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TRIP OF PERIL DESCRIBED BY LINDYJNTOKIO Serious Trouble Narrowly Averted in Kuriles, Aviator Reveals. GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION Flier and Wife Feted by Thousands, Reaching Japan Goal. BY MILES W. VAUGHN United Pres* Staff Correspondent TOKIO, Aug. 26.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, who ended their perilous 7,000-mile flight from the United States to Japan this afternoon at Kasumigaura. airdome, told at first hand tonight their adventures on the aerial ‘‘vacation trip.” The young American aviator revealed for the first time how narrowly they escaped damaging their monoplane last week in a forced landing on the Kurile islands. Colonel Lindbergh said that they might have met serious trouble if Ihe government steamer Shinshiru Maru had not stood by. The Lindberghs arrived here to receive one of the most enthusiastic receptions Japan ever accorded foreign visitors. The ovation has been emailed in recent years only by the coronation journey of emperor Hirohito to the summer capital at Kyoto. Pleased With Japan Receiving newspaper men afterward, the visitors expressed delight with everything they had seen thus far in Japan. Colonel Lindbergh, appearing somewhat pale and tired alter the twenty-nine-day flight, did most of the talking. Mrs. Anne Lindbergh sat demurely by speaking only when questions were directed at her. Colonel Lindbergh expressed the belief that airmail and passenger planes flying between Japan and the United States would be feasible as soon as weather stations are established. He said that they never felt themselves in any great danger, even during the troublesome experiences along the Kurile islands, but that the flight proved the necessity of radio equipment. a May Extend Flight The flier added they were uncertain whether to extend their flight and fly around the world. He drew chuckles from his audience when, in answering a question, he said raw fish, such as served them in native villages, was “the only kind I can eat.” Mrs. Lindbergh said the radio equipment which she used worked well in general and that she was able to keep in continuous two-way touch with Japanese stations. Thousands packed the streets and waiting room at Uyenv station, v.* cre the party arrived from Kasumigaura at 6:30 p. m. Police experienced greatest difficulty in clearing a path for their automobile, as the crowds jostled about, Shouting “Lindy! Lindy.” The party required forty minutes to traverse the six miles to the home of United States Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes. Thousands of Children Cheer In front of the home were massed thousands of school children, waving flags specially printed with the Japanese flag on one side and the American on the other. The crowds around the house proved too much for the police, and Jines were broken as shouting natives swarmed around the gates. The visitors dined privately and retired early in preparation for a busy day Thursday, when Tokio’s enthusiasm will be permitted full vent. RULE OF U. $. DIFFERS Aerial Photography of Forts Barred Only in One Instance. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—The United States government does not fully share Japan’s policy of keeping aviators away from military bases and fortifications. Inquiry at the war and navy departments revealed today that an aviator may fly over and even photograph any military or naval reservation in the continental United States except one without violating the law. The exception is the little island of Tortugas, off Florida, reserved for a naval base. The subject of flying restrictions was brought to the fore when Japan fined two Americans, Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, because they flew over and took photographs of military zones. PROBE QUEER DISEASE Pittsburgh Phyisicians Baffled by Children’s Malady. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26. A Strange malady, which has caused deaths of two children and serious Illness of a third child in a family here, was investigated by physicians today as hospital authorities reported some improvement in the condition of the third child. Leona Stacklin, 7, died in St. John’s hospital Tuesday night from •‘acute encephalitis,” or brain inflammation. within twenty-four hours after her brother Leo, 3, died in his home. Intestinal poisoning was given as cause of Leo's death. * Negroes Hold Up Motorist Leaping to the running board of bis car, a Negro man and woman Tuesday night robbed Chester Walden, 758 Pleasant street, of SSB at West and Drake strets, he told police. ,

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Maniac Motorist, Wielding Hatchet, Is Killed by Police Madman Drives Car at High Speed at Street Crowds and Tries to Run Down Pursuers. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 26. —A maniac at the wheel of a careening automobile endangered scores of lives today, then attacked two policemen with a hatchet when his car was forced to the curb. He fell under a bullet from one of the policemen’s guns. Cards in the mans pockets indicated he was H. B. Young, Franklin Park, 111., a railroad clerk. His body was held at the morgue. The wild race with death began at Niles, a suburb, when motor officer Frank Stankowicz drew his motorcycle alongside the madman’s automobile. It was zigzagging on the wrong side of the street.

FASCISTS, POPE REACHACCORD Pact Made for Reopening of Catholic Clubs. By United Pres* VATICAN CITY, Aug. 26.—1 t was semi-officiaily stated at the Vatican today that an accord had been reached for the settlement of the dispute between the Vatican and the Fascist government. The controversy centered on closure of Catholic clubs in Italy, due to alleged political activity. Relations between state and Holy See have been strained for two months. The accord was said to include an agreement that the Azione Cattolica, Catholic laymen’s organization, will be reorganized independently in all dioceses. Concessions to the Vatican included the right of each bishop to nominate priests to conduct the religious education of Fascist youths in the Balilla and Avanguardisti organizations, giving assurance of regular religious instruction uniformly in all branches of the Fascist boys’ and youths’ organizations. Catholic clubs will be permitted to reopen throughout Italy, the semi-official Vatican announcement said. Premeir Benito Mussolini probably will visit Pope Pius Xi in the near future, it was said. CLARK AW. ITS VERDICT Lawyers Confer on Possibility of Second Death Trial. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—David H. Clark awaited decision today wheether he would be tried again for the slaying of Herbert F. Spencer. A conference between Clark’s attorneys and District Attorney Buron Fitts was set for today. Leonard Wilson and W. I. Gilbert, representing Clark, contend that the jury which was deadlocked 11 to 1 for acquittal at the end of the first trial, was a “typical” panel and that the same result, or complete acquittal, could be expected in the second trial. CHARGE BANK DEFAMING Brokerage Customer’s Man to Be Prosecuted as “Whisperer.” By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—James H. O'Connell, customer’s man in a brokerage house, will be prosecuted under an indictment charging distribution of false rumors concerning a bank’s condition, it was announced today. The indictment was returned on complaint of the Chatham-Phoenix National Bank and Trust Company. Thomas Chadbourne, director and general counsel, announced it would be prosecuted vigorously to “end a “whispering campaign” against the institution. Ecuador to Elect President By United Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 26. —Elections for anew president to be held in about two months, will be called next week to fill the place of President Isidro Ayora, who resigned Monday under pressure.

SUSPECT NABBED HERE FOR WISCONSIN CRIME

Suspected as the roadside slayer of Mrs. Ann Patterson near Silver Lake, Wis., last week, Indianapolis detectives this afternoon arrested John Williams, 32, of 1500 Southeastern avenue, as Joe Miller, halfbreed Indian, sought for the crime. Williams, who refused to make any statements, signed waivers that will return him immediately to Kenosha, Wis., for possible identification in connection with the redhaired beauty’s death. He was arrested after Deputy Sheriff Nick Otto of Kenosha had followed the alleged killer's trail to Middletown, 0., Greensburg, Ind., and then Indianapolis. Warrant for his arrest was sworn to by the deptuy sherin. Announcement of Williams’ arrest at the Southeastern avenue address, where he had moved in the last two days with his wife and six children, was the only statement Indianapolis officers' would make. Otto was in possession of a police photo of Miller, but detectives would not say whether it corresponded with the suspect under arrest Pending his removal to Kenosha. Williams, alias Miller, was charged with vagrancy and being a fugitive from justice. Mrs.-Patterson, it was learned,

Shouting curses, the motorist at-, tempted to swing his automobile across in front of the motorcycle. Failing, he sped away, Stankowicz in pursuit. Standing on a northwest side street was policeman Fred Kordes. He leaped to the carrier of Stankowicz’ motorcycle. A crowd of nearly 100 persons was waiting for street cars and busses at an intersection. They flew as the maniac sent his car roaring through their midst. Then, his whim changing, the motorist stopped, leaped out and started for the policemen with a hatchet. The officers had emptied their guns at his tires. He slashed Stankowicz’ hand. Again he leaped into his car and sped on, this time with Stankowicz clambering on to the top of the sedan and shouting for help. At Dawson avenue, another motorist forced the maniac’s car to the curb just as Kordes arrived in a commandeered automobile, since the motorcycle had burned away its brakes. Brandishing his hatchet, the maniac started for the policemen again. They ran, Kordes reloading his revolver. The first shot missed, but Kordes’ second pierced the hatchet wielder’s heart. LUKE LEA ASKS BAIL Convicted Ex-Senator to Appeal Fraud Term. By United Press ASHEVILLE, N. C., Aug. 26. Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville, his son Luke Lea Jr. and Wallace B. Davis of Asheville, came before Buncombe county superior court today to arrange bond after conviction of conspiring to defraud ihe Central Bank and Trust Company, Asheville, of $1,000,000. Their attorneys intend to appeal the conviction. Lea Sr., former United States senator, war-time commander of an artillery regiment in France and publisher of three Tennessee newspapers, Was sentenced by Judge M. V. Barnhill Tuesday to from six to ten years in prison. His son was fined $25,000 and Davis, president of the bank, was sentenced to four to six years. E. P. Charlet, a co-defendant, was acquitted. HOLMES IS BETTER Justice, 111 With Cold, Is Improving. By United Press BEVERLY FARMS, Mass., Aug. 26.—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court, recovering from a cold which kept him abed two days at his summer home here, was reported as “a little better” by his secretary today. In the light of the statement of Dr. Peter P. Johnson Tuesday night that Justice Holmes was “pretty nearly recovered,” the report of the secretary appeared most favorable. The cold was not very severe, but Justice Holmes’ illness was considered more dangerous because of his 90 years. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 65 10 a. m 69 7a. m 65 11 a. m 71 Ba. m 66 12 (noon).. 71 9a. m 66 Ip. m 73

had been on a drinking party near Silver Lake. Wisconsin authorities said she was strangled after a long struggle along a desolate road with her killer. The body had lain several days in a weed patch and was found last Thursday.

LABOR TENDERS AID TO CAPITAL

Miners Offer to Help Coal Cos. Maintain Pay Scale

BY WILLIAM H. BAILEY United Press Stiff Correspondent DENVER, Aug. 26.—Colorado today witnessed a situation unique in the industrial annals of the west with labor offering to “finance” capital. From the coal fields of Colorado, hotbeds of labor trouble for years, had come an offer by members of the United Mine Workers of America to “postpone" half the wages due in August, September and November—longer if necessary—to aid the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company in its fight to maintain wages at 1929 levels. Six hundred union miners, the

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,1931

POLICE BRAND SUSPECT AS MOVIE BANDIT Zionsville Man Identified as Zaring Robber, Cops Assert. FOUR OTHERS QUIZZED Three Women Among Group Pinched as Members of Holdup Gang. Identification of a bandit suspect as one of the holdup trio that staged

I one of the two recent Indianapolis theater robberies was claimed today by police and detectives, it was learned. The youth, said to have been identified in connection with the daylight robbery of the Zaring theater receipts near downtown, is Jewell Corbin, • 23, of Zionsville.

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~ He was arrested after fleeing from the alleged hideout and arsenal ol the bandit suspects in the 1400 block Broadway, Tuesday afternoon, which was invaded by detectives. He was captured after a chase oi several blocks by patrolman Ferdinand Fmchum, who was unarmed nr™?™’ another suspect and three women arrested Tuesday, also are of implication in the $1,200 robbery of the Circle theater two weeks ago. Arsenal Is Uncovered The detectives said they found revolvers, dynamite, percussion caps and burglary tools, including drills, crowbars and sledgehammers, in the alleged bandit rendezvous. Others under arrest are Raleigh Munsey, 28, of 638 Birch street; Hope Sherwood, 27, of 1403 Broadway, and Edith, 23, and Billy Strother 25, of 1401 Bellefontaine street. All are held under high bonds on vagranev counts. An alleged gunman who came to the house with Corbin fled when Finchum started his pursuit. The man is said to have le ’to the running board of a passing auto and shoved a gun into the back of the driver. He still Is sought by authorities. ■Hie robbery of employes and officials of the Circle theater occurred during the presentation of the second nightly show. The three youthful bandits, who had attended the theater, drew guns and forced their victims into the upstairs office. The bar ‘ts forced them to open the safe and fled with $1,200 and a S3OO diamond ring. Robbed on Way to Bank The Zaring theater was looted several weeks ago by safe-crackers who obtained several hundred dollars. Less than a week later employes of the theater were robbed of SI,OOO en route to a downtown bank shortly after noon. This robbery occurred at Ft. Wayne avenue and Pennsylvania street. Finchum was in his home when he saw the bandit suspects approach the house and heard a woman scream: “Watch out! It’s the cops!” Finchum, unarmed, chased Corbin, finally overtaking him several blocks away. The other man with Corbin leaped to the running board of a passing automobile and escaped. Witnesses said they saw him shove a revolver into the back of the driver of the car. Recovered From Wounds Finchum recently recovered from bullet wounds sustained in a gun battle early in the year when he and another officer surprised two men who attempted to break into a hardware store at Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue. He was in the hospital several weeks. Blasting of the safe in the Meus-ing-Messick Coal Company, 3830 Brookville road, Aug. 20, is laid to the suspects by police. Safe crackers obtained SIOO. Detectives said the group will be questioned in connection with the attempted robbery of the Otto Faller store at Roachdale, when bandits “shot up the town” after Faller opened fire on them. This attempted robbery occurred July 15 and later Leßoy Baker, R. R. 18, owner of the bandit car, was sentenced ten years for burglary.

only union labor used in Colorado’s coal fields, met Tuesday at the tiny mining camp of Serene, voted the wage postponement and constituted themselves a voluntary sales crew. In announcing their stand, the miners declared the time had come to combat the “vicious tactics” of nonunion operators who have instituted 25 per cent wage cuts, dropping the basic daily scale from $6.25 to $5.22. They said they would mine and sell coal in all markets at a price which would meet any named by nonunion operators. The action of the miners was

Ignore Board of Trade Wage Cut Demand, Is Labors Plea

“They shall not cut wages!” is the cry of courthouse employes, opposing the Board of Trade’s wage reduction proposal, favored by county jp[ % councilraen. . Miss Market Dillon, juvenile court stenographer, is a hit mournful ; ~ JP ’ ’ today as she wonders whai: new figure will appear opposite her name in the pay roll ledger. For his ’Hear, ye. hear ye” in criminal court and control of the t crowds. Roy Lowe, upper right, gets only SI.BOO a year and not “about ' 'Wgk SSO a week” as charged by Commissioner John Shearer. I.owe says. ' Those papers in front of Commissioner Dow Vorhees, below, are de- !|k: IS r.r.i.r ... M ill / —m*. W f Ifinn vw. | . •- IBra

“They shall not cut wages!” is the cry of courthouse employes, opposing the Board of Trade’s wage reduction proposal, favored by county councilnien. Miss Marget Dillon, juvenile court stenographer, is a bit mournful today as she wonders what new figure will appear opposite her name in the pay roll ledger. For his “Hear, ye, hear ye” in criminal court and control of the crowds, Roy Lowe, upper right, gets only SI,BOO a year and not “about SSO a week” as charged by Commissioner John Shearer, Lowe says. Those -papers in front of Commissioner Dow Vorhees, below, are demands for poor relief, due in part to wage cuts.

VEHLING WILL FILE ANSWERS TO SUITS

Coroner to Start Action to Kill Impeachment Proceeding. A demurrer, a plea of abatement, and a motion to strike off the calendar, were to be three answers today of Coroner Fred W. Vehling to four suits pending in Marion county courts against him, asking his impeachment from office and damages. The demurrer was to be filed to a suit for $5,000 damages in superior court three brought by James Holland, Indianapolis taxpayer. " The motion to strike off the calendar was to be aimed at the request of Holland’s attorneys in circuit court in a suit demanding that Prosecutor Herbert Wilson be ordered to take legal charge of the impeachment proceedings against the coroner. Claim Legal Basis Lacking The motion to strike off will declare that Holland has no legal basis for asking that the prosecutor try the impeachment: The motion will point out that it is up to the prosecutor to institute impeachment proceedings and not to intervene in an action which Vehling’s attorneys declare illegal. The plea of abatement is asked in a $5,000 damage suit filed in probate court. Holland asks the $5,000 for damages suffered when Vehling refused .to turn over property of a dead man to him. Barrett Is Attorney Holland was the administrator of the dead man’s estate. Vehling declares that he turned the effects of the dead man over to his widow. The motion, plea and demurrer were to be filed this afternoon by Fred Barrett, attorney for the coroner. A demurrer is pending against the impeachment suit filed in circuit court by Holland. DIRIGIBLE AKRON GETS FIRST PEEK AT SKIES Ground Crew Holds Practice Drill With King of Air. By United Press AKRON, 0., Aug. 26.—The navy dirigible Akron poked its long gray nose out of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation airdock today for its first sight of the skies it will roam. A burly ground crew of 150 men lifted the 785-foot airship from its cradle and “walked” it part way out of the dock. The procedure was a practice drill in preparation for the Akron’s trial flight scheduled tentatively “after Sept. 5.” The initial voyage had been scheduled for today, but minor structural changes were ordered, necessitating a delay.

seen as the result of the so-called “radical” labor policy of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, instituted by its woman president, Miss Josephine Roche, who secured control of the company after the death of her father, its founder. Always a leader in high wages, the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, through its executive vicepresident, Merle Vincent, went before the state industrial commission early in the summer and announced it would not make cuts. The move was taken, the company said, to reassure employes and combat depression.

HAWKS TO NEW YORK Hops From Greenville (S. C.) Ater Flight From Atlanta. By United Press GREENVILLE, S. C., Aug. 26. Captain Frank Hawks, speed flier, took off from Greenville today for Spartanburg, en route to New York from Ft. Worth, Tex. He arrived here at 9:54 a. m. from Atlanta, where he took off at 9:08. FIRE HEROINE AT 70 Great-Grandmother Rescues Baby From Home. By United Press BLUE RIVER, Wis., Aug. 26. A 70-year-old great-grandmother braved a flame-ravaged farm home today and rescued her 3-month-old great-granddaughter while the baby’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Falkner, and a roomer, Frank La Gene, were incurring probably fatal burns trying vainly to save two other small daughters. Esther Falkner, 2, and Bessie Falkner, 3, perished in the blazing home, fired by a gasoline stove blast. The aged woman seemed under a protecting care. She dashed into the house, flame scorching her dress and licking at her face, snatched the baby from its crib and tottered out. But the fire shut off the room in which the little girls were trapped and the other three adults were critically burned in their futile rescue attempt.

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STATE’ COP WILL FACE FAIRGROUND DEATH QUIZ

By Times Special CONNERSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 26. Grand jury investigation of the shooting of Stanley Coomes, an auto theft suspect, by a state policeman

The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Rockefeller controlled, immediately made a similar announcement. The C. F. &I. is the largest coal producer in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Fuel the next largest. A few weeks later, however, the C. F. & I. and five other large Colorado coal operators announced that competition and existing conditions forced a 25 per cent wage reduction. Other companies followed the lead. State industrial leaders today saw a fight in prospect between the Rocky Mountain Fuel and other companies, with the union miners aiding their company.

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Central Union Brands Move Unfair as Method of Paring Taxes. Demand that the Indianapolis Board of Trade’s wage cut proposal be ignored by the county council was- being drafted today by snembers of a special committee of the Central Labor union, who have asserted the proposal, as a method of reducing taxes, is unfair. Adolph Fritz, secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, and a member of the union committee, said the group today was completing drafting of the demand, and also a reply to the Board of Trade’s letter. The Board of Trade Monday sent a lev-ter to city, county and school heads, asserting wage cuts of 8,000 employes was the basic step (in tax reduction. In the letter it was set out that already Indianapolis manufacturers, offices and business men, have sliced wages several per cent. The Board of Trade demanded wages of the public employes be cut to the level of those working for private businesses. The letter found no reaction from the school board or the city, heads of these governmental units having asserted they will not cut their employes’ pay. But the county council, considering the trade group’s outline a “step in the right direction,” is preparing to reduce wages to pare $200,000 from the 1932 budget. Other labor leaders in the city have announced their opposition to the wage slice proposal and Tuesday night, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 11, unanimously adopted a resolution against the wage cut proposal. “The organization is opposed openly to any reduction of employes wages and expressed the idea at the meeting that pay cutting was not the proper way to bring about decrease in the Indianapolis and Marion county tax rates.” 00AK DEFENDS TARIFF Labor Secretary Lauds Bill in Speech to Shoe Makers. By United Press BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Aug. 26. Wiliiam N. Doak, secretary of labor, defended the Hawley-Smoot tariff law as having been instrumental in the progress of the shoe and leather trade, in a speech here today. His address was delivered at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Endi-cott-Johnson Corporation, shoe manufacturers. •

at the Fayette county fair here Friday night, was recommended today by Dr. H. W. Smelser, coroner. He examined ten witnesses, who declared they saw Carl Springmire, the policeman, approach Coomes, who was fumbling around an auto on the fairground. Their stories, Dr. Smelser said, were almost identical. As the policemen approached, Coomes saw him and bolted. “Halt!” Springmire yelled. Coomes sped on. Pursuing him about twenty feet behind, Springmire drew his revolver and fired three times. The second bullet struck Coomes in the head. Dr. Smelser said he was informed Springmire stepped into a dark place where Coomes’ body later was found, and came out shortly and walked away. The policeman is said to have remarked “I killed him," but later said he did not know the shot struck Coomes until other persons found the body. Dr. Smelser said he believed the policeman had no right to shoot a man against whom he had no evidence other than suspicion that the fugitive neant to steal the.’kuto,

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WAR ON DOLE CUT FACED BY MACDONALD Labor Reads Premier Out of Party as Cabinet Takes Office. DEFENDS HIS COURSE Prime Minister Appeals to Nation for Sacrifice in Time of Stress. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Aug. 26.—Britain’s new “government of sacrifice,” headed by Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald, received the seals of office from King George at Buckingham palace at 11 a. m. today as the labor party prepared to fight the proposed dole cut. The new cabinet took the oath at a meeting of the privy council, after members of the late laborite government had handed over their seals of office to the king. The cabinet was to meet immediately and begin the task of effecting economies in national expenditures sufficient to balance the budget and restore foreign confidence in the pound sterling. Members of the late labor cabinet who refused to sanction a reduction of unemployment benefits prepared strenuous opposition to the new regime. MacDonald Is Disowned MacDonald was disowned in a Labor paity statement and his right to represent the party in the new cabinet challenged. MacDonald addressed a letter to Labor members of parliament, appealing to them to “think over the situation without prejudice or passion” before deciding upon their course and to suspend judgment until parliament meets. “AH this has caused us great pain. When it is over, the party will be left untrammeled as to policy and program,” the prime minister wrote. He reiterated his statement made on the radio Tuesday night that he had acted in the country’s interest and defended the proposed 10 per cent reduction in the dole. Appeals for Sacrifice MacDonald’s radio address appealed to the nation for sac es in time of emergency. Holdii, ue to the ideals which have guide im through a remarkable career. ± acDonald replied to charges tha„ he did not hold Labor credentials to head a national government, in the following words: “My credentials are those of national duty as I see it. I will obey them irrespective of consequences.” MacDonald refuted charges that the Labor government’s fall was the result of a bankers’ conspiracy. “I give emphatic assurance that the charge is not true,” he said. He confirmed the government’s proposal to reduce unemployment benefits 10 per -cent, but added, “children’s allowances will not be touched at all.” He pointed out that the cost of living had decreased 10 per cent since 1921. The pime minister ascribed the causes of the “financial emergency” to world-wide depression, the German crisis, foreign anxiety regarding the British budgetary position, and propaganda. Clears Foreign Countries “It is not true to suggest that foreign countries have been trying to harm us,” he said. “Nothing could be farther from the truth . . . they helped us greatly and are ready to help us more ... it is essential that the confidence of the world in our credit should be restored, otherwise we will be unable to maintain the value of the pound sterling. “Action, swift, decisive, and effective, is asked for; this we propose to give.” MacDonald referred to the passing of the Labor government which he had guided through turbulent times. “The occasion is unusual and rather sorrowful,” he said. “I have given my life to building up a political party. I was present at its birth. I was its nurse when it emerged from infancy and attained adult years. “This moment has changed none of my belief, none of my ideals.” MacDonald said the new administration was not a coalition, but a government of individuals. BURY O’NEILL IN EXILE Funeral Services Held at Cannes for Teapot Dome Figure. By United Press CANNES, France, Aug. 26. Funeral services were held today for James E. O’Neill, former wealthy American oil operator, who died Monday in “exile” here, where he had taken refuge after refusing to testify in the Teapot Dome prosecution in the United States. A small group ptended the services, during which the widow was overcome and collapsed. O’Neill's will leaves his estate to her. STOWAWAYS ON JO-X Two Men Are Ejected Before Tak* Off at Charleston. By United Press ABOARD THE DORNIER DO-X, En Route to New York, Aug. 26. Two stowaways, the first ever to attempt to steal a ride on the world’s largest airplane, were unsuccessful in their attempt today. Guy Perry and Lewis Andrews, both of Charleston, boarded the giant craft sometime Tuesday night and hid. Just before the plane left this morning they were discovered by attendants and ejected. )

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