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in. 24 PAGES PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1931 EDITION -lFtablishei FINAL French Airmen Reach N. Y. on Paris-California Hop Merchants Complaining At Delay in Progress on French Fliers Land In Gotham; Forced Down by Trouble Front Street Paving of Traffic Snarled as Interrupt Hop from Paris to California Street for New 1 racks Public Service 'i w'JwjW Not Held Responsible Part of Park Avenue Opened at Floyd Bennett Field Radio for Service Transmit Their Respects to President Roosevelt Declaring their sales have been dropping because customers are unable to come to their stores, East Front Street Merchants are complaining of the tardiness in the progress 2 street work. For several weeks traffic has been snarled in Esst Front Street as workmen are preparing it for new trolley tracts.

At the city engineer's office it was stated today that work if laving new tracks will begin today. There has been no New York Two hardy Frenchmen back tracked the Lindbergh trail today and duplicated the only other non-stop flight across the Atlantic from Paris to New York, made four years ago by two of their countrymen. Apparently forced to abandon because of mechanical trouble their original non-stop objective, the Pacific Coast, Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi drove their huge silver mono -t -70" PARIS- plane "Joseph-LeBrix" southward down the New England coast line to New York, landing at Floyd Bennett Field. 1 $AZ i -J il -I 0VA SCOTIA- YORK Atlantic OceQh ArRrcA i NRA Burden Setting out on the most ambitious non-stop westward flight ever undertaken. Comm.

Paul Codos and Rossi took off Saturday night from he. Bourget, France, for a hop to California. Codos (right) aitd Rossi (left) are shown at right in picture taken recently in France. Above at left is their plane, Joseph Lebrix, and below is a map showing their approximate route. Last year they set a long distance record with a flight from New York to Syria.

Their promotions from lieutenancies were announced today by the French Air Ministry as the intrepid fliers approached New York City. Disarmament Conference Is on Verge of Collapse Heroic Action by Some Nation Needed If Parley Is To Function, Leaders Indicate Delegates Look to Russia for Action, Workmen Prepare urpuruuuu, lit was has not been ready to go Five Daughters Born To Canadian Woman North Bay, Ont. (JP) Mrs. Olvia Dionne gave birth to five girls at" home a few miles from Callander, nine miles south of here, today. All are healthy and D.

A. Dafoe of Callander, the attending physician, said. Mrs. Dionne is 26 years old and has six older children. E.

G. Rogers, Scout Officer, Here, Is Dead Assistant Executive Is Victim of Streptococci Infection of Ax Injury Suffered May 12 Edward Graham Rogers, popular assistant executive of Watchung Area Council Boy Scouts of America, died yesterday In Muhlenberg Hospital of haemolytic short-chained streptococci, contracted May 12 from an ax wound in his leg, suffered at Camp Lion. Four physicians attended Mr. Rogers and last week he was given two blood trans fusions and a serum. He was 23.

Mr. Rogers was crraduaied from Cornell University in" the class of 1932 and was a member of the first graduating class of the National Training School for Scout Execu tives at the Schiff Reservation, Mendham. He came to Plainfield Sept. 15, 1933, and has made his home with James Boyer, council executive, at 740 Hillside Avenue. Formerly a Boy Scout himself.

was active in the Scout move ment for 11 years. In Ithaca, N. was a member of the council camping staff and a commissioner. Here he had charge of troop organization, the court of honor, leadership training and council programs. He w-as well liked throughout the council and the organization of several new troops this year was mainly the result of his efforts.

During administration he has conducted three successful adult leadership training courses attended by 150 men. It was while preparing for an outdoor session of one of his courses that he was injured. He was given immediate, first aid and was attended by a physician as soon as he was brought to Plainfield. Two days later he was removed to the hospital. The germ that Infected his wound was the same that caused death of Calvin Coolidge The Scout leader was a member the Congregational Church of White Plains, N.

Y- his home, and the Lions Club of Plainfield. Surviving are his parents, Mr. Mrs. Newton H. Rogers of White Plains, and a brother, Allen Rogers, director of public works in Garden City, L.

I. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 8 p. m. In the parlors of Ridge View Congregational Church, White Plains, at Ridge View and Midland Avenues. Those planning to drive to the funeral should allow about 2 12 hours for trip.

Offices of the council will closed tomorrow afternoon to permit Scout leaders to attend the service. Restaurant Robbed Burglars early yesterday broke Nicholas Avlonitis' restaurant 161 East Fourth Street and stole hidden in the place. The front was broken open. Lightened by Rule Change Presidential Order Suspends Price Fixing, Other Code Points in Some Service Units Washington (JP) The NRA's bur den was lightened measurably today by a presidential order setting up a local self-government rule for many of the coded service Indus tries. The order created a new Recov ery Administration policy.

It sus pended price-fixing and other pro visions of codes for certain of the service industries as may be desig nated by the NRA. The hour and wage and other clauses" were left in-tact. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA ad-ministrator, will decide which in dustries would be affected. The service industries, those sell ing services rather than goods, in elude hotels, restaurants, barber shops, laundries and cleaning and dyeing plants.

It was indicated this change of policy probably would be a forerunner of other clarifications- and shifts In the NRA program. It was learned authoritatively that President Roosevelt has decided that Administrator Johnson is to remain at the helm until NRA is on a definitely charted course and has the codes clicking smoothly. In a statement accompanying his latest executive order last night, the President pointed out that while some' Industries could operate efficiently under a national code there were others "to which a greater degree of autonomous local self-government is desired." Under the plan the local concerns could still fly the Blue Eagle provided they live up to "the present code provisions governing child labor, maximum hours, minimum wages and collective bargaining." A KT A A I UNITED I A SAN FRAWCISCO r- SAN DIEGO Oceen Attempt to Kill Soldier Shot Four Fail in Attempt to Assassinate Envoy to Cuba Bullets Catch Guard at Residence Havana (JP) The entire strength of the Cuban National police was thrown into a search today for four men who made a daring attempt yesterday to assassinate Jefferson Caffery, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba.

The cabinet, shaken by the affair, met in a special session to discuss the plot against Caffery's life. The explosion of two bombs in a resK dential section shortly after midnight added to the excitement which gripped Authorities expressed a determination to put an end to terrorism which has harassed Havana for months. Police the city and its environs for. the assailants. All automobiles were searched in the vicinity of the diplomat's home.

Caffery spent the night there. A heavy guard surrounded the residence. The attempt, made in gangster fashion, did not harm Caffery but may cost the life of Francisco Ortega, a on guard at the Caffery home. Four unidentified men rode slowly by in an automobile and blazed away with sawed-off shotguns into the entrance of the home. It was the hour Caffery usually left for the Yacht Club.

Police blamed "Communists or other radicals" for the attempt. Thirty radio equipped cars were employed to run down clues which authorities said were "very good." Communist leaders denied any connection with the incident. President Carlos Mendieta and nearly every Cabinet member visited the Ambassador's home before the special meeting' and expressed regrets at the incident. It is on a hill overlooking Havana, six miles from the embassy. Caffery was sent here in December by President Roosevelt.

Col. Fulgencio Batista, commander in chief of the Cuban Army, in deploring the Incident, asserted, "I cannot help but think what fatal consequences might be had for Cuba if the attempt had been successful." Thieves stole the license plates from the automobile of Caffery several hours later. The car was parked outside the home of Caffery's chauffeur at the time. Police believe terrorists stole the plates because they are of an official kind and secure free passage through police lines. Wean Feeling Better City Clerk George B.

Wean's brief stay at Ocean Grove is doing him good, according to his physician. Mr. Wean left Tuesday afternoon to spend the rest of the week at the shore, for the benefit of his health. Associates have written urging him to remain at Ocean Grove over Memorial Day. Were his signature not required on checks for the last half of May, he would have been urged to remain for the entire week.

CafferyFails ielay me pail ui mc ruuut id, but until today the street Sad with the work. Conditions Adverse was pointed out tha1 the Gallo Instruction Company which is ppiing the street, is working un-jgtiverse conditions. It is neces-jty to keep the street partly open ar traffic hich delays progress. In idential areas, streets can easily se dosed and traffic detoured while nit can go on without Interference. Another factor that has to the delay has been several iift of rain which made work -Impossible.

It is promised, however, iat the street will be opened as joca as possible. Park Avenue, from the south side i the railroad bridge to Fourth Sreet, was opened to traffic today. 3e section from Second Street to ie north side of the railroad bridge ril be opened tomorrow morning, Joseph F. Burke contracting l-ai said today. The company was unable to say then the section from Fourth to Seventh Streets would be opened as i great deal of preliminary work renins to be done, in moving back trees and shrubbery and widening ie thoroughfare.

ill Play Second Game in City's Series Tomorrow The second game of the annual ir.terscholastic baseball season il be played tomorrow between Xonh Plainfleld and Plainfield High xiools at the borough schools irldat 3:30 p. m. Is the first game of the series sired two weeks back, the Canuck iaonders upset the dope by aiding the city combine a 11 to 6 saucing. In view of that fact iey will be slight favorites tomor-sw. Charlie Kilburn, Plainfield High rier who has scored three shut-rjts in four games, will probably ixrl for Plainfield and secure rt-enge for being driven from the ba in the first game.

Bill Acker is probable mound choice for the trucks. The admission will be 10 cents fct students and 25 cents for adults. Harry Mahnkin of South Orange officiate. itorm Approaching, Is Pearson Warning i northeaster developing off the f.orida coast is expected to bring in and high winds to this section morrow, Co-operative Observer S. 5.

Pearson reported. Whether or wt the storm will affect the weather on Memorial Day could not be if-initely ascertained this morning, Hr. Pearson said. Testerday remained rather cool for the season, the temperature twehing a high of only 71. Today's Ksimum was 45, but the maximum as expected to exceed yesterday's.

Storm Warning Issued Washiarton IS Th Woathpr sreau this mornin; Issued the fol-cg storm warning: "Advisory, aenheast storm warning ordered ea wast from Cape Hatteras to City, distuibance central northeast Florida coast with inking intensity will move north 20rtheastward and be attended by clng northeast winds. ewcorn Aks Copy O'Driscoll Decision v-uunsei vvjmaui corn has written to Trenton for supreme Court decision rein-Timrhy ODriscoll as a of the Plainfield Police fPartrnent. Until he has read the he WUI not be able to say the city's probable course of Tm be' th 3ude disii'ssed from the sxirf year ag0 on charges of "in-iTA ani unbecom- TODAY sified Ads 22 23 Page 2g gord Pu22ie i rtet and Health 16 portal a ituary rrn ie her Dr. he he his the of of and the the be into at $75 door At Boston at Noon Nearing Boston at noon they notified officials at Floyd Bennett Field to make ready to service their ship, and sent their respects to President Roosevelt through the Canadian Ministry of Marine. They reached New York on their daring flight shortly after 2 p.

m. (Eastern Standard Time). It was expected that they would take off then for California, completing the journey in two jumps instead of one previously planned when they took off from Paris at 11:10 o'clock Saturday night. Wireless conversations with the Radio-Marine Corporation station at Chatham, brought the report that their monoplane had developed "minor trouble." This was thought to be the. cause for the stop in New York.

Theirs i3 the second successful flight over the dangerous, westward ocean route from continental Europe to the United States. They were preceded four years ago by Dieu-donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, who flew non-stop Irorr Paris to Valley Street, L. I. It was not determined in wireless messages from the "Joseph Lebiix" the extent of the trouble other than "minor." and in a message to the commander 6f the United States fleet advised officials only that they intended to land at Floyd Bennett Field. Kicked Along By Tail Winds -New York -(JP) Flying in from the sea with the dawn, Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi sped their sliver monoplane over North America today, pointing toward the Pacifio and a pot of gold.

The airmen, bent on such a nonstop flight as nfiver has been attempted before the spanning -t the Atlantic Ocean and the North American Continent sighted land just as the sun, racing from behind, came up over the eastern horizon. Kicked alon, by obliging tail-winds and favored by excellent weather, the monoplane, which lifted its great weigh of gasoline from Le Bourget Field at 11:10 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time) Saturday radioed a cheering "all's well," and shot along into the West. Pass 'Graveyard The only moments of anxiety come during the dead hours of night when the plane ploughed into the "fliers' graveyard" the fogbound Newfoundland banks.

For a time the Frenchmen appeared to be having difficulty getting their bearing. At 2:50 a. however, their wireless was heard, working with a French station, and a clear skyway beckoned them down the Nova Scotii coast. Their average speed for the first 15 hours out of Le Bourget was 105 miles, a speed which was expected to be accelerated' considerably as the fuel load of 2,055 gallons lightens. Their most direct route by way of New York to San Diego would take them north of Dayton, over Indianapolis, north of St.

Louis and thence southwest over the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Ari-X 2ona. San Diego is their destination, although there is a possibility-, that the fliers may choose to set their plane, the "Joseph Lebrix," down at San Francisco. If they reach the Pacific Ocean without a stop, a French government prize of $66,000 is theirs. Set Record In Plane Their plane is the one in which flew from New York to Rayak, Syria, to establish the (Please Turn to Page 11) Bob Sperling's Orchestra. Blue Hills Plantation.

Dinner, price $1.50, no couvert 'charge. Nightly except Mon. Adv. 29 Should Bring Action Even In Borneo The Sultan of Sulu demands apology from Borneo, Dutch East Indies, because Its forts didn't fire the customary alute at the Sultan's recent visit Apology is certainly due. Though Sulu is but a nominal kingdom, its Sultan ha3 an annual income of $120,000.00 and that's something weM gladly salute any time.

While waiting, here's our daily salute to a Courier-News' classified want-ad. It saw its duty and did It: LOVELY, airy room, all convt for business person or nurse. reasonable. iCrept Avenue section). 231 K.

bixtb Street. Second French Airplane Flying South Atlantic Paris (JP) Two of France's crack airplanes roared over the vast Atlantic early today. While Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, strained toward their goal of a1 distance record across the North Atlantic, the tri-motored the pioneer of a new French commercial air fleet, set out from Africa over the South Atlantic in an attempt to prove the feasibility of regular mail service. Piloted by Jean Mermoz and navigated by. M.

Dabry, the "Arc-en-Ciel" or rainbow took off from St. Louis, Senegal, for Natal, Brazil atl0pm. (Eastern Standard Time) last night. It carried 300 pounds of mail on the first of a scheduled series of three test trips necessitated before delivery of the new planes will be accepted bv the air line. Weather was almost perfect over the South Atlantic as the plane set out on the latest French attempt for supremacy in the spirited com- netition with Germany for the South American air mail business, The mother and the wife of Ros si, who had begged him not to at tempt another transatlantic flight.

kept a vigil together through the long hours of last night as he ana Codos streaked through the fog toward America. YMHA Gets Verdict For Unpaid Pledge New Brunswick (JP) District Judge George R. Morrison today awarded the Plainfield YMHA and YWHA a. judgment of $500 against Oscar Victorson, tailor, of 264 North Avenue, Dimellen. The plaintiffs allege that Victor-son failed to pay a pledge of $500 to the institution's building fund which he signed Apr.

27, 1930. The suit was uncontested. Auto Is Stolen An automobile owned by Harry SJ Burdette, 305 Clinton Avenue, was stolen last night from Emma Street. The car, a red sedan, carried license number U-64665. Make Decoration Day complete by enjoying dinner at Blue Hills Plantation, price $1.50.

Adv. 29 JL to Washington; Ann Shaffer, Akron Beacon Journal; Thelma Wrisley, Albany Evening News and Knickerbocker Press; David Ward, Boston American and Advertiser; Norma Liver-more, Buffalo Evening News; Shirley Raw, Burlington Free Press; Richard Ovington, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Ann O'Regan, Detroit News; Helen Sullivan, Hartford Times; Howard Blair, Jersey Observer, Hoboken; Edward Meany, Nassau Star and Review, L. Margaret Hook, Louisville Courier-Journal; James Martin, Louisville Times; Billy Duffel, Memphis Press-Scimitar; Lucille Coolidge, Omaha World-Herald; James Wilson, Peoria Journal -Transcript; Mary Greene, Wheeling Daily News, and Phoebe Mellinger, Youngstown Vindicator. Officers of the bee include: Chairman, Dean George B. "Woods, American University; secretary, T.

D. Martin of the National Education Association; director, Donald McWain of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, pronouncers. Dean C. E. Hill of George Washington University and H.

E. Warner, principal of Hine Junior High School. Judges will be Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Belmont Farley of the National Education "Association and the Rev. James S.

Montgomery, chaplain of the House of Representatives. The national champion speller will receive $500. Other prizes are second," $300; third, $100; fourth to seventh, $75 each, and eighth to nineteenth, $50 each. The champion also will receive two trophies known as The Courier-Journal National Spelling Bee plaques. One of these plaques Is for the winner to present to his school.

The champion retains the other. Courier-News Spelling Bee Champ Goes Results on Air Tomorrow Disarmament Conference and warned, "keep our powder dry." 2. Great Britain and the United States were studying Japan's demand for revision of the existing 5-5-3 naval ratios. 3. Possibility that President Roosevelt might issue today a proclamation prohibiting the sale in the United States of munitions destined for Paraguay and Bolivia, locked in a terrific struggle in the Gran Chaco.

Russia Considering Entering League Moscow (JP) The Soviet govern ment is "considering very seriously all the arguments in support of Soviet Russia's entrance into the League of Nations," the official newspaper Izvestia announced today. Commenting on the proposal of Louis Barthou, French foreign minister, for a Franco-Soviet rapproch-ment involving the latter's entry into the League, the Izvestia says it is welcomed with great satisfaction by Soviet public opinion and that it was one of the matters discussed by Maxim Litvinoff, foreign commissar, and Barthou in their recent conversation at Geneva. Work for Relief To Be Resumed Newark In reply to queries from various parts of the state which originated in speculation and misapprehension, Lewis Compton, Executive Director of the Emergency Relief Administration, formally announced today that the "work for relief program in use in New Jerr sey before the Federal Civil Works Administration operated will be resumed at once. The statement, it was announced at State Emergency Relief Administration headquarters, was definitive of the administration's plan, and should replace the incorrect reports which have been circulated. One important difference from the old program will obtain in the additional relief of 10 cents an hour in cash to workers for every hour worked.

Under the earlier "work for relief program only 5 cents an hour was given. Thus, a person working 40 hours will receive $4 instead of $2. Loizeaux Will Press Action on Debts Bill Trenton (Senator Charles E. Loizeaux of Union, in a statement today, announced he would press his bill to refund municipal bonded indebtedness when the Legislature reconvenes. The bill would permit all outstanding bonds to be calculated, means of payment estimated ''and amortizations spread over a maximum of 20 years.

It would impose a flat borrowing limit of 10 per cent of gross ratables and a 2 per cent borrowing margin to municipalities within their legal limits. "A large number of Senator Loizeaux sajd, "which cannot conclude their entire refunding efficiently or economically under the present detached and separate acts, are harmed by the delay, continue to be pressed with interest rates that ought and can be lowered, and are held up in practically completed plans for re-financing through lack of enabling legislation. It was for this emergency remedial purpose that I introduced Senate 315." Geneva (JF) Representatives of the United States and Great Britain, emerging from a long conference, indicated today that the Disarmament Conference was In a grave situation and that its collapse is foreshadowed unless some nation can take heroic action to save it. The Anglo-American conferees were Norman Davis, Ambassador-at-large, and Hugh Minister to Switzerland, for the United States and Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, and Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, for Great Britain.

It was understood that Sir John gave no inkling that Great Britain would propose concrete steps tt save the conference. Never has an international conclave been accompanied by such tenseness and such confusion. Premier Mussolini's speech in Rome, referring to the possibility of war, served to increase the pessimism. It was rumored that Italy might bolt from the conference. The economic rivalries which Mussolini mentioned are also regarded here as increasing the difficulties of leaders who seek tc push on to a disarmament agreement.

Nations of the world, In critical deadlock over the question of reducing armaments, turned toward Communist Russia today as another disarmament conference opened. Delegates expected the Soviet, now believed to be a candidate for membership In the League of Nations, to produce some positive proposal in an effort to break the arms impasse, "We have a policy," said a Russian spokesman, associated with Maxim Litvlnoff, commissar of foreign affairs. Litvinoff was expected to concentrate on the policy of political security as the. sanest foundation for disarmament. Admiral Warns U.

S. To Keep Powder Dry Washington (JP) Out of the tangled armament situation three developments emerged today: 1. Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward of the Navy's general board pointed to the failure of the Geneva Wound Is Fatal Photo by Rowe Edward Graham Rogers, assistant executive of Watchung Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, wh died yesterday in Muhlenberg Hospital of infection of a wound inflicted with an axe at Camp Lion on May 12m l-t Alex Zagar began one of the greatest adventures in all his 10 years this morning. The boy, champion of The Courier-News Spelling Bee, pupil in the sixth grade of the two-room Fellowship Farm's School and resident of Ferrer Colony, Stelton, went to Washington today.

Tomorrow Alex hopes to be able to wire the folks at home that he has been crowned champion speller in the United States. The bee will be held in the new National Museum and the final 45 minutes of the contests will be broadcast over the Columbia system beginning at 12:15 p. m. (Plainfield Time.) With Alex," when he boarded the Fort Pitt Limited of the B. O.

at 9:57 a. m. today, were his sister, Olga; Harold W. Blackford, circulation manager of The Courier-News, and Mrs. Blackford.

The party is staying at the Capital Park Hotel during the five days they will be in Washington. The spelling bee will take only part of tomorrow's day. The remaining time In Washington will be spent in visiting the many places of interest. Nineteen will take part in the national spelling bee. Only eight of the number are boys.

Alex is the first boy to win The Courier-News championship over a five-year period. One of the contestants, Sarah Wilson, Portland (Me.) Evening Express champion, is making her second trip to the Capital. She won the Portland championship in 1932. The others are representing their cities for the first time. The contestants, in addition to Sarah, and Alex, Include: DOG PROCLAMATION Acting under Section 8 of "An Ordinance Concerning Dogs." approved March 10, 1933, C.

Benson Wig-ton, Mayor of the City of Plainfleld, In the interests of public safety, order and direct: That no dog shall be allowed to leave the premises of the person owning or entitled to the custody of such dog in said City, unless the dog is securely confined upon a leash andor muzzled and accompanied by a person over the age of twelve years. THIS ORDER shall remain In force from JUNE 1, 1934, to OCTOBER 1, 1934. Any person who shall violate this order will be liable to the penalty provided by said ordinance. C. BENSON WIGTON, Mayor..