1 ^ y NET PRESS BUN ,’4 ’i'.' ' •'•• t f roTCcaat’ i^ New Have* ^,;' _■ AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATION ’ ^-£-1 for the month of March, 1928 ri''’ P iu ^ : ^ ^ ^ < urdAjr;;- intot ‘‘dianl!® « 5,119 ’». .v' ^-.'A*-'5-— *' L -.1 'penvhnp. '' : • •?;■' ^ - >■•--■ - ■ Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulatlona . S' ’J; -V,*' -5 ' S5». Tf: ■■i jEy S (TWENTY PAGES) : > ■"•' ;plUGB;THBB| Classified Advertising on Page 18. GONk, 6, 1928. VOL. X U I., NO. 160. ■ ' O w v . U, Y • ■TT^ <Sh 84 P. C. REDUCTION AL SMITH HAS IN CHICAGO CROIE. Chicago, April 6.— An 84 per cent., reduction in crime during the month of March in Chicago COMBINE M ALREADY 248 as compared with March last year was shown here today by the efficiency list of operations 'f. SllREJALLOTS of the Detective Bureau. 4U N E SYSTEM The list, compiled by the chief of police, indicates therd were 445 crimes in March a year ■.t ago and only 70 this'year. Worth From Five to Ten Bil- Outside WoHd Thought Capt. If He Keeps Up Present Rate Incidentally, one burglar was ' - ••V- killed and two escaped in a rob­ WiHdns Was Already on Senator King Says If Meas­ He Will Get the 734 Votes bery here today; a policeman lioos and to Coaffol SO,-: died as the result of gunshot wounds; 14 robberies were re­ 000 Hides of Trackage; Way— His Message Re­ ure is Not Sidestepped tte Needed to Land the Nomi­ ported; one bomb threat was re­ HELD TOMORROW ceived and numerous petty Treasury SmrplnsWyi nation. thefts were reported. The Preliminary Phins. > ceived Today. If Duties Permit, President W i^ Out-r--Congress New York, April 6— Regrouping Seward, Alaska, April 6.— De­ Washington, April 6.— Democra­ layed by cloudy weather. Captain tic leaders who are anxiously fol­ “ MOTORS” STARTED into a four-trunk line system of George H. Wilkins, noted Austra­ Codfidge WiU Most Cot New ApproiHW- lowing with pad and pencil Gov. Al. railroads worth from $5,000,000,- i lian explorer, and his pilot, -Carl Smith’s progress through the pri­ 000 to $10,000,000,000 and operat-^ Eielson, were today awaiting a tioiis, He Declares. - ■■ BREAK IN MARKET favorable opportunity to take off Ceremonies in New York. maries and state conventions thus ing more than 50,000 miles of trackage, was reported today to at Point Barrow on the contem­ far held, estimated today that if plated aerial expedition over the have been agreed upon by powerful Washington, April 6— Kill the he can maintain his present pace executives after a series of meetings North Pole to Spitzbergen. New York, April.'6.— ^Elaborate tax reduction bill or kill all special.. he will get the 734 votes necessary Phenomenal Rise in Prices held behind closed doors in this A two-day silence, during which preparations are being made today it was conjectured that Captain relief legislation. to nominate him for the presidency city. for the funeral of Cbauncey Mit­ at Houston. The agreement was reached only Wilkins and his pilot might have This warning was served on Cop- chell Depew, distinguished states­ gress today by Senator William’ H. Some of them do not believe Was Not Bom itf Wall St. after a threatened break between already launched the hazardous air Smith can maintain the rate of L. F. Loree, sponsor of a fifth journey over tke frozen Polar man. financier, and railroad' execu­ King, Democrat of Utah, who point­ ed out that the legislative pro^tim progress he has thus far made, trunk line between east and west;, wastes, was broken by a radio tive who died at his, home here pointing out that most of the states Expert Says. message from the famous explorer early yesterday in his ninety-fourth of Congress now authorizes an out- ?' and the railroad officials who favor­ lay of $1,750,000,000 of federal • which have already acted consti­ ed the fourtrunk system, - The received at the United States Army year. , ^ i-i' tute very frirTJly territory. Others^ Where countless others have failed— attempting to fly across the The funeral ser-vices will be held funds. f break was averted by Otto H. Kahn, Atlantic ocean f»om the old-'world to America— two American girls are wireless station here. however, believe he can and cite' New York, April 6.— When the Weather Unfavorable tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock If this program Is enacted Into. ■ figures to substantiate their claims. a member of Kohn, Leob & Co., now to try. i* The girls, Miss Mildred Johnson (left) of Philadelphia, The message stated that the sky at St. Thomas’ church, on Fifth law. King declared, the TreasvuT , In any event. Gov. Smith today closing gong of the New York bankers for Lpree and his proposed and Miss Eskber Earner of Portend, Ore., are shown here as they ap­ avenue. Burial will be tomorrow Surplus will be wiped out like a has 248 delegates either pledged Stock Exchange sounded at three system. peared-at ,th^ T^ pelh of aerodrome in Berlin, where they are making at Point Barrow had suddenly be­ afternoon at Peekskill, N. Y., the come overhung with clouds, forc­ “ drop/in the.bucket” and the gov­ or instructed for him— with two- o’clock on Thursday, it rang down After negotiations had apparent­ their plans. '' : ' birthplace of Mr. Depew and the ernment confronted with a terrific thirds of the country yet to be ly failed, Kahn called another meet­ ing Captain Wilkins to postpone home of his youth. -the curtain on the end of the fifth the take off yesterday. If the deficit. If tax reduction leglMktii^ ^ heard from. This is seven more ing at which the agreement was President May Attend is enacted on top of this. King add- - week of the most spectacular qnd clouds depart, the message said, votes than he had on the first bal­ reached. It was said on seeminly li his duties will permit. Presi­ ed, the deficit will bo only that lot at Madison Square Garden four turbulefit stock market ever known credible authority that the plan the take-off may be made today. dent (Joolidge hopes to come here to this or any other generation. much greater. years ago.- calls for four trunk lines, and not Girlpi Man *s Clothes The flight across the top of the from Washington for the funeral. Must Economize WTiere Votes Came From For the most part, the violent five, and that the plan as finally world was to ha*Ve begun yester­ Numeiyus notables throughout the uprising in stock prices, which add­ Congress must cut down on Its The 248 votes came from Ari­ presented was satisfactory to LOree. day,, according to the plans of Cap­ east will attend the services. Mes­ present program of new appropria­ zona, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, ed about three billion dollafs to Under the plan, it is understood, tain Wilkins announced in a radio sages of condolence from hundreds the valuation of the outstanding tions, the Utah Senator said, or Michigan, Minnesota, New Hamp­ Loree’s Delaware & Hudson is as­ firies To K ill Envoy message from his picked up by the of others, who will be unable to be shire, New York, North Dakota, stocks of two hundred or more Am­ present, continued to reach Mrs. abandon tax relief legislation lor erican corporations, was ushered sured of access to the west. government wireless station Tues­ years to comej the expenditures Wisconsin, Alaska, Philippines, and Big Step Fonvard day night. Depew at her home here today. the Virgin islands. in unceremoniously and unostenta­ Fifty members of the Union within the next year under the cur­ tiously, without the sounding of the The a,greement marks' a long Russian Monarchist organization of Indications today were that the rent legislative program, he added, At-the high point of his strength step forward toward consolidation Warsaw, '’April 6.— An 18-year- terriffic Arctic storms which ‘ have League Club, including Elihu Root, in Madison Square Garden four toscin which usually heralds the Vilna. will go to the church in a body. will total $500,000,00— more than approach of the bull cohorts. of the eastern lines, but it does not old Russian girl, Salina Hbppen Dressed in a man’s clothes, she raged in the vicinity of Point Bar- double the expected 1919 surplus. years ago, on the 76 th and 77th mean that this goal— which rail­ row since Captain Wilkins’ , arrival Mr. Depew was the third oldest ballots when he polled 367 and 368 As a matter of fact the bull Waldentynowicz, forced her way concealed her identity from the member of the club,.in duration.of Among .the new appropriations., _ movement of March 1928 was prob­ road executives have been working there have abated. But the cloudi­ votes, these same thirteen states last night into the Soviet Embassy servants of'the embassy to gain ad­ membership. - autheprized by the present legisla- ably not born in Wall street, but on for months has been achieved. ness reported in tho explorer’s mes­ tl've program. King listed $325,006,- and territories gave Smith 160% here and -tried ,4o assassinate the mission to the ambassador’s office. Bishop to Officiate votes. Consequently the New York in the counsel chambers of the of­ The Interstate Commerce Commis­ Before she could fire a shot, she sage may be a portent of further Bishop William T. Manning. 000 for flood relief (passed h r Sen­ governor has made a gain of 87% ficials of one of America’s greatest sion must pass on the final plans Russian ^ambassador, M.