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Mrs. Hinchcliffe fidiculed these
rumorS, saying:
Mr.. Sinclair is a real being.
He spent q night in our home.
II really believe he was the person
that hoped off with my husband"
A new theory developed this
afternoon that both Miss Mackay
and Captain Sinclair were aboard
the Endeavour with Hinchcliffe.
RunOrs that Sinclair was nom
existent were exploded by the air
ministry, which stated that he was
a reserve flying officer and had
served In the Royal Air Force as
pilot.
has long been known for her daring
spirit and love OF adventure, said
she cherished the ambition to be
the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic. Led by curiosity they con-
Quoted inquiries of their own winch
convinced them that the passenger
with Hinchcliffe is the shipping
magnate,s daughter.
1T is understood that Miss Mackay
arrived at the Cranwell Airdrome
with TIinchcliffe on Monday and
that she spent Monday night vita
friends at a house not Tar from
the field. Early Tuesday morning
the field in flying clothes and
secretly boarded the plane.
50 Hours Possible
DETROIT. March 1i.-Using the
minimum supply Of fuel the Stin-
son-Detroiter piloted by Capt. Wal
ter n. Hinchcliffe could be kept
aloft SO hours, Eddie Stinson, man.
ufacturer Of the plane, said today.
However, cross or head winds
would cut the cruising time and
Stinson declared the limit more
probably would be around 40 hours.
Stinson figured that the ship car
ried 45O gallons Of gasoline.
Sighted by Ship
NEW YORK, March 14.--Accord-
ing to a report from Halifax. Nova
Scotia, Capt. w. X. Hinchcliffe' g
plane, the Adventure. should be
nearing the coast OF Newfoundla
The Halifax dispatch stated that
the French liner Roussillen, which
sailed from that city for New York
at 1880 last night, reported picking
I'D a wireless message from an
other ship which reported sighting
a large plane flying westward
when four days out Of Bordeaux.
The name Of the ship was not dis.
closed.
The planes take-off yesterday was
yelled in a shroud of mystery, neither
it's ultimate destination nor the
identity of Hinchcliffe's companion
being divulged.
Later it was learned that the plane
was making q transatlantic flight at
tempt and that the second person in
the plane was not Gordon Sinclair, as
was thought at first, but none other
than Miss Elsie Mackay, daughter OF
one of England's richest peers and
an experienced aviatrix.
Winds to Help Them
The filters should encounter the
most favorable weather conditions
possible at this time of the year, ac-
cording to the Navy Bureau or Aero
nautics.
The fliers are. expected to en-
counter only two storms of moderate
intensity which thewy might easily
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avoid by flying slightly north Of the
usual route. All winds along the
shipping lanes and slightly north OF
them are reported to be blowing from
the east. and hence they should help
rather than hinder the fliers.
Weather reports from NewfOund-
land today were favorable. When
the fIiers reach the Newfoundland
coast, they are not expected 70 en-
counter anything more serious
than light northwest winds.
Neither the British air ministry
nor Lloyds had received any def
mite information regarding the
progress of the flight, a dispatch
from London said today.
Goal Uncertain
Just where the flight will end,
il successful. is doubtful. Accord
ing to Mrs. Hinchcliffe, her hus-
band told her Mitchell Field, Long
Island. was his goal. 1t is gen
orally regarded more likely that
Hinchcliffe win land at Harbor
Grace airport, Newfoundland.
All radio stations on the Atlantic
seaboard entered an indefinite
standby" period at midnight IN
an efofrt to intercept messages
from ships which might have
sighted the plane.
The plane was last sighted from
land at 1870 p. m. yesterday at
Mizenhead, ireland. Mizenh91d is
about 456 miles from the CranWell
aiddrome.
Hincliffe and Miss Mackay are
using an American plane which is
similar in type to that used by
Brock and Schlee in their attempt
last year to girdIe the world via
the air.
The plane is said to have a cruis-
ing sped of about so miles an hour
and is powered with one Wright
whirlwind motor. At the take-off
| it was loaded with about $50 gal
Ions of gasoline, sufficient for a
1000 mile flight. The distance
from Cranwell Airdrome to New.
foundland is about 1000 miles.
Hinchcliffe is one OF the foremost
filters of England, and has a record
for number of hours in the air.
| During the war he brought down
nine enemy planes and two balloons
and was awarded the Distinguished
| FLYING Cross. In one combat in
1917, he was shot down and so
badly injured that he lost the
sight of one eye.
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Survivors Tell How
Tragedy Struck Them
In Dead of Night
b international NewS service

1Jy lWLgE11hAUMAs SNC~~
Los ANGELES, March 14.-Out
of the stricken Santa Clara Valley
today came eyewitness stories Of
grim races with death riding on the
crest of the 50-foot wave Of water
that poured from behind the shat
tered ramparts of the st. Francis
dam.
For the most part they were tales
OF swift and sudden tragedy in the
nigi1t-of babies swept from mothers.
arms by the devouring torrent, or
husbands and wives parted by the
raging waters. Through the vast
tale of sorrow ran the crimson
thread of heroisnn. Faithful dogs
saved at least three lives by barking
a warning of the wave OF death rush
ing through the darkened canyons
upon ranch homes.
Among those snatched from the
flood was C. Fl. Hunick, 20, a
rancher, living in San Franclsquito
CANYON. He was. saved by. the
heroism Of his son, William, while his
daughter and q brother. 81 years old,
were swirled away. The rescued
man was taken to hospital In New
hall.
II was sleeping in lean-to next
door to the home or my protner, o.
years old when the dam broke
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gry survivors formed In front OF
portable soup Kitchens and others
grouped about boiling coffee pots.
RifIemen from the American Lee
gion mounted guard over the relief
camps while deputy sheriffs and
police from Los Angeles, and nearby
cities patrolled the so miles Of
desoIation.
Check Is Difficult
with the bodies Of victims being
brought hourly to more than 10
concentration points scattered over.
the flood area, efforts to obtain an
accurate check OF the death toll is
almost impossible.
Because Of the condition OF the
bodies. most Of them caked In mud
and silt, efforts at identifica tion OF
the victims Is still more difficult.
And with only B small percentage
Of those recovered 50 far identified,
there is the possibility OF duplica-
ton in reports for the number OF
unidentified dead.
TO facilitate the task OF identity
ing the dead at Newhall, where ~
bodies have been brought to the
Masonic Hall, q numbered tag y
attached to each corpse as II IS
received at the temporary norgue.
Hundreds OF ranch homes and
town dwellings were washed away;
the $2,750, 900 st. Francis Dam and
Spillway and Power House No. 2,
of the Los Angeles Bureau OF
Power and Light, are gone; orchards,
groves, ranches, business places are
swept into one mad tumble OF
wreckage and desolatiOn; thousands
Of acres Of once valuable land are
now brown terrain Of barren silt.
The property damage Is estimated
at $4,000, 900.
Today the States chief engineer
and his chief deputy. who have ar
rived on the scene from Sacra-
mento, are to begin an investigation
at the scene of the wrecked dam,
located 45 miles to the north and
west Of Los Angeles.
The answer as to the cause OF
the catastrophe was bit palmer
today. First whisperings Of earth.
quake or dynamite collapsed under
official inquiry. It appears that
seepage of water through the earth
and under and around the west
wing OF the structure 50 weakened
the foundations that the collapse
came when it faced the greatest
test it had ever undergone.
Chief Engineer William Muihol
| land. of the Bureau Of Power and
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RIF / MI: N
GUARDING
CAMPS
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arrived at santa Paula late yester-
day, expected to remain there today
to advise and assist in relief work.
AS great as was the calamity.
Undersheriff Biscailuz. Death
came swift and sure. Almost every
body In the valley was in bed
shortly after midnight when the
wave Of water came.
It viii never be known exactly
what happened at and below the
dam. It took our men all day on
horseback to reach the dana
klnere were no survivors.
Bodies Brought In
Bodies Of victims were being as
bembIed at various cities, towns and
hanalets IN and on the fringe Of
Santa Clara Valley. At Fillmore
were 40 bodies, at Newl1alI 4S, at
santa Paula 80, at Moor Park 81,
at Ventura, s, at Piru 8, at Satico
5, at Castaic 10, at Castaic juno
tion 5, at Oxnard 2.
The search for bodies practically
stopped at nightfalI last evening
and was resumed at daybreak to-
day. Officers in charge OF search
1ng parties expected the death list
10 rise rapidly as q more careful
survey OF the valley was made,
clefts III the hills explored and
wreckags uncovered.
Meanwhile, three separate investi-
cations were under way to deter
mine the cause OF the break in the
huge dam which unleashed 10000.
100000 gallons of impounded water
to carry death and destruction on
the crest OF its flood.
While the peril Of pestilence was
said to have been greatly alleYiated
due TO the fact that the flood
waters left no stagnation as tlsy
raced on to sea level, the danger
OF contagious diseases lurked Tor
the living 40 countless bodies were
believed to be- buried In silt an i
n1ire and still others were being
sought among the debris
Scene Of Des0lafi0n
As the second day dawnei
bIeak1y on the spectacle of death
and devastation, huge bonfines still
9Iared In the flood swept valley
and the gorges Of San Francis
quito canyon where the homeless
huddIed throughout the night.
Red Cross flags. hoisted atop i'm
provised hospitals. marked Ravens
OF refuge for the sick and IN
jured while other sufferers slept
In tents pitched on the hill sides.
Long lines Of fatigued and hun
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Light. was outspoken in the opinion
that q major ground movement, "
something like a ground slip OF
water-soaked earth. not. an earth.
quake, had caused the collapse Of
the dam.
The 6O-foot wall OF water rushing
down the Santa Clara River Valley
Inundated and partially obliterated
portions Of the towns OF Castiac,
piru, Fillmore. Santa Paula and
Saticoy, with varying loss Of life
in each community.
Just what the actual toll Of life
has been In the disaster, authorities
would only conjecture.
Hundreds are stiIl missing, prob
ably swept to their DEATH their
bodies buried in the silt Or swept
away to the ocean.
The actual loss Of life may not
be known for weeks. 1T may total
900. Any estimate will be futile
until complete canvass Of the
valley is complete.
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HinchcHne and Girl
Feared Lost at Sea
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Miss Mackay could not be located
today, strengthening the belief that
she is the venturesome spirit who
risked her life on the transatlantic
Atlantic liners were asked by
wireless to watch for the plane,
but only vague reports were re-
ceived. When 1t was definitely
established that Hinchcliffe had left
for America instead of India it Was
assumed that he would follow the
North Atlantic steamship lane to-
wards Halifax.
Mrs. Hinchcliffe said she felt
sure the passenger was Sinclair,
an old friend of her husbands, but
her knowledge Of the flight was
somewhat obscure. She did not
know that Hinchclitfe planned a
lump over the ocean until he had
departed. Then she was notified
by her husbands agent.
Efforts to locate Sinclair failed.
This led to rumors in some quar-
tiers that he might possibly be a
mythical parsonage created for
the purpose of Disgusting the iden-
tity Of Miss Mackay. However,
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Winds to Help Them

The filters should encounter the
most favorable weather conditions
possible at this time of the year, ac-
cording to the Navy Bureau OF Aero
nautics.
The fliers are. expected to en-
counter only two storms of moderate
intensity which thewy might easily
The Washington times., 1928-03-14
IN DEATH,
JAILED AGAIN

Held for action of the Grand Jury
in January as the result of the
death of Thomas F. Silk, and re-
leased on bond, Glenroy Toombs, "a,
of sos Third st. N. W., was ar
rested today on charges of trans
porting and illegal possession Of
liquor.
Silk was fatally injured near the
Soldiers Home grounds January 20
by a hit-and-run driver. A witness
took the numbers of car which
police found at Coombs' home. He
denied having used it the entire
day, but police say that the motor
was still warm.
Policemen Baker and Bryant Of
the Second precinct arrested both
Coombs and Russell Beatley, "a, Of
200 B st. N. W., today in an auto
mobile containing 4S quarts of al
legged whisky, in the rear of 1S45
Sixth st. N. w.
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HinchcIiffe Carried
Black Cat Along
AS Mascot
Newa Service

LONDON, March 14.-Capt.
Walter Hinchcliffe, who hoped
off at CranwelI Airdrome on a
transatlantic flight took a black
cat with him as a mascot. it was
revealed this afternoon.
The aviator dared superstition
also by starting on the thirteenth
of the month.
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Miss Mackay is also an expert
enced pilot. She gained some promi-
nence on the stage before taking
up aviation and was one Of the
first women in England to be
granted a pilots license. She IL
about IS years of age, brunette
and pretty. Her marriage to,
London actor was annulled about
five years ago.
If they are successful, Hinch-
c1iffe and Miss Mackay will have
accomplished al feat which has been
the bugbear Of European filters.
Last year, five filters, one a woman,
lost their lives in essaying the east
to west hop.
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HunicIS said. my daughter, who
was 40, and my son, William, were
in the house.
Suddenly, William ran into my
room and cried: Father, there's a
terrible noise outside. think it's an
earthquake or tornado sat up
in bed and listened.
President Coolidge expressed his
sympathetic interest today in the
California flood disaster, and prof
Tered any governmental relief agen-
cies that may be required.
The President called Senator Short
ridge R.) Of California to the White
House and discussed the situation
with him. Ehortridge told the Presi.
dent he did not think there was any
thing the Government could do at
this stage.
J. Arthur letters, manager of the
Pacific branch of the American
Red Cross, who took charge of the
relief wsrK in the San FrancisquitO
canyon today, advised national
'.e"s 800 tors here that 500 families
In Santa Paula were homeless, and
mat emergency shelter probably
would be required for 600 families
in the stricken area.
Trained members Of the San
Francisco staff and workers from
the Los Angeles chapter formed a
complete Red Cross emergency re-
lief organization in the devastated
distict, cooperating with State.
county and health officials, letters
reported.
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Eighteen days left to file your
personal tax return. Personal
of charge at Room 10S, District
Building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
Workers Aroused.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, July 20.
A bitterness hitherto not pro-
.ounced has made itself apparent
long the ranks of the $4,000 tex
lie workers who are nearing their
til week of strike against the mill
c-.-ners here, as the bosses and city
authorities announce plans to in
nsify the police and court terror
gainst the strikers.
In statement issued today the
operators called upon Mayor Ash
y and the police head to prohibit
flcketing of factories, and demanded
hat all methods be utilized to af-
ord what they termed protection"
20 scabs.
The mayor and chief of police, as
as expected of them, gave their
direct consent in the question by
hief of Police Mcleod, "How many
lckets make legal number in line :?
let somebody to set the figure &C
cording to law, and we'll know where
10 begin" Mayor Ashley followed
his up with guarantee that the
aw wouli be enforced.
These two statements, it is be-
eyed, presage the obtaining of an
-picketing injunction by the mill
losses. But the strikers declare their
intention of not permitting any
over to deprive them of their chief
eapon against the bosses, mass
icketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
LOSE JOBS THRU
zARITSkY UkASE
Cap Bosses Aid Right
Wing Union Wreckers
Continued from Pare One

Continued from Page One
assistance grants them, the right
wing international emissaries have
announced that they would fine and
cause the dismissal of any worker
who declares his sympathy with the
expelled progressive leadership.
This ukase was Immediately fol
lowed up by action. A. Jeff, work
err in the Wentworth Hat Co. shop
was thrown out of the factory and
fined S25 by the right wingers. Jeff
had told Hershkowitz that his clique
had no business burglarizing Local
7 office and stealing the Interna-
tional charter.
M. Krupnick was dismissed from
the shop of the National Cap Co. and
fined $25. William Futterman, an
other progressive worker, also lost
his job and was fined a similar
amount.
All girls in the shops of the Hahn
Bros. and the National Cap Co., COM
pletely unionized by the left wing
leadership, were ordered dismissed
by the right wing, who told the
boss to operate the hand sewing sec
ton of the factory open-shop. The
girls, though young, were the staun-
chest supporters of the union leader
shin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
LABOR SPORTS UNION
ACTIVE IN CHICAGO

IBy Labor Sports Press Service. }
CHICAGO, July 20.-With IS
clubs as basis on which to build,
the Chicago district of the Labor
Sports Union has been established
on firm basis. These 10 clubs
have total membership of about
450, active in every branch of
sports. Dan Gilman, of the Larks
Athletic Club, is the district secre-
tary. The Chicago district is 60
ing ahead with plans for a local
track and field meet, with the or
ganization of a workers soccer
league and the sending of large
delegation of athletes to the Ma
tional Labor Sports Union track
and field meet in New York Aug
ust 1926.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
MINERS LOOK
TO CONVENTION
Leaders Prepare For
Big Convention

Continued from Page One
here today in the declaration by the
companies that they will seek the
complete open shop.
Determination OF the operators to
continue their efforts ''to kill the
union" through maintenance of the
open-shop basis, was reaffirmed by
S. H. Robbins, president of the Ohio
Coal Operators Association.
His Official comment on the de-
cision of the policy committee of the
United Mine Workers at its meet
ing in indianapolis Wednesday to
allow "home rule" among the dis
trice unions in effecting wage scales
was:
"The move of the United Mine
Workers organization will have no
material bearing on the soft coal
situation in Ohio.
1--WE are going along on an OPEN
shop basis in fine shape. We are
through negotiating with the union
leaders on any basis"
Other coal operators expressed
the opinion that the action of the
union would have the effect of slim
ulating the industry in this state
by releasing union miners from
their obligation to hold out for the
$3.50 Jacksonville scalp. They said,
however. that union leaders would
never again be recognized in this
state ard that the "check-off" sys-
tenn is a thing of the past
Whatever settlement is made in
Ohio will be made by the state or
ganization as a unit and not by the
districts, according to spokes-
men.
Progressive mine leaders, as well
as rank and file coal diggers, have
shown by their determination and
fighting spirit that they will fight
to the end for their union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
tn FL M pARAnF
AT Mine AFFAIR
ON AUGUST 9Th
N. Y. Workers to Show
Solidarity

On August Pleasant Bay Park
will be the scene of a huge solidar-
ity parade in which militant slogans
and banners will be carried by New
York workers as a demonstration of
their solidarity with the striking
miners and their families. This will
be one feature of highly diverse
and entertaining program of events
at the Miners Solidarity Fair, to
be held at Pleasant Bay Park by the
National Relief Miners Committee,
799 Broadway. Moving pictures of
the solidarity parade will be taken,
the pictures to be later added to the
film taken in Pennsylvania and Ohio
of the miners strike, showing scenes
of picketing, police clubbings and ar
rests.
Other features of the affair will
be games and sports, mass choir
singing and dancing in native CO.'S
tune, fads of many nationalities and
fine dance music. A special plat
form for dancing is now under pro
cess of construction.
Tickets at the price of 80 cents
are now on sale at the office of the
! National Miners Relief Committee
100 Broadway, Room 297. Organ.
izations are asked to purchase tick.
cts in blocks of 100 or more, paying
for them 20 cents each. Such organ.
izations will then be enabled to not
only help the cause of the striking
miners by contributing to the relief
funds, but contribute to its owr
treasury.
The program committee is now at
work enlarging the program to be
presented on August 5 to the soil
darity demonstrators. A highly di.
verse list of entertaining events is
promised.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
DRESSMAKERS
ENDORSE Mine
RELIEF MEET
Conference to be Held
on Thursday

At a meeting held at the Stuy-
vesant Casino Thursday evening the
members of Local %, International
Ladies Garment Union endorsed the
Shop Delegates Conference for Min
ers Relief, to be held at Bryant Hall
at 6 p. m. on Thursday, July 26.
S. Zimmerman, chairman of the
meeting. spoke for ten minutes on
the extreme Importance of the min-
ers' struggle to needleworkers in
New York and pointed out that the
most effective weapon in the hands
Ct the striking miners and their FAM
lilies is food.
Every member present received q
conference call, addressed to all shop
and factory workers who are em-
ployed between 14th and 59th Sts.,
urging them to elect delegates to the
Miners Relief Conference of July 20.
Individual workers employed in shops
where for some reason it is impos-
sible to elect delegates are urged to
attend the conference as individual
Representatives of their shops.
The conference, which has already
been endorsed by furriers, eloakmak-
ers and dressmakers, is expected to
mobilize hundreds of workers who
see in the miners strike and the dis
Indignation of the miners union a
direct menace to their own standards
of living and organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
]..|0OSSES' ACTION
ROUSES ANGER
OF WORKERS
Changing Locomotive
Used By Firm

4 The officials of the National Bis
it Company, at 18th St. and Tenth
! We, tried yesterday to stop noon
4v election meeting of Section 2 Of
lie Workers (Communist) Party by
Fulfilling a locomotive with bell ring
ne wildly back and forth across
aa tracks in front of the meeting.
AFTER last weeks meeting, the
'Irst one to be held in front of the
ational Biscuit Company, the bosses
ere prepared for this meeting.
Snowing that workers would crowd
-ould the platform of the Work
ats tCommunist) Party as soon as
: was set up, they tried to "kill"
he effects of the meeting by
Sowing it out in noise. The work
crs who listened to the speakers re-
sated the action of their bosses
I'D told the chairman later that he
new it was all prearranged.
Tie speakers were Joseph Mag
acano, who spoke in Italian; H.
Gordon and Jack Brustein of the
5ung Workers League and Law
ence Ross, chairman of the meet
iag.
These meetings will be continued
eekly. A committee is now scout
- for more suitable corner on
Fshich to conduct them.