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THE 61ST YEAR NO. Yesterday's Circulation 6,820 FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1928. Sixteen Page THREE CENTS. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiii 7 niliiiimiiiimmmiijiMiiiiifiimiiiiiimr (liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiimiiiiiiuiiiimiiiiiim MOTORS TO LONDON AND IS ACCORDED A GREAT OVA TION i luiiiiimiiiiiiii'iiuiiuiniiiiiiiiiii 1--. in 1 A HR Cloudy, followed by ghowtrs UU tonight or Wedswfiay- not much ehaxa la temperature.

NEWS 5 na mm FOSTER DADDY NOW OF LITTLE RACHEL EATON STRANDED AIR GROUP TWICE MARYLAND'S 16 VOTES TO BOOST SMITH DAvqvg inn CowttGbctt Elficmg, aiad Monaco EDicacttoi? 5c KANSAS CITY, Mo. June 19. (UP) Threatening to spread over additional thousands of acres under cultivation, rivers in the southwest continued theirTise today with little prospect of a let down for several days. Clouded skies and unsettled weather greeted sections, long annual floods that wash out crops in the lowlands. Weather forecasts for Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas, centers of the flooded areas, promised only unsettled weather for the next two days.

DEATH TOLL STANDS AT EIGHT. With the rivers, for the most part, rising gradually, ample warning has been so that no loss of life from floods has been reported thus far. The death toll, stood at eight, seven of whom were killed in Oklahoma's tornado of Saturday. A tornado that struck in a farming community between Mound City and Oregon, last night killed one, 'injured three and caused considerable property damage. Mrs.

Marion 38 years old, was fatally injured when her farm home was demolished. Her husband and one child also were injured. Several other rural centers in the Neighborhood felt the effects of the storm. Scores of farm buildings were demolished. Bolster Weakening Levees.

VbkV A III UnKK Group Waiting on Ice Unseen by Norwegians Searching District for Them Amundsen May Have Flown Direct. CRACKING ICE ADDS PERIL By ERIK BERNDSEN, United Press Special Correspondent. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen June 19. General Umberto Nobile, and his group of five waiting rescue on perilous lee in the north, again watched re-: lief approach and depart without their position being discovered, it became known today. Captain H.

Riisar-Larsen and Lieutenant LeutzowHolm flew within two kilometers of the ice encampment Monday but. failed to sight Nobile and his aides. The planes were sighted by No-bile, however. The two Norwegian fliers returned this morning to the steamer Braganza after their reconnoitering tour over the" district where Nobile's ice refuge 'is floating. They had been unable to sight Nobile although they were within two.

kilometers of the lost men. Later it was learned, through radio advices, that Nobile had sighted the fliers just as lie bad sighted them as they passed over his position Sunday, After a night-long vigil by 'the entire population of Kings Bay, it was believed, at 10 a. today, that Roald Amundsen, South Pole discoverer, had flown direct 690 miles from Trotn-soe, Norway, to Gen. Nobile's position, instead of coming here. Apjundsen and Lieut.

Dietrichsen are in the French Latham seaplane of Commandant Guilbaud. XlW't TP -I (' a Capt. Robert M. Clutch, of Philadelphia, and 7-vearold Rachel Eaton, who came over-from France tcith, Pennsylvania's Escort of Eonor. Her father, Captfjames Eaton, died in Bellevue Hpspital, Xew York, on Satur COMBAT EXPOSURE; DISEASE IN WORK OF RELIEF IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS OITY, June 19.

(LP) Combatting exposure and disease, thousands of refugees of storm-swept southwestern states carried on rehabilitation work today. toll of the floods and severe hail and rain storms which struck Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas stood at seven dead, and two dozen or more injured. The thousands who were made homeless by the storms held little hope for relief. Heavy skies presaged thunderstorms and showers today in several of the flooded districts. Rivers were reported rising and overflowing in southern Kansas, northern Oklahoma and Jackson county, Arkansas.

Three thousand were said to have been driven from thei): homes in the latter district' alone. In the afeHS near Blair ianct, HeadrlcA, -ne" a tornado struck last Saturday, the state health department took precautionary measures to prevent the spread of typhoid. Red Cross headquarters there appealed for a relief fund of $25,000 to aid the .2.000 homeless. Hundreds of head of livestock lay dead in fields. NEPHEW OF lSECRETARlf DENBY IS GIVEN POST PHILADELPHIA.

June 19. (LP) Charles S. Denby, 27, nephew ef former Sesretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and son-in-law of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, is 'the new assistant' United States district attorney here. Call Charles 0.

Bark for private instruction on violin and saxaphone. 19June2t Maitland's Musketeers" at King's Palace Wednesday night, eight musicians or talent. 19June2t Arranges for Communication. Amundsen had arranged iii advance to communicate with Kings Bay and Bear island -radio stations at stated, There -has beeii tnmunica tion at ail, and it was believed Amundsen had gone direct to Northeastland, hoping to effect a rescue. Guilbaud's plane carried fuel suffi- STUL1Z AND LOU GORDON Thousands Cheer Arrival of Friendship's Party in British Capital Trip to Southamp-Y ton Harbor Made, in 2 Hours.

M0T0RB0ATS GIVE By ARCH RODGERS, United Press Staff Correspondent. LONDON, June 19. Miss Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz an'd Lou Gor-' Jdon, arrived In London at 6:20 p. today and were accorded an uproarious greeting by thousands of people who I cheered them as they went to the Hyde Hotel after a motor trip. from Southampton.

Thousands lined the streets around the fashionable Hyde Park hotel, in the heart of the West End, when the' automobile containing Mi'ss Earhart her companions drew up after drive through London in which few; people recognized them. Cheers of the crowds echoed for i Mocks around the hotel, and traffic inj Knightsbridge was held up while thej fliers were taken into the hotel, thei lobby of which was decorated lavishly; with flowers in their honor. I She Seems Exhausted. Miss Earhart went to her suite as Boon as she could detach herself from welcoming admirers, who crowded around her. A child followed Miss Earhart to her euite, and presented the American girl with a model monoplane made of flowers.

Miss Earhart seemed exhausted. She received newspaper men 1 pleasantly, but it was with difficulty that she talked. Frequently she dug her hands into her eyes and shook her head to avoid By SIDNEY J. WILLI 1M. ruitcd rtgja Sid.T X'orrespomWirt.

WOOLSTON, England, June 19. (LP) Miss Amelia Earhart's airplane Friendship landed in the water here amid a1 roar of cheers at 7:20 a. m. Eastern Standard Time) after making a 135-mile flight from Burryport in 2 Jiours 3 minutes. Only five minutes before its perfect rising over the northwestern hnri-j zon and making with its supermanne pilot seaplane in the lead, towards the luuding spot.

A little crowd of people, some In Kiotorboats offshore, hadbeen waiting for hours for the plane. the time lor the ship's approach neared, the crowd had become a throng. Workmen rushed from all over the surrounding area during their luiich periods, and school children turned out in a body. Special motorbus parties from all through the nearby country were arriving momentarily. Ordinarily workmen 1 ferry from Woolston across to Southampton for lunch but none went today.

News that the flyers had left Burryport was disseminated by the United 1'ress and spread rapidly. The crowd i converged on the Imperial Airways landiing stage at the waterside: jam-; nung nearoy streets ami lorcint; ponce to adopt emergency regulations to control it. Iozens of automobiles rushed towards the scene. The American flag was hoisted on the Jiast over the landing stage and the (Continued on Page 15.) s- Miss Boll Gives Up Flight Plans; Talks to Le vine ST. JOHNS, N.

June 19 (LP) After aiinuoncing their abandonment of a proposed trans-Atlantic flight, Misst tMable Boll and her crew today were wavering as the result of a telephone conversation with Charles Levine, whose trans-Atlantic plane Columbia they are said they would. decide later whether to fly to Europe or back to New York. Oliver C. LeBout.illiejV pilot, said he and Miss Boll had in telephone conversations, the earlier deci sion to abandon the flight and that more calls were to 'be made to New York. A final said, would be reached today when he, Miss Boll and Arthur Argles returned to Harbor Grace, where the plane is.

LeBoutillier said that the decision to abandon the flight, because Miss Amelia Earhart had beaten Miss Boll across, was through no fault of Hhe crew. Everything had been in readiness for a start, he said, but United States Weather Bureau reports had forecast conditions that would have made a start foolhardy. LINDY WON'T COMMENT. MADISON, June 19. (LP) Col.

Charles A- Lindbergh refused to comment on the flight, of MlsiAmelia Earhart and companions beyond saying, "I was very much interested." The Colonel, here since receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Wisconsin, was contemplating two plans for his departure. One of these would take him on a flight to Brule, for a visit wlti I'resldeut Coolidge. Assure Nomination of N. Y. Gov- ernor as Democratic Candi- date at Houston His Backers Feel Over 700 Pledged.

VIRGINIA NAMES 24 FRIDAY WASHINGTON, June 19 (LP) FdUoWers of Governor Alfred E. Smith today hailed. the 16 votes of Maryland, cedied by Governor Ritchie, as assuring, the nomination of their candidate at next week. Maryland 16 votes will give Smith more than' 700 on the first ballot, they claimed. To 733 1-3 are needed, and the-others will be forthcoming on an early.

ballot, it was said. Ritchie has not 'been an avowed candidate, but his campaign for states's rights, and' his outspoken disapproval of prohibition, has gained hjm. a nation-wide reputation. The Maryland Democratic convention the delegates for; him, and in the early stages, of the-campaign before Smith gained strength there were many who believed' this '1 old-style Jpffersonian Democrat would makeKa better vote-getter than the Xew York Governor. Twenty-four.

Democratic delegates, the last to be' te be selected at the Virginia stafiCconvention in Roanoke Thursday or Friday. The Virginia contest today wa'S- described as a battle 'between-. Sisith yind antlSmith factions and Smith men foresaw a landslide convention victory of the proportions of Hoover's in the Kansas City convention. If Smith gets most of the Virginia -votes. However, it was generally believed here that the followers of Senator James A.

Reed, of Missouri would carry their right to the convention balloting before quit ting. i. Oil City Police are Following Two Rumors Concernintl Fltaitive Who Shot Desk Sergeant. Not in a long time has such a thorough' man hunt been conducted in this section as was carried on today for John. Gidders, fugitive from justice who escaped from the city aockup early Monday morning after shooting Desk.

Sergeant William Powell, of the Oil City police force through the left shoulder and right leg. He was reported shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon to have been seen on the hill across Oil Creek in the vicinity of the New York Central roundhouse. It is stated that a man was seen running up the hiM and soon disappear ing. Immediately the entire day and night force of the Oil City police de partment Was put-on the job to look for tihe suspect. Three firemen were thrown in by Mf yor Blair for duty and Adjutant Bruner, of the Salvation i Army, was sworn in as desk sergeant for the time being.

A force of men combed the hogback and surrounding territory thoroughly but up to 2:30 o'clock had found no trace of the man. About 2 o'clock another report came into the effect that a man had been seen to come out of the woods back of the Continental Refining Co- but upon sighting a pumper there slipped back into the( woods and disappeared. With verv DOSSlDle Clue oeine run uuwii and a large force of men on the hunt it is thought to be only matter of a short time until Gidder is apprehended. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gidders is being held in the city lockup waiting arraignment for having passed the gun to her husband which he used In wounding the Information is to be made out by the county detective but just when this action will be taken or whatctiarge will be placed against her is not known.

It was reported at the Oil City Hospital this afternoon that Mr. Powell was resting comfortably. X-ray pictures of his wounds were taken today and every precaution is being taken to ward off any possible complications. CURTIS AND HOOVER IN CONFERENCE TODAY WASHINGTON, June 19. (LP) Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican vice presidential nomi-" nee, went directly to the Commerce Department for a conference with Herbert Hoover, his running mate, when he arrived here today from Topeka; Kas.

Hoover's chauffeur met him at the train and took him to Hoover's office. Dance at Cooperstown Tuesday evening. lWunelf Ice cream social at Galloway E. church, Thursday evening, June 21. 19June3t Dance tonight at Oak Grove.

Music by the New Orleans Blue Birds. 13 colored artists. i MISSING, THOUGH nrnnnfr in nrrn mm tu day, 24 hours after reaching pprt. Capt. Clutch Will Take Little French Girl to Seashore for Summer Inspired Fund Which Will Care for Her.k;,' Ci, DOESN'T KNOW DADDY DIED By JAMES A.

MLRRIN, I Staff Correspondent Wit the Pennsyl vania Escort of Honor. i "Little EacHel is going to be one of the family, and we are going to show her the best time possi'ble. She is going spend the summer with us, until September anyhow, at our shore home in New jersey." This was the promise of Capt. Rob- JlUtcn, jrnnaueipnia Hineruswg man, shortly before the George Washington, carrying the Escort of Honor home from France, arrived at Pier 4, Hoboken," last Friday. The child's father, Capt.

James Eaton, lay dying of tuberculosis, his body wasted away until he weighed only 60 pounds. A waiting ambulance took him tn Rpllevue hospital and there ne died at 9 :05 o'clock iSaturday morning less than 24 hours after the United States liner, upon which he had been brought "home" to die from France, had been warped, into the iberth at Hoboken. It was Captain Clutch who inspired the fund raised by voluntary subscription aboard the liner. The soldier contingent' contributed more than $150 at luncheon one day. Then the first cabin passeHgers heard of it.

One man gave $10 and promised to give more. He did. Rapidly the fund grew, and by time the overseas trip had been com pleted, the amount was over $800. Building and loan stock is to be purchased, and a committee of five headed by Capt. Clutch and Col.

George E. Kemp, postmaster of Philadelphia, who was also with the Escort, will administer the funds. They will be used for Rachel's education. little Rachel has been made to feel entirely at home in the Clutch family circle at Darby, a Philadelphia suburb. In a week' or so she is going to the Jersey shore, there to play in the sands and frolic in the surf.

She is learning to speak English, and is her first glimpse of America famously. Capt! Clutch for 17 years was a desk AMERICAN AVIATORS ON HOP TO PANAMA HAVANA, June 19. (LP)Lieut. Robert. W.

Douglass, and Lieut. JamS' Parker, American army aviators, started at 7 :55 a. today on the next stage of their flight to Panama from Boiling Field, Washington. Their planes were headed for Hela, Honduras, across the Yucatan channel. They planned to refuel at Tela and if possible continue to complete the Havana-Panama flight today.

The aviators had made, an earier start at 5 a. but returned within a few minutes because" the grav-iiy feed tank of Parker's machine was not functioning. man of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and now he is the head of a successful advertising firm in Philadelphia. So the daughter of the 2Sth Division, as she has become, with 12,000 foster fathers, is assured of constant care and attention until she becomes a young woman. She is already a ward of the Escort of Honor and in the Clutch family, it seems that she has always been one of Some of these days little Rachel is going to be told that her Daddy died.

But the father's wish that his little ope should have a home, and that he should be able to die in his own homeland, been fuIfHled. LONDON NEWSPAPER PUTS MISS EARHART IN CLASS WITH MERCEDES GLEITZE LONDON, June 19. 't- (LP) A discordant note in the general enthusiasm over Miss Amelia Earhart's trans-Atlantic flight was struck today by the newspaper Evening Standard, which ranked her accomplishment with Miss Mercedes Gleitze's swim across the English Channel. It may be recalled that just after Miss Gleltze announced she had swum the channel another girl falsely claim ed to have done it Miss Gleirze with drew her claim, declaring that she hud swum across but would not claim to have done so until she had made another swjm under official supervision. The fight to bolster weakening levees in Missouri and Arkansas continued today as heavy rains occurred to the forth.

Workers toiled all of yester; day on broken dikes near Campbell, in southeastern Missouri, where the St. Francis-river already has covered one-third of Dunklin county approximately' 100,000 acres. Three crevasses in the dikes of the Francis has swallowed up much cultivated land near its United States engineers were concentrating their efforts on a weak section of the levee-of White river south of Stephens, where a break, occurred Friday. Additional rains in the upper reaches of the rirer little hope of an immediate fall in the river. While conditions on the Walnut and Arkansas rivers near and Arkansas City, seemed to have improved slightly, the Verdigris river near Independence, was on a rampage with lowlands flooded.

SEVERE ELECTRICAL STORM HITS YORK: PARALYZES FACTORIES YORK, June 19. (LP) A se tere electrical storm accompanied by a heavy rain struck York today and for 4 time paralyzed manufacturing concerns when a high tension elect cat transformer was struck by a bolt of lightning. Practically eveTy electrical fuse, light bulb and electric refrigeration plant in the. western section of the city was damaged during the storm. Mrs.

Alma Ickes of Hanover, was knocked unconscious when a heavy bolt of lightning struck near her home. She was revived by a daughter and will recover. A large barn on the farm of Charles Bare, at Shrinetown was struck by lightning and destroyed with a loss of several thousand dollars. Princess Beauty Shop will close Wed. afternoons until Sept 1.

16June2t Dance Hannaville Tuesday night. 18June2t and as I had no practice in instrument the others and cence in discussing her own part In this adventuroua voyage and her quick eager answers about aviation and the problems of the flight, brought out more of the resemblance. Her straightforward story of how the Fokker, after a discouraging start, had whirled at a pace of about 110 miles an hour over the 2,000 mile course, follows: "We flew practically 2,000 miles in, above or between fog. Our altitude ranged from 2,000 feet to 11,000 feet. When we were at the greatest altitude, (Continued on Page 5.) Sugarcreek Ladies' Aid will 'serve supper in the church basement on Friday CteUtttg, June 32, for Institute Delegates and the public in general, from 5:30 to 7:00 o'clock.

Price 50c 19June3t DANCE, KING'S PALACE Wednesday evening, June 20th Mus-keteers." lWunelt MISS EARHART, FIRST WOMAN TO FLY OVER OCEAN, GIVES FULL CREDIT TO COMPANIONS cient for a flight of 1,875 miles. Weather conditions for flying are re-I ported by Green Harbor meteorological I station to be favorable. It was believed that if Amundsen I succeeded in reaching Xobile he might return to the rescue, ship Braganza rather than to Kings Bay. Relief expeditions from Ave nations speeded rescue today to the group, who suffering from cold and privations of the far north watched frantically as relief parties sped over them and sailed away. General Nobile and his aides are on an ice floe probably now at a point near 80.20 degrees north and 28.22 degrees east and their predicament becomes more dangerous hourly.

Great crevasses are beginning to appear in the northern ice as the short summer season approaches. Ice is melting rapidly. This bespeaks a danger for the group of six who have huddled about a silken tent since they were brushed off the Italia in a forced landing May 25. The first sight of relief these men saw was Sunday. Then they watched Lieutenant Leutzow-Holm and Captain Kiiser-Larsen fly overhead.

General Nobile and his aides xney wavtu lucii aims nauuLanj from their ice prison. They made every gesture possible to attract- the fliers. All Aid Rushing to But they failed, the planes sped on and one chance of rescue had gone by. Now all resources are centering towards rushing aid to the spot where Nobile last reported he and his men waited relief. Steamers, ice boats and airplanes of different models already either are in the frozen territory or are rushing to this area.

The Italian steamer Braganza is off Northeastland with Lieut. Holm and Captain Larson aboard with their planes. The two Norwegian fliers are making regular reconnoitering trips. The relief ships Tanja ano yuesi have arrived here ready for any service. The Cltta Di Milano is attempting regular contact with Nobile's wireless and is aiding in directing the filers.

Italian Ace at Tromsoe. Major Prenzo, Italian ace, has arrived at Tromsoe prepared to rush on to the aid of his countrymen stranded on the frozen Arctic wastes. He probably will proceed Immediately tJ Kings Bay. Major Maddalena, the other Italian flvpr. already has arrived here.

FOG FORCES MEXICAN FLIER TO COME BACK MITOHEL FIELD, L. June 18. (LP) Captain Emlllo Carranza, Mexican "good-will" flier, who took off for West Point at .10 :14 o'clock in an army amphibian plane, was forced to return 20 minutes later toy a thick fog. He said he would undertake the West Point flight later In the day if the weather cleared. The plane was piloted by Lieut.

H. T. Blssell, of Mitche.1 Field. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS; A penalty of 1 per month will fce added to all unpaid city taxes after July 1st. K.

H. CRIBS8. 19Junelt City Treasurer. By KEITH JONES, XJnifei Pre Staff Correspondent. PEMBREY, Carmarthenshire, Wales, June 19.

Miss Amelia Earhart gives all the credit of being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic to her two male companions Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon would make such a flight again and ventured the opinion she would be willing to make a westward crossing of the Atlantic "provided we have the right machine and proper instruments." Interviewed at the Ashurnham Hotel, where she spent last night after the daring flight from North America, Miss Earhart told the United Press she had perfect confidence throughout the flight that she would be successful in her desire to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic. "1 HAD COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN THEM." i "I had complete confidence in my she told me. Miss Earhart was radiant when she reached the hotel here last night, despite that tired lines straked her slender and youthful face. There a gay bit of laughter as she showed me her complete baggage one toothbrush. Her first comment was to cast praise from herself to her two male colleagues on this daring flight through fog and rain and which was ended by fuel shortage in this obscure Welsh territory.

"I want to make it clear that I was a passenger on the entire trip," she told the United Press. "I did not handle the controls once. Conditions were so Door LAST MINUTE FLASHES' Three Children Burned to Death in Milwaukee. MILWAUKEE. June 19.

(LP) Three small children were burned to death in a fire at the home of Albert Geiger here today. The dead are Jerome, 8, Marvin, 7, and Allen six A liveVoal was believed to have fallen from a kitchen range, starting the fire. Mrs. Geiger had gone to a grocery store. Drills Feature Eagles' Convention.

YORK, JunP 19. (LP) Drill competition with lodges from six cities coni-petiting featured today's session of the state convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles here. The cities In the competition were MeadvUle, Williamsport, Kutztown, Scranton, Allentown and Allegheny. This afternoon the parade of the more than 2,000 delegates here attending the convention will be held. In addition to the than 2,000 marchers there will be 12 bands and drum corps in the parade.

Unselfish Service Necessary to World Peace. MINNEAPOLIS, June 19. (LP) William Cuno, former chancellor of Germany, declared before the 19th International Rotary convention here today that world peace and security can be gained only when nations and men practice nnselflsh service. All political effort to make the world sound has failed, Cuno said to his response to the speech of welcome made by Arthur H. Sapp, International president.

i State Senator Hurt When Garage Floor Collapses. NEW CASTLE, June 19. (LP) State Senator George T. Welngartner wai seriously injured and David Long, a New Castle business man, was slightly injured today when a garage floor ave throwing them into the basement. When the first floor girders gave way under them the men were thrown into the basement of the new Brown and Long garage amid tons of brick and debris.

Workmen removed them from the debris and took them to the Shenango alley Hospital. we were forced to fly by instruments flying I did not want to risk the lives of Her fatigue she admitted being awake almost 36 hours most of which wag during the trying period when the three motors of the Fokker roared through the dreary stretches over the Atlanticwas discernible in her pale face and deep circles under her eyes. Yet She was eager to talk. The scientific value of this flight, In her observations were: "Commander Richard E. Byrd said that the next trans-Atlantic flight was to prove the practicability of a trans-Atlantic flight with an airplane fitted with pontoons.

We have accomplished that." She was asked concerning her future plans. No Movies Nor Lectures. "At present I do not know our future plans. Two things I do know. There will 'be no movies and there will be no lectures." In the United States Miss Earhart has been called the "Lady Llndy," because of her striking resemblance to Colonel Charles A.

Lindbergh. Her reti.