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polls. One hundred people, all the crowd there was at the airport-for the flyers were expected to land 400 miles away--tensed as Hughes, at the controls, brought his plane in.
 The silver plane glinted in the morning sun as 1t came down be- tween the thinly scattered clouds, and headed for a landing against the l2-mile northwest wind that had aided it to it's landing place. There had beer headwinds against it al- most all the way.
 The plane came down on the wide concrete surfaced runaway and Hughes taxied it to the apron where gasoline trusks were waiting. Gaso- line trucks were waiting too, at dozen other airporLs in the United States and Canada, for nobody knew where the plane would land. Every body had known it was overdue at Winnipeg.
 Hughes Like Old Man
 Hughes stepped from the plane like an old man. He was stiff with exhaustion.
 Tt was about as hard as any leg on the fight" he said. We bucked bad weather two-thirds of the way"
 He paused a moment and said:
 Were going to give it all we've got the rest of the way"
 As 750 gallons of gasoline were put in the planes tanks --and 1-2 gallons of oil taken out--Hughes chatted.
 "A lot of little things are wrong with her. We won't stop to repair them here. She's ready for the flight and we're going on.'
 The refueling crew gave the all- ready signal. Hughes took the con- trols. He waved, the little crowd-- 500 people noW-- cheered and he gave his plane the gun. It lifted easily after a short run of about 750 feet. It cleared the airport fence like steeplechaser and, flying low still, swung due East and disappear ed.
 Home Stretch Flight
 It was the home stretch of a
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British Grown colony at the mouth of the Canton river to Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-Sheks armies in the north.
 The provincial government an- nounced that 24 planes which raid- ed South China yesterday had bombed six stations of the Canton Hankow railroad to the norht, caus- ing many casualties. Forty persons were killed at Lokchang station and 20 were killed at Namhung sta- tion. Twelve bombs were dropped on Tsanhsing, northeast of Canton, where about 100 persons were killed and wounded and more than 100 homes destroyed.
 Railway Traffic Stop All traffic on the railroad was suspended. The newspaper Yatwah- pao said that Japanese aircraft carriers formerly off Swatow, es- corted by five destroyers, had taken up positions off the Paracel Island which were occupied by French gendarmes this month. Ten Japan ese warships and two destroyers were north of the Paracel Islands which are off the south coast of Hainan Island. The newspaper said that French submarines were active in the vicinity.
 Seven French transports were standing by at French Indo-C China ready to transport French troops to the Paracels if necessary" the news paper added
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flight for history, flight that had taken Americans again over foreign lands, over strange countries and people, to set up records for the world to shoot at.
 Half a dozen states, a thousand miles, the Allegheny mountains and their malicious air currents for a final test - and then home.
 Beautiful Katharine Hepburn, movie star, awaited Hughes. Wives awaited three of the aviators. Nine teen-year -old Elinor Hoagland of Brooklyn awaited engineer-mechanic Lund to whom she is bethrothed.
 Out at Floyd Bennett Airport, crowds had been converging on the field all morning. One thousand policemen were ready to hold them back from the runways. Traffic be- gan getting congested. New York was ready to give the aviators a well come matching any it had given the air heroes who preceded these five to it's flying fields.
 Hughes, Richard Stoddart, radio engineer; Thomas L. Thurlow and Harry P. Mel. Connor, navigators, and Edward Lund, engineer-me- chanic, had hoped that their Silver Lockheed Monoplane "New York Worlds Fair of 1889" would take them direct from Fairbanks, Alaska, which they left at 9:36 p. m. (EDT) yestehrday, to Floyd Bennett Field for last jump of 3,380 miles.
 Fight For Every Mile
 They were fighting for every mile they made.
 At 11:30 p. m. Wednesday (EDT) they radioded the U. s. Army Signal Corps Station at Fairbanks that they were at latitude 63:20 North, Longitude 137:4O East, about 300 miles out of Fairbanks. They had crossed the Alaskan border into the Yukon of Canada.
 The winds which whistled up from the rockies had slowed them down to 150 miles an hour. They had made consistently better than 200 all the way round the world, and at times had made 250.
 At 3:05 a. m. EDT) today ana teur station W-6-COH, at Hermosa beach, Calif, heard the plane signal!
 Position 59 North latitude 119 West longitude approximately Lightning bad. Ceiling low. Flying at 14,000 feet for Winnipeg"
 This position was about 900 miles out of Fairbanks. It was Southwest of Hay Lake in the Northwest cor ner of Alberta Province. It meant, if the longitudinal position was heard correctly, that the fliers had passed over the Yukon, where win ter had only recently relaxed it's grip, skirted Mackenzie, crossed a corner of British Columbia and were headed down over Albertam.
 Radio Crew Stand By
 All over Canada and the Northern United States Radio men stuck to their receivers, intent for any signal from the Silver plane. American Army signal men in Alaska and the United States, Royal Canadian mounted policemen at lonely posts in the Canadian Northwest. coast guard stations, radio amateurs by hundreds, co-operated in work that might at any second become of ur- gent importance. It was evident that the expected triumph was not to be an easy one.
 When the plane left Fairbanks, the fliers had covered 1l,368 miles from New York and, via Winnipeg, they had 3,380 to go.
 Their elapsed time since they left Floyd Bennett Airport Sunday eve- ming was "A hours 16 minutes. Their flying time was 54 hours 38 minutes.
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prints and one was the position of the certain London society man" This mans name was never men, tioned in court, but in London drawing rooms the talk persisted. in spite of denials, that the man was Prince Frederick of Prussia, 26, son of the former Crown Prince of Ger many, and that the Haugwitz-Re ventlow case was boding trouble for the former imperial family.
 Friends of the Prince feared that if he was named in a scandal, his grandfather, the former Kaiser Will helm, would disinherit him.
 To all these jeopardies to noble
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ranging from sss long to 22o0o kilocycles short wave
 Midway of the passenger compartment are the huge gasoline tanks which hold 1900 gallons Behind these tanks is the navigation room where the auxil iary navigator and engineer sit during the flight. Here maps and charts prepared for the navigator who sits at Hughes elbow.
 The cost of LOckheed IA equipped for on commercial air line ranges from $S5ooO to $l0o00o depending upon the motors.
 Hughes plane is estimated to have cost him S25OOOO as 1t took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York. That is 3 value of $10 pound since it weighs 25,0O0 pounds. The amount includes the ex- pensive special radio and navigation equipment in- staatons and the cost of months of testing the plane and then rebuilding 1t to meet the exacting demands of the trip contemplated.
 Other famous Lockhood planes were the Winnie Mae, which Wiley Post piloted twice around the world, and the Orion model which Lindbergh flew in the Orient and around Europe and Africa.
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Burbank Calf, July 14-The Lockheed IA mono- plane which Howard Hughes chose for his attack on the round world flight record developed as commercial plane to carry IA passengers by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation here.
 Sixty similar planes in commercial service on air lines in this country and abroad today. The Brit ish Air Ministry has ordered 200 of this type for delivery in England. Two men beside Hughes-Har- old Vanderbilt of New York and Lorenz Iverson of Pittsburgh-use this model for private flying.
 Vanderbilts plane, like the one used by Hughes is specially equipped with two HOO horsepower Wright Cyclone motors. Usual equipment for com Whitney motors
 Hughes, pilot, and his navigator sit in the nose of the plane directly above two specially built oil tanks that carry 79 gallons and A gallons respective iy Just behind them is the radio operator Richard Stoddar and the extensive equipment with which he may send and receive B different wave lengths
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n. EDT., to round the great spin ming globe in approximately days and 20 hours, and to break the World flight record of the late Wiley Post by nearly four full days.
 Left Sunday Night
 The flyers had left Floyd Ben- nett airport at 7:20 p. m. EDT. Sunday. Since then, as they head cd eastward from Minneapolis, they had been gone from New York 86 hours, 51 minutes.
 They had halted briefly at Paris, Moscow, Omsk and Yakutsk. Si- beria: Fairbanks, Alaska, and Min neapolis. They had crossed two oceans, spanned the continents of Europe and Asia, and they were headed homeward on the last stretch of the American continent. They had been up into the Arctic.
 The flight from Fairbanks to Minneapolis was a test for men of the toughest caliber. Swirling winds tossed the big snub nosed mono plane as 1t flew, at higher than E0,000 feet, over the thruStlng peaks of the Canadian Rockies.
 Real Fight Begins
 Then a real fight began. The aviators found themselves headed Into a magnetic storm area. Lightn- lng played in the air. At 3:05 a. m. EDT., the plane reported its position as over the northwest AL berta Province, Canada. Then there was silence.
 For more than six anxious hours there was no word from the plane by far the longest time 1t had been silent during the entire flight. The radio antenna had gone bad; the transmitter was balky. Stresses all over the plane, struggling like a race horse over the finish stretch of it's course of more than 14,000 miles began to signal danger to the ike exhausted men in the plane.
 No Stop At Winnipeg
 Then, instead of stopping at Winnipeg where the flyers at first intended to land, the plane streak ed toward the airport at Minnea-
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 STILL IN LONDON
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sary, for permission to see his son, Lance, two years old.
 Boy With Moaher The boy was with his mother, heiress to a large part of the wool worth .five-and-ten-cent store for- tune, at Winfield house, her estate whose magnificence almost rivals that of Buckingham Palace. The Countess had the child made a ward in chancery of the British Crown before making criminal charges against the Count which she withdrew yesterday.
 She had charged that the Count threatened to put her Ion the spot" to shoot like a dog" London society man whom he suspected of intruding in his home ; to seize Lance and to kill himself.
 It also had been charged at court that the Count had demanded S, ,000, 900 as the price of his wife's freedom, and that he had threaten ed her with three years of hell in the headlines"
 All these things were dismissed as misunderstanding or impetuous outbursts. It was understood that fear of fresh revelations if the Count testified led to peace terms.
 Facts Kept From Public
 Several aspects of the case were deemed better kept from the public
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as evidence to be used in a criminal case and not now accessible to the plaintiff" The time is left to the future order of the court If that is necessary.
 Not Tn Entire Form
 The motion for more specific statement was not granted in com plete form as requested by MT. Leary. The judge simply granted two of the three requests, pertain ing to clearer picture of the dates, amounts, payees. departments, and appropriations, which were involved in the over-expenditures which MT. Leary is being allegedly held &C., countable for.
 The association contends that as the overexpenditures were made during the Leary administration he is personally liable for them.
 What Complaint Sets Up
 The complaint sets up that if the association is victorious in the suit the amount of the judgment or ver- dict will be turned over to the city treasury. Attorney George Cohen of Hartford appears for the plain tiff.
 It is not logical to conclude that the more specific statement will be filed until the completion of the trial of the 27 men accused of con- spring to dcfraud the city, as the records necessary to the more spe- cific statement will be tied up dur ing the trials.
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300 MILES AN HOUR

300 MILES AN HOUR
 Muskegon, Mich, July 14.-(UP)- A silver monoplane believed to be Howard Hughes round-the-w world ship, was sighted by several Muske- gon residents at 11:20 8. m. EDT. today. Observers said the plane was heading due east and flying about two miles high.
 Hughes was making about 300 miles an hour, or the basis of his time from Minneapolis to this point.
 WEATHER IN NEW YORK
 Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, July 14.-UP)-Cloudy weather, but with favoring tail winds, pre- vailed along most of Howard Hughes route on his final dash home.
 Across western Michigan the ceil- ing was 5000 feet with some clouds and a tail wind of 40 miles an hour at 10000 feet.
 Cleveland just before noon re- ported low clouds, with ceiling of $500 to 4,000 feet, with possibility of thunderstorms this afternoon. There were low clouds east of there over the Alleghanies. Conditions around Buffalo were excellent then but were becoming less favorable.
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FUN DEmUxNAl wANl AYo MAL s.z1z1

regulations, the frail, blonde Ann erican-born countess was obljvious yesterday. She was seen in the gar. den of her estate during the court session, playing with two Dauch' shunds and chatting gaily with aE unidentified man. At that time tho count was standing at attention iD the prisoners dock.
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Legal Notice
LIQUOR PERMIT NOTICE OF APPLICATION

This is to give notice that I, Ionn vs q conn Sss hsHe filed an application dated July 14th, 1888 with the Liquor Control Com mission for a Druggist Permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor on the premises. 9 Congress Ave, Water" bury. Conn. The business is owned by John William Bender. of 3SY Highland Ave, Waterbury, Conn. and will be conducted by John William Bender. of 389 Highland Ave-, Waterbury, Conn. as permit tee.
 JOHN VIM. BENDLER.
 Dated July 14th. 1888. 7-14-2A
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The tiny vine aphis, an insect introduced into Europe from Amer ica, did such enormous damage to vineyards that an international con- vention was called to deal with 1t.
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Mount Kilimanjaro, British East Africa, is the highest known peak on the African continent. It rises 19,321 feet.
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They had spent but 19 houres 3s minutes aground in five stops at Paris, Moscow, Omsk and Yakutsk, Siberia, and Fairbanks.
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TAKEN TO PRISON

Northampton, Mass, July l4- (UP)-Guarded by three deputies. John P. Bathlet left county jail by automobile today for state prison at Boston to begin a life sentence.
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JAPANESE BOMB
 CANTON AGAIN

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MORE SPECIFIC STATEMENT FILED

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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Brother of Rev.
Stewart Dies
After Operation

Word was received in Mime
apolis Monday morning of the
death in Chicago of Paul G. Stew
art, 35, one of the two Negro GER
titled public accountants in the
country, and brother of Rev. C. F.
Stewart of Minneapolis.
The deceased underwent an oper-
alton two weeks ago for removal
of cancerous growth. Up to the
time of his death his condition was
reported fair.
Rev. Stewart, his brother, left
Tuesday to attend final rites which
were held yesterday Thursday in
Chicago.
Stewart organized the first Ne
gro cooperative store in the city
of Chicago.
His logged determination to be-
come a C. P. A. gained him much
admiration. He took examinations
for eight years before he succeeded
in obtaining his certifcation.
He leaves a wife and one child.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Rev. J. J. Evans,
Methodist Pastor,
Dies i'm Iowa

Sioux City, Ia.-Death came to
one of the most beloved figures in
the A. NJ. E. church here last week
when Rev. J. Joshua Evans, 80,
Methodist preacher for so years,
died Wednesday, May rs, at the
Methodist hospital.
In ailing health for the past year
he was still in active service as
pastor of the A. M. E. church here
when stricken with his fatal illness.
At a funeral attended by church
figures from all over this section
Rev. Thos. B. Stovall of Minneapo-
lis, presiding elder of the st. Paul
district, officiated.
The white haired venerable
Evans pastored st. Peter A. M. E.
church, Minneapolis, for four years.
He had during his so years of pas
toring served several of the most
prominent churches of the connec-
ton.
Rev. Evans is survived by his
wife, Emma, and a daughter, DR..
Mary G. Evans, noted woman
preacher pastor of Cosmopolitan
Community Church, Chicago.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Resident of st.
Paul for AZ
Years Dies
FRANK ROBINSON DIES

Frank Robinson, age 81, AGO
Stinson street, died Saturday, May
20, at Ancker Hospital. Mr.. Rob
inson was employed at the Wom-
ems City Club at the time of his
demise, and has been a resident of
St. Paul for forty-two years.
Funeral services were held at
the McGavock Funeral Home, 697
Rondo street, Tuesday, May 81, at
2:3O p. m, with Rev. G. L. Hay
den, pastor of st. James A. n. E,
Church, officiating. Masonic serv-
ices were conducted by Pioneer
Lodge No. 1, of which the deceased
has been member for forty-one
years.
Survivors include a wife, Minnie
and other relatives. Interment was
in Elmhurst Cemetery.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Randolph Answers
Charges in A. MP.
News Release

New York City, June LIN a
scathing attack A. Phillip Ran
dolph, international president of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, called a recent news re-
lease sent out by the Associated
Negro Press, "scarehead, alarmist
propaganda against the Brother
hood and its wage agreement"
Randolph, in his answer, cites
that the same methods were used
during the IL year fight of the
Pullman Co., against organization
of the porters.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
LAWNS AND GARDENS CLUB

On Sunday, May 20, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. C. Russell, 5147 Irving
Avenue North, were hosts to the
Minneapolis Lawns and Gardens
Club. Plans were made for the
annual Lawns and Gardens Contest
which this organization has spon-
sored for a number of years as a
means of encouraging Minneapolis
residents to beautify their prop
erty.
This year in addition to award
ing prizes in a lawns and garden
contest, awards will be made for
flowers, fruit and vegetables,
Lawns will be judged in July and
all awards will be made at an out
door flower show to be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Burrell,
3545 4th Avenue S., Sunday, Au-
gust seventh. The Club voted to
accept sponsorship OF the Urban
League.
Officers of the Club are DR.. M.
w. Judy, chairman; Mrs. J. W.
Ward, vice chairman; Mrs. Annie
E. Smith, secretary, and Mrs. Isaac
Judy, treasurer. Members at the
meeting last Sunday were DR.. and
Mrs. M. W. Judy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eli Paul, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Ward,
Mrs. Loretta Walls, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. H. Payne, Mrs. Mayme Burrell,
Mrs. lack Johnson, Mrs. Mabel
Moore, Mrs. Henrietta Williams,
Mr.. A. G. Evans, Mrs. Bertha
Turner and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter A.
Smith.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Esther Roach
Pupils In Recital
Sunday Night

Piano students of Mrs. Esther
Stovall Roach, Minneapolis teacher
of piano, will appear in their an
nual recital Sunday night, June
fifth, at 8p. m, at st. Peter A. M.
E. Church, Minneapolis.
Students appearing on the pro-
gram will be Doris Lewis, Thelma
Roberts, Carlyle Stewart, Jr.,
Emma Roberts, Joe Thompson,
Jean Leverett, Marjorie Banks,
lone Roach, Donald Brown, Jr., Au-
drey Banks, Ella Ruth Thompson,
Jean Brown, Carl Banks, Barbara
Jeanne Stewart, Lucy Ann Collins,
Mitzie Strader, Thelma Roberts and
Doris Lewis. Others on the pro-
gram are Mrs. Lorraine Chivers,
singer, and Mrs. Eva Taylor, read
er.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03

Cleveland, Ohio-Former Insur-
ance Examiner of the State of
Ohio, by appointment of Governor
Martin L. Davey, who is president
of the Dunbar Mutual Insurance
Society, 2319 East 55th street,
Cleveland, which is co-host of the
National Negro Insurance Asso-
cations 18th annual meeting there
on June 1917. The Dunbar, larg-
est Negro corporate enterprise in
Ohio, had income of more than
$4,000 last year. Mr.. Clarke is a
native of Lewiston, N. c., and was
educated at Kittrell college and the
University of Cincinnati.-(Calvin
Service.)
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03
Bathing Beauties of 1893
Boost Ticket Reservations
(By Special Correspondent

(By special correspondent
Reports reached our Office from
several sources that already there
is an unusual demand for the ad-
vance sale tickets which will go on
sale Friday, June third.
One hundred and fifty tickets
have been reserved by the bathing
beauties by the request of their
friends who will attend the Twin
City Triangle Clubs Fourth An
nual Picnic and Bathing Beauty
Contest to be held at Harriet Is
land, st. Paul, Monday, June 81.
Limited Number of Tickets on Sale
1t is understood only 500 tickets
will be sold at the reduced price of
25 cents, this is the reason for the
large number of reservations made
before the tickets were placed on
sale to the public.
This one ticket will admit the
holder to all of the attractions, IN
GLIDING the big children's party at
one p. m; the mammoth Whist
Tournament at six p. m; the dance
with one of the Northwest's Hot
test orchestras and the gigantic
Bathing Beauty spectacle with the
crowning of miss Minnesota"
A 1888 big Apple" and "Shag"
contest will be shown without ad-
ditional cost to the patrons.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-06-03

Mr.. johnson was an employee of
the st. Paul Academy for the past
ten years and was known to be a
man of sober habits. He was a
member of Pilgrim Baptist Church.
He is survived by wife, Mrs. Rosa
Johnson, and his mother, Worda
Johnson, both of whom are pros
trated.
The only strange symptom noted
by his wife before he left for work
on Wednesday was that he did not
eat his breakfast, telling her that
he wasn't hungry.
st. Paul police were dragging the
river for the body late Wednesday
night.
In addition to his wife, mother
and three children, he is survived
by three brothers, Early, Wallace
and Robert, all of st. Paul, and a
sister, Mrs. Annie Mae Johnson
Brown of Detroit.