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GOLD BLOC’S
ATTITUDE TO
BE IGNORED
LONDON, July 8. UP)—After hav
ing saved the life of the world ec
onomic conference by his order to
fight to the finish against adjourn
ment, Pres. Roosevelt provided his
delegation here today with more
ammunition to strive for the parley’s
success.
Camps Show Interest
Cordell Hull, secretary of state
and head of the delegation, receiv
ed a long cable message from his
chief, which, while it had not been
entirely decorded at midday, was
known to contain guidance and was
expected to teniler assistance in
carrying the American presidents
campaign for a world-wide price re
covery.
Mr. Roosevelt’s latest move arous
ed entirely different emotions in the
two embattled camps—the gold bloc
and the country’s which support
American policy.
The American group was jubilant
at the prospect of being able to
present concrete proposals to the
parley in support of their desire for
treatment of the full original agen
da.
May Go Ahead
Leaders of the gold countries,
however, declared that the presi
dents program is designed to solidi
fy what they characterize as the
dollar sterling bloc, comprising the
United States, the British empire
and a number of smaller states,
and assist it to oppose the European
gold standard nations.
The new dollar—sterling alliance
was filled with vigor as the result
of successes during the past two days
and received new inspiration from
the indication that it was being
given concrete material to place
before the conference for considera
tion.
In high quarters connected with
the dollar group it was said tfftt
there was a steadily growing ten
dency favoring going ahead wifh the
full business of the conference ir
respective of the gold bloc attitude.
RUSSIANS.
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porarily grounded in British Co
lumbia, gave up the idea of flying
his plane to Anadyr to bring Mat
tern back to the U. S.
If Mattem is picked up by the
cutter Northland, Alexander said,
he would offer to fly him to New
York from some point in Alaska or
Canada.
“The only thing that matters to
me is that Jimmie is safe and that
he will return to us,’’ commented his
wife, who has been at Walla Walla,
Wash., since the flier left Floyd
Bennet field in New York early in
June.
‘‘How he returns doesn’t make
much difference if it satisfies him.”
Additional but meager message
relayed from Siberia reported Mat
tern had not been hurt when his
plane crashed or was forced down 80
mflfes west of isolated Anadyr.
A dispatch received by the cutter
Northland said the plane was wreck
ed on June 14, the day Mattern took
off for Nome from Khabarovsk.
» Will Continue Hop?
Fragmentary advices received in
Moscow by Tass (Russian News
agency) said, however, the crafts
engine was damaged and that after
being supplied with a new motor,
Mattem would continue his world
flight.
The coast guard translated a dis
patch signed “radio, Anadyr” as
follows:
“Aviator Mattem June fourteenth
wrecked 80 miles west Anadyr.
Plane smashed. Mattem uninjured.
Fifth of July Mattem found, brought
Anadyr, now here.”
An official of Russian Trinity
church in San Francisco said the
phrase translated “brought to
Anadry” indicated the aviator had
been in a state of exhaustion when
he was discovered in the northern
wastelands.
From the coast guard message it
was surmised the first dispatch Fri
day telling of Mattem’s safety had
been sent as soon as he reached
Anadyr. It was time 11 p. m. Wed
nesday and had taken two days to
reacn Moscow.
Like the coast guard dispatch, it
apparently had been sent from a
soviet radio station at or near the
trading post.
The information received by Tass
from Khabarovsk differed from that
intercepted by the cutter Northland
on several points. Engine trouble, it
said, forced Mattem down about 50
miles west of Anadyr, 30 miles closer
than the other dispatch indicated.
Soviet frontier guards, it reported,
gave the flier prompt aid, but it did
not elaborate on whether it was
meant they found him or merely
rendered assistance after he pos
sibly had struggled for days through
the desolate area.
Mattem had taken with him
equipment for use in just such a
contingency. He carried netting to
protect himself from the swarms of
mosquitoes which infest the north
ern rim of the Pacific at this time
of year. Fishing tackle was placed
In the plane for use if he should be
stranded along the coast without
food. . .
When he was forced down, he had
flown 1,800 miles from Khabarovsk,
and was within 700 miles of the
western tip of Alaska.
Auto Sales Show
Great Increases
NEW YORK. July 8. (/P>—General
Motors Corp. today reported sales
of 101,827 cars and trucks to Amer
ican consumers in June compared
with 85.969 in May and 56,987 in
June, 1932.
Sales to dealers in the United
States were 99,956 units as against
85,980 in May and 46.148 a year
ago. Total sales to dealers in the
United States and Canada, plus
overseas shipments. aggregated
11701 cars and trucks as compared
with 98.205 in May and 52,561 for
June, 1932.
Riding the Air Ocean With
Our Future Zep Skippers
— »
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Writer
LORAIN, O.—Five potential offi
cers of America’s future air mer
chant marine have gained some inti
mate knowledge of the caprices of
the upper air. They gained it in their
first flight in a free balloon, as
part of a course aimed at qualify
ing them as officers aboard the
great airships that the Goodyear
Zeppelin Corporation feels certain
will span the oceans within a few
years.
The flight ended in a quick forced
landing, slam against the side of a
garage, the balloon envelope draped
over an electric line.
And as Frank A. Trotter, former
navy ensign and expert balloon and
airship pilot, unscrambled himself
from a tangle of student arms and
legs in the balloon basket, he said:
“I’m kind of glad we fetched up
this way in a spill. These boys have
learned some things about the trick
iness of the air ocean that they
couldn’t learn in any other way.
Now they’ll always have a great re
spect for what the air can do with
you and to you. That’s the first
thing an airship pilot ought to
havel•
Preparing for Flight
It was pitch dark when a truck
rolled into the plant of the Nation
al Tube company here, and the doz
en student pilots spread the great
gas bag on the ground and started
filling it with col., gas. The baloon.
Goodyear VIII, veteran winner of
the Gordon-Bennett trophy, slowly
mushroomed up from the ground,
the net covering the bag weighed
down by 35-pound sandbags hook
ed in its meshes.
As the bag filled, daylight came
and a great globe, 54 feet across, rose
from the'ground every step supervis
ed by Trotter and Commander Lan
ge, head of the school. Latest weath
er reports were received.
The basket, a wicker affair, like
a large laundry hamper, was at
tached, and 49 sandbags shifted to
the bottom and sides of the basket.
Instruments, barograph, altimeter,
compass, wer elashed to the rigging
sandwiches stowed away, and care
ful instructions given the students,
Bach of whom was told off to duty
as aide, navigator, assistant navi
gator, recorder, and so on.
Earth Sli. . Away
Trotter, the pilot, perched on the
load ring (a metal circle to which
both envelope and basket are at
tached), cut a rope holding the ship
fast, and called “Shove her up!”
The earth suddenly Vas snatched
from under us, and fell away Im
mediately to a great distance. But
there was no sense of motion, no
sound. The ticking of a clock In the
instrument cabinet was insistentlv
clear. Nothing at all between us and
the earth far below but that frail
little clothes-hamper.
“Fifteen hundred feet!” sang out
the aide. “Two thousand! Twenty
five hundred 1”
“Ought to be catching that breeze
to the south,” mused Trotter, still
oerched above the basket on the
load ring. “What’s the course, navi- j
gator?” “About 40 degrees north
ward,” responds the student navi
gator. "Throw out half a bag,” in
tones the pilot, and the sand drifts
from the canvas sack. “Three thous
and feet! Thirty-five hundred!"
sing-songs the aide, watching the in
struments.
Drifting Toward Lake
Successive bags of sand sift over
the side. “Seven thousand feet!”
sings out the aide. The earth is a
mere patchwork far below. Noth
ing is real but the great ocean of
air in which we drift, the ticking
of the clock, and the creak of the
flimsy hamper beneath our feet.
“The course, now carefully.” says
Trotter, in measured tones. “Quite
definitely north,” responds ithe
aide, his eye on the tiny shadow
of the balloon skimming the roads
and hedgerows. The shore of Lake
Erie, to the north, is getting closer
and closer.
"Now men,” says Trotter. In the
tone of a lecturer on mathematics,
"we could go higher, of course,
looking for that southerly breeze.
But if it isn’t there, it might be
too late to come down before we’re
over the lake. We’re not equipped
to land in the lake, and we can’t
take chances of drowning. We’ll
have to go down!”
He reaches up and pulls the rope
which runs up through the bag to
a large valve at the top.
Sixty-five hundred! Six thou
sand! Fifty-five hundred!” sings
the aide at the altimeter. There is
no sense of falling; you would not
know it except for the instruments.
At 300 feet, sand is thrown out and
the descent is arrested. But there
Is a lively ground wind toward the
lake.
Skims Housetops
A pretty suburban section, thick
ly built, offers few openings for a
landing, but the lake is very close
now. The ballon skims the house
tops.
“Were going to drop into that
road intersection,” says the pilot.
“Stand by to drop sand when I
give the word! He pulls the rope
again; the eart hswoops up. With
a scrape and a bounce, the basket
strikes right in the center of the
road. For a second it pauses. One
man, thinking the show over,
leaps from the basket. The balloon,
! suddenly relieved of 175 pounds of
weight .leaps upward like a fright
ened horse, clears a house, swishes
through the top of a tree. The lake
is only 500 feet away.
Sighting a large back yard ahead
Trotter pulls the rope again. The
balloon veers downward, straight
for a small garage in the yard,
rushing along at a smart pace on
the ground wind. Everybody dives
for the bottom of the basket.
Lands With a Slam
With a rasping slam the basket
piles into ground and garage wall
at the same instant.
One by one faces appear out of
the scramble of arms and legs.
Trotter climbs out o£ the basket.
‘•Get the time of landing'.” he
asks the recorder. "Why, I—I think
it was about 10:05,” says the stu
dent. just a little shakily. “Ten
I --- -
Pilot Frank Trotter, lower left, scrambles up the bal loon net lo cut loose a tie that has grown too tight...
Paul Ruch, student pilot, lashes the instruments to the rigging before the takeoff... then the Goodyear VIII
soars away, upper left, into the air ocean...But lands soon after, the basket ^mashing into the side of a
garage, the bag draped disconsolately over an electric line.. .prospective Zeppelin pilots have had their
first lesson.
seven,” says Trotter crisply. “Al
ways keep your log accurately.”
And that is the very practical
first lesson of five young airship
students in air navigation, a les
son that may come in handy in
some future day when one of them
is at the helm of a great liner of
the future American merchant
marine of the air.
CAPOMAID
IS GRILLED !
IN SLAYING
KANSAS CITY, July 8. —T/P)—
An attempt was made today by
authorities here to connect James
(Fur) Samons, Chicago gangster
under arrest, with the kidnaping
of William Hamm, St. Paul brewer.
Sheirff Thomas B. Bash sent to i
St. Paul officers the serial num
bers of more than $8,500 in cash
found on Sammons to determine
if the money is part of the ransom
paid for the return of the brewer.
Sammons had four $1,000 bills and
twenty-five $100 bills.
Sheriff Bash forwarded photo
graphs of his prisoner ana cescrip
tions to officers in various parts
of the country to determine if the
former Capone gangster is wanted
in major crimes other than a $45,
000 payroll robbery in Baltimore,
where he is under indictment by
a grand jury.
While officers expressed belief
Sammons was not connected with
the slaying of five men at the
Union Station plaza June 17 in a
plct to free Frank Nash, one of
the slain, an investigation of his
whereabouts that day is being
conducted.
Sammons has refused to say de
finitely where he was the day of
the slaughter.
Texan Sentenced To
Work on Chain Gang
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., July 8. (JP)
—A man who gave the name of
George E. Lillie and was said to be
the owner of an oil refinery at
Conroe, Texas, today was under
sentence of 90 days on the city
chain gang after conviction in city
court on conspiring to commit a
felony.
Prosecuting Attorney Houston
Emory charged Lillie engaged his
lervices to obtain a divorce for Mrs.
Edna Minton of Conroe, but that
the check Lillie gave him in return
was worthless.
France to Check
Gold Shipments
PARIS, July 8. (JP)—A half-way
embargo on the shipment of gold,
it is understood, is likely to be im
posed by France and other gold
bloc countries as a result of the
meeting of their central bank
chiefs today at the Bank of
France.
This arrangement would be join
ed with a tentative agreement for
the support of currencies to con
stitute the main points of the de
fense strategy for their monetary
standard.
F. D. Congratulates
Forest Work Gangs
WASHINGTON, July 8. (/P)—Pres.
Roosevelt today sent a message of
congratulation to the men in the
civilian conservation corps through
the weekly newspaper “Happy Days”
devoted to the corps.
“It is my honest conviction,” said
the president, “that what you are
doing In the way of constructive
service will bring to you. personal
ly and individually, returns the value
of which it is difficult to estimate.”
BALL PLAYER
ABSOLVED IN
ATTACK CASE
CHICAGO, July 8.—(A5)—A jury
in circuit court has said “No” to
the plea of Miss Lillian Eloiae
Mitchell for $50,000 damages front
Harley Boss, first baseman lor
the Cleveland American League
team for allegedly attaching ner m
his Cleveland hotel room.
Undaunted by the jurys verdict
last night, the 22-year-old former
Winston-Salrr.e divorcee is to try
again. Her counsel said an effort
to obtain a new trial would be
made.
It took but two ballots for the
jury to absolve the ball nlaver.
one of the jurymen said. The first
was eight to four for acquittal.
Miss Mitchell said Ross blacken
ed her eye, broke a tooth and tore
her dress when she resisted h»s
advances in his hotel \ room last
April 19.
Boss said her accusations were
not true. He added that he put
her out of his room when she tcld
him her time was worth something
to her.
Texas Mill to Pay
$1,800,000 in Tax
SHERMAN, July 8. VP)—Sherman
flour mills will pay $1,800,000 a
year to the federal government in
wheat processing taxes on the basis
of wheat ground in the year end
ing June 1. The tax is 30 cents a
bushel and 6,000,000 bushels were
ground into flop-- last year.
RANCHER FOUND DEAD
PEARSALL, July 8. (£>)—'Walter
Huston, 52, Frio county ranchman,
was found dead last night beside a
windmill. The broken top rung of
the tower indicated he fell to the
ground, a distance of abov.t 40 feet.
Mrs Houston found her husband
after she started hunting him when
he d i not r-.om hi -ie after dark.
1 City Briefs 1
Mrs. James E. Sloggett arrived
Thursday from Los Angeles, Calif.,
to visit her son and daughter-in
law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sloggett.
An eight-week “consent” term of
civil district court will be opened
here July 17 by Judge A. M. Kent.
Friday was the dast day of service
for the new term.
PLATE LUNCH, 15c. The Mecca.
—Adv.
Wet pavement caused several min
or traffic accidents in Brownsville
Friday and Saturday. Rafael Her
nandez tore the front wheels off his
car when he went over the curbing
at Washington Park. He was try
ing to avoid collision with a car
driven by Refugio Olvera. W. A.
Shultz’ car was badly damaged when
in collision with a milk wagon driv
en by Raul Lopez. This accident oc
curred at 12th and Madison streets.
Tires on credit—Firestone. Adv.
Dickey’s Old Reliable Eye Water
relieves sore eyes from gnats, and
tired eyes. Adv. (8)
R. G. Delaney, Cameron county
jailer, has left for Wichita Falls
with a man to be placed in an in
stitution there.
Dr. H. C. Sample, osteopathic
physician, and eye specialist has
moved his office to rooms 20 and
1 21 in the State National Bank
building.—Adv.
Wages Increased
FALL RIVER, Mass., July 8.—T
—The Bourne mill today posted
notices of an increase in wages
ranging from 5 to 10 per cent in
various departments, partially res
toring previous wage scales. The.
mill increased wages 12 1-2 per
cent early in June. The plant is
running on a two-shift basis, em
ploying 1200 hands.
SLAYERS ARE
IDENTIFIED AS
MAIL ROBBERS
CHICAGO, July 8. —uap
tured 15 minutes after they had
shot and killed a policeman who
interrupted an office building
holdup, two robbers today were
identified as two of the five men
who robbed a mail man of $60,000
a few months ago.
The two were identified as Ross
King, 29, and John Bongiomo, 27,
both of Chicago.
At noon they entered an office
building on the West Side, bound
the manager and rn assistant in
an advertising agency, and took cash
and stamps amounting to $81.
Policeman Harry Redlich. 38, in
terrupted the holdup and was shot
to death.
One robber dropped from the
office window, and swung aboard
a passing truck. A cruising police
squad, directed by bystanders, gave
chase. The driver, hearing the
squad car’s siren, crashed his truck
into a building and police cap
tured the gunman'.
The robbery with which the men
have been connected was one of
the most, daring in the city’s his
tory. Five masked men on Dec. 6
stopped a mail carrier and a
guard as they left the federal
building with a valuable shipment
of registered mail.
Snatching the carrier’s satchel,
the five fled through heavy traf
fic.
Missing Schooner
Arrives in Aransas
GALVESTON. July 8. (&)—Capt.
Henry C. Hogue, n aster of the
schooner Audrey, missing since
Thursday when a Gulf disturbance
passed inland south of Browns
ville, reDorted to the president of
his fishing company today that the
Audrey 1 ^ arrived safely at Port
Aransas.
The A' drey and her sister ship,
the Mary Jane, were salvaging off
Padre Islan 25 miles north of
Point Isabel when the storm
struck. The Mary Jane was driven
ashore while the Audrey rode out
the storm at sea. Capt. John Mor
rell and members of the crew of the
Mary Jane were safe.
Railroad Calls 1
Men for New Job
CLOVIS, N. M., July 8. —(ff)— |
The Santa Fe Railway Company’s j
cal for ex-railroad employes to
help lay 36 miles of new rail in
eastern New Mexico jibs orcught
together 135 men from all bran
ches of the transportation busi
j ness.
Former white collared execu
tives, chief clerks, engineers, fire
men, dispatchers and telegraph
i operators are working si(*e «y side
' near Encino, N. M.
More Power Sought
For Newspaper Men
LONGVIEW, July 8. (/P)—Walter
C. Holloway, representative of Gregg
and Harrison county, said today he
would submit a bill to the called
session of the legislature in Sep
tember requiring grand juries to
grant immunity in respect to in
formation give - ewspaper men in
confidence.
“It is only fair and just that this
be done.” Holloway said. “Grand
juries are forced to respect informa
tion given by doctors and lawyers
in confidence. I do not -'cel that
newspaper men would abuse this
privilege. Were tl.ey to do so. the
public would take care of them.
Newspapers are a community’s
greatest asset and they should be
given more power. I believe that
the thinking people of the state
will bear me out in this.”
Federal Road Aid
Contracts Aired
AUSTIN, July 8. (^P)—'The high
way division of the Associated Gen
eral Contractors of Texas will hear
a discussion of regulations to gov
ern contractors who obtain con
tracts under the emergency fnnl
aid highway construction law.^ftc
as was apportioned approximately
$25,000,000 in federal emergency aid.
Discussions will be led by C. E.
Swain, of Port Worth, district en
gineer for the Bureau of Public
Roads of the U. 8. department of
agriculture. Gibb Gilchrist, state
highway engineer, will discuss the
Highway department’s plans for
handling the projects.
Meteor Visible To
Citizens Of Dallas
DALLAS. July '8. i&)—A meteor,
said by several citizens who wit
nessed the phenomenon, to resem
ble a giant sky rocket with a long
tail of rainbow hues, flashed across
Dallas at 9:00 p. m. yesterday. It
was visible three or four seconds.
C. L. McNulty of University Park
Said the head was a brilliant ball
of White fire and at the end of its
course appeared to break into two
parts. He believed it burned out
without striking the ground. An
other witness of the spectacle said
the meteor did not appear to lose
altitude from the time it became
visible until it disappeared._
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