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THE LARGEST MORNING DAILY CIRCULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH THE WEATHER Showers, warmer today; Sunday possibly showers, cooler at night. Yesterday's temp. Max. 69, Min. 57.

BOOST BUY BURN ANTHRACITE mm TWENTY TWO PAGES SCRANTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 ESTABLISHED ,1867 WW IS llV South Corn In To Halt Smith i8 AFTER LINDY FOG FORCES DOWN PLANE NEAR TOWN OPPONENTS MAP PLANS FOR BATTLE Although Doubt Is Expressed That New Yorker Can Be Stopped, Antis Appear Confident That Tactics of His Followers At Convention Will Aid Them In Preventing His Nomination Arrival of Reed Stiffens Resistance to Tammany Choice. 1 SEEK TO STOP SMITH HOUSTON, Texas, June 22. A series of secret conferences among Democratic leaders of the south was started here today in an effort to slop Alfred E. Smith in the party convention which opens here next Tuesday. Faced with the necessity for quick action if they are to head off the candidate whose foes concede he has within a hundred votes of enough to ohtain the presidential nomination, these leaders made a thorough canvass of the delegate situation, assessing the potential strength against the New York governor not only in their own group hut in other anti Smith camps.

By J. FREDERICK ESSARY (Republican Staff Correspondent) HOUSTON, Texas, June 22. Encouraged by Governor Smith's re stated position regarding a modification of prohibition enforcement, the dry interests in Democratic national convention are now resolved to make a stand against MEMBER OF THE 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS 7 BAILIE IS EXPELLED FROM BY Cambridge Woman Loses Membership Because She Disturbed Harmony WILL CONTINUE FIGHT Declares She Will Carry Mat ter Before National Convention WASHINGTON, June 22 (A. Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie, of Cambridge, was expelled today from the Daughters of the American Revo' lution for circulating statements in jurious to the organization.

The expulsion of Mrs. Bailie was ordered in an unanimous decision by the D. A. R. national board of man agement, made public tonight.

The charges against the Cambridge woman which grew out of the publication of an alleged D. A. R. "blacklist" of radical speakers were aired before the board yesterday in an executive hear ing. Termed Disturber.

The testimony of Mrs. Bailee, how ever, eliminated the so called "black list" from any connection with the national society, officials of the D. A. R. said, and the charges which were acted upon today by the board were that Mrs.

Bailie had been disturbing the "harmony of the society." The controversy against Mrs. Bailie commenced last April when 19 members of the D. A. R. filed the charges with the national officers.

The ex ecutive committee investigated them and reported that they were "well founded." Mrs. Bailie also was alleged to have published a pamphlet in which she criticized the officials of the society as being under the influence of mili tarists. WILL CARRY ON. CAMBRIDGE, June 22 CA. Mrs.

Helen Tufts Bailie, when informed tonight of the decision of the national board of managers of the D. A. R. to expel her from that or (Continued on Page Four) i I DENOUNCE NEW YORK. June 22 (A.P.).

Dances and card parties as means of financing church work were denounced today as "unchurchly and unchristian" at the closing session of the New York Lutheran minis terium at St. Peter's Lutheran church. This means of raising 'funds, Dr. I VOL. 143, NO.

72 At informal conferences here today it was decided that the fight will be made to put into the party platform a prohibition plank so pronounced that Governor Smith could not and would not run on it. By that process they would eliminate him. Moody to Lead Dry Fight Governor Dan Moody, of Texas, has been selected to make the floor fight in behalf of this plank and he will be promised the support of six or eight southern delegations and the moral support of a good many more groups in the south and west. The arrival in Houston tonight of Senator James A Reed, of Missouri, to take personal command ot his presidential campaign further stiffened to a degree resistence to the Smith tide. The Senator, bel ligerent as ever, talked only briefly to night but to go into action tomorrow with all his resources.

It is the hope of the drys to com mand a majority of the convention for a rigid nrohibiton declaration, They will need no more to put such a declaration into the platform thereby eirmarrassmg smitn ana ms mends. But failing that, these same drvs hope to muster considerably more than one tnira or the convention and bv such a move, organize the necessary number of last ditchers to stand as the thcrmopole in the way of the only lormiciamc candidate now in the run ning. Obviously this is a last resort. The otes to bring about a defeat of Smith are not now sight on a straight can diriate issue. If the convention were to ballot on the first day it is probable hat tne New Yorker would win on second if not the first ballot.

Play Into Opponents Hands But the longer the decision de ferred, the more time and opportunity me lrrcconcuaoie opposition has to arouse feeling and prejudice against bmitn. And curiously enough, the Smith leaders now in Houston appear to have played at every turn, even if in a small way, into the hainds of the opposition. They started the very day that George Van Namee, headquarters manager, ana Norman Mack, New York notional committeeman, arrived in Houston, Mr. Mack issued a statement typewritten and apparent authoritative, saying that omim Denevca tnis ana that and the other regarding prohibition, particularly that he believed the states should regulate it. A few hours late rthese men, each in turn, recanted, saying that Mack was not sneaking for Governor Smith.

They added that the Governor would speak fo rhimself, and some ardent friends of his in New York persuaded Smith yesterday to say that he still iavors modification of the Volstead act. All observers in Houston agree that Smith said nothing new and nothing that was not known to every party leader above the rank of a precinct worker, but those in Houston watching the political game being played, wondered why there was a repetition of this view Just at this time. As already indicated, these two public declarations have heartened a hitherto disorganized and demoralized opposition. They have given it something concrete to work with at a time whpn all interests had practically agreed that mere woui De notnine to fieht nvpr except abstractions in this convention. lomplaln About Flans But this Is not all.

The New Yorker now here have been complaining bitterly against the manner in which the delegate seating plan has been worked out by a sub committee. These New Yorkers found that there were more Missourians to be seated In the convention hall with their 36 votes (Continued on Page Four) PRICE TWO CENTS ITALIAN AIRMEN SEARCH IN VAIN AND FIVE AIDES Drop More Supplies to No bile But Fail to Sight Other Group EXPERTS SEE CHANCE Incline to Belief That Explor er Will Be Heard From Soon (CoprrUht. bv The Assoeiafrd Prtnl KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 22 (A.P.). General Umberto Nobile and the five men marooned with him on the Arctic ice today received their second batch of supplies from the air. Majors Maddalena and Penzo flew their big Italian seaplanes over the camo of tht refugees.

But they found no opportunity to land and again made use of parachutes to get provisions and radio equipment to the stranded men. While this effort of the fliers was successful, they failed to find any trace of Roald Amundsen and his five companions in the French seaplane piloted by Rene Guilbaud. The Italian aviators also reported that they had seen nothing of the balloon portion of the Italia of of the seven men who were carried away with it when the gondola of the big aircraft was torn loose on May 25. No Sign of Trio Neither was there news of the other three members of the Italia's party, who, on May 30, started to walk acres the ice from the place where General Nobile and his companions were spilled. With Nobile fortified to await rescue by an ice breaker, increased efforts will be made now to learn the fate of ths missing ten explorers and six would be rescuers.

All vessels in this section of the Arctic are being notified to watch for the missing men. A sealing vessel which arrived here today from Tromsoe followed closely the track which the Amundsen party was supposed to fly over, but it saw no trace of the big French machine. Despite the seeming gravity of Amundsen's situation there is a feelin of optimism respecting him among the Arctic experts here. They recall the times in the past when he disappeared in the icy wastes of the Arctic nd Antarctic, only to come out safely when hope for him had reached its lowest ebb. Particularly they mentioned his sudden change of direction in 1910 when he started for the North Pole but switched his plans in midocean end won a four nation race to the South Pole.

Not At Advent Bay Those who know the veteran Nor wegian best are inclined to believe that he may have given up his determination to come to Kings Bay. The hope that he might have landed at Advent Bay with the idea of establishing an in dependent base there was shattered when the steamer Svalbard visited that place today. Finding no trace of the Amundsen party, the Svalbard continued toward South Bay. The Russian ice breaker Maiigin ha been fully informed of the circumstances fthe Amundsen disappear stances of the Amundsen disappear ance. That vessel reported herself today as east of South Cape, Spitzbergen.

She was making her way slowly through ice and a heavy sea toward Cape Leigh Smith. That course should take tho Maligin through the region in which the bag of the Italia and its seven occupants may have come down. Failing to find trace of these, the Russian expedition is expected to continue on to Foyn Is land and take aboard General Nobile's personal party. The commander of Nobile base ship. the Citta Di Milano, conferred tonight with Governor Bassaoe on plans for searching for the Amundsen expedi tion.

Deciding that the missing sea plane may have alighted on one of the Fjords of North East Land, it was agreed that Majors Penzo and Maddalena should search the coast of that Island. EIGHT DIE WHEN SHELL EXPLODES IN SCRAP HEAP Forly Others Injured and Storehouse Wrecked in Belgian City BRUGES, Belgium, June 22 (A.P.). An explosion attributed to a bursting shell among scrap metal, tonight caused the deaths of eight persons and injury to 40 others. The explosion occurred In a store, house. That structure and all houses in the neighborhood were wrecked.

The ruins took fire and other explosions are feared as more shells are known to have been in the place. NINE WORKMEN KILLED SAN SALVADOR. Republic of Salvador, June 22 (A. Nine workmen were killed and several severely Injured today when a railway car carrying employes of a railroad in Gautemala was derailed and fell into the ravine. LANDED Photos by Bunnell, last night by The Republican photogra an exact duplicate of the famous dashed to earth by the shipping straight wind was not known.

Neville's body was found near his plane. Apparently he had been killed instantly. Neville had been flying for the National Air Transport, since establishment of the route and began night flying between Kansas City and Dallas when it was Inaugurated several months ago. Aviatrix Loses Life Iii Crash NORFOLK, 22 (A.P.). Mrs.

Charles Tillotson, Nebraska's first aviatrix, was killed tonight when the plane she was piloting went into a tail spin over the Norfolk flying field. attended these affairs, later complaining to their own pastors that such pastimes were not permitted in the Lutheran The executive committee of the synod was ordered by a vote of the delegates "to request all congregations by letter to avoid such unchristian practices." Famous Pilot Willingly Talks to Republican Re porter in Yard Office STAYS AT RAILROAD 'Y' Drives Lehigh Valley Train to Mountain Top; Rides Pusher Back By HAROLD MYERS Colonel Charles A. Lind hergh, ace of world's fliers, following his forced landing last night at Coxton Field, Duryea, was the self same. cool smiling vouth that he was on that memorable dav in Mav, 1927, when he swooped down out of the skies at Le Bourget flying field, Paris, the first man to span the Atlantic in an eastward flight. The youthful aviator, whose ploits have thrilled the world, was willing to talk to newspapermen, pro vided they confined their' questions to aviation and matters pertaining to flying.

But when it came to other questions, he would smiling say, "What has that got to do with aviation." Newspapermen cornered the tous eled hair aviator In a small room in the yard office adjoining the huge roundhouse through which Lindbergh had just been escorted amid the shrieking of sirens and engine whistles." Husky state troopers escorted Lindbergh through the milling crowd that cheered wildly at tne sight of the famous flier. Given Overalls to Wear Colonel Lindbergh wore an ordinary light weight business suit and had just been given a suit of overalls which he was preparing to don prior to climbing into the cab of a fast Lehigh Valley express train to drive it as far as Moun ton Top. When the offer to drive the train was made the flying colonel Jumped at the chance. It was a calm and unruffled Lind bergh who told of his forced landing, the second he has made in Northeast ern Pennsylvania since his history making flight Across the Atlantic. I ran into a heavy fog in the moun tains," Lindbergh said, "and as dark ness was approaching I decided to look around for a landing place.

After flying a few miles south of Pittston I returned here and circled the field. The landing was perfect and the ship is "Every city," he continued, "should have Its name written on the top of some building and in addition should have directions marked as to the near est landing field." At this stage the colonel took the re porters pad and with a pencil drew a circle and an arrow to demonstrate what he had in mind. Colonel Lindbergh said he left De troit yesterday afternoon at 2:25 o'clock flying by way of Buffalo. The last forty five miles of the Journey, he said, he followed the Susquehanna river. It was shortly before 7.

o'clock he said that he encountered the heavy fog and decided to look around for an available landing place. He declared that he ran Into no air pockets or air currents during the trip down the winding Susquehanna valley, one of the most picturesque in the state. "Are you going to Europe?" the colo nel was asked. He replied in the negative with con siderable emphasis and for the first time in the Informal chat showed signs of displeasure. I do not know," he said, "who started that story of my going to Europe but it's not true." Colonel Lindbergh, the same who has been dined and feted by the crowned heads of Europe, the president of his own country and tne rulers oi Latin American countries, seemed perfectly at home standing in the crowded and grimy railroad office.

That irreores stble smile of his, which is the orid over, was ever present. He talked in an Informal manner and when a question was asked that he deemed best not to answer would add, wnat nas mat to do with aviation As usual Colonel Lindbergh's first (Continued on Page Four) Approval of the proposed merger of the ministerium with the New York synod and the synod of New York and New England was the major business transacted at the four dajr conference. Title of Wagner College on Staten Island was voted to the trustees. of Airplane Not Marred By Perfect Landing in Marshland FINDS HIMSELF ALONE Hundreds Soon Cather Ahout "Deadline" to Gaze at Monoplane By FRANK NEALIS Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh living his Ryan mono plane an almost exact replica of the Spirit of St.

Louis was forced to land in Coxton Field al Duryea at 7:43 o'clock last night en route on his latest flight from Detroit to York, Llndy ran into heavy fog banks which hung over the junction of the Lackawanna and Susquehanna rivers early last evening as he was nosing in an easterly direction toward New York city. He circled the large field which extends from lower Duryea, two miles to the Lehigh Valley roundhouse at Cox ton yards at a low altitude seven or eight times before selecting the landing site. Tne Held is marshy in spots, clut tered with knolls and covered with a dense hay grass vegetation fifteen to eignteen inches deep. His landing was in almost the geom ertical center of the field and was made without any damage even to scratching me ponsneu aluminum of the fuselage, tan ana camn. Finds Himself Alone On landing Lindy found himself alone for the first time since his trans Atlantic flight.

This was not for long lor a Lcnign vaney railroader sighting the plane came up to the scene and recognized the ace of aviation history. ponce oi Wyoming barracks were notified immediately by Lindy with a simple request that he would ai.preclate having a guard over "We" for the night. A detail was hurried there, the Duryea police called and a dead line established 100 feet square about the plane. This section was roped off and heavily staked in order to insure it from being toppled over oy an eager crowd. Within a short time after the land ing news spread throughout the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys that Lindy had arrived in Pittston.

Hundreds Swarm Field The Diane was located and hundreds by machine and on foot rustled their way through the tall wet grass and swampy meadow to gam a sight of the flier and the Ryan monoplane. The fifty foot deadline prevented any onrush and the plane was undisturbed by any souvenir trienas. The Republican reporter tozether with the Republican staff Diiotogranher were granted tne privilege of examining the plane and taking any flash light photos. The plane is small in size about the same dimensions as a French Spad or German Fokers such as used today in the U. S.

Army pursuit squadrons. All that spells comfort and convenience is enclosed in the manufactured cabin. The controls and stick ride within easy access of a sedan like seat without any semblance of cramping even a man of Lindy's proportions. Plane Has Graceful Lines From the propeller back through the fuselage to the tail Is of aluminum construction giving a minimum of weight yet carrying the graceful lines of nature's most beautiful flying creatures. The identiflcaion of the plane is pronounced in bold gilted letters on the tall, I nparallel rows from top to bottom arc the following Inscriptions, NX4215, Ryan B.

built bv Mahonev Manufacturing Company. San Diego, Cal, builders of the Col. Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis. The plane is a reproduction of the one which carried the ace to Paris in the first non stop' trans Atlantic flight.

Well protected by a large cordon of police who seemed that last night to be wining to state tneir lives against anyone crossing the deadline and even touching the plane with their finger tips, the Ryan monoplane lay ready to taice on an nignt. As ths hour grew late the crowd Increased none anxious to leave but sat' isified to stand in the drizzle and wet (Continued on Page Four) CONNECTICUT FACES STREET CAR STRIKE NEW HAVEN, June 22 (A. A strike of motormen, conductors and repairmen in the employ of the Connecticut company which operates Most of the street railway lines in the state has been called for Monday night by the executive board of the trolleymen's union in Connecticut. Calling of the walkout follows the refusal of the company to recognize the trolleymen's union, grant an eight hour day, increase wages and give the union a voice in the disciplining the street railway workers. fix ir(y the New Yorker.

TO LEAVE FOR CALIF. TO GET Winds Up Pre Campaigu Conference Sees Pershing MAY SEE COOLIDGE Fisher and Martin Campaign in State WASHINGTON, A.P. Secretary to Handle This June 22 Hoover, the Republican presidential nominee, practically completed today his pre campaign conferences with party leaders and reached a decision to leave Washington between July 2 and 5 for his California home at Palo Alto, where he will receive the formal noti fication of his nomination. On his trip west it is likely, al though not definitely decided, that he will visit President Coolidge in Wis consin. Whether he will present his resignation from the 'cabinet at that time wa3 not made known.

During the day Mr. Hoover conferred with Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, chairman of the Kansas City Convention, Representative (Continued on Page Four) FIFTY THOUSAND IN CASH TAKEN BY LONE BANDIT NOTIFICATION Two top photos taken at Duryea pher show Lindy's new "We," almost "Spirit of St. Louis," which is new in the Smithsonian Institute at Washing ton. The photo below shows Llndy standing beside Jils new monoplane. AIR MAIL PILOT IS DASHED TO HIS DEATH IN STORM EMPORIA, June 22 (A.

Speeding southward through the darkness with the night air mail, Wayne G. Neville, 29, Dallas, was dashed to death by a terrific wind storm, or a tornado, near Lebo, 20 miles east of here early today. His plane crashed nose first in a pasture on the farm of John Siebuhr, who reached the wreck In time to extinguish the fire which followed. Neville was the first pilot of the National Air Transport, air mail contractor, to be killed since the Chicago Dallas route was established two years ago. A violent windstorm which blew down telephone poles, uprooted trees and unroofed small buildings broke over Kansas soon after Neville had taken off at Kansas City at 3:25 a.

and a tornado, swirling high in the air passed over Garnett, about 30 miles southeast of Lebo. Whether the plane was struck by the tornado or was i i CHURCH DANCES AND CARD PARTIES Holds Up Express Messenger and Escapes Willi Money Shipment BLISSFIELD, June 23 (A.P.) An armed bandit held up the express car of the Detroit Toledo New York Central passenger train here tonight and escaped with a money shipment, estimated at $50,000 according to reports to the loca lofficials. The rubber, who is believed to have boarded the train at Adrian, hurled the bound express messenger onto the station platform as the train slowed down here' and then leaped off the train himself and boarded a welting automobile In which he made hlr escape. The $50,000 was In bills of small denomination, the messenger said. Herman Breezing, the president, said was "altogether inconsistent with the spirit of the master, and detrimental to the best Interest of His church." Delegates deplored the fact that other denominations permitted these things and that younger members of the Lutheran church.