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BANDITS
STREV Nails;
Halt PURSUIT
Punctured Tires Battle
Posses: Bandits Es-
cape With Loot of
Over $500,000

COLUMBUS. Wis. Sept 21.-tPi-
By scattering flatheaded roofing
nails On the road, five men who seld
up the First National Bank here man
aged to escape in an old touring car
with more than 100000 in currency
and securities.
Pursuers who set out in high pow
cred automobiles soon after the rob
berry late yesterday were halted BY
punctured tires. The rail Of the
bandits was strewn with the nails for
several miles.
Authorities and posses sought the
bandits in southern Wisconsin coun-
ties today Bank officials and m-nl-
bers Of the Wisconsin Bankers asso-
Citations protective department after
q check up said that the bandits OBJ
tanned $500 in cash and more than
100000 in securities, some OF which
were negotiable
The bandits drove uD TO the bank
a few minutes before closing time
yesterday. One remained in the car.
another nj the bank door. hile
three. dressed in overalls. entered
and covered six bank employees and
two patrons and after scoping up all
available cash and bank papers,
locked their victims behind the graf
ing Of the vault and fled.
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.ternate pilot. leaped to safety
before the plane burst into
flames.
An attempt was made to take off
last Thursday but had to be post
poned because of a gasoline leakage
discovered at the last minute. After
ward Partisan friends Of Captain
Fronck urged him 10 make the flight
for the honor Of France, even at the
risk of death.
The crash was caused by the
buckling Of a wheel on an extra
landing gear that was to have been
dropped into the ocean as soon as
the plane got under way.
Il knew the wheels had crashed" +"
said Fronck. "but could neither stop
nor rise
The plane burst into flames an
instant after the two pilots leaped
from it, Heavy clouds of black smoke
rolled upward. An airplane circlinE
overhead sounded fire siren. and
telephone calls brought the West
bury fire department within ten min
utes. They used small fire extin-
guishers on the flames but these
were futile. There was no water
available in the middle Of the field.
and firemen said il would have been
useless in fighting gasoline fire.
There were 200>eallons of gasoline in
the tanks.
The plane weighed more than
2S.O00 pounds loaded nc the take off.
There was a low hanging mist and a
light north wind
An hour earlier Carl F. Schory.
chairman Of the contest committee
Of the National Aer0nautical Associa-
tion. had sealed the gasoline tank
and the barooraph as n check az the
end of the flight. whether the plane
had taken on mere fuel or landed
during the VOYAGE.
Approximately 1000 persons had
gathered 10 watch the start Of what
was TO have been an epic voyage.
When the planes crashed the crowd
rushed forward, but could not get
within fifty yards Of the plane. The
grass was burned back for fifty feet
around il.
Women screamed and tainted, and
one soldier, said to have been she'll
shocked. went into Mysteries.
The fire ragged for more than an
hour afterward and IL was impossi-
bic to rescue the bodies of the
t-4~ped airmen. Clavier had wife
mi three children waiting 10 well
come him in Paris Officials or the
Sis:n-sky aerial eng 'neering corpora
tion. builders OF the plane. exoncr-
ated all participants from blame
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COOLIDGE NOT
TOASK CHANGE
World Court Reserva-
tons May Not Be
Modified

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l.-R,-
President Coolidge has no dispo-
sition to seek changes in the res
ervations attached by the senate to
American adherence TO the World
Court
Suggestions in Geneva that one Of
the reservations be modified on a
compromise basis. The White House
declared today the chief executive
feels he has no authority to propos
such chang 10 the senate.
The reservations, it was said at the
White House, were intended to pro
tect American interests and the pres
idents' opinion is that they speak
for themselves.
Most Of the discussion at Geneva
concerning thc reservations has
centered about the fifth, which stip-
ulates that the world court may not
render an advisory opinion in case
involving the United States without
the consent of this government.
The president believes this reser-
vation should stand as it is.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21
SAYS
KEARNSSTOLE
HALF MILLION
Alleges Former Mana
ger Was Once Con-
vict; Kearns Carnish-
ees Dempsey Purse

ATLANTIC CITY. NJ J.. Sept 2l.--
tP,-Jack Dempsey in an affidavit
PRESENTED in chancery court today
answering Jack kerns' suit forcing
him into receivership. charged
Kearns with stealing 100000.
Dempsey gave this ~ his reason
for discharging Kearns.
The case was continued for two
weeks
Dempsey also charged that Kcarns
was NJ one time imprisoned on q
serious charge.
Dempsey in his affidavit said he
learned Of kearns' dishonesty and
proved record about August. 1925.
That part of the affidavit referring
~ Dempsey's reasons for breaking
with .Kearns read in part:
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BIG PLANT
ISDESTROYED
Score of San Antonio
Firemen Injured In
Spectacular Blaze

SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 21.-tPl-
Loss Of 100000 was caused and one
fireman was possibly fatally injured
when fire swept the plant OF the San
Antonio Oil Works today. The flames
were brought under control aft er
m hour and a half with the aid Of
the city's fire fighting apparatus.
+ Steve Donsue of fire truck number
3, station number z. was in a critical
condition at hospital after both
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TYd3aS-AHUnticPlUneI
Crashes and Burns; 2
Lose LiUeS IN Flames

WESTBURY, n. ~, Sept 2l.-tH'-Two lost their
lives early today when the arpane of Captain
Fonck crashed in attempt to take off $500 mile
stop flight to Paris.
They were Charles Claver French radio operator and
Jacob samoff Russian mechanic They were trapped in the
closed cabin of the huge three-motored biplane.
captain Fonck the French in command of the flight
and Lieutenant Lawrence W. Curtin IT, s. NJ American al
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Announce Sale OF
Broadcast Rights

NEW YORK. Sept. 2l.-tRD-The
Dempsey Tunney fight is to broad
cast directly from the ringside by
wEAF, WIZ, and sems thirty allied
stations.
II is announced that the broadcast
ing rights have been sold by Tex
Rickard to the Royal Typewriter
Company. The price is not disclosed.
Some reports place it at $4,000.
The contract of sale has no in
hibiticns against radio casting Of
presst wire accounts OF the fight, il
is stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21
HEAVY FIRE Loss
AT OIL CITY, LA

OIL CITY. Louisiana. Sept. 2i--'Pi
Fire which broke out today IN a
rool room hefe destroyed twc and =
half blocks in the business district,
causing loss estimated at $75c000.
Twenty-Five business houses. were
burned. only the Oil City Bank build
ing or brick construction remaining
on the west side or the town. Fifteen
residences were destroyed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21
CIVIL COURT IS
CONVEYING HERE

Setting of cases in the civil dis
trict court were underway today at
the opening of the September term
Of this court.
The entire day probably will be
taken up in this manner with trial
of cases beginning tomorrow.
Judge A. NJ. Kent is occupying his
regular seat on the civil court bench.
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flew across the everglades
took $4,000 in gold to a
Miami Bank.

~'AhNtAAA DdAlhs
MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 21.-CP)-while
first relief eontingents were arriving
here today. rescue workers continued
their efforts at Identification and
burial of the dead, relief of the in
Iured and the greater task of supply
ing food, clothing and shelter to the
thousands made homeless by the
hurricane which Saturday lashed the
coast area from West Palm Beach
to Miami. The known death toll early
today stood at 36s. This steadily in
creased as additional bodies, cast up
by the waters Of Biscayne bay and
found in the tangled wreckage Of
torn buildings were brought to tenn
porary morgues and rescue workers
believe the death list will reach
more than 700.
The list Of known injured was
placed at 1882 while it is estimated
that a complete check will reveal
the injured list to be more than
1000.
Varying reports from the entire
storm area place the loss mt be-
tween S5O,0OO,OOO and slOO,OO0,0OO.
While Miami and the surrounding
areas strove for check Of its dead
and injured. grave fears were felt
for Pensacola on the northwestern
coast of Florida and directly in the
path of the gale. Reports from
Pensacola yesterday before wire
communication was severed told Of
gale there approaching an intensity
Of 100 miles an hour.
No Town Escapes
Scarcely a city or town in the
storm area escaped the death toll
left in the wake Of the hurricane.
Greatest havoc was done in Miami
and Hollywood, where more than 300
are known to have been killed and
drowned BY the rushing waters which
swept in from the gulf stream.
The known injured in these two
cities is fixed above 500, while the
estimated property damage has been
placed at more than S50,000.000.
FnlA-ciA utdtHS dEc hHONH W hdFt
occurred at Moorehaven; Dania re-
ported II dead; Fort Lauderdals 13;
Homestead. located in the Red
lands district. 40 miles south of
Miami. 10: Clewiston IL, Coral Cab
les. Miami Shores, Little Rover and
Hialeah, outlying suburbs Of Miami.
had a combined death toll of As while
a score of cities along the coast from
Dserfield on the north to Florida
City on the south reported scatter
ing casualties ranging from one to
seven.
No estimate had been placed on
the number Of injured in other
cities where the force Of the wind
was said to have been higher.
Martial law in Miami, Hollywood
and other cities in the storm-torn
area, continued in effect today and
national guardsmen patrolled the
streets. A number Of looters are
reported to have been shot at Hia-
leah, suburb Of Miami.
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NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 2I.-lPl-
No lives were lost at Mobile in the
storm which lashed the coast early
yesterday IL was reported nj the
office Of the chief dispatcher or
the Louisville and Nashville Road
here today.
Their information was received
BY J. 4. Burton. dispatcher. nj
$3.50 n IN. from the crew or train
which left Mobile after the storm
but was forced to stop at st. Elmo
20 miles west Of that point.
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JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 2l.-tPl-
Coral Gables came through the
hurricane with much less damage
than first reported. ]. +. Yoder.
secretary of the Coral Gables
Chamber Of Commerce. declared
teday on arrival here.
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STORM BULLETINS

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 2I.-lR,-
Confirmation Of reports that there
had been no loss Of life at Mobile
came from the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad headquarters here
today with the opening of a wire
into the storm stricken city.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21

AAAA1 AAACA AAAAlG.
AT 10 o'clock the tropical storm
was central a short distance west
Of Mobile and was sweeping west
ward toward New Orleans, nm i'd
visory hurricane warning issued by
the United States Weather Bureau
here said.
Hurricane warnings were dis
played between Bay St. Louis, Miss,
ana Burwood. La. The storm was re-
ported diminishing in intensity.
The warning received from WASH
ington follows:
-H Hoist northwest storm warnings
10 n. fh., Bay St. Louis, Miss, 10
Burwood, La. Tropical storm after
reaching vicinity OF Mobile has
turned toward the west. diminishing
in intensity. IL was apparently cen
tral short distance west Of Mobile
and will cause northwest winds back
ing to west, probably reaching gale
force at times Tuesday. Bay St.
Louis and Burwood. La, and easterIy
70 southeasterly gales east OF Bay
st. Louis TO and beyond Pensacola"
GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 21.-CH1
@-Not the slightest indication of un-
settled weather OF any sort nc Gal
weston could he found in the rec
ords Of the United States Weather
Bureau here today, and reports Of a
rapidly falling barometer were de-
clared to be wholly without foun-
dation.
The barometer at 10 o'clock this
morning stood AZ 29.s4 and had been
very stationary for the past % hours.
A tide Of IL feet was reported the
lowest tide nc this time Of day for
several days. The Gulf was as placid
as a mill pond and d gentle northerIy
breeze was blowing. The sky was
cloudless. The official forecast was
fair tonight and Wednesday,
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For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley: Fair 70 partly cloudy
tonight and Wednesday, continued
warm.
For East Texss: Generally fair to-
night and Wednesday. Light to mod
crate variable winds on the coast.
Daily RIVER Bulletin
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Trail of Death
Extends West
OfPenS0cOIn

BIRMINGHAM Ala, Sept. 21.-lE)-Word communca-
on here through employees Of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad said there had been heavy property damage PEN
sacoa, with probable loss Of life.
This the first word received from this city since
municaton cut off there yesterday morning. The
Louisville and Nashville round house and freight depot
demolished, they said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21
GOLD RUSH IN NEW GUINEA

MELROURNE--Hundreds OF Aus
tralians are leaving for Narobe, New
Guinea where gold has been disrOv-
cred.
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WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
10 a. m.-Cotton market.
12 m.-Roy Garcia and Harry
Kuehner, violin and piano. Weather
and river bulletins.
3 n m.-Cotton market.
p. m.-Bill Lopez and Jesus Villa,
Hawaiian music. Weather and river
reports.
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NEW ORLEANS Sept. 21.-Ho-The Storm which
struck the east coast Of Florida Saturday and hit Pensacola
and Mobile yesterday left in its wake trail Of dead and
heavy property damage the Gulf Of Pensacola
Winds reported 100 miles hour at Pensacola while
Mobiles latest report said reached 80 miles there To-
day = reports indicate the storm slackening.
"A train routed Montgomery to Mobile, but railroad
officials doubted its success
Fear expressed for fishermen who were on
Mobile bay when the broke Another report from
Mobile over shaky wire usabe only few seconds said
the telephone office and many other buildings had been
rooted and many plate glass windows smashed.
Seminole and Lillian Florida between Pensacola and Mo-
bile were reported leveled Reports Of loss Of life AT Bay
Mlnette and Jackson Aa could be confirmed and 1t il
believed that telephone and telegraph wires crops were
the heavy suffers in Alabama Destruction of much cotton
reported at Richardton Miss
Many southern Mississppians fled to New Orleans IN
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21

QUITS DANCE FOR SUICIDE
BREMEN.-Baron Otto Won Reich
en- left a dance given by his wife
and killed himself in the garden.
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'hopes of avoiding the storm,
The barometer read $3.50 here
this morning.
Milford chronicle., 1926-04-02
Dover

Devotees of Auction and Five
Hundred are looking forward with
pleasure to the Lenten Benefit Card
Party to be given by Col. Haslet
Chapter, D. A. r., Wednesday even
ing. April 7th at $3.50 o'clock at the
Hotel Richardson in Dover.
AS previously announced the pro-
ceeds of the party will be devoted to
paying the chapters quota of the
cost of the Delaware box in the new
auditorium of Continental Memorial
Hall in Washington, D. c., and it IS
hoped that all card players who are
interested in seeing Delaware take
it's usual prominent place in all pa
triotic enterprises will assist the
work of the Daughters of the Amerl-
can Revolution by securing tickets.
Arrangements are in charge OF Mrs.
Alden B. Richardson and tickets are
on sale at Wise's drug store and by
members of the chapter.
Milford chronicle., 1926-04-02
COUNTY AGENT HAS MANY
PAMPHLETS FOR DISTRIBUTION
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snray schedule for each of these
crops is given in detail. This publi-
cation also contains some valuable
data on the preparation of home
made sprays and how they should be
used in connection with the general
spray program.
Not only fruit growers, but other
farmers in the county may be inter
ested in receiving a copy of recent
bulletin published by the State
Board of Agriculture, entitled,
'Plant Disease Survey of Economic
Crops in Delaware during 1925,
which was prepared by DR.. J. f.
Adams, Plant Pathologist of the
State Board of Agriculture and the
University of Delaware, cooperating
with the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture at Washington.
The various plant diseases are dis
cussed under such groups as "Or-
cbard and Small Fruits" Field and
Vegetable Crops" Cereal and For
age Crops" and "Ornamentals." This
report presents the relative impor-
tance and prevalence of plant dis
eases in this State during the past
year, and the information contained
therein is the result of personal OBJ
seryations of crop conditions in the
field and inquiries on diseased spec
linens submitted for laboratory iden-
tifications.
The poultry raisers in the county
may be interested to learn of sever
al publications which are available
on the subject of poultry production
under Delaware conditions. H. S
Palmer, extension poultryman of the
University of Delaware, has 'prepar-
ed a number of mimeographed circu-
lars on each of the following sub
iects: "Culling for Egg Production.
selection of Breeders and Hatchine
( Eggs" Natural Incubation ant
Brooding," Artificial Incubation anC
Brooding," and Feeding the
Chicks"
In addition to the above mentioned
literature, there are available also
at the county agents Office in Dover
copies of Feeding for High Eg9
Production" by VIM. tombstone o.
Toms River, New Jersey, and the
Selection of Breeders for Egg Pro
duction," by Prof. James E. Rice O.
Cornell University. Both of thest
publications, as well as those pre-
pared by Mr.. Palmer, are well wortl
reading, and should be in the hands
of every poultry raiser who is in thu
business for the most economical
returns from his flock.
Milford chronicle., 1926-04-02
CONFERENCE MEETS
NEXT YEAR In ASBURY
CHURCH, SALISBURY
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slaught being made at this time on
the Eighteenth amendment and the
Volstead Act, in this State and Ma
tion; and,
Whereas, The public press is a
powerful factor in any conflict where
public sentiment is involved; and,
whereas, The press within the
bounds of our Conference territory,
with a few notable exceptions, is
either silent or openly hostile and
unfair in its dealings with the ques-
tion at issue, therefore,
Resolved, l, that we most heart
lily commend the attitude of those
papers that are standing with the
forces of righteousness in their at
$mpt to save the people from the
deadly, dastardly delusion of wine
and beer program without a saloon,
and we urge our people everywhere
within the patrOnizing territory of
those papers to give to them their
patronage and support.
Resolved, 2, that we deplore the
cowardice of those papers that fol
gain or otherwise see fit to keeI
silence when this beast of nameless
passion again crouches and makes
ready to spring.
"Resolved, 8, that we unsparingly
condemn those papers that not only
have openly allied themselves witt
the movement against the Eigh
teenth Amendment and the VolsteaC
Law. but are distorting the facts anC
deceiving the people and refusing tt
give to the friends of the law anC
order fair and impartial hearing.
'Resolved, 4, that we disclaim an.
intention to muzzle or mOnopOliz
the press in anything where there i
ground for an honest difference @
opinion. but we do demand at tn
hands of those papers a square dea
and a fair fight"
Milford chronicle., 1926-04-02
WILMINGTON NEGROES
PROTEST ALLEGED INJUSTICE
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continued from nrSC paSe)
Rev. c. H. Hardin and Mrs. Flor
ence Anderson, most of whom ex-
pressed their sentiments on the
question.
The resolutions, after rec1tlng the
alleged history of the case, set forth:
I'VE believe and realize it is our
duty as negro citizens to help defend
and protect the chastity of negro
women;
BE it resolved that we the ne
groes Of Delaware proclaim to the
world that we decry and frOwn upon
all wrong doing by negroes and
whites everywhere at all times.
THAT we condemn assaults by
negroes upon whites and do not con-
denim the melting out of evenhanded
justice to those surely guilty.
But we also condemn with equal
force assaults by whites upon ne
groes and demand that evenhanded
justice be alike administered to
whites found guilty"
The committee on resolutions was
composed of DR.. Arnett, W. R. Rut-
ledge, Miss A. G. Baldwin, Mrs.
Burnside 2. Anderson, Ethelburt
Evans, Mrs. Mamie N. Jones and
Rev c. H. Harden.
DR.. Arnett announced that the
committee did not, for obvious rea-
sons, intend to divulge just what
it intended to do, but assured the
assemblage action of some sort could
be expected to rectify their alleged
grievances.
Milford chronicle., 1926-04-02
CHARGE BROUGHT
AGAINST WHITE MAN
PROVEN GROUNDLESS
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Purnell home to investigate the al
legged trouble. He told of the woman
telling to him and Justice of the
Peace Phillips, of Seaford, story
of how the tussle took place in the
garage. In this story she said, ac-
cOrding to DOnOway, that Elsey hit
her on the nose and that blood ran
freely over the fender of the car, and
also on the floor of the garage. When
confronted with the fact, that there
was no blood in the garage, she
changed her story and said that her
nose had started to bleed as she
went to the house. Her version as
s-iven to Donoway and Magistrate
Phillips varied very materially from
her story on the stand.
Following him on the stand JUS
tice of the Peace Phillips corborated
Detective Donoway in every respect.
MAGISTRATE Phillips also denied a
story published IN last Sunday S
issue of the Star in Wilmington, TO
the effect that he had refused to is
sue warrants in the case. He said
that after his investigation and ap-
narent discrepancies in the woman's
story, they went elsewhere for legal
service.
County Constable Bowden, of Sea-
ford. who accompanied Donoway and
Phillips on their investigation, told
practically the same story of her
version of the alleged assault at that
time.
Harry Elliott, an employee of
, garage nearby to the scene of the al
legged trouble, swore that Captain
Elsey stopped at the garage both go
7 ing and coming, and that he was
: gone not longer than ten minutes.
5 AS character witnesses, Captain
{ Flsev produced Norman Collision,
2 nrominent business man of Bridge
l willie. former Senator Samuel J. Fur
ness. of Bethel, Clerk of the Peace
William J. Quillin of Seaford, forme'
N1avor John r. Eskridge, of Seaford
DIR Charles NJ Hollis, Insurance
Commissioner of Delaware, and May
or Charles E. Hastings of Seaford
All of them stated that the characte
of Captain Elsey is above reproacl
o and that he is known in the western
e mart of Sussex county as an idea
= citizen.
/, Captain Elsey was represented a
e the hearing by Frank NJ. Jones, o
: Georgetown. The negress had as he
d attorney, Thomas NJ. Frame, of Do
: yer.
p After hearing all the evidence i
the case, Justice of the Peace Hen
t drixson dismissed the defendant an
X said that there was mo case" agains
I him.
d The alleged trouble is said to hav
l. occurred the day previous to tn
e hanging of Harry Butler. The Pu1
d nell woman is said to be cousin
Q Butler. The case as presented CAV
IS every evidence of having been
If frame up. This supposition is yer
$ strongly supported by the presenc
r. in Milford for the hearing of severe
d weIl-known negro agitators.