Rutland Daily Herald du lieu suivant : Rutland, Vermont • 1

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4 VOL. 78. 'NO. 187. RUTLAND, VERMONT, THURSDAY 'AUGUST 6, 193L PRICE THREE CENTS I I 1 State Has Placed Ban On New- Yorks Fresh Air.

Children Because Of Polio Mrs. Jones And Triplets Well; Shes The Mother Of Sixteen Ih All LEGS. DIAMOND GEES SEVERE JOLT Here is a list of the Jones children with their ages: i Kenneth, 17; Howell, IS; Thom. 14; Florence) 13; Blodwln, 11; Rob-, 8 Raymond, 1 Ruth, Gordon, Donald and Dorothy, 'twins, Paul and Pauline, twins, the triplets, as yet unnamed. Jones, only 40 years of age, was born in Wales.

His who was formerly Katherine Thomas of Fair Haven, Is 35 years old. The couple was greatly surprised in 1929 when twins were born. Their surprise knew 'no bounds, when In 1930 another set of. twins arrived. The father was rendered "speechless, when Informed he was the father of triplets last Monday.

The depression In the slate business has kept the father of the 16 Children out of work. to arrive yesterday in those towns would not he sent out from New York. (Special to Tbs Herald.) MONTPELIER, Aug. 5. Fear of the possibility of a spread of infantile paralysis, which has appeared in epidemic form in and around New York city, has -led to the abandonment of the plans to entertain any Fresh Air children from the metropolis in this city and vicinity this summer.

Arrangements had been completed to have the usual number of children taken care of here each summer come here, hut the plan has been given up. Dr. C. H. Burr, city health officer of Montpelier, was consulted and he learned from the state board of health authorities that all children coming from New York to Vermont would be subject to a Quarantine of 10 days.

As the stay of the children is for a period of two weeka only, it seemed best not to have any come this season. MEAN-UP OF PASSPORT RACKET 10 Now Held as Members of Ring Said to Have Madet $175,000 on Forgeries, U. S. EMPLOYES AT NEW YORK INVOLVED Secretary Doak Believes at Least 100,000 Aliens Have Entered Illegally. NEW YORK, Aug.

5 (). Seeking to exterminate a ring which baa sold more tan 1000 forged Immigration re-entry permits for an estimated 1175,000, federal authorities today made three more arrests. The total arrests. Including three government employes, now stand at 10. The re-entry permit racket, alleged to have been prompted a trusted clerk in the local immigration office, now under arresf, permitted aliens living in this country illegally to make trips to their homelands and return without difficulty.

The procedure was to forge the names of aliens living here legally. The price paid for forged permits was said to range between $175 and "1250. Members of United States Attorney George Z. Medalies staff, who have been conducting the Investigation, declined to say how many more arrests might be made. The three latest taken Into custody are Robert Bader, Gus Schie-man and Anthony Allocca, described by the United States attorneys office as engaged In the steamship ticket business.

Bader and Scbieman posted $5000 bail each when arrlgned before United States Commissioner Francis J. ONeill, and Allocca produced $2000 bail. Their hearing dates were not set. s- DOAKS REPORT. WASHINGTON, Aug.

5 (P. Arrest of 10 men and the breaking up of a New York ring Illegally selling return permits to aliens barred from entering this country was announced today by Secretary Doak. Those arrested are Simon Roth-berjf. Immigration service clerk; Edvard Burns, naturalization service clerk at Ellis Island; Albert F. Bor-relll, naturalization service clerk at Ellis Island; Robert Bader, private banker and steamship agent; Gus Schieman, real estate operator; Anthony Allocch, real estate agent; Spiro Dracopoulas, private hanker and steamship agent; B.

Paggioll, private banker; Joseph Sousa, tailor end steamship agent, and John Sall-tario, private banker and steamship agent. All are of New York city. The arrests. Secretary Doak asserted, are believed to have broken up one of the biggest rings of racketeers in the country. He said ramifications have not all been traced and investigations are under way in other sections.

Doak estimated the ring had brought 100,000 aliens into the country illegally during the last 10 years. In one Instance, it was found that 51850 was charged for a fraudulent permit, although others cost as low as 100. G. 0. P.

LEADERS TO MEET IN BOSTON New Englanders to Discuss 'Section's Chief Problems, BOSTON. Aug. 5 (PS. A conference of republican leaders 'in New England for discussion of problems common to all the New England tates will be held at the Parker bouee here Friday. New England members of the republican national committee and the chairmen and rice chairmen of the six state committees will attend the meeting.

Chairman Amos L. Taylor of the Massachusetts republican state committee said the subjects to be discussed would Include naturalization, transfer of republican residents from one state to another, the labor situation, organization of young republicans, possibility of an all-New England young republican rally. Prospects of bringing the national republican convention to Boston In 1S32, and the building up of enthusiasm and support for the No Fresh Air children from the New York tenement districts are to be sent to. Vermont 'this' summer. When the Vermont State Board of Health learned that the children who were to be entertained in various towns ln the state would come from districts in.

which many cases of infantile paralysis had developed eteps were taken. at once to prevent Importation of the disease into Vermont official' of the hoard notified Leslie M. Conly, incharge of the New York Herald-Tribune Fresh Air fund, that if children were sent to Vermont, the homes in which they were entertained would he placed under Quarantine for 10 days and advised that no children be sent Into the state. Conly stated that, under the circumstances, it was his opinion that no children would be sent to Vermont this The Fair Haven and Ludlow committees were notified by Conly that the children who were I11SULL SAYS EDISON LOOKS QUITE FEEBLE Aged Wizard Again Tours Estate in Auto After Restless Night. DANGER STILL LURKS WEST ORANGE, N.

Aug. 5 (P). For the second successive day Thomas Al Edison, recuperating from serious illness, went for an automobile ride this afternoon. The inventor again walked to the car unassisted, and sat in the back seat with his wife. His son, Charles, rode In front with the chauffeur, Edison picked a touring car again in preference to a big sedan which was also waiting for him.

Edison talked with his old friend, Samuel Insull, today, and in the words of the. Chicago utilities magnate they had anice chat. The two were together for three-quarters of an hour, Reminiscing on their 50 years acquaintance. Later Insult, who said be came East especially to see Edison, told newspapermen the inventor looks quits feeble. Insull said he had not seen Edison since last winter, and said although the 84-year-old Inventor was weaker, he was just as alert mentally, "If not more so than I have ever known him to be.

Not Out of Danger. Dr. Hubert S. Howe, the inventors personal physician, said that although Edison had shown marked improvement he was not yet "out of immediate danger. "His condition Is like the fraying out of an elevator rope, Dr.

Howe said. "The elevator functions until the last strand breaks. The outside looks all right. All that is left for the. engineer to do Is to protect the last few strands.

A bulletin issued -by Dr. Howe said the Inventor had had a restless night, but despite it he was and seemed slightly Improved. Dr. Howe said Edison slept about four hours, typical of him, and spent the rest of the night walking from a bed to a chair In the adjoining living room. Dr.

Howe revealed that Edison Is studying the chemical reaction of medicine after he takea It and not before, as he always did. "Edison has felt so 111," Dr. Howe said, he Is now willing to take medicine first and read of Its effects afterwards. CHARLES SABIN SECRETLY MARRIED Son of New York Banker Weds Washington Divorcee. NEW YORK, ug.

5 (jtf The New York American says Charles H. Sabin, son of the chairman of the board of the Guaranty Trust company, was married two weeks ago to the former Mrs. Dorothy Layman Ranadell -of Washington at the home of her parents in Gloucester, Mass. Sabins marriage to Ruth Ogden, socially prominent, was dissolved by divorce In Reno several weeks go. Divorce last October ended.

Mrs. Sabins first marriage to Dr. Robert C. Ranadell of Washington. Visitors at the Rutland hospital yesterday paid their respects to Mrs.

Thomas B. Jones of South Foultney who is the proud mother of triplets, born Monday. Not only is the mother "doing Very nicely" but the three youngsters appear to be progressing, thus far having manifested splendid appetites. i Mrs. Jones, by the way, is the mother of 16 count em children, including the new arrivals.

All are alive and healthy, and so too is the proud father, Thomas, a quarryman, who, however, feels a bit downcast because he has had no work for several months. But that doesnt Interfere with hls happiness; hls welcome for the triplets is Juit as hearty as was hls greeting of the first 13. 3 ARRESTED III RAID Oil GRAPE BRICK SHOP Concentrated Essence Seized in New York Produces 13 P. C. Alcohol.

TEST CASE LOOMS NEW YORK, UP. A shop in Fifth avenue selliug grape bricks which are convertible Into beverages was raided and three men arrested today by prohibition agents who under certain conditions the bricks would produce wine of 13 per cent alcoholic content Acting on a warrant signed by a United States commissioner the agents seized the stock of the establishment The prisoners, gave their names as Charles W. Shenk and Charles McDonald of New York and John Skiff, Bloomfield, N. J. Several customers were in.

the shop. Several women employed In the store were not arrested. A truck was loaded at the shop with approximately 2400 "grape bricks and other stock. The load was taken to the government warehouse. The warrant was signed by United States Commissioner Francis, A.

ONeill on the testimony of two prohibition agents. Assistant United States Attorney Arthur H. Schwarts said the agents had reported that they had visited the shop a few times and had been Instructed In a formula for turning the "bricks into wine. The warrant was Issued nnder Section 18 of the national prohibition act which construes the sale of any article designed to be used In the manufacture of any beverage of more than one-half of one per cent alcoholic content to be a violation. The raid followed the recent renewal of requests from Fred A.

Victor, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, to Attorney General William D. Mitchell that the courts be asked to test the legality of the sale of grape concentrates. Charles W. Shenk, eastern district manager of the distributing company, said the bricks themselves contain no alcohol whatever, being merely the concentrated essence of California grapes. DIGGLE RETIRES AS CVNARD SKIPPER Captain of Aquitania Has Seen 35 Years Service With Lipe.

LONDON, Aug. 5 (). After 35 years' service with the Cunard line, Capt. E. G.

commodore of the fleet and commander ot the Aquitania, who is retiring, completed hls last voyage today when the liner arrived at Southampton from New York. He succeeded Capt. Sir Arthur Rostron last June, as commodore. On Monday the Aquitania passengers presented Capt. Diggle with a silver service, the presentation being made by the British ambassador at Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay.

Capt Diggle served 43 years at sea and was wrecked on a full-rig-iger In hls apprentice days -when rounding Cape. Horn. He was chief officer of the Mauretania when she first commissioned and was in command when that liner was the fastest on the North Atlantic. Regarding his retirement Capt. Diggle said, "now Im going to devote a little time to improving my golf.

PT. BARROW NEXT Intrepid 'Vacationers Find Arctic Town's Entire Population Waiting. HAVE FLOWN OVER TREACHEROUS LAND Three Thousand Miles of Adventurous Flight Has, Now Been Completed. AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory, Aug. 5 (JP).

Canada's "Metropolis of the Arctic" was host to Americas most distinguished frying couple the Lindberghs today as they rested here on their 7000-mils aerial vacation jaunt to the orient. CoL Charles A. Lindbergh set his glistening low wing monoplane on the calm waters of Peel channel, in the delta ot the great Mackenzie river at 6.05 a. m. (E.S.T.) After an overnight flight from Baker Lake, 1100 miles away over some of the most treacherous and uninhabited country on the continent Point Barrow Next Stop.

The next point on the Lindbergh itinerary Is Point Barrow, Alaska. 536 miles west and north, but there was some question whether the flying vacationers wonld stop there as the United States coastguard cutter Northland, carrying a gasoline supply for their plane, was blocked by fogs and the Arctic ice pack near Ictji Cape, 150 miles beyond Barrow. Meanwhile coastguardsmen aboard the Northland made preparations for refueling the Lindbergh plane which could alight in the Arctic ocean near the ship. Only a light wind was blowing and the sea was calm. Aklavlks entire population, and natives and traders from many mllee around, were waiting on the muddy banks of the channel when the Lindberghs came into sight from the east Eskimos and whites alike had been up ail night with eyes trained down the broad -Mackenzie.

-Flyers Happy and Lindbergh and his co-pilot-wife were smiling as they stepped from the plane after its nose had been pulled into shore. Mrs. Lindbergh waved a greeting to hundreds wo formed the reception committee. The flight from Baker Lake took 11 and half hours. The Lindberghs had flown through the short Arctic night 'in a land where the sun at this season drops out of sight for only a few hours.

Aklavlk Is 130 miles inside the Arctic circle. The most i northerly point ot the flikbt itinerary is Point Barrow, northernmost tip of Alaska, like Aklavlk, a trading post for a wide area. The Lindberghs flight from Baker Lake, on Hudson Bay, was the longest ever made over the lake-dotted tundra country of northern Canada. The take-off was made at 6.35 p. (E.S.T.) last night when weather, which had kept the couple at Baker Lake overnight, suddenly cleared.

Arrival at Aklavlk marked the completion of 3000 miles of their Journey. The Lindberghs slept more than nine hours at the home of Dr. J. A. Urquhuart, Canadian government medicaj-offlcer, who was their host.

While Mrs. Lindbergh was being entertained by the half dozeq white women of the community, the flying colonel arranged for the refueling ot hls plane. The first large Eskimo settlement to be visited proved of particular interest to Mrs. Lindbergh, who was taken toNsee the huts of the natives. BAD FLYING AHEAD.

EDMONTON. Aug. 5 (JP). Before CoL Charles Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh lies the most difficult stretch In their vacation flight to the orient the Bering straits in the opinion of one of Canadas foremost north oountry flyers.

But because CoL Lindbergh "is a good navigator and does not make mistakes, said the Edmonton airman, c. H. Punch" Dickens, he probably will make the crossing In a few hours. Lindbergh, Dickens noted "waits until weather is favorable and then (Continued on Page BOOK COLLECTOR MAKES ftlCE HAUL Lands Jefferson and Madison Signatures for Dollar. WASHINGTON.

Aug. 5 UP). N. book collector, toaay picked a 100 to 1 shot. Attracted by a periodical from Calcutta, India, he for 30 old magazines, to refdse, a few minutes later an offer from the auctioneer who sold him the bundle.

The reason was that a parchment ot April 11, 1803, bearing the signa-turee of Thomas Jeffeon, president, and James Madison, secretary of state, had fallen from one of the yellowing periodicals. The document was a land right to 1000 5 Ohio acres, made to Captain Larkin Smith In recognition ot hls meritorious service In the Revolution ary war. Library of Congress experts pronounced the parchment authentic and 1a unusually good condition. Victim of Pneumonia Caused By Collapse From Heat in Military GRADUATE OF Ul V. M.

Former Gridiron, Star Was Prominent Mason and Member of Legion. (Special to The Harald.) ST. ALBANS, Aug. 5. Dr.

Ray Brown Thomas, 47, of Enosburg Falls died in the hospital here today of pneumonia brought on by being overcome by heat Dr. Brown was fatally stricken while doing military work In the R. O. T. C.

camp In Underhill during a torrid wave. Dr. Brown a prominent athlete during his college days at Brown university and the University of Vermont, was active In war veterans organizations, and had a wide acquaintance In the state. The seriousness ot his condition was not generally known and to the many friends familiar with his rugged physique, the announcement of his death today came as a shock. Native of Berkshire Center.

Dr. Thomas was born at Berkshire Center, April 11, 1884, the son of Dora Brown ThQmas and G. Thomas. He attended' Burlington High- school, from which he was graduated In 1904. At Brown university, where he won his academic degree, he was prominent as a football, baseball and basketball player.

While attending medical college at U. V. from which he graduated In 1910, he was' a Brilliant football player. Following hls graduation from college he coached football at Vermont, Norwich and New Hampshire universities. In 1911 after doing post-graduate work in New York city hospitals.

Dr. Thomas opened hls office In Enosbnrg Falls. Became Army Officer. During the World war he servejl for- 21 months as an officer-in the Medical corps, attaining the rank of major. During that period he specialized in Roentenology at Cornell university for 11 months and was then sstigned as chief of the X-ray service at Camp McClellan base hospltaL Besides his wife, Elizabeth Laird Thomas, he leaves a brother, L.

W. Thomas of Swanton; his mother, Mrs. G. L. Thomas of Burlington, and two sisters.

Miss "Maud S. Thomas of Montclair, N. and Mrs. D. J.

Jones of North Bennington. Dr. Thomas was a member of Lincoln lodge, A. F. and A.

Knights Templar, Order of the Mystic Shrine and Order of- the Eastern Star, the American Legion, the "40 8 and the Military Order of Foreign Wars. He attended St. Matthews Episcopal church. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. RETURN TO WATER TRAFFIC SUGGESTED Increased Railroad Rates Might Force Issue, Commission Hears.

PORTLAND, Aug. 5 UP). Andrew P. Lane of Boston, traffic manager of the Great Northern Paper company, at a regional hearing on the proposed 15 per cent Increase in railroad freight rates today said the Increase would force his company to return to waterways. Commissioner Claude R.

Porter of the Interstate Commerce commission, which has before it a petition from the railroads for such an Increase, presided at the second days sessions of the hearing. Lane also said the Increase would react unfavorably on New England railroads as they would have to pay $1,500,000 in Increased rates to other railroads for transportation of the 3,000,000 tons of coal needed in their operations. J. C. Briggs, president of the Maine Potato Shippers and Growers association, said Maine potato farmers would be forced to ship by rail and water.

He said the Increase would cost Aroostook shippers over $2,000,000 a year on outgoing freight and half that amount on Incoming shipments. Sixty-five per cent of the Aroostook potato crop could be handled by water, he said. FLYING BROKER HITS HIGH SPEED MARK Hall Beats Transport Planes Time to Chicago. FIELD, N. Aug.

5 (JP). James Goodwin Hall, flying broker, made a speedy round trip to Chicago today. Hls westward time was less than that by transport planes, but his return flight in. four hours and five and a half minuter- failed by half a minute to equal the performance of Frank M. Hawks over the same route exactly two -years ago today.

Hall left Chicago at 11-11 a. (E. S. and arrived here at 3.16.30 p. (.

S. 1 With Andre de Copet as passenger, Hall left here at 6.1S a. (E. S. and.

reached Chicago at 9.35 a. m. Hls elapsed' time of 4 hours and 17 minutes was compared-wlth transport planes, whose iastest known time was 4 hours and 40 minutes. States Star Witness Picks Him and Qnattrocchi as Beer-Runners. JURORS LOCKED Op Diamond Gangster, Gets 15-Year Sentence at NfJW YORK, Aug.

5 (JP) Despite unexpected reticence on the part of its star witness, the government moved steadily ahead today in Its effort to prove Jack (Legs) Diamond and Paul Quattrocchi conspired to violate the prohibition law. As count adjourned after the first days testimony the jury was lodked up for the night Direct testimony was heard that Dlatnond and Quat-trocchi persuaded a Cairo, N. soda bottler to go into the beer business with them and that they wanted their product known as Diamonds beer. The Jury also had some first hand information on the methods allegedly pursued by beer-runners in building up a clientele. It was a sweltering day.

In court, so much so that Judge Richard J. Hopkins permitted coats Removed after lunch. The government opened by calling Its most Important witness, Angelo Benedetto, the sodawater bottler. With an extremely worried look, Benedetto took the stand and proceeded to "surprise Assistant United States Attorney Arthur H. Schwartz with his vague -answers and short memory.

Benedetto testified that five men. Including Diamond and Quattrocchi, invited him to engage In the beer business with them last August, but he couldnt remember jnst who extended the invitation. During the afternoon session, however, Benedetto was recalled and he then testified his statement before the grand jury tbit it was both Diamond and Quattrocchi who offered him a partnership was correct. This bit of evidence was regarded as a telling blow by the government Benedetto said he joined forces with Diamond and Quatrocchl, hut terminated his connection with them after two or three weeks because ot pressure of his own, legitimate business. GANGSTER SENTENCED.

CATS KILL, N. Aug. 5 (JP). As a climax to the states first victory over the Jack Diampnd gang of racketeers, John "Garryf Scacchio, alleged "iron fist of the gang, was sentenced today to spend 15 years in Clinton prison for his -part in the torturing of Grover Parks, a truck driver. Scacchio was convicted on the same evidence that resulted in Diamonds acquittal at Troy.

Scacchio heard the sentence calmly, although he nearly collapsed last week when a Greene county jury found him guilty of assault in the second degree, with a gun. Sentence was imposed by Supreme Court Justice F. Walter Bliss. Grover Parks story of torture at the hands of gangsters led Gov. Rooeevelt to direct an investigation of racketeering In the Catskills, where Diamond established a stronghold after being crowded out of New York city by his rivals.

Scacchio, with others, joined him there later. Papers seized by Attorney General Bennett showed, the attorney general said, that the Diamond gang engaged in racketeering enterprises upsttae, working from CatskllL Parks, a truckman who hauled cider, was beaten and his feet were burned when he did not reveal to his kidnappers the location of a still. He blamed Diamond and his gang. Marion Roberts, missing showgirl and a friend of Diamond, was Indicted with Diamond, Scacchio and others. BOARD TO PREVENT DEPRESSION URGED U.

S. Chamber Says Businessmen Indorse Planning Group. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (JP)-Returns from a questionalre of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States Indicate that businessmen favor some sort of national planning board as a possible preventive for depressions. Two hundred presidents of trade associations were asked if they thought such a group could make a worthwhile contribution to economic stability.

Henry P. Fowler, secretary of the chambera committee on the continuity of business and employment, said today that the great majority of the approximately 50 persons who have replied to the questionalre, indorsed the proposal. He added, however, that there was a wide range of opinion on the set-up and activities of the board. In connection with plans for the future, steps have been taken by the chamber to assist In relieving the present situation. An Independent survey of needs Is being made by the committee through local Chambers ot Commerce.

They have been asked to estimate requirements for the coming winter, as well to furnish data on what was dona last year and where the money caipe from. AUTO KILLS CHILD AT WHITE RIVER JCT. Sylvia Carlisle, 4, Struck By Machine Driven By Hanover Woman. FATHER IN HOSPITAL (Special to The Herald.) WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Aug. 5.

Sylvia Carlisle, 4, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Albert Carlisle of Maple street, was fatally injured at 4.30 this afternoon when she was struck by a car driven by Mrs. Stephen Chase, jr of Hanover, N. H.

The child started to cross the street from behind a car waiting for traffic lights, when the Chase car, approaching from another direction, struck her. She was picked up by her brother, Albert Carlisle, 6. She was carried to the Mary Hitchcock hospital In Hanover where she died In a short time. It was said at the hospital that her spine was fractured and her neck broken. The childs father It In the naval hospital at Portsmouth recovering from an operation.

He was notified of the tragedy. MOSES INDORSES LARGE NAVY PLAN New Hampshire Senator Says Pacifists Block Idea. CONCORD. N. Aug.

5 (JP). Senator George Moses Indorsed plans today for an American navy second to none In the world which were announced by Charles Francis Adams, secretary of the navy. Senator Moses, however, foresaw difficulty in obtaining acceptance for Secretary Adams. plans because of the influence of peace organisations. "I have always been a big navy man, Senator Moses said.

"I do not favor an unwieldy navy but I always have advocated and still advocate a fighting fleet sufficient for national defense and tor the defense of our commerce. "I do not anticipate aneaay time in securing acceptance of Secretary Adams ideas. Pacifist organizations will oppose themv to the limit of their power and for several years these societies have succeeded in exerting an influence In official circles beyond what they are entitled to by their numerical strength or the actual pressure they can bring to bear upon the people as a whole. U. S.

HOLDS CUBANS FOR QUESTIONING Quintet May Have Connection With Rebel Wing. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Aug. 5 UP). Five Cubans, accompanied by a New York man, were taken into custody shortly after they landed at the steel pier In a speed boat at 7 a.

m. today. They, are being held by the police pending arrival of Gloucester immigration officials. Earlier it was reported they would be questioned regarding a rumored Cuban revolutionary plot. The men gave their names as Rafael Sesjhka, Aurelia A.

Alberel, Louis H. Rodriguez, B. Callaga Garcia, A. Callejo Gutarco, and William Carey. They were plentifully supplied with money.

They are not under formal arrest, but are being held for questioning. forcement of his order closing down 3016 prorated oil A Federal court at Guthrie this afternoon upheld the oil proration laws of Oklahoma, In' an attach by the Champlln Refining eompany, a shutdown opponent. These laws were cited by the governor as a bask tor the shut-down he ordered to conserve the states natural resources. Rumors -none of them verified were heard at Guthrie concerning an attempt to obtain court action against the governors The big oil, companies remained silent on any such plana. Although the majority opinion ot the Guthrie three-judge court upheld the proration law, in general It held void a section prescribing penalties.

THOUSANDS DIE AS FLOODS SWEEP CHINA 50,000,000 Refugees Face Famine and Disease in 16 Provinces. CITIES UNDERWATER HANKOW, China, Aug. 5 (JP). Floods rolled over 16 provinces of China today and uncounted thousands were reported drowned, and hundreds of thousands were homeless, threatened by famine and disease. All central China sect stories of distress and appeals for aid.

Fifty million people, the governments relief committee estimated, were afflicted, or soon would be, by the catastrophe. Chinas great rivers, the Yangtse and the Yellow, fed by swollen tributaries after torrential rains, overflowed their banks and inundated wide expanses of country. Many cities were flood-swept. Unable to bury their dead In submerged cemeteries, the Chinese allowed bodies to float down stream. No tally of victims was possible, but the Chinese press reported "several thousand drowned In the sister cities of Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang and their environs.

Those cities, with total population of 1,300,000 Including 1200 white foreigners, were partly under water and fighting to keep hack the Yangtse and Han rivers, which were pouring through broken dykes. Nearly all of Hankow was flooded but 200,000 refugees fled to higher Thirty thousand more were swarming dally to railway embankments and highways to join them. With pestilential conditions in refugee camps, it was feared disease would strike heavily. USE OF TRUCKS FOR PLEASURE PROBED Massachusetts Gathering Data for Motor Registrar. BOSTON, Aug.

5 Of). The governors committee on street and highway safety today announced that an Investigation of the hazards iqvolved In the growing use of motortrucks for the transportation of picnic and outing parties was underway. Results ot the committees findings will be used by the registrar of motor vehicles as the basis of official supervision of commercial vehicles for. such purposes. A- recent crash of a truck loaded with picnickers which resulted in several serious injuries and many lesser hurts, following a aeries of earlier tragedies, has emphasized the need for regulation, the committee reported.

A aingle week-end check showed 90 trucks carrying outing parties, the committee said, some carrying babies in carriages and the passengers either- standing or sitting on boxes or planks. The committee today sent ques-tlonalres regarding the week-end use of their vehicles to 450 fleets of trucks, consisting of 14,000 machines participating in the statewide inter-fleet commercial vehicle safety contest MaJ. Adams, 'who resided at the Hotel Webster, New York, had a summer home at Pomfret. but had been spending the past two months at Cromwell Hall, a sanitarium here, where his wife Is a patient. He left the estate, with hie pet fox terrier July 21 for a stroll about the grounds and had since been missing.

The dog returned 'the following day. Two airplanes, a posse of Boy Scouts and state police aesrehed the wooded area In the vicinity of Cromwell Hall for several days following MaJ. Adams' disappearance, but failed to find any trace ot him. His brother, Hugh Adams, a New York attorney, also came here to aid In the search. Maj.

Adams disappeared once and later was found at his apartment la the.New York hotel. Body Of Ex-Army Officer Found; Investigation Begun By Coroner Oklahomas Governor Continues Militant Attitude 'In Oil Fields Weather Conditions WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (). The outlook is for local showers on Friday in the eastern lower lake region, the Ohio valley and tbs south Atlantic states. Cooler weather is indicated on Friday in the lower lake region, the Ohio valley and during Friday nlrbt la the Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic states.

i FORECAST. Eastern New York and Eastern Pennsylvania Mostly fair Thursday: Friday partly cloudy, probably followed by thundershowers In afternoon; cooler Friday night. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island Fair Thursday, slightly farmer in interior Friday, partly cloudy, probably- local showers; Tightly cooler st night. Vermont Fair, slightly warmer Thursday; Friday local -showers; cooler at night. I CROMWELL Aug.

Coroner Lowndes A. Smith tonight began an Investigation Into the death ot Benjamin H. Adams. 62, retired major of the United States army, and social reglstertte of New York, whose body was found late today In the tall grass on -the edge of the Connecticut river. He had been missing since July 21.

John Frazier, a riverman, came across the body, which was badly decomposed. while walking along the river bank in search for a person believed drowned several days ago. Frazier aeld the body bore no marks of violence. The tall grass had been trampled down In the Immediate area of the body. He expressed the opinion Major Adams suffered a heart attack and rolled about.

for some time before he died. OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 5 (JP). Got. William Henry Murray spread hls military emissaries farther over Oklahomas oil fields today, defiant of court action by operators.

With the great oil gushers of the Oklahoma -City field quiet under martial law invoked yesterday, the bloodless battle for higher prices moved on to the Seminole field where Lieut. Col. Cicero Mur ray and Adjt. Gen. Charles Barrett of the Oklahoma national guard called' national guardsmen into 5 i Meanwhile, the governor contended courts had no right to enter the oil field military zones he has established and threatened arreet for anyone who interferes with military ea jr i-.

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