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WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness to
day becoming unsettled
Thursday; Max. Temp. Tn
day 65, Mia. 84, riTer 6.0
feet, north wind.
Distribution
Average ;
Mar., '83
7001
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MEMBEB A, B. O.
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EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, April 5, 1933
No. 8
i
: SENATE TOOflY
Modification to Permit 35
Hours or so Likely;
Deemed Drastic
Cannery worK txciuaea in
... . . m a a I
Amendment; Newsmen
. mm I
To get no Rest
WASHINGTON, April 4 (AP)
After debate had developed sen
timent that the measure was too
drastic. democratic leaders to
night predicted the senate would
pass in modified form tomorrow
the Black bill to apply a shorter
work week la Industry.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the democratic leader, said he or
some other - senator I would offer
an amendment to jrestrict the
hours to 35 or 38 hours a week
instead of 30 as provided in the
bill by Senator Black (D. Ala.)
Robinson said he had discussed
this angle with an unnamed
high authority" and it was
thought a 30-hour week would be
too drastic a change and might
-lead to demands for wage reduc
tions. He predicted the measure
would pass with this and perhaps
some other modifications. A vote
tomorrow virtually was assured
when the senate agreed to limit
debate starting at 2 p. m.
Perishable Food
Workers Excluded
The measure was amended on
the floor today to exclude labor
employed in the canning . or. pro
cessing of perishable foods such
as fish, fruits? and vegetables and
to permit thej secretary of labor
to make other exemptions where
It is deemed advisable. -
Senator Tydlngs (D.-Md.) pro
posed an amendment to be voted
on tomorrow exempting employ
ment on newspapers and period
icals. Black said the bill already
excluded these, but he was will-
ing to accept in cnange.
As it now stands the Dill pro-
vldes that "no article or commod
ity shall be shipped, transported
or delivered In interstate- or for
eign commerce, wniea-wapw
duced or manufactured by an es
tablishment situated in the United
States in which any person, was
employed or permitted to work
more than five days in any week
or more than six hours a day."
I'
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1
While applications for Jobs at
the U. S.-Y. M. C A. Employment
bureau here decreased last month
over 50 'per cent over a year ago,
nearly twice as many men were
sent to work, according to the
monthly report of D. D. Dotson,
assistant manager. During March
1933 the bureau placed 1187 men
and women on jobs, as against
C76 in March 132. Applications
dropped1 from 264' In the same
month of 1932 to 106.
Farm jobs increased last morith
to a total of 368. The agricultural
situation gives promise of decided
relief to the unemployed In the
near future, in the opinion ot Mr.
Dotson. It la expected that this
month, relief projects dan be cut
down one-half because of Increase I
of nMd for laborers on farms.
General labor, including relief
EMP
HOT HER
ABOVE
nrniet : nrnvlded 80S of lastmeense was oemg mauea or me
mnnth'B lob. Thirteen women
Were Placed in domestic servient
ftnt on in . professional post-1
Hon.
Knife Slayer bi
Six is on Trial ;
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CilirVlVOT 1 aiCS
8EATTLE, Aprir 4 (AP) -
How Marcelino Julian. 23, Fili
pino. sUbbed Tito Gualo, 55, a
fellow countryman, then rushed
from the room in the mad race
which brought death to five other
persona and wounds to a dozen
more, was. described In superior
court here today by Cripilo Bay-
aoa. nephew ot Gualo.
Bayaoa. 19, as a prosecution
witness, told how he himself nar
rowly escaped death from Julian's
slaahlnr knife as the latter ran
from the room after killing: Gua
lo. He was the first witness call
ed after the state and defense at
torneys agreed on a Jury of two
women and eleven men, ona an
alternate, shortly after noon.
Eugene License
Pleasure Passed
EUGENE, April 4 (AP) Eu
gene'a beer ordinance, regulating
the sale ot spirituous, malt and
vinous beverages In the city, was
adopted at mv special meeting or
the city council last night.
License tees are as follows: Re
tail bottle and draught, for con
sumption on the premises, $ z ;
retail bottled goods not to be con
sumed - on the premises, : $19 ;
wholesalers," $5. :
Ingrate Needy Ones
.Leave Auto Camp in
Need
Families Lodged There
Sad
To Help Keep it Clean; Annual Opening
Delayed one Week; Tourists Come
CIALEM'S municipal auto park
usual not only because of the
also on account of the dirty
ww w WVUOb VTA, VUG
rS:tVc
. . J.TA 1 XI
w a si .w-1 - m (- iiiMiviuvia-u aii
the last of th families was moved out last week so that he
could proceed with reconditioning O
the place.
Testerday Mr. Poisal announced
that he hoped he and his assist
ant, J. M. Baker, could get the
cabins and grounds back in pre
sentable shape, in time for an of
ficial opening next week. Already
scattering tourists have sought to
make camp there the past few
weeks.
Though given free use of cabins
at the park, provided with water
and bath facilities at the camn
ground bath house, and given food
and fuel by the Red Cross-Community
Service relief agency, the
memoers of the families in the
park both refused to assist Mr.
Poisal in repair and Improvement
work about the grounds through
out tne winter and showed little
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REPEAL LEADING Bf
I-l
Wisconsin Rural Precincts
All wet, Milwaukee's
Total is to Come
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. April 4.
(AP) The proposal to re
peal the eighteenth amendment
wan lAArfinor hv fl marcrfn n
than three to one on returns from
the first 104 of Wisconsin's 2899
hsrecincts tonteht
The vote in 104 precincts, most
ly from j rural sections, was: For
repeal, 13,368, against. 4302.
Most or tne early returns were
from small cities and rural dis
tricts and in not a single precinct
reporting did the voters demand
retention of the amendment.
The heavy vote of wet Milwau
kee, Sheboygan, Racine, Kenosha
and other populous cities of the
eastern section of the state, with
the exception, of a single Milwau
kee preceinct, was not Included
in the early returns. The one Mil
waukee precinct voted: For re
peal, 175, against, 18.
voters were electing, by popu
lar statewide ballot, 15 delegates
to a constitutional convention to
be held t Madison, April 25.
There were 30 candidates, 15 dry
and 15 "wet, and almost without
exception voters indicated their
choice for one or the other group
with a single cross mark.
RADIO LICENSE FOR
POtlCE IS IN NIL
Vexed at not receiving the radio
commission license to operate the
projected police radio station
here, Chief of Police Frank Minto
yesterday telegraphed Senator
Charles L. McNary at Washington,
D. C, to investigate the situation.
Senator Mcwary replied mat tne
I commission and that Salem police
ma seen awutueo w nruucm
since xnarcn zi.
Delay in construction ot the
transmitter will make it impossi
ble to begin operation of the sta
tion today, as planned, according
to the chief. He hopes to have the
work rpshed In order that the new
system of communication with
l prowl and emergency cars can be
I started. All but one of the police
cars is now equipped with a snort
ware radio receiver.
IBS!
WE MARGIN
Chairs Fly at Mat Show
But Victory
Not one chair but several fig
ured In the midnight climax of the
Robin Reed-Bulldog Jackson re
match wrestling bout at the arm
ory Tuesday night, as certain
wrought-up spectators decided
that if Reed wasn't to be allowed
to smack the Bulldog with the
furniture, they would. It was, If
anything, a wilder windup,than
the one a week before; . but the
arrival of a new day- ended the
fracas and nothing was decided;
it was a draw, two falls each. ;
From the moment that Jackson
htt to p us cranium, things
Jaiyvuu UU
penlng. One of the more uproar
ious momenta came when it was
discovered that Jackson carried,
inside an Innocent-looking tape
bandage on his wrist, the top of a
water-faucet. That cost Jackson a
fall, It being ruled a foul carry
ing concealed weapons. :
'Jackson had Just previously
won the first fall with a hammer
lock, in 19:43. '
. - At another time Reed let the
ropes do his work while he rested,
of Repaid
During Winter Refuse
was not opened April 1 as
lateness of the season, but
and dilapidated condition in
VliVJiJ J. bllC DCOOUU. UUb I
3 M - i a .1
Made Allegations Will
iw r-i n? uniunr a- Avswro n
Baidock Telegraphs Oregon
Delegation; JWidening is
One Project Affected
Federal aid for forest and fed
eral highwaya was urged as a
continuing principle in federal
affairs yesterday in a telegram
sent the Oregon delegation in
congress by R. H. Baidock, state
highway engineer. Leslie Scott,
chairman of the highway com
mission, aproved the telegrams
which also went to state highway
departments in Utah, Wyomin
and California.
uaidock declared that all bal
ances of federal and forest high
way iunas had been diverted by
the government with the result
that the Oregon highway depart
ment had loss approximately
X450.OOO of federal aid money.
Half of this amount already bad
been allocated by the highway
commission for the widening and
resurfacing of the Pacific high
way between Brooks and Aurora.
Tt , 1 t . ...
ouiuock Baia mis proposed pro
ject would have to be abandoned
uniess leoerai am Iunas were
reinstated by the government.
Figures presented by Baidock
showed that Oregon originally
was alloted $3,000,000 of federal
emergency highway relief funds
and that all of this amount with
the exception of approximately
$250,000 had been obligated
through contracts. Baidock said
the state of Oregon was fortunate
in awarding these contracts be
fore the government ordered the
diversion of the unexpended bal
ances.
As threat of arrest loomed yes
terday for motorists who have
parked their cars overtime this
year and not complied with sum
mons to appear in municipal
court, six motorists yesterday ap
peared before Judge Mark Poul-
sen and paid fines, four of them
$1 each, one $3 and one $4.
Chief of Police Frank Minto.
with 413 unanswered parking tags
turned over to him by Judge Poul-
sen, yesterday was having com
plaints and warrants for arrest
made out.
"If they don't come in, we'll go
after them," he said of motorists
who have not heeded the overtime
tags.
Holman to Take
Longer Vacation
"My physician has advised me
to take a complete rest," Rufur
C. . Holman, state treasurer, an
nounced yesterday. "I feel that I
should comply with his orders so
I will not return to my desk here
for two or three weeks." Holman
did not say where he would take
his vacation although he Indicated
he would spend at least a week at
some beach resort.
is Undecided
Jackson's foot being caught be
tween the hemp; and- at another.
Reed seised a towel and choked
the "bad boy" until he was blue
In the face; again the editor
threw a. chair but Referee Har
rington caught It.
Reed won the third fall in '25
minutes with a sonnenberg and
body slam, and Jackson the fourth
with another hammerlock In
16:12,
With five minutes left to go
Reed tossed Jackson out ot the
ring with a flying head scissors
Land went out himself at he had
done a week before; Harrington
piled out too, there was a tussle
over a chair, and Reed reached
around the referee and knocked
Jackson out. From then on, all
was confusion, with chairs flying
and the police swarming into the
arena. t
Soldier Anderson defeated Spike
Ashby in a one-fall match, taking
it In 17:08 with a body press.
Ray Lyness, substituting for Hen
ry Jones, wrestled a draw with
Cyclone Mackey, each getting
fall. - ' -
FEDERAL HIGHWAY
I PLEADED FOR
ARREST LOOMS FOR
OVERTIME PARKERS
neon upon ;
JEW WILL WOT
RESUME TODAY
American Consulate Issues
Denial to Charges of
"Lie Factory"
Nazi Press Service Which
v
Apologize, Stated
BERLIN, April 4. (AP)
The anti-semitlc boycott will not
be resumed tomorrow, the gov
ernment announced today, but
the nasi party reserved the right
to start the movement again if
the "atrocity campaign" is re
vived abroad.
The boycott originally was call
ed by the party rather than by
me government. At the last mo
ment Chancellor Adolf Hitler's
cabinet stepped in, decreeing that
Jewish restrictive measures should
be limited to last Saturday and
leaving tne question of resump
tion tomorrow dependent on the
cessation of foreign protests and
reports concerning antl - Jewish
atrocities in Germany.
George A. Gordon, the Ameri
can charge d'affairs communicat
ed with the foreign office today
concerning charges disseminated
by the Pan-German press service
thjt "an atrocity lie factory has
been set up in the American
coosulate-general."
This service is edited by two
nazis. It asserted the Americans
and Polish consulates were col
lecting accusations made by east
ern Jews against nazis.
Consulate Explains
Its Attitude
It was understood the foreign
office agreed the allegations were
Improper and It was expected the
press service would publish a cor
rection and apologize to the con
sulate general.
"We strongly resent these un
warranted implications and will
by proper representations Insist
on immediate stoppage," said
George S. Messersmith, the Am
erican consul general.
Naturally during the past days
the consulate has received as its
duty, American citizens who com
plained of mistreatment. Their
affidavits were taken and through
the foreign office presented to the
police presidency.
'It was also cur duty to re
ceive applications from foreigners
for visas. Whenever they tried to
tell us their stories of personal
hardship'" we politely declined to
entertain these on the ground
that this is not our business."
Beer Legal
But Supply
Quite Short
PORTLAND, April 4. (AP)
To' the question, "What! no
beer?", the answer so far as
Portlanders are concerned appears
to be "Yes and no," fer awhile.
The city council has passed an
ordinance permitting sale of the
3.2 per cent brew when It be
comes nationally legal Friday and
there is no state regulation. But
Henry Wessinger. head ot the
Henry Weinhard company brew
ery, said tonight there is only
enough beer on hand to supply
the anticipated opening rush for
'15 minutes." The brewery Is the
only one In Portland.
"Brewers were totally unpre
pared for the resumption of nor
mal demand," Wessinger said.
"About all we can promise Is
samples and those are for old,
old customers."
He said the 'office has been
"swamped" with orders, and be
cause ol the limited supply, many
of these' have had to be turned
down.
Oana Released;
Injured Woman
Can't Identify
REDWOOD CITY, Cel., April 4.
(AP) A complaint charging
assault and battery against
'Prince" Henry Oana, Hawalllan
baseball player for tbe San Fran
Cisco Seals, and Thomas Harney,
salesman, was signed here today
by Mrs. Pauline Labureb. who
charged she was attacked during
an automobile ride last Friday
night.
Oana, arrested by Frank Ford
Bayshore chief of police on Mon
day, was later released when Mrs,
Laburch was unable te Identify
him as her attacker.
$20,000 Bonds
Taken by Pair
VANCOUVER, B. 0." April 4
(AP) Bandits late today held up
two clerks of the Western City
Bond company as they were en
tering the bank of Nova Scotia
robbing them ot $20,000 In bonds
and making their getaway safely.
At least half of the bonds were
negotiable, officials said later.-
Akron Disaster Toil is973;
Federal Inquiry is Ordered
FUTURE POLICY
ON I TRAVEL
"National Disaster" States
President; Namesake is
To Conduct Probe
Advisability of any More
Lighter-Than-air Ship
. Expenditures Eyed
WASHINGTON. April 4 (AP)
The falls of the majestic Akron
and the J-3 from the skies to the
waters, and death dealt to gal
lant men of the navy, steeled this
saddened capital tonight to deter
mination for full Investigation.
Indignation manifest in con
gressional Quarters was tempered
by grief for the many lost, and a
desire to wait to see what facts
are disclosed before any Judgment
is passed.
From President Roosevelt
through official ranks the day was
ono of breathless waiting In a
vain hope of tidings that Admiral
William A. Moffett and others of
the many missing bad been saved.
Precautions for succor to pos
sible survivors and inquiry into
the Akron crash sped haud in
hand by the chief executive's di
rection. "The loss of the Akron with its
crew of gallant officers and men
is a national disaster," President
Roosevelt said, after dispatching
Assistant Secretary Henry L.
Roosevelt of the navy to take
charge of the official inquiry.
To Early to Talk
Of Possible Causes
"At this time it is futile to
peculate as to the causes of this
disaster," said Secretary Swan-
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SIX INDICTMENTS
DALLAS, April 4 Six Indict
ments were returned here yester
day and today by -the Polk county
grand Jury, three of them secret.
Open Indictments were returned
against Ted Macomber and Wil
bur L. Newton on a charge of as
sault with Intent to rob. The two
were placed in Jail and will be
arraigned later this week. The at
tack was allegedly made on J. J.
Catena In Dallas the night ot Feb
ruary 21.
Russell Henry of North Dallas
was indicted for driving while un
der the influence of intoxicating
liquor and was arraigned this
morning. He pleaded guilty and
his trial was set for Monday, April
10. He was released on bail
lie was reieasea on dbu.
George L. Arrell and Cy Krab-
er,
members or the inaepenaence
fire department, were indicted on
a tire setting charge, pleaded gull
tv and will be sentenced next
Monday. Both fires occurred in
1931. Arrell was arrested by state
nollce yesterday and Kraber to
day. Both are in jail.
Albert Chambers, 21, was ar
rested yesterday and arraigned to
day on information charging petty
larceny. He will enter plea to
morrow.
Late Sports
PORTLAND. Ore.. April 4
(AP) After George Manley ot
Denver knocked out Young Firpo
of Burke, Idaho, in the third of
10 scheduled rounds and was de
clared victor in the main event of
tonight's fight card here, the box
ing commission decided Firpo had
been fouled. The bout was or
dered continued after a five min
utes' rest, but Manley had dressed
and gone to his hotel. His purse
was ordered held up.
After some fast, hard fighting
in the opening rounds, Manley in
the third shot a short right to Flr
po's mid-sectien. Firpo went
down, and Referee Tom Louttit
counted him ont. while the Idaho-
an claimed a fouL
The boxing commission, la a
hurried meeting, went to Flrpo's
dressing room and after an exam
inatlon ruled he had been fouled.
Tbe commission ordered that aft
er a five-minute rest period the
bout should be resumed where It
ended in the third.
Manley. told of the commis
sion's decision, refused to return
to the ring, ami the commission
ordered his pure held up. That,
tor the present, was the extent of
their action
Tiger Williams, 175, of Port
land, a fighter held at the ringside
to go on in case one of the two
main eventers tailed to show, then
went Into the ring to go the re
maining 7 rounds with Firpo.
TD BE SCANNED
FJ I III
Wiley Tells Graphic
Tale of Akron Crash
And His Own Rescue
Believes Airship was not Struck by Lightning;
Officer was Washed out of Control Room
And saw Wreck Drifting Away
NEW YORK, April 4 (AP) "Stand by for a crash !"
Thus did Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley cry out to ship
mates on the Akron, as the giant dirigible plunged toward
the sea.
In a faded bathrobe, with a pair of borrowed pajamas
about his tall, bulky figure, the second in command of the
O giant navy dirigible stood on the
SOUTHERN
OFFICERS
T
Woman Arrested Here Want
ed for Fleeing Before Trial
In San Francisco
Mrs. Doris Lewis, alias Joseph
ine Hunting and Mrs. Charles A.
Hill, probably will be returned to
San Francisco to face charges of
Jail breaking and cashing bogus
checks, city and county officers
announced last night after receipt
of a telegram from Chief of Police
William J. Quinn of San Fran
cisco requesting custody Of the
woman.
"Can we have Josephine Hunt
ing wanted here as escape from
hospital waiting trial on bogus
check charge? Same as San Quen
tln 48-160," reads tho telegram.
A later message stated that offi
cers would head this way from
the bay city as Boon as extradi
tion papers could he obtained.
Mrs. Lewis, the mother of two
children, admitted in county jail
last night that she had once been
incarcerated in San Quentin pris
on. Sheriff A. C. Burk reported.
City police have been Informed by
the Sacramento bureau of crimin
al Identification that the woman
and her husband, Paul Lewis,
both have long records as bad
check artists.
In justice court yesterday, Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis pleaded not guilty
and were ordered brought back at
10 o'clock this morning for pre
liminary hearing. They were in
county jail last night, with bail
set at 31000 each.
Whether or not the charges are
pressed here will depend upon
what action the San Francisco of
ficers plan to take, according to
District Attorney William H.
Trlndle.
The pair were arrested here
Saturday night by city police aft
er they had cashed several checks
at local business houses, obtain
ing a large quantity of clothing
and some cash.
i jry . rt T f
tLntreatS PUDllC
Not to Condemn
Airships Hastily
SUNNYVALE. Calif., April 4
(AP) Captain Harry E. Shoe
maker, commander ot the U. S.
navy dirigible base here, which is
to be formally commissioned April
12, said today he hoped tbe public
would not be too speedy in con
demning airships.
"We feel that In this country
no other form ot transportation
can point to t year penoa
without a fatal accident," he said.
TJT 1 J.
wYlfiOtlJS OT
wr 'W'VsVtO M M
Stunned;
LAKEHURST, N. J., April 4.
(AP) They found it hard to
believe those who are left be
hind that the Akron is gone,
that what was no more than an
ordinary occurrence In the lives of
their own people should have
ended so tragically.
"What If an electric storm hits
you?" Mrs. Noexca Copeland said
she asked her husband, Ji. w.
Copeland, radio man on the ship.
before It departed yesteraay.
"We will be in the safest place
in the air," he answered, and
that was typical of the men who
took the ship aloft,
The woman had hope at first.
just as the wives of, fishermen
and deep water sailors have nope,
but It, waned as the hours pass
ed and the meager news that
came through was always the
worst news.
Yet tew gave way to their griet.
The wives ot the enlisted men
waited In the recreation room at
the naval air station, where they
bad hurried from their home la
Toms River. Lakewood, Lakeharst
and other communities.
DM
steps or the u. s. naval nospitai in
Brooklyn late today and recounted
the night of storm and terror that
apparently brought death to 73 of
his shipmates.
He said the giant airship had
been in good flying condition and
although he described graphically
how the air had been full of light
ning, he expressed an opinion the
dirigible had not been struck.
' As early as 8:35 p. m., last
night the first of the electrical
storm was seen just south of Phil
adelphia and then came reports of
thunderstorms over Washington.
The ship was traveling ' at an
altitude of 1,600 feet. The course
was changed to avoid the storm,
but after half an hour "the ship
began to descend rapidly."
"I dropped all the ballast for
ward," said Wiley, in telling terse
ly of his battle against the ele
ments. "The fall was stopped at
about 800 feet"
The ship rose, but In a few mo
ments "the air became turbulent
all around us and the ship tossed
violently."
Wiled called all hands to the
"landing stations" because, he
said, he knew the ship was near
the center of the storm and he
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1Y SELL BEER IN
SPITE OF DECISION
Proponents of 3.2 per cent beer
here yesterday were moving to
band together and sell the brew
in Salem Friday to test the al
leged prohibition on such sale by
the city ordinances and charter
amendment. They maintain that
the "beer" and "malted" beverag
es banned by tbe ordinance and
charter cannot refer to beer legal
ised by congress.
Freely construed, ordinance
1324 prohibits the sale of all beer
and malted beverages and pro
vides as penalty for violation a
fine up to 3500, six months In jail
or both.
If 3.2 beer Is sold here after it
becomes legal nationally, action
against it, If any, will come from
city authorities or opponents of
its sale.
Former Nazi is
Slain in Vienna
VIENNA, April 4 (AP) The
newspaper Innsbruecker Nach
righten today published a dispatch
saying Dr. George Bell, recently
expelled from the Nazi party of
Germany under suspicion ot es
pionage, was killed yesterday In
the Austrian town of Dupcbhol
sen. The killing was done, the paper
asserted, by two men who arrived
In Durchholsen by automobile and
subsequently left in tbe direction
of Germany.
Victims ate
Good Soldiers
Lieutenant Commander Wil
liam L. Etelner, chaplain at tne
station, looked at them keenly. He
had just read them a message
with the latest scrap ot news.
"These men," he remarked,
"were hand-picked, among the
finest men we have. And these
women are soldiers."
There was a little commotion
on the other side of the flag
draped room where many had
first met their husbands, where
they remembered laughter- and
gayety and the bright station
dances. A woman had fainted. In
another building the wives ot the
officers waited, as stoical as the
others. Here Lieutenant Com
mander Jesse Keaworthy, In
charge of the station since his su
perior, Commander Fred T. Berry
went aboard the Akron, read the
messages.
And In a house In Lakewood.
the three children of Lieutenant
Commander Herbert V. Wiley, the
onlv officer to escape so far as Is
now known, waited for their dad
dy to return. David, S, Gordon,
12. and Marie, 2H. were thank-
fuL Their mother died a year ago.
SEARCH TO BE
CONTINUED BUT
HOPE ALL GONE
Men Sank With Debris, Said
As Neither Bodies nor
Wreckage Found
Blimp Also Crashes White
Seeking Survivors and
Two More Killed
NEW YORK. April K.( Wed
nesday) (AP) The crash into
the Atlantic of the greatest ship)
of the skies, tbe Akron, early
Tuesday off the Jersey seacoattt,
was reckoned today aa the mot
costly disaster in the history f
aviation with only three ot 7
men saved.
Hundreds of vessels, naval ard
civilian, were concentrated off
Barnegat light determined to ri
new with the dawn the pursuit of
the faint chance that others mitcM
still bo saved.
But hope was of the slenderest
nature. After estimating the dri;t
of the wind and recovering one
body, officials said they did not
see how any wreckage could hav
drifted beyen the region explored
from ship and plane. On ex
planation, given in authoritative
clcles, was the belief that, most
of the missing were trapped ia
debris which sank.
Blimp Aiding in
Search Goes Down
Fourteen hours after this maj
disaster, the J-3, non-rigid nary
airship, crashed into the sea ld
yards off Jersey with a loss of
two lives, as she was engaging is
the search for Akron victims
Rear Admiral William A. Mof
fett, chief of tbe navy buree
of aeronautics, was among th
lost on the Akron. Aroused fraa
sleep by the storm, he had bee
In the control room shortly befor
the accident.
The three Akron survivors are?
Lieutenant Commnmi,, u r
Wiley of Lake wood, JK. J., exe
cutive officer and second in com
mand, who was at the controls.
Moody E. Erwin of Memphis.
Tenn., metalsmith.
Richard E. Deal of Lakehurst,
N. J., boatswain's mate.
The rescued man who later
died was Robert W. Copeland of
Lakehurst, N. J., chief radio op
erator. Body of Officer
Only One Found
Twelve hours after the crash,
the body of Lieutenant Command
er Harold E. MacLellan, of West
erly, R. I., was picked up by a
coast guard cutter near the seen
of the disaster.
Lieut. Cpmmander David E.
Cummins of Prescott. Ark., com
mander of the J-S, who was tak
en from the water unconscious
after the blimp accident, died a
short time late.
The body of Pasquale Bettio.
the chief machinist's mate on the
J-S, was recovered several hours
later.
The other five of the J-3 crew
were rescued.
From Captain Karl DalHdorf,
34-year-old master of the tanker
Phoebus, which picked np Liewt.
Commander Wiley and his three
shipmates, and later transferred
them to a coast guard boat, came
this cryptic description of tbe
rewe:
"About 12:30 o'clock this
morning, during a thunderstorm
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The Day in
Washington
By the Associated Press
President Roosevelt headed
relief direction for airship Ak
ron whose disaster prompted
calls for Investigations aaA
criticisms of such craft.
Senate agriculture committee
approved combined administra
tion farm relief bill and mortgage
refinance program.
Chalrmaa Ylnsoa of hoaee
aval committee after confer- '
eace with president said $280,-
006,000 naval cobs traction pro-
gram to be included ta pwMfas
works bin.
Senate democratic leaders pre-,
dieted passage today under lim
ited debate of' modified shorter
work week bin.
firsuUe granted banking
aalttee power to inquire late
private banking, and Judiciary
committee voted invent tgnnen
of delayed proeccntlosi ef Jo
seph W. Harrtmaa, Kew York
banker.
Investors' representative from
New York opposed Roosevelt se
curity regulation bill.