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1 1% H $. £ p io 4 w. \-\ Grip- . ~ the Great Britain's insistence on rout» ing all wireless-telephone messages to - and from Europe through London has. WEATHER Lk TONIGHT - Fair, warmer. _ SATURDAY - Probably sh ers and cooler, owe Yol. LVIL, No. 116 _ |, READ IT EVERY DAY: | |;» sonalities in the news, world and ;[ national, by a groun of fearless 'Washington and New York. J. 'i' Whirligig will be published as a. ,f. - mews feature. - Opinions expressed 'P. are those of the writers contribut- if Ingto the column and should not J 'be'interpreted as reflecting the. edi- [|_ 'tofial policy of this newspaper, | Copyright McClure Syndicate FWhirligig) ~ A discussion of- events and per-: > . * and informed of [ [Police Again Active In mesias ana Twexoy-rwo Packs wom Saz 7 GLENS FALLS, N. Y., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1986 _ NT PLED WASHINGTON By Ifay“ Tgcker stitred backstage discussion at Wash- ton and other world capitals, The arrangement results from an | Film 1 p YLOR'S CASE | \FQifice and the companies involved. kgreement between the British Post 'With the aid of stubborn Cordell Hull, the French broke London's wire- less stranglehold, and are now setting ap a system which will eperatedirect- ly from Paris to the U. S. Other ma- tions have been slow to protest and Jn some instances ignorant of the situation, Only recently the Am-] bassador of a\European power not on good terms with France was thunder- struck when he learned of it. - This country's interests are also in- volved, especially in the event of a war. Then the international radio- would become the major medium for Discharged Bilsfler Sought for Intensive police hunt for a key figure in the slaying of William Desmond Taylpr revived interest today in the grim 14-year-old engima of the movie colony. SEEN ON COAST Years Following Death of Hollywood Director LOS ANGELES, May 15. (P)-An Informed that Edward F. Sands, # propaganda and spying. Army-navy circles are excited over the setup and hope that FDR and the FCC-ers can . succeed in diplomatic moves to free 'the air waves. -' 'Threats- Relief riots throughout the country frighten White House aides more than they admit,. Disturbances like those mt Trenton, St. Louis and Washing- «0 % ton have formed the headline topic at private councils of relief chiefs. Though sporadic now, what the Uf ve worriers envisage is a movement i Ot, similar to the 1932 bonus march that proved so fatal to President Hoover. Bo 'far the administration his met thesemoves by compromising with the protestants, FDR agreed to substi- tution of the prevailing wage clause in the $1,425,000,000 relief measure, respite his no-surrender stand against Pat McCarran last year. Harry Hop- - 'King dickered with the crippled dele- gation after refusing to see them for two- days. 'L&test report is that the unemploy- ed will stage a \hunger march\ on Philadelphia during the Democratic national convention. sleuths are now investigating so as to stave off such an ironic climax to. the. expenditures of billions through the last few years. Inside-suspiclong are that certain anti-New Deal sthemers, mré promoting ‘these‘ demonstrations.. ‘ ak ok ~ \Gentlemen thundered Mine President John W. Lewis, \when -you closed down your mines in three Penfisylvania counties, you gave my people, only one choice-starve or steall Under the circumstances I would advise them to steal!\ That was the bushy-haired lead- ér's bold defi to anthracite coal op- erators who asked him to suppres? coal bootlegging in return for meet- ing his terms on hours, wages and working conditions,. Lewis was even more adamant to their explanation that they had lost $10,000,000 last year and could not raise wages with- - Gut boosting retail costs-and losing more customers to oil and gas and: coke competitors. For the same rea- son they said they could mot afford . a strike at this time. 19<3 At the last minute the operators IT ~+\ bowed. But not to Lewis or the threat of New Deal Conferees Mc- Grady to- denounce them. rendéred because of economic pres- sure which threatens to revolutionize their industry. They even agreed, though it wasn't advertised, to make a survey of costs and capitalization which Lewis maintains are excessive, In iretum he will cooperate in the suppression of boztlegging. * J + Reprisals- . Mr. Lewis success in negotiating this agreement gave him another (Continued on Page Four) .._ DIVORCE IS GRANTED THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, May) 15 {P)-Lady Déterding, wife of Sir Henri Deterding, The Netherlands oil The official. They sur- discharged butler of the film director, had been seen four times in Long Beach this week, police and investi- gators from the district attorney's office searched beach towns for the long-missing man,. Sands disappeared shortly before Taylor was found shot to death in his apartment in 1922, and just after a watrant for the butler's arrest had been issued, charging him with forg- ing Taylor's name to checks and em- bezzling his money. Taylor was the complainant. |. With the noted director's death told in sensational headlines, Mary Miles Minter and the late Mabel Normand, then screen stars, were questioned concerning their relations with the victim. The macabre puzzle never was solved. Officials inclined to the belief that Sands, wanted for questioning, was really the director's brother, 'Taylor's real name was William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, and that of Sands, authorities, said was Dennis Deane-Tannetr, Of the many theories investigators considered, one which they adhered to most strongly was that Taylor was shot to death in a blackmail plot. Vague clues have since taken in- Ivestigators on far-flung trails in search of Sands in this country, South America and Europs. . . - An investigator of the district at- torney's office, Captain Jesse Winn, said he was sure \the trail is hot\ this time. . The current search was launched after a Long Beach hotel man, asso- ciate of Taylor who said he knew Sands well, reported seeing him with- in the past few days. Youth's Body Found in Burned Haystack by English Police STADHAMPTON, Oxfordshire, Eng., May 15. UP-The charred body of a youth believed to be an Oxford student was found today by the police in a bummed haystack on a farm. Possibilities that the case was mur- der were indicated by the fact both arms were broken and the skull was fractured. 'The victim was tentatively identi- fied as T. Paterson Moss, a student in \Balliol College of Oxford University. The preliminary investigation did not indicate the means by which the body was placed in the haystack. Moss, who was born in Toronto, had been at Oxford three years. ° A Balliol College official went to London to break the news to Moss' mother,. who came to England three | months ago. The. famous crime pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, was called into | the case at once. Sir Bernard is offi- cial pathologist for the home office. Police scattered over the area and searched through hedges, ditches, and fields, but failed to find any clues. His fellow students at Oxford de- scribed Moss as \an exceedingly nice and quiet young man, interested im his studies.\ multimillionaire, was granted & di- vorce today on grounds of misconduct, 'The court will decide custody of the thildréen June 16. The decree did not' SLAYER EXECUTED FOR MURDER IN ARIZONA mention alimony, which had heen ar-| anged privately. __ FILM STARS MARRIED YUMA, Ariz, May 15. (P- Ted Healy, dour faced film comédian, and Betty Hickman, 21, Santa Monica, Calif.,. were married here early today after a midnight airplane*elopement from Hollywood. In the N e ws { Woy Scouts Take Over City . Government ......... | Negligence Action Is Settica f purl\: Trial We rie ee ens baker s J Junior Class Entertains With 2 2 Annual Prom This Evening 2 | Coung ~Republicans Will Not |-- Antagonite Party Leaders: .. 3 | Richards' Talk: -About the Stars 3 - Aagenibly Program Presented | 'A _at High School «............ 6 ' Tri-County Christian Endeavor : cm'enfion ova serier eeseiriee. 6 [Carlton T.- Gurley Passes An- hnapolis Examination ........ 6 lc Action Threatened for ° Milk Law Violation ........ I AF v i. 9 of\ Comics “We i6tatl Marke uota is ... 20° of 450 Conthimed in SC. -. Church 20 {| filled the small cubicle, 1| steps to the death chamber, Asked if I| there was anything he wanted last I| a gas mask.\ ; || BRITISH BUDGET \LEAK\ {| Secretary [[to submit his bank and investment I| books to a judicial tribunal investi-. I budget secrets. 20d 'The British cabinet, with one of its | 'i¢ leaders believe that the party has, a major issue for the fell campaign 'through failure of the Assembly to. FLORENCE, Ariz, May 15. (P- | Jack Sullivan, 23-year-old slayer of a railroad officer, was executed to- '| day in the lethal gas chamber of the Arizona state penitentiary. As he promised he would, Sulli= ' van died with a smile. He grinned broadly and waved to spectators up to the time his head dropped to his | chest. The youth lost consciousness: | within one minute after the fumes, Sullivan, a former Colorado convict, smoked a cigar during his last minutes, including his walk up the 13> i night, he replied: \You might get me Is UNDER INVESTIGATION: LONDQN, May 16. (P)-Colonial J. H. Thomas has agreed gating an alleged \leak\ in British. members named at a judicial inquiry [into the \leakage was reported in 'some quarters to be due for \import- ant changes.\ controverted Franco-British plan for' As 'It Stems ...;..%. 22 Ethiopian 'peace-back into the cab- ='}inet as First Lord 'of the Admiralty. blind and dependent children, defeated at this.session,\ he said, \but the state will insist upon New York social security program.\ lawmakers back, perhaps late in Au- the opening of the gubernatorial ;gfi%>lic reagtion to- the defeat of his Jne of these rumored shifts would l :bring Sir Samuel Hoare-he of the: 'of the session which ended yesterday, Director's Murder beéth Near, > Doctor Becomes AMA's Head } . = \ai L f | S. A D N ES S tinged the in-, stallation of Dr.: James Tate, Ma- son, 55, Seaftle,' as. president of he A me rica n Medical: Associa-, tion,, at the.con-. vention. in . Kan- sas City, Mo.! Educated in Vir- ; ginia, ' orice .a Philadelphian, he is near 'death _ from gangrenes. | ARAB CITY OF - JAFFA CUARDED BY ARMY TANKS Mason Police Patrols Strengthened as Campaign of Civil Disobed- ience Is Inaugurated JERUSALEM, Mer 15 (P)-Army tanks stood in the cobbled streets of the Arah city of Jaffa today arid steel- helmeted police patrols were strength- ened as Arabs formally inaugurated an anti-Jewish campaign of civil dis- obedience. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency re- ported new disorders were feared in Jerusalem, where the Arab proclama~ tion of refusal to pay taxes coincide with the Moslem Sabbath, Both Jewish and, Arabic government employes in Jaffa were ordered'not to work us the Arabs' déadline on an, minimum demanding a Stoppage of Jewish immigration and sale of land to Jevgs expired, with the demands un- met. A new curfew, imposed after two Jews and an Arab were slain in the old city, shut down postal and wire services in Jerusalem overnight, A bomb exploded in the Jerusalem | depot and a Jewish driver was ar- rested. A manifesto calling upon Arabs to {refuse payment of taxes was published by the Arab strike conimittee, as part of the civil 'disobedience movement. The Arabs were urged to refrain from paying taxes on the ground the gov- emment has not yet fulfilled Arab demands, among. them restriction of Jewish immigration. The Arab newspaper, Al Liws, said 'the fight of Palestine Arabs is mot against the 400,000 Jews in the holy land but against 15,000,000 Jews! throughout the world: ENGAGEMENT REPORTED LONDON, May 15. (P)-The society writer for the Daily Mail reported today the engagement of Lord Syson- by, son of the late tréasurer of King George V, to an American, Mrs. Sallie S. Monkland, would be announced soon. Mrs. Monkland, Whose American address was not knowh, has been in London recently. COMMITTEE OF SENATE ARCUES OVER TAX PLAN Subject May Eventually Appear on Floor of Upper House- House Is in Recess } WASHINGTON, May 15 (P-Around a table stacked with a formidable ar- ray of tex \compromises\ the Senate Finance Committee labored on today in an attempt to reach some agree- ment. Chairman Harrison (D., Miss.), con- ceded the committee might not suc- ceed and that the whole bewildering subject might have to be fought out 'on the Senate floor. Administration leaders in the Sen- ate had abandoned President ivoose- velt's suggestion to repeal all exist- ing corporate faxes, They concen- trated on a battle to save what they term the philosophy of his program to lay a graduated tax on undistribut- ed corporation earnings. On the existing fiat taxes on net corporation income, the President's lieutenants hoped to superimpose a surtax applied against undistributed profits. This compromise, however, faced opposition, and its fate was considered uncertain. Another committee-the Senate Ap- propriations sub-committee-also was busy. It called Secretary Ickes, PWA chief, to testify. Legislators support- ing PWA are seeking to add $700,000,- 000 for public works to a relief and deficiency appropriation which the sub-committee is now considering, Rexford G. Tugwell, the resettle- ment administrator, told the sub- committee yesterday that his group would \fold up\ unless provided with more funds by July 1. With little of moment to debate at present, the House was in fetess, while the Senate considered. a park de- Ivelopment bill. Other Washington developments: Communications officials said that while television is nearing practical use froma technical standpoint, ithas run into a maze of difficulk \economic problems.\ They mentioned the high 'cost of putting on elaborate television programs. . The government was awaiting of- ficial reports on the refusal of Hal- sted L. Ritter, removed as a federal judge in a Senate impeachment trial, to vacate his office in Miami. He plans to attack the Senate verdict as un- constitutional. Members of the Senate Foreign Af- fairs Committee expected the naval treaty signed recently by the United States, France and Great Britain -would be approved by the committee soon. ARMED REBELS OPERATE IN MEXICAN PROVINCE DURANGO, Mexico, May 15. (P)- 'Federal troops set out today in pur- suit of a band of armed rebels re- ported operating in the neighborhood of Santiago, Durango. Army scouting planes sighted the rebels as they moved toward Santi- ago, and a military train of cavalry forces was dispatched immediately to disband the force. Special Legislative Session to Consider Social Security Measure Believed Probable By George R. Loveys Associated Press Staff Writer - ALBANY, N. Y., May 15. (P)--A special legislative session this summer to reconsider Governor. Lehman's.social security bill was seen a possibility today. Governor Lehman, it is known, is determined that New York. state shall be put in line with the Federal Social Security act'as quickly as possible, clearing the': way for féderal con- tributions to the state of $20,000,000 annually to help the needy aged, the He gave a vVéiled intimation of a special session in his statement after a third rejection of the program this week by the Republican-dominated; Assembly. - \The social security bill has been I have fio doubt that the people of state joining the other 33 states in giving our people the benefits of the believe Ehe: Thus, Capitol observers chief executive may act to bring the ust or éarly September, just before campaign. . Sources' close to the Governor say he- would be guided largely by the On the other hand, some Democrat- approve the program. |_ Powerful Republican leaders ex- erted: bressure in an effort to have the program adopted in the closing hours 'but. on -the final test only four Re- 1 # publican assemblymer Joined the 69 Democrats in supporting it. Speaker Irving M. Ives, youthful Assembly chieftain, insists that any: renewed fight for approval of the program at a special session would d meet with the same fate, If a special session should be called, the Governor may also take the occa- 'sion to urge again the passage of & measure reapportioning congressional and legislative districts, He has sought such action in recent mes- sages, but the lawmakers have con- sistently ignored the issue, Meanwhile, the last of the law- makers departed the Capitol after the gruélling 21-hour windup, eager. to rést before jumping into the fall Jcampaigns. Republicans prepared to make economy | their campaign - slogan, «pointing to a $15,000,000 reduction in the executive budget and a one cent reduction in the state gasoline tax, Democrats, on the other hand, looked to Assembly failure to pass the social séqurity program as one of their leading issues. Speaker Ives issued a statement 'declating that all of the party's pledges were kept, and 'assailed what 'he termed \wholesale abdication by legislative bodies under New Deal control. > \In spite of this,\ he declared, \the record of this year's Republican Assembly in the state of New York. 'should be an inspiration to all those who still believe in free government.\ que., | Vermont Man Held for Shooting Wife; Gun B_a_tfle Staged . WATERBURY, V6, May 15 (P- Willlam Drinkwine shot and seriously wounded his wife last night, police said, and then defied city and county officers for two hours before surren- dering to tear gas attacks. Officers said they found two shotguns in the man's barricade after the capture. Sheriff Henry C. Lawson, of Wash- ington County, reported a charge from one of the shotguns barely missed two Waterbury officers. Drinkwine was taken to police head- quarters here and thence to the Washington County jail in Mont- pelier, POSSE SEEKS BANK BANDITS IN MOUNTAINS MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., May 15. (P)-State police split their forces to- day in the hunt for two bank rob- bers in the Shawangunk mountains to track down a strange man wear- ing a light overcoat, reported to have been seen on a farm near Howells. The man was seen by a farmer who promptly notified police. The five men who robbed the Pine Bush National Bank Monday all wore overcoats, which concealed pistols and a sub-machine gun. Other troopers, spurred on by other \tips\ from residents of the New Jer- for the fugitives, More than 50 state field near here. His companion, John Stewart, 34 from Stewart, ber of the gang, was slightly wound- night., Police said the Pine Bush Bank robbers are suspected of other bank holdups, Wallace, they said, was wanted for questioning in connection with a $188,888 bank robbery at Read- ing, Pa. Stewart, police said, was indicted in connection with a $16,000 holdup of the First National Bank at Fort Lee, N. J., last December. Mahoney, they said, had & long prison record, which included a term in the Massachusetts state prison at Charlestown and arrests in Boston and New York, TWO CANADIAN RIVERS ARE AT FLOOD STAGE OTTAWA, May 15. (GP) - Flood waters of the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers rose today, forcing 15 families to evacuate homes at Gatineau Point, near here, and threatening property -|| of island residents of Hawkesbury, 55 miles eastward. The level of the Ottawa River at the foot of the Rideau Canal locks was within two feet of the 1928 flood pesk, but at Hawkesbury rivermen said the situation was the most serious since 1914, Forty Gatineau Point families were forced to the upper stories of their nomes by water that rose above the floors. AUSTRIA FACING FIGHT OVER VICE-CHANCELLOR conflict between the government of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and the 'Helimwehr, private army of Prince Etniest yon Starhemberg, ousted sud- \semi-dictator was a possibility to- ay. , \The real contest is just starting,\ the deposed vice-chancellor asserted, .as he left to attend a sports event in Rome. \In about a week the world will hear from the Heimwebr.\ A large crowd saluted the prince At the railroad station with cheers and songs. JURORS FIND PRISONER ~ GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER HERKIMER, N. Y, May 15 (P- Vaughn Eckler, 35, of Mohawk, was degree 'by & County Court jury here last night. . Eckler was the driver of an auto- mobile which on.Januatry 1 struc and killed Mrs. Mildred Schieble, of Fort Herkimer, 'The trial opened Monday. The jury was out 10 and one half \hours. * County Judge Frank Shaw said he would senterice Eckler on Tuesday. cLEnGiMAN' sUCCUMBS Rev. Nelson J. Gulick, 75, former pas- tor of churches in Albany, Syracuse .and Elmira, N. Y., diéd here yester- 'day.. He was born in Broadalbin,. (N. ¥. sey border area, centered their search in the vicinity of Graham where a woman reported seeing a \bedraggled looking man\ loitering. There are a number of abandoned copper mine shafts in the area which troopers said would afford excellent hiding places policemen are engaged in the search. 'Three of the five men involved in the $13,000 holdup of the Pine Bush National Bank last Monday already have been accounted for, with two under arrest and the third dead. The dead man, John J. Mahoney, 36, of Boston, Mass., shot himself as troop» ers closed in on him Wednesday in a wounded in a gun. battle with. troop- ers, was questioned by New York City detectives who hoped to: connect him with the $427,050 armored car holdup in Brooklyn two years ago. The de- tectives said they learned nothing Stewart Wallace, 56, the third mem- ed when he was captured Monday VIENNA, May 15. (P)-An . open denly as Austria's vice-chancellor and |. found guilty of manslaughter second PHILADELPHIA, May 15. (P)-The: TWO FUGTIVES RECAPTURED BY OKLAHOMA MEN Six of Convict Band Still Enjoy Liberty-Search Hills of Three States ANTLERS, Okla., May 15. (P)-Two of the desperate convicts who made & bloody dash from the Oklahoma state penitentiary were recaptured near here early today, shortly after three hostages were released alive. Six of the fugitives, who killed a prison brick yard foreman at the start of their spectacular dash across Southeastern Olkiahoma remained at large, with manhbunters of three states hot on their trail in this rugged corner of the Kiamichi mountains Four of them, divided in pairs, were reported surrounded in the Antlers vicinity with a posse of 50 officers closing in, and another pair was be- lieved trapped in &a mountain stretch near the Arkansas state line. An airplane, equipped with & two- way radio, was pressed into the hunt by the Oklahoma State Crime Bureau, to direct the officers in closing in on the latter pair. Hostages Released Only a few minutes before officers came upon the farm house lair of the fugitives four of the long-term con- victs released Tuck Cope and Victor Conn, prison guards, and Wilburn Doaks, a cowboy, who had been kid- naped while out rounding up the cows. Cope had been stabbed in the neck and had lost much blood. The other hostages joined in the chase, which resulted in the capture of Bill Ander- son, 30, and Archie Herring, 25, both serving terms for robbery. Shouting \We've got our hands up,\ the two convicts surrendered to four officers, who were walking ahead of the bloodhounds in the woods a half mile west of here, nearby woods, Cunningham, panions were forced to cary him,. Cowboy Rélates, Story dozen prisoners dashed from the peni- tentiary brickyard with crude dirks. Doaks, who lives with his mother near McAlester, said he was \out hunting cows\ when six convicts fore- ed him to direct their flight over the countryside he had known 20 years. Alter an all night ride, he said, they concealed themselves in thick woods, \near enough to the road so that we could see people traveling.\ Two of the six deserted the others on a pre- text of going to town for gasoline. \The convicts treated us as nice as could be expected under the circum- stances,\ Doaks said. \They didn't swear at us or mistreat us, but they were all very nervous during the ride. \This is the first time I have-ever been in Antlers ... I anm starting home as soon as possible as mother must be worried.\ Posse Takes Up Tril A posse led by Sheriff John Helm left Antlers early today for a spot nine miles north of here where Claude Beavers and Claud Pugh abandoned & car late yesterday after separating from the other four convicts who held the hostages. . The other two convicts at large were A. C,. McArthur and Claude Fugate, both sentenced to 25 years for robbery. The captives said Pugh and Beav- ers left to obtain some gasoline, tak- ing with them the motor car they commandeered outside the prison brickyard. It was this car from which the body of C. D. Powell, prison brick yard foreman, was thrown as the convicts careened madly through Mc- Alester after the break. Beavers and Pugh did not return and the car was found abandoned- tires blown out, fenders smashed, wrecked against a tree. NAVAL AIR STATION - THREATENED BY FIRE « NORFOLK, Va, May 15, (P)-Fire {broke out today at the Hampton Roads naval air station, threatening the three buildings of the aircraft overhaul department, The Norfolk fire department re- sponded to a. call for aid, Officials at the air station were un- able to give any details immediately. 'The carpenter shop and other repair units are in the area of the buming buildings. DETECTIVE AND LAWYER INDICTED FOR EXTORTION NEW YORK, May 15. (P--A New York County grand jury today order- ed two indictments drawn charging and & Brooklyn lawyer, A. Henry Ross, with extorting money from Alfred E. Smith, Jr, son of former 1 Governor Smith. , The indictments were to be present- ed later today to Judge Koenig it Special Sessions. HIGHWAY REOPENED LAKE PLACID, N. Y., May 15. (P) «-The Whiteface Memorial highway, Adirondacks, opened today af ter heitig closed since November. iG Nation His * L- Former Minister Leftist Leader Assures Party Will ° Not W age Reprisal War PARIS, May 15. (AP) Blum, destined to become the French premier, renounced today any idea that the new Leftist government will wage \a war of propaganda or reprisal.\ As for France's war debt to the United States, he told the American club: \In France we believe the ques- tion of debts is wiped out.\ He called the debt issue \a tragic ; \Im Pebtiy pars rnd qee d., misunderstanding between the two countries.\ Avowing France's desire to \live at peace with all,\ Blum added it was Heads Auto Union IRST in de- pe nd ently | only natural France would \lean to- elected presi- | Ward special friendships with nations dent of the | Which, like her, are passionately at- tached to public, civil, and personal liberty\ and \the same ideal of social Justice.\ Observers interpreted Blum's re- marks as an attempt to refute any idea that France would be driven into a war with Germany or Italy because of hatred for Fascism. Coincident with his speech, it was reported that Edouard Herriot, Radi- United Auto- mobile Workers of America, A. F. of L. inter» national union, and leader -in the drive to or- ganize the auto industry, Ho- The men had been lying on the ground and jumped up as the officers, who had not seen them, approached. Two other convicts, Jess Cunning- ham and Julius Bohannon, both life termers, were believed hiding in the Cope said, was so badly wounded his com- Doaks, a six-fool, black-haired cow- boy, told of being held captive since Wednesday afternoon, soon after two a private detective, Max D. Krone, | \ million dollar scenic roed of the | mer W. Martin, Kansas City, an ex-pastor, is a \progressive.\ . RS ON DAMAGED SHIP ARE RESCUED ~Martin > PASSEN Boat Runs Aground During Fog Off Harbor of Seattle-Craft in No Need of Aid KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 15. (P)- Wreck-weary passengers aboard the crippled steamer North Sea, anchored sefely in Hunter Bay, waited today for the arrival of the steamer Vic- toria, nosing through a fog slong the coast of Prince of, Wales Island, Standing by was the Coast Guard cutter Alert which dashed from Ket- chikan to the North Sea and picked up the ship's 143 passengers and 30 members of the crew whom Capt. A. W. Nickerson ordered into life boats yesterday morning after the ship grounded on Marsh Point. The Alert returned 121 passengers and the crew members to the vessel last night, after disembarking 22 pas- sengers at destinations on Dall Is- land, a short distance north, A survey showed only nominal dam- age to the hold and that the pumps were gaining on water in the hold. 'The passengers were returned then rather than risk taking them around ireacherous Cape Chmon to Ketchi- an. The Victoria left here last night to pick up 88 north bound passengers. Thirty-four others were expected to cgme here on the North Sea on the Alert. HOOVER NOT TO ATTEND CLEVELAND CONVENTION PHILADELPHIA, May 15. P- Lawrence Richey, secretary to Her- bert Hoover, said last night the for- mer President will not attend the Re- publican | national convention | in Cleveland next month, He said Hoover, who addressed the Republican women of Pennsylvania last night, will go to Richey's fishing camp at Catoctin Furnace, Md., to- day \for a day or two.\ Concerning the Cleveland conven- tion, Richey said <earliee Hoover would be in the east, fulfilling two engagements at that time. _ INJURIES PROVE FATAL ALBANY, N. Y., May 15 (P)-Floyd R. Jones, 54, of Watervliet, died to- day in & hospital here from injuries suffered early Wednesday when a sedan he was driving ploughed into the porch of a residence at Menands, & suburb. cal-Socialist leader, was being con- sidered as Blum's choice for the for- eign ministry. Herriot, known as a friend of the United States, once lost the premler- ship when he fought French refusal to pay the war debt. The Leftist leader, during the course of today's address, also expressed his \great joy\ over the new Franco» Americar trade pact. The American ambassador, Jesse Isador Staus was seated at Blum's right throughout his talk. Blum - expressed hope that the \cloud\ of misunderstanding between France and the United States over the debt issue might soon be lifted, He said the United States had not sufficiently understood how closely the Dawes reparations plan and the Hoover war debt moratorium were linked in the French mind with the question of debt payment. On the other hand, the Socialist leader added, French opinion had failed to grasp the reasons for Amer- ican moral condemnation of the debt default. He promised France would \labor with all our heart to sirengthen the bonds of friendship which exist be» Ttween our two republics.\ Going: before a crowd of 400 persons after & conference with Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, Blum asserted the new Socialist gov- ernment of France will \seek to live in peace with the rest of the world regardless of the internal politics of others.\ \We must exclude all thoughts of war propaganda,\ he said. MAN IS STRANGLED TO DEATH IN METROPOLIS NEW YORK, May 15. GP-Polite were searching today for the slayer of Edgar L. Eckert, 54, executive of a men's clothing firm (Rogers Peet), who was found strangled yesterday in the washroom of a subway station near Times Square. The man had been robbed and beaten. He was alive and conmsclous, but unable to talk, when found, and died before an ambulance arrived. Eckert's wallet and gold watch were missing, and also a gold medallion from his firm inscribed, \Edgar L. Eckert. In appreciation of twenty- five years of faithful service.\ Executives of the firm said that Eckert Lived quietly with his family in the Bronx, He always dressed well, they said. They expressed belief that his appearance caused the slayer to imagine that \a rich haul could be made by robbing him.\ TWO PERSONS DROWNED IN ST. LAWRENCE RIVER OGDENSBURG, N. Y., May 15 UP» -Two persons were drowned early to- day when their car plunged into the St. Lawrence river, An automobile operator's license bearing the name of Charles H. Wiles. 28, of Massena, was found on the body of one. The other body, that of & woman, bore no meansof identifica- tion, the Italian seizure of Ethiopia, The troops were destined immedi- ately for strenithening Japanese gar- risons in the North Ching cities of Tientsin and Pelping. A portion of the réinforcements | proceeded immediately to Peiping to stiengthen the Japanese garrison in that ancient Chinese capital, raising the number of troops there to 600. The main body of the newcomers was quartered in barracks of the Japanese concession in 'Tientsin, bringing the total strength of this garrison to neatly 10,000. The fresh troops belong to the Kawabe brigade of the Fifth Division, > ~ Japan informed the United States 'and other foreign embassies in Pelping of the amazing Increases in the gatri~ sons only yesterday when they were 'already a falt accompli. today was believed by Chinese to f Poccupation of North Chiria The atrival of the reinforcements: Japanese Troops Aré Landed in China and CGoncentrated Within Two Large Provinces (Copyright, 1936, by The Associated Press) \'TIENTSIN China, May 15.-The Japanese army landed 7,600 troops from four transports today in a movement de- scribed by the Chinese as part of a campaign, encouraged by for ultimate conquest of China. Japanesearmy division of 15,000 meh. SimuItansously, as part of its flan to militarize the whole of North Chins, Japan has started buying ex- tensive lands in the Taku ares,in the vicinity of the old forts about that town in. North China's province, The Japanese also are planniig construction of a modern, four-lafie highway from Taky, at the mouth of, the Pei River, to Tientsin, and are building exterisive' new barracks and. aviation. fields in Tlentsin. |__ Japan how 'has a total of 15,000 triops south of the Great Wall, $000 notth of the Gréat WalF and Several thousand st Kalgan, Dolonot apd other points of Inner Mongolia, Informed sources said all appar- ently were aimed elther for ulti MonskoBHa of for a future war Soviet Russim presage an ultimate coming of «-full; inevitable, A W ME \ 4 ; h 1 I I t t i i i i f 1 1