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ISSUE 20 PAGES OBSERVER ESTABLISHED 1882 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS THURSDAY'S PRESS RUN 4789 CXXV1V NO. 17 DUNKIRK. FRIDAY, SEPTEMIIKK tin, IKJ9 Weather and not to cool tonight and IK I'ei Were, Ilialt SEVENTEEN DIE IN NIGHT CLUB FIRE Will Mobilize Public Sentiment to Override Influences Tending to Frustrate Naval Limitation Move. i EVERY EFFORT TO COMBAT SUSPICION AND HOSTILITY MacDonald Visit Will Dramatize the Project--French Press Growing Increasingly Unfriendly in Last Few Days. By LYLE C.

WILSON (United Press Staff Correspondent) Wa.hlnston. Sept admluU'ratlon Is concerned DOW with tnoblliimg a public sentiment stron; cnoug i to override Influences tending to frustrate the natal limitations mote- -nl Court suggestions that bis nary In fluent In congress may be hostile, dlspauhej from abroad reporting sus plclo- in Paris and Romp, and efforts here tu make It appear there are sor- lous between President Hooinr and Prime Minister MacDonald over details of their tentallte cruls. limitation agreement, hate put the a Imlnlstratlon on guard President Hooter't radio addresi In he declared Ihere an almost universal prayer" that this effort at arms limitation shall succeed was dramatic answer to those who nre i 1 toward hit project. Secretary of i Stlmson thlt week look cos nix-in a of one feature ot the situation by ei vhaslzlng that Intltatlons to the propo five power natal conference will he Isiued by Oreat flrltaln alone, not Jointly with the United States The Irance Impression of Joint ac Uon hait'spread fears ot an Anglo- Amerl'-an entente In France and Italy. It It expected Ihe coming ttslt of Prime Minister MacDonald will dramatize the project and mobilize public sentl nent.

Meanwhile Investigation of the hlg propaganda n-tirltles of William II Shearer. Btartl-; today, Li the result ot eDorts by President Hooter to put forces to his program on the defeni ite Th tone of a reputable section of the 1 reach press has been Increasingly ca utlc since last Friday when the American terslon of Ihe Anglo-Araerl- ban understanding wat retealed here But Washington Is confident France, Ital) and Japan will accept Imminent intltiilons to discuss Natal llmlla tlon ind reduction. So far Iherc has been no otklence Editorial expres of. doubt and suspicion hate form i-uplred b- men responsible for Frenrn or Italian policies Fall-Faces Trial Again in Teapot Dome Oil Scandal Alfred Fall, former secretary of Interior. trill again on Oct.

In a District of Colombia court, at Washington, on chaws of bribery I connection with tbo Teapot Home til leases. Aboim are Kail (upper left) and sereral of those who hate been summoned as witnesses: Hear Admiral II. II Ilosseau (upper right), a member nf the adrlsorr commit tea of the Federal Oil Conservation Hoard; 11 Flnney (lower left,) first assistant tecretarr of Interior, Senator Walsh of Mon tana (lower rlshl). who exposed the Teapot Dome scandal LOSES FIGHT Wl Seven Hundred Shots Exchang cd in Battle This Morning in Lake Ontario. Hochester, N.

T. Sept biiJrcl shots were exchanged be an armored runner and coaat guard patrol boat on Lake On tarla today, thirty miles cast of Ituch eater port, reports to thU city said: Ktery atallablo coast gua craft at end of the lake has been lia at 'led to search for the r.un runner 4le hclief It -asy have Lecn crip- Ufil! Tell All She Knows of Hus- brnd's-Scheme (or Gigantt Swindle. JIarx ot k. Sept Waggoner. Charles Tellurldi.

-(UP)-JIri. bespectacled Delos Col. bank or, a In New York toJay to a federal authorltlet In unrarel- ling the Ingenious scheme engineered by her husband to swindle New York out of ISOO.OOO MM Waggoner, who came to New York with the consent of her bus-! band Ms lawyer. C. I).

Crump, of Den Ter. Col, toluntrlly appeared at the (ederal tullJmi yesterday to tell the federal grand Jury what she knows of her lusband'j alleged scheme lo get money from New York banks lo pay TelluriJ-i bank depositors and others ol hit Although the tpenl most ot the day In the ante chamber to the grand Jury loom, she did not actually testify Her story, which may bo told today, concerns the eanderlngs ot Ih' banker after obtaining ihe credit She met her huiband at Chejeaae. Wyo, after he bad left New York, and wat htm for a day or two Other witnesses before the grand Jury yesterday were Harry n. Miller, Waggoner's barber, and HUs France Carlson, 19-year-old clerk In tie Tel ank. Miss ecat for her employer the fake" tcletran which decelred the New York banks Into tit Ing U'agcpner the credit, allhonib sis had no Idea; It was said, aha waa aM Ing him la an Illegal schene.

It expected Waggoner himself Trill arrlte here In a fer days, he bating promised not to oppose the nmotal order. First, howeter. It li I tadentood he a brief stau hofnre the United ntuioner al Chfyenne. Wyo. tioi ginounced under command Mate Howard Vescy and carrjlng a c.ev ot three, put Into port here, carlr today, scarred, out of am unltlon and low i i fuel.

The plckc wan nearlng the end ot her patrol dawn today, Vesey reported ben she came upoi the rum runne Just off shore near Pullneytllle, Commands to faeate to were Ignorei and the coast guard c-aft opened fire with fore macMne gun The rum gunner, a fifty foot cabin attempted to flee and Vescy followed pouring round after round iito the hull ot the pursued boat. Pressed loo close, Ibe rum runn-r returned Iho fire nd approximately fifty jhots, presumably from rltlea or retoltern. raked the coast guard tcs- which firing 1 shots abandoned the chase returned to Itochester. Vcley reported thai Ihe'ram runner was built eipcclally (or Ihe smuggling irade, according lo Captain Nathan It McClane. commandant of the Sammer- tiile cnait goard station.

The craft wn painted black. It wat Just alter I o'clock when was about lo return" alter our regular patrol ot the coatt when I noticed a red light near to the thore. about tour miles ot PuUeneytllle. Veley said. "I hote to and waited.

Presently the red light turned to white and I heard the sosnd ot a motor. 1 We turned the searchlight on and swept the ahore until wo picked np the motlng objecl. which now had all llghtt doused. The cruiser was mot Ing away (rom the tbore and I bailed them. They didn't stop and I ordered a thot Ilred across her bows, had only machine tans aboard, loaded with tracer ballets.

"The shot didn't slop her ant I or Jered the goo crew to tight her hall We could IM the ballet! streaking through the darknets, hear against the tide and twiih Into the water. The coum of each ballet WM clearly traced by the ribbon of lire It behind It. "Wo kept alter the boat until we coatinted we oooldn't oterhanl It and onr ammunition wai almost ex blasted It wai then the boat retire- etj our tiro. Onr pin crewt iwept et. ery part ot tke boat with mtehlae lias, but the billet! last bounced off." Incorporate Man to Relieve Worry About Finances Chicage, Sept.

--At- of Frank Lloyd Wright, eccentric architect with a re- ord of domestic and financial difficulties, henceforth are to be handled by direetora of Frank Wright for which a charter was Issued at Springfield Attorney Samuel C. Kroom, ol Chicago, holder ot the common stock uld the board ol directors is composed of prominent men who believe Wright'c mind should be relieved of financial worrke. The company Is incorporjtid for tSO.COO preferred and (50 ccnv mon stack. Wright, at hit country estate near Spring Green, Wis, said. its simply a device to extend my WST FIVE YEARS Probe Broadened at Request of Senator Allen Believed to be Representing Administration Point of View.

SHEARER ATTORNEY ASKS PERMISSION TO TESTIFY Says His Client Merely Upheld Views of His Government al Geneva--Hear Testimony of Dardo. Washington, Sept. inrestigatlon Into lobbying aciltltlei of shipbuilding companies was broad cned today beyond alleged actlrlltes at the 192T (lenera conference to In elude all lobbying artltitles of shipbuilding companies for the list lite years The senate natal suk.Mmmlltro de elded to broaden tlio Inreitlgatlim at suggestion ot Senator Alien Upn, has, a member wno Is cener illy regarded representing Presl dent Hooter In the Intpstlgatlon Into obbying actltitles of William I) Shearer, self styled natal export Shortly after the morning sesMon of Shearer'a hearing opened Attorney Daniel F. Colilan. of New York, repnv tenting Shearer asVed that his client the flMt witness submit to the committee." be "that la tho face of charges ruadft against Shearer by the iresl lent and by Ki'natir Iloljlnon, Dem.

nn tho floor nf the aerial- tlut should be Rlten an opportunity what he did at Ceneta. Shearer did at that confer ones was to uphold the admlnlstra Ion In power In Its fight for parity at Chairman Sbortrldgr declined To ilaifa request and Cllnlun Ilardo president of the New York Shlpbulld if Co. was called as the first wit nets Sluarer sit In the front row. lie nattily drented In a blue suit In tore a red Mrlped tie and a illk lamlkirchlef projected from hln pock I One u( (ho drat bhorl UKC asked Ilardo was whelher he submit the company a records hate nothing to conceal," said Iinlu are here the reo.ue«t of tho and The Lindberghs, Flying South Happily married, of nurse, but alKaj-n up In tho air, thoio flying l.lnd berghj pictured as they dropped In on Washington en route to Miami. Fla.

where Ihey'ro lo start a 7000 mile air cruise, to South and Central and across Caribbean poalng beside plane they piloted from Now York. Lindberghs Start Blaming New Trail Lone Eagle Is Alone No Longer-Distinguished Passengers Aboard Big Mail Plane. Dy (SYLVESTER MAC DOWELL (United Press Staff Currispundent) Aboard Lindbergh Plane, Htpt 10 (U.I*.)-- The Pan American Alrwayi, plane piloted by Col. Charles A. l.luj bcrgh encountered bad alung Ibe northern coast of Cuba toe ler leatlng llatana at 12.17 m.

for Camaguey and Santiago A wiather report wjs rect'rid by wireless from Camaguey, warning ol a heaty squall to the rin i radio oiKrMor opened Ihe pilot and hantltd up Ihe inoaaL'e to l.md bergh The wai in cried nmptly to atold black ttorm cluudt a a l.ladberch aild the speed) r'cklvr are ready and willing to giro the can out tratel the storm, dodging the (immitteo all Information It desires I ills like a i on 4 Ic 'Ibi'l Hew Tort. (UP)-Todayi rw York n. CoUago WUU Soi bauialt waa pottyoaeil bo tanso of cold nttlur. will regard In Mr MK irt-r" I field. it Is the hurricane season (he I Rult.

Three jears ago. on Sept Miami i i i i i curred Textile Insurrection Case Ends Suddenly When J. Hugh Ball Escapes Jail. Marlon, Stpt, 10 J. Hugh Ilall, one of lit defsndanU la the textile "conspiracy and In surrcctinn- trial here, sawed his way out ot McDowell county Jail today.

Escape of the prisoner abruptly end ed the court proceedings When Informed ot the escape. Judge John II. Harwood declared mlitrUl. Three other prlsonen. Dot connected with the.

Insurrection case which grew out ot mill riots here lilt Ac gust, escaped with Rail Solicitor J. W. Pless, Jr, proi ecutor, said he woald announce later what disposition would be made of cases ot fifty four others arrested on Insurrection charges. Totk, Bept (O.P.) A young mtisecc.tr boy todsy dluppeir. with securities rained boy, Milton Walter, hi4 been Mat by hU R.

V. and eompaay. to QaanoUt Trut company on lowtr Brotdway ut obtain VTbllt it Um biBit DMUItl to twalt arrltil ot to- other of the the employe ttrtrHI at Ue kuk tke mewemei OF U.S. OFFICIAL Says His Ship Was Running Wilh Lights; Name and Port Is Pa'nted on Stern. Halifax.

Sept. McLcod of tho Canadian motor- Jblp Shawnee. which waa i'ielied by a United States coast guard patrol boat off New York harbor, denied today of American officials that his ship was running without lights and her name concealed His formal statement, ts well ae those of the teten members of tin Shawnee'e crew. taken by attor. neyt for forwarding to Ottawa.

The namj and hailing port were painted on the stern when the Shawnee wat launcod last year and the original paint la still there and caa bo read, Capt. Method declared "When the No It! (the coast guard boat) sighted ui. she turned la par- suit," the skipper nald. "We wen running snowing port and i larboard and matthead and with the Can adlan enilgn on the mainmast Tho No US came within ten yards and fired three thott. 'After a ol teteral mlnatet two more were fired at cloje rants, one piercing the hall and the other touching the rail on wheel house" HONORS PULASKI Albany, N.

BtryL I --flor. tlooeetelt yesterdiy pro- I clilmed Oct. 11 aa memorial day I (or General Culmer Pnlatkl, Po- I Ilih Ditrlot, who terted the Am- I erlcan durlnf the retola lion. tlatana. Cuba, Sept II (UP)--Col Charles A Lindbergh and his party Inauguratlnr: air mall a sertlce to Dutch Uulana.

arrlitd al 11 21 a today In their trl motored plane Irom Miami, Ha, The 210 milt trip across tlio Florida straights wat made In good time The pi me left Miami at a It waa sighted ottT Murro cattle al 11:10 a and catno down on tho field a few minutes lattr. A large crow gathered at the fltld waiting all morning to caUli a glimpse of Lindbergh, who It becoming an ac customed tlsitor here, and more espec tally to glimpse his bride Among those at tht field were hlcb Cuban officials. Including Col Julio Morales Cuello, representing Preslden derardo Machado; Rafael Hanchet Aballl, tecretary of commuolcttlons and other natal, army and aviation ot fleers. Und romitrlet at 8 55 a. today Tim big mall plane, which hrrE.li will uiu on his journey I until October 10, swung uff easily (rota Ilia airport and ttarted heading to oanls llaiana.

th er llrtt control slop on Iho route which opens air mall in i i i (lulana On this trail biasing flight, I.lnJ hi rch Ihe oiue "I.onii Eagle." wat not aliiim He had Ihe new member of romp my--Mrs Anne Llndbirgh --and a gmup of dUtlngjIshed gutsls I i Cli nn Curtis. nhii was one ot Inn nation's first commercial air plane Contrary to ot Ibe fifing col i one will he chronl (led ngiilarly from trail. Tho hlg equipped radio Llni Miami. Fla. Sept.

10 (tlP)-Col Cliarles A. Lindbergh started hU new trail blatlng trip to Central American ADMIRAL MCUX DEAD Duburr, IIartp4hlre. Hitljnd. Sept. Sir Helvetia Kali, admiral OritUa alri hen today.

wtu TT. International Will Dispose ot Herald-Traveler Securities for $7,000,000. notion. Sept. 10 (Ut')--The later national Paper axl Power company iu arranged lo tell lit UKreat In the Boston PibUlalaf oompxnr.

which ubllthet the Boston Htrald-Trattler, aa onnamed troop (or 17,000,000, It wu leaned at the paper coo otnoti today. ThU price repreteatt a profit to he InMnallonal Paper tad Power complny ot on IU orlflnal Intnlmeot, It wu etalM. It It understood that Tacktr An Ihoay and 'jjmpenjr and Eaatman DU Ion compaay toaei will ta offertai o' tecirltln a baUlnc con thren machlnn a raillii-thn Unit i i i lined any of his fatninis Tliere were nine pasiengirs beOdcs MM l.lmllicrgu Hi fore marling Und nmfi rred i officials and wont imr retvnt a roixtrts from along 'In- line of flight A stormi iad bien reported tho past few days rcpori Indicated the weithir (arnralile as far as San Juan. 1 nine ncludi-d Trljpp. i i ot Pan American Mra James Hal in gem ral "I the Pan Amerl ran Airways, Carles.

i ck; Angus, radio operator. MacDiwell. repn renting the Unltel Ted tht Press Tomornm Iho Khcdule callj for imps al Port I rlnce, Haiti. Sanlo Domingo and San Juin At Ihe a city Ihe part) will rbange to a two motored Sikorsky amphibian and on Sunday will atari for Paramaribo lo Intugurale air mall nrrtlrc between the United States anJ Dutch Uulana An oternlght stop will be made at Port of Spain. Trinidad, enroute to Paramaribo In (lying from Sin Juan to Dutch (lulaua LlodLorgh.

for the first time, will operate a plane equipped for both radio nondlng aad reroltlng He ex pecU lo maintain contact with at least two ground stations Police Investigate Theory That Bomb Explosion Started In Luxurious Interior ot Gay Cabaret. PATRONS LEAP IN MAD SCRAMBLE FOR SAFETY, Silken Draperies Carry Flames Quickly to All Portions of Structure Barring Practically All Exits. Detroit. Mich. Sept.

Uhlle llw orchestra played a lilting Hpanlih tango 100 guests In Iho fiihliMiablo Study club, a cabaret, worn surprise! by thouts ot -fire" early today anj before they could n- rape it-tentecn per-tons were killed aai fifty Ilia Injured Within a few hours after the Ira- gtdy, Ihe proprietor nt Ihe cabaret, Martin Cohen was arrested and held on a chargo of negligent homicide. A cigarette carelessly tossed amone Urn gay haiiglngi was considered a Ilkvly explanation of Ilia fire atlcr a bombing Iheory had been dismissed. The Study club Is a three story etructuro. rtsembllng an ordlnarr dwelling For three yeara It hta been one. of the popular after theatre rendettous The fall ncaion had been undir way only a fow days and 100 persons were gathered at tallies about the "rrno room" The minute tho Ore ttarlod eating at Ihe Iriglle draperies.

confusion rrotalled Kteryone tlarted running madly about. Some madn their way lo the root and leaped. Many ot are In hospitals with broken legt Four of the club employes talhnlly In tlatn off One plted; othert pleaded for or. der. four bodies were found later, burned The one iimall entertainers' room was both a Irap ana a safety bodloi.

hu Idler on Ibe Door, were found when flromen finally broko Ihrough the flames and orcr Ihn charred slalrj Soteral were deid Some were trampled. All iad been otercomw by i i The kitchen help was In tunic when alters ran In and rIM Ore They Joined Urn fashionably dreised onn In ft king safely. Threii were starlet! but one theory thai ponllily a hnmb had teen pxnlrHliM a jra. lotiH7 motltt- was b) oil. (Ill i Dotrolt.

(UP)-- A Ions Urn which rriclltd anil smpped through It. i. ullktii banjIOKs ol of Detroit'! most eirluilto nlsht clubs look at leant 16 and Injured The Interior of the SUMy flub, on Vernor lilebway In cm ler of the district, wu hollnwed out by flames as 101 a i i nitrons dlted far i leaping from windows ami ri.mnj( lrok( lionet to eirape An early i i at the (Continued on Fourth PJJJ LATEST Jackion Mich--Harold Green, SI. farmer lltlng three mllea touthweat ol Parmi. killed hU wife with a ham mer In the kitchen of their farm home today, set Urn to the bars anl then banged himself.

Washington--The census bureau today announced appolatmMt ol super- Tlton to direct taking of the ll0 cen tuj. They Included: William W. Spencer. Osweco, M. Joha R.

Powera. Ilochetter, Joseph S. Mil- debranl, Sharon. Pa. Dorli Ray Dowers.

Puaitutawney, PJ New Toik-The will ot Frederick F. Proctor, Ihiatre owner, teatei IM.OOO to the Actor'j Kund ot America, a ben- etoleat organliatloa. It wu dUclosftd today. Proctor, who died exrly la Sen- ember, wat laid to recelted for the cbtlo of New York and New Jersey thettree he eold li An- rut. CLIAHIMQ OIL CLOTH T.

cleaa oil clelh. It wlfh w)t- Ify a cleai ctotn Says His Country Was Ncveq Better Governed Than Under President Machado. Waihlngtnn, --Ail. tcrss reporU on tho admlnlstratloi ot President llacha.ln of Cuba, receited by the senate foreign relations committee were described as 'banal, tu'gar and calumnious" In a statement hfrr by Jose Itaron Cuban charge d'affaires The statement taid Cuba "is l.ijjy acre than ever on the road to progrcsa and dtllUalUm" Secr.tar.' of State Silmwn fan biro. latlled by the committee to appear before It on Wednesday to dlscuit am ing other things, report! thxt iVmerlcao property rlthtt hate tloUted (if the Cabaa admlnlstntlax DOUBLE SPECULATION Montreal, Sept.

20 tad Normia Mtmird. kmhen sentenced la Dec. by ArchtmeauU In ihe court ol eocb. aHer they ktd beea tojnd gilllf. ot Ike manfer ot Karl Durham, a eaak dunaf I arn a month!.

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