The Miami Herald du lieu suivant : Miami, Florida • 18

HERALD TELEPHONE 23123 THE HERALD MIAMI FLORIDA HERALD TELEPHONE 23123 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1928 PAGE EIGHTEEN SOUTH FLORIDA BUSINESS AND PROFES SIONAL WOMEN MEET AT FORT MYERS PRESIDENTS SECRETARY PRESENTS A FISH STORY gaperiar Win- Kept 8 JP) Fishing stsrfea shoat President Caalidge and weathers ef hia staff have been airraid this Sam-an bat the prlsa far the beet ef tha eeaeea treat today ta Everett Sanders secretary ta the presides! The farmer ladiaaa eeagress-maa beaked a bass aad maaea-vrred It lata shalletr water The flab feellag a little alack fa the Una laagcd gaickly Tha llaa saaped hat apparently the bass was aat aware he was free aad lay metlealeas tired aat by the flaht The aerretary waded lata tha water aad caaght It la his hands It weighed three poands RIVAL OF CAPONE SOUGHT IN KILLING Police Meet Ominous Silence After Chicago Outbreak CHICAGO Sept 8 (JP) Tha ominous silence of gangland invariably the aftermath of gang tonight bid the direct motiv for the killing yesterday a block from the "world's busiest comer" of Tony Lombaido gang leader and right band man of "Scarfac Al" Capone Chicago gangster The police had half a doxen plausible theories on of which was that Lombardo was killed by hirelings of the powerful Aiello gang rivals of Capone and Lombardo for the north side liquor business as well aa for supremacy In Italian organizations Anthony Calafiore a member of the Aiello ring waa the man sought in the belief that ha was one of the killers Another theory was that Lombardo's death was in revenge for the assassi- nation two months ago of Frankie Gale Brooklyn gangster with whose death police had tried to link Capone An Inquest into Lombardo's death today struck a snag almost before It started when the widow was found to be In a state of collapse and nnabla to attend It was adjourned while the police searched for other relatives who might Identify the body Tbe Utiftliiea and Prafeastonnl WomfR'i club of aonih Florida met at Fort Mrm over Labor ay for a two-dnjr buslnraa araalon A banquet Snudny eeniafr lth talk by Judge Kriltb JU Atkinaon of Miami and Ktlxubetb Barnard poatiuiatreaa of Tampa wnn held at the Franklin Arm Hotel Monday waa apent at the Inkier Hotel at Fort My era beach nhere the above nere taken In the Miami croup at the left are front row left to right! judge Atklnaon Ellen Corey and Jeaalo ijuke Hlchardas bark row dean Battle Laura Needles Helen Marra Mary Mirra Inea Smith Ines Southerland and Marion Saylea Center croup atnnitin: left to right Charlotte Ltwli of Coral bflbleu and Mra A Yarena of Sebrlng Flat renter row Johnnie Cnmeron Corat ableat Joaephlne Cleveland Hollywood! Mabet Meat Coral Gableas Kata Wolfe Sebrlngi bottom row Charlotte A arena Sebring and Virginia Wolf of Sebring Fort Myera group at right front row Fruneea Smith Hay Honre Ethyl Chambers Kate Hobertsi back row Charlotte laoth Kate Jeffcott Mary Wagonhorat Sara Doaglasa and seated Lillian Manctcl EXPERT ADVOCATES AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Take the War Into the Other Back Yard Rear Admiral A Moffett Advises That Can Only Be Done By the Use of Airplanes and Ocean Landing Places He Says Membership Nears 500 As Leate Clause Is Made More Flexible At Meeting Miami apartment house ownera'v will not be bound by Iron-clad ru)N forcing them to rent their apartment only by the season or on a yearly basis if they Join the Miami Apart ment Association Inc which waa or ganlsed yeateiday at a meeting In the courthouse building to carry out the plan proposed by Major Sewell for renting apartments in tha North in an Intensive campaign to increase the number of winter vis tore This explanation was given per eons at tha meeting in answer to statements that apartment owners and managers Interpreted the plan as contemplating only a season rental from November and only a yearly lease to Miamians starting November 1 The proposed plan waa mad more flexible and owners and man agers will be urged to rent that way but may do as they sea best The association formally was or ga nixed a charter being adopted and owners of almost 500 apartment units signing the association contract to become members Contracts for die-plaj- advertisements in the booklet to be published and distributed through the North were signed by owneis of 24 buildings who will bs entitled to half and full page spaces All own ers who joined the association will be given listing in the booklet for 25 cents per- apartment Louis Hamel chairman of the organization committee was named president of the association to serve until the first annual meeting tha latter part of October or first of November Other officers named in tha charter application which will be presented to a Circuit court judge this week for legal sanction are: Charles A Mills vice president: Luther Hatch secretary Moore treasurer Victor Tatham Lon Worth Crow and Roy A Morrison directors The charter provides that the association will be a mutual co-opeia-tive non-profit corporation to provide such services to members aa will place the apartment business on a stable basis Powers are given tha association to buy and sell property or securities handle contracts draw up legislation to assist apartment owners and managers assist them with legal counsel and to supply confidential information regarding undesirable tenants The association may purchase euppliea on a co-operative basis for its members may lease or own buildings and may collect fees dues and other compensation for services Duration of the association is perpetual Meetings are to be held as specified when by-laws are adopted and a quorum must consist of at least 25 members Membership may be had by any person over 21 of the white race owning and operating apartments who agrees to pay the required fees When the association holds its first annual meeting which will be at a time when a full trial has been given the plan for season and yearly rentals it then will be decided if the success of the work will warrant continuation or another plan is needed to bring success Mr Hamel told the meeting "If by November 1 agents iu the North have not made the impression hoped for on the season basis we will see if tome olheit plan can be Membership in the association will not stop owners from renting apartments on a monthly basis but they were urged to rent as many as possible on a j'early basis thus reducing the number of apartments in competition for tenants Speakers said that the apartment business would be placed on a stable business bans only when the same rent was charged the jear and a great number of apartments were not available in the summer for practically no rent while the rent was increased in the winter Creation of a demand to use the supply of apartments here was seen as the major objective of the association which will continue to carry out a rental plan each j-ear to assist apartment owners Appropriation of 515000 last week by the city commission toward the project was with the understanding that the money be used as a revolving fund each j'ear In signing the contract apartment owners promised to pay a 15 per cent commission on all monies received through operation of the plan Tha association will receive five per cent of this sum to reimburse the 515000 fund Jimmie Income From Royalties Is Between $73 000 and $100000 Yearly ir irrFEisis mi SMI WrN Mr tlM MwM Jimmie Rodgrtrs is in a class alt by himself being America's only blue yodeler Ha la one of tha men that fame orartook overnight and from a hum la trainman ha now la making Victor records from which ha receives royalties of from 178900 to 100 yearly The amazing thing about Mr Rodgers la that hia Blue Yodel record No 1 Is said to have outsold any other record ever made and la an original composition both in music and linea and Mr Rodgers cannot read music never etadied music and doas not know ena note from an other I heard him yodef yesterday at the Olympia Theater where he la filling air engagement of aeveral days and tv aa delighted with Ms performance Afterward I talked with him In the room while he washed the louge off his cheeks and emerged a leal fellow after his yodeling was 'done He has a pleasing personality tand is very genuine and interesting 'and still rather astonished himself at his good fortune Although he had a rather uncer tain bringing up Mr Hodgera is qutt at ease and well poised He waa born at Meridian Miss His mother died when ho waa four and hia father who was a railroad man on the track 54 years married again Evidently he liked his stepmother for ha said his father "had tha bad luck to lose her and they wete again left alone" Hia father took aa extra gang to use his own words and worked a bunch of negroes Jimmie was put In school if one happened to be iu reach and he earned money by carrying water to the negroea at 5 cents a day Later he became a laborer and worked for 5123 a day and became assistant foreman receiving a raise of pay and drew then 51-35 per day When he reached the age of 15 or 15 ho became dissatisfied working with his father and got himself a job on the New Orleans and Northeastern railway At 15 he waa a brakeman and worked aa such a long time He was the most popular passenger biakemsn on the line because he waa neat and courteous Then in 1515 he met a girl She wss pretty and her name waa Carrie Williamson In April 1920 they Veie married "She's the finest little kiddo In the world" he told me except of course their little 7-yearold daughter Carrie Anita Rodgers "I got fired once for fighting" Mr Rodgers continued "and then 1 got dissatisfied and Quit my job and came to Florida That was 111 1925 and of course I expected to get rich I did not get rich but went to work again aa brakeman on the Florida East Coast railway and worked there nine months" Then hia health failing he went back home He waa out of work and the doctor had frightened him into going West He next went to Arisons and got himself a job on the Southern Pacific but the work waa too heavy and he came back to Mls-aiaalppl his old home Later he went to Asheville with his guitar and played In road houses making friends among the people he met About this time radio station WWNC was opened and he had a chance to broadcast The Victor record manager heard him over the radio In New York and came to sec him and at Bristol Va- Tenn lie made his first record Babv His second record was "The Soldier's In which he wrote the story of a bov friend Sammy Williams and hia sweetheart Nettie Grace Williams was killed overseas during the World war I made my first record and proved to the Victor people I was a better starter than the average record artist they had me make two more records one was the Blue Yodel No 1 nationally known as the world's beat seller In The reverse of this record is Out In the Mountain" The Bine Yodel took the world by storm and was bis own composition "Around New York I am rated as the best composer I suppose I hi continued "for they pay nte more than anyone else for my songs" Mr Rodgers now is working on a song to be called "Carrie Anita and Die" his own family1 trinity "We three are the greatest pals on earth me and those two he assured me with beaming eyes He is here tor a vacation The Rodgers family now is living in Washington at the suggestion of his managers to be near the Victor people When he finished his own story Mr Rodgers asked me If 1 would be Interested In a hobo story" It's clean from start to finish" he explained before I could reply It happened on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad when he was braking "We were going up a long hill just about sun down The conductor and I were sitting in the rupola on a box car The conductor saw a tramp in a box car and said to be there's a tramp In that car I want you to go and pull him The conductor was a hard-boiled rule-book conductor" he explained "So I goes over walking the train which was still In motion and gets to the one the tramp was In I said to him have to get off this train The conductor says you can't ride on He pulls out a pistol about two and a halt feet long and says you go right back to the caboose where you belong for going to right pal' I replied There's no argument about that I'll go "When I got back to the cupola the conductor said did you put him I answered didn't he asked because the boy is a friend of mine In fact my kin people and I afford to put my kin people off and make them walk "He got very mad and said he'd go and put him off I laughed in my aleeve and said ahead Cap throw him off If you want Well he goes over and must have had the same argument I had for he came hack to the caboose right away I said Captain did you put him off' I didn't" he said I asked since I thought about he replied think that tramp is kin to me Nebraska State Committee" Power To Remove Mrs Gollfas Is Questioned BY THE ASSBCIATED MESS 1 LINCOLN Neb Sept 8 The question whether a political party state committee has the power to remove a member of the national committee has been raised in the case of Dr Jennie Califaa of Omaha who prior to the nomination of Governor Smith for the presidency served actively as Democratic national committeewoman for Nebraska The Democratic state committee assumed that it had power when at a meeting yesterday it displaced Dr Callfas and selected as her successor Mrs Ryan of Grand Island The committee justified its action on the ground that Dr Callfas had publicly announced that she had repudiated Governor Smith and since that time had been making addresses in support of Herbert Hoover The legality of her removal has been attacked on the ground that the jurisdiction of the state committee is questionable as she is or was a member of the national committee which it was urged is the only body with power to act It also was claimed in behalf of Dr Callfas that she was elected by the Democratic voters of the state and that this source of political power is higher than any other that exists in the party since most of the committee members are thus elected It was not clear that any formal demand had been made that Dr Callfas resign or that she formally declined to resign She was quoted as saying however that she did not care to send her resignation to National Chairman Raskob whom she Is said to have designated as a Republican Her bolt of the Smith candidacy was based on her belief that he has been disloyal to his party in his attitude toward prohibition are forced" she said "to fight for principles which the Democratic leader of the party will not back and we must look to Hoover for the championing of our cause The modification of the eighteenth amendment means its complete nullification and it is an insult to American intelligence that we should give up the victoiy and subject our home life to the miseries of the pre-Voistead JURY WILL HEAR DETAILS OF FIGHT Five Men Bound Over At Preliminary Hearing Five men said -to have been implicated in a fight two miles west of Fulford last Sunday were bound over to the Cuminal court yesterday by Henry I Oppenborn justice of the peace when they were given a preliminary hearing All of the men were charged with assault and batery and bond fixed at 5500 each The men were Jack Hays Bill Cook Thomas Spring James Little and Harvey Gaskins all of Miami Joe Moseley said to be deputy marshal at Fulford was released Gaskins and Little were both wounded slightly during the fight Gaskins and Cook made bond yestei-day and the remainder were remanded the sheriff FLORIDIAN IS KILLED RIDING MOTORCYCLE ORLANDO Fla Sept 8 (IP) Louis Kilgore on of Samuel IL Kilgore real estate dealer was fatally injured late today when the motorcycle he was riding left the road and crashed into a wire fence here He died at a local hospital THREE ARRESTED IN RAID Three alleged race horse bookmakers were arrested when Policemen Hodge and Kendall 1222 Twelfth street and William Wagner 179 Thirtieth street Thej' were released on 5100 bonds each s-' c- T-Or- Elevators To Operate To Twenty-fourth Floor Of New Courthouse Building Taking advantage of elevator service 4o the twenty-fourth floor of the courthouse hundreds of persons yesterday afternoon looked from the tallest building south of Baltimore upon Metropolitan Miami Hundreds of persons who failed to look from the observation balcony Thursday when the building formally was dedicated will be allowed to make the trip today One elevator or two if necessary will be in operation Cecil Watson county commisisoner and custodian said The building which stands 335 feet high has been accepted from the contractors with the exception of the electric light fixtures which will be inspected this week The electrical work has been done by the American Electric Company of Miami The contract price was between 535000 and 540000 Jail work In the several tower stories was accepted by the commissioners last week from the Stewart Iron Works of Covington Ky fICAL CONDI! Operation Performed To Relieve Effects of Skull Fracture Suffered By Boy Scout The condition of Biliy Pierce 15 of Riviera drive Coi'al Gables who was shot accidentally following a meeting of Boy Scouts troop No 7 In Coral Gables Friday night remained critical early this morning Attendants at Riverside hospital said that Billy whose skull was fractured by the shot from atuold musket was conscious only at times An operation was performed early yesterday to remove the depression of the skull on the brain Only immediate members of his family were permitted to see him during the day but scores of his friends and fellow Scouts called at the hospital to learn his condition Dr Warren Quillian chairman of the troop committee said that the committee made an investigation of the shooting and found it to be purely accidental He said that the rules of the troop are that no member is permitted to bring firearms to meeting and that the rule was violated Friday night Roy Kinpoits scoutmaster who was at the meeting he said was a competent troop master having been in the Boy Scoutmovement for more than 16 years At no time during his career has an accident of this nature occurred among his troopers The accident occurred following the meeting at a time when the hoys were supposed to be tn their way home the committee found AIRPORT MANAGER IS KILLED BINGHAMTON Sept 8 Yal Miner 28 manager of the Elmira Airport was killed instantly late today when two ail planes collided during a race at an air derbv being held here Miner's plane crashed from an altitude of 200 feet to the ground and overt urned Defense Id Kellv-Mellus Trial Says Prosecution Intimidated Physician tir SNITE0 HEWS LOS ANGELES Sept 5 Leo Kelly butcher boy Romeo accused of murdering Mrs Myrtle Melius his 41-year-old society woman sweetheart will take the stand in his own defense next Tuesday This was announced by defense attorneys at the adjournment of court at noon today Kelly his attorneys stated probably will be on the stand the greater part of the day on direct examination atotrneys today declared thev would press charges that a defense witness waa Intimidated by the state The defense charged In an affidavit that Dr Patee a witness for Kelley had been threatened by an inveatigator from the district attorney's office The investigator It was claimed by tha defense had informed Dr Patee that if the latter testified in Kelley's bebalf the district attorney's office would reopen an old asserted murder charge against the physician Accuse Prisoner of Threatening Nurses With Pistol After Story of Sick Relative Months of investigation and search ended yesterday when George Bing special investigator for the attorney and A McLendon city detective arrested Norman Small- 29 of Fourth avenue and Sixty-first street Hialeah who police say has been identified by two women as the man who attacked them in Metropolitan Miami during the past several months Both of the women are nurses They told police they entered Small's automobile after he had made telephone arrangements for them to care for a relative who he said was ill Both women said Small drove to rural sections of the county and at the point of a pistol attacked them One of the attacks took place Friday night and the other more than a year ago The prisoner told police that he had been ill the insane asylum at Chattahoochee Fla and that hia mind is affected at intervals since he was struck by a baseball bat when a boy He denied any knowledge of the attacks One hour after his arrest Vernon Hawthorne state's attorney announced that the spring term grand jury now recessed will reconvene tomorrow at 2 for the purpose of investigating the charges against Small The arrest followed an all-day search by Joe Jenkins city detective and followed up through the day by-Guy Reeve chief of police and Scarboro chief of detectives NEW STUDEBAKERS ARE IMPRESSIVE Fourteen Models In Parade Along Principal Miami Streets Fourteen new model Studebaker automobiles selected and assembled from the stock of the Wellborn Phillips Corporation local Studebaker dealers were taken in a parade Saturday afternoon and were driven in a unified procession thiough the principal streets of Miami Miami Beach and Coral Gables The parade attracted unusual attention Included among the Studebaker models in the parade were the new President Eights Commanders Dictators and Erskine The Studebaker roadster and- sedan models aie identical with those that recently established a record at the Atlantic City Speedway by traveling 30090 miles in less than 27000 minutes EXPLORERS BACK TO MAINE COAST McMillan Expedition Returns After Months In Arctic CHRISTMAS COVE Maine Sept (IP) Delayed nearly 24 hours by a broken boom caused by strong winds and thick coast fog the Arctic schooner Bowdoin arrived here todav bearing Lieut Commander Donald MacMillan and the Rawson Field Museum expedition Escorted by a coast guard patrol boat and a Portsmouth steamer bearing welcomers the Bowdoin received the greeting shriek of whistles while a group of friends on shore waved handkerchiefs to the party returning after 15 months of Arctic observation and exploration STUDENTS FAIL TO SHOW' INTEREST IN POLITICS NEW HAVEN Conn Sept 8 Students at Yale cate little about political affalis This is the statement made today in a report by Prof Milton Conover of the political science department on a question sent out in the spring to 1037 students in the academic department of the university They were asked questions on politics but only 329 took the throuble to answer the questions According to a summary of the answers 23 had visited congress 52 state legislatures 27 city councils and 16 town or village governments BRITISH AVIATORS MISSING LONDON Sept Pilot Officer Samuel Hatton Lieut Charles Booth and Telesraphist Edmund Grighon ati of the Roval Air Force have been missing since they started a flight over the North sea Thursday the fire of great guns of the battle ships against targets beyond the horizon Then we have our fighting aircraft These perform the aame mission as anti-aircraft guns mounted on the decks of surface with this great difference: fighting aircraft can reach enemy aircraft at ranges and in conditions where conventional anti-aircraft gunfire is impotent But to render these services in full measure continuously to our fleet far at sea we must have floating landing fields on which to re-fuel our planes and supply them with additional ammunition when needed All we ask for is this: Put us on an equality in this respect with any possible enemy You may ask this question: would happen to one of these carriers if she were pursued and attacked by faster enemy cruiser?" Here's the answer: Take our experiment aircraft carrier the Langley She's an old remodeled ship converted from the collier Jupiter for experimental purposes But experimental craft that she is there is no cruiser afloRt that would dare tackle the old Langley under some conditions And it is better national defense to fight battles far from our homeland instead of on our doorsteps The best defense of all Is to get within striking distance of the enemy's theater of mobilization then strike! To do this we must be able to carry planes near to the lines and then release them striking before he can take off and destroy us But just as supremacy on the surfate is not decided by the initial salvo of a ship's main batteries so supremacy in the air cannot be decided by an initial flight of planes There must be a means for reloading planes just as there is for reloading guns The aircraft carriers the landing field of the sea is the answer You hear much talk of the so-called contest for supremecy between the battleship and the airplane There is no biuh thing The real contest is between the gun and the airplane What is the gun? A long metal tube varying in size in which compressed powder is exploded thus projecting a projectile toward a target It is several hundred yeais old and it has been the main w-eapon of nations since its development because it was the weapon whuh permitted throwing destructive blows to the fartherest distance from the main base of operations from ships at sea It is practically perfected now' and is capable of not much greater performance than it played on land and sea in the World war It is comparatively costly and its life is very short especially in the platform is necessary the gun carriage on land and gun supports on shipboard And even to make the gun effective at the long range now used vve have to have airplanes aloft to direct their fire But what is the airplane its new rivaly? Like a gun it is in the first place a device lor launching a smashing blow against a target The chief difference is that it has a striking range many times that of the gun And remember that ability to outrange an enemy either in a prize fight or a naval battle is a tremendous advantage But in addition an airplane can do many things that a gun cannot It has the advantage of youth being but a quarter-century old and developing rapidly And it is comparatively cheap to build In naval operations we use it for transportation when need be again as a high observation post from which to observe an enemy's movements and so warn our own fleet likewise to spot our gun fire We can lav huge smoke screens with it we can launch toi pedoes with it vve can search out and sink submarines with it Used as a weapon of a ship any ship large enough to provide a landing platform it can do all the things that other weapons used in the past can do in some few cases not so well perhaps but in many cases far better than older weapons get the impression that an airplane carrier is an auxiliary vessel It is a powerful fighting ship just as surely as a gun carrier or a torpedo carrier is a fighting ship It is possible to carry and to launch on initial flight a large number of aircraft from vessels already in Jong-established surface operations from tankers destroyers cruisers battleships But in average sea and battle conditions such aircraft can be used only for one flight From time to time it will be necessary for our planes to re-fuel and icplenish ammunition gun ships cannot in the presence of the enemy cease firing long enough to hoist planes out of the water even if the sea is smooth enough for the planes to land safely on the surface which always the case That's another reason we need sufficient aircraft carriers: so that the air forces may serve the fleet vv ithout the fleet having to cease operations and nurse one of its parts Even though we should attain equalitv with foreign nations in aircraft this iu itself would not mean equality in effective air effort at sea unless there is a-o equality in facilities necessary to keep the airplanes in the air in battle We hear talk about aviation as a separate arm of national defense People seem widely to get the impression that naval aviation is something different from the navy It isn't never has been never will be can't be Naval aviation is just as surely just as wholly navy as naval nery is navy It's a weapon which By BEAR ADMIRAL A MOFFETT CBitf BrM Atrfiaticl Unite Statn Navy At Tala ta Ckarlit Brawn- Par wo WASHINGTON Sept 8 If we have to go to war why sit on our own doorstep and put up a few umbrellas? Why not go out and fight to protect ourselves? If we must fight let us carry the operation into someone else's back yard In these days you can't fight effectively without airplanes and if you're going to fight with airplanes got to take them along with your fighting ships Today our navy has fine airplanes keen skillful pilots and is backed by a rapidly growing aircraft industry which is standing on the solid foundation of scientific knowledge built by the unceasing efforts of our navy and military forces We can build a reasonably large number of airplanes quickly in war That's true But what we don't have and build quickly in time of war is landing fields which we can put out in the middle of the ocean to provide fuel and ammunition and supplies for the planes The job is to keep itself In fit condition to fight anywhere and everywhere on the seven seas and it must take airplanes with it T'ou can't operate airplanes without landing fields and service stations any more than you can operate automobiles without garages and service stations All this talk about transoceanic flights meaning that transoceanic air raids are likely to become common is futile Gertrude Ederle and seveial others swam across the English channel but that doesn't prove that an invad-lng army' of soldiers with anus could do the same thing If we want airplanes to defend Nevy York we put a landing fieid near New York we base our defending airplanes at Chicago or San Ftan-cisco do we? If vve want to protect our commerce on the ocean we must keep protect ng forces near at hand during the journey You cannot protect them with airplanes based on shore It's a whole lot further across most of the oceans than It is from New York to San Francisco There any' smooth fields out in the ocean If we want airplanes to be of any use there got to put landing fields there and what vve call aircraft carriers and why the navy must have aircraft carriers why we are asking congress for five new ones to fill up the tonnage which the limitations arms treaty authorizes us to build and operate When a seaplane took off from a platform on the French liner lie de France 450 miles at sea and flew Into New York with the mall a few weeks ago some persons had nightmares and' asked themselves: it be horrible If enemy planes bombed New- York?" Please note that this plane came from a ship not from France Y'es it would But we would recover Japan had the greatest earthquake in history a few years ago but she is strong today The fire razed San Francisco Her citizens arose and built a finer metropolis than ever A flood ravaged our Mississippi Valiev but cotton will grow there again We recover quickly from loss of life and damage to pioperty' The greatest menace which an enemy could offer us would be the danger of cutting off our trade routes communication with those far world corners which supply us with basic raw' materials of imlustiy Take just one commodity rubber Suppose that an enemy fleet captured eveiy vessel bringing it to America What would be the result? First we would consume surplus supplies That gone industry after industry which uses the crude material would have to shut down Every" tire center of course would throw its tens of thousands out of work Transportation systems depending on rubber supplies w'ould weaken and die More men thrown out of work Our lines of the telegraph and cable radio and telephone would decay and finally collapse from lack of necessary replenishment of supplies And thousands of minor industries which use rubber as a basic commodity would be forced to shut doors Hundreds of thousands being thrown out of work and starvation facing entire cities bread riots would sweep the land City would be cut off from city No communication no transportation our great civilization would eventually collapse because an enemy had blockaded one basic commodity from our ports and without dropping a bomb on our shores But if such a blockade should come about in war time not one but a score of basic commodities would be seized before they reached our harbors and our civilization would crumble all the mi-e quickly We maintain a navy to keep our over-seas commerce going We must have a navy strong enough to keep our trade routes open National defense coastal defense alone Coastal guns and shore-based aircraft will keep troops from landing on our shores but how much better never to let them reach our shores and they wont protect our goods and men journeying across the sea Both of these are navy jobs We can't fly bombing planes acioss the ocean under their own power Maybe some time in the distant future but not today nor for years to come And other nations can't fly bombing planes across the oceans to our shores not et fine to consider the national defense problems of the next generation but our problem is to defend the nation now so that there'll be something for the next generation to defend If we have to go to war why sit on our own doorsteps and put up a few umbrellas? get out and go after the enemy not wait for him to come to us To be able to do that we must have a navy adequately equipped in every and that today means a navy as strong as the artns limitations conference permits us to have Is our navy up to the strength which that international arms conference agreed it should be? I'll answer for one very vital part of the navy its aviation: It is not in one great essential the possession of those landing fields of the sea which we call aircraft carriers and which are an essential part of all naval operations be it battleships or cruisers or what not By -international agreement we have a right to 135000 tons of aircraft carriers Today we have only 66000 tons embodied in just three cai riers the old Langley an experimental ship which is so slow' she can't keep up with the fleet and the Lexington and the Saratoga Great Britain has six carriers! And Japan three We asked congress in the last session to give up our full tonnage of aircraft to let us build five more of 13300 tons each and for the addition of necessary planes to provide 75 operating planes for each of these five carriers We should have 100 more operating planes (that is four each) for the 25 light cruisers which our program contemplates will be in commission at the completion of the building program Then we must have additional training planes required to train additional pilots to man our increased air activities Here is what vve ask the nation to give us so that the navy may be kept fit to fight: Five new airciaft carriers 759 new airplanes of all tj pes We ask this so that the navy may have full power to keep our trade routes op5n Our very existence as a nation depends on this and its the navy's job to keep communication open with the world We have a fine nucleus for efficient air effort in the navy but we yet been given the necessary facilT ities to be fully effective to play our role effectively as a component branch of our sea defenses because flying fields are necessary to keep our airplanes in the air at sea Here is what can do at sea with planes If we have the necessary aircraft carriers to accompany the fleet carriers which will serve as landing fields for the replenishment of fuel and ammunition "This is what we are actually doing in a small way in the fleet every day even with planes assigned to gun-oarrj ing ships But if we haven't specially built ships which will let our planes land on board for a new load of bombs or fuel or ammunition vve can tie our planes in action only once because we have no means to reload after the first shots are fired and we must be 100 per cent effective Scouting airplanes serve as mobile lookout stations to extend the range of vision( of our surface vessels and permit them to observe clearly what is going on bejond the horizon or behind opposing advanced forces of an enemy fleet "The man who wins in battle Is the man who knows going on on the other side of the Our bombing planes enable the ship using them to strike the enemy at approximately 10 times the range that is possible with ordinary gun fire Heavy bombs are equivalent to major calibre gun projectiles: light weight bombs aie equivalent to intermediate gun projectiles and bombing operations against submarines have the same effect as depth charges dropped from destroyers Bombs which drop in the danger zone near the sides of ships and explode beneath the water in reality are mines Thus one bombing plane can serve half a dozen different purposes A half dozen torpedo planes each carrying two mens can launch a torpedo attack just as effective as can a conventional torpedo vessel The difference is that with the planes onlv a dozen men are placed iu jeopardy from defending gun fire while the ship from which they come stajs out of range With the ordinary torpedo vessel the whole ship with the ship's company is placed in jeopardv By using smoke-laying aircraft vve can quickly and effectively lay smoke screens to hide the movements of our fleet do it faster than conventional' surface ships and without endangering hundreds of lives and risking millions of dollars in sea pow er With observation planes we direct HAIL STORM HITS NEBRASKA CROPS Heavy Loss Reftorted In 'Area Near Hastings HASTINGS Neb Sept 8 (IP) The worst hail storm In central Nebraska's history may cause entire crop losses to hundreds of farmers in this section Hailstones six in hes deep yesterday-left fields covered with ice in a five-mile strip from Guide Rock to the Platte river north of Trumbull and Hansen Six inches of rain accompanied tha storm over the same area which last jear suffered extensive crop disasters from hail storms MISS RON BERG TO MED Mr and Mrs Charles Kronberg of 1345 Fifth street are announcing the engagement of their daughter Anna to Charles Ludwig of Jacksonville GREEK PREMIER RECOl KRIG ATHENS Sept 8 Premier Yen- izelos a suffered from the dengue plague epidemic in Greece was making steady progress toward recovery Ifis latest temperature reading 1 Eleventh street Fred Carselle laided an establishment at 117 First street yesHeiday More than 50 patrons in the place left quietly when the police raid stopped operations Those arrested were Perkins 148 was 986 Wait! At the first sign of a headache ward it off with Bayer Aspirin This wonderful antidote for pain relieves a headache at its height but why suffer an hour or more before you use it? Or endure any of the aches and pains which a Bayeir tablet could dispel in a jiffy? It does NOT affect the Heart Physicians tell you there is no I harm in taking Bayer Aspirin freely or in giving it to children and physicians know All drugstores with proven directions Bayer is the genuine Aspirio if the trade mark of Barer Moan factum of Moooacetlcaclcteater of BaiicyUcacnJ the navy must have in naval missions in naval battles at sea The navy has built naval aviation It uses it every day in its routine operations as a matter of course and is using It to an ever-increasing extent just as rapidly as it can be adapted to sea-going activities as rapidly as we can provide landing platforms from which to operate On every side we hear the call for aviation and more aviation All the operating forces at sea join in that call because they have learned in the hard school of active operation at sea not by mere theory that their operations are made much more effective by the use of aircraft In all manner of naval missions than they were without aircraft We've been doing our job in the navy W'e been talking about naval aviation because been too busy finding out just what it can do when we actually take it to sea too busv making it do it We've come to the point now where we need help lots of help in making it truly effective as an inseparable part of fleet operations at sea W'e need floating flying fields aircraft carrtf rs! re doing our job in the navy But here's what vve ask of jou who are so proud of jour armed services: Don't leave us hanging in the air! We must have some carriers to keep planes up in the air where they belong Heie's jour naval aviation ready to go to work Now' give us proper floating landing fields aircraft carriers as well as the lest of the treaty navy W'e and jou need them badly! (Coptrijm 1928 lamral Mnukl ELECTRIC RANGES At Half of Wholesale Cost This is rear ebanee to a Krai Stovs Bargain CITY FURNITURE SHOPS 131-133 Tenth St.