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EdflisiSna Library Cosabaiiiidij FloujSi i THE WEATHER DiLLINGER 1 Generally fair tonight: Sunday partly cloudy, local thundershowers in southeast Louisiana. An officer identifies one of five men in a fatal bank robbery today as Jlohn MM Hfl. Volume XXI, No. 56 SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1934 SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS FULL WIRS NEWS SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAZIHl ONIOLIDATeB LAFAYCTTB JULY 1ST, 3 FLIERS MARRIES JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 3RD SENATE VOTES TUGWELL AUTO LICENSE BILLS ROEHM IS SUICIDE AND VON SCHLEICHER DIES AT HANDS OF POLICE PLANE FORCED Beniamin And Joseph Adam-, owicz, Of Brooklyn, Land Safely In French Area Von Papen Taken Into Protective Custody But Is Soon Released Many Storm Troop Leaders Reported Dead FALL SHORT OF GOAL Brothers Are Thwarted For Second Time In Plans For Warsaw Flight Ellen Tuck French, 18, bride of John Jacob Astor, 3rd in a ceremony taking place this afternoon, is shown at Newport, It, before the automobile presented to her by young Astor as a pre-wedding gift. I i j- i I I I I ,1 Mi i I I1 i i i i I i i I i.

i jl 1 I 4 i i 4 1 FLERS. France, June 30. UP) A dwindling gasoline supply today forced two flying brothers from Brooklyn, Benjamin and Joseph Adamowlcz, to land their big tri-colored monoplane at Saint Andre De Messel, near here, thwarting for the second time their cherished hopes of flying the Atlantic non-stop to Warsaw, Poland. The silent pair eased their ship the Warsaw" down safely at 8:30 a. m.

(GMT, (3:30 a. m. 1ST), 23 hours and B2 minutes after their take-off yes-1- terday at Harbor Grace, N. F. At Saint Andre, 50 miles inland on the Normandy coast, the brothers im-i mediately announced their Intention of continuing on to Warsaw tomorrow If they can find enough gasoline In that small village.

Otherwise, they said, they would fly to Lebourget Field, Paris, for refueling. PARIS. June 30. UP) The monoplane of Warsaw bearing two Brooklyn I fliers landed safely today southwest of Caen, France. Although their goal was Warsaw, Po-J' land, they were forced to land because of a shortage of gasoline.

The two brothers. Benjamin and Jo-t I seph Adamowlcz. Brooklyn soda pop manufacturers, hopped off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, yesterday at 3:58 a. m. (E.

S. in an attempt to fly their big, bright-hued monoplane, the Warsaw," veteran of one trans-Atlantic crossing, non-stop to Warsaw. In the ships tanks when It took off were 610 gallons of gasoline, enough, they thought, for 40 hours of flying. They had hoped to cover the 3,000 and more miles to Warsaw In 30 hours, however. LAFAYETTE, IN Legislative Action Completed On One Of Most Controversial State Issues BATON ROUGE, June 30.

UP) Senator J. I. Boudreaux of vermilion and St. Mary charged in a statement entered In the record today that "enactment of the so-called Tugwell bill would cost the farmers $21,000,000 worth of farmers roads, BATON ROUGE, June 30. UP) Legislative action on one of the state administrations most controversial proposals that of effecting auto license reductions predicated on taking away 3700,000 a year in highway funds from the City of ew Orleans was completed early today when the Senate passed the Tugwell-Hoffpaulr bills.

One of the measures, the constitutional amendment to take away the New Orleans payment, went to the secretary of state to be submitted to the electorate next November for ratification or rejection. The companion measure the enabling act setting up auto license tax reductions starting at $7.50 minimum as compared to the present minimum of tl5, went to Governor O. K. Allen, who said he would sign the bill as soon as It reached his desk. The measures, passed by the House after lengthy debate last Tuesday by a one-vote margin, were sent through the Senate in less than 20 minutes and with a four-vote margin today when the upper chamber held a special meeting just after midnight, a new legislative day.

The Senate began Its last nights session at 10:30 oclock, and adjourned at 11:55 p. m. until 12:05 a. m. today.

Prayers were said after the 10-minute Intermission and then the Tugwell bills were disposed of. The only argument against them was by Senator Casez, Old Regular Senate leader from New Orleans, who candidly admitted he was "wasting his breath but charged that it is unfair to pass these bills. Senator Joseph I. Boudreaux, Abbeville, an anti-administrationist. Issued a statement later, charging the state administration1 with "bad faith in sponsoring the bills.

The $700,000 payment to New Orleans was voted In 1930 when the Long-Alien and New Orleans Old Regular forces were friendly. The administration at the present session charged that the funds had been misused by the city. The roll call on the Tugwell Constl-tional Amendment was: To Pass Byrne, Davis, Delahoussaye, Dore, Dugas, Fisher, Fleming, Fredericks, A. C. Gardiner, C.

A. Gardiner, Gilbert, Heywood, Holland, Hollenshead, Huson, Lindsey, Moss, Noe, Nunez, Oser, Peltier, H. C. Richardson, J. A.

Richardson, Robinson, Sevier, Terzia, Wingate, J. J. Wingrave, R. A. Wingrave, Woods.

Total, 30. To Reject Bistes, Boudreaux, Brodt-mann, Chasez, Peterman, Reitemeyer Total, 6. Absent or not voting Schwing. Action in the House, which quit work in mid-afternoon until Monday night, 6aw the passage of the Louisiana Tax Reform Commislons $10,000,000 school program with virtually no opposition: the death of the Federal Child Labor (Turn to page 2, Col. lj DEATH VERDICT GIVEN IN TRIAL OF DESPERADO Joe Palmer Convicted For Fatal Shooting Of Major Crowson, Prison Guard i ANDERSON, June 30 (JP) In a death cell in the stae prison at Huntsville today, Joe Palmer, 32-year-old Texas desperado, awaited the efforts of his court-appointed attorneys to obtain a new trial after his conviction and death penalty verdict here yesterday for the fatal shooting of Major Crowson, prison guard.

Crowson was wounded fatally last January 16 in a dawn break from the Eastman state prison farm, reputedly engineer under the machine gun fire of Cylde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, Texas killers later slain in Louisiana. Palmer was sent back to the prison last night after he heard the verdict and told the court, I had rather die In the electric chair than spend four and a half more years (the remainder of a robbery sentence) over ihere In that, the most damnable place on earth. He was locked in a cell at the Huntsville prison near that of Raymond Hamilton, also under a death sentence for the killing of Crowson. French-Astor Ceremonyln Old Church Wedding Concludes Series Of Romantic Episodes That Kept Society Excited NEWPORT, R. June 30.

UP) Jonn Jacob Astor, 3rd, married Mary Ellen, instead of Eileen, this afternoon in fashionable Emanuel Church, concluding a series of romantic episodes that has kept society in a fever of excitement for months. Ellen Tuck French was to have been Eileen Gillespies bridesmaid last February, but the scheduled wedding oi the junior league daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Gillespie to Astor never took place.

Today, Ellen became Mrs. John Jacoo Aster, 3rd, while Miss Gillespie and her parents sailed for the south of France an hour before the ceremony. Little Emanuel Church, dating bacic to Colonial times, with its white interior hanked with flowers and foliage, pxovided the setting for the wedding. The lucky guests, holding engraved invitations, were seated in the quaint boxed pews, but the view ol the ceremony was obstructed by the pulpit, which stands squarely in front of the altar. The less fortunate ones, admitted because Emanuels vestry ruled that parishioners could not be kept out, were seated in the rear, which afforded a full view of the rites.

Miss French wore a simple white gown. She was attended only by her sister. Miss Virginia Middleton French. Astor had for his best man Lloyd P-Griscom, of New York. Plans for the honeymoon were not announced beyond the fact that they will rturn to Newport In August to spend the rest of the season at Chet-wode, the Bellevue Avenue mansion bought by Astor for Miss Gillespie.

The Gillespie-Astor romance gave Park Avenue and Long Island one ot the high lights of the winter season. It began with "true love, and milllon-ciollar presents and ended with Insults and threats" and apologies. It was climaxed by wrangling over the $200,000 Empress Eugenie engagement ring and an apology from the 22 -year-Astor heir to the Gillespie family, all publicly aired. The engagement of Astor to Miss Gillespie was announced last December with the wedding set for fashionable Si. Thomas in New York.

In January, Just a month before tho wedding Miss Klllespies parents cancelled the engagement. Astor Immediately left on a world tour. The break had accurred January J.9 during what Astor termed a lovers quarrel. Gossiping tongues were set wagging in earnest when Astor returnend home in May and in an Interview blamed parental Interference by Miss Gillespies parents for the break. He also temarked that the $200,000 engagement ring had not been returned.

The "parental Interference, reports said, had to do with honeymoon plans for a too strenuous In the Gillespies' (Turn To Fage 2, Col. 2) WEATHER FOR COMING WEEK (By The Associated Press) Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Central and East Gulf Sates: Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers iu south and east portions at beginning of week, near the coast middle of week and more general showers latter part oi week. Temperature changes will as rule be slight. Southern Plains and West uun States: Partly cloudy, probably scattered thundershowers in north portion about the middle of the week. Tempra-tures normal or above.

Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Generally fair except one or two shower periods probably during latter half of week. Temperatures mostly moderated Say Dillinger In Fatal Bank Robbery Case Identified As One Taking Part In Raid In Which Patrolman Is Killed SOUTH BEND, June 30 UP) A patrolman was shot and killed today when five men, one of whom was Identified by a detective as John Dil-linger, raided the Merchants National Bank here. Detective Harry Henderson, who arrived at the bank as the robbers were leaving, said he was positive that the driver of their car was Dillinger, Henderson fired st the car. He said the man at the wheel slumped as If shot and a companion took his place The amount of loot obtained was not determined lnmediately. CHAS.

W. SOMERS. OWNER OF PEIS, DIES IN OHIO Was Last Of Big Three Who Organized American League Almost 35 Years Ago SANDUSKY, Ohio, June 30. UP) Tributes from baseball leaders over tne country today came to Charles W. W.

Somers, 65, last of the Big Three" who organized the American League almost 35 years ago. Somers died yesterday at his summer home near here. Byron Bancroft Johnson, first president of the American League, ana Charles Comlskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, preceded him in death. Back In 1900, when Ban Johnson decided another major league was needed, Somers and J. F.

Kllfoyle, another Ohioan, organized the Cleveland Indians. Somers also spent money behalf of the Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago clubs He was president of the Boston team In 1900 and 1901. Somers sold his club to James C. Dunn in 1916 after business reverses and the federal league uprising naa placed it in the hands of a bank. He was reported to have recouped his fortunes In the basebaU business.

He owned the New Orleans club o1 the Southern Association for years and was once Its president. He Is survived by his widow and a daughter. Mrs. W. W.

Clark. The body was taken to Cleveland last night for buriaL Stupefied Fish SHARON, June 30 (JP) Fishermen using clubs and their hands dragged hundreds of fish, some of them three feet long, from the Shanango river. Chemicals dumped into the stream by an industrial plant had partly stupefied the finny specimens. No Joke TAMPA, Fla June 30 (S) C. T.

Hall, street car motorman, thought a friend was joking when he said there were triplet sons at Halls home. The motorman finished his days work, then found the news was true. There are four other children In the family. VIENNA, June 30. UP) High Austrian quarters said today that if, as reports from Berlin indicate, the Radical wing of the Nazi movement has really been squelched, there may be a rapid solu tion of the Austro-German quarrel.

BEBRLIN, June 30 Chancellor Adolf Hitler today crushed a still-born revolution. Capt. Ernst Roehm, long his closest friend and his trusted leader of the Nazi storm troops, committed suicide when Hitler had him arrested as a conspirator. Kurt Von Schleicher, Hitlers predecessor as chancellor of Germany, rilled by police when he resisted arrest as a conspirator. Roehm was regarded as the most extreme leader of the Radical Nazid; Von.

Schleicher was the extreme reactionary who favored the restoration of tne monarchy to Germany. Vice Chancellor Franz Von Papen, tne man who two weeks ago warned Hitler that a second revolution led by Extremists was Impending, was taken into protective custody" but soon released. The Reichswehr the national army was ordered to be in readiness throughout Germany. Reichswehr soldiers, armed with machine guns, marched down the great boulevard, Unter-Den-Linden, in tne rear of the nations capital. The soldiers reinforced heavy details of police who were -scattered, throughout the city, wearing steel helmets and armed with rifles.

Besides Roehm, a number of other Storm troop leaders were dead within i few hours of the time when Hitler struck. Some of them committed suicide; some of them were killed resisting arrest. I The Nazi party announced that Roehm was arrested because he was a conspirator, in league not only with Von Schleicher, but with "a foreign power and was, furthermore, of suen an Immoral character that he brought discredit upon the Nazi movement. The announcement said that when Roehm and other leaders were arrested under Hitlers personal direction, these leaders were found engaged In a spectacle which was so said morally that every trace of pity must heeds vanish. Not only was Roehm thrown out to die but Capt.

Karl Ernst, leader oi the Storm troops at Berlin, was summarily deposed. SLIGHT BRAIN CONCUSSION FOR BASEBALL STAR NORFOLK, June 30. UP) For the second time In two weeks, an Injury threatened to end Lou GehrlgB major league endurance record todtfy The Iron-man first baseman for the New York Yankees who has played 1414 consecutive games without a break suffered a slight brain concussion when be was struck on the head by a pitched ball during the Yankees exhibition game with Norfolk yesterday. After hitting a home run In the first inning, Lou stepped to the plate again In the second inning. A wild toss by Ray White, Norfolk pitcher and like Gehrig, a Columbian alumnus, struck the big first baseman on the head.

He went down like a shot and was unconscious for five minutes. After receiving preliminary treatment, Gehrig was taken to a hotel and later left with the team for Washington. Dr. S. B.

Whitlock, Norfolk club physician, said Gehrig had suffered a mild concussion. An x-ray examination to determine the full extent of his Injuries was to be made at Washington today. Whether he would be able to play in the afternoon depended upon what the x-rays showed. Two weeks ago Gehrig suffered a broken bone In the big toe of his right foot but he has been In the game steadily since. He was hit on the head by a pitched ball at Washington a year ago but was la the Yankee lineup the following day.

Two Are Held TEXARKANA, June 30 UP) A man and woman were in Jail where today and Sheriff R. W. Turquette said he expected to file murder charges against them in connection with the fatal shooting of T. E. Buck Pearson, 57, rural mail carrier found slain and robbed on a lonely road In the weeded hills near Genoa, Thursday night.

Sheriff Turquette said the woman had made a statement and he expected to arrest another man. High Interest Over New Oil Well Reports Pay Sand Reported In Two Projects Being Drilled At The Bosco Field Although lacking official confirmation, reports were current today that pay sand had been entered at two ot the Superior Oil Companys six new projects at the Bosco field near here. The reported successful developments pertain to the Iseringhausen and Mier wells. The others are stated not as ret down far enough for a test, as is Uso said to be the case with regard to the Standard of Kansas project in the new field. Outstanding developments are expected at any time now, and if tne Iseringhausen and Mier come in as producers, a large number of new derricks are expected to go up within a very short time.

The Iseringhausen and Mier are understood to have hit pay sand a depth of nearly 8,000 feet. The former well is a mile east of the Hernandez producer, and the latter Is about a mile west. BRIEFREPRIEVE FOR TRIO FACING DEATHPENALTY Hand Of Executioner Stayed Again For Woman And Two Men Conspirators OSSINING, N. June 30. UP) Th hand of the executioner was stayed again today for Anna Antonio and her two men conspirators stayed, but for little more than a week.

The story that saved them temporarily a death cell statement by one of the men that Mrs. Antonio was innocent of the murder of her husband was branded officially "a lie! For the second time in 48 hours. Governor Herbert H. Lehman lifted the shadow of the electric chair from tne young mother, Vincent Saetta and Sam last night, as the hour drew near for their Sing- Sing death walk. After weighing the for a day, with three lives in the balance, the governor announced from his home in New York City: The district attorney, while expressing the opinion that the statement oi Saetta has no merit, in the interests ot Justice concurred that a reprieve should be granted In order that counsel for Mrs.

Antonio should have an opportunity to make a motion for a new trial. "I am granting a reprieve until the week beginning July 9, 1934. The word was communicated swiftly to Sing Sing prison, to Mrs. Antonios cell in the death house. Oh, thank God.

she cried, sinking back onto her cot, sick from the ordeal, and burying her head in a pillow. Feraci and Saetta were Just leaving the visiting cells, leaving to prepare for the end, when they heard. Each nodded In silence and trudged back to his cell. i MAN IN CUSTODY OVER SLAYING ARCADIA, June 30. UP) Sam Wallace was held today by officers on the accusation that he shot and killed James Huckabay yesterday at a gasoline filling station in the Old Sparta section of Bienville parish.

Witnesses to the shooting told Sheriff Henderson Jordan that Wallace fired on Huckaby after the latter had engaged In a fight with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Watts.

They toll the sheriff that the woman was being choked at the time Wallace came up and Intervened. Huckaby was shot in the head with a shotgun charge and was klled almost Instantly. The cause of the quarrel between Huckaby and Watts was undetermined. The men were neighbor farmers of the Old Sparta community. Japans Navy Fears Loss Of Several Men Two Warships Crash And Three Naval Planes Missing For Over 30 Hours TOKYO, June 30.

(JP) The Japanese navy feared a loss of at least 13 men today In the crash of two warships and what appeared to be another tragedy, this one In the air. Four men were known dead, two were missing and four were injured after the. new destroyers Mlyuki and Cnazuma rammed together last night during fleet maneuvers. Three naval airplanes had been missing for more than 30 hours with a crew totaling nine. The planes, attached to the aircraft carrier Akagi, left Nagasaki bound for Sasebo.

The coast was foggy Other planes and warships have been searching for them since last night. Both the Mlyuki and Inazuma were cruising at high speed when they collided. The formers stem was caved in. The Inazuma was almost a total wreck, with her bows tom off. Wreckage of the Inazuma and the Mlyuki were being towed today to the naval base at Sasebo by the cruiser Na-ka and the destroyer Shirayuki.

Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of navy, visited the palace and reported the disaster to Emperor Hirohlto. The naval tragedy was Japans worst since the torpedo boat Tomozuru swamped and overturned in heavy seas In March with 113 men aboard. Only 13 of them were saved. This disaster had national political repercussions. DEATH TODAY CLAIMS DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH Dies Suddenly-Former Husband Of Consuelo Vanderbilt, American Heiress LONDON, June 30.

(A1) The Duke ox Marlborough, the ninth holder of Ihe historic -title and former husband ox Consuelo Vanderbilt, American heiress, died suddenly in London today. He was 63 years old. Formerly active in public life, tne Duke was under-secretary of state lor the colonies from 1903-5 and Joint parliamentary secretary to the board of agriculture In 1917-18. He married Miss Vanderbilt, a daugn-ter of William K. Vanderbilt, In 1895.

when she was only 17 years old. They were divorced in 1920. The Duke later married Miss Gladys Pcaecn of Boston and the first duchess became the wife of M. Jacques Balsan. De Rouen Is Only La.

Congressman Still In Washington WASHINGTON, June 30. UP) Tne end of this week left only one of the Louisiana congressional delegation in the capital, the remainder having one by one packed their official an personal trunks to wend their way home to face the summers election campaigns. The last to linger, busy with departmental work, was Representative De-Rouen. He said today he did not expect to get away until sometime next week. Early this week, Representative Dear departed.

He said he would rest a bit at his Alexandria home before starting a tour of his district early in July. Represntative Sandlin left Wednesday and Representative Wilson Thursday night. They will open their campaigns early in July. Others of the delegation already have arrived home. BEVERLY HILLS, June 29.

Headline says, "13 bankers in Detroit Indicted." You would think Detroit was a bigger town than that. The early afternoon edition that I got out here on the movie set says dear Marie Dressier is fighting yet. We are Just afraid to get the next paper. Those that dont offer a prayer for her, well, they Just aint human, that's all. Mr.

Roosevelts speech seemed to satisfy all but those that bad made up their minds in advance that they wouldnt like it, no matter what he eald. Yours,.