The Times-Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • 1

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24 PAGES TWO CENTS A COPY J.TA.".- C3 nr 13 ru o) 1 ML! rWjMliJ LziU famous COXTON HAD TO RETURN ACE OF FOR LMDYAND HIS PLANE A COXTON YARDS I 1 LEAVES SECOND TlftiE; HE Thousands off People Gather At Little Railroad Center Near Pittston To See Colonel Lindbergh Start For New York Forced Down Last Night By Fog While On His Way To Metropolis From Detroit. Balked earlier today by EARLIER IN DAY a thick fog blanket that en I inHhsrch hnnnf.l I indrwrirh Vi i hnnne riff veloped the Pocono mountains and made flying for even such an expert as he is extremely dangerous, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the world's hero of the air, hopped off this afternoon at 1 :21 o'clock from a field at Coxton, near Pitts-iton, where he just landed last evening shortly after 7 o'clock. Thousands of people, gathered from ill parts of the anthracite region, saw the famed ace of the clouds take off on his second start for New York and there was a mighty cheer that echoed through the Wyoming valley as LindypUne rolled along the ground and then rose gracefully" into the sir and headed for the 148 IZ" Boats Said To Have- Picked Up Signals.

Rescue of Noblle Rumored Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, June 23. The coal steamer Marita, which arrived at Kings Bay today reported hearing radio SOS signals at 1 1 o'clock last night which were believed, to; have come from Roald Amundsen and five companions missing since Monday night in a French plane. In Berlin today it was also, reported in a newspaper that! the Russia icebreaker MalgTtn had picked up a weak wireless signal supposedly from the HM4a. nmuiiuiui Montreal, June 23 (fP). Two Marconi wireleas operators to- nicked ud a message irom an unidentified source reporting that General Umberto Nobile I onlimie i on I'Mue 1 1 I Mail Haul Is Made On Leviathan (By Associated Press) Southampton, June 23.

An extremely cunning and thorough robbing of the mail mVw rA Ik ttm mKin LeviathAn. wnica Brrivru mi juuummpiuii yesterday, has been disclosed. mniilier i'f mail ba.us tampered ith not he determined t-idrtv. There was a total of bass of letters and parcels carried on the liner of whloli I were for London ami hundreds of others were for irions purts of (ireat Britinn Altkoucli no official figures are yet available, it was reported that checks, hank drafts, hills of exiliance and bank notes amounting to manv thousand? of pounds, were involved, some official estimates placing the loss ns hiKh as no. 000 pounds tap- proximately" Authorities here stale that there was even' evidence that the robberv was planned with the ureate.st nnd carried out durimrly.

noth-inc that rould not be negotiated easily was touched, and this, together ...1.1. 1. i. won mm rouuery was tirncu All IS 59TH YEAR NO. IflSS UP Southern Delegates Ad-j mit Nomination of Governor Can Not Be Stopped.

Itr r.F.OROr R. HOI. MM, (IISl Muff Houston, June 23. A quiet but nevertheless extremely energetic campaign was under way here today to linY the sounds of conflict already beginning to rise in connection with the Democratic national convention, which opens Tuesday. It is predicated on thia line: Smith is nolns.

1" he nominated; Tou can slop him. Why hamstring him. then, by repenting Madison 1 in this campaign are. urn ut of rourse the active upl-ortrr of lh New York governor. Hut of moie importance Is the Met lUere arc nurrhcr of southerners who would 1 I rathor ee some one omnia u-, hut who are- onvlnc.nl no one else will he.

and being no convincd. want to make the best of the situation. Th rariv efforts to form a hitter-end, anti-Smith coalition have fnilnl utterly. 1'ei liaim one may whipped i into shtipn later, hut thu tar ffnrt alons this line haven I mart'' much i hrAdwav. There, are a hnlf doxen rival candidates.

with his smiill followinc and each determined to stop Smith." hut there totally. l.irklnK the ro-ordmntion effort ntvessary to success. Strivt For Harmony. One southern lender, a senator. with no particular titliusinsin the, nomination of Governor similh.

was approached with th that he Join a last nti-Smitli coalition. All rlsht." he agreed, ut wliove Mm pot to stop lum'" Several nanus were sue oMod Heed of Missouri: Hull, of Tennessee: Donahey, of Oliio a nytiody but Smith. NolhinK doinc" said th set.ntor. in lifetime of politic. I have cuned that you st.u sc-menonj i rtnbody.

ou show trie come- i body lapabie of stopping Smith and I'm your man. rut im Anil do, am u'o to uin nv purh 'his dialngitp. varyinK in oe ,1... n. .1 ,1 nnn i 1 I A II 1) 1 I I sree.

accoroins ih mine, has taken pl.ice hlf dozen limes in Houston durintr fuentv-four hnlllS The the past i-oalition seekers have heen husy. Dn SU' cess but without rid. on the contrary, their effort norm to have resulted in the determination on the part of the long headed leaders of the party not tn let the anli-PmltU hotheads promote another uch spectacle of Democratic dihhn rrnony ns was presented four years ao. Dmocrt Hv Good Chnc, Harmonv has he.onie the atcli-word of the majority, unci a short, sn.vppy convention their no a I. For 'the first time since 1912.

they point out. a Kepubliciin t. on cation i h.i. ivisl concluded its SS1 work by I i i $ty Mit-J once before this mornins; from 73 '1 DRY WEATHER COMING SOON, BUREAU SAYS Washington. June t4 The un- inii weather tic seaboard states have heen caused bv winds off the onan hut seem likelv to he replaced soon by the warm dry weather seasonal in this, section, the weather bureau an toda.

Throughout the country tire month i of June has been a peculiar on and i no area has reported norma! conui- i lions Practically ail states east of tne Kockv mountains have had rainfall, it was explained K-da v. 56 COMETS Snteo at BAPTISTS' ALLIANCE CONGRESS Toronto. Bi. June 2i -Tin ihp liiwist Wor.d opened today with approv imutelv 7.000 saembers rcptesenti fiftv-si nations in attendance. alliance is a vohmtiir anj, nal bodv which holds no legis- m-or constituent tat i uni'' viLconarv mnik jlllU VIII1UIICP.

in Kurepe is on? of Its i hi ti I the cenfererue wi'l -4e delivered on mi.itarism. racialism, industrialism, ohedtenca to law and religious education DEMURRER IS Bufi.i.o. N. June rlLED 13 Le- niurrer to an indictment cuaii.ii conspiracy to vielate the prohibition law- asasnst thlrty-eifit defendants, inrludirz a former prohihition ad-n'inistrator wais filed in dis'-'ici court today, I I I I I i I I I 1 i I i I uvi- iddressesl i alert last night and snapped pictures of Col. Charlea A.

Lindbergh and his plane soon after they The upter picture shows Lindbergh's plane from the front, while the picture below it shows Lindy had returned from a sixty-mile trip by locomotive, which he piloted half the way. With him are the Lehigh Valley railroad, and other officials. Lower picture is that showing a side view of Lind- Coxton early this afternoon after having been blocked by fog in an attempt to fly to New York metropolis. j-1 Col. I'huries A.

Undbergh has made four landings in the state of I'ennsylvania. three of them ilos- to sjcramon. since he flew ucrogs the Atlantic. Lindv told this to The Times man who accompanied him last niisht on his three-hour trip in a locomo- live cab over the Lehigh Valley railroad. His first landinp in this rcKion was at St.

Joseph's. near Montrose. Inst fall. He next J- landed at Coatesville, and last r.iRht he rame down at I- t'oxton. He left earlv t'odav.

hut returned Liter for his fourth landing in the Keystone stste. ACCUSATION MADE BY DEPUTY SHERIFF WHILE HEARING ON PAROLE APPLICATION IS UNDER WAY. Joseph Goldstein, ai.as Oohl. alia ohen, of Siracuse. N.

who has heen serving a year sentence in th-I county lail for plujtcins a telephone box. was accused this morning of havir.c heen the tirancser in the es- caoe of John Y. Hopkins from the' countv jail several month." These charges were hurled at Goldstein bv rtnef IVputy Mteriff Tharles J. Miriz, ho has been vestiKating ttie escape of Hopkins. denied the chartes made; bv Mirt at a lienrmii before -luase I' ewcoriui on the application ot Goldstein and Peter his com-lio'h men ere pa for a pa sen or.

ict. 3. i Dene Knowledge. ie he.iiinc J.idte New- Go: iv.forme.lj li.i Ult! As com the 1. had i if to him I'll', the It's i ted pointed t' his heir itc.i the es.

ape of Hopkins Yo'i were in H.ii'Kir.s aence. court told lleMsiein. oti had knowledge of his plans for os. ap.nc Goldstein bes'an the court iiisisiiiig htat wr.i'e he iilopkii'iS and was as lose to him he was lgri as of the prison. rs.

1,. r. a a way from jail. "You're the man llopKins. Dtupty 1 Gold stem.

AtiJ yic.i i oiuiiiii.iii; re how money was smugi; that me ocputi aiu the cash reached Golds, em turn handed it over to ho r. M.rtt then mentioned ihe MIRTZ ACCUSES HOPKINS ESCAP i I i I i 1 I ISGRANTON AND SYflflCUSE PUIS DDUBLE-HEflDER the Coxton field for New York, That was at 5 :4 6 o'clock. He circled around Pilston and that valley and thenVneaded up this way and for thy? Pocono region. He had heey gone about two hours when his plane again glided overhe beautiful rreen at Uoxton ayfl came to a halt. WearilVine same old smile.

Llndy, hoped out and said a dense fog in ithe Pocotios mad him turn back. Ha remained at Coxton until thia after-j noon and alter coming from th luncheon and taking: on fuel wa off like a huge bird. atarted the motor of his plane at four minutes after 1 o'clock this afternoon and tuned it up for ten minutes. Then he shut the motor down, but resumed at 1:18 and got into the air at clock. He eirol- ed over t'oston and Fittston and then headed Hast, Scramonians wer on the lookout for l.indvs plane, but so far could he learned no one saw It early afternoon passing over here on 'its way to New York.

It la presumed i.incloergh tooic a route that led over Greenwood and skipped the heart of -i ranton. It was later established that I-ind-I het'trh's plans passed overDupont and Was apparently heading for tha Mio'jntains and skipping this scetlon. Many people her, however, said they heard Lindberg motor roarlns, but could not see him in the sky because of mint. Colonel Unflbergh wan the jsuest at noon ot Lehiirri alley offU ills at a lur.cheod in Kirtsc.on. Tile anTafr arranged hy I aster Mechanic I).

V. Iavi nt the Iehieh Valley rall-' road, officials of (he railroad at I'ethlehent, he.irir-.ji that Lindbersrhi is hib li, rushed to ox'on to at- tend ire luncheon. The S'JfsH Included Mavor W. H. Gillespie, of ltttnn: Mayor Daniel Han, ot Wilkes -Barre; 1'.

M. Kir. bv. VVIikea-llarre D. W'.

Davis, maa. ter mechanic at trie Coxton aids; F. ihhetts. superintendent of too-tor power (or tn I Valley rall-rorid: Judt Benjamin Jon-. of ilkos-Bu're.

and Kdward HatlJer, rerir.ii-ndt'nt of the snoi at Ooxs ton Over Scranto rt At 7 O'clock. l.mdherah "hi seen after his first siiri tins irornina shortly before 7 o'clock filing lii oer the city toward the Kast section. It was evi'ii'iit that he was trying to get around the hut without seemed to be every here. After he return a to Coxton at II o'clock tins nmrn i he toid a Timei man who talked to him that the font was si! ntinse when he reached th Pocono mountain's that he deemed It advisable to turn hack. Me ajrain scoured the earT ii some field in tiiis section, hut, finding non, rmisiiK to do.

he said, but to (uxts-'o i.uiii off a cojple of hours wWnel Un-ltef-sth found no en aro jrd w'l-n he ret ait'fd to tho o. in nVU hut Mryster hanio Oavts, i and other ofticia.s of lha Leh uli Vailev corriivanv er Quickly at his side and ushered him into Mr, Li. i vis' office Thev had just d.mf no when hit. mnityi sated i.iened widely and hundred! of iwopl hrjtan a rush for foMon, Ttiey had in th ffana returning an I tti nen iprcad lai.idly that wltfun filtt-sn tlie mads ere HoKed Hh rules, al! headed to tin Undheish. the If '1 nd western lwj, tt.M ith tn (Continued i SYRACUSE LEADING IN FIRST DECLARATION AGAINST VOL-GAME BY SCORE OF 4 TO 0 i STEAD LAW SHOULD LNITE AT END OF EIGHTH INNING.

ALL TEMPERANCE FORCES The first game of scheduled l.ile-header between Scran ton lion and 'l "ficrnoon at Hrooks Athletic Field pot under way at 2 1 i 1 iin joe Mram Iripp j'arKtne line or wariare amiinsi ir.e pnsi-i boi. lutchinc for the Minirs. Todav denial nomination (tid election of if 1S', The Times cameraman was landed at Coxton, near Pittston. in his overall outfit just after he D. W.

Davis, master mechanic of bergh's plane, which was still at this morning. CAN SELL COAL COMPANY LANDS FOR TAX BILLS Pa June :3 ilNSI. Kr.sek handed dow decision today upholding the riRht of tax col-! leotor to sell coal for unpaid taxes. The decision, awaitetd for months, has nn Important bearing on the coal assessment case which has placed several local municipalities on the verge of bankruptcy. ESCAPED AUBURN PRISONER CAPTURED AT SAYRE.

PA. Auburn. N. June 13 (. Charles J- Tuladiinski, of the Bronx, New York, who escaped from a prison road camp near SprinKport on Tuesday was belnjr returned to prison today, nfter his rapture at.

Sare. Iiv l-hiEh Valley railroad police. He was received at the prison in January. to serve a term of twenty ears for burglary and grand larcenv'. VETERANS PICK HAZLET0N.

I'mineaut Lake. June I). J. Clark Mansfield, of Piushurch. was named commander of the state encampment.

I'mted Spanish-Ameri-mn War Veterans, at the final session of the annual convention here toduv. Haxleton was picked as the next convent ion city. is rno 11 WtAI ntnuui uuwrx w.r wi-c. Mlddlo Atlantic States Showers at i the bofrinnmc of the week and a ei- iod of showers nhout edne-day company property I had heen designated as Samuels' djvithe do-lln tnai me letters were DRY LEAOERTALKS ON STATEMENT OF AL SMITH AGAINST HIM. Wesierville.

Jun "3 il Oo ernor Alfred b. s-mitli oeola ration thst hP has hanged his att.tude on the prohibition question draws New York state executive. IT Krnrst H. L'hrrinpton gem: sv-rotary of the World Lead Against, Alcoholism, said in a stun mcnt today. "governor Smith's declaration Dr.

t'lierrinston said, undoubted is his h.fmcst statement to the coup. -try of his position on prohibition. 1'. should he accepted as such and should for ever set at rest anv rumors that he isn as wet as he has been reported to be. "The iniit'Hl temperance forces of the I'nited States are interested the election ol dry presidential and vice presidential candidates as well as dry platforms.

They must ahn themselves against Governor Smith simply and solely he is against prohibition, and the alifcii- i nient must hold against any other political party, and cannittate oi for any office in the federal, state sr local rovernnient." U. S. TREASURY BALANCE. Washington. June 23 (INS) Treasury balance June CI.

Customs receipts. $119,739,411.56. frame, when thev scored two more runs. Davis, the first man up, walked. Recce singled, and; Davis went to third Koseberry filed out to Lyons and Davis scored, Richards then doubled to right field and Reece crossed the platter.

Hungling went out to Stack and Wilskie to Batch The b-ore was 4-0 in favot of Svracuse in the last half of Ve eight inning. a ii Feveral hundred of the local friends were on hand to give a hard fore the openine of the same a boy' him re present mil hts host of 'friends and auinirers presented him a Irinelmp has and several other efts. The presentation was made at the home plate. Kennedy was behind the plate for the Miners. The hatterv for Syracuse Is Sherman and HuiiRlinp.

It was estimated that about 1.600 fans were In the park when the first pa me started. Both teams failed to score in the first and second amines. In the tlliru iranie. witn two men out. Syracuse started a battinK rally tli.it netted two runs.

Sherman on-Mied with a double to loft field and Davis singled to center, si oring Sherman Koece then singled to right field and Koseherry was walked, fillins the liases. Kichards hunted and reached first safely, while Davis was scorir.st. HumjlinR connected with a teriftir wsillop to left center field, the ball Roing hut a few feet from the fence, lut Shorten made a sensational catch to end the inning. Shorten' catch lobbed Hunttlinp of at least a three-base hit. It was Shortens second sensational catch of the The Miners Py racuse was 1 of the third.

failed to score and ading 2-0 at the end tampered with net ore they were sailed from New York on NATIONAL I K. Cincinnati Pittpctirch St. I.ou.n Chicago First Irani New York rhilinlelElila Second Rnnie New York Philadelphia Brooklyn Hoston 'i a a 1 1 0 0 ft ft ii ft 3 ft 10 9 ft AMERICAN I.EUilE Chicago Petroit A tilled. ft Washlnitnn First Rime Ronton Tanker 0 siecond (tame RowtoTi New ork ft ft ft ft 1 ft ft I li 0 1 ft o- Xttissolinl HAvt his svsteni will en. inr a lot of washing in puMic.

...1 rii.innlrnt I 1 1 nP HOT mniiv Renuhlican mi, idle west, i coupled with the slashing uttack that Is planned on the Republican scandals, oil and otherwise. has convinced a lot of Democrats that they have a real chance to win in November. Therefore, they want, if possible, to present here in Houston a reasonably harmonious convention and set away as foon us possible This task of the hannon i zers Is to put a soft pedal on the prohibition flsht That is at once their first and their most difficult The radical drys are militant and determined to hammer Into the Platform at any cost a plunk that will commit the" party Irrevocably to the righteousness" of prohibition. The Smith people are equally determined that there will be no tuch plank, and. belnp in the majority, are fairly confident of their ability to defeat' it.

In this connection lliey have already made some headway through the virtual selection of Senator Key of Nevada, to be chairman of the platform committee. Senator Pittninn is rated a dry. but he does rot belonn to the radical frinse of Jpe party on this question. Every "Vncomln delegation is heinp- quietly urKd to select as its member of the The1'01 1 names of several prominent uonvi-' world now under suspicion of hems members of the ring through which the money pussed on us way to HoV'kins. and asked (Joidstein if he knew them.

In some ta.es the prisoner acknowledged he knew th parties mentioned hut denied in it he had ever had any dealing's with them. Asfd if he' had not been very with one of the count ja. keepers who was following iContinued cn iVe 2) dure nfter he is gone. Some of Mostly fair thereafter. ooi tne nrst Hotn teams went scoreless in tne eountrvmen are finding It pretty hard laif and warmer the latter half of fourth inning.

hut Syracuse- endure now. The Toledo Iweek. creased its lead tn kU fifth mil the tirst latter half of rfotli fourth (Continued on Tago 2).