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TWO OHIO DISTRICTS
HOLDING PRIMARIES
Lorbsch. Democrat, and HOLSTER,
Republican. Due as Nominees
to Succeed Longworth.
~ the Associated PRESS.

~ the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. August II 49,
Two Ohio districts held special pri-
maries today to nominate candidates
for congressional vacancies caused by
death. The election win be held in No
yember
The greater interest in the primaries
was In the Cincinnati district where the
vacancy was caused by the death sew
eral months ago Of Speaker Of the House
Nicholas Longworth, Republican. Both
Of the candidates to succeed him are
advocates of prohibition repeal.
The assured outcome OF the Cincin-
natl vote was the nomination OF State
Senator David I,orbach. Democrat, ano
John B HOLSTER. Republican
In the twentieth district. Cleveland,
candidates were TO be chosen to sue
coed the late Representative Charles A,
Mooney. Democrat Leaders OF both
psrtieS anticipated the final winner OF
the race would be Municipal Judge
Martin l. Sweeney, also Democrat.
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D. C. MAN FLOATS ALL NIGHT
ON RIVER AS RESCUERS SEEK HIM
Thomas ODonnell Uses Inflated Cushion
to Float After Two Companions
Swim to Safety.

While airplanes. submarines and
motor beats searched the mouth of the
Potomac River all night, Thomas
ODonnell, proprietor of the Sea Food
Grill, E street near Twelfth, fioated for
hours on an inflated cushion in the river
last night until the currents drifted him
ashore at Piney Point, Md, just as day
was breaking.
ODonnelis two companions James
F. Edwards, Washington real estate
broker, and mechanic, toenLifiad only
as Whitley had left the Iestaurateur,
who couid not SWIM n laundering
motor boat while they swan ashore
with the aid of air cushions. TO seek
help.
From Piney Point, where he landed,
nearer dead than alive, ODonnell told
today how he saw the search being
made for his supposedly dead body, but
was unable to call to the Searchers to
tell them he was safe.
Edwards and the mechanic took TO
the water at 8 O'Clock last night after
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the launch had sprung leak as big
as a mans fist and the water was COM
ing into the boat faster than all three
could bail it out The boat then was
miles of Piney Point and about Is
miles south of Leonardtown.
Edwards, who weighs more than $50
pounds, soon became exhausted in his
attempt to swim ashore. Whitley" the
mechanic, would not leave him. The
mechanic rubbed Edwards limbs,
numbed by the water, and helped him
continue his fight to get ashore.
Both men were badly stung by sea
nettles that infest the hay and river
and they we're both thoroughly ex-
hausted when they finally got ashore at
midnight, after four hours in the water
at the Belvedere plantation, 8 miles be-
low Leonardtown, on the Potomac.
Colored farm hands saw them and sent
word to George H. Harris, manager of
the plantation, who found the pair ~
ing, exhausted, on the shore.
Edwards and the mechanic told Har-
rs of ODonnell's plight and he called
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DEAN is QUESTIONED
IN JAYNES Staying
Youth Who Is Said to Have Tried
Suicide Five Times Denies
Part in Hold-up.

Brought from Gallinger Hospital,
where he was taken yesterday after
what is said to have been his fifth at
tempt at suicide. William Harper Dean,
81. son of an official of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, was be-
ing questioned today by headquarters
detectives investigating The murder Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes. Garden tea shop
cashier, who was shot to death by a
hold-up man.
The police booked young Dean for in
yestigation. but admitted they had no
evidence connecting him with the
Jaynes case. The investigation will
continue, they said. Dean denied that
he had anything 70 do with the hold-up.
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U. S. TO PROBE GOODS
SENT FROM BELGIUM
Customs Bureau Asks Hepbron for
Details on His Charge of
Prison Manufacture.
ns the Associated rreks.

By the Associated Press.
Charges by James M Hcpbron. di-
rector OF the Criminal Justice Com
mission of Baltimore, that prison made
goods are being shipped from Belgium
to the United States viii be tnvesti-
gated by the Customs Bureau
Hepbron, upon his return from Bel
GUM last week said he saw door mats
and pearl buttons manufactured in
Belgium prisons ready, for shipment to
the United States HIS statement was
called to the attention OF Commissioner
Eble Of the Customs Bureau. who at
once wrote Hepbron asking for more
details.
The commissioner advised Hepbron
that he would send an agent 10 confer
with him II he could supply more
definite details of the alleged violation
of the customs law
Importation Of goods made, in whole
or in part, by convict labor is pro-
hibited II Hepbron's information
warrants. European agents OF the
Customs Bureau viii be assigned TO tn
quire into the situation in Belgium.
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FOUR FOUND DEAD
AFTER CAR BURNS;
BELIEVED SLAIN
Probers Think Two Young
Couples Were Killed and
Their Auto Set Afire.
~ the Assnciated Press

BY the Associated Press
ANN ARBOR, Mich. August IL
Bodies of four persons all believed to
have been slain, were found burned in
an automobile on the road marking
the wayne-wasl1tenaw County line
near Willis early Goday.
The victims we're tentatively iden-
tilted as: Thomas wheatley. Is, of
near Denton; Harry Lore, also about
is. of Ypsilanti; Vivian Gould, IS, ard
Anna Harris, II.
Miss Gould and Miss Harris, both OF
Cleveland, we're visiting az the Lore
home in Ypsilanti.
Boys Left to Attend Dance.
The bodies were Identified by Harry
wheatley, father Of Thomas, who rec
ognized two keys found in the car. as
belonging to his son. He also identified
belt buckle worn by Lore.
The car belonged to Mr.. Wheatley.
Sheriff Jacob B. Andres and Coroner
Edwin c. Ganzhorn of Washtenaw
County and State police said they be-
lieved the young people were slaiE and
then the automobile set afire.
Robbers Suspected.
The officers were working on theory
that the young people were victims OF
robbers
A farmer discovered the automobile
The four bodies were in the rear seat
The officers said their position indi-
Gated they were placed there after the
victims were either killed or laortally
wounded.
A farmer living near the scene re-
ported hearing an automobile speed
past his home half hour before the
bodies were found. Deputies said auto
mobile tire tracks nearby indicated
that a second automobile had been
driven In the scene
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CHILD POET is 18

NEW YORK, August IL Lpi.-Nsths-
Tia Crane, poet, who wrote her first
book when Q years Old celebrated her
18th birthday anniversary in hospital
today.
Her father, Clarence P Crane, said
she had been injured when stepping
from an automobile month ago and
that developments might neceSsitate ar
operation.
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MINISTER is SUICIDE
Rev. z. Hershey Released 10 Days
From Hospital.

LANCASTER, Pa, August II tPJ.--
Ten days after he had been released
from the Lancaster County Hospital,
where he had been treated for nervous
disorders, the Rev Ephraim Hershey
yesterday ended his life by pouring
kerosene on his clcthing and touching
a match to them.
The minister's commitment to the
hospital came after an attempt to kill
his wife with poker last March. Mrs.
Hersey is now living with her children
at Ithaca, N. Y. A son. WILDER. re-
sides in Chicago and another, Dwight.
at Woodstock, H., where Mr.. Hershey
pnce lived.
rities said they released him TO de-
tehaine whether normaiity had re-
tuTHRd. 4
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$4,000 IN GEMS
TAKEN FROM HOME
Chicagoan's Apartment Looted
While Family and Servants
Are Away.
Ry the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, H.. August ll.-Burglars
ranSacked the apartment of Carroll E.
Gray. jr., president of the Central Re-
public Co, the investment affiliate OF
the Central Republic Bank g. Trust
Co, early today, escaping with jewelry
valued at between $50, 900 and $50. 900.
The home was deserted at the time.
Gray is in New York City on business.
The servants were at the Grays' Wis
consin Summer home
The rif1ed condition of the apartment
was discovered by Mrs. Gray and her
daughter Jane, IS, when they returned
to it after an evening at the theater.
Value OF the 1ewelry was placed by
Mrs. Gray. who said that among the
pieces taken were two diamond rings
valued at $4,000 each.
Several expensive fur coats and other
valuables were handled. but not taken,
BY the burglars, she said.
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ATTACK ON u. S. WOMEN
BY COOLIES is PROBED
Alteration Following Rickshaw
Accident at Hankow August 6
Studied by Official.

BY the Associated Press.
The attack by Chinese coolies on two
American women at Hankow on August
6 following a rickshaw accident. is
being investigated by American Consul
General Lockhart
Minister johnson at Peiping advised
the State Department last night that
an Englishwoma and four of her fell
low ccuntrymen also were set upon BY
the coolies during an alteration after
the mishap
The report identified only Mrs. Ralph
z. Fielding wife of Lieut. Fielding OF
the United States Naval Medical Corps,
who entered the Navy from Pennsyl-
vania in 1928
The Englishwoman and Mrs. Fielding
were seized by native police and taken
to Jail where they we're held inccm-
municado for an unusually long period
They were subjected to minor indigni-
tiss and then released.
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KIDNAPERS RELEASE MAN
Detroit Police Say Trio Abducted
Victim From Home.
By the Assoeiated press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August ll.--Nathan Katz,
said by police 10 have admitted he had
engaged in liquor operations, YVES re-
leased unframed few hours later by
three men who forced him to accom-
pany them form his home at ! am,
he reported to police today. Police
said Katz insisted he did not know the
reason for the kidnapping,
Mrs. Katz first reported the kidnap-
ing to police, saying the three men
forced her husband to leave his bed
and drove away In Katzs car. Katz
said the three drove around the out
skirts of Detroit for two hours and
that before releasing him they took 81
from his pocketbook, but returned $40
they found in another pocket.
Police said KATE had been arrested
twice. once on a charge of receiving
stolen property and once when he was
found in liquor -cutting plant
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ARTIFICIAL CASES OF PARALYSIS
AMONG MONKEYS AID RESEARCH
Experimental Vaccines and Serum Physicians Hope Will
Cure Malady Are Administered.

act to an infantile paralysis infection
nearly the same as humans Expert
mental Yaccines are given to healthy
monkeys to see If they viii prevent the
animals from contracting the disease.
Monkeys that have the paralysis are
treated with new serums, which the ex-
perimenters hope hold the secret of the
cure they seek
In the war a infantile paraIysls
scientists are con1bating an enemy they
neither see nor understand The in
fantile paralysis germ never has been
isolated It is one OF the so-caIled
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Arrest P. 0. Clerks officer

MEMPHIS. Tenn. August II (P9.-
Robert q, Schultz, a second vice presi-
dent of the United National Associa
ton of Post ONCE Clerks. was arrested
here today on a charge of stealing a
letter postal inspectors mailed as a ruse
to trap him.
He had been employed in the Mem
phis Post ONCE for Is years. He had
Planned to leave here Saturday for Bos-
ton as delegate to the national con-
yention Of the association.
The inspectors said they saw him
rife the letter and then destroy IT,
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FOREST FIRES DRIVE
MANY FROM HOMES
Northwest Blazes Aided by Winds
and Low Humidity Tax
Fighters.

~ the Associate Press.
PORTLAND, Greg. August II .-Blsz-
ing Northwest forests today taxed the
efforts of an army of men striving for
control OF the fires, while residents
counted their losses or hurriedly packed
household effects and fled before ad-
vancing flames
Winds and low humidity increased
the danger in Western Montana, Ore
gon and Northern Idaho.
South of Grants Pass, Greg, at least
six rural homes were destroyed and
much live stock was burned to death.
For time the town of Rouge River,
Greg, was endangered.
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NEW PARACHUTE DROPS EGGS
1000 METERS WITHOUT DAMAGE
Device Costing About SIS, Demonstrated in Moscow,
Drifts to Earth Slowly.

The parachute is very small and is not
Of a rubber-covered air-filled bag
attached to a regulation. umbrella
like apparatus. 1t costs only so rubleS
(nominaly t2s1 TO build and its design
ers claim It surpasseS any similar con-
triyanee because IL drifts earthward
much slower II Is expected TO prove
big stride forward in small commercial
deliveries by airmsil in that y wili
ohQiGte many stoes
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EIGHT DIE or PARALYSIS

NEW YORK. August II Up Eighty
three new eases Of infantile paralysis
wer. reported today To the Health De-
partment Of New York City The new
cases bring the total 70 l,491 since
Januafy i Eight deaths from the
rnalady were reported for the past "a
heuvs. bringing the total number OF
fatalities since January / TO la2.
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oRIENTE PROVINCE QUIET.
Reports Of Menocal's Presence Not
Confirmed

SANTIAGO, Cuba, August II CPt--
Military authorities watched develop
ments closely in Oriente Province to-
day. but there were no disorders and
business continued uninterrupted.
There have been some arrests in con-
nection with the revolutionary uprising,
and a number of persons suspected of
participating in the revolutionary move,
ment have fed the capital
Reports from Havana said Conserva-
tive leaders, among them former PreSi-
dent Menocal. are ins Oriente, but these
reports have not been confirmed.
Meanwhile the district troops and the
police were held in barracks ready for
action.
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THEFT OF $4,000
FROM LABOR UNION
CHARGED TO EVANS
Davis Indicted in Staying of
0ffIcer-Pair Held in
Extortion.

Populations Of the funds of the In
ternational Union of Operating Engi-
neers to the extent of more than $29.0 900
are charged in an indictment reported
today by the grand jury against Dave
Evans, former secretary-tressurer of the
association. Eleven specific acts of en-
bezzlement are alleged. Evans is under
arrest in Chicago and copy of the
indictment win be forwarded there to
aid in his removal to Washington for
trial The alleged entertainments date
back TO September IS, 1929. and are
said to total $29.184.1o.
The first count recites that Evans was
an agent or clerk of an unincorporated
association known as the International
Union of Operating Engineers and had
under his care two bank checks to his
order drawn on the Foreman National
Bank of Chicago. dated September 81.
signatures of Richard l. Wren, presi-
dent, and Andrew Leach treasurer.
which. it Is alleged, he converted to his
own use.
Counts Listed.
OnuGI bflt SBCOQQ COUNT, ne Is CIldTSeQ
with embezzling January 3, 1880, a.
check for $4,000 drawn on the Mid-City
Trust d. Savings Bank. The third
count charges that he converted to his
own use a check for $4,000 February
Is, 1890. The fourth count deals with
a check for $4,000 which Evans is
charged with embezzling May 8. 1880
The fifth count refers to check
for $4,000 he received June 10, 1880.
Tie sixth count alleges embezzlement
of check for $l226.70 July IL, 1880.
In the seventh count Evans is charged
with converting check for $4,000 10
August s. 1880. The eighth count re-
fers to check for S2,481.30. which
Evans is charged with embezzling Sep
TENDER IS, 1880. The ninth count
charges conversion of a check for $2.-
44420 October 81, 1880. The tenth
count charges embezzlement January
90. 1881, Of $4.765 20. while the eleventh
count deals with a Check for 500, al
legged to have been embezzled March
Is. 1881.
The arrest of Evans followed al in
vestigation of affairs of the union by
the Department of Justice after an
attempt had been made to shoot three
of its officials while they were eating
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Rr ine Assnniafed pr.s.

BY The Associated Press,
An artificially produced epidemic of
infantile paralysis among a troop of
monkeys at the National Institute Of
Health may lead to curing the disease
in humans.
II method can be found to cure or
prevent the disease in monkeys, scien-
fists Of the institute explain. the chances
are excellent for curing or preventing
it in human beings and for ending out
breaks such as the one existing IN New
York City. The institute is part of the
United States Public Health Service.
Monkeys are used in the institutes
experimental epidemic because they re-
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LrNDBERGHs MISS NOME.
Land IS Miles short Of Destination ON
Hon From Point Barrow.

NOME. Alaska. August II Doom
ing TO earth about rs miles short of
their immediate destination. Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbsrgh landed their
ponto0ned n1onoplane along the north
coast of the Seward Peninsula at am.
today and awaited full daylight to pro-
ceed to Nome.
Beginning the second half of their
TO60-nnile vacation air trip from WASH
ington to the Orient, the flying couple
left Point Barrow at 1853 O'Clock last
night for 523-mile hop TO Nome. A
protracted rain and other unfayorable
coalitions had held them at Point Bar
row for three days and two nights. They
left as soon IS weather reports indicated
q clearing coast line.
The exact spot where the plane
landed was not mentioned in messages
but is was believed TO be somewhere
along the Kotzebue Sound.
About an hour after leaving Point
Barrow Mrs. Lindbergh radioed that
ell was "okeh. Later she requested
that bonf1reS and flares be made ready
70 aid in landing here.
Fog Believed TO Blame
This message, which indicated they
had flown about 800 miles OF the route
approximately an hour before stopping,
LED 10 the superstition they were within
at the most an hours flight of this
Bering Sea port Efforts were being
made by the radio station here to make
contact with the plane again.
Although the message telling OF the
landing did not give reasons. II was
believed fog. which started TO settle
here within two hours after the couple
left Point Barrow, had extended up
the coast and that the flying colonel
would take no chances OF making a
blind landing here
Because of the short nights Of this
near Arctic region it was believed the
Lindbsrghs would proceed down the
coast within three or four hours, pro-
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SHIP SAVES FLYER
ON j. HONDURAS
NONSTOP JUMP
Capt. Garay, Forced Down
at Sea, Chung to Plane
Until Picked Up.
LlNDBERGH PLANE LANDS
rs MILES FROM NOME
Belief Grows Cramer Was Blown
Out Over Ocean by Storm,
but Hunt Continues,

NORFOLK, Va. August ii (P).--
Capt. Lisandro Garay Honduran
flyer. who hoped of Sunday after
noon on nonstop fight from
Brooklyn to Teguciga.pa, Honduras
was picked up this morning at 10
o'clock by the steamship Cicco, 30
miles east of Cape Lookout, 1t was
stated in a message received at the
local Coast Guard Office.
Garay reported ne had been
forced down Sunday night and had
chung to his badly damaged plane
until picked up. He was almost ex-
hausted when rescued.
SEATTLE, August IL GA mes
sage relayed by Anchorage from the
Naval Radio Station at st. Paul
Island, in Boring Sea. said the
Lindbergh plane was "one hour on
Nome at 80 am" Pacific stand
ard time) today. This would indl-
cate. operators at the Bremerton
Naval Radio Station believed, that
the Lindberghs had taken OF from
Kotzebue Sound for Nome.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergi
fIying from Point Barrow to Nom
landed rs miles short of their destins
ton at S o'clock this morning and We'
expected TO make the last stage OF the
525-rnile hop when full daylight al
rived.
search was being continued for Pat
ker Cramer and Oliver Pacquette, n
radio operator, lost Since Sunday on
flight between the Shetland 1slanc
and Copenhaven, although the opinio
grows that they we're blown to sea
q storm.
CLYDE Pangborn and Hugh Herndo
underwent additional questioning !
TOXIC by the public procurator, WI
will determine whether the America
flyers must 60 to court for taking pic
lures while flying over Japanese tel
ritory.
NrEDRrRGuS MISS NOME.
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b Inc As8uNlaEFu FfNfA-
MOSCOW August IA high-fiying
hen and a basket OF eggs have success
fully demonstrated the praeticability Of
new parachute designed 10 drop arti-
cles from airplanes without damage
Tests were recently made at the Mos
COW Airdrome by Soviet aviation experts
The hen, strapped to a basket filled
with eggs, dropped 1000 meters. II
survived, clucking vigorously. and not a
single egg was broken.
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u. S. STANDING PAT
ION COTTON REPORT
DESPITE ATTACK
Some Traders Think Figures
/ Too High-Farm Board
Is Surprised.

By the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department today
wss prepared to defend its estimate of
crop. which has been termed too high
by some cotton traders.
Trade estimates were about l,500 900
bales less on the basis of August ] con-
dition Reports that the Governments
forecast had been Questioned by traders
also reached the Farm Board. 1t was
made clear that the board was surprised
at the large estimate issued Saturday.
Il am confident" w. r. Callander OF
the Departments crop reporting board,
said. that our estimate will be found to
be reasonably accurate"
The August / forecast is the first Of
the season on the new crop. 1t is
based on probable conditions, includ-
ing weather. moisture and insect prev
alence Should drought derelop during
the succeeding months. Cor instance,
the prospective yield is consequently al
tered.
OEt1G A~DaAASOAOts AS-A-tSt
talegra 2l1ed Secretary Eyde yesterday,
asking that all the records Of last Sat
urday's report be preserved for thor
cugh investigation" A memorandum
has been prepared for the Secretary by
Callan6er.
Method in Use Since 1926.
CaIlander explained the Crop Report
ing Board formerly employed the same
system in gathering reports that the
private trace now uses. That system
was discarded in 1926 for the method
now used, which the board considers
more accurate.
Cotton reports for the last four years
show the board has been higher on
August than final crop figures three
times and lower once. In 1927 the
Governments estimate on August ! was
l3.492, 900 bales and the total crop
for the year was 1885 600; in 1923 il
was 1921 900 on that date against
final figures OF 14.47s. 900; 1929, 49,
SAB 900, against I4826.000. and 1890,
Il. 362 900. against 1892 600
In its last so reports. including all
Continued on Page 2, Column 10
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viii Cut Fares to Europe Oct. /

BRUSSELS. August II 1Pl.--The
secretary Of the Transatlantic Steam
ship Conference announced today that
fare reductions recently adopted will
be effective for east-bound bookings
next Monday and for weSt-bound book
inRs on October
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Laval to Visit Berlin in Fall.

PARIS, August IL tPl.-Premier
Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide
BRAND viii go to Berlin for a confer
ence with the heads of the German
state next September after the Fail
meeting OF the League of Nations
Council. the foreign ONCE announced
today.