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That traffic regulations, designed for the prevention of accidents, are being enforced by offlccru Is seen In roportu from justice courts to the county. Lot's co-operate and stop Stari It Now! The new aerial, K. A. J. Wat ling's "Death Trcajuro," tua beon running In The News Juit long enough to become fascinatingly Im tcrcBllng.

Start now before it la too late. 88TH YEAR--NO. 131. GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929. ESTABLISHED 1842 QRAF ZEPPELIN SIGHTED AT TOKIO Marine Collision Exacts Heavy Toll STEAMER RAMMED BY TUQ IN NORTH SEA; 15 OF CREW DROWNED By Associated ProBs.

LONDON, Aug. persons were drowned when the Spanish steamer Ogono and the British tug Kings Cross collided In the North Soa thirty miles off Humber early this mornn'g. Tho Ogono waa struck amldshlp and sank In six minutes, giving tho crew of twenty-five no tlfeie to launch the lifeboats. The Kings Cross succeeded in picking up eight members of the crew who clung to a lifeboat and two others struggling in the water Including tho wireless operator. Tho operator was dead when his body waa recovered.

The drowned included the captain and all officers with the exception of Second Male Ugalda. The Ogono was bound from Bilbao to Mlddlesborough with a cargo of Iron and ore. The Kings Cross, which had her bow badly damaged, landed the survivors at Grimsby this afternoon. Telling the story of the disaster, UgaJda said: Sun-Ivor's Talo. "I was on the bridge with Capt.

Candida about 3 o'clock this morning when I saw the lights of a ship approaching and heard short blasts from tho siren, and almoit Immediately the collision occurred. The Ogono took a big Hut and I rushed to the cabins of the wireless opoiVt- tcr ar.d mates, and whuii I lutumrd to the bridge the ship waa rapidly sinking I went with tho others to try to launch the starboard lifeboat. There was a crash of timber nnd I realized the effort wns hopeless and dived overboard. A 1 had been In the water aomo time I saw one of the Ogono's lifeboats upturned and i i toward me. I nnd the others r'ung to this until were rescued." The mate said he sounded the Blron of his vessal twice and swung the bow sharply to starboard but it was too late to prevent the collision.

His vessel went down in about six minutes, too short a time to get the boats overside. He was the only English. survivor able to speak Crew In Turmoil. Continuing his talc, tho mate said, "i saw tho captain diving Into the sen but that wan the last I i-nw or heard of him. The scene was terrible.

Men were shouting und screaming and I shouted to them until I becnmc almost too hoarse to whinner, "1 and four more, of our crew clung for about 811-hour ta-the upturned keel of one. of our boats before (ho Croftn rescued us. I saw tho chluf and tho (Continued 7, Olumn TWELVE COACHES DERAILED IN OHIO; WRECK IN NSW YORK. NEWS BRIEFS AVIATOR 18 BUllIED. Qoynla, body of Capt Louis Idzlkowakl, Polish aviator who was killed when tho plane In which ho wan attempting a trans-Atlantic crossing crashed In the Azores, was given full military honors when brought ashore hero Sunday.

TRANSFUSIONS IN VAIN. Texarkonn, spite of fact that hin brothers furnished hlood for nine trnnsfunions, Lloyd W. Ford. 20, of Linden uuccumbed hero Siindny Hi "TIP? IIURT IN PALL FROM HOHSK. Coralcana, Elliott, 14, was thrown from a horse, hero Sunday nnd nerloimly hurt.

KIT right leg wan almost cut off by wire of fence on which nhe landed SLAYING SUSPECT FREED. Mexico Snlornr, serving a 10-ynnr sentence for murder WBJI freed when hln brother, Antonio, captured tho real slayer after a search lasting two yoortt. Juan wan convicted by Jury at Totolapan, and his brother traced the. culprit to Mexico City where he turned him over to thn police. TWO DTK IX FTHE.

East St. Ixiuis. 111. A mnn nnd a woman wore burned to dentil nnd another mnn seriously Injured early Sunday when i automobile, cnufrht flro after nolllnlon with an Illinois Central freight train on a grado crnnnlntr In Notional City, ndinlnlnp THn.tt FU. Lotilit.

SIITT HKTTERS RECORD. Now York. Speeding toward Southampton In quest of her lost laurels, tho liner Mauritania surpassed her record of 0211 miles for the day's run on nt ward by steaming 030 mllca from noon urrtay to noon Sunday nt an aver- airo of kno's. A I 8TOPPINO 1'IRF. float tie.

Wnnh. -Rain Himrlny In the nortrr.vonl nrnminrd forest Tims wlilrh fo nnst a hnvn timber In Washington. Oregon, a a nnd Idaho. The ICiwt TrxiiH: 1'nilly clmirty Monday and Tuewflny. to moder- tmnlorly to southerly whnls on thn connt.

Won! Texnu; Piutly rloudy Monday nnd Tuoptlny. lull I a Inp: cloudinesH near const Monday; Tiiomlny a r.lmidy, ccat- lererl thnmlernliowern In untilhonnt portlonn. Llijht In mndcrnlr wlmtn nn ArkimitriH nnd Oklahoma--Partly cloudy a Titerdny. The Onc-Mmutc Pulpit The lot caunolh conlcntlonrt to renne, nnd he 1 ween the mighty. A brother offended In harder lo bo wnn Minn a i and tholr contrntloiiH i Columbus, Ohio, Aug.

nine imsHL'ngyra on crowded Pennsylvania Railroad train No. 814 en from Cleveland to Columbus wore Injured, some of them seriously, at 11:20 u. m. today five of the twelve coaches were derailed a few milcu from Condit, In Delaware County. A relief train from Columbus took doctors and nurses to the wreck.

They administered first aid to the victims. Tho three more seriously Injured were taken In ambulances nnd private automobiles to Mount Vernon. Ohio. The other injured were taken to Columbus on the. relief train, along with uninjured passengers of the derailed train.

A split rail was believed respon- slblfvfor-thc The train consisted of two en- einei, ten day coaches and two parlor ears. Most of the GOO pnasen- gers wnre excursionists from Clrve- InnrT nnd Northern Ohio who hnd planned to spend the dny In Tho tank cnr of tho first locomotive npparently npltt the swllch and (lie second engine was thrown from the track, dragging the first five, coaches with it. None of. the cars overturned, but two wore hurled sideways and the others piled up parallel with the-tracks. Are.

Hurt In New York. New York, Aug. twelve-car electric train on the Long Island Railroad crashed Into a (welvo-ton bumper aL the terminus today, causing Injuries to nix- teen pernonn. Throo of the injured were reported In a serious condition. Thn I wont homo aftor receiving treatment at a hospital.

The. molorman told police ho applied the as the train pulled Into the station, hut they failed to hold. Tho Impact lifted I he front car from tho tracks, and the passengers, who were standing In tho aisles ready to alight, were thrown to the floor. MORE CHARGES ARE FACED BY YOUNG LAWYER AMocn i i Ponca City, Aug. officials torlny prepared additional charges which they sold they would file Monday against F.

Hvde. 28-year-old Ponca City attorney chnrge.fl with an attempt, to noleon Samuel C. Collins, -wealthy oil man and brothor-ln-lnw of E. Mnrland. Those chnrgeB developed from a discovery of what police say wnp the probable motive for thn alleged attempt on Collins' life, order by Hyde on Colllnn' account with New York broker for f00 nhnrcs of Continental ON Company stock valued nt the market price at bo- wren $17,000 nnd JlP.CiOO.

Officers c.nntentl thnt Collins' I a i to I he order for stock ns forgod nnd they nnld Saturday that charge of forgery probably would be filed ngnlnnf Hyde tonior- FRISCO TRAIN CRASH EXACTS THIRTEEN LIVES Seven Injured When Often Switch Is Encountered In Oklahoma; Two Die In Second Four Entrants in Big Air Derby By Associated Frees. Henryetta, Aug. persons were killed and seven Injured when the, St. Louis San Francisco's fast passenger train No. 118, en route to Tulsa from Sherman, ran into an open switch here early today.

Eleven of inose killed were ne- groes, none of whom have been Identified, so badly burned the bodies. Pete Wolfe, engineer, and H. A. Bryan, fireman, were buried In thu wreckage of thu onyinu. Bryan's body has been recovered, and Wolfe's body was found late this afternoon.

Two wrecking crews were on the scone late afternoon working in an attempt to move the engine, which was partially buried in the. mud In a ditch by Ihc side of the Three Pullman cars remained upright and the passengers escaped harm. The negroes who were killed were In the forward section of the chair car and were scalded to death by steam escaping when the boiler burst. The chair car was hurled'cross- wise of the track and came to rest almost above the mass of ruins. In some uncxplalnablo manner the ox- press and baggage cnr shot out of the wreckage and landed several feet away right side up on the lawn of a pump station.

Among those Injured and in hospitals here are Ewel Ren fro of Tulsa, an expressmen. He suffered (Continued an Column USHERETTE SAYS HE' TRIED TO ATTACK HER TEAR AGO. By Aianclntrd Prpsi. Los Angeles, Aug. Attorney Burch Fills today diRcloned that he was In possession of a 136-page deposition In which an formerly employed In the Pnntnges theater here, had accused Alexander Pnntagcs, (heater mag- inte, with tn a a her 'orclbly In his private office about a year ago.

Pnnlngew Is nt liberty mder $25,000 hail pending trial on statutory charges preferred by Eunice Pringlc, 17-year-old dancer. The usherette, whom Pitts declined name, dictated the deposition In presence of FItts and two of deputies, Blancy Matthews and f-InroM Jones In it the girl was quoted as stating that escaping from Pontages and his "private office" when he attempted to at- ack her, who fled from the theater. "I never went back there," she stated In the affidavit. "I knew I wouldn't have a job, BO wlmt wns 'ho UCD?" The usherette related that she wns summoned to Pnntace'n private office for questioning. "At first," she said, "he was friendly and courteous to mo.

He started by asking some questions relating to my work." Then, tho deputies revealed, the deposition stated the theater magnate switched the conversation to mihjer.t whlrh "not her rnge aflame." The girl was quoted as declaring Print ages attempted to noize her but that sho escaped nnd nod. The deputies declared the usherette's lengthy deposition was not concerned alone with her own case, lut with tho alleged of other former usherettes of tho theater. Mames of these girls wore paid to lave been furnished In the deposl- They will he qnostloned to on the usherette's state- Tient. Pontages Is due to be arraigned oniorrow morning In suporlor unirt for the setting of his trial i McBride Answers Attack on Wayne Wheeler of Proverbs 19.1 well In wet Cleveland, Ohio. Aug.

encon made to the late Way no B. Wheeler, general counanl of tho Anti-Saloon Lingua, by a Walker Wlllobrnnrtt. former nnalst- nnt attorney ge.nernl in of prohibition enforfinrr.nnt. In a rpcnnl newspaper article, wnro denounced today by F. Rcott Mollrlcta, gonerol imp'jrlntondnnt of thn Antl-Hnlnon League.

Mr. McBrldn jinlcl, In nn addrons at tho Euclid Avonuo Church, "to have hncnmn populnr Indoor sport few yn whn nre Celling articles to the newspnpcrs, wet. nnd dry, and ns to pan Wayne B. Wheeler, who carried tho burden of (ho battle. In the hont of tho content, nnd who having passed on to hln reward can not speak in reply." "Thfl most rocont of those In Mnbol Walker Wlllebrnndt," hn continued.

"If sho lives long enough to contribute ono-lenth of tho time and rotidor a i of tho service which Wnyno B. Wheeler gnvo to this cause during his thirty-five, yearn of ncttvn. connclnntloun and loyal service will ho cured of hor disposition to criticise the. motives, purpoRes and services of Mr. Wheeler.

i work the (Continued on Pngo 2, Column TO Monica, ing the stancrs In the women's air derby yesterday at Santa were Ruth Elder, (upper left); Mary E. Von Mach of Detroit, (upper right); Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. society girl, (lower and Gladys O'Donncll, of Long Beach, Cal. First Women's Air Derby -r Opens; 18 Pilots Finish Initial Lap of Journey San Bernardino, Aug. pilots In the Sonla Monica-Cleveland women's air derby wore accounted for here today as the first lap of the race was completed about 4 p.

m. One remaining flyer, Mary Von Mack, landed at Montebello, but took off shortly afterward. Planes stunting near the pilot's ship were understood to have caused her to land to Invert a possible collision. Phoebe Ornlllo First. Starter.

Cloverfield, Santa Monica, Aug. 18. -Phoebe Omllic of New York City, flying ri Mcnacpupc took off here at 2 o'clock? today to start the $25,000 women's air derby to Cleveland, Ohio. Her plane waa No. 8.

At following ono-minutc intervals, Mrse. Keith Miller, No. 43, of Australia, flying a Fleet; Claire Fahy, No. 54, Los Angeles, with a Travel- air, and Thea Rascho, No. 61, noted German avlatrlx, piloting a Moth, ot away for San 10 first stop of the night.

They were followed Immediately by Bobbie Trout. No. 100, of Angeles with her Golden Eagle, and Edith Foltz. No. 109, Portland, In an Alexander Rock Bullet.

The pianos comprised the C. clans planes motored with engines ranging from 275 to 510 cubic Inches displacement. Louise M. Thadcn, No. 4 of Pittsburgh, left nt the stick of another Travcla.tr at 2:18 p.

and was followed by Amelia Earhart. No. 6, with a Lockheed Vogas. Next off worn Marget Perry, No. 11, Beverly Hills, In a Spartan, and Ruth Nichols.

No. 16, Rye, N. in a Rearwln. Earlmrt tn Trouble. As Miss Em-hart left the field sho circled once nnd then landed again.

SENATE TARIFF BODY GETS RATE CHANGES TODAY By Prrns. Washington. Aug. sen- oto half of the a relief-tariff speciul session of congress will reconvene tomorrow after a two months' recess, hut will find no work on Its linnds until Sept. 4, when the finance committee will report a revised tariff bill for dc- Realizing the finance group could not finish rewriting the tariff measure passed by the house last Mny 2R In time to report tomorrow, republican lenders obtained an eemflnt with the democrats that tho somite ovur throe-day until two days after Day to permit the- committee, lo conclude Its revision Inborn.

The hoflt. pKVl of this work Is over, republlcnnn on the comm i having nent to the printer report covering nil tho ratn chnngen made In tho measure. Thin much of bill will bo turned ir to the, domoe.rntic. niftmhnrs of thn comnilttoo tomorrow for their connldornUon and a lory convening nnd rccosHlnp; or senate i Thursday, the rfim- i ninjurity will work immediately on ndmlnlBtratlvc provisions nf the bill. Inquiry revealed she had had trouble with her electric starter.

A crew of mechanics plied Into the balky part and at 2:34 p. m. the Boston avlatrlx started off again. It was announced that her Initial starting i of 2:20 p. m.

would stan'd. Following Ruth Nichols at about one minute Intervals -were: Opal Kuntz, No. 18, New York, Travel- air; Neva Paris, No. 23, Great Neck, N. Curtiss Robin; Ruth Elder, No.

6G, Beverly Hills, (Continued on Pago 2, Column 3.) State's Barbers Must Take Exams Under Texas Law Effective Sept. 1 The red, white and blue stripes of tho barber's pole after Sept. 1 will begin to tdke on the academic significance of the Ph. purple and the B. red, pursuant to' the creation by the recent state legislature of tlie titles of registered barber and registered assistant barber.

And with the barbers beginning to take examinations nnd physical tests and other ordcnls common only to colleges, the learned professor with his list of degrees will have hopelessly lost all prestige. "It shall bo unlawful for any person to serve as an assistant barber under a registered barber within the state nf Tcxng without certificate of registration ns a registered assistant bnrhor." the law reads. Sept. 1 will find 250 Galveston barbers nnd 18.000 over tho state looking to their laurels. They will have to appear before tho board of barber examiners, yet to bo created, pass an examination nnd pre- nont ccrtiffcnte from recognized physlcinn averting them to be free from contagious disonso.

Certificates will bo Issued, however, nnd thn accompanying titles granted to thope who can show they hiive practiced harboring for two years prior to the enactment or the Inw. A "SutlHfnctory fxnminntion to determine fitness for practicing barber ing" will include Questions on the scientific fundamentals of harboring, "hygienic bacteriology, histology of the hair, skin nnd nnlH niu.Tlrp and nerves, structure of the head, face nnd nerk, elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics, dls- (Contlnucd on Pago Column 2) RIVKH DUAGGKI) FOR HOIV OF TBXAS SON'G WHITER By Prenii. Now York, Aug. Police today ragged tlin East Hlvcr in vain for tho body of a woman, be- lie.ved. to be a fiong writer from Texas, who walked up to girl near Hntoklyn Hridgn Saturday hnnded her note nnd i nnd Pnld: "Give this to the nearest policeman you pee.

Which wny is the river?" The note rend: "I'm leaving on Ion rr journey: will you please hfnrl this to my mother?" Brigades of 100,000 Men Mobilized; Three Are Killed by Bombing ai Harbin, By Associated Press. Shanghai, Aug. mobilization of ten additional brigades of Manchurlan troops totaling 100,000 men was reported late tonight in an official Kyomin News Agency dispatch from Mukden. The agency a i the national government viewed "the Slno-Kusnian crisis as Increasingly serious," These brigades are destined for duty on the Northern frontier. Six will be drawn from Fcngtlcn province, two from Kirtn and the remaining two from Heilungkiang.

Gen. Ho -Chen Chun was reported en route to Mukden from Pelping with orders from the nationalist government to assume command of the entire military forces In Man- churtn. He has been charged with carrying out the campalgin as outlined by Nanking. Another Mukden dispatch issued by the official agency said the government feels that white Russians along the frontier are "carrying on surreptitious acts which are a menace to peace and soviet troops. Chang Hsueh Liang has therefore ordered the border forces to round up all white Three Killed In Bombing.

Tokio, Aug. rcngo news agency dispatch from Manchull, Manchuria, today said that the vanguard of expected Chinese reinforcements had arrived with machine guns and pieces. One of the chief lieutenants of governor of Chang Hsueh Liang also arrived to inspect the defenses of 1 ADDED TROOPS SENT TO NORTH CHINA BORDER (Continued on Page 7, Column 7.) MACHINE GUN IS USED IN FIGHTING; 62 ARE WOUNDED. Vienna, Austria, Aug. two persons were reported wounded tonight In a pitched battle between members of the Socialist Schutzbund und the Anti-socialist Holmwehr at Saint Lorenzon.

The conflict broke out early this evening and was still tn progress at 11 p. m. he Helmwehr troops were armed with a machine gun and had men i i from (he. tower of the town hall. Tile first repoH Indicated that one socialist was killed ind twelve gravely wounded while 'he rest of the disunities divided between the two factions.

The fighting grew out of the fact that the socialists had at a feast a speaker who was distasteful to Fietmwehr members. The speaker had attempted to proclaim a socialist dictatorship during the Vienna riots of Julv, 1927. The socialists claimed they were unarmed nnd had attended the feast unprepared for trouble. Late tonight a temporary truce was established while the mnvor of Saint Lorenzen held a confor- Rncc with Socialist Provincial Deputy WalHsch and Capt. Rauter.

Hetmwohr leader, as to In what order the battleground wns to be be evacuated. Meanwhile the factions grimly faced each other, neither wishing to be tho first to The little Syrian town was thrown Into tremendous excitement and gendarmes were niehed in from all sides in an effort to restore order. DAWES TO IX)NTON TO DISCUSS NAVAL PLANS By Anaoctntrd London, Slates Ambassador Charles Dawes wns traveling from London to Lossle- mouth tonight to resume his conversations with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on naval disarmament and allied matters. DIRIQIBLE COMPLETES HARD LAP OF FLIQHT AS ROUTE IS CHANQED By Press. Japan, Aug.

Graf ZoppoUn sighted over tho airdrome hero nt 3:50 p. m. (1:00 a. m. Extern Standard time), completing its long flight from Friedliclishafon, second of the pound, the-world venture.

TOKIO, a Aug. Graf Zeppelin passed over Shfgoama, Ililtuzcn Prefecture at 1:30 p. m. today, (11:30 p. m.

Sunday E. S. Shiogunm ia about 190 miles from Tokio. SENDAI, Japan, Aug. Graf Zeppelin passed the port town of Shiogania, twelve miles northeast of Sendui at 1:30 p.

in, 8 3 0 p. in. Sunday. Pacific staudawd time) on her way to Tokio. 400 MHos Of Tokio.

Tokio, Aug. radio message received here reported that the Graf Zeppelin passed at sea -thirty miles south Prisoner Escapes In Auto lo Which He Was Handcuffed Special to The Wallisville, Aug. a result of the overcrowded condition of the community jail at Mt. Bclviou (Barbers Hill). Chambers Cuunly, Justice of the Peace Gourlcy handcuffed a prisoner to the steering wheel of his car while he went into his office.

When he returned the prisoner had disappeared i the steering wheel and a $10 pair of haiuluuffb. Thu uscupu was accomplished with a pair of pliers which he used with hie hand that was not handcuffed. MAKER, WALKER DROP NOTE TO GOTHAM MAYOR AND START BACK. By Associated Prest. Roosevelt Field, N.

Aug. young men from the wheat belt of the Northwest flew over New York today, peered down wUUulJy -at scrapers Manhattan, and then resolutely pointed the nose of their plane, the Spokane Sun God, back Into the sunset. "This Is a wonderful thrill," read a note which Nick llanicr and Art Walker dropped from the ship In which they had come from Spokane, Wash. "After three nights and three days of fighting--New York --the temptation to land Is sure great, but our friends are waiting for us In Spokane, nnd bo- sides, we are so grimy und soiled you would not care to see us." More than 10.000 persons were on hand at. 3:45 p.

m. (13. S. when the Susqui plane arrived over Roosevelt Field, completing the first hnlf of its non-stop transcontinental refueling flight. Tho flyers dropped a note of greeting to Mayor James J.

Walker from Mayor James Rolph Jr. of San Francisco. Then Ray Wassnll and P. V. Cliaffce, who kept the St.

Louis Robin In gasoline on Us recent flight of two and TI half weeks, made four refueling conflicts i Sun God as it circled over Long Island. Then another note fluttered down: "Let's go back to Cleveland." A short time two lours after they appeared over the field--the Spokane flyers turned heir hncks on the metropolis and disappeared Into the western sky, iresumably for Cleveland, where it is expected they will make their next refueling contact. SON WILL NOT BLAMED IN HOWARD DEATH Aug. By Aeaoclnted PITH Los Angeles, A a personal investigation of shooting of Frank S. Howard, wealthy automobile dealer, by his 12-vear-old son, Richo i 'd, District Attorney Euron Flftfl has termed killing as "apparently justifiable homicide." Although the young boy, who ihot and killed his father yesterday 'ollowinjr a family quarrel, was arrested nnd hooked on a technical charm of suspicion of murder, he was allowed to return home later Bonding an inquest, tomorrow.

Fitts further characterized the ihooting as "very regrettable "From information have gnth- ered," Kilts paid, "the hoy instlnc- Ivoly rnn 10 the aid of his mother when she was being struck by his father, nnd this certainly was natural result of his affection for ila mother." Island Qwl Is Winner in Physical Culture Contest Miss Isabel Currcy. 10-year-old tnlveston girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, K. M. Currcy of 1717 wftfl selected yesterday afternoon nt the 'Inal Judging of contentnnts at tho Buccaneer Hotel to represent South Texas at the.

National Physical Cul- contest to be. held in New York City next month. Tho most perfect of the forty-one contestants who mirvfvnl the prr- imlnnries was introduced at a ipeclal dance given In honor of the contentunts on the ocean deck nt lie Buccaneer lant night. AH the i were presented. Sixteen of tho a i young wiiincn were GalvcHtonions.

while twenty-four were from Houston. i Second place went to a Houston entry, Ml.is Amy Lou Oliver, 1610 I McCowan. Mlsa Vclma Estclle Johnston of Houston was declared winner of third place and Misses Anna Mac Colburn nnd Evelyn Nichols, both of Houston, were tied for fourth plnce. Arrangements are being mnde for the South Texas emissary to travel to New Ynrk with i Mnry Henry, DnllnH i school girl, who was chosen hy tho Dalian Journal to repree-jnt North Texas at the national contest. All napmiHes of the i will bo pnld hy Phyalcal Culture spon- (Contlnucd on Page 2,.

Column of Sameokl, Atmorl Prefecture, at 10:50 a. m-. (8:50 p. m. Sunday, Eastern Standard time).

Atmorl Prefecture is the northernmost on Honshu, the main Island of Japan. The town of Sameokl was not listed In available atlases, but nny point In the prefecture would be within 400 miles of Tokio. New York, Aug. (Monday)-Copyrighted news dlsaptches In today's New York American and allied newspapers reported the Graf Zeppelin's probable landing time at Kasumlgaura Field as 4 p. m.

Monday (3 a. m. E. D. The articles detailed the flight over Japan, the Riant Hearst-Zeppelin 'round-the-world cruiser being met by a Japanese air escort.

The course over the Japanesn island group did not include Osaka, and the flight over Tokio was expected at 3 p. in. (2 a. m. E.

D. The copyrighted articles stated tho giant dirigible was flying at a altitude, averaging sixty- five miles an hour in concluding Its wonder feat of flying from Frledrlchshafcn to Tokio. Millions or Japanese were reported to have sighted the ship and to have ho lied Its advent with enthusiastic outbursts. Journey End Is Near. Tokio, Aug.

Graf Zeppelin this morning waa well down among the principal Island of Japan, ncaring the end of her bold flight from Friedrlchs- Germany. Rain and fog on the- last 600 miles of her journey to 1 Kasuml- gaura airport caused her to alter (Continued on Page. 3. Column 1.) BOY SCOUT IN ENGLAND DIES IN CLIFF FALL By Press. Ilfrncombo, Devon, England, Aug.

Scout James K. Berry of the Boy Scout patrol of Gush- Ing, which attended the world Inmborec, was killed today in a fall from a cliff. Berry, snid to be the son of a. banker nnd oil man of Oklahoma, arrived here yesterday with fellow Scouts and a Scoutmaster. He had climbed to within a few feet bf the top of an almost perpendicular rising twenty feet above the beach when the surface crumbled.

Berry fell to the bottom and was killed instantly. The other Scouts were -watching his climb and rushed to the foot of the cliff to try to break his fall, but they were too late. A younger brother vas In the party. FOUR KILLED AS AUTO HITS HEAVY TRUCK By Associated Buffalo, N. Aug.

persons were killed, one Injured seriously and nnothcr escaped with minor injuries when their lighter machine struck a parked five-ton furniture truck on the Genese road a mile west of Crlttenden early today. The dead are: Mrs. Pauline Schultz, Warren. Pa. Mrs.

Anna sister of Mrs. Schultz. Florence Kucskowskl, 20. Ji'ihn Cooper, IJuffalo. The injured are: Beatrice Schults, 1C years old, and Norman Domres, Buffalo.

Beatrice Is suffering a skull fracture and may lose tha of her right eye. The truck had been halted by n. stalled motor nnd was left parked while the driver and helper started out to i a garngc. It waa said the front end of the truck protruded on the highway and tho smaller car crashed into ft. TEXAS FARMER INJUBKD IN COLLISION WITH BUS Associated Preofl.

San Marcos, Aug. Hennlg, 68, farmer and dairyman living at St, Pawl, near Slnton. la in critical condition at he Hays County Memorial Hospital of Injuries received in a head- collision between his automo- )llo and a greyhound motnr bun jotween Kyle nnd Buda Sunday afternoon. John Hennig, 18, son of tho injured man, was less seriously hurt when the bus collided i his cnr which was short distance behind. iWTSS FTjYKIlS READY FOR START ON NKW YORK HOP Dy ABKocinterf Lisbon, Portugal, Aup.

Thft Swiss aviators who have beon lero a week nwnltlnp fnvornnln weather conditions to resume their i frrmi P.iri.i tr. New- York nn- -inuncrfl today they expected to ako off nt fi o'clock Monday morn- ng I I p. in. IS. S.

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