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T H E A D V E R T IS E R - J O U R N A L COMPLETE DAY REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TODAY’S NEWS TODA1 ' In tho Evening Taper the News la Complete tip to 4 P. SI • g j f f tu* AUBURN. N. Y.. MONDAY, JULY 1. 1929 W E E M E E T D E A T H IN C R A S H O F A IR P L A N E Persons Drowned ter Week-end; Air Mishaps Kill Four Jties Occur In Widely Scattered Sections In [gjstem and Southern United States and E a s t e r n Canada—\Mail Pilot Killed at Colum bus, Ohio—Official of Airways Company B u r n e d to Death a t Sacramento, Cal. the Associated Press) lltiit 23 persons were drowned t week-end In widely scattered J of Eastern and Southern i Stittt scd Eastern Canada. \«re two WPIe drownings in l Three women were trapped , automobile which plunged *’j bridge, railing at Brewers I H»bt men were thrown into iter near Midland when their psted sharply.' Fve were res- j members of a picnic party lost Era In Choccolocco Creek near Jtoa, Ala., when their boat cap- Ont., was the scene of a ftownlog when an automobile 1 from a ferry Into the Syden- |River. A bather was seized ■cramps and drowned near tlie 1 dry. Inning and bathing accounted limnber of single drownings. A ■fton girl lost her life in the liter near Annapolis, Md. while to companions were rescued. A ■taming in a stone quarry near IPa., was drowned. Another I suffered cramps near Bolton L, X. Y. A third is believed le been overcome by a heart at- |Mle diving In Lake CQngamond Saffield, Gonn. Two men drowned while far out from shore, one at West Paterson, >T. J., and the oth er at Nantasket Beach, Hull, Mass. Two fishermen succumbed to the waters. A Brooklyn man fell into Orogoxo Lake at Norwich, Conn., and a Toronto man fell from a boat at Madoc, Ont. (By The Associated Press) An air mall pilot and an official of an air line were among the victims of fatal aviation accidents over the week end. Mishaps on the Atlantic and Pa- cfic Coasts and In the Middle West cost four lives. Waldo E. Robey, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., mail pilot for Continental Air Lines, Inc.. was killed instantly when his plane struck a radio antenna mast at Columbus, Ohio, during a heavy fog. Ira I. Wilkinson, 45, an official of the Capital Airways Company, and his stepson, Charles Wilson, IS, were burned to death In the wreckage of on airplane which fell in the residential district of Sacramento, Calif., and burst Into flames. Ross Martin, the pilot, escaped. Pilot and plane both were unlicensed Nicholas Engleman of Philadelphia, an amateur aviator, was killed near Berlin, N. J. A plane which he was piloting fell and caught Are. On Farm Board pation of New Railway [rank Line in East Being ined by Wabash Railroad faton, July l.— (-F) — F o r m a - t i new railway trunk lin e in lit is planned by the W a b a s h Id. pppllcatlon was filed today by ptatlves of the Wabash for the Jtatlon of the Interstate Corn- |Ccamlsslon. pis authority to acquire control F w stock purchase of nine |» and joint control of five Trackage rights over several t also are sought. tooved by the commission, trie Md result in the establtsmncnt f a eastern trunk line wlrn v termini at Chicago, St. iansa? City, Omaha and Dos ,ernlJnl at N'ew ■Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1 .(1 nnk llncs nmv in opera- Pennsylvania, x cw to r s ■unumore and Ohio and trio si 2nd 0hia The latter lift fiT. mer?er.plans of tnG’r ILii\co®mis,5irm which have ,T e \ ’ahash iite th»rbv ^ nba5:h seeks t0 I «e the Lehigh Valley, Wheel- H h W Pitfsl,ur-h and bd vin- I s Maryland. Le- *an(** ‘^ ’ron' Can- L r , t ° ; ni i,h° E,pin- t . J “e Toledo, Peoria ,-md the Chicago .md Illinois ^CoL^r6,! in thf> Montour RallrMfl i? Monor>gabela ™ Comnanr , \mPanV. Union °e Pltt?burs!t'- and , Shore R a il- ,la t'e T!1 a ”np spventh :n- kpanj aL Termina> Rail- j C h al Csn\? ht- I * extend ? y carr‘er l ^ ^ s Monp?, ansas City- K-'tern territ ntr> tbe heart Hi witory: the applica- l»«enger ■^•nitorr w«lf \n board I er‘ avoiding 0 ,hf> -Misslss- P eto th nL ' ln\DP('s-<:‘-i^ in- ^Mreil t0 ^ !n^ Public in Points. ha,IIP trains at W E A T H E R \The acquisition by the Wabash of tho Lehigh Valley would provide a di rect route from the Western territory to New York, over which route through passenger and freight service would he operated without transfer at any junction. The public is entitled to this service and will receive it if the Wabash is placed in a position to render It.” A sixth trunk line was suggested. \It is practicable,” the application said, ‘‘to create a sixth system within the eastern group consisting primar ily of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western, the New York, Chicago and Sa. Louis, and certain other carriers, including the Detroit. Toledo and Tronton and the Virginian.” James C. Stone, of Lexington, Ky., president of the Burley To bacco Growers’ Co-operative as sociation, has been announced as one of the appointments to tho new federal farm board, by Presi dent Hoover. TO BOARD III WEEK President Proceeding With Great Deliberation In Selection of Men to. Be Entrusted With Task of BrinjjinR Prosperity to Agricul ture—Teague May Decline Lowman Reports Explained Statement Issued By Treasury Department Says Form Calling For Resignation of Minor Official, Taken For That of Dry Chief L OF TURKEY MAY IE TO U. S. ^ ° S h o f t 17-''Ve*tern 5 an,! toniWit. ,is nft-r- ’ Erie tn • I near v, and somewhat S®>om ‘Btn lometcr) 1029 19->8 ri \ •• ' ' ^ 01 rt !65 today 4 0 , 08 C 2 Washington, July 1 .— (IF)— Prospects of a visit to the united States by Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Pasha, presi dent of Turkey, are being widely dis cussed in diplomatic circles in connec tion with the visit here of Dr. Refix Bey. the Turkish minister of public health. Dr. Refix Bey has spent more than two months ln the United States un der the auspices of the Rockefeller foundation inspecting health and so cial service institutions. He Is now the guest of the Turkish ambassador. Ahmed Mouthar Bey. He is the first official of the Turkish government to visit the United States since the World War. Several years ago President Kemal made plans to visit various European capitals and it was reported he might come to the United States. On ac count of the pressure of his work at home, these plans were postponed, but since then President Kemal has ac complished a great part of that work. Farm and Home Program W ill Be Broadcast Daily Washington, July 1.—(-•?>—The Agri culture Department had accepted the invitation of the National Broadcast ing Company to broadcast a mid-day program over a network of 31 broad casting stations beginning July S. The program, to he known as the National Farm and Home hour, will lie broadcast daily at 1 -SO p. m to 2:15 p. m Eastern Standard Time. Secretary Hyde is to inaugurate tne new service with an address. Washington, July 1—(JP)—President Hoover hopes to complete by the end of this week the selection of virtually all of tho men who, as members of the Federal Farm Board, will be entrusted with the task of bringing prosperity to agriculture. Proceeding with great deliberation in view of the Importance he attaches to the Board’s undertakings, he has filled three of its eight places and has offered one other to a business man nnd two to farm leaders, one of whom, however, is expected to decline- Cotton is to be represented by Carl Williams of Oklahoma; tobacco by James C. Stone of Kentucky, and live stock b.v C. B. Denman of Missouri. These three have accepted appoint ment. Those who have been offered ap pointments are Alexander H. Legge of Chicago, who would represent general business, W S. Moscrlp of Minneapo lis, chosen to speak for the dairying industry, and Charles C. Teague of California, Identified with fruit grow ing co-operath'es- Teague Is quoted in press dispatches as saying private business will prevent him from serv ing. On the assumption that the place of fered Teague w ill be filled by another representative of the fruit growers two places on the Board remain to be filled from other industries, with a spokesman for the Important wheat section yet to he selected. In addition, Mr Hoover announced when he signed tVie farm hill that one membership would be filled by a man experienced In the field of banking and finance nnd equipped to advise his colleagues in the administration of the .$500,000,000 fund authorized and partially appropriated by Con gress for loans to co-operative farming organizations. There have been no definite indica tions ns to who the wheat man will he. although Mr Hoover has a long list of names, many of them impres sively endorsed, under consideration Prominently mentioned are James H. Sinclair of North Dakota, and H. L. Hartshorn of Kansas Sinclair has the hacking of the senators Trom his state. Nye and Frazier, both Republic ans, while Senator Capper. Reputilrc- an, Kansas, has freely predicted tnit the choice would go to Hartshorn. Washington. July 1— (/P)—An ex planation of the widely-printed reports that Assistant Secretary Lowman of the Treasury Department, in charge of prohibition enforcement, had been asked to resign by President Hoover, was given today by the Treasury De purtment. It was to the effect that a news paper reporter may have seen a form calling for the resignation of a minor official in the west and jiimped at con clusions. This explanation was made by Sec retary Mellon and Under Secretary Mills. Previously the White House had issued an official denial o£ the re ports, which were circulated last Sat urday by the United Press. Mills said that on Friday Lowman went to the White House to see one of the president’s secretaries about the contemplated resignation of a minor official in tho west. This request for the official’s resignation was on ,a printed form nnd on top of a clip of paper which the assistant secretary left on a table In the reception room. The only explanation Mills could ad vance was that an inquisitive person had glanced at the papers and mistook the name on it for that of Lowman. Helen Wills, Tilden Reach Semi-Finals POLICE QUESTION Men Captured In Dramatic Raid on Long Island City Apartment — Letter Written In Feminine Hand, Purports to Tell Name of Slayer Wimbledon, Eng., July 1— (/P)—Miss Helen W ills reached the semi-final round in defense of her British tennis championship in women’s singles to day, defeating Miss \Bobby” Heine of South Africa, 6-2, 6-4, in the quarter finals. Bill Tilden followed Miss Wills to victory, entering the semi-finals in men’s singles by winning from Pierre Landry of France, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5. George Lott, a third American singles hope, was eliminated In straight sets, however, at the hands of .Tean Borotra, the bounding Basque of Franco, b.v scores of 6-3, 6-3. 6--1 Shorrly after her singles victory, Miss W ills scored again in mixed dou bles, she and her partner, Fra'nk Hun ter, defeating IMrs. John Hill and C R. Hughes, an English team, 6-3, 6 - 2 . Henri Cochet, one of three French men among the last eight survivors in men’s singles, foreed Into the semi finals by defeating Hans Timmer of Holland. 6-4, 7-5, 6-2. H. W. Austin .young English star, trimmed Baron Von Kehrllng of Hun gary in a second quarter-final match, G-2. S- 6 , 6-3 Miss Helen Jacobs, second only to Miss W ills in the American women’s ranking, overwhelmed Mrs. C C, Me- Tlquham, 6-1, 6-0, in another quarter final match. Mrs. May Sutton Bnndy, Santa Monica, C a l , and Miss Marjorie Mor rill, Dedham, Mass.. were elimlnarpd in the women’s doubles of the British tennis championships today by Mrs. Randolph T,yeett and Mis? Joan Rid ley, an English pair. The scores were 6-3, 6-2. New Tork, July 1.—/.'PI—Two gun men with long criminal records wero being subjected to rigid questioning today in connection with the slaying a week ago of Frank Marlow, night club owner. The men, together with an lS-ycur- old youth, were captured in a drama tic raid on an apartment building in Long Island City, ten minutes drive from the ccmetery In Fluushing wivcre Marlow was found dying with three bullet wounds in his head and neck In the apartment detectives found two pistols, a quantity of ammunition and some tear gas bombs. At one or the windows a pair of-binoculars was mounted on a swivel bracket. These, one of the prisoners explained, were used to watch for enemies. The prisoners, who are hold ns ma terial witnesses, are Daniel Grosso, alias Dfivid Grosso, and Nicholas Mc Dermott, alias John Sterling. Their arrest brought the number held ns witnesses in the Marlow case to eight. Police Commissioner Whalen said Grosso and McDermott had been seen five minutes after Marlow was found and were ln an automobile which fitted the description of the car Mar low was seen to enter on Broadwav, •13 minutes before his body was found. George Grosso, Whalen said, was wanted by federal authorities as the fifth member of the gang which killed a guard and wounded a driver and a policeman in the robbery of a mull truck of .$300,000 in Elizabeth, N. J., three years ago. The commissioner also said Grosso and McDermott might be linked to the 538,302 robbery of a Bell Telephone cashier in which a policeman and a bank guard were shot when gunmen attacked them with automatic pistols last April. In both that and the Eliz abeth robbery the thugs opened fire without warning. Detective Hyman Levine, in charge of the raiders told commissioner Wha len that Grosso offered him a bribe of .$ 20,000 to let them escape. James Graham, a youth who called at the apartment while the detectives were there, also was arrested. WILMER STULTZ AND TWO FRIENDS DIE WHEN SHIP GOESJTD TAIL SPIN Fourth Fatal Crash at Long Island Fields In Past Few Days — Pilot Flew Amelia Earharfs Plane Across Atlantic — Stultz Had Been Stunting, Airplane Loaned to Him By Em ployer, John Hay Whitney Roosevelt Field, N. T., July 1 .—(.P> —Wllmer Stultz, Amelia Enrlmrt’s trans-Ar.lantic pilot, and two compan ions were killed today in the crash of a plane Stultz was stuntiug between here and Mineola. The two men with Stultz were Iden tified ns Tntrick Costllucht of Roslyn and Charles Harwood of Mineola, per sonal friends of Stultz. The two men with Stultz were killed Instantly as the plane went in to a tailspin at about 300 feet and crashed Stultz died as hn reached the Nassau County Hospital in Mln- eola. It was the fourth fatal airplane crash nt the Long Island .field witn- In the past few days. In the nrst Francis Phillips, son of the late Jonn Phillips, Queens sewer pipe magnate, was the victim Next an endurance plane fell, Jack Ashcraft being kiMit and Miss Viola Gentry critically in jured. A few liour^ after that nn army plane at. Mitohel Field caught fire In the air and Corp. Elmer Barry was fatally injured, Lieut. Maxwell Balfour being severely burned. The accident occurred about a quar ter of a mile northwest of the flying field. Stultz and his two companions had driven up to the field ln an automobile and had only been ln the air a short time before they crashed. They had gained only about SOOfeot altitude, witnesses said, when tho plane slipped into a tail spin. Two laborers, employed by a con tracting firm \\hich is leveling off parts of Roosevelt Field, had sat down be side their truck to eat lunch as the plane roured overhead. It dropped only about 20 feet from them. Stultz was buried under tho wreckage. Ho was unconscious when tliey pulled him out. Ilis comapnions, riding together in the front cockpit, were dead when the workmen found them. The accident occurred only a short distance from the Stultz home, ln Mineola. His wife, Mrs. Mildred Stultz, ar rived nt the hospital just as he died. They have no children. Tho airplane belonged to John Hay Whitney, by whom Stulth was em ployed ns a pilot. Other pilots at the field said Whitney lent, the plane to Stultz about six weeks ago for him to do some stunt flying. 50 Injured When Thousands Flocked To Mexican Church Mexico City, July 1.—(JP)—Fifty persons were Injured crushed and al most suffocated in their anxiety to at tend the first Sunday mass in Mexico in three years yesterday at Our Lady of the Guadalupe Church, near the city. Those injured were treated by the Red Cross, which discharged flnalh all but two. who were badly hurt Tens of thousands of Mexicans flocked to the -little church, which Is the na tional shrine, ns soon ns bells tolled the hour for the masses. It was the first Sunday mass in Mexico since August 1, 1!)26. althouch masses had bc-en said at the Guada lupe Church and other churches in Mexico City Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. Lindbergh Tries Out Glider at St. Louis Field St. Louis, Mo., July 1— (JP/—Col. Charlc-s A. Lindbergh had his first flight ln a glider here yesterday when he soared in one at Lamberf-St. Louis Field with more than 10.000’ persons as spectators. Lindbergh, paying bis first visit to his legal home since his marriage to Miss Anne Morrow, spent most of Sunday at the airport and when of fered the opportunity by Harry Kuchins, owner of the glider, readily accepted. The automobile of Maj William B. Robertson, one of Lind bergh’s backers In the New York to Paris flight two years ago, furnished the starting power, as the field Is level He said he was well pleased with the glider flight. Sloro Robbed Niagara Falls. N V, July 1.— — Burglars who broke into th» Arcade Shoe Store in the North Main Street business sc-ction early today carried away a small safe which <’ontain<'d $770 The roliherv was disenvprpd when olerks opened the store this morning. Letter Sent Police Boslon, July 1 — (/P)—A letter in a feminine hand, purporting lo reveal tho name of the slayer of Frnnlc Mar low, New York racketeer slain a week ago today, was In the hands of New York police today. The name was not that of any of the three alleged gangsters arrested in a house at Long Island City yesterday by a special detective raiding squad. The letter was received here by Michael P. Crowley, superintendent of police. It had been written on sta.- tionery of the Hotel Victoria, New York City, said to have been Mar low’s residence, and in addition to his name, contained a description of mid guide to the whereabouts of the al leged killer. Sueprlntendent Crowley refused to divulge the more important facte con tained in the letter but it was said at headquarters that it had shed consid erable light on at least one heretofore little-known phase of the case. E KILLED MARLOW POLICE BELIEVE New York. July l —(/P)—Police Com missioner Grover A. Whales todav fie dared that, in the opinion of police Investigators, Dave Grosso, now held as a material w'tness, was the man w!iu took Frank Uar'ow, of the nu'lit clubs, on his fa 1 .il ride last Mor-dai Grosso, a fugilhe from jnst'c,; f-'i con'plinity in Elizabeth. X mail robbery, according to the police, ■with a priei* of $ 2,000 on his head, was ar retted last night in Long Island t'i’y. lie has not beer: formally charge! wi'h hruiieide. Mcholns Mcl'ermott and James Crnham weiv> arrested with ijr.i-so anil are held ns material witnessi s. ■\\e have oi.icnce,\ Whalen “that Marlow had befriended and had helped him to hide from the p.n ce. Mariou, in financial ?irairs himself, «a-> t.niille to continue -its ;•«- n.-i.-.m-e !• Gn's-.o. 1 v.rpver. a > I '• is ot,‘ ilie..*.v t•, ■ r .\'i rlow’s hi,.'I » promiM\! to help (> and ke.-p i • i hii'Uii if lie wnj.d ^er Marlow . it nf (he Vtiy ’ I le (• Iic,> ><•„.,> sc ruer ‘ aid l.n- bt,Mr. hi-i i-if ‘.i Onpon« Sin's r r mail robbery, with an oi-ca'ionii] flyer in 'in i* i irni;,.' t • n: cp h,-- un-l in f- ir-r V i ■ \ ,k I . r other., . ' i ^ frlivK Y i\e U r ’ '.in suppUou > ’th ^money, Luilc-u cud, VIOLA GENTRY HAS E Mineola, N. Y., July 1.—MW—-Viola Gentry, who was critically injured Friday in tho crash of an enrudance plane in which her co-pilot was killed, was reported today to be slowly re gaining strength, nnd doctors relieved she had,more than an even chance to recover. Martin .Tensen, who with his wife and William Ulbrich was engaged in a friendly race for an endurance flight record with Miss Gentry nnd Jock Ashcraft, her co-Pilot, when the Asb- craft-Gentry plane chashed. was con sidering unother attempt In the near future. He was forced down Satur day by a clogged fuel line. .Tensen was considering staging his next assault, on the endurance record in Florida, where he believed the weather conditions would be more fa vorable. Americans Invest Billion in Far East Securities Washington, July 1—(JP)— American Investors are shown in Commerce De partment figures published today to have Invested approximately a billion dollars in Far Eastern securities since 1014. Exclusive of $1-18,632.000 of American capital invested since 1014 in Philippine Government securities, $S51.2.jS,000 was placed in far eastern securities publicly offpred >r. the tni- ted States. About $010,307,000 rep resented government, provincial and municipal issues. In addition, the survey showed $147.- 000,000 expended in Chinn In the same period in business enterprises. Philan thropic undertakings and corporate is sues not publicly offered FIVE KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION Angola, Ind., July 1.—(JH—Noah F. Trosper, of Detroit, was without a family today as a result of a moror collision near Lake George yesterday ln which his wife, their three young children and bis father wore killed. The ear driven by Tospet- was In a hend-on collision with that, driven by Herman Scott, 22, of Coldwniter, Mich. The Trosper cnr immediately burst into flames. 'Scott crawled from his machine In time to extricate Trosper from his burning car, but the other members of the party were trappoa. Will Try to Break Record Set by Hawks Lcs Angeles, Calif, July 1.— (JP)—In the wake of C-apt. Frank Hawks’s two record-breaking trans-continental flights of last week came the an nouncement here today that Lieut. Herbert Fnhy would attempt to Oy from here to New York and return In 34 hours. The announcement said Fnhy would use a plane capable of making 200 miles an hour The flight is expected to start Thursday Olean Publisher Dies at His Home Three Overcome By Gas Fumes Boston, July 1.—OP)—1Three men were overcome by gas funine* result ing from a fire in the chemical labo ratory of Boston University today The men overcome, who were report ed as being in serious conditmu at the Homeopathic Hospital were John L. Neal, -IS, building su[torltttend out . Arthur S I)agle, 12. engineer and Thomas McDonald, 2o, janitor Fire f'ommissioner Eugene llultman ordered an investigation in an effort to determine the nature of liic g.i» nnd the ciu«e of Mm Ore The blaze \as confined to the I j I io ratory. _ ________ _ _ Clean. X Y , July 1 —(TP)— William S Dodson '0, business manager and vice president of tbe Olean Times, died Saturday night at his home here Mr Dodson was a former president of the Fraternal Order of Eaclrs of New York State More recently b\ had served ns treasurer of the state organization. Prominent in tbe activities of the Kni::hts of Columbus. Mr Dod-on had lieeu falrliful navijntor of the i dean Assemblj of Fourth Degree. Aide to Postmaster General Dies Washington. July 1 — Joseph Stewart, executive nssbcint to the postmaster general and spec’al assist- ant to the attorney general, died at bis home hen- today nt'ter a lengthy illness. Killed in Collision Canton. Ohio. July 1.—t.p)—Ono woman \as killed and seven persons injured eaih to,lay a mile north of this city in a collision between a bus cmoute to Cleveland and a laundry truck. Inspects Airport Kansas f'it>. ; il\ 1 - '.T' 1 —Inspec tion of the lch.il mroort end a tllght to V, ichin Kan u is pl\nned fo<i,ir I'v t el ( hnrles \ 1 indber^li Thfr •'oionel accompanied by his bride ar rived hero late yesterday from JBt,
