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1 THE WEATHER Scattered thundershowers. The day's record, Including weather report and other statistics, on page 12. The Nevspaper Icr'a Depends Upon IfrICE asCENTS-ff DES MOINES, IOWA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1935. FOURTEEN PAGES. Th Dm Moines Reenter tnd Trlhun Hv Mar Than Quarter Million Circulation.

ft ABB First Picture of Plane Wreckage in Which Rogers and Post Died' lDUCE'SW VICTIMS Congress Set To Adjourn by This Weekend BLASTS PARIS IRE ON WAY TO HOSPITAL PEACE PARLEY i Mot hmjitun Nw on 9) WASHINGTON, D. C. A plan to geek final action on 10 measures in a scurrying drive for II 1 III UI exl Saturday1 Driver, Third Patient Britain, France End 4 ti adjournment by no Talks Alter naying Last Trump. (Copyright, 1035, by United Press.) PARIS, FRANCE A gruff "no1 Injured in Crash at Harcourt. FORT DODGE, pa- emerged Sunday night from a White llou.se conference between Democratic loaders and President Roosevelt.

Heading Hie list were the wealth tax bill and a pro Li.nhrmpd bv Premier Benito Mus- posal for brrakinc the deadlock! en route to the State Unl- iolini from Rome, Italy, Sunday i Slight shattered hope of preventing over the utilities bill. Not all thejversity of Iwa hospital at Iowa measures on which action will be v. were injured fatally Sun-sought are of a major or morning at Harcourt, nature, however, and it Is was coti-'hcn an ambulance and Intel-urban in Italian-Ethiopian war by three- Wer negotiations. reded several niieht he lost In the I ne Oliver 8111 anotner adjournment crush. Premier Pierre Laval of France tnd British Secretary for League Ufairs Anthony Eden were believed fto have played their last face card Unities Hill.

Senator Robinson, the Democrat ic leader, standing on the steps of Jn the two-day game of diplomatic the White House shortly before patient were injured. The victims were: Mary Johnson, 47, of Oeorge, la dead, alter Wright, 4S, of Larra-bn, dead. W. A. alien, Inwa City, driver, fractured pelvis, head wound.

Unburn, 1A, U'ashta, rut mid bruise. Roth Wallen and Motorman H. midnight, told newspaper men he "believed the work of the session will be completed this week." Breakdown. An official communique an Interest centered on a plan to jounced at 8 p. m.

that the con pry the utilities bill from its tference was adjourned and coa senate-house conference deadlock. Details were guarded, but some of 'firmed breakdown of the peace j- jf t'fom' those present indicated that if the i inflect i It read: conferees are unahle to reach an "ardie of Jort Dodge realized agreement within the next two a fow seconds before the crash "Premier Laval, Capt. Anthony iaya, new instructions might be inevitable and tried frantically to etieck speed. sought from the house. Eden, and Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 'representing Italy, have not as yet Jbcen able to find a basis of discussion which will permit solution I'sea Reverse.

The Interurban, northbound, had Death Senteiire. Whether the house might wmnpnoTo i.m in San Francisco, Sunday night by plane from lonely Point Barrow, 2,500 miles away. From San Francisco it was flashed to Des Moines by Wirephoto. The wreckage of the plane in which Will Rogers and Wiley Post fell to their deaths on a river bank 15 miles from Point Barrow, Alaska. This picture of the tragic crash of the two famous Americans arrived cf the conflict, I Diplomatic Channels.

'J "Difficulties encountered in examination of suggestions put forward during the course of discussions necessitated adjournment of "the study undertaken, which will carried out through diplomatic ichannels." I Although the communique left the task to "diplomatic cede from its twice reiterated pulled out of the Harcourt stand against the "death scn-jstntion when Hardie saw the am-tence" for utility holding com- jbulanca. He clamped on the brakes panics was not predicted. It was and then threw the Interurban into intimated, however, that leaders reverse. had some hope of favorable actlon.l Driver Wallen also threw on his possibly upon a compromise not brakes and tried to swerve. The yet disclosed.

automobile struck the interurban The measures on which action nearly sideways, will be soiiKht, in addition to the I The four victims were extri-tax and utilities bill, ate the with difficulty from tha Crisp Comment In the News Officers Jail 13 in War on Rogers, Post Bodies Arrive At Vancouver fey coal stabilization, the ban wreckage and m.xhed to Lutheran So one regarded this as more than gold clause suits, alcohol hospital Both deaths oc Robbery Ring Fia.ler-Ix'mke farm bank-icurred about four hours later. an "out" for the baffled statesmen, Terms, ruptcy, TVA amendments, NRA i'g Terms that France and Britain (8pcil Dispatch to Th Rtgnttr ,) labor standards for government OMAHA, NEB. A farthing! contracts, rivers and harbors, and Lilt- liad offered Mussolini in place of Mays lie Saw No (sign. Wallen explained in the hospl tal that he failed to see any crossing signs. There are two auch signs at the tragedy scene.

An investigation of the crash fnrrr. of federal, state ronnlv and "'J' (By the AMoclatM PrriR.) Dr. A. E. Douglass of Steward observatory, University of Arizona, speaking on soil erosion and drought: "Drought are working havoc today Just as they did in the days of old.

We annot rhange nature's great Ian, but perhaps we ran protect our rilies and farms In somo extent hy wise reclamation projects and preservation of th forest rover." police officers was closing in Sun In a published letter, Will indicated he looked forward to meetinij "reiular fellows" in heaven. Story on pane 9. More WirpphotiM on Page S. VANCOUVER, BRITISH CO Vast Program. Final action also will be sought day nicbt on a gang which for ar rere: j.

A four-power government for if Ethiopia, superseding the 18 centuries of independence which i Emperor Haile Selassie has vowed to defend, A zone for Italian coloniza- months has preyed on clothing some type of oil legislation and as ordered by the he adruarters stores in Iowa and Nebraska. a rail pension bill to supplant that the Iowa highway patrol at Thirteen men were under arrest declared unconstitutional by the Des Moines with Officer Mark tion to be ceded by Ethiopia. as suspects Sunday and more arrests were expected by of LUMBIA The bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post rested in their funeral plane under close ficers. supreme court. So vast was the program outlined for a single week that some of those leaving the White House privately expressed an opinion adjournment might not be gained by Col.

Frank Knox, publisher of Neutral zones between Italy's colonization zone and present I Italian African possessions and i Ethiopian territory, to be pass troled by French and British guard in a hangar at Sea Island the Chicago Daily News: 2 KoblM-iles. Twenty-seven clothing store Flannagan assigned to the case. Webster County Coroner Dr. Harold T. Larsen also began an investigation and announced that an inquest will be held.

Had Driven Bus. Wallen had been driving an ambulance for the hospital for about a month. Previously he had been airport here Sunday night after a in, ft' (1 flight from Fairbanks, ij troops. it All this was offered without con Alaska. "The most Irreligious atmosphere In America today is in the meeting of radical Socialists who would substitute planned economy and Socialistic philosophy for our free Their arrival at 8:11 p.

m. in a robberies in Iowa definitely had Saturday night. House spokes-been linked with the hunted gang, men indicated several days might and six more robberies In Ne-. be allowed to elapse before the ad-braska were reported to be con- jouinment resolution is Intro-nected with it. duced.

Under previous plans it Three of those held Sunday i would have been introduced today. a bus driver. dual-motored, Pan American air ways plane piloted by Joe Crosson, intimate friend of both men, was None of those on the Interurban was injured. In throwing the motor Into reverse, Hardie burned it night were brothers Nevlnvllle, Archbishop John Gregory Mur-; fartn Ixiys. Two were in jail unexpected and few persons were sulting Ethiopia.

I'. S. at Ringside. Official sources were silent on whether the French and British will support league sanctions against Italy when the league council meets Sept, 4. The United States had a ringside seat at the futile conference.

First secretary of the United out. The interurban had to ba which has been the ray, reading an edict forbidding at Omaha towed here. h. Mini there when the curtained plane landed. Northwestern Iowa.

Iowan Dies As Car One Stop, OR, TOWNSEND IN PLANECRASH Pension Plan Sponsor Is Uninjured. OAKLAND, CAL. (UP.) Dr. Crosson said the ship would re States embassy, Theodore Mar- rmer, acting for absent Ambassa Catholics of the St. Paul, Minn, archdiocese from holding member or employment iiiorganlza' lions advocating birth control: "Hereafter, no or group of Individuals or society may accept or retain membership In any organization rerog-nling or supporting birth control or steriliratinn.

Violator will hn denied the sacrament of the church." main brfe overnight and resume its trip to Seattle in the morning with the bodies of the noted Smashes Into Bridge (Tin Tribune Ink Nwi Srvlc.) STOHM LAKE. I A. Robert Tymrson, 2.1, of Storm Lake, was injured fatally Saturday night The brothers under r.rrest are John, (lien and Gall Si hmut'k. Another brother, Harlan Schiuurk of Creston, also was arrested by the officers but was released after questioning. The gang's operations centered dor Jesse I.

Strauss, received from 'aptain Eden a complete account "i negotiations. when the auto in which he waa americas interest was as "a philosopher and 'round-the-world flier who were killed by the crash of their plane on a flying vacation trip near isolated Point Barrow, Alaska, Thursday night. l- I i'iend of peace." in n.i. struck loose gravel on a To nsend Ktm-m in northwestern Uiwa. Several clothing stores have la-en looted during recent months.

One robbery was staged as far east as age pension anf, mo a bridge, escaped injury To Lift Embargo. (Cipyrlsht, 1035, by United Presi.) The flight from Fairbanks, with one stop at Whitehorse, Yukon territory, for refueling, was made LONDON, ENGLAND Britain's Ottumwa, la. Itot. No estimate was available Sun jS 1 in a few minutes over 10 hours. "tort to Italy's smashing of the thw-power peace nroiect will be llfting of the provisional embargo BANDITS ESCAPE UNDERJGUNFIRE Sunday when a plane trashed with him during an a 1 1 pled takeoff at Pittsburg, Cal.

He arrived here later In another Plane Voting in Seattle. Crosson took over the land plane export of war material, 'i p'omats said Sunday night. The embarco npver hurt anv. at Fairbanks after bringing the W. D.

McManus, one-time "bouncer" In the office of W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray when the latter was Oklahoma's governor, much provoked over the loss of his britches: "Somebody got Into my house and took all my britches and shoes. I have been robbed nearly times since 1915 and the oifleer have yet to catch the thief but I chased two down myself." Harry Little, theatrical scenic bodies on the 500-mile trip from Point Barrow in a pontoon- "ty but Ethiopia because Italv Is WIREPHOTO 11 Claire Oakpeha, Eskimo, who ran 15 miles to Point Barrow with the tragic news of the plane crash. Part of the wreckage is visible in the background.

Charles Brower, "King of the Arctic," took this picture. Rogers' purpose in flying to Point Barrow was to visit Brower. Dr. Townsend Pettitl Lane Decoy 't ''-sustaining as regards munl- equipped ship. day nifcht on the total amount of loot, but It was known to be In excess of $.10,000, and some officers expected the sum would be well over $100,000.

Agent Con Ityan of the Iowa bureau of Investigation and Agent Harry Cooper of the United "tales secret service department directed the search. Kin borate "Fence." This is the way the gang operated, according to officers: In Seattle, Clarence Young, for ana me African nation is de-pfiident entirely on imports. mer assistant secretary of commerce for aeronsutics and now Laid by Officers. FORT DODGE, young p.Uing party bandits escaped from poll, here early Sunday In suiiereu only minor bruiavs in the Pittsburg crash. After addressing 20,000 persons gathered for heavy rain at Badger, but only a Pacific coast manager for Pan Ethiopia Trays.

PDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA CP) TAU Ethiopia, headed by Emperor American airways, arranged to re trace near Humboldt a pirn hntfl SHOWERS ONLY INCREASE HEAT Storms Avoid D. M. Knoxville reported .87 inch rain DR. lOH.NSt.MI. ceive the plane there in the morning.

Young arrived in Seattle by air from San Francisco Sunday a meeting of i Th. "eiassie and hia Kmed Sunday in Draver that find Six men of the mob were (northern California Townsend J. Sunday morning, while .25 Inchfellj 1 the nation from war. I iiii'J nil auiijiiiui llU'l oy the actual clubs, the elderly Long P'Sch burglars engaged In equipment dealer who managed a company of actors when Will Rogers and Eddie Cantor were breaking into vaudeville as unknowns: "Kddie Cantor, I think, cues his entire career to Will linger. Will was the older by 11 year and he took Cantor under hi robberies The others were part 'physi.

tan tlimlK-d into tha plane Naval Ksrort. He Immediately began confer of the elaborate "fence" main- of Hu)brt Hinkel to fly to Oak-i, OfflfUl trmprratam la IVa Molnm: inch rain and Estherville had showers. No rain fell In Des Moines al- i. non. ra m.

m-in sni. Mm. 77 ring with naval officers about an Mnaliy the bandita the police car eon- "-uusioneci and disheartened the long efforts of other na- to c''ca' up the Italian-Ethi-I'wrel. the "king of kings" his God-fearing subjects te the whole day to y'rs peace and Independ- stolen goods. jmake another address Sunday.

though two thunderstorms moved escort of navy planes which Lieut I ne ourKiars, reports ny rfin-i Jiinaei piane, ntj uni; to tamint. font north of the city at 1:30 a. m. Comm. H.

F. Kendall of the Sand jstables showed, were profit nt take off with the wind, appat ent- rjctw-tivt 'x Ryan and at 4 p. m. HI Ht HH H7 MM S.l SI Si XI Point naval air station said was authorized to accompany the fu- wing. Cantor as inclined to tm 'biirleyctie' and Koger continually admonished bim to tone down hi effect." in ii in.

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occasion was linked with ttoger. Con 'in ued on Pane Vine. Summer Dangerous Season for Watches reened into a tree and fence. Striking a post, it upended, burying part of its motor in the ground. nravi.ra rnH i- Aitenca.

HI 150 Russians Leap From 6 Airplanes MOSCOW, RUSSIA (UP.) Ancient Hopi Rites Used in Rain Prayer KANSAS CITY, MO. Your watch ia three times as likely to break in the summertime as in pm II mlnllil "Where' Another Plane" Ti r. I and Hinkel climbed Sim. si MlM. St Don't Talk Act." ROME.

ITALY-Premier Mua- said Suruinv tho 1 s- WAI.ri, ARIZ. () Age-old the wn-tked craft, unhurt. other seasons. Soviet Russia Sunday S.Hfc UIOVUUI ovo 7 Hit 'Tmiimtiim Sllf P. re liMif firlal.

Breakage of mainsprings Is the claimed a world record for mass "tea nKn no wnit man; nnmmv pisne me Italian-Ethiopian ire to Seven Couple Rohhe. After sven couples ware robbel a week mo of $200, police decided to lay the trap. Three police cart were placed at place frequented pctters. The officer were instructed to slouch 1n the front scat. Near e-h tar a policeman was hidden with a shotgun.

Shortly aftor midnight two call into the pohce a tion. Tha who did nt give their nme said they had been rofcbedl of 130. Votith Qulried. A few minutes later Pobsnn and Ryan saw the men ptdl aiongsida narachute tumnine after 1 .10 ter- rver witnesses were neid in i lt) Licht rains and thundershowers summer phenomenon, said Watch- my UIVIIOIIIU. exhorted 15,000 Blackshlrts kivas here Sunday the ground.

sons dfsrenried safely from six undergiounl in scattered Iowa cities Sunday With Pilot George Cranston he ''R't diplomatic polemics." (only made the heat more oppressive n'Kh1. high sensitivity nour," he said, -is solemn because of a higher humidity. delicate steel springs to )u and decisive for the na-j Temperatures ascended Into the temperature changes and humid then took off for Oakland, 40 miles distant. planes at Tusrjlno airport. The pnesis or me nop, lnjisn trine display was result of many in annual ceremonial prayer months of training of Russian rain-youth in pararhute j-jmping, fast1 becoming the Soviet national Illinois Starts Hunt must hnt.Li.u th weather.

700 'SING' IN SILENCE Hands Give Voice to Mute Athletes. LONDON. ENGLAND Uf One of the strangest and jnost touching services ever held under the mighty dome of St. Paul's cathedral Sunday saw 700 deaf and dumb persons from 14 nations pray and sing without a sound being heard. They were athletes attending the fourth lntrnatnal games for the deaf and mute beginning today.

The service was conducted in tb international sign lacguagt. 4 V. .11 a- OU have vim Vmi w.u.io. aw Slate. lUUIIULiaii'invia Karch, Farm Holiday Unit Offers Aid to Fall sport.

rmshing all obstacles. are forecast today. Germany 2 New Ui rea the goal set for you." For Snake Specimens fil'RjNCJFIKLD, IIX. (Vt'.) Top temperatures reporcea B'i Vrso s( Submarines on Job HK hU) IV JIU SANTA KK. N.

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the U-l and U-7. have been 'Hi of the house of dm1 frolicked NEWBURYPORT, MASS. Illinois has launched a statewide New Mexico division of the Farm- tave chase, stsrtir.g from what is (U Robinson Crusoe was snake hunt of every specie of fers' Holiday aswxialion Sunday known as Hankerchief ian. locked up In a jail cell for safe reptilea whuh abound within its announced its proffr of assist-) Police arrested two youths as keeping the other night. Crusoe, border Object of the hunt is an.e to Albert B.

Fall in his flsht suspects Sunday evening but werey a Negro, left for his native Kn- to gather material for an educa- to prevent eviction from his Three -bether they would ha tucky after the night lodging, itlonal exhibit at the suta fair. River ranch home. held or released ait questioning. ststlon at Rutland was struck by placed in service at Kiel the offl- ly. guests of Sunday, unty augnt ciai marine eroranungsDiati an-v Scanaoa (Dem, lio-V (damagt resulted.

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