Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1936, Page 2

ARGENTINE PARLEY NOTABLE EFFORT American States’ Congress Offers Opportunity for Co-operation. (This is the first of a series of articles on the “New Pan-Ameri- canism” and the coming peace congress in Buenos Aires.) BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON. An extraordinary meeting of repre- sentatives of all 21 American repub- lics will assemble in Buenos Aires on December 1, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, in an effort to consolidate the peace and promote the broader well-being and co-opera- tion of the American peoples. Because of an accident of British imperial history, the only English speaking American nation other than the United States —the Dominion of Canada—will not be represented, for it has not been invited. Despite this capital mistake at the outset, close observers of international af- fairs regard the coming congress as| potentially the most important of all the inter-American conferences that have been held periodically since 1826, | when the first one was held at thc instigation of Simon Bolivar, the famous Latin-American liberator, Elaborate Program Drawn. ‘What is the inner significance, and what are the announced objectives of the coming Pan-American Congress at Buenos Aires? An elaborate tech- nical program has been drafted and revised by a committee of Latin-| American diplomats in Washington, | among whom three stand out, namely, | the Ambassador from Argentina, Senor | Don Felipe A. Espil; the Ambassador | from Mexico, Dr. Francisco Castillo- Najera; and the Minister from Guat- emala, Senor Dr. Adrian Recinos. Not everything is obvious in diplo- macy, even when it is not secret. The motivation of the President and the State Department in proposing this special congress is not yet entirely clear. Is it merely a portentous “trial- balloon” sent up by a politically saga- clous administration in a campaign year, to arouse the enthusiasm of our Latin-American neighbors for the United States, and thereby to stim- ulate inactive markets and open doors to American commercial and financial enterprise? Is it a genuine effort toward a moral and political rap- prochement with our sister republics, in order to broaden the base and strengthen the bulwark of the Monroe Doctrine and its corollary, the historic American neutrality policy? Is it merely an astute political game, played by “neo-imperialists” and ec- onomic buccaneers with Latin-Amer- fcan dictators and peons for pawns, and the idealistic American peoples for credulous and applauding audi- ences? Is it nothing more than the latest clever maneuver of the iron hand of Mars in the velvet glove of diplomacy? * * * The Illinois troubadour, Lindsay, once wrote: “Man is a curious brute; he pets his fancies Fighting mankind to win sweet luxury. 80 he will be—tho’ law be clear as| crystal, Tho' ali men plan to live harmony.” No Cynical Conclusion. Although the lines were written long | before Mussolini attacked and’ de- | voured a fellow member of the League of Nations in violation of law and | treaty, the poet was too wise to end | upon & pessimistic note, or to base his Judgments of mankind wholly upon | 8 cynical assumption of crime or | folly, whatever he might think or say | of governments. For he added, in poetic explanation of why he voted the Socialist ticket: “Come—let us vote against our hu- man nature, Crying to God in all the polling places, To heal our everlasting sinfulness— And make us sages with transfig- ured faces!” While the Roosevelt administration may not always be transfigured with | sagacity, its conduct of our foreign| affairs in this hemisphere has won | highest praise; and it would be ig- norant folly to assume the worst about the resurgence of pan-Americanism and particularly about the Buenos Aires conference. Foreign policy ought to be above partisan prejudice, even though it is generally a function of | internal economics and politics. It | would be wiser to assume the best, to insist upon substantial achievement, and to proceed with caution to ap- | praise and encourage the present un- dertaking, whatever be its motiva- | tion, in the light of the history of the | magnificent dream of a functioning | pan-Americanism, based upon even- handed justice, political or legal equality, and co-operative reciprocity ©of commerce and understanding—a dream which is as old and true as the American Revolution, Statesmanship Called For. All the more so, in view of the dis- turbing revelations of the total de- pravity of the European war-system, the moral eclipse, historic frustration and hypocrisy of its peace machinery, of the political pretense of “collective security against aggression,” and the vast and profligate expenditures on armaments, which are destroying the security of every one, while they tax Tations “to the point of starvation,” @8 the President has stated. Constructive international states- manship is loudly called for, and is, indeed, indispensable, if we are ever to achieve general economic recovery. If only to restore confidence in our- selves, something constructive must and can be done on a great plan and scale, in the Western Hemisphere, at least, : ‘The.new pan-Americanism is per- haps the answer of American intelli- gence and good will to the challenge of armed international anarchy and the effrontery of foreign dictatorships. —te. DELUGE FLOODS MINE Cloudburst Also Maroons 15 Cars of Nevada Prospectors. ‘WINNEMUCCA, Nev., September § () —The famous Jumbo Gold Mine in the Jungo, Nev., mining district was filled with water and 15 prospec- tors’ automobiles were marooned near there when a cloudburst suddenly struck the Clumbering Hills region late Thursday, mining men reported here today. ‘The Jumbo Mine, owned by George B. Austin, veteran Nevada mining man, and his family, recently gained Nation-wide attention when it was visited by former President Herbert Hoover and some of his associates. Austin has refused to Vachel in Washington. Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. JOY RIDE? T WAS no joy ride that Grey Z. Burrell and H. J. Harley took in ] another man's car the other night, regardless of what the warrant on which they were arrested might have said. In fact, it was quite the reverse of a joy ride. According to the story of the jour- ney, as it came out in Police Court, the lads took the car and started for Balti- more. They had got only briefly into Maryland when they were waved down by a State policeman who ordered them to rush some other motorists, in- jured in an accident, to a Washingtoa hospital. The boys did, even though carrying out the Maryland policeman’s orders led them right into the waiting arms of local police who had the car’s num- ber—and the number of Burrell and Harley, for that matter. * ok ok % CANDID. These candid camera men, whose lives must be getting to be a pretty open book, considering the number of items written about them here, are pretty candid fellows them- selves, “Do you ever send tie wrong picture to a customer?” one of them was asked by a curious woman who had just been “shot” and handed an order card. “Sure,” said the camera man, “there’s always a chance, lady, that you'll come out in the picture as an old man with a long, gray beard.” * ok X % | FAN. | ]PROBABLY the hefty lady thought nothing of it herself. However, it was a hot day in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. | The heat up on the catwalk where | sightseers were watching the activi- |ties of the emploves below, was | enough. Down there it must have been | stifling. | At any rate, this huge woman felt | the sudden need of a breeze. So, from | the stack of sheets of $5 bills she | had been counting on the table before her, she picked up a sheaf and, hold- ing them well out to the side, began to wave them to and fro with—to us— | startling nonchalance. A bit of computation indulged tn later revealed it was a $1,000 breeze she created to beat the heat. * x x x SICK. OUIS WHITESTONE, an assistant corporation counsel, trled to be philosophical for a woman who came in to see him about a warrant for her husband. It didn't work, though. For six years, the woman said, her husband had been beating her, and she thought it was time for society to step in and break him of the habit. “For six years,” Whitestone mused. “I should think you'd be used to it by now.” “I am used to it” the woman agreed, “but I'm sick of it, too.” She got the warrant. * x % x 101. NE of the oldest Union veterans expected at the Grand Army of | the Republic Encampment here the last of this month is Rev. W. F. Sin- gleton, colored, who has just celebrated his 101st birthday anniversary. Rev. Singleton was a slave at the time of Lincoln's emancipation proc- lamation. He mustered 1,000 former slaves, drilled them with corn stalks and marched to Washington, for which feat he was made a colonel. After the war Rev. (Col.) Singleton did not go South, but went to Con- necticut to live. * ok k% SHOES. The shoes in shoe store windows, you may have noticed, shine with & particular brightness that seems to be given to mo other shoes in the world. An operative with an observant eye and a curious nature thought that to be the case, checked up on it and found out that it is entirely correct. A shoe man, who had just fin-, ished shining 80 pairs. of shoes for window display, explained it all very simply. - “Colorless waz,” he said, “like you use on furniture.” * x X % MUTINY. WHAT with a war going on in Spain and Europe armed to 25,000 feet up, the gist of an address made to & group of Air Corps officers in our own Army by their flight surgeon gives us a cozy feeling of well-being. “Feed your vegetables to a cow and eat the cow,” the aviators’ physical mentor instructed his men when tell- ing them how to keep fit. “Men are carnivorous animals,” he went on. “Don’t fill yourself up with lettuce, cereals and spinach, no matter what your wife says, because you aren't built to eat it. Such a diet is likely to land you in the hospital with stomach trouble.” : —_— WAGE INCREASE VOTED - 4,000,000 Workers in Accord, but I1 Duce Must Pass on It. ROME, September 5 (#).—The Con- federations of Agriculture and Agri: cultural Workers agreed tonight to a 6 to 9 per cent increase in wages for on approval by Premier Benito Mus- solini: - About 4,000,000 workers would be affected. The agreement permits them to share in wage increases previously ane reportedly sell the property at any mpel & ’ dustrial nounced for more than 2,000,000 in- workers, : g 4 No. 1—As rebel forces con= tinue to threaten Madrid, children play at war in streets of the city. Their dolls often represent wounded soldiers. No. 2—Ezxclusive photo showing loyalist recruits at Barcelona, perched on an American tractor. Note the girl “militiaman” serving as a mechanic, dressed as her male comrades. No.3—Child members of the “Pioneers” in Madrid model emblems of the various pro- letarian parties as they col- lect money for the interna- tional red relief. —A. P.and Wide World Photos. D. C, THREE ARE SLAN | IN FAMILY ROW Missourian, Wife and Fa- ther-in-Law Victims After Night of Terror. By the Associated Press. ODESSA, Mo, September 5.—A husband and wife and the wife's fa- ther were shot to death today in what Prosecutor I, R. Morris called double murder and suicide, growing out of a night-long family quarrel. Shot to death were Thomas L. Gann, 65, police judge and former mayor; his daughter, Mrs. Annette MCcElfish, 36, and her husband, Arthur MCElfish, about 40. Morris said McElfish returned to his estranged wife's home last night, beat and kicked her and then, through a night of terror, threatened her and Vivian Eagan, 10, her daughter by another marriage, with a pistol and shotgun. After forcing his wife to cook break- fast, MCcElfish directed her to tele- phone her father, Morris said, and ask him to come to the farm home. The prosecutor said the judge was driven to the home by L. T. Alkire, & truck driver, and the triple shooting followed, McElfish shooting first his father-in-law, then his wife and then himself, allowing Alkire and Vivian Eagan to escape in the truck. Six weeks ago, Morris said, Mc- Elfish was arrested on his wife’s com- plaint, and in Judge Gann's court was ordered to leave Odessa. Mrs. MCcElfish petitioned for divorce. MCElfish was a tall, powerfully built man. He lost his right hand in an ccident several years ago. MISSING NURSES PHONE THEY WED Vermont Honeymooners “Broke” and Mother Sends Funds, Police Informed. By the Associated Press. ST. ALBANS, Vt.,, September 5.—A telephone call from Rousses Point, N. Y., reporting two pretty nurses missing since Wednesday, and their male com- panions were married but- “broke,” sent Sheriff James Pinn hurrying to the Canadian border tonight. He said he expected to meet the 21- year-old nurses, Misses Leila Ginette and Lorena Hill—objects of a three- day search throughout the East—and their companions at the customs office at Phillipsburg, Quebec. Finn asserted Miss Ginette’s mother, a resident of this upper Vermont com- munity, received a telephone call from her daughter at Rousses Point. The mother told him, the sheriff asserted, that her daughter said both she and Miss Hills, whose home is in ‘Williamstown, Vt., were married. The mother quoted her daughter as saying that Dale Ainsworth, 22, of Herkimer, N. Y, and Fred Otto, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y., were with them. Finn said the mother, learning the rrty was without money, wired them — LLOYD GEORGE AGAIN HITLER’S TEA GUEST Former British Premier and Von Ribbentrop S8econd Time at Chancellor’s Home. 83 tre Assoctated Press. BERCHTESGADEN, Germany, Sep- tember 5.—David Lioyd George, war- time prime minister of England, and Joachim von Ribbontrop, Ambassador- designate to the Court of St. James, were tea guests of Chancellor Adolf Hitler this afternoon for the second successive day. Earlier Lioyd George had been a luncheon guest of Von Ribbentrop and it was reported reliably that he evinced much interest in the story of the Nazi ascent to power. Fi He displayed keen interest, it was said, In discussing the military powers of European nations. After the luncheon, he drove with his son and daughter to Chancellor Hitler's Summer home. Arabian Reds Battle Police. ALGIERS, Algeria, September 5 (#).—Six hundred Arab Communists fought police today in an attempt to reach Arab grape pickers who were working despite s strike order. Among those injured were a policeman and the vineyard owaer, | Labor in Throes of Bitter Strife on Eve of Holiday Rival Federation Is Seen as President Green Outlaws John L. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Labor celebrates its own holiday tomorrow, but there will be no vaca- tion from the bitter war withn its own ranks or that going on on an- other front with industry. Conceived as & day in which there would be public demonstration of “the strength and esprit de corps” of the movement, this year's holiday finds the movement split deeply and bitterly. On one side is a militamt faction of 12 unions and more than 1,260,000 members under the bel- ligerent leadership of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers. Only yesterday 10 of these unions and nearly 1,200,000 of the individuals were declared by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to be no longer members in good standing of that parent body. On the other side is the federation with 102 international affiliates and & remaining membership of about 2,400,000. Their leadership, consist- ing of Green and the craft union members of the Executive Council, is only slightly less belligerent. Lewis Ignored Order. The issue, on the surface at least, is that of organizing the mass produc- tion industries on industrial lines rather than on the craft basis. The Lewis faction, joined, in the Committee for Industrial Onganization, is proceed- ing on the former theory. The council, charging transgression of jurisdictional lines, ordered dissolution of the C.I.0. or withdrawal of its separate members by yesterday. Lewis and his followers have ignored the order. Friday the leader of the miners repeated his oft- expressed defiance. Yesterday Green declared the recalcitrants no longer members of the federstion. Lewis told reporters yesterday he agreed with David Dubinsky, president of the Ladies’ Garment Workers and an associate on the C. I. O, that the committee unions had not withdrawn. In a letter to Green, Dubinsky said: “We assume our share of responsi- bility for the creation of the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization. But, while readily acknowledging our share of the responsibility, we also wish to state that the Executive Council must be ready to assume and cannot escape full responsibility for whatever de- plorable effects its course of rule-or- ruin may have upon the unity and in- tegrity of the organized labor move- ment.” Rival Federation Seen. ‘That there will be & rival federation founded around the nucleus of the C. 1. O. seems likely and such an im- plication was contained in a state- ment by Lewis Friday that “outcasts must join together for protection from the beasts of the forest.” Yesterday, Green said: “Undoubtedly the next step will be to officially and formally admit the existence of this new organization and to proclaim it as a definite rival move- ment to the American Federation of Labor.” ‘Withal, there appears small chance of any reconciliation between the two groups as now constituted, although Green left a small opening for such ‘action in the following statement: “Officers and members of the Ex- ecutive Council earnestly hope that an understanding will be ultimately reached, ~differences sdjusted and unity restored. In its efforts to ac- complish this purpose, the Executive Council asks nothing more than dis- solutionof the C. I O.” Group Led by Lewis. tary of the federation, and Secretary of Labor Perkins all are scheduled to make radio addresses. Maj. George L. Berry, president of Labor’s Non- partisan League, will speak st Balti- more. Meanwhile, the C. I. O, professing comparative unconcern over the ate titude of the A. F. of L., is concen- trating heavy fire against the ste:l industry and only slightly less de- flance toward several other mass pro- duction industries. Engaged in a determined attempt to organize the great steel industry, the organizing committee has sched- uled mass demonstrations at several points. In Pittsburgh, Gov. Earle and Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania have been invited to address an expected crowd of 50,000. Lieut. Gov. Kennedy and John A. Phillips, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, will speak before similar throngs in the Eastern steel centers. At Chicago an organizing rally also is planned and others are listed at various smaller. centers of the steel industry. Two Congressional Probes. Industry, fighting back through co- operation among various companies and with the advantage of unlimited funds, finds itself harassed not only by the C. I. O. drive, but has two congressional committees already en- gaged in embarrassing investigations. One, probing the existence of spies and coercion in labor relations, is poring over the records of nearly & dozen agencies which have undertaken “Industrial relations” work for the companies. Another, investigating election activities, is seeking informa- tion on company policies in influenc- ing employes at the polls. And the A. F. of L., not to be out- done by the C. I. O, chips in with the promise that the labor split will not deter an intention to carry on “aggressive organizing work in all flelds and among those employed in all in- dustries.” 3 WOMEN QUIZZED FOR SLAYING CLUE Body of Taxi Line Proprietor Found Shot Five Times on New York Road. By the Associated Press. LOCH SHELDRAKE, N. Y., Sep- tember 5.—State police were ques- tioning three women tonight in the hope they might furnish a clue to the slaying of & man identified as Irving Ashkenas, 34, of Brooklyn. Sergt. Thomas J. Mangan of the State Police “Scotland Yard” Bureau made the identification. The victim was found sprawled ina dirt road early today, shot five times. David Margolis, & milk truck driver, came upon the body, lying on its back with the feet resting on the running board of an automobile. Mangan said business cards and a driver’s license found in the victim' wallet indicated. he was Ashkenas, proprietor of a taxicab line plying between New York City and Sullivan County Summer resorts. ‘The sergeant said that while all guests and employes of & nearby Sum- mer hotel were questioned, he was particularly interested in the stories of three women. B Ashkenas had been living with his wife and two children in a SEPTEMBER 6, 1936—PART O GUILD GOMPLAINT IN STRIKE 15 HIT Hearst Publications Asks Labor Board to Dismiss Press Unit’s Case. By the Assoclated Press. SEATTLE, September 5.—The Hearst Publications, Inc., filed a mo- tion with the National Labor Rela- tions Board here today asserting that the American Newspaper Guild should be held in contempt and asking that the guild's complaint, demanding re- instatement of two discharged em- ployes of the Post-Intelligencer, be dismissed. The complaint has been set for hear- ing September 10. The Post-Intelli« gencer has remained closed since Au- gust 13 when guildmen walked out and pickets massed around the build- ing. The strike was in protest over dismissals of two long-time employes, Philip Everhardt Armstrong and Frank M. Lynch. The guild contended the dismissals were for guild activities; the manage- ment asserted it was for cause, and has refused to recognize the guild. ‘Today's request that the guild be held in contempt was based on the contention that, after it had submitted Armstrong’s and Lynch’s cases to the Regional Labor Board last July 25, and before the matter had been de- termined by the board, the guild “by | its illegal acts and by force and vio- | lence” has forced the resp-ndent to abandon publication of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Asks Dismissal of t. It asked dismissal of the guild com- plaint and stated that “because of the * ® * force and violence, and the open and continuous threats of force and violence, should any attempt be made to publish the Seattle Post-In- telligencer, respondent has no work or employment available for either Prank M. Lynch or Philip Everhardt Arm- strong, and any order of reinstatement made by this board would be futile and without effect.” As an added ground for dismissal, the motion stated that after their discharges Armstrong and Lynch “have themselves participated in and encouraged the exercise of force and violence against the Seattle Post-In- telligencer, and have made malicious and inflammatory statements of such a nature that it would be impossible for either of them to work in har- mony with loyal employes of the Seat- tle Post-Intelligencer or to become useful employes of respondents.” The motion was supported by an affidavit signed by C. B. Lindeman, associate publisher of the paper and assistant secretary of Hearst Publica- tions, Inc. Says Employes Assaulted. It listed names of 10 loyal em- ployes it stated were assaulted when the strike started, the night of August 13 and morning of August 14, and stated the Seattle chapter of the guild approved and supported such picket- ing activities. ‘The employes were named as: Don- ald Litchfield, Jack Obutofer, H. C. McIntosh, Harold Fackler, I O. Fowler, Tom Short, W. Chew, H. C. Newbaum, C. H. Bingham and An- thony Almada. “The respondent is unwilling to subject its employes to injury and possible death from the violence of the complainant and its confederates, nor will the respondent oppose force by force,” the motion said in its con- cluding paragraphs. The motion cited a quotation it attributed to Heywood Broun, presi- dent of the American Guild, that “we are delighted with the co-operation of the other labor groups in Seattle, something we have been striving for all along.” Also it cited a public interview statement attributed to Jonathan Eddy, international secretary of the (IURY DEADLOCKED IN DEATH PROBE Unable to Agree at Inquest in Killing of C. C. C. Worker. Deadlocked after deliberating near- ly eight hours, a coroner’s jury prob- ing the killing of Lawrence Basey, colored C. C. C. worker, last night was discharged upon reporting no | verdict was possible. The incident | | was the first of its kind in the mem- | ory of District officials. A coroner's jury must return a| unamimous verdict. After hearing | testimony at the inquest the jury re- tired shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and did not come back in until nearly 11 o'clock. ‘When it was announced the jury could not agree, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald dismissed the members and said another panel would be| selected Tuesday. Basey was shot in the abdomen last | Sunday night by Ninth Precinct Po- | liceman V. H. Landrum. He died | Thursday night in Casualty Hospital. | Landrum, who was off duty, left his home to investigate a reported disturbance in the 1700 block of M| street northeast. He said he took five colored youths into custody and that when he was calling his station they threatened him. When they failed to heed a warn- ing, Landrum fired one shot. Confusing testimony is believed to have deadlocked the jury. The col- ored men involved said they had not threatened Landrum and were not preparing to “mob” him. Witnesses who said they saw the affair from a distance testified it appeared Landrum was about to be rushed when he fired. SLAYING FUGITIVE BELIEVED RETAKEN, Man Held for Quiz in Muir Case | Escapes After Sluging Deputy. Py the Associated Press. RIVERSIDE, Calif.,, September 5.— A man who slugged a deputy sheriff after being taken into custody for questioning in the lust-slaying of Ruth Muir, 48-year-old Wellesley Col- | lege graduate, was believed recap- | tured late today at Corona, near here. ‘ Sheriff Carl Rayburn said he be- lieved the man was a mental case and sent officers to Corona to return him E here. For a time, said Sheriff Rayburn, it was believed that the man who es- caped here might shed some light on | the case, but a close check of his de- | scription indicated that he had prob- ably escaped from the State hospital | for the insane at Patton, Calif. ‘The man was arrested here after & rancher reported to the sheriff's office | that a man to whom he had given a ride told him he had seen the killer of Miss Muir. Deputy Sheriff Walter Sibley did not handcuff him, and as he turned his automobile around to return to the jail the man struck him a ter- rific blow on the head, jumped from the car and fled. = - Racing Car Kills Six BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Sep- tember 5 (#).—Six persons died of injuries suffered today when a rac- ing car skidded and crashed into a crowd of spectators. More than a score were injured. The auto, driven by J. Chambers, was traveling about 100 “miles an hour in the tourist trophy race. False Alarm Laid To Demonstration Of Real Summons Man Held on $100 Bond Says Second Call Was Inadvertent. Ralph H. Jennings, 27, of 713 A street northeast was charged with turning in a false alarm last night after he said he accidentally “pulled” & box while demonstrating for friends how he earlier turned in a real alarm. Jennings, who was released at No. 5 precinct on $100 bond, told police he and two companions saw a blaze while riding by a house in the 1200 block of New Jersey avenue south- east. Alighting from their machine, Jen- nings rushed to a fire box on the corner and summoned the engines. They quickly extinguished the fire. A few blocks away—at First and N streets southeast—the trio passel another fire box. It was there, Jen- nings said, according to police, he fnwittingly turned in the second alarm while explaining the mechan- ism of the apparatus to his friends. Jennings’ companions were ques- WOMEN FLYERS WIN RAGE HONORS Miss Browning Gets Earhart Trophy at National Meet. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 55— Women flyers, who used to be classed as “powder puff” entries in air race events, captured the interest of the Western Hemisphere today. They stimulated the greatest re- sponse from nearly 75,000 spectators at the national air races here as word came that a feminine colleague, Mrs. Beryl Markham, had reached North American shores in the first woman's solo flight Westward across the At- lantic. At the air races, Betty Browning of Wichita, Kans., won the $1,500 Amelia Earhart Trophy race of 25 miles with a speed of 156 miles an hour, more than 2} miles a minute, in a field of eight women flyers. Her victory came within 24 hours after two women had placed first and sec- ond in the $15,000 Bendix Trorhy dash from New York to Los Angeles, always heretofore a man's race. The Bendix winners were Mrs. Louise Thaden of Washington and Benton- ville, Ark., first, and Miss Laura Ingalls, Los Angeles and New York, second. Miss Browning’s victory was in the chief event of the second day of the four-day national air races, an orgy of speed and stunts. New Record Set. In the Shell Trophy race, Harold Neumann of Kansas City established a new national air race record of 223 miles an hour and won first prize money of $2,400, plus $1,000 for breake ing the record. 8. J. Wittman, Oshkosh, Wis., an- other contestant, crashed out of the money near the finish, but was unin- jured. Other finishers were Art Chester, Glenview, Ill, second, at 222 miles an hour, $1,500; Lee Miles, Wichita, Kans., third, $840, and Joe Jacobson, Kansas City, fourth, $540. This made a total with Neumann’s winnings of $6,28) instead of the $6,000 first announced. Jacobson was one of the two men pilots kept out of the Bendix race fin- ish by accidents. In the Earhart race Miss Browning won $675. Other prize money placers in the field of 8 out of an original 12 entrants were: Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, Calif., second, $375; Genevieve Savage, Coronado, Calif., third, $225; Jean- nette Kempke, Bay City, Mich,, fourth, $150, and Nancy Love, Boston, Mass., fifth, $75. The other three entries, fin- ishing in the following order, were Henrietta Sumner, Los Angeles; Edna Gardner, New Orleans, and Melba Beard, Altadena, Calif. Jacobson Is Cheered. Jacobson got a hearty cheer from the crowd when he arrived at the air- port. One of the Bendix trophy racers, he landed by parachute near Stafford, Kans,, yesterday when his airplane ex- ploded in midair. He came on here by commercial airline. “I'm all right, and I'll be flying in there,” he told the crowd. The spot parachute jumping con- test, which brought death yesterday to L. C. Faulkner of San Diego, was cancellec today by order of Depart- ment of Commerce officials because of the high East wind that swept the fleld. Bucking a stiff wind, three Holly- wood stunt fiyers, who have thrilled film audiences with work on the screen, drew an ovation for aerial ac- robatics and smoke displays. They are Paul Mantz, Frank Clag and Easton Noble. Capt. Alexandro Papana took his little European designed plane up for & series of precision stunts, likewise earning generous applause. Amelia Earhart President. Amelia Earhart, donor of the wom- en’s feature race trophy, clad in slacks and her bobbed hair blowing in the breeze, arrived with her husband, George Putnam. Another transcontinental woman pi- lot, the former Ruth Elder, arrived for the races. Movie celebrities, including Mary Brian, Adrienne Ames, Bruce Cabot, Lyle Talbot, Ruth Chatterton and others, dotted the stands. Army, Navy and Marine planes from March Field, California; Barks- dale Field, Louisiana, and the naval air base at San Diego, vied with stunt fiyers in a thrilling program before and between the Earhart and shell trophy races. Twelve Marine planes, in command of Capt. T. G. Cushman, from the San Diego base; another group of wis birds from the 17th Attack Group, in com- mand of Lieut. Col. Carlyle Wash, and United States Air Corps sextet from Barksdale Field engaged in mass flight, bombing and tactical formation ex- hibitions. Eighteen Navy attack ships from San Diego, in charge of Lieut. Comdr. C. D. Glover, staged combat exercises, including the famous “snake dance" procession. Faye Lucille Gox, former Denver, Colo., stenographer, staged her 10,000« foot delayed parachute jump, landing perfectly in front of the stands. Two protests were filed today with the Contest Board of the National Aeronautic Association, one by Wil« liam Gulick of New York, who finishec third behind Miss Ingalls in the Bendix race yesterday. He contended he lost six or seven minutes, enough to have placed him ahead of Miss Ingalls, be- cause he said the crowded condition of Municipal Airport forced him to circle the fleld twice. The other protest was lodged by Henrjetta Sumner in the Earhari Trophy race. She said another pilot, whose identity was not known, cut in on her around a pylon. Both protests will be ruled upon later by the board. EMILY LANE’S WEDDING DEFINITELY UNCERTAIN By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, September 5.—G Carlton Brown, Baldwinsville, N. Y, publisher, tonight said he and Miss Emily Lane, soloist with Eddie Duch. in’s Orchestra, would not be married “for some time to come.” Miss Lane, appearing with the or chestra at a local theater, could nol be reached for comment, but Everet| Seibel, advertising director of the theater, quoted her as saying: “We do not intend to be married today, tomorrow or this year.” Sht added, Seibel said, that she and Brown would “remain good friends." ‘The 34-year-old publisher obtained & marriage license here, and got 8 ‘waiver of the five-day waiting perio¢ required by Minnesota law. Thi license spplication gave Miss Lane age a3 10,