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New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
Possibility That Several Passengers B ough t Tickets Aboard San Juan Causes Belief Ex- act Total Will Never Be Ascertained.
Owners of Tanker Made Defendants in Damage Suits-Captain of Dodd Says San Juan Violated Traffic Rules in Cross- ing His Bow.

San Francisco, Aug. 31 P(-The possibility that the coastwise passen- ger steamer San Juan carried 116 persons instead of 110 as previously reported indicated today that the loss of life in it's sinking 55 miles south of here early yesterday may have been as high as "A persons.
 Albert F. Gillespie, manager of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Navigation company. overs of the San Juan, admitted that there may have been as many as 66 passengers aboard and that the crew may have numbered as high as 50.
 Gillespie declared that the list of 65 passengers, the only one availa ble in the records of the company here, was based upon bookings made sev- eral hours before the ship sailed and that the crew list of 45 was as of last month.
 The company's manager said tick cts sometimes were sold aboard the ship by the purSer and that half dozen persons may have paid their fares after sailing. The purser, John Cleveland, apparently perished. so no means of checking the new figures was available.
 Question of Responsibility
 The list of rescued persons re- mained at 42.
 As the search for the bodies in the oFf r.1 ed, the question arose as to the re- snonsibility for the collision. Eye witnesses accounts of the disaster in dicated that the ships sighted each other about the same time about midnight Thursday night and that the collision occurred as each adopted the same tactics in an ef- fort to avoid the crash.
 Suits Blame Tanker
 The Los Angeles and San Francis co Navigation company, owners of the San Juan, yesterday filed in United States district court libel suits for s1,5O0.0O0 and for s3O0,0O0 against the owners of the & c. T. Dodd, declaring the crash resulted from failure of officers of the tanker to keep adequate watch.
 Captain H. c. Bleumchen of the Dodd in newspaper statements and in testimony late yesterday before United States steamboat inspectors, declared the collision resulted from failure of the San Juan to maneuver properly in response to signals from the Dodds whistle
 O. V. Saunders, third officer of the Dodd, was on the bridge when the accident occurred.
 Officers Story
 The weather was clear but a lit tie later the fog began to come in and he sent call for Captain Bleumchen.
 While the captain was coming up l started to blow the fog whistle," said Saunders
 Then l saw the masthead lights of steamer coming toward us. She was about three-quarters of a point off the starboard bow, and three quarters of mile to mile away.
 Both Used Same Tactics
 If the San Juan had held to her
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New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
Arabs Begin Invasion

Jerusalem, Aug. 31 IP)-British military in Palestine, harassed by disorders within the mandated ter ritory, moved today to check full fiedged, although disorganized, in vasion by Syrian and Trans-J Jordan ian Arabs
 Considerable Forces" of the Mus sulmans were said officially to be entering Palestine from Syria and airplanes and troops were dispatch ed to intercept and ascertain thei: strength. 1ncursions of Arabs from Trans-Jordania have been checked so that they are not getting across the border in great numbers. but the intiltration has continued nev- erthelesS.
 The Arab force, according to word received in official quarters was moving south. A party of Jew ish high school students, including 14 Americans, was near the Syrian frontier on an outing and an ap- peal was made to the American
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New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
SURVIVORS RELATE
 TALES OF TRAGEDY
Rescued San Juan Passengers
 Tell Sad and Comic Tales
ONE LIFEB0AT LAUNCHED
Was Thrown Into Air When Steamer Sank-Man Lost False Teeth Woman Threw Son to Safety Youth Gave Sister LifebeIt.

San Francisco, Aug. 31 P}- Scenes of tragedy and sorrow ac- companying the sinking of the pas senger vessel San Juan were re- viewed by the 42 survivors today as some of them recuperated from the shock and injuries and others sought reunion with anxious rela- tives and friends.
 Stories of the 31 survivors picked up by the Standard Oil tanker Dodd, which figured in the collision with the San Juan, as well as the Il brought in on the coast guard cut ter Shawnee after being rescued by the freighter Munami, indicated there has been little chance for the survival of more than three score on the missing list.
 An account of the sinking by Harry A. Wade, a San Juan pas senger who was on his way to Los Angeles to become chief engineer of another ship, was typical.
 At lllt ddllStl NlllSlIeS, llll- mediately assisted in marshalling lifeboat off the davits and entered the water with a woman and child and two men," said Wade. "'We rode ten yards from the sinks ing ship when it plunged. The whirlpool threw the lifeboat in the air and we all fell into the water.
 1T started swimming and looked for the woman and the child but could find no trace of them. One person floated close to me. I made a grab for him but he sank.
 Swimming around there I could stricken people as they were pulled down into the vortex created by the sinking ship"
 Wade was picked up by a Nun ami lifeboat. His story contradict ed reports that no lifeboats were launched from the San Juan.
 A thin vein of comedy ran through some of the stories, Alex Cowie, said he was carried down by the suction of the sinking ship, but was heaved back to the surface when the San Juan's boilers ex- ploded. He said the concussion which forced him up and probably saved his life caused him to lose his new set of false teeth' which had cost him S120.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
ZEPPELIN READY ID START F||GHT
 "!aMF !.'I.'F HANGAR ,n s's,s 1dsa 31 17 Passcnoss.' oss.''''''s%as.a.'1 ids Of Freight to Be Ja,,.., )
 Germany ONE WOMAN IS LISTED
 AMONG ITS PASSENGERS
Cleveland Widow to Make First Air Voyage-Eckener Rcpays Ameri- can Kindness by Offering to Give Flying Experience to [. s. Naval Officers on All Possible Future Flights.

Lakehurst, N, J., Aug. 31 (R - Preparations went forward today to send the globe circling dirigible Graf Zeppelin into the air at mid night, bound for her home port, Friedrichshafen, Germany, and the end of her historic cruise.
 Seventeen passengers, 3,SO0 pounds of freight, and a quantity of mail will be aboard the great airship on her fifth crossing of the Atlantic. When she reaches her sta tion she will have travelled approxi- mately 27,000 miles since. she left on her first crossing to Lakehurst a month ago.
 Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Zeppelin, who was feted as a hero in New York yesterday, will see his beloved ship point her nose for home without him. He has ar ranged to remain in this country for two weeks attending to business in New York and visiting Cleve. land and Akron, o. Captain Ernst Lehman will have charge of the airship on the flight.
 Although Lady Grace Drummond- Hay left the ship here, the Graf has woman on the passenger list. She is Mrs. Charles B. Parker, of Cleveland. widow of Dr. c. B. Parker, noted Cleveland surgeon and member of the faculty of West ern Reserve university. Although Mrs. Parker has been a great trav- eler since the death of her husband 10 years ago. she never has made an aerial flight
 Three Navy Men Aboard
 The United States navy will be represented by three officers, who are making the flight as guests of Dr. Eckener. They are: Lieutenant Commander H. V, Wiley, command ing officer of the navy dirigible, Los Angeles; Lieutenant Command CT J. NJ. Shoemaker, head of the aeronautical engine service of the navy, and Lieutenant Roland G. Mayer of the Navy Construction Corps.
 Edward P Frost, brother of the late Jack Frost, pilot who was lost in the Dole flight from San Francis co to Honolulu, is on the passenger list. He was formerly an airplane pilot and now is New York stock
 Continued on Page Two)
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
.SLASHING AFFRAY
 ON GROWN STREET
Negro Cuts White Man During
 MOonShine Drinking Bout
S7ABBER HELD IN $1,0OO
Percy smith of Berlin Cuts Edward LipetZ of g Booth Street and Runs for Doctor-Nictim Forgiycs AsSailant.
Associated Press Photo

Admitting that he used a pocket knife on Edward Lipetz, 23, of 32 Booth street in a house at 14 Crown street about o'clock this morn ing, Percy Smith, 31, colored. of Berlin. was bound over to the Sep tember term of superior court in 5000 bonds by Judge NJ. D. Sake in police court today on the charge gerous weapon. He was not repr2- scented in court but retain Judge w F. Mangan afterwards.
 Lpetz was charge with drunkel- ness and had judgment suspended. He was cut twice in the right shoulder eight stitches being taken to close the wounds and the knife also scratched him slightly in the side near the abdomen.
 LipctZ Found Bleeding
 Officer Daniel Cosgrove testified that he and Officers James Sullivan and Thomas Tierney went to the tenement about 5:10 o'clock an1 found Lipetz in an intoxicated con- dition, bleeding freely from the cut in his shoulder. The floor was bloody and Lipetz's coat was satur- ated. Mrs Thomas Wages, colored. told the officers Smith stabbed Lip etz and the latter admitted it, first producing the knife from his vest pocket and later changing his story by saying he used a safety razor blade, which was also produced. After being booked at police head quarters, he went back to his first story, insisting that he used the knife and not the razor blade, but Officer Cosgrove quoted a nurse at the New Britain General hospital as having said that the cut had all the appearance of having been inflicted
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

Cairo, Aug. 31 P-The Exchange Telegraph company correspondent here learned today fighting was re sumed near Jerusalem last night and three Jews were killed. It was said number of other Jews were killed and wounded when resisting a detachment of troops attempting to disarm them.
 The Exchange Telegraph company said also many British troops had been moved north from Jerusalem to quehNfierce fighting in the Beisan neighborhood where the Arabs were massing on a broad plain.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
Thomas Reid's Plane Crashes Into Tree When Weary Bird
 man Falls Asleep
FLIGHT RECORD RAISED
 TO ALMOST 37 HOURS
Plane Disappears From Above Cleveland Airport and Weckage is Found in Nearby Nillage-Man- gled Body Found 25 Feet away Record Will Not Stand-FIying to Get Honeymoon Expenses.
to Get Honeymoon Expenses.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 31 P)-Pilot Thomas Reid crashed to earth and was killed here early today a short time after he had esta blished a new record for solo endurance flights exceeding by at least two hours the old mark Of 36 hours, 56 minutes and 36 seconds. The plane disap- peared at about o'clock this m orn- ing, watchers at the airport said. At dawn the wrcckage was found.
 Reid broke the new record short ly after 1 o'clock this morning. He continued in flight above the air port for sometime but later the sound of his motor died away in the darkness
 AS the hours went by, however. his continued absence caused alarm, and when no trace of him could be found at daylight a search was or ganiZed First reports were that he had gone to sleep at the controls and allowed the ship to get from under control Reid had been in the air since a few minutes after II o'clock yesterday morning.
 Reid's s home was in Downey. Calf
 Plane and Body Found
 The plane was found shattered against a tree in Fairview village by Pilots Bill Buffers, chief pilot of the Stewart Aircraft Corporation, and
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New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
Listed Among Victims Of Attack on d--Fightin6 Resumed
 Near Jerusalem
JEWS REPORTED KILLED
 RESISTING DISARMING
Give Battle to British Troops Syrian and Trans-Jordanian Arabs Begin Real Invasion of Palestine Two Jewish Girls Reported Burned Alive-Arab Sheik, in Disguise, Captured in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Aug. 31 (P)-Rabbi Samuel Cohen and his wife, believed to be Americans, were killed in the attack by Arab Moslems Thursday night on ancient Safed, northern Galilean city.
 Arabs last night attacked the Jewish colony at Gederah and later burned the granary in the colony of kfarbaruch. Children of the colony Bethalphia were moved to Tel-Aviv for safety.
 The greatest fear was held gen. erally of movement of tribes in northern Syria. Airplanes patrOlled the southern colonies.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-31

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
"TOO MANY" LADIES'
DAYS ARE OPPOSED
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May Five di-
rectors of the Pacific Coast Base Ball
League, constituting a quorum, have
passed a resolution calling upon VIII
liam Wrigley, owner of the Los Angeles
Club, to discontinue the practice of ad-
hitting women free to ball games in
Los Angeles on Tuesdays, Saturdays
and Sundays.
Directors of the Portland, Seattle,
Hollywood, Oakland and Sacramento
clubs instructed Harry Williams, league
president, to notify the Los Angeles
club of their action.
Los Angeles has 10 days to reply.
Should Wrigley refuse to abide by the
decision the case will be carried to the
National Board of Arbitration of Minor
Leagues
1t is understood the Los Angeles club
will take no notice of the directors
action or any taken by the national
board and that eventually the problem
of allowing the fair sex to attend all
games gratis in Los Angeles will be
threshed out in civil court.
The Los Angeles club is the only one
of the eight in the league which gives
free admission to women every day.
The league constitution says women
are not supposed to be admitted gratis
on Tuesdays, Saturdays or Sundays.
The other clubs have free admission
days from one to three times week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
POOL AT WARDMAN
WILL OPEN MAY IS

Wednesday. May Is. has been set for
the opening of the Wardman Park Ho-
tel Club outdoor swimming pool, with
Andy Bowen, we'll known as a boxer
and swimmer, again in charge.
An exhibition has been arranged for
Saturday afternoon, May IS, at 8
o'clock in the pool and all swimmers
hereabout are invited to take part.
Miss Florence SHADING and Miss Bel
mar Shepley are expected to be on
hand. and Central High School. Poto-
mac Boat Club, Washington Canoe Club
and the Y. M. c. A. have been invited
to send representatives.
Those wishing to compete are asked
to register at Wardman Park prior to
May IS. Events so far arranged include
the following for women; 100-yards
free style; 100 yards, back stroke; 100
yards, breast stroke; 220 yards, free
style. and fancy diving.
Music will be furnished and a group
of the seasons debutantes in bathing
suits exhibited by leading stores will
act as the jury of award for the judges
of the contest.
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LIST OF CONTESTS
FOR SCHOOL TEAMS
TODAY.

TODAY.
Business VS.. Central. Eastern Stadium
public high school base ball cham
pionship game, lis o'clock.
Business VS.. Central, Sixteenth Street
Reservoir courts public high school
tennis championship match, 3:15
o'clock.
western VS.. Catholic University
Freshmen Brookland (base BALD.
Hyattsville High VS.. Gonzaga, Monu-
ment Grounds (base balD.
st. Adams VS.. woodward, st. Alban's
(base BALD.
Eastern VS.. swavely, Manassas, Va
(base balD.
st. Johns VS.. Georgetown Prep, Gar
rett Park prep School Tennis League
MATCH.
Western VS.. st. Adams. st. Adams
Ctennis).
TOMORROW.
Eastern VS.. Gonzaga, Monument
Grounds Cbase BALD.
Tech VS.. Navy Plebes, Annapolis (base
BALD.
Gonzaga VS.. Georgetown Prep. Gar
rett Park prep School Tennis League.
THURSDAY.
Eastern VS.. Georgetown Prep, Gar
rett Park (base balD.
FRIDAY.
Tech VS.. Western, Eastern Stadium
public high school base ball cham
pionship game, 3:15 o'clock.
Tech VS.. Western, Sixteenth Street
Reservoir courts public high school
tennis championship match, s;15
o'clock.
Business VS.. Catholic University
Freshman, Brookland (base BALD.
st. Adams VS.. st. Christopher, Rich
mond (baSe BALD.
Hyattsville High VS.. Upper Marlboro
High, Upper Marlboro prince Georges
County high school base ball champion
Georgetown Prep VS.. st. Adams, st.
Adams prep School Tennis League
match.
st. Johns VS.. Gonzaga (Prep School
Tennis League match.
Central VS.. Georgetown Freshmen,
Georgetown (tennis).
SATURDAY.
Third annual Catholic interscholaStic
track meet, Catholic University Stadium
tpreliminaries start at 1890 ann
Calvert Hall VS.. st. Johns, Monument
Grounds (base BALD.
Tech vs. Mount st. Mary's Prep, En-
mitsburg, Md. (baSe BALD.
Dewitt VS.. Castle Heights Military
Academy of Lebanon, Tenn. (telegraphic
track meet).
St. Adams VS.. Christ Church, Rich
mond (base balD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
MARINE BALL TEAM
WILL PLAY IN NORTH

Quantico Marines will leave on a
base ball trip to New England about
May 20.
The Leathernecks, who will make
their headquarters at Portsmouth, N. H,
while filling their Northern engage
mentS, will open the invasion with a
game against Newport Naval Training
Station May % at Newport. r. I.
The trip will end with an encounter
with Harvard at Cambridge June IL,
which also will wind up the Gyrenes
schedule.
Here is the card for the New Eng
land jaunt:
May .22--Neyport Naval Training Station
May 2S--Newport Naval Training Station
May 5SENew Hampshire at Durham.
May 28-Dartmouth at Hanover.
May 30-East DOUGLAS Athletic Club at
June 3-colby College at waterville.
June 5-BateS at Lewiston.
June 6-Crescent Athletic Club at New
june e-New York Athletic Club at New
June l2-Harvard at Cambridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
SIX-MILE RECORD TIME
NOW is UNDER QUESTION

LOS ANGELES, May P).-The
New emile mark set here last Sat-
urday by Harry Chauca, Hopi In
dian, was under question today
pending investigation of the timing
of the race.
Chauca's time of 20 minutes a.
seconds, as recorded by two official
timers, broke the previous Smile
world record, % minutes 59A Sec
onds, set in 1904 by Alfred Shrubb,
English runner. Chauca is a stu
dent at the Riverside Sherman In
dian Institute.
Robert S. Weaver, in charge Of
the Southern Pacific division Of the
A. A. T., announced that the race
was under investigation as a result
Of variation in times recorded.
Sid Foster, the third official timer,
reported that he had clicked Chauca
in 81 minutes and A seconds. Two
coaches claimed to have timed the
runner in Fosters time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
WGch Your Head
to Check StUdytng
BY SOL METZGER,

Golf is a matter of balance. There
must be fixed points for the swing
and pivot else it would be impos-
sible to strike the ball true. Sway
ing causes a great many faults.
Barnes holds that the head is the
point to watch to prevent swaying.
When next you have an opportu-
nifty of seeing Jones or Farrell or
Horton Smith drive stand in front
of them and center the tops of their
heads on a tree back Of them or
some stationary object. Watch this
point carefully all through the
swing. You'll find that it remains
a fixed one against the fixed object
behind.
There is a trace Of head sway
among some very fine golfers. Ted
Ray in 1920, the year he won the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
m CAPITAL Boy Nav Be MARYLAND Us Fourth 7h1ee-Letter Man
GERMANS REACH AMERICA
FOR STUDY OF ATHLETICS

NEW YORK. May 7 CAD-Germany,
runner-up to the United States in the
1928 Olympic track and field sports,
is looking toward America for the extra
bit of polish that may mean victory in
the next international test of strength
at Los Angeles in 1882.
DR.. Theodore LeWald of Berlin. men,
Der of the international Olympic COM
mittee since 1926, has arrived here with
r. Carl Diem, head of a German COM
mission that studied American athletics
in 1918. to delve further into American
methods of physical culture.
DR.. Lewald is the president of the
central body of all sporting declarations
of Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
SHORTER SEASON URGED
BY QUINN, RED SOX BOSS

President Bob Quinn of the Bos-
ton Red SOx is advocating shorter
season. The usual pOStpOnements
caused by rain and cold weather are
the reasons.
The Red SOx's mogul contends
that an abbreviated schedule of 140
games would be much snapper for
all concerned. With the opening
contests billed for May l several
clubs could do their Spring training
at home, beginning April l. The
attendance should be large from the
start, because the fans would be on
edge to see their favOrites without
shivering in the polar breeZes.
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coming week end.
OF outstanding interest is the boat
race against Syracuse. After defeats
by the crews of Massachusetts, Tech
and Columbia, the Navy is getting des-
perate as to its crew and expects its
oarsmen to do or die against the
Orange.
Syracuse will also bring its freshmen
to give the Navy plebes their first race
of the season. The plebes have a f1ne
looking crew coached by Buck Walsh,
who has developed the winners OF the
freshmen events at Poughkeepsie the
last two years.
Another big event will be the track
meet with Georgetown. The Mldshlp-
men have won three events with ease
and will get a real test from the Blue
and Gray.
Teams of the Naval Academy and
Pennsylvania State will exchange visits.
The MILDLY nine will go to Penn State,
while the latter's lacrosse team will OPP
pose the unbeaten Navy twelve.
The Navy tennis team will also
travel, going to Philadelphia to play
Pennsylvania, while the MILDLY rifiemen
meet the National Guard Of the District
of Columbia at Annapolis.
The plebes also have good bill OF
sports for the day, including lacrosse
against the Maryland freshmen, base
ball against Bellefonte Academy track
against the Georgetown freshmen and
tennis against Gilman School.
There will be three events here
"Wednesday, the opponents Of the Navy
teams being all from the District of Co
lumbia or vicinity.
The Navy meets Catholic University
on the diamond and Maryland on the
tennis courts, while the plebe nine has
a game with the Tech High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
RAINCLOUD ANNExES
ANOTHER BIRD RACE

Following up his win in the 100-rnile
old bird race last week Raincloud, from
the Charles H. Darr loft, captured the
15O-n1ile jaunt from Lynchburg, Va.
under auspices of the Aero Racing
Pigeon Club.
Competing in the event were 165 birds
from I8 lofts. The winner made more
than 60 miles an hour. Irish Lass, from
the Flaherty loft, was second, while Will
Fergusons Nanny Lou was third.
Order of the finish. showing the aver
age speed in yards per minute made
by the first returns to each loft, fol-
lOTre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-07
AMATEURS CONTEST
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May THE national
amateur heavyweight boxing champion
ship will be at stake for the second time
this year in Madison Square Garden
tonight. Ralph Ficucello, runner-up in
the tournament at Boston, will meet
Charles Hanson of Astoria, N. Y, for
the title, which was taken from the
tournament winner, Elmer Howard of
New Haven, Conn.
Howard was disqualified after he won
the championship for illegal registra-
ton
The championship bout will be the
feature of two-day boxing program
which brings together 81 amateurs from
Canada and the United States.
In addition to the Canadian team.
Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and
New York will be represented. The
program will be concluded Thursday.