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Complete "Dispatches of Unitctl International News Service and Universal Service. Idon'tsaM raper LATE HOME EDITION LOU AND TraJe Mark Hi ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932. 12 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS SI STA IDEM rrrtniMl-Iiit I LI I' 1 1 II a II WELT IN Ocean Flyer's Arrival WOUNDED BY COMRADE FRANK GECKS' WIDOW- DIES AT HIS FUNERAL 01 COP SHOOTS AMBER TRYING TO HALT FLEEING AUTO R. F.

C. PAYING 118 OFFICIALS $4,800 A YEAR Examination of Records of Federal Credit Corporation Siows It Has an Annual Payroll of $1,500,000. Patrolman Newman Wounded as Sergt. Ostrander Jumps Back to Get Out of Way of Speeding Car, Discharging Pistol Accidentally Three Fugitives in Stolen Machine Escape. v- immm fa i i i Patrolman William Newman was shot accidentally ana seriously wounded at 4:30 a.

m. today by his superior olficer. Sergt. Charles K. Ostrander, after Ostrander had drawn his pistol in an ctfort to halt three Negroes speeding west on St.

Charles street near Seventh in a stolen automobile. The Negroes escaped. Newman, who is 44 years old, married and lives at 4411 Virginia avenue, was shot under the right armpit, the bullet emerging from his chest. Physicians at the City Hospital, where he was taken, said he will recover. Quest for Real Moses Is Begun by Missourians Call Meeting to Decide Who Is Best Bet for All Third Parties.

Acme TelcpliOio. Capr. James A. Molhson photographed taking refreshment and with his plane at Pennfield, New Brunswick, after he had landed from his trans-Atlantic flight. ifiinTn AQQAII OflVER REGIME lUdffatic nominee cn nouie dtWUmDUS, tic Tfiu jik Today on jj, in Campaign Eco nomic 9 'a glENCE OF 20,000 IS EXPECTED AT BALL PARK He Candidate's First Polit ic! Address Jince ne rorm-Accepted Party Honor at Oicafo.

jjjVELAND. Aug. By I 3: i Gov a. iwumvch li through Cleveland early to-Zm route to Columbus. The gov- 3 fas still asleep.

rt ROUTE TO COLUMBUS. WITH GOV. ROOSEVELT, Esi-fBy I. N. )-Gov.

Frank-Roosevelt today will carry his ijaign for the presidency into to ton? Republican stronghold at this year claimed by tlje Demo- a Columbus this afternoon the jaocratic presidential nominee make his first political speech tjibuc since ne accepwsu num- Ration. ui epcft- uaoc-lyfiadium in that city. Ohio jgnocratic leaaers nave as of an audience of 20,000. fbile the SUDject oi nu aa- insi has not been announced, jmitvelt is expected to deal at sgh. with the policies and prolan recently enunciated by his President Hoover, in the Pres-wnt'i acceotance speech.

The gov t's advisers have indicated that a fill offer a "constructive pro-am" for dealing with the economic nation. BooGevelt laid the blame for the oajness depression on the White ftuse door step in a recent radio iMress, and his advisers expect he till amplify that charge in today's swell However, the governor repeatedly declared it is not his intentior a conduct his campaign by merelj jticizing the Republican adminis ition and has asserted that every iSasm he makes will be followed constructive proposal. loosevelt has spent his odd mo llis during the week, between Sijor James J- Walker's removal 'wings, in wcrking on his speech. 3e did not put the final touches a it until shortly before he boarded a train at Albany at midnight. The Democratic nominee is look- forward with pleasure to his lo visit, because he will be by his old running mate, mes M.

Cox. In 1920, Cox was presidential standard bearer and Roosevelt was the candidate for vice iwdent. The governor is bring accompanied Tito. Roosevelt, two of their chil- James Roosevelt and Mrs. Cur- B.

Dall, and James A. Farley, "airman of the Democratic Nation- si Committee. Roosevelt will start his return trip 'Albany tonight. Mills Flays Roosevelt. PROVIDENCE.

R. Aus. 20. Bj U. Secretary of the Treas- Ogden L.

Mills yesterday tie-Wiced Gov. Franklin D. Roose-criticisms of the Reconstruc- Finance Corporation at a SAeon here eiven bv Brvant- Uon College. declared that the Democratic Residential nominee had gone out 'biSWav to affnrk thf Rrconstruc- Finance Corporation, which was with thf hpin of npmocrats 2 both houses of congress, and had "administered on a strictly aMartisan board." since Gov. Tin(Vifvpt hns never 'Bbdrewn his criticLm." Mills we to understand that ocratic members of the house senate?" Said that, thr TpmncratiC Jjr is divided on the big issues, in- Prohibition.

la fact is." hp. doclarrd. "the qualified repeal plank so rom-rv at variance the dom-element in the party, the 'fclm Democracy. that every pcrson must recognie the Democratic party will be wie open on this issue should attempt to carry out the I JOTfJIHTY' nc wrpfiTKM HIRES HIS OWN SON JHINGTON. Aug.

20. (By U. SSiDDl. Viae nnrVrd -v ii i i at, jiao fetter to the Pascagoula, i sZ' No member of my family has a dollar through my fxeept my t.on." Nepotism cmng of rcla tives. D.JR., ARRIVES AT M'CORMICK'S BEDSIDE rT "wittieuer, aiwi" 115- KocKc-ieuer ana mc D' Rockefeller III, arrived wcago today and hurried ed to the Edith t-M 01 the shingles had pre- Ills 'Oli'rl v.

3 Suffers Heart Attack and Collapses as Body of Well-Known Musician Is Being Taken to Cemetery. WILL BE BURIED BESIDE HER HUSBAND MONDAY 64-Year-OId Woman, Who Lived at 5322 Murdock, Unconscious at Mortuary for Two Hours Before Death. Mrs, Emelia Geeks, widow of Frank Geks. well-known musician, who died Thursday, suffered a heart attack yesterday following funeral services for her husband at the Kriegshauser funeral parlors, 4228 South Kingshighway, and died two hours later at the funeral parlor. Mrs.

Geeks was 64 years old and lived at 5322 Murdock avenue. The services for Mr. Geeks began shortly after 2 p. with about 400 persons at the funeral parlors. Thirty minuutes later, the body was carried from the parlor to a herse.

A bank of twenty-five pieces, furnished by the musicians union, of which Mr. Geeks was a former president, assembled behind the hearse and played while the hearse started slowly over Kingshighway. Hie mourners left the funeral parlor for the automobiles waiting to take them to Bellefontanie Cemetery for the burial. Mrs. Geeks and her sister, Mrs.

George Held, wife of the president of the Jefferson-Gravois Bank, remained in the parlor. Mrs. Geeks suddenly fell to the floor. Her sister thougnt she had fainted and asked that a physician be called. I The funeral procession continued on to the cemetery without Mrs.

Geeks. When a physician arrived he found that Mrs. Geeks was too weak to be taken to a hospital. He said the funeral had been too much of strain on her heart. Mrs.

Geeks did not regain con- sciousness for the two hours before she died. Funeral services for Mrs. Geeks will be held at the Kriegshauser parlors at 2:30 p. m. Monday.

She will be buried beside her husband at Bellefontaine Cemetery. Besides Mrs. Held, Mrs. Geeks is survived by a brother, Charles Nie-metz. She had no children.

Mr. Geeks was a former Symphony Orchestra violinist and for 30 years conductor Of the St. Louis Philharmonic Society. He was 66 years old-He aided in the organization of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and for many years acted as concert master.

He retired because of illness about 18 months ago. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, SON OF AUTHOR, DIES SCHENECTADY, N. Aug. 20. (By U.

Edward Everett Hale, son of the author of "A Man Without a Country," was found dead near the Union College campus last night. It was believed he was stricken with heart disease. He had been director of English department of the college the last thirty-eight years. He was 69 years old. His widow and three sons survive.

STRIKING FARMERS SCORE VICTORY, MILK PRICE UP SIOUX CITY, I Aug. 20. (By I. N. Striking Iowa farmers have won a partial victory in the milk price war.

The price has been fixed at $1.80 per hundredweight, as against the $1 paid before the strike started. The farmers sought $2.17. The milk price agreement did not disturb the farmers' holiday movement, and picketing of roads was continued to keep all other produce out of Sioux City. Body of Missinjr Man in River. The body of Paul Kountzman, 60 years old.

dho disappeared from his home at 6717 Minnesota avenue several days ago, was taken from the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, yesterday. In the clothing was a note, saying, "I have been hit by the depression." Kountzman, who was married, was a machinist. THE WEATHER Forecast for St. Louis: Fair to- I night and Sunday; slightly -wanner Sunday. For Missouri: Fair tonight; Sunday generally fair and slightly warmer.

For Illinois: Fair; slightly warmer in northwest portions tonight; Sunday fair and somewhat warmer. TEMPERATURE READINGS. 2 a. 64 3 a. m.

4 a. 5 a. 6 a. m. 7 a.

m. 8 a. m. 9 a. 10 a.

m. .64 .64 ,.63 .63 ..65 .70 .72 .73 Midnight ...67 1 a. 63 Relative Humidicy. 12 noon 7 p. 7 a.

45 52 i 63 Stage of river, 14.5 feet, a rise of .1 of a foot. Sun sets 6:50 p. m. today, rises 5:20 a. m.

tomorrow. Maximum temperature yesterday. 76 at 3 p. minimum, 53 at 5:30 a. m.

5 i i i SENATOR CALLS FOR MORE FACTS ON LOANS Fletcher Says Details Submitted to Investigators Are Insufficient to Establish Desirability of Fund Extensions. Plea of B. O. for $31,625,000 R. F.

C. Loan Is Approved WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. (By U. The Interstate Commerce Commission today approved, the application of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to borrow an additional $31,625,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

The road already has obtained $32,500,000. The new loan is to be used to finance half of the B. 's $63,250,000, 20-year 4 '3 per cent convertible gold bonds, which mature in March, 1933. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.

(By U. Two developments today turned the limelight on the government's Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A study of its records by the United Press revealed that tne credit board's payroll runs well over $1,500,000 a year. Unhampered by civil service regulations, the corporation directors are able to pay as much as they deem necessary for expert assistance. At the same time Senator Fletcher, Florida.

Democrat, complained that Finance Corporation loan reports submitted to members of the Couzens supervisory committee lacked sufficient detail to establish desirability of the loans. Confidential data of more than $1,000,000,000 of corporation loans to troubled banks and other organizations are in hands of members of the committee presided over by Senator Couzens, Michigan, Republican. The corporation has set down for the senators the sums loaned each institution and the collateral taken. "I have ar.ked for more information," Fletcher said. "The Finance Corporation act defines exactly the purpose for which loans shall be made.

It is to aid agriculture, commerce and industry. The information given us does not establish whether the loans were for such a purpose. "For instance, a small Texas bank might borrow $50,000 and send it along to a Dallas bank to which that much was owed. The Dallas bank could pay a similar debt in Chicago and the latter bank could pay a $50,000 debt in New York. There-is where the money would end up.

I don't see how such a transaction could aid commerce, agriculture or industry." Fletcher charged, too, that under the administration of Eugene Meyer, first chairman of the corporation the "policy had tended to contract rather than expand credit and currency." The Couzens committee was authorized to examine Finance Corporation records but may not reveal the information obtained. Decision by South Trimble, clerk of the house, that monthly corporation reports to him shall be immediately open to public inspection detracts considerably from future importance of the Couzens committee. But the report of loans just received by the senators relates to transactions prior to the amendment requiring publicity. Informed persons indicated today that when all details are revealed it will be discovered that the finance corporation not only has advanced its own funds to embarrassed banks but has guaranteed private loans as well. Returning to the payroll issue, it is shown on the records that 118 oficials receive more than $4,800 a year.

Ten are paid $12,000 a year or more. The ten are six aids to the directors here, three members of the New York agency staff and the Chicago branch manager. Their salaries exceed those of the directors, who receive $10,000 a year. The Washington staff of more than 70 "key men" getting more than $400 monthly costs the corporation roughly $500,000 a year. This is in addition to several hundred stenographers, doormen and messengers.

Salaries of the agency managers range from $450 a month at Portland, to $1,250 at New Y'ork. The assistant manager and credit department chief in New York are listed at $12,000 a year. The Chicago agency head gets $1,041.67 a month. Highest paid staff members in Washington are general counsel M. G.

Bogue, special counsel George Roberts and Lynn P. Talley. assistant to the directors, at $15,000 a year. GARNER SHARES GIFT CAKE WITH TRAVELERS ON PLANE SAN ANTONIO. Aug.

20. By U. Traveling by plane from Dallas to San Antonio yesterday. Speaker John Garner remembered a box given him by the chef of a Memphis hoteL He opened the package and, finding it contained a cake- cu WUn nls pocket knile, Riving each passenger a large heip- Patrolman William Newman, who was shot accidentally early today by Police Sergt. Charles Ostrander.

RAILROADS REPORT 16,398 GAIN IN CAR LOADINGS IN WEEK Total of 512,431 Handled 120 Commodity Prices Have Increased Since May. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. (By U. Car loadings of revenue freight for the week ending August 13 totalled 512,431, an increase of 16,398 cars over the previous week, the American Railway Association announced today.

Another favorable trend was seen in the reports of government agencies that the upward trend in commodity prices is continuing at a gradual pace. During the week ending August 13, the general average of commodities reached a new high level for the upward movement, which began late in May. Department of Commerce data from private statistics show that 120 commodities have increased an average of 3.9 pei cent since May 28. The gains have been spread widely, affecting especially farm, mineral, textile and leather products. Prices of twenty-five commodities have risen from 10 to 63 per cent since May 28.

Pork, hides and cot- rtonseed oil. all farm products, have increased from one -half to two-thirds. Department of Labor statistics show a gain of six-tenths of one per cent in the average price of 184 commodities for the week ending August 13. These gains were largely in textiles, hides, cotton and cottonseed oil. Increa.sed activity is reported in the textile, shoe, coffee, tea and some mineral trades.

Silver, up 3.2 per cent, had the most brisk trade last week since November. 1931. The following table, compiled by federal agencies, shows the gains in the price index of leading commodity groups: Commodity Aug. 6. Aug 13 Funding materials 66 6 Paint materials 43 8 66 9 Non-ferrous metals 47 47.2 Food 53.5 54 1 Textiles 39 3 Chemicals 814 81.

Percentage increases in prices of commodities during the week ending August 13 are: Fresh beef, 3.9; eggs, 2.9; cheese, 3.8; canned tomatoes, 1.4; raw sugar. 2.3; coffee. 22; cottonseed oil. 29.2; cotton. 19.3; textiles, sheetings, 15.5; broadcloths, 15.6; heavy steer hides.

18.2; tin, 2.8: silver, 3.2; shellac, 15. Percentage increases since May 28 are: Fresh beef, 29.3: fresh pork shoulders, 50; eggs, 27.3; cotton, 29.1; raw silk, 42.6; rubber plantation, 33.3; hides, light, 50; hides, heavy, 62.5. Rubber prices have increased fcr seven consecutive weeks, as have eighteen other commodities. Carolina Mills Humming. MARION, N.

Aug. 20. By I. N. Five hosiery mills, a box factory, a cotton mill and two furniture factories here have resumed full-time schedules following lengthy partial or complete shutdowns.

Fif teen hundred skilled workmen have been returned. Virginia Plants Active. ROANOKE. Aug. 20 By U.

The Viscose Company will again increase its operations 10 per cent effective August 22, returning to work another group of 450 employes. The Angle1 Silk Mills. are operating two shifts and have recalled 165 employes. Geortia Factory Reopens. GREENSBORO.

Aug. 20. By I. N. One hundred and fiftv mill workers, unemployed since a shutdown last April, were back at their machines today, working full time.

HOOVER POSING AT CAMP FOR CAMPAIGN PICTURES! SKYLAID. Aug. 20. 'By N. Campaign pictures were in the making at Camp Rapidan to- day.

President Hoover had photo- graphers as his guests for the and all nf them had brought along their cameras and movie trucks, in- tent on geting shots of their host while fishing, horseback riding and indulging in the other forms of camp life. Killed dt Five-Foot Fall-Mrs. Katie Raab. 53-year-oid wid- ow, died yesterday In St. Elizabeth's Hospital.

"Belleville. Ill- after falling 5 feet from a stepladder while trinrin-x at, the home of Dominic Miller of Belleville, where she had been employed. Mrs. Roob is sur- vived by five sons, the youngest 16 years old. Ostrander.

who has been On the force twenty-five years and until three years ago had charge of the police detail at the Municipal Opera, gave the following account of the shooting "Newman and I were riding west on St. Charles street in a police car. I was at the wheel. At Seventh street Patrolman Hedtkamp. in plain clothes, came running up to us.

"He said that while he was standing at Seventh street and Washington avenue he sar three Negroes go east in an automobile bearing the license of a machine reported stolen from in front of 390 North Euclid avenue at 2:15 p. m. yesterday. The car belonged to E. Crawford, 21 Wydown terrace, Clayton.

Draws Pistol. had no more than stopped the police car when Hedtkamp shouted, 'Here they come I looked around and saw the Negroes coming west on St. Charles. I jumped out of the car on the left side, drew my pistol and leaped Into the scet. "I called on the Negroes to halt, but instead, they tried to run me down.

I leaped back and bumped into the police car. The jar discharged my pistol and it evidently was this shot that struck Newman, who had got out of the police car on the right side and run around the front of it. "Not knowing that Newman was shot, I fired another shot at the Negroes. Newman had fired five shots at them and Hedtkamp had fired three, but it failed to halt them. Their car swerved across the street, sldeswiped a taxicab and then sped on west.

Rush to Hospital. "Turning to Newman, I said, 'Jump in the car. We'll chase Newman said. I can't sir. I'm You can imagine my surprise.

1 said, He replied, Hedtkamp and I helped him into the police car and rushed him to the hospital." The car in which the Negroes were riding was found several hours later behind a billboard in the rear 0f 2915 Washington boulevard. There were three bullet holes in the back, but it is not known whether any of the Negroes was wounded. No blood was found in the car, which will be examined for fingerprints in an effort to obtain a clew to the identity of the fugitives. Capt. Calvin J.

White, night chief of police, exonerated Ostrander of any blame in connection with the shooting. Ostrander is 50 years old and lives at 2135 East Wame avenue. Newman has been on the force since 1917. KILLS WOMAN WHO SHE SAYS DUG GRAVE FOR HER LIBERTY, Aug. 20.

(By I. N. "She dug a grave for me and I buried her in It," Mrs. Nellie Kumer declared today after admitting she had shot and killed her employer's wife, Mrs. Guy Gun- sallie, 52.

The slain woman was found in a shallow grave on the Gunsalhe farm. Mrs. Kumer said she shot Mrs. Gunsallie when the latter pursued her with a razor after telling her of the grave she had dug for her. 'HOOVER' AND 'ROOSEVELT TO CRASH HEAD-ON AT FAIR DES MOINES.

Aug. 20. 'By I. N. President Hoover and Gov.

Franklin D. Roosevelt are going to crash head-on at the Iowa State Fair August 27. Their names will be appended to railroad locomotives figuring in a deliberate wreck. The engines will rush at each other on a track extending across the fairgrounds. Today's Features Walter Windiel! 4 Woman's Vagr Market Report Cross-Word Puzzle 6 Want Ads 1 Ripley 8 Sport Pages 8 and 9 Blackbird's Selections 9 Morning Line Radio "I Like You So Much (Serial O.

O. Mclntyre Will Rogers Short Story ...9 ..10 ...11 ..11 ..11 11 .11 and 12 12 Comic Pags. "Side In order that the people may know "which Moses is the real Moses" two rural Missouri editors have joined in a call for a national convention of all so-called third party organizations to meet in Kansas City on August 30. The editors are Charles Murphy ani IJ. 3.

Parker, who twice each month publish "The Bugle Call" at Aurora, Mo. Murphy and Parker were in St. Louis this week to watch the conventions of the Jobless and Liberty parties and said they were more convinced then ever that something has to be done to lead the voters out of the wilderness. "We want to know who the Moses is before we go any farther," Murphy explained, "and our unity convention at Kansas City should settle the question." Originally Murphy was with W. II.

(Coin Harvey, who received the presidential nomination of the Liberty party at Creve Coeur Wednesday. Wouldn't Take Him. But the editor soon found that the "moneyed interests" who were to finance the Liberty party would not take him. So he joined a movement at Tulsa last October which resulted, according to Murphy, in a demand that Harvey step aside. But in the meanwhile the aged free silver advocate had the nomination in his pocket.

Since that time there have been so many third party movements that Murphy and Parker have bren made dizzy trying to keep track of them. "Last April," Murphy related, "the Farmer-Labor party met in Omaha and nominated Frank E. Webb of San Francisco for president and Gen. Jacob S. Coxey for vice president.

Before we had time to even read the platform along came the Socialist convention on May 21 at Milwaukee and selected Norman Thomas as its candidate. Then the Prohibitionists. "Then along came the Prohibition party at a meeting in Indianapolis in July and named William D. Up-shaw to head its ticket. "Next the Communists met and agreed upon William Z.

Foster for president, and on top of all that the League of Independent Political Action held its meeting in Cleveland on July 10. But thank goodness they did not nominate anyone. "As matters stand now we war.t to know who is the real Moses who will lead us out. We have invited all of the third party folks. Including the prohibitionists and the boj who did not get their cash bonus, to Join with us at Kansas City." CANDIDATES FILE REPORTS ON CAMPAIGN EXPENSES Primary candidates, both winners and losers, are filing reports of their campaign expenditures with the recorder of deeds.

City Marshal William E. Duffy used $2,336 in an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Charles Hertenstein, another Jofeer in the same race, fpent S2.155, and Charles A. Hug. who withdrew from the race before the primary, spent $285.

It cost Robert C. Duff in $409 to make an unsuccessful effort for the Republican nomination for public administrator. Charles Eberle, elect- i eu vj ine rtepuQucan iaihuui-! tee. spent $743. and Harry J.

Car.t-weil. running for the Democratic committee, spent $427. WILLIAM ELLIOTT DIES IN HIS CAR, FUNERAL TUESDAY Funeral services for William H. Elliott, draftsman for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, who died suddenly yesterday in his automobile, will be held at 2:30 p. m.

Tuesday at Bopp's chapel in Klrk- wood. Burial will be in Belief on-itaine Cemetery. Mr. Elliott, wh I was 67 years old and lived at 6404 1 Etzel avenue, was one of the flrst automobile owners in St. Louis, hav-; ing bought his first car thirty yeai iago.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. May Herbert Elliott, and a daughter. Miss Virsinia EUioti, CAPT. MOLLISON DELAYS RETURN ATLANTIC FLIGHT Will Wait in New York for Bride KS to Come Over by Ship. Copyright.

1932. Bv United Press. ST. JOHN. NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug.

20. Capt. James A. Mollison, who flew across the Atlantic, the first to make that westward crossing alone, has abandoned his three-day round-trip plan and will fly to Montreal and Ottawa before starting home in his small plane. The 27-year-old Scotsman told a United Press correspondent today that he would not arrive in New York before 3 p.

m. Sunday. "I'm trying to catch up on sleep, you know, and I would if you hadn't called me Just now." he u.uckled. Exhausted after battling heavy fog in his non-stop flight from Ireland to New York, the husband of England's foremost woman flyer. Amy Johnson, said he had been invited to address the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa on the subject of aeronautics.

He will stop, however, at Montreal at the request of Col. W. A. Bishop, famous Canadian war ace. Capt.

Mollison landed at Pennfield Ridge, near St. John, yesterday after 30 hours and 10 minutes in the air. He flew the Atantic in a plane so small he could hardly squeeze into it. Ills wife plans to sail today from London to join him in the United States. Ha talked with her last night over trans-Atlantic telephone.

"I'll be in New York about a week, I think." the Scotsman said. "Oh, yes. I'll fly back. But Mrs. Mollison won't be with me." Flyer Had to Rise 6,000 Feet to Get Above rog and misr DYER lonq-dis to New York.

stance telephone Capt. James A. Mollison yesterday told the fol lowtng story oj tits y.igni, ine first 'successful solo east icest crossing of the North Atlantic in aviat ion history: BY CAPT. JAMES A. MOLLISON.

Copyright, 132. by International Nes PENNFIELD. NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. 20 If I had a little more gasoline left. I feel sure I would have hit New York on the nose.

But I went clear off the mark and had to come down, very, very tired, but glad that I have come this far safely. I got away from Portmarnock Beach, near Dublin, Thursday convinced I should be able to reach New York without a stop as the first leg of my round-trip flight. "During the daylight hours. I fiew close to the surface of the water. On the first part of the flight, the weather was favorable from every point of view.

Encounters Mist. But off the American coast. I encountered fog and mist, and had to ric 6.000 feet to escape it. It was this fog which tired me out. It was hard work battling through a mist so blinding that I could not cannot even be certain where I made my first land-fall, but according to mv computations.

I believe it was about twenty miles north of Harbor Grace. Newfoundland. At that stage of the flight. I thought surely I could make New York yesterday I struck a course uiai cu was taking me i MINE STRIKE ARMY AT TAYLORVILLE NOW EVACUATING Warrants Issued for Arrest of 103 Invaders Accused of Rioting. TAYLORVILLE, Aug.

20. (By I. N. Ten thousand striking miners were breaking camp today, preparing to disperse to their homes after having "persuaded" 2,100 coal shaft workers in the Tay-lorville area to join their insurrection against the $5 a day wage scale. Despite their victory, tension continued to hang over the strikers' ranks.

Sheriff Charles. Wieneke held 103 warrants, accusing that number of invaders of inciting riot. These charges were the outgrowth of the dynamiting of one coal company shack, the burning of two others and the forcible disarming of two mine guards. The warrants were sworn out by officers of the Teabody Coal Company, but have not been served, leaders of the striking miners having denied any of heir men had any connection with the fires and dynamiting. Having forced the mines of four counties to cease operations, the insurgents were ordered to disperse by Armand D.

Rossi, chairman of their policy committee. Some of the invaders remained in various parts of the county to Picket mines in case some diggers should attempt to report for work. Detachments of the Illinois National Guard remained under arms at Springfield and Decatur, ready to march into the Taylorville coal fields in the event of any outbreak of violence. The home guard" of 1 500 special deputies was also standing by, prepared to quell disturbances. COUNTY HEN LAYS DOUBLE rurov THRFF WFF.KS tuu cyix A hen that lays a double egg every three weeks is owned by James heS already has laid three They are aoout h.

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