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DIR. w. /. GIBSON DIES

GREENVILLE, Texas, May 1.-Dr.
Villa Irving Gibson. well known
educator of the southwest and a con-
federate veteran, died at his home
here today. He had once been con-
nected with the Howard Payne col
Iege at Brownwood and the Burleson
college here He was so years old.
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AKRON. Ohio. May l.--Akron n. a.
A.. the Akron Aeronaufira! associa-
ticn balloon race which started from
Little Rock Ark. landed at 1880
o'riork last night, I-@ mills north
~ Weleh. w. Va Officials here be-
iiere a new worlds reeord for $4,000
cubic feet balloons has been set. The
Akron ~ 4. A. drifted approximate
lT go miles.
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ne EuNtTuHstHL y
to provide for the milk and 49,
ply of the metropolitan areas of l.
don and the other thickly populnf1
centers and the board Of trade IA
tensively preparing for nm efn2
gency.
Hyde Park again has been tur1
into place OF assembly for hundr3
of motor vehicles for relief work. N
calling war time days and prevf1l
big strikes.
The general council of the traz
union congress has issued detail
memorandum regarding the tr1I
and unions which have been r4lI
upon to lease work Tuesday I*
understood shat the safety men III w
the coal mines throughout the 80
try will be allowed to continue wet
in order to prevent damage to til
mines.
The industries affected in the gen
eral strike order includes:
Transports railways. sea, docks
harbOrs. roads and railway repai
shops, unions connected with main
tenance or air transport and tn
printing trade. including the press
productive industries in iron. steel
heavy chemicals and blildiny trade
except those on hospital work: elec
tricity and gas. including pow1
lines.
The council has recommended tha
there BE- no interference In the sani
tary services. health, food and hospi
tai supplies
Labor officials and cabinet men
bers continued today to seek =
tlon of the miners difficulty
~ var;ously described as
and q lockout" They will a
their efforts Oper the week 4
the situation IN desperate.
With NO transport, most
country. including London, bid
to walk from Monday midnight.
prices already have risen.
The strike will cost the cour
millions Of pounds daily. and
doubtedly will cause great sufferil|
The American. tourist trade. which h.
just starting with rush. will M
probably killed. officials say.
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Can IDENTIFY
MACHINECUN
BUYERS, SAYS
Chicago Salesman Ad-
mits He Knows Men
Who Bought Three
Lethal Weapons


CHICAGO. Ill. May William III.
NcSwiggin, youthful states attorney.
was laid TO rest today while police
search for the slayers and the ma
chine gun used in killing him and
two companions Tuesday night re-
mained rcn-productivc Of results.
Full church and military honors
were accorded the hanging prose
rutor," Chicago cfficialdom and civic
leaders putting aside until this after
noon the investigation TO pay final
respects 10 the youth who at 26 had
established a brilliant record. A
military escort was provided because
during the world war he was a lieut.
enant in the student reserve corps.
Ar the same time simple rites were
held for James J. Doherty, saloon
keeper and gangster, and Thomas
Duffy. saloonkeeper, slain with Nc
Swiggin. when gangsterS in another
automobile poured machine gun fire
into the victims car.
Best Clue is Revealed
Despite failure OF hundreds Of Of
ficers 70 penetrate the mystery. the
Chicago detective bureau felt that 1T
had the best clue vet found in the
admission OF Alex ". Korecek. young
hardware dealer. that he knew the
men who had purchased from him
three machine guns.
After two days of almost constant
uestioning. korecek promised to iden-
tify today the purchasers Of the leth-
al weapons, despite threats that he
would be killed if he told.
The controversy between civic lead
crs and Robert f. Grove. states at
torney, over the method of inves-
tigation of the assassinations and
conditions generally continued to-
day.
Harry Eugene Kelly. head OF the
non-rartisan union league club, STAG
ed that the special grand jury call
ed yesterday by Mr. Grove did not
fill the bill, nor did Mr.. Groves &C
tion in calling in Oscar Carlstrom.
state attorney general, meet ap-
proval.
Would Eliminate Grove
"A grand jury called on Mr..
Groves own motion and under cir
cumstances and conditions which viii
leave Mr.. Grove in the position OF
overpowering leadership will not ce
such a grand jury as will investi-
gate Mr.. Groves office or Mr.. Grove
himself, said Mr.. Kelly. He added
that Mr.. Grove, in effect. had tied
the state attorney generals hands.
II should advise Mr.. CarIstrom
either to take over the whole in
quiry upon his own responsibility or
to stay out of. it entirely" said Mr..
Kelly.
Among the first witnesses subpoen-
aed for appearance before coroner's
jury Of six business men was Judge
William ". Brothers, acting chief
justice of the criminal courts, who
granted Mr.. Groves appeal for the
special grand jury.
Five priests officiated at the Nc
Swiggin rites. Flowers filled sew
arel automobiles.
Porches and roofs near the Me-
Swiggin home and the church were
filled with persons anxious to see
the procession and the notables In
it.
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Lands
After 815-Mile
Trip Eastward

! while passing over the msp tains Of
Arkansas. Kentucky. Vest Virginia
and Virginia, but that lis bag was
not hit.
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LONDON. May 1.-The British eov{
ernment today moved detachments II
troops into the coal mining nr4as N
South Wales. Lancashire md S<ot
land. The movement. chnract4rfx4
as purely "a precautionary 11&H
ure,r l. to assist the police fn m&ll
tanning order during the n6THEr
strike.
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Evening star., 1926-08-30

The feeling against us had been
pretty we'll stirred up, and there was
wild talk about riding both Dempsey
and myself out of town on rail
after we. had been treated with a
layer of tar and feathers. l was
bound Id get that money, or as much
of it as was. possible to gather in.
| stood my ground. Id have been a
chump if / hadn't. no matter what
the feeling was. They weren't simply
failing on their own bargain. ! didn't
make it. They handed it to me to
sign, and l was having them stick to
it.
AT no time did any one of them come
to me with decent proposal to
gamble with them for the rest of
the moneys l was willing to do it,
but why wait for me to propose 1t.
They tried to squirm through. and /
was just as bound they wouldn't.
They had ruined their own gate by
not playing the game. l never was
invited to play the game with them.
I'd have met them half way in any
thing. and l told the newspape men
that when they called on me to beg
that the bout be not called off be-
cause of the shortage of money.
There are p,enty of sports writer's
who We're present at Shelby to ver-
ify what I have stated above.
(COpyright 1921
Evening star., 1926-08-30

lard unconscious. That's about right,
| didn't put him to sleep. Everybody
knows that. But almost everybody
else knows that / did hit Willard
hard enough in that first round to
make him sick for a whole week and
that it was couple of days after the
show out in Toledo ended before Jess
was able to speak above a whisper.
And then there was Carl Morris
and Fred Fulton. If my memory is
any good at all, / hit Morris so hard
that he fell face forward, his tongue
was in some way jolted out of his
mouth-that is the back part of it
was thrown forward-and it was
about 90 minutes before Carl was able
to understand what it was all about.
Maybe / didn't put Carpenter to
sleep. But the world admits l handed
him enough to make him decide that
if ever he got up again he might go
down for a third time-and be car
ried out on a stretcher. don't think
I actually knocked Luis Firpo dead.
either. But when the entertainment
was over | guess Luis was willing to
write home to the folks and give EN-
testimonial about my punch.
Maybe l didn't hit those boys hard
enough to satisfy Genes idea of what
a hitter should be. do not like to dis
appoint anybody. Gene seems diSaD-
pointed about my hitting. Well. on
September %, when that bell rings.
and / get Gene before me as the tar
get, l will try to prove to this skepti-
cal young man that when l want to
hit | can hit.
tCopyright. 1926.D
Evening star., 1926-08-30
JACKS REBUILT NOSE
STANDING BATTERlNG

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., August
80 R-Jack Dempsey's rebuilt nose
was as Grecian as ever today after
having been subjected to a terrific
battering from three weeks of his
training campaign.
Some ringsiders have expected the
nose to be spread all over his face.
Nothing has happened to it. Dempsey
says nothing will happen. Dempsey
is the least concerned of all over his
nose. In fact, he has urged his rough
playmates to take a healthy sock at
it. Several of them have done Just
that. with no distress to the cham
piOn.
''My nose is really better for fighting
than Tunney's." said Jack. "It will
give under the strain Of hard punch.
If l hadn't gone into the movies after
the operation the public never would
have thought anything about it
One reason for the belief that
Dempsev's nose would prove a handi-
cap was that 1t was reported to have
been modelled from paraffin. The fact
is that. dislking cauiflower ears he
once had, Jack submitted TO an opera
ton which removed this excess cartl-
lage for use in rebuilding the bridge
of his nose.
The old rose with is broken bridge
forced him to breathe through his
mouth. serious handicap to any
fighter. With the new one he has
clear air passage and the old Wheez-
ing and snorting is notable ny It's
absence during his present Workouts
Evening star., 1926-08-30
Alabapa Loses S Grid Stars Dempsey Glad 7mney BeHes Him
BOXERS TUNING UP
FOR GO TOMORROW

Al Foreman and Goldie Ahearn,
rival featherweights, complete their
training today for the 12-round main
event that heads the boxing card
being offered tomorrow night at
'Kenilworth Arena.
Ahearn is tapering off at the
Mohawk Club, where he worked out
in public yesterday and Saturday.
Foreman is going through his PAGES
at Benedict, Md.
This main event, which has been in
the making for practically two years.
is backed up by an exceptional pre-
liminary card. Hal Stevenson. New
England fyweight, appears in the
six-round semi final with Jack Cafoni,
a local scrapper.
Johnny Anlato, Marine welter-
weight. is down for six rounds with
Billy Strickler, Virginia southpaw.
while Billy Richardson meets Nick
Repoli in another welterweight battle
of six StanZaS.
In the two of the three four round
ers on the program, Sammy Hogan
tackles Blonde Pinion and Billy Deak
faces Manuelo Radman.
Jack Johnson and Kid Woody, col
ored middleweights, open hostilities
with a four.round curtain raiser at
SIS.
Evening star., 1926-08-30
RICHARD HITS SNAG
IN TICKET DEBATE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 80. =
Gov. Pinchot today backed up Frank
L. Wiener, chairman Of the Pennsyl-
vania Athletic Commission, in his dis
pute with Tex Rickard, promoter OF
the Dempsey-Tunney fight, over the
allotment of choice. seats to Penn
sylvania fight fans.
Richard, aroused by Wiener's de-
mand for 5000 of the best seats and
intimation that New York spectators
were getting all the good ones, is re-
ported to have threatened to have
Wiener removed from the commission.
"Mr. Rickard seems to have forgot
ten it is the Governor of Pennsylva-
MIA who decides who shall be on the
State Athletic Commission said Gov.
Pinchot here today.
II am behind Mr.. Wiener. | shall
be behind him all the way in his eff
forts to protect the rights of our
people"
During the row over the ticket dis
tribution yesterday Chairman Wiener
told the New York promoter to take
better care of Philadelphia and Penn
sylvania fans in the allotment of tick
cts or take the fight back to New
York"
Evening star., 1926-08-30
GUARDS ARE NEEDED
FOR VIRGINIA eleven

UNIVERSITY. Va, August &c.
If the five veteran University of Fir-
ginia linemen who are eligible return
to play during the season ahead, only
the two guard positions will remain
to be filled by Earle Neale, head coach.
Phillips, center: Cardwell and Tyler,
tackles, and Friedburg and Ahner,
ends, are all expected to be back for
the first day of practice next Monday
The four letter men of '25 who will
not be out for the team are Mackall,
guard and captain-elect; CockSill,
guard, Howard Holland, tackle;
Bramble, end, and Reynolds. center.
Ten candidates probably will be on
hand for the two guard positions.
Finck, Peyton, and Thompson
played as substitute guards in some
of the games last year, Mccormick
was guard on the scrubs, and Fite
and DeButts played with the fret year
team Neither of the men who were
guards on the undefeated first year
team of "a was available last year.
for Woods was hurt in early practice
and LeBauer. who is Junior metropoli-
tan Shotput champion, was busy in
first year medicine. Both of these men
are expected to report for practice.
Austin. a big freshman who did not
try for last Falls team, also has been
called into action.
Luke and Symington are two big
men who tried out as varsity tackles,
but who were injured before the sea-
son began Both should be on hand to
press Cardwell and Tyler for their
places. The first year team should
furnish Copps. Russell and Johnson as
tackles.
Besides Ahner and Friedburg there
seems to be scarcity Of ends. for
Meade is the only man on either the
second team or the scrubs who will
be back to try for the wing position.
Hofheimer and MCGUIRE will come up
from the first year squad.
Taylor may understudy Phillips at
center unless he is given a trial as an
end. Taylor at center was the line
star of last seasons first year eleven.
Evening star., 1926-08-30

| spent a lot Of it on the show
We'll, I'm telling you this. I don't
want to have any trouble with you fell
lows about my money. I've an engage
ment at Boyle's Thirty Acres for the
champion that will get me the kind of
money | thought l was going to get
here. l will walk out on you if you
don't produce"
Jim stalled around some more and
| called the others in.
Now men, I'm not gong to stick
you fellows up or hook you in any
way. I'll kick back the 100000 YOU
made on the first payment and will
keep only the $4,000 to cover my ex-
penses and lost time. III withdraw
, now. Let's call it quits. You've gone
in over your heads l can see that"
Asks for More Time.
Johnson insisted that he had a lot
of property and would negotiate a
loan and make good in two or three
days.
Give me that much time and I'll
hand out. all Of the second payment?"
The word went around that kearns
and Dempsey We're going to pull out
on the match, and the business men
who had taken the thing seriously
were pretty sore. They began to dig
around to help out and in the end
they came to me with all but S2,5 of
the money. They had gathered it in
any old donation way. l took what
they gave me and. turning TO them,
said: IN show YOU that I'm a good
sport, III kick in the odd $500 my
self. so that the payment stands as
agreed at 100000 And SO the sec
ond payment was handed over.
IF YOU fellows are pinched like
Evening star., 1926-08-30
Famous Battles
for
Heavyweight Title

No. 3.
BY the Associated Press.
Silence" was the watchword when
Bob Fitzsimmons stopped Jim Corbett
in IA rounds at Carson City. New,
March II, 1897.
Billy Madden, master of ceremonies.
warned the 5000 persons present that
no unseemly shouting would be toler-
ated.
Hear the voice of the master:
"You will please keep order. If
there is any excitement or shouting
it will only interfere with the men.
Please remember that there are ladies
present"
When the principals were in their
respective corners the county physi-
clan entered the ring and examined
their gloves. No one else knew why.
and he did not say. He then felt their
pulses.
Statisticians announced that 362
blows were struck, 221 delivered by
Corbett and 141 by FitZsimmons.
Mrs. F'itzsimmons coached her hus-
band. begging him to devote his at
tentiOnS to COrbett's ribs.
Corbett was very angry after the
bout and told FitzsimmOns that If he
refused to meet him again he would
lick" him the first time they met on
the street.
Evening star., 1926-08-30
D. C. JUNIOR NETMEN
BEAT BALTIMOREANS

Washington's public courts racket
ers further established their superior
ity over those of Baltimore yesterday
by taking the measure of the Monu-
mental City aggregation in a Junior
team match played here, s to /.
The locals scored clean sweep in
the six singles tilts and registered in
two out of three doubles. Fred Doyle
and Milton Baker taking the only set
back handed to a Washington pair.
Dooley Mitchell scored over Louis
Levin. GO. 6-3. while Bob Consi-
dine trimmed Billy Jacobs, 60, 60.
Dumbarton netmen took four singles
and three doubles to score a clean
sweep over the Navy .LeeCh Cup team
Yesterday at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1926-08-30

II Nou NOllIC OdNh
| this for the second payment I just
wonder what it is going to be when
YOU have to kick in that other $110,
900 three days before the fight"
Johnson sang his same old song
There isn't a thing to worry about
Wen have your money as we
promised
had to laugh at Jim. Either he
was the champion kidder or else he
believed in dreams.
Offers to Withdraw.
Before l accepted the second $780,
900 I repeated my offer to withdraw
and take the original $4,000 and de-
part. They turned it down.
And so we came to the time for the
third payment. The ballyhoo had
gone forth in great shape, but the
stories of the rows over the money
had taken up all the space that
should have been used on the fight.
These stories killed the fight and the
attendance. There isn't any guess
about that.
I knew that there was going to be
a fine row over that last payment.
They had taken in about 100000 all
told, and most of it, so they said, had
gone out on the arena. They didn't
know how to manage things, and
they spent money when it wasn't
necessary.
1t so happened that the lumber peo-
pie got out attachments on the show.
and one by one the bill collectors filed
theirs. Things looked glum. l went
to johnson. He was licked for the
first time. Or at least he admitted de-
feat.
II haven't got the money. / tried
to borrow $4,000, but those Great
Falls bankers ran out on me. They We
left me fiat They've run out on me
cold
Feeling Becomes Bitter.
Well it's no funeral of mine, Jim.
Therel, be no fight unless you people
get it up" Then began a series of
conferences. The business men didn't
want to see it fall through. The
crowds had come in from all over
the country. There was no turning
them back. The only persons who
We're doubtful about starting were
those who had ordered berths on the
Pullmans, and 1 guess there were so
carloads of reservations turned back.
They tried everything possible to
get me TO go through. OF course.
they weren't in on this secret. Demp-
sey and l had agreed to go through
at any cost, though we weren't tell
ing them. If they got wind of it,
they wouldn't have lifted Il hand at
coming through with the rest OF the
money. They stalled us to the last.
Evening star., 1926-08-30
TUNNEY TO CHANGE
CAMP TOMORROW

SPECULATOR, n. V, August 80
Gene Tunney tomorrow will move to
Stroudsburg. Pa, to enter training
quarters nearer the Philadelphia
SesquicentCnnial stadium. where his
bout with Jack Dempsey takes place
September 20.
A few miles on the road, some work
with the lieht and heavy bags and a
few rounds with his sparring part
ners completed the last full days S
work yesterday.
Tunney says if he wins the cham
pionship he VIII come back here to do
his training for future bouts. Bill
Osborne. his host and. like Tunney.
an oX-Marne, is so sure Tunncy will
win that he is already planning a
new cottage for a training camp near
his hotel.
Evening star., 1926-08-30

Year day. The stars W. will be
noted by their absence ar. 'iilliS,
Brown and Hubert.
Of these three, it is likely that
Brown and Hubert were most out
standing. In fact, it was brilliant
work by these players that carried
Alabama through the most brilliant
season in its history and through
one of the best seasons any South
ern eleven ever has known. Brown
was a brilliant runner and Hubert
was a powerful plunger and splendid
defensive player. Gilfis was excep-
tionally artful in throwing passes.
and it is in this department that he
will most be missed.
In addition to these stars Alabama
loses its two great guards and Hud-
son, end. Five of these six players
in composite vote of all sports edi-
tors in that section we're given posi-
tions on the all-SMthern eleven.
Jones and Buckler, the guards, were
said by one foot ball coach to be 81
per cent of Alabamas defensive
strength.
The letter men due back are
Evening star., 1926-08-30
EXPECTS TO SHOW GENE.
THOUGH, THAT HE CAN HIT
Homes Challenger Will Wade in as He Indicates He
Will in Declaring Champion Is Very Much
Overrated as PunCher.
BY JACK DEMPSEY.

with the notion that not much
OF hitter padded fact, that much
overrated lugger-a1 which pleasing and cheerful
For fear hook upper
general
that he If
afraid punching then cinch It, that ne
where him For certainly
and he thinks can't hit hard enough
hurt him. why he'll stick his chin and his stomach right III the
bulls-eye position.
be pleasing
I
Evening star., 1926-08-30
GOLF TROPHY OF GOLD
FOR AMATEUR CHAMPION

The most valuable golf trophy ever
in competition will be i'll Atlanta ere
the end OF this month. If a young law
yer OF that city does what is expected
of him. An 1S-carat gold cup has
been fashioned for the winner of the
national amateur tournament. The for
mer trophy held by Bobby Jones. the
favorite to win again. was lost In a
fro lasts Winter
Evening star., 1926-08-30

0A ''NsNA 49, ~ - ~
Jim comes to me
with $4,000 in
bills.
ITO tell you the
truth that's all we
have on hand al
the present time,
Jack, and We'll
make up the other
half of the second
payment in a day
or SO. We've put
out a lot on the
arena and other
stuff.
II thought you
said that YOU had
100000 in"
I'VE did have a
lnt in h11{ u-o'1-o
Evening star., 1926-08-30

captain Brown Caldwell Johnston and Rosented
Pckhar Holmes and WunS hnemen me best
oh BoWden Mcdonald and
the freshman team
Taylo Skldmore
To twill what did last Ala
An that through
brilliantly did Wads could the West
Of beating that
Evening star., 1926-08-30

bO(SiA 4 tAAcAAA
mind about this
idea he has that
| can't hit. 1t will
simplify t h i n s s
for me greatly. l
w on t h a V G to
jockey and frivol
around trying to
get an opening,
for Gene indicates
he's going to walk
right into me and
S ii C K his C h l n
somewhere within
my reach and just
laugh hin self sick
when l smack it.
Gene points out
[ h a t / couldn't
knock Jess Will