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CONFERENCE WILL GO LIMIT TO MEET VIEWS OF AMERICA Polish Jurist Predicts Eventual Acceptance of All Our World Court Reservations. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE Bure Examination Will Show Object is Merely to Place This Country on Parity in With Nations That Are Members of League. Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 3. -Approval of the frat four American reservations and the first part of the fifth, on its first reading at the conference of world court members was followed I I I tonight statement by Count Rostvorvsky, Polish jurist, that all the reservations would eventually be accepted.
Acceptance of the American reservations as a whole, secondly, examination of the world court's statutes with view to adapting them to. the new conditions created by acceptance of the reservations, would be the future the conference, the count declared. The count's opinion expressed after conference had adjourned leaving a committee of fourteen to study points raised by the American candidates the understanding that a report be made at a new session conterence prior to the closing of the League of Nations assembly. Whether it is excessively optimistic only the future can disclose, but: certainly the speeches at this afternoon's session produced a general impression that the conference will go the limit of concessions in order to meet the views of the United States, so weighty is the importance all countries attach to its adhesion to the court. Paul Smith, N.
Sept. 3. (A)- President Coolidge is confident the nations that are members of the permanent court of international justice will accept the American reservations to the protocol of adherence and that their examination of the reservations 'will show that the object is merely to place the United States on a parity" in the court with the nations that members of the League of Nations who. are members of the world court and who also are mem-: bers of the League of Nations and have a seat in the Council of the league, it was pointed out, have a veto power over any advisory opinions the court may Tender; inasmuch as the unanimous consent of the council must be given for such an opinion. The fifth American reservation requiring the consent of the.
United States to be given for any advisory opinion touching' any dispute or question in which this country has or claims an interest, it was said, States in the same position as other would merely place: the United countries before the court. When article five is studied and understood by' the other nations, it was declared, president believes they will see that it is entirely fair. It is felt at the summer White House that the speedy action of the nations represented at Geneva in accepting the first four American reservations indicates little, if any, difficulty will be raised. by the fifth. Washington, Cameron, Republican, Arizona, who voted for the world court, said today' that recent developments had left his mind "open" on the future foreign policy of the United States.
He said he had voted reluctantly for the court because of President Coolidge's leadership and the belief that it would help credit and have a stabilizing effect on the world. "Since that time unexpected things have developed and it seems our friendly foreign nations do not fully appreciate what we.are trying to do," he added. The Arizona senator's statement follows the renouncement of their support of the world court by Senators Gooding, Republican, Idaho, and Trammell, Democrat, Florida. Senator Cameron will leave tonight for Arizona where he will open his campaign for reelection at Douglas. CONVICTS HELD AT BAY DURING PRISON FIRE Wallawalla, Sept.
3 1,000 convicts were held at bay under strict guard as all the fire equipment of the city tonight fought a tire discovered late today Washington state penitentary, A large portion of the east of the Institution, to include the main cell house, dining hall and recreation rooms, were burning tonight. The local national guard company was "standing to," awaiting orders from the adjutant general. The fire started in the root of a wing of the main prison building. A convict is reported to have thrown some inflammable material into the ventilating fan, the flames sweeping the full length of the building. The, main prison building, housing 975 men, seemed' doomed from the By stalinuous efforts, both the dining room and the shops were saved; The hospital building and other structures were not in serious dauger.
The convicts were marched to the section of the prison grounds used for recreation and kept under strict guard. They seemed to take the entire affair as a lark, yelling and singing. A number of trustees were used in fighting the flames and in carry. ing out goods from the burning structures. Steel Operations Take Upward Bound New York, Sept.
8, tons in the steel Industry throughout the country have. taken a sharp inmp, the average being above eighty- per cent of capacity, with abont per cent two weeks ngO. Ingot production of the United States Steel Corporation reported materially nbore elghty-five per cent, while public Iron and Steel, Bethlehem Steel Yonngstown Sheet and Tube ench has incrensed tivities. Shipments by the United States Steel Corporation In August probably were 2,000 tons more dally than In July. Earnings of the Chesapeake and Ohio for the first eight months of 1926 are well ahead of 1925, W.
J. Harohan, president, who thinks returns for the last four months will equal those of the same period last year. He thought ahout $22 a share would be earned on the stock this year. EFFORT GET POSSESSION OF DAUGHTER FRUITLESS Hinzenberg May Take Action Against Frank Lloyd Wright. Spring Green, Sept.
3. Vladimar Hinzenberg, Chicago architect, today appeared at the barred gates of country villa of Frank Lloyd Wright, internationally known architect, in a vain attempt to obtain possession of his nine-yearold daughter from his divorced wife, Mme Olga Milanoff, Wright's companion and housekeeper. Hinzenberg obtained a writ of habeas corpus for the girl at Baraboo, today, having started action after Miriam Noel Wright, the architect's estranged wife, filed suit for $100,000 against Mme. Milanoff, charging 0 0 0 alienation of affectiong. Hinzenberg charged that the child's mother was not a proper custodian of the.
girl, William Billington, a caretaker, told Hinzenberg, who was accompanied by his attorney and deputy sheriff, that neither Wright, Mmc Milanoff nor the child were at Taliesin. He and a young architect student were served with commanding their appearance papers, before D. F. Dithmar, circult court commissioner at Baraboo, Hinzenberg's attorney said the commissioner will question them in an effort to learn the whereabouts of the child. A visit to A farm home near.
the Wright estate. where it was thought the child might be, was without result. The party later. left Madison to serve -papers on R. for.
Hopking, president of a Madison bank; who has been Wright's financial adviser. "It I do not find my child I shall take some action against Mr. Wright," Hinzenberg said. Hinzenberg, who was divorced in Chicago in 1925, at that time permitted Mme. Milanoff.
to have custody of the child. HALF DOZEN INJURED; MANY ARRESTS MADE Crushed Mass of Humanity Packs Station to See Valentino Funeral Train. Chicago, Sept. 3. (AP)-At least a half dozen were injured and police made twenty-five arrests of disorderly persons in the crushed mass of humanity which packed Lasalle street railroad terminal for hours tonight in the hope of glimpsing the funeral car which entino to tho, Chicago, or the one that brought body Rudolph Valcarried it on westward.
The hope was futile, for as the New York Central train entered the terminal with the funeral car, Island locomotive propelled Rock, similar car Into the sheds parallel to the car which contained the casket. The coffin was transferred across the two foot gap between the cars within ten minutes. Only a few emissaries the Rudolph Valentino Memorial Association of Chicago were admitted to allow placement of a large floral tribute beside the casket. Then the funeral coach, to the body had been transterred, was hurried to the yards on its westward voyage. It contained Pola Negri, Valentino's lover; brother, Umberto George Guglielmi, Ullman, his manager.
In the throng that waited fruitlessly around the station there WaS little spirit of grief, merely a curiosity and a mad desire, to break police bounds and torward to the train. ROANOKE PASTOR CALLED Kansas City, Sept. 3. (AP)Calvary Baptist church hero has sent a call to Dr. John F.
Vines, pastor of the First Baptist church at Roanoke, to become minIster of Calvary church. He would succeed the Rev, George Elton Harris, pastor. the past five years. DISPUTE OVER SIZE OF STONE IN RING COSTS TWO LIVES Suitor Kills Pretty Telephone Girl, Then Turns Gun on Himself. HAD BEEN LAVISH IN HIS GIFTS FOR MONTHS Kelly C.
Kirtly, of Charleston, and Miss Mildred Daniels, of Brooklyn, Victims of Double Tragedy Enacted at Lexing. ton, Hotel Friday. Lexington. Sept, 3. (AP) -A quarrell over the size of the stone in a diamond ring led to the slaving of a pretty red haired telephone operator today by her seventy-yearold suitor who later committed suicide.
Kelly C. Kirtly, wealthy restaurand hotel man of Charleston. fired a bullet into the brain of Miss Mildred McDaniel. twenty-six of Brooklyn, N. while she slept in a hotel here this morning.
and then entered the bathroom and shot himself twice, dying before help could be summoned by Miss Alma Gregory, also of Brooklyn, who had accompanied the couple to Lexington Wednesday. For mouths. Miss Gregory said, Kirtly had been lavish in his gifts to Miss McDaniel. Thursday night the two had quarreled over the sizo of the diamond In a ring he. had given Mildred.
Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. Miss Gregory declared. she was awakened by a pistol shot, She saw Kirtly standing at the bed wAh a pistol. in bis hand and her comvandead beside her. Kirtly went.
into the bathroom and shot himself twice. The slaying and suicide were premediated. in the belief of police. who found two notes: one his will, land. the addressed to a Loxington undertaker, The will gave his estate to his Mrs.
Price Parker of 'Jessamine county, Ky. codical read "If anything happens to the girt friend that is with me. would like for her burial expenses to be paid out the money that is in the Second National Bank--that is if she is buried in my lot in 'he Lexington cemetery. There are five graves in my lot. That will leave three for my The 'codical said.
that "If the girl is not buried in my lot. then I. don't to pay anything on her: Denses at all." "Mildred begged me to come down here with Miss Gregory said in telling of the trip. "We lived together Brooklyn, boarding with a very nice family who thought that Mr. Kirtly was'! Mildred's uncle, "He wired her to' meet him.
in Charleston. W. and when she left Brooklyn a week ago today phe begged me to come along with her 80 she could avoid being with him as much as possible." she continued. "We arrived in Charleston last Saturday. He bought Mildred a car in Charleston and we drove it to Lexington, arriving Wednesday Nothing had been heard from the slain woman's relatives today, Kirtly formerly lived in this, Fayette county, but little could 09 learned of his nast life here.
Insotor as could be relative determined. in his this sister sec- 1s only living tion at present. The bodies are being held pending word from relatives, WETS REALIZE REACTION AGAINST THEIR' FIGHT Washington, Sept. 3 (P), -Wayne Wheeler, general counsel Saloon League, declared today that had realized the "reaction against their campaign to repeal prohibition enforcement laws," and cited that the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment had advised "abandoning the petition for repeal the state dry law in Missouri." The statement also said leading wet papers of the state had declared tho wets gone too far; that Senator Reed was quoted as against repeal of the state law, and that neither of the Missouri senatorial candidates had accepted endorsem*nt by. the association.
Primaries in thirty states to date, Wheeler said, showed "over seventyfive percent of the candidates for the house and over eighty percent the senatorial candidates in territory where nomination ordinarily means election favor maintenance of prohibition." MAN, WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN ARE KILLED Bowling Green, 0., Sept. 3 E. Paul Tallmadge, Chicago attorbey, his wife and three children were killed this afternoon when the Indianapolis flyer on the Big Four Railroad struck their automobile at a crossing 1n Woodside, twelve miles east of here. COMMITTEE FRAMING REORGANIZATION PLAN LEAGUE COUNCIL MAKES REPORT Switzerland, Sept. 3.
(P)- THE commission which has been council formulating today a plan completed for its reorganiza- report, tion of the League of Nations which recommends that ouly Germany be given a permanent council seat at present, and the nou-permanent seats be ipcreased to ulue. of these pipe it is stipulated that Latin-American states be given three, while the holders of three non- seats be allowed eligibility for re-election at the expiration of their three year terms. These Jatter. "semi permanent" seats were decided upon to. satisfy Spain, Poland aud China who are seeking permanent membership.
Spain, whose aspirations for a permanent council seat are denied in the commission's report, sent no representative to the council table today, but Spanish circles here emphasize this does not presage complete withdrawal from the league activities. UNITED STATES NOT IN FAVOR OF ENTERING INTO COMPETITIVE RAGE ON ARMAMENTS WITH ANY NATION Will Proceed to Do What It Believes Necessary in Any Par. ticular Field for the National Defense, but Without Particular Regard to Other Countries. limitation. If there is no treaty specifically providing for limitation of a certain branch of military defense, it added.
the United States 18 merely left in the what position proceeding to do it believes necessary in that particular for the national defense, but without any particular regard A3 to what other countries may be doIng in that field. This country, it was emphasized, is not attempting to compete with any other nation in aviation. The United States, it was pointe'd out, has been unable to obtain any treaty with other nations limiting aircraft although there was a tonnage limitation on aircraft carriers. Yet it Was added, is not competing in aviation nor is it in the building of submarines, cruisers, destroyers that are outside the scope of the Washington naval limitation treaty. The Washington government, it was reiterated, would.
like to see competition, among the countries of arms done away President Coolidge believes American aviation is as far advanced a and as equipped as that of any other. country, but this, it was emphasized, had not been done by competition but only in the usual course of developing the national defense. Some countries, a it was added, may have more but none better planes than the United States. Paul Smith's N. Sept.
3. THE race on United States armaments is with not in favor of in entering into any of competitive any country any department military equipment, whether or not there is any treaty in relation to It of which the United States is a signatory, it was said today at the summer White House, In behalt of President Coolidge. Referring to press reports that Secretary Wilbur, of the navy department, recently had declared the United States would be first in naval aviation when the present alr expansion program has been completed, officials said the president could see 10 conflict between such A statement and the efforts of Secretary Kellogg of the atate department, to obtain further In the direction of arms GUNS TURNED ON GEORGIA BANKING DEPARTMENT Lengthy Presentment Urges the Removal Superintendent T. R. Bennett.
Atlanta, Sept. 3. -With the various criminal actions against W. D. Manley and four other officials of the defunct Bankers Trust Co.
at 2 standstill, the Fulton county grand Jury turned its guns on the state banking department today. Making lengthy special presentment to the Fulton superior court the jury urged that Governor Walker remove T. R. Bennett as state superintendent of banks. The jury charged that the superintendent had been negligent and derelict in his and that the banks and varlous units of great small banks that were connected with the Bankers Trust had not been properly supervised.
banks closed when the trust company falled. Adama, J. A. Sasaer, J. D.
Russell and Paul J. Baker, all of-, Acials of the defunct trust company, made bond of $2,500 each today on charges of using the malls defraud. assessed the same bond. received' the papers at sanitarium where he is a patient. Aside from the 'grand jury presentment, the only action taken today was Allng of a sult by the Bank of Homestead, Homestead, seeking a separate.
receivership for the "depositors guarantee fund," of which the five officials of the Bankers Trust Co. were the trustees: Federal: Judge Sibley signed an tor the five to appear before him September 11 to answer. This' petition charged the Bank of Palmetto, Palmetto, was paid $165,000 out of this fund, whereas the limit was supposed to be DR. MILLER SHIFTS FROM DRYS TO WETS New York, Sept. 3 Henry Knight Miller, who was campaign worker for the Anti-Saloon League in Ohio and New Jersey for five years, today announced be had shifted his support from the probibitionists to the anti-prohibitionists.
His action, he said, was taken as a consequence of his conviction that prohibition "instead of solving liquor problem was intensified the very evils. which those who put prohibition over were trying to cure." Dr. Miller was once pastor. of the Hanson Place Methodist Church in Brooklyn, TWO. PERSONS KILLED, TWO SERIOUSLY INJURED Belleville, Sept.
3 persons were killed. and two seriously. injured late today when enstbound Louisville and Nashville passenger train No. 90, the fast Limited, hit a truck at Venedy, near here. The locomotive was overturned and three cars derailed.
Those killed were Joe Mooney, train engineer of Evansville, and Edgar Outes, of Mascoutah, driver of the truck. The Injured were the train fireman and a passenger, nether of whose names could be. ascertained. They were taken to a hospital at -HENRY SEVENS' ALIBI STILL BEING CHECKED Discovery of Alleged Divorce Move to Be Asoribed as Motive for Orime. Somerville, N.
Sept. 3. investigators tdoay continued to check the alibi, given by Henry Stevens for his actions on the night his brother-in-law, Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Mrs, Eleanor Mills were Blain.
Stevens still asserts he was on a fishing party at the time, fifty miles from New Brunswick, the scene of the crime. Special Prosecutor Simpson said today steps were taken government authorities to return to this state Former State Trooper Henry Dickman, now a disciplinary pris. loner In army barracks at Alcartra2 Island, in Pacitio coast. Dickman took part in the original Investigation of the murders four years ago. Patrick Hayes, one of Simpson's detectiyes, asserted Henry Steveng appeared 'at the scene of the murders in a nervous condition a few days after the bodles were found.
He also said Mrs. Hanna Hoag, whose home la within a few bundred feet of where the bodies were tound, talked with Stevens. Hayes declared the state will ascribe Ag the motives for the slaying the discovery by Mrs. Hall that Mrs. Mills wapted Dr.
Hall to get a divorce. THREE MEN STAND ACCUSED MURDER OF DON R. MELLETT Ben Rudner, Louis Mazer and McDermott Indicted by Grand Jury. ARRAIGN TWO FORMER 'SOME TIME NEXT WEEK I Third of Trio is Yet a Fugitive from Justice, Having Been Sought Throughout the tion for the Last Five Weeks. Separate Trials Likely.
Canton, 0., Sept. 3 men tonight indicted for the first degree murder R. Mcllett. Canton publisher. slain July 16.
Seven weeks of constant investigation reached a climax in the report of the Stark county grand jury this afternoon. The three indicted are: Ben Ruduer, Massilon: Lonis Mazer, Canton; Patrick Eugene McDermott. Nanty-Glo, and Cleveland. According to Prosecutor C. B.
McClintock, more indictments are probable. McDermott is a fugitive from justice, having been sought throughout the nation for five weeks. Mazer is! held in Cleveland, charged with murder first in warrant. issued more than two weeks ago, and charged with la conspiracy to violate: federal dry laws. Rudner was arrested today, ly before the Indictment was returned, On a capias issued by Judge Abram W.
Agler, at the request of Prosecutor McClintock. Arraignment of Mazer and Ruduer is expected some time next week. Both are expected to plead "not guilty." The search for McDermott, considered the "keyman" will be continued. Trial of the men may be had separately they 90 request. Although they are accused in one indictment.
The case is not expected to g0 before a petit jury until late in October or early in Both men deny the "The evidence is convincing and we certainly expect convictions" MC: Clintock said, but added that all evidence so far adduced WUS circ*mstantial. To help run down McDermott, Detective Ora Slater, Cincinnati, will return to Canton next after a few days vacation and check! the tips that continue to come in from all parts of the country. Two moves were made today to keep a of tight them, hold on Steve the witnesses. Kascholk, Nanty-Glo, who held in jail since two days after the murder, was placed in the work house. His bond was.
fixed at $50,000.1 Peggy Cavanaugh, friends of McDer-: mott, committed to the workhouse under $10,000 bond. Kascholk is primarily an informant against McDermott, but he also implicated Rudner and Mazer, according to testimony given the investigators. Now evidence may he uncovered at any time, McClintock! said today, and the grand jury may be reconvened. PRESIDENT QUALIFIES AS REAL TROUT FISHERMAN Paul Smith's, N. Sept.
3. (AP)President Coolidge qualified as a real trout fisherman today. Leaving White Pine camp early In the morning he drove to the Ausable river, several miles east of Lake Placid village, and fished mountain brooks: until almost mid-afternoon, the summer White nine wihtout his lunch, and returning, to hours after his departure, with four fish. The trip, which Mr. Coolidge made in the company of his guides, two representatives of the Now York conservation commission, and three secret service men, took him into some of the wildest country of the Adirondacks.
He tramped for miles through a thick forest as he sought the trout in the Ausable's headwaters. Forbidden law to take trout after September 1 in Franklin county, in which his previous fishing had been done, Mr. Coolldge journeyed into Essex county, where the season does not close until. next Tuesday, FOUR CASES BUBONIC PLAGUE IN QUAKE CITY Horta, Fayal. Azores, Sept.
3. (AP) -Four cases of bubonic plague have boon reported following the quake which visited Horta and othor places of the Azores on Tuesday, Two of these stricken have died and the other two have been isolated by authorities who are giving their attention to. maintaining sanitary conditions. The estimate of the dead remains at 25 but It is belleved more bodies will be found as relief workers delve deeper into the ruins. Senator M'Kinley is Slightly Weaker Martinsville, Sept.
8. (A). -Though Senator William B. McKinley, Illinois, who has been 111 at sanitarium here since August 18, more rational tonight, he also seemed slightly wenker. due to prolongation of his critteal illness, one of his physicians said in bulletin.
Another of the recurrent rattles which his rugged constitution has made against the Inronds of selatfe rheumatism and putmonary congestion occurred this niternoon, but his physicians deseribed It as probably only temporary. I PROSPEROUS CONDITION OF COUNTRY IS SHOWN President Receives Reports from Business and Indus. trial Leaders. l'aul Smith's. N.
Sept. 3. Reports that have been made to President Coolidge by business and industrial Icaders during his summer residence in the Adirondacks have demonatrated, in his opinion, that the country is in a prosperous condition. Recalling the array of men who visited the president, officials pointed out that all bore to the same effect, that the country was prosperous. Another such visitor came unannounced today, when Howard Elliott, chairman of the Northern Pacific Railroad, called to ray his respects to the president.
Elliott had just completed a trip from coast. and said that except for 011e or two states. like North Dakota and Nebraska, where droughts have interferred with crops, conditions were very good the country over. Regarding railroad consolidation, Elliott. said that voluntary consolidations along natural economic lines were desirable and will be successful.
for the country the railroads, while forced consolidations would prove be. cessful. If the Parker bill for voluntary rather than forced action were enacted, he added it would advance the cause in proper directions. Wise consolidations, he said, probably would prevent higher railroad rates and perhaps 111 time bring lower prices. NEW METHOD DENATURE INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL Odor Would Give Assurance It Was Unfit for Human Consumption, Washington, Sept, 3.
(AP)-A new method of denaturing. industrial alcohol, SO that the would-be drinker would be put. on notice by its odor that it is unAt for human consumption, was' announced today by J. M. Doran, chief chemist of the prohibition unit, in 2 report to Acting Secretary Winston.
At the same time Doran defended the practice of putting a minimum quantity of methanol, or wood alcohol, into the alcohol used for industrial He asserted that methanol was in worldwide use for this purpose, because if redistillation is attempted it carries over with it in the 1 distillate the odorous compounds. "The current investigation work by the denartment." Doran added. "has developed the suitability certain complex oil compounds of Rn odorous and disagreeable noturo themselves non-toxic, which when used with a minimum quantity of methanol. will not only remain with the alcohol under manipulative treatment but will so mark the concoction in which it may be employed by A criminal that nobody will consume the same knowingly but only by a deliberate and wilful act. "The protection and encouragement of lawful industrial alcohol use coupled with maximum prolection of the public is the aim and object of the department's scientific work on this subject.
The present system of denaturation meets with the approval of those Industries whose continued welfare is essential to the public good." MOVE MADE TO OUST KANSAS CITY MAYOR Topeka, Sept. 3 proceedings Kansas against City, Mayor were filed today by Charles B. Griffith, attorney general. The petition charged the mayor with permitting the manufacture and sale of liquor, protecting gambling houses, tolerat: 17 vice rings, juggling the city's funds and expending public money for personal use of individuals. The suit WaS based on investigations made by the attorney general and L.
S. Harvey, a Kansas City lawyer, Immediate removal of the mayor will be sought before the state su- preme court tomorrow. NEW RELIGIOUS REGULATIONS MAY SOON SUPPLANT THOSE IN EFFECT IN MEXICO Mexico City, Sept. 3. (AP)A ber MEASURE of.
priests in ewbodying each new state is religious being regulations prepared for limiting submission the mum- to congress by the department of interior. It enacted and approved by President Calles, these regulations will supplant those promulgated by the chlet executive recently which caused the religious coutroversy between the government and the Roman Catholio episcopate. While uothing is known as to the details of the bill which the department of interior is drawing up, it is reported, that it may mit one foreign clergyman to officiate in I each church of 8 foreign congregation. This would apply to all denominations. Meanwhile the episcopate 18 busily engaged In completing the petition which it intends to place before congress, for modification of the religious laws, and In' seoking some (Continued on Page Two) MINE WRECKED BY EXPLOSION BEGINS TO GIVE UP DEAD Sixteen Men Were Caught in Entry, While 122 Made Way to Surface.
FIRE TRUCK AUGMENTING EFFORTS RESCUE PARTIES First Body Located Late Afternoon and Squads Are Pushing Way Into tered Workings in Search of Other Men Believed Dead. CAPTAIN HOMER BERRY WITHDRAWS HIS CLAIM Controversy Over Non-Stop Trans- Atlantic Flight is Considered: Ended. New York, 3. (A) Capo tain Homer Berry, whose claim to the included in the crew personnel the giant biplane S-35: had caused dissension threatened to disrupt the proposed non-stop trans-Atlantic flight, today withdrew his claim. After he had a with Captain Rene designated leadof the Aight, controversy was was considered expected ended.
that tests of the biplane, including a flight to Washington and back, would now be made without further Interruptions except by possible weather conditions. The New York to Paris Aight is scheduled tentatively for September 21, the object being to win the Raymond Orteig prize of $25,000 for the Arst non-stop airplane Alight between the two cities. Bernard Sandler, attorney, for Argonauts, the company backing the Alight, arranged the peace conference between Berry and Fonck today. In his announcement of the peace agreement Sandler said: "Captain Berry said the Alght was the most important thing for America, and as much as he would have liked to accompany Captain Fonck in the Interest of aviation he would step aside and not' press his claim." HEAVY DAMAGE DONE BY TORNADO IN NEBRASKA Pawnee City, Neb. Sept.
3 damage WAS caused last night by a tornado which swept through southern Pawnee 'county and northern Kansas, injuring two persons, wrecking several buildings, uprooting trees and killing livestock. Several reports of fatalities had not been contirmed, OFFICIAL WORD LACKING AS TO CHAMPAGNE PARTY State Department Declines Comment on Reported Boulogne Incident. Washington, Sept. 3. state department has received no official word concerning the reported champagne party given by William Corcoran, American consul at Boulogne, to Gertrude Ederle in honor of her channel swim.
Press dispatches which aroused the W. T. in Douglas county (Omaha), were observed by department officials at the time of publication but so far have been Ignored. Officials today declined to comment on the reported' incident except to point that American consuls serving abroad are subject to the laws of the nation to which they are da assigned and since there ig no prohibition law in France, Corcoran's conduct, assuming that the press dispatches were. correct, was not belleved to have been offensive to elther French authorities or the French people.
It the incident took place, it 18 not anticipated a report will be made, nor is it probable that a report will be requested until it 1s known what action the Nebraska state and the national W. C. T. U. conventions take regarding the matter.
Poteau, Okla, Sept. 3 of all sixteen miners who lost their lives when two blasts wrecked glopt No. west, in mine 29 of the Superior Smokeless Coal and Mining at Tahona, Leflore county day, were reported located by res cue squads early tonight, Seven bodies had been remove to the surface. The other bodied were not brought out of the mine because fire barred the entrance. Rescue squads were reported to be fighting the flames to prevent them reaching the bodies and furthe wrecking the shaft of the mine.
1t ig expected the remainin bodies will be brought to the su: face early tomorrow. Severe burns covered the of the trio brought to the surface Their names were given 8. Dennis dames, Ross Green, Henri Berry, Bruce Davis, Amiel Want: Robert Chambers and his son Chambers. All the entombed men whi: Shady Point, Sept. 3.
(AF -Mine 29 of the Superior Smoke less Coal and Mining at Ta hona, scene ol an explosion and fire early today which is believe: to have trapped sixteen men. an entry, began 10 give up dead tonight, The first body was located today and tonight rescue squad were pushing their way into the shattered workings in search oi missing men. 'The bod" located this afternoon was no: brought to the surface immediate ly, but word from the mine sal. it was believed to be that." Rasp; Green, a miner. Others unaccounted for and leved dead are; DENNIS JAMES, fire boss.
BILL CHAMBERS. BOB CHAMBERS, his son, M. K. HISE. GRADY HISE.
his son. ARTHUR STOUT. JOE LEVERING. EMIL WANIA. HENRY SHEPPARD.
FRANK STANTRI. JOE JOHNSON. ERNEST JOHNSON, his brot HENRY BERRY. BRUCE MILLER. A miner who came Tahona from Illinois and who: name could not be ascertained.
The only sign of life found 'In the entry--7 1-2 west--when cuera first ontered, was a mule. explosion, attributed gas, occurred shortly after 8 this morning, At the time 138 men were at work in the mine but with the exception of the sixteen caught in entry 7 1-2 west, all made their way to the surface. Several were severe) Injured. Fire which came in the wake 0 the blast blocked efforts to. pene trate the.
wrecked entry. An appeal was sent to Fort Smith; about ten miles: a away. for fire fighting apparatus, and 8: truck reached hore 3 o'clock afternoon with firemen to augment rescue parties which, up: der the direction of Pit Boss Herbert, had worked for five hours, pushing a blanket into the doomed entry, in an effort to battison, off flames and bring the damp-Alled workings. Only three oxygen helmets were available but others of the rescue' crew joined in the task improvismasks of sponges As protection against the fumes. While rescuers worked under ground crowds gathered about 8 roped area deadline, from the stretched mouth over of a the shaft with black faced men hurrying about to dissipitate the, huddled.
apart and waiting. Up anxiety, of women and children. to noon there was a spark of hope among the watchers but 88: the day waned spark graduallv. Alickered and tonight the crowds still was there--tight lipped and calm, still waiting, but now for what they expect to be tragic news. The mine has been in operation twelve years.
Today's explosion Arst disaster. It is aged by union workers. When word of the explosiou was flashed to nearby mines, miners from other workings came to join In rescue work. Covington mine No. 13.
nearest to the wreckmine, suspended operations to lend' assistance. FAINT -HOPE WHITE HOUSE STEWARD MAY SURVIVE Paul Smiths. N. Sept. 3.
(AP)-. President Coolidge was encouraged. by telegram from Washington today stating that Arthur Brooks. Negro steward at the White House. and the valet who at; tended Preeidents Taft.
Wilson and Harding as ivell as Mr. Coolidge. was improved and there was a faint hope he might survive a heart tack under which he bad sunk foto A coma, Malor Brooks la one of the tineat men in Washlugton, President: 0004 lidge told friends today in comments 1pg on the steward, Maior Brooks served in the Norte militia of Washington and for was employed at the depart meat..
