Flax Festival
Opening Draws
Crowds
Crowning of Queen Irene
Signals Beginning o
Three-Day Event
More Events Tonight, Big
Day with Dedication
Slated Saturday
MT. ANGEL, Sept; .3. Two
hundred people tonight witnessed
the coronation of Queen Irene
Berning as ruler of tbe Mt Angel
Flax Festival, beginning her reign
that will last three days, through
the first event of Its kind ever
held here. ...- - . U..::-c.
The approach of the royal party
was soUMded at 9 p. m., by two
buglers. Bob Le Doux and L. R.
Seller. Two flower girls. Delaine
STlA TloljVkS TIah vrifttl twin 1on rrV
ters of Mrand Mrs. Ed. Houghan,
took their positions on the steps
of the St. Mary's school, as the
Toyal party advanced from the
.lawn across the street.
Then came Princess Anna Nag
and Joe Picker, her escort;. Prin
cess Dorothy Schwab and Sylvest
er Schmidt; Princess Orpha Lay
of Eugene and Clarence predeck;
Princess Martha Bardel a n d
Beaford Knight, both of Canby.
Following them -came her royal
highness. Queen Irene Berning
and Alfred Hahner of Independ
ence, her escort.
King Bing Presents
Queen Her Sceptre
Before the queen was crowned
Margie Inman, queen , of the In
dependence hop fiesta was intro
duced and spoke brief lys .King
Bing Breyman B6lsebf life "Salem
Cherrians presented Queen Irene
with her sceptre and r placed the
erown upon her head. He received
the, sceptre from Hilda Bean,
sceptre bearer, and the crown
from Mary and Marthan Bean,
twins, crown bearers.
Dr. A. F. E. Schierbaum, mas
ter of ceremonies, introduced
Borne of the special guests and
members of those royal party.
Among those who spoke into the
microphone to the assembled
crowd, besides members of the
queen's court; were . W 1 1 1 i a m
Echlit, Marquis Maraschino; El
don Owen, Earl of "Waldo; - Asel
Eoff, Royal Anne consort; Paul
Schwab, ML An .gel fire chief;
Andy Burk, Marlon county sher
iff ; Lee Withers, president of
the Mt. Angel Business Men's
club; P. D. Quisenberry, Count
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Damage Case Not
Yet Before Jury
j. ;
Arguments of attorneys on a
defense motion for a directed ver
dict were taken under advisement
by Circuit Judge L. C. Lewelling
last night as the second day of the.
trial of the $30,000 damage ac-s
tion of Lulu Brown against
Ceorge W. R'tteman closed. All
evidence of both plaintiff and de
fedant was before the jury.:
Should Judge Lewelling over
rule the defense motion, argu
ments on the evidence will be giv
en before the pury this morning
and the case will reach them for
consideration before noon. -
- The motion for the directed
vtrAift vm hased on the grounds
that even if all the evidence of j
the plaintiff was -undisputed, mat;
the defendant would still not be
liable for the accident which oc
curred November 24, 1935, on th
12th" street cut-off. . t
The plaintiff asks damages for
alleged permanent Injuries re
ceived when she was struck by a
car operated by Rittemah. The de
fendant claims that -the accident
was caused by the negligence of
the plaintiff in falling to walk on
the proper side of the highway
and In failing to keep a lookout
for approaching cars.
Leavitt Heads Up
Spanish War Vets
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y
Sept. 3.-i'P)-United Spanish war
veterans elected Scott Leavitt, of
Milwaukee,: Wis., commander-in-chief
today and closed their 38th
annual national encampment
Senator Alfred L. Kenned, of
New York, was n a m e d senior
vice-commander, and Thomas W.
Payne, Detroit, Junior vice-commander.
Neither had opposition.
Harry Thayer Dies
NEW CANAAN, Conn., Sept. 3-flpv-Harry
B. Thayer 79, former
president of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company
and dollar-a-year man during
the world war, died here today.
Large
Roosevelt and Landon
Eat 'Fried Chicken and
Talk Drought Problem
Kansan Says Opponent in
Charming Gentleman";
At Conference ; F. R
DES MOINES, la., Sept 3.-(AP) President Roosevelt
and Governor Landon, who greeted each other with
, "how do you do Mr. President" and a "how are you,
governor?",' talked over the Kansas drought for 40 minutes
at Iowa's state house this afternoon.
The conference followed a luncheon at which the presi-
Repartee When
Rivals Confer
Isn't Brilliant
DES MOIXES, Iowa, Sept.
SHflFVThis Is what Presi
dent Roosevelt and Gov. Al
fred M. Landon of Kansas
said to ; each other today
when they met for the first
time, face-to-face daring
their campaigns for the
highest office of the nation.
..After they had clasped
hands. Governor . Landon
asked: j
"How do you do, Mr. Pre
sident? !
"How; are you governor?"
the president returned. "You
have a long hard motor trip
to get here."
"Yes, I did," replied Gov..
Landon, "but I got here on
time." j
Their words were report
ed to newspaper men . by
Marvin II. Mclntyre, the
president's secretary.
Carpenter Killed
In Fall, Scaffold
' t
Chester Plank Is Victim
I of Accident ; ; Suf f er9
Fracture of Skull
Plunging 15 feet from a scaf
folding at 556 Union street a few
minutes after 12 noon yesterday,
Chester Plank, 28, carpenter, of
1680 North Church street, land
ed on a packed gravel alleyway
and suffered fatal injuries. A. O.
Davidson, owner of the building
on which Plank had been work
ing, said Plapk apparently slip
ped as he prepared to climb down
to go to luncheon. ;
At Salem ' General hospital
where Plank was taken at 12:30
by Salem taxi ambulance, it was
found be had suffered a fracture
at the base of the skull. He' died
at 1:27 p. m., without having re
gained consciousness.
Surviving are the -widow, Mrs.
Etoma Plank, and daughter, Lil
He Ann, Salem; parents. Mr. and
Mrs. L. L Flank, Oklahoma;
brothers, Jess, Laurence and Hu
bert Plank, and a sister, Juanita
Plank, a'l of Oklahoma.
Funeral arrangements are In
charge of
company.
the Clough-Barrick
Drunken Driving Charge
is Faced After Smashup
Ernest R. Brundridge, wood
truck driver,! was arrested by city
police yesterday afternoon on a
charge of drunken ' driving. The
charge was made by Charles A.
Wilson, Sublimity route one, with
whose car Brundridge' truck col
lided at the east approach to 'the
Marion-Polk j county bridge at 2
p. m. Neither man was hurt In
the crash, i :
Richmond and Merrill Are
Forced Down; Fuel Short
(Copyrighted, 1936, by Associated Preit)
LLANGADOCK, Carmathen
South Wales, Sept. 3. Forced
down here by fuel shortage after
flying me Atlantic from" New
York, Dick I Merrill and Harry
Richman prepared their low-wing
monoplane I tonight to complete
the hop to London tomorrow. ,
Thousands of curious Welch
men drove from all parts of Wales
which Merrill, the veteran piloL
and Richman, the crooner,
brought down the huge craft 175
miles from the British capital,
their original goal. f :.
Constables guarded the plane,
the Ladv Peace, as the pair went
to nearby Llandilo to spend the
night, , ; - - v
The trans-ocean hop, estimated
roughly at about 3,300 miles in
all, took a total of 17 hours and
53 minutes, -Richman said. They
landed at I 3:30 p. m., English
daylight time (9:30 a. m., east
ern standard time), after taking
Presidential Race "Fine
No Decisions Reached
Does Most Talking. .
Odent and the man who seeks to
oust him from the White House
sat at the same luncheon table,
ate fried chicken and corn-on-the-cob.
and talked about fishing.
After the luncheon and drought
discussion between the opposing
presidential candidates, an event
unparalelled in recent political
history. Governor Landon told
newsmen: ; i
"President Roosevelt Is a very
fine, charming gentleman." r
Aides of the Kansas governor
told reporters clustered in the
huge rotunda of the state house
that the president and Governor
Landon touched every aspect of
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County Prolii Law
Petitions on File
Bear 1900 Names, Stated
by One df Sponsors;
Will Be Checked
Marion county voters are going
to have an opportunity to express
their approval or disapproval of
the handling of liquor in Oregon
at the November election. Peti
tions bearing 1900 names, calling
for a vote on a local option regu
lation to prohibit sale of all alco
holic liquors in the county were
filed with the county clerk at
4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The deadline was 5 o'clock, 60
days before the election. i
The petitions were filed by M.
B. Stegner and Dr. Benjamin
Blatchford, secretary of the
Christian Civic Brotherhood,
which has been active in secur
ing signatures to the local option
petitions. The signatures on; the
petitions will be checked' by the
county clerk to determine that all
signers are registered voters.
Only 1403 names were needed
to place the measure on the bal
lot. . .. 3 i
Approximately 1100 signatures
to place a measure for the crea
tion of a Marion county utility
district are on file with the county
clerk. Over 300 of these were
filed yesterday. The petition to
place the utility measure on the
November ballot does not have to
be completed for another 10 days,
officials said last night.
Hop Sales Active;
42
Hop sales took a jump yester
day with sales of 295 bales of
1935 clusters and 128 bales of
1936 fuggles reported during tbe
day. A new top ; price for this
year's fuggles was set at 42 cents
which was paid for 66 bales of the
128 sold. i ; s ;
The" balance of the fuggles,
bought from four growers,
brought the ,40 cent figure that
has been the prevailing price
during the last two weeks.
The 295 bales of 1935 clusters
went at 30 cents which has been
the maximum paid for the year
old crop. : :j ;; i
off at 3:37 p. m.. eastern stan
dard time, yesterday from Floyd
Bennett field, Brooklyn-.
A supply of 100 gallons of gasp
line brought from Cardiff, Wales,
was found unsuitable, hut more
will be brought early in the morn
ing so the Lady Peace can take
to the air to complete her trip.
The soft-spoken Merrill brought
the plane down - safely and un
damaged after they got lost over
Wales when their two-way radio
apparatus failed.
If the gas had not run out,
Merrill asserted, "we would have
returned to America tomorrow
night-
"Just before we came down we
couldn't find where we were,"
he related. "The gaa analyzer had
gone all haywire and we were us
ing 55 gallons an hour Instead of
42.M
They flew around for about an
hoar -and a half, Richman aaid,
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Cents New Top
Fight Looming
Over Location
Of Statehouse
Unidentified Salem Men
' Engage Norhlad; Will
Seek Injunction
Van Winkle Ruling Upon
Matter Recalled; Says
Addition Is Legal
ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 3.-JP)-
Former Governor A. W. Norhlad
said today he would file suit In
Marion county to enjoin the state
capltoi commission from con
structing the proposed statehouse
at Salem on property other than
that utilized by the eapitol struc
ture which burned down In 1935.
Norblad did not divulge names
of his clients but Identified them
as being residents of Salem.
The attorney said the commis
sion apparently plans to build a
portion, of the new statehouse on
property recently deeded to the
state. He said plaintiffs In the
contemplated suit hold that the
legislative act providing for the
eapitol specifies that the struc
ture shall be confined to previous
ly state-owned property.
The proposed suit opposing the
action of the state eapitol com
mission in using additional land
for the construction of the new
state eapitol is in conflict with
an opinion rendered by Attorney
General I. H. Van . Winkle on
July 23. He held that no tax
payer could bring suit against
such use of land because no tax
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Human Projectile
Is Badly Injured
TORONTO. Sept. S.--Jane
Bobby ' Bernnarat, zo-year-oia
"human projectile" of Kansas
City, Mo., was seriously injured
tonight when a cannon which was
to shoot her across a staged mis
fired and sent her crashing to a
hardwood floor.
The accident to the girl, a
grand-niece of the late Sarah
Bernhardt, famous French act
ress, occurred before' 35,000 hor
rified spectators at the Canadian
National Exhibition.
The spectacle was to have been
the feature attraction in the
"mystic Mars" program of the ev
ening. As the cannon boomed and
flashed, Miss Bernhardt flew wide
of her' mark, where two male
partners were to catch her In their
arm's. .
She was taken to an emergency
hospital on the exhibition ground
and then was transferred to a city
hospital.
Physicians said she suffered a
fractured leg, severe shock and
possible internal injuries. ' i
Derby Flier Missing
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 3.-()-Bert
Galhraith, Hollywood
entrant In the Ruth Chatterton
air derby, was reported as still
missing on the final lap at 10
o'clock tonight by officials at
Lindbergh field here. This was
several hours after other con
testants had arrived, s ; .
i
Late Sports
PORTLAND, Sept. 3-Pf-The
Portland Beavers took the second
game of a double header tonight
6 to 2 after losing the wild open
ing contest to the Los Angeles
Angels -11 to. 0.
The split left tbe Beavers atop
the league by one game.
In the first game, the Angels
pounded out lght hits and nine
runs In the fifth frame.:
Second game, seven innings:
Los Angeles 2 7 0
Portland 11 0
Lieber, Gabler, Joyce and Stein
er; Caster and Bru'cker.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. Z-JPi
Henry Armstrong of i Los An
geles, claimant to the world fea
therweight title, proved too tough
a nut for Portland's Buzz Brown
tonight and came through for a
well-earned decision In a 10-round
main event on an open air fight
card. Each weighed 12?
Al Spina, 121, ! Portland,
knocked out Little - Dempsey,
121. Los Angeles, In the fifth
round.
Young Peter Jackson, 138 U.
Los Angeles, claimant to the west
coast lightweight title, won the
decision from Billy Lee, 137
Bend, Ore.
Lupe Cardoza, 1 2 0 M , Los An
geles, claimant to the Pacific
coast bantamweight title, won
from Frankie GalluccL 120, Port
land, "when Gallucci was unable to
return for the fifth round.
The outdoor card, i postponed
Monday because of rain, drew
about SO 00 persons.
Reward up For
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The three men killed near Yreka,
Calif Sunday, for whose slay
ers' capture "dead or alive" a
reward of $1000 was hung up
Thursday. John and CokeBrite
re sought In connection with
the case. Top, Deputy , Sheriff
Martin Lange ; middle, Consta
ble Joseph dark; below, Cap
tain Fred Seaborn.
Hearst "Run Out
Of Town," Stated
SEATTLE, Sept. 3,-tiP)-Mayor
John F. Dore told an audience
tonight William Randolph Hearst,
absentee owner of the suspended
Seattle Post - Intelligencer had
been "run out of town" and could
not come back until he settled
with the; Seattle I Newspaper
guild. - ; j
Speaking in behalf of the
guild, whose strike j closed t he
newspaper August 14, Dore
lashed out at Hearst, the Seattle
Industrial council, the Law and
Order league and the chamber of
commerce. -"c
"We've run Hearst out 'of the
city and won't let him come back
until he's settled with the guild,"
Dore declared;. "The city of Se
attle would become world famous
if it ran Hearst out of town per
manently." ;
Hit-Run Driving
Case Is Scanned
City police last night reported
an unidentified boy about 12
years old was struck hut hot se
riously injured by a hit-run au
tomobile near the Intersection of
Commercial and Center streets.
The lad escaped with scratches
about the arms, i
Officers said the hoy's father's
requests for a warrant for the
arrest of the motorist, - whom a
witness tentatively identified.
were denied by officials having
the authority to receive com
plaints of this nature.
,Baer Still -Winning
PROVO, Utah, Sept.- 3. - -
Ex-Heavyweight Champion Max
Baer flattened Soldier Franks of
Fort Douglas. Utah. In the third
of a scheduled six-round exhibi
tion bout tonight.
4 .4
Six Are Killed
In Smashup of
Alaskan Plane
Bodies of Mills and His
Five Passengers Are
Found Near Ship 7
Victl ms Include Markles
Whose Child Patient,
Portland Hospital
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept.
-fV-Bodiea of six persons kll
In the wreck of Pilot Steve Mills'
airplane on the Kenai peninsula
were flown to Seward late, today,
after their removal from the top
of 2,000-foot ridge near Skllak
Lake. CO miles south of here.
Wrapped in canvas, the remains
of the four men and two women
who left Anchorage on a fishing
trip Sunday morning, were laid
on the beach for a short time un
til they were placed in i another
plane and brought here.
'Mills, at the controls when his
ship struck the ridge, was badly
crushed between the motor and
the pilot's seat.
Nine woodsmen, three airplane
pilotsj an aeronautics inspector
and a doctor toiled up a 2,000
foot ridge today to recover the
bodies of four men and two wo
men killed In an airplane crash
Sunday. In loss of life It was the
worst Alaskan airplane j tragedy
recorded here..
Evidence Found of
Terrific Crash
Thel plane, piloted by
Steve
Mills, former Seattle flying In
structor, was sighted from the air
yesterday, a four-mile hike from
the nearest landing place. Flyers
said the motor had been thrust
back Into- the. fuselage and the
pontoons were smashed.!
Cause of the accident was un
determined but It was known
there was thick weather in the
district when Mills hopped : Sun-
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Lewis Making No
Fiht to Stay In
NEW YORK. Sept. 3-tiPV-John
L. Lewis, founder of the com
mittee for industrial organiza
tion, Indicated on his return from
Europe today that the ten unions
identified with the C.I.O., facing
suspension Saturday from the
American Federation of Labor,
will not make a fight to stay in
that bbdy. :
Referring to the suspension or
der against all unions connected
with the C.I.O., Lewis said:
"One can only hope they are
prepared to accept the responsi
bility pt their own action. .The
only crime of ; which we are ac-;
ensed lis the attempt to organize
unorganized workers and make:
them members of the. American
Federation of Labor. If that be
treason, let Mr. Grenn (William
Green president of the A.F. of L.) '
make he most of it. , ;
Heat Blamed For
High Death Ratej
WASHINGTON. Sept. S-fvPH
The same scorching heat whichf
burned out the farmers' crop thisf
year was held by the census bu-f
reau today to be a major factor In:
a 17.5' ier cent jump In the death
rate of j cities in the mid-west and
north central states. s
; . A compilation of 15 cities showi
ed that, deaths between May 30,
and Ahgnst 29 totaled 29,3381
compared with 24,962 for the;
same period last year. This was anj
increase of 4,376 in these cities;
alone
Joker Running Wild in Deck
Of lew Dealy Knox Asserts
LEWISTON. Me., Sept. 3-PK
Col. Frftnk Knox, campaigning as
republican vice presdiential nom-f
inee, declared tonight that "it i;
monstrous to talk about security;
when banks are swollen to the ex
plosion point with government;
bonds.'j - i 1-
"You! do not get security nnderj
regimentation, Knox Mid In an;
address j prepared for delivery beJ
fore a party rally here. "You lose;
everywhere. ; :: j - t;
. "It Is! an evil thing to tax work
men In jl937 for old age pension
3 0 yeaT saway, when the hard-
earned dollars they pay out pow
may be! worth ten cents or one
cent or nothing In the future.
There Is no secnrlty in a gov-
ernment that experiments wlthl
the livelihood of the people, thats
practices vivisection on the na-f
tion's economic body.
The vice presidential candidate
said New England had faced, bej
sides the depression, "a new deaf
that taxed her Industries and re4
fifty- 'Horatiuses 9
j EoldjBridge,
Rebels
fire Breaks Out ;
I Guns Bombard; Bullets Again Fall
I oh French Soil in Behobie
yalists Encounter Newr Diplomatic
JO
Tussle Wjith Italy; Hold Evidence
Other Governments Aid Foes
fConvrirht. IsSfi. hv
IJEftOBIE, Frafice, Sept. 4. (Friday) Fascist rebel
Jj forces encircled the government militiamen defending
f Behobia, suburb of
quick capture of the town appeared inevitable.
I The insurgent column advanced from the hills behind
Behobia and cut off the road ito Irun. j Rebel 6-inch sruns
jopened fire on Infrr and a blaze broke out in the southern
loutskirts of the city, visible
across theBidassok river from
The defenders- of Behobia
Ithe international fridge, their
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Drought Refugees
Seek Farms Here
0e-Tliird of Inquiry For
Rehabilitation
Loans
From This Source
Thirty-three per ; cent of the
farmers inauirintr here about ob
taining loans from the rural fre-
habilltatlon administration are
from drought states,) T. R. Uo
bart, supervisor for fMarion and
Polk counties, estimated yester
day. He said 295 such inquiries
were made at his office, pregon
Building, last month. !
States represented In the 33
per cent were the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mon
tana and Idaho. ;
While few of the midwestern-
ers visiting Hobart's office are
found to have sufficient funds to
establish themselves on a fully
,. (Turn to page It, col. 6)
Hitch-Hiking Lad
Makes Fast Time
"How did he do itl" city police
wondered, last night when 12-
year old Harold Pentecost, told
them here he had left his home
at Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday
morning and in the! ensuing 40
hours had hitch-hiked to Eugene
and back to Salem. ! They declared
40 hours with an overnight stop,
was good time lor a motorist.:
The boy was. picked up on the
Pacific highway near the state
fairgrounds where hei said he was
attamntlnsr to -obtain! a ride hack
to Tacoma. He would! give no ex- p11lT1l
planatlon for his leaving home.r olllv
The lad's parents, contacted by
telephone in Tacoma, said they
would send money
to pay his
railway fare home
Centenarian
Di
ies
1
ROSEBURG, Ore.,iSept. 3.-0)
-James H. Griffith, rho came to
the veterans' hospital here from
Oregon City two months ago,
died last nights Jte Was 1 102
years old.
stricted her productibn and ter
rorized her finance." jAdding that
it was "a new deal iin which a
joker In Washington was running
wild.- 1 -
Promoting Marrtajres
Proposed, Declares j u
What kind of federal govern
ment the nation Is toj have Knox
declared to be "the real issue" In
the campaign. , ,r-
: "One kind ' proposed to enter
into every activity. Interfere with
every individual. It does not say
'please keep off the grass. It says
well grow the grass and If we
think best, we will make you eat
it. We have put that matter in
the hands of Mr.' Wallace or Mr. 4
Tugwelli or some other political
accident.:"' ;- j ? ':
"At one time during the NRA
hysteria it was serioufly proposed
at Washington to have the gov.
ernment start propaganda to en
courage marriages in order to
boost the market far furniture
and kitchen ware. . .
1000
Face Them
in Irun
as Rightist
th AKvlnf,At P)
long-besietred Inin. early today -and
from this French town 100 feet
Behobia. v
fought with their backs to
-Only avenue of escape from
I
Fifty government fighters held
the entrance to the bridge, with
more t h a 1,000 rebels firing
from a semi-circle. Bullets blew
over the bridge and dropped into
the streets if Behobie, France.
. The surrounding of Behobia
came quickly after the rebels, re
inforced, compelled the . govern
ment militiaenm to retreat fol
lowing six hours of bloody fight
ing around j a street barricade.
Defenders Firfn; -From
Kvery Home ' '
Behind the broken windows of
virtually evry home and building
in Behobia, Igovernment defenders
dodged back and forth splitting:
the night wijth the .flashes of their
rifles and machine guns. ' -
Singling iut the converted re
doubts one by one. the attackers
charged, led by units of ferocious
looking Moors, sacrificing count
less men in j their efforts to clear
out the suburb and open the way
into strategic Irun "where 60
fascist hostages were reported to
have been shot Id a cemetery.
'' (By the I Associated Press)
France and Italy were drawn
closer to Spain's civil warfare last I
night as Spanish Tebels pushed i t
northern seaport of Irun,
, Wild shajts from the rebels j
machine gua3 sprayed aeross the
Bidassoa, riter into -France and ;
the French) government filed a
sharp protest against violation ol
Its soil. I .
- The Madrid government on tbe
other hand faced prospects of hav
ing to placate Italy which sent a
cruiser to help another of Its wart
vessels 'protect" Italian nation
als in Barcelona. .
Italy was aroused by reports
that Catalonlan government forc
es fighting Spanish fascists, had
killed an Italian worker there.
France,wth a socialist govern
ment, was aroused lest the Span-
(Turn toj
page 11, col. 1)
Spreckels
Winner of Derby
SAN DIEC0. Calif.. Sept
Frank Spreckels of-, San Fran
cisco tonight) was declared winner
of the grand prize of the Ruth
Chatterton i cross country air
derby. - i
Derby officials, computing fig
ures at the close here this after
noon of tbe six-day 2460-mile air
Jaunt from j. Cleveland, credited
the wealthy young sportsman p!
lot . with 1184.18 points out of a
possible total of 1200. .
Second place winner was Jean
nette Lempke of Bay City, Mich.,
with 1182.52 points.
Find Last Bodies
In Blasted Mine
LOGAN. W. Va.. Sept. 3.-WP)-
From a little "room" piled almost
celling high with jagged pieces
of slate and lumps of coal came
bodies of four men today, the
last of ten who died as a ras
explosion shattered part of the
MacBeth mine.
The last four were found to
gether in the center of the ex
plosion area. They were killed by
tbe shock of the blast. Six com
rades died from gas fumes which
swept through the workings.
George Baer Resigns
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept.
-George C. Baer, who figured in
a dispute with Senator Charles
McNary recently over statements
relative to the Farmers National
corporation was reported to have
resigned as executive assistant of -4
the corporation today.
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