Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1932 — Page 1

DRY PARTY IS IN DEADLOCK ON CANDIDATE Prohibition Leaders Are in Doubt Whether to Wait or to Nominate. HOPE BORAH WILL RUN Moody’s Boom Punctured; Speaker Demands Dole and Bonus. BY BEN STERN Torn by indecision as to whether to nominate presidential and vicepresidential candidates today or wait a few months, during which pressure would be put on Senator William E. Borah to accept first J pbee on the ticket, the Prohibition party national convention today was j getting nowhere fast. At least 295 of the 300 delegates, j newspaper men, photographers, and guests in Cadle tabernacle at today’s session cheered when D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman, said the ideal ticket with w'hich to sweep the nation this year would be "Borah for president, and Ex-Governor Dan Moody of Texas for vice-president.” "We are faced with a peculiar situation. The problem is whether to go ahead with our nominations today or wait a few months until those men can accept,” he said. The chorus of "amens" was halted by a cry of ‘‘Mr. Moderator” from Captain Frank M. Wells of Wash- ; ington, D. C., who evidently is for Borah, but against Moody. Moody’s Vote Challenged "Moody is not a prohibitionist,” charged the ex-Army chaplain. "I want to know whether Moody voted lor A1 Smith in 1928 or for Herbert Hoover.” The chair couldn’t answer. Captain Wells did. "Moody voted for Smith,” he shouted. Instead of Amens, there were hisses. As the platform committee was not ready to report this morning, there were many exhortations, during which G. D. Harger of Pittsburgh, national committeeman from Pennsylvania, urged immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus and a dole system. "Thirty-six yachts are coaled and steaming in New York harbor waiting to take thirty-six millionaires to Europe when the revolution begins,” Harger charged, in describing deplorable conditions in this country. Wants Bonus and Dole He then asked those favoring immediate payment of the bonus and a dole system to rise. While the delegates were rising slowly, Herman P. Faris, of Clinton, Mo., 1924 presidential nominee, shouted that Harger was out of order and that “w’e should begin on nominations.” The delegates voted to table Faris’ motion. Harger continued his speech. Colvin said, in explaining the perplexing problem of nominations before the convention, that if all the temperance and prohibition organizations of the country would combine their strength it would be possible to get Borah to become their candidate for President. "The senator told me Sunday that he wanted to go before the Republican convention and fight for a plank calling for retention of prohibition. On two occasions he conferred w'ith President Hoover about this, but did not receive encouragement,” Colvin related. Howard May Get Call The national chairman also said Borah had asserted the cabinet was against prohibition and that Postmaster Walter Brown, who represented Hoover at the G. O. P. convention, is a member of a firm of attorneys w’hich is counsel for brewing interests. It appeared that the convention would nominate tonight and because of the uncertainty regarding the Idaho senator, Dr. Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y., the keynoter and temporary chairman of the convention, may get the call. “I am an advocate and not a candidate.” asserted Howard, the diminutive spellbinder, whose vitriolic keynote and call to arms Tuesday appears to have had the same effect on the delegates to the Prohibition party convention that Bryan's "cross of gold” speech exerted on the Democrats in 1896. • In fact, Dr. Howard bears a distinct facial resemblance to the great “Commoner." Upshaw Is Enthused If nominated, his running mate for the vice-presidency may be William D. Upshaw of Georgia, former Democratic member of congress. The Georgian was so carried away by Howard’s oratory Tuesday that, despite his crutches, he leaped on the press table and shouted that the "keynote was the greatest utterance on governmental affairs since Hannibal stood upon the Alps." He asked that copies be sent President Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, "for them to ponder in the quiet of their homes.” Work on the platform was progresssing rapidly this morning and it was hoped to have it ready for presentation at the afternoon session. It will, of course, reaffirm profound and implicit faith in national prohibition and the eighteenth amendment and call for stricter enforcement of the law. Will D. Martin of Hasbrouck Heights. N. J„ is chairman of the platfcfrm committee. 11 Girls Hurt in Rush for Jobs NEW YORK, July 6.—Eleven girls were injured today when a crowd of 2,000 women and girls storming a Bronx dress shop in response to a ‘help wanted" advertisement, pushed through a plate glass window.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 48

Shot Fired by Self Kills Playboy Heir to Tobacco Millions

‘Accident/ Says Guest of Young Reynolds, Husband of Libby Holman, ‘Blues’ Singer of Night Clubs. By United Press WINSTON SALEM, N. C., July 6. —Smith Reynolds, 21-year-old heir to the $20,000,000 Reynolds tobacco estate, died at 5:25 a. m. today of a self-inflicted bullet wound. He was said to have been cleaning a gun just before the shot was heard. Young Reynolds, playboy and aviation enthusiast, who recently left his Broadway night club haunts to prepare for an aeronautics examination, married Libby Holman, night club and theatrical singer, several weeks ago. A guest at a barbecue, held at the Reynolds estate Tuesday night, said he had left Reynolds in his room, and had returned downstairs to lock up the house for the night when he heard the report of the gun. “His wife screamed,” he said. “I ran unstairs, and Reynolds lay on the floor, a wound near his right ear. Mrs. Reynolds had dropped beside him.” Said He Was Cleaning Gun This guest said Reynolds had been cleaning a gun. "Smith was in his room when I went down to lock up for the night,” the guest related. “ T heard the gun’s report, and then his wife screamed.” The young heir had been studying hard, the guest said, in order to pass examinations for the school of aeronautics at New York university. "He had a tutor down from New York to help him.” At the barbecue Tuesday night there were only eight or ten guests. "Reynolds was perfectly normal when he and the one guest who remained all night went into the house,” the guest asserted. “There had been no drinking.” Had 20 Millions Coming A few more years and Reynolds would have received in full the $20,000,000 estate inherited from his parents, due to be given him on his twenty-eighth birthday. A smaller fortune has been available to him for several years, and only a year ago he established a $1,000,000 trust fund for his first wife, the daughter of Joseph F. Cannon, Concord (N. C.), towel and linen manufacturer. Reynolds and Miss Cannon were married at 2 o’clock in the morning at York, S. C., attended by a wedding party which included the bride’s father, a policeman, an assistant city clerk, and the daughter of the officiating judge. The divorce at Reno followed a short time later. Marriage Announced May 20 The second marriage, announced May 20 in New York, took place while Reynolds and Miss Holman were abroad. The young heir had sworn that he would not remarry, despite repeated rumors that he had threatened to kill himself unless Miss Holman, a Cincinnati university graduate, consented to marry him at once. And last fall, when Mrs. Reynolds went to Reno to live at the dude ranch conducted by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., her husband piloted his own plane to Reno carrying his di-vorce-seeking wife, and her infant daughter as passengers. AGED MAN IS KILLED Loses Life When Struck by Auto on State Road. Struck by an auto while crossing state road No. 29 near Old Augusta today, Joe Johnson, 89, of R. R. 16, was killed instantly. His death is the fifty-second traffic fatality in the county since the first of the year. George Valentino of Peru, driver of the car, was held blameless by deputy sheriffs who investigated. Valentino said the aged man stepped from the side of the road into the path of his car after being warned by the driver of another auto to “step back.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 78 7a. m 70 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 72 12 (noon).. 83 9a. m 76 Ip. m 86

BLACKBURN ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA

Dropping his fight against extradition from Illinois. William H. Blackburn, former Purdue university student, surrendered today at the sheriff's office to face trial on charge of shooting and robbing Joseph R. Gardner. 3236 North Illinois street, highway commission employe. The youth, accompanied by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Blackburn of Oak Park, 111., and Attorney Homer Elliott, then went before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and pleaded not guilty. This ended an attempt by authorities to return Blackburn to Indiana. He was indicted last February on a charge of attacking Gardner, in whose car he is alleged to have hitch-hiked from Lafayette to Indianapolis in January. Gardner was attacked and robbed

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LOUIS HAMILTON TRIALSTARTED Alleged Killer of Jackson Faces Court at Lebanon. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., July 6.—Trial of Louis Hamilton, lola, Kan., charged with the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store operator, opened here today in Boone circuit court, with Judge Brenton A. Devol of Clinton circuit court presiding. Little progress was made in selection of a jury, fifteen persons having been rejected from the first venire of twenty-four. Devol ordered a second venire of twentyfive. Prospective jurors are Montgomery county residents. Hamilton, in court with his wife and parents, appeared in good spirits. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson of Marion county conferred with Ben Scifres, Boone county prosecutor, Tuesday and state witnesses were interviewed. Hamilton was removed today from the Marion county jail to the Boone county jail. Many witnesses who appeared last February at the trial of Charles Vernon Witt in connection with the slaying are expected to testify. Witt, convicted on a murder charge, is sentenced to die in the electric chair in the Indiana state prison Aug. J. The state alleges Jackson was killed by Hamilton and Witt during a holdup of the main store of his grocery chain, May 27, 1931. , Hamilton is alleged to have fired the bullet that killed the grocery head, although Witt also was alleged to have engaged in the gun battle. A. T. & T. EXECUTIVE’S SON KILLED IN CRASH Edwin Carter Is Mishap Victim; Young Gifford Injured. By United Press BROOKINGS, S. D., July 6.—Edwin Carter, 22, son of E. F. Carter, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was killed, and Herman Gifford, 14, son of W. S. Gifford, president of the company, suffered a crushed arm in an automobile accident Tuesday night. Young Gifford, who was learning to drive, was at the wheel when the automobile plunged from the road, leaped a ditch and landed in a field. The young men were on a vacation trip from New York City to Alaska.

!by a youth, whom fte is said to j have identified as Blackburn, a ' short distance north of the city. Baker set Sept. 19 for the trial ! date, fixing the youth's bond at ! $7,500. Arm in arm with his father, Blackburn entered his plea. His mother and other friends remained in rear of the courtroom. Elliott said that Blackburn had come to surrender last week, but returned to Oak Park because Baker was absent, attending the Chicago convention. Elliott said he would decide later whether he would ask for a jury trial. Police trailed Blackburn in several states before arresting him. Immediately after the shooting, police trailed the youth to Florida and later to his home in Oak Park, 1 suburb of Chicago.

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GARNER WARS WITH HOOVER OVERRELIEF Clashes Openly and Pledges Battle f to Finish on Loan Issue. SNELL FLAILS SPEAKER Appeal Is Demagogic, Says House G. 0. P. Leader in Reply. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6.—President Herbert Hoover and Speaker John N. Garner, the latter only Saturday nominated as Democratic vice-presidential candidate, clashed openly today over the Wagner-Gar-ner relief bill. The President called house and senate leaders to the White House for a two-hour conference. He stood firmly against the provision in the $2,100,000,000 measure which set aside funds for loans to individuals under certain limitations. Garner, accepting the issue, went onto the floor of the house when that body met, told his associates of the conference’s results and then, discussing the President’s stand on loans to individuals, shouted: "I said to the President that there is a principle involved on which I won’t surrender.” He said that if no adequate relief bill is passed there will be “riots throughout the country.” Snell Defends President Minority Leader Bertrand Snell (Rep., N. Y.), came to the defense of the administration and denounced Garner’s speech as a “demagogic appeal.” The. President told him, Garner said, that he believed passage of a $300,000,000 appropriation for public works might cause a panic. If that is true, Garner said, “then the country is in the worst shape in its history.” Concluding his speech amid wild applause from the Democratic side of the house, Garner cried: “You are going to have a reservoir of relief or you are going to have riots in this country. With that in view, I am willing to make the surrenders that I have made.” Garner maintained that if there was one “clean cut issue,” on which he was willing to go before the country in a controversy with the President, it was over the question of allowing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to private corporations and individuals, as well as “to special interests.” Booed by Republicans The Speaker’s declaration roused a storm of booes from the Republican side of the house, and drew an answering round of applause from his Democratic supporters. Recalling that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had been created four months ago, Garner said: “We took it in the hope that it would help, although we knew we were doing something not authorized by the Constitution. We are going to broaden the base of this corporation. We are going to say there is going to be no more class legislation. I said to the President today that I am through w’ith class legislation. "How can you say that it is more important that the New York Central railroad should meet its obligations this summer than that aid should be given to 500,000 other businesses throughout the country? Why should you take $3,500,000,000 from these people in taxes and say that aid shall only be given to him, and to him!” Snell Assails Speech As Garner left are rostrum at the conclusion of his speech, Snell jumped to his feet to denounce Garner’s appeal as “demagogic.” "The gentleman says he is opposed to class legislation,” Snell declared. “I want to say that the gentleman from Texas has made a more direct appeal to class distinction today that has been made in any speech in the house this year. It was a demagogic appeal.” SnelJ, continuing, declared the relief bill issue was not between the President and congress, “but between the President and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee." “If it wasn’t for the Speaker, we would have reached an agreement Tuesday night,” Snell said. “He refused to yield on the one question whether the corporation should be allowed to lend money to every individual in the country. Rainey Answers Charge “That would be all right if you wanted to set up a huge central super-banking corporation, but that is not what we want to do. He would not yield one single iota and that’s w’here the conference broke up. "The President is just as anxious to help unemployment as is the gentleman from Texas, and we are going to do it if we have to keep congress here all summer. Henry T. Rainey (Dem.., 111.) ma- ' jority floor leader, answered the j chage “demagogery” made by Snell. 1 “I had hoped,” he said, “there' would be no partisanship in the; question of relief. I had hoped that j the man who championed the com- j mon people would not be charged i with being a demagogue. We know! now that the leaders of the Repub- i lican party are lined up with the great interests.” Jail Prisoner Charges Theft Even the belongings of a prisoner are not immune from theft. Ruby Willbanks, 1314 West Tenth street, held at police headquarters, complained today that a diamond ring had been stolen from her by a fellow prisoner.

WORLD FLIERS REACH BERLIN; BEAT RECORD

British Beauty Free in ‘CocktailKilling 9 of Lover at Party

Jury Is Out Almost Two Hours; Murder Intent Charge Also Quashed on Order of Judge. By United Press LONDON, July 6.—Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, young society beauty, was acquitted by a jury in historic Old Bailey court today of the “cocktail party” murder of her lover, Michael Scott Stephen. The jury, deciding one of the most spectacular criminal trials in recent British history was out 1 hour and 53 minutes. Its verdict while acquitting Mrs. Barney of the murder, formally indicted her on another charge—that of attempting to kill Stephen during an earlier quarrel on May 19. When no evidence was offered, however, Justice Humphreys instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on the second charge also. Excited, milling thousands surrounded Old Bailey. The throngs overflowed the pavements of Old Bailey and Newgate streets, near by. Spectators Jam Street No one was permitted to stand on the pavement outside the court, but the opposite side of the street was packed. The ordinary police guards were reinforced by mounted men. “Manslaughter clearly is the only verdict open to the jury on the facts of this case,” Justice Humphreys had charged the jury. The judge said there was “not the smallest doubt” that Mrs. Barney and Stephen had struggled for possession of a revolver before Stephen was shot. Mrs. Barney contended that the revolver was discharged during a struggle; the prosecution claimed that Stephen could not have shot himself. Justice Humphreys said there was absolutely no direct evidence for the prosecution. He described the case as “the story of two rather wasted lives.” Jurors Are Warned “This woman is not to be convicted of murder unless it is proved that she fired the fatal shot, and that she fired intending at the time to kill the man,” Justice Humphreys told the jury. Death on the gallows for Mrs. Barney had appeared during the trial to depend on whether she could have fired with her left hand the revolver shot that • killed Stephen. Drama rarely seen in the staid British halls of justice and comparable to the stage thrills of the “Trial of Mary Dugan,” were enacted in famous Old Bailey court during the trial. Sir Patrick Tuesday suddenly drew a revlover from his pocket, placed it before Mrs. Barney in the dock, and said to the pale and haggard defendant: "Pick up that revolver, Mrs. Barney!” Uses Right Hand Mrs. Barney, startled, looked blankly at her distinguished counsel, hesitated, then reached forward and picked up the revolver with her right hand. “Have you ever picked up a revolver with your left hand?” Sir Patrick asked. “No,” Mrs. Barney replied. “Are you left-handed?” “No.” Sir Patrick turned and faced the court. “That, sir, is my case,” he said. A thrill of excitement swept through the courtroom crowd. Sir Patrick had duplicated the climax of the famous “Mary Dugan” trial by showing that the defendant was right-handed, and implying that if Mrs. Barney had fired deliberately at Stephen the direction the bullet took proved she must have fired with her left hand.

CUBS’ SHORTSTOP IS SHOT BY GIRL

By United Press CHICAGO, July 6. —William (Billy) Jurges, youthful shortstop for the Chicago Cubs, was shot twice and seriously wounded today when he attempted to restrain Violet Popovich, 21-year-old divorcee, from committing suicide. Miss Popovich suffered a slight wound on her hand. “He turned me down,” officials of the Carlos hotel, where Jurges was staying, quoted Miss Popovich as saying. Both Jurges and the girl were removed to the Illinois Masonic hospital. Later Police Captain Malloy said Miss Popovich would be transferred to the Bridewell hospital and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Jurges is 24 and lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Hotel officials told police that Miss Popovich, who had registered at the hotel Sunday, had declared that Jurges “turned me down” and bad threatened to ‘get him.”

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Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney RA6ING FLOODS ROUT KANSAS Families Flee to Hills as Rivers Keep Rising. By United Press EMPORIA, Kan., July 6.—Flood waters of the Neosho river gushed through the streets of the village of Dunlap today, sending all families fleeing to nearby hilltops. As the river continued to rise, putting out of service all but two wells, men on horseback were sent with drinking water for the stranded residents. Three hundred persons residing along the North Canadian river in Oklahoma were compelled to leave their homes when that stream went out of its banks. Flood warnings were issued along the Neosho, Cottonwood and Osage rivers today. Thousands of acres of farmland already are flooded. Other towns j in addition to Dunlap are partly under water. The Neosho established anew high mark cf twenty-seven feet a few miles west of Emporia today and still was rising. The Cottonwood in Chase county, Kansas, was within a few feet of flood stage. The floods resulted from unprecedented rains Monday night.

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Today, Miss Popovich telephoned Jurges, then went to his room on the fifth floor from her own room on the second floor. From Jurges, police learned that Miss Popovich reproached him for not returning her affections; then suddenly took a .25-caliber pistol from her purse. Jurges grappled with her and the pistol was discharged two or three times. The ball player received a bullet wound in the right thigh and another wound in the left hand. Miss Popovich was shot in the left hand. Bank Bandits Get $5,000 By United Press BOWLING GREEN, 0., July 6. Three bandits, armed with a machine gun, tear gas gun and revolvers held up two officials in the State bank at Cygnet, 0., near here today and escaped with approximately $5,000 in cash.

LEGISLATORS GROPE IN VAIN FORTAX PLAK Special Session Will Start Thursday, With Definite Program Lacking. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Less than twenty-four hours before the special session of the legislature convenes, it became increasingly apparent that the keynote merely will be one of “muddling through” some sort of laws with the ultimate result of some sort of tax relief. That there is no definite program, even in the offing, was shown by varying views expressed by both senate and house leaders as they arrived today. Governor Harry G. Leslie, who at one time announced he never would call a special session until full agreement on a tax relief program was reached, is known to be ready with a legislative message for Thursday which contains no concrete suggestions. It was reported that if legislators do not plan something for themselves in three or four weeks, Leslie may advance a plan. Beckett Has Several Bills Governors of other states, where special sessions have been held, and President Hoover, in addressing congress, have put forth an executive plan for the law makers to accept or reject, it was pointed out. Nearest approach to “a man with a plan” is Senator Joe Rand Beckett (Rep.), Indianapolis, who has a series of bills calling for curtailment of governmental expenditures. Beckett is chief spokesman for the Association for Tax Justice, an organization of men of wealth throughout the state, who want governmental costs cut and no new forms for raising revenue enacted. Already several of Beckett’s senatorial colleagues have commenced adversely on his attempt to assume leadership and push through his program. Means Salary Cuts It will mean largely a reduction of salaries for those remaining in governmental positions and adding others now employed to the jobless list. Democratic legislative leaders, conferring today with Speaker Walter Myers, outlined a general program, pledging themselves to pare governmental costs before seeking new sources of revenue. The cost paring program, they said, will be devoted to reduction of appropriations, limiting public expenditures, and slicing overhead. Attending the conference, in addition to Myers, were R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman; Representative Hardin Linke; Earl Crawford; Delph McKesson, floor leader, and Albert Walsman, member of Linke’s ways and means committee. Beckett has called a meeting of senate and house co-operative committees at the close of Thursday's session. The meeting will be devoted to review of the bills covering the fourteen agreed economy points, he said. “The six state representatives and seven state senators comprising the joint committee will assemble to further the only organized effort for a tax reduction program so far developed within the ranks of general assembly members,” stated Beckett.

Hit Debt Carryover Reduction of public expenditures to a point that no debts will be carried into next year, is demanded in a statement made public today by the Warren Township Taxpayers’ Association. Officers of the association are John S. Newhouse, Cumberland, county council member, president; John Shearer, vice-president; John Schildmier, secretary, and Earl Van Sickle, treasurer. The association demands that the legislature adopt bills which will reduce expenditures. Opposition is expressed to making counties units in educational affairs. BALLET MASTER LEAPS TO DEATH IN NIAGARA Former Moscow Theater Head Is Swept Over Falls. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, July 6. —A man tentatively identified as Nicholas Semenoff, Cleveland, former master of ballet in the Imperial theater, Moscow, Russia, leaped into Niagara river from table rock today and was swept over horseshoe falls to his death. The suicide left an overcoat, with a Paris label, and a cane on shore. A card with a Cleveland address led to his tentative identification. Semenoff recently closed his ballet studio in Cleveland and told friends he was going to New York to obtain employment in a dancing school. He had been depressed because of financial troubles, Cleveland police were told.

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German Capital Is Reached in 31 Hours 41 Minutes Out of New York. NEW MARK OVER SEA Make 2,950 Miles With No Stop After Takeoff in Newfoundland. BY HAROLD A. PETERS United Press Staff nonder.t BERLIN, July 6.—James Mattern and Benett Griffin, dashing over land and sea in a spectacular race around the | world to beat the Post-Gatty record, landed at Templehof airdrome at 5:42 p. m. (10:42 a. m. central standard time) today, already ahead of the Post-Gatty time. They reached Berlin thirty-one hours and forty-one minutes ifter leaving New York, and eigf*een hours forty minutes after leaving Harbor Grace. The Post-Gatty time to Berlin was thirty-four hours thirty-four minutes. Thus, Mattern and Griffin had made up the time they lost while wandering in the fog over Newfoundland Tuesday, landing here two hours and fifty-three minutes ahead of the Post-Gatty time. Gain Time on Sea F’ight Since leaving New York at 3:01 a. m. (central standard time) Tuesday, Griffin had covered approximately 4,100 miles. Including 1,150 from New York to Harbor Grace and 2,950 miles without a stop from Harbor Grace to Berlin. Where they gained time was by not stopping after leaving Harbor Grace, whereas Post and Gatty refueled at Chester, England, and Hanover, Germany. Mattern and Griffin also parsed a shorter time at Harbor Grace. The Century of Progress mr de a new record for crossing the Atlantic. Flying at High Speed They were sighted over Ireland this morning, then over E '-rland and Germany, flying at speed. Their arrival had been nervously awaited, since they should ave been here more than an hour earlier, judging from the time they passed over Hanover, 160 miles away. Thunderstorms prevailed between Hanover and Berlin, but not serious enough to cause the fliers real difficulty. Mattern and Griffin reported they encountered light storms on the two stages between Hanover and Brandenburg. They averaged 131 miles an hour from the Irish coast to Berlin, and 157 miles an hour from Harbor Grace. They raced the rainstorm from Hanover to Berlin, and just when officials decided they had been forced down without fuel, they appeared low over Templehof and landed gracefully, rolling up to the passengerplatform. They were surrounded by a cheering crowd.

Fast Dash Over Ocean Frederic M. Sackett, United States ambassador, and members of his staff congratulated the fliers, as did German officials. The American flag was hoisted and the “Star Spangled Banner” played. “We took 10 hours and 50 minutes to cross the ocean,” Mattern said. They thus established an easy record for the Atlantic flight. The fliers said they were not tired, and hoped to continue to Moscow tonight. A United States embassy official asked if the fliers wanted to retire to a room at the airport hotel, previously arranged for them. They declined. They Want to “Get Away” Waiters from the flying field restaurant appeared, offering beer. Both declined and asked for water. Shortly after the landing the rain storm broke and thunder and lightning rolled over the field. “We had awful weather all night after leaving Harbor Grace,” said Griffin. “It was all fog and rain, but we saw the sun in the morning.” After giving instructions for refueling, Griffin asked, "is there any place we can shave? We have our own razor.” “We want to get going in an hour if possible,” he added. HITS ROOSEVELT PLAN Governor Silent After Attack on Proposal by Arthur Hyde. By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., July 6.—Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt declined today to comment on a statement by Agriculture Secretary Arthur M. Hyde that his reforestation plan as an aid to economic recovery was “utterly visionary.” He indicated, however, he would issue an answer later. SU ES FOR $42,000,000 ' ' Doherty Asks Record Damages from Kansas City Paper. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 6. Two suits seeking damage of $42,000,000 were filed against the Kansas City Star today by Henry L. Doherty, head of the billion-dollar cities service organization and one of its subsidiaries, the Cities Service Cm Company.