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Nation Is Crossed in Nonstop Plane Hop by Amelia Earhart

FIRST WOMAN TO MAKE TRIP IN ONE DASH Lee and Bochkon Leave Newfoundland; Oslo Is Their Goal. By Vn ilnl Prrss NEWARK, N. J„ Aug. 25—Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam landed at Newark airport at 11:30 a. m. (eastern daylight time), at the end of her transcontinental airplane flight from Los Angeles. She left the Los Angeles municipal airport at 4:27 p. m. (eastern daylight time) Wednesday. Her elapsed time for the cross country flight was approximately 19 hours 3 minutes. She is the first woman ever to fly nonstop across the country. The speed record is 11 hours 11 minutes, established by Major James Doolittle. Before departing from Los Angeles, Miss Earhart said she was not seeking to break the record, but merely attempting to prove that a woman could fly nonstop from coast to coast.

30 Hours From Oslo BY JOHN T. MEANY United Pres* Staff Correspondent HARBOR GRACE, Newfondland, Aug. 25.—Two young American bachelors swept out of Harbor Grace early today in their red monoplane, the Green Mountain Boy, on a non-stop ocean flight intended to end in Oslo, Norway. Clyde Allen Lee and John Bochkon clambered into their ship shortly after dawn, and with their motor roaring a last farewell to a small group of spectators, left the runway and headed into the misty east at 5.01 (Eastern Standard Time). The two fliers took their plane into the air with 460 gallons of gasoline on board—enough they believed to carry them 4,000 miles. They estimated the distance between Harbor Grace and Kjeller field, Oslo, at 3,150 miles. 30 Hours Is Goal Their ship has a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour with a maximum speed of 140 miles an hour. They hope to be in Oslo within thirty hours. They left Barre, Vt., Tuesday morning. Lee, who is 24 and chief pilot, is from Osh’-.osh, Wis. He originally intended starting his flight from there. An offer of SI,OOO from Barre. however, led him to bring his plane east and begin the journey in Vermont. Bochkon is four years older than Lee and is from Brooklyn. The Green Mountain Boy is powered by. a Wright Whirlwind motor, capable of 220-horsepower. The doors of the plane’s cabin have been sealed to provide more space for fuel storage. A hole has been cut in the top of the cabin for entrance and exit. The plane carries no radio. Meanwhile on the island of Anticosti in the estuary of the St, Lawrence river, the “flying family” of Colonel George Hutchinson made ready to continue toward Europe. Hutchinson flew his giant Sikorsky amphibian from St. John, N. 8., to Port Menier, Anticosti, Wednesday. Holds Ten Persons Colonel Hutchinson has with him his wife, his two young daughters, a navigator, a cameraman, radio operator and mechanic. His amphibian seats ten persons. He has removed the landing gear, intending to make the remainder of his stops on water. His flight was without mishap. The Norwegians, Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen, who crashed in Paradise sound after vainly trying to find a landing place, were surly and uncommunicative after their accident late Tuesday. They still are at Barry's harbor, scene of the crash. Their crackup was caused by a stalled engine while flying at 5.00 C feet to escape fog. They were forced to glide to a landing, about 300 yards from shore, stripping the wings. Both men got out and clung to th wreckage until rescued by fishermen The plane was towed into the harbor.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 91

City Men Head Parties’ Fight for Labor Votes

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BY MAX STERN Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The fight for labor votes has begun in both major parties with the appointment of two nationally-known labor leaders to head each of the parties’ labor committees. The Republicans have named William Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters and Joiners’ International, who has gone to Chicago to take over his duties of “selling Hoover” to the American wage-earners.

The Democrats have named Daniel J. Tobin, for twenty-five years head of the Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ International, a member of the A. F. of L. executive council, and the federation’s representative at the British trades council in London and the Pan-American union. Both Hutcheson and Tobin are from Indianapolis. The coming labor battle leans toward the Democrats. While Hutchinson will make good use of the Hoover-Doak employment service and its seasoned labor politicians, and while there is a fair proportion of Republicans among the labor movement’s leaders, the big majority of the rank and file are said to be pro-Roosevelt. This is not only because of the wet and liberal terms of the Democratic platform, but because of the Hoover record on labor issues. The workers have a bill of complaints against the Hoover administration that includes the following: Nomination to the supreme bench of Judge Parker, whom labor defeated as one of its bitterest enemies, and the subsequent naming of Judges Mackintosh and Wilkerson, also rated as labor-baiters. Failure of Hoover to get behind the Norris-La Guardia injunction bill, the biggest labor measure of a decade. Although Hoover signed it, his attorney-general sought to argue the unconstitutionally of parts of its provisions. Hoover’s opposition to the federal relief measure called the Costigan-La Follette bill. Hoover's opposition to the entire Wagner program, particularly the Wagner employment exchange measure which the administration vetoed in favor of the Doak measure. Hoover's failure to support the maternity-infancy, old age pension and other labor bills. The A. F. of L. is nonpartisan itself, and officially will devote itself to the election of friends and defeat of enemies in congress.

DEATH CHEATS JAIL John Cochrane, Serving 40 Days, Succumbs. Death today cut short the jail term of John Cochrane, 50. Craig hotel. Removed from the county jail Wednesday he died early today of pneumonia at city hospital. He was fined $lO and costs for drunkenness, and failing to pay, was committed to jail for forty days. He entered the jail Aug. 10. MRS. M’CORMICK SINKS DEEPER INTO COMA Wealthy Chicago Woman's Condition Grave, Say Physicians. By United Prtss CHICAGO, Aug. 25. Edith Rockefeller McCromick sank deeper into coma today and her physicians said her condition was “very critical.’’ The noon bulletin from her bedside said: “The condition of Mrs. McCormick continues very critical. She now is unconscious and fails to recognize any one except at infrequent intervals." SHOWERS ARE FORECAST Lower Temperatures Also Seen for Friday by Armington. Relief from warm weather in form of showers and lower temperatures was forecast for Friday by J. H. Armington, weather man. Although the mercury Wednesday touched 90 twice and was expected to hover near the same spot today, a drop of about eight degrees may be expected for Friday, accompanied by showers, Armington said.

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ALLE6ED CITY SWINDLER HELD Accuse Ohio Man of $50,000 Indianapolis Fraud. Charged with an alleged swindle resulting in loss of $50,000 to Indianapolis business men, Harry E. Hessler, 43, of Gendale, 0., was to be returned here today by detective John Dalton. Hessler is alleged to have won confidence of several local busiess men while buyer for a chain grocery company. It is charged he made investments for them that netted large profits. They allege their last investment of $50,000 was taken by Hessler. Hessler waived extradition, and must face grand jury charges of embezzlement and grand larceny. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker fixed his bond at SIO,OOO when the indictment was returned several days ago. Hessler specifically is charged with embezzling $3,500 from Arthur R. Brown, 4301 North Pennsylvania street, Century Biscuit Company treasurer. Hessler is alleged to have represented, that because of his job as purchasing agent, he could buy car load lots of distressed can goods at bargain prices. For a while he gave his clients checks showing huge profits from their investments. A few of the business men who charge they lost money are: O. K. Van Ausdall. Indiana manager of the Ediphone Company, $17,500; C. G. Schlosser, manager of Schlosser Brothers Creamery Company, SIO,OOO, and Arial Huntsinger, purchasing agent for Van Camp Packing Company, $15,000. LEADS CORD CUP FLIERS Oklahoman Heads Pacific Wing of Flight Into Missiouri. By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. Aug. 25. —Roy Hunt of Norman, Okla., led the Pacific wing of the Cord cup fliers in the Bartlesville-Jefferson City lap today, retaining his lead over the other pilots and bringing his total point score to 1,315. He landed at 10:35 a. m. The Atlantic wing of the flight left Bartlesville an hour later than the Pacific fliers.

CAL-AND-AL PUZZLE WORRIES VOTE WOOERS

BY RAY TUCKER • Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Cal and A1 arc the question marks of presidential politics today. The two canniest men in American politics—Calvin Coolidge and Alfred E. Smith—are giving more worry to the candidates and strategists of the major parties than the problems of prohibition and prosperity.

And the blunt blandishments with which each camp is seeking to capture its Goliath almost are pitiful. In naming Everett Sanders as his national chairman, President Herbert Hoover generally was believed to have been motivated by a desire to woo his distinguished predecessor. This impression was confirmed when Sanders’ first act was to pay a visit to Coolidge, and apparently ask him to take the stump in the campaign. Despite Sanders’ optimistic smile, it is understood that the Vermonter would prefer to remain on the political sidelines. He did not attend the Hoover notification ceremony. Now Hie administration has made another move to cater to Coolidge. Hoover has named Edward T. Clark as his secretary during the temporary absence of Theodore G. Joslin.

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The gesture is considered significant because Clark perhaps is closer, politically, to the ex-President than any other figure. Besides serving as Coolidge’s secretary in the White House, Clark was Coolidge’s confidential man when the New Englander was VicePresident and Governor of Massachusetts. He also trains with the

GUNS mo lOWA JAIL IN FARM STRIKE Sheriff Fears Attempt at Rescue of 60 Pickets Under Arrest. TEAR GAS IS EMPLOYED Agrarians Retaliate Withj Barrage of Stones and Sticks. BY T. W. INGOLDSBY United Press Staff Correspondent COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Aug. 25. —Fearing i mass attack on the Council Bluffs jail, where sixty striking farmers are held, Sheriff Percy Lainson threw a machine gun barricade around the structure today. Lainson called in most of his 10C special deputies. He said he was ready to combat any attempt to deliver the prisoners. Three men with sub-machine guns were posted at vantage points. Deputies watched all avenues of approach. Council Bluffs furnished its entire police arsenal to arm the guards.

Arrests—sixty-six in all—came during a night of violence in which the strikers, their numbers increasing hourly, emerged victorious fti the first pitched battle of Sheriff Lainson’s campaign to “run every striker out of Pottawatomie county.” In this engagement four officers using tear gas in an attempt to disperse a picket camp on a highway leading into Council Bluffs, were injured by a rain of clubs and stones, and by broken glass from the windows of their automobiles.

Forced to Stop The strikers fell upon them when their car, carrying cans of tear gas on the running board, was forced by a stalled machine to stop in the crowd. More than three thousand persons, including many women and children, watched as the strikers, disregarding the choking gas, rushed the car, hurling sticks and stones against the windows. The officers were showered by broken glass and missiles. Their own eyes streaming tears from the effects of the gas pouring in through the shattered windows, the men finally started their autos and disappeared. The injured were: Henry *C. Hall, chemical warfare officer of the lowa national guard, who accompanied the officers because of his knowledge of the use of tear gas. Hall suffered two long gashes on the head. C. H. Pangborn, deputy game warden, three-inch cut on neck. Phil Mosher, Council Bluffs patrolman, cuts and bruises. A1 Watson, Council Bluffs patrolman, cuts and bruises. Officers Outnumbered Outnumbered by the pickets, Sheriff Lainson’s forces gave up further attacks. During early morning hours, many arrests of striking farmers were made. Strike leaders worked through the night strengthening their blockade. Not a truck bearing live stock or produce passed the lines to enter the Omaha market from the lowa side. A few milk trucks were permitted to get through, since the Producers Association has signed anew agreement with Omaha creameries. Picketing forces were increased by arrival of recruits from several nearby towns and counties, according to leaders of the movement. At night, thousands of curious city folk visit the camps of the strikeis.

POOR OF DETROIT GO ON BREAD, MILK DIET Grocers Refuse City More Credit for Purchase of Food for Needy. By United Press DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 25.—About 2,000 Detroit families went on a bread and milk diet today because grocers have refused the city further credit in the purchase of food for the poor, announced William C. Markley, public welfare secretary. He said the city already owes the grocers $46,000 for food bought in June and July. The bread and milk diet, added Markley, will be extended to 21,140 other families now getting aid, as soon as their present grocery supplies give out.

18,000 Miners Routed; Scores Hurt in Losing Battle to Close Shafts

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REQUEST for a blood test to determine parentage of a child was denied Wednesday by Russell Newgent, juvenile judge pro tem., who ruled the Indiana law does not permit such comparison between a child and the man believed the father. Consequently the five-year court battle of Mrs. Margaret Griffin Horn. 24, of 3525 Roosevelt avenue, to obtain support for her daughter Barbara, 6, will be decided on “evidence submitted” on Wednesday. Mrs. Horn is “sorry the court would not permit the test,” because she says, she is certain it would have ended “the fight she started in county courts in 1927. Howard Griffin, 37, of 319 Cleveland avenue, who requested the tesr, denies he is father of the child, born four months after his separation from Mrs. Horn.

TN court, the mother pointed to the 6-year-old daug ht e r’s brown eyes and curly hair, only to be informed that comparison with Griffin would not be competent evidence. Proceedings in a divorce case in superior court four in 1926, and records of a hearing before Juvenile Judge Frank Lahr, in 1927. will be in evidence to be presented Wednesday. The mother, now remarried, was given custody of Barbara, but was denied $3,500 alimony when granted a divorce from Griffin. When Barbara was 15 months old, Griffin paid S4O support with understanding “the payment in no Way was an acknowledgement of his being the father of the child,” testimony has revealed. Griffin listened, calm a"hd unperturbed, to the court’s ruling' on his petition for a blood test. He did not speak to his former wife or Barbara during the hearing. DRAG WOUNDED MAN FROM BURNING BARN Farmer’s Throat Slashed; Suicide Claim Is Doubted. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 25.—A farmer, with his throat cut and his body battered, was rescued from a burning barn on his farm near here today. Authorities were unable to determine immediately whether he attempted suicide or was the victim of an attack. The farmer, Maurice Miller, 59, was taken to a hospital in a critical condition. Two stepsons, Henry and Joseph Wagner, told police they believed Miller attempted suicide. Officials said, however, that they admitted participating in a fight with Miller.

Bay state political faction that advanced Coolidge from a small-town mayor to the White House. The Democrats’ efforts to lasso the popular 1928 nominee have been just as obvious. When Speaker John N. Garner, the Democrats’ vicepresidential nominee, visited New York, his first act was to see Smith,

and bluntly beg him to take off his coat and vest for the ticket. Other mutual friends of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and the “Happy Warrior” have made the same plea, but without much success so far as developments indicate. Curiously, the Cal-and-Al situation is more involved than appears on the surface. The Republicans want Coolidge in the field because they feel that his strength in northeastern states may combine with the resentment of Smith's followers to carry this territory for Hoover. If Cal takes the stump and A1 doesn’t, the G. O. P. hopes to sweep such important states as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts. If A1 gets into the fight and Cal stays out. it may work the other way ’round. If both acquiesce to political pleadings, the major parties figure it will be fifty-fifty. The mixup has an amusing aspect in that, although Cal and A1 frequently have indicated their

lack of affection for the respective standard-bearers, they often have expressed their respect and liking for each other’s political astuteness. Both, for the present at least, subscribe to the political maxim that "silence is golden.”

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ANNUAL SNAKE DANCE IS HELD Arizona Indian Priests in Prayers for Rain. By United Press HOPI MESA, Hoteville, Ariz., Aug. 25.—Indian priests came (fencing out of the underground today with snakes hanging, writhing aud rattling from their mouths. In the most savage survival of aboriginal customs, the Hopi Indians were staging their annual snake dance and prayer for rain. The dance began today after nine days of secret ceremonies in the kivas, underground caverns where the priests prepare their strange ritual equipment. Since sundown Wednesday the boom of underground drums was heard as the priests chanted and danced themselves into the proper fervor. The rattlesnakes are not defanged, and there is no satisfactory explanation why the Indians are not bitten. Several thousand tourists drove to this remote mesa, 200 miles from civilization, to see the ceremonial. LIVE WIRE KILLS BOY Valparaiso Lad Is Electrocuted; Climbed Tree to See Plane. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Aug. 25 Donald Swank, 11, was electrocuted by a high tension circuit here today when he climbed a tree to watch an airplane. He was the son ofMrs. Perry Swank.

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BATTERED THRONG REFUSES TO RENEW ATTACK, DESPITE LEADERS’ CRY OF ‘COWARDS’ Sheriff’s Army Meets Strikers; Clash Follows in Darkness; Autos Wrecked in Wild Flight From Scene. BY GEORGE E. SCHUPPE United Press Staff Correspondent DUQUOIN, 111,, Aug. 25.—Back over the trail they came Wednesday, shouting and singing in a twenty-mile caravan of flag-draped automobiles, 18,000 union miners returned to central and northern Illinois today,' beaten and discouraged. Although the attempted invasion of Franklin county to picket mines operating under the $5 a day wage scale had been thwarted, the returning strikers received with cheers the news that pickets in other parts of the state had succeeded in closing additional mines.

The miners retreated from the battlefield where at least two men and two women were shot and a hundred were hurt by club blows and flying glass, despite exhortations of their leaders to reform and advance again. Dan McGill, Springfield, urged 8,000 men at Coulterville to march back and brave the fray. “Your comrades will brand you as cowards if you desert them now,” he said. Vote Against Return The Gillespie municipal band played stirring marches. But the hungry, sleep-weary miners, many with bandaged heads and arms, voted against again facing the 800 deputies with machine guns and other arms at the Franklin county line. Five thousand strikers who had retreated only to a field near here also voted to go home. Their action was followed by that of 7,000 who had fallen back to Pinckneyville. While the disorganized divisions abandoned the scene, an airplane roared over Franklin and Williamson counties, dropping circulars, urging miners to quit work. Strike leaders said the two men in the plane were the Hunter brothers of endurance aviation fame from Sparta. It was believed their plane was the one fired on by deputies when it flew low over the scene of last clash at Mulkeyville. Behind them the disorganized horde of striking marchers left a trail of wrecked automobiles and trucks. In Duquoin they left two comrades suffering from buckshot wounds in their arms. Many of them nursed bruised heads and cuts suffered in the battle of the Muddy river. Majority Start Home Some of the men were angry, ready to go back and fight, but most of the 18,500 who joined the march Wednesday had suffered all they cared to and wanted only to get back to their homes. Many of them were hungry. Their trucks, filled with food supplies, were among those wrecked in the mad flight after the battle. Rumors that several men were killed when Sheriff Browning Robinson and his deputies opened fire at Mulkeytown Wednesday night were denied. Many were hurt, however. Six applied for treatments for cuts and bruises at the Duquoin hospital. Many Others Hurt It was estimated that probably twenty-five to 100 others applied their own first aid. The two men who were shot received treatment at a doctor’s office here. The miners organized Wednesday in Macoupin county, several counties north of here. Their intention was to disregard Sheriff Robinson’s j warnings and to march into Franklin county, where mines are being operated under the new scale. They are striking for a return to the old scale of $6,10 a day. Riding in 1,650 automobiles and trucks, the strikers proceeded southward through Bond and Clinton counties, then into this 'Perry) county, where they were stopped twice by deputy sheriffs, warned not to proceed, and told that they could not camp for the night at Dowell, in Jackson county, as they had planned. Determined to Enter The procession, stretching for miles along the highway, then was headed straight across the eastern border toward Franklin county, the men determining to enter the forbidden territory at once, instead of waiting. Traveling slowly, the caravan passed through Duquoin about 6 p. m. At about 8 o’clock, the first automobiles reached the county line. Suddenly, as they drove over a hill, the leaders came face to face with Sheriff Robinson and his army of deputies, estimated at from 300 to 800 men. While the procession waited, Robinson conferred with the strike leaders, told them they could not enter

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or interfere in any way with their brother union miners who were working in Franklin county under the new scale. There was not room at that point for the automobiles to be turned ground, so Robinson said the men could drive on to Mulkeytown, just across the border line, turn and recross the Muddy river homeward. Battle Starts in Dark There are many versions of what happened after that. In the darkness something happened that started the battle. Some witnesses say the deputies, most of them citizens unused to firearms, shot first. Others say the strikers started the trouble. That there was considerable shooting was attested by the automobiles which the men drove back through Duquoin. Many were sprinkled with buckshot. Between 70 and 150 were damaged so badly that their drivers abandoned them. Many were run into ditches in the rush to retreat when the shooting started. A United Press correspondent counted seventy-two overturned automobiles in a stretch of six miles between here and Mulkeytown early today. Many of them were being stripped, he said, by thieves. Sores of the men whose automobiles were wrecked were stranded here with no food, no money, orders to move on, and nothing to move in. They did not know what to do next. Autos Are Wrecked Many of the automobiles still in running order had broken windshields, smashed out, the owners said, by blackjack-wielding deputies. Most of those who were injured were cut by flying glass. As the flight began, leaden rushed orders along the lines for the men to drive to the fairground at Pinckneyville and the ball park at Coulterville, twenty and thirtytwo miles away, respectively, to camp there overnight and be ready for anew march this morning. Some who followed the orders were ordered to move on when they reached those towns. Some of the miners stopped long enough in their flight to express bitter hatred toward Franklin county authorities. They claimed the firing was unjustified. Citizens Back Sheriff The authorities, on * the other hand, pointed out that they had warned the men repeatedly not to enter Franklin county, which contains one of the richest coal fields in the world. Citizens of Franklin county back Robinson almost to a man and hundreds of them were in the army waiting last night at Muddy river bridge. Some carried baseball bats. Others had guns. A few had blackjacks. One elderly man was seen tottering about among the deputies with a pistol in one side of his belt and a long knife in the other. Robinson maintained his army line this morning along a two-mile front, even though it appeared that the trouble was over. His men searched every automobile crossing the county line. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 71 10 a. m 83 7a. m 72 11 a. m 85 8 a. m 77 12 (noon).. 86 9 a. m 82 1 p. m 84

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