to avert the Government banking own- ership advocated by Father Charles (E. Coughlin and Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma. Father Coughlin has been imvited to appear before the Glass subcom- mittee now considering the House- approved bank bill. While Thomas was heartened by the President’s statement and said he would press his bill for that purpose as an amendment to the banking leg- islation, all sides agreed the measure would be minus such a provision on final passage. Glass Challenges. Glass used these words in discuss- ing the central bank idea: “If the President and the Secre- tary of the Treasury and the gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Board want a Government-owned central bank, notwithstanding the consistent opposition of the Democratic party since the time of Mr. Jefferson up to the present to such a thing, I'm puzzled to know why they did not incorporate such a provision in the pending banking bills. It is not too late. “The President usually gets what he wants, and if he wants such a central bank, the subcommittee now considering legislation will give it suitable attention.” Fletcher Is Opposed. Chairman Fletcher of the full Banking Committee agreed Govern- ment ownership might solve many questions, but he said this was “not necessary yet,” adding: “I don't want to complicate this bill. We ought to pass it without complicating it with something else.” Thomas said he was “glad the administration has come to the Government ownership viewpoint.” “If we had a bond crash,” he said, “the Government would have to go to the banks on bended knees, whereas if the Government owned the Reserve banks, it could control the situation.” . While Senators were debating the central bank issue, there came to light a private statement issued by the Federal Advisory Council, com- posed of representatives of the 12 Reserve banks, opposing the bank bill and suggesting amendments which would retain most of the existing autonomy of the Reserve banks with a proportionate lessening of powers for the Federal Reserve Board. —_—_— CATHOLIC CHARITY DAY COLLECTIONS SEIZED Police in Munich Arrest Many Collectors as Nazis Stage Demonstration. By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Germany, May 18.—Po- lice curbed Catholic Charity day drastically today, seizing all contri- butions collected after previously for- bidding further rattling of money boxes in the streets. g Many of the collectors for Catholic charities were arrested, and priests were molested as Nazis staged anti- Catholic demonstrations. All collectors were summoned to po- lice stations, where their tin cans were confiscated. The action followed pumerous minor clashes in which uni- formed Storm Troopers were con- spicuous. Aroused members of the Catholic clergy flied a protest with the min- bedridden since. To Migrate By the Associated Press. ‘Weary of the religious persecution which they charge to Canadian au- thorities and have publicly resented by parading in the nude, 15,000 members of the strange Russian sect of Duk- hobortsi are planning to leave their Saskatchewan homes for the wilds of Paraguayan Chaco. Preparations for the future mass migration will be started tomorrow in New York. Dr. Enrique Bordenave, the Minister from Paraguay, will dis- cuss plans there with a delegation of Dukhobors—the advance guard which will select -.mnq for' the new colony. Heartened by reports of the success ot the Mennonite experiment in the Chaco, which has grown-in 10 years istry of the interior. $10,000,000 Dukhobors Colony to Chaco Wilds to & community of 6,000 and guaran- teed complete religious freedom by Paraguayan law, the Dukhobors have decided to rebuild in an even stranger land the life they started 35 years ago in Canada. ‘They are remnanis of a sect ex- pelled from Russia about 1885. Liter- ally, the name means “spirit wrestlers.” Some went to Canada and others to Cyprus. Dukhobors have no stated places or ceremonies of worship, no holy days and no ordained I 5 They deny the divinity of Christ and give mystical interpretation to the Scriptures, Prequent clashes with Canadian authorities have kept these people be- fore the public in recent years. Their (Continued on Ppge 32, Column 1) ° . > WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION HENRY, TH SUNDAY MORN ERE'S J ONE You'vE OVERLOOKED! Faked Justice Credentials Bare W holesale Break Plot at Lorton! False Drivers’ Permits, Also to Have Been Used in Delivery, Traced to Print Shop at Prison. BY REX Spurious Department of Justice drivers’ permits, under scientific examination by experts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have been Reformatory and have led to discove: wholesale prison break that went wrong last August. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau, announced last night that COLLIER. credentials and District of Columbia traced to the print shop at Lorton ry they were to have been used in a y Star NG, MAY 19, 1935— 114 PAGES. =## FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS |’m ELSEWHERE e 49 KILLED IN CRASH .AS STUNT SHIP RAMS HUGE SOVIET PLANE Largest Airliner Crumbles in Air, Sending Officials, Pilots and Families to Death. SMALL MACHINE ESCORTING FLIGHT IS CAUGHT IN WING Maxim Gorky, Russian “Palace of Cul- ture,” Scattered Half Mile in Record Disaster. NINE DIE N FLOODS IN-TWO STATES 72 Hurt in Storms in Texas and Oklahoma—Dam- age Million. By the Assoclated Press. ALTUS, Okla.,, May 18.—Tornadoes and floods killed at least nine persons, left five missing, injured 72 and wrought damage officials estimated at $1,000,000 in the once dust-harrassed sister States. of Oklahoma and Texas cards to which his name were forged and blank drivers’ licenses were printed | tonight. with type forms found by special agents of the bureau Friday in a hiding place at the reformatory. They were printed, he declared. by« John Kendrick, tri-State gangster, now in Alcatraz, and Charles Henry Odell, now in the Federal Penitentiary at Milan, Mich,, at a time when Ken- drick and Odell, then in Lorton, were planning a free-for-all delivery at the reformatory. Kendrick, however, managed to escape in advance of the plans and he joined Robert Mais and Walter Legenza in their notorious forays along ' |the Eastern Seaboard. Mais and Legenza later paid with their lives| | in the electric chair at Richmond, Va., | while Kendrick, captured in the South, | | went to the Government's island prison | for hardened criminals. | After Kendrick's escape from Lor- | ton early in 1933, Odell enlisted others | in the plot for a “break,” the date |for which was set for August 20 of (Continued on Page 6, Column 2 BILLION' AWAITS WAGE SOLUTION President’s Approval Work Projects Difficult in Face of Dispute. of By the Associated Press. With more than a billion dollars in projects stacked oefure him, Presi- dent Roosevelt yesterday sought a so- lution to a thorny problem blocking actual cash outlays from: the $4,000,- 000,000 fund—labor’s wages. Until it is determined just how big to make the monthly pay envelopes going to uremployed getting jobs, re- lief officials said Mr. Roosevelt’s ap- proval of the $1,091,802,000 in projects | recommended by his Allotment Board will mean little. They added that none of the jobless | expected to shift from direct to work i relief can receive wages until the pay level is set. Opposition of Labor, This was the problem Mr. Roosevelt took with him on a wek end cruise, forewarned of organized labor’s bitter opposition to reports of tentative work-relief wage scale 30 per cent below prevailing construction levels. Federation leaders said yesterday they would go directly to the White House on the issue and one spokes- man added that if work-relief pay drops below prevailing rates, “we’ll raise hell.” - Another important obstacle to full operation of the work plan was lack of complete figures on the number of persons now on relief. Harry L. Hop- kins was assembling ihese for use in approving or rejecting projects. H was concentrating on ap- pointment of State work progress di- rectors with the intention of calling them to Washington for detailed in- structions when the list for 48 States is completed. Machinery Soon Ready. Meanwhile, the machinery for re- celving and sifting the flood of proj- ects arriving here was near comple- Although a complicated routine had been put on paper, officials in the 60-odd Government agencies involved conceded many details for actual operation were lacking. They said most of the first billion in projects approved by the Advisory Committee actually were old plans which Government departments had approved months, and even years, ago. The only exceptions were the $100,- 000,000 Wisconsin plan, the $100,000,- 000 to Rexford G. Tugwell for his Resettlement Administration and the $7,500,000 for New York City sewer constru Arrests Follow 100-Foot Fall. HELENA, Mont, May 18 (@ .— William Keane, 28, and William Con- frey, 24, both of Butte, plunged 100 feet in & motor car down a mountain side in Wolf Creek Canyon, emerged from the wrecked machine with only minor injuries—and were arrested. Officers said today the car was stolen OBIECTVES SET FORG.0.P PARLEY i Necessity for Preservation of American Ideals Is First on List. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 18.—The “grass roots” conference of Midwestern Re- publicans at Springfield, Ill., leaders from five of the nine Prairie States to be represented at the gathering, said today, will have three major ob- Jectives. These aims for the June 10-11 as- | sembly they listed as: 1. To impress upon the 5,000 to 10,- | 000 delegates the necessity for pres- ervation of American ideals, tradi- | tions and institutions. Issues Are Sought. 2. To learn from these midcountry representatives the issues they con- sider outstanding and from which a constructive Republican - platform | eventually can be drafted. 3. To send the delegates home with enthusiasm and the knowledge their party is an important power in American politics. Harrison E. Spangler, national com- mitteman for Iowa, stated: “It is quite likely the conference will propose a sound and stable sys’em of currency and credit, uncontrolled by political influences, that the squan- dering of the people’s money be stopped, that the Government be taken out of competition with private enter- prise, that attacks on our constitu- tional. representative democracy be stopped, and that American industry, agriculture and enterprise be freed from bureaucratic domination.” Platform Aid Seen. John Hamilton, national committee- man from Kansas, said: “The good that can come from the conference lies in the fact it will call together several thousand delegates from nine States, having a common interest in social and economic prob- lems; that we may learn something of the issues paramount in their minds and from which, in time, a construc- tive Republican platform can be drafted * * * if we can send back the delegates with enthusiasm and a knowledge their party is a dominant force in American politics .we will have done all I can hope for.” Grover W. Dalton, chairman of the Missouri State Central Committee, de- clared: “We should rededicate ourselves to the principles and teachings of Wash- ington, Jefferson, Monroe and Lin- coln, as well as Hamilton. To com- pare ‘these men with the Tugwells, the Ickes, the Moleys and the Wal- laces is too odious to be thought of.” “Can Rebuild America.” A. B. Fontaine, national committee- man for Wisconsin, asserted: “Jefferson and Lincoln principles spelled Americanism. These were con- servative, middle-of-the-road, horse- sense policies between the radicals of Brown waters of Turkey Creek, boiling through the Harmony com- munity of Southwestern Oklahoma, drowned two persons and searchers believed five missing also had per- ished. Twisters and floods in widely sepa- rated sections of North and Central Texas killed seven. The surge of the torrents washed out bridges, twisted railway tracks, covered highways and flooded farm homes. Other homes were leveled by the whip of the winds. Storms in Dust Area. Heavy rainfall which loosed the floods followed drought-breaking pre- cipitation of more moderate propor- tions in the relatively small dust belt far to the Northwest, the source of silt storms which killed live stock, con- tributed to fatal human ailments and veiled the sun at times this Spring. The dead in the two-State storms: Mrs. Jessie Reed, 45, colored, in the Turkey Creek flood; Hattie Elizabeth Reid, 9, colored, in Turkey Creek; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Phillips, Timpson, Tex., tornado; George Crenshaw, Weches, Tex., tornado; Gregg Spencer, colored, Cadmor, Tex., tornado; unidentified Negro, Weldon, Tex, tornado; Henry Daniels, 9, Dallas, Tex.,, drowned in wading; Charles Ingram, section worker, swept from railroad bridge and drowned in Brazos River. In the flood regions many persons were rescued by boatmen from perches high in trees or on house tops. The rampaging North Canadian River swept away the water mains of Woodward, Okla., and left the city with only a 12-hour supply of drink- ing water. Dams Believed Holding. Water ran high over several of Ok- lahoma's largest dams, but engineers expressed belief they would hold. Bill Williams and C. C. Brake were on their farm near Elmer, Okla., when they heard high water coming. “We sent our families to safety while we tried to get our cattle out,” Williams said. “Before we could save them the flood was upon us. We pulled off our clothing and managed to swim to higher ground. At least a dozen houses in the lowlands were destroyed.” Fifteen persons were injured in the tornado which howled out of “the northwest and leveled the Weches community near Crockett, in North Central Texas, killing Crenshaw. (Continued on Page 6, Column 4) JOHN R. DREXEL DIES Paralysis Following Recent Death of Brother Thought Cause. PARIS, May 18 (®.—John R. Drexel of Philadelphia died last night at his Paris home. He was 72. He had been in a coma since Thurs- dey morning and physicians said his death was due to the effects of a stroke of paralysis caused by the re- cent death of his brother, Anthony J. Drexel. John R. Drexel suffered a stroke last December on the day of the funeral of his brother, Anthony J. Drexel. Anthony Drexel, who had lived in Paris for several years, had returned to the United States for treatment. He died in New York and was buried in Philadelphia. The Sunday Star’s Big Amateur Snapshot Contest Starts at Once. If your hobby is photography—if you are an ama- teur “shutter-pusher™—if you consider your snapshots a little better than the other fellow's—now is your chance! The Star's Amateur Contest is starting today. Send in your pictures—and big contest read the article By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 18.—The Maxim Gorky, largest land airplane in the world, crashed after a collision with a small airplane today, killing 49 persons, including eight women, and six children, in the worst disaster ever to befall a passenger plane. An official re the rt denied the Maxim Gorky exploded, although lane broke into pieces in the air. 'he mangled bodies of its 48 occupants were scattered over the village of Socol, three miles from Moscow. Pilot Blagin, of a small escorting plane which rammed into the Gorky while stunting against orders, was also killed. Soviet officials confirmed the death toll of 49. There were reports that several villagers were killed when struck by fallen wreckage, but these were not confirmed by au- | thorities. < The women and children among the Three Are Killed | As Plane Crashes ! At Port Dedication By the Associated Press. FLINT, Mich., May 18 —A pilot and ! two passengers were killed and two other occupants of a tri-motored transport plane were seriously injured here today when the plane crashed during dedication of a new airport. | The dead: Theodore Knowles, De- troit, pilot; Mrs. Mary Rushlow, 34, of Flint; Conrad Rushlow, 7, son of the dead woman. | Clement D. Rushlow, husband of | the woman killed, and a 3-year-old | daughter were in a serious condition. Knowles’ plane, in which he had been carrying passengers throughout the day, crashed as he attempted to| take off from the field with 10 pas- | sengers. At an altitude of less thaa | 200 feet both wing motors failed, wit- | nesses said, and Knowles barely slipped it past a group of tents occu- | pied by a Selfridge Field ground crew | before it struck the ground and nosed | over. Army Flyers Aid. A flight of 21 Army planes had come here to participate in the dedi- | cation of Bishop Airport. Officers im- | mediately called into service their own | ambulances and trucks and rushed the | injured to a hospital. Knowles was buried beneath the wreckage, and was dead when work- | ers reached him. The plane broke in two pieces as it struck. spilling the passengers out onto the ground. Mrs. Rushlow died soon after she was brought to the hospital and the boy | died an hour later. | The Army fiyers who witnessed the | crash said Knowles apparently made | & desperate effort to land his plane | and still clear the tents in which he knew the soldiers were quartered. He landed the plane in the only clear space in the area. Knowles' wife was flying here to- night in another plane to join her | husband and was unaware of the | crash. The others injured were Joseph Set- | zer, 13; Mrs. Marbelle Hardwick, su- | perintendent of a children’s home | here; Mildred Anderson, Alfred An- | derson, 33, letter carrier, De Witt El- wood and Minnie Ann Griese. | An inspection of the plane by Col. | Floyd Evans, State seronautical di- rector, revealed there was no fuel in | the tanks, of the piane after the| crash. COL. LAWRENCE’S CONDITION WORSE Specialists Called in for Famous War Figure—Oxygen Administered. BULLETIN. WOOL, Dorsetshire, England, May 19 (Sunday) (#).—Col. T. E. Lawrence, the world-famous “Lawrence of Arabia” died today of injuries received in a cycling accident. By the Associated Press. WOOL, Dorsetshire, Eng., May 18. —The condition of Col. T. E. Law- rence, legendary figure of World War romance, grew suddenly worse tonight after he had been unconscious for more than five days following a motorcycle accident. A. W. Lawrence hastened to the Army hospital in which Lawrence of Arabia lay, after news of the change in his brother’s condition reached him at his little cottage in Clouds Hill, Moreton. The brother sat alone, bowed in grief, in a little waiting room while a doctor and nurse stood watch at e, for all particulars of the on page A-2 of today's Star. 37 passengers lost in the disaster were members of the families of crack em- ployes of the Central Aerodynamic In- stitute, on an excursion in the plane. Among the entire crew of 11 that perished were two of the Soviet's most expert pilots, Giuroff and Mikhaeff. Officials Are Killed. ‘The dead passengers included Mat- rosoff, chief production engineer of the Aerodynamic Institute; Kazarno- vich, director of the institute's Pilot Committee, and his two children, and the institute's chief mechanic and head bookkeeper. Eyewitnesses said the smaller plane remained wedged into an edge of the Maxim Gorky's wing and that the two fell downward together. Then the pilot of Gorky regained control and tried to come down in a glide. Spectators said they believed he would have succeeded, but the smaller plane fell away and the giant liner gst equilibrium and went into a nose ve, It was officially asserted the pilot cut off the motors and that there was no explosion, although shortly after going into the terrifying dive the Gorky broke up and fell in pieces over the village of Socol. Trip “Reward” for Workers, The workers were being rewarded with the ride for their meritorious labor and 32 others were waiting at Moscow Central Airdrome for their turn to go up in the plane, named for Russia’s most distinguished con- temporary author. The smaller plane was accompany- ing the Maxim Gorky to furnish a contrast in size for a motion picture which was being taken from a third plane, Built a year ago, the Maxim Gorky, so-called “Soviet palace of culture,”’ was used for propaganda purposes. It had a passenger and crew capacity of 75 and carried a rotary printing press and a complete motion picture projecting apparatus. An official statement issued tonight placed . the blame for the accident, which occurred at 12:45 p.m. upon Blagin. A state funeral will be given the victims and their families will get special pensions and a lump sum in- demnity, it was announced. An inhabitant of the village of Socol who witnessed the disaster said: “I was watching, spellbound by the sight of the huge Maxim Gorky and the contrast with the small plane, which seemed like a gnat. The ac- cident happened so unexpectedly I hardly had a chance to realize what had taken place. “Dived Crazily.” “The Gorky dived crazily and I watched with horror while it went to pieces in the air. I rushed to a place where the pieces fell. They scattered over a full half mile of territory, some wedged between houses. “One house was hit by a wing weighted down by four motors and it tore the roof and the whole side off the building. The bodies of the victims, some of them women and children, were strewn about with the wrecksge, many dismembered. “Everybody in the vicinity set about trying to give help, but they soon found not a soul was aliye among the 48 people who had been in the plane.” Blagin violated instructions not to stunt while accompanying the Gorky. His plane rammed headlong into the leading edge of the giant craft’s wing, between two motors. One wing of the Gorky, weighted down by four engines, sheared off the roof and side of a house in its fall. Another piece of the wreckage fell on a man riding a bicycle. The wreckage scattered widely, together with parts of the victims' bodies, over the village. Honored Noted Writer. Construction of the Gorky began in 1932, on the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of Maxim Gorky's literary activity. The machine had an average speed of 150 miles an hour and sufficient (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) Readers’ Guide PART ONE—General News, Sports, Contract, Service Orders, Vital Sta- tistics. Lost and Found, Page A-9. PART TWO—Editorial, Special Arti- cles, Civic Activities, Travel, Resorts, Stamps, Schools and Colleges, Se~ rial Story, Short Story, Organiza- tions, Cross-word Puzzle. PART THREE—Society, Fashions. 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