New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 1

‘-FINA[ EI]ITIUNI ESTABLISHED 1870 WATER SUPPLY FOR LOS ANGELES ONCE AGAIN THREATENED Aquednct Dynamited Second Time in 24 Hours—300 Feet of Piping Destroyed REPAIR GANGS BEING RUSHED 70 THE SCENE Valley Landowners Are Accused and City Council is Asked to Offer $10,000 Reward For Capture of Dynamiters — Telephone Lines Also Are Cut, Supposcdly By Same Partles. _Los Angeles, May 28()—A report that the Los Angeles aqueduct has Leen dynamited for the second time in 24 hours and about 300 feet of piping destroyed reached the city water and power bureau headquar- ters early today. A repair crew was reported despatched to the scene near Big Pine. Ofticials took steps today to pro- tect the city's principal water source agaipst the ire of Owens valley resi- dents because of the dynamiting of the nine foot steel syphon across No Name Canyon, 175 miles from here, yesterday. The big conduit wag blasted along a 435 foot section after ten armed en overpowered two guards in the vicinity, removed them to a distant point and disappeared as the explos- ion cut off the principal water supply source of the city. The Los Angeles water and power commission, accusing the valley landowners of the dynamiting, asked the city council to permit the offering of a $10,000 reward for the capture of the dynamiters. Sheriff Tom Hutchinson of Inyo county as- sured the city officials that he and | six deputies would make every ef- fort to identify the men who re- moved the guards. Phone Lines Cut A move by the Los Angeles city counctl to obtain a federal investi- gation of the cutting of interstate telephone lines near the scene of the explosion brought a statement from' Unitcd States District Attorney S. W. McNabb that he knew of reo statute under which such a crime could be prosecuted. The Owens valley group, accord- ing to Los Angeles city water offi- cials, for several months has hinte , that violence would result if the city fallzd to buy property in Owens val- ley at a cost variously estimated at from $6,000,000 to $20,000,000. The water involved represents by far the | greater supply. * Iittle Danger of Shortage Littlk danger of a city water shortage is anticipated despite the estimate that it will take two art of the Los Angeles city weeks to repair the 42 foot break | in the syphon. A supply sufficient to last the city 100 days is stored in reservoirs between the break and Los Angeles. A few hours after the dynamit- ing was reported a crew of 150 men, 50 trucks and 15 tractors were at work repairing the dam- age, estimated at from $50,000 to ,000, The two aqueduct guayds, Tom Spratt and his nephew, Louis Spratt, said they were overpowered by feur of the ten men before they could draw their guns. The other sIx men, they said, waited in the background while the watchme: were taken a mile up the canyon and warned to remain there. Shortly afterward the explosion rocked the surrounding hills. The telephone lines had been cut and the water pourcd out of the broken pipes at the rate of 375 cubic feet per second while the watchmen walked five miles and motored 20 more to warn the reservoir to shut oft the supply. The two previous dynamitings of | the aqueduct caused little damage. The chief clash between valley and city was In November, 1924, when men said to represent the ranch- ers took possession of the Alabama control gates and held them open for 65 hours while the water poured out upon the desert. Thed men then were prevailed upon by | thelr leaders to close the gates and abandon their positions. No prose- cution ever resulted. SEVEN REAPPOINTMENTS 10 CITY COMMISSIONS, Mayor Weld to Make Only Onc Change in His Official Family. Several reappointments to com- | liseions were announced today at offica of Mayor Weld, -includ- ward F. Hall, chairman of board of finance and taxatio J. Kenney, garage commis- | sion; Joscph K. Lamb, water board; Willlam 8. Bacon. board of finance und taxation; Romeo A. Grise, building commission; Frank Rog- crs, garage commission; George A. ak, board of finance and taxa- on. Al others whose terms expire will be asked to reappoint- ments. Mayor Weld stated, the only exesption being the hoard of as- seswors where the jected ap- pointment of Thomas chairman will be carried out. has | NATIONAL FOREST IN COLORADO FIRE SWEPT More Than 5,000 Acres of Pines Destroyed—Blaze Gets Out of Control. Pueblo, Colo., May 28 (UP)—A wind, threatened a large part of the raging forest fire, fanned by a high San Isabel national forest today. More than 5,000 acres of timber, principally pine, have been laid waste. Leaders of the 600 fire fight- ers were pessimistic over their abil- ity to stop the blaze. H. E. French, forest supervisor, {declared that unless the wind abated {“there will be no stopping the fire.” The fire, which started late Thurs- day, was believed to have been brought under control yesterday. Smouldering embers were whipped into flames by a strong wind last night, howeter, and the blaze early today was out of control. Some 600 men are digging trenches and hewing trees in the path of the fire in their effort to save the for- est. Among the fire-fighters are 40 convicts from the state penitentiary at Canon City. The blaze was believed to have started originally from burning stumps on a ranch adjoining the forest. FOUR ARE DEAD FROM FIENDISH CLUBBING Two Other Tampa Persons Badly Injured—Suspect Accuses Companion | Tampa, Fla., May 28 (A—A wo- man'’s scream, heard at daybreak by a railroad track walker, has led to !the arrest of two middle aged men and an acocunt from one of them of a home invaded by a drunken man {who mercilessly beat six members of la family with a heavy tool, four of | them to death. Herman Merrell, 43, a carpenter, and three children, Ralph, 11; Mil- dred, 5, and Buddy, 3, are dead. Mrs. | Merrell, 35, and a three month old {haby were near death today from wounds inflicted with a rallroad {spike maul. | From B. H. Levite, a shabbily {dressed man arrested early last night, police said they had a story that fix- {ed the crime on Leonard Thompson. Thompson \vas arrested forthwith and taken from a rooming house to |jail where he and Levine were neld incommunicado. A desire for revenge was given as the motive, police said, but whether | [the cause was fancied or real, po- lice had not determined. Edward Merrell, the dead man’s brother, sald that he knew of. “Thompson and I were drinking {together Thursday night,” police said |Levine related under protest. “He {told me earlier in the day that Mer- rell had done him a dirty trick and he was gonna get him that night. “We walked along the railroad track near the house and I lay down. | Thompson went on. |knew I heard a noise from the house. IT went in the back door. It wi da so I lit matches and walked {around and looked at what Thomp. son done.” Thompson admitted he had been with Levine Thursday night but de- nied emphatically that he was re- sponsible for what the man saw, t {mutilated bodies of six persons, I ing in the positions in which they slept . Levine left the room land it was several hours later that Kenneth Merrell, 16, looked on the with relatives over night. On being taken to the Merrell home, Levine pointed out to officers | things he had observed the night be- fore, even finding burnt matches he Isaid he dropped. He did not know | that Hugh Merrell, 8, had fallen from his bed in sleep and escaped {injury. {WOMAN DROPS DEAD AS MAN IS BURIED ALIVE Sight of Sewer Cave-in in Camden, N. J., Proves Too Much For Spectator Camden, N. J, May 28 (P—A’ man was buried alive and a woman | fell dead during the excitment when a sewer caved in last night. An- | other man was buried almost to his {arms but managed to work himself | | free. Simon Casla, who was tapping an {outlet to the sewer with several lother workmen disappeared when the cave-in occurred. | Mrs. Amelia Ascholt, 60, who wit- nessed the cave-in from the window {of her home, dropped dead as near. {1y 100 firemen and police arrived at the scene and started digging for Casla. License Tag Too Blg and Chicago, May 28 (P—When Mur 1iel McCormick, granddaughter John D. Rockefeller, went flhopph\g for dog licenscs in the millionaire | colony of Lake Forest, she had no | ifficulty In fitting up Merrie and Christmas, huge German police dogs, but she demurred at the size of the | tag offered for the third of her pets. This one was Wu-Si-Woo, a six inch long, three-inch high Chinese canine bjue blood. “Why a license tag would almost break his neck,” Miss McCormick sald. “He's so small that in winter T carry him in my muff or in my Docket.” The license clerk won the argu- linder as|ment, however, and Miss McCormick [at dawn by some departed with each dog tagged. PTTTII’T uuo) ‘pIojiny “ydaq ArRiqy] 9BIS INIIIUN) |they had no money and no cnemic!' Next thing I then | bodies after returning from a visit | i Heavy for Her Little Dog | APV BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES Girl Pours Gasoline Into Lamp Which Explodes, Saved From Death By Blind Aunt Woman Deprived of Sight (Special to The Herald) Bristol, May 28.—Madeline Davis, 9 years old, of 21% Sixth avenue, | East Bristol, had a narrow escape | from being burned to death short- | ly after 9 o'clock last hight when a | lamp which she was filling with| what she supposed was kerosene, | but which proved to be gasoline, ex- | ploded and set fire to her clothing. Her screams brought to her assis- | tance her aunt, Mrs. Augustus Hur- ney, who is blind, and with assistance | of neighbors, the clothing on the | little girl was extinguished. Mrs. Jumps Through Window to Bring Assistance. |stairs window, but was uninjured. Igniting Dress; Hears Niece Scream, and Hurney, in her hurry to securs as- sistance, jumped through a down- The little girl was badly burned about the face, arms and legs and | was attended by Dr. P. A. Park of | this city. A call was sent in to the central | fire station and both Squad A and | Hose Company No. 1 responded. The | fire, which had reached the wails and partitions in the kitchen, was extinguished with chemicals with | but a slight amount of damage. DIVER'S THRILLING FIGHT WITH ucmrus| Kills Giant Devilfish and Rescues Body of Sailor From Its Tentacles Port Townsend, Wash., May 28 () —A huge octopus, bearing in its ten- tacles the body of one of five men who went down on the tug Warren early Tuesday, gave up its human prize after an hour’s battle 50 feet under water with A. E. Hook, a diver. Hook related his story here last night upon arriving with the body. The diver was under water re- pairing a fish net, he said, when he sighted the devilfish making his way along the bottom of the Sound with the body in his tentacles. Seizing a pike pole, Hook attacked the sea monster. Minutes wore on as the diver thrust and lunged at the octopus, which gave savage battle but grim- ly held to the body. Time after| time the develfish warded off the spear with the power of its flinging arms. The water was becoming cloudy. | Centering his thrusts on the middle section of the splderlike demon,| Hook literally cut his tentacled ad- versary to ribbons before the death| struggle was ended. The octopus| sank back, apparently mortally | wounded, and lay on the muddy bot- tom of the Sound while Hook pried loose the tentacles from around the | body. In Port Townsend the body was tentatively identified as that of H. Healey, cook on the {ll fated tug. Attempts wege being made to get in communication with his relatives, who are thought to live near Atlan- ta, Ga. None of the bodies of the other four men aboard the tug has been | recovered. The craft dropped out of sight early Tuesday morning| while en route from Seattle to Vie-| toria. | WANTS 10 COME HOME Lindbergh Sends Cable Stating That He Plans to Start Somewll(‘l'e Around Junc 16. | Detroit, May 28 (® — Captain| |Charles Lindbergh will sail for | lome about June 16 on an American | war vessel tendered by President “oolidge. Such was the substance of & cablegram received here yesterday |by Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lind- (bergh, the fiyer's mother, she an- Iuounc\,d ' The cablegram stated that Lind- | bergh would sail for home immedi- | [ately after his tour of Europe. | Mrs. Lindbergh who is anxiously {awaiting his return continues her duties as an instructor of chemis- {try at a local high school and is ad- | hering rigidly to her policy of de- rrllnlng all proffers to commercialize | son’s fame. More than one housand gifts received from per- |sons over the country during the |past few days have been returned |to the senders by the flier's mother. ! Each day Mrs. Lindbergh receives {a cable from her son telling her |briefly of his plans, such as yester- ay's which said: I “I'll sce King Albert tomorrow iPope Not Likely to Get Into ‘Wet” Controversy | Rome, May 28 (UP)—Merely ; acknowledgement will be accorded by Pope Piu Y vatican officials bhe- | | leved today, to the letter of Wil- liam H. Anderson, American dry leader, requesting a statement on e vatican's attitude toward prohi- | bition. | The vatican, it was suggested to- | day, would adhere to its policy «f | never interfering in the internal af- ;fmr: of nations. The Holy See re- ! | gards prohibition as an internal ‘Aml‘rk.m problem. It was empha sized today that there were plenty of prelates in the United States \(‘ompfinn' to express the church's | attitude toward prolumuon | | American Fleet Leaves | For Southern Waters ! | Newport, R. I, May 28 ®— Headed by the battleship Seattle, fiagship of Admiral Charles F.| {Hukho the United States fleet [which has heen in’the harbor since | Friday of last week salled early to- day for southern waters. Slowly Ithe mlant craft filed, one by one, | Ipast Fort Adams into the open sca. {The larger ships had been preceded of the smaller boats in the auxiliary squadrons. i | would permit, Thornton used a fire- | assembled to witness the “snuffing {ran to an electrical device to ex- Ifor an instant, then it leaped sky-| | knocked ! biles were shattered. |assets of the Red Star 1 In | he was the owner of 2 KOARING GAS WELL FIRE EXTINGUISHED Toll of Eight Lives Taken in Spectacular Texas Blaze Sanford, Tex, May 28 (#P—A blackened crater from which gas hissed at the rate of a million cubic feet a day, was all that remained to- day of the “Panhandle Lamp” cre- ated at a cost of eight lives when a huge well on Main street here ig- nited yesterday. The 200 foot flame that raged for more than 40 hours to threaten this oil boom town was ‘“snuffed out” last night with high explosives and a barrage of steam. The roaring torch was extinguished in almost as ! spectacular a display as marked the ignition of the well while the crew was attempting to remove the cas- | ing to test for oil. | Under the direction of *“T Thornton expert in the use of nitro- glycerine and other explosive em- ployed by well shooters, a battery of boilers was massed near the well to furnish steam. While the boilers were moved as closc as the heat proof suit to make several inspec- tions. Once he peered into a hole around the casing in an effort to locate the bodles of two men believ- ed to have been cremated. Meanwhile, owners of nearby houses obtained cables and tractors and skidded thelr buildings from the zone made uninhabitable by the terrific heat. Others struck their tent homes or poured thelr limited water supply on frame shacks scorched as the wind fanned fhe flame toward various sections of the village. With upwards of 10,000 persons out” process, Thornton donned his fireproof clothing shortly before ten o'clock last night and carried a charge of explosive to the base of the flame. He hastily placed it and plode it. The blast cut the flame ward again. Several persons were down by the concussion | and windshiclds on a few automo-| Thornton announced the, first | | charge was merely to cut off the| casing on a level with the ground. He then placed a second and larger charge while engineers manned the | steam lines. With the flash of the blast, the steam barrage centezed on the mouth of the well, The flame sput- tered and vanished. Numerous spec- tators were hurled to the ground and windows in many buildings were | broken. No one was injured. The crowd quickly recovered to| acclaim “Tex" who announced he | would make another search for the two missing men. Cowho {then joined in a celebration (hn!‘ continued at midnight, nearly an| i hour after the “lamp” was blown | out. STOCKHOLDER SUES | Clalms Red Star Appliance, Inc., ol‘ Stamford Is Causing Waste nf‘ Company's Assets, Stamford, Conn., May 28 (P—In | order to prevent the waste of the Appliance, ! manufacturers of mailing ma- | chines, Arthur B. Pitney, principal | stockholder of the company, today brought suit in the Fairfield county superior court asking for a receiver. He claimed the company owed him ' $23,843.42 and other creditors $55,- TL11. The company is threatened with| several suits, he rred, and brought action to prevent dissipa- tion of the company's assets. The| incorporation has a capital stock of $226,000, consisting of 41,400 com- mon shares at $56 par value, 760 preferred at $25. Mr. Pitney said 060 shares of common and 380 preferred. The | ction is returnable at Dridgeport, | June 7. Prince Harold, Denmark, Honors Channel Swimmer Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28 (R | —Prince Harold, brother of King| *hristian, and the princess gave a reception last oight in honor of Mr: Clemington Corson, the former Millie | Gade of Denmark, the first mother to swim the Enghsh channel, ‘he! | prince presented Mrs. Corson with a | number of autographed photographs. | King Christian recently conferred | a gold medal on the swimmer in recognition of her achlevement. |immorality, {broken family life have been decided |than 48 hours. THOROUGHLY BAD GIRL REALLY DOESN'T EXIST Girls’ Service League Worker De- clares She Never Saw Hopcless Case. New York, May 28 (# — In 20 .years of welfare work Miss Stella A. Miner, director of the Girls' Serv- ice league, says she has not seen “a | thoroughly bad girl.” “There is always something good ito build upon,” Miss Miner says in | her annual report, issued today. “It 18 often courage and inquiring minds |rather than helplessness and lack of | purpose which have brought them to lour doors.” Nearly four thousand girls were assisted during the last year. Sixty- seven per cent of the cases came from homes ‘“where alcoholism, cruelty, poverty influences,” Miss Miner states. per cent have come from where forelgn-born parents have fail- ed to keep step with American born daughters. TRANS-ATLANTIC AR “Sixty SERVICE 15 PLANNED| Boston Tyaveler Story Tells of Planes for 100 Passengers Boston, May 28 (P—The Boston Traveler in a copyrighted story pub- lished today says that it has learned | of preparations which have been go- | ing on over a long period for reg- ular trans-Atlantic airplane service with giant airplanes carrying at least | 100 passengers. The Traveler says: “The Boston Traveler today gives the first news of hitherto secret preparations for regular lantic airplane service using giant liners carrying at least 100 passen- gers each. Boston will be one of ithe first ports in America to get the service. “The great trans-oceanic ships will be heavier than air planes. backers of the enterprise tested and abandoned the idea of using dirigi- | bles. The date of the start of the service is not divulged. tected by the utmost secrecy. Quick upon the heels of Captain Lind- bergh's triumph comes the Traveler's discovery of the secret preparations that have been going on for 16 years without even a breath of it reaching the ears of a single person outside the powerful group of engineers, financlers and sportsmen who are making possible the gigantic under- taking.” “The trail leads from Boston to New York and Dayton and finally to the very heart of it all in an ex tremely interesting establishment on a lonely mountain top in Massa- | chusetts.” In the place, the Traveler contin- ues, was found “a man whose name had been smeared over the front pages of American newspapers in years past but who suddenly disap-| peared from public life and has not ! been heard from since by many of his former friends. “It would appear impos such a celebrity to disappc terly from the eyes of the world and his friends until it is explained that | fate helped him in his desire for se- clusion. Several years ago a man of the same name was killed in Japan {and when word of the death was cabled to Amerlca it that it was he who was dead. misunderstanding fitted perfectly in- to the plans of the man whom the Traveler reporter found on the Massachusetts mountain top. “The Traveler has full informa- I'tion as to the design of the great| but as that information air liners, was given in confldence this new paper quite naturally will not vio- late the confidence given. At & later date the Traveler will be re- 2d from that pledge and at that | oil field workers and other visitors| time will informs its readers fully | of the details. “But it can be told that the new plane, while adhering strictly to the exact science of aviation and follow- | ing mathematical rules laid down after tests at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, will be at the same time a craft that will aston- h even the most airwise of all aeronautical engineers. No prediction is made as to speed but it sured that the air:liners will cross the ocean in much less This ecstimate is given as conservative because “Our air liners will than three motors—how many more we would rather you would not di- ulge at this time. Our planes will contain cabins and berths and din- ing rooms and recrcation rooms and promenade ks. They " will { heated throughout. “We will be able to maintain a schedule. We will be able to give a transportation. At this time the only other information 1 can di- vulge is that we will not follow the route taken by Captain Lindbergl We shall fly by way of the Azore NO HERALD MONDAY In accordance with the ual custom. the Herald will not be published Monday, Memorial Day. *. Fi i THE WEATHER | | The New Britain and vicinity: Fair and continued cool to- night and Sunday; probably light frost in cxposed places tonight. | #* or: homes , trans-At- | The | was thought | The | the | designer of the plane is quoted as 'saying: | have more | be | LAST BIG BATTLE OF FLOOD STARTS Man and River in Gombat Tor Possession of Two Cities INUNDATION IS FEARED | New Iberia and Morgan City Likely to be Under Water by Tonight— Steamers Taking Refugees to Safety Camps. | New Orleans, May 28 (P—Man ,and river today were preparing for what was believed to be the great battle of the flood area as the waters of the Atchafalaya and the Tensas Basin moved down on New !Iberia and Morgan City. Already | these towns of 6,000 and 5,000 pop- | ulation respectively, have been par- tially inundated and with the water rising an inch an hour it was be- lieved that both would be totaily un- der water by tonight or tomorrow. 100 Miles Up River Morgan City, about 100 miles west of New Orleans, is at the mouth of the Atchfalya where the mass of wa- | ter sweeping relentlessly down the |narrow Atchafalaya basin must empty into Gulf of Mexico. A few miles above Morgan City Atchafa- laya empties into Grand lake, and residents of lake region have been forced to flee their homes as the flood waters swept the shores of the lake. | The river then flows out of the through fertile country before pours its muddy flood into the gulf. Crest of Flood The crest of the flood in the be in the Breaux Bridge section, | many miles up the river from Mor- | gan City and still above Lafayette, i there the largest refugee camp of the section is located. But the first brush with the irrisistible force of {the river already has been fought out at its mouth and the waters have been victorious. The flood probably will last several weeks more before the crest passes to the sea. A statement from Red Cross head- | quarters here last night said that be taken care of out of New Iberia alone, | per cent of the populace driven from their homes found they way to the | refugee camps. The others, they |said, were cared for in private | homes. | As the waters moved down toward | the gult, rice fields which were being |itrigated yesterday were covered iseveral feet deep. Forces were being massed today for the evacuation of those left at | Morgan City. Two light draft steam- lers with »u:m barges were char- tered at New Orleans and started through the Harvey Canalor the mouth of the Atchafalay Waters Spread Out The waters from the McCrea Crevasse, 130 miles northwest of | New Orleans on the opposite side of the river, was spreading more slow- Several cross road towns were {inundated completely or partially ,and Baton Rouge rcported that a |few persons had been forced spend the night on the levees wait- ing for boats to take them to refugce camps. Health conditions in all camps were reported good. ltegular hos- pitals have been established at all concentration points and the physl- {cians in charge reported that there has been no more sickness than could normally be expected in gath- erings of from 5,000 to 10,000 per- | sons. | The situation on ths lower river | remained practically unchanged. Slight drops were registered from | | the mouth up to Baton Rouge. } IS CRITICALLY ILL Condition of FEarl Carroll is Caus- ing His Attending Physician Con- siderable Worry. Atlanta, Ga., May 25 (UP)—Earl | | Carroll, New York theatrical pro- ducer, is in a critical condition from /a malady both physical and mental, Dr. Henry McGehee, nostician, id today. “Something must be mediately,” Dr. McGehee t Carroll is to recover. done im- declared, 1 cannot Carroll's condition is but will be able to do so in time." i The report of Dr. McGehee, Fred . Williams, supcrintendent of the South Carolina state hospital, and Dr. James Fouche, G forwarded at once to the department Justice in Washington, one of the physicians would sa it recemmended clemency . now a federal prisoner, ntence for perjury Veteran Miner Is Hero In Underground Blast Aguilar (®lo, May 28 (UP)— |8ix men were killed and another in- | jure in an on which for more than 5 trapped 162 men oal mine of the Vie- | tor Amcrican Fuel Co., 10 miles from her A 60 ‘lmLu W credited with ed the lives of the rest of the cre when the explosion blocked the en- trance of the shaft with a solid wall | | |of debris at noon yesterday. men were heginning to get |hysterical, when Woods, veteran of !many a mine disaster, took charge. |Through the dense smoke, Woods | {led the survivors to safety through {a little known north slope exit. The men marched in lock step behind thim. last | lake again to run for about 15 miles | it | Atchafalaya basin was believed to | “Until niow the plane has been pro- | 0¥€ 2:500 refugees wers expected to | Yesterday officials at Baton | i Rouge estimated that only about ten | to | Atlanta diag- | say at this time what the cause of | Dr. | Columbia, | . on Carroll's condition is to be | ar-old miner, Dan Woods, | having sav- | { KING GEORGE AWAITS VISIT OF LINDBERGH |Lady Astor and Parlia- ment Members Also Will Act as Hosts London, May 28 (UP) — King George, Lady Astor and parliament will be hosts to Charles Lindbergh | during his visit here next week. The American fller will arrive Sunday afternoon by air and will {be entertained at the United States embassy, Ambassador Houghton announced. The ambassador will entertain Lindbergh at luncheon Monday and the American Correspondents’ as- sociation will give a dinner for him that night. Tuesday will be the big day of his visit. King George will receive him in audience in the imorning, and the Westminster Ga- zette said today it was understood | His Majesty would confer & high |honor on the young airman. Lind- bergh will attend a session of par-| |liament at 4:30 and will be the guest of Lady Astor at tea at the {house of commons afterward. The air council will give a lunch- leon for him Tuesday and the com- bined air organizations of the city | will entertain him at dinner. In the {evening he will attend a charity |ball at Albert hall. Wednesday night the combined American social organizations of ithe city will give a dinner for the flier. Wednesday afternoon he probably will see the Derby. Lindbergh i3 cxpected to London Thursday. leave Brussels, itoday May 28 (UP)—Brussels prepared to shower honors on Charles Lindbergh, much as | Paris has done since he arrived ithere a week_ ago tonight. | King Albert already has signed a decree appointing Lindbergh a chevalier of the Order of Leopoll -—the higlest honor Belgium can confer. Lindbergh will come into con- | tact with royalty for the first time when he is received. by the royal family here. The flier's 2 hours here as the |Buest of the United States embassy, {will be crowded with social and cfficial receptions, luncheons and dinners. FLO ZIEGFELD DENIES LOSSES AT GAMBLING Brands Story He’s Broke as False—Sued by Stage Director New York, May 28 () — Charges nd denials that Florenz Zicgteld, rical producer, is *“broke,” and at he lost $100,000 within a year |gambling in Florida featured & hearing in the suit of Edward | Royce. stage director, against the producer for $1,000 and a percent- agt of the profits of “Rio Rita,” & |current Ziegfcld production, | Royce through counsel yesterday |claimed Ziegfeld's knowledge of |stagecraft is “restricted to women and costumes,” while the producer's attorney asserted Royce is a “has been” fn stage direction. The suit is being heard by Justice Seeger in | White Plains. Royce claims he was contracted to put “Rio Rita” in shape at a lary of $1,000 a week for five weeks and one per cent of tha £ross reccipts. He states the pro- duction has already brought in !more than $100,000, and asks for his percentage. He further charges | Ziegfeld wtih having permitted his notes to go to protest for two year Ziegfeld in his affidavit charged (Royce with having deserted the ishow at a critical time; that the| production was in “pretty bad shape” when he engaged others to | continue the work and that Royce called for a rchearsal of the show in Philadelphia and then failed to appear himself. Besides denying nancially insolvent, Zie several of his holdin among |Which he said were §7 1-2 per cent {of the stock of the Rio Rita com- ipany; one-third intercst of the | Cotonial theater in ton, 62 1-2 {per cent of the “Ziegfeld Follies;™ jone-twelfth rest in the moving | | picture production of “Ben Hur,” | land that he receives $50,000 a year from a large motion picture pro- |ducing company, together with a ent share of the profits of any pictures made by that concern | with which he was associated. Ha also listed real estate properties in {Chicago, and at Hastings-on-the- Hudson, where he resides with his | wife, the former Billie Burke. “I brand as absolutely false the statement that T have lost in ex- {cess of $100,000 at gambling in the |state of Florida within the past vear, and T deny that I have ever |stated such to be the fact to any person, nor is any such statement true,” Ziegfeld declared in his af- fidavit. that he was fi- | feld listed | Average Week Ending May 21st ... | et on his return from Paris | P Daily Circulation For 14,664 PRICE THREE CENTS LINDBERGH BIDS ADIEU TO PARIS; MILLION PEOPLE IN BRUSSELS TO WELCOME HIM | Departing Aviator Cir- cles French Capital, Dropping Farewell Messages of *Good Will and Appreciation Flier Arrives in Belgian Metropolis at 3:17 p. m. —National Colors Give City Holiday Appear- ance. Brussels, May 28 (#—Captain Charles Lindbergh, American trans. Atlantic filer, arrived here today, from Paris at 3:17 p. m. Paris, May 28 (®—Paris said au revoir to bergh, There was a great roar of voices, shrill tooting of whistles and honke ing of horns as the birdman, swoop« ing down in a great circle from Le Bouvget flying field, passed over the Arc De Triomphe and the place De La Concorde, circled the Eitfel Tower, and then headed straight north for Brussels, Belgium, and rew triumphs. After a week of adulation such as no foreigner has ever been given before in France, the young Ameri- can temporarily quitted French soil when the wheels of his monoplane left the runway at Le Bourget field at 12:49 p. m. The precaution taken against ac- cidents at the field kept the crowd to a minimum there, but in Paris every open space was jammed with people eager for a sight of Lind- bergh in flight. They gave him a vocal farewell that came from every heart. today Captain Lind« Circles Eiffel Tower. Lindbergh had his own way of saying au revoir. He circled over the Arc De Triomphe in homage to the unknown pollu and then, flying at an altitude of only 200 yards or 80, went twice around the Eiffe. Tower. The chamber of deputics next drew him. Then he headed straight for the placs De La Concorde, filled with an excited throng that shouted, cheered and wept as he passed over, Just as his plane topped the hu; needle in the center of the big space he dropped his last message. Farewell Message. “Good by Paris,” it said. *“You have been good to me. Good bye.” There was a scramble for the pre= clous bit of paper and the first to reach it was an American. Then there was another scramble, to take it from him and the gendarmes had to interfere. =~ While they were straightening out the tangle, some- body snatched the paper and dis- appeared in a taxicab, while the disappointed ones shouted maledice tions after the snatcher. Lindbergh, after dropping the pa- per, dipped once more, straightened out and, gaining altitude rapidly, headed north over Le Bourget to- ward Beligum, Drops American Flag. At Eenlis, whose mayor had ask- ed him to show himself to the peo- ple, he again flew close to the earth, dipped over the town and dropped a tiny American flag. The weather for the flight could not have been much better. While the sky was partly overcast, thera were great blue spaces through which the sun shone. A light breeze from the north offered little resiste ance to the passage of the plane. In deference to Lindbergh's ree quest, there was no actual escort, the military planes detailed by the French government to go with him to the Belgian frontier followed the pirit of St. Louis” at a respectful distance. Three other planes, headed by that of Commandant Weiss a friend of the American flier, flanked the | military planes as a personal tribe ute. Lindbergh passed over T.e Bours at 1:08 a few moments in the reaches of m. and within was lost to view the northern sky. lion Persons Out. ssels, May 28 (UP)—One mil- lion persons waited today to greet Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, cons queror of the Atlantic, at Evere aire drome and in the city of Brusscls, Approximately 100.000 persons had arrived from the provinces to- day to participato in what undoubt- edly will be the greatest welcome { ever accorded a private citizen in Belgium. By unanimous consent, Brussels dressed herself in holiday attire today. Belgian and American colors fluttered all over the city. Brussels, Relgium, May 28 (#— Evere Field was a scene of animae tion today in preparation for the re- ception of Captain Lindhergh and his record-breaking trans-Atlantio plane “Spirit of St. Louis.” The whole Brussels garrison was marched out this morning to guard the roads leading to the airdrome and to keep order among the crowds on the fleld. The people were allowed to entee the field without any formality whatever. “The people must see (Continued on Page 1§) 4