Fifty-two Coal
Miners Dead in
Wales Colliery
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RECOVERED—HOPE ABANDONED FOR RES
CUING OTHERS—CRYING WOMEN AND CHIL-I
DREN GATHER AT PITHEAD IDENTIFYING
DEAD AND RESCUED—SECOND DISASTER OC
CURS IN NOTTINGHAM, SIXTEEN THOUGHT
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CWM, Wales, March 1. (/P)—Fifty-two coal miners
are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion which
entombed them in the gas-filled workings of a marine
mine colliery at Cwin. Twenty-two bodies have been
recovered. Hope is abandoned for rescuing 30 others
trapped in a section of the mine a mile and a half from, the
main shaft. At the time of the explosion 135 men were
^ in the mine. Rescue squads fought grimly through the
,ong morning hours to reach their comrades. More than
80 were brought to the surface alive.
PRESIDENT OF CUBA
POSTPONES TRIP U. S.
JONFINED TO BED WITH INFLU
ENZA—MAY BE WELL ENOUGH
I TO TRAVEL TOMORROW
HAVANA, March 1. <7P)—Presi
ient Machado’s proposed trip to the
Jnited States has been postponed un
:il March 1, it was announced at the
oalace. The President is confined to
iis bed with influenza and the attend
ng physicians have assured him that
f he remains quietly in bed he may
•expect to be in good enough physical
ondition by next Tuesday to make
4^' .he trip northward.
FARM, RICH LINDS
ENDANGERED BY FLOOD
Los Angeles, March 1. (/P)—Farm
nd ranch lands in the Imperial Val
ey -were endangered yesterday by
food waters raging down from the
pper drainage of the Colorado, Gila
and Big Williams Rivers. All a
ailable men and teams 'were at
vork constructing additional levees
o protect the existing bulwarks
.*om the threatened overflow.
mOHllffCLMIEPT
BY DAMAGING FLAMES
NEW YORK, March 1. (JP)—A fire
tarted by a short circuit in the elec
•ric wiring swept the Casa Lopez
night club, operated by Vincent Lopez,
j’azz band leader and composer, and
did damage estimated at $150,000.
greater part of the furnishings, includ
ing a $60,000 silken painting, were de
voured by the flames, which gutted the
second andthird floors where the club
proper, and the apartments of Lopez
are located.
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gasses were taken to hospitals. Res
cue work was abandoned at noon to
permit ventilation of the mine when
the gasses became too strong. Hun
dreds of crying w'omen and children
gathered about the pitched and rushed
forward to identify each man rescued.
SECOND MINE DISASTER
NOTTINGHAM, Eng., March 1. {IP)
—Sixteen miners are thought drowned
as the result of a staging on which
they were working in a colliery shaft
collapsed hurtling them into the flood
ing mine. Volumes of water poured
into the shaft through a break in a
pipe. The earth sides fell making the
rescue work near impossible.
POLICEMAN IS KILLED;
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
CHICAGO, March 1. (IP)— One police
man was killed and another officer
and two of his friends wounded, pos
sibly fatally, last night when two pa
trolmen in plain clothes each mistook
the other for a gangster and opened
fire when they met In an alley. Po
liceman William Nash was killed and
officer Frank Rurowski and two
friends were wounded. Both police
men were off duty.
IRMYAIRMEN HPT Ml
UP; DROWNED IN SEA
MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y.March 1.
(IP)—Two army airmen, Lieutenants
Willard J. Harris and William A.
Gray, who have been missing since
Thursday night, when they flew out
over the sea in a dep.se fog, were giv
en up for lost last night by their
comrades, \riio have been on a con
stant search for the men since their
failure to return in a short time Thurs
day evening. It Is believed that their
plane dived into the sea and they were
both drowned.
SENATE JUDICIARY
TO CONDUCT NEW
BILL INTRODUCED TO PREVENT
PRESIDENT RETAINING UNAP
PROVED OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON, March 1. (IP)—Sen
ator King (Democrat of Utah) last
night introduced a bill designed to
prevent the President keeping in of
fice officials who fail to meet the ap
proval of the Senate. The bill was re
ferred to a committe and there is lit
tle prospect of its being acted upon at
this session. King explained that the
measure was aimed primarily at the
case of Judge Reed of the First divi
sion of Alaska, who is holing office
under recess appointment. The meas
ure provides that any federal officer
whose reappointment is subject to the
consent of the Senate shall not serve
later than the end of the session fol
lowing the expiration of his term in
spite of the fact that his successor
may not have been named.
King’s bill, drafted by the Senate
judiciary committee, had the approval
of both Republican and Democratic
members. It provides for Judge Reed’s
removal, although Senator King ex
pressed doubt whether action can be
taken during the present session of
Congress.
NEW ENQUIRY ALASKA JUDGE
WASHINGTON, March 1. (IP)—'The
Senate judiciary committee has decid
ed upon a new enquiry into the case
of Judge Reed.
IS STILL ALIVE
KERNERSVILLE, N. C. March 1.
(/P)—Little five-year-old Jimmie De
vine is alive here today with an auto
mobile and spare tire in his stomach.
The youngster swallowed the toy, one
and a half inches long while at play,
his mother announced, saying his con
dition was not critical. An X-ray ex
amination will be made today to locate
the “automobile.”
SEMITE ADJOURNS; FAILS
TAKE VOTE ON MU BILL
WASHINGTON, March 1. (£>)—'The
Senate adjourned without reaching a
vote on the Boulder Canyon dam bill,
which is being blocked this session
by a filibuster and the possibility of
! forcing the proposal to a roll call dur
ing the present Congress is now re
garded as doubtful.
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OFFERED TITLE BOUT
NEW YORK, March 1. (JP)—Eddie
Roberts, hard bitting West Coast mid
dleweight, who knocked out Joe Dun
dee in one round, is offered a title
bout with Mickey Walker, the cham
pion middleweight of the world, at
became known here yesterday. The
bout would be held in Chicago late in
April.
ALASKA GRAZING LIND
BILL PASSES SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 1. (^—Alas
ka grazing lands would be divided into
districts and leased to individuals for
20 years under the Senate bill passed
by the House and sent to the Presi
dent.
APPROVE ERECTION
BRIDGE NEW ORLEANS
SENATE APPROVES HERO BRIDGE
ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI
COST $10,000,000.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1. (£>)—'The
United States Senate approved the bill
for the Hero bridge across the Missis
sisippi river between Thalia street
and Jackson avenue. The bridge will
be one that will accommodate both
passengers and automobiles as well
as all other traffic. It will be built by
the Hero interests, backed by New
York capitalists and will cost in the
neighborhood of $10,000,000.
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INFORMS TWO PACKED HOUSES
THAT NEW YORK IS IN “THE
GRIP OF SATAN
NEW YORK, March 1. (IP)—Aimee
Semplee McPherson, genial evangelist,
visited New York night clubs and met
“Texas” Guinan in the wee sma’ hours
this morning. Saturday afternoon
and evening she told two packed
houses that New York was in the grip
of Satan.
Various other night clubs besides
“Texas” Guinan’s were visited by the
evangelist, who said she found the
patrons of hte clubs “dancing over the
trapdoors of hell.”
HOOKIES’ARE SLASHED
FROM BASEBSLL RINKS
BOYLES SPRINGS, Cal. March 1.
(IP)—With the spring training of the
San Francisco “Seals”, rounding out,
with sunshine present, 12 more rook
ies were slashed from the food list
yesterday and the cream of the gang
bore down to more strenuous train
ing. The regulars are arriving in
camp and the youngsters must hustle
for a chance to play.
CHINESE CRUISERS IRE
SEIZED BY SUN'S IBMY
SHANGHAI, March 1. (IP)—'The Chi
nese cruisers Kiang Wei and Kiang
Kang, whose crews have revolted and
attempted to shell the arsenal south
of the city, were seized by officers of
Sun’s army yesterday. The crews
have fled and have not yet been cap
tured, while a third gunboat is under
guard.
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NICARAGUA PEACE
MOVE LAUNCHED
APPROVED Of 0. S.
DIAZ ASSURES AUTHORITIES WILL
GRANT SAFE CONDUCT TO LIB
ERALS THROUGH LINES
MANAGUA, March 1. (^P)—A defi
nite movement for peace in. Nicaragua
was launched with tacit approval of
of the American authorities and as
surances from President Diaz that he
will grant safe conduct to Liberals
through the Conservative lines. Three
prominent native Nicaraguans, includ
ing two Liberals and one neutral, ac
companied by an American marine
and navy officer, will leave Managuai
Wednesday to search for General
Moncada, commander of the Liberal
forces and members of his own party;
and neutrals and tell him of the exist
ing situation. His opinion and ideas
will be ascertained and he will be giv
en opportunity to take steps which
will result in peace.
DESTROYERS GIVE UP
SEARCH FDR FREIGHTER
MANILA, March 1. (JP)—The four
United States destroyers which have
been searching for the missing Ship
ping Board freighter Elkton, since
receipt of her S. O. S. calls Wednes
day night and subsequent disappear
ance, have returned to their base giv
ing the vessel up as lost with all
hands, not even a bit of wreckage
having been discovered in the moun
tainous sea.
MASKED ROBBER RETS
LOS ANGELES, March 1. (/P)—A
masked robber last night held up the
passengers in the tourist sleeper of
the Ocean Shore Express, which left
here at 9 o’clock for Los Angeles.
The masked bandit robbed two men of
$7.00 and forced a brakeman to signal
for a stop, he then leapt from the train
and escaped as the train neared ithe
city.
DELMONTE, Calif., March 1. (IP)—
Mrs. Melvin Jones, Chicago woman
golf star, sprung the biggest golfing
surprise of the 1927 season when she
scored a last minute sensational vic
tory over Miss Marion Kollins of
New York, in the finals for the Peb
ble Beach Championship here yes
terday. The match finished four up
and three to go. *
$20,000,000 PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, March 1. (£>)—The
House passed and sent to the Senate
a bill appropriating almost $20,000,000
to initiatethe administrations public
buildings program, three hours after
it was introduced. »