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TWO ILLINOIS FUERS DOWN IN MIRTH Hassell and Aid Are Far Overdue at Goal of Hop in Greenland. LAST WORD ON SUNDAY Plane’s Radio Long Silent; Hope Not Abandoned for Aviators. Bn United Press JULIANEHAAB, Greenland, Aug. 20.—The American piane Greater Rockford, flying from Cochrane, Ontario, to Mt. Evans, Greenland, is down somewhere in the Far North, it appeared certain today. Bert Hassell and Parker D. Cramer, making the second section of their projected flight from Rockford, 111., to Stockholm, Sweden, with stops at Cochrane, Mt. Evans and Reykjavik, Iceland, left Cochrane at noon Saturday. Theii radio kept the world advised of their progress across the Labrador peninsula toward Davis Strait, the 500mile stretch of sea between North America and their goal. Then the signals faded out. The last word, a faint signal, was heard at 4 a. m. Sunday. It indicated they were out over Davis Strait, nearly one hundred miles from land. Hours Overdue at Goal At that time they had gone nearly sixteen hours and were approximately 400 miles from their goal. The location indicated by the signal was about the position the plane should have been in at that hour, judging from their earlier progress from Cochrane. ' They had hoped to make the 1,600 miles from Cochrane to Mt. Evans In about eighteen hours, but apparently weather conditions slowed their speed. The plane carried gasoline sufficient to last about thirty hours. The thirty hours expired at 6:12 p. m. Sunday. Hope was not abandoned, however, If the fliers came down in Davis Strait the iceberg-strewn stretch between North America and Greenland, their chance of survival was small. Their Stinson-Detroiter was a land plane and the rubber boat they carried would be their only hope; Forced Landing Likely It seemed easily possible, however, that the fliers crossed the Strait and, unable to locate Mt. Evans, made a forced landing in Greenland. The weather was good and such a landing might have been made at the water’s edge near some native* settlement. They could also have alighted on the Greenland ice cap, which covers the interior; and doubtless affords surface smooth enough for a landing. In either event, it might be days or weeks before the news reached civilization. Search Is Ordered Bii United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The Coast Guard cutter Marion, recently on iceberg observation work between Labrador and Greenland, was ordered today to search for Bert Hassell and the Greater Rockford plane, unheard from in their fligh to Greenland.

SHIP ON ROCKS; 5 LOST 0 Twenty Rescued When Steamer Goes Aground. * Bu United. Press SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 20.—Five lives were lost when the small steamer, Miraflores, went aground at the mouth of the Maullin River on Friday, it was announced officially today. The dead included an infant. The remainder of the twenty aboard escaped. The vessel was reported to be a total loss. VARE~REPORTED3ETTER Senator-Elect Gaining Strength After Stroke of Paralysis. B’J United, Press ATLANTIC 'CITY, N. J., Aug. 20. ■—The condition of Senator-Elect William S. Vare of Philadelphia, who was stricken with paralysis at his summer home at Chelsea, near here, Aug. 1, was reported improved today. “Mr. Vare is better,” Dr. John J. Shaw, one of his physicians said. “He is stronger and gaining strength daily. Conditions are clearing up gradually.” Taxi Fight May Be Fatal Bn Times Special GARY, Ind., Aug. 20.—M. A. DaVis, 25, probably will die of a bullet wound inflicted by John Kinealy, taxi driver and former policeman, the result of a fight between the two in Kinealy’s cab, which dashed over a curbing while the two were in combat. Kinealy told police Davis was drunk and started the trouble. Hourly Temperatures 7 a .m.... 67 10 a. zb.... 78 Ba. m.... 68 11 a. m.... 80 k 9a. m.... 74 12 (noon).. 82 1 p. m.... 83

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 77

Prohibition Branded Failure; Dry Act Should Be Modified, Episcopalian Rectors Declare

Majority of Clergymen Slap Volstead Law in National Survey. MANY FAVOR REPEAL 72.2 Per Cent Assert That Experiment Has,Not Solved Problem. BY JOHN M. GLEISSNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Prohibition is a failure and the Volstead act should be modified in the interest of temperance and morality, in the opinion of a majority of Episcopal clergymen who replied to a questionnaire sent out by the Church Temperance Society. Result of the inquiry, made in 1927, was revealed today. The society explains that the poll is not to be regarded as an expression of the church or of the society itself. “It merely attempts to give the opinions of our clergy throughout the Nation,” says a pamphlet bearing the title, “Prohibition as We See It.” Questionnaires were sent to 5,301 clergymen and 2,980 replied. Here are the questions asked and the replies: Is prohibition a success in your locality? Total, 1,805. Yes, 501, or 27.3 per cent; no. 1,304, or 72.2 per cent. Have we had the law long enough for a fair trial? Total, 2,807. Yes, 1,329, or 63.2 per cent; no, 758, or 36.8 per cent. Do you believe a prohibition law offers the best solution for the problem of temperance? Total, 2,244. Yes, 643, or 21.7 per cent; no, 1,601, or 78.3 per cent.

Modification Favored

Should the Volstead act be modified? Total, 2,062. Yes, 1,389, 67.4 per cent. No, 673, 32.6 per cent. Should the eighteenth amendment be repealed? Total, 1,937. Yes, 953, or 49,2 per cent. No, 984, or 50.8 per cent. Are you willing to cooperate in a campaign for more practical legislation in the interest of temperance and morality? Total, 2,023. Yes, 1,521, or 75.1 per cent. No, 502, or 24.9 per cent. “It will be observed,” the publication committee remarked, “that the total vote varies considerably for each of the questions submitted. There was an apparent reluctance to answer Question 1 (Is prohibition a success in your locality?) and also Question 5 (Should the eighteenth amendment be repealed?) “From two-thirds to three-fourths of those replying believe that the present law is a failure and are in favor of some form of modification. On the other hand, a bare majority favors repeal of eighteenth amendment. Almost exactly three-fourths of the clergy are in favor of a campaign for more practical legislation in the interest of temperance and morality.” The society received, in addition to its answers to specific questions, hundreds of letters from clergymen throughout the country setting forth their views.

Held Wrong in Principle

“ These reveal," says the pamphlet, “that the majority hold that prohibition is wrong in principle and contrary to Scripture, and for that reason contend that even if 100 per cent of enforcement could be obtained, prohibition still would be a failure.’ The Church Temperance Society, which conducted the survey, was organized in 1879, and was chartered to teach temperance “in all things.” James Empringham conducted its first prohibition survey in 1925, but did not participate in the present one, because other activities required all his time. By its constitution, the presiding bishop of the church is president of the society, according to the pamphlet, and every bishop is exofficio vice president. Asa result of the society’s investigation of 1925 into prohibition, it passed a resolution favoring modification of the Volstead law The pamphlet contains an introductory note by Empringham, which says, “What we have today is not prohibition, but the liquor traffic under new and worse conditions The people do not want the sacred reptile killed, therefore, it should be caged and controlled. “The Anti-Saloon League and the Church Temperance Society have one object. Both are fighting to decrease the flow of strong drink and to sweep intemperance from the face of the earth. We have tried coercion and it failed. Now let us get together and devise some better plan to accomplish our common purpose.” The publication committee includes ten pastors and three laymen The pastors are John W. Gill, James B. Werner, Charles A. Livingston William P. Taylor, Philip W Fauntleroy, J. H. Dodshon, Albert E. Ribourg. The laymen are C. T.

Dry Act Hit as Farce by City Pastor

STATEMENTS from three Indianapolis Episcopal ministers were obtained by The Times on the national prohibition survey. The majority of the local Episcopalian pastors are out of the city on vacation. The Rev. Lewis Brown, St. Paul’s Church, tersely, but emphatically condemned prohibition. “Prohibition has not been a benefit. It is an hypocritical farce,” he said. The venerable William Burrows, archdeacon of Indianapolis, made this 6tatment: “The failure of the enforcement of the Volstead Act under the Eighteenth Amendment does not indicate the value to the people cf this country as a whole of the curtailment or prohibition of indulgence in alcoholic beverages. “The results that have come, many of them good, perhaps as many bad, are criticisms not oi temperance nor of total abstinence, but of the methods under which it is attempted to enforce the law. “Until people of the United States are willing to cooperate in the ideal of personal sacrifice for the sake of the good of all, no real data are available for a real judgement. “Nobody is at all sure that evils that seem conspicuous today are the result of the attempt to enforce prohibition. The whole question is economic and only indirectly religious and that because religion is concerned with economic conditions.” an u THE national prohibition law is not a success, the Rev. H. S. Webster, 949 Cede- St., pastor of the Holy Innocents Church, declared. His statement follows: “In my opinion the national prohibition act as it stands is not, and never can be, a success. It is not the result of education. It is not the result of an awakened conscience on the part of our people. “In fact, it violates the consciences of a very great number of our people and because this is true these same people have no compunction at all in" breaking this law. “Whether a majority of the people of the United States want this law to remain as it is, I do not know, but it is very evident that a very great number do not. “The process by which the Federal Government, and in many instances the local authorities, have sought to enforce this act, has increased the number of citizens opposing it. This fact, together with the added fact that the use of liquor is not an evil in itself, and the truth of the old adage, ‘the abuse of a thing argueth not against the use thereof,’ convinces me we are in need of a readjustment. “I am quite certain that any just law, any righteous law, will awaken a quick response on the part of a vast majority of our people. But, this law is offensive to many who are, and always have been, total abstainers. “From the day it ceased to be a war measure and became the child of political manipulation, it has been seriously offensive to many sober-minded and thoroughly honest citizens of our country and therefore, in my opinion, is a failure as a law." Emmett Jr., A. H. Dawson and T. Emmanuel. W. W. Bellinger is president of the society.

Resented by Many

“The various polls conducted by the Church Temperance Society have been resented bitterly by those who believe in prohibition and also to some extent by those who do not, the latter saying that any expression by our church would result in harm to our communion,” said the pamphlet. When questions were submitted to the Rt. Rev. John G. Murray, presiding bishop of the church, he is quoted as replying, "I do not think it would be at all profitable to augment the sundry and varied contribution? being made on the subject you mention by an expression of personal opinion." The pamphlet also asserts that many of the clergy were deterred from expression of opinion through fear that they would offend their bishops. An analysis of letters received from clergymen convinced the authors of the booklet that for every “old soak” killed off by bad whisky, prohibition trains two young recruits to take his place. “All history proves that the more the machinery of Government tries to crush the people into submission to a sumptuary law, the more they rebel,” said the booklet. “Schemes for evading such laws multiply more rapidly than do the devices for compelling obedience.” The passing of the saloon is seen as a cause for gratification, but

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1928

Wrong in Principle and Contrary to Scripture, Pastors Say. YOUTH OF NATION HURT Jonn Barleycorn Reigns Under Worse Conditions, View of Clergy. many “are convinced that it is teaching the rising generation to drink.”

'Driven to Drink Poisons’

And “it is substituting distilled, poisonous spirits for comparatively harmless beverages, like wine and beer.” People are driven to drink “distilled pcisons.” Many of the clergy "are strongly of the that the prohibition law has been a curse, not blessing, to the poor.” Dr. Charles A. Reed, lormer president of the American Medical Society, is credited witn the compilation of statistics showing that more Americans have been poisonal to death by the Volstead act than were killed during the World war. “Prohibition is not a success from the viewopint of the widows and orphans of these murdered men,” says the pamphlet. A well known rector, who formerly believed in prohibition, is quoted as saying, “If we deliberately had set out to increase drinking of alcoholic beverages, we could not have hit upon a better plan than prohibition.” His views and others are cited to show that because drink is forbidden, it is more desirable, and that prohibition has failed in its chief object, which was to protect the young. “I cannot imagine a worse condition than exists at present among young people ... we are suffering from an intolerable situation that means further debauchery of youth beyond anything we ever havo-, imagined,” wrote the RFy KlrWfahd Huske, of Great Neck, L. I. The Rev. P. C. Powell of Boston believes that the Volstead act has resulted in more drinking of intoxicants,” especially in the case of the juniors.”

Youth of Nation Injured

"Drinking among high school pupils, both boys and girls, has become alarming,” according to the Rev. Glenn B. Coykendall of Thorppsonville, Conn. The Rev. J. Deb. Saunderson of Brownsville, Pa., finds that the moral effect of an unenforced and unenforceable law has "become very sad.” Boys and girls, he said, have taken to drinking because it was a fad, and the fad has become a habit. “We are worse off now than we were in the old saloon days,” in the opinion of the Rev. R. Johnston Thomas of Valentine, Neb. He found that drinking was common among boys and girls of high school age. “There never were more drinking young men in our colleges than there are at - the present time,’’ wrote the Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs of Staunton, Va. He found it tragic that young women were “doing the same thing.” “Even boys and girls seem to take great pride in drinking so that they may become intoxicated,” observed the Rev. Joseph Williams of Prince Frederick, Md. Many workmen believe that their employers forced prohibition on them to get more work of out them, says the pamphlet. “Whether this be the case or not,” it remarked, “it is certain that thousands of wage earners think it is true and they bitterly resent that they have been denied the solace of a glass of beer, while their employers, whom they say forced the law on them, have well-stocked cellars of imported wines they can enjoy without fear of blindness and death. Social revolution and anarchy are bred by unfair class legislation.”

Crime Is on Increase

Crime in the United States has increased since prohibition, the pamphlet contended. “This does not prove that people are drinking more,” it continued. “It may be the result of growing contempt for all laws that the Volstead act has bred.” The Very Rev. Francis Blodgett of Erie, Pa., believes there is more than “a fortuitous connection” between the increase in crime and prohibition. He finds “the open disregard of all law” more to be feared than the saloon. The Rev. Joseph H. Dodshon, archdeacon of southern Ohio, reported that "conditions in Ohio under prohibition have become dreadful.” The pamphlet recorded that most of the directors of the society are total abstainers.

MACHINE GUN SLAYING LAID TORUM VAR Former City Man Killed at Clinton as Auto Party Members Fire. SIX BULLETS IN BODY Murderers Escape After Pursuit by Companion of Victim. Bn Times speeinl CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 20.—Tile body of Edward Shannon, formerly of Indianapolis, machine gunned to death in the best Chicago style here Sunday, lay in a morgue today, as much of a puzzle in death as the men who killed him are in life. Strife between rival rum running gangs is blamed. Shannon met death when the staccato bark of a machine gun broke the Sabbath silence here, and. simultaneously with the end of the firing, he slumped forward in the seat of an automobile after six bullets, all in vital spots, pierced his body. Today police were without a definite clew regarding the slaying. The slayers sped into the city in a large car, drove by Shannon’s parked automobile, turned the machine gun loose, and sped out of the city without slackening speed. Shannon’s car was parked in front of the home of Louis Rolando. A friend of the slain man sat on the front porch of the home. Pushed Body From Car As the firing started, the friend, who is unidentified, jumped from his chair, pulled his gun and began firing. Then he rushed to Shannon’s automobile, took one look at his friend, pushed the body from the car, and sped away after the slayers, firing as he drove. Police questioned Rolando. He said he did not know either Shannon or the companion and that he had no idea who the slayers were. Identification of Shannon was made through papers in his pocket. Local police said Shannon recently had corn* here irom Indianapolis and it was learned from that city that the slain man had been there but a short time, coming from Detroit. Consider Liquor Theory Police turned to liquor as a possible motive but admitted they could not link Shannon with liquor dealing. They said also that Rolando had never been arrested on liquor charges. As the killing was enacted here, police said they believed the method tallied exactly with that sometimes used by gangsters in the larger cities. The crime, insofar as clews left behind are concerned, was near perfect. About all police had as evidence today was hSannon’s body. They know nothing of his life. They have been unable to learn the name of his companion. Questioning Rolando has revealed nothing. And meanwhile, Clinton, was stirred by its most sensational crime. The breaking of a Sabbath stillness with machine gun fire in a town of this size was the principal conversational topic today.

Little Known Here Indianapolis police learned little about Shannon. He formerly resided in an apartment building at 1029 N. Alabama St. Detectives sent to that address learned that he and his wife moved there shortly after Aug. 1. A family by the name of Murray recommended the Shannons to the apartment, they learned. Both couples were said to have moved here from Detroit. Neither were at home. GREECE BACKS PREMIER Venizelos Party Sweeps Elections After Bitter Campaign. Bn United Press ATHENS, Aug. 20. Premier Eleutherious Venizelos today apparently had won a great tribute from the Greek nation, through the Sunday parliamentary elections. Indications were that a majority of the Venizelos party had been elected to parliament, thus assuring the recently returned premier of control of the government. His opposition had been bitter and the campaign was furious.

HOW MAD YOUTH!

LIFE —and public opinion—had a way of treating Sybil Thorne badly. From the time she was 18 the newspapers of Boston devoted considerable first page space to pictures of her and recitals of her madcap adventures. She was beautiful, irrepressible and socially prominent. People liked to read of Sybil Thorne. When the war came it brought to Sybil a beautiful love for a soldier boy, John Lawrence. The same war took him away, and Sybil became disillusioned. Craig Newhall, Boston’s most eligible bachelor, fell in love with her, and to please her dying father, Sybil accepted him. When her father died, Sybil took a trip to Havana to quiet her mental misgivings about marrying Craig. On shipboard she met Richard Eustis. Under Eustis’ spell, Sybil made the mistake of her life, a modern fulfillment of the Biblical allegory: “They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” “Whirlwind” is a powerful first novel by Eleanor Early. It is a scintillating story of so-called “modern youth” that, while not overlooking its faults, doesn’t pass over its virtues and handicaps. “Whirlwind” begins Thursday, Aug. 23, in The Indianapolis Times.

WOMAN, _ 96, FLIES City's Oldest Person Likes Ride

MRS. MARY SHEEHY, 96, or 832 Chadwick St., believed to be the oldest living person in Indianapolis, took her first airplane ride Sunday and liked it. She was accompanied on the trip by her youngest and only living child, James E. Sheehy, 54, same address. Mrs. Sheehy and her son were taken to Hoosier airport, Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette Pike, Sunday afternoon by Dan M: Pierce, 1122 W. Twenty-Seventh St., an ardent aviation enthusiast. They -rode irran open cockpit Travel Air biplane, piloted by Harold C. Brooks, Hoosier airport secretarytreasurer. Mrs. Sheehy walked briskly to the plane and entered it with no more than the usual assistance. During the flight. Brooks said, she demonstrated that the feminine sex never loses its desire to appear neat, by trying to keep her hair from becoming disarranged by the wind. a a a how did you like the VV ride?” Brooks asked afier the trip. “I was just crazy about it,” Mrs. Sheehy told him. She said she hoped to make another trip soon and fly at a much greater altitude than the 2,000 feet at which the trip Sunday was made. She was was halt an hour Sunday. Mrs. Sheehy is the second oldest person carried in an airplane by Brooks. In 1919 he took Jack Higgins. then 101 years old, for a ride at Wabash, Ind. Mrs. Sheehy told Brooks she came to Indianapolis when there were only four houses in the city and she took great pleasure in flying over the city and noticing the marked changes since that time. /

‘KIDNAPED’ CHILD FOUND; HUMANE SOCIETY ACTS

Louise Patten, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Patten, 305 Erie St., whose mother declared the child was kidnaped from her Sunday afternoon on S. East St., was back at her home today. Although the mother still insisted that the child was “kidnaped,” Miss Lolo Graham, 436 S. New Jersey St., with whom the child had been, declared the mother consented to take she child to keep over night. Mrs. Patten told police Sunday night and still insisted today that a “tall woman” whom she did not know, took the child saying something about “taking her home.” The fact she had three other children, ages 2 to 8, with her prevent-

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ASK FAST TIME CEASE SEPT, 30 Council Will Vote Tonight on New Date. Daylight saving time will cease in Indianapolis on Sept. 30, instead of the third Sunday in October, as the ordinance now provides, if an. amendment prepared ioday by Ed ward Knight, city attorney, is adopted by the council tonight. No opposition to the change in date is anticipated as the amend' ment was prepared upon request of the counciimen, Knight said. The reason for the change is that most other cities using dayling saving time return to standard time by October, the counciimen seeking the amendment declared. The petition for referendum on daylight saving time in the future will be presented by Local 39, National Association of Letter Carriers, and Local 130, Postoffice Clerks. They are opposed to using anything but standard time, since the postoffice system functions on standard schedules throughout the United States. The present ordinance provides that the daylight saving time is t'-, become effective the second Sunday in May each year. Viscount Haldane Dead Bn 1 nil i and Press PERTH. Scotland, Aug. 20.—Viscount Haldane, former lord high chancellor of England, one time secretary of the state of war, died at his home Sunday after a few weeks’ illness. He was 72 years old

ed her from giving chase as the woman walked away with the girl, the mother said. She went on to the movie show where they were bound, stayed for two shows, and told her husband at 6:30, when she returned home, the mother said. Miss Graham declared she was walking with her sister on East St. when she saw Mrs. Patten and her children, whom she had seen before but did not know by name She offered to help the child for awhile and the mother agreed, telling her to keep the girl until today, Miss Graham said. This morning she saw Mrs. Patten walking by her home and called to her to get Louise. Mrs. Patten declared she was hunting for the child when Miss Graham called, her, but insisted she did not know Miss Graham had her. Sergts. Charles Quack and Thomas Bledsoe, Humane Society officers, investigated the case. They are taking action to have Mrs. Patten examined by physicians and will find homes for the children on consent of the father, they said. Hunt ‘Lost’ Hurricane Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The weather bureau, looking for a “lost” hurricane, asked vessels today for reports on conditions between latitudes 22 and 27 and Longitudes 91 and 98. This includes a large section of the Gulf of Mexico, together with the coast formed by southern Texas and northeast Mexico.

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SKY RACERS CROSS NATION IN 19H0URS Art Goebel Sets New Mark for Nonstop Flight, Coast-to-Coast. FAR AHEAD OF TIME Plane Averages 142 Miles an Hour in Los Angeles-to-New York Hop. ISn United Press CURTISS FIELD, L. 1.. Aug. 20. Racing through the sky at an average speed of approximately 140 miles an hour, Arthur Goebel and Harry Tucker today set anew record for a non-stop ailplane flight across the United States. They left Los Angeles, Cal., Sunday at 12:10 p, m. and arrived at this flying field at 11:08 a. m. today, an elapsed time of 18 hours and 58 minutes. The aviators’ flying time was at least three hours better than they had anticipated when they started out. In Los Angeles Goebel said he hoped to complete the coast-to-coast flight in twenty-one hours. Second Nonstop Flight Although airplanes have flow’n across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, only one before had a plane spanned the breadth of the United States in a singlehop. That flight, made by Lieutenants James A. MacReady and Oakley Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, Army fliers, on May 2 and 3, in 1924, required 26 hours and 50 minutes. Goebel said the flight was made as a preparation for the forthcoming transcontinental derby, scheduled to start from Roosevelt field on Sept. 12. “We flew at a fairly high altitude all the way,” the pilot said, “10,000 feet over the mountains and 7,000 or 8,000 feet over level country.” To complete the flight in record time Goebel sent his all-white monoplane through the air at an average speed of approximately 142 miles an hour. Ahead of Schedule When the plane left Los Angeles it carried 450 gallons of gasoline and twenty-five gallons of oil, maximum capacity for its tanks. The plane wasp motor develops 400 horse power. Watchers at this landing field had no difficulty discerning the white plane as it came racing out of the West. They could scarcely believe their eyes, however, as Goebel and Tucker, the Santa Monica sportsman, had not been expected until after noon at the earliest.

YEGGS DROP MONEY BAG Leave Loot When Blast Brings Police, Make Escape. Bn United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio. Aug. 20. After searching the Union Clothing Company building for an hour and a half, police failed to find any trace of the four men who, according to a night watchman, blew a safe in the building this morning. A passing fireman heard the blast and called police, firemen and members of the American Legion, who are holding their State convention here. The night watchman, who was found unconscious, said four armed men handcuffed him to a post. A satchel filled with money was found on the first floor of the building. U. S. ENGINEER SLAIN American Consul Reports Murder in Trinidad, Mexico. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The murder of Henry Schmitt, an American mining engineer, in Trinidad, state of Durango, Mexico, was reported to the State Department today by Consul William I. Jackson at Torreon. , According to Jackson’s telegram, Schmitt was attacked and killed Saturday by two unidentified persons at Travador mine, Trinidad, 40 miles southwest of Torreon. SHIPS HALT FOR DOG Delay Sailing as Volunteers Work Three Hours to Rescue Chow. Bu United Press BOSTON, Aug. 20.—Volunteers worked for more than three hours here to rescue “Chincko” a small chow dog, from the waters of Boston harbor. The dog tumbled overboard while trying to follow its mistress onto the Nantasket steamer Mayflower. That vessel was delayed 20 minutes and the East Boston ferryboat Ashbumham was held up for five minutes by rescue attempts. The dog swam to a wharf and was rescued. Six Die in Bush Crash ! Bit United Press COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 20. Six persons were killed today and fifty injured in a collision between a street car and a sight-seeing bus.