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VOL. VII. NO. 224. KNIFE HURLED IN HUNTRESS NEW YQRK-P ARIS FLYERS Washington Awaits Results Of Investigation Iii Mexico Of Jacob Rosenthal's eath BRITISH EMBASSY CMlIEilTS IN DAIuC CASE ISSES 11 (IK Advices Say Man Had Bradley, Mauldin, and Matthews Face Charge of Conspiracy EXPECTS FILING OF BILLS TOPAY- Same Jury Will Bringin, "True Bills" Or Bills" As It Sees Fit- -V' Columbia.

C. Sept. Bills of Indictment against W. W. Ilradley, statf bank examiner f.

Pope Matthews, chalrmaa of the board of the defunct American Bank and Trust Company, of Columbia, aad Ivy M. Mauldia, president of the Inaltltutlon. charging conspiracy aad other alleged lav violation will be formally laid before the Richland county gtaad Jury at I o'clock to- morrom Will Can TOtMuCt Solicitor A. 8pigner made thla announcement today. Material wit nesses named by the grand Jury fa the special presentment yesterday will be ordered, to appear at taa.

time It waa Action of the grand Jury on bill of Indictment ia, regarded samara formality be-, cause the Jadictmepts were preparel la accord with recommrndatloaa of the Jury itself made, In. the present -meats la open court late yesterday. Columbia. C. Sept 17.

(AP W. BraaHaA atate! kaak exam- aer. with the two principal oOlceca of the'defunct Alnerl cab Bank ana Trust company of today faced ladlctraetit' on" Virloul charges hot violating tho stati bank)ng including Charge-; or conspiracy amonsr lhar three1. 1 TkO' RIcniM "couuiy. grasl Jury late meat aC laa Malthewe, ehairmaa ft (ie, board, aad Ivy U.

Mauirn the, beak, aad Fletcher, ilg-ner waa exnected to (taag out bllla of Indict rncBt today a.tntrtiaa Jttrf will act ppa the bill, bringing in "truf Diiir'nr ft aeet fit. i-i. i The action at, the jrrsad Jury, cam after, a Jafestigatlonj of the circumstances surrouadlng th. closing 'In Juae. i o( lb American Hank aad Trust Company, a ataW chartered InsUtutlott' Several weeks age, a special sesoa nf the Inquisi torial body, waa called ly Poremaa W.

V. Prlolesu aad at tU beginning court last week, the taveettgattoa was resumed under morn formal any-pices. f-. Tjaaiiad Kaay 'l Thirty-one w.itacsse have been e-amlaed siaca court Th te-dlctmenta recommended by the graad Juty are, agalnit the three as Individuate and; agalnat. them, In pahre and triplicate.

Tas presentment covered typewritten The bank examiner a presented "for omclal misconduct aad malfeasance in otyce" It being alleged that he did wilfully; corruptly, aad unlawfully jail and' neglect to msk the- proper number of examination aad reports" oa, I be condition of thr baak, aad "that be. wilfully, corruptly and. ualawfufly fall aad neglect to' take such action a wge accessary to protect the. Interests of depositors, creditors and atockfcoJdMs iContina usj ai rMr. Former Texas Ranger Convicted of Murder By Court cf Indiana Gary, Sept.

llA-l AP) William Donaldon7 a former Texas cowboy waa found guil'y of murder in the first degree of Joseph Multlns of Gary, by a Jury here today, with a recommendation that ha be sentenced t. life Imprisonment. Donaldson waa charged with havlag fatally shot Mulliaa so that he might marry Mrs. Mullins. Ml i aWCUISTI Chief Army Engineer Makes Talk Before Association Richmond, Sept.

17. (API American river transportation Is making more progress than the railroads, General Kdgar Jad win, chief of army engineers, told tho nineteenth annual convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway's AshocIr-tlon In predicting that the United Statea la on Iho verge of a great inland waterway transportation Commissioner W. S. Bennon, of tot Shipping Board sent a message assert Ing that "one of the most, if not the most important question before the American public today Is this entire subject of transportation and ther ia no phase that haa been ao com pletely neglected and yet la of such increasing Importance as that nf transportation by our inland water; Cooperation by smaller porta of potential porta along the Atlantic seaboard ia essential in their development In the opinion eipressed by the Newark, N. delegation to the convention.

Steps were advocated to cdvanco the development of new porta Instead of further extension of already overcrowded facilities at New York. Philadelphia anl other large porta. Two Marines Killed When Autos Collide Near Virginia Base Washington. Sept. 17.

(AP) Two marines were dead and three otbera were injured today as the result of an automobile collision about a mile and a half from the marine base at Quantico, Va. Those killed we.e Prlvatee William Jones Oman, 23, Worcester, and Wilbur Albert Duchman, 23, Patterson, N. the Injured are Privates Wallace Axford, Hnbbel. and L. A.

Scott of Metropolis and Marine Gunner Charles H. Burton. The four prlvatea were grouped about an automobile parked on- the road between Quantico and Triangle when an automoL-ile driven by Gunner Eurton struck their machine, according to atories told officers. Axford Is suffering from serious Internal Injuries and Scott's leg waa broken. Gunner Eurton suffered lacerations.

Federal Soldiers of Mexico Kill Mayor Believed a Bandit Mexico City, Sept. 17 (API-Federal soldiers have shot and killed Boniflclo Hinopoaa. mayor of I'ltill-ac, the village near which Jacob Rosenthal, elderly retired capitalist of Wood mere. N. was subbed to death by hla bandit raptors Wednesday nlgbt.

Hinoposa ia believed to have been one of the leaders of the Clipper Boat In South Sea Islands Cooper of New York City, the only women and the only Americana a-board. Miaa Srhoen ia algned aa a master mariner, while Miss Cooper goea aa stewardess. They are going for adventure. The rest of the crew Is mad ap of frenchmen and South Sea Islanders. la fifty days.

If the winds are favorable. None will be reached. no Idea whea we'll get Lack Mlsa Cooper explained today. "But we're young. There's lots of tiBM." 4 3 JS, 1 II RIVER Gold Cigarette Case Deflects Weapon From Boy's Heart Of ficials Reticent Concerning Affair Ambassador Was Giving Luncheon for Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden Tokyo, Sept.

17. (API Aknlf was hurled toward Princess Lout of Sir John Tllley. Brttlso ambassador, and Albert De Bassom plerre, Belgian ambaesador, yester-day while a luncheon was ia progress at the British embaaay. it wa learned today. The weapon atruck Roger Tllley, aon of the ambaaaador, near the heart but waa deflected by a gold cigarette caae.

Voung Tllley waaliot Injured. The would-be as-aaaala escaped. Official! Bticent Both British and Japanese officials are reticent concerning the Incident. Government officials are giving out various censored versions, but It wrm learned that the following la authentic. The Braiillian knife of Ambassador Tllley disappeared Wednesday from foe drawing room of the British embaaay.

Yesterday Ambassador Arbor Tllley and the Belgian ambaaaador were aeated on either aide of Princess Louise at a luncheon at the British embassy In honor of the Prlncesa and Crowa Prince Cua-taf Adolf. Their backa wer toward a window. Roger Tllley waa aeated ear the end of the table, partly fac Ing the window when auddeply he aw aa Intruder's face cautiously peering lns The Intruder thin drew a knlli whereupon young Tllley sprang toward the window. The knife, hurled toward the Prlncesa and the ambassadors, atruck young Tllley directly over the heart, a gold cigarette rase aavlng hla life. The luncheon waa immediately In confusion, men hurrying out after the would-be assassin.

Although the embassy was rurrounded by police, the man escaped. The Princess remained calm and Insisted that the luncheon continue. It is not known whether Ambaaafi-dor Tllley. Ambassador De Basaon. plerre, or the privcess was the Intended victim.

Police are tombing Tokyo for the Intruder. The eact nationality of the man la undetermined, young Tllley apparently being the only guest who saw him. He said the man waa dressed In western attire bo he believed ho may have been Japanese. Police and vernacular newspapers are Inclined to believe the assassin la Chinese. Churches Request Radio Stations to Alter Sermon Hour Pittsburgh.

Sept. 17. (AP) Broadcasting of 8unday sermons by Pittsburgh rafilo atatlona has so cut Into the attendance of churches, la the Klsklmlnf. Presbytery that united Presbyterian churches of that region nave requested the stations to discontinue putting sermons on the air at 11 a. and I p.

m. The request waa termed advised" by the Rev. Dr. J. Alvan Orr, pastor of the Pirn United Presbyterian church here, a radio enthusiast.

"With aU the jaix that is on the air" Dr. Orr said, "the church people should be grateful to those hroad casters who giro religious programs. I know that 100.000 who llaka arc not church going people. This ia the best way to reach them." Two Girb Ship On For Nome Vancouver. B.

Sept. 17. (AP) The last page la the log of a vessel that made clipped abip history will be started win the departure out of Vancouver harbor Sunday of the bar qae Bougainville, first christened Hlmalya. later known aa tbeStar of Per. She goea oa a mile voy-age to New Caledonia, la the South Beas.

there to rust away her last daya la the port of Konre aa a warehouse barge. Oa thla farewell voyage will be Alls Jeaa Bcbora and alias Viola Irtae fJHITF EM' FOR Workmen Have, Toiled Throughout Summer on Mansion Washington. Hept. repaired aad renovated white house waa In readiness today for the impending return of President Mrs. Coolldge.

'f Painters, cleaners, mechanic and other workmen have tolled, through out the summer, and the executive mansion today in In epic and span condition. WalU Spotlcia A new coa( of apnlleaa While glis tens on the outside walls. 'A new dust proof roadway replaces the old gravel approach to the front dwr. A new electric elevator runa from (he basement to the upper floors. The famoua east room has4bwn given' a freahaea It haa not' known for years.

Gardeners have, done their best. The lawna have taken on fresh green hue. The evergreen hedges have been clipped. The rose gardens brilliant. la the, executive offJces, where the President works, things remain much the aame.

The draperies have been cleaned and re-hung The old car pet baa been reaovated. The allkua folds of tho Stars and 8trlpes, placed at the right end of the President's desk by. Mra. Coolldge, lenus (he chamber Ite onl colorful touch amid the dull greens and graya of the walla aad carpet Everett 8aunders, secretary to the 'President haa re turned to hi desftj the room hd- When the flag atop the White House la rua to the masthead Mon day morning. It will Inform the nation that the-President la again In hla official reside nee, transacting business.

OfJLY RECESSION OF SAVE CROPS Stream Continues to Flow Through Three" Levee Breaks Burlington. Sept 17. (AP) Only recession of the flood waters of Skunk river can prevent destruction of crops In the Green Bry bottoms north! of here, at more than I1JW0.W;., i1'' Six thousand acres of crops lu the 1C.000 acre41 area apparently were doomed today aa water continued to pour through three breaks In the levee' and Inundation 'of more of the low lands seemed certain if rains send the river higher. A large force of men. Including convicts from the state penitentiary, were trying today to aave part of the levee by strengthening It with timbers and piles of sand-filled bags.

Damage since the water first broke through yesterday ia estimated at Aa the water advanced In tue bit-toma slowly, there has been no loas of life. Livestock, house furnsfhlnr.s and personal effects to farmers In tre lowest sections were moved to iltli-t ground before the flood arrived. Man Changes Mind After Jumping Into River So Swims Out St. Louis. Repr.

17. I API- William Horkatepp, who plunged head first from the municipal bridge over the Mississippi river Wednesday aad then'1, changed his mind about suicide and swim to shore, died today at City Hospital of heart disease. Physicians had thought he would recover. StaaaiT'la Veed Halifax. N.

8.. Sept. 17. (AP) The Amerlcaa tug Bay head, with a lake kuamor In tow. reported this moraine that she was la need of assists ace teg ml)es southwest of Samara, N.

8.. the government steamer Lady Lanrter Is proceeding to her id. TED WATER AN Been Beaten to Death Killing Followed Shooting Captors News Dispatches Say Bandits Stabbed Aged American Who Was Weak From Illness Waahlngton. Results of the Investigation of the American embassy at Mexico ('it v. In to the death of Jacob Rosenthal, and the resultant I'nlted Statea represen tations to ho Calles government were awaited today by the Statw Depart ment officials who had been stirred by news of the New York biiHlnesa maa'a murder by Mexican bandits.

Department Advised Official advices received at the Department said that Roaenthat had been "beaten to death" by the brl- ganda who had seised him 8undav and held him for 110.000 ran son-. Th. slaying followed the killing of (wo of hla captora by federal troops. News dispatches, however, aald the bandits had stabbed the aged Anted-caa, who waa weakened by a recent Illness, because he hampered their flight and because they preferred not to have him rescued alive by the fed eral soldiers with whom thev were engaged In a running fight In wild portion or country less than forty miles from Mexico City. The our- auit waa halted to recover tho body, which bore many wounds, but wai resumed Immediately under ordera to redouble efforts to capture or kill the outlaws.

The body waa taken to Cuernavaca and will be removed to Mexico City. 'v Said He Wat VI i A letter received Wednesday from Rosenthal was turned over to the American embaaay in Mexico C.ty Me aald thai he waa verv til hmA tu eontpelled io sleep ia and woe suuering irom He requested that the 114,000 ransom bo sent ouickly. The out. laws had appended to the note In- atruetlona that messengers with the 14,000 pesos In gold meet them at a certain; spot. Mexican officials laid a trap for the brigands, which Jailed.

ilf Jorecait So Action State Department offciaia declined today, pending further advices- to forecast what further action might be A belief was Intimated, however. that the Calles government had shown good faltii In dlsoatchine a detachment of troops In pursuit as soon as the kidnapping of Rosenthal naa necome known. The abduction of the New York business man was the latest in the long list of similar acta against Am ericana In recent years. Several of these have been committed iu the Cuernavaca district and drew repeat ed protests from Washington. 8torm Does normoni Damage Turks Island, Raramas, Sept.

17. (AP) Enormoua damage to property waa caused by the tropical storm of hurricane force which passed over Tark'a Island yesterday. There were no fatalities. Nearly all the lighters la port were lost Passengers Watch Holdup From Deck of Coastwise Ship Philadelphia, Sept. if.

UP) In full view of I -passengers on the deck of an arriving coastwise steamer, Clyde B. Palkensteln, paymaster for the Merchants and Miners Transporting Company was blackjacked and relieved of a bag containing $1,139 by four masked men. The ateamer Howard was drawing into a dock today and the passengers, aa If from the balcony of a theatre, looked down upon the hold up. Faklenateon, had Just returned from a bank aad parked his car opposite the office. As he and his guard Thomaa Fitxpatrick walked arrosa the ttreel they were attacked by three men who stepped from behind a freight car.

One of them covered lh- two with re- volver while other robOorn netted the bag and ran to aa automobile in which a fourth man was sitting and escaped. 7 SEfllOUS ILLHESS Delay Threatened in Third Inquiry Into Kidnapping Los Angeles, Sept. 17. (AP) With the arrest of five per sons scheduled by District Attorney Aaa Keyes and 'Malement of new witnesses adding to the nraaa of evi dence la the Almee Rem pie McPher son kidnapping Investigation, the se rious Illness of the evangelist threat ened to delay the third in iulry Into her five weeka disappearance. Dangerous Infection Reports of tho evangeliat'a illness Wednesday were) followed by her collapse at an Angelua Temple service yesterday and the Mibaeuont an nouncement of her physician 'hat a dangerous Infection might cause death If compllcatlona developed.

The Knees was described as an abscess of the none, close to th I kka.l.l.a ttjt at. from thai 191 mark reached last night, It would be thre days before the danger would be past. Complaints Against lire District Attorney Keyes said yesterday he had prepared 'complaint charging. five persons of conspiracy to defraud Justice. He named Mrs, Mcpherson, her mother, Minnie Kenneth Q.

Ormiston friend of the evangelist nnd former Angelua Temple radio operator, John Doe Martin and Lorraln Wise-man-Sellaff. Aa soon aa the warrant for Ormta- ton's arrest la placed la the handa of detectives for service, he will surrender If promised hla attorney. 8. S. Hahn haa announced.

The radio man ia said to be near Los An geles and In readiness to face the charges. The complaints were ordered by Keyes following a statement In which he declared that "an atmosphere of gigantic hoax" surround ed tho evaagelUt's "unbelievable" kidnapping atory. He added that the situation had developed into a nation wide scandal as the result of the "braten activities of Mrs. McPher- aon and her friends to build up false alibis for her." Says Radio Contract Bars Papers Sending Fight Wire Reports i New York. Sept.

17. (AP) Although denying today that he had yet leased the broadcasting privileges for the Dempsey-Tunnry fight at Philadelphia, September 23, Tex. Richard told the Associated Press that any contract he algned would bar newa-papers from broadcasting wire reports of the Rlckard, reached by telephone at bia Philadelphia headquarters, flatly denied anv radio contract had be closed eptte of a telegram recejai- ed by Editor and Publisher eigned tenslbly by the promoter and worded as follows: "The broadcasting rlghta have been contracted for and it srlll be aa In frragement on these rights for news papers to use wire renorta of the Richard- told the Associated Presa he had hot communicated with Editor and Pnbllsber. but he readily confirm ed the portion of the disputed tele gram bearing npoa hla decision to prevent broadcasting of the fight, directly or Indirectly, from aay. source not authorised to do ao.

"This la a 'private show' a ad have a perfect right to aay who ran and who cant broadcast, the promoter told the Associated Presa. "Newspapers will not be permitted to. radio any reports they receive from the press associations or. aay other agency. The broadcasting privileges will go to whoever geta ray contract" Sill rail ens Mrs.

Marshall Field, wealth Chicago society woman, re. turned Irom the an gleg 04. BmQ, where, with an etpc dition from the Field Muh team, the killed itjnar. tiX capawgori, two hundred hirdg, three deer and three monkeva. IJ WILL EfJTER flflCE FOR FOURTH TERu New York Democratiq Leaders Have All N5ght in 1 1 Albany.

N. Sent, 17. (API- Democracy's atate leaders emerged. today from an all night closed eon ferenre with Governor Smith, confi dent that he would seek iMteotlon for a fourth term. Ills name was an a slate which was stated was agreed upon at the conference.

Tho governor hlhiseir made no announcement. The confer ence was, supposed to be secret. The slate of candidates to presented for nomination at the atate convention' September ZT included the name of Supreme Court Justice Robert T. Wagner of New York eity to oppose United Statea 'Senator James W. Wadsworth, Republican who favors) AiodiricatUm of the Vol stead Independent dry Republicans who have endorsed the candidacy of former State franklin W.

Criatman for united States Senator, announced they would place a gubernatorial candidate In the field. Government Gets Another Setback in Cantonment St. Louis. Mo, Sept. II.

(AP) The fourth time' since Its suit waa filed three years ago the government today suffered a setback la lt at tempt to collect 1 3.000,000 alleged exceswive charges from th Charles Fuller Company of New York which conxtruct! the war time can tonment at Camp Punston. Kansas, at a rout of The eighth circuit court of appeal in a decision filed here affirmed- decision of the Kansas district court sustaining a iemurrer to the suffl rlency of the evidence. Executive Committee Canvasses Returns in McCormick County 1 McCormick. Sept. API The countr exeiitive comifiee canvassed the returns of the eVrond primary election today with, tne following results: V.

S. Senate, Brown, J. Smith, S29. tiove-nor, Blackwood S20; IticharvlH, (40. County Tre, urer, Traylor, 67; rnce, eis.

COriFIOEI Shi .1 Tropical Storm Off Cape Hatteras Recurves Toward Northeast Today Sept. 17. (AP) The tropical or that waa off Cape Rat tcras Tt.ursday morning haa recurved to northeast and Is central thla n.orr,1og about latltnde 31. degreea nor.1i and longitude degreea west, th weather bureau reported. Thla Vroalit place it about ISO miles aonth- at at Nantucket Lightship.

Winds of hurricane force have been registered near the renter of this disturbance. The ntorm which passed near Turks Island Thursday afternoon la' appar ently central la Bahama walera about latitude 23 degrees, north, longitude 74 degrees, west, and, moving rather rapidly west-northwestward, attended by winds of hurricane force near Its ceater. "This Is very severe a weather bareaa-wamlar aald. Th third tropical dlatarbanc noted In th past tew daya haa moved westward through the Florida straits, the bureau ssM aad practically.