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ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1938 TWELVE Tampans Will Try Hughes Back in America in Record Breaking Time MORE ABOUT MORE ABOUT 32 HR.S.S3MIN. S3 1 6 Ml. (MILEAGE AND TIME I lb HKS. 3fl MIN.

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6696 Ml. TOP CAPTIONS HUGHES 162 HRS. 45 MIN, 12. 142 Ml, BOTTOM CAPTIONS POST (F6URES IN ELAPSED TIME) HUGHES' ROUTE COVERED HUGHES' PROJECTED ROUTE POST ROUTE 1933 71 HRS. S3 MIN.

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This map stop by stop details the breath-taking Yound-the-world the globe-girdling hop of the millionaire sportsman with that made by HAPPY ABOUT DADDY 1 a i j. An eye-witness to the arrival from Central America of the Indian war canoe, on a British freighter, Lloyd Myers, expert boat builder and sailor joins in search for the missing owner. Fortune Teller Condemned to Die TROY, Ala, July 14. (i Charles White, 45-year-old Ohio negro fortune-teller charged with criminal assault on a 16-year-old white was condemned to death here tonight by a Pike County jury which deliberated three hours. Spectators in the courtroom, which has been guarded by 14 state highway patrolmen, heard the verdict quietly.

The girl previously had identified White as her assailant and testified she was molested when she went to the negro to have her fortune told. She was threatened with death if she reported the crime, the girl said. A negro woman, charged as an accessory, faces trial tomorrow. Counsel for White did not say whether there would be an appeal. Five negroes were among persons summoned for jury service.

nV jS wf his crew of four and compares MORE ABOUT CHINA (ContJaa trim Pas 1) daily raid on Canton, South China metropolis. Thirty-four bodies were counted in a crowded vegetable market on the East Bund where a bomb exploded in the midst of the attack by 37 planes directed against the Pearl River bridge and old power plant. Huge bombs created havoc among crowded, flimsy dwellings on Honam Island. North of the Yangtze River, Chinese troops were reported to have inflicted a defeat upon the Japanese sixth division at Tsien-shan, 30 miles west of Anking. Japanese dug in to wait for reinforcements after suffering 1,700 casualties, Chinese said.

In another two-day engagement in South Anhwei province, Chinese reported 400 Japanese killed and the unit defeated at Siangs-han and Hwangshan. On the Yellow River front, Chinese announced the recapture by irregulars of Fengkiu, 15 miles north of Loyang on the Lunghai railway. War Vessels Sunk HANKOW, July 14. (JP) The Chinese high command announced tonight that during the past two weeks the Chinese air force had sunk or damaged 45 enemy war vessels and had broken the spearhead of the Japanese drive up the Yangtze River toward Hankow. The enemy craft put out of commission were said to include one aircraft carrier, one light cruiser, destroyers, minesweepers and armed launches.

Nineteen Japanese ships were reported towed to Shanghai for repairs. Clash With Russia TOKIO, July 15. (Friday) (JP) The Tokio newspaper Asahi reported in a dispatch from Hsin-king, Manchoukuo, today what appeared to be a new, serious Soviet Russian-Manchoukuo bor der-incident. The dispatch said Soviet troops went six miles into Manchoukuo territory and started construction of fortifications. A stern demand for their withdrawal was said to have been presented.

Tommie Thurlow, 3, plants a hearty but misplaced kiss on hfs mother in New York as they celebrated the arrival of Hughes' 'round-the-world plane. Tommie's father, Thomas A. Thurlow, was relief pilot of the Hughes plane. Gambling Boycott TAMPA, July 14. UP) More than a thousand Tampa business men assembled here tonight at the Municipal Auditorium and pledged themselves to "break up illegal commercialized gambling by the simple method of shutting on gambling revenue.

They signed pledges not to patronize illegal commercialized gambling for one year and to get their 8,000 or more employes to sign. More than 600 business concerns were represented in the signatures. The date of the pledge' is to begin sometime In the near future with a city-wide celebration. The business men figured that through their concerted efforts gambling revenue could he cut 50 per cent overnight and It would have to close. World Refugee Board Launched VIAN LES BAINS, France, July 14.

(P) The 32-nation refugee conference voted today to establish a permanent organization in London to deal with prob lems of refugees from Greater Germany. Meeting in an executive session, the delegates unanimously adopted the proposal outlined in a resolution offered by Myron C. Taylor, President of the conference and chief United States delegate. The conference will close tomorrow and the London organization will hold its first meeting Aug. 3.

It will have four Vice-Chairmen and a paid Director who will be authorized to approach various Governments In connection with the migration of refugees from Greater Germany. CRUZ IS AWARDED SIX-CENT LIBEL! LOS ANGELES, July 14. James Cruze, motion picture di rector, who sued McFadden publications for $250,000, alleging libel, won vindication today and six cents. i "I find that the defendant in- tended no reflection on Mr. Cruze's character or ability, Superior Judge Benjamin J.

Schein- man said, in signing the judgment. "For this reason, I render nomi- nal damages in his favor to vindi- caie mm, any vindication is necessary." Cruze complained that a (Photoplay) magazine article lm-j plied that he had become Impoverished and had lost his pro fessional ability. His attorneys, however, agreed to compromise on the six-cent settlement. STORE by Refrigeration MYSTERY (Coatlnocd tnm tmf 1) with that of the man he saw on the schooner. Being positive of his ldentifi-tlon, Myers said he spent an hour and a half looking over the outfit.

He said he could identify the man again should he see him. Accompanying a Times reporter in a search of fishing camps yesterday he expressed belief that PHOTO were the man alive today he would lose no time reclaiming his property. Many questions and possible answers to the riddle of the sea flew about the waterfront yesterday. Boatmen speculated on: What possible business could the adventurer have had here? Why did he value the boat so highly as to pay to have it shipped to this country on a deck of a schooner? Why did he mysteriously appear and disappear different points hi Tampa nay Where is he Where is the equipment he brought back with him? If alive today why has he not tried to regain what is his? The most prevalent answer seems to be that either he has met with foul play or an accident. Like many other tragedies of the sea, this mystery may remain unsolved forever.

While these thinrs were being speculated yesterday the government stepped in and an Inspector questioned reporters arid examined all information in the weird ease. The federal officers refused to issue a statement. Meanwhile fishermen and boat- ment along the entire shore-line of Tampa bay are watching the waters for drifting equipment, or a floating body, and searching parties in small boats are examin ing out of the 'way coves in the hope that some clue will be found to throw more light on this ever-deepening mystery. Yesterday another thousand people examined the Indian pirogue on display in front of The Times building. Many, intrigued by the mystery of the sea, speculated on the history of the craft.

One expert boat builder declared that the canoe was over 60 years old and possibly 80. He declared that the wood was Spanish mahogany and the art of burning the logs was handed down from generation to generation. Other theories advanced since the boat was found: It fell off a South American banana boat. It was used by alien smugglers. It was abandoned by Florida fishermen.

It was used by convicts to escape from Devils Island. The canoe will remain on display in front of The Times building again today. G. O. P.

LEADER DIES PERU, July 14. (TV-Funeral services will be held Saturday for Mevlin L. Ray, 74, veteran Republican leader who aided in establishment of the Peru Tribune. The widow, three sons and a daughter survive. Cost of a Hew Tire IN ION BANK A WEEK FLYERS (OatiitM tnm tut dj perhaps her Forty-ninth Reception Flanned Today New York planned one of its spectacular adulatory ticker-tape and shredded telephone book re-.

ceptions for the flyer tomorrow, when they are scheduled to parade from the Battery up Broadwayjust ai a slim, tousle-headed young hero did 1 1 years ago. That would be Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Hughes' first words as he left the plane, wearing the same battered brown hat, baggy gray slacks and toiled white shirt in which he left New York at 6.20 p.m.

E. S. T. Sunday, were: "Never again!" He had been asked whether he would attempt such a fhght again. Hughes big, twin motored monoplane was greeted by a tumultuous roar as it twice circled the field at 1:34 p.m.

losing altitude, and then taxied to thei smashing new record at 1 :37 p.m. Although he had flown 772 miles less than Wiley Post, he had set a mark amazing for its speed, and one acclaimed by airmen throughout the world. Despite the elaborate police precautions, with more than 1,100 uniformed officers cordoning the field, the milling throngs surged through and prevented Hughes from getting within 100 feet of the Wiley Post memorial, on which he had been expected to lay a wTeath. Police officials had to place the wreath there later. Hardest Over Siberia First welcomed by Mayor Fiorello H.

LaGuardia and Grover Whalen. President of the New York World's Fair, 1939. Hughes' four dog-tired companions Lt. Harry P. Connor, navigator; Lt.

Thomas Thurlow, navigator; Edward Lund, flight engineer, and Richard Stoddart, radio engineer left the field with a police escort and a parade of official cars for Manhattan. They went first to the home of Grover Whalen in Washington mews, in Greenwich Village. Before leaving the field, Thurlow rubbed his bearded chin in wonder as he watched the great crowd pressing forward. "What a reception!" he exclaimed. "I hadn't dreamed of anything like this." His wife, clinging to his shoulder to prevent their separation in the crush, smiled happily.

"Honey, I knew you could do it," she said. Thurlow said the hardest stretch of the aerial argosy was roaring over the bleak steppe-lands of Siberia. "That was certainly wild and desolate br-r-r-r," he said, with a grimace. "But we never had any real discomfort. And although we flew at extreme heights, up over 14.000 feet, it as never cold at any time inside the ship." "What are you going to do now -rest?" he was asked.

"No," he replied quickly, "get a shave. Hughes, smiling and evidently very happy, flanked by police men, held a short press confer ence after he left the plane. "Are you very hungry?" he was asked. "Not very," he answered. Because of the number of que tions asked Hughes and the in evitable confusion, the confer ence broke up almost immedi ately, and further questioning of Hughes was postponed until the party arrived at Whalen's New York home.

Girl Faints From Strain The wives of three of Hughes' comrades were dancing with ex citement as the big ship circled overhead, but a friend of Ed Lund, Miss Eleanor Hoagland, was not present. She had collapsed earlier at the airport from the nervous strain of the four-day ordeal and had to be taken to her home in Manhattan to re cover. When at last the wives got through the dense crowd to greet their husbands, this was what they sain: Mrs. Stoddart (with a kiss) "Thank God you're back!" Mrs. Connor (too excited for more): "Oh, hello!" Mrs.

Thurlow (kiss and hug): "Tommy!" As Hughes descended wearily from the plane, his white shirt soiled and deep lines of exhaustion on his face, photographers shouted for him to remove his hat, but he left it perched on his head, just as it was when he started. Flight officials estimated the Globe-girdling junket cost with a fuel consumption averaging 72 gallons per hour to hurl the 25.000-pound ship, with its 65-foot wing span, around the "Great Circle" a little less than one-fourth as fast as sunlight circles the World. Siberia yesterday New York today. Even that contrast pales against the Jules Verne fantasy. "Arouna tne world in Eighty Days." first published in 1872, and Hughes' feat of making the circuit in 91 hours just under four days.

He had roared across the gray tumbled wastes of the Atlantic Ocean, on the 3.641 -mile hop from New York to Paris, In 16 hours and 35 minutes, better than twice as fast as Lindbergh made it in his "Lone Eagle" venture more than a decade ago. Then on to Moscow on a stretch, across 1.381 miles of Soviet steppes to Omsk, another hop to Yakutsk, Siberia, and finally across the Bering Straits to American soil once more a gruelling flight to Fairbanks, Alaska, and the end at this point still across another long continent. Crosses Over Rockies From Fairbanks. Hughes forged on through lightning and rain over the lofty Canadian Rockies, fighting his ship through the storm at terrific speed on the semi-final leg to Minneapolis, covering the 2,441 miles in 12 hours and two minutes. They had jettisoned sleeping bags, Summer Prices Prevail at Rutland's Special groups of splendid values in shoes at popular prices as well as the nationally advertised kinds.

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Continuance Possible Assistant City Attorney Harry Young, who will represent the City at the hearings, said last night there is a possibility of all the cases going over until another date. He said, however, this could not be determined definitely until 10 o'clock this morn ing, the hour set for the hearings. A. G. McEachern, President of the Commission, said yesterday he was unable to say whether the hearings will be adjourned.

Tom Whitaker was in confer ence with Chief of Police E. D. Vaughn yesterday afternoon and also conferred with Young. Whitaker asked for detailed specifications in the four cases. He will receive them this morning.

Whitaker clients, with the exception of Muir, were dismissed for alleged incompetency. Muir is charged with "wanton offensiveness" toward the public. Wide Latitude Given Board Today's proceeding, if it is held, is designated officially, as "hearings in the investigation" of the charges preferred against the discharged officers. Under the new Civil Service regulations, the Commission is given wide latitude in conducting the investigation. It is specifically provided, however, that the deposed policemen shall have an opportunity to be heard and may delve into the reasons and motives, if any, behind their dismissals.

The Whitaker brothers have appeared here before in police Investigations. They fought the legal battle for R. Homer Noel, former police chief, which won him a City pension. They also represented Art Goodwin, a former police Captain and won for him a re-instatement after he had been deposed. He later resigned from the Police Department.

There was a bit of mystery temporarily injected in the police cases yesterday over the question of two weeks' salary payment, which the deposed men had been promised. Pay Checks Held Up The men expected they woulJ receive pay checks when they were dismissed the first of the month. It was learned the payments had received the okeh of City Manager Glenn V. Leland and the checks made but by the Finance Department. Chief Vaughn explained he had received the checks and returned them to the City Manager for a second okeh.

The City Manager Is not in town. His secretary said yesterday she had no knowledge of the checks having been returned to the office. Wherever the checks are at present, it was stated at, the Finance Department yesterday that it was not intended the men should have the checks before the regular pay day which is today. They said the checks had been made last Saturday ond would be given to the men today. It is expected the checks will be found In the meantime.

heavy clothing and a rubber boat at Fairbanks to make the plane lighter for the take-off. Near the breaking-point, but glad to get cigarettes which they dared not smoke in the ship, the five aerial musketeers made the last 1,054 miles on sheer nerve. But all they would admit, as Lund expressed it, was: "We were a little tired." Since last Sunday, Hughes said, they had barely caught "forty winks" on the whole nerve-frazzling flight, with the din of the two big 1.100 horsepower motors drumming in their ears. "I slept about four hours," Hughes said. The others slept little more, taking cat-naps on a piece of canvas stretched on the cabin floor of the plane.

Nor had they exactly dined like epicures. On the hop from Fairbanks to Minneapolis, they subsisted on cold canned fruit, although the ship's larder was bountifully stocked just in case of the crisis which never even came close. Saw Mrs. Wiley Post "We had no trouble at all ex cept the failure of the radio transmitter after we left Fairbanks," Stoddart said. In Fairbanks, Hughes had chatted briefly with Mrs.

Wiley Post, widow of the famed aviator who held the previous round-the-world record, and who crashed to his death with Will Rogers at Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 1935. Mrs. Post was there en route to Barrow to dedicate a memorial to her husband and Rogers. As news of Hughes successful landing in New York flashed out across the World, Wiley Post's co-flyer on a globe-circling flight in 1931.

Harold Gatty, in Auckland, New Zealand, hailed his feat as "a brilliant exhibition of modern flying." In New York, Lelghton Rogers, President of the Adrauti-cal Chamber of Commerce of America, called it "a true scientific triumph." The tumultously cheering crowd at Floyd Bennett Field made no lucid but they gave the five heroes the greatest ovation since Lindbergh's return and husky police, more than 1,000 strong, struggled perspir-ingly to keep them from mobbing the 33-year-old sportsman-millionaire. Field officials said it was the biggest jam they ever had seen, exceeding even the huge turnout that welcomed one-eyed Wiley Post back to the airport after his solo flight around the World in the "Winnie Mae." Two of the flyers' wives, Mrs. Stoddart and Mrs. Connor, remembered even in the midst of all their excitement to bring along clean shirts for their husbands, but Mrs. Thurlow forgot, and Hughes had to wait until the official motorcade bearing him and his companions reached Grover Whalen's home in Greenwich Village.

There a Chinese house servant hurried out to a nearby store and returned with fresh linen for the weary and grimy flight leader. The lean, dark-haired Texan, who inherited a $17,000,000 fortune from his father at the age of 18, wearily grinned his thanks. "That's what I need plus a shave, he said. FRANCO'S DRIVE IS SLOWED DOWN HENDAYE, France, (At the Spanish Frontier), July 14. (JP) Spanish Government forces slowed down an Insurgent advance toward the coast tonight in fierce hand-to-hand fighting along the Teruel highway.

An Insurgent army under Gen. Jose Varela, after capturing Sar-rion, 23 miles southeast of Teruel, was attempting to wipe out an important Government salient North of the highway to the coast. Negro Couple Reconciled at Court Hearing A display of temperament usually associated with longhaired musicians, resulted in a trip to City Court yesterday for Roosevelt Paige, negro, 1135 Thirty-first Street South, who was charged with assaulting his girl friend, Ada Jester, Wednesday night. "I returned home after attending choir practice at my church," Roosevelt related. "Ada requested me to play 'Rock Me Daddy' on the piano but 1 am certainly opposed to playing 'jook' music just after leaving a church.

So, I refused and then Ada demanded that I return 50 cents I had borrowed from her earlier in the day. She grabbed me and tore my shirt after she learned 1 had but 35 cents. But I certainly never hit that girl I merely shoved her." "He didn't shove me he hit me in the face with his hand," Ada insisted. Associate Municipal Judge Dean Aikin withheld sentence. Roosevelt and Ada left the Court arm in arm.

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Thirty-two of the assemble I 66 ships each fired a Presidential salute of 21 guns as the Houston drew near a total of 672 blank shots, all from 3-inch guns. Coast Guard patrols cleared the middle harbor of all traffic for the review period. Thousands o. persons stood along the piers and climbed to the roofs of water front buil-Hngs to witness tisfe spectacle. Ferry boats were stopped near the Bay Bridge, a short distance North of the review area, and spectators crowded the rails get a view of the ceremony.

Motorists on the Bridge slowed down hoping to see the spectacle but highway policemen urged along. An Inspection of the Mare Island Navy yard, a short paus3 for a Presidential salute at Fort Mason on San Francisco's North Beach and a ride through miles of humanity-lined streets comprised Roosevelt's schedule during the morning. He was hailed and cheered ill along the route. The office of Chief of Police William J. Quinn estimated 500,000 persons saw the Chief Executive between the tim; he entered the city by way of the Golden Gate Bridge and the tirm he left over the bi? San Francisco-Oakland Bridge to reach Treasure island, the man-made exposition ground in mid-bay.

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