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TO USE City Street THE or A Mall A Address. DETROIT this (Currency FREE application should PRESS, with be $1.00 sent INSURANCE by money Date registered order of or State mail.) currency DETROIT. to MICH. in nual WORLD'S at Wyandotte, the GENUINE spring 10 Roosevelt PURE St.Joseph cents ASPIRIN Auditorium, Thad tries, quota cause ficials lations ippines, market The Financing Testimony of the wired of 27,440. Cuba, AAA its made 48 area full continental said a that no protesta Texas will the quota.

Protest mayors Virgin be change beet to revised other municipalities unable sugar in and Congress Islands, regu- coun- the be- to tic and and erg' story" He fighting dressing The nominee publican University indorsement where Wisconsin of interests, fought astounding charged a him for Idahoan it Club, "the of to 88 the luncheon comes against that to the use President primary, Illinois amounts the of "tell "the threatened, his IBinole from." corporation in spending given of this the and Young opposed the by Republican in monopolis- campaign money." primary money whole April "vast were pow- Re- the ad- by AT STORES STATE ALL QUART DISTILL GUCKENHEIMER SINCE STRAIGHT 1857" RYE LOGANSPORT, WHISKEY ML. BRAND THE DETROIT FREE PRESS -SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1936 to Hide the Sunny Sky at Eastertide By the 'Callaghan The weather man announces cloudy skies will overcast the Easter Day parades, when vernal costumes will attract the eyes in colors warm from crimsons down to jades. showers threaten to despoil the show, but chilly winds will hurry every stride, as to the churches worshipers will go in humble Although piety for or many vaunting moons, pride. wrapped to the chin, galoshed and belted for the stormy milady's patience has waxed rather, thin, on Easter she may blossom last. Prepare, oh lads, to dress until it out your topper and gloves; prepare to buckle on your armored shirts and join the spectacle the Missus loves.

wait, a somber note is prophesied; although the skies may clear and birds may sing, be well prepared as the church you ride, for the diphthereal blandishments of spring. For many a high pressure area, descending on us from far Medicine Hat, maya Blaster touch of mild malaria, Monday find you lying flat. Hail bright pneumoniac April breezes, hail! what sniffs and snuffles follow in your Though doctors' potions speedily may cure you, heed well the warning of the Weather Bureau. Airliner Is Landed After Wheels Jam CHICAGO, April 10-(A. Ten passengers aboard an American Airlines plane, en route here from Washington, were landed safely at 9:29 p.

m. tonight at the Chicago Airport after Bledsoe Payne, of Cincinnati, the pilot, radioed that the landing gear of the ship had locked. The liner landed 30 minutes behind schedule. Payne told airline officials that the trouble developed after the ship took off at the Cleveland Airport. While the plane was over Northern Indiana, Payne reported trouble and was told to use the hand do air pump.

With the aid of the the gear was adjusted to permit a safe landing, officials said, Dr. H. A. Meinecke Plans to Wed Mrs. Jeanne Allen NEW YORK, April 10-Dr.

Helmuth A. Meinecke, of 1431 Seminole Detroit, and Mrs. Jeanne Allen, 31 years old, of 10525 E. Jefferson Detroit, obtained a marriage license here today and plan to be married in this city this month. The first marriage of Dr.

Meinecke, 37, ended in divorce in Michigan in 1935. Mrs. Allen was born in Detroit, a daughter of James Anderson. Her first marriage also ended in divorce in Michigan last year. Poultry-Laden Truck Stolen from Owners Wenzel Tonchette and Wayne Grant, of Lake Odessa, were thrown from their truck containing 3,000 pounds of dressed chicken, 47 crates of eggs and two live rabbits, while thugs who had taped the victim's eyes as they slept at the Western Market escaped with the produce and the vehicle, police reported Friday.

His Wife Slain -Associated Press Wirephoto. LEWIS H. TITTERTON (See Story on Page 1) Oil Station Bandit Seized by Police Arrested shortly after an oil station attendant at 2541 E. Davison Ave. had been held up Friday afternoon, Harry Ulatowski, 21 years old, of 2131 Belmont Hamtramck, is held on a charge of robbery armed.

Police say Ulatowski has identified Nick Shuteff, of 13490 Mackay the attendant, as the bandit who menaced him with a revolver and robbed him of $73 at the oil station. At Davison Station Ulatowski admitted the robbery to Detectives Charles Downing and Alfred Bretzlaff. "It was my first holdup," he said. "I found the an alley and needed money so I thought it was a chance to get some." Mrs. Vanderbilt Resigned to Losing Her Daughter NEW YORK, April 10-(A.

Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt said hope of today that she had abandoned overthrowing the court order which forbids her having permanent custody of her twelveyear daughter, Gloria. There is, however, a possibility that the child herself may go to the court in two years and ask that she be returned to her mother's permanent custody, inof spending week-ends with Mrs. Vanderbilt and the rest of the time with her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.

Under New York law a child of 14 may select her own guardian with the court's approval. Mark Hanna's Grandson Pleads Guilty of Forgery CLEVELAND, April 10-(A. -Mark Hanna III, grandson of the late Senator Mark Hanna, pleaded guilty today to a charge of forging a $200 check with the name of his uncle, Dan R. Hanna. Common Pleas Judge Frederick Walther referred the case to the probation department.

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FOB MRS, MARY BROWN- -NOT MRS. JOHN BROWN, Mo. Day Year Driver and Sister Put on Probation Admit Leaving Scene of Fatal Accident PORT April 10-Lawrence J. Randolph, 23 years old, and his sister, Anna Randolph, 20, junior college students changed former pleas before of not guilty to guilty W. George.

were charged Friday Circuit, Judge Fred with leaving the scene of an accident Feb. 21 which resulted in the death of Harold F. Forbes, 31, Grand Trunk brakeman, and were placed on probation for two years. The girl was accused of the offense because she agreed with her brother that they would tell no one about the accident. Forbes was killed near his home, and next morning the Randolphs washed the blood off their car and to repair it to leave no trace of the attempted accident.

They were traced through 8 bumper bolt, knocked from their car by the impact. After their arrest, they claimed that lying Forbes was crawling or on the road when they struck him. Persons questioned about Forbes' activities said that he had been drinking, Matanuska Held Success; U. S. to Add 20 Families The Federal Government will select SEATTLE.

April 10-(U. additional families to fill the Matanuska experimental colony in Alaska, Ross L. Sheely, habilitations plane the for said Alaska today Rural before ReWashington, new colonists, will be selected uncertain whether from Wisconsin, Michigan and Minneinal -states that supplied the orig200 families. Colonists were well satisfied and marveled at the mild winter, Sheely said. The coldest day last winter was 19 below zero, Road Commission to Stay Off Ballot County Clerk Henry A.

MontRoad gomery's contention that County Commissioners the future will be appointed and" not elected was upheld by the Supreme Court Friday, according to word received at his The Supreme Court rejected the request of Charles A. Matthews for a writ of mandamus to compel Montgomery to accept a $100 filing fee to place his name on the fall primary ballot as a candidate for nomination to the Road Commission. Matthews, who lives at 15351 Griggs was contesting the legality of the decision of the Board of Supervisors last fall to withdraw the office of road commissioner from the ballot in the future. Coalition with Townsend Is Advocated by Sinclair LOS ANGELES, April 10-(A. -A coalition of his production-foruse plan supporters with Townsend old age pension advocates was recommended tonight by Upton Sinclair, nominal presidential candidate of California's EPIC Democrats.

He intimated, however, that he would approve only an old age pension limited to $50. The Townsend Plan asks a $200-a-month pension for all persons of 60 years or more. Sinclair outlined his plan on behalf of the production-for-use delegation slate seeking to represent California at the Democratic National Convention. Head of Oil Concern Wed to His Secretary MT. PLEASANT, April 10 -(A.

Announcement was made Friday of the marriage of C. L. Maguire, president of the Roosevelt Oil and his secretary, Sylvia Fasquelle, in South Bend, Thursday afternoon. 4,250 Jobless Are Listed as Registration Continues The second day's registration of unemployed at the City Hall and 13 police precinct stations totaled 1,390, City Clerk Richard Reading reported Friday, The doors were closed at noon, observance. for Good Friday religious Registrations may be made up to 5 p.

Saturday and any day next week. The total registered so far is 4,250, Reading estimated. More than 135,000 unemployed persons registered three years ago during a similar enrollment. Woman Dies in Crash; Four Others Are Injured MONROE, April 10-Mrs. Ruth Kreuchaus, 46, of Monroe, was killed and four others injured in a head collision of two cars on Telegraph Road at Monroe at midnight Friday.

Her husband Julius was injured severely and taken to Flowere Hospital in Toledo. The others were treated at the Monroe Hospital. Their son Howard, 11, was injured. Mrs. Harris Willard, 78, the dead woman's mother, suffered fractured skull.

Mike Berille, of Monroe, driver of the other car, suffered a broken right leg and cuts about the right eye and head. U. of M. School Contract Won by Detroit Concern ANN ARBOR, April 10-The W. E.

Wood Construction of Detroit, has been awarded the construction contract for the University of Michigan Graduate School building at a. cost not to exceed $1,560,000, Shirley Smith, secretary of the University, announced Friday. Construction will start early in June, Gas Kills Woman Found in the kitchen of her home at 5503 Gateshead where gas was flowing from two open jets in the stove, Mrs. Pearl Allen, 44 years old, died at Receiving Hospital at 10:35 p. m.

Friday. The Wyandotte Orphans Club, under the direction of Edward W. Hulbert, will give its fourth anconcert Thursday night LARGEST SELLER The Day in Washington The Great Tariff Heresy HILL, April 10-Moral ed. heaving indignation breast of surged the through Republican the Old Guard tonight in the wake of the day's great Tariff Hersey. A challenging suggestion from Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Republican chairman of the Tariff Com- R.

L. O'BRIEN mission, that the O. P. actually indorse President Roosevelt's tariff policies at its Cleveland convention left party leaders almost speechless with rage. O'Brien, the oldfashioned Congressional "log-rolling" method of writing tariff bills, issued a statement this afternoon proposing that the party approve reciprocal, trade treaty plans, and said that he would fight for such action on the floor of the convention.

O'Brien was appointed to his post by President Hoover and was reappointed by Roosevelt. "Log-rolling tariffs," he declared," have wrecked the adiministrations of Hoover and Taft, besides subjecting the business of the Country to inerminable delays and uncertainties, all of which reacted on the party in power. We should not invite a repetition of this experience." Informed that O'Brien would attempt to present his case to the platform committee, party leaders declared that he would not be given a hearing. Typical Republican comments: SENATOR VANDENBERG I oppose the suggestions. SENATOR CAPPER I am against reciprocal treaties.

REP. KNUTSON Take your plan to the Democratic Convention. SENATOR FRAZIER- eaties won't work. REP. -He should not be given a hearing.

Meanwhile it was revealed that the Administration was going ahead with the joint Anglo-American trade survey which may lead to a reciprocal pact with Britain. Word was passed in high quarters that preliminary discussions are unway at last in both Washington and London, and that Sir Ronald Lindsay has talked it over with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Before actual negotiations start, however, Secretary Hull must publicly announce it. Flood Relief O. K'd Spurning formalities, Senate and House conferees on the $50,000,000 RFC flood-loan relief bill reached a quick agreement and expected to send the measure to the White House by Monday, The bill would authorize the RFC to make loans on "reasonable" individuals, as well as to public and curity to private corporations organziations, for rehabilitation work in the flood and storm-damaged areas.

In addition, it would authorize the Federal Housing Administration to participate more liberally in insuring private loans for rebuilding and re-equipping damaged industrial and domestic properties. Gloomy Sunday A plan to bring the fire department band onto the floor of House to play Gloomy Sunday, the Hungarian "suicide song," was conceived by Rep. Karl Stefan of Nebraska today, not to give his colleagues morbid but rather to stir up legislation' barring it from the United States. Pointing out how the song was responsible for the suicide of thirteen-year-old Floyd Hamilton, of Sturgis, Rep. Stefan said that immediate action should be taken.

"Everyone knows what effect music has on people," he said. "I'm this right now. "The song, a sending to New forin for a copy of gloomy ditty on unrequited love, was barred from Hungary. It was blamed for a wave of suicides, especially among grocery boys. Sugar Quotas Raised The AAA announced an increase of 175,537 tons in 1936 sugar quotas because of an anticipated increase in sugar consumption.

A revised estimate placed consumption this year at 6,609,625. Consumption in 1935 was 6,632,516 tons. The original quotas and the revised 1936 quotas are as follows: Continental United States, beet sugar producing area, original quota 1,550,000 short tons, revised, 1,500,000 (of which a deficiency of 207,821 tons has been re-allocated). Louisiana and Florida, revised quota, 319,304 tons; Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Phil- Roche's chief supporter in her unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination against Gov. Ed C.

Johnson in 1934. Charity Defrauded Charity Defrauded An Assistant Secretary of War and other men knew in February, 1932, Army surplus goods intended for charity were to be diverted to sales channels, it was before the House Military Committee. Chairman McSwain read into the record a letter in which Frederick Payne, assistant secretary of war under the Hoover Administration, stated he had been informed that 4,000 Army overcoats, said to be those sold to a representative of the American Legion at Detroit, were sold by a New Yorker to The London firm and shipped abroad. for overcoats were intended solely the unemployed, the Payne letter recognized. The letter declared that Robert J.

Byers, adjutant of the ment of Michigan, purchased Depart- the Army coats with the understanding that the articles were to be given away to the unemployed and not resold. Testimony that Byers intended to divert the surpluses to channels was taken by the committee. It WAS stated that the diversion plans were "well known" in the War Department, Michigan received 95 per cent of Its surplus allotment, the letter pointed out, although other Payne states obtained but 25 less. per cent or "Was that because James (former Rep. W.

Frank James) ranking member of the committee in 1932, was from Michigan?" one committee inquisitor asked. William R. Gruber, who was on said duty he in Payne's office at the time, no knowledge of how the allotments were filled. Capital Notes A list of all factories receiving annual direct corporations and tariff benefits of $100,000 or more is sought in 8 resolution drafted by Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee. Women Republicans presented Chairman Henry P.

Fletcher with a birthday cake and seven gifts emblematic of episodes in his life Rubber workers are deriving only increased working hours from the improvement of business in the rubber industry, the NRA'S Division of Review charged. The Census Bureau reported 1,881 auto deaths in 86 principal cities during the first 14 weeks of the year, a reduction of 432 below the comparable period last year WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins told the House Appropriations Committee that the Administration would not attempt to use any of the $1,500,000,000 proposed for work relief on, projects disliked by Congress. Senate committee probing the "basing point" price system wondered what in the world beautiful women, athletic gentlemen and cabbages have to do with the price of cement. A Chicago cement tycoon was asked the significance of those articles in an advertisement illustration.

The manufacturer was noncommittal and when asked whether a portrayal of two athletes pulling a rope represented "two cement companies striving business," he replied, "I don't know." Gen. Hugh S. Johnson thundered a denunciation of the work rellef program, branding it "as cruel as it is stupid" and charging that "60 per cent of the work is invented, needlessly expensive and fatuous." Goodies Are Piled on Tornado Waif Mother's Discovery Proves to Be Grand Finale ATLANTA, April 10-(A. P)- They brought good news by the basketful to a blue-eyed dimpled little waif of the storm out at Piedmont Hospital today. A.

hundred homes were opened to her. Bushels of messages came. There were Easter Bunnies, boxes of goodies. But the news that put roses into her bruised cheeks was the news that they'd found her mother. With this information the girl shed her mantle of mystery and became Frances Tumlin.

She was identified by an aunt, Mrs. Charles Tumlin. lin, is another Atlanta hospital. Her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Today they buried her father, a victim of the storm.

Frances, only two and darling of the hospital, had been unidentified since she was brought in severely battered by the Gainesville tornado. Her picture was published telegrams and telephone calls came from families Partiting to adopt her. many the country Bonds Are Set Bonds of $3,000 each were set Friday by Recorder's Judge W. McKay Skillman for Harry Feldman, 21 years. 'their and Irving Dunn, 23, following arrangement on a charge that they robbed Catherine Chamberlain, an attendant in a cleaning establishment at 11625 Hamilton of 23 Tuesday.

Terror Victims Associated Press Wirephoto, MSGR. J. J. CURRAN -Associated Press Wirephoto, THOMAS MALONEY (See Story on Page One) Msgr. Curran's rectory at WilkesBarre, was swept by flames during Good Friday services as investigators sought to find the senders of six bombs which earlier in the day killed a director and may cost the eyesight of Mgloney, leader.

It was at first reported that Incendiary bomb caused the fire. Tenerowicz Plans City Replacements Appointment of new department heads in Hamtramck probably will be made Saturday, it was anG. Tenerowicz, who has asked all nounced Friday by Mayor Rudolph officials appointed by his predecessor, Joseph A. Lewandowski, to resign. Dr.

Thursday Tenerowiez night and was later sworn ap- In pointed County Drain Commissioner Leo J. Nowicki city engineer. Nowickl replaces George Jerome. Others submitting resignations at Tenerowicz's request were City Attorney Thaddeus Machrowicz and D. P.

W. Superintendent Fred Pabst. Those expected to resign Saturday are City Assessor Leonard Dysarz, Controller Frank Sosnowski, Director of Public Safety Stephen A. Majewski, Public Welfare Director John Matkowski and Health Commissioner Dr. Peter E.

Bolewicki, The new council, also sworn in Thursday, will hold its first session Tuesday. Motorist Is Arrested with Sheriff's Plates Vito Coraci, 40 years old, of 2237 Pierce was held in the Calhoun County Jail at Marshall, Friday night while officers sought to learn why he had set of Wayne County Sheriff's license plates in his possession. Coraci was involved in an auto accident and officers found that he had the sheriff's plates and a set of ordinary plates. He said that the sheriff's plates belonged to a deputy who had used his car. The officers called the Wayne County Sheriff's office and an investigation was begun, Riding Coraci when his car collided with one driven by Cliff Rogers, 23, of Jackson, were his wife Agnes, his daughter Rose, and Salvatore Averna, of 5397 Hurlbut Ave.

None was injured. Drunk Driver Penalized; to Pay Fine or Go to Jail Traffic Judge George T. Murphy fined John W. Berry, 55 years old, $125 Friday, with the alternative of serving 15 days in jail. Berry was charged with driving while drunk.

He lives at 5244 Commonwealth Ave. Walter Judge Murphy also sentenced McClain, 39, to four days in jail for driving recklessly. He lives at 421 E. Warren 'Nation' Magazine Barred by Schoo. 'Communistic' Is Charge Editors Protest against the Wheeler-Rayburn holding company bill at the instance of the Texas Power and Light was mittee.

given the Senate Lobby ComIn some instances, said George Brown, committee investigator, a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. paid the telegraph tolls. The committee also sought to show a relation between the Farmers Independence Council and the American Liberty League. Jouett Shouse, president of the Liberty League, in a statement tonight, declared that there was no connection. During the day Chief Justice Wheat, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, formally dismissed the suit of William Randolph Hearst for an injunction restraining the committee from examining his telegrams, Ritter to Testify Defense attorneys expected to bring the Senate's impeachment trial to a close tomorrow with testimony by the defendant himself, Federal Judge Halsted Ritter, of Florida, This announcement came at, the close of a day which saw a long procession of witnesses offer testimony intended to refute charges that the accused jurist had violated the judicial code and had allowed exorbitant receivership fees.

While a large crowd of Easter tourists watched the unusual proceeding from the galleries, defense counsel drew from witness after ter had received fees himself after witness testimony that at Judge Rithe went on the bench in February, 1929, but for services performed prior to that time. Evidence was also introduced, designed to show that defendant had allowed a "reasonable" fee in granting A. L. Rankin, former law partner of West Palm Beach, $75,000 for representing plaintiffs in the $1,500,000 Whitehall Hotel receivership. Rankin had testified he divided this fee and another $15,000 allowed him by Federal Judge Alexander Akerman at Tampa among three other attorneys in the case.

Disarmament Plan A program of moral, economic and military "disarmament" throughout the 21 American Chile republics has been proposed by for consideration at the forthcoming all-American peace conference in Buenos Aires. Details of the suggestion were disclosed here today shortly after the announcing of a plan by Guatemala for the formation of a conto mutual aid in case of attack cert of American nations, pledged by a non-American power. The conference probably will be held this summer, either in July or August, AAA Pays Off The AAA announced today that it will cents a bushel in benefit payments on allotments to be made to wheat farmers who signed crop control contracts and adjusted their wheat plantings before Jan. 1936, date of the AAA's invalidation. The total payments are expected to be $40,500,000, less local administrative expenses.

They will be full settlement of the AAA's obligation to farmers who complied with the 1936 wheat adjustment contracts before the old program was outlawed by the Supreme Court. Congress in February appropriated approximately $296,000,000 to meet the "moral obligations" incurred by the old AAA. The Blue Horizon When Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves the White House his name may appear on some quiet street in New York City in a sign something like this -Franklin D. Roosevelt, dealer in choice cheese, caviar and fine wines.

Jo Davidson, the sculptor, said as much today in discussing Is 16 sittings with the President. During one sitting, Davidson said, they spoke of friends in France. "Jo," said the President, "how about that little cheese shop down on the Rue d'Amsterdam. Is it still there?" "Yes, Mr. President, it's still there." "You know," the President said with a smile, "when I leave the presidency, I'm going to open up a little cheese shop like that in New York.

I'm going to sell all those cheeses and pate de fois gras and caviar." "Well, Mr. President," Davidson commented, "you'll have to sell the right wines to go with those cheeses." "Say," the President chuckled, "wouldn't that be swell? I'd like to do that." Miss Roche for Senator? The decision of Senator Edward P. Costigan, Colorado Democrat, to stay out of the 1936 campaign advanced the name of Miss Josephine Roche, assistant secretary of the Treasury, as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination to succeed him. Political observers mentioned her frequently after the senior senator announced that illness would prevent his seeking re-election, A political ally and a personal friend of Costigan, Miss Roche declined, however, to disclose what political intentions she has, but said she probably would issue 1 statement within a few days. Costigan, the leader of liberal Colorado Democrats, wag Miss Speeches Speeches URBANA, April 10-Senator William Borah said in a campaign speech today that his presidential candidacy is "miserable crooks" NEW YORK, April of The Nation tonight pro tested as "ridiculous" a charge 0 "communistic tendencies" voiced bi the Ritzville (Wash.) School Board as it banned the magazine from school libraries.

The board, announcing that would make general investiga tion of its texts and periodicals (told that request it was of the acting in American response Le gion Auxiiiary chapter and a wom an's club. Nation editors wrote a letter of protest to the board. With no subscribers listed for Ritzville, the ban would prove of little it importance, they said, except as represented "a symptom of the hysteria which so many Americans are feeling when confronted with ideas that are unpleasant to them. Train Wreck Plot Held Murder Plan Wife Denies Trying to Have Aged Husband Killed PENSACOLA, April 10-(U. -Prosecuting Attorney Richard Merritt today filed a charge of atold tempted Mrs.

murder against forty-yearL. W. Vann, accused fantastic plot to kill her husband. by wrecking a Louisville and Nashville Railroad train. In her jail cell, she protested to her seventy-year-old husband, intended victim of the alleged plot and engineer on the train, that she was innocent of trying to kill him so that she could $3,000 inShe denied vehemently that she surance and marry another, man.

hired two negroes for $50 five hundred for a good job- to pull spikes from the tracks over which her aged husband's train would run. "You know I've told the truth. I never told you a lie, did she asked her husband last night when he visited her at the jail. Vann, who believes his wife innocent, is seeking to raise the $5,000 bond set for release. He made an appeal that the bond reduced, but Sheriff H.

E. Gandy and Merritt refused this. "the Earl Travis, Castleberry, other man," also was held. Two attempts to wreck the train failed. Young Flier and Bride Missing on Honeymoon SEATTLE, April 10-(A.

-The rugged British Columbia coast apparently held the secret tonight of the whereabouts of Albert Almoslino, 25 years old, Seattie flier, and his bride, unreported since last Sunday on a 750-mila honeymoon flight from Seattle to Ketchikan, Alaska. Although a Coast Guard cutter was searching out of Ketchikan, friends believed that the honeymooners had landed at some lated place. Their plane carried arms and food. Pigeon Wins in Race with a Big Airplane SAN DIEGO, April 10- (A. -A homing pigeon won handicap race today with a large transport plane.

the Bucking 110-mile strong headwinds over course from Hollywood, the winning pigeon, owned by C. F. Rink, flew 1,289.89 yards a minute. The plane landed before any of its 35 feathered competitors, but was penalized for taking off before its starting schedule. The ship was supposed to the birds a two start.

18 of Missouri Delegates Now Assured for Landon KANSAS CITY, April -Gov. Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, tonight was assured the votes of 18 of Missouri's 30 National Conlican vention delegates for the Repubpresidential nomination. Six votes were added in three district conventions today. Strong indications tonight were that Landon would gain four more delegates tomorrow at Fourth and Fifth Districts conventions in Kansas City, the last before the State convention in St.

Louis April 27, when four delegates-at-large are to be named. Ocean Ships ARRIVED NEW YORK. April from Bergen: Hansa, from Hamburg. SOUTHAMPTON, April 10-Berengaris, from New York. New HAVRE.

April 10-fle de France, from York. SAILED SOUTHAMPTON, April 10 Deutsche land, for New York; Manhattan, for New York. NEW YORK, April 10-American Farms er, for London. LONDON. April 10-American Merchant, for New York.

LIVERPOOL. April 10-American Ships per, for New York. BERGEN, April 10-Stavangerfjord, for Sliced WAS $1.10 ONE QUART FULL QUART NOW PINT $1.50 CODE 1938 DO old Now you can have that rich, smoo-ooth, full- -flavored whiskey at savings of 30' on -1 pint and Good on a quart! TIMER LIKE PENNSYLVANIA BRAND NO OLD DISTILLING CO.mE. Rye Whisker Good otc.

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