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RADIO BEACON USED
ON CHICAGO FLIGHT
Bombardment Planes Dem
onstrate New Apparatus in
Passing Over Capital.
Nine twin-enpine bombardment planes,
representing three of the most famous
bombarding squadrons in the Army Air
Corps, stopped at Bolling Field today
en route to Chicago to demonstrate the
latest advances in military flying at the
National Air Races.
The planes arrived over the National
Capital 19 minutes after taking off
from Langley Field. Hampton, Va., base
of the 2d Bombardment Group and
left the field at 11 o’clock. The
flight over Virginia and Maryland
was directed by radio beacons from a
new station at Langley Field in a test
of the latest development of science in
directing the flight of military forma
tions through fog, storm or darkness.
The radio beacon signals were picked
Up by a special receiver aboard the
leading plane, piloted by Capt. Henry
Pascale, acting commandant of the
2d Bombardment Group and leader
of the Chicago mission.
Show Beacons’ Use.
This morning's flight demonstrated
the possibility of using for emergency ,
military purposes the chain of radio
beacon stations established along the
Nation s airways by the Department of
Commerce.
During the flight to Chicago radio
fceacon courses will be followed and
continuous weather information will be
obtained by radio during the crossing
of the Alleghenies with their treacherous
Weather conditions.
Though existing Army stations will b?
•mployed throughout the flight, it will
be determined whether similar stations
along the country’s civil airways could
be commandeered in case of emergency
to aid in the concentration of fighting
planes or the conducting of military
operations in the air in the face of
storms. fogs and darkness.
For the flight to Chicago planes of
the famous 49th. 20th and 96th Bom
bardment Squadrons, known as the
“Pirate.” "Devil's Head” and “Wolf’s
Head” Squadrons, will be employed. One
flight from each squadron has been
groomed and is ready to demonstrate to
the throngs attending the Chicago air
classic the latest advances in the science
of bombardmen aviation.
Going to Balloon Races.
From Chicago the group will go to
Cleveland for a Labor day demonstra
tion in connection with the starting of
the Gordon Bennett International bal
loon races, returning to Langley Field
early next month.
Each of the three squadrons repre
sented in the skeleton group selected for
the Chicago flight has had a brilliant
history, peace-time achievements of the
Air Corps.
Each squadron was engaged In several
major operations during the war and ;
since the war they have taken part in
such noted operations as the sinking of
five German warships off the Virginia
Capes in 1921, the bombing of obsolete
United States battleships two years
later, Alabama flood relief mission,
the blowing up of the Pee Dee River
fridge in 1927, the Miami military test
tight in 1929. when 1.100 miles were ,
iown in less than 12 hours, and a three
stop forced flight from this field to the
Pacific Coast last year to test the
mobility of the country's air defenses.
Flying in formation, eight of the huge
planes spanned the Nation in 41 hours,
or 30 hours of actual flying time.
Reach Chicago Tomorrow.
The planes are to spend tonight at '
Fairfield Air Depot, Fairftield, Ohio,
continuing to Chicago tomorrow.
As the big ships leave the Capital
behind they will begin to receive con
tinuous weather reports from the
dangerous mountain area through Army
radio stations at Cumberland. Md.;
Uniontown, Pa., and Moundsville, W.
Va. After crossing the mountains the ,
planes will follow the radio beacon j
course to Fairfield, Ohio.
The planes are piloted by Capt, Pas- j
eale. Lieut. C. R. Maclver and Lieut. H.
R,. Grater of the 49th; Capt. F. D.
Hackett, Lieut. L. F. Harmon and Lieut.
A. B. Duke of the 20th, and Lieuts. M.
W. Beaton, W. G. Davis and T. W.
Power of the 96th.
GIRL BLAMED IN MURDER ;
Police Claim Confession in Death of
Woman Who Discharged Domestic.
FULTON, N. Y., August 20 <A*L—
After being questioned for eight hours,
Anna Dziegel, 15, confessed last night,
police said, that she shot and killed
Mrs. Marjorie Brackett Gillispie, 30, in
Recreation Park here yesterday. Mrs
Gillispie was found dead beside her
husband's car with two bullet wounds
in her body. Children who heard the
shots reported seeing a girl running
from the scene and Miss Dziegel, who
had been discharged as a domestic in
the Gillispie home, was arrested.
Police believe the girl's loss of her
position was the motive for the
ghooting.
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THREE ENTRANTS IN DIXIE DERBY
Four woman flyers have entered the
Dixie Derby air race, which will start
here Friday. Above, left to right: Mrs.
Charity Langdon and Miss Laura In*
galls. Below: Mrs. Phoebe Omlle.
—Star Staff Photcs.
DERBY lEADHELD
BY MRS. O’DONNELL
Has 16 Minutes’ Advantage
Over Miss Doig on Eve
of Sixth Lap.
By the Associated Press.
DOUGLAS, Arlz., August 20.—Mrs.
Gladys O’Donnell, Long Beach, Calif.,
winner of four of the five lap 6 of the
Women's National Air Derby, held a
slight elapsed time margin over Mar
jorie Doig of Danbury, Conn., her
nearest rival, as the contestants awaited
the start of the sixth lap today.
By winning the fourth and fifth laps
yesterday Mrs. O’Donnell increased to
more than 16 minutes her advantage
over Miss Doig, who has been the second
finisher at each control point except
Phoenix, where she was 40 seconds
ahead of the Long Beach flyer.
Blew Out Tire.
All six of the original starters who
left Long Beach Sunday for the nine
day race to Chicago reached here safely,
although one, Ruth Barron, due to over
shooting the Phoenix landing field by
110 miles Monday, barely reached the
Arizona capital in time for the start of
the forenoon flight to Tucson. Miss
Doig blew out a tire and collapsed a
wheel at the noon control, but was
neither injured nor delayed by the acci
dent.
Mrs. Mildred Morgan, Beverly Hills,
! Calif., overtook Jean La Rene of Kan
' sas City and displaced here at third
I place. Ruth Stewart. St. Louis, re
; mained in fifth position. The stand
ings. compiled unofficially from the
i total elapsed time table, follow:
Standing of Pilots.
i Mrs. O’Donnell 3:56:29
I Miss Doig 4:13:08
I Mrs. Morgan 5:26:14
I Miss La Rene 5:35:23
I Miss Stewart 6:25:25
| Miss Barron 21:39:52
The flyers will stop first today at
Lordsburg, N. Mex., continuing to Dem
ing for lunch. The afternoon lap will
be run between Deming and Roswell,
N. Mex.
COURT DECREES
PINCHOT MAY RUN
Paper Ballot Row Ends With For
mer Governor's Right to
Nomination.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 20.—Gif
lord Pinchot's right to the Republican
nomination for Governor was formally
established today by the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania. The four members
of the tribunal who yesterday heard
argument in the appeal taken by
Francis Shunk Brown, the Philadelphia
organization’s contender for the nomi
nation, handed down an order dismiss
ing Brown’s case.
Brown's fight was based on the paper
ballots cast in Luzerne County in the
primary of May 20. To prevent fraud,
by the substitution of spurious ballots,
the county court directed that a custom
; which had been followed in several
' previous elections be continued, and
; j that perforated numbers be placed on
' j each ballot. All the perforated num-
i1 bers In each voting district were the
' same.
Substantially, the Supreme Court held
! j that while the Luzerne County Court
had exceeded its legal powers by or
dering the perforation of the ballots,
this was not sufficient reason for throw
ing out the 60,000 votes cast by means
. of them. The throwing out of these
» votes would have defeated Pinchot.
This means that James A. Walker,
secretary of the commonwealth, will
; now go ahead and certify the name of
i Mr Pinchot as the regular Republican
1 nominee. Mr. Pinchot had pre-empted
J the party title, "Square Deal,” to be
| used in the event that the nomination
I was taken from him. This will not
be used now.
SUITS CHARGE FRAUD
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. Augu»t 20
t/Pi.—Two suits aggregating $17,500
* with Interest alleging fraudulent rep
■ resentatino, were filed in United States
, District Court here Monday by Wini
fred K. Hudnut. widow of the cos
l metic manufacturer, and the Nat’onal
City Bank of New York against Ellis
C. Freed of this city.
They allege the Hudnuts were per
. sonal friends of Freed and believed
'• representations he made concerning
. the value of stock In the Ellis Holding
Co., which they bought to the value
of $17,500. They claim they found
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1996.
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WOMAN DERBYIST ‘
INJURED IN CRASH
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
(Continued From First Page.)
flyers from the Capital to Chicago by
way of the South and the Mississippi
River Valley, but announced she would
remain in Greenwood with Mrs. Halzllp.
The race, one of the major cross
country events of the National Air
Races opening a’- Curtiss-Wright-Rey
nolds Airport, Chicago, Saturday, is at
tracting some of the foremost woman
flyers in the country, including one
Washington girl, Miss Nancy Hopkins.
The entry list today held seven
; names, including Miss Hopkins, Mrs.
Haizlip and Miss Walker. Others are
Mrs. Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Mrs.
Charity Langdon of Norfolk, Miss
Laura Ingalls of St. Louis and a “mvs
tery ship” entered by a Miss Van Mack,
who has not arrived in the Capital.
Mrs. Omlie’s ship, a small monoplane,
is the fastest entered in the race and
is favored by Washington observers for
a victory in the race. It is capable of
a top speed of 140 miles an hour, a
speed far in excess of the rating of the
ships of most of the other entries.
Other Entries Experted.
Several other entries are expected be
fore starting time of the race, 11 o’clock
Friday morning. The entries will be re
| ceived as long as officials of the Na-
I tional Aeronautic Association, sponsors
i of the race, have time to make the 1
necessary inspections and qualify ship
\ and pilot.
Friday morning's program at Wash
ington Airport, scene of the start, is as
; follows:
Gathering of the pilots and machines
on the starting line at Washington Air
port at 9 o’clock, for news photograph
ers; breakfast at the airport at 9:30
o'clock; inspection of ships and in
struction of pilots at 10 o'clock by race
officials; warming up of motors at 10:45
o'clock and starting at 11 o’clock. The
planes will be sent off at one minute ln
j tervals, starting with Mrs. Omlie’s plane.
| Mrs. Haizlip had been given the No. 1
place. Next to start will be Mrs. Lang
don's plane, followed by Miss Ingalls,
Miss Van Mack and Miss Hopkins.
Others entrants will be given their
number as their entries are officially
sanctioned.
Jack Wynne, manager of Hoover
Field, will be the timer as the planes
are started and the general arrange
ments for the race are in the hands of
A. K. Barta, president of the Aero Club
of Washington and Thomas Carroll.
, vice president of Washington Airport
i; Throughout the day, there will be stunt
' ing, balloon bursting and spot landing
11 contests by pilots of the airport and
r visiting Avers.
Tomorrow night the derby flyers will
be the guests of honor at an aviation
banquet to be given at the Willard Hotel
by the Women's City Club. Mrs. Omlie
will present dpilomas to the ground
school graduates of the Eagle Wings
Flying Club, a section of the Women's
City Club. Following the banquet
there will be a reception for the woman
flyers.
The derby flyers will make Rich
mond their first stop, for luncheon, and
then fly on to Raleigh, N. C., the first
overnight control point. From there
they will go to Columbia, S. C., for
luncheon, to Atlanta overnight, Bir
mingham for luncheon. Memphis over
night, St. Louis for luncheon. Spring
field. 111., overnight, to Elgin, 111., for
luncheon and on to Curtls-Wrlght-
Reynolds Airport for the finish of the
race.
Will Rogers
Says:
TAHOE TAVERN. Calif., August
20.—Half of England has been In
Scotland half the Summer awaiting
the arrival of the Duchess of York’s
new baby. The
Scotch would
get a long break
fm 'fffßfi like that What.
UmJuJj/MKjff has caused all
\ the rumpus is
Wits J{ that the Prince
ffT of Wales has
V ' said that if it
M (C was a girl baby
St that he would
J marry. It just
shows what in
con v e n ience
some men will put themselves to to
prevent a woman from being Queen.
The Middle West got rain. Even
the Lord couldn't stand to wait on
ths Republicans forevea.
NEW WATER PLANT
FOR NEARBY AREA
Suburban Commission Prac
tically Completes Design for
10,000,000-Gallon Supply.
While still drawing the major portion
of Its water supply from the District
system, the Washington Suburban Sani
tary Commission has practically com
pleted the design for a new 10,000,000-
gallon plant across from the present
pumping station on the Northwest
Branch at Burnt. Mills, which is expected
to furnish ample water for the sanitary
district of Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties for some time to come.
An abundant water supply for the
new plant will be assured through the
diversion of water from the Patuxent
River into the headwaters of the North
west Branch, in the upper part of Mont-
Gomery County, according to T. Howard
Duckett, chairman of the commission,
who today revealed the plans for the
new station.
Would Use Old Reservoir.
The new plant would use the same
reservoir, but new filters will be built.
The pumping station will be moved
across the road. It is expected only one
new pump will have to be Installed to
raise the plant's capacity to 10,000,000
gallons a day.
Mr. Duckett said this arrangement
will result in 10.000,000 to 15,000,000
gallons of water always’being available
daily at the Burnt Mills plant.
The committee chairman said the
new plant would be erected Inex
pensively. Work on the project will
start within the next few months, he
declared, and be completed before next
Spring.
It will not be necessary to build a
dam in order to divert the water from
the Patuxent River, the commission
chairman stated. The diversion will be
accomplished merely through the in
stallation of a pumping plant, accord
ing to Mr. Duckett.
The authorization of this project does
not mean that the commission has
definitely decided to draw its ultimate
water supply from either the Northwest
Branch or the Patuxent River, Mr.
Duckett warned.
Five Years’ Study Required.
“The commission feels that it will
take at least five years’ study to’de
termine our ultimate water source,”
the chairman said. “In determining
this we believe we should look ahead at
least 20 years, to a time when, accord
ing to present population curves, we
will have to serve 250,000 people In
stead of 60.000 as at present.”
In regard to the suggestion that the
Sanitary Commission use the Potomac
River as Its source of supply, Mr,
Duckett pointed out that there are nu
merous objections to such a course. “In
cluding the quality of the water.”
"In any event." Mr. Duckett con
tinued. “it Is not the most advisable
thing to have two separate areas taking
water from the same source, because
of the possibility of contamination,
drought or other emergency.”
The Sanitary Commission will eventu
ally draw water from Its own source
Instead of buying it from the District
as at present, because the commission
‘‘is not certain the $65 a million gal
lons now being paid Washington for
water will permit the commission to
maintain its present rate to the con
sumers of Maryland,” according to Mr.
Duckett.
The chairman claims the commission
is able In normal times to draw water
from the Northwest Branch, filter it,
and put it in the pipes for only S4O a
million gallons.
Maryland consumers now nay $226
a million gallons, but thLs Includes the
maintenance of the whole sewer and
water system.
Deputy Chief Engineer Harry R. Hall
i reported today that the Maryland sani
tary district is now drawing about four
fifths of its supply from the District,
the remainder being furnished through
the Hyattsvllle plant, which is being
supplied with water allowed to flow
down from the Burnt Mills reservoir.
The newly installed connections and
pumps with the district are functioning
satisfactorily. Engineer Hall said, so that
even though all restrictions on the use
of water have been removed, there is
an ample supply in all sections of near
by Maryland.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Annual reunion. Belt-Parrish Asso
; ciatlon, Emory Grove camp-meeting
ground, today.
Meeting, officers of the District of
Columbia Bar Association, room A, the
Mayflower Hotel, 4 p.m.
Moonlight excursion, Northern Ath
letic Club, aboard steamer City of
Washington, down the Potomac, to
night.
FUTURE.
Card party, St. John's Parish House,
Thirty-fourth street and Rainier ave
nue, Mount Rainier, Md., tomorrow
night.
Prayer meeting, Bethany Baptist
Church, Second street and Rhode Is
land avenue, tomorrow evening. Con
ductor, Very Rev. William Hamilton
Nes, canon of the Cathedral of New
Orleans, La.
Luncheon meeting, Kiwanis Club.
Washington Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30
p.m. Speaker. William Knowles Coop
er, on "New Impressions of Europe.”
Dinner. Brookland Chapter, O. E. S.,
1617 Lawrence street northeast, tomor
row 5 n m Reservations North 077 ft
CAPITAL SURPRISED AT AUSTRIA'S
OBJECTIONS TO BIBLE SALE
Congress Appropriated sl,-
500,000 for Purchase of
Gutenberg Volume.
Monastery Monks Held
Priceless Treasure for
Safekeeping.
Surprise was felt in the Capital today
at news from Austria that the govern
ment had interposed objections to the
sale of a Gutenberg Bible destined for
the Library of Congress.
At the last session Congress appro
priated $1,500,000 for the purchase from
Dr. Otto Vollbehr of a large collection
of rare examples of early printing. The
Gutenberg Bible was considered the
gem of the group and its inclusion was
believed largely responsible for the
favorable action of the legislators.
When the proposal was advanced, it
was understood the Bible was the prop
erty of Dr. Vollbehr, who was said to
have purchased it from the St. Blasius
Monastery, rear Klagenfurth, Austria,
for $300,000. The monks, so Congress
was told, were holding the priceless
treasure for safekeeping.
The remainder of the collection was
brought to Washington soon after the
appropriation became available and was
turned over to the library. Dr. Vollbehr
then announced he waa going to Austria
to bring personally the rare volume,
represented as one of the three best re
t»|lining examples of the work es Jo-
PAT ROCHE, ZUTA SLEUTH,
HAS LONG OUTTHOUGHT THUGS
%
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1 Quiet Irishman Is Fearless in
Sending Gangland Lead
ers to Prison.
Remarkable Probing Per
formed to Expose “Re
| spectable” Hoodlum Allies.
’ By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 20.—A tall, straight
; Irishman with a broad pair of shoul
ders and a hard pair of fists—a quiet.
[ soft-spoken Irishman with a bit of
’ brogue and a lot of a smile—such is
• Patrick Torrence Roche, who has just
. caused fresh consternation in the places
t where gangsters have rendezvous with
■ quasi-respectable allies.
Roche—" Pat” to all Chicago—has
won his desperate race with the under
• world for the records of Jack Zuta, the
[ slain vice monger whose pen scrawled a
story more accusing than any his ene
mies may have sealed in Zuta’s grave.
Amazing Bit of Sleuthing.
The seizure' of the records has been
hailed as one of the most amazing bits
of sleuthing in the town’s history, but
it is Just another Job to Roche, who has
provided numerous sensational exposures
since he joined the Chicago police
force as a patrolman just 13 years ago.
Yet Roche is anything but the detec
tive of tradition. He is calm, courte
ous and easy going, this Pat who has
laughed at gangland threats and sent
hoodlum chiefs of New York and Chi
cago to prison. This same Roche
crawled on his hands and knees in the
dust and filth of an old whisky ware
house to trap four desperate gunmen in
a huge plot to steal bonded liquor. It
was also Roche who sent three persons
to the penitentiary for an aggregate of
790 years in the most-far-reaching dope
case ever uncovered here.
The spirit of adventure brought him
to the United States from his native
Ireland in 1909. So he set out to see
the country before coming down to
serious work. In 1917 he became a
member of the Chicago police force.
Three years later he was a detective
sergeant and soon after he was accepted
as an agent in the special intelligence
service of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
It was there, as a co-worker of Clar
ence E. Converse, that he flrst gained
national recognition. The two men were
so successful that difficult cases were
literally heaped upon them—and solved.
Broke Beach Drug Ring.
They broke up the drug ring headed
by Col. Gray Beach, then head of the
Federal narcotic branch here, and con
victed Beach, together with Willie Gil
hooley and his wife. Kittle. They sent
‘ATTIC LOVER’GIVEN
BLAME FOR KILLING
Mrs. Oesterreich, Hysterical
on Stand, Tells Jury How
Husband Was Shot.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 20—Mrs
Walburga Oesterreich, charged with the
murder of her husband, Fred C. Oes
terreich, wealthy Milwaukee, Wis., gar
ment manufacturer, has accused Otto
Sanhuber, her “attic lover,” of the slay
ing.
Shaking and hysterical, Mrs. Oester
reich yesterday took the stand at her
trial and denied conspiring with San
huber to slay her husband. Under
cross-examination she asserted she al
ways loved Oesterreich, even while she
harbored Sanhuber in her attic.
Admitting she told a false story of
the slaying when she was flrst was ar
rested in 1923, Mrs. Oesterreich said
she never had told anybody the true
story before, “because I didn’t want to
expose my life to the world.”
Describing the events of the night
Oesterreich was killed, Mrs. Oester
reich said she and her husband came
home at 11 o'clock and went Into the
living room.
“As I turned to Mr. Oesterreich.” she
testified, “he put his hand on my
shoulder.
“ ‘Dolly, you look good to me tonight,’
my husband said. As he did this I
slipped and fell. Otto appeared on
the stairway with a gun.
"I heard a shot. Otto grabbed me by
my hand and pulled me upstairs.”
Mrs. Oesterreich then testified San
huber locked her in a closet and told
her to blame the shooting on burglars.
Sanhuber w’as tried for the slaying
and was convicted of manslaughter, but
went free under the statute of limita
tions.
LAVA TAKES SIX LIVES
Japanese Mountain Climbers Vic
tims of AsamA Eruption.
TOKIO, August 20 (A>). —Six Japanese
mountain climbers, four men and two
women, were killed in a violent erup
tion of the volcano Asama, northwest of
Toklo at 8.30 a.m. today.
They were caught In the flow of lava
2,000 feet from the crater, a strong
earth shock was felt in surrounding
territory.
DR. OTTO VOLLBEHR.
—Star Staff Photo.
i hannes Gutenberg, Inventor of the
i printing press.
Klagenfurt dispatches indicate the
i book collector had an option on the
i Bible, but had not purchased it at the
time it was offered to Congress. Semi
official circles were reported voicing
governmental objection to the sale and
demanding an export permit be applied
for since the book was destined for the
Congressional Library. Whether the
book's transfer to the United States
would be permitted, however, was not
I made clear.
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PATRICK ROCHE.
Hymle Weiss—later killed—“ Dapper Dan”
McCarthy and other gang leaders behind
bars for their liquor syndicate activities,
and were prepared to send the notorious
Dion O’Banion along with them, but
thugs got there first and shot down
O'Banion the day before his trial.
Roche made many brewery raids and
gained indictments for “big shots” of
the underworld here and in New York.
He got the first Chicago conviction for
jury bribing in Federal Court. And he
caught the “Klondike” O'Donnell gang
in a plot to syphon pre-war whisky
from the Morand Bros.* warehouse here.
It was in this last catch that Roche
and Converse crept through the dirt of
the warehouse to trap their men. They
got them after a gun battle—one of the
few in Roche's career. He seldom re
sorts to gunplay, preferring to “out
smart” the thugs.
"Coaid Dry Up Chicago.’*
One of State’s Attorney Swanson’s
first acts when he took office two years
ago was to persuade Roche to join his
staff as chief investigator. The results
have been notable. Persistent raids on
dog tracks led to their final closing, and
constant harassing of gambling places
has put a serious crimp in hoodlum
income. He has led numerous liquor
raids, and doesn't think it impossible
to dry up Chicago. In fact, he remarked
not long ago:
"A one-legged prohibition agent on a
bicycle could stop the flow of booze into
the Loop in a week. If they’d give me
$300,000 and a free hand. I could make
1 Chicago so dry it would squeak.”
TWO ARE MISSING
i IN BALTIMORE FIRE
I Many Injured as Grain Ele
vator Explosion Starts
Blaze.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md„ August 20.—Two
men were unaccounted lor and an
undetermined number of others were
treated for burns and injuries after
a aeries of dust explosions had set
fire shortly after noon today to the
Western Maryland Railways grain ele
vator at Port Covington. The blasts
blew out the upper part of a wall in
one section of the building.
Twelve of the burned and injured
# were taken to the South Baltimore
General Hospital. Several others, whose
hurts were less serious, were treated on
the scene of the fire. The injured in
cluded both white men and colored, who
were at work in or on the elevator when
the explosions occurred.
Injured Lowered by Slings.
Some of them were at the top of the
j structure, which is about 150 feet high.
Those who were not burned or injured
climbed down the sides of the building
and the injured were later lowered
: down in slings by the Fire Department
| rescue squad.
The elevator stands in two sections,
which are linked by a pair of frame
bridges. One of these spans was shat
tered by the explosions and fell, drop
ping with it. it is believed, several
workers who were running for safety.
The other span was damaged but
bore up.
A report spread in the fire zope was
that witnesses had seen one man blown
into the harbor. Another told of seeing
three men blown through windows and
hurled about 20 feet from the elevator.
Police put out in a boat to search for
the man reported to have landed in
the harbor and two police boats
churned the water up to bring to the
surface any body that might be in it.
The elevator stands in a field near
Charles and Cromwell streets. Its two
sections are known as the No. 1 and
No. 2 elevators. The No. 1 section, in
which the explosions occurred, is a
tall rectangular structure whose back
is very close to the harbor’s edge.
Workers said that at this season of the
year about 30 or 40 men are generally
occupied in the No. 1 section.
Men Hit by Flying Concrete.
Some of the men were knocked down
and suffered broken bones from flying
chunks of concrete as they ran from
the lower levels of the burning build
ing. One man's clothing was afire ns
he emerged into the open. He cut it
off with a penknife.
A total of 3,100,000 bushels of grain
was stored in the No. 1 section of the
elevator, but it is believed to be safe.
I The explosions and the fire centered
in the upper levels of the section, some
distance above the grain storage bins.
Four alarms, turned in shortly after
the explosions, summoned not merely
a strong fire fighting force, but a fleet
of ambulances to the scene. Police re
inforcements were sent to the scene to
help handle the crowd in the fire zone.
Joseph Bell, a car inspector, whose
home is at Fullerton,. Md.. said he was
standing in a freight car some distance i
from the elevator when the wall was
heaved out. The concussion. Bell said,
threw him backward out of the freight
car. He arose and hurried toward the
elevator, meeting a number of injured
or burned men, whom he took to the
South Baltimore General Hospital in his
automobile.
One of the two missing men is Charles
Hammill, white, and the other is Sylvan
Jordan, colored.
Will Investigate Shortage.
MEXICO CITY, August 20 </P).—A
government inspector yesterday left by
airplane for Merida, Yucatan, to in
vestigate a shortage of $135,000 dis
covered in the national telegraph of
fices there. Officials said evidences had
been found of systematic thefts since
1926, despite the fact that the Merida
office was audited seven times last
year, once by the superintendent of
the national lines.
IT. S. Scientists on Torway Mission.
OSLO, Norway, August 20 (JP). —A
party of American scientists under Dr.
John H. Paul, sent by the Rockefeller
Foundation, arrived here today en
route to Svalbard, or the Spitsbergen
Archipelago. They will spend the Win
ter there studying bacteriology, the
causes of catarrhal diseases,
• ....
; DRY LAW’S REPEAL
IS URGED BY LEWIS
Lays Country’s Ills to Pro
hition In Keynote
Address.
By tha Associated Pres*.
SPRINGFIELD. HI.. August 20.
James Hamilton Lewis, candidate for
United States Senator, delivering the
keynote address before the Democratic
State convention, today urged modifica
tion or repeal of the Volstead act or
the eighteenth amendment “or any por
tion of either of these which cannot
run concurrently with the right and
privilege of the State.”
In his first speech of any length since
being nominated to run against Ruth
Hanna McCormick for the Senate,
Lewis blamed prohibition for official
corruption, economic 111 and despair of
farmers. He said the fanner should
again be permitted “to profit from the
medical and mechanical uses of the
juice of his grain."
Lewis, a former Senator, summoned
the citizens to “bring back this Gov
ernment to its people” and demanded
a State “free of theft and murder by
national prohibition highwaymen.”
Fean Open Rebellion.
“For the immediate action of our
countrymen,” said Lewis, "we call at
tention that in the pursuit of riches in
the maladministration of the national
prohibition law, the enriched bandits,
who, under the name of law, infest the
Republic, have brought this United
States nearer to open civil riot and
revolution than our country has ever
known since the rebellion under the
alien and sedition laws of President
John Adams.
“The new masters now demand the
subserviency of man and woman, fam
ily and factory, street and roadside,
home and church—to bow to the de
cree of dictation as to all their business
and commerce, their finances and agri
culture, their food and drink, schools
and religion.”
Blames Dry Law for Mortgages.
The result, Lewis declared. Is “farms
bending beneath mortgages,” “the rav
aging of $900,000,000 of earned money
to pay for tribunals of punshment,”
"the expense of $5,000,000,000 each year
to administer the National Government,
to give it force and officials to deprive
the States of home rule” and “the
snatching from the States and cities of
$500,000,000 of revenue.”
The citizen, he said, “beholds busi
ness driven to desperation, capital to
terror and sees ejected from employ
ment millions and millions of toilers.”
He warned that “in their helplessness
these burdened and abandoned Ameri
cans become fit for communism and
peril their own land with threats of
danger.”
The restoration of the Government
to the foundation laid by the fathers
of the Republic, and the return of the
States to revolve about the axis of the
Constitution afford the only desired re
lief. he said.
"To this end there must be,” he said,
“a liberalization, qualification or repeal
of the Volstead act, or of the eight
eenth amendment, or any portion of
either of these which cannot run con
currently with the right and privilege
of the State, or which stands as an ob
struction to this program of a righteous
morality in the government of each
State and home.”
Wet Agreement Predicted.
Predictions were current that the
adoption of the platform today would
find Downstate and Cook County Demo
crats agreed on a demand for a "blanket
repeal” of the prohibition amendment
and its supporting legislation.
Sarah Bond Hanley of Mommouth,
a “dry,” was named permanent chair
man of the Democratic State conven
tion, which will draft the platform for
Lewis.
Her appointment had the approval
of the Cook County and Downstate
delegations, which describe themselves
as “wets.”
All-Night Session Fruitless.
Meanwhile, the convention platform
subcommittee on wet plank, after an
all-night session, had reached no agree
ment. It had under consideration a
plank proposed by Col. Ira L. Reeves
of Chicago. It read:
“The events of the past 11 years per
taining to prohibition enforcement have
confused the word ‘prohibition' with
true temperance. We believe that
temperance is a moral issue and we go
on record as supporting that issue. We
believe that the several States should
have absolute control, within their re
spective boundaries, of the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic beverages and
should pass such laws pertaining to
such control as meet with the pop
ular approval of their respective citizen
ship.
“We believe the Federal Government
should be concerned only in the matter
of regulation of interstate traffic, in
order to protect States that may desire
to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of alcoholic beverages from liquor im
portation.
“We recommend the repeal of the
Volstead act and Jones law and the
submission to conventions of the people
of a resolution for the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. We advocate
the passage by the Legislature of the
State of Illinois of laws that will reg
ulate the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating liquors within its borders and
which will prohibit the return of the
saloon in any form.”
CAREY LEADSRACE
FOR WYOMING TOGA
Former Governor Has 11,547 to
Winter’s 8,015 for Senate
Nomination.
By the Associated Press.
CHEYENNE. Wyo., August 20.—Rob
ert D. Carey, former Governor, led the
field of Republican senatorial aspirants
both for the short and long term nomi
nations with the tabulation of scat- j
tered returns in yesterday’s primary.
Figures from 400 of the State’s 689
precincts gave, for long term: Carey,
11,547; Charles E. Winter, former Rep
resentative from Casper, 8,015; W. C.
Deming, Cheyenne publisher and for
mer United States Civil Service Com
mission president, 3,217, and W. L.
Walls, Cheyenne attorney. 1,830. Short
term figures are relatively the same.
Walls was running on a “wet” plat
form, advocating repeal of the eight
eenth amendment. Among the others
there was no issue, but personality
played the leading part.
Senator Patrick J. Sullivan, Casper,
Republican national committeeman, ap
pointed by Gov. Frank C. Emerson to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator Francis E. Warren, dean of
the Senate, was not a candidate in the
primary. His appointment expires with
the November election.
The short-term nomination was to
fill the unexplred term of Senator War
ren, with the expiration of Senator
Sullivan’s appointment.
Democrats went into the primary with
a single candidate for each office and
without contest*
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