New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Week Ending July zln 5 A 14.734 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923 —TWENTY PAGES. GOVERNOR SMITH WILL RECEIVE HIS OFFIGIAL NOTIFICATION ON STEPS OF NEW YORK GAPITOL AUGUST 22ND Ceremony to Start at 7P.M,E. D.T. and Be Broadcast Will Throughout Nation— Will Consume Hour and Half. Says He Has Heard Claim of Republi- can Strength New York So Many Times “It’s Stale” Nominee Albany, N Y, July 24 (P)—Gov- ernor Smith will be notified of his |nomination Wednesday evening, | August The ceremony, which the state capitol here, and will be broadcast by a nationwide network of radio stations, will begin at 7 p. m. pected to last about one half and a half. Dificultics Over After considerable difficulty in making radio arrangements he- cause of the necessity of shifting fixed programs, annonncement -that | & definite time for broadcasting the notification ceremony had been agreed upon was made today by Governor Smith: The democratic presidential nom- inee said that while he had not be- gun actual drafting of his accept- ised to touch on all campaign is- sues he figured it would take an hour for delivery. He also calculat- ed that Senator Pittman of Nevada fication speech and that another 15 minutes would be required for “in- cidental business.” Is Satisfactory Governor Smith, in response to an inquiry whether the time allotted fhim was satisfactory, replied: | “Most assuredly.” Due to the difference in time the broadcasting of his notification cere- mony on the Pacific coast will be- | gin at 3 p. m. By holding his notification four wecks from tomorrow night Gover- nor Smith will delay his exposition of campaign issues until after Her- hert Hoover and Senator Curtis, the | two republican standard bearers, have been notified. (Continued on Page 15) CATTLE STAMPEDE IN KANSAS CITY STREETS Police and Motorists Stage Many Exciting Rodeos in Downtown Area “Kansan City, July 24 (P—Fifty head of Hereford cattle stampeded through the streets here early today, Banta Fe freight train two blocks from the Union station. The police [and motorists staged many exciting impromptu rodeos in the downtown district. * train’s locomotive left the rails, and | three cattle cars were wrenched open. The frightened stock scatter- d in all directions, and soon ‘he police were deluged with telephone ealls from excited residents. rounded up at an early hour, and reports indicated the excited cattle [had reached the outlying residence section: vicinity of the Muehlebach hotel at ‘welfth and Baltimére streets, after | hey had fallen on the sidewalk, ex- jhausted by the chase. Several others | ere herded into vacant lots in that ction, and guards postedto keep hem from escaping. | A wild steer dashed through a Iplate glass window into a downtown arage and horned several cars. imid attendants gathered, but none dared approach the wild-eyed bo- vine, which finally crashed through nother window and fled up an ey Another panic-stricken steer was | nocked down by, a street car at 3th and Main streets, but got to its ect apparently unhurt and escaped. Denny Spillane, special officer for‘ the Kansas City Public 8ervice Com- pany, and street car workers impris- oned two spirited steers in a steel rage at the company's headquart- ra at Fifteenth and Grand streets. Twenty patrolmen bulldogzed an- pther animal on the north ‘side near the city hall. Tying the animal to pump, the men scattered in pur- it of other cattl Hucksters at he city market ined late-going musement seekers in capturing a| ow in that vicinity. Another was corraled in a drive- ay nedr the post office, while the hpnimal that caused havoc by enter- ng a drugstore on the Union station | will take pace on the east steps of | eastern daylight time, and is ex- | lance speech in which he had prom- | 'would need 15 minutes for his noti- | Hoover's cere- | following the midnight wreck of a | Nine cars were piled up when the | Only a few of the cattle had been | Two steers were captured in the | British Golf Star is Three Up at End | | | resign at a meeting of the directors SMITH DEVIATES FROM GUSTOM BY KEEPING SILENT {Democratic Nominee IS Aloof | aud Holds But Few Political Conferences as Yet — MAINTAINS TOUCH WITH RASKOB BY TELEPHONE | Robinson, Pittman, Tydings, Hawes | and Byms Are Only Congressional Leaders Who Have Visited New York Governor at Home In Albany —Will Confer With Leaders as Campaign Develops, Albany, N. Y., July 24 (P—De- viating from the customary course of | presidential nominees, ~ Governor | Smith has kept pretty much to him- self since his selection as the demo- cratic standard bearer. For nearly | tour weeks ago, he has held relative- [ly few polit portance, | While it has been his wish that ‘fer the present at least conferences be held to a minimum, almost daily | he is 1n contact with old friends, ad- | visers of long standing, and from |time to time he has talked over the outlook with some party leader, there have been none of the pilgrim- ages to the home of the nominee as usually is the case. after a political convention, As they returned from Houston, various confidants of the governor |called on him here and gave first | reports of the proceedings in Tex s. Two weeks ago, when the pressing question with party leaders was the selection of a new chairman of the national committee and campaign directors the nominee went to New York and for several days had a ser- ies of conferences with several score of the higher-ups in democratic pol- ities. Uses Telephone Since then the new chairman, John J. Raskob, has not felt it ne- cessary to come to Albany to talk things over with his closest friend, | the governor, and their discussion of | campaign organization and strategy has hun mainly over the telephone. ay, as he rests here breparatory to getting down to ac- | tual work on his acceptance speech, that Smith is keeping in touch with his managers who are conducting opetations from New York. Several weeks ago, he had as a house guest over the week-end Sena- tor Pittman, of Nevada, who was chairman of the Houston convention platform committee and will be head of the committee that will notify Gov. Smith of his nomination here | four weeks Tence. Pittman a few | weeks ago returned from an over- night visit to discuss plans for the notification ceremo: See Robinson During Pittman’s first visit, Sena- {tor Robinson of Arkansas, Smith's running mate, stopped off on his way to the New York national commit. | tee meeting for a brief exchange of greetings. He was accompanied by | Jesse H. Jones, of Houston, former finance director for the democratic committee. Last week Gov. Smith had as over- night guests Senators Tydings of | Maryland and Hawes of Missouri, |and Representative Byrns, of Ten- nessee, ranking democra¢ on sthe house appropriations committee, but that is the extent to which congres- sional leaders have thus far been here for pow-wows." The presidential nominee, however (Continued on Page 16.) - COMPSTON AGAIN HAS | SOMETHING ON HAGEN of First Nine Holes of Play Today Wayland, Mass., July 24 (P — Archie Compston, English golf star, was three up on Walter Hagen at, the end of the first nine holes today | in their special 36 hole match at the | Sandy Burr Counfry club. The British professional, who gave | Hagen an overwhelming defeat in their match in England last spring, | took the lead by one stroke on the first hole and continued to increase | it as the match progressed. His | total of 35 for the nine holes was one under par. Compston gained his advantage on the greens where Hagen's putting | was unsteady. The scores were: . 45343544335 . 56343455538 Commtan increased his lead on the 10th hole with a three while Hagen took a four. 5 After playing 36 holes on the Sandy Burr course today, Compston and Hagen will complete the match tomorrow with _an additional 36 hole at the Westchester club, New 1 conferences of im- | TRUCK SNUFFS OUT LIFE OF GIRL, 17 Leaves Highway and Plunges Into Party of Tourists DRIVER THOUGHT DOZING Victim Standing at Roadside Talking to Grandfather When Big Freight Vehicle Runs Amuck Near Nor- walk-Darien Line. Norwalk, July 24 (P—Gladys Magnus, 17, was killed this morn- ing as she stood by the automobile of her parents, parked off the Boston post road, by a truck from Newark, N. J., driven 26, negro, of that city. 3 family party on a vacation from Montcalm, W. Va., to Ded- ham, Mass., two automobiles carry- |ing her parents, grandparents and lothers. These machine had drawn off the concrete surface of the high- way and parked the roadside. The truck also headed towards New Haven approached and swerved off the concrete and sideswiped by stood talking with her grandfather, John Goodwin of Switzback, W. Va. The girl died almost immediately. Dolan, who was arr on a charge of manslaughter to await finding by the coroner and also on the charge of improper registration, was unable to explain why his truck left the road, just at that point. The police were of the opinfon | that Dolan was asleep or dozing as {he came up the highway and sud- denly awakened and lost control of the steering wheel. His truck was laden with goods for New Haven and Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Magnus and their party were to visit Benjamin North in Dedham, but decision was made | their daughter's body could be sent forward. The accident occurred the Darfen line. TRAGING PHONE CALL IN ATTACK ON RIX, Manchester C. of C. Official Abused by Man Posing as Dolan close by | A new situation In the Chamber of Commerce wrangle occurred to- day when George E. Rix. executive secretary of the Manchester Cham- [ber of Commerce and a member of the executive committee of the Com- mercial Secretaries’ association of Connecticut, arrived at the local amber with the report of a tele- phone conversation yesterday. He isaid some one called him up, and claiming to be Patrolman Thomas C. Dolan, chairman of the program committee, used insulting, abusive and even threatening language. He did not know the person who made the call, but since the man used Mr. | Dolan’s name, he felt the patrolman should know about the incident. A conference between Steve Robb, Mr. Rix, Secretary Benson, Patrol- man Dolan and Sergeant Patrick McAvay took place in the Chamber rooms at which time the police of- ficials stated they would Investigate with a view to ascertaining the! source of the call. Mr. Dolan announced that solici- tation ‘for the program has been concluded and the booklet goes to press today. It will have about wo; pages, he said. President W. E. Attwood of the Chamber of Commerce will be in- vited to reconsider his decision to | this afternoon. Mr. Attwood offered his resignation to the Chamber fol- lowing a meeting of the directors when the board officially approved of Secretary Benson's activities against advertising in the program for the state police convention here an August’ 8. It was the belief today that the retiring president should be given (he courtesy of being asked to re- | consider before steps are taken to find his successor. Who the new | president will be, provided Mr. Att- wood stands by his action, is prob- lematical. Mr. Robb. first vice president, stated today that he cannot be pre- vailed upon to accept the position, although it is likely the directors will ask him to continue as acting president until a new president is selected. Mr. Robb pointed out that he has been advocating the selection of a younger man for president, and while he has -not been classified among the older generation, he says by Lawrence Dolan, | trip | one | 1 | machine beside which Miss Magnus N Plainville Cle Rev. L. O. Melville, Rector Death in New Ha Concord. N. H.. July 24 (M—Rev. Leonard O. Melville, of Plainville, Conn., was killed today when an automobile driven by his wife over- turned on the state road in Chiches- ter, near this city. Mrs. Melville was taken to a hospital here, where it was reported that her injuries were not serious. Plainville, July 24.—Rev. Leonard | 0. Melville, who was killed in an shire today, was rector of the Church of Our Saviour (Episcopal). ' automobile accident in New Humpm rgyman Is Killed When Automobile Turns Turtle of Episcopal Church, Meets mpshire Accident, He was graduated from Berkeley | Divinity school in Middletown in June, 1927, and came to Plainviile | immediately to assume the pastorate of the local church. He had been | | supplying the puipit here for about | |a year at that time, the pastorate | having been vacant since the resig- nation of Rev. George 1. Browne in |1926. He was called here on Janu- ary 17, 1927, Mr Melville was ahout 57 years| of age. Besides his wife he is sur- |vived by two sons. Frederick and John and onje brother in the south. YANKEE YAGHT 1§ FIRST INTO PORT Queen of Spain (GIVEN GREAT WELCOME Student Crew On Winner Startles | Royalty By Giving Him Noisy | Ovation As Vessel Slips Past— Miss Magnus was a member of a* E Left New York Harbor July 7, | American yacht Nina, contesting for the cup offered by the queen of Bp; | for a race of small yachts from New York to this port, came into harbor at 3:30 p. m. A fleet of other vessels escorted the winner which flew the flag of Spain from r foremast, I ina crossed the finishing | ne at the entrance to the harbor at 66:52. As she came down through \flw long lane of gaily decorated | leraft that had gathered here to a(‘s,'n*f‘l the American boats, she passed ‘.1|\d residential section. [the yacht of the King of Spain. | Spanish royalty was a bit surprised | but was nevertheless pleased by the | vociferous greeting given to King Al | tongo from the student crew of the | | Nina. They used megaphones so as to make sure that their voices | would carry. Coliege Men In Crew The Nina, owned and comymarded | belongs to L. Carpentler, trucker, of /by Paul Hammond, veteran yachts- | |man, and manned by a crew of | Princeton, Yale and Harvard stu- dents, salled from New York on midnight June 30. Other entries in to return home at once as soon as | the race were the Pinta, the Isabella | and the Mohawk. The Mohawk was the scrafch boat, giving the Nina an | allowance of 28:50:39. Her allowance over the Pinta is 110:21:11. The Isabella was the smallest boat in the race but she was dismasted at sea early in the contest and her crew was taken back o New York by an oil steamer. With the Isabella out of the con- test and the two other boats giving lengthy time allowances to the Nina, there was no doubt of her being the victor in the long race. Others In Oraft Besides Mr. Hammord the crew consisted of Lawrence M. Lombard, (Continued on Page 17) ‘Nina Captures Cup Offered by tander, Spain, July 24 (P—The | ain | GARRANZA SLEEPS WITH NOTED DEAD Mexican Flier Buried in Historic Cemetery FLOWERS STREW PATHWAY Body Ts Borne to Dolores Grave- yard Which Has Scction Reseryed for Foremost Figures in Country's History. Mexico City, July 24 (P — The |body of Captain Kmilio Carranza. whose good will flight to the Unite States brought him both success to Do-! land death, today was borne R i [for the foremost figurcs in his country’'s history. | ‘The procession began from the war department wing of the na- |tional palace where the body had lain in state since yesterda |through the heart of the business All night an‘ a guard of honor had | maintained over his coffin and hun- | ! dreds of persons passcd through the | room. ; Dwight W. Morrow, ambassador to Mexico, American was one of {can army officers who had escorte been | the first to reach the war depart- ment and soon after came Ameri- | piITQ ‘n M0y o RASKOB MOTORY i ¢ ,L;.. 1S Jnap, d 1By, “ LAGOSTEHITS AT HOOVER WILL MEET U, 5. COMMITTEE: CONG. TILSON IN This ceumry \ TILDEN BAN T0 REMAIN| ! | French Star Announces France | ‘Would Than Have Determine Where Sen, Jobn- | son May Be Best Used 1,200 STANFORDITES SERENADE CANDIDATE Men and Women Students Rather Lose Davis Cup Tilden Out of the Title Play. | i Auteuil, France, July 24 () — | Rene Lacoste has decided he will not defend his American tennis | | championship this year and will not | Ationd- {proceed to the United States with| ing Summer School Stage Huge | the remainder of the French team 3 |next month, he announced today. Demonstration For Nominee in | Lacoste insisted the decision Was| pront of Home—Candidate Ob. {not prompted by the Franco-Amer- | ican controversy concerning the barring of Big Bill Tilden from the viously Pleased Thanks Them For with political leaders were playing a mateh in the infer- | Mayor James Rolph, Jr., club championships was that France |the homecoming celebr was taking a shot back at the |given in his honor by United States Lawn Tennis associa- | co, probably on Friday. tion for the disqualification of Til- Politics formed the subject of con den which the French consider I\;us‘f»‘rmu s the republican president | practically wrecked interest in the |candidate had arranged with M challenge round for the Davis cup, Worthington Scranton, national com- held by France for the first time mitteewoman from /in_ history. and with concerning tion to be an Francis Lacoste’s father volunteered the |Connecticut, republican leader on {information that Rene was greatly | the house of representatives, and {upset at the disqualification of Til. ¢hairman of the ‘eastern speakers’ bureau. lden which deprives the French star o One of the questions which Tilson of what he saw as another chancc fo show his superiority over Amer- « ranking No. 1 player. “I am rather sorry at Rene's de- cision,” said his father. “] would ator Hiram Johnson of Californis can be used to the hest advantage during the campaign; | 9 - redvul g Il be af more {be Dody from New Yotk to Mex- naye liked to have him Gring. thel oyos *LIBARICGIITbS §T: Jeo Clty, high Mexican officials and | American ~champfonship cup_ back | soros 19 the mation | Sebastian Carranza, father of the (5 prance after his third o e | dead airman. | Crowds View Cortege Great crowds, almost as large as | those which saw the arrival of the body in Mexico City vesterday, | packed the streets. Government of- Ifices and busincss houses were closed. The casket, still covered with the Mexican and United States flags, | Iwas' showered with flowers b, | thousands along the route to the cemetery. Troops from the presidentil | {guards and from the military acad- | Sits thrisiea e it ot s A | | preceded the caisson on which the coffin was carried. Following the calsson came the automobiles of (Continued on Page 17) Extremely ! quantities which suggested a cloud- burst,- accompanied by wind, light- ning and hail, fell upon New Haven early this morning while for the most part the rest of the state had a storm which fell far short of the intensity which marked it here. The wind wrought® much havoc among trees and in turn falling tops | and limbs carried down many wires. | The Southern New England Tele- phone company had over a thousand stations put out of commission in the New Haven division but it also re- ported that shore towns had little or no damage, In Quinnipiac avenue, a tree in falling, tore down the electric light wires, a trolley line feeder and a telephone cable.” In other streets, in the Fair Haven eection, tree limbs carried down the telephone wires. | The weather bureau gave the rainfall at 2.4 inches. Train . 30, carrying mail and newspapers from New York to Bos- ton was delayed four hours neaor Cedar Hill when the front trucks of the engine left she tracks, and 14/ other trains were thrown off sched- ule because of the tracks iIn the | New Haven cut being under water | and the electric signalling system in- | operative, The storm gave the ffre depart- ment a busy few hours. Truck No. 6 went to Humphrey street under- | pass and took 15 persons off a south- bound intercity bus and Engine No. 2 was called to 59 Grove street, New Haven Struck by Torrential Rain Early Today; Loss Will Be Heavy for Utilities - Wind Reaching Gale Intensity Blows Down Trees On | Top of Wires, Putting a Thousand Phones Out of Commission — Windows Broken, Cellars Flooded and Streets Washed Out. New Haven, July 24 (#—Rain in |in on the fire department from per- sons all over the city. Police reported windows broken all over the city by falling branches | and an exceptionally heavy tree limbh crashed in a corner of the house at Orchard street and Edgewood ave- nue. City streets were lit hard and the | pavement and part of the sidewalk in Edgewood avenue between the West river bridge and Yale avenue, was washed out. « Ansoma Hard Hit Ansonia, July 24 (®—The terrific electrical storm which city at one o'clock this morning was the worst ever experienced accord- ing to old time residents, damage done lo the streets in the form of washouts being estimated at thous- ands of dollurs. Trolley lines we blocked by the storm while electric light and tclephone service was crippled. Numerous trees were blown down by the wind traveling at 70 miles an hour, while panes of glass were shattered. No injuries were reported. Over an inch and a half of rain fell in this section, the greatest amount of the damage done being to highways. * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair tonight Wednesday, not much change where two aged women were held prisoners in their basement apart- ment by the storm waters. A short circult due to the storm waters ,caused a fire in the apart- | ment house at 335 Orange street | owned by Charles P. Judge. The fiames traveled from the basement he has passed the jazz age, and the Chamber today needs men of the laza escaped. York, Jazz age. to the second floor before they were squeiched and caused considerable in temperature, HIGH TIDE — JULY 25 EReters New Haven 6:31 am, New London 4:35 a.m., damage. Requests for pumps poured struck this ' and | victory | (t‘ontmurd on r'u:o 17) ROSENDAHL INSPECTS GERMAN DIRIGIBLE Expects to Fly Across At- lantic in LZ 127—Maiden Flight Soon campaign ma iuz to stump for ragers to say where he the national ticket luring such time as he can spare o, Vit oo lign for reele | tion here in California. Not in Accord While the senior California sena- for has come out for the Hoover- Curtis ticket, there are more than surface indications that he and the republican presidential nominee are not entirely in accord with respect o the activities of the public utili- |ties associations, the “power trust" |as the senator describes it. Whether Mr. Hoover will touch | upon that question in his acceptance address on August 11 remains to be seen, but the general impression | here is that he will not, since the re- | publican platform makes no mention | of it and the nominee is expected to confine himself to an interpretation of that platform. Senator Johnson's informal state- ments to the newspaper cor- respondents after his talk with Mr. Hoover served only to strengthen the belief that the nominee seck to make thiz subject a cam- paign issue. The California senator, who has heen more often opposed to the Hoover policies in the pa than in favor of them, said that it was for Mr. Hoover to state the is- sue He added. make the “power t his own campaign. The senator at- tributes to the “power trust” effec- ichshaven, Germany, ) Commdr, Charles HoesuAatLiT & N, comisancs oo I'the American dirigible Los Angeles today Inspected the 1.2-127 on which he hopes to fly back to the United States, He conferred with Dr. Hugo | Eckner who will be in charge of the cppelin Leviathan on its voy- 0ss the Atlantic. The two dirigible experts discussed especially the fucl supply demands | which r t be met in the United | state also took up the mat- | ter of an auxiliary crew to be picked from the personnel of the station at Lakehurst, N, J. The maiden flight of the big craft, which was recently christened the | Grat Zeppelin in honor of .the man who built up this type of air vessel, [is now planned for carly in August. ' Postponement of this initial flight Fried J \ll\ however, that he would tion on his Boulder Canyon was due to the necessity of con- | bill, which has failed of passage in | | structing a specia it to manu- — cture a new fuel gas which will « onlllm.ui on Page 16.) be employed, IPor the flight to America the ship will be manned by a crew of 40 divided into three watches under Captains Lehmann, Flemming and Whittman. The navigators will be Captains Von Schiller, Pruss and Scherz. One of the helmsmen will be Dr. Eckener's son who has been training for the voyage for somi time, Former Mayor Expected to Be Elect- ed Chairman of T'aonessa’s Committee Tomorrow George A. Quigley, former mayor. who headed the last committee ap- pointed to survey high school ac- commodations is expected to be clected chairman of the mayor's new inquiry committee when it meets to- morrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the suggestion of Mayor Paonessa. Mr. Quigley and the four other committeemen who served with him Lakehurst, 3 —The 1 navy dirigi Angeles and the two smaller non- rigid dirigibles J-3 and J-4 left the naval air station here at 9:30 a. m Itoday on a training flight which may take them over New York city. The Los Angeles, in command of Licutenant Commander H. V. Wil- J., July | 1e¥, carried 50 officers and men. The . | e s i i " then are already in possession of {two smaller ships each carried five| |, "intormation on matters of B school building which they gathered 73 % during the survey of 1423. At that iCoast Guard Inquiry Into time clementary” and junior high ) N 3 G schools were the topics of chief {Crash With Steamer Ended-; consideration, but certain funda- New London, July guard board of inves pointed here has completed in the investigation of the between the coast guard ultimate decision. Davis , Navigation company passenger | Ao Crash in Elm City ite: er Concord which occurred the | night . Results in Man’s Arrest night of July 15 in Long lsland | sound, but no report is yet avail-| Hamden, July 24 UP—A collision able for the public, it was said at the | of automobiles in Whitney avenue coast guard headquarters here to- |last night brought slight injuries to day. Commander L. T. Chalker of the ' ters, Irene and Georgette, of Water- coast guard destroyer forqe said bury. and arrest of Walter B. Mayne, that the report will have to be ap=|of Mount Vernon. N. Y., operator of proved by national coast guard head- | the other machine on a charge of quarters at Washington before the |driving while under influence of result of the finding is released. liquor, (P —A coast | yental facts such as geographical | center, center of school population, districts under development, et crash destroyer asing here, and the Colonial | ot an issue in ! | tive opposition to congressional ac- | pE 1 DA | many days before definite word can ! avis cup challenge round. He said | Tribute. he made up his mind several weeks | Siauton Wnivarlty. Bal a0is st i , | (P —Herbert Hoover divided his ji The general interpretation of La-|(ine again between work on his ad. coste’s action at the stadium here | grogs of acceptance and conferences ywhere Lacoste and Jean Borotra Pennsylvania, | and Representative John Tilson of | girectors. will have to determine is where 8en- | “Dear Alfred” sald whether his finance committee, Senator Johnson has left it to the | | QUIGLEY MAY HEAD QUIZ |c ON H. S. ACCOMMODATIONS, | iIssue Orders to “Bring PRICE THREE CENTS WDRK WITH GENERAL * R T0 DEVOTE HIS ENTIRE TIME T0 SMITH'S CAMPAIGN Resigns as Chairman of the Finance Commit- tee and Also from the ‘Won't Defend Tennis Title m EflNH’:RENEE T[ll]AY M"“"""'"P in “;Cf Executive Body Gonneeucut G. 0. P. Leader lo Corporation. Understood That He Will Resume Posts After Election — Remains as Vice President and Di- rector of Automobile Concern. New York, July 24 (®—John J. liaskob, chairman of the democratic national committee, has resigned the two committee posts he has held with the General Motors Corporation and will devote his time to the po- litical campaign. The resignations, which have been accepted by the company, and an- rounced today, covered the chair- nmanship of the finance committee nd membership in the General Motors executive committee. They were tendered in a letter sent by Mr, skob yesterday to Alfred P. Sloan, president of the corporation. Will Resume Duties It is understood that he will re- sume his duties with General Motors after the November election. Mean- while, he will remain as vice presf- dent and a member of the board of The correspondence between Mr, ‘!‘.nfllmb and Mr. Sloan was made public today at the General Motors |um<‘os. | Raskob's letter, addressed to “T am tendering you herewith my ignation as chairman of our a8 a member thereof, and as a member of the o the cxecutive eommittee, effective as of date hereof. “Take Al My Time” “In the first place, I find that the duties imposed upon me ax chairman ot the national democratic commit- tee are such as to take all of my time and effort during the ensuing presidential campaign. “Moreover, it is desirable for the public to know, everybody in General Motors should appreciate, that the corporation is not, and in {the nature of things cannot.be, in | politics. While all of its officers and Ithe (Continued on Page 15) MOUNTED POLICE T0 AID U. 5. GEOLOGISTS Them Home” From I Canadian Wilds will not 1 Regina, Sask., July 24 UP—The | Royal Canadian mounted police has I'been ordered to intercept and re- turn to civilization four Americhn geologists lost in northern Saskatche ewan. Word of the dangerous plight of the four yvoung Americans was car- ried to the far flung stations of the mounted police by telephone and ra- dio, but it is expected it will be be obtained from the expedition. The party is headed by.oJhn Full er, 21 years old, of Keokuk, Ia., and included Peder Boddum, , of stal Lake, and Gordon Armstrong of Birtt, Ta., and Max J. Kane, of Towa City. They left the Pas, Manitoba, en June € and three weeks ago were found to be in dire straits near the Reindeer Lake region of Northera Saskatchewan. The mounted police have been ordered to escort the par- v to safety as their credit balanee are expected to play a part in the | Mre. Catherine Drever and daugh- | is said to be exhausted and they are technically dependent on the do- main. FRANZ ROMER ROWING 10 U. S. NEARS GOAL Who Left Lisbon, Portugal March 3 is off Bermuda Reports Say. Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany, July 24.—(M—Franz Romer, whe left Lisbon of March 3 in an attempt to row across the Atlantic in a col- lapsible boat, was several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda on July 18. This was reported to the firm here which built Romer's craft by promised today that he would intro- Eplduaro. The radio despatch from the steamer said that Romer was sighted at 23 1.2 degrees north latitude and 53 degrees west longi- tude. The boat which he is rowing ts 2t feet long and 3 feet beam, The mes- sage sald the boat was in sound ‘condition and that Romer hoped .$8 reach the American coast by up the Guilf stream. He is {ing for a prise of $385,000, 5 Man B o L A