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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
COL. LlNDBERGH
GIVES OFFICIALS
RIDES IN PLANE

WASHINGTON March % lP-
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh spent
another day plotting Washington
Officialdom through the air.
He stopped an hour for lunch but
spent half of this time inspecting
and flying another ship at the naval
air station at the other side Of
Boiling field.
A high wind raised huge clouds cS
dust but it failed to daunt the
crowd of several thousand VINO lined
the field to watch the flier change
planes. A double row of ropes. was
placed about the planes to prevent
accidents.
The list of passengers included Miss
Alice Davis, daughter of the secretary
of war: Senators Nye, North Dakota;
Oddie, Nevada; McMaster and Nor
beck, South Dakota, about 80 repre-
SentativeS and number of govern
ment officials. The remainder of the
nearly 200 carried today was made
up of the members families.
At noon Lindbergh took aloft new
type of Fokker commercial ship with
his cousin, Captain Emory Land,
assistant chief of the bureau OF
aeronautics of the navy department
and Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Warner as passengers.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
RUSSIA OFFERS
ANOTHER PLAN
OF DISARMAMENT
Overwhelming Majority
Against SOviet's First
Proposal as Made

GENEVA, March % QP)-Russia has
a new plan for the disarmament of
the nations of the world The original
Russian proposals for complete imme-
diate disarmament having been re-
jected by the preparatory committee
for a disarmament conference, Maxim
Litvinoft, soviet vice comnisar for
foreign affairs, announced at the
session of the committee this after
noon that he would lay new pro-
posals before the delegates.
There was an overwhelming ma
jority against the disarmament pro.
posalS as first enunciated by M.
Litvinoff and it was supposed that
would end the soviet plan for the
by the delegates, in which they
wandered far afield, the head of the
Russian delegation sprung his sur
prise of new proposals.. probably
modified.
Hugh S. Gibson, head Of the
American delegation, began today's
proceedings with the suggestion that
the second reading OF the commit
tees draft convention be put over to
a date to be fixed by the president
taking into account the progress o.
the negotiations between the powers,
whose views are divergent.
Everybody agreed to this except
the Germans and Russians. Count
Won Bernstorff, heading the German
delegation insisted on an immediate
second reading Of that convention
despite the fact that the govern
ments are not in accord. The Turks
who were inclined to line up with
the Germans and Russians on their
arrival here, drifted away from them
and took sides with the conservatives,
who held that nothing useful cali
be done until the governments are
in agreement because no one believed
that governments can be obliged to
disarm in spite of themselves.
Count Won BernStorff persisted and
at the afternoon session introduced
a resolution calling on the council
of the league to summon a general
conference at an early
date after the next assembly.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
MIAMI CHIEF OF
POLICE JAILED;
MURDER CHARGE

MIAMI, Fla, March 90 Up H.
Leslie Quigg, chief of police of Miami,
tonight was held without bail in the
county stockade under charges of mur-
der in the first degree, following in
dictment today in connection with the
Staying of H. Kier. negro prisoner, two
and half years ago. Three other
members of the police force were al
ready in Jail in connection with the
negros death.
A fifth member of the force, r. L.
Wood, a detective, was indicted by
grand jury for second degree murder
in connection with the Staying of Vic
tor w. Parnell, carpenter, in No
vember, 1926. Wood also was placed
in the stockade.
The three other police officers held
in connection with the Kier death are
Lieutenant M A. Tibbetts and John
Caudell and Tom Hazworth, detec-
tives. All are charged with first de-
gree murder.
Kier, it was alleged, was killed by
the officers who took him away from
police headquarters ito work on him.
following his arrest on charge of
accosting a woman guest at hotel
where he was employed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
EIGHT OTHERS
ARE INJURED
IN ACCIDENT
Blast Occurs Aboard Des-
trOyer Tender Whitney
At Guantanamo
THREE MAY DIE
Navy Department Advised
OF Two Additional
Deaths Friday
THREE MAY DIE

WASHINGTON, March % P-Foui
men are dead as the result of the
gasoline explosion aboard the de-
stroyer tender Whitney at Guantan-
amo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday morning
The navy department was advised
today of the third and fourth deaths
those of John F. Narr, machinist's
mate, of Mount Royal, N. j., and
John Jay Easterling, seaman, OF
Streetman, Texas.
William M. Delevett, seaman, OF
Baltimore, Md, and George E. Gar
rett, seaman, of Ozark, MO, died at
s o'clock Wednesday evening.
Donald L. Burch fireman, of Inde-
pendence, Mo-, GuilIermo Dario, mess
attendant of Cavite, p T., and Willard
e. Jamie, Roanoke, va, are aboard
the hospital ship Mercy suffering
from serious burns received in the
accident. Hope is held for their
recovery.
Four other enlisted men and a
warrant officer are aboard the Whit
ney recovering from less severe burns
received in the explosion.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
HOOVER, LOVDEN
ARE TO DIVIDE
MINI. DELEGATES
District Conventions Select
27 Delegates to G. O. p.
Convention

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March % lP)--
MinneSota's 27 votes in the republican
national convention will be split up
between Frank Q. Lowden, Herbert
Hoover and an uninstructed group,
with Lowden controlling most of the
instructed delegates.
This became evident tonight as the
result of eight district conventions in
which Is delegates were named. Four
delegates were selected last week and
the remaining seven delegates at large
will be chosen here tomorrow by the
state convention.
OF the 20 delegates which the ten
districts OF the state will send to the
national convention, IA are favorable
to Lowden and six to Secretary
Hoover.
Twelve are under instructions to
support the Illinois man with two
uninstructed from district whose
convention indorsed his cause.
Hoover forces have two delegates
under order, those from the fifth
district, comprising all but three
wards of Minneapolis. -Four recogr
nized Hoover supporters, from the
eighth and tenth districts, will go to
the national convention without in
structionS but representing groups
which at district meetings Indicated
decided preference for the commerce
secretary.
Districts which today instructed in
behalf OF Lcwden include the first,
meeting at Rochester, the second at
Mankato, the third at Fairbault, the
seventh at WiIlmar and the ninth
at Detroit Lakes. The fourth district
convention in ST. Paul last week
elected two Lowden supporters while
the sixth district at Little Falls today
Endorsed the Illinois man but voted
to send its delegates uninstructeo.
The fifth district of Minneapolis
stands alone in the state in rs
instructed support of Hoover but it's
delegates will be joined by those OF
two others.
The eighth district, meeting at
Duluth today, elected two Hoover
hackers, as did the tenth district,
which inclrdeS seven counties in
addition to three Minneapolis wards.
The Minneapolis convention failed to
instruct its delegates for Hoover by
tie vote.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
Accuses Smith
Of Undern1i1aiir1g In
Teapot Dome Probe

WASHINGTON, March z3 Or.
Gov. Alfred E. Smith OF New York
was accused today by Chairman Nye
of the senate Teapot Dome commit
tee with seeking "to undermine public
confidence in the fairness and inn
partiality OF the committee in the
midst of its investigation"
E The North Dakota republicans
declaration was made in a letter
replying to one ny the New York
governor who charged him with 'in-
famous insinuations, "demagogic
slander" and reckless" and "outrag-
eouS conduct" because he had stated
On the senate floor in response to
an inquiry that he had informetion
that Harry F. Sinclair had contribut-
ed TO Smiths campaign fund years.
ago.
Senator Nye declared that by writ
ing his ''unWarranted letter" Gov
Smith had given aid and comfort
to every scoundrel who.N infamy
has been exposed" in the long oil
investigation and added that he did
not propose to be deferred in the
performance OF my official duty by
abuse or criticism OF my work from
you or any one else"
Nyes letter was made public while
the Oil committee was seeking further
trace OF the liberty bond profits OF
the Continental Trading company at
a public session during which Merritt
W. Baldwin, former private secretary
to Sinclair, was questioned for more
than an hour and half He testified
he had no information about those
bonds but explained that Harold Ken
well, cashier in Sinclairs office in
New York had handled Sinclair's
personal securities for years.
A subpoena for Kenwelll was issued
late in the day and he is expected
to be on hand when the inquiry
is resumed tomorrow with Albert d.
LaskeT, Of Chicago, former chairman
of the shipping board, who has been
summoned to tell about his contri-
buttons to the republican party cam
paign chest since 1920.
Kenwell is required to bring with
him the records which Baldwin said
he had kept on all securities which
deposit box in the empire Trust
company of New York. From these
records the committee hopes to obtain
trace of additional Continental Trad
ing company bonds which passed into
Sinclair's possession after the now
celebrated Oil deal was consummated
in New York city late in 1921
Aside from this lead Tor the com.
mittee Baldwin furnished few facts
not previously developed. He did
disclose that Will H Hays, former
chairman of the republican national
committee, who obtained $160,00O
from Sinclair to help wipe out the
republican party deficit. was fire.
quent visitor to Sinclair's office.
The one-time postmaster general
and now managing director of the
moving picture industry, had free
entire to Sinciair's private office, Bald
win disclosed in explaining that he
could not know the purpose OF the
visits because Hays would come into
Sinclair suite and go into the
oil operators private office
Baldwin could recall no visits by
H. M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neil
missing witnesses in the Oil conspiracy
case, but he asserted that Robert w.
Stewart, chairman OF the board OF
Indiana Standard Oil, and under
Indictment for refusing to answer
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
COLLECTIONS
WARRANT CUT
S225,O0Q,0OO
President Warns Against
Size of Reduction in
House Measure
1927 EXCEEDED
Collections Maintain Size
able Advance Treasury
Receipts Show

WA HIN GTON, March % QP-
President Coolidge thinks that tax
reduction of 1925, 100000 still is posi-
BILE on the present status of the treas
ury but believes the cut of $289, 600 900
provided in the house bill is impossi-
ble
The possibility of any tax reduction
at all, however, he believes, is ,contin-
gent upon reasonable economy on the
part of congress in appropriating
funds. The full tax returns for the
month of March have not yet been
tabulated but from preliminary esti-
mates the president is confident that
tax reduction as originally advocated
by the treasury will be possible.
Details of the March is returns
have been awaited by the senate fl
nance committee as a guide to tax re-
duction while Keeping the house bill
inactive. A few days ago, however.
Chairman Smoot of the committee an
nounced that the committee would
meet April to consider the bill.
Whether public hearings will be held
will be decided by the committee.
In the meantime, treasury receipts
show that tax collections are main
tanning a sizeable advance over re-
turns for the same period of last year.
The $225, 100000 reduction originally
proposed by the treasury and sup
ported by President Coolidge was ig-
nored in the house where a combina-
ton of democrats and republicans
added numerous reductions not sug-
gested by Secretary Mellon Its total
of 100000 was met in the senate
with republican statements that it was
too high and democratic assertions that
it was insufficient
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
FOUR DEAD AND
MANY INJURED in.
MEXICO QUAKE
Check Up of Region Affect
ed by TemblOr Reveals
Casualties

MEXICO CITY, March % (P)-Four
dead and numerous persons injured
make up the list of casualties in We'd
nesday nights earthquake as reported
today from various towns in the region
affected.
The city of Oaxaca reported three
known dead with four persons seri-
ously injured by falling bricks and
plaster The town of Pochulta in the
state of Oaxaca recorded one death,
advices from that place sttaing that
earthquakes continued all night long.
In Pochulta a statue of an angel
weighing three and half tons was
Jared off the facade of church.
Dispatches from Oaxaca said that
part of the stairway of the Bank of
Mexico building collapsed, parts of the
walls and ceilings fell in five other
buildings Including the city hall and
the federal palace Adobe Shacks such
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24

LOS ANGELES, March % tP-
The cold eye of official inquiry
seeking an answer TO the st.
Francis dam disaster of March 13,
today looked down from the hill
sides and up from San Fran
cisquitO canyon at the wreckage
of the structure that took toll
of more than 400 in dead and
missing when it gave way.
Led by Coroner Frank Nance and
unaccOmpanied by legal or techni-
cal advisors, the jury holding an
inquest ever the bodies of Los An
geles county victims, journey to
the ruins of the great reservoir to
"see for themselves"
The jurors found that in places
the rock SideWaII of the canyon,
on line with the broken end of
the dam, could be crushed readily
under their blows, made with
small hammers. They also found
that there was no sign left of an
excavation into the canyon wall,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
LOS ANGELES CORONER'S JURY
VISITS SITE OF DAM DISASTER

in which the concrete dam was
declared by some witnesses before
the coroner's Jury to have been
set. The terrific rush of water
appeared to have sheared the rock
off clean, leaving not a trace of
the dams concrete abutments ex-
jsting for examination by the
jurors.
The strong quality of the con-
crete mid-sectiOn left by the break
was disclosed to the jurors, who
noted that stones and rocks bound
in the mix had been broken clean
ly in two, testifying to the grip of
the cement about them.
The jurors returned here late today
No hearing was held today and non
will be held again until Monday, whel
the taking of evidence in the inques
will be resumed here.
While the inquiry over the dead con
tinued, organization for aid to the liv
ing and their devastated homes AM
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24

Copper quiet; electroIytic,
spot and futures, lao 1sc;
lead quiet; spot, 6.0Oc.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
Four Killed in Gas Explosion on Many Vessel
80 Mexican Insurgents
Surrounded In Cave Are
Starved Out, Executed

+ MEXICO CITY, March % CP)--
y The capture and execution of 36
4 insurgents, who had been sur
r rounded in a cave was reported
y in dispatches received tonight
y from Zamora in the state of
y Michoacan The victims included
y five "chieftains.
y The insurgents had refused to
= surrender when federal troops
+ discovered their hiding place.
y For several days the insurgents
* were held in the cave without
y food and water. Finally they
+ made desperate attempt to
* fight their way out, keeping up
= their efforts until their ammuni-
= ton was exhausted. The sur
X vivors were lined up at once and
X shot.
*
X X * * X * * * r. * * * X
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24

him guilty of first degree murder
and fixed the penalty at death,
came today when County AttOr-
ney George Wilson of MaricOpa
county filed a petition with the
superior court asking that Faltin
be brought before it and another
date set for his execution.
He was convicted early in 1913
for the murder of a companion,
Carl Peterson, and was sentenced
to be hanged in April of that
year. He obtained stay of exc
cutiOn and after the supreme court
in 1915 affirmed conviction, it
reset the date of execution for
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-24
WILLIAM FALTIN AFTER ESCAPING
MOOSE IS YEARS TO FACE COURT

PHOENIX, AriZ., March % (AP)
William Faltin, who for more
lnan Is years has escaped exc
cutiOn although sentenced three
times to pay the extreme PEN
atty for a murder committed in
September 1912, will be brought to
Phoenix from the state prison
SatOrday, March 81, for the pur-
pose of determining whether there
is any legal reason why he should
not be sentenced for fourth
time to be hanged.
The first definite move that has
been made for more than IL
years to carry out the Judgment
of the trial court which found
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Summer School Bulletin

SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS - AUGUST 30S1, 1928
SUNDAY, AUGUST &c: At D. in Gerard Hall Rabbi Ed
ward Israel will lecture The Drama of Spiritual Funda-
mentals called the Book of job"
MONDAY AUGUST 27: At m, in Gerard Hall Rabbi Ed
ward Israel will lecture The Mysticism of the Psalms
THURSDAY AUGUST 30:
800 to 1000 A. M.-Classes scheduled at 800 A. NJ
1O:3O to 1880 p M-Casses scheduled at 8 100 A. NJ
200 to 400 p M-Casses scheduled at 300 800 p M,
which do not have morning meetings also
430 to $50 p. M-Classes scheduled at 1000 A. NJ,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 81
500 to 1000 A. M.-Casses scheduled at II 100 A. NJ
1890 M to 1890 p MClasses scheduled at 200 p NJ.
300 to 400 z. M.-Classes scheduled at 1900 NJ.
Instructors will please note the examination hours for their
classes and will cali the attention of their classes
ton schedule.
Special examinations cannot be allowed except of
conflict In of conflict authorization for special eXamina
on must be secured from the Registrar
No change be made in the scheduled hour for
animation.
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Two Students Tried
Youths Who Killed Pendergraft Boy
Plead "NOlO COntendere"

The two University students
who were in the automobile that
ran over and killed young Max
Pendergraft May BOT. C.
Bowie, Jr., and Steve Furches-
were put on trial for man.
slaughter before Judge Devin in
Hillsboro Wednesday. They en-
tered a plea of nOlO cOntendere,
thus throwing themselves on
the mercy of the court, and this
plea was accepted by the solici-
tor, w. B. Umstead,
Judge Devin sentenced each
of them to four months in Jail,
with the provision that they
could be hired out on payment of
the costs. Through A. H. Gra-
ham, counsel for the county
commissioners, arrangements
were made to hire the young
men out to their fathers.
1t came out in the course Of
the trial that Mrs. Pendergraft,
the mother of the boy who was
killed, had received $1,000. The
company with which the car was
insured paid $4,000; $4,000 was
paid by Bowie, and $4,000 by
Furches.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Self Helpers Available
People Who Want Student Workers
Should Apply for Them Now

This is the best time to en-
gage self-help students for work
during the college year,
"We have many applications
for jobs from students who have
o earn part of their way through
the University" says Grady
Leonard, director of the Y. M.
c. AS self-help bureau. ANY
householder who has room that
a student may occupy, as COM
pensation for furnace-tending or
other duties around the place,
should let me know at once, and
| can fill the demand. 1t is much
better to make the arrange
ment now than to wait until the
students arrive. The applicants
want to know in advance if they
can be assured of quarters in re-
turn for their labor, and the
householders can be sure of get
ting the help they need"
Many hundreds of the stu
dents in the University earn part
of their expenses, and Mr.. Leon
ards employment bureau is one
of the busiest departments of
the institution. There is hard
ly any limit to the kinds of work
the students do. Some of them,
having had training before they
come, are expert machinists,
stenographers, printers, electri-
clans, painters, carpenters, book
keepers; others, without special
training, are ready to wait at
table, rake leaves, NOW lawns,
stoke furnaces, dig bitches, cut
wood, carry messages, and take
care of babies whose parents go
out for the evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Chapel Hill Chatf

Somebody has published the
statement that there are less
than twenty persons in the
world who understand the Elm
stein theory. Our fellow towns
man, Archibald Henderson, is
said to be one of these. James
HopwoOd Jeans, secretary of the
Royal Society in England, has
written a book, Astronomy and
COSmOgOny, and a dispatch
from London speaks of ''the
dozen or so people in England
who are competent to under
stand Prof. Jeans's calculations" "
Notice the qualifying phrase,
''in England. The despatch
doesn't speculate upon how many
Americans will understand the
book. Well, therell be one, any
way. If Mr.. Henderson grasps
what EinStein meant, he will not
be feazed by anybody with such
name as Jeans. Mr.. Jeans
says that our world is 1000, 900,
900 years old and yet is a mere
infant beside other spheres that
whirl about in space. He says
our universe is one among some
100000 universes fairly uni
formly spaced at distances
something like 100000 light
years apart. 1t will be re-
called that Mr.. Henderson
wrote an essay about the
size of the universe. But how
about all these other universes =?
/ get the impression, from glanc-
ing at the tlgureS, that Mr.. Jeans
has gone Mr.. Henderson several
universes and several million
light years better, and this Of
fends my local pride. | want
Mr.. Henderson to drop his bio
graphy and history for while,
and come back to astronomy, and
find a lot of uniyerses that this
Mr.. Jeans knows nothing about.
When M. C. S. Noble was in
Canada he became hungry for
biscuits of the kind he was used
to at home. He asked for them
at hotels and in restaurants. The
Canadians who served him lis
tened attentively while he de-
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Faculty Members Are Drifting In

Members of the University
faculty who have been away this
summer are drifting in every
day. From the mountains and
the sea where they have been on
vacation, from libraries and lab
oratories where they have been
engaged in research, and from
institutions where they have
been teaching, they are hieing
them back home for the opening
of the new college year.
Not for three weeks yet will
their regular duties begin, and
they are taking it easy. The
most arduous labor for most of
them these days is going to the
post-office for the mail or hoist
ing a drugstore beverage from
the marble counter to the thirsty
throat. Of course some of them
like Gustave M. Braune, who
as an alderman must shoulder
part of the burden of municipal
government-have eXtra-cur-
ricular tasks; but these do not
weigh heavily.
One of the pastimes of the
homing professors is exchang-
ing tales about their summer
travels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Braune were
at Wildacres in the mountains
of western North Carolina.
Soon after they arrived there
came the cloudburst, and it rain
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Football 10 Days Off
Candidates for Varsity Team Gather
for Practice Monday, Sept. 3

The University's football
season will begin 10 days hence
--on Monday, September g.
when the candidates for the
squad report for the first prac-
tice.
They will have 26 days to
make ready for the Wake-Forest
match, which is scheduled for
Saturday, September 20. The
University has lost to Wake
Forest four years in succession.
Twelve men who won their
monogram last year will return:
Schwartz, Ward, Lassiter,
Foard, Howard, Presson, Sapp,
Schular, Farris, Donahoe, and
Whisnant. There are some pro-
missing players from last years
reserves and last years fresh
men.