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Aasociated Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
AMARILLO, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1928
HOME EDITION
FOURTEEN PAGES
SECOND GROUP NOBLE SURVIVORS ARE HH
7 MEN TO DIE
HOUSE OF DAVID
BEFORE DAWN
IN 2 HOURS
IN KENTUCKY
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AU ARE YOUNG MEN
STATE IS CONCERNED
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DEMO PARLEY
BISHOP MOORE
OF M.E, SOUTH,
tEontinuedenFege&,Gel4}
Of th* other Awo, Dr. Pinn Mala-
te prohibition would not allow him
Buekner, negro woman.
MEXICO CITY
VIA WASHINGTON
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NO DAMAGE IS
DONE BY BIG
(NyTheA
Preu.) J
RAINSTORMS,
mpjoitzfornominatonandooyerNORTHEAST PANHANDLE HA
“tvsduwne*r5SOME H^L ARP WIND,
The Democratic candidate’s nomin-
perl the national Demoeratie tiehat.
Heavy rains over the country in
country like a book."
helleen ree
writ tar
due to insuftjeient sterm warnings.
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ehl mornie.
or* regortud from
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M. A. Transpartation Cotporation,
I* extteme Aurore
learmed
only then that
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COLONY FIGHT
CALLS IN LAW
RUSSIAN SHIP
SAVES 7 MEN
MAKES SECRET TAKEOFF WITH
RECORD FUEL LOAD; GOES
ENDS WITH NO
NEW ACTIVITY
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SETTLE ASKS HOOVER
FOR DEFINITE ANSWER
WEATHER HAZARD IN
AVIATION IS STUDIED
OKLAHOMA WOMAN
BRINGS SUIT AGAINST
LIBERTY MAGAZINE
Proved
Success
Fireman Climbs on Top
Runaway Engine to Open
Steam Valve and Stop
QUEEN MARY’S FORCES USE
FISTS IN OUTBREAK OVER
CROP OF CHERRIES
th* vicinity of Ferryton, Canadian,
Miami and Pampa Wednesday night
were followed with mumerous scatter-
•d showers and thunderstorms over
th* Panhandle country last night.
Very little dairage had been re-
ported from any section late last
No Legs, One Arm, He’ll Try
Atlantic Hop to Rome, Alone
that th* eg-
• Republiean
Russian Novels •
Cause of Honor
Girl’s Suicide
DALLAS CHURCHMAN STATES
LIQUOR VIEWS PREVENT
BALLOT TO SMITH
ILL-FEELING DEVELOPS SOON
FOLLOWING DEATH
OF KING BEN
GAME DEPARTMENT
EXPENSE IS $34,841
Tano Panbandle, oklahoma, Kanama, Ne
breska, Misouri and the Aftaatk meat
«thteteThe temperature ehantte has beoe
Tama t m« ar, by bean at Amurille yen-
GORDON TO WED AT
EARHART FUNCTION
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DALLAS, July It.—Impetus to the
fight to carry Texas Into the Repub-
liesn romp in November for the first
time since the civil war was added
July 11.—W. R. Dougherty, known
to hit fellow townspeople here ss
“Dinger," haa no legs and only one
erm; but in a few deys, if all goes
well, he will take off alone from New
York on a projected non-stop air-
plane flight from New York ba Remo.
For, despite hie physical handicaps,
the Dinger ia an. accomplished pilot.
Most of his friends here have flown
with him at one time or another, and
all are confident that he can maha the
long hop.
•nw nnt tit YY tti fttgtr-ti »*■
chairman at the convention, 1; J. R.
Back, Norrin, Wie, 1, and Jesse Jones
at Houston, Texas, 1.
copel church, Routh, that he would
vote for Herbert Hoover for presi-
dent.
Bishop Moore declared that al-
though he had been a Democrat for
forty years his views with regard
TOLD TO GO FEEL OUT
HOME STATES
DARING AVIATOR, WHO MADE
RECENT DISCOVERIES.
FORCED DOWN
was sent by telegre
ricultural plank la
V
or.r
"b
Herold M. B sills of East Au-
rora, N. Y, leaped into the falls
last night end was hilled on the
reeks below.
In hie pocket was a note:
“I'regret the fact that my mind
is leaving me, so this la the only
way out."
national platform fails to deal with
the problem. .
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Here la "Dinger” Dougherty, legless and one-armed aviator, and plane In whieh he left his home for
his seheduled noh-stop flight from New Yorh to Rome.
THREE OF LIST ARE NEGROES;
GOVERNOR REFUSES
CLEMENCY
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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CONFUSED REPORT INDICATES
THIRD GROUP AT SCENE
OF DISASTER SEEN
(n, United Prew»)
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July
12.— Niagara Faile he* claimed
its second victim in the last four
W.F.VARNEYIS
NAMED HEAD
OF DRY PARTY
MOSCOW, July 12-The Russian
lee breaker, Krassin, after a 30-day'
battle with the ice floes, has on
board two survvors of the Noble
Folar expedition, Capt. Alberto Mar- !
lane, pilot of the dirigible. and Capt.
Filippo Zeppl, navigator. They were i
almost starved when found and had
abandoned hope of reseue.
Dr. Finn Malmgren, noted Swedish
Man Leaps to
His Death in
Falls at Niagara
BUT NOT SERIOUS-
blam d by selentists today far uh-
usual neivlty of the urora Borealis,
accompahied by exeessive reeont in-
Dr,
la ae
yieted in Harrison county for hill-
ing George Craig, negro. ,
William Moore, negro,-eonvieted in
Jefferson county for slaying Cara
Creaby, negro women.
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concerned over property damage re-
suiting from clashes of the belli-
-0
A wire, confirming plane for the
.marriage, hus been roceivedfrom
'Gordon by Leonard J. Grossmap, who
te in charge of arrengments for the
reception.
>| apiteietnek,50.09 who bguta eom
*Or The Aseosieted Pram.)
ROME, July me le* breaker
K ran in waa enly three miles from
the eamp of the five survivor of
the dirigible Italin near Foyn Island
at 3 p. m. today
The Krassin reported as she passed
the arena of the Italia dinaster aha
saw a number of men signaling and
she replied that sho weald piek them
up on her return from the camp of
th* Viglieri group
— In the "Viulieri group" otrefuzees
from the. polar airship Italia were
five men. Their reneue brings to
eight in number saved from the eraw
of sixteen abomd the Italia when
General Umberto steered the big
dirigible for the north pole on May
noTkeint
tered localities. Farmers report that
the lose was henviest from a strong
wind which accompanied th* rain in
the eounties to th* north. Much
of the ripe wheat was blewn down
but with the use a* modern machin-
hies of laet Saturday night may come
today or tonight.
Another epet wae centered on the
sun’s equator daring the (term of
last night.
The great “northern lights" mya-
levy which has puzaled selentiets
today by announcement of Bishop
mw m. mn trti* wwkMm rpi«- ,
alien and his subsequent poll of votes
precipitated a one-man parade by I
Delegate Clinton N. Howard, Reches-'
ter, N. Y. Howard marched up and 1
The daily patronage of
thousands of the people
of Amarillo proves that I
ear Classified Seetion Ie
giving the hind of ner:
tee everybody weato, and--—
the suecess these eol-
umns ton, of the daily I
satinfaetion they give.
Make a habit of reading
these Classifled Ada
regulprlyt am
gerents. A receivership for the col-
ony has been appointed by the state
and action to liquidation of its real
assets ia being held up pending a
hearing on a restraining order-
Boms 60 of the colonists were in-
solved in the fighting according to
authorities who were celled to quell
< By Th* Asmocinted Prase. I
.CHICAGO. July 11. — William L.
Varney, Rockville Center, New Yorh,
waa tonight nominated by the pro-
hibition party as its candidate for the
presidency. —
Varney was declared nominated on
the second ballot with 66 voice out
of IM east. Hoover was second on
a field of six with 45 votes.
Varney’s nomination wps declared
unanimous by a majority vote of the '
delegatee, despite a demonstration by
ths minority.
On the fikst ballot,.In which Varney
received 13 veto*, lacking seven af a
(By United Pre)
WASHINTON, July IL—GIgaatl*
tornadoes ob the sun’s aurface com-
CONDEMNED MURDERERS IS
RECORD IN STATE FOR
- SINGLE EXECUTION r-
“Sun Spot” Tornadoes
Bring “Northern Light”
-_____Due Again Last Night
im5
iftzk.
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serviee. • -
A atorm ' called a "ppot" hecause it
appeat aa a speek ini the «re2t
royernment teleneopee — hbout Mx
p miles acrows, is centered now on
the ess's equntor, observations show,
and if the theory that such spots
(By United Pre)
CHICAGO, July IL—The Chicago
reception for Miss Amelia Earhart
firatwoman.to ereasthe Atlantic by.
alrplane, will inelude the marriage
of Lou Gordon, mechanie of the
plane Friendship and his fiance.
Miao Anne Bruce, It wee announced
Ing party" which set out on May M
from the wreckage of the gondola
near Foyn Island, le dead.
Without loss of lime the toe breaker
comtiued to ferae her way through
the heavy ice in an endavar to res-
eue five men marooned on the ice,
whom the walking party left behind,
now under commend of Leutenant
ViolierL
Rusnian Flier Down
.....TheRunqienLaxjatog. Chkhngxkz,"
operating from the Krassin, sighted
the litile group on the ie*. By radie
he reported that there wore three
men, two able to wave flags to at-
tract his attention, and the other
lying prostrate.
The airman himseif had t* nM J
a forced landing, but from bls tea*
lated position sent instruetfons to th*
..0
sunspots, war*
(By Th* Asmeinted Presn.)
ROME, July 1»—The Citta Di Mil-
ano sent a radie mesaage tonight •ey-
ing that at • p. m. the Russian iee
breaker Krassin had taken aboard
the Viglieri group of refugees from
Nobile’s airship, the Italia. An of-
fieinl announcement of the vencue
was made.
rillo Daily News
(By United Preus)
GLENDALE, Ore., July 1L— Real-
. dents of Glendale today quenched
- —the-iast embers wf tbs Kill disns.
trona fire in the history of the vil.
Iago and prepared to rebuild Ita ball,
ness section. •
James Moword, negro, eonvieted in to proniiuon woum not auow mm
Jefferson eounty for hilling Luey, to support Gov. Alfred M. Smith of
"enakna". narA ....... I New ork. He added, however, that
Clarenee McQueen, negro, eon-
d, Th* Aswociated Press.)
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 11. .
—Possibility Jf stole intervention in
the dispute between factions warring
for control of the House of Devid
colony here presented itself today.
Rival groups headed by Mary Pur- —
noil and H. T. Dewhirst had a fight
Spearman’s Bank I
Deposits Up 100
Per Cent 10 Days -
(By Staff Correspondent.)
SPEAKMAN, July 11. — The
lank deposita of Spearman have
increased more than 100 per cent
in the pact ton deys. (
On June30theViratNationat
bank of Spearmen had 1117,700.40
on deposit. At the dose of. busi-
ness, Tuesday, June 10, the total
deposits were $378,470.60.
The Fidelity Bank ef Commerce
hod 1100,068.78 an deposit on ,
June 30 and the deposits to date
had passed the 1300,000 mark. ,
Local businesa men helleve that
this is a record for West Texas.
Bankers expeet th* total do- I
posits hero to exceed 11,500,000
when all of the IKS wheat crop
is marketed.
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AUSTIN, July IL—The state gams,
fish and oyster department has oper-
sted for the last 10 months on an
average monthly expenditure of $34,
84120, and not one-cent or The men -
ey eemes from tax revenue, Commis-
sioner .Will J- Tucker eald Thursday
in a statement inspired by what he
said were campaign Assertion* of
Leal* J. Wardlaw. candidate for wov-
arnar,thatssenez menth iz-heing
paid game wardens.
(By Th* Asnoniated Frara.)
FORT WORTH, July 11—Sult for
$600,000 against Liberty Weekly, Ine.
publishers of Liberty magazine, war
Died in district court here today by
Mrs. Temple Houston of Woodward,
Ohio. The four children of Mrs.
Houston are plaintiffs In the suit
also.
According to the petition Liberty
published on artiele on June t con-
coming General Sam Houston In
which it wae stated that Temple
Houston we* the son of the general
and aa Indian squaw.
The plaintiff* claim that they will
produce court records showing that
the mother of Temple Houston was
Margaret Las, third wife of Sam
Houston.ti--
Hwsr 4
(By United Pre)
TULSA, Okla., July 11.—Cyni-
cism brought about by reading
"Russian novela” and strange
phiosophies caused Mise Alice
Wright, 10, Tulsa honor student
to take her awn life, investigators
revealed today.
"The world la era»y—and I am
crazier than all the rest. Beauty
and leva ar* extinct and in their
places one finda enly leering hist
snd snarling hate,” th* girl wrote
shortly before her death.
erinjured in the
yesterday.
K. V. Clardy, assistant attorney MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE ARE
general, said the state is definitely
only on eleventh hour habeas corpus
suit in behalf of Orlando “Red” Sey-
meur, one of the condemned men.
standing in the way of the state's
plsns fsr a septuple execution.
Seymour, who is 11, was convicted
of the murder of William Bcliansen-
bachen, coal yard operator.
Death Lnt Follower
Others scheduled, to die are:
Chariest Mitra, Italian, native of
At. Louis, who,was eonvieted of the
killing of Merlun A. Uteri*, grocer,
during a holdup.
Rascue Dockery, 11, convicted of
the slaying af Mrs. Bradley Howard
in Harlen county,
Milford Lawaon, 26, convieted in
xnnassayes “• 2%
te selegtaph_and. mhlesnct |Wl. when the lighte were
named, la Mill unexpiained as te
ONLY 3 KNOWN DEAD
far F. 8. Regan of Rockford, HI., 29; ____________ ____
Dr. B. R. Frugh, Harniburgh, Fa., ggp,' ww iHlte at lb* r
passenger thelter and caused it to
eollapse. Edgar Smith, Plainfield,
who was eitting la th* shelter was
unhurt.
Arthur Bien, f'r*m*n of th* engine,
finding, th* engine continued to run
madly on under its momentum, fee rod
that the boiler would explode if it
left the ratis. He climbed to the top
of the locomotive end clung there
amid eloude of steam while he
emptjed the boilers through the
valves Helf i mile from where the
rods broke the train stepp ed. it waa
Special to The News,
SPEARMAN, July 12.—One-half
inch of rain fell in thia vieinity
Wednesday night and today. No ball
was reported and the big wheat erop
suffered little damage, according to
reports. Combines were running
aguia thia ehoeaoea--------------------—......
Five hundred et of wheat have
been shipped from Spearman to date.
the wheels. Both legs and ane arm
were severed. He spent long month*
in a hospital.
When Dinger recovered he eet out
to overcome hie handleop. He got
two artiticial- leg* end an artificial
arm and spent month* getting fa-
miliar with their use. Eventually he
was able to walk. nearly aa well as
ever; strangers who saw him on the
street did not often renlize thet he
mALbphaaumdhaonoxrarndthpt
CHARTERS GRANTED
I B» Th- Aeneetoted Pre.)
AUSTIN, July 11. - Chartered:
to hit being crippled. Working
on a train one day, .he fell beneath
PLAINFIELD, N. J, Jaly 12—
While two broken driving rods were
tearing up the rood bed, a fireman
ef a Baltimore and Obie locpmotive
today Lclimbed.ta. the topoflheen- .
gine and reemsed the exhaust vaives
te prevent aa explosion should th*
careening locomotive leave the raile
The westbound express waa travel-
lag more then 40 miles aa hear
when the rode snapped near lb*
Plaifiele station. Engineer Merk 8.
Godright applied airbreaks, but they
did not funetion, he eald later
* Jrigiit^ eripala
gron and Vincente Pomella, are
known to be dead. Six have been
mitring since the balloon part af
the airship bailed away from th*
wrecked gondola ou May 25 and are
suppose to be loti
Reseued Un Vollowe
ThoM saved by th* Krassin tonight
• r*
Lieut. Alfredo V Igileri, Italian navy
navigator.
Prof. F. Behounek, Czecho Slovak-
Ian meterologiat.
Glusppi Bigo, radio operator.
Natale ecciont, meter chief, who
sufered a broken leg when the dirig-
ible wae wreaked.
Filippo Troioni, engineer.
The rescues followed elosely upon
the finding on a floating bit of lee
today of Captain Alberto Marian*,
pitot of the Italia, and Captain FUip-
po Zappl, Italian navy navigator.
That in one day the big Russian
vessel had saved aeven far whom
aviators and mariners had been
nearching and neeking te relleve for
more than tig weeks. The fyt that
the ship reached Iha camp here put
the predietions of aviators who bad
floWk over it, particularly that of
Lieut. Rlnar-Peel Lundberg, a Swede,
who rescued General ebile on
June 14. ■ ■ 5
he had no thought of deserting the
Democratic party.
"I will vote for Mr. Hoover," ।
Bishop Moore said, “to avert a moral
dinaster to this country and to save .
the Demoeratie party from the (
powers that are despoiling it."
Says Others Oppose Al.
Bishop Moore said he had come in
contact recently with church lead- l
ore in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, I
Tennensee and Kentueky, and despite |
tho fast that meet bed been Demo- I
erata all their lives without exeep-
lion they had declared themselves 1
“against Governor Smith and usually 1
for Hoover."
Meanwhile, aetivities of loaders of
th* anti-Smith Demoerats were held 1
up for the time being while action '
of the court of civil appeals at Sea
Antoni* wae had on a mandamus pro-
•coding brought by Thomas B. Love,
candidate far lieutenant governor, to
determine whether county executive
committees have the authority to
bar the name ef eertain eandidates
end Democratic primary tieketa.
The court's deeision ia expected to-
morrow er Saturday.
Mr. Levo sought a court order to
compel the county committee of
Cameron county to place hie name
on the ballot to be need in the elate
primary of July 28 after that com-
____ - ________ ____ — expected no trouble in flying by night
mighrratnougtrtomoharmmirseat-toverMexfeo,rrhe"w-the
. wasted, it Was Mid.
: A one-Inch rain was reported from
Ochiltree county, and parts of Hemp-
hill. Gray and Wheeler Wednesday
fnicht------------------------
The Panhandle wheat crop I* al-
moat half harvested, and with favor-
able weather practically all of it
will be cut withth the heat ten dayc.
The threatening weather in this
vicinity laat night was expeeted to be
down for four minutes in front of
the speaker's platform, shouting “this
la a burlesquet Such action as this
make our party the laughing stock
of the nation I”
Hie activity delayed the balloting
until a atorm of protests from the
■ delegate a fetood -ltim-4*- eit down-
Smith received no votes on the sec-
ond ballot.
James A. Edgerton of Alexandria,
Va., wm nominated for vice presi-
dent with 68 votes. Other votes were
detai le. but recent experiments by
Norwegian Sciential Dr. Carl Stormer
indieate that Iba Aurora Borealis
and Ita eounin of th* Antarctic reg-
ton*, the "Aurora Australias," are
*a***d by "sen apots" -
tezzupil
wAsINCFOn,SZzLendtne
meteorologists and aeronautic* ex-
"p*¥U" milhl the NatfonarAero-
nautie Assoeiation headquarters here
today to device some way af boating
the weather hazar la aviation.
The meeting wae called because
two men were hilled and several oth-
NEW MARTINSVILLE, W. Va., ready under way. Daugherty hopped
FORECAST TILL T P. M. FRIDAY
FOR AMABILMI AND VICINITY-
rqztwksr"fA"aTda,-pazu,
• fondy: womewhat warmer,Panhandle Frt-
FOB NBW MEXICO--Mostly ralr sooth
unegetlmd north portion Friday; little
ethe in temperature.
q Ws still r Cenditiens
Th* ptensure ehange during lbs het
14 hoot* has been elleht. It to alluhtly
tom norm sl over the Plmine States and
a troush of moderately low preuure eov
(By The AseasiaCed Prone.)
SUPERIOR, Wisn July 12.—Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge paid an un-
expected vialt to Superior today. Ae-
customed to seeing Mr. Coolidge eemo
. to town only 03 Tuesday and Fridays,
the city was not on the lookout for
himandhealippedtthe.executive
offices hardly, noticed.
Mrs. Coolidge had never secern-
panted ths chief executive to Superior
before. She alighted from the auto-
mobile at the offices and Mt With Mr.
Coolidge while be wont through hi*
correspondence and signed some pa-
pers. John Coolidge remained at
Cedar Island Lodge.
PREPARETOREBUH-D
FIRESWEPTVILLAGE
BITEIS WORIH
COLORAB p Alas, ‘cal.. Jaly
12—A monkey bite on the nose la
worth $10,000, a jury In distriet
court decided is awarding that
amount to Malcolm MeCeanell, 1»,
)r found that the a
from 45 to IM
___tha disturhance- . The troublt, offi-
Ma aaid, arose over seizure of 14
eFtes of cherries by followers of
Mary Purnell in an orchard manared.
by Ray Hornbeck, who is identified
with the Dewhirst faction.
Deputies CaHled In.
-----After the invaders ignored hie at-
der to vcate the orchard. Hornback
is alleged to have struck Max Blume,
one of the group and the fight waa
on. Local deputies were called and
after restoring order, took Hornbeck
ig jail, where he furnished bond end
Aws released
Returning to the eelony Hornbeck
ia said to have engaged Paul Per-
rodt, another follower of Mary, in a
dispute while rival factionists gath-
ered around end shortly hot words
were resumed on a free for all basis.
A second call sent police hurrying
to the colony and after they had
pried the disheveled men and women
'•part, Peirodt and Hornbeck were
token to jail.
-Ill feeling between Mery and Dew-
hirst. the latter chief of the organi-
-zation’s legal staff, manifested it-
self shortly after the death of Ben-
jamin Purnell and reached a climax
(boat a month ago when Mary or-
dered the income 'rom colony enter-
prises turned over to her instead
of th* colony depository. Dewhirst,
officials learned, issued contradie-
tory orders snd ths colony since has
been divided into hostile camps. A
COOLIDGES SURPRISE
SUPERIOR WITH VISIT
I By Th* Aswoeinted Prena.)
NEW YORK, July 12.—After a
round table discussion of campaign
strategy with Governor Smith, mem-
bers of the Democratic national com-
mittee left for home tonight, de-
-termined- toleee no time in getting
their alate and local organizations in
operation. ,
For more than an hour in his cam-
paign headquarter* at the Biltmore,
the presidential nominee- discussed
the outlook with th* committee men
anj womeK, who yaeUNAy, M hl*
suggestion, made John J. Raskob,
financial director of General Motors,
their chairman and entrusted to him
management of the campaign.
Raskob wm present until foreed to
eateh a train for hl* summer homa
in Maryland. In attendance also wan
Herbert Lehman, the committee's
(Ry The Ausociated Prem.)
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Yn Jaly 11.
—Captain Emilia Carranza, Mexleo's
goal will flier, took off tonight for
a return flight to Mexico City. He
expected to reach bl* destination in
17 hour*.
The Mexican made a neeret take-
off et 7:11 p. m. Only three me-
chanics wsrs on the field when his
ehlp took the air.---------
The plan* roe* Melly with 390
gallons of fuel, one of the heuviest
load* a chip bee carried along the
historic Roosevelt Field runway.
Carranz had announced a short
time before he left that th» take-off
would be postponed, but when the
field was eleared ef spectators he
climbed-into the eabin, shook hande
with the three who saw him go, end
bad* Now Yorh goodbye.
He eeid he had announced the
postponement f—,— preemutionaw
measure, for he feared that should
he leave with a crowd on the field
Mm* 'of the spectators might get in
the way and be hurt.
Carranza Mid he would heed for
Washington, circle ever the city and
then steer a compass eurse for th*
Mexican capital.
His estimated flying time of 17
hours would bring him to hle deoil-
notion after nightfall, but he Mid ba
small morning hours of Friday the
thirteenth, will begin the procession VMM uuA-rp A A M
to th* electric chair that will mark I || Wil I L I' II D
"ven - IU tU IL U. U. r.
Gov. Flem D. Sampson this after- l
noon refused to grant elemency to
any of the men. His action left
INDIANAPOLIS, July 11.—William
II. Settle, brenident of th* Indiana
Farm Bureau federation, late today
requested Herbert Hoover, Republi-
can presidential nominee, to “recog-
nize" lb* farm problem and outline
specifically a solution ia hle speech
of aeceptanee at Pal* Alto, Calif _
ABBaar 11.—--------
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J B» The Amoeiated Press )
EDDYVILLE, Ky, July 11. Seven
condemned murderer* uw whal
probably was their last sunset
through the bars of their death cell*
In the atote penitentlory here to- 1
Bight.
Shortly after midnight, in the
ACARRANZAOFF
ON FLIGHT TO
' off from’ Langlin field here the other
day for New -York, to confer with
friends there before taking off on his
non-stop flight to Rom*. Although
he was forced down within 30 mile*
of Roosevelt fied. New Yorh, his
■ (riende here-areatiut-eonfidentthat
hs will make it.
Daugherty is 1*. the eon of a
former living near town. On his
graduation from the local high school,
he got a job as yard clerk in th*
Baltimore A Ohio railway office*
‘Kura. -H wa* that job that ted
new director of finance, Senator 1
Gerry of Rhode Island, who haa bean |
placed at the head of the campaign
advisory committee, and George R. j
Ven Namee, Smith's pre-convention;
manager, who is expected to be in ।
charge of eastern campaign opera- ______
tlon*.
Senator Robinson, vita presidentia! CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IS
nomine*, was not on hand, an he hod
left far Washington during th* CHOSEN ON PROHIBITION-
nisCmmittee to rentiHome state. ISTS: SECOND BALLOT „
Governor Smith, i who - cancelled
plans to take an overnight yachting
cruise to meet with the committee,
urged everyone to offer suggestions
as to the wsy tho esmpaiga should be
conducted. He also put in • word
now and then, but the talk resulted
in no definite decisions except that
the committee members shouh im-
mediately canvass th* situations In,,
their home states and report to
Senator Gerry,--.
.Dato* far notification of both the
governor and hie running mala were
not discussed, end it wee indicated
later that it probably would be some
deye before they would ba fixed.
Committee members 1 reported the
general opinion was that it would be
unwise to establish regional head-
quarters in the south, as Senator
Robinson has proposed. ■ Representa-
tivas from the “solid south” for the
most part felt that there was no
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