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U.s. LINER RESCUES
317 ABOARD TAHITI
BEFORE SHE SINKS
Officers and Members of
Crew Picked Up After Ven
tura Saves Passengers.
[TRANSFER MADE IN FACE
OF APPROACHING STORM
t Only Six Letter Bags Lost, While
About 50 Others, Badly Soak
ed, Are Shifted.
Ssy the Associated Press.
* WELLINGTON, New Zealand, August
18.— The Matson liner Ventura wire
lessed today that all passengers, officers
kind crew of the British steamer Tahiti,
total 817 persons, which sank this
afternoon off Rarotonga, Cook Islands,
sere safe.
The Ventura is proceeding to Pago
Pago, where the Tahiti’s island pas
* feengers and crew will be disembarked.
The Ventura then will proceed to San
Francisco, where American and Euro- '
|>ean passengers will be landed.
No letter mails were lost with the
Tahiti, with the exception of six bags
during transfer to the Ventura.
About 50 other bags were badly
•oaked at the same time, but were
saved.
All newspaper mails and parcels were
lost.
The Ventura had rushed from many
miles away to answer the Tahiti’s dis
tress signals.
Passengers Disembark First.
The Tahiti, Ailing Tapidly with water
from a leak where one of the propel
lers was torn away, did not remain
afloat long after the steamer was aban
doned. Passengers aboard the vessel
upon its departure from Wellington
numbered 175, crew and officers 142. 1
Passengers were disemDarked from
the vessel Arst, Ave boats being launched
safely with them, despite a heavy swell
and an approaching storm, and the
crew and officers were taken off later. 1
The Penybryn, Norwegian freighter,
bound for Auckland from Cuba, stood
by to be of any possible aid in the dis
embarking. The Tahiti was bound
p from Sydney and Wellington for San i
Francisco.
A radio dispatch from the Ventura ,
said that vessel arrived at the position
of the Tahiti Just as a bulkhead began
to give way and the passengers were <
taking to boats. I
Five boats got away safely and the
passengers were taken aboard the Ven
tura. Launching of the boats was not :
_ without danger, for although the
weather was fair, a heavy swell was
running. Officers believed the ship
doomed. A storm was believed to be
approaching.
Penybryn First to Arrive.
The Penybryn was the Arst to reach
the Tahiti, which radioed it was In
distress at a position about 460 miles
off Rarotonga. Arriving Saturday eve- ‘
ring, local time, it remained along
side until the Ventura arrived this
forenoon.
Passengers were not taken aboard the
Penybryn immediately, since officers of
the two ships did not wish to subject
them to the limited accommodations of
the freighter until it became necessary.
The United States Shipping Board ves
sel Antinous also headed toward the
Tahiti.
Edrly reports from the Tahiti said
that both passengers and crew took
to boats considerably before arrival of
the Penybryn or Ventura, but later radio
messages from the ship said an order
to this effect had been countermanded.
Wireless communication was difficult
because of static accompanying a brew
ing storm, of which the Tahiti’s captain,
.Toten, was fearful.
The Tahiti lost its starboard propellor
fend sprang a leak about 460 miles east
of Rarotonga and drifted about 60 miles
with a strong current before being
reached by rescue vessels.
The vessel was due in San Francisco
from Wellington on August 29.
HUSBANDSHOOTS MAN
AT BEDSIDE OF WIFE
Visit to Estranged Spouse in Hos
pital Angers Okla
homan.
fey the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, August 18 -Ed
Martin, 62, was near death today from
gun shot wounds inflicted by A. M. Har
ris. 48, while Martin was visiting Har
gis’ estranged wife in a hospital here.
Thirty-three patients witnessed the
Shooting at Mrs. Harris’ bedside after
she refused yesterday to see her hus
band. Harris told police Martin had
been “instrumental in breaking up my
borne.”
He Ared Ave shots. Filing of charges
reports of Martin’s condition.
TRUST CHARGE NAMES
j 11 FILM COMPANIES
Illegal Agreement Involving Pri
i ority in Showing Feature Pro
ductions Alleged.
£y the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 18 —Charges
fef conspiracy to restrain trade, filed by
the Government against 11 motion pic
ture producing, exhibiting and dis
tributing companies, were docketed for
bearing today in Federal Court.
The defendants are West Coast The
feters, Inc.; Paramount-Famous-Lasky
Corporation, Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
Distributing Corporation, First National
Pictures. Inc.: United Artists’ Corpora
tion, Fox Film Corporation, Pathe Ex
change. Inc ; Vitagraph, Inc.; Warner
Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Vitagraph Co. of
California, Inc., and Universal Film Ex
ghanges. . .
Illegal agreements are charged be
tween the West Coast Theaters and
the motion picture companies whereby
% West Coast was assured a priority in
the showing of feature productions
4fc de by the producing companies.
WEATHER.
(IT. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Cloudy, slightly cooler tonight; tomor
row partly cloudy.
Temperatures—Highest, 86. at 3:30
p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 6:30 a.m.
today.
Full report on page 9.
Entered at* second class matter
post office, Washington. D. C.
EAKER LEAPS TO SAFETY
IN CRASH IN ANACOSTIA
Craft Fails to Come Out of
Spin During Bolling
Field Test.
FALLS IN ORCHARD
Plane Comes Down Near
Playing Children—Fly
er’s Ankle Injured.
Capt. Ira C, Baker, one of the best
known pilots in the Army, for the first
time in his long fiying career was forced
to take to his parachute today when
the single-seater pursuit plane he was
testing failed to come out of a spin and
crashed in an apple orchard in the rear
of 3602 Nichols avenue southeast.
The plane crashed, n tangled mass of
wings, struts, fuselage within 50 feet
of the home of Mrs. 12. O. Eaton, and
near where a score or more children
were playing. Capt. Eaker fioated down
with his parachute, landing a bare 20
yards from where the plane hit.
“Bailing out” less than 1,000 feet
up, Capt. Eaker hit the ground hard,
injuring his right ankle, but escaping
serious injury. The parachute swung
the Ayer periously close to houses in
the thickly settled section of Anacostia
where the plane fell, and brushed him
against treetops.
Capt. Eaker also cut his left leg
slightly when, as he went out of the
MORE ZUTA PROBE
SENSATIONS SEEN
Exodus Expected by Chicago
Official Following Vis#
to Deposit Boxes.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 18. The trail
that Jack Zuta left behind was fol
lowed down new alleyways today.
Patrick Roche, chief investigator for
the State’s attorney, who, with Charles
F. Rathbun, special assistant State's
attorney, found the slain gangster’s de
posit boxes, said important develop
ments were expected. Zuta, business
director of the North Side gang of
George Moran and the Aiello brothers,
was slain at Delafield, Wis., two weeks
ago.
“We are following the fa-all of Zuta’s
dollars, and there is no telling where
it will lead.” Roche said.
"A lot of men will be leaving town
soon.”
Roche today turned the investigation
to a SSOO campaign contribution to the
"regular Republican organization” as
shown on the accounts of Zuta, slain
several weeks ago at a Wisconsin resort.
Republican Club Member.
Another item found in Zuta’s pos
session was a membership card in the
William Hale Thompson Republican
Club, signed by “Homer K, Galpin,
chairman.” This, too, Roche said, was
being carefully investigated.
In Zuta’s balance sheet Items of
$80,693.60 and $22,775 were shown paid
out as “dividends" to “M. K.” Roche
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SENSATION PROMISED
BY PROFITEER PROBE
Milk and Other Foodstuffs Engage
Attention of New York At
torney General.
By tbs Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 18.—Two In
vestigations of alleged profiteering in
milk and other foodstuffs today en
gaged the attention of the office of
State’s Attorney General Ward. Au
thorities predicted "startling dis
closures.”
Reports of efforts to force up the
price of loose milk 4 cents a quart have
come to the attorney general.
Assistant Attorney General Oroat
sent out dozens of subpoenas over the
week end for witnesses to appear at the
food investigation, in charge of John
Holley Clark, jr„ former chief as
sistant United States attorney. Agents
were sent to various parts of the Btate
serving subpoenas on dealers In food
stuffs.
P. J. HURLEY IS FATHER
Daughter Is Born to Wife of Sec
retary of War.
Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, wife of the
Secretary of War, gave birth today to
a daughter. The Infant weighed 10
pounds. The Hurleys have two other
daughters and a son.
SPAIN PLANS TUBE TO MOROCCO
UNDER STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR
Preliminary Drilling Tests for Eight-Mile Project Meet
With Success.
By the Associated Press.
T ARIF A. Spain. August 18.—A proj
ect conceived three-quarters of a cen
tury ago by a French engineer to con
nect Europe and Africa by a tunnel
under the Straits of Glbralter, is oc
cupying the attention of the Spanish
government.
Luis De Pena, director of the Spanish
Geological Institute and member of the
government commission of expert*
studying the proposal, said that pre
liminary drilling tests have met with
success and prospects for a tunnel
seem somewhat brighter.
The tunnel would begin in this city
and terminate in Morocco, a distance
of approximately eight miles. The first
recorded plan for the work is attributed
to a French engineer named Laurent
de Vllle-Deuil, but since that time It
has absorbed the interest ofjSpanish,
English and other French «erte.
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CAPT, EAKER.
falling plane, he brushed his leg against
the plane's stabilizer.
“I don't know just what happened to
prevent breaking the spin,” Capt. Eaker
said after he had been brought back to
the field. ”1 put the plane into a spin
as a part of the test at an altitude of
about 3,500 feet. It began to spin very
fast, and nothing I could do seemed to
break the spin.
"At 1,000 feet I decided I would have
to get out and take to my parachute.
I experienced great difficulty getting
out of the plane owing to the centrif
ugal force of the spin. Only by the
greatest effort did I manage to get clear
of the cockpit when the plane was very
low.
“There was no thrill experienced In
(Continued oYi Page 2, Column 6.)
MOVIE ORCHESTRAS
TO BE DISCARDED
Five Theaters Here Will Use
“Canned” Music Sept. 1.
Two to Drop Stage Shows.
“Canned” music will entirely replace
the orchestras In every downtown Wash
ington motion picture theater on Sep
tember 1, and stage presentations will
be canoeled, It developed, today with
the announcement that no contracts
with musicians will be renewed when
they run out on August 31.
Julian Brylawski, president of the
Motion Picture Theater Owners’ Associa
tion of the District of Columbia, stated
that the decision to release the orches
tras of the Fox, Palace, Earle, Keith’s,
Columbia theaters is the result of a con
certed move on the part of the manage
ments. Notice was served on the mem
beu of the various orchestras last week
that upon the terminations of the 3-
year contracts no renewals would be
made.
In two Washington theaters notice
was also served on the stage hands that
their services would no longer be re
quired, it being announced that in the
event no agreement was reached with
the musicians itage presentations would
be dispensed with.
It is understood that the Motion
Picture Theater Owners’ Association
offered to engage musicians on a strictly
wage basis for piece work, but that
this arrangement had not met with the
approval of the local union.
Negotiate in Blanket Form.
All negotiations between musicians in
theaters and their employers in this
city have been made in blanket form
through the Motion Picture Theater
Owners’ Aasociation and the Musicians’
Protective Union, Local No. 161, which
is a branch of the American Federa
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NAVY RACER HAS SPEED
OF 200 MILES AN HOUR
Page Will Pilot Plane Seeking
Thompson Trophy at National
Event in Chicago.
By the Associated Press.
A Navy plane capable of attaining
more than 200 miles an hour will be
entered in the Thompson Trophy free
for-all event at the Chicago national
air races.
At the controls will be one of the
sea service’s foremost pilots—Capt.
Arthur H. Page of the Marine Corps,
who won the Curtiss marine race in
May by fiying a seaplane an average of
164 miles an hour for 100 miles. The
winner of last year’s 10-mlle Thompson
race averaged 194 miles an hour.
The plane Is a modification of a
fighter built four years ago. It has
been used in numerous experimental,
flights. Tests for the Chicago races
were concluded yesterday on Long
Island.
One wing of the original Curtiss
hawk fighter has been discarded, the
engine has been replaced with a 12-
cylinder water-cooled 600-horsepower
motor, and each wheel Is mounted sep
arately, lessening wind resistance.
The Navy also will send to Chicago
an 18-plane fighting squadron from
the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lex
ington, while a 12-plane Marine Corps
squadron from Quantico, Va., will rep
resent that branch of the service.
The tunnel is desirable primarily be
cause it would link Europe and Africa
and probably would be comparable, ac
cording to many, in value, to commer
cial Interests to the Panama and Suez
Canals It is projected also to afford
a highway from France via Spain to
the colonies in Morocco. For this
reason, the French government views
the completion with interest. Another
use is as a passage for the London-
Cape Town Railway should the line
ever be completed.
The commission of Spanish experts
has been conducting, under a govern
ment subsidy, preliminary drilling tests
on this side of the channel to determine
the conditions of the land under which
the tube must pass. Drilling on the
Moroccan side will commence soon.
Currents are hampering sounding and
testing work la the center of the
strait*
REBELS IN FLIGHT,
NANKING SEES END
OE CHINESE WAR
Nationalists Re-established
in Shantung With Eastern
Honan Withdrawal On.
KAIFENG’S CAPTURE
BELIEVED IMMINENT
Beds Still Menace in Central and
Southern Sections, Pending
Troop Shifts.
By the Associated Press.
NANKING, August 18—Sweeping
claims of victory on the battlefields of
Northern China caused high govern
ment circles today to predict the end
of the civil war on terms dicated by
the Nanking regime.
The optimistic forecast was made as
the result of the recapture t>y Nation
alists of Isinan, capital of Shantung
Province, and reports indicating North
ern rebel armies in Honan Province
were finding government fire too hot to
withstand.
Recapture of Isinan from the rebels
was regarded in government circles as
virtually re-establishing Nationalist
authority in Shangtung. Military re
ports from along the Haichow-Tung
kwan Railway stated the rebel Kuomin
chun (people’s army) had begun a gen
eral withdrawal from Eastern Honan.
While specific reasons accounting for
the alleged Kuominchun retreat were
not given, it was generally believed
strengthening of the Nationalists in
Shantung had made the rebels’ position
untenable in Central and Eastern
Honan.
Westward Retreat Reported.
Nationalist reports said Feng's reb
els were retreating westward from Iwn
feng, well fortified city which had been
considered the key to the Kuomlnchun’s
positions in Eastern Central Honan.
Government authorities said the reb
els were not expected to make a stand
e*rt of Kaifeng, Honan capital, which
was described as a difficult place to
defend. The fall of Kaifeng into Na
tionalists’ hands was believed by gov
ernment officials to be imminent.
Nationalists now profess to believe the
Kuominchun will retreat into the
mountains of Southern Shansi Province
through the passes which for centuries
have afforded avenues of escape for
armies defeated on the plains of Honan.
Government officials predicted the
rebels soon would be pushed well north
ward of the Yellow River, enabling
Nanking to dictate peace terms. In
Shantung the Nationalists asserted they
had advanced north to Tsinan, driving
the rebels across the Yellow River, cap
turing many.
Retreat Along Railroad.
Rebel forces along the Tsinan-Tsing
tao Railway also were said to be re
treating toward the northern border of
Shantung.
In the capture of Tsinan, Nanking
leaders asserted, their forces had seized
30,000 rifles, 130 field guns and three
airplanes. Fresh from this victory.
President Chlang Kai-3!iek was said
to be rushing planes to Honan for an
offensive against the Kuominchun.
Nationalists also said they had ordered
an advance against Chengchow, impor
tant city west of Kaifeng.
Communist disorders continued spas
modically in the Yangtze Valley, with
Reds pillaging the smaller places. How
ever, their apparent disinclination to at
tack the larger cities other than Chang
sha has enabled the government to con
centrate small bodies of troops in the
major cities. This, in turn, has caused
Nationalists to circulate reports that
the Communist menace had been con
trolled.
Nevertheless, the Reds are believed
! able to strike against almost any com
munity in Central and Southern China,
and will continue to be in that position
i until the government can withdraw
some of its troops from the northern
civil war front for duty against the
j Reds.
1,500 COTTON MILL
EMPLOYES WALK OUT
All Workers in Two Bessemer City,
N. C., Plants Strike in Wage-
Cut Protest.
By the Associated Press.
BESSEMER CITY, N. C„ August 18.
-—Fifteen hundred employes of the'
American Mills, Nos. 1 and 2, textile
manufacturing plants, went on strike
today in protest against a wage cut that
was to have gone into effect this morn
ing.
E. L. Gillespie, spokesman for the
strikers, said they had no union affilia
tion.
“The walkout has no connection with
Communism,” he added.
The two mills, owned by Robert,
Frank and Max Goldberg of Gastonia
were closed because of the strike. Every
employe of the two plants went out,
Gillespie said. Strike leaders said a
mass meeting held at the Bessemer City
public park yesterday resulted in a
unanimous vote in favor of the walkout.
The wage cut, Gillespie said, amount
ed to 20 or 30 per cent.
A conference with the Goldbergs,
who also own four mills In Gastonia,
was being sought today by the strikers.
None of the three, however, could be
reached for a statement this morning.
Chief of Police Sam Hoyle of Bes
semer City, said the textile section was
quiet, and that there had been no dis
orders. •
AIR COLLISION KILLS TWO
Kelly Field Students Die When
Planes Crash 200 Feet Up.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. August 18 OF).
—Two students of the Advanced Flying
School, Kelly Field, were killed in an
aerial collision at an altitude of 200
. feet during attack maneuvers near Von
Ormy today.
They were Donald Dewitt. Campbell,
23. son of Mr. and Mrs. George C.
Campbell of Anadarko. Okla.. and Cadet
Robert Lee Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Scott of Bethany, 111.
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SISTER SHIP PLANS
Britain Also Plans Several
Larger Dirigibles for
Regular Service.
BY C. H. J. SNIDER.
Special Dtspntch to The Star.
LONDON, August 18 (N.A.N.A.). —
Having completed a successful round
trip across the Atlantic, the British are
preparing to build a sister ship to
their great dirigible, the R-100.
In addition plans are already under
way for the construction of several
larger dirigibles which can carry on
a regular service between this country
and Canada.
These are the chief results of the
voyage which has made Britain a rival
of Germany in the airship held.
It was known here today that the
R-100 is not to be permitted to rust
at her moorings. As soon as possible
she will be made ready to go oack to
Canada and bring over R. B. Ben
nett, the new prime minister of that
country, to attend the imperial con
ference in October.
False Stories Circulated.
As for the plans for the larger ships,
I was told today by Sir Dennistoun
Burney, designer of the R-100, that
vessels capable of carrying 100 pas
sengers and of making 85 knots are
necessary lor a regular schedule and
he expects to see it established.
Crossing the Atlantic in the R-100
had its Joys and its Jokes. We thought
manning the pumps on the catwalk
was the biggest Joke of the trip until
we reached London.
There we learned that on Friday a
story had gone the rounds in that city
that the R-100 had blown up hi Mid
atlantlc. Later in the day a variant
of this story was that the ship had
burst one of her eight hydrogen bags.
We were able to assure everybody that
the only mishap which occurred on the
R-100 during the 67-hour trip was the
w'etting down of the electric stove.
The greatest hardship for me hap
pened just after our arrival at Carding
ton. With Tom Wayling of the Winni
peg Tribune I ran down the landing
mast to file my copy for The Star and
the North American Newspaper Al
liance—2ol feet of spiral stairs. Way
ling and I, covered with black grease,
reached the ground before the elevator
with Lord Thomson of the air ministry
and other passengers, but found it
didn’t do us any good, for all dispatches
from Cardington have to be telephoned
to London before they can be cabled.
Fancy spelling out 2,000 words over
an English telephone!
Passengers Like Pumping Fuel.
Our most interesting job during the
trip over was pumping fuel, for that
meant being allowed to walk over the
catwalk, a 14-inch plank leading from
the stem to the stern of the ship.
Along the keel on either side of the
walk was an open space, vaguely de
fined by struts and girders and booms
below.
Beyond the confines of this narrow
passage bulged the bags of hydrogen
gas, flabby or full. Every one on board
was glad to get the chance to help pump
fuel from the storage tanks slung along
the bottom of the ship up into the
service tank, from which it flowed by
gravity to the working engines. Os the
six engines, one was a cripple and the
other five usually worked three on and
two off, according to conditions.
The area immediately below the cat
walk showed either glimpses of the
ocean or the envelope of the ship. To
outsiders this looks like silver plate.
Inside daylight shows through in
numerable chinks and holes. One might
get the creeps thinking that a false
step would shoot him down through that
flimsy fabric with his next stop the
Atlantic Ocean, one-quarter of a mile
away. But it is not so. Apparently
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FOUR BOYS FACE TRIAL
IN NEWS RACK ROBBERIES
Colored Youths Are Said to Have
Admitted Looting 40 “Honor
System” Stands.
Four colored boys, who are said to
have admitted robbing approximately
40 newspaper "honor system” racks
in the Northwest and Southeast sections
of the city, were to be arraigned in
Juvenile Court before Judge Kathryn
Sellers today on charges of petty lar
ceny.
The boys. Leroy Coleman of 1515
North Carolina avenue, James Stepto
of 1518 B street southeast, Bernard
Small of 1500 Massachusetts avenue
southeast and Henry O. Adams of 623
Acker street northeast, all 16 years old,
were arrested Saturday by Policemen
T. D. Bailey and R. F. Langdon.
More than forty eharges of petty
larceny were flled against the boys by
fifth precinct police.
Rubber Reptiles
Save Crops From
Wisconsin Birds
BELOIT, Wis., August 18 (IF)
j Frank Cheney, Beloit horticul
turist, today credited the venom
ous appearance of artificial rub
' ber snakes for the good crops in
his garden, orchard, berry patch
and vineyard.
Cheney said birds ravished his
plants and trees until he manu
factured a reptile herd from rub
ber hose, which he painted in
gaudy colors and coiled about the
fields. Since then, he said, the
birds have stayed away.
CHARGE 3 PLOTTED
| GOVERNOR’S DEATH
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Publisher, Realtor and Poli
tician Held for “Conspir
acy” Against Carlton.
i By the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 18.—
Fred O. Eberhardt, publisher of Talla
hassee; Frank Ralls, a former political
worker, and Henry Halsema, a real
estate operator of Jacksonville, were
formally charged with a conspiracy to
i procure the assassination of Gov. Doyle
B. Carlton in warrants issued here
today.
Each Denies Knowledge of Plot.
They were arrested here Saturday
night. Each has denied knowledge of
any plot against the Governor. Sheriff
W. B. Cahoon, who made the arrests,
has declined to give details of the
reputed conspiracy.
The warrants were sworn out by C.
E. Hooks, a deputy sheriff.
J. C. Madison, a Justice of the peace,
today set bond at SSOO each, which
was made immediately by attorneys for
the accused men.
The justice of the peace explained
that under Florida law the charge is a
misdemeanor. He said the maximum
punishment upon conviction would be
a fine of SSOO or imprisonment for
one year.
Eberhardt, interviewed in his cell
just before he made bond, said that
his arrest was part of “a political plot”
and branded the charges of conspiracy
against the life of the Governor as "Just
a cheap bid for publicity.”
Eberhardt Had Assailed Gambling.
Eberhardt. former paving contractor
and automobile race car driver, last
Winter assailed alleged gambling at
Florida race tracks, threatening to close
by injunction those which used a sys
tem of wagering he declared violated
State laws.
Shortly after hLs campaign began,
Keeney Park, near here, closed. W. E.
Ford, representing the operators, said
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b.&o. will Lay off
5,600 MEN IN SHOPS
Heavy Repnir Workers, Idle Three
Weeks Last Month, to Get
Another Two-Week Rest.
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, August 18.—Baltimore
A: Ohio shopmen on heavy repair work
were notified today that they would be
In id off, beginning Thursday, until Sep
tember 2.
At the Mount Clare shops here 2,800
were affected, and about the same num
ber in the other shops of the system.
The shopmen were laid off three weeks
lust month.
BIBLE PERIOD FIXED BY RUINS
OF TEN CITIES UNEARTHED
Exodus and Occupation of Canaan Are Among Events
Checked by St. Louis Party.
JERUSALEM. August 18 (4*).—The
remains of 10 cities have been un
earthed at Tel Beit Mirslm by the Joint
expedition of Xenia Bemlnary, St. Louis,
and the American School of Oriental
Research at Jerusalem, enabling a sur
vey of Palestine culture In the 2,000
years before Christ up to Nebuchad
nezzar.
Dr. Melvin G. Kyle, president of Xenia
Seminary, told local newspapers that
many of the objects found permit
chronological establishment of the period
of Abraham, of the Exodus and of the
occupation of Canaan.
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AIM-SUPPING
j AGENT SUSPENDED
Another Prohibition Officer,
Who Drew Gun on Motorist,
Gets Same Punishment.
Prohibition Agent Basil Quinn, at
tached to prohibition headquarters here,
has been suspended for live days for
striking a motorist in an argument
over right of way.
The suspension was announced today
. by Amos W. Woodcock, director of pro
hibition, who said similar punishment
had been meted out to Agent Robert
' P. Myrtle of Milwaukee for drawing a
gun on a motorist with whom he had
become engaged in a personal alterca
-1 tion over traffic rules.
Prohibition headquarter’s records
show that Thomas Quinland of Wash
ington registered a complaint against
Quinn on July 18, alleging that Quinn
had slapped him in the face in an
argument as to whom had the right
. ’ of way in traffic. District police records'
. failed to reveal any charges being
I preferred.
I Quinn is now stationed in Baltimore,
, where today he refused to discuss the
, incident.
, The Myrtle incident occurred in Mil
> waukee on July 29. Woodcock said
Myrtle left his automobile and attempt
ed to arrest William A. French, while
the latter asked him for his authority.
' Whereupon, the prohibition director
f continued, Myrtle drew his revolver and
f I pointed it at French, with the remark
that the weapon was his authority.
’ Woodcock says the penalties were to
; be considered as an effort to obtain re
sults without too drastic punishment.
He added he was making an attempt to
build up public respect for prohibition
agents in which disciplining the agents
i for misbehavior holds an Important
r part.
A flve-day suspension without pay
1 carries a pecuniary loss to the agents
t of about $35.
j TWO MORE JAILED
' IN AIR MINE BOMBING
Pla%e Legally Called “Ambush” in
Charge Against Kentucky Men,
t as Others Are Sought.
t
- B, the Associated Press.
I PROVIDENCE, Ky„ August 18.—Two
more arrests in connection with the
| airplane raid on Western Kentucky coal
1 fields were annouced here today, bring
ing the total to eight.
Carol Vaughn. 28, and Angus Merritt,
25, the latest to be arrested, were placed
in Jail here in default of $5,000 bail
> each. They were charged with band
ing and confederating for the purpose
, of intimidating and shooting from am
' bush. Legally the airplane was termed
an “ambush.”
It was announced search had been
started for two more coal miners, Ed
ward Heckelbeck and Raymond Edmond
of Ziegler, 111., for whom warrants have
. been issued, charging them with having
. brought together the alleged conspira
• tors and Paul Montgomery. The latter,
“ a Murphysboro, 111., aviator, confessed
to piloting the plane.
The arrest of Vaughn and Merritt
i was said to have resulted from a woman
■ telling authorities that she saw Mont
. gomery and severe! coal miners at the
i municipal airport at Evansville, Ind., in
conference about three weeks ago.
Kirjath Befer, the southern limit of
Joshua's campaign against the tribal
kings following his destruction of
Jericho. The place also was known as
Debir, and of Joshua's foray against It
with the Israelite armv the book of
Joshua relates as 'ollows:
“And he took it. and the King thereof,
and all the cities thereof; and they
smote them with the edge of the sword,
and utterly destroyed all the souls that
were therein; he left none remaining. I
As he had done to Hebron, so he did to I
Debir, and to the King thereof; as he
had done also to Libnah. and to her
King."
TWO CENTS.
CONTINUING RAINS
HELP MATERIALLY
IN DROUGHT AREAS
Red Cross Finds Immediate
Distress Less Serious
Than Expected.
BYRD URGES RELEASE
OF GRAIN BOARD WHEAT
Hyde Says Beduced Freight Bats
Needed in Counties of 5 States.
Hoover Awaits Credit Beports.
As the White House awaited word
from Governors of drought-stricken
States on the progress in forming their
relief organization the Weather Bureau
today reported beneficial rains in wide
areas during the past 24 hours and pre
dicted further precipitation.
President Hoover returned from his
camp in Virginia after reviewing the
drought situation with Secretary Hyde
and Chairman Legge of the Farm
Board. With the exception of the
designation of former Gov. Byrd of
Virginia as heard of the organization
from the State, however, none of the
Governors nad reported.
Urges Wheat for Live Stock.
Harry F. Byrd, former Governor of
Virginia and chairman of that State’s
Drought Relief Committee, recom
mended to Secretary Hyde today that
the estimated 75,000,000 bushels of
wheat held by the Grain Stabilization
Corporation be made available for livt
stock feed to stricken farmers.
President Hoover has Indicated that
until all of the State relief organiza
tions are functioning. Secretary Hyds
will have control of the Government’s
participation In relief measure?.
During his conference with Mr. Hyde,
Mr. Byrd said conservative estimates
placed the Virginia drought damage to
agriculture at $100,000,000. including
losses to the hay and corn crops.
The relief of wheat held by the Grain
Stabilization Board for live stock feed,
Byrd said, would not only relieve
drought-stricken farmers, but should
increase the price of wheat held by the
farmers. He suggested that the wheat
be sold at reasonable prices on a de
ferred-payment plan when necessary.
Freight Rate Needs Cited.
In carrying on the relief work. Sec
retary Hyde today named counties in
fl\e States—Arkansas, Virginia, Ohio,
Illinois and Missouri—in need of the
emergency freight rate on feed and
live stock authorized by the Interstats
Commerce Commission.
Charlotte County, In Virginia, was
- added to a list designated a week ago,
with Columbiana, Medina, Stark and
Wayne Counties added to the Ohio list.
Missouri counties included: Audrain,
Barry, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Calla
way, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter,
Chariton, Christian, Cooper, Crawford,
Dallas, Dent. Douglas, Dunklin, Frank
lin, Gasconade, Greene, Howard. Howell,
Iron, Laclede. Lincoln. McDonald, Madi
son, Meries, Miller. Mississippi, Monroe,
Montgomery, New Madrid. Newton,
Oregon, Osage. Ozark, Penis cot, Perry,
Pettis. Phelps, Pike. Pulaski, Ralls,
Randolph, Reynolds, Ripley, St. Charles,
St. Genevieve, St. Francois, Scott. Shan
non, Shelby, Stoddard, Stone, Taney,
Texas, Warren, Washipgton, Wayne,
Webster and Wright.
Illinois—Alexander, Clay, Crawford,
Edwards, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin.
Hamilton. Hardin, Jackson. Jefferson,
Jersey, Johnston, Lawrence, Madison,
Marion, Massac, Monroe. Perry, Pope,
Pulaski, Randolph, Richland. St. Clair,
Saline, Union, Wabash. Washington,
Wayne, White and Williamson.
Cool Breezes Predicted Here.
Cool breezes will continue to keep
the mercury in this section down
around comfortable levels for the next
36 hours, the United States Weather
Bureau forecast today.
All indications point, the Weather
Bureau said, to somewhat, cooler tem
peratures tonight and tomorrow, with
overcast or partly overcast skies.
There is no rain in sight for Wash
ington or this vicinity, the Weather Bu
reau stated.
With showers forecast tonight and to
morrow in the broad area from the
Mississippi River to the Rocky Moun
tains. considerable relief was expected,
particularly to late corn and the cattle
range.
Good Showers Reported.
The Weather Bureau said that show
ers that materially aided In relieving
the situation fell Saturday in parts of
Arkansas. Missouri. Kansas. Southwest
ern lowa, Western Illinois, Southern
Wisconsin, Northern Indiana and North
ern Ohio, while In the last 24 hours
there were rains in Kansas. Nebraska,
Eastern South Dakota and eastward
over lowa. Missouri, Illinois. Indiana,
Ohio. Kentucky, West Virginia and
Tennessee.
Omaha reported the heaviest rains
with 2.H2 inches; Huron, S. Dak., had
1.18 inches, and Willinston, N. Dak.,
the only reporting station in that State
to have rain. 1.30 inches. Elsewhere
yesterday's rains were light and mod
erate.
Forecasts predicted rain tonight or
tomorrow for the eastern and central
portions of Kansas, Nebraska and
Oklahoma, Northern Arkansas, south
and west portions of Minnesota, all of
North Dakota, South Dakota, lowa and
Missouri, and in portions of Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Mr. Hoover made few engagements
today, it being his purpose to nave as
much time as possible for a more care
ful study of the reports from the va
rious Federal agents in the drought
stricken areas. He was anxious to de
termine how the Governors of the af
fected States were progressing with
their part of the general relief pro
gram agreed upon at the White House
conference last Thursday. It was said
at the White House that the President
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FASCISTS LIST 1,188,944
106,756 Women in Ranks of Party
in Italy, Order Sheet Reveals.
ROME, August 18 C4 s ).—An order
sheet of the Fascist party said today
that 1,040,508 men were enrolled in the
party as of July 31. The list includes
106,756 women listed and 41,680 Fascist
I university students.
Young Fascist girls numbered 21,055
and Fascist university professors 1,816.
The order sheet adds that 150,000
children were cared for in the party’s
vacation this Bummer.