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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
NAVY BUILDING
PLANS URGED
ON CONGRESS.
Navy General Board Re-
ports Program Will Pro-
vide Proper Strength
WILBUR APPEARS.
Secretary Explains That
Plan Constitutes in No
Sense Competition
WILBUR APPEARS

WASHINGTON Jan. IL Q9 = Ap-
proval of the administration $725.-
100000 Warship construction program
was urged upon congress today by high
naval officials as necessary to the es-
tablishment of an American navy
strong enough. to protect commerce,
preserve our ocean trade routes and
provide adequate national defense"
We have not such fleet at the
present time" was one of the con-
clusions of the navy general board
placed before the house naval com
mittee by Secretary Wilbur.
The secretary, in testimony, stressed
a personal belief that america needs
a first class navy" and declared che
felt that if the program were carried
out the danger of war and therefore
OF the destruction of our overseas COM
merce will be greatly minimized if nor
entirely met"
Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of
naval operations, said that while COM
pletion of the program would not give
the United States command of the sea,
the proposed ships added ''to our pres
ent force" would cause any nation to
pause before attacking American
rights and interests.
Mr.. Wilbur explained that the pro-
gram proposing the construction of 25
new 10000 ton cruisers, five aircraft
carriers, nine destroyer leaders and 80
submarines coul dnot be considered as
competitive but was "based upon the
needs of our navy as it is determined
by the secretary of the navy upon the
technical advice of the navy general
board"
He said that Great Britain at the
Geneva conference had rejected the
original American proposal for maxi
mum cruiser tonnage of between 25O,-
600 and 100000 tons, insisting that,
regardless of the navies of other pow
er, it required a 100000 cruiser ton
mage to meet it's needs.
The insistence of the British con-
stitutes the "most persuasive evidence, %
the secretary continued, "that the
United States has definite cruiser
needs, regardless of other nations, if
we are to have well rounded fleet. -
''The president is opposed to COM
petitive building" he added. "Con-
gress has also manifested it's unwill-
ingness to engage in competitive build
ing. The program we are now pre-
senting to congress is in no sense COM
petitive"
Mr.. Wilbur, who at the time the
program was announced several weeks
ago, estimated it's cost at approximate
ly $75O,OOO,OOO, said that it had been
presented to congress without any
amount specified inasmuch as funds
for the construction, should the pro-
gram be approved, ultimately would
have to come through the budget bu-
reau.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
COL. LINDBERGH
WILL CONTINUE
TO s. A.
Lone Eagle Will Take OFF
From Colon Today for
Venezuela

BALBOA, Canal Zone, Jan. IL R)-
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has
definitely decided to extend his tour OF
good will. Having virtually completed
his Central American tour, he will
fly to Venezuela, landing as close as
possible to Caracas. He will go to
Saint Thomas, one of the Virgin
Isands, and to Porto Rico, Haiti and
Santo Domingo.
He will take off for Colon, on the
Caribbean side of the ISthus, tomorrow
morning. But his plans have not been
definitely decided with regard to dates
and the sequence of his flights.
Colonel Lindbergh spent the day as
the guest of the $4,000 Americans in
the canal zone His particular host
was the acting governor, Colonel Harry
Burgess, and he was. at the governors
home discussing his plans with the
neWSpapermen, when messages were
received inquiring ,as to rumors that a
serious accident had befallen him. He
was perfectly safe and in good condi-
ton at that moment.
Explaining his plans, Lindbergh said:
"I am having the Spirit OF st. Louis
thoroughly checked not overhauled, at
Colon tomorrow. I shall fly to Colon
in the morning The time of my
various arrivals and the sequence OF
my flights are uncertain. shall not
be able to arrive at Havana before
the Pan-American congress begins.
81 shall fly across the northern Sec
ton of South America, up the West
TI,1 10 CT,,I.
The airnlan said he was sorry he
could not give details, but he wished
to be certain first of all of landing
fields.
The unofficial ambassador from the
United States carried his message of
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Cause of Friction With u.
S. Has Been Removed
1t Is Believed
AMENDED TEXT
Unofficial Interpretation Is
That COnfiscatory Part
Removed

MBEXICO CITY, Jan. IL l9 -
Amendments to the Mexican oil
laws which caused friction with the
United States government and Amer
lcan oil companies, became effective
today through publication in the
Diario Official
The amendments, suggested to con-
gresS by President Gales, are in
tended to remove American objec-
tions.
Unofficial Interpretation is that the
amendments remove retroactive and
alleged confiScatory features of the
OIL laws in the constitution Of 1917.
The amendments were passed recently
by congress and under Mexican pro-
cedure their publication today in
"Diario- Official" makes them inn
mediately effective.
The amended law as officially pub
lished is the same in text as sent by
President Gales to congress and as
passed by congress, but has in adj
dition a penalty clause providing that
oil Companies which do not accept
the amended law within one year
from it's publication will lose their
property rights and will not have any
claim on the government in conse-
quence.
The amended articles, numbers IA
and is of the revolutionary consti-
tuition, provided that foreign oil COM
panies must accept fifty years con-
firmatory concessions for oil land
rights they had acquired prior to
the constitutions adoption and would
forfeit those rights unless they ap-
piled for such concessions within one
year from the date the 1917 law
became effective. 1t became effec-
tive January l, 1927.
The amendments now officially
published and effective eliminate
articles IA and is and substitute
for them the following:
article XIV: There shall be con-
firned without any expense and by
means of concessions the following
rights: Cd Those derived from lands
on which petroleum exploitation work
commenced' before May /, 1917, CD
Those derived from contracts closed
before May 1, 1917 by owners of sur
face rights or parties under contracJ
to them for the express purpose of
oil exploitation and CD to those con-
structing pipe lines and refinerieS
under concessions spr authorizations
issued by the department of COM
merce.
Article XIV: Confirmation of rights
referred to in the preceding article
must be sought within one year from
publication of this law if such rights
have not already been the subject of
confirmatory petitions. After one
year these rights (rights for which
confirmation have not been sought
under the amended law) will be re-
nounced and will be without effect
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
SENATE PROMISES
HUNT FOR AUTHOR
MEX. DOCUMENTS
Committee Frankly Suspect
Avila of Completely in
Manufacture

WASHINGTON Jan. IL (Pb - A
search to determine the authors OF
the Mexican documents published in
Hearst newspapers was promised the
senate today by its special investi-
eating committee, which submitted
its report that the documents were
spurious and fraudulent"
Miguel Avila, American born son of
Mexican father and italian mother,
was put under suspicion of compile
ity in the manufacture of the papers
by Senator Reed, republican, Penn
sylvania, chairman of the committee,
as he asked time for the committee
to seek the authors of the documents.
The committee again notified the
senate that not a "scintilla of eyl-
dence" had been uncovered in its in
quiry to show that any United States
senator was approached or received
any money as was charged in one OF
the documents. This paper purport-
ed to show that $1,215,000 was set
aside by Mexico for Senators Borah
of Idaho; Norris of Nebraska; Heflin
of Alabama, and Lafollette of Wis
conSin.
Senator Norris wanted to know il
the committee had any suspicious
about the papers or if some action
could not be taken against some OF
the witnesses who appeared before
| it for perjury.
Senator Reed replied he frankly
suspected Avila" and said he thought
John Page, Hearst reporter, who
wrote the stories of the documents
1,o~7 Gt+oe+ifioJ fo1co1xyD 1oI1t ha did NOT
think there was sufficient evidence
to warrant action against either.
Reed said he thought Page hao
testified falsely" when he said he
forgot the name of the man who
gave him copy of letter pur-
porting to have been sent by Senator
LaFollette to President Gales. This
communication, sent by Page to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger for pub
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

their marriage to take place and
that meanwhile the former Hindu
ruler is in communication with the
Hindu Missionary society regarding
Miss Miller's conversion to the
Hindu faith.
In adopting the Hindu faith,
Miss Miller will have to go through
afpurificatiOn ceremony known as
"shuddh" and later through the
Hindu form of the marriage cere-
mOny. Her part in the marriage
ceremony will be passive, for the
bride is a silent partner in all
Hindu weddings, the husband do
ing all the talking. The husband
must promise to love his wife and
that's all, while the bride says
nothing from beginning to end Of
the ceremony.
No wedding ring is used, but the
brides hands are literally covered
with rings in accordance with GUS
tom. Twenty rings on each hand
are considered a minimum. The
bride is not given in marriage as
in the Christian ritual. All the
bride needs is a new dress and it
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Jan.
IL R-Fifteen additional bodies of
men who died II fathOms under
water in the broken hull of the
sunken submarine S-4 were recOv-
cred today by divers operating
with the naval salvage fleet. The
number of bodies thus far recOv-
cred OtaIs 81. Six of the eight
remaining unrecOvered bodies are
known to be in the tight tor
pedO room, leaving only two un-
accounted for.
All of the bodies recovered today
were found in the engine room
and the motor compartment of the
sunken boat. The finding of one
body on a cot was taken to indi-
cate that this victim was the first
to have been overcome and that
he was placed there by more
rugged mates.
Diver Tom Campbell, one of the
first pair of divers to visit the hull
today, encountered what he de-
scribed as his most touching exper-
ience. Two of the six bodies found
by Campbell he described as ly-
ing embraced on the floor Of the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
Diuerse Problems
ReceiDe Attention
Senate and House

WASHINGTON Jan II P-Prob-
lens as diverse as the views which
are held upon them took congress
today over a period filled with action,
both legislative and verbal
Governor Smith of New York, be-
came the business at hand in the
senate for a while. A demand was
made in the house by Representative
Celler of New York, to reduce the
duty on diamonds to prevent smug-
Cling. Senator Walsh of Montana
once more was assigned major part
in the Teapot Dome case. Floods,
dams, appropriation bills, foreign rela-
tions, navy ships, hospitals, the Hearst
Mexican documents, the always pres
ent tariff and taxation questions
came in for attention of some sort
Aside from the action of it's COM
mittees, the senate'S part in the pro-
ceedings were verbal, and, as is usually
the case, that branch OF congress at
was passing the $82O000O0 approp-
ration bill for the state, justice,
commerce and labor departments, and
was receiving the $272, 100000 bill for
the interior department, the prospect
of big time political debate in the
senate was more to the taste Of the
curious.
Senator David Reed, Of Pennsyl-
vania, got the senate off to q start,
by informing it that the Hearst
Mexican documents had been found
spurious. Taxes got into the latter
talk when Senator Boyah Indicated
the republican independents had no
objection to postponement Of tax re-
duction until after March IS; the
tariff was threaded in internationally;
Governor Smith was accorded space
when Senator Copeland, of New York,
presented his name as the democratic
presidential nominee; flood relief talk
brought from Mr.. Borah his oppCsi-
ton to the plan to have the state
bear part of the expense necessary
to control the Mnruly waters.
incidentally, Mr.. Borah in persist
emily questioning Senator Copeland
on the prohibition views of Governor
Smith, announced ne would question
every candidate for the presidency in
a similar vein. Senator Curtis, Kan
sas, who has announced for the re-
publican nomination, was standing
sue the subject further.
Senator Walsh, who prosecuted the
Teapot Dome investigation was named
by the senate lands committee to in
quire into procedure for the reopen
ing of that subject by the senate
The senate foreign relations commit
tee decided to wait until after the
Pan-American conference at Habana
to go into the Nicaraguan contro-
versy, while another senate commit
tee began hearings on the Columbia
basin irrigation project, gigantic
proposal in the state of Washington.
The agriculture committee, accepting
an amendment from members of the
general federation of women'S clubs
designed to aid home economies, ap-
proved bill for farm extension
work
In the house committee rooms,
Governor Dern, of Utah, told why
| Utah was opposed to the new Boulder
dam bill-While New England had a
say before the flood control commit
tee, through Representatives Gibson
and Brigham of Vermont.
Secretary Wilbur explained to the
naval committee the $725 900 900
building program, and the Ameri-
can Legion laid before the veterans
committee plan for spending $15,-
100000 on hospitals. President Cool
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
RESPITE GIVEN
PENDING TRIAL
OF CIVIL CASE
Womah's Paramour Is Not
Included in Reprieve
Granted by Court
MOVE SURPRISES
Application for Stay Was
Granted in Behalf of
Minor Daughter
MOVE SURPRISES

NEW YORK, Jan. IL (P-The Daily
News will say tomorrow that stay
of execution OF the death sentence
of Mrs. Ruth Snyder, scheduled to die
tomorrow night with Henry Judd
Gray for the murder Of her husband,
was granted tonight by supreme court
justice Levy. Warden Lawes was Or
dered to appear before the justice on
January 13 to show cause why execu-
ton should not be stayed pending
trial on an insurance suit.
The insurance suit upon which the
stay was reported granted is an action
brought by the Prudential life in
surance to avoid payment of $1,000
insurance on the life of Albert Sny-
der, victim Of the murder for which
his wife was condemned to death
The company claims the policies to
have been obtained by Mrs. Snyder
by fraud and without the knowledge
of the insured. A suit brought in be-
half of Lorraine Snyder to compel
payment of the insurance has been
held up pending the outcome of the
Prudential suit.
The. application tonight to supreme
Court Justice Levy was an unex-
pected move on the part of Mrs. Srly-
ders attorneys, as it had. been an
nounced that writ of habeas corpus
would be sought in federal court.
The application was said to have
been made in behalf of Lorraine
Snyder, who has been made defendant
in the insurance suit on the ground
that the execution of her mother
would destroy her defence.
The Queens Village housewife, was
convicted with her former lover,
Henry Judd Gray, corset salesman,
of the murder of her husband, mag
azine art editor. Snyder was found
slain in his bed March 20 last. Mrs.
Snyder and Gray cinfessed to the
killing few hours after Snyder's
body was found
The order granting the stay direct
ed Warden Lewis E. Lawes, OF Sing
Sing prison, to appear before Justice
Levy Friday at 10 a. M, to show
cause why the execution should not
be stayed until the insurance case
had been disposed of.
It was said in behalf of Justice
Levy that the order did not apply to
Gray, whose execution has been set
for tomorrow night.
Warden LaweS at the prison tonight,
when informed that the atay had
been granted, said he would issue no
statement until formal papers had
been served on him.
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MEXICO'S NEW OIL LAWS EFFECTIVE
Mrs. Ruth Snyder is Giuen Stay of Execution
McAdOO May Open Up
On Coz. AL Smith At
Jackson Day Dinner

* WASHINGTON, Jan. IL R)-
y William Gibbs McAdoo said to-
* night that he had not pledged
* himself to refrain from comment
* ing on the presidential candidacy
y of Governor Smith of New York
y in his address at the Jackson day
y dinner tomorrow night. He would
y give no indication, however, as
y to the nature of his speech
y Reports had been current that
* Mr.. McAdoo, who participated in
* the long deadlock with the New
+ York governor at the national
X convention of 1924, had given his
+ word that for the sake of party
y harmony, which the dinner is in
y tended to foster, he would not re-
* new his fight against Smith.
*
:iFt * * * * * * y * y * * y y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
THOMAS HARDY, NOTED
ENGLISH NOVELIST, DIES

DORCHESTER, Eng, Jan. II Up
Thomas Hardy, noted English novel
ist, died today
The famous writer had been con-
fined to his bed since December IL.
His illness began with a chill and
from time to time improvement was
noted, but on each occasion he seemed
to slip back. AS he was in his 18th
year, his condition caused some anxiety
and the attending physicians could
hold out little hope for his recovery.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12

Copper steady; electrolytic,
spot and futures, 141sc;
lead quiet; snnt 6.50c.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
HICKMAN NO MINOR

LOS ANGELES, Jan. IL R-One
more chance to escape the moose for
the kidnapping and Staying of Marian
Parker was ended for William Ed
ward Hickman late today, when ju-
venile Court Judge Scott. dismissed
a petition filed last summer making
him ward OF the juvenile court.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
COTTON GROWERS ACT

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. II GA
plan providing for Withholding the
surplus crop from the market until
the price should provide a reason
able profit and to reduce acreage
whenever a surplus was grown, was
Padopted unanimously mere today by a
meeting OF southern cotton farmers
held under the auspices of the
American Cotton association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25

Special to The Star and the North American
Newspaper Alliance.
DENVER, Colo, September 25.-The
entrance to the Yampa River Canyon,
in northwestern Colorado, Is an impos-
ing sight as one approaches it down the
stream. A mountain of vivid red and
yellow sandstone lies across the western
end of Lily Park, and into a cash in
this wall, nearly 1000 feet deep, the
river vanishes, suddenly narrowing from
a placid stream quarter of a mile
wide to. rushing torrent scarcely 125
feet across.
AS our boats were caught in the cur
rent and drawn like chips in mill
race into the gorge, we began to hear
ahead Of us the roar of rapids. There
was no sunlight In the narrow depths.
AS we passed into the shadow a strong
wind hit US, chilling us as II we had
dropped into an ice box.
A few hundred yards brought us to
bend. AS we rounded this. the wind
suddenly increased to hurricane pro-
portions. Burt Moritz and myself in the
lead boat, both lost our hats. Two rolls
Of exposed films that had placed on
the seat we're blown overheard.
The gale was SO fierce it struck the
unusually high sides of our boats and
carried us back upstream, against the
swift current. We were forced to row
furiously to keep off the rocks.
But at the end Of five minutes the
hurricane ended as suddenly as 1t had
begun. And then we saw facing us a
real danger. The rapids whose roar we
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K|DNAPER-SLAYER
GUILT PLEA DENIED
Confessed Murderer of Hon.
oIuIu Boy Must Face Trial,
Judge Rules.
BY the Associated Press.


HONOLULU, September 25.-His de.
sire to plead guilty and accept quick
justice for the Staying of Gill Jamiesca
denied by territorial law, Myles Yutaks
Fukunaga today faced speedy jury
trial and equally swift justice in the
islands fast-moving kidnapping
drama
Less than six days after he kidnapped
the 10-year -old son of Frederick JAM
ieson, Honolulu banker, from school,
Fukunaga was indicted yesterday and
arraigned before Circuit Judge Alva E.
Steadman, who refused to accept the
Japanese students plea of Guilty, sir. ~
The judge said he would appoint a
defense attorney today. Local law pre-
scribes that two days must elapse after
conviction by a jury before sentence
can be passed and IA days elapse be-
tween sentencing and execution, in
case the extreme penalty is given.
The Fukunaga case is almost a rep
lica of the Hickman case and has STIR
red Honolulu as much as did the slay-
ing of Miriam Parker in Los Angeles
last December Hickman collected
ransom after killing the child and was
trsiled to his capture. as was Fuku-
maya. by identified money paid him.
Serial numbers on bills used as ransom
led to the capture of both Slayers.
Hickman, under sentence to die in
California. declared he wanted the ran
som money to enter college, while Fu-
kunaga told police he wanted money
to send his parents back to Japan.
Fukunaga was known in school as
an excellent pupil. He delivered the
ealutatory Grafton at his graduation In
1925 and also won an essay contest.
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CURRENT IN YAMPA CANYON
UPSETS BOAT OF EXPLORERS
Mysterious Colorado Gorge Reveals New
Peril to Party Seeking Data on
Uncharted Region.

| had heard upon entering the canyon
| were just ahead
| Rocks Menace Party.
] Jagged rocks rising out of the waite,
from few inches to several feet ex-
tended from wall to wall of the can
yon, and through these the stream
whirled and foamed, sometimes leapine
in waves two or three feet high. This
continued for a distance of a quarter
to half mile.
None of us was an experienced boat
man. We were trusting to the stanch-
ness of our craft and hoping to learn
as we went along. MoritZ and myself
being in the lead studied the rapids fol-
a moment and then decided to try a
| channel directly in midstream which
looked to offer five or six feet clear
ance between two big boulders. Taking
Justify to the oars, we pulled our craft
over to where the current rushing for
this opening would catch us.
AS soon as we felt the grip of the
water we jerked our oars into the boat
to keep them from being smashed
against the rocks and snatched a glance
back at the other boat.
Mace and Durham, the photogra-
piers, were probably hundred feet be-
hind: There was an arrangement at
the bow of their boat, upon the deck
over the alright tank, permitting the
heavy movie" camera tripod to be
| clamped there and chained down, Sc
Durham could stand on the deck and
take pictures. He had been shooting
our lead boat passing into the canyon
and now he was getting ready to snap
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not overturn. however, and after a
moment 1t swung free of the obstruc-
ton and came plunging on down.
stream.
Durham was floundering about in
the foaming waves and being whtrled
swiftly along. But presently, as the
boat swung near him. Mace reached
out an oar, and Durham grabbed 1t
and was dragged back into the craft.
Seeing the plight of Moritz and my
self--and their own boat now being
through the worst of the rapids-the
photographers took out after our craft.
They went nearly half a mile before
they overlook 1t.
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upstream, saw the other boat just head
ing into the foaming water. Noting
where we had come to grief, Mace had
steered his craft toward another chan
mel, further to the left.
Durham, clinging to his bobbing
perch, had photographed the whole of
our spill, and still was cranking, with
his camera trained upon us.
But, even as we took this in. the
photographers boat struck a rock and
stopped dead. Dunham's grip upon his
camera was torn loose, and he was
flung headlong into the stream. Mace
fell half out Of the boat, but quickly
scrambled in again Their craft did