St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 20, 1927

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Pt syed hii & PE OOS of C7448 6 The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service oT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH te rs SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927—36 PAGES PRIOF 2 CENTS AND THEN HE . 3 " , ” mee "EMMA S, MARINES 4 | ss ! $e: a - oe : . é Pa : - “ al —— 7 “tas “COLUMN TO SCENE I; Serious Clash Since Admiral Sellers Rout of Another i tee Asgociated Press. ' WASHINGTON. Sept. Tailed States Marine and one mem- ee of the Nicaraguan National Mesrd were killed, and a second Marine was fatally wounded. in a te yesterday between a detach lest of 20 Marines and 25 of the Mieraguan constabulary and a Norce Of about 140 members of the = ‘WB ialgado band. er | The United States LegMion at ce ‘Managua. transmitting a report of “WM the fight to the State Department Hilled and 50 wounded. (A relief column Of Marines and e abulary is on the way to the Mewere of the §$ fight é fom Pueblo Nuevo. ) The dispatch said the band be attacked the garrison of the fv at 1 a. m. and that the fight- in lasted until 6 a. m., when they ‘withdrew.. The Salgaoo force was Ewell armed with rifles, machine hand bombs and dynamite 0 A report trom a Marine | OMictr said that the new Nica- faguan National Guard, “as on o@ther occasions, put up a splendid . ight.” Fw far as casualties go, the fight / yesterday appeared to have been ‘the most serious since Ucotal. in | Which the Nicaraguan rebel, San- /@ino. Was reported to have lost /weveral hundred men in an attack pea «Marines and constabulary. semerican aviators dispersed San- pMino's men with bombs. 4 Neither the Navy Department pmor Marine Corps headquarters 4 "had been informed today of the @ “tails of the encounter or of the pemes of the marines who fell. sj BS sy Rear Admira! Sellers, command- pang the United States forces in Nic- 4 agua, reported yesterday that Marines had engaged in a fight with a Nicaraguan band whose leader, Francisco Barrios, was killed. The Admiral reported law- jtessness along the Puerto Cabezas Railroad. Sandino, who has refused’ to 5 bide by the agreement by which 4 e Nicaraguan civil war was to > ended, was reported by Admiral] 3 ellers to have only about 60 men Minder his command. : — AROLED SPEEDER GIVEN _ 10 DAYS IN WORKHOUSE -*rtest Wilson, Fo | 3 Track, Says He cane ‘a __ Order Applied to Motor Cycle. When Ernest Wilson, 25 years pela, 1619 South Ninth street, was Strested and arraigned before Po- i Joes Rosecan for speeding a is motor cycle Aug. 29. he en- . - & plea of guilty and was sen- j weed to 10 days in athe Work- pease, from which he was placed Probation on his promise not to & motor vehicie for 30 days. a “tg he was in court again. . & been arrested yesterday . found driving a truck. He ted that he was under the im- =.) — e on the court’s ruling meant 3 “ad that he should not drive his * Cycle for 30 days, but J udge “4n ruled otherwise and Wil- 8 sent to the Workhouse to the 10 days. ene Hi ¥0 NEN RESCUED AFTER EVER HAD WAS WHEN | 5 DAYS IN BOAT HE HELO THE KING OF Up Ry Florida Coast DIAMONDS IN A “ard; Had Burned All Their POKER GAME! ig Mthing to Attract Attention. Py : > - + * pop A®sociated Press e ACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2v. oo Sawyer and John Reyn- | Miami have been rescued Cap. @ small launch 40 miles off Canaveral, where they had » “drift since Wednesday. ‘The ("ad burned all their clothing attract attention of Passing Coast Guardsmen aboard u boat saw the light of tne &t regular intervals and in- q The men said they had been nas Ut food and that their onty _*? supply had been collectad the bottom of their boat Friday. cS a : ie. Pa 20.—One | at Telpaneca | MOVE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY IN MASSACHUSETTS Initiative Petition Presented to Make Life Term Maximum Punishment. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BOSTON, Sept. 20.—An initiative petition in preliminary form ‘was filed with the Attorney-General’s office yesterday to make first de- gree murder punishable by life imprisonment, rather than by death. The petition must first be certi- fied as to form by the Attorney- General of Massachusetts. Then it goes to the Secretary of State, and if the proponents submit 20,000 signatures it becomes a bill which goes before the Legislature. If it is killed in the Legistature and the proponents can obtain 5000 more signatures, the question goes On the ballot. UNION LABEL T0 BE PLAUED ON BUILDING Organized Craftsmen to Partici- pate in First Ceremony in St. Louis Tomorrow. A “union label” is to be placed on a St. Louis building for the first time tomorrow afternoon as evidence that all work on the “Miiay, declared the band lost 20 | structure was performed by union authorized the building according to and labor, specifications code. The structure on which the first label is to be placed is the recently completed Gast Building, @ ‘hree- story office ard store structure at 2501-25 North Grand boulevard. A ceremony in which a representa- tive of Mayor Miller and St. Louis union leaders will participate. will precede the placing of the label on the Grand boulevard wall of ihe building. Senator Hawes and Congressman Cochrane also have been invited to assist at the cere- mony, which will be under the au- spices of the St. Louis Building Trades’ Council, an organization of 18,000 union building craftsmen. The temporary label is to be re- placed with a bronze plaque, bear- ing the seal of the Building Trades Council, the names of the owner and architect and the inscription, “This Building Was Erected by Competent Union Labor.” It is planned to place similar labels cn all future St. Louis buildings on which union labor has been em- ployed throughout, according to Maurice Cassidy. secretary of the Building Trades’ Council. The only previous instance of the kind in the United States. according to Cassidy, was the placing of a simi- lar label on a structure in Wor- cester, Mass., 20 years ago. THREE MEN: KILLED IN FIGHT CAUSED BY KICKING A DOG Kentuckians Engage in Fatal Quar- rel Near Oakley, Over Inci- ‘ dent of Six Months Ago. By the Associated Press. ASHLAND, Ky., Sept. 20.—Three men are dead in Magoffin County as the result of the kicking of a dog six months ago. The dead are: Patton Holliday. Brad Merrill and Add Salyer, all of Oakley, a hamlei 10 miles from Salyersville. Holliday and Merrill engaged in a fist fight following the renewal of an old quarrel about the dog, when Salyer, who was Merrill's brotper-in-law, came up. Salyer shot Holliday, fatally wounding him. Holliday, as he fell, shot both Merrill and Salyer, inflicting wounds of which they died. The shooting occurred Sunday. ra 978 CHINESE DROWNED WHEN STEAMER CAPSIZES Disaster in Tsingtao Bay Attributed to Panic, When Vessel Sprang a Leak. . By the Associated Press. PEKIN, Sept. 20.—Two hundred and seventy-eight Chinese passen- gers were drowned when the Jap- anese coastwise steamer Gentou Maru captized in Tsingtao Bay, a Japanese dispatch says. The disaster was the result of a panic aboard the vessel when a leak was discovered. American war craft assisted in the rescue work. TRYING TO DRY UP CHICAGO Federal Agents Active in Prepara- tion for Tunney Fight. By the Aesociated Presse CHICAGO. Sept. 20.—To cut down the consumption of liquor by visitors to the Tunney-Dempsey fight. squads of Federal raiders were assigned tast night to pay reg- viar calls at ali toop hotels and beer venders. to keep beer trucks off the streets and inspect all tn- coming trains for liquor. Crack squads of dry agents are Leing transferred here from »‘il- waukee, Indianapolis and Washing ten to augment the local detach- ment. DRT. S. MANNING, BIG DOPE PEDDLER ARRESTED IN RAD More Than 10,000 Pre- scriptions for Narcotics Written by Physician, 64, Seized. ADDICTS CONTINUE TO COME TO OFFICE SS Sen Federal Warrant After Months of Surveil- lance for Man Thrice Con- victed in U. S. Court. Dr. Thomas S. Manning, notori- ous as the “big dope peddler,” and described by a Government prose- cutor as the “greatest contributor to delinquency in the history of St. Louis,” was arrested again today. Three times he has been con- victed in Federal Court here of wholesale dealings with drug ad- dicts, and each time he has been freed through decisions by the United States Court of Appeals. He is now 64 years old, and is re- puted to have made a fortune seil- ing prescriptions for narcotics to addicts. , His office at 1106 North Van- deventer avenue, where he lives was. raided at 8:30 o’cldck morning by Chief Narcotic Inspec- tor Thompson, Agents Waldron. Sheets and Walsh and Chief Agent Forrer from Kansas City. The raiders reported finding Dr. Man- ning in the act of writing a pre- scription for an addict. Thousands of Prescriptior -. At the Finney Avenue Pharma- cy, northeast corner of Vandeven- ter and Finney avenue, the nar- cotic sgents seized approximately 10,900 prescriptions for narcotics written by Dr. Manning for ad- dicts and filled there within the last six months. This seizure followed a the Missouri Pharmacy, 1041 North Vandeventer avenue, where the narcotic agents seized 487 pre- s.riptions for narcotics written by Dr. Manning, each for 10 to 40 grains of morphine and cocaine. Not Knowing Dr. Manning had been arrested, a stream of pitiful addicts continued to pour into his office. Within an hour 30 had ap- peared. They were taken to ‘he ederal Building, as was Dr. Man- ning. Warrant on Four Prescriptions. A warrant was issued, charging Dr. Manning with violating the Harrison anti-narcotic act by writ- ing prescriptions, at $2 each, for one Ella Rush on Friday. Satur- day, Sunday and yesterday. Each of the first three was for 30 grains of cocaine and morphine, and the fourth for 40 grains. Dr. Manning was released on $3000 bond, and will have a hear- ing before Commissioner Atkins, Oct. 14. He denied violating the law. Dr. Manning, when accused of supplying the cravings of addicts through mercenary motives, de- fends himself as the inventor of a drug cure, who gives his patients drugs in gradually lessening amounts to cure them of the habit. To that the narcotic agents retort that his patients are all permanent ones, never cured. At his first trial in 1917, Dr. Man. ning was acquitted. Tried again in 1920, he was convict.d and sen- tenced to two years in prison, but escaped on a technicality when the Court of Appeals held that the con- viction was wrongful! because the charge was so similar to the one on which he had been acquitted that it amounted to double jeopar- dy. George F. Cucchi, the druggist who filled Dr. Manning’s prescrip- tions, was convicted and served three months in jail. Escapes Again on Technicality. A year later Dr. Manning was “caught with the goods” and sen- tenced to 15 years in prison. Again he escaped ou a technicality,. the ‘Court of Appeals holding the trial Judge erred in admitting “remote testimony concerning Manning’. violation of a local option liquor law in 1897. At his third conviction, in June. 1924. Dr. Manning was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $6000. This time he went to pris- on and stayed more than two years. He had been’charged with aiding and abetting Charles V. Eckert, a druggist, in dispensing vic.¢ to drugs to addicts “with the pur-— pose of satisfying the depraved ap- petites of the addicts and not as a medicine.” While in prison. he sued for a) writ of habeas corpus, contending | that as Echet had been freed of a charge of violating the Harfison antinarcotic law, he. Manning, was guilty of no offense in aiding &ck- ert. The Court of Appeals sus- tained this contention, and Dr. Manning was released from Leav- enworth penitentiary last Sept. 39, when he returned to St. Lonis, Issued, | this | | FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; SLIGHTLY WARMER TOMORROW PEEP PEE E 5: high, HS qo~rrouacers _. Yesterday's (6 a. m.) Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row; slightly warmer tomor- row afternoon. Missouri: Fair tonight and to- morrow; not s0 cool tomorrow. Illinois: Fair and continued cool tonight and tomorrow; prob- ably frost in the lowlands of the north and central portions. | Relative hu- '_midgity at noon 35 SAY IT WITH PUNCHES, Boys. ~ <1 e Sunset 6:02; sunrise {tomorrow) 5:48. Stage of the Mississippi 6.3 feet, a fall of .5, General Weather Conditions. Cool weather now covers al] the country between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The tem- peratures are around freezing in Montana and the Dakotas and frost formed last night in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region and the Northern Plains States. Light rains have fallen in the Lower Mis- souri, Upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, and in the Lake Megion. ee ee eee SIX ARMED MEN TAKE $19,000 FROM TWO BANK MESSENGERS Cicero (Ill.) Depository Loses Also $20,000 in Bonds and $56,000 in Checks in Holdup. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Two mes- sengers of the First National Bank of Cicero were held up by six men armed with shotguns today and robbed of $20,000 in negotiable bonds, $19,000 in small bills and $56,000 in checks which they were taking to another bank. The robbery occurred under a dark viaduct. While three of the robbers gathered up the loot, two others stood at the entrance to the viaduct, telling motorists an accli- dent had occurred and directing them to detour. The robbers fled in their own car and in that of the bank mes- sengers, which was recovered along| with the $56,000 in checks. COOLIDGE DECIDES FINALLY AGAINST A SPECIAL SESSION Accepts Hoover’s View That Flood Victims Are Amply Provided. for Till Jan. 1. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, _— Sept. 20.—A definite decision against a special session of Congress in advance of its regular December meeting date has been reached by President Coolidge. All. of the information reaching the President is said to indicate that the Mississippi flood situ2z*ion can be handled as effectively at the regular session as by conven- ing Congress in advance. Relief funds on hand are adequate, Sec- retary Hoover has reported, to take care of the situation until after Jan. 1. Moreover, it is said, engi- peers studying the flood prevention Plans will find it difficult to get all of their data compiled for Congress to act upor: even by De- cem ber. GIRL, 14, BEATEN TO DEATH AFTER ATTACK NEAR CHICAGO Body of Edna Miller Found Co.- ered With Brush Near Hillside, iil., Home. By the Associated Press ; CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Police to- cay were investigating the murder ot Edna Miller, 14-year-old Hill- sidé (Ill.) girl. whose body was found covered with brush in a sparsely settled district near her home in a suburb early this morn- ing. The search ended six hours after her disappearance from an ele- vated station one-half mile from the scene of the crime. Officials of the Coroner’s office said. after ex- aminaticn, that she had been crim- irally ‘tacked and her skull frac- tured by a blunt weapon. In the' Want Pages of the POST-DISPATCH Jd / 207 Room and Board Ads Are Advertised Only 66 were published to- eday by the second newspaper. Regularly, the Pust-Dispatch carries far more “Classified Ads” than ALL THREE Other St. Louis Newspapers COMBINED. GASHIER KILLED SELF BELIEVING BANK MUST FALL J. P. Biggs of Arrow Rock, Mo., Left Explanation Found Today When Time Lock on Safe Opens. NOTE DENIES ANY INTENT TO DEFRAUD Statement Exonerates Offi- cers and Directors of Blame for Depository’s Condition. a Special to the Post-Dispatch. ARROW ROCK, Mo., Sept. 20.— “God only knows I have trieqd my best to keep the bank from fail- ing.” This was the farewell message of J. Paul Biggs, cashier of the Arrow Rock Stock Bank, taken from the bank’s vault after a time lock opened today. Biggs shot and killed !:imself in the bank yester- day, and left a note saying that the vault contained his letter of explanation. Bank examiners of the State Finance Department, who took charge of the institution this morn- ing, entered the vault when the time lock opened at 9 a. m., and found the letter, which was ad- dressed to the State Finance De- partment. It read: The directors of the Arrow Rock Stock Bank are in no way to blame for the condition of this bank. They have tried to do the best they could, but have never known the true condition. The bank has been gradually failing for the past five years. No charge or credit anywhere has been made with the inten- tion to defraud, but to keep the bank going. God only knows I have tried my best to keep it from failing, but with depression and loss of money by makers of some of the notes, it was beyond me to do anything. Every note is bona fide, and no one ever signed a note here except he got credit and value received for it. Lois Case (as- sistant cashier) is as blameless in connection with the bank as if she had never seen the bank. Two other letters left by Biggs were found in the vault. One was to his wife and daughter. the lat- ter 23 years old. The other was to the directors of the bank. M. S. McGuire, vice president, after reading the letter to the directors. said it was written in August, and said the chief difficulty was from “frozen” loans. McGuire would give no further details, but it was learned that the bank’s “live” notes were used as collateral for loans from other banks, amount- ing to about $35,000. Ends Life When Loan Is Refused. The suicide of Biggs, it devel- oped today, took place a few min- utes after he had received a fina! refusal. in a telephone message, of a $5000 loan he had sought to get from the Wood & Huston Bank in Marshall. F. C. Barnhill, cash- sr of the Marshall bank, sald the directors had recently decided not to lend more money to the Arrow Rock bank. Biggs asked Barnhill to call a special meeting of the di- rectors to reconsider the matter. The directors met yesterday and reaffirmed their previous decision, and Barnhill so notified Biggs. Biggs shot himself with a pistol kept at the bank as a defense against robbers. Biggs. who was 50 years old, was Mayor of Arrow Rock,~clerk of the school and road districts. and } ost. with Mrs. Biggs as host- ess, of the historic Arrow Rock Tavern, which was still in opera- tion as a resort for automobile tourists. His funeral services will be held at the old tavern tomor- row morning. with burial in La- Mine Cemetery. Frank P. Morris, president of the bank. who is Biggs’ brother-in- law. said, before the farewell tet- ter was made public, that he was confident no wrongfui act had been committed, but that Biggs had been worried over slow ioans. It is now said that there had been a slow run on the bank for several days. and that the ormal deposits. amounting to a t $100,000, had been reduced greatly. Morris said he had favored cilos- ing the bank two months ago, and letting the stockholders take the loss, but that Biggs had objected. and had expressed the hope that the bank could pull through. e bank had $15,000 capital and $15,- 000 surplus. Deputy Finance Commissioner George Freund of Warsaw is in charge of the bank, and an exam- ination of several days may be necessary before the extent of loss is known. Will Sever Banking Con- nections to Tackle Cool- idge Ad minis tration’s Troublesome Problem. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.— Dwight W. Morrow, the New York banker, has been relected by Pres- ident Coolidge to be Ambassador to Mexico. The prospective Ambassador, who will retire as a business part- ner of J. P. Morgan to accept the appointment, has long been a per- sonal friend of the President. The choice was made by Mr. Coolidge personally, and there were indica- tions that in his determination to seek the aid of his friend in the tangled and delicate Mexican prob. lem the President consulted only a few associates. A Most Troublesome Problem. Upon Morrow will fall the task of piecing over an international re- lationship worn thin by months of controversy. It is no secret’ that Mr. Coolidge has come to egard the question of Mexico as one of the most troublesome problems of his administration and his friends believe it is his hope to enlist every personal aid at his disposal to put Mexican-American relations on a Stable basis before he leaves the White House. In the opinion of the President, the major difficulty with Mexico hinges on a direct issue whether American property in that country is to be confiscated under the new Mexican land and oil laws. To this question he feels that Morrow is no stranger. Morrow is a lawyer, learned in the rights of property owners, and he has been for 13 years one of the partners in the international banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. With Congress out of session Morrow's selection becomes effec- tive at his own pleasure, although. if he continues in office, Senate confirmation will be ultimately necessary. The Washington Government has ‘Obtained the Mexican Government's sanction of the selection. The post has been vacant since Ambassador Sheffield resigned last July. On behalf of the President it was said that the White House waa much pleased that Morrow would make the sacrifices necessary in order for him to accept the post. Mr. Coolidge, it was said, regarded Morrow as wonderfully equipped to undertake the mission to Mex- ico, which the President regards as one of the most important in the diplomatic service. , Expected on Job Shortly. While the appointment has not yet been definitely put on the offi- cial records, it was said at the White House that Morrow is retir- ing immediately from his firm and is expected by Mr. Coolidge to as- sume his new post in a very short time. The ultimate effect of appoint- ment of an Ambassador of the Morrow type became at once today a subject of diplomatic conjecture. Like his successor, Ambassador Sheffield was a New Yorker and a lawyer, but there were plain indi- cations that in urging the Amer- ican case at Mexico City Sheffield favored a more drastic course than was countenanced by Washington. There is no hint that the Amer- ican Government is prepared to desist from its demand that Amer- ican property be protected. but be- hind that demand always stands the public declarations of Presi- dent Coolidge himself that the United States wants to be friends with Mexico, and will seek every practical means to that end. Besides the controversy over the Mexican land and oll laws, rela- tions between the two Governments are complicated by the ever-recur- rent attacks on the persons and property of Americans by outlaw groups in Mexico. ‘Washington has been urged for many quarters to take a more pronounced stand in regard to the enforcement of peace and order throughout the Southern republic—a course which might have far-reaching possibilities, in view of the approach of another Mexican presidential election. Situation Now at Deadlock. For several months the quarrel over the land and ol! laws has been at a virtual deadiock. In the closing days of 1926 the Washing- ton Government served notice that there must be no confiscation of American property. and official here indicated they would reserve complete freedom of action should confiscation ensue. Presumabty nothing construed by the American Government as actual confiscation has taken piace thus far. and the /American Government still is in the attitude of a hopeful but none too optimistic observer. Last April President Coolidge said in @ public speech that he had assurances no confiscation would be attempted. and more re- cently President Callies declared publicly that there had heen fo violation of American fights. In one other conspicuous instance —the aircraft controversy of 1925 —Mr. Coolidge summoned Morrow Contin :ed on Page 2. Column 6. ‘er conditions permit. “= AMBASSADOR TO 7 LLP. Peay Kan ry * Ge 4 is pm ~ F » Ne i. te ceeeeees oe Oba ee oe coneenee C2 : —_ * DWIGHT MORROW. GERMAN STARTS FLIGHT TOU. S,, VIA ORIENT Lieut. Koennecke, Taking Off at Cologne, Plans to Make Journey in Relays. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Sept. 20.—A p thought to be “apt. Keonneckes Germania, on the way to the Unit- ed States, by way of the Orient, passed over Vienna at 7:20 this evening. (Vienna is approximately 470 miles by air line from Co- logne, the Germania’s' starting point.) ~ COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 20.— Otto Koennecke, German aviator who recently guv® up his plan to make a trans-Atlantic flight to the United States, started on a iong distance flight to the Far East at 2:22 p. m. this afternoon (6:22 a. m. St. Louis time). The aviator’s plan is to fly to the United States by way of the Orient making long hops in between. He made a running start of about 450 yards and then took the air, flytng in . the - direction of Wiesbaden and Munich. His first scheduled stop will be at Angora, Turkey. Lieut. Koennecke was panied by Count Selms Laubach, his financial supporter, and Jo- hannes Hermann, radio expert of the Junkers works at Dessau. The aviators carried enough gasoline for 40 flying hours. In the early morning the wind was blowing about 38 miles an hour, but this dropped to about 30 at 1 o'clock and Koennecke de- cided to hop off, leaving the ground at 2:22 p. m. The route to be followed by Koenneécke in his plane, the Ger- mania, was not made public, but it was said the tentative route would be that taken by the round- the-world plane, Pride of Detroit, until Japan ts reached. . From there Koennecke planned to take a northern route across the Pacific by way of the Aleutian Islands and down the west coast of the United States to San Francisco. “Something must be done to. show that Germany is In a leading position as an aviation country.” Koefinecke told a correspondent of the Associated Press before start- ing. “For myself. I cannot aord to return to my Lufthansa jo without attempting to reach Amer- ica. My colleagues will laugh at WOMAN PLANNING ATLANTIC FLIGHT PASSES FLYING TESTS Ruth Elder Examined for Govern- ment Pilot's License; Equip- ping Plane With lastrunients. iv the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT\FIELD, N.Y. Sept. 20.—Ruth Elder, 23-year-old Lakeland (Fia.) aviatrix, who wants to be the first woman to fly across the Atiantic, made three solo flights yesterday and paseed accom- cense. She was given the examinations by Inspector Frank Gerdene of the Department of Commerce, who: announced that she had passed the written questionnaire as well as the flying teat. in toe flying test. she made three landings and three figure eights in the air. Gerdone Was & passenger. ' i George Haldeman. her ¢o-ptiot and naviga‘or on the proposed non- ’ compasses and other instruments had been checked. Hetdeman sald this afternoon. After he sald, he and Miss Elder be ready for the flight as soon as the weath- ts MY ? DWIGHT MORROW, PARTNER | OF J. P. MORGAN, APPOINTED her examinations for a pilot's ti- | American Girl, would not take off! on the*ocean crossing untli the! «. this might not b®@ completed antit | -. | TWO KILLED PLANE RACE TO SPOKANE First Starter in Second Cross - Continent Run Nose - Dives With R. E. Hudson and Jay Radike. LEADERS IN FLIGHT ARRIVE IN CHICAGO Class B Ships on Way to St. Paul, Trailing the Fore- most Which Continues on to Fargo, N. D. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Disaster overtook the first of the 15 planes that set out today for Cleveland on the first leg of a 2275-mile race to Spokane, Wash., in connection with the national air races opening there tomorrow. , Richard E. Hudson of Marysville, Mich., the first pilot to start in the race, which began at 6 a. m., East- ern Standard time, (5 a. m., 8t. Louis time), crashed near Morris- town, N. J., less than two hours later. Jay Radika, also of Marysville, was killed outright. and Hudson died on the way to a hospital. Radika, who was Hudson's wme- chanic, had spent the night sleep- ing in the plane and tuning up the motor so that he could have it in readiness for a prompt start, The plane fell in woods on the farm of George F. Weéish, two miles west of Long Valley, N. J. Long Valley is 20 miles northwest of Morristown. | Farmers, starting their day's work, saw the machine fall about 7:30 a. m. One farmer reported the engine stopped then wag start- ed and stopped again, the plane gOing into a nose dive. The Kuhl Aircraft Co.. makers of the plane, had advised that it not be entered without a thorough test, a letter found on the pilot's body disclosed, suid Coroner Henry W, Armstrong. at Morristown. N. J. The letter from the Buhi com- | pany, he said, was addressed to a Mr. Stewart, at Roosevelt Field. He suid it indicated lack of faith in the plane’s lifting power. crash occurred, he pointed out. as the plane was attempting to rise to sufficient height to cross Schoo!l- ey’s Mountain. Another Plane Eliminated. The elimination of Hudson's plane left only 13 of the 15 starters roaring westward to Cleveland, Neil Burgin of Mineola, N. Y., was forced to fiy back to “Mew York to Curtiss Field, adjomimg Roodse- veit Field, because of the trouble with his off pump. The first of the Class A planes to reach St. Paul, the night .oa- trol, was the plane of EB. BE. Ba!- lough of Chicago. arriving at 2:i¢ Pp. m. His passenger was Charities Diekingen of Chicago, 69-year-old aviation enthusiast. J.C. O'Donnell and his wife were forced down by engine trouble at Auburn, Ind., according to a tete- gram received by the starting com- mittee, Twenty-fwe commercial planes of Class B, carrying one pilot and morning for Spokane. Of these, 12 reached Chicago and today. The others were trailing behind. 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