St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 22, 1928

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COMIC PACS om 4 | THURSDay; ~ Hi JUNE 21, ‘1923. es TOD ®EeG VS. PAT OF aie Se ‘ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH _ The Only Evening Newspaper im St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service / a SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete wv DL. 80. NO. 289. ~ ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1928-48 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS — \ i] Cl 2 Y 23 A. ' me) ee -— ob at Houston Looks 1A. for Statement Within 24 AW Hours on Whether ~ to Fight for Modification. ————ooooo—_— 4 Se 2 e Ff = GOVERNOR HASN’T 4 CHANGED VIEWS 4 prene f — oe. Bagi to Query Prompted | by Statement of Norman ‘Mack eat Houston ETT on UM ia ax 88, = 2 = . >. ‘ 4 st10Nn. 4 y Re P wcial to the Post-Dispatch. e: Us ON, Tex., June 22.—Gov. faith will make a decision at Al- bany Or New York within 24 hours whether his managers are to make fight at the Democratic national wention for a plank in the Dem- eratic platform calling for modi- fication of the Volstead law. | The Governor's wishes on the geestion ‘will be carried out by the Rew York delegation to the con- ention, George R. van Namee, pre- envention manager for Smith, de- flared here today. | When asked today if Gov. ith’s latest declaration that he fot changed his views on pro- wauon Meant that the New York —mpeclegation would fight for a wet 7m plank in the platform, Van Namee, "who isa member of the New York _@e Transit Commission, said: "@ “Gov. Smith alone will decide : question. He probably will es h a decision within the. next $24 hours and will make known ¥ his views to the New York dele- gation before the members leave _ 4 for Houston tomorrow. The Gov- ' J ernor, I expect, will tell the dgle- } 4 gates just where he stands on this * and other questions.” | @ There seemed to be a feeling at > te Smith headquarters that the Dew York Governer would not in- Met upon the incerporation of = r lank in the platform, al- bough he personally favors mod- Meation of the Volstead law. mith Declares He Hasn’t Changed ~ Views on Prohibition. "NEW YORK, June 22.—Gover- es 2 Alfred E. Smith, in response to 448 Question put by the New York } Word yesterday, said he had not §} hanged his position on prohibition. | He was asked at the Hotel Bilt- oa . i ¥ ” sé RZ HouRS AND S54 miautTes ORD CF EITHER THE “SEM | =" OR THE “PILL BOX" COMES OF THE ILLIMITABLE BiACK- CF THE CCEAA WASTE - = ~ ~ a af Migs oo -} “In view of the questions raised 3@ Horston about Norman E. ‘Mack's statement the World wishes ) know: Have you changed your Mlief that there should be amend- tof the present prohibition visions ”’’ ' “Ihave not.” Gov. Smith replied 338 once, putting strong emphasis “yam the negative. ~ _©®@ From the beginning, the Gover- > er has maintained thatthe eight- @enth amendment was adopted iim- |@ Moperly, because adopted without S referendum to the people, and under the amendment each weet should be privileged to ide- 7@ ere the alcoholic content of its IT's 60 Be HARD TD FIND A Bozo AS EASY GOING AS jeer’ | the latter process is called “mod- ecation” of the prohibition law by oe wets, and “‘nullification’” of the wenstitution by the drys. - Committeeman Mack’s macement relative to Gov. Smith's mand On prohibition was followed y his Sssertion that he “was not un, for Gov. Smith, but for George R. Van Namee, pre-con- = Oh Manager for New Yorx’s ~ 0f and member of the New “wk Transit Commission, asked _ = Were authorized to speak for =¥. Smith on prohibition and oth- » Questions, responded. _ “Gov. Smith will take care of in himself.” Bubsequent to Van Namee’s as- =en that “Gov. Smith will take =? of such question himself,” Na- =i Committeeman Mack ex- “In my statement I was express- ™Y own convictions.” “ng further had been heard Matter until Gov. Smith 4poke yesterday in re- tothe World. The question the answer came in the midst iE Usual daily conference with ing newspaper men. Will Not Resign. — Smith does not intend to s his office if he is nominated _. Presidency at Houston next “ He made that clear yester- , his attention was dir-*t- ‘ports that if ke were vic- $ in the national convention » Would Surrender his office and Bimself exclusively to the . “te’s nothing to that,” he re- ~ mp zing the last word. aes ‘rnor will return to Al- : oon. “To await the te ‘on Wage 2, Column 5. HIGHER FARE THAN 8 CENTS NEEDED, COMPANY THINKS Manager of Public Service Co. Doubts That Rise Granted Will Return 7.14 Per Cent on $66,000,000 Valuation—Stock Up $2.75. a ND The Public Service Co. doubts that the. 8-cent fare will produce as much increase in its revenue as the Public Service Commission estimates. ‘Hence, a still higher fare than 8 cents would be re- quired, in its opinion, to yield the return of 7.14 per cent on its val- uation which the commission allowed. Ss. W. Greenland, vice-president and operating manager of the com- pany, said today that when the Commission fixed the fare of 8 cents cash, two tokens for 15 cents. it estimated that the company’s revenue would be increased $1,- 250,000 a year. “However,” Green- land commented, “the period of that estimate will be up on July 5 and the indication is that the fare increase will have produced less than $500,000 more than the 7 cent fare.”’ The reason has been the’ pro- gressive ‘decline of travel on strevt cars. Greenland id the com- pany might achieve the added rev- enue estimated by the commission to accrue from the 8-cent fare by economies in operation. However, the company is faced with the pos- sibility of an increase in one oper- ating expense, that of wages to trainmen. The demand of the mer for an increase of 5 cents an hour in wages, entailing an added oper- ating expense of at least $1,200,- 000, now is before the Public S=rv- ice Commission as arbitrator. The company will continue to {s- sue tokens at 8 cents each, instead of two for 15 cents. The common stock of the Pub- lic Service Co., the equity value of which in the property is greatly enhanced by the commission’s valu. ation of $66,000,000, rose 2% points today to a new high for the year— $32.75. P MARY PICKFORD BOBS HER HAIR BUT SAVES THE GURLS ”_—_e_—_-—_——_— They Can Be Pinned on if Future Pictures Require It, She Explains. i | | Ey the Associated Press. on ~~ we CHICAGO, Jung — Mary Pickferd had a big story to tell when she arrived here today. “I’ve cut my hair!” she ex- claimed to reporters. “But I haven't,” observed her ‘husband, Douglas Fairbanks. “But what of the curls?” manded her interviewers. “Oh, I still have them,” Miss Pickford replied. “They're all wrapped up ready to be pinned on if I ever need them. They were such a nuisance, you know. So many women in New York were wearing long hair, but I can't see why any woman should want it long. “It was a shock to Doug, of course. He almost wept vhen he Saw it cut short. It’s down to here’’—just around the shoulder. “I had to have it done because I’m not going to be a little girl any more. I’ve always been 4a zirl's girl, an now in my next picture I'm going after the boys.’ THIRD LIBERTY BOND BUYING PERIOD EXTENDED BY MELLON Iederal Reserve Banks Authorized to Purchase Them at Premium »Indefinitely. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Ex- tension indefinitely of the time in which the Federal Reserve banks will buy Third Liberty Loan bonds for the Treasury at a premium is announced by Secretary Mellon. The Treasury had authorized the banks to purchase these bonds at 100 and 2-32ds during the week ended June 19 and during’ that period purchases amounting to $75,000,000 were reported. In his new annoucement. however, the Secretary of the Treasury gave the Reserve Banks authority to contin- ue buying all offers of these bonds until further notice. The Third Liberty loan matures Sept. 15, next, and the present pur- chases are a part of the Treastry’s program of retirement in advance of an expected refunding opera- tion. Catches Two Fish on One Hook. Special to the Post-Dispatch. IOWA CITY. Ia. June 22.— Francis Sueppel was fishing in the Iowa River yesterday when he hooked a three-quarter pound cat- fish. As he pulled it in a hungry 10-pounder tried to swallow the little one and Sueppel landed both. The 10-pound catfish was the larg- est landed here this year. de- Her Well-Filled Pantry She had learned how to buy. | She had watched the food ad: vertisements in the Post-Dis: patch. She saved in making her pee: chases, enabling her to purchase more. Today's Post-Dispatch Food pages tell what and where to buy. The. Home Economic columns tell how to prepare and serve. Be sure to read the Food pages 7 in the Post-Dispetch—today. TWO MEN IN AUTO ROBBED OF $2956 ON WAY TO BANK Freund Bakery Employes Held Up by Two High- | pital waymen Who Jump on Running Board. Two employes of the Walter Freund Bread Co. were held up at 12:10 o'clock this afternoon robbed of $2958, which they were taking from the company's office, 4479 Chouteau avenue, to the Chouteau Trust Co. William Menges, office man of the bread company, and Edward Kempler, cashier, started from the office with a sack containing the money. They walked across the street and entered their automo- bile. At that moment, two men. with revolvers jumped on the running board and ordered them to drive east, At Newstead avenue they or- dered a turn north, and-.at Papin and Newstead they ordered the car stopped, took the money, and told the two men to walk down street. As the employes started away, the two robbers jumped out and got into a car driven by a third man, in which they rode away. The two employes then returned to their car. The stolen money was insured. 16 ILLINOIS GOOD WILL PLANES LAND AT EAST ST. LOUIS FIELD Party Plans to Be Back in Chicago Tomorrow, After Stops at Scott Field and Champaign. The first of 16 airplanes in the state good will tour of the Iilli- nois Chamber of Commerce, landed at Parks Airport at 9:50 a. m. to- day, an hour after leaving Spring- field, where the planes in the trip were berthed last night. The other planes arrived at the East Side field at intergals during the following 15 minutes. They included a Ford tri-motored plane carrying Chamber, of Commerce officials. Later in the day the tourists are scheduled to fly to Champaign with a stop at Scott Field en route. They are to be back in Chicaga at noon tomorrow. Leaving Chicago yesterday the | ONFESSES PAR N LYNCHING OF NEGRO M HOUSTON Boilermaker Makes Admis- sions Which Lead to Ar- rest of Four Companions —Two Others Sought. ALL CHARGED WITH MURDER A. B. Wheeler Tells How Colored Man, Accused of Killing, Was Taken From Hospital and Hanged. ° | By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., June 22.—¥Five men were held without bond here today on charges of murder in connection with the lynching last Wednesday of Robert Powell, 24- year-old Negro, accused of killing a detective. The charges were filed after A. B. Wheeler, a boilermaker, in a statement to police, admitted that he participated in a raid on Jef- ferson Davis Hospital Wednes- day morning Powell was taken from his bed and hanged from a bridge about eight miles from Houston. Powell was confined in the hos- under guard of a Deputy when ‘Sheriff to undergo treatment for the [ tourists were guests last night at | a banquet given by the Springfield | Chamber of Cormimerce. Proprie- tors of businesses who attended the meeting were advised by M. C. Meigs, Chicago newspaper publish- er and chairman of the aeronautic division of the State Chamber of Commerce, to paint the name of their city on the roofs of buildings for the guidance of flyers. TAKES POISON, THEN ADMITS $147,100 EMBEZZLEMENT | Bookkeeper Employed by Nobles- | ville (Iind.) Bank for 28 Years Confesses Stealing. By the Associated Press. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 22. —The Citizens’ State Bank of Noblesville was closed today by order of Thomas Barr, State Bank Examiner, after the discovery of a shortage of $147,100, traced to Omer G. Patterson, who has been chief bookkeeper in the institution for 28 years. Patterson was found in his room at a hotel suffering from the ef- fects of poison and died later. Be- fore he. was removed to a hospital Patterson confessed he had been taking money from the bank for several years, concealing the de- falcations by false entries in the ledger. a wound received in a pistol fight in which City Detectiv A. W. Davis was. killed. Davis was at- tempting to disperse a group of Negroes when the shooting started. In his statement, Wheeler one |'named six others as nembers of the raiding party, four of whom have been arrested. They are: John Kent, 27, ambulance driver: Charles Oldham, 24; F. T. Shuck, 32, and “Tack” Reese, 25, a tani driver, The others, identified as “Rubber” Kent and Howard Min- ton, are sought by sheriffs and Texas Rangers assigned to the case by Gov. Dan Moody. . Wheeler told how the officer guarding Powell was forced at the point of a pistol to leave the ward where the Negro was confined and how the party carried the pris- oner to the bridge. He said that only four of the seven were present when the Negro was. put to death, naming Reese, Kent, Min- ton and himself. He said the av- tomobile foiiowing the car in which the Negro was riding, was forced to drop out when pursued by motor cycle. officers. Wheeler said the first attempt to hang the Negro failed when he struck the ground. He said Pow- eli: was lifted back on the bridge after the rope was shortened and was pushed off a second time. BASIL KING, NOVELIST, DIES Succumbs at 71 at Cambridge, Mass.; ll] Four Years. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 22.— William Benjamin King, widely known novelist, under the pen name of Basil King, died here to- day. He had been in ill health for four years. He was 71 years old. Some of his better known books are °* Pie Imner Shrine,” “The Street Calicd Straight,’’ and “The City of Com- rades.” Of late years his <ri-'azs had a strong tinge of spirituatism. CLOUDY, STORMS PROBABLE; NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. . ™, S-1S Pe Wise operon 2 & & a lo ae ea ‘ Yesterday's high 87 (3:15 bv. m.) 69 (2 a. m.) Relative humidity at noon, 71 per cent. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, prohably with lo- cal ‘thunder- storms; not much change in perature. Missouri: Most- ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably with lo- cal thunder- storms; not much chahge in tem- perature, Illinois: Most- ty cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably with lo- cal thunder- storms; not much change in tem- perature, Sunset 7 row) 4:36. Stage of the feet, a rise of 3.5. THe Pusu. © Bt Soaxen. S :30: sunrise (tomor- Mississippi 27.6 tem- | SAYS UTILITIES PAID TENNESSEE ~-EDITOR A SALARY G. P. Newburn Asserts That Hugh Doak, Head of State Press Association Got $225 a Month. PROPAGANDA SENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Federal Trade Commission Hears How From $11,000 Spent for Publicity. eum, By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 22.—Em- ployment of the Tennessee Public Service Information Bureau of the head of the Tennessee Press Asso- ciation was disclosed today in the testimony of Guy P. Newburn of Nashville, director of the Utility Publicity Organization, in the Fe-l- eral Trade Commussion’s investiga- tion of utilities. Newburn testified that his 2s- sistant, Hugh Doak, owner and editor of the Manchester, Tenn., Times, was president of the Ten- nessee Press Association and that the information burean paid Doak | $225 a month for his services. Newburn said that he _ enter- tained newspaper men and editors as a part of his job out of the funds of his bureau which were supplied by electric, gas, _ street, railway, telephone and water co:n- panies. He said that the organiza- tion was created in 1922 and that Ross Murphy, a former newspaver man, was director until 1925 when Newburn succeeded him and that he had worked on the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the News-Sci- mitra and the Press, and had worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Pamphlets Sent to Schools. Newburn said that the bureau had spent from $11,000 to $19,000 each year in carrying on its public relations work and that out of the funds the bureau paid his member- ship in several] organizations in- cluding the National Chamber of Commerce and the Traffic Club at Memphis. The organization also paid for his automobile, he said. Newburn said that pamphlets had been distributed in the schools of Tennessee and that while no text books had been placed in the schools, that he thought that school principals who were on the general mailing list of the bureau had re- ceived all matter distributed by his organization. He said that his bu- reau distributed monthly the ‘*Ten- nessee Utility News,” a 16-page magazine, and that it went to 4600 persons. Healy asked Newburn why he wanted to keep the editors friendly and Newburn replied that “without the friendship of newspaper editors I don’t think that any business can succeed.” “Slap Country Editors on Back.” Questioned about an address he made in 1927 at Atlanta, Ga., be- fore the Southeastern Division of the Nationa! Electric Light Asso- ciation, Newburn said he had stat- ed the utilities publicity bureaus “placed first importance on con- tact with the newspapers and news- paper editors and the people in the communities. * °* * Call the country editor by his first name and slap him on the back. Public speaking is of second importance and contact with the schoois is third.” Healy asked Newndurn .f he had succeeded in slapping the country editors of Tennessee on their backs. Newburn replied: “Partly.” Newburn said that in the address he urged the utility man to get the country editors to the point where they would print and carry “our message and look over all propa- ganda that goes to their apers.” A statement of the publicity ob- tained in Tennessee newspapers during the last six months through news releases and the bureau's pub- licatign showed that 21.246 inches of utility news had been published. Anotber document introduced showed that the bureau had dis- tributed 15.000 pamphlets on elec- tricity. gas and electric railways ‘o Tennessee schools, libraries; college newspapers and State officials. The news. releases introduced, Newburn testified, contained at- tacks on munictpal ownership of | utilities and Government operation of muscle shoals. . Documents outlining a fight uttl- ities companies made to prevent the abolition of the Tenressee Util- ities Commission, signed by New- were introduced in the record. to $19,000 a Year Was | ‘four others in the Jugo-Slav Par- burn's predecessor but not dated, | TWO ITALIAN FLYERS DROP ORE SUPPLIES TO NOBIL 7 FAIL TO SIGHT AMUND FOUR DEAD IN RIOT DUE TO MURDER OF TWO DEPUTIES Jugo-Slav Sodents and Workmen in Uprising Against Interior Minister Blamed for Disturbances. 62 INJURED IN CROATIAN TOWN Mob Storms Officials’ Cafe in Zagreb, Stronghold of Legislators Slain in Par- liament. : By the Associated Press. ZAGREB, Croatia, June 22.— After a night of rioting which fol- lowed the killing of two peasant deputies in the liament at Belgrade yesterday, order was restored today after all troops in the vicinity had been mobilized. A police checkup today showed four persons had been. killed in the riot, 2 others injured and 180 arrested. It appeared the outbreak was caused by an announcement that the condition peasant leader, who was wound- ed in the shooting at the cap- ital, was growing worse. It was feared the disturbances might be renewed with the arrival today of the bodies of the two slain deputies, Paul Raditch and Dr. Basaritchek. Students and workmen united in demonstrations against Father Anton Koroshetz, Minister of In- terior, whom they blame for the recent disturbances in Jugo-Sla- via. Police attempting to halt the demonstrations were attacked and used their weapons freely. Power lines were cut and the city was in darkness. This added to the general confusion and ter- ror caused by the rioting and con- tinuous shooting. The demanstrators launched an attack on the Corso cafe, which is frequented by officials ond poll- ticians. All the windows were smashed, the furniture was thrown into ihe street and the policemen on guard were attacked with clubs, stones and revolvers. Attempting to curb the demonstration, police fired, killing three civilians and wounding many others. The students and workmen then attacked the Jaegerhof Cafe, which is also patronized by Government officials. Another battle with the police took place. Jugo-Slavia in Uproar Over Killing of Deputies. By the Associated Press. os BELGRADE, June Slavia is seething with excitement as a result of the killing of two Croatian Deputies and wounding of JIngo-Sloy Doe, 22.— Jugo- liament here yesterday. Public indignation over the pol- icy of the Government has reached fever heat. Belgrade and Zagreb, home of the slain Deputies, resem- ble besieged cities, with military forces everywhere. The removal of the bodies of the two assassinated Deputies, Paul Raditch and Dr. Basaritchek. to Zagreb, brought together great crowds of angry peasants along the funeral route; they were kept un- der restraint only by the presence of the military forces. The Government newspaper Kdinstvoi forecast today that) stormy times were ahead for Jugo- Slavia. The severest censorship is being applied to all telephone and telegraph lines and newspapers. Prof. Gustav Singer, eminent Vienna physician, is flying here to of Stefan Raditch, } attend Stefan Raditch, the wound ed peasant leader, whose conditicn | is understood to be causing great | apprehension. 14 PERISH IN DAMASCUS FIRE Blaze in Bazaar Quarter Is Fanned By Desert Wind. DAMASCUS, Syria, June 22.— The bazaar quarter of Damascus has ben destroyed by fire; with the less of 14 lives. | The fire started late Wednesday night and burned throughout yes- terday because of the high winds from the Syrian desert. It is now’ thought to be wnder control. | MISSING EXPLORER DY NR aa a eee oo * ~ s ROALD AMUNDSEN. TRUCK ‘KILLS CHILD ON WAY TO STORE Alice Hassenstab Crushed Death in Front of Home in Belleville. to On her way to a corner store, Alice Hassenstab, 4-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hassen- stab, was killed by a truck in front of her home, 508 Centerville aves nue, Belleville, Ill, at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon. Her mother, waftch- ing the child from the lawn of her home, saw the accident arid was prostrated. The truck, owned by the East Side Packing Co., of East St. Louis, was driven by Henry Freeman, who was making meat deliveries in Belleville. Weeping, Freeman told State’s Attorney iLndauer the child ran suddenly into the street under the wheels of his truck before he could stop. The front wheels crushed the child. Freeman was released under $5000 bond to appear at a prolim- inary hearing before Justice Gross- mann of Belleville in answer to a charge of manslaughter. GOV, SMITH’S PICTURE TO BE DELETED FROM DRY FILM Company Yields to Protest of His Secretary Against Use of Part of News Reel, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—The pic- ture of Gov. Smith in the prohibi- tion film “Deliverance,” which his friends said placed him in an un- favorable light, is to be deleted by the Stanley Advertising Co., which is making the film for Robert E. Corradini, research secretary of the World League Against Alcohol. The film is a pictorial dramatiz- ation of two books on prohibition by Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale. George G. Graves, secretary to the Governor, had written * news rcel companies, from one of which the excerpt of the Governor was purchased, warning them that use of the Governor's pictures for com- mercial purposes would not be al- lowed. Corradini said that “some of the drys thought Gov. Smith was get- ting too much advertising anyhow. $10,000 Bank Holdup in St. Paul. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn... June 22.— Four men held up the Grand Av+2- nue State Bank, a few miles fron the downtown soction today, and fled with approximately $10,009. The robbers drove up to the bank in a truck and fled in the <am2 vehicle. which, police ssupect, was stolen. Spy SRG IIE LE PELTED IL LLG RE SAIC PLANES AND SHIPS ORDERED TO SEE ‘NORWEGIAN PAR Sealer Arrives From Nor- Joins Search for Six. THIRD AIRCRAFT STARTS FROM ITALY. French War Ships to Rush to Spitzbergen to Aid in Rescue Around Northeast Land. By the Associated Press. KINGS BAY; Spitzbergen, June 22.—Maj. Maddalena and Maj. Penzo, Italian flyers, circled over the camp of the marooned Nobile party off Northeast Land today and dropped further stores, but could see no possibility of landing: any- where near the stranded men. Maj. Maddalena was making ais second flight to. drop supplies, having dropped 650 pounds at -he Nobile camp Wednesday. Today's reconnaisance lasted six hours... The two flyers said they flew !ow over the spot, but saw no aircraft wreckage or anything of the two other stranded parties of the North Pole dirigible Italia. 3 The men also reported that they had not seen anything of Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, who has been missing since Mon- day night, when he took off from Norway for Spitzbergen in «a French seaplane containing . Lief Dietrichsen and a crew of four French naval men. Sealer Arrives From Norway. The sealer Isbjoern arrived from Tromsoe, Norway, and reported that nothing had been seen of Amundsen's plane. The sealer leff port Saturday night and traversed the waters over which the plane must have passed. F : The Svalbard, which is the Gov- ernor’s boat, left Advent Bay today for South Cape to seek some trace of Amundsen, Capt. Rilser-Larsen and Lieut. Luetzow Holm, who have been us- ing Norwe seaplanes in the Nobile rescue operations, received orders from Oslo to turn their ef-_ forts to finding Amundsen. They were directed to search along the west coast of Spitzbergen. Capt. Riiser-Larsen, who was & member. of the Amundsen-Elis- worth expedition of 1925, ‘which was missing almost a month on the Polar ice, said there was a possi- bility that Amundsen had. been forced -back -to some uninhabited district on the north coast of Nor- way. He thought, however, the coast of West Spitzbergen should first be searched\from Kings Bay to South Cape, its southermost ex~- tremity. : 7 Others declared Amundsen might have landed at Adveat Bay, south of Kings Bay, and established «a badge there to search for the seven men who drifted eastward in the balloon of the Italia, May 25, and have not been seen or heard of since. : Four More Planes Ready. Norwegian and French vessels were also co-operating in the“ search. The Norwegian steamer Michael Sars left Bear Isiand, be- tween Spitzbergen and Norway, to search as far to the east as the thirtieth meridian. The Norwegian cruiser Tordenskjoid was ordered to sail from Horten, the Norwegian naval base, and to send out a *ea- plane on short flights between Nr «- way and Spitzbergen. 'Two French naval vessels were assigned to search in Barents Sea. The cruiser Strasbourg was taking on supplies at Cherbourg. when or’- dered to leave for the North, and the dispatch boat Quentin Roose- velt already was at Oslo. Gen. Umberto Nobile informed the base ship Citta de Milano by radio that the storage batterics dropped by Maj Maddalena for Vo- bile’s radio had been damaged be- cause one of the parachutes failed to open. Hé said as soon as he re- . ceived additiona! batteries he would be able to give rescue parties de- tallied instructions as to the best methods of searching for the rest of the Italia crew. Nobile suggested «8 plane equipped with skiis be sent te She Continaed on Page 3. Column 3. t Nh RNAI EOLA AR me ee er a ~ o 4 — a ee AR Repent Seite OLE I LOL LLL LE LLP LL LODE LEAL LLL ELL AA