• VOL. XII. NO. 16
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r'HOI SE DEFEATS PROPOSAL TO
.? LEGALIE 2.75 PER CENT
BEER, 228 TO 169.
• WASHINGTON.—The House of
i. Representatives today defeated, by
1 228 to 169, a proposal to legalize 2.76
per cent beer and. thereby indicated
that -the commonly reported wet
■ trend in politics has not reached the
point where legislators are ready to
. join it openly. It was the first straight
wet vote in the House since 1919,
i when the Volstead act put the teeth
into the 18th amendment. Coming as
it did just before the national presi
■■ -dentin 1 nominating conventions at
v Chicago, the vote was awaited with
more than usual interest, and defec
• tions of importance from the dry
- side would have been regarded as po
litically significant, but there were
v none.
. BUSINESS LEADERS ORGAN
IZE TO RELIEVE SITUATION
NEW YORK.—A ne wmove to put
a., hundreds of millions of idle dollars
to work was started by a powerful
committee of bankers and industrial
ists, under the chairmanship of Owen
D. Young.
The group was called together by
George' Harrison, governor of the
New York Federal Reserve Bank, to
make Federal reserve policies of
' credit expansion effective and in an
swer to the demand in many quarters
for stimulating recovery of prices.
Authorities hope to find a means of
bringing together the vast idle funds
in banka and the many worthy pro
. jects in need of credit throughout tbs
country.
The group said nothing sufficient!]
definite had been arranged as yet, bul
it was suggested .that one possibli
avenue of credit expansion lay ii
loans to building and loan societies
by large commercial banks., answer
ing a demand for credit for financinf
small homes.
THREATENING LETTERS SENT
TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR
■4
LOS ANGELES.—Police said to
night they were on the trail of a bus
pecfcvbelieved to have sent threatening
letters to Governor James Rolph, Jr.
and two other prominent Californians
The letters warned the Governor, Su
pervisor Frank L. Shaw and Iva*
Kelso, chief counsel for the Automo
bile Clubs of Southern California
that, they would be taken for rides ii
the -Los Angeles County motor patrol
is merged with the State patrol. Tlu
• merger is proposed to save the counts
approximately $240,000, according t<
Jits backers. Supervisor Shaw said t
> member of the county patrol was un
< der suspicion.
(SETS RECORD FOR 200-YD. SWIM
WASHINGTON.—Eleanor Holm, oJ
-the New York Swimming Association,
established an unofficial world’s raarli
for the 200-yard back stroke when
■ ishe swam the event in 2 minutes and
38 seconds.
Pilot AI Monsen, of the Pacific In
ternational, arrived yesterday, bring
ing tile mail, departing today for the
lower Kuakokwim.
Woman Flies
Over Atlantic
AMELIA EARHART PUTNAM IS
FIRST WOMAN TO 'MAKE A
SOL QATLANTI FLIGHT,
LONDON.—Amelia Earhan Put
nam landed at Londonderry, Ireland,
this afternoon, completing the 2,026
mile flight in IS hours and 39 minutes.
She is the first woman to make an
Atlantic sole flight.
After crawling from her plane she
said: "I've done it! 1 had to land in
a pasture outside of Londonderry.
I’m not a bit hurt, and I think the
plane is all right. In addition to the
manifold trouble the gasoline gauge
was broken and there was a little
leakage, so I decided to land. 1 came
down in a nopen field. .1 .am very
glad I have come across 'successfully,
but I am sorry indeed I did not make
France.”
LONDON.—Amelia Earhari T*ut
nam told England today that regular
Transatlante air linee.would be estab
lished in our time .and that she didn't
think any distinction should be drawn
1 between men and women pilots. Then
she ventured out on a very .feminine
shopping tour, on which she bought
dresses, hats and shoes .to replace the
clothes which she borrowed last night
at the American Embassy. She ar
rived in Europe with onl ,yher flying
j kit.
; MAYOR *'»< LOS ANGELES
/« .v “CLI-ANCP"
LOS ANGELES.—After .a stormy
conference between Mayor John C.
Porter, three clergymen and a group
| of civic leaders, the mayor promised
an immediate investigation of charges
, that Los Angeles is wide open. Those
t at the conference included the mayor,
i Police Chief Roy E. Stecker,. Rev. R.
i P. Shuler, Anthony Pratt, secretary
■ of the Municipal League, and Mrs.
; Allie Simmons Wheeler, former pres
! iuent of the Los Angeles WKU. Mrs.
Wheeler declared that she and other
citizens had visited a number of
: speakeasies i nthe downtown districl
and in Hollywood. Some bootleggers,
, she said, were operating within a
, half biock of the Central police sta
. tion. “In some places they told us
! they were paying for protection,’
, said Mrs. Wheeler." That doesn’t
sound much like a bootlegger, admit
ting he .s p .ying protection," inter
posed Rev. Shuh r. Pratt and the
mayor engaged in a tilt of woidi
when the jneslion arose as to whether
Pratt should s'trivnder list of alleged
liquor vendors. At one poir.t of the
argument Pratt ignored the mayor's
invitation to ‘Take ;jour ha. an I
i leave.” The confer- ace ended with
| aueharitios i npusjcss.cn of a list of
alleged so?iljeuics -aaid houses of ill
fame. Ths mayor promised an im
mediate in vest'ga. ion and said that
' the plac s ci' .ol by the citizens group
would be ci n ' up kvithin 24 hours.
• Arthur W. Johnsofhvnairtbe past
two years general manager of the
Alaska Airways, with ^headquarters
at Fairbanks, teaddneA' his resigna
tion to that conaam wptmple of days
ago, according te Teofenfradvices. Joe
' Crosson has-been framed as temporary
I manager. '
SPEAKER GARYER OFFER*
A NEW RELIEF PROGRAM
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WASHINGTON.—Speaker v Garne;
.proposed a new $2400.000,000 relief
program, which met "with the/---ap
proval of -both the Democratic and
Republican side* of Jthe House
.The plan increases the capifcsliza
turn of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation to three billion dona’s
from two billions.
.It reguires no additional Govern
ment machinery for handling. It is
designed to lift the country out of the
economic slump, furnish . employment
to the idle, direct relief to those with
out food and clothing, providing loans
,t.» States, counties and cities for re
lief purposes. .
The plan provides that a billion
dollar bond issue be authorized fox a
'Government building program, with
a tax of one-third of a cent on each
gallon of gasoline providing money
for interest and the sinking fund ro
order not to disturb Federal budget
operations.
5 Horses M
Bad Mix-Up
1 JOCKEY KILLED, 2 OTHERS IN
JURED DURING RACE AT
BAIN BRIDGE, OHIO.
BAINBRIDGK, Q.— JUjad mix-up
between five horses in the third race
at the Bainbridge race ..track today
caused the death of *\jwc11 known
jockey and aerioua injury to two
other riders. .Charles Fegg, Balti
more’s. young jockey. 'Who. has brought
in many a victory on--Southern, .and
Mid-Western tracks, was killed when
his mount spille dalong :with four
other horses at-the initial turn in the
mie race. He sucered a fractured
skull and internal injuries. Jose Her
mandez, of New Orleans,. -waB thrown
and suffered a fractured, skull. His
condition is reported ^critical byrhos
pital. authorities. Willie'Carroll,' of
Latonia, .N. Y., received nuts about
the head and .face when <9 he ’ .was
thrown to the ground in the jam that
horrified six thousand race fans
crowded in the race stands.
STRANGE ANGLES IN STORY
OF JOHN HUGHES CURTIS
HOPEWELL.—Possibility that the
: story of John Hughes Curtis may be
false in part received police attention
today.
A portion of his confession is,-.al
ready considered disproved, that in
which Curtis explained that his pur
pose in the lie was to get money by
sale of his story to newspapers.
Police pointed out that his hoax
was three weeks old before Curtis at
| tempted to sell his story to news
■■ papers. Even so, he could not hope
1 to find buyers unless he recovered the
! baby, which he must have known was
impossible.
I An inquiry is under way to learn
, if Curtis .may not have had same
other motive. An attorney has been
engaged at Norfolk to defend Curtis.
KRUEGER OWED BIG SUM.
STOCKHOLM.—Ivar ‘Krueger, who
until his suicide was considered the
greatest financial genius of modern
j times, died owing $168,300,000, it was
revealed in a nannouncement made by
the Swedish investigating committee
which is probing his affairs.
Items of Importance
In Reecnt News Events
I- "
. WASHINGTON.—A record House
I vote on a bill taxing legalized alco
1 hnlic beer was assured today when
i House anti-prohibitonists secured the
! last of the necessary 145 signatures
! on the petition. The vote will occur
j May 23. The bill would legalize 2.75
S per cent alcoholic beer by weight and
! place a tax of 3 cents per pint on
; beverages manufactured unde r this
| '.aw. The bill provides that he bev
i crage shall be sold only in bottles,
■ avoiding possibility of the saloon re
turning. A further provision is that
beer shall not be sold to be consumed
on. the premises except in hotels, res
taurants and clubs.
BOMBAY, .India.—Savage attacks
and counter-attacks . among rioting
Hindus and Moslems, interspersed
with volleys of. .rifle fire from the
ranks of British troops, raised the
death..tolls 4c .fiO today-in the most
serious communau .strife of recent
years. The streets of the native sec
tions of Bombay were littered with
the dead of guerilla warfare, murder,
arson and pillage, which has grown
steadily worse during three dayi of
rioting. More than TOO persons have
bean injured. Hundreds of-families
are-fleeing from, the city.
TfiGfKYO*—Troops stood guard today
againat a renewal of terrorism in the
capital, while .outstanding- national
leaders soughta-soluticiv to complex
political ..problems which may pro
foundly* affect the future of Japan.
The assassination of Premier Tsuy
oahi lnultas'hy;ra grou pof military
terr-orieta was an isolated outbreak by
fanatics, the- Raverrureat rpokesm: n,
political nhserwani'andi^ the: press
agreed, but .his- death -brought to a
head the dissension in the Seiyukai
government party, emphasized the
public disgust -with so-called -party
politics and createed the immediate
.necessity for .a decision on the char
acter of the next.regime,
SAN FRANISCO—Seiji Yostattiara,
Japanese aviator here preparing for a
Pacific, flight, was .injured today when
his seaplane fell dll,000 feet.-into San
Francisco -bay. -His right ;aim . was
'broken.
SAN FRANCISCO.—-An itinerary
for trips that will take the naval diri
gible Akron over Interior California
and through Oregon and Washington,
was announced today J>y Rear Ad
miral W. C. Cole, commander of the
Twelfth naval district.
SAN RAFABL, Calif.—Flags from
every vessel in San'Fsfngiscoiiay flew
at half-mast today to honor the mem
ory of Captain Robert Dollar, dy
namic .and kindly dean of American
1 -hipping men. Captan Dollar, who
, was 88 years old last May 20, slipped
! from a long coma into death early
today as his wife, his three sons ami
j a number of his granchildren gath
! ered at his bedside.
I -
STON.—An $Otopiund Uon ru
! amu.. iwice tonight in the studios of
radio'.still ion WDZvi-clawing two per
sons, diving thrOUgftetwo glass studio
wal's, and creating -a furore as at
x i ’ 'r.irht toroid it. The lion,
j I.; , Wi-i unalivv cornered by his
iraUMir, Captain iArelney Pfeifer, who
!»dued him an# forced him to go
i hrough with a scheduled radio inter
j view.
TOKIO.—Japanese officers in Man
churia charged today that secret
radio stations had been discovered in
Manchuria, China and Japan, through
which Soviet plotters kept in contact
with Moscow. Police claimed tha
Soviets were planning a demonstra
tion.
WASHINGTON. — Senator Hir»a»
Johnson, Republican, California, to
day advqcated resubmission of the
18th amendment. “Practically all
agree upon a refendum now. The
prohibition law should be put up to
the States and the people themselves
given the opportunity to pass upon
it," Johnson said.
NELSON, B. C.—Three-year prison ,
terms were faced today by 513 mem
bers of the fanatical Sons of Freedom
sect of the Doukhobors, after the
third rad in two weeks Sunday l^a4
imprisoned 254 nude paraders.
TUNHUA, Manchuria.—A squad of
armored cars was dispatched to Ta
icniiao today to resist a guerilla army
that had attacke da surveying party.
Three Japanese and 10 Manchurians
were killed by the guerillas. '
HARBIN, Manchuria.—Forty per
sons were killed and more than 100
injured when a refugee train was
| wrecked 212 kilometers _ east of here
[.today. A locomotive and 14 cars
i were wrecked.
LUFKIN, Texaa.—Uncle Ned Wi*e~
| man, 82 years old farmer, believes he
holds the national rcord for father
hood. Thirty-three children have been
born to him. Of the 33, 15 are living^
The eldest is 62, and the patriarch
has been married twice. Both hie
wives are dead.
LOS ANGELES.—Alexander Paa
tages, multimillionaire Pacific coast
theater man, announced tonight that
he had completed arrangements for
the construction of a f1,000,00#
horse racing plant at Los Angeles.
I _
SEATTLE.—Construction of an
elevated runway at Boeing F(ield,
; from which Nat -C. Browne, New
York flier, will take off on a project
ed non-stop flight to Tokio, will start
immediately. Boeing authorities have
ordered the runway built. Brown*
said he would attempt th etake-off as
soon as the platform is ready. Hi*
^big monoplane, the Lone Star will
carry one thousand gallons of gaso
line, if he can get off the ground
with the load, he said.
WASHINGTON.—The Senate to
day rejected a proposal to legalize
beer for the purposes of taxation and
as a source of revenue for a vast pub
lic construction program.
j BATON ROUGE, La.—The judi
ciary committee of the State Senate
today approved unanimously a bin
submiting the question of repeal of
the State liquor law to the people of
Louisiana at the congressional elec
. tion this fall.
—
PARIS.—Henry M. Blackmer, self
exiled Denver oil man, probably will
remain in France even after payment
at Washington of the'CfBO.OOO fine im
posed on him for.rdEmal o appearwr
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