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VOL. XXL—No. 178. LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1928 12 PAGES Arctic Believed To Have Claimed 20 Lives ^$40,000 OUT OF Italian Fliers Who Made Record Non-Stop Flight to Brazil FEARS ARE ENTERTAINED $100,000 MAIL 10 OF NOBILE CREW AND TEN RESCUERS VICTIMS ROBBERY HAS Tragedy of Modern Polar Exploration Heightened as One Relief Expedition After Another Fails to Rescue BEENJLaCATED Marooned Men—Amundsen and Five Com­ panions Are Practically Given Up Detroit Police Helping Tor­ KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, July 11—Indications increased onto Officers to Round today that a tragedy of modern polar exploration had claimed Up Suspects the lives of 20 men. Grave fears were entertained for five others. Those believed dead were: TRACING BANDITS BY Ten members of General Umberto Nobile's party of 16 which was aboard the dirigible Italia when it crashed May 25, RECOVERED MONEY returning from the north pole. ; ' DETROIT, July 11—Detroit police re­ Roald Amundsen, L. Dietrichsen, Captain Guilbaud and a vealed today that they are assisting crew of three of a French seaplane which tried to find Nobile's Toronto detectives in searching for a party. man formerly employed in a barber shop here In connection with the $100,- The Italian Alpine chasseur, Capt. Zora, and two Norweg­ 006 mail robbery at Toronto recently. ians, Varming and Van Dongen, guides, who also started They also disclosed that seventy-five search. • " Canadian five dollar bills, believed to Commander Nobile is the only one of the party rescued. be part of the loot, have been recov­ 22 Cars Pile Up In AIRPLANE BEING One man was killed in the crash. ered here. Four suspects and three women are in custody in Toronto in Fear was increased for the safety of five fever-stricken connection with the robbery, according Wreck On C. P. R.; USED TO SEARCH and partially insane men. marooned on the ice by the crash of to Detroit police, who also said they the airship. nave been given information that ap­ There appeared to be no immediate prospect of their proximately $40,000 of the loot has been rescue for four days, attempts to communicate with them by recovered. Two Men Missing FOR LOST CHILD radio having failed. Toronto detectives investigating the Lnndborg's Story WALKING PARTY FOUND? robbery here are said to have told De­ Spurred on by their recent success in establishing a new. aviation endur­ This silence today was attributed troit officers that two Detroit men took Smash-Up of Freight Train LONDON, July 11.—A Renter's ance record, Major Arturo Ferrarin (1) and Carlo Del Prete (3), Italian fliers, Little Eddie Hamilton of El- rather to weakness of Radio Operator dispatch from Moscow states that part In the robbery. One of these, ac­ left Rome at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 3, in the Marchettl, a Savoia monoplane Biogi or atmospheric conditions. Lt. cording to police information, obtained is Reported From the walking party of the dirigible (2) on a 7,000-mile non-stop flight to Pernambuco, Brazil, and on Thursday rose District Missing Lundborg. Swedish airman, who was Italia has been found. The group only one thousand dollars of the loot. Caron, Sask. they landed at Port Natal, Brazil. They flew southward along the Brazil rescued from among the marooned Police said they found the Canadian of tMree men, headed by Dr. Finn coast at about 122 miles an hour, after having attained an average speed ot Since Last Friday men off Foyne Island, said that Blogl Malmgren, Swedish scientist, which money here in a brick wall of the base­ 135 miles an hour for the trip. The aviators kept in constant touch with was weak with fever, but managed previously had been referred to as ment of the shop in which the other MOOSE JAW, July 11—Twenty, ships and vessels along the route shown in the map (4), and reported that SASKATOON. July 11.—The Elrose twice daily to send out radio reports. the "walking party," had been miss­ Detroit member of the gang had been two freight cars laden with grain, everything was going all right. They have made a new distance record for district today is the scene of one of The floe on which they are drifting ing and practically given up for lost employed. lumber and coal are piled in a trans-oceanic flying. the mdst highly organized and thor­ was growing soft, preventing planes . ever since May 30, when they left Seven Held heap and between 150 and 200 ough searches for a missing person from landing to take them off. The the nine men of the Nobile group TORONTO. July 11.—It is understood feet of trackage on the C.P.R. that has ever been made' In the pro­ hope of rescue appeared to rest on who bad been thrown on the Ice that four men and three women have torn up about half a mile west of vince, the quarry being little Eddie the ability of the ice-breakers Krassin when the Italla's gondola was been held here by the Toronto police Caron station as the result of an Hamilton, 2%-year-old child, who dis­ and Braganza, forcing their way smashed on May 25. for some time in connection with the accident that occurred at 7.13 this appeared last Friday when he was out through the pack ice to them. The With Dr. Malmgren were Capt, Toronto mall robbery, which occurred morning. The freight was travel­ berry picking with his family and Krassin reported no progress yesterday, ling eastward toward Moose Jaw Accident Insurance some neighbors. being held In the ice about 30 miles Alberto Mariano, pilot of the Italia, in Jtae early morning of June 20 last. when something from the fifth car away from the survivors. and Captain Zappl, Italian navy Six armed bandits pulled up to the car • • • • • • • • . Today all available forces are being navigator. In the union station and at the point struck the track tearing up ties concentrated on the hunt. The Sas­ A dog team expedition of Captaip These men stayed five days with of pistols, robbed the Canadian Na­ and steel, the result being that katoon Aero club has sent one ot their Zora with the Norwegians, Varming the marooned party of Northeast tional Railway Montreal-Chicago train the cars piled upon one another Companies Mulcted $3,000,000 Year Moth planes to the scene of activity. and Van Dongin started across the ice and spread across the right of All places of business in surrounding several weeks ago to rescue the ma­ Land and then decided to make aa mail car of about $125,000. NEW YORK. July 11.—An elaborate One man, the "Hopper," he said, way. towns, and villages have declared, a rooned men. also warned that such an effort to reach land and then walk 3 system of faking accident claims, es­ would find a defect In a sidewalk of At the point where the acci­ holiday to Join in the hunt. The attempt was fraught with great peril. across Northeast Land to Kings timated to cost insurance companies an'insured building, trip, over it and dent occurred the line is double mounted police have sent fenforce­ They were swallowed up by the Arctic Bay. They carried approximately $3,000,000 a year, was described in an then make a false claim of injury- The tracked and the box cars in their ments from nearby detachments to ' Scene Beggars Description fifty pounds of provisions, bvt set investigation into ambulance chasing "flopper," he said, rarely went to a far as known had no arms. Viscount Byng headlong flight ripped up all the before Supreme Court Justice Wasser- hospital but a second man would direct operations. A veritable caval­ Lt Lundborg said on landing on the A message was received in Moscow steel In the vicinity including the vogel. gather the names of witnesses to the cade of autos is roaming over the ice on June 24 he was met by General main line of the C.P.R. Of five countryside and hundreds of search Nobile who fell into his arms in the today stating that the. Russian flier Thirteen lawyers and five physicians accident; Chukhnovsky, who has been making men riding In the cars only three were named as members of a ring that The claim would be placed in the ers are swarming over.the hills, cbv tent. He wept from mingled Joy and Highly Praised have been accounted for. ering every inch of the ground. distress, as he embraced and kissed flights from the ice-breaker Krassin, employed men and women to fake fails hands of one of the attorneys of the now near. Foyne Island, made the dis­ The train crew escaped unhurt. The airplane left Saskatoon at 12:30 thi Swedish airman. Lundborg said over manhole covers and other sidewalk ring while a, physician; also affiliated covery in the course of a series -of today, arriving at Elrose about one the condition of the tent baffled de obstructions. with the ring,' would furnish a false flights. hour later. scription. All.of the Italians were more London Times and Post Both Operation of the alleged ring was medical certificate. Suit would be filed The Russian airman found Dr. Mal­ against the insurance company. The Aero club, in response to appeal or less physically and mentally weak described by Daniel Laulich, alleged mgren and his two companions at 80.42 Pleased Over New Ap­ lawyer's runner, who now is serving a from friends of the family, is supply­ from strain, exposure and lack of prop­ British Party to Laulich said the ring had arranged er food. north latitude and 25.45 east longitude, prison term for insurance frauds, and with an insurance broker for informa­ ing the plane for the search,.and the pointment Irving Fuhr, who said he is a truck Star-Phoenix Publishing company is Lundborg and Lt. Shiberg who ac­ which is about 20 miles from the pw» tion on buildings carrying insurance sent position of the Krassin. This, is Study Commerce in driver and painter when not engaged against personal Injury and paid $5 paying the expenses. Jack Bythel and companied him, carried and dragged 'LONDON, July 11.—(Canadian Press west of Cape Platen, Northeast Land. in accident "flopping." each for such tips. He said he drew Major C. P.. McCullough are flying the Nobile to the plane. They took him Cable.)—Viscount Byng, whose ap­ Circles Over Men Laulich, who named the lawyers and a salary of $40 a week from the lawyers plane. to Hlnlopen Strait and from there he pointment as commissioner of the met­ The pilot this afternoon was search­ Canada and States physicians, he said were involved in and a split of the profits which aver­ The volunteer army of searchers was transferred to the Citta Di Milano. ropolitan police has been criticized on the accident faking and estimated the aged $50 a week. -. met at the hills at 9:00 o'clock this Lundborg returned to the ice floe ing for a place to make a landing near ths grounds of his age and the fact ; amount of the insurance companies' morning and organized under the hoping to bring out two men in his the party in order to pick them up. that he is a military man. is eulogized He described the "various flops" in LONDON, July 11—(CP. Cable) losses, described in detail the methods direction of the mounted police. White plane. The skiis of the craft cut The airman reported that he circled by the Times in its leading editorial which he specialized, and said he did over the men five times. Two of the —With the object of studying of operation. about ten "flops" a day. Bear Lake, a. shallow, long strip of through the soft snow. The machine t$day. The Morning Post also declared commercial undertakings end In­ turned over and was wrecked. Lund­ party energetically waved to him. The Its belief that the former Canadian water at the foot of the hills, has been stitutions In Canada and the dragged, but without success. borg was marooned among the men he third was lying down. governor-general will not tolerate any United States, fifty representa­ had hoped to rescue. The purpose of the walking grout unfairness in whatever reorganization 9 tives of the National Chamber of Ultimately Lundborg was rescued by was to reach the King's Bay base t« ot the force might be carried out. Today s Baseball Trade and Commerce left South­ SCOUT MUSTER a fellow airman, but weather conditions bring help back to their comrades who Though a professional soldier and a ampton on the Montroyal for wt-;?. unfavorable for a return flight. were stranded near Foyne Island. very distinguished one, Viscount Byng Montreal today. Six weeks will be AMERICAN LEAGUE Scotland Yard Days of despair followed. Fog pre­ Dr. Malmgren was widely experienc­ is as little like the popular notion of a spent making a tour of the two vailed and prevented airplane rescue ed in life in the Arctic because of his professional soldier as it is possible to TONIGHT AT 7:00 parties from either rescuing them or previous studies in that region. While countries. R. H. E. imagine. The Times says: "He won the seeing them: Shifting winds loosed the he was known to be well able to take devotion of some very diverse bodies Detroit 4 8 0 New York ...... 2 6 1 Is Absolved ice around the camp. The rising and care of himself and his two compan­ of troops in different parts of the MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN falling of the floe added to the misery Holloway and Woodall; Pipgras and ions, it wa3 feared that the handicap world—the South Africans and Cana­ AFTER BITTER FIGHT Will Be Allotted Places Foi of the party. The food began to run Bengough. LONDON, July 11.—Scotland Yard facing them was too great and that dians as well as regular British regi­ low for the crew, already placed on Parade Thursday—Jam­ is understood to have been cleared of they never would be heard from. No ments—by methods which are some­ DETROIT, July 11 — Minneapolis Chicago 3 90 short rations of chocolate, corned beef charges of employing third degree definite word of them was heard from times considered unconventional but was chosen last night as next year's boree Thursday Philadelphia 10 13 1 and biscuits, and bear meat. which, in truth, amount to nothing convention city of the International Blankenship and Berg; Grove and methods in the majority report of the the time they left the other men. more complicated than an initial be­ Advertising association after a bitter Night Fox. commission appointed to investigate Report Denied Several overland expeditions equip­ lief in human nature. tight which was followed by the an­ St. Louis 3 10 0 the..Savidge case. The case grew, out OSLO, Norway. July 11.—The Ital­ ped with dog teams were in constant nouncement, that the action would be of the arrest cf Miss Irene Savidge ian legation received a. wireless mess­ search for them and the various planes "A man of the highest character There will be a muster of all the Boston 4 11 1 age from the base ship Citta Di Mil­ himself, he always assumed the same protested to the organization's board Stewart and Manion; Harris and and Sir Leo Money in Hyde Park on which have scoured the district were Boy Scouts and Cubs of the city charges of improper conduct which ano, filed from Spitzbergen at 2 on a constant lookout for them. character in other people. If his past of governors. tonight, Wednesday, at "Gait Gar­ Heving. o'clock this morning, denying reports record is any guide he will be likely to Second game: were dismissed' later! dens at 7 o'clock. Boys should be of the death of Neale Ceccinl, motor The powerful ice-breaker Krassin regard the mission of the police as MISSIONARY RETURNS Detroit 0 0 0 Majority and minority reports have in uniform and on time. The pa­ been sent to the house of commons chief of the dirigible Italia. was Bent north by the soviet govern­ being the prevention of offenses rather TO CHINESE POST rade is in preparation for the in­ New York 12 0 than their detection, and since uncon­ Billings and Shea; Hoyt and Collins. and are expected to be made public in ment on June 11 to aid in the search spection by the Governor-General detail about the end of the week. for the missing men of the Italia. It ventional methods are apt to strain red TORONTO. July 11.—Taking advan­ Second game: tomorrow and a full turnout of The majority report comments on left Leningrad for Kings Bay on June tape, it is reasonable to assume there tage of consular permission for families Scouts is urged. Chicago .002 Edward Johnson to will be less in future, rather than more the extent of which the liberty • of 15 and arrived at Virgo Bay, north of of missionaries to resume residence in Thursday night at Henderson tniladeiphia .'. 0 0 0 Give $25,000 to Aid Music of the harrassing regulations which un­ Szechwan province. Western China, Dr. Faber and Crouse; Earnshaw and British subjects under police adminis­ Spitzbergen, on June 2\. Ever since rark a big Scout Jamboree and tration urgently demands the grave broken tradition has imposed on Scot­ A. E. Best of the West China mission lerkins. then the ship has been battling ice land Yard." Council Fire will he held. A fea­ attention of the authorities. It dis­ Gu-elph Public Schools floes in an effort to reach the casta­ of the United Church of Canada, has ture of this gathering will be the Cleveland 0 00 The Morning Post declares that Vis­ escorted Mrs. Best and their children agrees with the majority report that ways near Foyne Island. It was last presence cf the Barnwell Mounted Washington .000 5 count Byng's appointment is popular to Chung King on the upper Yangtse. the police are not subject to censure GUELPH, Ont., July 11.—An offer of reported about 25 to 30 miles from th* Troop who will reach the city this Hudlin and Sewell; Hadley and Tate. 1 both with the police and public. It is Beyond that point British women and for the questioning of Miss Savidge. a contribution of $25,000 for the en­ marooned men, making steady, slo afternoon and who will be reviewed couragement of public school pupils in progress toward them. popular with the police because they children were not allowed to go until NATIONAL LEAGUE "know General Byng is too big a man, yesterday. Dr. Best is a graduate of by Lord Willingdon Thursday. The musical studies has been made by Ed­ With the softening of the ice, hr general public is invited to the ward Johnson, distinguished citizen of of too magnanimous a nature to tol­ t'-i University of Toronto and was born Brooklyn ...... 0 0 1 of recuing the men by means of erate any unfairness in whatever re­ at Madoc, Ont. He went to China in Jamboree. Boy Scout stunts and Guelph and world renowned tenor. Mr. planes had decreased and the chif activities will be presented. It is Cincinnati 2 0 0 Fair and Warm Johnson today advised the local board organization there may be. They are 1914. Doak and Gooch; Jablowski and Har- liauce of the relief expeditions sure of fair and honest treatment with estimated that 150 Scouts and Cubs of education of his desire to assist in centred more and more on tb< will be in attendance. grave. WEDNESDAY'S WEATHER REPORT the development of musical talent Viscount Byng in command." FORMERLY AT MACLEOD breakers. Philadelphia 000 Vancouver .. .. 82 57 .. Clear amr-g the pupils. The late former Assistant Commis­ Pittsburg 0 1 2 Victoria ...... 72 51 .. Clear Another Report Denier' JANITOR KILLED BY FALL The $25,000 would be paid in five an­ 1 sioner Demers of the R.C.M.P., who Benge and Lerain; Brame and Har- Nelson 85 48 .. Clear ROME, July 11.—No mes nual Instalments of $5,000 each. The been received in Rome frotr died Tuesday in Edmonton, was ap­ grave. Ec'.monton 76 51 .. Clear Hoover Resigns As MONTREAL, July 11.—Jacques La- training proposed would include voice Biogi, wireless operator with pointed inspector of the Royal Cana­ Boston 002 Calgary 76 48 .. Clear dian Mounted Police at Regina in 1898 joie, 47, a janitor, was instantly kill­ culture, instrumental and orchestral men stranded off Northeast Commerce Secretary Chicago 000 Medicine Hat ... 86 52 .. Clear and was later transferred to Battleferd, ed Tuesday when he fell from the music. as has been published ar Delaney and Taylor; Blake and Hart- Lethbridge .. ... 76 51 .. Clear SUPERIOR. Wis., July 11—The resig­ from which point he went to the South fourth storey of the St. Paul Acad­ The great tenor's idea Is to establish effect that the party was ' emy while cleaning windows. nett. Moose Jaw .... 79 50 .. Clear nation of Secretary Herbert Hoover of African war in 1902. On its conclu­ Rccina 75 50 .02 Clear a department of music in the schools. and becoming increasinpnth the commerce department, from the sion he returned to Battleford from Saskatoon 76 52 .01 Clear A spokesman for the a cabinet, effective at President Cool- where he was successively transferred Winnipeg 78 56 .. Cloudy BROME COUNTY that wireless communi idge's pleasure, was received at the to Fort Saskatchewan, White Horse, Port Arthur .... 64 44 .. Clear REPEALS DRY W group has ceased tenjj summer White House Saturday. Yukon, and back to Eattleford, where FARM RELIEF TEARS ARE Forecast of a magnetic storm In his letter to Mr. Coolidge it is he was promoted to superintendent Western provinces—Light to mod­ SHERBROOKE, Que., July 11.—(Ca­ understood that Secretary Hoover said with command of Fort Churchill. OF CROCODILE VARIETY erate winds; fair and warm today and nadian Press.)—Brome county, which U. S. PROBING C that he tendered his resignation since After spending two years at Fort 'i nursday. for years has been recognized as a tem­ COSTS V h' feared that his political activities C urchi!l he went to Maple Creek, DETROIT, July 11.—William Johnson, editor of Farm Life, believes Weather Notes perance strongnold, has voted to re­ WINNIPEG, J i<- connection with the forthcoming Sask., from where he went to Mont­ that tears of farmers for relief are of the crocodile variety, based more on Except for thunderstorms in a few peal the Scott Act by a majority of duction costs in electoral campaign might embarrass real in command of that post. Later a desire for added luxuries than for economic necessities. sections of Manitoba the weather has 2,740 votes. With the decision to repeal be the subject ward the end t'-- administration. he returned west to Macleod and fin­ Addressing the convention of the World Advertisers here, Mr. Johnson t.3n fair and warm throughout the the act, which was a federal enact­ L. G. Connor, ally to Prince Albert where he was said real economic distress existed in cities where there is a marked ab­ west. ment, the Quebec liquor commission EMBEZZLER LOSES in charge of the Northern Manitoba, will now grant licenses to those muni­ ited States te sence of "croaking" for federal aid. contact wit' $97,000 IN GAMBLING Saskatchewan and Eastern Northwest "Farming may produce no millionaires," he said, "but it has no bread NAMED VICE-PRESIDENT cipalities whose electors vote in favor Territories posts. In 1924 he was ap­ will be obt lines, no flop houses, no pitiable wretches living on charitable dimes and of the bylaw for sale of alcoholic pointed assistant commissioner at Re­ of R. A CHICAGO, July 11.—A man identi­ NEW YORK, July 11—W. H. Hurl- drinks. gina, from which post he resigned on nickels. Agriculture has been dreaiily pictured as a scene of murk and pre: fied as George W. Anderson, former hopelessness. As a matter of fact, the modern farm today would be an but has been elected a vice-president teller of a Chicago bank, who em­ December 31 last. Livestocl agricultural heaven to granddad. Contrast the bare drudgery of 20 years of the International Paper company. bezzled $97,000 of the institution's HON. PETER HEENAN SAILS the rff: Coming to this city a short time ago ago with the modern sort, lighted and brightened by power, machinery, Mr. Hurlbut, who recently joined the funds, was arrested here with thirty he took up residence in an hotel until ings w cents in his pocket. The rest of his radios, automobiles and other things. active staff of the company, has been COBH, Ireland, July 11.—Hon. Peter Winn: taken sick with the illness to which identified for many years with the funds he had lost in gambling, he he succumbed, He is survived by his "Probably the next generation will be hard up for the price of air­ Heenan, Canadian minister of labor, Creek; planes." pulp and paper industry in Canada and said. wife and one son. and his family have sailed for home on mon' the United States. trs steamer Montroyal, bla.