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Evening star., 1928-03-04
Tourney Dempsey 7uney
McGRAW NOT ONLY ALIVE,
BUT IN FINE CONDITION

AUGUSTA, Ga, March 3.--John J.
McGraw is not dead. He IS not even
sick. In fact. he's in the best Of health
and in condition to step three fast
rounds with Gene Tunney.
How the report reached New York
that the Master Mind had died at the
training camp is somewhat Of mys-
tery-that Is to McGraw. When he
returned from the ball park today he
was greeted with this remark from the
base ball scribcs travelling with the
club:
There is report In New York that
you were dead"
well, I'm far from a dead one"
replied John Joseph.
Evening star., 1928-03-04
SIX D. c. RACKETERS
IN MARYLAND EVENT

Six Washington racketers will COM
pete In the Maryland indoor singles
championship elimination tennis tour
namcnt which starts today at noon on
the 5th Regiment Armory courts In the
Maryland metropolis. The local netme,1
will vie with leading players Of Mary
land In the affair, which is being staged
by the Baltimore Interpark Association.
Bob Considine Of this city has been
seeded No. ] In the tournament, and
win meet Hogan OF Baltimore. Judd
and Shore, both Of Washington. will
face. Other local netmen viii engage
Baltimore racketers as follows: Baum,
Washington, VS.. Robinson: Coronel,
Washington, VS.. Swaine, and Yeomans,
Washington, VS.. La Flour.
Evening star., 1928-03-04
BOUT WITH MANDELL
GIVEN WITH PETROLLE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO. March 3.--The impassc
into which the lightweight champion
ship fight negotiations have passed may
give Billy Petrolle, "the Fargo Express. -
a chance at Sammy Mandell's title In
place Of Jimmy McLarnin.
Jack Hurley, Petrolle's manager. an
nounccd In Minneapolis that Petrolle
has signed to engage In a champion
ship fight with Mandell here June 81.
Promoter Jim Mullen. who holds
Mandells agreement to defend his title
In Chicago this Summer, will promote
the match. Hurley said.
Mardell and Petrolle fought 10 rounds
In Minneapolis several weeks ago, Man.
dell winning the decision.
Petrolle Is to fight Bruce Flowers at
Madison Square Garden, New York,
March Is.
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event. thereby eliminating two OF the

event. thereby eliminating two of the
Dlg aHairs OF the Spring season.
Usually The ssaaGn runs through well
INTO July with the Maryland Country
Club affair winding up the early com.
petitiyc round. II is not now known
whether the Maryland Country Club
win hold tourney
Another conference on the nearly
completed merger OF the Maryland
Club with the iiillendaie Club of Bal
tinaare Is scheduled for tomorrow night,
81 which time ratification Ia expected
The new club. IL u understood. viii
bear the title OF the Maryland Country
Club
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McLARNIN is OFFERED
$17.5OO FOR CONTEST

DETROIT, March 3 tR.-Olympia
Arena has offered $l7,500 to Jimmy
McLarnin for bout with the winner
OF the Bruce Flowers and "Spug"
Meyers match scheduled for next week.
McLarnin recently scored q knock
out over Sid Terris. lightweight con-
tender. In the first round Of their bout
at Madison Square Garden.
McLarnin has not yet made his re-
ply to the Olympia promoters for the
bout. which is proposed for some time In
Apr.I
Evening star., 1928-03-04
SETS SWIMMING MARK.
the Associated Pres.

BY Inc Associated Press.
A new Australian swimming record
for women was made recently by l2-
year-old girl, Jean Cocks. Her time
in 220-yard handicap race was 2
minutes 46 3-5 seconds.
Evening star., 1928-03-04

Greyhounds are faster than men bus
not so speedy a. racehorses.
Evening star., 1928-03-04

Arthur y. Thorn, professional nj the
Town and Country Club. was in Fred
eflekEb1rg few days ago. and advised
With the gold committee on trapping
the course 10 make 1t more difficult.
Smyrna times., 1928-07-11
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT OVER
NEAR CENTERVILLE, MARYLAND
W. F. RASKOB, SON OF JOHN j.
RA.SKOB, WILMINGTON, KILLED
His Car Overturned as He was Re
turning to Pioneer Point, Md. the
Summer Home of the RaskObs

William Frederick Raskob, End, the
20year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
J. Raskob of Claymont, Wilmington,
was killed Thursday when the Cadil-
lac touring car, which he was driving,
overturned near Salem, Md, on the
road between Church Hill and Cen
treville, Nd. He is believed to have
died instantly. The body was found
lying in a field adjacent to the road
by J. a. Long, Of Church Hill, Md,
who was driving an automobile sever
al hundred yards behind the one in
which Raskob was driving alone. He
was the only witness to the accident,
which took place on a straight piece
Of road. Mr.. Long, who was on his
way to Centreville, said in describing
the accident: II saw great cloud Of
dust. The dust obstructed my view
of what was happening. Then | saw
the damaged car and Raskob's body
in the field" The body was found
lying face down, injuries On the head
indicated that he was thrown against
a rock. When found, the automobile
WHICH, 1NclohOD WdS uIINlLSs WdS LII ct1l
upright position. It is believed to
have left the highway and overturned
at least once, throwing the driver into
the field. No evidence had been dis
covered as to what might have caused
the accident. Raskob was returning
from Claymont, where he had spent
the night, to Mostley Hall at Pioneer
Point, Md, the summer home Of the
Raskob family. He was one Of
family of II children. His father is
chairman of the finance committee of
the General Motors Corporation and a
vice-president Of the dupont Com
pany. He was born in Wilmington
and attended Salesianum High School,
which he left at the end of his third
year to enter Newman Preparatory
School, near Princeton, n. J. After
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graduating from there, he entered
Yale University, where he took up the
engineering course. He had just com
pleted his second year there. Next to
the oldest of the four brothers and
eight sisters, he is survived, in addi-
tion to his parents, by the three re-
naming brothers: John J. Jr., Benja-
min and Robert Raskob and his sis
ters, Helena n, Elizabeth, Yvonne,
Margaret, Patricia, Nina, Mary Louise
and Josephine Raskob. The funeral
took place with low mass in Mother
Of Sorrows R. C. Church at Centre
vile, Nd, $50 o'clock, standard time,
Friday morning, and interment took
place in the family mausoleum at the
Cathedral cemetery in Wilmington.
The Rev. Monsignor John J. Dougher-
ty, Of St. Peters Cathedral, vicar gen
eral Of the Catholic Diocese Of Viii
mington, officiated.
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WHEAT SMUT FOUND UP STATE
Around State Road and st. Georges
1t Appears To More or Less Degree

Wheat smut has been found, in more
or less degree, in wheat fields of New
Castle County this season. Examina-
tions Of various fields BY DR.. J. F..
Adams and County Agricultural Agent
Ed Willim, Jr., of Newark, were made
last week. On the farm near State
Road of g. Douglas Buck, State High
way Engineer, a 2-8.10 percent infec-
tion Of wheat smut was found in the
check or untreated plot, while a 100
percent control was found in the re-
mainder of the field which had been
treated for the smut. a higher infec-
tion was found on the farm Of Albert
Z. Zachies near St. Georges. Mr..
Zachies treated part Of his wheat last
fall for smut, and left one-half un-
treated or checked plot will run about
6-9.10 percent. "A trace of the smut
was found in the treated plots. Some
fields further down the State have had
a much higher infection than the fields
examined in New Castle County.
Examinations Of 25 percent infec-
ton, continued Dr. Adams, "'has been
discovered in the untreated fields on
farms in Kent and Sussex Counties.
Last fall an intensive campaign for
the treatment of wheat for smut was
carried out BY the County Agent Of
New Castle County. This disease can
be controlled by proper treatment. The
most modern treatment consists of a
copper dust preparation, two ounces
per bushel Of wheat will give practi-
cally a complete control Of this di-
sease.' 1.-TWO millers in New Castle
County cleaned and treated the seed
wheat for the farmers last fall. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Willim this method Of
controlling the spread of wheat smut
will go long way in ridding the
County of this serious wheat pest"
Smyrna times., 1928-07-11
GOVERNOR NAMES TAX BOARD
Will Examine and Consider Recon-
mendations to Legislature for Changes

mendatiOns to Legislature for Changes
Governor Robert P. Robinson an
nounced last week the appointment of
the members of the Advisory Com
mission, the formation of which was
recommended by Pierre S. DUPONT,
state tax commissioner, in his report
on the Delaware State School Taxes,
when presented to the public just rec
emily. The members were asked to
serve on the commission last week,
their acceptances having been receiv-
er, they were appointed. They are:
Attorney General Clarence A. South
erland, of Wilmington; Secretary of
State Charles H. Grantland, of Will
mington; Robert H. Richards, Of Viii
mington; Caleb R. Layton, Jr., of Viii
mington; Henry Ridgely, of Dover.
These men have been appointed for
the purpose of examining the Della
ware tax laws with the idea Of i'm
proving them and correcting any
faults that might be found in them.
They will consider the recommenda-
tions of the tax department for the
Invested Capital Tax, and the careful
rewriting of the Income Tax, Capita
tion Tax. This commission will also
examine the other tax laws for the
various defects which are believed to
be present in them, and will make
their report to the governor and the
legislature. Their findings will be
Smyrna times., 1928-07-11

a basis in the planting of the 1928
crop. This average for a three year
period, according to DR.. Bomberger,
would indicate that continuation Of the
average acreage during that period is
likely to produce the best results.
Smyrna times., 1928-07-11

prepared in pamphlet form and pre-
sented to the governing body for the
purpose of aqualizing and regulating
the taxes so that they will not be
duplicated in any cases nor be 50 ad-
Smyrna times., 1928-07-11

Subscribe for The Smyrna Times,
$3.50 per year, in advance.
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ministered to place unjust weight on
any one body.
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FLY New Mail Plane

A new Fairchild cabin monoplane
was used on the Cincinnati-C Chicago
air mail route Monday evening by
the Embry-Riddle Company, Gin
cinnati, contractors for the route.
Frank Merrill vas pilot of the ship.
The Embry- Riddle Company now
has three new Fairchilds on the
route, in addition to it's Wright
Whirlwind powered Waco open
planes.
Frank Ware, Chicago representa-
tive of the company flew to Cincin-
natl Monday morning and back in
the evening on the mail ship.
Ben Craycraft, an employee of the
company at Cincinnati, came to In
dianapolis on the mail plane Mon
day evening for a BRIEF visit with.
D. A. Mcconnell, local representa-
tive. Craycraft left Monday at
midnight by train for Decatur, III.
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Girl SEA filler
IN PITTSBURGH
Amelia Earhart Gets Ride
in Engine Cab.

BIZ UHited Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July "a
Amelia Earhart, first woman to span
the Atlantic ocean by airplane, with
Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, her
pilot and mechanic on the tri-mo-
tored monoplane, Friendship" made
two-hour visit here today.
The party, which also included
Mrs. Stultz and Mrs. Gordon, arrived
aboard their special coach on a
Pennsylvania railroad train from
Toledo, where they were guests yes
terday
Met at the station by thousands
of Pittsburghers, the party was
taken on short automobile tour of
the business section of the city. They
left Pittsburgh at 1:25 daylight
tirne) for New York City.
AS the Pennsylvania train left
Pittsburgh, Miss Earhart had an
other adventWsome ambition re-
allied.
CARRIED in overalls, she rode in
the cab of the huge locomotive.
When the train made its first stop
at Greensburg, Pa, she again
boarded the private coach.
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CONFER ON CITY
HOSPITAL BONDS
Ordinance to Be Amended
to Employ COnSuItant.

Amendment of the 100000 bond
issue ordinance before the city
council to provide employment of a
hospital consultant was planned to-
day by the city health board.
Councilmen, health board men,
bers, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health
secretary, and DR.. William A. Deep
pers, hospital superintendent, con-
ferred with Mayor L. Ert Slack,
Monday night, for two hours behind
closed doors.
The conference was suggested a
week ago by Edward w. Harris,
council finance chairman. Council
men insisted that a consultant be
employed.
DR.. B. w. Parhell, Syracuse, N. Y,
and DR.. S. S. Goldwater, said to be
outstanding hospital authorities, are
understood to be considered by the
board of health.
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The aerograph to be carried on
Bert HasseTs fight from Illinois
to Sweden via Greeland, is shown
here in two pictures.
instrument to Make Chart
and Give Warnings
on Weather.
RANEA Serrice

By NEA Service
ROCKFORD, Ill, July 23.-Wher
Bert HasselS plane, Greater Rock
ford. points it's nose toward Stock
holm, Sweden, this summer, an enc
my of fog and squalls will be
perched on the wings to warn OF
danger and to chart the oceans
whims for others who may follow
The mechanical lookout is SINH
lar to the instrument in use at
naval air stations where it is car
ried about the sky by f1iers daily to
read the upper atmosphere and
forecast warnings of dangerous
storms.
Study Sea Storms
Sailors have been traversing the
lanes between Europe and America
for hundreds of years, but little j
known Of the more important sea
currents.
South of Greenland, for example,
where great storms are born, scien-
lists believe now that the salty
south current of the Atlantic sinks
deeper in the ocean where it meets
the frigid waters of the Arctic.
Give Data to GreeIand
This, however, is Surmise and
Hassels expedition may help to
prove it true or false. The f1ier will
cooperate with the Mount Evans
observatory in Greenland and ex-
change recordings obtained on his
oversee journey.
The story the aerograph tells may
aid future transatlantic pilots.
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lest Guard Plane

Lieut.. Matt c. Carpenter and
Sergt. L. M. Johnson, Indiana Ma
tional Guard, flew to Dayton, Ohio,
Monday, in a Curtiss Oil for in
spection of machine gun and
bomb rack mounted on the ship.
The Indiana Guard aviation unit,
the 18th Observation Squadron, is
said to be better equipped than any
similar unit in the country. 1t is the
only unit to have plane complete
ly equipped with radio broadCasting
and receiving equipment and an
other plane completely armed with
machine guns and bomb racks.
The unit now has two CurtiSs
Oil biplanes, two OFT ships and
two PT-1 training ships, in addi-
ton to Boeing AT-3 for the per-
sonal use of Capt. H. Weir Cook,
regular army instructor attached to
the squadron. A third Oil was
cracked up ten days ago when it
struck a tree near the Indian
apolis airport, Lieut.. Carroll Doak
and Sergt. John Long being serious
ly injured.
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Chute to Carry Plane

BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, July 24.-Major E. l.
Hoffman of Wright Field, winner
last year of the Collier Trophy for
his efforts in the development of the
parachute, is now experimenting
with one that is designed to hold
not a man but an airplane.
Structurally, according to A. M
Jacobs, writing in the Air Corps
News Letter, this new parachute
measuring eighty-four feet in dia-
meter. is of the man-carrying type
1t has pilot chute, vents in the
dome, the same weight and quality
of silk, and the same type of shroud
lines. There are ninety-six panels
and forty eight lines.
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Plan Canada Air Mail
BIZ United Press

By United Press
OTTAWA, Ontario, July PA
Royal Air Force pilot is to leave
here shortly to fly to Winnipeg in
the first air survey of a projected
air mail route between Montreal
and Winnipeg over which it is pos
sible that planes will be engaged
daily by next spring.
He will fly from here to North
Bay, proceeding northward through
the Cobalt mining district to Coch-
rane, whence he will make the final
stage westward to Winnipeg. This
is the route now traversed by 1.-THE
Continental Limited" trans-conti-
mental train of the Canadian Ma
tional Railways.
A vote of money has been put
through the House of Commons to
defray the expense of such a sur
vey, on which the post Office de-
partment has lost no time in getting
to work. Already a considerable
amount of data has been gathered
relative to flying conditions which
generally prevail over the region
affected by such a fight.
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AViati0n-
MEXICO HONORS
DEAD AIR ACE
100000 People Line Route
of Funeral.
BB United Press

BY UHtted Press
MEXICO CITY, July 24.-Thou-
sands were expected to attend the
funeral services today for Capt.
Emilio Carranza, MeXico's hero flier,
killed in the United States as he
attempted to fly from New York to
Mexico City.
Carranza was an idol to Mexico
just as Lindbergh is an idol to the
United States.
His death brought national
mourning.
Yesterday the body of the young
f1ier was brought back to Mexico
City and the capital had its greatest
demonstration of mourning in the
history of the republic.
Fully 100000 persons lined the
Avenida Madero as the caisson
bearing the casket was drawn slow
ly through the streets.
The pathway was strewn with
flowers that $4,000 school children
had placed. School children dotted
the line of the march, some singin
and others contributing to the ma
tional mourning. At one spot 5000
Of them sang a hymn dedicated to
CarranZa.
The body was taken to the war
Office and placed in the gymnasium.
Through the afternoon thousands
passed to view the casket and ply
tribute. The caSket was draped
with flags of both the United
States and Mexico.
The body will be taken, after the
national funeral today. to the ro-
tunda of famous men in Dolores
cemetery.
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Club to Buy Plane

By Times Special
HAMMOND, Ind, July 24.-The
Hammond Aero Club has been or
ganized and purchase of a Travelair
plane, commercial type, is planned.
The membership is in three classes:
Class A, open to persons interested
in aviation from only promotional
standpoint; Glass B, those intending
to take flying course in the fu-
ture, and Glass G, those desiring to
take such a course Immediately.
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DEFER GAMING CASES
Eight Continued to Aug. 9, BY
Judge Wetter.

The cases of eight men held on
gambling charges were continued
to Aug. 9 Monday afternoon, by
Judge Paul c. Wetter in Municipal
Court No. 4.
They are: Jack Rabbett, 1886
Richland ST., charged with keeping
gambling house and gaming;
Charles Barnes, 1131 Holiday St.;
Frank Crestin, 1888 Lee ST.; Ken
meth Sam, TIT Lambert St.; Walter
Harverkamp, Mars Hill; Alexander
Neal, 1430 Shepard St.; Norman
Stewart, 1155 Holiday ST., and
Calude Wade, 1705 Minter St., all
charged with gaming and visiting a
gaming house.
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been making false attacks on him.
White indicated he would reply to
the Governor within a few days,
probably just before he sails for
Europe.
Meanwhile, he will stay in New
York "as long as the money holds
out" and then begin living on his
steamer passage.
White protested to see the politi-
cal situation as a division along the
same old lines, the rural districts
against the cities and the solid
South about as solidly Democratic
as ever.
Il am not one of those who be-
lieves that Alabama will go Repub-
lican," White said. II can imagine
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MISS BYRD BROADCASTS
Circle Theater Organist on Air at
1880 Tonight.

Dessa Byrd, staff organist at the
Circle Theater will present a half
hour organ concert from 1880
o'clock until midnight tonight over
WKBF, the Hoosier Athletic Club
station.
The program is regular feature
of WKBF and is made up of num-
bers requested throughout the week.
No requests are accepted on the
telephone as Miss Byrd's program is
made up in advance and it is i'm
possible to change it.
Listeners wishing to hear her play
a favorite melody may write Miss
Byrd at the Circle Theater. Carl
Watson announces this program
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Money Rug
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
GARY, Ind, July 24.-An
Oriental rug by 7 feet,
which is a replica of United
States dollar bill, issue of 1899,
is a gift to o. L. Wildermuth,
local attorney, by George Ro-
coff, a Bulgarian client living
in Turkey. The rug is faithful
in every detail, bearing woven
likenesses of Lincoln and
Grant and the signature of
Frank White, then United
States Treasurer. The attorney
has never seer his client, their
dealings having been carried
on by mail.
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aviation
GROUP TO Sell
AIR INSURANCE
IS ORGANIZED
Four Companies Pool Their
Facilities as Business
of Sky BoOms.
BIZ Times SpecinL

BY ItmeS Special
NEW YORK, July 24-Within the
week four of the leading fire in
Surance companies and four casualty
companies have formed the United
States Aircraft Insurance Group
pooling their facilities for the pur-
pose of providing a market for all
forms of liability insurance.
Each fire company is to carry a
share of the insurance written on
each aircraft; each casualty COM
pany will carry a share OF all
liability, accident and compensation
risks accepted by the managers.
Current news indicates the grow
ing air commerce upon which these
business men base their future ex-
pectations. w. Irving Glover, As
sistant postmaster general an
nounces that the Postoffice Depart
ment is considering an air mail
route from Louisville via Memphis
and Little Rock to Dallas, where 1t
will connect. with the N. A. T. line to
Chicago and the Texas Air Trans
port to the border.
Lines to Be Extended
The Boeing Air Transport, which
carries mail and passengers from
San Francisco to Chicago, distance
of 1918 miles, has been in operation
since July l, 1927. In the first year
of operation this line has carried
1,241 passengers over 1884, 492 passen-
ger miles.
The Pacific Air Transport, now
affiliated with the Boeing Company,
operates between Seattle and Los
Angeles, a distance of 1,O99 miles.
This line has carried 1,547 Passen-
gers over 100000 passenger miles.
By Jan. |, 1929, Montreal will be
connected by American air mail
lines with Havana and the Antilles,
Central America and the Canal
Zone. Plans for the extension OF
the southern end of this service into
South America have already been
made.
Over much of this distance planes
are already in operation, carrying
both passengers and mail. The Ca
madam Colonial AirWays-an Amer
lean subSidiary-will begin to per-
form it's air mail contract for the
New York-Montreal route on Sept.
/. Passengers will be carried.
On May l the Pitcairn Company
of Philadelphia started regular serv-
ice between Hadley Field and Aat-
lanta, over lighted airway
Total Poundage Gains
Surveys have been started for the
Atlanta~Miami line, to be operated
by the Pitcairn Company. 1t will
connect with the Pan-American Air
ways line to Key West, Havana, the
Antilles and Central America.
The Pan-American Company has
contracted for six tri-motored Fox
ker transports to supplement the
fleet already in use, and in the first
six months of 1929 expects to in
crease this fleet to thirty-one planes.
Postmaster General New reported
this week that the twenty air mail
lines Of the country carried a total
of 209,76O pounds of mai, in June,
an increase of 1881 pounds over
the month of May.
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Night Waterman Is Filler
BIZ United Press

BW UTtItU I7Ft66
NEW YORK, July PA night
Waterman aboard the Cedric said
he really was Bert Campbell, promi-
nent British flier, and that he had
come to the United States to get
wealthy American woman to make
a transatlantic fight in dirigible
he had obtained.