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Crews of Yellow Bird and Green Flash Say Farewell The crews of the two transatlantic planes bidding farewell prior to the take-off. Upper, left to right: ARMANO LOTTI JR.. sponsor and radio operator of the Yellow Bird; LEWIS A. YANCEY of the Green Flash; RENE LEFEVRE, navigator of the Yellow
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Bird; JEAN ASSOLANT, pilot of the Yellow Bird, and ROGER Q. WILLIAMS of the Green Flash. Williams was at the controls
of the Green Flash when it nosed over on the takeoff. Lower, the Green Flash after it nosed over.—Associated Prtu photos transmitted kg telephone.
Pilots Announce They Will Try to ReacK Southern France if Gasoline Lasts Necessaiy Time for Flight
ie's Attorney Says Slaying Worse Than Newspaper Accounts Revealed; Demands State Penalty
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eoursa and going toward thetof the Gieen Flash. Another comAzorea and the Portuguese coast." | panion told Mr. and Mrs. Schreiber
•econd degree murder were filed tbii afternoon againit Emmet J. White, border patrolman, who thot and killed Henry Virk.M.lti.1.
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at 10:08 eastern daylight time yesterday wottUny from the Maine, coast the crew had two courses under consideration. It was planned to travel east southeast 1000 miles to the steamer lane "Corner." At that point the crew was to decide whether they would follow the steamer lanes northeast and then cut across east to the French coast or proceed southeast ro the Island of Fayal in the Azores and then o\er to the northern tip of Portugal. At the speed of 100 miles an hour which had been maintained for the first 800 miles of the flight, (a. steamer sighted the plane at that distance) the Yellow Bird would have been 1600 miles out at the time of the message from the JRochambeau. The wording of the message indicates that the decision had been made to take the northerly course and aft«r proceeding along It for 600 miles necessity had forced a veer to the south. The southerly course is 600 miles longer than the northerly but there is less flying over water.
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charges of second degree manslaughter were diimiised. 10 TUBUn WASHINGTON, June 14.—Assistant Secretary Ixmman of the Treasury announced today that E. J. White, custom* patrolman tvho shot Henry Vlrkkul*. netr International Fall*, Minn., last Saturday nigm. "was acting -Rithin. his authority under the law and hai t perfect defense." "Cowman •»!« that if White were Indicted bis emse would h« truMferred to the United States eevts and added that newspaper accounts ot the chooting were Ufiily colored. The assistant lecretary said «mphatlcilly the Treasury had no Intention of dfcarmlnjf customs patrolmen and 8*id that ihould eonftttt pa«» a law disarming them It •would In effect repeal th« tariff lam. Th* aame rule, h* continued, holds good with prohibition *r*nts and to disarm them would nullity the Elf hteenth amendment. REPORT KEPT SECRET. Tb» statement Issued by the Asilatant Secretary did not wake publie th* official report of the Vlrk> kula aheotinf by Assistant Collector of Customs Undberf at Duluth, Minn. "It would appear from the re pott that newspaper account* of UM affair hare been bighlr colored, to put it niiiuly," Jtowman Mid. "White apparently wa« Mtlac within hia authority under the- Jaw and has a perfect.de* fense to charges ajalnst biro. "It the local court* Indict White a w&tlon will be made to transfer his case to th* United Statti eourt for trial. ''A cuitoms bordtr patrolman, it •ntitled to have any charges against him decided by a jury of hia peers, the same as any other cltfeen." Th* Virklcula CM* la th* third within ten days in which ajents of th* Treasury have been upheld for snooting persons. The other cases were those at Detroit and near City, New Mexico.
th* amount at $5000. Whit* was returned to jail Immediately after th* arraignment.
Civil War Warning Given in Congress WASHINGTON'. June J4. — A warning that the United States would b« thrown !*to civil war If prohibition ehooHtS la continued, waa mad* In the houia today by Representative LaGuardia, Republican, New Tork. "The division from now on Is no longer between wets and dry* but between peace and civil war," I*Guardl» »id "Somewhere the wrong man will. be killed and people will retaliate—meet force with force." La Guardia's swarming; speech waa made shortly after Assistant Treasury Secretary Lowman had officially cleared Emmett White, border patrolman, of culpability In connection with the fatal shootirg ot Henry Virkula., Big Falls, Minn-, confectioner. "Killing and murder are tho Inevitable corollary of prohibition," LaGuardla said. "Investigations, resolutions, and official statement* unfortunately will not change conditioni. "There have been more than 255 prohibition killings In the last nino yearn. Official figures of the prohibition bureau show only 135 civilians and S5 dry agents killed but this does not Include shootings by state, county and municipal officers. "Among the 255 killed there havej t-tu two murders by ministers ot tlie gobpcl who were acting at volunteers with local officers. "Peopls ar* submitting and suffering: in patience at present. This will continue until sometime, eomcwhere the wron* man will be killed. Then th» people will retaliate, force with force. As soon a« this ttartu the feeling will become contagious and the antagonism will reflect against every branch of the government. There is no telling where it will end. "Dry* nre commencing: to resist a real investigation of prohibition. They know such an Investigation would show a breakdown of enforcement and a complete failure of prohibition."
TO SIGHT CHANGE. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn., June. 14,—(/?)—David Hurlbert, county attorney, commenting upon the decision of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman re£*,rdjn£ the use of firearms by federal agents, today said "Emmet J. White, the border patrolman who W.C.T.U. President killed Henry Vjrkkula, has violated Regrets Rum Killings the law of the State of Minnesota, and no man, whether he be a fedNEW TOKK, June 3 1.—Tho eral official or not. can e&cap* be- Women's Christian Temperance ing punished here." Union regrets depplv the KhorMfnr ilo s«uu nfe \ \ o u u j retrial all «f- ul dlooa in efforts to enforce proforti of federal official*, to take hibitlon, Mrs. Ella Boole of Brookthe case out of the state's courts. lyn. N. T., head of that organicCommentine «n Secretary Lov- ti"n, told tlio United Press, but st man's statement that newspaper tha same time feels, there are situaccounts of the a f f a i r have been ations in which it cannot be "highly colored," Mr. Hurlbort as- a-iojried. •erted the charge "was absolutely "H life Is taken In defense false." "The newspaper reports of the asalnst robbery; or if a life is •hooting have not even told the taken to prevent nuirdor: or if perwhoje truth," he said. "Official sonal barm is done jn the cbasinjr photographs dM not even show of a. thlel or other offender, it is where the bullets entered Virk- called justifiable homicide Tho kula's automobile. There Is one Mime rule of law and Of reason photograph which shows that applips in those regrettable cases " White, who was not more thnn 20 •-^e said. or 30 feet a w a y from the automobile, held his gun parallel with his shoulder and shot at the top part of Vlrku'la's nwlune. although he r,euld have easily fired at the Another skating rink p P ,,nit was lire*." k-d of the city council today, thif, The rno\u r a m p as » surprise after a. conference between County time for a roller »kB»ln B rink on Attorney David Hurlbprt and < us- telegraph avenue, ne.ir F i f t y - f i f t h w l l h i n n few blocks of the toms official;. White was to h.-ne street, l i e skalinsr rink now h f j been given K. iF issued by H u r l b » r t and arraigned 'isrrt foriii.it hmlti;:, but (lie citndnn *t opce on the ncv charge before MBS rllsnii^cl Rftrr tl )c promotJdunjcipal Judg' John T: Brown asrml «inlt,r that tlicrc M H I In- no the murd»r chare* was s»t f«i bn f-a:v 'I"* nmn leap. ''Vet's he s'-n^iblc.'' »)ie pnIlcetnan said to the man on the hfldfe, Edward hliiKC, 56. "Why not talk H o^orV*' "NVver mind, just a])'i' ttib to gf« how ]{.n; t! * -uonM Slav thsro. sdd to th- tnimonr of thft honsPhoM. larati'ipq l n P n ac t!on for .JuoieV from rrrdrrit :> O. S t : i n i r . r 'n tlitHtiporior rfMM 1 hr-rf l^'b^ '-''v'. ("n i th" r°tf 2 n n „ ,or,,.u.
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Parents Convinced Son Aboard Plane PORTLAND, Me., June 14.—« Mr. and Mrs. If. R. Shreiber, of Portland, were convinced that their son Ailhur, 22, was aboard the plane Yellow Bird on the way to Paris. They received a letter from him written a few days ago and which he requested a. friend to turn over to his parents after the taks-off
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away in the Green iiasii ana thai he and Schreiber flipped a coin to see who should attempt to get into the French-bound plane. He said Schreiber won. Two residents of Old Orchard said they saw a young man, whom they later identified from photographs as Schreiber, enter the door of th« cabin while the piotor was being warmed up.
France Prepares For Boisterous Welcome PARIS, Jure 14.—0?)—Franc* prepared today to give a rousing: boisterous welcome to the threo fliers of the Yellow Bird when—and if—they complete their transatlantic crossdn; and arrive here. It was legarded as certain they would get a reception comyarablft to that accorded Colonel Lindbergh two years ago last may. The fact that the three, Jean Assolant. Rene Le Fevre, aud Armento Lotti, were Frenchmen, it was felt, would outweigh the fact the crossing has been accomplished previously and would bring a huge crowd to Lebouiget to await their arrival. The authonties planned to supplement police guaids -with soldiers andjp take every ptetaution to keep the c i o w d aviay fiom tli« plane as it is brought down t!i« French air foice intended to install additional sea'chl'ghts and flood lights so that the field would be as blight as d^y when finally the Yello'v Bird came to its perch.
300 Hunt Desperadoes Who Seized State Officer
By MARGUERITE YOUNG By BUCK WEAVER. WASHTNGTOX. .Tun" 14.—M>)—» She will esplain In public TTnited Press Stiff Corresposrest. Uepiebentntive Uutli Br>an Owen iu?s art! in small conferences all of II.T. ;i n r v v 1'lea—d'-tir^tlv fcmin'ne OKOF1NO, Idaho, June 14.— est ranger or timber cruieT a 1 Two Crocker Institutions and in flavor—to introduce to her pen- "what has been done, legislative Detecthe Holds B e l i e f .Man hunters, several hundred the only inhabitants of the remote" pie on lier home ground in Florida and otherwise." as It touches the One of Sailors Freed American Trust Enter strong, who have patroled the area. •luring future congressional re- m d h i d u a l county. She emphasized Ke^er since the early gold minher plan to discuss "everything," Murderer. $400,000,000 Merger. trails and highways in this section ing days of Pierce City and Ktilz Slie is planning: to brins to Wasb- rather t h a n mcrc-lv the measures in since Wednesday in an effort to has the C'earnater aiea. bt-en t-r. infnpton next -tear a. group of 35 v h i c h she has participated acthecapture the four armed bandits censed ever a ciime. Guns bust'* boys and girl"; f" ttudy, sov»rn- irThe officers and members of the who (Continued From Page 1.) kidnaped "U". B. Kinne, lieu- on the main stieet of this l i t t l e At the same time she will dis- crew of the steamer Admiral Benment. Slie will look after them concluctinp tlieni on a eu«s her governmental study plap.^ son known to have been friends; of tenant-governor of Idaho, and shot town. Ttifle1', sis shooters and Bank was organized December 31. tpersonallv, o u r of places she wants them in She w i l l offer the trip as a re-' one man and beat another, gained •shotguns are in evidence eveiy102.", being- a merger of the Crock- know for historic and government- w a r d to the boy and the girl who William Tallman, missing "brick confidence today. where. murder" suspect, today -nere taken display tht finest "school citizener National Bank of Ran Francisco al significance. Ernest Robinson, state officer Under a -parnins from Tlobir=on Attributing to a ")— blaze. Dr. Annstronsr fald, but poia'nl uiulor a California b a n K I n q with a brick. A rare fourteenth century painting, when th« art pieces were re•ict. It was> t l i r n known as the ban Matherson earlier in the day bad one of the collection displayed in catalosued it rnulr] not h^ fnun Mexican in t h e Cbapiiltrpec chambers, it is Captain c'niuhcfi i o d d j . kneeling ami prnv- understood conversations have been man, acting chief of the Oakland mis-sing- b; Dr. J. T. Tarbotten in a basement of a tampiis buildits .staieindit iis( ) of Duccmlier 31. ing. J V ^ h o \ \ t ^ l i < i i resonuc 1 ? of 111? for a happy solution of t h e na- of the most amicable n a t u r e with police, in a systematic canvass of Armstrong today. "I would not attempt to set a "The roi c Kin^ Vdintms dates back Tallman's friends, on both sides of tional religions problem f>n w h u h j n *tronc note of optimism notiecS30!>.714.011, capital block p.ufl in, e VJ-icr on the picture," said DrAi into the Botuceiii penoi or (•m iier O O f l f l 0^»(t niir| «•()! p l n , ^ i n _ O O O . mnf^reiccji arc utif'rr wa;' at Mc\"- ,iblo aiTK>r~ the ronfeiees. the baj. n. In a d d i t i o n , t h e i r were u n d i - ico CHV. Po^sibihtv of an early announceTh«y pariiculailv sought out strong. 1 "It is one of the very early and was unearthed in a Klorenc*. v i d r d profits of ? 7 0 I ?."• 1. and dc"iVitli the a r r i v a l r,f A n hbisbop m e n t of progress wa.s seen in the amateur and professional radio painting ? nude in Constantinople Italy "=hop ^0 years ago !•', Tniin Mth oilier t'n.ui Mate, l o u n t y . 11111- Rm^ v Florrr from tb" t'inipri answer of Archbishop K u t z a f t e r operators, among whom Tallman before the city wag called by that Ruskm. f-ritic and v> riser," Dr. inci]i?l or national, a m o u n t i n c to Mates last Saturday, f»i nrsotia- vesterdav', conference to questions had a w i d e acquaintance, on both name." The painting depicts Christ \rmMrons said. A i t collerton washing the feet of bis disciples. throughout t"£i« r o u n t i v h s \ e been tions fo ".fttl" t h e l"iis- s i,i!idm? as tn w h e n a statement could be land and on sea. The picture waa known to have warned to watch out for the paintWhile they v. ere thus engaged, been controversy, (bo visits to the made. one of several saved from the in?. tha mails weie speeding requests c-hiiicho^ increased. The srchbifhop answered with In the last two or tiiice dav.s smile, "perhaps within three davs." for cooperation to officials in 5000 t b r - h a v e approached m o n u m e n t a l Bishop Diaz w o u l d say on'y "we cities and towns in the United States. Canada and Mexico. The ?AN T FR\NC'ISCO. June V..- pioporlions n"t only n ( h e oapiUl ere talking." The Xational League of Re- circulars contained photographs of Bet-au.se bf tokl h « r so many rotj but in cvcrv hamlet in the nation, stones sbout bimsclf before then rlifpatches to newspapers h f i e Indi- ligious Defense, w h i c h has been Tallman and his fingerprints. Meanwhile, from every quarter The board of park directors tome holding C'irl J. Lawcharged by the government with m.ii nape and tmnerl out to be a cated. liotpnul ordrrlv alter the woddinc, A second conference between sponfonng and aiding the armed teports that the fugitive had been day submitted to the city council rence for investigation follow ins1 R'iiatnnp'1 Xoland. 10. I.'HS Phu- Pio-Kl^n* Portes '4il. Archbishop >o-called i elisions insurgent move- "seen" continued to flow into po- t w o 90-day options for the acquisi- an automobile accident la«t li-b"1 i.'ei s i f f ! h.!S filed .suit Hi th* "-u- Rui M A V T.KAPS TO Dl-,\TrT. in t h e day. nnppar freni View before July 1, v.on't have to be invoked to halt eve of his d^ps.ture for fiia Kicourt. SKATTLi;. .lune n.--(/P>--Tb,-1 the rooinp of pigeons which Infornations'i con'ipiition 't i l f a t b f Thi'inns J. I ; , H u n '„"). w bo I Ills ileatli \\t\a tlie sci olid in the Came J. K Peak oC Oakland. brought complaints from the Oak wanis Milwaukee. .Innc ^3 t" ^7. A\ ,1If.ipeii f vi'in ' hf ""Month s«,f.v\ w i n - ' I ! I r s l l . l O l l l l M ( i l l f f l l l . l . l f l l O ( i p - I Arronlins; to the officials, tho brother-in-law of McLaushlin. tesI p ' i b l i c -service roipoiations are rostreet and Glen avenue neighborliam II. Hamilton piOiflTt of t'ro i!'M«' nf ,i luitel h"rf I.T-t mclii t f t e r j ei it'M', heinc burncii to d e a t h u h ^ n 1 oppiatmi.. q u n i i o l i n , ™ w i l h hix <Mf