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Show rrrZZ " J it 0 TV ,. I - - -- v ' - ? v - J r. i , r . - ? . if . 1 f " V -V 1 ) fi) v Dlrwhir, f '" Coohdge -presenting meduls tu New Bedford school children for proOciencv in English. 2 the TTn-trt 7, anrh,racite strtke; left to right, below: Vice President Philip Murray and President Lewis of bnrv I t Workers; above: C. J. Golden and James Gleason. district officers. 3 Sir Henry P. May- ,11; jrfC 5 g.eneraI of rads and chairman of the London traffic committee, in the United States studying han-d.mg han-d.mg of traffic in the principal cities. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Dirigible Shenandoah and Honolulu Flight Plane Lost Nineteen Dead. By EDWARD W. PICKARD pv OUBLE disaster befell the navy's air service last week. The Shenandoah, Shen-andoah, huge military dirigible, lies In fragments in the cornfields of Ohio. The seaplane PN-9 No. 1 is lost in the waters of the Pacific ocean. And 19 of the best men in the service lost their lives. The Shenandoah, on her way to visit a number of cities in the Middle West, encountered a severe storm eight miles north of Caldwell, Ohio, in the early hours of Thursday morning. To avoid the twisting wind she went up to an altitude of about 7,000 feet, then turned suddenly downward and broke into three pieces. One section, with the controller cabin, fell near Ava, and the 13 men in the cabin were all killed. Among them was the commander of the dirigible, Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. A second part landed near the first, and the third section, 150 feet long, drifted like a balloon for 12 miles, falling near Sharon, Noble county. Two of the crew were injured. Besides Lansdowne Lans-downe the dead include Lieut. Com mander Louis Hancock and Liuet. A. R. Houghton. PN-9 No. 1 was one of the two seaplanes sea-planes that attempted the nonstop flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. Piloted by Commander John Rodgers and with a crew of four others, it surged out over the Pacific at high speed apparently going well, until it was only some two hundred miles from its goal. Then its commander wirelessed wire-lessed to one of the warships that were stationed along the route that its gas supply was almost gone, and it was compelled to descend to the ocean soon after. This was at night and a heavy sea was running. Cruisers, destroyers de-stroyers and submarines at once began searching for the plae, and as soon as possible three naval seaplanes took off from the Island of Maui to help in the hunt. By that time the ocean had calmed down and the weather had so cleared that the aviators could see for many miles, but no trace of the lost plane or Its crew had been found up I to the time of this writing. The second plane, which started at the same time under command of Lieut. A. P. Snody, was forced down by a broken oil feed pipe when about 800 miles out. No one was injured and the plane was towed back to San Francisco. A third seaplane, the PB-1 was expected to start on the attempted flight to Honolulu at the same time as the others but was delayed de-layed by the necessity of replacing its motor. OL. WTLLTAM MITCHELL Is de- termlned that the American people peo-ple shall know the truth about the air sen-ice as he sees it. and last week published his book, "Winged Defense telling the story of the development of military and commercial aviation. The War department at once began nn examination ex-amination of the work, but Colonel Mitchell asserted he had disobeyed no order, though admitting he had published pub-lished the book without submitting It to his superiors. -The truth of our deplorable situation situ-ation is going to be put before the Ann-rican people come what may, he ,e',..rod. "K War Ocparynont .. -s to start something, so much the b r Then I can pet the case before ",s and the people and we will nf the deplorable situation. On they are go ln.? b0'" r TMVFKSAL interest, "snoopy" rer- with the present law. Every one wanted want-ed to know what the nation's richest men paid on their last year's inebme, and maybe more especially wanted to know what his acquaintances and neighbors paid. Most of the newspapers newspa-pers catered to this curiosity, though a few refused to print the lists. The largest payment in the country was by the Ford Motor company of Detroit, $16,493,160. Henry Ford individually paid $2,60S,S06, while his son, Edsel, paid $2,15S,055. The largest individual taxpayer was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who contributed $6,277,669. His father's tax was only $12S,420. As a usual thing the assessments on the multimillionaires showed decreases, but among the exceptions were those of J. P. Morgan, $574,379 ; George F. Baker, $000,371; Otto H. Kahn, $391,-770; $391,-770; Thomas W. Lamont, $4SO,000; T. F. Ryan, $791,851; James B. Duke, $641,250, and Vincent Astor, $642,600. All these in the New York district. In Chicago the list was topped by Arthur Cutten, whose wheat market profits compelled him to pay $540,500. Richard Rich-ard T. Crane, Jr., was assessed $434,-457, $434,-457, and James A. Patten paid $425,-348. $425,-348. Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, with $2S1,125, was the national capital's heaviest payer. President Coolidge paid $14,-091 $14,-091 Into the Boston office. Of the movie stars only two were tbove the $40,000 mark. These were Douglas Fairbanks, $132,190, and Gloria Swanson, $57,075. Mary Pick-t'ord Pick-t'ord paid in $34,388, and Lillian Gish $36,967. It Is interesting to note in the Indiana list that the assessment on Billy Sunday, evangelist, was $10,- 111 almost as much as was paia Dy Tom Taggart. ANTHRACITE coal miners to the number of 150.000 quit work according ac-cording to their strike order September Septem-ber 1. The suspension shut down 828 mines and 272 collieries owned by 135 companies. A population of half a million depending directly on continuance continu-ance of mining is affected by the strike. Included In this number are 10,000 railroad men who probably will be forced into idleness by the lay-olt of train crews on mine runs and the closing of shops. Replying to President Presi-dent Lewis' declaration that no other course was open to the miners than to suspend operations, W. M. Inglis, chairman of the operators' committee, said : "There was a way open that the operators op-erators have over and over again proposed, pro-posed, namely, that operations should go on while negotiations for a new contract were pending. The idea that the miners cannot work unless they have a contract is unsupported by reason rea-son or practice. All other classes of workers continue on their jobs after a contract expires knowing that sooner or later another contract will be made." Mr. Inglls added that the operators would insist that a settlement of the strike Include measures for avoiding future strikes in the Industry. Dispatches Dis-patches from Swnmpscott said President Presi-dent Coolidge, being convinced that the only wny to protect the public from constant menace of coal strikes is by government Interference, will ask the next congress to enact legislation legis-lation giving the Chief Executive power pow-er to take decisive action when a strike threatens. He expects tn urge legislation embodying practically all the recommendations made by the federal fed-eral coal commission In 1923. SENATOR WATSON of Indiana conferred con-ferred with President Coolidge last week on railway legislation and it was agreed that the administration should urge congress to so modify the Esch-Cummins act that railroad consolidation con-solidation will be forced after a period of seven years. Meanwhile they are desirous that voluntary protipin.s of railroads be brought about and think approval of the Van Swrringen consolidation con-solidation scheme would clear the way for those. SPANISH and French forces In Morocco Mo-rocco joined In a great attack on djir capital of Abd-el-Kritn. and reduced re-duced it to a mass of ruins by shell fire and bombardment from srpadrons of airplanes. The Riff lender with his staff of Turks. Germans and R-iss!.in! had previously moved to a safe f ace in the mountains. Heavy reinforce ments are being taken over from En-rope En-rope and Marshal Petain's big offensive offen-sive against Krim is well under way. In Syria the French are not faring so well, for the rebellious Druse tribesmen tribes-men have captured the fortress of Suedia with its garrison of 700 men, after destroying a relief expedition. General Sarrail, in command there, has been handicapped by the necessity of protecting Damascus and the slowness slow-ness of the government in sending him reinforcements. WITH Aristide Briand In the chair the council of the League of Nations Na-tions convened in Geneva. The biggest big-gest question for its consideration was the dispute between the British and the Turks over possession of the Mosul Mo-sul vilayet. This rich oil region was formerly a part of the Turkish empire but Great Britain contends that it comes within the borders of Irak, for which Britain holds a mandate under the league. The league also expects to consider the security of Europe but cannot do anything about this until the allies and Germany come to some agreement. The foreign office legal experts ex-perts of Great Britain. France, Belgium, Bel-gium, Italy and Germany met in London Lon-don for preliminary discussion of the terms of the proposed pact. Meanwhile Mean-while President Loebe of the German reichstag "pulled a boner" In Vienna and aroused anew the apprehensions of France. Addressing the Austro-Germany Austro-Germany People's union at a huge demonstration, Herr Loebe said : "After Germany becomes a member of the League of Nations, France will be unable un-able to use force to prevent a union with Austria. Immediately the French government announced indirectly through its newspaper mouthpiece that it could not accept a security pact unless un-less France were allowed a free hand against Germany in case the latter suddenly annexed Austria. FIVE thousand veterans, feeble In body but strong in spirit, marched through the streets of Grand Rapids, Mich., in the national parade of the Grand Army of the Republic on Wednesday. It was said this might be the last parade of the organization, for few of the members are longer equal to the effort. AMERICANS who have been vacationing vaca-tioning in Europe are considerably considera-bly worried by the gradual spread of the unauthorized strike of seamen which began some time ago In certain British ports. However, the shipping companies seemed to have little difficulty diffi-culty in finding new crews for their liners. The unemployed. Increasingly numerous in England, flocked to the ports In great numbers. In Australia. South Africa, India and Denmark the seamen quit their jobs. BERT E. IIANEY of Oregon, a Democratic Dem-ocratic member of the shipping board, has refused to resign at the request re-quest of President Coolidge. The request re-quest was made In the following tele gram from the President: "It having come to my attention thai you are proposing to remove Admiral Palmer, president of the United Statel Fleet corporation, contrary to the understanding un-derstanding I had with you when I reappointed re-appointed you. your resignation front the United States shipping board Is requested." re-quested." Commissioner Haney. Insisting thai there was no express understanding ai to the continuance in office of Mr. Palmer, Pal-mer, but that, on the contrary, he had advised the President fully as to whj lie was opposed to the present head cl the fleet corporation, declared in a letter let-ter to the President that he could not resign because such action would "carry nn Implication which I cannot permit." It is understood that Commissioner Haney dnes not intend to var;p a controversy con-troversy with the President relative to remaining as a member of the hoard, but that lie feels that he could not comply with the Presidr-m's re. quest in the f"rm made heeause ot the Implication involved that he ia broken a promise made to the Presl dent A White House spokesman said that other members of the board nrL-M hi asked to step out unless tbev dn.ppei their opposition to the President' economy campaign. |