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ffulabclpfiia Inn Want a Butler or Chambermaid? Phone a Want-Ad to The Inquirer TELEPHONE mim Bell: Rittenhouae 5000 Keystone: Broad 5000 A.h (or Ad-Taktr VOL 197, NO 61 jh1lalm! dntlr Slinky. Entered aa awind olasi matter at tl l'otoSi In Philadelphia under Act of Maroi 3. 1S7II PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1927 WEATHER Partly Cloudy abcdef TWO CENTS TH9 ykiladfh Inomrcr Cu. Patient From Africa iifi in in DOB50N LORD CECIL QUITS CABINET FLAYING POLICY ON ARMS GLOBE FLIERS HOP FROM MUNICH FOR CONSTANTINOPLE BOSS RULE HIT 8f MAE IN in puis Schlee and Brock Off on 1100-Mile Flight to Turkey; Crossed Channel From England in 7 Hours ifihvi' Ml 14 i A Br hl i I I 1 1.1 1, Robber Suspect Clubbed Into Submission by Threatening Mob at 24th and Thompson Chokes Mrs, Catherine Baker and Knocks Down Three Others; Threatens Girl, 14 Companion Escapes Choking mid kicking one woniuu punching ami striking several oibcrs and cruelly twisting the nniis of a fourteen-year-old girl, one of two colored men who were ailempling a systematic rubbery of the neigh borhood, niinle a wild tilit for liberty before he wus captured in a Mud at Twenty-fourth and Thompson street yesterdsy and clubbed into submission with a bicycle pump. In making his fren.icd dash fur freedom the prisoner.

Kilw.inl Mat thias, colored, I'-l, of Arctic avenue Atlantic City, recently nde.iscd from Molniesburg county prison, led virtual ly a whole shrieking neighborhood in the chase. At his heels as he darted down alleys, climbed fences and sprint ed across backyards were screaming women, shouting and cursing men and dozens upon dozens of children shrilly taking up the cry of pursuit. In the excitement, which turned the usually quiet neighborhood into a bed lain of shrieking residents, the pris oner's companion who hud all the plunder wrapped in a huge paper parcel, mado his escape. He biHt was seen hiking down North Taylor strict Tho victim of tho choking, Mrs. Caihcriue Baker, 120 1 Norlh King- gold street who found Matthias hiding under a tablu iu her kilcheu, had to remain under the care of neighbor women throughout tho remainder of the afternoon.

Livid marks of dirty fingers showed on her throat and her body showed several nasty bruises. As he came dashing out of the link er home with the woman's hysterical screams ringing in his ears, the attacker almost, bnmped Into a neighbor, Mrs. Fanny Warner, 1'JtlH North Uing-gold street, who wub rushing into the house. Out. went (ho colored man's fist and Mrs.

Warner toppled backwards. Hurrying across tho roadway came Continued on fit Page. 2d Column WILLIAMS FLIES PLANE AT 275 MILES AN HOUR Navy Flier Betters World Record by Seventeen Miles, Expert Estimates NKW YOliK, Aug. (A. The New York World tomorrow will say that, iu a fiflcen-ininuto flight made at Tort Washington, Lieutenant A Kurd J.

Williams, L'. S. who hopes to establish a new world's record for senplanes, reached an unoflici-ally estimated speed of 273 miles an hour. i Thin estimate made by Ottis Porter, official timer of tin; National Aeronautic Association, exceeds the present record made by Major Mario di Hern-hnrdi, of the Ilalinu Army, at Norfolk, last full by almost seventeen miles an hour. The speed of 275 miles nn hour is only UAH miles an hour behind the record established in a land plane by the Fronelnnun, Uon-uet.

REV. HILLYER H. STRAT0N WEDS MISSALICE AVEN Ceremony Performed by Father of West Philadelphia Baptist Pastor Kev. John Konrh isli-uloii interrupted his "rest" in Greenwood Luke, N. last Tuesduy long enough to perform the wedding ceremony for his son, Kev.

Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, pastor of tho New Ilereiiii Iiaptist. Church ul Fifty-ninth and Pine streets and Miss Auice Avon, daughter of (i Aven, of Macon, he admit led last, night. The couple arc "somewhere in New York" on their honeymoon, "They've been engaged for some time and the welding duto was set fur next February," Or. Straton explained. Miss Aven was visiting us on her vacation and we nil thought it, was foolish to wait any longer.

So 1 married them." Tho young collide are both vears old, Mr. having been ordained a year ago, assuming the West Philadelphia pastorate immediately thereafter. He is a graduate of Mercer Georgia, und also studied at the Kastcrn Iiaptist Theological Seminary. Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE Phillies, Pittsburgh, 2. (1st game called end of sixth inning, rain, second game postponed).

Cincinnati, Boston, 2. (1st game). Cincinnati. Boston, 5. (2d game).

Brooklyn, St. Louis, I. (1st game), St. Louis, Brooklyn, I. (2d game).

New York, Chicago. 7. (1st game). New York, Chicago, (Called eighth inning, rain), AMERICAN LEAGUE Athletics, Detroit, 0. Boston, 10; Cleveland, 2.

New York 8, St. Louis 3. Washington-Chicago, rain. I UUM llUill Textile Industry Sent Its Famous Products to All Parts of the World John and James Dobson Had 6000 Employees in Thriv ing Philadelphia Mill; Fir ture Owners Unknown By RICHARD J. BEAMISH A Philadelphia firm which had its beginning seventy-two years ago anil which in its prime produced the bug est output nf any plant in the world is soon to disappear from the industrial horizon.

John and Dobsou, might iest of textile firms when tho brothers were alive and at the helm of their bus iness, will soon close down its mills at Falls of Schuylkill and Gerniantown When that closure comes finis will be written in the history of the famous in stilution. Seven heirs of the brothers, all of them women, will divide their estates Mrs. Samuel I). Kiddle, daughter, and Mrs. Walter M.

Jeffords, graiidilaugh ter, will dmdc the estate of John Dob-son, Mrs. Altcmus Eastman and four other women heirs will divide the estate of James Dobson. It is said that it litis for some lime been the wish of tho heirs that the huge plants be disposed of. Tho oncer tainties of the textile trade and the inability of any of the heirs to attend personally to the direction of tho business have been factors iu this deci- sion. 6000 Workers in Mills It is a business in which great pros pcrity has always been contingent up on personal management by its owners.

When John Dobson lived his tremendous driving force, shrewdness and fore sight dominated the mills. At his death, about twenty-five years ago. Continued on 7th Pane, 2d Column TWO ARMY FLIERS FREED AFTER MEXICAN LANDING; AUTHORITIES HOLD PLANE U. S. Airmen Foroed Down in Coahu- lla When Returning from Desert Search for Missing Man SAN ANTONIO, Aug.

(A. Capt. C. II. Reynolds, and Sergeant Gus Newland, Army aviators, who were forced to land in Mexico today, are freo to return to tho United Stntes but their plane wus held tonight by Mexican authorities, it was announced at Eighth Corps headquarters here.

Officials who said they had received this information were endeavoring to obtain a more detailed account concerning the landing from Camp Marfa. Texas, which is fifty-eight miles north of Presidio de Vadu de l'iedras, Coahu-ila, where the fljers were forced down. The fliers mado a forced landing on Mexican soil while returning to Sun Antonio from Phoenix', where they assisted in the futile search for Alfred Z. Menard, war veteran, who disappeared ten days ago. Consul General A.

P. Cariillo look the case up with the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs at the request of Army authorities but lute tonight hud received no answer to his communication. COTTON UP $5 A BALE TO NEWHIGH LEVELS Rain and Expected Unfavorable Report on Weevil Boost Prices NEW IOHK, Aug, 20 (A. News of continued rain in the cotton belt and expectation that a department of agriculture report on the boll weevil situation, due tomorrow, would be unfavorable, caused heavy buying and sent prices of cotton soaring $5 a bale to new high levels for the season on the cotton market here today. Wall Street and trade interests were conspicuous in tho tremendous buying, movement, and while heavy realizing resulted in a partial set-back, tinal quotations showed net gains over the finals of Saturday.

All cotton options advanced to above the 23-cents a pound level, and May contracts sold within 10 points of the 2-l-cent mark. Spot cotton advanced (55 points and was quoted at 2S.BS cents a pound. Today Offers First Chance to Register Today is the first of the fall Registration Days. All previous registrations are void. Only electors whose names appear on the registration lists will be qualified to vote in the primaries next month and in the municipal election in November.

Poll tax may be paid at the polling place. Polling places in the city today will be open 8 A. M. to 2 P. and from 5 P.

M. to 11 P. daylight-saving time. 1 111 AFTER vigorously Attacks Britain's General Disarmament Stand; Difference of "Long Standing" Declares Pact Might Have Been Reached With U. S.

and Japan Without Sacrifice to England Special Cubit: (o IAi Inquirer. Copyright, i'JV, i inquirer ond Jeio 1 ork Uerald ribune. LONDON', Aug. London political circles throughout the day had assumed lhat he had temporarily patched up hk differences with the rest of the Cabinet Rt. Hon.

Viscount Cecil of Cholwood, K. C. tonight sprang a sur prise by announcing his immediate resig nation from the ministry in which he held the portfolio of Chancellor of the Duchy uf Lancaster. As late as five o'clock this opening the newspapers were announcing that Lord Cecil was planning lo leave for Geneva tomorrow as British dele- gale to the sessions of the Couucil and assembly of the League of Nations. Shortly after six o'clock Lord Cecil simultaneously announced his resignation and the fact that he was not goitig to Geneva as a member of the Government.

It is reported that the Earl of Ous-low. Under Secretary for War, may replace Viscount Cecil at Geneva. Tonight there was made public Viscount Cecil's letter of resignation in which he vigorously attacked the Government's general disarmament policy and Prime Minister Baldwin's reply, in which he declared that Lord Cecil exaggerated the differences between himself and his colleagues. Lord Cecil stressed the fact that the disagreement between himself and a FINDS PISTOL 1 A Mother Finds Child, 6 Sobbing Over Wound ed Lad in Kitchen 'I Didn't Mean to Do It," He Cries; Victim Expected to Recover That immemorial lodestono of child' nooa tne jeuy closet resulted in tragedy last night in the home of George Wills, at 2707 Stonehouse Lane, in the extreme southeastern section of Philadelphia. As the result of a surreptitious expedition into the upper shelf of the closet where his mother secreted the tasty jellies beyond the reach of himself and his younger brother James Wills, six years old, discovered a .22 calibre re volver, loaded and oiled.

Ho instantly forgot about the jam in the examination of the unexpected treasure. Clambering down from the chair on which he bad conducted the raid, he turned to his four-year-old brother, George, and said: 'Stick 'em up, Georgie, or I'll shoot you." Georgie, confident that anything which Jimmy commanded was entirely all right and proper, promptly elevated his tiny hands, his eyes large with expectation at the adventures which the possession of the shiny nickel weapon would precipitate. But Jimmy had not expected that the trigger would pull so easily, nor that when it did, an explosion would fol low. Tho weapon went off with a Continued on 7th Page, 1st Column SETS ALTITUDE RECORD FOR 0NE-SEATER PLANE British Flier Climbs 20,000 Feet; Could Have Gone Higher with Oxygen LONDON. Aug.

20. (A. Cap tain H. S. Broad made a world's altitude record for a single-seater light airplane, when in a Tiger Moth.today at Edgeware he climbed 20.000 feet.

He reached this height in seventeen minutes, but was compelled to descend owing to the difficulty In breathing. Captain Broad declared that with oxygen he could have gone much higher, possibly feet. (JIDES are on duty be-7 lizecn ihe hours of 2 and 10 P. M. each day (Sundays included) to show visitors through The Eberson Building BOY SEEKING JELLY shoots mm Levine New a Pilot, Chamberlin Declares INDEPENDENCE, Iowa, Aug.

29 (A. Charles Le-vine's solo flight from Le Bourget Field, Paris, to Croydon Airfield, EnRland, is the first he has made, as far as Clarence Chamberlin, his associate on his famous New York to Germany flight, knows. Chamberlin, here visiting at the former home of his wife, said Levine handled a plane (airly well in the air. He added that he "must have had additional training by the French- Promoter Spirited Columbia Away by Ruse at Le Bourget Orders Paris Agent to Pay Drouliin $-1000 and Wind Up French Affairs Spatial Cabin In Th Inquinr, CotvrlgM, 1DS1, I'll Thu Inquirer an 3 tk A'tu York llmai Tribune, Aug, taking his monoplane Colunibiu from Le llourget airdrome, near Taris, where the machine had been under French Government seals In his dis pulo with his French pilot, Maurice Drouliin, Charles A. Levine, who was the pussetmr of Clarence D.

Chum beilin in his distance record breaking trnnsalluiilie: flight on July 8, mado surpriso solo flight to London today, landing nt the Croydon airport at 4.05 I'. M. Hopping off without ideaiance papers, a passport, maps, baggage or a hat and with nothing except compass to guide him to London, Levine, piloting his plane single-handed, mude good time in his cross-Channel Might, bringing the plane to earth here, albeit in slighlly umateurishly landing, two hours nud fifty-five minutes after taking off from Le Bourget. "I had planned Ibis maneuver for some time and was watching for an npportiinty," said the American. "Today I strolled over to the hangar and asked tho mechanic to take the Columbia to the field.

I don't know what they thought. I had no hat, Hying togs or baggage. I inspected the plane and just left." The owner of the f'olumbia announced on his arrival that as soon as he was able to complete negotiations for a new pilot, American or Uritish, he would hop off here from Ihe brut east-to-west transatlantic flight. "Jf I can get. a pilot.

I will handle the ('oliiinhin hack across the Atlantic myself," Levine facetiously told The Inquirer in an interview at Croydon. "I'm pretty good as a pilot Continued on 4th Page, 2d Column FIREMAN FIGHTING BLAZE BURNED ONJVEDDING EVE Seared by Flames He Collapses After Rescuing Horses Ifis wedding to be held tomorrow, lloseninn George Yeager, North Eighth street, attached to Engine Com-puny No. Ill), Fourth street above Girard avenue, wan burned about the lace early this morning figliling a (ire which destroyed a stable and garage at (Jadwnlhidcr street and alarmed residents of the entire block. Yeager, whose company was the first to arrive on the scene, entered the table to rescue several horses, not stopping to tie any protection about his face. He emerged a minute Inter, leading two frightened horses and almost immediately collapsed.

His nose. hecks und forehead were seared. After treatment by an ambulance crew he wag sent home. The flames threatened dwellings ad joining the burning building and half a dozen families in night uli.iro tied to the street. BOY KILLED AS STREET CAVESJN 0LYPHANT Four Companions, Playing With Vic tim, 8, Escape Sjtf- tul to Thi Inquirer.

SCKANTON, Aug. John Do- broinsk.v, eight, of Lynch street, Oly-pliant, lost his life this afternoon when he was swallowed by a mine cave, which carried down a big section of Mooney street, a short distance from his home. More thau UK) employees of the Hud son Coal Company, working for more than four houi'B, had failed up to this evening to find the boy's body, buried beneath tons ot dirt and rock. Young Ilobruuiskv was playing with lour oilier boys in the street, when, wilhoiii warning, the surtace was carried down. The other boys managed to escape.

FLIES 1 TO LONDQrJ IN QUEST OF TRAiIS-SEA PILOT Candidate Announces His Platform to 300 at Meeting Held in Belle-vue-Stratford Grundy-Elliott Conference of an Hour, at City Hall, Causes Stir; Mackey-Mon-aghan Quarters Opened J. Hampton Moore's Mayoralty candidacy ii founded upon a platform to "good government as distinguished from boss-controlled government." He sounded this slogan ycsterduy when he presented his platform in detailed form to the members of his campaign committee and numerous others at a meeting in the Bellevue-Strat-ford. Along with submitting the basic principles of his candidacy for the consideration of voters, Mr. Moore reviewed his four years in office as the predecessor of Mayor Kendrick, and asserted that if returned to his old post he would do all in his power to stop waste ind extravagance. While the Moore followers were assembling at the Bellevue-Stratford to tear the platform utterance, a quiet conference in City Hull engaged the attention of politicians whose ears are attuned to every new development in the arena of public life.

The meeting was attended only by Director of Public Safety George W. Elliott and Joseph E. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, and a power in State politics. While Director Elliott and Mr. Grnndy refused to reveal the nature of their conference, City Hall speculated on whether it had anythiug to do with the threat of Elliott to seek the Mayoralty on an independent ticket sfter the primary election.

The Director and Mr. Grundy were Continued on 14th Page, 1st Column SIX OF FAMILY FLEE FOR LIVES IN FIRE AT WARNOCK AND LOUDEN Rush From Building as Flames De (troy Store; Lost Estimated at $10,000 Six people narrowly escaped death last night when fire destroyed basement dry goods store of Abraham Gill at Warnock and Louden streets, touting the neighbors from their beds and causing damage estimated at $10, 000. Gill, with his wife. Mary, were about to retire to their bedroom on the 6rst Boor when he detected the odor of smoke. In a rear room his 70-year- old mother, Elizabeth, was sleeping nd his three children, Sol, Leo, 10 nd Isador, 12, had been asleep in a rear room for several hours.

Sending his wife to sound an alarm, Gill en tcred th basement store, where flames lad already spread ajid were mounting to the sleeping quarters. Clad only in bis nightclothes, Gill rushed to the room of his aged mother, which already was filled with smoke, and carried her to the street The three children were sleeping in the rear room nd were undisturbed by the commo tion. Gill made his way to the rear room and roused the boys, who fled to the street in their nightclothes. The flamea, in the meanwhile, were spreading rapidly and the first floor was ablaze. Mrs.

Mary Galleu. who occupies the next house at 4754 North Warnock street, took the elderly Women and the children into her home ind supplied them with clothes. Firemen were forced to battle the flames for more than an hour before extinguishing the fire, which destroyed the store and caused considerable damage to the apartment above. No one was on the second floor of the dwelling. Firemen were unable to determine the origin of the fire.

Real Demand for Rented Houses This was discovered recently by Mrs. George J. Smith, 1130 Atwood Road, when she offered a 6-room house in an Inquirer "Rent" ad. Many calls came in from the moment her ad appeared, and the property was promptly rented. TELEPHONE Bell: Rittenhouse 5000 Keystone: Broad 5000 Ask for Ad-Taker Today's Radio Programme Is Given on Page 17 Lost Bearings Near Cologne; Welcomed on Landing With Steins of Beer; Guests of U.

S. Consul MUNICH, Aug. 30 (A. Edward F. Schlee and William S.

Brock took off for Cdnstantinople at 6.35 o'clock this morning (1.33 A. M. Philadelphia time) In the airplane Pride of Detroit. The flight to Constantinople Is the third leg of their flight around the world. (The distance from Munich to Constantinople Is approximately 1100 miles).

Perfect weather conditions prevailed when the aviators took to the air carrying DflO litres of benzine. They pectsd lo make the trip In twelve hours. Upecial Cable to Thv Inquirer. Copyright, iDt't, 6 Tht Inquirer and Ik, Hca York trait Tribune. MUNICH, Germany, Aug.

ill. Suc cessfully completing tho second leg of their projected record breaking flight around the world, William S. Brock, and Edward i Scbleo landed at the airdromo here in their Sliusnn-Pctroit all-metal monoplane l'rido of Detroit at one minute before 4 o'clock this afternoon. (10.5!) A. M.

IMiilndelphia Daylight Time). Tho fliers were an hour later than they word expected. A comparatively small hut enthusiastic, crowd was present to give them welcome as, tired, but smiling and seemingly in good humor, they alighted from their yellow machine. Tho American Consul General in Munch, Charles II. Curtis, was first reach the filers and give them a wurm hand-clasp.

Close behind him was Senator Hubert Wagner, of New York, who flew here from Frankfort-On-Main especially to greet the Amcricnn airmen. Other noluliles in the welcoming throng were Director Major Mailer and Count Arco of the German Lufthansa, the German aerial league, Counsellor Czeika representing the Bavarian Trade Ministry and Miuistrr Counsellor Conrad, representing tht municipality of Munich. The original intention of tho fliers had bceu merely to land at Munich for gasoline. Accordingly, largo quantities of fuel had been accumulated on the lauding place in readiness for them to continue their flight to Belgrade, Coiitlnuedjonmh Page, 2d Column 50 LEFT DEAD IN WAKE OF NEW F0UNDLAND GALE Tales of Tragedy Follow Hurricane of Last Thursday T. JOHNS, N.

Aug. 29 (A. I' Tales of tragedy have begun to tiller slowly out of the regions swept by a hurricane lust Thursday aud it is now believed that, more than fifty persons lost their lives on land and sen. Forty persons ore believed to have been killed in the I'lacentia Bay district, but detinito figures are lacking, I'resque, in the riaeentia Bay district, reported sixteen dead at Flat Islands, Kushoou, Parker's Cove, Baina Harbor and Gluti icoe. THE WEATHER Otticiul forecast: Eastern Penusvl- vriiiia I'artly cloudy and warmers possibly thunder showers in north por tion today; tomorrow partly cloudy, possibly showers in south portion.

New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland I'artly cloudy and slightly warmer today, followed by showers tonight or tomorrow. AdditionalWatherReporton Pan 2 Z'-o. i.L'U Hod in a at. to bum of tntAfst to HAlcltY Why dou't you ylioua or writ tm WIUJTVM MMtTU Cum (jomo ut wice Marry (hrhitriciil. LOST AND FOUND Ldr piniinmn anj tiimiiond rltitf, viciullr of lipHeviifc-Htintfonl An Vt hi huni'tf.

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Other Lost and Found Ads en Page 2 MISS FLORENCE DEVILLIERS Who came 1ft, 000 mlUi from FrMoriA. South Alnct, to i keepsake ihe Jiid cttritil bout for Biittwr. yean, Th keMk wa? bratt par-cr clip that wit in her htttsi, tthera it had been lodged aince had iwallownd it as a child of six. 8ureotin at the Brain ho-icopic Clinic, at Jellerson Hoipital. hava re moved the clip and today Mil de Viltiert tarta the lorta- journey heck to South Afrioa, and to her fiance.

15, TAKEN FROM US Undergoes Jefferson Hospital Operation on Advice of Surgeons Will Return to Wed, Happy After Sixteen Years of Suffering Lute in April a i-ublegriim from South Africa was received the physicians in the hrnncliHgropic. clinic uf Jefferson Hospital. The cable rates are high and the message, was terse. "Can you do anything for patient with foreign, body in Iiiuk for almost sixteen years'" the message read. "Ws.

Send her." Within an hour the answer was on its way lo Africa. Some days ago there walked into the iliiiic an attractive young woman with smiling blue eyes and wavy bloml huir. She introduced herself as Florence de Villiers, of Pretoria. South Africa. "I have just tinished a journey Hint took me thirty-seven days lo make," she said.

"I drought a little brass paper clip with me in my lungs. I've had it for sixteen yenrs mid I want to leave it in Amer ica when I return to Africa. I want to get back in a hurry, for my fiance is waiting and we want to get married." This morning Miss de Villiers. minus the brass paper clip, leaves Jeffrson Hospital to start on the mile journey buck home. The paper clip already has been Continued jn6thPage.

1st Column TWO CLAIM TO BE WIFE OF BR0CM5L0BE FLIER Talk to Each Other Over Phone, Fail to Settle Dispute Ohio, Aug. Two women, each claiming to he the wife of William S. Uroik, aviator who is making a round-the-world flight with Kilward K. Mchlee, talked to each other out long distance telephone tonight but failed to settle their dispute. Mrs.

Corrino Nmiiu Jtmvk, of Uuy-ton, daughter of a former mayor of Martinsville, declared sho was married to the flier October 1, l'Jlti, at her home in Illinois. Mrs. William S. lirock, of Detroit, asserted she married the tlier June in Chicago. HOME-COMING TOURISTS PACK LEVIATHAN TODAY 1750 to Embark at Cherbourg; 1200 at Southampton PAItIS, Aug.

29 (A. The largest embarkation on any one ship ut Cherbourg since the war is set for tomorrow, when 17.10 Americans board the Leviathan for home. Another 12K) are booked to go aboard at Southampton. Some of the French papers take this record embarkation as a Mgu thai Americans abroad fear a renewal of the recent manifestations over the Succo-Vanzefti case and do not desire to be subjected longer to atracks such us icy -have been showered with by rHiimanite. La Libcrtaire and other papers of the extreme left.

I mm CLP LORD CECIL Disarmament advocate and British delegate to the defunct three-power naval conference, at Geneva, who resigned hia Cabinet post in ft clash over the Government's arms policy, majority of the Cabinet was not of recent origin and that his disappointment over the failure of the recent three-Power conference at Geneva for the further limitation of nnvnl armament to reach an agreement was merely the culmination of a long series of similar experiences. "I cannot conceal from myself," be wrote to Mr. Baldwin, "that on the Continued on 4th Page. 5th Column AS 30-DAY DUCHESS Frenzied Italian Noble man Too Late to Halt Departure Disappears From Hotel After Hollywood Bride Checks Out With Mother From 'Jh9 Inquirer Bureaw. NEW YOJtlC, Aug.

29. In the mid- Atlantic on the French liner France is the Duchess d'Andria, born Lucille Smith in England and more recently known as Lucille Zehring, following her married about a month ago. When the elyn Zehring. Somewhere ashore is Duke Fabio Carafa d'Andria, to whom sho was married here July When the Duchess sailed on Saturday the Duke was not at the ship to say farewell. but it was learned today that he reached the pier half an hour late in a state bordering on desperation because he was afraid his wife would use his title while she was abroad.

So eager was he that his wife, who says she is 23 years old, drop her title that ho asked officials of the French Line to send her a radio instructing her to this effect. The French Line officials refused, and suggested that he himself scud the message if it was urgent. He left the pier without divulging his intentions. Mrs. Valerie Vale, I sister of tlic Continued on 6th Page, 3d Column DARING LEAP FROM AUTO HALTS RUNAWAY HORSE Bluecoat's Rodeo Stunt Probably Saved Lives of Three Boys In Wagon Seventh street between Fitzwater and Catherine saw a bit of real rodeo work last night when Police man George Moore, of the Seventh and Carpenter streets station, gave chase via a motor car to a runaway team on which three young boys were clinging, then leaped from the careening machine to the back of the frenzied horse.

The runaway and its subsequent cap ture took place when the section was jammed with pedestrians and shoppers. Three boys, George Scinica, 8, 7SO South Sixth street; Tony Raymond, 10. 1035 South Reese street, and Peter Lucci, 12, 1026 South Reese street. clambered onto the team of William Beebe, teamster, which was standing at Seventh and Fitzwater streets. The raucous horn of a truck frightened the horse which promptly bolted.

Police- m.ia Moore, rcalatag the uaugcr lo countless pedestrians as well as to the boys, comniandered a car, rode on the tunning board to alongside the horse, leaped to the animal's back, and brought it to a halt, DUKE LEFT 111 SAILS WITH TITLE.

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