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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 92.
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FITZMAURICE NOT GOING TO NEW
YORK ALONE; AMERICANS
BRINGING PARTS
t NEW YORK, April 19. (£>)—'The
Irish member of the Bremen crew is
back in civilization and is awaiting
repair parts before returning to the
crippled ship and his 'ice-locked Ger
man companions at Greenly Island. |
# When repair^ are completed the
Bremen will resume its flight from the
island to Mitchell field. These de
velopments were announced by Fitz-i
taaurice who cleared the conjecture
concerning completion of the hop
since the Bremen made a forced land
► ing last Friday.
Fitzmaurice telephoned T. A. Smid
dy that he would await at Murray
Bay, Quebec, for the Bremen parts
and return with them to the island and
fly out with the Germans. Fitzmau
rice wired Grover Whalen, Chairman
of the Mayor Walker ^Reception Com
mittee, asking that the report that he
•was proceeding to New York he cor
rected.
Fitzmaurice landed at Lake Stennes,
Quebec, after a two-day day flight
from the Greenly Island Junkers plane
^ F-13 in the Bremen sister ship which
returned to the Curti3 field las,t night
with the Bremen propellor to be trans
shipped to Murray Bay. The propel
lor is uncompleted and will be fitted
to the F-13 for the Montreal flight.
PILOT RELIEF PLANE
DETROIT, April 19. (£>)—Bernt Bal.
chen and Floyd Bennett plan to pilot
the relief plane to the aid of the Bre
men crew tomorrow in a Ford trl-mo
tored plane. Under the prepared ar
rangements they will make a stop at
Montreal and Murraybay carrying re
pairs for the Bremen.
THE DEADLY SINS
LINCOLN, Neb., April 19. (/p)—
Snobbishness is the worst student sin,
* University of Nebraska co.eds decid.
ed.. Next they ranked cheating,
drinking, smoking by girls, petting,
profanity.
INDIAN FIGHTERS VANISHING
ST. PAUL, April 19. (/P)-~ Only 44 J
soldiers remain on State pension rolls!
from Miinnesota’s Indian uprising of!
186>2. Pension payments have fallen
from 156,000 a year to 117,000.
TEACHERS LIKE MYSTERIES
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 19. (JP)—
Detective stories are the best selling
works of fiction to professors of the
University of Michigan, a canvass of
Ann Arbor book stores showed.
ADMIRAL [VANS SAILS
NORTH FROM SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, April 19. (£>)—'The Ad
miral Evans, of the P. S. S. Co., sail
ed yesterday at 10 o’clock, carrying
95 passengers. The Seward reserva.
tins are Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Herning,
W. A. Spickler, Frank Doner, E. Gets
afson, Louis Stuart, Leo Highly and
14 steerage.
FOII $290 BE DIVIDED
WASHINGTON, April 19. (JP)—A
woman in Norwalk, Connecticut, sent
Postmaster New a check fcyr $250 to
be divided among Wilbur Jewell,
Maurice O’Leary and Berth Thoson,
dog-team mail drivers in Alaska. The
unnamed woman said she thought
they ought to be rewarded for hard
ships of frozen hands and feet, she
had read about.
PREDICTS CLEAN SWEEP
PACIFIC COAST STATES
WASHINGTON, April 19.
Predicting a clean sweep in the Pacif. i
ic coast states for Herbert Hoover,!
in the contest for Republican, Conven-;
tion delegates, William H. Crocker,!
Republican National Committeeman:
from California, said here that he was!
convinced that Governor Smith, of
New York, would win in the Califor.
nia Democratic primary, May 1st.
RESPECTED RESIDENT
MS ESCAPED CONVICT
HONOLULU, April 19. (/P)—After
being regarded as a respected resident
and real estate operator of Honolulu,!
during the past BiX years, Orlan.’.
Star has been identified, police state,
as C. M. Deason, an escaped convict
from the Oklahoma penitentiary, I
•where he served one month of the
three year sentence for embezzlement.
HITS 'EM AT 82
LEOMINSTER, Mass., April 19. (&)
—Although Lucius M. Oolok is 82
years old, he recently returned to the
bo-wling alleys where in his younger
days he hung up records, and rolled
a three string total of 361. All 82
year-old bowlers take notice.
WANTS TO GO HOME
SEVEN ISLAND, Quebec, April 19.
(/P)—Fitzmaurice said he was anxious
to return home, giving as his reason
why he left Greenly Island. “I want
to go to Murraybay today, then to New
York, thence to Ireland."
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York, 10; Boston, 7.
Chicago, 1; Cleveland, 7.
Detroit 4; St. Louis*, 1.
Washington, 11; Philadelphia, 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati, 9; Chicago, 6.
Boston, 5; Brooklyn, 10.
Philadelphia, 1; New York, 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood, 1; Seattle, 10.
Sacramento, 3; Los Angeles, 2.
Oakland, 0; San Francisco, 1.
Missions, 10; Portland, 6.
ALASKAN KAHOES HOLLEY
SALEM, Ore., April 19. (/P)—Walter
Cleghom of Seldovia, knocked out
"Buck” Holley of Los Angelea, in the
sixth round of a scheduled 10-round
contest.
BENTON, 111., April 19. (£>)-Charles
Birger, notorious southern Illinois
gang leader, was hanged this morning
for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams
of West City. Five hundred spectay
tors crowded into the stockade to wit-;
ness the execution. \
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TIEIEfcSTEO
NEW YORK, April 19. (/P)—Accus
ed of conspiracy to use the mails to
defraud, in a nation-wide stock
scheme, three officers of the Cameron
Michel Co., Inc., a stock brokerage
concern now in the hands of the re
ceivers, sevieti employees and two
corporations were indicted by the Fed
eral grand jury.
Thru a national mail campaign, au
thorities said, the group fraudulently,
disposed of $7,000,000 in stocks and’
in the Canario Copper Co., and thei
Canario Copper Co., Inc., to purchas
ers in all parts of the States.
SET NAMES ARE JAWBREAKERS
PARJS, April 19. (JP)—Makers; of
radio sets in France give their pro
ductions lengthy titles, and purchasers
have to make a choice, among many
others, of sets bearing such names as
Elgedyne, Strobodyne, Zutterodyne,
Supermoduladyne, Tubeheterodyne,
Stazodyne and Supertridyne.
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’ A FOURTH “R”
PARIS, April 19. (JP)—-To the three
R’s taught in French primary schools}
is to be added a fourth—roadlore. j
Children will be schooled in traffic'
rules. !
REPUBLICANS SIDESTEP
EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
NEW YORK, April 19. (£>)—'The
National Republican Club side-stepped
the prohibition question when Uhe
club tabled the majority of its Com
mittee on National Affairs advocating
repeal of the 18th Amendment. The
vote was 124 to 88.
ENTIRE POPULATION
NOME GREETS AVIATOR
SECOND HOP FAIRBANKS
NOME, April 19. (/P)~'The entire
population turned out to celebrate
the arrival of the second annual Terri
torial subsidy mail by plane, when
Noel Wien finished a record run from
Fairbanks in fire hours and 40 min
utes, with stops at Ruby and Unalak
leet. Dog teams which brought mall
and furs from outlying settlements
for transfer to the plane, lined up on
the ice welcoming the plane’s arrival.
USE ICimST LEVINE
SETTLED, OUT OF COURT
WASHINGTON, April 19. (£>)—'The
Government’s case against Charles A.
Levine, trans-Atlantic flyer, over war
time contracts, has been settled out
of court.
The Government has claimed that
Levine owed approximately a half mil
lion dollars in connection with the
sale of surplus war material, but the
case was settled for about $150,000.
POISON PLOT IN S. F.
DISCOVERED BT POLICE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. (/p)—
Revenge, by a poison plot, which
might have killed a score of innocent
persons, was discovered in North
Beach by the police.
Fish and crabs on the counter of a
Taylor Street shop were found to have
been sprinkled with a deadly white
powder, alleged by the owner to have
been placed there by his enemies.
HEAVIEST SHIP HEAVIER
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 19.
(JP)—The White Star liner Majestic,
world's ii< : viest ship, has been made
69 tons heavier by conversion of non
earning space into cabins.
BROBDINGNAGIAN FLAKES
CANDIA, N. H., April 19. (JP)—Resi-!
dents of Candia claim that snowflakes
three and one-half inches by two inch
es fell during a snow-squall recently.
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SPEED RECORD IN OIL CASE; 10
j DAYS OCCUPIED BY GOVERN
MENT, DEFENSE
WASHINGTON, April 19. (/p)—The
defense rested suddenly in the Sinclair
trial without introducing the lengthy
deposition made for the oil operator
by Fall. The action marked a record
in speed in oil cases.
The Government occupied less than
a week in presenting its charges. The
defense used three and one-quarter
J days.
Daniel Thew Wright said the de
fense believed the testimony of M. T.
Everhart, government witness, com
pletely covered the Sinclair conten
tions. Everhart testified Sinclair paid
Fall $233,000 in Liberty bonds and
$35,000 in cast for a one-third interest
( in Fall's New Mexico ranch.
Sinclair’s lawyer said it was unnec
essary to use the Fall deposition corn,
prising 100,000 words. Testimony was
introduced by the defense before they
rested which intended to show the
$25,000 Fall got from Sinclair before
his trip to Russia was merely a loan.
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GRANDSON FOR HUGHES
NEW YORK, April 19. (>F)—Charles
Evan Hughes, former Secretary of
! State, will now have to share his
birthday cake with a grandson. The
boy was born to Mrs. Channcey L.
Waddell, the 66th birthday of her
father, the former secretary.
MUNICIPAL FISH
NORWALK, 0., April, 19. (>P)—Nor.
walk has gone into the business of
raising fish. Rainbow trout are pro
pagated and put in city reservoirs to
consume animal and vegetable grow
ths which flavor the water.
MONUMENT TO ALOCK
LONDON, April 19. (yp)—Steps have
been taken to build a monument to the
late Sir John Alock, -who with Sir
Arthur Whitten Brown wras first to
fly the Atlantic. They crossed to Ire
land from Newfoundland to Ireland in
1919.
MORE FACTORIES, FEWER CARS
PARIS, April 19. (yP)—Europe has
five times as many autombile factor
ies as the United States but produces
only one-sixth as many cars.
ONE PRICE TO ALL
ROME, April 19. (/P)—The fixed
price idea has just taken hold among
small merchants of Rome. Hereto
fore the customer bargained for a
price.