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NEW ENDURANCE RECORD SET OF 653 HOURS
SET FLIGHT RECORD
AFTER 27 DAYS AIR
BREAK ALL MARKS
(By The Associated Press)
MERIDIAN, Mississippi, July 2, — Fred and A1 Key
brought their plane “Ole Miss” safe to a landing here at 6:06
P. M., Central Standard Time last night, breaking all exist
ing endurance flying records—spending almost a month in
the air. (Yesterday’s dispatches said Miss Freda, but con
firmation today—both fliers are men.)
They were greeted by the applause of more than ten
thousand spectators, as they stepped from their plane to the
ground for the first time in nearly thirty days.
They were in the air for 653 hours and 53 minutes. The
air record was accepted as official. A previous official record
of 553 hours and forty-one and a half minutes was set by
John and Kenneth Hunter of Chicago in 1930. An unofficial
record of 647 hours and 28 and a half minutes was set in
1930 by Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brien at St. Louis.
The Keyes surpassed all previous records in their long
grind. “I’m telling you it isn’t any fun, but we’re both hap
py now,” A1 Key said, on landing.
Roosevelt Strives
Recoup After Be
ing Defeated Issue
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President Suffers Defeat On
Death Sentence Clause In
Holding Company Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 2, —Striv
ing to recoup after an emphatic de
feat which he sullered at the hands
of the bolting house of representa
tives, President Roosevelt sought to
rally his forces for a new attempt
to impose “the death sentence on
unnecessary” public utility holding
companies.
The procedure today called for a
roll call vote, getting the represent
atives on record. The President ex
pressed hope that his plan would
win some of his supporters back,
and was confident of an ultimate
victory. Others looked for another
defeat.
Charles Stumar Jr.
Cameraman Dead;
In Airplane Crash
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, July 1 —Charles
Stumar Jr., aged 40, ace-camera
man. who has flown over Alaska’s
volcano craters and remote jungles
in Africa, and even into the Arctic
was killed, when his plane crashed
on an improvised landing field near
Triufno. Harrison Wiley, aged 36,
an art director was killed in the
same crash.
Band Will Practice Wednes
day Evening At 8 P. M. Sharp
Longshoremen Are
Voting On Issue of
Work On Vessels
Longshoremen Voting Today
On Working Ships From
B. C. Loaded by Scabs
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, —Long
shoremen in all coastal ports of the
United States are casting their bal
lots today to decide whether they
will work on boats loaded by non
union workers in British Columbia.
This is one of the principal ques
tions which kept maritime circles
fearful of another widespread strike.
The stevedores will also vote on
whether they will cease work this
Friday, the anniversary of the fam
ous bloody Thursday battle between
the police and maritime strikers in
San Francisco last year when two
men were killed by police gun-fire.
Ferris Confesses To
Killing Dickinson
in Robbery Attempt
Confesses He Let Dickinson
Have It When He Refused
To Put Up His Hands
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, July 2,— William Lee
Ferris confe.ssed late Monday, said
Prosecutor Duncan McCrea today,
to killing Howard Carter Dickinson
New York attorney during a rob
bery in which he obtained only
about one hundred and fifty dollars.
Ferris said “he wouldn’t put his
hands up so I let him have it.”
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
Washington, June 13, 1935
Politics and statecraft have gone
into the discard in Washington for
the time being, in view of the con
vention of a fraternal organization
which has decked the city with ban
ners, lined historic Pennsylvania
Avenue with reviewing stands and
spread a carnival spirit through the
city. The United States seems to be
running along the same as usual,
even though the District of Colum
bia is not in a position to supply its
weekly grist of news relating to na
tional affairs. The Capital accepts
any reasonable excuse to drop poli
tics for a moment. It is to be sus
pected that the land at large like
wise may be relieved to have Wash
ington cease now and then from dis
charging its customary cargo of
matters that call for serious thought
The Senate has passed a bill tend
ing toward hard going for holding
companies. A holding company
appears to be a concern that has a
finger in the profit pie without hav
ing rolled the crust or become un
comfortably overheated by close at
tention to the baking process. No
doubt there are holding groups hav
ing no function other than to take
a rake-off. On the other hand,
there are legitimate holding com
panies whose common stock has
yielded a steady income for the
small investor time out of mind and
right through the depression. It
may be that some pruning is neces
sary, but recourse should not be had
to the undiscriminating use of the
axe.
Now that the Weyerhaeuser kid
napers have been apprehended, the
next question is: What is to be
done with them. There is an anc
ient New Jersey ease in the law
books, wherein a man was convicted
of stealing six small coins from a
cupboard, and the report winds up
with the statement: The prisoner
was hanged. That seems a bit
harsh, yet it is probable that filch
ing coins from cupboards was not a
popular indoor sport in that part of
Jersey for some time thereafter.
Kidnaping is likely to continue un
til even the attempt to commit that
crime is punished by prompt, rough
handed treatment of the old time
vigilance committee variety, judici- 1
ally administered.
The country newspaper comes in 1
for many jokes on account of the
unusual statements that sometimes
?reep into it. A nationally known
iaily, published in a large city, com
ments as follows on new regulations
putting an end to private burying
grounds: “Persons who do not wish
to remove their own graves to a pub
lie cemetery need not do so.” The
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Soviets Send Note
Tokyo Warning Of
Further \ iolation
Soviets Issue Warning To The
Japanese To Discontinue
Violations On Frontier
objection made
Official Paper Charges Japan
Deliberately Provoked A
Series Violations Effect
fPv The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, July 2, —The Soviet
official press today charged that in
cidents along the Soviet frontier in
the Far East had been provoked de-,
libera'.ely by Japanese militarists to1
stir Russian forces to counter meas
ures and thus bring on grave com
plications.
A note of protest conccring the
whole series of alleged violations of
Soviet territory by Japanese and
Manchoukuan troops and gun boats
during tlie past two months, was de
livered in Tokyo today.
The note warned Japan lha' a
continuation of the incidents ' may
have very serious consequences in
the future relations between the U.;
S. S. R. and Japan, and on the peace
in the Far East.”
Seattle Council Is
In Favor Alaska
Highway Project
_
Local City Council Approves
Unanimously of Proposed
International Highway
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 2, The local city
council unanimously approved of
the proposed Alaska Highway and
voted to wire the state congress-1
men at Washington, D. C. of their
action, requesting that they do all in
their power to securing congression
al aid for its construction..
Jail Break And 1
Killed and Others
Wounded In Try
One Killed And Others Hurt
When Attempt Break Out
Of State Reformatory
(By The Associated Press)
PENDLETON, Indiana, July 2, — ,
Slugs from a sawed-ofT shotgun kill
ed Simon Dwyer and injured one
other perhaps fatally, as four pris
oners attempted to escape from the
state reformatory. One fled through
the gun-fire to freedom, but it is
believed he was wounded. Anoth
er crineed behind a wall and was
found by searching guards.
GOVERNMENT PLANS
RETIRE MANY BONDS
WITH GOLD RESERVE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 2—The Treasury shifted one
hundred million dollars gold profits to its “working balance”
in preparation for redeeming a big block of government
bonds and withdrawing all National Bank Notes from circu
lation, in all some six hundred million dollars in bonds, and
approximately an equivalent amount in bank notes.
Officials said they expected that several months would
pass before all the bonds had been presented and all notes
retired, although the process amounted virtually to the pay
ing off of government obligations with money made by re
ducing the dollar's gold content. Treasury officials said
that no inflation was involved because of the disappearance
of bank notes. They will be replaced largely by Federal
Reserve Notes. ,
The bonds to be retired will be the Panama Canal Loan
Securities issued in 1916 and 1918, bearing what is known
as “circulating privilege.” This means that national banks
may deposit them with the treasury and add five percent
lawful money as a redemption fund, and issue bank notes to
the extent of the face value of the bonds. Aside from the
canal bonds, approximately three hundred million dollars
in other circulating bonds exist. Their life is to end in a
month; hence consequently the National Bank Notes will
disappear completely.
Kidnap Threat is
Reason For Three
Weeks" Vigilance
Police Watch 16-Year-Old
Oirl When Kidnap Threat
Received by Telephone
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, July 2. —A kidnap
threat against the daughter of a
wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer has
caused a three weeks’ vigil by police
in the vicinity near Southampton,
Long Island.
She is sixteen-year-old Rosamond
Farrell, whose father was the for
mer president of the U, S. Steel
Corporation.
A telephone call said if her fath
er didn't leave twenty-five thous
and dollars in a cemetery for the
threateners, ‘‘we are going to get
Rosamond”.
Fourth Of July
Plans Under Way
By City Council
Fourth of July Celebration ar
-angements are being made today
sy a Finance Committee of the City
Council, consisting of Alvin Polet,
iV. H. Bloom and Aimer Rydeen, to
collect donations to be used for the
staging of the celebration.
Headed by V. R. Farrell, an en
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Relief Workers In
Riot In Canada,
W ith The Mounties
Municipal Official Killed And
Many Mounties and Re
lief Workers Are Hurt
ONE IS KILLED
Three Thousand Relief Work
ers Canada In Riot With
Police Over Conditions
(By The Associated Press)
REGINA, Saskatchewan, July 2,
—Three thousand relief camp strik
ers who battled mounted police in
a riot during which a municipal of
ficer was beaten to death were sub
dued by tear gas and gun fire last
night.
A second officer and a striker were
injured critically. Five policemen
and a score of strikers were hurt
before the mounties finally quelled
the crowd.
Twenty-seven persons were arrest
ed and others dispersed, the police
pursuing the mob through the streets
until they obtained control of the
situation.
The riot started after police charg
ed a mass meeting of the striker^)
who were halted in Regina by lack
of funds, on their march on Ottawa,
to protest against conditions which
existed in relief camps.
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