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Wilkins Leaves
Polar Zone For
Voyage to Home

GREEN HARBOR. Spitzbergen,
Captain George II. wilkins and Lieu
tenant Carl b. Eielson. who flew
across the top Of the world several
weeks ago, left Spitzbergen today
aboard the sealing vessel Hobby
bound for Tromsoe, Norway.
Departure Of the two aviators from
Green Harbor was a spectacular one,
almost as much so as their arrival in
Spitzbergen from Point Barrow,
Alaska. The aviators left Green Har-
Dor itself just before midnight in the
plane which had carried them across
the polar regions.
The plane went off in the CLEAN Of
the midnight sun and landed some
distance along the iced border of
Isfjorden at Bjoerndalen. There the
aviators boarded the sealer which
was to take them back to civilization.
The plane also was taken aboard. It
is expected that the hobby will reach
Tromsoe Tuesday.
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LAND BANKERS
VISIT VALLEY
Party Stops Here On
State Tour; Find
Prosperity
Especial to The Heraldl

SAN BENlT0, Nav I'm. II. Cos
sett. president Of the Federal Land
bank at Houston. Friday led a party
of eight directors and officers Of the
bank into the Valley for a brief tour
Of inspection of this region, that is
scheduled to conclude Friday night.
The bankers, representing the only
bank of its kind in Texas. doing bus
mess on n long-term farm loan ba-
sis, are concluding tour of practi-
cally the entire state, which began
three weeks ago. They spent Thurs
day night in Alice and were expect
ed to leave the Valley for Corpus
Christi Friday afternoon. From
there they will return to Houston
Saturday.
The tour has been made by auto
mobile, four cars being used to
transport the part from town to
town.
Although they have been making
survey Of the territory served BY
the institution, the Valley trip was
made purely for pleasure, Mr.. Cos
sett declared. The Federal Land
bank does no business in the Valley
at the present time, the farmers in
this region negotiating their loans in
a different manner from the meth
DDS in use by the Houston bank.
However, his organization is keep
ing in close touch with the agricul-
tural situation here following a COM
plete survey made about a year ago.
and the time will come when the
banks operations will be extended
into this territory, he said.
A settlement of the international
water controversy. which seems
about to be effected. will do much
to smooth the path Of Valley farm
ers toward doing business with his
institution, Mr.. Gossett indicated.
From their brief and informal in
spection. the Valley is the most pros
porous section Of the state, members
Of the party say. Although they are
making no detailed survey at this
time a general impression Of pros
perity seems to prevail ever this re-
gion, a prosperity that is in evidence
in no other section of the state.
Lack Of rains and suffering wheat
crops tend to put a pessimistic note
in most regions, they say.
Members Of the party were:
S. A. Lindsay Of Tyler. chairman
of the board of directors; +. =.
Churchill, of Jacksonville, director;
}. NJ. Neeley. of Amarillo, director;
A. X. Short. Of Houston, head Of the
conservation and terracing depart
ment; A. G. Hargis, Of Houston. as
sistant secretary; Q. F. Shropshire.
Of Houston. chief appraiser; and W.
J. McAnnally, Of Houston. federal
appraiser; and Mr.. Gossett.
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Former Officer
mus. Armyto
Be Prison Head

HOUSTON. Tex, May l1.-lP,-An-
pointment OF Col w. A. Mcdaniel of
the United States army, retired. as
warden Of the state prison at Hunts
vile is announced here by General
Manager w. II. Mead.
Col. Mcdaniel will succeed N. r.
SSpeer, who resigned because he said
ne was tired Of the responsibilities
OF the position and il opposed To the
death penalty. Il is the duty Of the
warden to turn on the electricitv
power at every execution. The resi0-
nation of Speer was accepted bv the
PRISON BOARD and Mr.. Mead was au-
81 NJ employ successor.
Col Mcdaniel. as a Lieut.. Colonel
Of the 23rd infantry Stationed A.
Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio uss
retired IN October, 1927. He y 81
years old.
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ROW Near FOR
DELEGATES IN
STATEPARLEY
Henry Calls Caucus to
Plan Campaign In
Beaumont; Love to
Quit Faction

HOUSTON, Tex, May 11.-CP)-R.
l. Henry, president Of the AL Smith
for President club here, and member
Of Smiths state campaign committee,
served notice Friday that the Smith
forces would not permit the state
convention 10 select its own dele
gates to the national convention from
seven congressional districts include
ing che first, seventh, 9th, IIth, I4th,
18th. and 10th, which they claim for
Smith.
He warned the opposition that the
convention would not be allowed Ia
"shaekle the II national convention
votes Of these districts with the unit
rule when they rightfully belong to
Gov. Smith"
He issued a call for a caucus OF
pro-Smith delegates and supporters nc
Beaumont on the eve of the state
convention which opens there May p.
To the suggestion that Smith fore
es might bolt at Beaumont, Mr..
Henry merely said 1--WE will eros i
that bridge when we come to il"
DALLAS, Tex, May II.-CP)-Ths
Dallas Times Herald today said:
State Senator Thomas Y. Love, rec
ognized leader of the "bitter-end"
anti-Smithites in Texas, will with
draw as leader Of his faction, will
not seek office in the Beaumont con-
vention, nor 10 be delegate to Hous-
ton; and is willing to make any oth-
er personal sacrifices that are neces-
sary in order TO combine the prohi-
bitionists Of Texas in the fight
against Smith mt the state conven-
tion at Beaumont May %, he said to-
day.
The senator made this statement
when it was pointed out to him that
the democrats OF Texas, another fac
tion of anti-Smih democrats headed
| by Governor Dan Moody, objected to
his participation in the present fight.
II do not believe there is any fight
between Governor Moody and me,
and | think the newspapers are max :
ing a mistake when they persist in
their efforts to make it appear there
is,' the senator said.
However. liz my personality should
be keeping the prohibitionists of Tex
a. apart in their efforts 10 prevent
the nomination of Governor Alfred
Smith of New York. will gladly
withdraw. / will not seek office in
the Beaumont convention, nor seek
10 be delegate 10 Houston
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shot IS FIRED
INTOBEDROOM,
REPORT AYERS
Aged Methodist Work
er Killed On April
29, Friend Tells In
Note Just Out

SHANGHAI, May lI.-CPl-Mrs
William Il. Hobart Of the American
Methodist Mission at Taianfu, near
Tsinan, was killed on April 20 by a
bullet fired through a small window
in her bedroom from an opposite
wall during fighting between the ma
tionalists and northerners.
Details of Mrs. Hobart's death were
received at the local headquarters Of
the Mission today in a letter from
Kiatainfu written on May by Miss
Helen Stumley, a member Of the
Mission.
Miss Stumley wrote:
The killing occurr=i on April %
after the nationalists had arrived
and fighting was proceeding. We
were warned that it was unsafe to
leave the compound, bur did not know
we were being made targets. Mrs
Hobart left the sitting room where
she had been reading and went to q
bedroom which has small window
above the door facing the city hall
She was conscious ten minutes and
died in one hour.
From that time on ve lived in tNC
basement of the Mission buildihg
being fired at every time we left the
building. 1t was not known what par.
ticular group Of southern soldiers
was doing the firing. This is the
first opportunity to Get out word
No one else was killed and all the
Chinese students are living in the
basement with the missionaries
The Tainfu people knew nothing
about Tsinan affairs and didn't even
know that the southerhs rs were near
until the northerners began to re-
treat"
The present situation of the mis-.
sionaries in Tsinan is not known al
the local headquarters but il il moi
believed that they have been able tC
evacuate the city. Ali attempts tc
Continued on page two)
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Gavuzzi, Leader
In Marathon Out

TOLEDO, Ohio, May 1i.-(R-
Peter Gavuggi Of Southampton. Eng
land. leader in C. e. Pyle's "bunion
derby was forced to drop out of the
trans-continental foot race this aft
ernoon near here, utterly exhausted
and unable TO continue the grueIling
run.
Lying in a ditch alongside the
highway, smoking cigarette. the
Britisher quit the race after he had
travelled about $500 miles in the
race from Los Angeles to New York.
He had a lead Of three hours in
total elapsed time when the runners
STOPPED in Wauseon last night
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RELATIVE OF
ONE OF DEAD
FILESCHARCE
Murder Hearing To Be
Held In Seym our
For Wichita Falls
Pair; Make Bond

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, May IL
(P)-Woody Tarkentol and Alvin
Stewart of Wichita Falls have been
charged with murder at Seymour in
connection with the drowning at
Lake Kemp last Saturday Of r. G.
Irvine, brick layer.
The complaint was filed before
Nat G.. Mitchell, justice of the peace
at Seymour by George +. Preston. a
brother in law of Irvine. Preston
gave his home as Amarillo, the JUS
tice said.
Earl kuntZ, attorney for Tarking-
ton and Stewart announced Friday
that Baylor county officers who had
come here earlier in the day to take
the men into custody had departed
without them. The officers agreed,
he said. to allow the attorney to ac-
company them TO Seymour where
they expect to receive a preliminary
hearing before Judge Mitchell.
Meanwhile kuntz sad the two are
at liberty under bonds Of 81 COO fixed
for their release after Labeas corpus
proceedings had been filed before
Judge p. A. Martin. in seth district
court Thursday afternoon.
larheHton ana SLeWhrt were quoted
by the attorney as insisting that the
death Of Irvine and Bill Whitted.
a negro. was the result Of an acci-
dent and will urge that plea in ask.
ing the dismissal OF the charge grow
ing out Of Irvine's death. Irvine's
body was sent to Sherman for burial.
The negro's body has not been re-
covered.
The four men. they related, were
fishing from a boat, some distance
from the banks of Lake Kemp when
some one stood up. The boat over
turned, they said. All four clug to
the unturned boat as they cried for
help. Irvine and Whitted became
exhausted and drowned. Tarkenton
and Stewart still were clinging to
their hold at the point of exhaustion
"a
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FINESSED LEAD IN
= = +
BRIDGE TILT ENDS
X X 4
IN COURT BATTLE

LOS ANGELES, Calf. May H.
lP)-Bridge players knew this was
certain to happen some time.
Mrs. Gena Robinson, according TO
testimony yesterday in superior
court here in the triai Of the suit
brought against her by Mrs. Esther
Lyon, finessed her partners spade
lead Mrs. Lyon was the partner.
Then the battle started. First IL
was a battle Of words, words that
kept flowing until the hand was
played.
"Then she jumped up and |
pushed her back" testified Mrs.
Robinson. Mrs. Lyon declared her
face was cut in that "push" by the
diamonds on Mrs. Robins fingers.
So she sued for S21 ,clO damages.
The court agreed that it prob
ably was more than a push" and
awarded Mrs. Lyon 5000.
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Believe Jap-Chinese
Accord Is Possible

GENEVA, May Il.-LPD-Cheng
Lob, Chinese member OF the council
OF the league of nations, declared to
the Associated Press correspondent
this afternoon: II believe there is
every hope of direct negotiations be-
tween the Chinese and Japanese
governments"
He made this statement when ask
ed for his views on the Nanking gov
ernment's protest to the league that
Japan had violated Ch,na's integrity
and independence.
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Jailed Officers
Ordered Freed

AUSTIN. Tex. May 11.-lP)-Re-
lease Of two San Antonio city detec-
tives, Frank Vogel and +. p. Little
page from n "a hour contempt OF
Friday by Presiding Judge Morrow Of
the court OF criminal appeals.
Bail was set at 5000 in each case
and hearing was set for next Wednes-
day before the criminal appeals court.
The detectives we're adjudged in
contempt BY District Judge II. B.
Minor of San Antonio for arresting a
young woman who was 20 appear be-
fore his court for habeas corpus
hearing. Phil Wright, commissioner
OF fire and police at San Antonio.
sent attorneys to Austin 10 seek the
detectives release.
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Mobile Starts On First
Voyage In Diyigible Over
UmknO1Un Land In AYtiCS

by Russian explorers travelling in
ice breakers in September 1918.
They only observed the eastern and
southern coasts Of the land which
was found to extend to the north
northwest as a continuation Of the
eastern coasts of the Taimir penin-
sula and the Chelyuskin peninsula.
General Mobile also intended to
land if possible, at the pole, plant
ing there a cross given him by Pope
Plus. He hoped to check on previ-
Gus expeditions Of Peary and Mac
MILAN in polar regions. A compan-
ion of General Mobile on his polar
expeditions has been his dog Ti-
tiana, who seemed reluctant to
leave Nadsoe, NorwaE. when the
Italia left there for Spitzbergen,
but finally decided to risk another
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adventure in the arctic with his
master.
General Mobile is planning to use
Nadsoe as an auxiliary base in the
event that he should be forced
South on one Of his expeditions
across the Arctic regions. He tele-
graphed to his representative there
telling him to remain and prepare
everything for mooring the airship
in case of necessity.
Before starting out General No
bile sent his will to Rome and it
revealed that outside Of his share
Of the $3l 500 blanket policy on the
Italia's crew and 1900 life policy
on himself and his government PEN
sion that the general has no prop
erty of his own. His estate is di-
vided into three equal parts for
his wife, daughter and niece.
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Sheriffs to Meet In
Mineral Wells Next

ABILENE, Texas, May 11.-(P)-
Mineral Wells was selected as the
city for the next quarterly conven-
tion of the. West Texas Sheriff's
association at the final business ses-
sion Of the association here today.
The meeting will be held August $40.
The sessions here we're 70 close
this afternoon with a pistol shooting
contest.
Speakers this morning included
District Judge Milburn s. Long,
Ranger Captain Tom Hickman. w r..
Ely of the Texas state highway COM
mission. Bob Miller Of Paint Rock
and Fred G. Malone Of Austin.
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DROP MAIL FRAUD CASE

HOUSTON. Tex. May l1.-tP)-
Charges Of using the mails to de-
fraud pending since May II. 1924.
against Ben N. Garrett. -ell known
Houston oil man and rancher. have
been dismissed by Judge J. C.
Hutcheson on motion OF United
States District Attorney II. NJ. Hold
en-. Mr.. Holden said he acted on
Of the department OF
justice at Washington
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Missing Mail
Pilot Is Found

COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. May
,t-lPI-Lieut. Eddie Eshleman. %
..a.r-old air mail pilot, who had been
.,;ssing fifteen hours after hopping
off yesterday from Denver for this
nlace, was located at Hilltop. near
Elizabeth. Colo. early today, accord
ing 70 telephone message TO the
roiorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph.
Tshleman. when found. said he had
heen forced down shortly before 5
o'clock last night because Of heavy
fog.
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Wives of Bremen
Fliers In Chicago

CHICAGO. May 11.-CR)-Thrilled
by the enthusiastic sthrcng awaiting
their arrival. the wives of Cartain
Herman Koehl and Major James Z.
Fitzmaurice, Transatlantic filters.
stepped from New York train to-
day to be whirled away on q round
of receptions and sight seeing.
The three filters Of the Bremen
we're already here.
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IRELAND ELIMINATED

DUBLIN. IRISH Free State, MAY m.
eliminated ireland in
the first round of the European zone
Davis cup play today, tcking today's
double match in addition to the two
singles yesterday. A. Dermier- Kool
and H. Thinner defeated Major c. r.
Troope and G. n. ID. o'Callahan Cd.
Sc, S-6-
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Mothers Invited To
Visit Convict Sons

HOUSTON. Tex. MAY 11.-tPI-
Mothers who have boys confined in
the Texas state peniteneiary system
were invited Friday by General Man
sger ". n. Mead to visit their boys
on the prison farms or in the peni-
tenetiary on Mothers Day. May 10.
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PITCHERS RELEASED

HOUSTON. Tex, May l1.-(P,-
Outright release Of Stuart Jacobus
and Charlie Collard, veteran right
hand pitchers, is announced by Fred
Ankenmann, president Of the Bluffs.
The releases were necessary for the
Bluffs to make the player limit Of
fs.
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WOULD BAR PRICE REPORTS

WASHINGTON, May 1f.-CP,-A
bill fixing a penalty Of $4,000 fine
or five years Imprisonment for gov.
eminent officers who publish OF
authorize publication NJ price predic-
tions OF cotton was passed today by
the senate and sent to the house.
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TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow. under normal metecrclori-
cal conditions=
High -.--.....-...-..-.. 1852 "A. nm.
Low 2:22 ~. m.
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KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen. May IL.
-(P)-The Italian dirigible Italia
started on its first voyage of dis
covery into the polar regions at
7:45 o'clock this morning.
The Italia has been at Kings Bay
since May 6 waiting for favorable
weather and being prepared for a
series of trips over north polar re-
gions under General Umberto No
bile. General Mobile has made one
previous flight over the pole in
1926 with Roald Amundsen and
Lincoln Ellsworth in the dirigible
Norge.
The present undertaking intends
to explore many regions about
which little is known. These in
clude Lenin Land, formerly Mich
olas III land which was discovered
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WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday,
probably with local showers; not
much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Local thunder
storms tonight and Saturday; cool
er in north portion tonight; cooler
in interior Saturday except in north
west portion
Moderate ~ fresh southerly TO
eaSterly winds on the coast.
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RIVER FORECAST

The river will continue TO fall ell
along during the next few days in
the absence Of rains.
Flood Present % Hr. 20 Hr.
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The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25

SEWARD. Aug. 24. (P) .... The Third Avenue bridge collapsed late Wednesday night, plunging the city in darkness, besides cutting of the city's water supply. The Fourth street bridge is threatened and with it the remainder of the water supply mains.
 Thousands of feet of lumber be- longing to the Warrack Construc- tion Company, of Seattle, which had just begun building the one hun dred thousand dollar control Hume. was carried downstream and is piled up with the rocks and mud On the tracks of the Alaska Rail- road.
 The storm Is still raging bring ing reports from far-away Moose Pass of widespread damage and the weakening of bridges on the Richardson Highway.
 In this section bridges are dam aged. landslides are reported and the food here is the greatest since 1917 when several houses were washed down stream.
The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25
MORE RADIO SIGNALS
 HEARD; DOUBT CORRECT

CHICAGO, Aug. 24, (E ---. Out of the air early today came wireless sos signed Rockford flyers, which said the plane was down on a small island off Newfoundland and that the flyers are safe. Joy, however. quickly faded, when the wireless ex- perts began casting serious doubts as to the authenticity of the mes- sage. It seemed certain that the message purporting to have come from the plane was actually broad casted for amateurs in Chicago, To- ledo, Brooklyn and Baltimore made reports on hearing the message.
 On the other hand it appeared doubtful to experienced radio men that the message was sent from the planes small set. The message said that the oil feed failed and g forced landing was made on tho small island and the food supply is low.
The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25
SEAPIANE PONTOONS
 CAN BE CUT IN SIZE

LANGLEY FIELD. (P) ---- Sea- planes of the future need not be so cumbersome as those of the past.
 This has been established by ex- perts of the National Advisory committee for aeronautics in mi mute examination of the work act ually done by a seaplane's pom toons. which enable it to alight on water, but cut down its speed in the air.
 Present specifications of navy sea- planes call for the pontoons having a structure sufficiently strong to withstand a shock on landing of 15 pounds to the square inch. Meas urements made here with delicate instruments attached to various points on the floating surface of pontoons in operation. however. in- dicate that only seven pounds of pressure is exerted to the square inch, suggesting that their strength can easily be reduced with a mater iai saving in weight and a corres- bonding improvement in perform ance and endurance in the air.
The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25
STORM RENEWED ITS FURY.

Seward. Aug. 25. (P)-..-The storm renewed itself with added fury and the battle is on again to con- .rol the tearing current of Lowell Creek, the course of the stream changing ,comentarily as pills of d. .kris Ire heared along it's sides. Volunteers sought 70 save t'onrth street hi: ge, the la. connect .ng link l,e;wecn two portions 0 [. wn and carrying the only remaining water main. Under the direction of the Mayor. masses of debris were dynamited to build protection with sand bags to save the ap- breaches to the bridge. The gen. eral hospital and power plant are endangered as the flood continues to eat away their foundations. Several families were driven from their homes by the high waters. At Mile seven on the highway communication was entisely cut on with land slides and weak bridges reported at many points. Alaska Railway officials predicted that the slides will be cleared and washouts repaired and rail schedules resum- cd by Sunday.
The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25
PETITIONS ASKING CLEs1ENCY
 FOR GAINES SUBMITTED

SEATTLE. Aug. 25. (F1 Three petitions asking clemncy for Gaines were handed to Governor Hartley yesterday. The petitions were sub mitted by Gaines attorney. Pratt. Charles Tennant. of Seattle, Cap tain of Detectives, and Councilman Phillip Tindall. who with two Be- attle attorneys conducted pri- vate investigation. James Me- Knight and Jackson Silbaugh, in a letter accompanying Tindall's pe- tition, said they received, nor ex- pected no retainer, and "after an exhaustive study of the case we are convinced that there are grave doubts of Gaines guilt, and for that reason his sentence should be either commuted to life imprison- ment or stayed pending further in- vestigatton.
 'Tindall explained that he is seeking to "correct the gravest miscarriage of justice which ever occurred in this State.'
The Nome nugget., 1928-08-25
SEWARD HAS RAD STORM

Seward. Aug. 25, (R....A slight Hull came after 72 hours of rain and wind and further flood dam age is improbable. The power plant is still out of commission and the city is kept from total darkness by independent power plants. The Seward Gateway is unable to publish it's paper for want of power but the power is expected to be on in a day or two.
 It is believed that it will be possible for trains to get through from Seward to Anchorage today after having been tied up two days. Heavy railroad and high way damage is reported.