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L] ARNY OF WRITERS COVERING EVENT Lindbergh's Return Sets New Mark in Newspaperdom ‘Washington, June 9 (F—Probably never before in history have Ameri- can press associations and news- papers made such elaborate ar- rangements for reporting an event as | they have for ‘“‘covering” the return to this country of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his official recep- tion by President Coolidge. Long before the Memphis reaches the Virginia capes, an army of jour- nalists, feature writers and just plain reporters will swing into action, with its ranks augmenting rapidiy as t cruiser passes up the Potomac and inally delivers her hero to the offi- cial reception committee the Washington navy vard. The vanguard of t fly one hundred m naval planes to n and then wing th W land to report the r of the flyer by his fellow of the army and navy. Still other writers will speed out into the Atlantic in destroyers to add their output of the grist of millions of words which for mo an 60 hours will test the capacity of a greater portion of {he network of telegraph and telephone wires of the country as well as th radio facilities. There will be more men to board the Memphis inside he capes and still others to follow her up the bay ca and airplanes. On Saturday the the hands of nearly 500 men and women who make up the Washing- ton corps of the newspaper corres- pondents. Long bLefore the Memphis noses her way into the Anacosta river, association men will be at the ard with direct telephon wires opened to their offices to flash the arrival and to dictate the run- ning story of the reception there. Others stationed along Pen vania avenue will give the picture of the eager thousands as they greet the air hero and upwards of two hundred will be on the official re- ception stand at the Washington monument grounds to report the di- rection and the speech making by the president and Lindbergh. In addition to the news writers at the ceremony, more than 130 photo- graphers will train their cameras on the flyer. These ceremonies will consumo | only 15 minutes and yet the same | arrangements as to the seating of | the correspondents and installation | of telegraph wires have been made | as are made at national political | conventions which continue from one | at army will es to sea on et the Memphis back to stion there aviators ] 4 to three weeks and occasionally even more. A score of newspaper men will ac- company the flier wherever he goes in Washington. MISS POPE INSISTS ON WIDOW'S SHARE Declares Fraud Prevented Wed- ding With W. D. Shepherd Chicago, June 9 (P—DMiss Isabelle Pope has opened a new court fight against William D. Shepherd in her suit for a widow’s share of the $1,- 200,000 esta s of her fiance, the late ‘William Nelson McClintock. Shepherd is executor and princi- pal legatee under the will which also is being contested by seven cousins of the young millionairg whose death four years ago has been followed by a chaln of criminal as well as civil actions. Shepherd was acquitted in 1924, of a muri out of McClintoci's death, was attributed to typhoid fever. It was alleged the the germs had been administered. . Miss Pope, who Is given an £5,000 annuity in the will now heing con- | charge growing | | which | | The new pleading by Miss Pope ljoins that of the seven distant cous- !ins who, cut off except for small be- quests, seek to break the will. FIVETD 12 YEARS " FOR NEGRO SLAYER ‘Shelion Guilty of Manslanghter ' in Scott Killing Richard “Bubbles” Shelton, col- ored, of this city, was sentenced to state’s prison for not less than five | uor more than 12 years by Judge Avery in superior court yesterda fter pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of John tt, colored, at New Britain General hospital. Scott was shot by Shelton fn the home of Wiiliam Jol on on Hurlburt street and died few w ater. Attor- ney Harry M. Ginsburg represented Shelton. John Kolosky and Henry Merron, ir old youths, who pleaded v to statutory burglary, were suspended commitments to Cheshire reformatory and placed on probation for one year. They broke nto a store at 70 Spring street and stole a small amount of money and | rettes, anley Srogi, aged 20, was sen- d to jail for six months on the o of breaking and entering, and fyohaeco causes arsenic in the body |of si Murowski, lation of the liquor law, was given uspended jail sentence of one year and placed on probation. Abraham Jacobs and John Elle, charged with indecent assault, will be tried by court June 16. They | pleaded not guilt story” will be in | Chamberlin’s Emergency Plans Are Described Berlin, June 9 (A — Clarenco Chamberlin, pilot of the trans-At- {lantic monoplane Columbia, told {the American newspaper men to- y what he would have done had the engine failed or had he, for a iouwr reason, been forced to de scend on the ocean. “In the first place,” he said, “wo {had the landing gear so adjusted that we could have dropped it |quickly. Had not we done this, we {would have turned turtle the min- jute we stryck the water. “Secondly, I planned to let out all our fuel through a valve at the {bottom of the tank, and then close {the valve again. The tank, filled ‘th air, would then have kept us float indefinitely, provided the storm was not too bad and the | waves too high. | Agnes Ayers Waives All Rights of Alimony Claim Los Angeles, June 9 (#) «—, Agnes , motion picture actress, has waived all claims to alimony, coun- sel fees or any other form of main- {tenance, but retained exclusive cus- |tody of her year old daughter, in lan agreement with her husband, S. | Mansel Reachi, filed here. A suit |for divorce was entered by Miss |Avres recently accusing Reachi of cruelty and non-support. { The only reservation in regard to |the child made by Reachi was that [ Miss Ayres submit once a month ja report on the daughter's pro- |gress. Reachi will have the privi- {lege of secing the child twice a week. JACK ROSE ARRESTED {Solomon, alias Jack Rose, former |New York night club proprietor, {pleaded gullty in criminal court yesterday to two indictments charg- |ing him with violations of the Har- |rison anti-narcotic act. Washington, June 9 (A — Jacob | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEKALU, FLASHES OF LIFE: DETHRONED RUM KING NOW REGRETS HIS BUSINESS By the Associated Press. Denison, Ia.—Whatever Clarence Chamberlin drinks in Berlin is his own affair, says his mother; he's old enough to know what is right and has had imany chances to {drink hitherto, but has refused. |His parents are total abstainers. U. S. S. Memphis—A fruit cock- tail tickled Colonel Lindbergh's palate. It was first on the menu at |the warrant officers’ mess. Toronto—An advertisement of {Ontarlo in an American magazine various attractions and pro- | cex “All these features and. The ad was paid for by the pro- vinclal publicity bureau. D. B. Han- | na, chairman of the liquor board, is curious to what those dots mean, | since he has announced that per- mits for purchase of liquor will be | cranted only to legitimate tourists. | | i New York—A dethroned “mil- lionaire booze King” wishes he had | never seen a case of whiskey. Wil- liam V. Dwyer, convicted head of | [a gigantic smuggling syndicate, ad- | vises: *“Don’t have anything to do |with the liquor business.” He s he s worse than broke, $150,000, owing | | | New York — The possibility that | rged With Vvio- lig noted by the American Chemical|cept for a few still under consid- society on the basis of experiments | by Dr. Roe E. Remington of Fargo, | N. D. The society, however, feels| anjustified In concluding that smok- ing produces chronic poisoning. New York—The Berlin might next song hy| he entitled * He must ap- |pear in court because his chauffeur was driving him 30 miles an hour in his Belglan limousine. | Rome—Pope Pius keeps on his {desk “for study and rest” the Bible |and the works of Dante and Man- |zoni, Milanese poet and novelist of |the 19th century. And he has read |Marco Polo's travels many times, |he so informed Cardinal Dougherty. | w York—Willlam A. Brady, a peanut vendor, and James J. Cor- bett, a bank clerk, formed a part- nership in San Francisco some years back which led to much money for each via the heavy- weight championship of the world. They are together again, still with- out contract. Corbett is helping to put on Brady's new show. They long have had diffcrent paths in drama. Washington—Naughty Rebbeca! The presidential raccoon slipped out of the summer White House and led servants in a two-hour chase before she was treed in an adjoining yard. New York—Bridge players should | be car&ul on trans-Atlantic voy- ages. Word comes from steamship circles that the latest scheme of sharpers is to get victims into a stateroom for a little game at a tenth of a cent a point. Then comes champagne and a new record of canned music. The reverse side of |nine pitches no hit, no run game the record is arranged for roulette. New Haven—Yale announces that work on Walter Camp Memori monumental gateway at entrance to Yale fields, is to begin at once. Middletown—Coroner Smith holds no one responsible for death of Willlam Tucitte, 10, drowned in Quarry hole June 2. Middletown—Dr. John E. Love- land, is appointed medical examiner | for Middletown to succeed Dr. J. Francis Calet who died during day. | New Haven—Police seize two stills and arrest three in raid on two apartment houses. New Haven—Six persons are in- jured, none seriously, in crash on Derby turnpike. Bridgeport—Dr. M. Carl Beck is sentenced to state's prison for from one to two years for illegal opera- tion. Bridgeport—Johnny Michael of the Warren Harding high school egainst Wilby high of Waterbury. Hartford — Governor Trumbull | igning 60 bills completes the work | 27, e cration. | Hartford — Rlchar$ Shelton of New Britain, negro, is sentenced to state prison for from five to twelve years on manslaughter charge in connection with fatal shooting of John Scott, negro. Hartford—Insurance Commission- er Howard P. Dunham urges insur- ance companies to exercise greater care in selectlon of agents. New Haven—Yale law school and Sheffield Scientific school students engage one another in the annual “battle of the bottles,” Rockville — Sheriff Vinton sum- mons grand jury to consider case of Leonard Cline who s alleged to have fatally wounded his friend, Wilfred P. Irwin, in Mansfield, May 16. American copper mines will last only 49 years at the present rate of consumption unless other deposits are discovered. EX-POLIGE CHIEF IN CANTON Jai Lengel Arrested for Parf in Mellett Murder . Canton, Ohlo, June 9 (A —Seranus | A. Lengel, 59, deposed Canton police chief occupied a cell in the Stark county jail today while plans were being made for his arraignment on indictment charging him with com- plicity in the assassiantion of Don K Mellett, vice crusading Canton edi- tor last July. Lengel was indicted late yesterday by the grand Jjury that heard the testimony of his former subordin ate, Floyd Streitenberger, who is un- der sentence of life imprisonment for the Mellett murder. Streltenberger, who was a detec- tive under him told the grand jury it is understood, that Lengel was the perpetrator of a plot to get rid of the militant Canton editor, who had been using his newspaper to war against an alleged alllance between the underworld and the police force. It was during the first of Lengel's several battles before the civil serv- ice commission to hold his job as chief, that the plan to kill Mellett was broached, Streitenberger is sald to have related, Mellett was respons- ible for Lengel's first suspension. He later was reinstated. INVITED TO HARTFORD City Mayor Wants Visit from Lindbergh. Hartford, Conn., June 9 (UP) — Mayor Norman C. Stevens of this | city dispatched a telegram to Wash- ington to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh | inviting the New York-Paris flyer to visit Hartford and congratulat- | ing him on his flight. The message read: g ‘“Congratulations and best wishes from Hartford. Entire city rejoices with you on wonderful achievement. 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