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NURSE’S SKILL THRUSTS ASIDE DEATH’S HAND Mrs. McCormick Clings to Life Only by Miracle in Treatment. END IS BELIEVED NEAR Roused for Few Moments to Greet Daughter, Home After Long Trip. Bn Timi s Bpeeinl CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, dowager of America's wealthiest family, renewed her losing fight against death today, after her life was saved Thursday night by a nursing miracle. Physicians feared the end rapidly was nearing, but there was one note of cheer in the sickroom, for the family was reunited for the first time in years in the ne%r-presence of death. Mrs. McCormick was alive today only because of the superlative skill of Florence L. Everett, famed eastern nurse. “Aunt Flo," as she is known to the hundreds of patients whom she has nursed back to health, brought the sufferer out of a coma in which she had lain for hours, after physicians had abandoned hope. Unable lo Talk to Daughter Miss Everett, with the last hope for recovery of her patient relinquished, had returned to the apartments of Fowler McCormick, to pack her bags for the return trip to the east. A few moments before, Mrs. Mathilde Oser, daughter of Mrs. McCormick, had arrived after a 7,000mile trip from Switzerland. Her mother was unconscious and members of the family feared she would not emerge from the coma to speak a word of farewell to her daughter. Word was sent to Miss Everett. She rushed back to the sickroom. The presence of Mrs. Oser gave her the determination to take a desperate chance. ‘‘You may feel that this process Is too drastic for a woman in Mrs. McCormicks condition," she told attending doctors, who stood by helplessly. "But if she is going to die, anyway, this may revive her long enough to speak to Mrs. Oser." Consciousness Returns For an hour, the nurse administered a hydro-therapeutic treatment. She washed away the gas and other obstructions in the stomach of the patient with water, which had paralyzed the sick woman's nerves and mind. Finally there was a storing, a flutter of the eyelids. Then Mrs. McCormick opened her eyes. Consciousness returned. She smiled at Miss Everett, stretched out her hand to the head of her kneeling daughter, and murmured a few words of greeting and love. Physicians gave full tribute to the skill of "Aunt Flo.” They admitted, however, that the end could be forestalled but a short time longer. Kepi Alive by Will Even now, they said, the woman who for years has been the dictator of Chicago society is kept alive almost entirely by her indomitable will to live. The psychology she learned in several years’ study under Frued and Jung in Switzerland is aiding her. they said, in the unequal fight. Her condition was given as unchanged in the last bulletin issued from the sickroom. However, physicians feared their patient might suffer another sinking spell of the type which several times in recent weeks nerlv has brought death. In an apartment close by the McCormick suite were Mrs. Mathilde McCormick Oser. wife of a former Swiss riding master, and 'Mrs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, daughters of the stricken woman Mrs. McCormick’s son Fowler and his wife, and her divorced husband. Harold F. McCormick. CHEER GIVEN HOOVER Senator Bingham Tells President He'll Carry New England. By t nitrd Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut Thursday assured President Hoover that he will carry the New England states. That section of the country liked the President's acceptance speech. Bingham asserted, especially his prohibition stand. Bingham led the battle for a repeal plank in the platform at the G. O. P. national comention in Chicago.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 86

Faced Death by Freezing 'Fen Miles Above Earth

Professor August Piccard (left) and his assistant, Max Cosyns. BY GIUSEPPE JACOMUCCI United Press Special Correspondent

DESENZANO. Italy, Aug. 19.—The eerie sensation experienced by a man who flew in a "dark sky" during below zero temperatures while people on earth sweltered" was described today by Professor August Piccard after his ten and one-half mile flight into the stratosphere, a flight which took him higher than any human being has gone. Piccard brought his gigantic balloon down near the village of Cavallar di Monzanbano late Thursday. He told how he and his assistant, Max Cosyns, peered from the portholes of their gleaming white gondola toward an earth they could not recognize.

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COURT AID CUTS BOND $45,000 Judge Pro Tem. Takes Advice of Probation Officer. On recommendation of Joel Baker, criminal court probation officer and former city purchasing agent, Edward McElfresh, criminal court judge pro tem., and county pauper attorney, today reduced from $50,000 to $5,000 the bond necessary for release of Glenn McClearey, 233 North Pine street, held in connection with the robbery slaying of Jack Werner, loan shop operator, Aug. 1 at Werner's shop, 234 Indiana avenue. The reduction was made in the absence of Judge Frank P. Baker, who fixed the bond at $50,000 before leaving the city on his vacation. McClearey, according to police, was in company of Stanley Parker and Ray Love, held for the alleged slaying, the night before the robbery. The suspect is charged with being an accessory before murder and with conspiracy to rob. Judge Baker’s order required bond of $25,000 on each of the charges, but under Joel Baker's recommendation, the suspect now may be liberated on $5,000 bond.

CLIENT FACES JUDGE Til Plead Not Guilty,’ Says Burglar Suspect. By an add turn of affairs in criminal court today, Edward C. McElfresh, pauper attorney, and judge pro tern, was judge in the case of his own client. The double role of defender and judge proved too embarrassing for McElfresh. who informed his client, "I don't remember you." The attorney searched for the proper legal disposition of such a mixup while the prosecutor and court attaches chuckled. “You're Mr. McElfresh. my attorney. aren’t you?’’ the prisoner. Gilbert Hancock, a burglar suspect inquired. *T guess I'll plead not guilty, if its all right with you. You remember our agreement down in jail, don't you," Hancock said. Hancock looked dazed when McElfresh said: “I don't remember you." Wants Roar Torn From Planes By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—What American aviation needs, according to Senator Hiram Bingham (Conn.), is a quieter motor for passenger planes. Bingham is concluding his fourth year as president of the National Aeronautic Association.

By ARCH STEINEL THIS may net mean a thing. If the hotdog could talk, maybe he could tell us. If the little crude ring that bends easily— and passes for a wedding ring—in a 5 and 10 store on Washington street could talk, it might be able to tell us something about it. too As it is, you’ll have to guess the end. if it had an end. But maybe it wasn't an end. at all—maybe it was a beginning. name was Grade. At least

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The scientists said the cold was so intense that they feared, for a while, that they would freeze to de&th within the sealed ball that hung from the giant gas bag. "Our ascent from Zurich," said Professor Piccard, “was very rapid. We reached our maximum altitude of about 16,500 meters (between ten and eleven miles) within three hours. At that time our instruments registered 36 degrees below zero, centigrade. “You may recall that on last year’s flight we almost were suffocated by the heat, because the gondola absorbed the sun’s rays. That’s why I had it painted a glistening white this time, and we suffered terribly from cold. You see, I was wearing only a sport suit and tennis shoes. “Os course, I'm not certain yet as to the altitudes we attained, but I feel that it probably was close to 17,000 meters (over ten and onehalf miles.) I’ll know as soon as the instruments are examined.” The balloon was in the air about eleven hours and traveled in a. circular route across the Alps from Switzerland into Italy. LINDY BABY BORN IN N. Y.; NOT ENGLEWOOD Second Son Arrived at Metropolitan Apartment of Mrs. Morrow. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—The second Lindbergh baby boy was born in the New York apartment of its grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, and not at the Englewood home, the birth certificate indicated. The certificate, received Thursday night, disclosed the place of birth as No. 4 East Sixty-sixth street. The age of the father, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, was given as 30, and the age of the mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 26. WOULD YOU LEND ME YOUR LINGERIE, LADY? That Question to 1.000 Housewives Lands Phone Caller in Jail. Bn United Press MUSKEGON, Mich., Aug. 19. Peace reigned in the police station today, and housewives went about their work without telephone interruptions from a man who wished to know if he could borrow their lingerie. Harry Startup. 50, the confessed cause of all the trouble, was arrested after police intercepted one of his telephone calls. He said he had made 1,000 such calls on Muskegon women. He wanted the lingerie, he said, for a theatrical production.

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MODELS FORM UNION 1,000 Girls Who Pose for Artists in Chicago Get A. F. of L. Charter. By l nited Press CHICAGO. Aug. 19.—A new union, first of its kind ever organized, has received its charter from the American Federation of Labor. The object of the organization is to standardize hours and working conditions of the young women who pose for long hours in illustrators' studios. Dies of Auto Injuries By United Press CINCINNATI. Aug. 19.—Harold Vawter, 19, truck driver, of Rising Sun. Ind., died here today of injuries received Sunday in an automobile accident at Rising Sun.

he railed her that as he elbowed her sunburned arm up to the hotdog counter. "You. hungry. Hon?" he asked as he dug and fumbled deep down in a pocket for a coin. The cheap white beret-head nodded. She took the “dog" and asked. "Just a bit of mustard. "He did not eat. He fingered the coin pocket after payment of the “dog.” Gracie stood on one toe looking at him. "There * a Quarter left

QUIZ CAVALIER OF OLD SOUTH ABOUT KILUNG Dashing Figure Who Wooed Slain Aristocrat 40 Years Ago Questioned. MYSTERY IS DEEPENED Ashes of Romance Glow as Woman Recluse Murder Probe Goes On. Bit United Tress NATCHEZ, Miss., Aug. 19.—Duncan Minor, dashing cavalier of the old south who wooed Jane Surget Merrill forty years ago, who inherited her fortune when she was slain, and who first called police after her death, has been fingerprinted and questioned in the crime. The revelation that the sheriff questioned Minor late Thursday night created a small sensation in this community, already aroused over a mystery that had raked the ashes of romance that burned brightly in the old south of two decades ago. Minor had led in the hunt for the slayres of Miss Merrill, daughter of a former minister to Belgium, a friend of President Grant and a figure in the court of St. James and at Brussels in her day. He first called police when Negroes reported they heard screams at Glenn Burnne, the tumble-down old nalatial estate in which Miss Merrill had secluded herself from the outside world. He offered SIOO reward for the arrest of the killers. He had caused the arrest of many. Power in Politics • Minor is powerful politically, financially and physically. He announced he had no need for Miss Minor’s estate, when her will revealed that she had left her property, worth about $175,000 to him because “he knew what she would want to do with it." Minor frequently denied he had married Miss Merrill to quiet rumors that persisted as result of their for-ty-year-ago romance. The two, howeverfi lived on adjoining estates. He was one of the few neighbors not fingerprinted or questioned in the early stages of the investigation. A local doctor announced today he had received a leter from a 32-year-old woman in Indianapolis, who claimed she was Miss Merrill’s daughter. The woman’s letter said that she ha and read newspaper accounts of the slaying ‘‘of my mother whom I have not heard from in years,” and she asked the doctor, who was among those present when the body was found, for details. Letter Given to Sheriff The doctor turned the letter over to the sheriff, who refused to reveal the woman's name. Two old neighbors, romantic, mysterious figures in this old southern community, had been questioned, finger-printed, and finally charged with murder in the death. One was Richard Dana, pianist, cultured, but eccentric nephew of Charles A. Dana, the journalist. He retired from the social whirl in the old south when he believed an injury to his hand ruined his future as a musician. The second was Octavia Dockery, daughter of the famous confederate general, also a social figure, a woman who abandoned her old friends to become Dana's housekeeper in an old estate, now known here as “Goats Palace.” Quarrel Over Goat Herd She and Miss Merrill had quarreled often because her goat herd wandered onto the estate of the latter. There, too, had been reports of a romanc in which Miss Merrill and Dana figured before Miss Merrill met Minor. Both Dana and Miss Dockery are free today, awaiting a complete grand jury investigation. It will determine if murder charges stand against them. Meanwhile, another mysterious figure, Lawrence Pearles, a Negro, had been named by investigators as the probable slayer. A third set of finger-prints found in the slain woman’s homes were similar to his. He had a gun which might have fired the fatal bullets. Pearles was shot dead in a gun fight in Pine Bluff. Ark. News of his death recalled to investigators that Miss Merrill had been threatened by a former employe a few days before she was slain. They investigated his finger prints. further~stay“gr"anted Bonham Execution at Chicago Now Is Set for Sept. 9. Bn United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 19.—A further stay in execution until Sept. 9 of his sentence to die in the electric chair was granted Howard Bonham, Evansville youth, today by James J. Kelly, acting chief justice of criminal court. A sanity hearing was set for Sept. 6.

now." he added. She nodded with. "Want a bite,” as she proffered the sandwich. nun HE shook his head. She hummed the song the 5-and--10 piano “plugger” played. “A dime's enough for the other. Bill. We don't have to have it. Do you reckon you'll get that two days work they promised this week?” "Yeah! That's a cinch. We'll get along all right," assured

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Upper Photo—“ Goodbye, Jim. and good luck,” says Amy Johnson to her newlywed husband, Captain James A. Mollison, as he took off from Portmamock Strand, Ireland. Lower—Mollison's tiny PuSs-Moth plane.

LESLIE TO PERMIT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP UTILITY BILL TO DIE

Claiming that the public ownership utility bill constitutes “a perpetual threat of confiscation of private property,” Governor Harry G Leslie announced today that the bill will be “pocket vetoed.” Similar fate awaits seven other special session measures, including the pari-mutuel bill, not acted on by Leslie when he went to the Dunes state park Thursday afternoon. He had until midnight Saturday to make them laws. Gaylord S. Morton, secretary to Leslie, announced the pocket veto this morning with the following prepared statement: “I am directed to announce that no further consideration will be given any of the remaining measures passed at the special session of the legislature, which were not received at this office two days prior to its adjournment.” Attaches Notes of Comment The Governor attached notes of comment to each bill, giving his reasons for its rejection. To the pari-mutuel betting bill was attached the following: “I am opposed to educating our children with gangland money.” The bill would have legalized betting machines at dog and horse races upon payment of a SIOO license fee to the state auditor, money to be placed in the common school fund of the state. Realizing the importance of the municipal utility measure, which was supported by the Municipal Rights League, Leslie attached a lengthy memorandum to the bill. Cites Ogden Opinion In it he cited the opinion of At-torney-General James M. Ogden, which held that competing publiclyowned plants could not be erected for a five-year psriod. The bill provided for erection of publicly-owned plants upon a referendum vote, condemnation of private plants, financing by earnings and removal of public service commission jurisdiction. “Home rule” for municipal utilities would have been established with all regulartory powers resting with the city councils. "Thousands of patrons of municipal plants do not desire the authority to supervise and regulate

as they "moseyed” down the store aisle to a certain counter. Gracie picked up one circlet and held it up to him. "Orange blossoms on it like the real ones. Bill.” He nodded and looked around for listeners, saw one, and blushed. "Let’s try another place, what say?” he urged. "This one's all right. Bill. And I—l kind of held out on you, Bill; see. I’ve got a dime for it.”

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municipal plants removed from the public service commission,” Leslie said. Commenting on the possibility of erection of a publicly-owned plant to compete with private utilities, he said: “This provision constitutes a perpetual threat of confiscation of the property of any privately-owned public utilities now giving adequate service in the state of Indiana. This provision violates every sound principle of public utility construction, operation and regulation.” Citing objections to each section of the Niblack bill to permit the Governor to borrow funds from the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation for use in poor relief, Leslie summed up his reasons for pocket veto as follows: ‘ Tv? bill is totally incompatible with the federal relief law and the rules laid down by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and should be vetoed to allow the system already instituted by the federal government to proceed.”

BLAME IN LODGE LOTTERY DENIED BY SEN. DAVIS; INDICTMENT TO BE FOUGHT

BY LEO R. SACK Tim** Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania will fight vigorously the indictment brought against him in New York for alleged violation of the lottery law, he announced today. When Davis was here last week to attend President Hoover's notification ceremonies, he was aware that a federal grand jury was considering the possibility of his indictment. He discussed the case then, and asserted emphatically that he had had nothing whatsoever to do with the scheme. “I never got a nickel out of it personally, directly or indirectly,” he declared. It was Davis’ contention that he was not consulted when the Moose lodge entered into the lottery arrangement with the promoter, who also has been indicted.

SHE opened a frowzy' purse, and displayed a dime. A clerk took it., and the circlet. No plush-box held her purchase as it was returned. Just a small sack with the top twisted tight. She clasped Bill's hand and the sack was crushed in a mutual grip. The song-plu?ger brought out a new tune. The hotdogs bobbed in the hot water of the counter. They were lost in the crowd at the store's entraiape.

Mollison, ‘British Lindy,’ Is First American to Make Solo Westward Crossing of Atlantic; Too Tired to Make New York. EXHAUSTED AS HE LANDS PLANE Brings Tiny Craft to Earth at Penn field Ridge, New Brunswick, 35 Miles From St. John; Sends Message to His Bride. By United Press PENNFIELI) RIDGE, N. 8., Aug. 19.—James A. Mollison, first aviator to make a solo flight westward across the Atlantic, brought his silver-grey Puss Moth monoplane down here at 12:50 p. m. (eastern daylight time) today, too exhausted to continue his record flight from Ireland to New York. Despite his fatigue, Mollison was happy over his achievement and his first thought was of his bride, Amy Johnson, British woman flier, and he dictated a message to the United Press for transmission to her in London.

STRIKERS MOB MINE GUARDS Violence Flares in Illinois Trouble Zone. By United Press TAYLORVILLE. 111., Aug. 19. Violence flared in the Christian county coal trouble zone today. Two mine guards were taken from their automobiles near the Peabody mine at Langleyville, beaten and told to “get the hell away from here as fast as you can.” Unoccupied homes of two miners at Kincaid were destroyed, either by bombs or Incendiary fires. The disorder cropped out in the hitherto peaceable Invasion of the Taylorville coal region by 15,000 miners on “strike” against the new $5-a-day basic wage scale. The invaders, constituting probably the largest picket army in Illinois labor history stood in banks about mines near here that they forced to close today. W. C. Argust, superintendent of the Peabody Coal Company s mines in Christian county, reported that the two guards at Langleyville were slugged. Despite the disorder, authorities said they did not believe it was necessary to call for state troops.

REFUSES U, S. POST Hoosier Turns Down Job on Federal Farm Board. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.—The White House announced today that Ernest B. Thouas of Rushville, Ind., had found it “impossible” to accept his appointment as a member of the federal farm board by President Hoover several days ago. “Pardon Week” Is Ordered FRANKFORT. Ky„ Aug. 19. Governor Ruby Laffoon. harassed by a flood of petitions for pardons and paroles, will set aside one week in each month as “pardon week, ’ he announced today.

He claimed, also, that he persuaded Moose officials to discontinue the arrangement. The Moose are alleged to have gained $250,000 from the arrangement which money was applied to "Mooseheart," an institution outside of Chicago which cares for dependent survivors of members of the order. Davis is one of the founders of "Mooseheart.” Davis is a candidate for reelection, and Republican leaders are fearful that the indictment may prove harmful politically, not only for him, but also for Republican candidates generally. Because of his prominence, politically, and the fact that he served as secretary of labor in the cabinets of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, his indictment caused considerable political discussion. Davis personally is popular with Republican organization leaders in and out of the senate. In a statement telephoned to his office last night Davis said: "I have sent for a copy of the indictment. and I shall engage counsel and ask for an immediate trial. "I am sure these charges will prove false. “I ask the people, especially those of Pennsylvania, to withhold judgment until the trial.” The department of justice made no comment on the indictment. Davis was nominated May 23, 1930, defeating former Senator Joseph R. Grundy, to fill the unexpired term of former Senator-Elect William S. Vare, who was refused (Turn to Page 131 I

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The strain of piloting his little craft, heavily loaded with gasoline, for nearly 3,000 miles across the ocean proved too great for Mollison, and although he still had gasoline, he decided it would be unwise to attempt the additional GOO miles to New York. He left Portmarnock Strand, Ireland, at 5:35 a. m. (eastern standard time) Thursday and flew across the Atlantic at an estimated speed of more than 100 miles an hour. Although he had intended refueling at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, if it should prove necessary, he passed there in the dark early this morning and continued down the coast to Nova Scotia. Sighted Over Halifax At about 5 a. m. he was sighed over Halifax, but apparently was not certain of his bearings, for he lingered in the vicinity for an hour, and then headed westward. A few hours later he was sighted over St. John, N. 8., and thereafter his progress was followed definitely down the coast toward Maine. When he sighted the airfield here, however, Mollison decided to land and rest before going on. He was afraid, in his exhausted condition, that he might not be able to manage the plane, or might fall asleep. His voice was faint and tired when he talked to the United Press. Half Hour From U. S. Pcnnfield is thirty-five miles southwest of St. John. Mollison was expected to go there for a good night's rest before proceeding to New York. Pennfield Ridge is located on the reeky foreshores of the Bay of Fundy, arm of the sea which projects northeastward from the gulf of Maine, and Separates New Brunswick and the peninsula of Nova Scotia. Had Mollison continued in the air for half an hour longer he would have landed within the United States. PRICES FALLING, BUT FARMERS FIGHT ON Strikers Press Embargo Despite Slump in Produce Costs. By Untied Prttn SIOUX CITY, la., Aug. 19.—Embattled farmers pressed their embargo of farm produce shipments vigorously today despite the fact prices which they had expected the strike to strengthen were falling. Farmers of three states were cooperating in a blockade of this city which effectively halted all shipments by truck of milk, dairy products, livestock and produce. The city’s only supplies were brought in by rail. Shortages vegetables and other products were blcoming acute. Grocers reported heavy sale of canned goods. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 55 10 a. m 64 7a. m 57 11 a. m 66 8 a. m 59 12 (noon).. 68 9 a. m 62 1 p. m 69

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