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WEATHER.
il : S. Wrather Bureau Forecast.)
Parity cloudy tonight, and tomor
row; .slightly cooler tonight.
Temperatures: Highest. 70, at It
a.in. today: lowest, 54, at 8 p.m. yes
terday. Full report on page 7.
Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30
t Ku. 2DJ52. Ta-shingfo” m i?“£
NATIONALS LEAD, 6-3,
IN DECISIVE BATTLE
OF WORLD SERIES
Aldridge Is Yanked After Allow-!
ing Two Runs in First Frame
With One Out.
J
soggy field and cloudy skies
, FAIL TO CAUSE POSTPONEMENT
Stands Are Jammed Early Despite’ Rain
TJiat Threatened to Force Further
Delay in Conflict. -
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LINE-UP.
PITTSBURGH. WASHINGTON.
Moore. 21*. Rice, cf.
( arey. cf. S. Harris, 2b.
Cuvier, rt. Goslin. If.
Barnhart. If. J. Harris, rs..
Travnor. 3l>. Judge, lb.
* W right, ss. Rluege, 3b.
Mclnnis. 11*. Peck. ss.
Smith, c. Ruel. c.
Aldridge, p. Johnson, p.
Morrison, p.
I tnpires—McCormick behind plate. Moriarty on first. Rigler <
on second. Owens on third.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON, j
SiMirts Kdltor, Th* Star.
hORRh.S FIELD, Pittsburgh. October 15.—The Champions j
led the Pirate in the fourth inning today.
The score was 6-3.
I louds again hovered over Forbes Field as the Nationals ami
Pirates prepared for the game to decide w hether the Griff men
y w ould retain their w orld championship for another year or re
linquish it to the Buccaneers. Due to the hard rain, which neces
sitated a postponement yesterday, the outfield was soggy to the
point of slipperiness, and the diamond, although covered during
the downpour by a huge canvas, was exceedingly slow, although
not actually mtiddv.
RAIN STARTS TO FALL.
To give the players dry footing on the ground immediately in j
front of the benches sawdust was liberally strewn. Some 20 min- ;
utes prior to the time for the game to start a light drizzle set in,!
just as was tli^case yesterday. Preparations were immediately j
made by the groundkeeper’s crew to get the tarpaulin ready to |
spread over the infield. While this was in progress the Washing- j
ton players ran to their positions to take their fielding practice. !
Five minutes later the drizzle stopped as suddenly as it had started, j
•which evoked loud cheers from cash customers in the numerous]
uncovered seats. A shout from tlie spectators greeted the appear- ;
lance of Walteer Johnson and Vic Aldridge as they started to j
warm up. I his settled a doubt as to the identity of the rival!
pitchers.
In an effort to foil any jH»ssihle further machinations of the j
weather man the national anthem was played before the usual]
lime, and the contest actually got under way one minute ahead j
of the scheduled starting hour.
FIRST INMMi.
AVASUIXOTO.N —Rice fouled a|
strike to left on Aldridge's first deliv
ery. Sam connected with the next
pitch for a bounder, which went over
second for a single. Stan Harris died
to Barnhart on the first ball pitched.
Ooslin inspected two balls and on the
third, a wild pitch that hit the dirt
and bounded to the stands. Rice gal
loped to second base. (Joslin took one
t strike and then another ball, which
gave him free transportation to first.
The third ball to Joe Harris was an
other wild pitch. This one also hit
the dirt in front of Smith, permitting
Rice to take third anti Goslin second.
Another wide one and Joe* Harris
walked, filling the bases. Aldridge
hurled one bail to Judge hefore lo
cating the plate. Two more balls fol
lower). Aldridge got the next, one over.
Judge then fouled three into the right
field stands before receiving a high
fourth bail, forcing Rice over with
the first run of the contest. With the
Pirate infield drawn in. Rluege had a
count of one and two when he lined
a single against the left-field screen,
scoring Goslin and leaving the bases
loaded. Aldridge then was withdrawn.
Morrison taking his place in the box
for the Pirates. Morrison's first de- j
livery was a low one that hit the j
dirt, hut which Smith stopped. On |
the next hall pitched Peck bounded
to Wright, who tossed to Moore, fore
ling Bluege at second as Joe Harris
scored. Fmpire-in-chief McCormick
ruled that Smith had interfered with I
Peck, the put-out of Bluege thereby
being voided and the bases remaining j
filled. Ruel rolled to Moore, who sum- j
bled and missed retiring the batsman j
at first. Judge scoring and the cor- j
tiers continuing to he crowded. John
son's bunt at Morrison's initial deliv
ery rolled foul on the first-base line.
Walter then fouled another and then
fanned with a third swing. Rice had
a coufct. of two and two when he lined
to Barnhart. Four runs.
PITTSBT'RGH Moore popped a i
foul strike on Johnson's first deliv-!
ery. He tapped the next ope to John-1
son. who flagged him at first. It was
evident the Pirates intended trying to j
take advantage of Johnson's injured;
leg by laying the ball down to make i
him move around as much as possi- j
|hie. Carey took one bail and two |
strikes. After looking over two wide
ones. Carey fouled and then lined a
double to right field, Cuyler missed
three straight swings and sat dotvn.
Barnhart swung for two strikes, the
second being a foul, and then missed
. a third. Johnson hawng retired the I
last pair of Pirates tip on six consec
utives pitches. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON Morrison hurled
three witje ones to Stan Harris before
getting one over. Bueky took another
good one and then Hied to right field,
t'uyler bar king up against the barrier
to take tile ball. Goslin took two
strikes, after getting one bail, and
then flied to center, where Carey made
a nice running catch. Joe Harris
swung for a strike, after getting two
balls. Another wide one followed.,
whereupon Moon rolled to Wright,
who tossed him out at first. No runs.
PITTSBURGH—Johnson's first de
livery to Traynor was wide. He put
I she next one over and then Traynor
fouled a second strike. One more wide
one and Traynor hounded softly to the |
box. Johnson's throw to Judge was
]
wide, but Joe contrived to grab the I
, .sphere and lunged to the bag to tag I
anti gel the decision from Moriarty. j
Wright had two strikes, one of them j
a foul, and took one l»all before j
bounding a single over second base. j
Melnnis hail one ball when he dupli
cated Wright’s safety, the latter pull
ing up at second. Smith missed one
strike, took a hall and then hit into
a double play. Stan Harris taking his
bounder, tagging Melnnis on the line
as he sped by and then tossing to
Judge. No runs. •
THIRD INNING.
WASHINGTON —Judge took one ;
ball and then rifled a single to right |
center. Bluege fouled in an effort to
' sacrifice before popping to Moore. ;
Peck took one strike and fouled an
other. and after getting two balls he t
looped a little fly to short right, where !
t'uyler made a sensational diving j
catch. He throw to first, however, was I
wild. Judge galloping to second as the J
liall bounded to the Pirate dug-out.
Ruel had a count of two and two (
when he made Carey back up for his |
liner. The crowd cheered Cuyler for |
his sensational catch as he trotted to '
the bench. No runs.
PITTSBURGH—M or r ison missed i
I one swing and then looped a little:
| fly to short center for a single. Moore j
; look one bail and then lined a double •
to left center, scoring Morrison, as i
the fans roared with delight. Carey |
hit the first ball pitched for a single:
to center, scoring Moore, and the i
j tumult in the stands increased. Guy-j
j let- missed a swing at a wide honk.
'On the hit-and-run play, with the j
count of one and one on him. Cuyler |
! roiled to i’eck. who tossed him out *
at first, Carey taking second. On the'
third ball to Barnhart, Carey executed :
a clean steal of third. Max getting
such an enormous lead that Ruel did j
not even attempt to throw. Johnson
slipped one strike over on Barnhart, j
The latter met the next delivery for j
a Texas l.eague single to right that i
: scored Carey and brought the Pirates' !
I run total up to within one of the!
. Nationals. Johnson hurled two wide
I ones before getting a strike over on '
i Traynor. Pie then tolled to Peck. !
who forced Barnhart with a toss to >
Stan Harris. Only a wide throw by I
! the latter to Judge prevented a double I
j play. Wright then lofted to Stan Hat- !
ris on the first ball pitched. Three j
runs.
FOURTH INNING.
WASHINGTON—A faint misty rain I
had been falling during the last in- j
ning and low hanging clouds made it j
quite dark. Johnsan had two strikes i
and one hall when he flied high to I
Carey. Rice answered the booes that I
greeted his appearance with a sharp j
single' to right, after he had fouled
one strike and taking a hall. It was
Sam's second safety so the day. Stan*
Harris fouled two strikes, with a ball .
sandwiched in between, and then took !
an inside hook, which Umpire McCor
mick declared a strike. Goslin inspect-!
ed a low hall, tok a pair of curved
strikes and then iined a single to left.
Rice heat Barnhart's throw to Tray
nor at third and Goslin galloped on
, to safety at second ahead of Traynor's
throw to Moore. Joe Harris took one
strike and a ball and then lined a dou
ble to right center, scoring Rice and
Goslin and bopsting Washington’s lead |
to three runs. Judge waited out the
full string, and after fouling one oft I
j lined to Cuyler, who made a running i
'catch in right center. Two tuns. I
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V V J V V WITH SUNDAY MOENING EDITION V-/
WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1925-SIXTY-FOUR PAGES. -»»
GERMANY ACCEPTS
RHINE GUARANTEE
PACT WITH ALLIES
Will Sign With France and
Belgium, With Britain and
Italy as Guarantors.
MUSSOLINI IS GUARDED
FROM SOCIALIST FOES |
Outbreak Feared Against Italian
Premier When He Arrives
in Locarno.
, Rr lh» Prr...
MM'ARN'O. Switzerland. October to.;
Germany today officially announced
| her adhesion to the Rhine pact of mu
j twal guarantees, framed at the se ;
: enrity conference here, with the ohjeot
of outlawing war. The pact will lie
j signed hv Germany. France and Bel
i simn as the principal parties and by 1
I Great Britain and Italy as guarantors. :
j After the announcement of Ger- ;
! many's adhesion the conference, at its
i eighth plenary meeting, adopted the
! text of the draft security pact.
! Socialist agitators were under strict ,
i surveillance today to prevent demon
] si rations against Premier Mussolini
j of Italy when he arrived to take part j
! In the closing scenes of the Security J
j Fact Conference.
Demonstrations Feared.
; The fact that Mussolini, when a fngi
! live from Italy early in his career, di
rected Socialist activities from Swit
zerland and is now engaged actively
j against Socialists led to fear of deni
i onsirations.
1 Among delegates to the conference
| both .Mussolini anil Austen Chamber
j lain of Great Britain are lieing hailed
I as “guardians of the temple of peace."
I since Kngland and Italy guarantee the
peaceful operation of the pact, which
Is regarded as an almost accomplished
fact.
Premier Mussolini this morning
reached Milan, whence he will proceed
to Locarno by motor car. The Fascist
chief, who was once a crack racing
driver, was expected to lake the wheel
from Milan to the conference city.
: passing oyer the famous Autostrada
j speedway.
j The police held the time of his ar
j rival here secret, to avoid, if possi
: bte. and manifestations either for or
I against Fascimo. but big crowds pa
j tientlv awaited his appearance.
Will .Stay With Friend.
|
Signor Mussolini will stay at tliei
I villa of Joseph Farinelli. a wealthy
j miller who. although living in Lo
! carno, in Swiss territory, has retained
| his Italian nationality and is an ar
j dent Fascist.
The villa is surrounded by a heau
! tiful garden which almost borders the
, hotel in which the allied delegations
j are staying.
What apparently for a time were al-
I most insurmountable ohsfubles to the
i formulation of a pact between the allies
{ and Germany seemingly at last have
| been overcome. Today t lie delegates
j to the security conference were of the
! belief that by Saturday of the present
j week an agreement will have been
signed promising peace to Kurope for
I all time.
i The German government, after hear
| ing a full report from an envoy sent
to Berlin from Locarno, regarding the
j trend of the barterings between the
allied and German delegates, is said to
have decided to place no obstacle in
the way of Chancellor Luther and For
eign Minister Stresemann in giving
effect to the agreements in principle
arrived at between them and the rep
resentatives of France, Great Britain.
Italy and Belgium.
French Carry Point.
I !
! The French desire for a guarantee
) for France's Kasrern allies, Poland
1 and Czechoslovakia, has been acceded;
! to through an arrangement for spe- j
j cial additional direct treaties between'
; them tinder which France will have j
the right to protect the territorial in-j
j tegrity of her allies and defend them |
| ing out of frontier questions would be
I many is willing to adhere to this.
1 One of the last points in the dis- i
j cussions—that regarding a formula
! ’or Germany's arbitration treaties with \
i Poland and Czechoslovakia —has been !
i bridged and now requires only the j
j sanction of all the delegates,
j A solution of the problem of the !
I Polish-German arbitration treaty has j
practically been reached by enlarging j
the scope of the treaty to make it I
j virtually the same as the treaties he- !
!tween Germany and France jind Ger- j
! many and Belgium. This means that ,
, all possible disputes, even those aris- :
j Ing out of frontier questions, would be
] submitted to arbitration.
The Polish and Czechoslovakian rep- i
! resentatives were invited to Join the
: meeting, it was explained, to hear a I
i statement outlining the Work of the ;
I jurists on the draft treaties of arbitra
i tion between Germany and France
• and Germany and Belgium, the texts
j of which have been adopted by the
j delegations concerned.
Keveal Parley Progress.
\ They, on their part, gave the oon
' ference an account of the advanced
j state of negotiations for the drafting j
| of arbitration treaties between Poland j
! and Germany and'Czechoslovakia and
| Germany.
It was decided to defer to a later I
j meeting discussion of the date for
| publication of all the agreements sub- ]
1 mitted to the conference for final adop- 1
! tlon.
j The official communique issued aftei
1 the meeting said:
"At today’s plenary session the con- j
I ference accepted the complete text of
the draft security pact and then the
question of arbitration treaties was
taken up. Poland and Czechoslovakia
I were invited to attend."
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LOOKING WEST! j
GOLD MINE OR BIG BUBBLE?
WHAT OF BOOM IN FLORIDA?
|D. C. Bankers Suspicions—Star Writer
Makes Impartial Study of Real
Estate K lonely ke.
Kdltor s Note—Florida today is the meoca for thousands of tourists, j
i investors and speculators who. hired by the tales of fortunes to be made 1
i there overnight, are making a pilgrimage unique in the history of the roun
| try. Their dollars, according to one school of thought, will go to swell a bubble
| which has already reached gigantic proportions.
a bubble which is sure to hurst. Their dollars. I
tu school thought,
ate giing into the development of a State
■ whose ia«j resources tualty untouched.
W Their dollars, in many cases, are Washington
to
-JO to disapt*eai
Y—i bin conditions In Florida 1
seek a
'.*.bvj Vour investment in Florida todav. if vou
' are among the thousands of Washingtonians
who have put mone\ into one of the scores of |
propositions for getting is either
safe or unsafe. This \on already know, but 1
b the
Seeking an answer to some of these ques-
I lions. \ dally interesting where \ our own money
| I -Mm.\ is concerned. The Star sent Ben McKelway,
mmmm ll( j ts editorial executives, to Florida to re-
BKN MrKEI.WAY. .... . , .
port conditions as he found them, lie was not
i instructed what to write or what not to write, llis sole mission was to por- j
I tray what he found front personal and impartial investigation. He proposes 1
] to place himself in the position of a man with a little money to invest, and !
;to judge whether oi not the investment will tie a sound one.
The article which follows is the first of his series. It was written In ■
! Washington and reflects the opinion of the Florida boom generally held by j
: men who have studied the situation at long range. How well they have ,
[ analyzed this situation may be determined by comparing what they say with j
! what Mr. McKelway finds from his study of conditions in the field. The
! remainder of the series will he run in daily installments, the second, from
! Jacksonville, to appear in tomorrow's Star.
• . ...
BY BEN McKKIAVAV.
| .Millions of Washington dollars are !
being invested in Florida real estate. I
! Mow- many millions, or how few. Is a i
| guess at best. My only authority for!
j using the figure at all is a Washington !
j hank president, who bases his estimate
| upon the withdrawals from his own
I bank and what he knows Is going on
lin others. A score or more of Florida
[land companies have opened and now
• are maintaining offices in Washington,
j From all reports they are doing good
'business. The Better Business Bureau
! has been informed of fly-by-night.
! salesmen, who hurry into town, cun
j duct house-to-house or ’'community"
CHIEF GOES TO AID
OF JAILED AVIATOR
Patrick Seeks to Have Sen
tence for Hitting Admiral’s
i
Car Changed to Fine.
j Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the
i Army Air Service, is leading a move
i ment by the military to have the sen
j fence of 30 days meted out In Traffic
I Court last night by Judge John P.
| McMahon to IJeut. John McDonald,
| stationed at Gen. Patrick's office,
! changed to a fine, if not completely
! withdrawn.
i The Army air chieftain visited Po
! lice Court today in behalf of the de
j fendant. who is now in the District
j jail because of the sentence imposed
I on the charge of leaving after collid
ing without making his identity
known.
Gen. Patrick told the court officials
1 that Lieut. McDonald had an excel
lent record, and that he wished every'
step to be taken by the court to keep
this record from bei.tg blackened. A
dishonorable discharge could result,
it was said. /
Affair Not Cloeed.
j Judge McMahon, when interviewed
J today, said that he had nothlng~to
i say relative to the matter, but admit
i led the affair was not a closed sub
| Ject.
“I have nothing to say now." he
! said. "As yet nothing has been done."
| It was learned, however, that an
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i
j .-ampaigns. and vanish as quickly as j
! They come. One man said he had sold i
! s'Jsh,o(to worth of property to Wash- j
I ingtonians in one subdivision,
i Bankers are approached every day ;
by clients on the verge of trying a J
! fling in Florida real estate, who come '
to them for advice —not always with 1
the idea of taking this advice, but who
want it just the same. Every train !
going nut of Washington for Florida j
has its quota of Washingtonians on \
board. Every real estate firm of any
size in Washington has lost some of
Its best salesmen, who have pulled
stakes and set out to make their for
tunes in a land where, common report ]
'Continued on Page 11, Column 1.)
slentarrested
IN nun THEFT
Popular Member of Law
Class “Cut” School to Rob
Mail Truck, Police Say.
By th* Associated Prep*.
LOS ANGELES. October 15.—One j
nigrht last week Robert Cargo. young '
law student, was absent from his class !
at the Polytechnic Evening High
School. The next evening he returned
and in an election for class representa
tive he was ohosen over his opponent,
Alexander Siegler. a police officer, who
also was studying law.
Police announced yesterday that
Cargo had confessed that the evening
he “cut” class he was a member of
a gang which robbed a United States
mail truck of $600,000 in money, se
curities and jewelry. He and four
others are in jail In connection with
the crime and two others are being
sought.
Federal authorities announced the
Federal grand jury had returned
Sevan secret indictments in Conner- j
tion with the robbery in which Cargo |
is alleged to have participated. The !
Government did not make public the
names, but police announced that
those held In jail In addition to Cargo
are:
Charles “Chuck" Wagner, Frank
Tesciona, alias Dago Frank, and
George A. “Jack" Davidson. Sam
Sandberg, alias Shapiro, was jailed in )
Kansas City, Mo., yesterday In the
case.
About ssoo.ooo worth of the loot
has been recovered. ,
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MACNIDER NAMED
10 HIGH WAR POST
i
Former Legion Head Is Ap
pointed Assistant Secretary
by President Coolidge. j
BY 4. RI SSRLL YOI NG.
I'ol. Hanford .MacNider of lowa.'
former commander of the American I
region, was today appointed by j
i President Coolidge to be Assistant
| Secretary of War. to succeed Dwight
; !•'. Davis, who was yesterday sworn
I in as Secretary *to succeed John \V.
! Weeks.
In making known this appoint
ment at the White House today it
; was intimated that Col. MacNider
I will assume his new duties at once.
It is thought likely that he may be
able to take the oath of office to
morrow or the next day.
That President Coolidge had made
! "I> his mind to appoint the former
I Legion head mid would do so in the j
| next day or *O, was forecast in The!
Star yesterday. It is known that the
President has high personal regard •
j lor Col. MacNider and it is expected
: that the appointment will he popu
! larly received throughout the coun-l
! 'O'-
0 Strong I j Backed for Post.
Col. MacNider was recommended
• first to the President by Senator
; * 'uinmins of lowa and by numerous!
'friends prominent in the Legion or- 1
! ganization.
‘ Col. MacNider was born in .Mason
■City, lowa, October 2. 1889. When
! he assumes his new duties lie will be
.the youngest member of wiiat is gen
erally known as "the President's little
cabinet," and will probably be the
youngest man who has held this im-I
I portant War Department post. He
! is unmarried and is prominent in the
1 banking business in .Mason City and
j in other parts of his State.
Before entering hanking Col. Mar
-1 Xider was graduated from Harvard,
j Ills first military service was in the
National (litard of lowa, and when
i President Wilson sent the troops to
the .Mexican border In 191<> he held
'the rankof first lieutenant. He was i
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U. S. EXPERTS JOIN
IN PROBE OF BLAST
Gas Tanks of Same Lot as
That Used by Killed Worker
Being Examined.
\
Michael O'Connor, employe of the
Washington Gas Light Company.!
came to his death accidentally yester
day as a result of burns sustained in
an explosion at 212 Thirteenth street,
according to a verdict of the coroner's
jury at an inquest into his death
t oda y.
Testimony adduced at the inquest
tended to show that O'Connor had just
j turned on the valves of a tank pre
i sumably containing compressed air to
! Wow out clogged up gas pipes at the
scene of the explosion when the acci
dent, occurred.
Much of the testimony was centered
on exactly what the high-pressure
tank contained, and Inspector Grover
Moore of the gaa company, as an ex
pert witness, expressed the opinion
that oxygen under high pressure would
have exploded in the tank If it had
come into contact with certain oils.
Gas Turned Off.
Other witnesses testified that there
was no smoking by any one prior to
the explosion, and that there were no
defects discovered in the gas line. The
gas meter had been taken out and the
I gas Inlet had been cut off, preventing
! gas from entering the building prior
I to the operation of blowing out the
pipes, it was testified.
Paul Thomas Collins, the helper of
the deceased workman, told the story
of his escape from injury. He said
that he had disconnected the meter
and had notified O'Connor that the gas
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Women in France
Learn Bobbing to
Cut Barber Bills
I
By the Associated Pres-.
PARIS. October 15. Homemade
haircuts and neck shaves are be
coming the regular thing in
French households where there are
several women with bobbed hair.
The expense of keeping short
hair trimmed neatly is so great,
that many women are having some !
member of their family take a j
course In haircutting so as to !
eliminate the heavy bill of the 1
hairdresser. Clippers, a safety razor
and a short course In a barber
school are considered excellent In
vestments In a family where there
are several daughters—and perhaps
a mother or an aunt or so—who
require weekly bob-trimming and
semi-weekly neck shaves.
SENATOR RALSTON
TAKEN BY DEATH
Indiana Democratic Leader
Was Mentioned Prominent
ly for Presidency.
By th* Annotated Pres*.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 15
■ —Samuel M. Ralston, junior United
i States Senator from Indiana and
j venerated patriarch of Indiana de
| mocracy, died at his estate here
' Hoosier Home, last night after an
I illness of six weeks. He was 67 rears
| »ld.
Funeral services will he held at 2
pm. next Saturday at Lebanon, Ind.
j The Senator made his home in
1 Lebanon for many years before hi® ;
. election as Governor of Indiana in :
jI!M2. .
! Death came to the Senator after
I 22 hours of unconsciousness, elimax
i tug an attack of uraemic poisoning.
, which had confined him to his bed
] since September 5 and which had
• Impaired his health since earlv this
j year.
j Members of his family and more
| than a score of intimate friend® were
gathered at the horn* to receive the
i news shortly after 11 o'clock lasi
i night that death had come. Senator
! Ralston had known for some weeks
jof h!s condition and had hade his
j family and friends farewell before
i lapsing into the unconsciousness
which preceded his death.
Mine Runner in Youth.
■ J Mine runner in his early youth.
j Ralston farmed and taught school !
| before turning to the study of law
j which opened a jKilitical career for
hint and brought him in 1912 to the
! governorsnip of Indiana and in lU2' 1
]io the United States senatorship.
I After four years in the governor's
chair Ralston had retired from poli
tics, and it was only at the behest of
close friends that he returned to the
j arena in 1922 as the party’s nominee
j against Albert J. Beveridge, Repub
lican candidate, who had defeated
j Senator Harry New, now Postmaster
• General, in the primaries. Ralston’s
; victory gave an impetus to Indiana
t Democracy which put hint forward
| last year as a candidate for the Dem
j oeratio presidential nomination.
Refused Party Nomination.
At the New' York convention in 1924 !
■ his fortunes were in the hands of
! Thomas Taggart. Democratic leader
1 and long-time personal friend of the
| Senator, who insisted on presentation
|of his name over Ralston's own
I strenuous objection.
When it appeared that his nomina
i lion would offer an egress from the
; McAduo-Smith deadlock, however, and
I support began to rally to him. Ralston
i immediately ordered withdrawal of
! his name, confiding to Taggart that
I his health was so precarious as to pre
j elude the possibility of a strenuous
j campaign.
| For several years Senator Ralston'?
t health had not been sound, and he
I had been compelled to abandon the
j rugged outdoor life which he had led
since boyhood. As late as last July,
i however, he made trips to his farms.
!of which he was in active nianage
‘ ment until late Summer. Several
i weeks ago physicians told him that
| his life depended upon his remaining
: in bed. and he failed rapidly after he
j learned that he would he bedfast,
i Senator Ralston was a lifelong Pres
byterian and revered because of the
genial honesty and sincerity which he
radiated. A man of powerful build, he
was known both as governor and Sen
ator for the vigor with which he la
bored. and he was seldom absent from
a session of the Senate until he was
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DEAD MAN DRIVES TRAIN.
!
I sYRACUSK. N. Y., October 15
: t/P).—With a dead man's hand grip
! ping the throttle, the Western Ex
; press. New York Central sleeper train
hound for Chicago, sped westward for
; a distance of nearly 15 miles early
I oday.
| Charles J. Foreman, fireman, of
I Albany, discovered his engineer, Wil
liam Venbergen. also of Albany, dead
I in the cah of the engine, with his
1 head crushed, as the flyer came
I through Minoa Yards, just east of
Syracuse. Vanbergen is believed to
j have been struck by a girder of the
f'anaatota Canal Bridge.
'Move to Raise $1,000,000 Among Fans
To Buy Club for Johnson Is Started
\
By »he Awooiated Prtas.
MUSKOGEE, Ok la., October 15. —A
movement to raise a fund among
base ball fans of America for the pur
chase of a base ball club for Walter
•lohnson, the "Big Train” of the
Washington Americans, has been
'arnched here.
The plan originated with Claude
Williford, president of the Eastern
Oklahoma Playgrounds Association
and local business man.
"A million fans give a million dol
lars for a base ball team for Walter!”
is the slogan of Wlllifo'rd’s campaign.
In less than an hour last night 55
local men and women gave $1 each to
the fund.
Williford, who is acting as trustee
for the fund, recalled that after the
1924 world series Johnson expressed
a desire to retire from active play
and attempted to buy a minor league
club.
CHARLOTTE, "n. C.. October 15
i&). —Hardly had a dispatch from
TWO CENTS.
VALUE OF AIRPLANE
IN ARCTIC REGIONS
: DEFENDED BY BYRD
; Leader of Navy Flyers in
I North Insists Object Was
! Not Spectacular Dash.
|
PRAISES WORK OF MEN
AMID HARD CONDITIONS
|
1 Flew More Than 6,000 Miles, But
Had Less Than Four Good
Aviation Days.
,
i
j Bark from ihe Arctic, where his air
j planes fought vainly to conquer the
I elements of that region, Lieut. Comdr.
i Richard E. Byrd, commanding the na
val aviation section of the MacMillan
j Arctic expedition, said before th°
j /’resident’s Air Board today that the
idea of the project “was not to make
a sensational, spectacular dash, but to
do sane exploring and to advance
gradually toward the objective, put
ting down bases as we went along.”
The foregoing statement was de
signed to answer critics of the expedi
tion who had told the board that it
was a failure and was gotten up in a
"haphazard manner.”
Avoided Dramatic Situations.
“We avoided the dramatic to such
an extent that whenever possible we
reported over the radio the beginning
and result of flights at the same
j time, though 1 believe the public
would have preferred the suspense
i and the drama.”
j Lieut. Comdr. Byrd emphatically
[declared there is “no part of the
I world that cannot be conquered by
aircraft,” which also was taken as a
defense of criticism that the plane
is worthless and the dog is supreme
in the Arctic. The planes used, he
said, "were undoubtedly the best for
this work. They are the best am
phibians in the world, and up there
both wheels and a boat are most de
sirable. The beaches are rocky and
could not he approached without
knocking a hole in the boat, unless
the wheels were put down. Besides,
we could not have gotten them on the
beach to erect them without wheels,
j With more time and a little better
season the center of the unexplored
j region in the Polar Sea could be
j leached with airplanes.
•'This expedition went out under the
auspices of a million of our citizens,
the great, dignified National Geo
graphic Society, and it ha* been a
great pleasure to be associated with
it.” he declared.
Lieut. Comdr. Byrd lauded the work
of the naval personnel on the expedi
tion.
“Those fellows did not need a com
manding officer to tell them what to
do,” he said. “My hardest job was
to make them get some rest and sleep.
They erected the planes in three days
out in the open, exposed to snow
storms, and on a very unsatisfactory,
irregular beach. 1 don't see how they
did it.
; “They were almost superhuman and
lam proud of them.”
i
Flew More Than 6,000 Miles.
The witness said the planes flew
more than 6,000 miles in the Arctic
and 30.000 square miles of Arctic
j region were seen by the observers.
"MacMillan deserves most of the
| credit for the fact that the officers
j and men and planes are ltack safely.
| And the 30.000 square miles covered
is due to the remarkable efficiency
j and astonishing spirit of the six avia
] tion officers and men the Navy sent
with me who had to do this under by
far the worst flying conditions ever
encountered in the history of aviation.
Aviation conditions were far worse
than we had anticipated. After our
first flight out over Ellsmere Land, I
got my men together and told them
that I would never again order any of
them out to fly over that region, but
they were always ready to go and
were eager to volunteer.
"We had a very difficult time get
ting through Melville Bay,” continued
the witness, “so when we got to Etah
we had 18 days to get the dismantled
planes off the ship, set them up, test
them and do all our work of framing
bases for the polar sea flight and the
flight over the Greenland ice cap.
Almost No Summer.
“Winter was chasing close on the
heels of Spring and we had almost no
Summer. Os the flying days only
three and three-quarters were good
to-fair flying and one indifferent.
"So over half the time the weather
was dangerous or very dangerous for
flying. I am telling you this to give
you an idea of the aviation conditions
in the Arctic. We did not see a sin
gle landing place in all the thousands
of square miles we covered.
as far as the water was con
cerned. the ice began a mile north
of Etah and filled the sea and all
the bays and fiords. The Summer ice
cannot be landed on. It is verv
roifgh and a plane that landed on it
would he demolished. It shifts, how
ever, with the tides and the winds
and occasionally there is a tempo
rary landing place In the water. They
are as scarce as oases in a desert
and more welcome. We found a
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Muskogee, Okla., announced the initia
tion of a drive for “a million
; dollars from a million fans” to
■ buy a base ball club for Walter John
■ son. than a “set of news hounds” here
: made claim to being the “first to fol
i low.”
Eight minutes after word of the
fund had been received, six fans had
contributed their “pro rata” and the
i club had started.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Ocober 14 OP).
• —Walter Johnson, the Nationals’ pitch
ing ace. has been offered a contract to
appear in vaudeville, beginning at the
New York Hippodrome next Monday,
at a salary of $2,000 a week, provided
he wins today’s game of the world
series with the Pirates.
Eugene Connolly. *local theatrical
manager, announced that he made the
offer to Johnson On behalf of the Keith
circuit management. Johnson’s wife
said last night it was doubtful if he
w'ould accept, as be had planned to
spend the Winter in Florida.
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