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OMSK, Siberia, June 6, —James
v Mattern landed at 1:35 p. m., Mos
cow time, from Moscow, requiring
12 hours. 21 mnutes for the trip of
1,400 miles without a stop.
He is more than five hours ahead
of the record. He snatched two
hours sleep after his arrival at
Moscow. He chafed because it was
necessary to remain at Moscow
nine hours and 17 minutes.
\ He said he fixed rubber bands
tl the stick from the compass
$rack allowing sufficient margin to
provide for a slight drift to the
right; then crossed his legs with
the right foot exerting a slight
pressure on the rudder which
equalized the drift and kept the
plane on an even course. This is
how he got cat naps on the hop,
the young Texan flyer explained.
< Mattern plans to remain in this
rtown until tomorrow. Dispatches
gave no reason for the decision but
it is thought the idea is to rest
here while adjustments to the
ship are made
SCHMELING IS JUST
REACHING HIS PEAK
■ IS I HEAVYWEIGHT
LAKE SWANNONOA. N. J., June
6, —Herr Maxie Schmeling is just
reaching his peak as a heavy
weight fighter which Max Baer
K^ill discover Thursday night, is
the statement and prediction of
Joe Jacobs, manager of the young
German, former champion of the
world.
And the statement was con
firmed by Schmeling, himself, as he
sat on the edge of his training
table in an upstairs room of the
sumptious clubhouse here.
“I’m just starting on my boxing
career although I have already
been a champion,” said Schmeling.
“My age is 27 years and I will not
be 28 until September. By all past
heavyweight records I am about at
the proper age for my best fight
ing.”
Schmeling w a s particularly
after yesterday’s four rounds of
Jhappy after four rounds of
^boxing. “You look more jovial than
I have ever seen you before,” said
Ed Frayne, who is one of those
few persons to pick Jimmy McLar
nin to win the welterweight title
by a knockout.
ATLANTIC CITY, June 6, —
Max Baer will have a 30 pound ad
vantage in weight when he steps
into the ring Thursday night to
face Max Schmeling. Many think
it will be a 20-pound advantage;
that’s what Baer wants everyone
-to believe, including Schmeling
The Baer camp have been an
nouncing his weight as 206 pounds
but the weight showed that the
Jewish lad tips the beam at 219
pounds and wil enter the ring
Thursday night within a pound of
that figure.
Schmeling probably will scale
188 pounds, give or take a pound.
TROOPS RETREATING
ASUNCION, Paraguay, June 6 —
The continued retreat of Bolivian
troops towards Fort Platanilles
.from, Fort Herrera, in the Gran
phaco, was reported by the War
Minister.
STRONG GALE DID
DAMAGE TO FAIR
CHICAGO, June 6, —A 70-mile
an hour gale which whipped across
the city and centered its fury at
the Century of Progress Exposition
grounds, left thousands of dollars
damage in its wake and a score
of persons injured.
The gale sent 65,000 persons
scurrying for cover; 15 were injur
ed in the grounds, mainly by fall
| ing glass. They were treated at the
| Fair hospital.
! SENATE COMMITTEE
REPORTS FHVORMU
ON LICENSING BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6,—
After restoring provisions giving
President Roosevelt powers to es
tablish a licensing system for bus
iness. the Senate finance commit
tee favorably reported the admin
istration’s $3,300,000,000 public
works industries control bill
Rejectng a general manufac
turer’s sales tax by the slender
margin of 10 to 9, the committee
approved a levy of l-10th of one
per cent on “fair value” of corp
oration stock. A five per cent tax
on corporation dividends and a
boost in the federal gasoline tax
from one cent a gallon to one and
one-half cents
MILLION UNO i IMLF
MEN HE RETURNED
ION SINCE MIOCN 4
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WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 6,—
Nearly 1.500,000 men have returned
to work since March 4 and there
are indications of a definite revi
val in industry. Budget Director
Douglas told Congressional leaders
at a White House conference last
night, it was learned today.
Mr. Douglas however, sounded a
note of warning in his outline of
economic conditions pointing out
that if Congress insisted upon lib
eralizing benefits to veterans, con
trary to President Roosevelt’s eco
nomy plan, additional taxes would
have to be levied.
WERE NONPLUSSED
MOSCOW, June 6, —Curious
Soviet officials dealing with tele
grams were nonplussed yesterday
at the wording of a cablegram re
ceived by James Mattern, the
i American flyer. The cryptic mes
! sage said: “Attaboy Jimmy.” It
| was signed San Angelo, the flyer’s
| home town in Texas. The officials
I tried to translate “attaboy” but
I gave up.
NEW USE FOR SHEARS
! EL MONTE, Calif., June 6. —L.
; Burkett, a farmer, discovered a
! new use for pruning shears. Pass
| ing a bush he saw two birds
j fluttering around their nest and
I baby birds rolled to the ground.
I Mr. Burkett found a large snake
{ occupying the nest. When the
j snake darted its head. Mr. Burk
j ett applied the shears.
LAVA FLOW HALTED
j NAPLES. June 6, —A lava flow
I from Mount Vesuvius halted a fewr
I feet from the edge of the valley
i and it is believed danger to the
I towm of Terzigno was over.
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REPLY COMPLETED
TOKYO, June 6, —Japan’s re
ply to President Roosevelt’s May
15 world-wide appeal for disarm
ament has been completed and will
be submitted for the cabinet's fin
al approval today, it was learned
at the foreign office.
Mira’S MOTOR
COUCHED TWICE WHEN
OVER miiNTIC OCEIN
MOSCOW, June 6, —How near
he came to death on his record
breaking flight alone across the
stormy Atlantic, was revealed
to Jimmy Mattern, Texas airman,
here yesterday just before he took
off on a continuation of his flight
around the world.
While cranking up and making
adjustments on “The Peat Dog”—
his pet name for the plane in
which he and Bennett Griffrin
landed in a peat bog near Bor
isov, Russia, in a vain globe-cir
cling attempt a year ago—Mattern
heard a double cough.
The^motor resumed its roar then
coughed again. It was then 10 p.
m. Monday, and Mattern had
planned to hop at 10:30. But he
calmly cut the switch and went
to work on the gas line,
i In the gas filter, Jimmy found
j a piece of wet felt, large enough
i to have choked the line and caus
l ed a landing somewhere in the
wilds between here and Omsk. He
held up the felt, remarking:
“Whew! I‘d have had a nice time
if I had hopped with this thing
i along. I’ll bet its been there since
' I left New York. The ftiotor cough
: ed just like that twice over the
Atlantic and almost gave me heart
failure.”
The Texas “plane puncher” put
the works together again, checked
! all fuel and oil supplies and in
! struments and gave the word to
1 twist her tail. At 1:15 he was off.
He circled the lighted airfield and
I then opened her up. At Khabar
ovsk, on the Siberian-Manchurian
frontier, Mattern said he hopes
to get about 15 hours sleep.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 6 —
The Senate banking and currency
committee balked at public dis
closure of certain stock transac
; tions by which several Morgan
partners escaped paying income
| taxes.
Authority to proceed “full steam
ahead” was still refused Counsel
i Ferdinand Pecora although he
considers the income tax revela
tions among the most important
of all the starting disclosures of
the entire Morgan inquiry.
RATTLESNAKE AND WATER
DOG FOUND IN TROUT
BEND. Ore., June 6. —The weir
dest fish story of the season was
recounted by Harry Keller and J.
i Parker of Bend.
j The two fishermen said Indians
on the Warm- Springs reservation
caught a nine-pound Dolly Varden
! trout. When they opened the fish
i to dress it the stomach was found
1 to contain a rattlesnake and a 10
inch water dog. The snake had two
J rattles and a button.
YESTERDAYS BASEBALL
American League
Phillies 7, Washingtin 4.
Chicago 14. St. Louis 7.
, .Detroit 8, Cleveland 7.
SWALLOWED A KEY
VIRAGGIO Italy. June 6. —
Leoonardo Lorenzini, a local bar
tender is in the local hospital af
ter winning a bet he made with a
friend. He bet that with the aid
of a glass of water he could swal
low an automobile key. Doctors
are now wondering how to recover
the key.
BAD WEATHER AGAIN
POSTPONES OCEAN HOP
CROYDON, Eng., June 6, —Capt.
James A. Mollison and his wife,
the former Amy Johnson, again
postponed the start of their pro
posed trans-Atlantic flight to New
York scheduled to begin today.
Bad weather reports over the
ocean were given as the reason for
this second postponement of the
flight originally to have started at
dawn yesterday.
DALLAS, Texas, June 6, —Gov.
: Miriam A. Ferguson and her hus
! band and chief adviser, James E.
| Ferguson, refused to attend a
' breakfast given in honor of Mrs.
! Franklin D. Roosevelt here after
j the President’s wife declined to
pose in a picture with them.
Newspaper photographers who
asked Mrs. Roosevelt to pose with
the Fergusons were told she did
not wish to pose in group pictures
Mrs. Roosevelt left the city by
plane directly after the break
fast. She left kansas City last
night by airplane at 2:30 a. m.
continuing her trans-continental
trip to visit her son Elliott in Los
Angeles.
RESTING TOW FOR
THURSDHY ENCOUNTER
NEW YORK. June 6, —Baer and
; Schmeling Have come through the
heavy part of their training with
out serious accident. Baer plan
ned a light workout today at his
| Atlantic City camp and will do lit
tle, but rest from now on until
fight time Thursday night. He will
• come to New York late Wednesday
; and spend the night with a friend.
Max Schmeling had planned to
| quit his Lake Swannanoa camp to
j morrow and spend the night at
the Hotel Commodore, but changed
his mind- Instead he will come to
New York by motor arriving in
time for the 2 p. m. weigh-in. He
will spar today for the last time
before the heavyweight battle.
FIGHTING FOR LIFE
PARIS, June 6, —Probably per
manently disfigured, Jenny Dolly,
member of the internationally fa
mous Dolly sisters dancing team,
is fighting for her life as the re
sult of injuries received in an aut
omobile accident near Bordeaux.
“It is not a question of her reap
pearing on the stage,” Sister Rosie
said, “but a problem of saving her
I life.”
FRENCH GOT EXCITED
; LE BOURGET, France, June 6. —
1 The first German commercial plane
I carrying the Swastika emblem on
| its wings, arrived at the Air Field
I here, causing a flurry among the
i French personnel. The excitement
• was particularly marked, since the
| plane with its Nazi cross flew over
| Paris 20 minutes before reaching
| the airport.
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FILLS THE GAP
NEW YORK, June 6. —Harry
Newman, brilliant quarterback of
Michigan’s undefeated 1932 football
team, has accepted terms to play
with the New York football Giants
next fall. The All-American quar
ter will fill a gap in the Giant
backfield left last autumn by the
shift of Benny Friedman to Brook
lyn as player manager.
SMARTEST DODGE
TODATE ESCAPE PAYING
INCOME TAX REVEALED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6,—
Somebody connected with the
! House of Morgan—somebody with
i a mighty swell set of brains—put
i over or Uncle Sam a faster one
; than Bob Grove of the Athletics
! ever slammed into the padded
i palm of Mickey Cochrane.
The talented gentleman figured
out a scheme to “avoid” paying
the income tax, which is a ducky,
a daisy, a lamb, or what have you.
It is the smartest dodge, says
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the
Senate banking and currency
committee, that ever came under
the eyes of his accountants and
experts.
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CAPACITY OF STADIUM
IS BEING INCREASED
FOR BIG HEAVY RATTLE
NEW YORK. June 6, —In the
midst of that inevitable undercur
rent of expectation always the
| prelude to a big heavyweight
brawl, came the announcement
I that the capacity of the Yankee
: Stadium is being increased to 77,
000 for the Baer-Schmeling prize
1 fight Thursday night.
Hotels are rapidly approaching
j a situation, wholly without prece
dent, wherein the guests are be
ginning to outnumber those who
make lasting impressions upon the
i house furnishings in the lobby.
' Moreover, the advance sale is
I holding up well. It is still shy of
j $100,000 but can be expected to
j come in on the closing day as
i the fighters, now finished train
i ing. marking time for the bout.
PLEA Of Irani
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TEN TO ONE NET IS
VERDICT OF ILLINOIS
; SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, —
David Lamson, 30, Stanford press
l executive, charged with the mur
I der of his wife, Allene, made a
! statement yesterday afternoon to
! Sheriff William B. Emig.
This was learned when the Sher
iff and his stenographer went to
the prisoner’s cell in the Santa
Clara county jail at San Jose and
as three other new developments
strongly pointed to the possibility
of a confession accompanied by a
plea of insanity.
CHICAGO, June 6, —Illinois re
pudiated the 18th amendment with
a million votes. It declared against
prohibition downstate as well as in
Chicago.
In the city and Cook county, it
was a 10 to 1 majority. With the
tremendous majority given the 50
delegates to the State convention
July 10, the State becomes the 9th
to vote for the 21st amendment,
wdiich repeals the 18th.
LUCKY JUNGLE STIFFS
ASHLAND, Wise., June 6. —Resi
dents of a hobo jungle near here
enjoyed an unexpected chicken
dinner when two crates of hens
fell from a Milwaukee-bound truck.
The transients captured the chic
kens, impaled them on sticks and
cooked them over open fires.