. 1 The Omaha Corning Dee T“-,n”i _ • which you can do today.—Benjamin ___ ..- ■ . - --■-■> ■ m.- -. .. —.— , ■ ■■ — .. -.-. -■■ - ■■— a- i ~- ■■ . ... m. l. —. >■. Franklin. CITY EDITION - VOL. 54. NO. 104. OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1924. •* TWO CENTS1” ^vj’^eote ^laewhen!” ■ * Defeat of Chekiang Is Complete Pandemonium Reigns in Shanghai as Result of Col lapse of Defense; Com manders Flee. Guard Foreign Quarter » By 1'nlvernnl Strvhf. Shanghai, Out. 14.—Pandemonium and around Shanghai is the after math here today of the sudden col lapse of the Chekiang defense of this city last night before the onrush of the Klangsu attack. Thousands of Chekiang troops, de serted by their commanders and not knowing where to take themselves, are fleeing towards Shanghai over every possible available avenue lead ing from the former battle fronts. Defeat of the Chekiang army was as crushing as it was complete, ac cording to outspoken admission from the Chekiang leaders themselves, many of whom are fugitives either in the international settlement of Shanghai or aboard foreign warships in the Whangpo river, just off this city. Armistice Arranged. One thousand Chekiang soldiers ar rived here late last night over the Shanghai northern railway from Huangtu. They reported that Gen. Chwang Tse-Ping, the last of the Chekiang leaders to surrender, had been forced to give up his lont strug gle after a brilliant assault against the Klangsu fortes in his sector maintained throughout the day yes terday. However, this report of Gen eral Chwang's surrender has not been confirmed. Forty-three car loads of Chekiang troops are held up at Chenju, five miles west of Shanghai, and 10,000 l.jore are awaiting transportation at Jianziang. just north of this city. Foreign observers along tlie former battle front confirm the news that an armistice was arranged between the fighting armies in the Sungkiang sector shortly before the general col lapse of the Chekiang defense. Th<* Liuho region has been cleared of Chekiang soldiers. Order Maintained. Every precaution is being taken by the International forces guarding the foreign settlement of Shanghai to maintain order in the city. Up to now the arriving Chekiang troops have been orderly in spite of the general confusion that prevails everywhere. .Most of the retreating t ildiers are remaining in the railway rurs that conveyed them from the battle front to this city. Foreign railway officials are puzzled what to do with the^e soldiers. Apparently no arrangements have been made as to their pay or provisioning as ali responsible Chekiang leaders have de serted their followers. A heavy patrol of naval volunteer police is guarding the border between the international settlement and thg Chinese section of Shanghai, and no one is permitted to either enter or leave the foreign section. Reports that Lu Yuang-Hsiang and Ho Fcng-LIn, the two principal Chekiang leaders, have fled to Japan, have not been confirmed though it is generally believed that both of them are aboard a veasel bound for th* Japanese islands. PRISONER KIEI,ED TRYING TO FLEE * Charleston, West Va., Oct. 13.—One prisoner was killed and another badly wounded In an effort to escape from the state prison here early today. Karl Blankenship was killed in n light with guards after he and Harry McCracken, the wounded man, were ''.elected in throwing a rope over the wall. McCracken was shot in the shoulder. According to the warden's office. Blankenship had unlocked his cell door with art improvised key, over powered N. G. Black, a guard, whom lie locked in a cell, after taking his pistol. He then released McCrackgp. Both prisoners were serving terms for robbery. We Have With Us Today Miss Anna A. Gordon, Temperance Worker. Evanston. Ill Miss Anna A. Gordon is national president of the W. C. T. U. and has dedicated her life to the cause ol temperance. She was horn in Bos ton and educated at Mount Holyoke college. For 31 years she was secre tary to the late Frances K. Willard founder of the W. C. T. 1). At the exposition In Chicago if 1813. Miss Gordon had an interesting exhibit of temperance pledge cords Blie is the author of numerous hymn and books of various kinds, Includ ll\g a biography of Frances Willard, Jn addition to being president ol A the W. ('. T. U. In this country, Mist Gordon is president of the world or ganization, which has branches In 61 rations. The W. C. T. U. was found t ed 10 years ago. Woman Is Ordained Methodist Pastor i m * v ^ - Rev. Myra L. Hutchinson (above) of Oregon is one of the first women ordained as a Methodist Episcopal pastor. Under a new ruling men and women have equal standing in the Methodist Episcopal clergy. Rev. Hutchinson was assigned to a pas torate at Harrisburg, Ore. McMullen Tour Swings Toward East Once More _ Republican Candidate for Governor Joined by Sen ator Norris; Together This Week. — By P. C. POWELL. Staff Correspondent of The Omaha Bee. Alliance, Neb.. Oct. 13.—Adam Mc Mullen. republican candidate for gov ernor. arrived here today to open his campaign through the northern tier of counties bordering on the Da kota line. He will address a mass meeting here tonight with Senator George W. Norris and will continue traveling with the senator until Thursday. A Relegation of Alliance citizens, inducing J. M. Miller. Era! Meyer and Ed Bishop, met Mr. McMullen at the station. In the afternoon he visited the Burlington shops, after he met a delegation of citizens from Hem ingford, consisting of Ralph Pryce, D. TV. Butler, Frank Goilk, K. L. Pierce, George Jenkins and Ora Phil lips who insisted that he speak there tomorrow mopnlrg as he drove through on his way from Alliance to Chadron and Gordon. Mr. McMullen complied with their request. Senator Norris will go by train to Chadron in the evening. Former State Senator James Good and George Snow of Chadron and Dwight Griswold of Gordon, candi date for state senate, arrived to con vey the party to Chadron and Gordon tomorrow. On Wednesday Senator Norris and Mr. McMullen will go by train to Valentine, arriving there In the morning. In the afternoon Mr. McMullen will drive to Springview to attend an open air barbecue In a night meeting with Senator Norris. A feature of the afternoon was a dance by Indians In their war paint on tlje streets. The Indians were on their way to the reservation In South' Dakota following several weeks’ work in the potato country near Heming ford. FEWER FAILURES IN STATE NOTED Fewer commercial default* occurred in the third quarter of the present year than in a similar period of last year In Nebraska, Minnesota and North Dakota, according to R. G. Dun & Co.’s report of fullures. In creased defaults In Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas offset the decreases, however. With 408 commercial defaults for $22,530,401 of liabilities, the third quarter's statistics for central west ern section (how increases in both number and amount over the 4.35 failures for $8,0.30.983 of the corre sponding three months of 1023. FORDROYALTY CASE IGNORED Washington. Oct. 13.—The supreme court today refused to consider "hether Henry Ford owes Edward S Huff $11,000,000 as royalty ui>on magnetos used upon 4.500,000 auto mobiles. Huff claimed tie was pai.l $10,000 by Ford for tho Invention but that he was also to teceive $2.30 for each magneto* used. The lower federal 1 courts held that Huff had neglected to press his claim within tho time i allowed by law’. ENGINER KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK New Milford, l*a., Ot. 1.1 - The on gineer and fireman of a pusher en glue at the rear of a freight train were killed and three other train r rnent injured today when a fiuffaln ' New York pawHenger train on the • Lackawanna railroad, running > through a heavy fog. crashed lnt» the slowly moving freight near here No puaaengera were lnji AS?!3" *’»«n SOlire Back Muscle Shoals Bid Magazine Interview States He Has Withdrawn Offer, but Federal Officials Are Not Advised. Senate Fight Impending BULLETIN. By Universal Service. New York, Oct. 13.—Henry Ford’s bid for the government nitrate and waterpower plants at Muscle Shoals, submitted to the War department in 1921, has been definitely withdrawn, it was revealed today. “We made the best bid we knew how to make," says the Detroit manu facturer In an interview by Samuel Crowther, which is to appear in the October 18 number of Colliers. “No definite action has been taken on it. A simply affair of business which should have been decided by anyone w-thin a week has become a compli cated political affair. Productive business cannot wait on politics. Therefore we are withdrawing our bid.’* lly Associated Tress. Washington, Oct. 13.—If Henry Ford has withdrawn his bid for Muscle Shoals, as Indicted by an in terview published In Collier's Weekly, he has failed thus far to advise offi cials in Washington of his decision. Neither the White Hourse nor the War department, to which the bid originally was submitted, has heard anything that would mean a change in the status of the proposal, and none of the congressional leaders note In the capital has received any recent word from the Detroit ^Manufacturer. Attention In Washington was at tracted as much to the magazine's quotation of Ford's endorsement of President Coolidge's suggestion, that an Impartial commission he appoint ed to dispose of Muscle Shoals, as to the report of the withdrawal of the Ford offer itself. Bitter Fight Planned. The magazine story came as a shock to supporters of Ford's offer, who had succeeded In having the Muscle Shoals question placed on the senate calendar as the first order of bus! ness for the December session of con gress. They wers prepared to wage, a bitter fight on the senate floor. All members of both the senate and house committees having to do with the Muscle Shoals' question, were out of the city today and it was impossi ble to learn here if they had been advised officially of Ford's with drawal. Secretary Weeks said he had received no word from Ford and had not heard of a withdrawal being submitted to the committees In con gress. The Ford offer already had passed the house after being reported favor ably by the house committee. Op position to the Ford offer arose in the senate committee on agriculture. The fight against the bid was led by Senator Norris, republican, Nebraska, chairman of the committee, who sub mitted an alternative proposal provid ing for government ownership and operation. Norris Bill Favored. After long public heatings the sen ate committee refused to report favorably the Ford bid and endorsed the Norris bill and It had been amended to carry optional provisions for government ownership and opera tion, or government ownership with private operation. The insistent democrats of Ford supporters led Senator Norris to agree to lay the whole Muscle Shoals Issue before th^ senate at the De cember session. Ford's offer was the only proposal providing for private ownership and operation. With the passing of the Ford bid there would remain the Norris bill, several pro posals for government ownership and private operations and the admin! stratlon plan for the appointment of an Impartial commission to study the Muscle Shoals problem and submit recommendations to congress. STEEL CONTRACT FOR BUILDING LET The structural steel contract for the new live Stock Exchange bulld I !ng, South Side, has been let to the l'axton Si Vierllng Iron Works, so cording to H. S. Brelnlg, chief engi neer of the Union Stock Yards com 1 pany. ' The new 10-story building designed by (ieorga Prlnz. architect, Is to bo t shaped, with a frontage of IRS feet, 1 north and south, and 133 feet, east and west. The building will stand 1 at the end of the viaduct now under 1 construction by the stockyards com 1 pany. Red Oak Monte Carlo Orchestra to Broadcast Red Oak, la., Oct. 13.—Monte Carlo orchestra of this city will broadcast k a musical program Tuesday evening from ti '.tn to 7:30 from the May Seed and Nursery company station, Hlien i andnah, and will relay to wave meter ,VJ6, WOAW, omaha. Those taking • part on the program are: Hubert p Llndle, piano; Lawrence Milow, Trom < bone; Ml wood Madden, saxophone, I Merrill Hawkint. drums; Vaugb Woodard, violin and Dowlen June" saxophone. -f Get Out and Vote! Women volunteers are wanted to canvass precincts of the city in tlie got-out-the-vofe movement, Mrs. Charles T. Neal said Monday. Headquarters are in the southeast corner of the basement of the courthouse. Bach worker is given a diagram of a precinct and asked to rail at eacli home, urging the citizens to register and vote. Ho far, the response to the ap peal has been far below expecta tions, but Mrs. Neal believes the women will respond and push the work during the 10 days remain ing before registration time ends. \_/ Dawes Breaks His Silence on Plans for Reparations G.O. P. Nominee Says Scheme Is Workable and Will Prove Foundation of Enduring Peace in Europe. By AMftociatrd Frew. Louisville, Ky.. Oct. 13.—Breaking his silence on the reparations settle ment plan bearing his name. Charles G. Dawes, republican candidate for vice president, opened a two-day campaign In Kentucky today with an address, In which he asserted that the proposal, as finally established today by ’he allied nations and Ger many, was “a workable plan,” and furthermore, "will prove the founda tion of an enduring and Chrlstlas peace In Europe and the world.' Dawes made his pronouncement be fore a nonpartisan audience, gathered at a noon luncheon here held under the auspices of the republican county committee, and was induced to break his silence by reference to the plan hy the chairman of the gathering, Fred M. Sackett, republican candidate for United States senator. Prior to the luncheon Dawes had read Asso ciated Press dispatches announcing final establishment of the plan. The republican nominee spent the day in Louisville and In addition to the luncheon address, conferred with republican state leaders and tonight spoke at a mass meeting In the city auditorium at which he continued his attack on the I-a Fo.lette Independent candidacy. Tomorrow he will carry his speaking campaign beyond Louis ville with rear platform speeches from his special train at Hhelby vllle, Lexington. Frankfort and Cov ington, thereby ending his present tour. Discussing the reparation plan as “the experts plan,” and not as “the Dawes plan” as it has come to be known. Dawes used his reference to it to draw a leHson—the lesson that settlement of the nation’s economic problems, in his opinion, must be solved not through oratory, not through the preaching of inconsistent doctrine* and not through dema goguery, but through work, thought and honesty of mind and purpose di vorced from politics. FORBES GIVEN FIRST HEARING Baltimore, Md., Oct. 13.—The case of Col. Charles R. Forbes, former dl rector of the veterans’ bureau, under Indictment here on chargee of con spiring to defraud the government, began today before Federal Judge Super on a motion for a bill of pleas. The motion was opposed by District Attorney Amos W. Woodcock. With Forbes are Indicted Lieut. Commander Charles R. O'Leary, for mer chief of supplies of the veterans’ bureau, and Nathan Thompson of Boston. The charge alleges Forbes und O’Leary sold $3,000,000 worth of supplies to Thompson for one fifth their value. FIREMEN BURNED AS OIL TAKES FIRE Dallas, Tex . Oct. 13.—Seven men, Including six firemen, are known to have been burned seriously snd others nre reported Injured In a fire today which Is sweeping oil tanks here of the Clay county company. At 1:30 p. m. six tanks of oil were burning. The loss was estimated at $100,000 at that hour. Two of the tanks, which hnve a capacity of 1,000 barrels, exploded. DAWES TOURING BLUE GRASS STATE Louisville, Kj'„ Oft. 13.— Beginning a two-day drive for Kentucky'* 13 electoral votes, Charles O. Dawes, re publican nominee fur vice president, had on his program here n noon luncheon with party leaders, followed by a. reception, a radio speech at 3 and a formal address tonight. Frederick M. Beckett, a republican nominee for United States senator, will preside and Introduce Dawes. J. R. Tiiasev D les in Oregon; ' Will Rp Ritriet! ul DeWitl DeWlU* Nob . o<*t. n Thr body t-f .1 ft Til Sf , . former »**p«l«l**nt «•! HeWltt. Hrrixcfl today from Portland, Otr., and burial will hf* he*tv Turn day, beulde I he w ife who dird h*re Hi yearn ago. Tuaaoy watt xft yftai'8 old. and wim an «*arly aMtler h*»re. Hr ia mtrvlved by r» aeoond wlfo and one son, of Portland, mid two »uii«, ChrU and YVilllum, of DeWitt 1 Divorce Is Issued to Wife of Hart — Former British Major Agrees to Pay Alimony of $200 Monthly to Mate Whom He Deserted. May Wed Mrs.Hall-Quest Cincinnati, O., Oct. 13.—Frederick William Hart, former major in the British army, was free tonight to marry Mrs. Shirley Knox Hall-Quest, divorced wife of Dr. Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest, dean of the action depart ment of the University of Pittsburgh, in the real of "perfect love.” Mrs. Rosamond Hart of Cincinnati was granted a divorce from her hus band here today, just seven days after Mrs. Hall Quest was released by her husband. In order that she might continue her association with Hart. Dr. Hall-Quest was granted his di vorce in Chicago, where he made every effort to conceal from the light of publicity the name or his wife's associate. Cruelty Charged. The hearing was brief. Judge Charles L. Hoffman granted Mrs. Hart a divorce on the grounds of ex treme cruelty. He approved a con tract entered into by Hart whereby Mrs. Hart received $5,000 in cash and a monthly allowance of $200 during the remainder of her life. She like wise was given possession of furni ture and effects located In the Hart apartment here whleh adjoined that formerly occupied by the Hall-Quests. This contract will automatically grow void should Mrs. Hart marry again. Hart was not In court. He left Chicago Sunday njght, ostensibly for Cincinnati. Judge Hoffman said, al though he had granted the divorce, he would not put on the formal decree until tomorrow. During the hearing the name of Mrs. Hall-Quest was frequently men tioned as the "other woman” In the unusual triangle. Walter Locke, attorney for Mrs. Hart, took the stand and told of a conversation he had with Mr. H^trt. “No Reconciliation.” "He was discussing what he was able to do for Mrs. Hart’s support," he said. “He admitted to me he was living In Chicago with Mrs. Hall Quest. He said he would live with her whether he was divorced or not. I asked whether there was not some way he and Mrs. Hart could be rec onciled. ” ‘Absolutely not,* he said. *T would never again live with Mrs. Hart.’ ” The "perfect love” of Major Hart and Mrs. Hall-Quest started in On cinnatl, where the families lived in a flat building in adjoining apartments. Dr. Hall-Quest was connected with the faculty of the University of Cin cinnati and Major Hart was an ac countant here. Later Hart and Mrs. Hall-Quest left Cincinnati together for Chicago, where they lived until last week, when Dr. Hall-Quest se cured his divorce. Major Hart, In a short interview last week, said: "We are just wait ing.” NAVAL BUDGET MAY BE REDUCED Washington, Oct. 13.—A proposal that the budget bureau and the Navy department compromise upon $330, 000,000 aa the appropriation for the navy' during the next fiscal year was presented today by Director Lord by Secretary Wilbur. The original esti mate for the department totalled $350, 000,000, which was reduced about $30. 000,000 by the officials holding the federal pursestrings. Secretary Wilbur Brought an addi tional $4,000,000 for naval aviation, which would bring that allotment to approximately the $13,0cn,000 recom mended by the general boa' ACCIDENT VICTIM’S FUNERAL TUESDAY Funeral services for Karl Malland, 17, former Central High student, who was killed In an automobile accident on the D. P. D. highway Friday night, will he held Tuesday at 2:30 p. ni. at Sc ottish Rite cathedral. Dr. Frank (7. Smith, pastor of the First Central Congregational church, will officiate High school friends of Malland will act as pallbearers. Burial will be In Prospect Mill cemetery. 1’allheal ei s will be Harold Palmer, Payson Adams, Russell Hunter. James Halley. Willard I’slier and Mtllo Tipton. BRYAN RETURNS FROM HIS TOUR Lincoln, Neb, Oct. 13.—Governor Bryan returned to Lincoln early to day after n campaign tour tu five western st.ite*. A« noon a* attention la given to accumulated work at the capitol the democratic vice prcalden Hal nominee will start on tin* final lap with day and night speeches that will keep hint busy until election eve rii.-M- Sitiil (iltitiiiiig. Rose Worthy. 1102 Avenue 1), Coun cil Bluffs, reported to police Monday morning that some one had broken Into her home and atolen « quantity of men a and women s clothing Sothern and Marlowe Back in U. S. l_: j Anione the theatrical folks of prominence to arrive in New York on the liner Aquttanla the other day were fc. H. Sothern and wife, Julia .Marlowe, the celebrated Shakesperian players. I Forget bourses,’ Educator Asks _ Alabama Teacher to Explain New School System to Omaha Forum. T,enrning is its own reward and education is growth. This is the message brought to Omaha teachers by Mrs. Marietta Johns, n of Fair hope, Ain., who arrived Monday morning to address the Omaha school forum in the auditorium of Technical high school. Mrs. Johnson has attracted the at tention of education of the country through the system of instruction wivlch she developed in her home town, where her Institution is known as an “organic school.” Her fundamental principle is that the growth of the child is superior to the claims < f the curriculum, and that by following the special needs of the child, he will advance in physical and mental well-being. “In this sort of education,” she said, “with Its flexibility, Its ein rhasis on interest and happiness, it3 recognition of the emotional iersis of action, its tffort to utilize all kinds of ability, the problems are so compre hensive. the adjustments are so delicate, that success is assured only under the wisest and most sympa thetic teachers.” Mrs. Johnson contends that the average child should not he required to read In school until eight years old. She believes that many children suffer eye strain, round shoulders, nervousness and other disorders be cause of requirements in school not in keeping with their needs. "I discovered after years of exper menting at my school in Falrhopc that much of the instruction in the lower grades does not aid in the de velopment of the child,” Mrs. John son said. "Our business is to supply the needs of the child. We should stimulate, control, glide, instruct and inspire; that is the business of the school." The practice of giving external re wards for high marks runs counter to the educational Ideas of this edu cator. She states that if the educa tion is properly administered, the pup 1 will take a natural joy in learn tng and that education will become a natural growth. She condemns the custom of announcing lists of pupils who obtain high marks. "My plnn of education does not de stroy control of the child in the school room, and the experience has been that by supplying the real'needs of the child, the teacher automatical ly obtains better control." she added. Mrs. Johnson will proceed Monday night to San Francisco, where she w.ll conduct a special school fop six weeks. COOLIDGE LEADS IN STRAW VOTE i'nl\ in Coolldge ted Davie hy 14. votes In the "straw" vote taken Sun day .it the Orpheum theater. Robert I .a Follette was only 103 votes behind Davis. The poll wns: Coolldge, 781; Davis. 576; Da Follette, 473. The vote will he taken at every per formanre In every theater of the Orpheum circuit this week. Natlonnl results will he announced next Tties day, . Hat Selection Day. Woim*u of groups in \iriou* com munition who have been engaged in millinery work under the direction ot Myrtle Hanley of the state agricul tural extension nervine during the past autnmer, presented a prt'gram at t)ie hat selection achievement du> program at Hlkhorn lant Wednesday A hundred and fifty peraona attended Thomas Is Pained bv Jury's \ erdict w W> Award to Suspect Arrested by Dry Agent “Outrageous,” He Says. “Outrageous:" cried Elmer Thomas, prohibition director for Nebraska, commenting Monday on the $750 ver dict returned In favor of a Norfolk (Neb.) citizen against Elmer Hunt, former head of the mobile agents of this division. “Federal Judge AVoodrough's 'in stru. tions were a great disappoint ment to me, too," 6aid Mr. Thomas. "I was greatly surprised to hear thar oodrough directed a 5100 verdict against Hunt, and then allowed the jury to fix the amount of damages." Thomas was also keenly disap pointed when the jury acquitted three i suspects, against whom he thought the government had excellent cases Hunt was sued for 510.000 because one of his agents held a Norfolk citi zen In jail for 4S hours without bond until a habeas corpus action was started to liberate him. According to AYoodrougb's lr.struc tios. all prohibition agents must be prepared to file complaints when they j make arrests. In Hunt's case It was charged that the agent was unable to] prepare a complaint, and it was neces sary to obtain a government district attorney from Lincoln to prepare one ] Assistant United States District Attorney Koyser, who prosecuted the cascs, refused to make any comment j LAWYERS ENDORSE DISTRICT JUDGES Every judge now on the district court bench was endorsed by mem bers of the legal profe «ion In Wash ington, Burt and Douglas counties In a referendum taken by the Omaha Bar association. The referendum has Just been com pleted. The ballots carried space for the Insertion of nine names. More than -400 ballots were cast. A resolution presented at n recent meeting led to the circulation of the referendum blanks. The judges named were: W. A Red ick. Charles A floss. W. G. Hastings, A. C. Troup. .Charles Leslie, Carroll O. Stauffer, James Fitzgerald, Ar thur C. Wakely nnd I,. B. Day. CHINESE OF OMAHA TO OPPOSE TONGS Chief of Police Charles H. Van Deusen notified all Omaha police and detectives Monday morning that po lice courtesy cards had been Issued to nine Omaha Chinese. These Chinese are watching Oma ha for the appearance of tong ngita tors, following tong war outbreaks In other cities. The courtesy cards authorize* them to call the police patrol and police aid at any time. Omaha at present has no tong, and local Chinese are co-operating with authorities to prevent establish ment of one. 1 The Weather ! v____/ Ko» 4 4 horns ending T |\ in. Octo* Pr^cinitnUon inches «i>! humlv*dttu> » To:.!! H Tol d .erne January 1. 44 f*. dt fl. iPiicy, 3 4. Hourly Trinin rutnr«*s & ■ m . l>tv \ p hi ..•; I * s. in.fA * p n, Tl J »■ "i. t ml... S • 4 p m .......t C • * m.41 s p. ro.TS a. m.«> « p m.re It • m........ f t, y p m .... * s I 13 Boon.to • p. m.«»j Di r igible May Reach Goal Today • _______ Navy Department Expects to Establish Direct Wireless Communication With Her at Any Moment. Slight Engine Trouble Boston, Oct. 13.—The dirigible ZR 3, en route from Germany to the t'nlted S'ates, passed over Flores Is land, the most westerly of the Azores group, at about 0:30, eastern standard time, according to a message from the ZR-3 picked up by the Chatham, Mass., station of the Radio Corpora tion of America tonight. The message, sent to Hamburg, Germany, was not timed, but was picked up by the radio corporation’s station at about 6:30 p. m. The is land is in latitude 39 degrees. 25 min utes, north; longitude 31 degrees, 12 minutes, west. The ZR 3 w-as talking with Ham burg, the operator reported. Eariier, at 1:30, a message was sent indicating that the ship had sighted Pico Island, in the Azores, "dead ahead.” The message indicated that the giant air cruiser had encountered some slight engine trouble, but that It was pro ceeding satisfactorily w.th three engines running. By Awoflated Pr**#. Friedrk-hshafen, Oct. 13 —Now that the ZH-3 has passed the "top of the hiU,” as old mariners call the half way point in transoceanic voyages, it is believed probable here that if all continues well the big dirigible will reach the region of the Virginia capes late Tuesday. In view uf the splendid progress of . the airship so far and the fact that reports indicate falrlv good flying weather. Zeppelin officials are of the opinion that Dr. Hugo Eckener, In command, will slow down the motors and arrange his schedule so as to pass Norfolk and Richmond and skirt the coast, giving Washington a view of the big ship Wednesday morning. I: is then likely, officials believe, that the ZR 3 will proceed to Balti more, Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York city and Newark, prior to moor ing at Lakshurst in the afternoon. Washington, Oct. 13—Driving west ward at an average speed of from 50 to 55 miles an hour, the German built air cruiser ZR 3. to night Was ap proaching a point where the Navy department momentarily was expect ing to establish direct wireless com munication with it. Westerly Winds Prevail. Unofficial dispatches during the day brought word of the air cruiser’s passage of the Azores sector* reviv ing hopes that a new record for Transatlantic flight might be set when it stops at its mooring mas; at Lakehurst. N. J. The arrival is predicted for Wednesday morning hy naval officers detailed to keep In Pitch with the flight. Reports of a moderate atmospheric disturbance in its path were declared to increase rather than diminish Its d ances f r a speedy passage. West erly winds of more than average force are prevailing north of Ber muda, according to the observation ■=Hts stationed by the navy near the i'rth<-rn steamship lanes. The only- direct report from the R-3 to ’he Navy department today as a delayed dispatch, signed by Capt. George W. Stee’.e. the ranking American observer, describing the take off yesterday from Friederlchs hafen and the decision to take the longer southerly route, by way of the Azores and Bermuda, because of the preliminary weather reports. From Bermuda the course probably will be influenced by later meteoro logical observations, but officials here are confident it will be a straight away path for its destination, with a possibility that the ship may !>e taken on a short swing over New York city before landing. » Still German Property: The ZR 3 still will be "Germany property” when it reports at Taike hurst, and several weeks probably will e!ai>se before legal title will pass to the United States. As outlined by the government of ficials today, the procedure to be fol lowed in its delivery It: German government turns Zeppelin *ver to crew for delivery :r the United Slates, before Its departure from Frledrlchshafen. Reporting at the lakehurst station, the American commander there gives \ "custody receipt" to the German rormnanrter. United States naval board of in •pwvtion and survey makes a thorough tost of the ship and Inspects " from end to end for the Navy de partment. On receipt of report of trial hoard, Ifavy department informs S"a:e de partment that the ship meets specifl -a lions. State department, acting for United states government, « know ledges re >ipt of ship to the German roveni re m completing the f. rm«l aecepl ntce. The cruis