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FLIERS FINISH FIRST LAP OF WORLD FLIGHT Airmen Reach Mather Field, Near Sacramento, on Schedule Time BY H. L. PHILLIPS, Universal Service Correspondent. Sacramento, Cal., March 17.— America's flight squadron, bent on modern duplication of Magellan’s nnclent exploit, completed the first leg of its unparalled journey on schedule time Monday, landing at Mother field near this city at 3 ■o’clock, exactly 4 hours and 30 min utes from the ttmo the giant planes hopped off at Clover Field, Los An geles county. Though no attempt at a sneed record was made by the three pilots, their averago time uas 80 miles an hour, according to Maj, F. L. Mar tin, commander of the squadron. Heavy log threatened to retard tne tilers shortly before noon when they crossed the Tehacapt range, but the powerful ships, specially con structed for the land and ocean journey before them, drove in safe ty through tho dense vapor and into the cloudless sky of the San Joa ■quln and Sacramento valleys. . In Battle Formation The three ships, attended by a fleet of scout planes from San Francisco and Los Angeles, swung Into battle formation as they neared Mather field, where state and county offi cials were assembled to greet the fliers. At the point of the long ‘‘V” formation, rode Major Martin and flanking him on either side were the machines driven by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. Leigh Wade "When we left Clover Field we were confident of succors,’’ said Major Martin when he grounded his plane. "Our confidence in these ships after today’s trial Is greater "than ever. We will n< t fail." At 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, the three fliers will hop off again for ■Seattle, tho terminal of the second leg in their Journey. There they will be joined by Lieut. Erik Nelson, fourth member of the squadron. To Follow Squadron Nelson and his mechanician, Lieut. John Harding, Jr., will leave San Diego Tuesday morning and are ex pected to reach fhis city late In the <lay. They will immediately follow the squadron in its flight north ward. Aviation enthusiasts from every, section of the Sacramento valley* were gathered at the flying field when Major Martin nnd his fellow pilots stepped from their ships. May-, ■or Albert Etkus of this city acted' --as spokesman for northern Califor nia in welcoming the world flying •crew and wishing them success in the perilous task before them. A touch of humor marked the seri ous business undertaken by these throe pilots and brought smiles to* their faces when little 6-year-old Uernlce Vogel, of this city, attired in the green of Ireland, pinned -sli.imrsicka over the spread wings of their aviation insignia and as a SL Fac-1* iek’s day offering and a token ■of good luck, handed a three leaf clover to each. "These clover leaves will guard >ou,” said the little girl. “Sacra mento and all of California joins me 4n the gift.” Gat Good Luck Emblems Horseshoes, rabbits’ feet and all other known emblems of good luck! were bestowed on members of th*J ■■squadron by the enthusiastic crowd, A horseshoe presented by the Sacra-, mento Chamber of Commerce will ba hung in the cockpit of each of thq huge ships when it leaves for Seat tle tomorrow. Each mechanician also was pre sented with good luck gifts by city aind county officials. The three me chanics aro Sergeants A. L. Har vey, H. H. Turner and A. II. Og <lni. The entire crew' was banqueted Monday evening by the Chamber of ■Commerce. A sidelight of the round the world flight, expected to ma;<e aviation history, was the performance Mon day of I,lout. Earl H. Tonkin of Crlssey field, who made the flight from Clover Field to Sacramento in 3 hours and 40 minutes, leaving San jn Monica 16 minutes after Majotf Martin’s squadron and reaching Mather Field at 1:25 o’clock. Doctor Worried by Condition of Pope Universal Service London, March 17.—Pope Pius i* suffering from arterio sclero ma, according to a dispatch frintad Monday night in tha Daily Express. Physician Roasi is said to ba vary anxious about the condition of the pope's 'heart.over sines hs suffer'd ths attack a few days ago. Candidate for Governor Open* His Headquarters Lincoln, Nob., March 17.—A. N Mathers of Clering, Neb., speaker of the lower house at the last session of the legislature, arrived here Mon <I&y and opened headquarters with the intention, he said, vt remaining until after the primary election. Speaker Mathers Is a candidate on the republican ballot for the nom ination for governor. NOTORIOUS MAIL ROBBER NABBED Louisville, Ky., March 17.—A man Bald to have been Identified by a pic ture as Gerald Chapman, wanted In New York city In a $500,000 mail truck robbery was arrested at Green ville, Ky., Sunday night. New York. March 17.—Gerald Chapman, reported arrested at Greenvile, Ky., escaped from Atlanta prison about a year ago after serv ing a little more than six months of a 25-year-aentence for participating in a $500 000 mail truck robbery in New York city in October, 1921. CALIFORNIAOIL SUIT IS FILED U. S. Asks Cancellation of Doheny Leases—Fall Is Target iLos Angeles, Cal., March 17.—Suit to cancel the lease of California, naval oil lands to the Pan-American Pe troleum and Transport company, as well as Its accompanying agreements for construction and stocking by that company of naval oil storage facili ties at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was filed by the government here today. The bill of complaint charges that bribery entered into the making of the agreements as well as alleging fraud, conspiracy and illegality as in the case of the suit filed March 13 at Cheyenne, Wyo„ with reference to the Teapot Dome lease and con tracts. As In the Teapot suit, the government’s special counsel, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, asked the United States district court to Issue a temporary Injunction stop ping the production of oil, appoint receivers to take possession and con trol of the oil lands, and to enter a final decree declaring void and can celling the lease and associated ar rangements. Fall Is Cited The Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company and Its subsid iary, the Pan-American Petroleum company, were made defendants In the action, and E. L. Doheny, presi dent of the oil company and Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the Inter ior, are charged in the bill with con spiracy to defraud the United States “for the private gain of Fall, and of defendants, for whom said Doheny acted.” For the creation of certain rights for the defendants. "Fall was to re ceive certafh rewards from said Do heny,” the bill avers, adding that the payment to Fall of $100,000 by Doh eny In November, 1921, was “that cer tain reward theretofore pr*-. tvsed.” In developing the conspiracy the complaint charges, “Fall and Doheny by ‘false, fraudulent and untrue’ rep resentations induced President Hard ing in good faith to sign an executive order authorizing the leasing.” Sec retary Denby of the Navy depart ment? it adds, was likewise induced to proceed with the transactions, al though the leasing project in its eh tirety, is declared to be "without au thority of law.” Bids Were Juggled Proceeding under his understand ing with Doheny, the complaint con tinues, “Fall, purporting to act on behalf of the United States,” Invited - proposals for royalty oil accruing from the California Naval oil re serves. The proposals however, it adds, were “so drawn that no one but the defendant Pan-American Pe troleum and Transport company could or would bid thereon,” the ob ject being to permit this corporation to “make a bid not in competition with any other but as the basis of a special secret and non-competitive contract with the United States.” Under this arrangement It Is charged, leasing and other agreements were entered Into coveting oil lands rich in oil and gas in naval reserves No. 1, and No. 2, secretly and pri vately without competitive bidding. The agreements, it is charged were “obtained by bribery, the result of said unlawful conspiracy, were and are a fraud upon the.United States, are illegal, null and void, and of no force or validity, and should be de livered up to the United States to be cancelled.” Point To Damages The Pan-Arnoriean Petroleum and Transport company Is said to have proceeded with the acquirement of all the royalty oil due the United States, while the subsidiary is said to have continued drilling wells and extract ing gas and oil from the lease re serve area. The removal of the oil is declared to be a continuing damage to the United States. Of the arrangements, the bill as serts that the “transaction tinder said agreements and said leases, and the writing themselves, form but a single transaction and are so inex tricably bound together that the plaintiff (tiie U, S.) cannot obtain full relief except by the Joinder of beth corporate defendants, who are in fact and law. but one defendant.” Owner of N. Y. Tribune Buys Herald From Munsey Universal Service New York. March '17. The New York Herald has been purchased from Frank A. Munsey by Ogden Mills Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, according to an announce ment made late Monday afternoon. The purchase pries was not given. Mr. Reid announced that he would amalgamate the two papers begin ning next YVeduesJay. STILL OTHERS TO GET BONUS A/Jjutant General of South Dakota Is Preparing Worthy Claims Aberdeen. S. D.. March 15. (Spe tlal)—Adjutant General W. A. Haz le i» filing applications at stats headquarters here from ^he 7,000 soldiers credited as from South Da kota in the World War who did not receive the state bonus. He will ask, at the next session Of the legis lature, that the balance of the $6,» 000,000 bonus bonds be devoted to the worthy claima. Frequently the Adjutant General receives inquiries concerning the state bonus from ex service men who were not able to file their claims In time because of absence or lack of Information. Heirs of dead soldiers will also be listed for payment. General Hazle expects to recom mend a list of Just claims for bonus appropriation out of the fund or iginally created. He has been at work, for the past seVOral weeks, filing and investigating unpaid els 1ms. Over S*,000 claims, 80,353. to b« exact .were filed with .th-j state bon us board from June 1.1921, until It was dissolved on July 1,1923, and the account closed on October 1, 1933, by the attorney general. A total of 95,618,810 was paid In |S,875 claims. The records of the war department credit South Dakota with 35,000 sol diers in the world war and con sequently 5,000 have not filed claims and 7,000 have not been paid. Tns expense In paying the bonus was 979,968.10, a per capita cost of 9* 77. ANYWAY RAIDERS HAD EXCITING TIME. Aberdeen, S. D., March 15. (Spe cial)—Stories from Eureka which stated that county, state and fed eral prohibition officers were forced to draw guns to disperse a crowd of citizens who protested against the action of officers In making a number of liquor raids in Eureka and elsewhere In McPherson county were denied in part by Eureka citi zens today. First reports, which stated that six officers were forced to draw their guna to disperse a crowd of 200 Eureka people were exaggerated, according to Eureka citizens. A meeting of the Com mercial club was held to discuss the alleged exaggerated report. The officers who took part in the raids were: Deputy State Sheriff Ed Glau of Aberdeen, Sheriff Lockwood Smith of Edmunds county, Deputy Sheriff Dave Picton of Edmunds county, Sheriff Johnson of Paulk county. Deputy State Sheriff Wright and Charles BientUff, federal pro hibition officer. At the farm of Feed Schlable, near Eureka, the officers faced the men ace of a pair of shotguns, in tha hands of Mrs. Schlable and a son, but Deputy State Sheriff Glau an« his companions kicked their way through a door in the barn and dis armed the pair. A still, 16 gallons of liquor, and 40 bottles of beer was seized at the Seh&ble place and Schlable, who was In the barn with his wife and two children when the raid took place, was arrested. The next place raided was Spltzer brothers livery barn at Eureka, where the officers raided a “drinking par ~ty" and arrested one of the pro prietor’s. John Blffert's home was raided and a quantity of liquor seized as Biffert was pouring it out. Blffert was arrested. John Hoff next was arrested at his home, and a still and two barrels of mash, was seized. The farm home of Alfred Keuechle was also raided, and a Jug of liquor was seized and further search disclosed a large ktill, hidden under weeds, three caves, evidently former locations of stills, and a tun nel, leading from the barn, contain ing empty kegs. Elmer Keuschle, brother of the owner of the farm, was arrested after admitting that he had transported wine from Brown county. CONVICTED MAN MAY L03E AN ARM. Yankton, S. D., March 15. (Spe cial)—George Cooley, of Tabor, .whose conviction on a charge of murder in connection with the kill ing about a year ago of Mrs. John Mudloff, of Tabor, Is before the state supreme court. Is a patient at a local hospital, with his arm badly lacerated by catching it in farm machinery. Amputation may be ne cessary. MAKES FINAL PROOF ON HIS HOMESTEAD. Kimball, S. D„ March 15. (Spe cial)—Something of a curiosity nowadays for Brule county, appears In one of the Kimbal papers. It Is the final proof of 12t acres in Wilbur township, by Charles K. Schrader, who took the land as a homestead and makes the property his home. SOW SPRING WHEAT IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Miller, S. D., March 15. (Special) —Wheat seeding has started here by% Robert Kane who is finishing » fteld of 16# - acres of spring wheat west of here. Two weeks ago. farm ers were reported sowing winter wheat as an experiment. TWELVE LAMBS IN TWO SHORT YEARS Arpan. S. D., March 15.— (Special.) —Miss Beatrice Byers is the owner of a ewe which is believed to hold the record for the number of lambs ■he has produced in a specified length of time. In February, 1922, this ewe gave birth to four lambs and they all lived. In February last year she I brought forth a pair an«t they lived. This year she produced six, but they | died. “GAG RULE” ON SOLD® BONUS BILL ATTACKED - - Advocates of Cash Plan Lambast “Pay After Death” Proposal BY WINDER R. HARRIS , Universal Service Correspondent Washington, March 17.—Prohibited from discussing and offering amend ments Tuesday to the soldier bonus bill, carrying insurance policies for World war veterans, advocates of a full cash payment plan took advan tage of general debate on the navy bill Monday to lambast "pay after death" scheme and the “gag rule” un der which It is to be brought up. Refusal of the ways and means committee to include a cash option, along with the Insurance feature, and the determination of the republican leaders to call up the legislation under suspension of rules, which limits debate to 40 minutes and permits no amendments, were bitterly assailed by a number of democrats and some republicans. Chairman Green, of the ways and means committee, and Representa tive Chindblom, republican of Illinois, a member of the committee, defended the bill and the plan under which It is to be considered. Passage Expected The general expectation was that the bill will pass Tuesday in spite of the fact that a two-thirds majority will be required for it under suspen sion of the rules. Most of those who denounced the hill admitted they would have to vote for It, because in the event It were defeated and did not come up again in a form in which amendments would be in order, they would be left on record as having opposed the bonus. Others said they were receiving a large number of telegrams from vet erans, urging them to vote for the measure. Representative Pou, democrat, of North Carolina, asserted he knew the Senate would put in a cash provision. Representative Milligan, democrat, of Missouri, declared the bill and the method of its consideration wer« “outrageous and unjust." Bill Disappointment Representative Hawes, democrat, of Missouri, said the bill was unsatis factory because “it will disappoint and anger 90 per cent, of the former service men.” Representative Jeffers, democrat, of Alabama, chairman of the commit tee of former service members named by the democratic conference to work out a bonus plan and which recom mended a cash feature, characterized the bill as “an infamous subterfuge” ami a "cheap and disappointing gold brick.” Chalrrtian Oreen Insisted a "vast majority” of the veterans wanted In surance. He said the state com mander of the American Legion in his home state of Iowa had wired hl« endorsement of the bill. MILLIONS P ) ON TAX RETURNS First Installments for 1923 Pouring in—Compari sons Impossible Universal Service Washington. March 17.—A total of <377,848,841 had poured Into the United States treasury Monday night as the first installment on incomes for 1923. The total for the same quarter last year was <465,772,015, but it was said that this was for returns re ceived during the entire month of March and that in the remaining days In this month fully $100,000, 000 more in belated tax returns will be paid in It was impossible for officials at this time to make comparisons with previous years. It was pointed out that last year a majority of the smaller tax payers turned in the to tal for the year on March 15, while this year a great many held back at least 25 pH cent in the hope that congress will later provide for this reduction. New York paid nearly one-third of the vast amount, or $103,479,o85. Pennsylvania was second with <36, 943,477; Illinois was next with $36, 243,338; Massachusetts fourth with $24,905,407. California. New Jersey and Ohio all returned above $10, 000.000. CONFIRM NOMINATION Washington, March 17. By the margin of a single vote, the Senate In executive session, confirmed the nomination of Walter L. Cohen, to bt comptroller of customs at New , Orleans. Prince of Wales Ordered To Take Extra Day of Rest London, March 17.—(U. P.)—“An extra day’s rest,” was ordered for the Prince of Wales and plans fox the heir to the British throne returning to London from Aldershott. were changed at the last minute. Wales’ doctors said he was able to return to his town residence If necessary, but that they were rec ommending he remain at Aldershott until Tuesday. Respect Tor Courts Charles Evans Hughes. Justice in the minor court* Q< ' only court that millicne of gar I people know—administered with-* 1 out favoritism by men contplea ous for wisdom and probity, Is the best assurance of respect for our institutions. The stopping of criminal procedure of needless re quirements. without impairing the security of innocence, and in gas era 1 the fearless destruction ef : provisions which only embarraas i the just disposition of controver sies, should not long be delayed. Give Youth a Chance. From the Minneapolis JourpgJ. In Francs they have a wajr of cit ing for distinguished service or for valor, not men alone, but YUlagSjh cities. Then why should not WO confer citation, or even tho Cross of ths L>eglon of Youth, upon tho City Council of Detroit, Minnesota? Vot that official body has closed to vshl cular traffic two full blocks la De troit, in order that the boys and girls may be safe to coast there to u«l> hearts' content. Too much honor, say you oldstera whose sensibilities have become dul led to the pleasures that mark these snowy winters? Then you must hay# corns from some other cUm*, or must have lost all remembrance of th4 days when, on a sled, perhaps mark ed "Clipper,’* you sped down the hill making the turns, jumping th4 bumps, clinging to ths long, loW, steel-runnered speeder, and urging it by will and squirm to greater dis tance at the end of the slida You can't have forgotten, If you frrsr knew it, the delight of that swift journey; the knots of boys and girls trudging back up the hill, hauling thslr sleds after them; ths bonfire at the end of the slide; ths rivalry of the "doublerunners;" the sharp air. the Invigorating cold, the spills and tipevers, the. snowballing and ths face-washing' in the snow, ths linger ing for “Just one more,” and ths dash homeward to the fireside and the apples from the barrel in ths cel lar, and the undressing and rush into bed. for the sound sleep of untroub led youth, back In the days that have gone. Those were other days, and per haps simpler days, which you old sters may recall. But they were no different days than may b« Youth's today. A citation and an obetsancs to tho Council of Detroit, Minnesota! Pawnbrokers. God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men. You may go once— You may go again— They do not question As a brother might; They never say What they think Is right; They never hint All you ought to know; I>ay your treasure down. Take your cash and go. Fold your ticket up In a secret place With your shaken pride And your shy disgrace. Take the burly world By the throat again— God bless pawnbrokers! They are quiet men. —Marguerite Wilkinson, In Ths Bookman. A Gtsncs At China. From, the article In La Stamps. Turin, Italy.. Harbin, like any other city only 16 years ohlfl has not yet developed individuality. The European town Is a gridiron of broad avenues bordered by the cottages In little gardens. Ths Chinese city, on the lo wbanks of ths Sungari river, and the Japanese city reproduce faithfully the town life of their respective nations. A Bolshevist described Harbin to nie as an old regime Russian city In the midst of a slum. I cannot say that I really began to see China from Harbin; I saw rather thepolitlcal chaos into which these uprooted yellow men have fallen. And I hasten to say that this chaos Is by no means China, which Is still as Immobile as it has been through out the ages. Three or four men floundered about in this ocean of hu manity, raising considerable dis turbance with their armies, which may total perhaps a mlllon men, or ganized and armed more or less af ter the European model. But they do not bulk large In the vast land scape of China. Manchuria, Indeed, Is a military Babel where three arm ies are continually marching to and fro; the Russian forces along ths railway; the Japanese, who have 20. 000 men garrisoned in Mukden; and the army of Chang Tso-lln, who as pires to become the president of ths republic. Washington’s Birthday. From the Kansas City Star. George Washington was 20 years old in 1752. The change was mads in September. George went to bed on the evening of September 2 and woke up the neJit morning to find that the date, was September 14 In stead of 3. By the law of England he had been made 11 days older than lie was the day before. George felt, however, that he was growing old too fast, so he changed the date of his birthday from February 11 to Feb ruary 22. 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