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THE SC AN AB A DAILY PRESS VOL. XXI NO. 187. (A ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice ESCANABA, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929 SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS STOCK MARKET IN RECORD TUMULT Lake Michigan Storm Claims Lives of 54 Sailors 7 -----------r------------ ODIAMI II DC CT Crash DmANRJ Ui Claims One Life MAY DISTURB NAVY PROGRAM FAVORED ARMS CUT Detroit, Oct. 25 (Friday) MacDonald, 45, of Pon- I tiac, Oakland county drain com' mlssloner, was killed and four persons, including: J.

H. Olson, city engineer of Pontiac, land three young women, were injured in a collision of two automobiles at Coolldge highway and Nine Mile road In Royal Oak FRENCH Raymond Van Pelt. 25, of Pon- tiac, driver of one of the was held at the Oakland county jail pending investigation of the accident. The injured women are: Miss Margaret Brown of Pontiac, Amy Flannigan and Mildred Frederick, both of Detroit. RY DAVID LAWRENCE Copyright by Esc an aba Prcu) Washington, Oct.

was uo concealing the uneasinehs which the fall of Briand and his ministry in Paris created here. Coining at a time when the outstanding failure of European diplomacy had succeeded In establishing a new attitude on the part of France toward world problems, the question naturally is being asked what effect the downfall of the premier will have on the forthcoming naval ronference and world affairs generally. Mr. Briand as the co-author of the treaty outlawing war, had felt an obligation to carry through a program of reduction of all armament. The Hoover- MacDonald conference evoked no irritation so far as he was concerned because it is in sympathy with the general cause of arms reduction.

But the days of ministry may be short lived. In fact throughout the discussion of British naval plans, there has been an element here expressing curiosity over what might happen if the British labor government were overthrown. Tsrdleu Mentioned. The events in Paris have revived the thoughts about the Brl Will a treaty reducing naval A and achieving actual parity be as easy now as It would have been If Briand had remained in power? The recurrence of a strong nationalist policy may be looked for if the French government is conservative. On the other hand, there is a possibility that Andre Tardieu.

who used to be French high commissioner to the United States during the war. may succeed Briand. If he does, It means a better understanding between the United States and France notwithstanding the fact that his support would come from the conservatives. Few men in the Latin world would understand the Anglo-Saxon mind as well as does M. Tardieu.

He has dealt with American officials intimately and Is thoroughly well Informed on American policies and Institutions. He saw a good deal of President Hoover In the days of the food administration and later Mr. Hoover went to for the peace conference. M. Tardieu was the rlghthand man of M.

Clemenceau and while he reflects to some extent the old uncompromising attitude toward (lermany he would nevertheless HOPE FADING FOR ATLANTIC OCEAN FLYER MIDGET CHANCES ARE VERY SLIM Car Ferry Milwaukee Sinks With All Crew; Bodies Washed Ashore CARRIED 27 FREIGHT CARS; FLOUNDERS IN TROUGH; SINKS 6 HOURS AFTER LEAVING PORT LOBBYIST IS PROUD OF IT Grundy Grilled by Caraway in Quiz BY FRANCIS M- STEPHENSON, (Associated Preoa Staff Writer) Washington, Oct. 24 R. Orundy, of Pennsylvania, told the senate lobby committee today about his activities in Washington over thirty-two years in behalf of protective tariff legislation and reflected that if he had helped to get some increases in the pending bill he was of It." The white-haired president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' association, who helped raise $600,000 for the Hoover campaign in his state and $700,000 for the Coolldge drive four years ago, left hia accustomed seat in the senate gallery overlooking the debate on the tariff measure tc answer the committee summons. Answering Chairman Caraway, the witness said his occupation was manufacturing. He said he paid all his expenses while In Washington but was to figure them up, estimating them at $25,000 for this year alone.

came here to see that the campaign contributions got their money's worth?" asked Senator Caraway. came here to see that the Republican platform which was endorsed by the mandate of the people was enacted Into law," was his reply. It was, then I suppose they got their money's Caraway concluded. Lumber Truck Wrecks Train; Three Killed Walton. Kf.t Oct.

24 VP truck loaded with brick and lumber wrecked a Louisville Nashville passenger train at a grade crossing find a difference between a point I here today, overturning the loco- if view expressed academically when on the offensive politically and the solution of a concrete problem Involving responsibility for the foreign affairs of his country. Foreign Policy Vital. Cabinet upheavals abroad or- on Page Two) (By AaiodaUdi Prm) A clue to the fate of the midget monoplane Golden Hind was born yesterday only to live a few hours and when it died the plane and its one-man crew seemed beyond even the faintest hope for survival in their attempted crossing of the Atlantic. The Newfoundland government Steamer Kyle relayed a report that an unidentified ship had found a bit of black and orange description fitting the craft of Urban F. Diteman, for a time the filer's fate was tentatively decided.

The Newfoundland government, however, delned the authenticity of the message, and there were left only the chance that Diteman, had landed In Greenland or had been picked up by a ship without wireless. May Re on Ship Both these chances were slim. It had been reported that Diteman had ordered a supply of gasoline sent to Jullanshaab. Greenland, but the governor of Greenland denied that any gasoline depot had been established there. Mrs.

Diteman at her home in Billings; said that while her husband had considered his flight from Harbor Grace. Newfoundland, to London by wav of Greenland and Iceland ''e had decided against It before he took off at 10:45 a. m. eastern standard Tuesdsv with a fuel supply sufficient for only 25 Airmen pointed out. however, that the cold fog and northern winds which Diteman faced on the first 600 miles on his flight might have forced him off his course to a landing in the north, others theorised that he may have been forced down at sea and picked up by a ship without radio.

MRS, COOLIDGE MOTHER DIES Former President Has Been Frequent Caller at Bedside Milwaukee, Oct. 24 Four bodies picked up on Lake Michigan and the sighting of a dozen others floating on the rough waters gave definite evidence tonight that the car ferry Milwaukee had gone to the bottom with her crew of 54 men. mates, the life-belted bodies of two of the crew of the Grand Trunk carferry Milwaukee, which sank in Lake Michigan, probably Tuesday night, were taken from the lake today. The motor ship Steel Chemist picked up the bodies e'even miles Two of the bodies were recov- Kenosha aud, miles further ered late this afternoon. Tonight JURY IN FALL CASE LOCKED UP ALL NIGHT NO VERDICT UNTIL COURT OPENS TODAY Washington.

Oct 24 The Jury charged with determining Albert B. Fall's guilt or Innocence of bribery was locked up for the night at 11:08 after deliberating almost hours without re- Potato Show Program Today's program at the First Annual tipper Peninsula Potato Show will be as follows: 9:30 to 12:00 Community singing contest. 9:00 to chib judging contest. Art Otterbetn iu charge. 9 00 to Judging contest.

1:30 to "Potatoes In the Farm O. W. Putnam, director of U. P. Experimental Station.

2:00 to 2:30 Address. NO PARALLEL SINCE PANIC OF WAR, 1914 NEAR 13 MILLION SALES; TRADERS COLLAPSE to Storage," A. tursi engiueer, College. 2 SO to 3 00 the coaat guard at Kenosha found two more which were identified aa those of Captain Robert McKay of Detroit and Parser A. R.

Sadon, Grand Haven, Mich. Becauae of the extreme roughness of the lake, salvaging operations were suspended until tomorrow. out in the lake, the white pilot turning a verdict, house with printed on The eight men and four women it. The lifebelts on the bodies Milwaukee. Oct.

24 Mute evidence of the fate which befell between 50 and 57 of their NOTED AUTHOR PASSES AWAY Long: Illness Moorfield Storey, Lawyer-Writer Lincoln, Oct. 24 (JP Moorfield Storey, lawyer and author, died here at hia home tonight after a long illneai. He waa president of the American Bar assorta tion in 1896. He was 84 years old. Graduated from Harvard College in 1866 and the Harvard Uw School the following year, he became private secretary of Charles Sumner for two years and waa ap pointed to the editorship of the American Review in 1873.

bore the name A watch on one of the bodies stopped at 9:35, Indicating that the ferry went down Tuesday night, six hourB after it steamed out of the Klnnlcklnnlc river, with 27 loaded freight cars aboard, bound for Grand Haven. Mich. Captain Robert McKay, Grand Haven, veteran skipper of the Grand Trunk fleet, was In command. Investigate Cause The Milwaukee sailed in face of a violent gale, which some marine men described as the worst in the last sixteen years. An investigation into the disas ter, the largest on Lake Michigan in 49 years, will be made immedi- Captain W.

A. Collins, eral steamboat inspector here, said I tonight. In 1880 the sank in mid lake with loss of more than 100 lives. Exactly what happened to the Milwaukee probably will never be known. The ferries are built with the stern end open above the main deck.

There is an which who have been held in seclusion since the trial began, October 7, slept tonight In the District of Columbia courthouse They could not report before 10 tomorrow morning at the earliest. Will Seal Decision If any decision Is reached by the Jry In the meautiuie It will be sealed until Justice William llliz opens court In the morning. Since 11:30 a ni today the jury had been going over the case, but no information was forthcoming whether any progress had been made All the while the former Interior secretary was waiting with Mrs. Fall at his hotel for word to proceed to court. Justice like wise had held himself in readiness at his home since dinner time, in case the Jury desired to report Courtroom Crowded Spectators and witnesses in the case, in which the aged defendant was charged with having received $100,000 from Edward Doheuy for the notorious Elk Hills oil lease, bad crowded the courtroon) and hua permitting and ctfTrldors throughout the eve- rallroad cars to be switched on to the four railroad tracks running the length of the main deck Floundered in Trough Marine men here were of the opinion that the Milwaukee which was 338 feet lone and D6 feet wide with a gross tonnage of 2933, foundered before it was 25 miles out into the lake.

They said it was serving for six years. He was bom! probable that the 27 freight cars in Roxbury. in 1845. Among his writings were a life of Charles Sinner, "The Reform of Legal and Negro Question." He was independent in politics. New Trunk Line Roads 36 Miles; 3 in Peninsula Lansing.

Oct. 24 The addition of thirty six and one were torn from their moorings The weight of the shifting cars likely centered on one side of the ship, tipping it Just as the boat waa caught in the trough of the wavea. Once on her beams end. it la believed she went down like a shot, the water pouring into the open stern end. It is not definitely known how many were aboard.

Federal regulations provided that the Milwaukee carry a crew of 50 payroll of October 16 shows 59. adverse effect though three of these men are nlng, expecting a verdict. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Doheny and Mrs.

C. C. Chase and Mrs. Jouette Elliott, daughters ol Fall With all others, they were asked to leave the courthouse Just prior to the losing up of the Jury. Hoover Back In The White House half miles of the state trunk (known not to have been on the WEATHER LOWER LAKES: molt- lv moderate to fresh weat to northwest; cloudy Friday, possibly local rain or snow on southern Ontario and eastern Erie, CPPER LAKES: Winds mostly moderate to occasionally freah northwest to west, becmolng southwest on western Superior; mostly fair Friday.

LOWER MICHIGAN: Moatly fiar Friday, continued cool; Saturday partly cloudy with risingIwere dead hen taken from motive and killing the engineer, the fireman and the driver of the truck. The train bore down on the truck as It was croaaing the track, and the pilot of the locomotive "reared up" dragging the wrecked truck under it for 100 yards before the engine left the track, struck a section house and turned over. Four baggage cars and a mail car followed the locomotive off the tracks and three of them slid down a ten-foot embankment but did not turn over. Passengers Unhurt Crewa on the derailed baggage and mall cars escaped injury and passengers on the train said that they felt no effect of the wreck other than the sudden stopping of the train. It was not until they left their coaches that some of them realized there bad been an accident.

The men were Kelly Frailer, 55. engineer. and John English. 65, Walton, who the temperature, possibly unsettled in north portion. FPPER MICHIGAN: Fair.

lightly warmer in weat portion Friday; Saturday unsettled and warmer. WISCONSIN: Fair, not quite so tool Friday; Saturday unsettled and warmer. At High Taut 7 P.M. 24 Hours I'scanaba 40 47 Alpena Today 44 Marquette 46 Memphis 56 Milwaukee 48 Cleveland 44 New Orleans 66 Denver New York 58 Detroit 44 St. Louis 60 Duluth St.

Calveeton 64 Salt Lake 64 Grand Rapids 4 6 Francisco 66 Jacksonville- 7 4 Soo, Mich ..4 2 Kansas Tampa 78 Los Aogeles.14 Washington. 60 wreckage, and Thomas M. Burns, Louisville, fireman, who died half an hour later Damage 2 Million In Filmland Fire Loa Angeles, Oct. 24 films stored In the first vault to be opened In the fire swept laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries, were found 1n perfect condition tonight. Unofficial estimates of the monetary loss In the blase, which followed an explosion early today, were reduced to less thsn Five remaining flre proof were to be opened as aoon as possible Albert Lund.

29, a mechanic, who was working near the polishing machine, a spark from which caused the explosion, was killed, and five other workers were burned or injured in escaping. Northampton. Mass, Oct. 24 (JP) Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolldge.

wife of the fromer president, died at the Cooley-Dlcklnson hospital here tonight. She was 78 years of age. Mrs. Goodhue hsd been a patient at the hospital since December 11, 1 927. On that date she suffered an attack of Influenza from which she later rallied.

Subsequently she relapsed due to the Infirmities of old age and had several sinking snells. two of which broueht Mrs. Coolldge from the White House to her bedside. Since her return to Northampton, Mrs. Coolldge had snent two hours dally with her mother.

Mr. Coolldge also was a freouent visitor at the hoapital. They were preaent when death came. TRIAL AT JERUSALEM highway system was approved by the state highway advisory board here today. The routes recommended for designation as trunk lines were: From Marenesco to the state line.

Gogebic county, nine miles: from Rose City South to trunk line 55, Ogema county, seven miles; from Marion to Tustin. connecting trunk lines 66 and US-131, fifteen miles: several short routes connecting trunk line 21 with Saranac. Muir, Lyons and Ovid, totalling 2.8 miles due to tho relocation of highway Lansing Street in St. Johns, one mile; US-31 in tho city of Muskegon, one miles; US-2 In the city of Menominee two fifths mile; Stub from US-2 to Plck- ford. three tenths mile.

The last legislature authorized the addition of 500 miles to the trunk line system. Today's designation brings the total thus far unproved under that grant to about (.6 miles. The advisory board recommendations are sub- iect to the approval of tho state administrative board. Move New Trial In Slaying Jerusalem, Oct. 24 (Jewish Telegraphic A sentence of two years Imprisonment and the payment of a fine of £50 plus the cost of the trial was pro- nounced on Sheik Taleb Markah Kalamazoo, Mich Oct.

24 on trial In the Jerusalem district Motion for a new trial for Mrs court as one of the Instigators of i Pearl Burgess, convicted of the the Hebron disorders in which slaying of Mrs. Etta L. Falr- slxty-six Jews were scores injured. killed and WEATHER LAKE 8TORM Sandusky, Oct. 24 Sandusky men, who relatives had were lost In the Erie storm Tuesday, returned safely to homes here todav after weathering the storm on Sandusky bay In a small motor boat.

ELOPED WITH New York, Oct. 24 Mustl, a lieutenant In the Naval Supply Corps at Charleston. S. who disappeared from that city recently allegedly with more than 000 in government funds, was arrest at the Brooklyn navy vard today awaiting action by the I lavy department. child last week, was flled here dav by her attorney, Stephen II.

Wattles. The cluim for a new trial Is par- tial'y based on alleged misconduct of the Jury. Wattles claimed the Jury returned a verdict of guilty becauso they fear Mrs. Burgees might be set free under any other verdict. He based the claim on the Juror's return to the court room after twelve hours to ask what would happen If they returned a verdict of "not guilty because of Insanity." It also is claimed that the court did not Instruct the jurors regard ing the various degrees of murder.

It is charged that no instruction was given to allow a verdict of second degree murder Eight other leaser points are cited in the motion. boat. Whether substitutes for these three were aboard, Grand Trunk officials were unable to say. U. P.

DAMAGE Chicago, Oct. 24 With the lashing storm which whipped ut the Great Lakes region for three days abated today, the curtain was lifted on the fate of at least six lake vessels with 5 2 persons aboard, was at the bottom of Michigan, uuother sunk In Lake Erie and four wort grounded- In udditlon. battered wreckage along lake shore lines indicated property loss that is expected run into many millions of dollars Bodies wreckage of the car ferry Milwaukee, caught In the storm as it proceeded from Milwaukee toward Grand Haven, were found today near Kenosha, Wls. They confirmed the belief that the vessel was sunk i and gave rise to the fear that all I 52 on board were lost. Seeks Hrfugo Persons aboard other distressed vensels either were rescued or reported safe.

The freighter Donaldson, overdue at Superior. Tuesday, arrived thero today from Apostle Islands, where it had put In to escape the fury of the storm. The old wooden freighter H. Nessen, went to pieces lust night on a sand bar off Leamington, Out. Its crew of thirteen was rescued.

The saud sucker, C. Cadwell, was grounded only five miles uway near Point Pelce light Its crew also wan safe. Carrier Still Stranded i r. Twenty-three persons were res -Oil cued from the grounded steamer, I i 'nlIrkii'u Maple Court, held fast on Mag-1 netlc Beef near Cockburn islaud in upper Luke Huron, by coast guards early today. The are carrier, William Pllkey, was, stranded off Gravel Island, near break lu at Washington.

Oct; 24 President Hoover was safely back In the White House tonight, apparently In excellent physical condition In spite of his strenuous four day trip in the middle west. The continual Inclement weather and repeated public appearance in cold and sometimes driving rain seemed to have had no on either the president or Mrs. Hoover. The former went Immediately to bis office upon return to catch up on official business that had accumulated while he was away. Houghton Wants A Radio Station Washington.

Oct 2 4 The Michigan College of Mining Tech nology at Houghton, today petitioned the radio commission for a license to operate a station for experimental use in the study of underground communication. Tlx college hopes to establish the feasibility of communicatIng by radio with men trapped lit in order to uid in rescue work The experimental work also is to be directed toward a study of effect of radio on weather condl lions Clemenceau Is Out of Danger Paris. (Jet. 24 The tide in tlie tight for extended life being waged by former Premier Clemenceau, seemed tonight to be definitely swinging In favor of the aged statesman, although Dr. hinted that would be a safer word than to use at this time.

"A few more days like this one and the may he considered of Immediate danger," said the physician "Unfortunate ly, the nights are very much harder on him than the days." J. Bell, agrlcul- Michigan State Address. Outlook." Howard Rather, professor of farm crops. Michigan State College. 3:00 to 3:30 Address.

Soil John Sims. soils specialist, Michigan State lege. 1:30 to 3:00 Junior Farmers Program. C. A.

Rood in charge 1:80 to 4:00 Women's program at Webster school gymnasium, In charge of Margaret 11 Harris, assistant state homo demonstration leader. TARIFF TURNS FOR FARMERS Senate Approves Increase on Duties for Casein IlY HAROLD D. OLIVER Preen Staff Washington. Oct. 2 4 By overwhelming of to 19 t' At ate toY lulteasM from to a pound in the duty on aselu and thereby settled the first clear-cut tariff rate Issue between agriculture and Industry In favor of the farmer.

Casein Is produced from powdered sklnimed milk and used principally as a glossy coating for highly finished print paper. While the house did not change the existing duty, the senate finance committee recommended an increase to three and-one-half cents. Pantages Trial In Last Stages; Plea for Prison Los Angeles. Oct. 2 1 I The closing arguments of the defense in the trial of Alexander Pantages were Interrupted late today by ihe sudden illness of a woman Juror, which forced the hearing to be continued until to morrow Joseph Ford, defense attorney, had begun his plea for acquittal of the multimillionaire theatre man.

accused of a statutory of fense aaginst Eunice Pringle, 17. dancer, when Mrs. Lotta Steiner was stricken ill. Mrs Steiner said she believed night's rest would enable her to continue in the Jury box to morrow. She was the second juror to become 111 during the long trlul.

Harvey N. Connett prevlosuly having been excused. Superior Charles Frleke announced that he expected the argument lie completed and the submitted to the Jury by tomorrow night RY CLAUDE A. JAGGER (Associated Prcse Mnandal Writer) New York. Oct.

2 4 remarkable era of avid public speculation in stocks which has swept over the country during past five years came to a climax today In the most terrifvinp stampede of selling ever experienced on the New York Stock Exchange and other leading security markets. Not since the war panic which resulted In the closing of the ex change for 17 weoks in 1014 has Wall Street seen such a dark and trying day, and never in financial history have security markets been thrown info such a tumult. Confer It appeared for a time that stock markets would he unable to face the situation, and that trading would have to suspended, but the leading saw the ordeal through, although a few floor traders collapsed and had to be aided from the trading floors. By early afternoon, the si'ua- tion became so grave that a hurried meeting of the leading was called at the offices of i J. Morgan a rens- surlng statement issued from thr by Lamot.

one vjt if-Msu ally it id It. of stock mu from a complete $15 tr HI70 Scores of Important tumbl'd from $15 to 170 a share paper vanishing at the ra of tens of millions of dollars a minute. ut 11 mid afternoon, when the statement prompted lerge operators were reaping millioms in selling the market short To cover their commitments, and prices of issues rebounded substantially. Total sales on the stock ex- ehange reached the amazing lire of 12.894.6S0 sharen. surpassing by more than per cent the pervious record of S.24<?.74»> reached on March 2A The ticker uuotatlon fell hours behind transactions, and traders who were unable to quotations from the floor through their brokers proceeded blindly, save at Intervals when a few stocks quotations sent out through the bond market tickers.

Deafening Itoar Standard dividend paying stocks were thrown overboard along with the more speculative Issues. Stocks were sold for what thev would bring In blocks of from 1,000 to 130,000 Traders on the floor of the stocs exchange shrieked and howled their offers for desperate before they found Such a roar arose from the stock exchange floor that It could he heard for blocks up and down Broad and Wall utreets. Speculators and sight seers poured In Wall street in such volume that extra traffic police were required to handle them, and the stock ex- (Contlnued on Pace Two) Sacramento, Cal Oct. 24 Five of the ulx convicts acted us leaders In the attempted Thauks- Detour. Captain and crew refused to leave ship, hoping to save it from salvage by others.

DainugA to Chicago hreakwatra, boulevard systems and parka waa estimated tonight in excess of (Coatlauvd on Paco Twa midi state prison, today were seu- teuced to hang in January. Anthony Brown and Roy E. Sloltes will go to the gallows on January Hurko and James 11 Gregg on January 10. and Eugene Crosby on January 17 Sentences were imposed today by Judge Mukolui C. Glenn.

DISCUSS WAR HERTS llerlln. Oct. 24 News that Jacob Gould Schurman. American ambassador, was negotiating with the German government for a war debts settlement between Germany and the United States tonight brought from the foreign office an explanation that the couversatIona were dealing with technical of the Young plan for reparations settlement, jit was added that the negotiations through Dr. Schurman did not differ from those which were being held with the diplomatic representatives of other nations concerned In the settlement of outstanding war debts I ACQUIT GAKTOMA GROUP Gastonia, Oct.

24 The nine men arrested In connection with the killing Ella Mny Wiggins, and the seven men arrested after the kidnaping of three National Textllte Workers 'Union organizers were freed dav bv a Gaston county grand Jurv No were found asalnst unv of the sixteen after of Indictment had been ask rtd yesterday by Solicitor John G. Carpeuter. Moscow Flyers Land at Chicago Chicago, Oct. 24 Enroute to New York on their projected round the world flight, the four Russian fliers lu the monoplane of the arrived at Curtiss airport ai three o'clock today after a non-stop trip from North Platte, Nebr. Greeted by a crowd of about civic leaders, army men and aviation enthusiasts, the were driven to Chicago and went to the hotel which will be their headquarters, tomorrow Formal of the city will be extended at a luncheon in their honor.

Thu four aviators were welcomed by Capt Du t- can, air corps officer for this area, who was designated to extend full military courtesies. CAPITAL OF MILLION Chicago, Oct The National Livestock Marketing association with a capital stock of approximately $1.000,000. was formed to day by representatives of livestock cooperative organizations in co'laboration with members of the federal farm board headed by ander chaiiutau..