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Soviets Fliers Take Off Forced Return
ROBBER IS HANGED BY AN INFURIATED MOB
Wiley Post Will Probably Not Take Off Until Monday
BRITAIN CLAIMS
VICTORY BUT IT
ALY IS STILL NOT
TAKING ORDERS
Shipped In Rifles
EMPEROR ETHOPIA OFF
ERS TALK DISPUTE
ON NEUTRAL SOIL
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 3, —In Geneva,
Captain Anthony Eden, British re
presentative claimed a victory in
Italy’s acceptance of a September
session of the League of Nations,
but in Rome, the Italian press re
newed its assault on Great Britain,
in the face of her proposals for Ang
lo French and Italian conferences
to consider the broad aspects of the
Ethiopian dispute.
Fifty of Italy's most modern bomb
ing planes will take oil for East
Africa in September in what is ex
pected to be the greatest mass flight
in history.
Emperor Haile Selassie is will
ing to meet Mussolini face to face
on neutral soil and thrash out the
dispute, it was made known today,
following an inter-change of wires.
The Emperor meanwhile announc
ed that his government had brought
into the country eight hundred
thousand rifles in July, despite the
arms embargoes.
55 Soviet Seamen
Dead In Sinking
Of Submarine B-3
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug. 3, — A brief of
ficial announcement, laconic as are
most such Soviet revelations, early
Thursday disclosed the death of 55
Russian seamen, some of them young
cadets in the sinking of the submar
ine B-3 in Finland Bay one week
ago.
The submarine participating in
Baltic maneuvers came up from an
underwater chase and collided with
an unnamed surface vessel. A gap
ing hole was torn in her hull and
she sank immediately. All aboard
her perished.
Appointed To Act
In Habeas Corpus
Action Of Mooney
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3, —The
California Supreme Court today ap
pointed A. E. Shaw, San Francisco
attorney, commissioner to take testi
mony out of state witnesses in the
habeas corpus proceedings for Thos. I
SOVIET PLANE FORCED
ABANDON FLIGHT OVER
POLE DUE OIL TROUBLE
(By The Associated Press)
FLASH—Moscow, Aug. 3—The Soviet plane was forc
ed to abandon the flight across the North Pole to California
because of oil trouble, and has turned back.
MOSCOW, (Saturday) Aug. 2—Sigmund Levanoffsky
and his two companions took off today on their projected
non-stop flight to San Francisco, across the North Pole at
6 A.M. or about 11 P. M. Eastern Standard Time Friday,
The Tass, Soviet News Agency announced.
MOSCOW Aug. 2—The takeoff was made in a driving
rain. Accompanying Levanoffsky were George Baidukoff
copilot and Victor Lichenko, navigator.
Among the dignitaries at Sholkovsky Airport was U.S.
Ambassordor William C. Bullitt, who shook hands with the
fliers as they climbed on board the plane.
Many foreign correspondents were there except Ger
man and Japanese. The airplane was made entirely in
Russia and has a gray fuselage with black stripes. It is
marked on the top and bottom of the wings “U.S.S.R. No.
25,” in large black letters. Emergency equipment designed
to provide food and protection in the Arctic cold for several
months. W'as carried on the plane.
MOSCOW, Aug. 3—The Russian plane at 5:45 A.M.,
Pacific Standard Time was headed across Barents Sea into
the zone of continuous polar daylight, averaging one hun
dred and ten miles an hour.
The giant plane rose easily for the takeoff after travers
ing three quarters of a mile of the long runway. It is load
ed with concentrated foods and fur garments in case they
were forced down in the Arctic wastes.
Their route lies slightly west of the 40th Meridian, and
they are headed for Prince Patrick Island off the Canadian
coast. They will pass over Banks Land. Great Bear Lake,
Fort Simpson, the Rocky Mountains, Cascades and into \ an
couver; thence along regular airlines down the coast to
San Francisco.
The purpose of the flight is primarily to ascertain if air
traffic from Europe to the North American continent over
the Arctic lanes will be practicable. They are also to search
for new land while flying over.
The Soviet ice breaker Sadka will be in constant com
munication with the fliers and two airplanes are ready there
to go to their rescue if they are forced down.
The Soviet plane crossed the Onega River 4:04 A.M.
PST. and started across the White Sea at 4:44 A. M. PST.
MOSCOW, Aug. 3—If the plane continues at a contin
uous speed at the rate it was going, it would reach the North
Pole about 6 P.M., PST tonight. The plane reported via
radio early today it was humming along perfectly and the
fliers were in good spirits, and expected to reach Vancouver.
B. C., about midnight Sunday.
The news that the plane had abandoned the flight due
to oil trouble, came as a distinct surprise following the lat
est telegram from the craft that everything was proceeding
smoothly.
J. Mooney.
The court also defined the issues
on which the testimony shall be giv
en They deal chiefly with per
jury and whether the state officers
knew of the asserted perjury.
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SOV IETS ARK RE
PORTED TO BE
SENDING 160,000
TROOPS SIBERIA
To Take No Chances
FRONTIER INCIDENTS BY
ORIENTALS IS CAUSE
DISPATCH TROOPS
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 3, —Reports are
current today that Soviet Russia, as
,1 precautionary measure, is trans
porting a hundred and sixty thous
slid troops to Chita and Irkutsk in
Siberia, so as to be ready to advan
I
ce at a moment's notice on Mon
golia.
This latest development is in
creasing the already tense situation
in the Far East, where Manchoukuos
demands to outer Mongolia following
the frontier incidents, has been eaus
ing alarm in Russia.
WILEY POST TO
WAIT TILL MON
BEFORE TAKING
OFF I OR ALASKA
To Radio \\ cal her
RADIO STATIONS OF U. S.
CANADA, ALASKA TO
ASSIST SOVIETS
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Aug. 3, — Wiley Post
is waiting here with sharp interest
for word on the Soviet’s plane now
enroute from Moscow to Oakland.
He will remain here until Monday
at least before hopping off himself
for Juneau and Nome, enroute to
Moscow; he will then know whether
Levenoffsky had accomplished the
greater part of his objective.
Wireless operators and residents
of outlying settlements stood watch
for the Russian plane.
Amtorg representative Sokoloff is
at Aklavik to flash messages of
weather conditions and advise as to j
the necessity for changes in the route
once the Soviet plane has cleared the
North Pole.
A. A. Vartanian, another Soviet
representative is here in Seattle,
translating into English Russian !
messages connected with the flight.
Point Barrow will also relay mess
ages from the plane to Seattle and
from here to the plane.
The Fairbanks and Juneau Signal
Corps stations will also participate
in guiding the Russians with weath
er reports. Canadian stations are
also assembling information for the
same purpose.
ROBBER IS HANGED BY
MOB FOLLOWING THE
SHOOTING OF OFFICER
fBy The Associated Press')
YREKA, California, Aug. 3—Dragged from a county jail. C
L. Johnson, involved in the killing of a Dunsmuir police
chief, aflera robbery had been committed, was hanged from
a tree, Deputy Sheriff Joe Clark announced today.
YREKA, Aug. 3—The young robber from Reno and
Klamath Falls. Oregon, insisted that he had not shot to death
F. R. Daw of Dunsmuir. He blamed his companion in the
robbery which took place previous to the shooting, Robert
Miller as the killer. Miller is still a fugitive from justice.
Johnson was caught an hour after the killing, and admitted
his participation in the robbery and shooting.
YREKA, Aug. 3—A mob of townspeople drove to the
county jail in a caravan of automobiles at 1:30 A. M. today
and while cnroute were passed by Fleming Martin, an em
ployee of a restaurant. They seized him and held him from
notifying authorities until they had taken Johnson from the
jail.
The mob rang the night bell of the jail and when Dep
uty Sheriff Martin Lange answered it, they covered him
with a pistol and overpowerd him They failed to find the
keys so bound him and carried him into the country where
they released him in his bare feet.
Returning to the jail they smashed in the doors and
wrecked the jail before finding the keys to Johnson’s cell.
They took him out, while he kicked and fought, then hanged
him to a tree. When his body was cut down a couple of
hours after the lynching, he had a bruise over one eye.
Test Pilot Of New
Mystery Plane Is
Thought Be Dead
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3, — A doz
en planes flew over the Palos Verdes
hills early yesterday hunting Lieut.!
Arthur Skaer, Army Reserve test
pilot lost in a new ‘Mystery Pursuit,
Plane’ reported the fastest in the
world.
Fear was expressed nut only for
the safety of Skaer, but for the se
crets of the plane’s design, a closely
guarded military secret.
Skaer has not been seen since he
headed south along the coast after
his take-off from Mills Field yester
day.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3, —Air
men today believed that the missing
Lieut. Arthur H. Skaer of the U. S
Army's Super Pursuit Plane, lies at
the bottom of the Pacific.
A leather aviation coat washed
up on the beach and two spots of
oil smeared the ocean surface a
mile southeast of the Point Vicinte
lighthouse, were evidence support
ing the theory.
Skaer, an army reserve pilot, hop
ped off from Mills Field almost 48
hours ago on a test flight.
Spent with futile combing of land
and sea from San Diego to Long
Bench tired flyers reconstructed the
death they believed overtook the
flier. They believed that something
gave way while the plane was rock
eting along at 325 miles an hour.
San Diego Fair Is
Out <>l The Keel
CBv The Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 3, -—lulius
Wangenheim, chairman of the fin
ance committee today announced the
California Pacific International Ex
position is out of the red and a daily
profit of $2,000 has been shown for
all of July. Attendance todate has
exceeded 1,800,000 since the Fair
opened May 29, he said.
Air Base At San
Pedro Tor Navy
Is Near Reality
fBv The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO, Aug. 3, — Plans of
the U. S. Navy to establish an Air
Base on San Pedro bay took a step
toward reality today when the har
bor board gave the navy a thirty
year lease on the Allen Field, am
phibian airport on Terminal Island.
The site adjoins the home anchorage
of the United States Battle Fleet.