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PRESIDENT FACES
OPEN CLASH WITH
INFLATIONjORCES
Veto Message Tomorrow or
Wednesday Will Bring
Quick House Vote.
SENATE IS FIGURED
SURE TO SUSTAIN
Showdown in Upper House to
Come Primarily on Question
of Monetary Inflation.
' BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Roosevelt will clash openly
With the inflation forces in Congress
when he goes to the Capitol this week
to deliver in person his veto message
on the Patman "greenback” soldiers’
bonus bill.
The expectation is that the Chief
Executive will take his unprecedented
step of returning to Congress himself
a bill of which he disapproves, either
tomorrow or Wednesday. The con
gressional leaders were still awaiting
word from him last night. However,
all arrangements for a joint session in
the House chamber tomorrow were
made yesterday, including the print
ing of special tickets of admission to
the House galleries.
The House by resolution has set
aside Tuesday for exercises in honor
of deceased members. The resolution
specifies that at the conclusion of the
memorials, the House shall adjourn.
It is confidently predicted the House
immediately wUl override his veto of
the Patman bill no matter how im
pressive and logical the veto message
may be.
Hope Rests in Senate.
The next step will take the vetoed
bill before the Senate. It is to the
Senate the administration is looking
In the hope that the President's veto
will be sustained there. Unless seme
Senators who voted against the
original passage of the bill or were
paired against it now do a flip flop
and vote to override the veto, or absent
themselves so their votes will not be
counted, it is mathematically impos
sible for the Senate not to sustain
the veto.
The showdown in the Senate comes
primarily on the question of mone
tary inflation. Supporters of the
Patman bill insist it is not inflation—
that it is controlled expansion of the
currency. But the country believes
the bill means inflation and many of
Its supporters are favoring the meas
ure because they think it does.
The inflationists in Congress have
cleverly managed to hook their in
flation proposal to the proposed pay
ment of the World War bonus cer
tificates. Veterans’ organizations i
have been prevailed on to go along j
with them. A proposal to Issue green- j
backs for the payment of other Gov- j
ernment obligations or for new gov
ernmental expenditures would not at
this time have the same voting
strength in either House or Senate as
has the payment of the soldiers’
bonus. In the first place, there is
back of the bonus payment strongly
knit veterans’ organizations, as potent
politically as the Anti-Saloon League
in the old days.
Inflationary Proposal.
The President’s veto message, It is
•aid, will deal particularly with the
inflationary proposal in the Patman
bill. It will point also to the gener
ous treatment by the Government of
the disabled veterans and the con
sideration given in other measures to
veterans in need. The President has
consistently held that the bonus is
not due the veterans until 1945 and
that available money and credit of
the Government are needed for relief
purposes.
A conference of the so-called
“steering committee’ of the Patman
ites was held yesterday in the office j
of Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, to plan for the continu
ance of the fight, first for the Pat
man bill and later for another sol
diers' bonus measure if the veto is
sustained. There were 15 to 20 mem
bers of the Senate and House at the
conference.
Senator Thomas said after the meet
ing that every effort would be made
to override the veto. He said he ex
pected all Senators backing the Pat
man bill to be on hand when the vote
is taken and that messages had been
sent to them.
“We want to vote promptly and get
the matter decided one way or the
other,” he said.
While the Senate rules permit de
bate on a motion to pass a bill over
a presidential veto. Senator Thomas
•aid that he did not wish to make an
address and that he did not kfiow of
any other supporter of the bill who
desired to do so. He said he did not
care to discuss future action of the
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DEPUTIES PATROL
ILLINOIS FACTORY
Guard Plant After Metal Works
Officials Receive New
Threat of Attack.
By the Associated Press.
LA SALLE, m.. May 18.—Special
deputies tonight patrolled the tactory
of the Apollo Metar Works after com
pany officials reported receipts of
threats that this morning's mass at
tack on the plant would be renewed.
Unofficial estimates of the damage
wrought by a crowd of some five
hundred strikers and sympathizers
were $15,000.
The vandalism, in which the throng
was repulsed by tear gas after shat-*
tering aU of several hundred windows
In the plant, was the first serious
violence of the strike which began
two weeks ago.
There was no further disturbance
after the 40 workmen, who nad been
besieged inside the factory, were es
corted out of the county by officers.
The workmen were dismantling equip
ment to be removed to Bethlehem, Fa.,
headquarters of the Superior Metal
Co., parent firm of the Apollo.
Choice of Saar Girl
As ‘Miss France’ Is
Cause of Near Riot
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 18.—A jury’s
choice of a German girl as
“Miss France” in a beauty
contest nearly resulted in a
riot among the audience today.
A committee headed by Paul
Chabas, painter of "Septem
ber Morn,” picked Miss Eliza
beth Pitz, 22-year-old Saar
lander, who took French na
tionality after the recent
plebiscite.
The decision was greeted
with catcalls. Order was re
stored with difficulty.
The winner later announced
she would not accept the title,
so the jury awarded the crown
to a 16-year-old Parisian,
Giselle Preville.
FOOD FOR 10H
FAMILIES RUSHED
Chicago Relief Crisis Ex
hausts Fund From Re
cent Bond Sale.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 18.—Emergency
food orders were rushed to approxi
mately 15,000 destitute Chicago fami
lies today, but many thousands of
others in metropolis and State faced
the grim prospect of empty cupboards
until the relief crisis ends.
Charles H. Bond, relief controller,
disclosing the eleventh-hour partial
aid, said he understood the orders
were financed with the last of the
money previously diverted from a
rural rehabilitation fund and pro
vided by a Cook County bond sale.
But officials had nothing for 540,
000 other residents of the Nation’s
second city whose meager supplies
have already been exhausted or will
run out by next Tuesday.
Despair in Many Sections.
Despair moved in with destitution
in many sections. It was estimated
that half of Franklin County’s 4,300
relief clients were without food.
Mayors and finance oflicers of St.
! Clair County—one of the “flat broke”
counties with conditions most acute—
met at Belleville in an effort to
gather $29,000 to help the needy.
Mayor James Crow of East St. Louis
frankly described the state of affairs
as "desperate” In asking Federal in
tervention to prevent disorders and
succor the jobless.
Little aid has been dispensed in |
that county this month. The final1
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
dollar there was spent last Monday.
Some 1,400 demonstrators have con
ducted organized protests at East St.
Louis and Belleville.
Poverty Without Aid.
In other districts hundreds of the
Impoverished have been on their own
resources for days. Some township
and county taxing bodies have stepped
into the breach. Local charities have
assumed part of the load. Merchants,
bakeries and milk depots have do
nated rations. Soup kitchens have
been set up in a few schools.
The 15,000 wanderers housed in |
Illinois’ transient shelters were con
fronted with an uncertain future. No j
money was available for their meals, j
but they will be permitted to sleep
in the stations.
Chicago landlords tempered busi
ness with mercy. They agreed to halt
evictions until the stringent period
has passed. Hospitals and clinics of- j
fered to care for indigent clients.
Hopes of the State’s 1,200,000 un
employed centered upon the State
Capitol at Springfield. There Gov.
Henry Horner will broadcast an ap
peal for public support of his pro
gram to reopen relief stations by in
creasing the sales tax from 2 to 3 per
cent tomorrow night.
Tax Bill to Be Pushed.
Administration leaders will seek to
push the tax bill through the House
of Representatives next Tuesday.
Adoption would enable the State to
furnish $3,000,000 a month as its
share of relief costs. Once the
measure is enacted, Harry Hopkins,
F. E. R. A. administrator, is ready to
resume Federal grants, and the Re
lief Commission will renew operations.
Republican opposition has deMfcfed
the legislation four times.
Meanwhile, the jobless prepared for
their third “hunger march” Tuesday
on Springfield to demand restoration
of relief.
Many persons deprived of public
aid by the breakdown of the Illinois
Emergency Relief Commission have
obtained jobs. Dixon reported the
opening of two factories had absorbed
much unemployment.
JEFFREY NEAR DEATH
Former Ambassador to Uruguay
Sinking Rapidly.
NEWPORT, Ark., May 18 (*>).—Un
conscious since Tuesday, R. E. Jeffrey,
former United States Ambassador to
Uruguay, was reported near death
tonight.
Jeffrey, an outstanding figure in
State and national politics since 1901,
was being mentioned for a diplomatic
post under the present administration
when he was stricken with paralysis
in September, 1934. He has been
bedridden sine*.
GLASS HURLS DEFI
AT ROOSEVELT ON
BANK OWNERSHIP
“Not Too Late” to Press for
Clause in Omnibus
Bill, He Says.
THOMAS IS PREPARED
TO PUSH AMENDMENT
Statements by President and Mor
genthau Held Threat to Speed
Present Measure.
By the Associated Press.
A direct challenge to press officially
the Government-owned Central Bank
proposal advocated by Secretary Mor
genthau was hurled at the adminis
tration yesterday by Senator Glass,
Democrat, of Virginia.
He said it was "not too late” for
Mr. Roosevelt to seek inclusion in the
omnibus banking bill before his Sen
ate subcommittee of the idea of Fed
eral ownership of the Reserve System
which the President said Friday would
solve a great many problems. This
was after Morgenthau openly indorsed
the plan before Glass’ subcommittee.
But some Senate foes of the bill to
strengthen the Reserve Board’s powers
over money and credit regarded the
Roosevelt and Morgenthau statements
more as a threat that unless the om
nibus bank bill received approval, the
more drastic legislative step would be
asked.
Coughlin Asked to Appear
One Senator, who refused to be
quoted, even contended the adminis
tration wanted the pending bill to
avert the Government banking own
ership advocated by Father Charles
E. Coughlin and Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Oklahoma.
Father Coughlin has been invited
to appear before the Glass subcom
mittee now considering the House
approved bank bill.
While Thomas was heartened by
the President’s statement and said he
would press his bill for that purpose
as an amendment to the banking leg
islation, all sides agreed the measure
would be minus such a provision on
final passage.
Glass Challenges.
Glass used these words in discuss
ing the central bank idea:
"If the President and the Secre
tary of the Treasury and the gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board
want a Government-owned central
bank, notwithstanding the consistent
opposition of the Democratic party
since the time of Mr. Jefferson up
to the present to such a thing, I’m
puzzled to know why they did not
Incorporate such a provision in the
pending banking bills. It is not
too late.
"The President usually gets what
he wants, and if he wants such a
central bank, the subcommittee now
considering legislation will give it
suitable attention.”
Fletcher Is Opposed.
Chairman Fletcher of the full
Banking Committee agreed Govern
ment ownership might solve many
questions, but he said this was “not
necessary yet,” adding:
"I don’t want to complicate this
bill. We ought to pass It without
complicating It with something else.”
Thomas said he was “glad the
administration has come to the
Government ownership viewpoint."
“If we had a bond crash,” he said,
“the Government would have to go
to the banks on bended knees,
whereas if the Government owned
the Reserve banks, it could control
the situation.”
While Senators were debating the
central bank issue, there came to
light a private statement issued by
the Federal Advisory Council, com
posed of representatives of the 12
Reserve banks, opposing the bank bill
and suggesting amendments which
would retain most of the existing
autonomy of the Reserve banks with
a proportionate lessening of powers
[or the Federal Reserve Board.
CATHOLIC CHARITY DAY
COLLECTIONS SEIZED
Police in Munich Arrest Many
Collectors as Nazis Stage
Demonstration.
3y the Associated Press.
MUNICH. Germany, May 18.—Po
lice curbed Catholic Charity day
drastically today, seizing all contri
cutions collected after previously for
bidding further rattling of money
boxes in the streets. .
Many of the collectors for Catholic
charities were arrested, and priests
were molested as Nazis staged anti
Catholie demonstrations.
All collectors were summoned to po
lice stations, where their tin cans
were confiscated. The action followed
numerous minor clashes in which uni
formed Storm Troopers were con
spicuous.
Aroused members of the Catholic
clergy flied a protest with the min
istry of the interior.
$10,000,000 Dukhobors Colony
To Migrate to Chaco Wilds
By the Associated Press.
Weary of the religious persecution
which they charge to Canadian au
thorities and have publicly resented by
parading in the nude, 15,000 members
of the strange Russian sect of Duk
hobortsi are planning to leave their
Saskatchewan homes for the wilds of
Paraguayan Chaco.
Preparations for the future mass
migration will be started tomorrow in
New York. Dr. Enrique Bordenave,
the Minister from Paraguay, will dis
cuss plans there with a delegation of
Dukhobors—the advance guard which
will select a locality for the new
colony. *
Heartened by reports of the success
ot the Mennonlte experiment in the
Chaco, which has grown In 10 yean
to a community of 6,000 and guaran
teed complete religious freedom by
Paraguayan law, the Dukhobors have
decided to rebuild in an even stranger
land the life they started 35 years ago
in Canada.
They are remnants of a sect ex
pelled from Russia about 1885. Liter
ally, the name means “spirit wrestlers.”
Some went to Canada and others to
Cyprus. Dukhobors have no stated
places or ceremonies of worship, no
holy days and no ordained ministry.
They deny the divinity of Christ and
give mystical interpretation to the
Scriptures.
Frequent clashes with Canadian
authorities have kept these people be
fore the public in recent years. Their
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Wholesale Break Plot at Lorton
False Drivers’ Permits, Also to Have
Been Used in Delivery, Traced
to Print Shop at Prison.
BY REX COLLIER.
Spurious Department of Justice credentials and District of Columbia
drivers’ permits, under scientific examination by experts of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, have been traced to the print shop at Lorton
Reformatory and have led to discovery they were to have been used in a
wholesale prison break that went wrong last August.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau, announced last night that
cards to which his name were forged and blank drivers’ licenses were printed
with type forms found by special agents of the bureau Friday in a hiding
place at the reformatory.
They were printed, he declared, by*
John Kendrick, trl-State gangster,
now in Alcatraz, and Charles Henry
Odell, now in the Federal Penitentiary
at Milan, Mich., at a time when Ken
drick and Odell, then in Lorton, were
planning a free-for-all delivery at the
reformatory.
Kendrick, however, managed to
escape in advance of the plans and
he joined Robert Mais and Walter
Legenza in their notorious forays along
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the Eastern Seaboard. Mais and
Legenza later paid with their lives
in the electric chair at Richmond. Va„
while Kendrick, captured in the South,
went to the Government’s island prison
for hardened criminals.
After Kendrick's escape from Lor
ton early in 1933, Odell enlisted others
in the plot for a ’’break." the date
for which was set for August 20 of
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BILLION AWAITS
WAGE SOLUTION
President’s Approval of
Work Projects Difficult
in Face of Dispute.
By the Associated Press.
With more than a billion dollars In
projects stecked oefjre him. Presi
dent Roosevelt yesterday sought a so
lution to a thorny problem blocking
actual, cash outlays from the $4,000,
000.000 fund—labor’s wages.
Until it is determined just how big
to make the monthly pay envelopes
going to unemployed getting jobs, re
lief officials said Mr. Roosevelt’s ap
proval of the $1,091,802,000 in projects
recommended by his Allotment Board
will mean little.
They added that none of the jobless
expected to shift from direct to work
relief can receive wages until the pay
level is set.
Opposition of Labor.
This was the problem Mr. Roosevelt
took with him on a wek end cruise,
forewarned of organized labor's bitter
opposition to reports of tentative
work-relief wage scale 30 per cent
below prevailing construction levels.
Federation leaders said yesterday
they would go directly to the White
House on the issue and one spokes
man added that if work-relief pay
drops below prevailing rates, “we’ll
raise hell.”'
Another important obstacle to full
operation of the worn plan was lack
of complete figures on the number of
persons now on relief. Harry L. Hop
kins was assembling i.hese for use in
approving or rejecting projects.
Hopkins was concentrating on ap
pointment of State work progress di
rectors with the intention of calling
them to Washington for detailed in
structions when the list for 48 States
is completed.
Machinery Soon Ready.
Meanwhile, the machinery for re
ceiving and sifting the flood of proj
ects arriving here was near comple
tion. Although a complicated routine
had been put on paper, officials in the
60-odd Government agencies involved
conceded many details for actual
operation were lacking.
They said most of the first billion
In projects approved by the Advisory
Committee actually were old plans
which Government departments had
approved months, and even years, ago.
The only exceptions were the $100,
000,000 Wisconsin plan, the $100,000,
000 to Rexford O. Tugwell for his
Resettlement Administration and the
$7,500,000 for New York City sewer
construction.
Arrest* Follow 100-Foot Fall.
HELENA, Mont., May 18 OP).—
William Keane, 28, and William Con
frey, 24, both of Butte, plunged 100
feet in a motor car down a mountain
side in Wolf Creek Canyon, emerged
from the wrecked machine with only
minor injuries—and were arrested.
Officers said today the car was stolen
at Fort Benton.
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OBJECTIVES SET
FOR G. 0. P. PARLEY
Necessity for Preservation
of American Ideals Is
First on List.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 18—The “grass
roots” conference of Midwestern Re
publicans at Springfield. 111., leaders
from five of the nine Prairie States
to be represented at the gathering,
said today, will have three major ob
jectives.
These aims for the June 10-11 as
! sembly they listed as:
1. To impress upon the 5.000 to 10.
000 delegates the necessity for pres
i ervation of American ideals, tradi
! tions and institutions.
Issues Are Sought.
2. To learn from these midcountry
j representatives the issues they con
sider outstanding and from which
a constructive Republican platform
eventually can be drafted.
3. To send the delegates home with
enthusiasm and the knowledge their
party is an important power in
American politics.
Harrison E. Spangler, national com
mitteman for Iowa, stated:
"It is quite likely the conference will
propose a sound and stable sys'em of
currency and credit, uncontrolled by
political influences, that the squan
dering of the people’s money be
stopped, that the Government be taken
out of competition with private enter
prise. that attacks on our constitu
tional. representative democracy be
stopped, and that American industry,
agriculture and enterprise be freed
from bureaucratic domination."
riauorm aiu seen.
John Hamilton, national committee
man from Kansas, said:
“The good that can come from the
conference lies in the fact it will call
together several thousand delegates
from nine States, having a common
interest in social and economic prob
lems; that we may learn something of
the issues paramount in their minds
and from which, In time, a construc
tive Republican platform can be
drafted * * * if we can send back
the delegates with enthusiasm and a
knowledge their party is a dominant
force in American politics we will
have done all I can hope for."
Grover W. Dalton, chairman of the
Missouri State Central Committee, de
clared:
“We should rededicate ourselves to
the principles and teachings of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Monroe and Lin
coln, as well as Hamilton. To com
pare these men with the Tugwells,
the Ickes, the Moleys and the Wal
laces is too odious to be thought of.”
“Can Rebuild America.”
A. B. Fontaine, national committee
man for Wisconsin, asserted:
“Jefferson and Lincoln principles
spelled Americanism. These were con
servative! middle-of-the-road, horse
sense policies between the radicals of
the left and the reactionaries of the
right. Out of the grass roots of the
coil these famed Americans broke,
plowed and cultivated, we can re
build America.”
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IN TWO STATES
72 Hurt in Storms in Texas
and Oklahoma—Dam
age Million.
Br the Associated Press.
ALTUS, Okla , May 18 —Tornadoes
and floods killed at least nine persons,
left five missing, injured 72 and
wrought damage officials estimated at
$1,000,000 in the once dust-harrassed
sister States of Oklahoma and Texas
tonight.
Brown waters of Turkey Creek,
boiling through the Harmony com
munity of Southwestern Oklahoma,
drowned two persons and searchers
believed five missing also had per
ished.
Twisters and floods in widely sepa
rated sections of North and Central j
Texas killed seven.
The surge of the torrents washed 1
out bridges, twisted railway tracks,
covered highways and flooded farm
homes. Other homes were leveled by
the whip of the winds.
Storms in Dust Area.
Heavy rainfall which loosed the
floods followed drought-breaking pre
cipitation of more moderate propor
tions in the relatively small dust belt
far to the Northwest, the source of
silt storms which killed live stock, con
tributed to fatal human ailments and
veiled the sun at times this Spring.
The dead in the two-State storms:
Mrs. Jessie Reed, 45, colored, in the
Turkey Creek flood; Hattie Elizabeth
Reid, 9, colored, in Turkey Creek; Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Phillips, Timpson. Tex.,
tornado; George Crenshaw, Weches,
Tex., tornado; Gregg Spencer, colored,
Cadmor. Tex., tornado: unidentified
Negro, Weldon, Tex. tornado; Henry
Daniels. 9. Dallas, Tex., drowned in
wading; Charles Ingram, section
worker, swept from railroad bridge
and drowned in Brazos River.
In the flood regions many persons
were rescued by boatmen from perches
high in trees or on house tops.
The rampaging North Canadian
River swept away the water mains of
Woodward, Okla., and left the city
with only a 12-hour supply of drink
ing water.
u>ma otunea Molding.
Water ran high over several of Ok
lahoma’s largest dams, but engineers
expressed belief they would hold.
Bill Williams and C. C. Brake were
on their farm near Elmer, Okla., when
they heard high water coming.
“We sent our families to safety
while we tried to get our cattle out,”
Williams said. "Before we could save
them the flood was upon us. We pulled
off our clothing and managed to swim
to higher ground. At least a dozen
houses in the lowlands were destroyed.”
Fifteen persons were injured in the
tornado which howled out of 'the
northwest and leveled the Weches
community near Crockett, in North
Central Texas, killing Crenshaw.
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JOHN R. DREXEL DIES
Paralysis Following Eecent Death
of Brother Thought Cause.
PARIS, May 18 (IP).—John R.
Drexel of Philadelphia died last night
at his Paris home. He was 72.
He had been in a coma since Thurs
day morning and physicians said his
death was due to the effects of a
stroke of paralysis caused by the re
cent death of his brother, Anthony
J. Drexel.
John R. Drexel suffered a stroke
last December on the day of the
funeral of his brother, Anthony J.
Drexel.
• Anthony Drexel, who had lived in
Paris for several years, had returned
to the United States for treatment.
He died in New York and was burled
in Philadelphia.
49 KILLED IN CRASH
AS STUNT SHIP RAMS
HUGE SOVIET PLANE
Largest Airliner Crumbles in
Air, Sending Officials, Pilots
and Families to Death.
SMALL MACHINE ESCORTING
FLIGHT IS CAUGHT IN WING
Maxim Gorky, Russian “Palace of Cul
ture,” Scattered Half Mile in
Record Disaster.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 18.—The Maxim Gorky, largest land airplane
in the world, crashed after a collision with a small airplane today,
killing 49 persons, including eight women and six children, in the
worst disaster ever to befall a passenger plane.
An official report denied the Maxim Gorky exploded, although
the plane broke into pieces in the air.
The mangled bodies of its 48 occupants were scattered over
the village of Socol, three miles from Moscow.
Pilot Blagin, of a small escorting plane which rammed into
the Gorky while stunting against orders, was also killed. Soviet
officials confirmed the death toll of 49.
There were reports that several villagers were killed when
struck by fallen wreckage, but these were not confirmed by au
thorities.
Three Are Killed
As Plane Crashes
At Port Dedication
By the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich., May 18 —A pilot and
two passengers were killed and two
other occupants of a tri-motored
transport plane were seriously injured
here today when the plane crashed
during dedication of a new airport.
The dead: Theodore Knowles, De
troit, pilot; Mrs. Mary Rushlow. 34,
of Flint; Conrad Rushlow, 7, son of
the dead woman.
Clement D. Rushlow, husband of
the woman killed, and a 3-year-old
daughter were in a serious condition.
Knowles’ plane, in which he had
been carrying passengers throughout
the day, crashed as he attempted to
take off from the field with 10 pas
sengers. At an altitude of less than
200 feet both wing motors failed, wit
nesses said, and Knowles barely
slipped it past a group of tents occu
pied by a Selfridge Field ground crew
before it struck the ground and nosed
over.
Army Flyers Aid.
A flight of 21 Army planes had
come here to participate in the dedi
cation of Bishop Airport. Officers im
mediately called into service their own
ambulances and trucks and rushed the
injured to a hospital.
Knowles was burled beneath the
wreckage, and was dead when work
ers reached him. The plane broke
in two pieces as it struck, spilling the
passengers out onto the ground. Mrs.
Rushlow died soon after she was
brought to the hospital and the boy
died an hour later.
The Army flyers who witnessed the
crash said Knowles apparently made
a desperate effort to land his plane
and still clear the tents in which he
knew the soldiers were quartered. He
landed the plane in the only clear
space in the area.
Knowles' wife was flying here to
night in another plane to join her
husband and was unaware of the
crash.
The others injured were Joseph Set
ter, 13; Mrs. Marbelle Hardwick, su
perintendent of a children's home
here: Mildred Anderson, Alfred An
derson, 33. letter carrier, De Witt El
wood and Minnie Ann Griese.
An inspection of the plane by Col.
Floyd Evans. State aeronautical di
rector, revealed there was no fuel in
the tanks, of the piane after the
crash.
COL. LAWRENCE’S
CONDITION WORSE
Specialists Called in for Famous
War Figure—Oxygen
Administered.
BULLETIN.
WOOL, Dorsetshire, England,
May 19 (Sunday) (&).—Col. T. E.
Lawrence, the world-famous
“Lawrence of Arabia” died today
of injuries received in a cycling
accident.
By the Associated Press.
WOOL, Dorsetshire. Eng., May 18.
—The condition of Col. T. E. Law
rence, legendary figure of World War
romance, grew suddenly worse tonight
after he had been unconscious for
more than five days following a
motorcycle accident.
A. W. Lawrence hastened to the
Army hospital in which Lawrence
of Arabia lay, after news of the
change in his brother's condition
reached him at his little cottage in
Clouds Hill, Moreton.
The brother sat alone, bowed in
grief, in a little waiting room while
a doctor and nurse stood watch at
the bedside.
The Sunday Star’s
Big Amateur Snapshot Contest
Starts at Once*
If your hobby is photography—if you are an ama
teur “shutter-pusher”—if you consider your snapshots
a little better than the other fellow's—now is your
chance!
The Star's Amateur Contest is starting today.
Send in your pictures —and for all particulars of the
big contest read the article on page A-2 of today's Star.
• which auu Luuuicu auituiK uic
37 passengers lost In the disaster were
members of the families of crack em
ployes of the Central Aerodynamic In
stitute, on an excursion in the plane.
Among the entire crew of 11 that
( perished were two of the Soviet’s most
, expert pilots, Giuroff and Mikhaeff.
Officials Are Killed.
! The dead passengers included Mat
rosofl, chief production engineer of
the Aerodynamic Institute; Kazarno
vich, director of the institute's Pilot
Committee, and his two children, and
the institute's chief mechanic and
head bookkeeper.
Eyewitnesses said the smaller plane
remained wedged into an edge of the
I Maxim Gorky's wing and that the two
! fell downward together. Then the
pilot of Gorky regained control and
tried to come down in a glide.
Spectators said they believed he
would have succeeded, but the smaller
plane fell away and the giant liner
lost equilibrium and went into a nose
! dive.
It was officially asserted the pilot
l cut oS the motors and that there was
I no explosion, although shortly after
! going into the terrifying dive the
Gorky broke up and fell in pieces over
the village of Socol.
Trip "Reward" for Worker*.
! The workers were being rewarded
| with the ride for their meritorious
i labor and 32 others were waiting at
Moscow Central Airdrome for their
turn to go up in the plane, named
j for Russia’s most distinguished con
temporary author.
The smaller plane was accompany
; ing the Maxim Gorky to furnish a
contrast in size for a motion picture
which was being taken from a third
plane.
- Built a year ago, the Maxim Gorky,
j so-called “Soviet palace of culture, ’
was used for propaganda purposes.
It had a passenger and crew capacity
I of 75 and carried a rotary printing
press and a complete motion picture
projecting apparatus.
An official statement issued tonight
placed the blame for the accident,
which occurred at 12:45 p.m., upon
! Blagin. A state funeral will be given
j the victims and their families will get
j special pensions and a lump sum in
I demnity, it was announced.
; An inhabitant of the village of
I Socol who witnessed the disaster
said:
"I was watching, spellbound by the
I sight of the huge Maxim Gorky and
! the contrast with the small plane,
which seemed like a gnat. The ac
! cident happened so unexpectedly I
hardly had a chance to realize what
had taken place.
“Dived Crazily.”
“The Gorky dived crazily and I
watched with horror while it went
to pieces in the air. I rushed to
a place where the pieces fell. They
scattered over a full half mile of
territory, some wedged between houses.
“One house was hit by a wing
weighted down by four motors and
it tore the roof and the whole side
off the building. The bodies of the
victims, some of them women and
children, were strewn about with the
wreckage, many dismembered.
"Everybody in the vicinity set
about trying to give help, but they
soon found not a soul was aliye among
the 48 people who had been In the
plane.”
Blagin violated Instructions not to
stunt while accompanying the Gorky.
His plane rammed headlong into the
leading edge of the giant craft's wing,
between two motors.
One wing of the Gorky, weighted
down by four engines, sheared off
the roof and side of a house in its
fall. Another piece of the wreckage
fell on a man riding a bicycle. The
wreckage scattered widely, together
with parts of the victims' bodies,
over the village.
Honored Noted Writer.
Construction of the Gorky began
in 1932, on the fortieth anniversary
of the beginning of Maxim Gorky's
literary activity.
The machine had an average speed
of 150 miles an hour and sufficient
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