The Columbus Telegram from Columbus, Nebraska • 1

FIRST SECTION The Columbus SLEGJRAMx PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1929 FIFTIETH YEAB UMBER 2U IFA1LIL FAm TOMOMMW 3 AJLY OIPIEMS Soldier Band in Aerial View of Great Air Tragedy Continuous Events At the Exposition SOVIET FORGES PUSH ATTACKS ALONG BORDER Resume Offensive Against Chinese Outposts at Manchurian Line RIOTS CLIMAX MISTRIAL OF 1 6 STRIKERS Anti-Red Mob at Gastonia Kidnaps Trio in Plot to Lynch Attorney CITY IS READY TO ENTERTAIN VISITING HOSTS Air Tour and Airport Dedication to Mark Opening of Mid-Nebraska 5 PARTS 4- J- Serif JtJ TPv- Wreckage 1 Photo Copyright. 1929, by NEA Service. Transmitted by Telephoto. Hidden in the scrubby trees and underbrush on the desolate slopes oZ Mount Taylor, 100 miles west of Albuquerque, N. the wreckage of the lost Transcontinental Air Transport passenger plane City of San Francisco was found by aerial searchers days after it had carried its fight occupants to their death.

This, the first photograph of the scene to be brought out, is an airplane view, looking down on the mountain from above; it shows the course of the City of San Francisco in her fatal plunge. "Wreckage of the wings can be seen at the point where the liner first struck the trees, and a little farther on can be seen the debris of the cabin. PASSENGERS HURT IN BOMB BLAST UNDER NEW ORLEANS TRAM Concert Series For the third consecutive year, the 17th Infantry band from Fort Crook will give a series of five concerts at the Mid-Nebraska exposition at 2 p. m. and 7:30 p.

m. Wednesday; 1 p. m. and 7:30 p. m.

Thursday and 10 a. m. Friday. The program for the first of the series tomorrow afternoon will be: March, "Universal City," Arthur. Overture, "Jolly Robbers" Sup-pe.

Clarinet duet, "Two Little Bullfinches," King, Musicians Hess and Tobias. Popular, "My Sin," DeEylva-Henderson-Brown, vocal chorus by Musician O'Haver. "Celebrated Minuet," Paderew-sky. Selection, "Mikado," Sullivan. Concert waltz, "Wedding of the Winds," Hall.

March, "Air Mail," Nelson. WOULD SMOKE OUT INCOME SECRETS OF LARGE FIRMS Senate Resolution Aimed at Big Corporations Seek-in? Tariff Hikes ORRIS RESOLUTION UP Washington, Sept. 10 (LP) The resolution seeking to exclude Wil-Mam S. VJare, of Pennsylvania, from his sent 'in the serare was cr lied un for debate before the senate this afternoon by its author, Senator Norris, of Nebraska. Floor Leader Watson objected to having the resolution debated at this time and endeavored to delay action on it until Dec.

3, but he lost in his attempt. The senate begins consideration of Norris' resolution immediately. Washington. Sept. 10 (LP) Debating the $600,000,000 tariff bill today, the senate moved toward adoption of a resolution designed to disclose income tax secrets of corporations seeking increased tar-'ff duties.

A last-minute check by leader? 'ndicated the coalition of farm bloc republicans and democrats had a safe majority of from 10 to 15 votes for the resolution, which 's opposed by administration republicans. When and if the resolution Is passed, the coalition intends to bring before the senate the resolution proposing to deny a seat to Senator William S. Vare, of Pennsylvania, who spent $800,000 in hi? primary election campaign three years ago and has since been ineffectually trying to get his seat. The income tax resolution will require several days of consideration, delaying debate on the tariff, but a rehearsal of what is to come was staged today by Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, representing the democrats, and Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, representing the republicans. Harrison appealed to the republicans to get away from the Smoot leadership and support the Simmons income tax resolution.

Reed retorted this was the first political prophesy he had heard from Harrison since Harrison supported Governor Smith last November. "The democrats said the republicans wrote the bill in secrecy, afraid to let the public know what was going on." BAND AT HUMPHREY TO ENTER CONTEST Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) Outstate bandmasters are taking great interest in the band contest to be staged during Nebraska Diamond jubilee here Nov. 5, 6 and 7. Entries have been received from bands at Wisner, Dodge, Auburn and Humphrey.

Secretary Charles R. Gardner of Ak-Sar-Ben livestock show, to be held in connection with the jubilee, also reported numerous entries in the livestock and horse competitions. Here's a list of the continuous attractions at the Mid-Nebraska exposition, opening tomorrow, and where they will be found: Window exhibits In the windows of business houses throughout the city. Livestock show Columbus stock sales pavilion. Corn show Gott berg garage.

Poultry show Nielsen used car market. 2315 13th St. Educational exhibit Memorial hall, court house. Manufacturers' exhibit Gass funeral home. Dairy show Basement Y.

M. C. A. Carnival Nelson Brothers shows, 26th Ave. and 21st all week.

Free Street Attractions Twice daily, lots east of post office. Band concerts 17th Infantry, Schuyler and Columbus bands, Frankfort square. Dancing Hasselbalch and Eagles halls, each evening. SEARCHERS RESCUE FIVE HIKERS, LOST ON MOUNT SHASTA Succeed in 24-Hour Hunt, Atter Group Located and Fed by Pilot DANGER PREVENTED SLEEP McCloud, Sept. 10 (LP Lost the treaJieroBS slopes, lofty Mount Shasta, spurred to wakefulness by a nightmare like fear of slipping from a narrow ledge, five hikers were resting at their homes today from their nerve-racking adventure.

After a 24-hour hunt, a rescue party of more than 50 found the lost hikers on the icy sides of the peak late yesterday and returned them to thefr homes. Saturday two men and three women, Mr. and Mrs. L. J.

Bedell, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bryson and Miss Rhoda Henry, started out to climb the icy mountain. Part way up the peak the group became separated. The two men started a search for the women and they, too, became lost.

Bedell, a violin maker, was acquainted with the mountain, having selected wood from the forests on its slopes with which to make his instruments. He found the women on a narrow ledge, and, after assisting them to a less precarious position, the four wandered about the forests in circles until an airplane, piloted by John Wilbank, circled overhead. He returned to McCloud for food to drop the lost party. He directed a searching party then to the five hikers. YORK MAN TO OPEN BUS LINE BETWEEN ALBION Lincoln, Sept.

10 (LP) T. H. Peltz, of York, operator of the Center Service Bus line, was granted permission today by the state railway commission to operate a bus line between Columbus and- Albion, not now being served. Busses will leave Columbus at 10:50 a. m.

and 5 p. m. and arrive at 9:45 a. m. and 4:30 p.

m. Busses will leave Albion at 7:45 a. m. and 2:30 p. arriving there at 12:40 p.

m. and 7 p. m. Service will be through Monroe, Genoa and St. Edward.

Lad Who Swallowed Open Safety Pin is Recovering Grand Island, Sept. 10 (LP) After having been operated on for the removal of an open safety pin from his stomach, Paul Evans, 8, of Fullerton, was recovering today. Young Evans had swallowed the pin and it lodged in his stomach as was disclosed by x-ray photographs taken at the Grand Island clinic. The only possible hope for relief lay in an operation. RAID UNION HEADQUARTERS Charlotte, N.

C. Sept. 10 (LP As a climax to the dramatic mistrial of 16 Gastonia textile strikers here, charged with the federal shooting of Police Chief Aderholt, of Gastonia, three leaders of the national textile -workers union were kidnaped by an anti-communist mob late last night in Gastonia and are believed to have been brought to Charlotte as decoys in a plot to lynch Tom Jimison, one of the defense attorneys in the trial of the strikers. Cliff Saylor and Morris Wells, workers, and C. M.

Lell, one of the defendants on bail on a charge of assault with deadly weapons as a result of the Tioting June 7 in which Aderholt was killed, were the victims of the raid. After kidnaping the the group raided offices of the International Labor Defense at Gastonia, seized quantities of propaganda and threw it into the streets. The crowd, shouting "Get the Reds" then sped to a Union boarding house in Gastonia in search of Hugo Ohler and William Dunn, organizers, and other communist leaders. Unable, to locate them, the mob moved on to the" strikers tent colony at Bessemer City, two miles from It was not known what, if any, damage was done there. WAGGONER GAVE NO INDICATION HE HAD BILKED BANKS Omaha, Sept.

10 (LP) If C. D. Waggoner had succeeded in bilking New York banks out of he gave no indication of it during his visit at Grafton, last week. District Judge James E. Fitzgerald, who talked with the Telluride, banker said here today.

Waggoner told Judge Fitzgerald that the city of Telluride was In a bad way because eastern capitalists had purchased the largest mine in the Telluride district and closed it down, evidently to stop competition with other mining properties they owned in Colorado. This threw 1,500 men out of work, he said, predicting that the town would be almost depopulated by spring If mining were not resumed. Large losses suffered by cattle men also led to Telluride's plight, he said. Wants Postal Men Called Off Denver, Sept. 10 (LP) The United States post office department was drawn today in the controversy that has developed over securities in the $500,000 fake telegraph fraud which C.

D. Waggoner, president of the bank of Telluride. "put over" on eight of New York's biggest banks. Charging that postal inspectors at Telluride were waiting to seize $100,000 worth of securities enroute from the Central Hanover bank, of New York to the Telluride bank, Grant McFerson, state bank commissioner, sent a telegram to Senators Phipps and Waterman in Washington asking them to protest to the postmaster general and prevent the seizure. The securities were those released by the Hanover bank when Waggoner paid a $100,000 note from the proceeds of his amazing fraud.

Omaha Symphony Schedules First Concert for October 31 Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) Sandor Harmati, conductor of Omaha Smy-phony orchestra, will begin rehearsals for this season's smyphony season on Oct. 1. The first concert, featuring Mina Mager, mezzo soprano, Is scheduled for Oct 31. CONDEMN SPIES TO DEATH Manchuli, Sept.

10 (LP) Thirteen Soviet spies have been arrested and condemned to death here for plotting sabotage and planning to ci sate internal disturbances under orders from the Soviet military authorities, it was announced today. F00 Week-End Casualties Mukden, Manchuria, Sept. 10 (LP) Heavy cannoning by Red Army artillery was reported today from several points along the 1,000 mile frontier where Soviet forces were said to have resumed their "offensive" against Chinese outposts. Russian attacks, which took a reported toll of 500 casualties ovei the week end. continued in full force with botli sides using field guns, machine guns and concentrated rifle fire.

Soviet planes were used for re connoiteriug. Heaviest fighting was reported in the vicinity of Manchuli, bordei town, at the western terminus of the Chinese railway. On the eastern terminus looting by brigands was reported following the Sunda bombing by Soviet airplanes. Soviet Issues Warning Moscow, Sept. 10 (LP) The Soviet foreign office sent a new note to the Mukden and Nanking governments today, warning them that they must dissolve the Czarist-Rus-sian defenses, which have become a part of the Chinese army along the Manchurian-Siberian frontier.

The foreign office at the same time warned the Manchurian and Chinese governments to cease "aggressions." to which they have been forcing the Red army to respond following incursions into Siberia. PLANE PASSENGERS KILLED BEFORE GAS EXPLODED, IS CLAIM St. Louis, Sept. 10 (LP) Flying at full speed, the Transcontinental Air Transport passenger plane. City of San Francisco, crashed headon into a mountain with such force that all occupants of the plane were killed before gas in the tanks exploded, burning the ship and its contents, according to an official statement released today by the general offices of the T.

A. T. here. That is the official statement of the company, following a close examination of the wreckage by Paul Collins, general superintendent, who made the investigation afoot, and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, technical advisor, who surveyed the scene of the accident in a circling plane.

The T. A. T. statement in part follows: "Too many things are involved to give an irrefutable cause for the accident. From a survey of the facts obtained it is our opinion that Pilot Stowe crashed into the mountain at full speed and under full control.

"He may have been blinded momentarily by a severe storm. "Pilot Stowe did not take off in the face of poor flying conditions or against his better judgment, as no one in the T. A. T. organization has authority to order a pilot to take such a flight." Ask Police to Aid in Hunt for Son, Missing 6 Months Omaha, Sept.

10 (LP) A private search of five months having failed. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph De Long have asked police to aid in locating their son. William, 17, who disappeared from home last March.

The De Long's had conducted a nationwide search through private detective agencies since that time for the boy. FIRST IS AVIATION DAY The complete program for the three days of the exposition will be found on page 4. -o With committee members busy today winding up the thousand and one details incident to completing arrangements for the three big days and with the business iwn busy receiving 'and arranging the window exhibits. Columbus will be all in readiness by tonight for the opening of the sixth annual Mid-Xebraska exposition tomorrow. Ideal weather conditions today and the forecasters favorable prediction for tomorrow served to increase the enthusiasm and optimism of the willing workers as they plunged Into the tasks before them, for indications are that Mid-Nebraska crowds during the coming three days will shatter all previous attendance records.

One long blast of the fire whistle, the signal for unveiling the window exhibits, will mark the official opening" of the 'exposition at 8 a. m. tomorrow. When the 25 planes of the Nebraska air tour descend on Columbus from the sky at 9:15 a. m.

tomorrow, the first big event on the program of special entertainment features will begin. It is because of the air tour's visit and the airport dedication that the first day of the fair has been christened "Aviation day." Indications were this afternoon that the original plans for dedicating both the Gottberg and Siems-Risser airports tomorrow forenoon would be resumed. It was reported that the air tour management, which had previously announced its planes would use the Gottberg field, had decided last night to land the planes on both the Gottberg and Siems-Risser fields. If official confirmation of the report comes this afternoon, then, committee members said today, both fields will be dedicated tomorrow. If only one field is used, it is probable only one will be dedicated.

Exposition activities throughout the forenoon tomorrow will be centered chiefly at the airports. The throng of fair visitors will be privileged to inspect the planes upon their arrival and to take sight seeing trips over the city in some of them during their sojourn here. The dedication exercises, which will include several briefs talks, will be held out there at 11 a. m. The planes will arrive from Norfolk at 9:15 a.

m. and will leave for York at 1:30 p. m. The Schuyler band will play during the activities at the airports. With the departure of the airplanes, the scene of the exposition program activities will move to the business district of the city.

The free acts will go on at 1:30 p. m. on the lots east of the post office. At 2 p. m.

the 17th Infantry band will play in Frankfort square and at 3 p. Governor A. J. Weaver is to speak in the park on legislative matters of interest to Nebraska people. Prior to the governor's address, A.

J. Randall, of the Randall Company commission firm of Omaha, will give a brief talk in support of the "Eat more meat" campaign which has been launched throughout the country by the) Livestock Growers association, the packers and kindred Interests. At 4 p. m. the Schuyler band will give an hour's concert in the park.

The free acts will perform again at 5 p. m. and at 6 p. m. the firemen will stage their annual program of contests in 26th avenue near the court house.

The second, concert by the 17th Infantry band will be given at 7:30 p. in the park, and at 8:45 p. m. the an- He Found Plane While 100 planes spent days soaring over the waste lands of New Mexico and Arizona looking for the wrecked City of San Francisco, it remained for Pilot George Rice of the Western Air Express, to make the discovery. Rice, shown here, sighted the plane's wreckage on the slopes of Mount Taylor, approximately 100 miles west of Albuquerque.

N. M. AERIAL CARAVAN IN LINCOLN, FREMONT AND NORFOLK TODAY Lincoln, Sept. 10 (LP) A caravan of airplanes dropped out of the skies this morning on the first stop of the second day of the Nebraska air tour. Before night the caravan will have visited Fremont and then come to harbor at Norfolk for the night.

At noon the aerial good-willers, who started their trip from Omaha yesterday, stopped at "Fremont. Starting at 9:15 this morning, the planes arrived at intervals in Lincoln from Falls City, where they had spent the night. GRANTED DIVORCE Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) Mrs. Ro-maine Simpson Monday was granted a divorce from Frank F.

Simpson, Florence, well known exporter of horses and mules. A cash settlement of $21,500 was arranged out of court, attorneys -M-it-v EXECUTIONER SAVES INTENDED VICTIM BY CONFESSING MURDR: Cuban Refuses to Garrote Condemned Man and Says He Committed Crime Havana, Cuba, Sept. 10 (LP) All Cuba was strired today by the dramatic refusal of the public executioner to put to death a condemned man on the grounds that he, himself, had committed the crime. "I alone committed the crime and I should be the sufferer," the exe cutioner said. The executioner is Francisco Pineda.

The condemned man is Zaila Rodriquez. The date for the execution has not yet been fixed by the courts. Both Pineda and the condemned man were implicated in a murder in 1913 of a 61-year-old woman. Rodriguez, arrested in Tampa recently, was sentenced to be executed by the dreaded garrote, a method employed in executions in Cuba. An iron ring is placed about the condemned man's neck and a steel bolt pressed through a hole in the ring, snapping the victim's spinal cord.

At first the executioner said he would put his former companion to death. Today, however, he suffered a change of heart and admitted he was solely responsible for the crime. Air Tour Plane Flies to Norfolk on Mercy Errand Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) As the airplane entered by the Skeliy Oil company was about to hop off in the Chamber of Commercial aerial good will tour Monday, word was received that the infant son of W. S.

Rawitzer, the company's representative at Norfolk, was seriously ill. Rawitzer asked that an Omaha surgeon be rushed to Norfolk at once and the plane was immediately sent on its errand of mercy. It will rejoin the fleet later. The infant, however, died an hour before the arrival of Dr. Clark in the plane.

OMAHA VETERAX DEAD Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) John T. Palmer, 88, twice wounded in the civil war. is dead here. He was a member of the Third Iowa cavalry, serving from 1861 to 1864 when he was mustered out because of his wounds.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow. Dynamite Believed Planted by Strikers; Arrests Expected Soon New Orleans. Sept. 10 (LP) A street car load of passengers and strike-breaker car men narrowly escaped serious injury or death when dynamite, placed on the car tracks, exploded under a car here last night. Doors were torn from the trolley car, all the windows were shattered and several holes were blown in the floor by the explosion which tore up the track for several feet.

Some of the passengers sustained minor injuries. Police conducting an investigation said they expected to make arrests shortly. They believed persons responsible for the explosion may have hurled bombs that recently wrecked homes of two car men who refused to go out on the strike. Meanwhile, officers of the car men's union and the New Orleans Public Service, met to complete plans whereby the strikers, out since June 3, will return to work, pending settlement of their demands for shorter hours and higher wages. TERRORIZED FALLS CITY PAIR WITH STINK BOMB Falls City, Sept.

10 (LP Falls City experienced a reign of terror which ended in the fining in police court here of Pete Stearns, who had threatened bombing persona on the streets of the city. Stearns was arrested when an excited man told Chief of Police Paul Sailors of the threats made by a man who "said he would blow me and my girl someplace." Investigation by the chief revealed Stearns was armed with bombs of the "stink" variety, which when smashed give off odors reminiscent of over-ripe eggs. Stearns was fined $1 and costs. Slugged Because He Got "Too Hot" in Dice Game Omaha, Sept. 10 (LP) It doesn't pay to get "too hot" In a dice game, according to Milton Creech.

Milton made three passes and converted his original $1 into $8. That was the last he remembered until found in a clump of weeds. Others In the party had slugged him, he believed. His watch and $8 were gone. Continued on Page 8)..