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New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
FILE APPEAL IN
 RUM SHIP VERDICT
Question Ruling Limiting SeiZ- ureS to 12 Mile Limit

Hartford, June 2s R,-United States District Attorney John Bulk Icy and Assistant United States At torney George II, on have Hp- pealed to the United States circuit court of appeals to overrule the re- cent decision Of Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the district court, that the coast guard had no legal right 10 seize the steam tug Underwater outside the Emile limit from the United States coast.
 Judge Thomas Ruling
 Judge Thomas dismissed the libel proceedings against the ship on the ground that he had no jurirdiction in the case because of the unlawful seizure, The United States attor- neys in their appeal, maintain that the coast guard, acting as a servant Of the sovereign, can seize Ameri- can ships anywhere.
 Judge Thomas has granted the pCutlon or Major Buckley and MT Cohen for the appeal and Arthur Maui Of New York and his attor- ney, Louis Hall of New York, have been given one month in which tc have their reports printed and the case will be argued in the second district, New York. some time be tween October and May. with Henr! w. Rogers as presiding judge of tn, appellate court.
 Important Decision
 Upon the decision of the circui appeals it is expected the future au thority of the coast guard will de pend. If the court sustains Judg Thomas ruling 1t is likely that cor gress will be asked to pass legisl ton giving the coast guard q right to seize ships four league from the coast.
 Attorney Cohen said tha
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
ENJOY HOLIDAYS
Grownup Italians Said to Look Forward With Keenest Enthusi- asm for These Events.

Rome, June 26 R - Grown-up Italians enjoy holidays as much as American school boys. Consequently scarcely a week passes without & festive occasion. official. religious, political, semi official sectional or what not. some city or section of the Cisalpine nation.
 Conventions, ngresses and meetings are as dear to the hearts of Italy's professors and politicians as they are 10 boosters of Cham bnrs of Commerce in America. Red+ letter days of one sort or another for somebody or other are as fre- 1uent as they are In mid-season In Squire Ebbets baseball park In Brooklyn.
 For example. the month of April was vertically Uttered with holidays. Holy Week, especially important because of the Holy Year, furnished B goodly number. Then all of the branches and sections of all of the numerous political parties stopped work for several days at time to talk. giving their meetings flowery titles. Milan headed the list ot municipal international commer- cial fairs,' and also staged con- gross of the dialects of Italy; Ven ice, an international book fair; Bologna a Fascist intellectual con- gress; and Rome, an international art fair and a congress on scholas- tic philosophy.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
NO ONE WORRIES AS STREETS SINK
Let Her Slip, Is General View in
 San Francisco

San Francisco, June g6 Rl --- A vast area of San Francisco is slowly but surely slipping into the sea, but this particular earth movement is occasioning so little alarm that the general opinion seems to be "let her slip"
 All of the migratory territory Is on made land, and 1t was figured at the time that the vast fill was made that 1t would continue to settle.
 The great Union Ferry Building, one Of the biggest and showiest railroad terminals in the United States. has settled IA inches since its construction In 1893, engineers estimate. The settlement has been so gradual and even, however, that no crack is apparent anywhere In tho vast structure. Also the rate of subsistence is growing gradually less, as a depression of but 1.57 inches has been noted in the past six years.
 The building rests on founda- ton of 5000 piles, which are set In series Of piers madeup of concrete 10 the amount of 56,000 tons. It is at the westernmost boundary of the big fll
 When the fill was made a seawall more than a mile long and running through a sub-strata of mud 150 feet thick was constructed to keep the filled in land, which Is now the lower end of the city, from slipping into the bay. The seawall was made by dredging a channel 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep and then filling up this channel with great granite rocks.
 The land behind the wall sub' sided, and 1t was necessary a year ago to raise the foot of Market street, where the ferry is located and several connecting streets by several inches.
 Skyscrapers as high as IS storie; have been built on the fill, almost within a stone's throw of the Ferry building, on foundations of pile' driven to bedrock. These piles TUT into the thousands for each building each vast structure resting on g forest of them.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
National League of
 Masonic Clubs Meets

Saratoga Springs, N. r.. June 2s R,-The national league of Masonic clubs opened It's goth annual conven- ton yesterday with more than $50 Master Masons from all parts of the country In attendance. The welcom- ing addresses were made at brief business session. The delegates will spend today inspecting the sche- nectady plants of the General Elec- tric and the American Locomotive companies, Officers will be elected Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26

many of the rum ships have, been captured beyond the limit and as a result of Judge Thomas decision a half dozen rum running vessels have had libel proceedings against them held up,
 The Underwater was seized by the United States coast guard ship Cassin at a point 34 miles off Block Island on Dec. ', 1924, She was laden with Sil cases of whiskey. John J. O'Brien of New York city was in charge with a crew of 1s men. After seizure the tug was turned over to Jeremiah Dillon, deputy customs collector at New London, and libel action was start ed. The ship was licensed several years ago to do only coastwlse trading.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26

the secretary of state without his signature on senate number SIP, the so.called small loan bill, thus killing the measure with the authority of his pocket veto, The bill was to al- low companies and corporations to make loans up to $500 and to charge per cent monthly interest on these loans, or a yearly rate of interest of 36 per cent. ...
 The measure was passed during the last days of the legislature.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
MANY S, DEsERTERS

Mexico City, June 26 P@SpeciaI dispatches from Tampico report that there were numerous assertions" from the U. S. S. Tulsa when she touched Tampico en route to the Panama canal.
 Both the captain and the Ameri- gan consul requested the Mexican authorities to arrest the deserters, he dispatches add.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
STRIKE IS REPORTED

Moscow, June 2s R-Rosta. the official soviet news agency, says the workers in the privately-operated oil fields Of Baku, Azerbaijan, have gone on strike.
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26
COLD FLOWS ABROAD
Its Transfer to Russia from This Country Assumes Pre-War Ratio Now,s

Now,s
 Moscow June c6 CF9 -- Although no official relations exist between the United States and Soviet Rus sin. intimate contact by letter is maintained by Russians living n America with their relatives in Rus sia. Tens of thousands Of Russians in the homeland are supported en- tirely by remittances received from sons. daughters, fathers or broth CTS who emigrated 10 America.
 Previous to the World war, an average of s50.o00.0O0 was sent an- nually to Russia from the United States by Russians settled in Amer lea. Although this sum has never been reached since. the remittances gradually are assuming their pre- war level. Last month, for example. single institution here which makes speciality of banking hnsi- ness with Americans, handled near ly s1,00o,0O0 in remittances from Russians in America 10 relatives in l Russia.
 For a long time Russians here, especially In the villages, had no confidence in the local Russian cur rency, and insisted on receiving American greenbacks from their relatives, in preference 10 Russian rubles. But with the stabilization of Russian money this situation has changed, and during the last six months more than 30 percent of the remittances transferred through this one bank were in Russian cur rency.
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New Britain herald., 1925-06-26

USES POCKET VETO
 Hartford, Conn, June as R-Gov- ernor Turnbull yesterday returned 10
New Britain herald., 1925-06-26

Mercury's year is SS days long,
Evening star., 1925-09-05
SUB COMMANDER
IS FOUND GUILTY
Wilbur Passes on Decisions
Affecting Officers Of
Grounded Vessels.

Lieut. Charles F. Martin has been
found guilty of negligence as com
manding officer of the submarine S-I9.
which went aground off Chatham.
Mass, January II, and sentenced to
the loss of five numbers in rank, un-
der decision approved today by Sec
retary Wilbur.
Lieut.. Comdr. Stuart +. Bray, com
manding officer of the submarine S-4S
which went aground during "a storm
off Portsmouth, n. H., January 20,
was acquitted of charges of negligence
and of failing TO obey orders. Mr.
Wilbur disapproved the finding of the
second of these charges. but the dis
approval has no practical effect.
Lieut.. Gunior grade) Alexander :.
Edward, officer of the deck of the
S-l9, was found guilty of culpable
inefficiency in performance of duty
and of violation of orders in not re-
porting a change of course to his
superior officer. and was sentenced
to the loss of 25 numbers.
Lieut. Chester +. Lewis, navigator
of the S-19, was acquitted of charges
of culpable inefficiency and violation
of orders, but Secretary Wilbur disap-
proved the findings. The Secretary's s
action in this case also has no prac-
tical effect.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
MAY BUILD NEW DIRIGIBLE.
Los Angeles Unavaiiable-Plan De-
pends on Budget.

NEW YORK, September 5 P).-
The bodies of most of the IA victims
of the Shenandoah disaster are on the
way for burial in heroes graves at the
Arlington National Cemetery or to the
homes of relatives.
Comment on the cause of the disas-
ter is worldwide, as are expressions
of sympathy and speculation as to the
future of dirigibles. President Cool
idge has let it be known at the Sum-
mer White House that he assumes the
Navy will want to build a new dirigi-
bfe for military purposes.
The Los Angeles, the only such craft
left in the possession of the United
States, cannot be used for such pur-
poses, under the Versailles treaty.
Secretary Wilbur has his doubts about
tn building of a new ship, however,
indicating that it depends upon the
Navy budget.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
Message to Navy Heads Here
Says Analysis Gives
Reason to Hope.
NEWS OF FLARES SPURS
WEARY WATCHERS ANEW
Admiral Moffett to See Wilbur on
Cross-Pacifc Flights and
Hop of Phi.

Capt Stanford F. Moses. COM
manding the Hawaiian flight prof.
ect. reported to the Navy Depart
ment today that an analysis of the
situation Gives reason to hope for
the recovery today" of Comdr. Rodg-
ers and the missing seaplane, PN-9,
No. l.
The message was forwarded to the
department by the commandant of
the 18th Naval District.
Flares observed from the mine
sweeper Whippoorwill 80 miles north
Of Oahu. between s and 10 o'clock
on the night of September 3, were
believed to have been the basis for
the reasoning mentioned in the dis
patch.
While the message did not go into
details, it was assumed at the de-
partment that, in the light of that
evidence and studies since made of
the situation, a reasonable expecta-
ton of finding the missing plane had
developed.
1t was pointed out that officers
from the first had regarded the pros
pect of picking up the plane and per
sonnel very good. provided safe
landing had been made in the ocean.
With the plane capable of keeping
affoat Indefinitely and with supplies
aboard sufficient to keep the person
mel alive for some time, il has been
regarded as only a question Of time
when the plane would be found, pro-
vided it had not been demolished in
it's forced descent
Evening star., 1925-09-05
JERSEY KIDNAPER
ELUDES POSSES
Murdered to Get Auto, Then
Stole the Wrong Child,
Police Say.
By the Associated Press.


MoNTCLAIR, y. j., September o.
for a little white girl kidnapped BY. a
negro who presumably killed another
negro in order to get an automobile
for the abduction.
Apparently having planned to kidnap
the niece of a wealthy banker, the
fugitive seems to have found that he
abducted the wrong girl.
The kidnapping plot, police believe,
was aimed against Joseph A. Bower,
vice president of the New York Trust
Co., whose 7-year-old niece, Dorothy
Coates, was visiting him. Instead, the
negro grabbed Mary DAILY, 6. daughter
of David S. DAILY, hardware merchant.
who was playing in front of the
Bower home yesterday afternoon.
By the license plates on the
abductor's automobile, police suspect
ed Raymond Pierce, a negro chauffeur,
who had borrowed the car. But
Pierce's body was found last night
crammed in a culvert at Cedar Grove,
with a bullet hole in his head.
Medical examiners said he had been
killed four hours before the kidnapping.
The assumption is that he was killed
Dy the hluIdpSI III OTuSI 10 get the
car.
Last night Mrs. Bower was called on
the telephone by man who demand
ed S4 900 for the return of her niece.
But her niece was safe in bed at the
time. The man hung up when Mrs.
Bower asked his name. Mary Daily
and Dorothy Coates look very much
alike.
The kidnaper drove up to the Bower
home in a sedan and grabbed Mary
from several of her playmates. He
sped away, choking the girls screams
with one hand and driving with the
other.
John Sandin, the Bower chauffeur,
gave chase, picking up two friends on
the way. For 10 miles the two cars
dashed through the Jersey suburbs of
New York. Between Little Falls and
West Patterson, Sandin crowded the
fugitive car toward the curb and the
negro fired. The shot crashed through
the windshield and hit Sandin in the
head.
One of his friends jumped to the
wheel and started the chase anew, but
when Sandin slumped unconscious in
the seat they took him to a hospital.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
DROUGHT RELIEF
FORECAST IN WEST
Cooler Weather to Precede
Storms Cooling Scorched
Lake Region.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. September 5.-Cooling
zephyrs sweeping out of the Canadian
Northwest today were forecast as a
vanguard of the stormy forces of Jupi-
ter Pluvius, bringing an easing within
day or SO of the scorching grasp of
Old Sol on the Middle West, Lower
Lake region and the South.
A foretaste of the long-awaited
showers has come to parts of North
Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin, but
elsewhere record high temperatures
have brought deaths, drought, damage
and suffering.
Month Drought Ended.
More than a month of aridity was
broken when a quarter inch of rain
fell in Fargo. N. Oak High winds
and hail accompanied the downpour in
Grinnell, Iowa, causing property dam
age of $4,000, while damage of S1O,-
Oo0 occurred near Chippewa Falls
Wis, in an electrical storm after a
heat wave.
Elsewhere in the heat-swept areas,
however, temperatures above the hun
dred mark broke Weather Bureau
records of years. Harrisburg in
southern Illinois, reported a maximum
of los, with Augusta. Ca, a close sec
ond with 106.
Most of Iowa, except parts touched
by storms, was a seething furnace
Sheldon experienced 106 for seven
hours yesterday. Des Moines' highest
was 81, with several prostrations.
Showers in Des Moines only increased
the humidity
Schools were dismissed yesterday in
Omaha because of 100-degree heat and
Springfield and Aurora, ILL.,, youngsters
also had a holiday.
Poplar Bluffs, Mo-. thermometers
registered los; Birmingham, Ala, 104,
and Chattanooga, Tenn, 1902
Evaporating wells in the rural Sec
tions of Kentucky are a cause of con-
Germ. Farmers in sections of the Illi-
nois corn belt, facing a similar prob
lem, are hauling water from distant
brooks and creeks.
Few Fatalities i'm Area.
Except in st. Louis, where the
fourth death during the torrid wave
was recorded yesterday, the area
singularly has been free of fatalities.
Chlcago's congeSted population sought
refuge on Lake Michigan beaches, and
slight breezes blowing from the lake
brought some relief to stay-at-h homes.
The mercury in Chicago yesterday
climbed % degrees in seven hours to
80 degrees, with one exception the
hottest September in more than SO
years. Other Illinois points reported
similar record breakers. Quincy and
Centralia had 102 and Rockford 101. :.
No relief for several days is fore
cast for Kansas, parts of which have
been cloudless since August 20. Kan
sas City, with a 80 degree. maximum
yesterday was promised 100 or more
today.
Tomorrow will be observed as a day
of fasting. and prayer in South Caro-
lima for relief from heat and drought
as result of proclamation by Gov.
Mcleod
Evening star., 1925-09-05
AIRSH|P VICTIMS
BODIES IN CAPITAL
Remains of LansdoWne and
Two Aides Taken to Ar
Iington Vault.

Three of the bodies of victims of the
day in the receiving vault at Arling-
ton cemetery, where, with a fourth, to
arrive tomorrow morning, they will
remain until Tuesday morning at IL
o'clock, when they will be inferred.
Early today the bodies of Lieut..
Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne, who com.
manded the ship; Lieut.. j. D.
Lawrence, her senior watch officer,
and Lieut.. Gunior grade) E. w. Shep-
pard of this city arrived at the Union
station. Without ceremony they were
taken in War Department hearses to
the receiving vault at the National
cemetery. The bodies were shipped
by train with no escort.
The body of Lieut.. Comdr. Louis
Hancock, executive officer of the ship,
is due to arrive tomorrow morning,
according to Navy Department ad-
vices, and it, too, will be taken to the
receiving vault to await the compile
ton of plans for an official burial.
Four to Lie Side by Side.
The four bodies will be inferred side
by side in the Dewey section of the
cemetery and close to the grave of
l..
in the wreck of the ZR2 on her trial
trip just before she was to be turned
over to the United States by England.
Lieut.. Maxfield was to have COM
manded one of the air dirigibles had
he not been a victim of the accident
in England.
When the bodies are committed to
the earth at ceremonies at which
Chaplain Scott, chief chaplain of the
Navy, will officiate, there will be
drawn up around the grave a bat
talon of three. companies of blue
jacket Infantry, in white uniforms,
commanded by Comdr. John B.
Rhodes at the Washington navy yard
and a battalion of three companies of
marines, in dress blue uniforms, COM
manded by Maj. j. A. Rossell, also
at the Washington navy yard.
Airrnen Will Attend.
One company of bluejackets will
be from the Washington navy yard
and two companies will be from the
Naval Air Station at Anacostia.
The marines will be drawn both
from the Marine Barracks and the
Washington Navy Yard.
The naval escort will proceed di-
sion of the bodies from the vault to
United States Navy Band also will be
at the grave for the ceremonies.
High ranking officers of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps will attend
the funeral ceremonies.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
NEW PARK BUYING
PLAN IS PROPOSED
Commission to Seek Right to
Purchase Land for City'S
Future Needs.

Outright purchase of lands needed
in the future by the District for open
ing highways and park systems is to
be recommended to Congress at the
coming session as a result of the con-
ferences at the meetings of the city
and park planning committee of the
National Capital Park Commission, ac-
Icording to Lieut.. Col Clarence o. Sher-
rill. This new legislation is designed
to replace the old condemnation meth
iod whereby the District took the land
under condemnation proceedings and
paid for it by assessing the damages
as benefits to the abutting property
and adjacent properties within several
squares.
The proposed legislation is the idea
of Melvin Hazen, District surveyor
and member of the city and park
planning committee, which, according
TO Col Sheriff., has done a remarka BILE
piece OF city and park planning work
for the District of Columbia in the
few sessions that it has held
Plans Kept Secret.
Col. Sheriff. said that he had Just
gone over in detail the work and rec
concentrations of the new committees
pieces of development planning that
had ever been prepared for the Ma
tional Capital. Unfortunately, he said
the plans cannot be made public at
TINS time, because they involve the
purchase or certain properties and it is
the desire to wait until the negotia-
tlons are completed to prevent them
from falling into the hands of specu.
lators, which would result in a more
costly purchase to the Government.
Ihe mere planning of the parks
and highways does not constitute the
most important work of the commit
tee, according to Col. Sheriff.. One
or the big things they are doing is the
calling into the conferences of prom
erty owners and others Interested
around any project they are working
out, and getting their consent to the
plans In this manner, all possible
antagonISm will be wiped out when
the park commission starts to nut
the plans into effect. Property own
ers have been consulted as to chang
ing grades, front parkings, street and
sidewalk widths, etc.
Triumph of Cooperation.
The present committee is one of the
greatest examples of Government CO.
ordination on any project, according
to Col. Sheriff.. Every Government
agency having anything to do with
the development and improvement of
the District as the most beautiful
capital of the world is represented,
and when the experts gather at their
meetings the recommendations of each
are laid down and the others point
immediately to the feasibility of the
various projects, and lay down objec-
tions, if any.
Maj. Carey Brown, assistant direc.
tor of the Office of buildings and pub
lie parks of the National Capital, and
chairman of the committee, is enthu-
s1astic over the work, and particularly
over the progress that has been made
| by the committee during the short
| time it has been formed.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
JONES Is 4 UP ON CUNN
WITH FIRST l8 HOLES PLAYED
Strong Finish Made by
Champion After Young
Contender Had.Lead.
Jones Has 20, for 2 I'm
der Par in Final Match
for Title.

BY the Associated Press.
OAKMONT, Pa, September Bob
by Jones of Atlanta was well on his
way to his second successive national
amateur championship today when he
led Watts Gum, his youthful fellow
citizen, by 4 up at the end of the
morning round of 1S holes.
Jones shot 20. two under par, to
gain his advantage, Gum holding him
square at the turn aided materially
by an eagle 3 at the fourth. Both shot
better than par for the first nine, Bob,
by having 36 and Gum 35. Par
is 81
Gains Hole at Tenth.
After the turn Gum gained a hole
advantage at the tenth, when Bobby
missed a putt of 10 feet. after chip
ping from the rough. They halved
the eleventh and twelfth, but on the
short thirteenth the champion squared
the match with a par 3, as Gum had
trouble in coming out of a deep trap.
A birdie added another for Bobby
at the fourteenth. his second dropping
20 feet from the pin to be followed
by sensational putt. He picked up
the fifteenth when his opponent hook
ed across a road to the rough and had
TO shoot over the trees. The shot
landed in trap.
AT the home green Jones took his
lead of 4, because Gum again wan
dered into the deep traps with hook,
missed in the pit and finally reached
the green in /. Jones played the hole
in par.
Jones today had the opportunity to
accomplish feat credited to four
other men. including Jerry Travers,
L.
national title two years in success
sion.
Both expressed confidence as they
went to the tee. They have been in