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(FOURTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS: FLYERS LEAVE GREENLY ISLAND ■ la. r ? <8> WATKINS & CO 21 MORE SflIPS Cannibals Kill 500, FORDPLANESTARTED OF NEW HAVEN, TO REINFORCE Then Eat The Bodies UNDERA PROBE BIG FORCE AT 7:45 THIS MORNING London, April 2 6.— The harrow-* As soon as the Goros ascertained ing details of native massacres on that the government officials were the Island of Papua in which 500 absent, all their warriors mustered Reported Over Natashquan, Quebec, at 9:50; First Mes­ Big Brokerage Firm Peti­ Papuans were killed and then eat­ in war-canoes and preparations By May 1 There Will Be en by their cannibalistic foes were were made for the most serious in­ described by passengers arriving at ter-tribalwarfare on the island in sage Says Destination Is Murray Bay— Bert Balchen tioned Into Bankruptcy 300 Agents and 40 Coast Sidney. Australia, aboard a mis­ years. sionary steamer from the island, The first gruesome clash occur­ in a dispatch received today from red on January 8. The Goros took At the Controls— Clark City Reported Plane at 1:10; By Creditors — Special Guard Boats on the Great the Australian city by the Central their victims completely by sur­ News. prise, killed eight and ate them at The massacres occurred at inter­ festivities in celebration of the vic­ Plans of Aviators After Landing, Not Yet Decided. Master Appointed. Lakes. vals since Christmas during the tory immediately afterwards the temporary absence of government missionaries said. of Belle Iple Straits without skia officials. All 500 victims were eaten Native police in uniform were Clarke City, Que., April 26— The New Haven. Conn.. April 26.— Wasbragton, April 26.— Twenty- immediately after the massacres. among the leaders of the head- was unsuccessful yesterday. Ford relief plane bearing the Ger- The Bremen probably will re­ Carleton E. HoaJley. referee in one Coast Guard ships today were The wholesale atrocities are be­ hunters, the witness said. lieved to have been committed in man-Irish trans-Atlantic flyers, main at Greenly Island until a ship bankruptcy for New,Haven county, ordered to Detroit to reinforce the When the government officials reprisal for the murder of nine returned, eighty natives who were passed over Clarke City at 1:10 this is able to reach the isolated out­ will start tomorrow the first of a rum palTol against a threatened post where the trans-Atlantic air­ Goro spies by members of another alleged to have participated in the afternoon. series of investigations into the do­ flood of Canadian liquor. tribe. massacres were arrested. men landed after their epic 36- hour flight westward over the At­ ings of R. W. Watkins & Company, Assistant Secretary of the Treas­ Natashquan, Que., April 26 — lantic. brokers, who yes.trday were peti- ury Seymour Low^man announced The Ford relief plant, piloted by Skis were not brought to the Is­ 'ioned into bankruptcy through the strengthening of the patrol on Bernt Balchen, and carrying the land by the Ford plane because it arrival here from Detroit where he AMERICAN IS HELD | LOCKHART’S ZEAL was thought at the time of its de­ paper- filed in ihe United States held a rum war council with Cus­ German-Irish trans-Atlantic flyers. parture that it would be able to take District Court here by three of the toms Commissioner E. W. Camp, Captain Koehl, Bitron Von Huene- off with its land gear. However, Watkins company creditors. Prohibition Commissioner J. M. BY NICARAGUA REBSl CAUSE OF DEATH feld and Major Fitmaurice, passed softening ice has made this impos­ Judge Warren B. Burrows, of the Doran and Coast Guard officers. sible. It was also felt that the pe­ District Court, sitting here for a By May 1 the government will over Natashquan at 9:50 o’clock culiar underbody of the Bremen naturalization session, accepted the have 300 prohibition and customs this morning, speeding in a wester­ would not permit the fitting of skis. bankruptcy papers from Samuel agents and over forty Coast Guard ly direction. It is due at Lake St. In the last message received from Campner, attorney for the credi- boats forming the blockade against George B. Marshall, Man* Noted Auto Racer Would Agnes early this afternoon. the flyers, they indicated that they •ors, and appointed ri«trry Rabi- After battling lieavy storms on the liquor smugglers in the vicinity of were deeply moved by the plight aowitz, a local lawyer, temporary first leg of the flight from Rome Detroit. Natashquan is 225 miles from of Floyd Bennett, who brought the receiver in bond of $10,000. At the over the North Pole, the dirigible Help Pledged agerofG old Mines Be­ Not Listen to Anxious Greenly Island, starting point of the Ford plane from Detroit. At the Italia is shown being brought into same time Judge Burrows sanction­ Lowman said he had received flight. time of their message they had not tji'e giant hangar at Stolp, Ger­ pledges of cooperation for law en­ learned of Bennett’s death. Balchen ed an application for a “ 21-A” many. It is piloted by General lieved to Be Alive, Pleas of Mother. tearing and named Referee Hoad- forcement wlWle in Detroit from had been Bennett’s companion In Umberto Nobile, who already has public officials and large industrial THE HOP-OFF many an air venture and was one of ley as special master to conduct the flowm over the pole in a lighter- hearing. The referee today an­ plants. Henry Ford was represent­ Quebec, Que., April 26 — The his closest friends. tlian-air ship, the Norge. At the ed as prepared to assist the govern­ Bluefields, Nicaragua, April 26. Los Angeles,. April 26.— Frank nounced he intended the first hear­ Ford plane, carrying the German- right is Nobile himself, standing in ment through his vast manufactur­ — The fate of George B. Marshal, Lockhart’s zeal to reign supreme Irish trans-Atlantic flyers, Baron TO iMEET, GERMANS ing in the case should take place the cabin as the craft was hauled ing establishment. tomorrow. of New York, assistant manager of in the speed world could be soft­ Gunther Von Huenefeld, Captain Curtiss Field, N. Y., April,,26.— down by the landing crew. In the Intelligence agents of the dry Fred Melchior, pilot of the Junkers “21-A Hearing” La Luz and Los Angeles gold mine, Herman Koehl and Major James E. doorway is the dog mascot that army reported that five armored ened by nothing Fitzmaurice, left Greenly Island monoplane F-13 sister ship of the Under the bankruptcy act a accompanied him on the first arctic ships are anchored in Canadian who was captured by rebels, was not even the anx­ Bremen, was endeavoring today to hearing designated as a ” 21-A still unknown today, but he was be­ this morning, according to word flight. great lakes harbors prepared to ious pleas of his reaching here. have the F-13 ready by this after­ Hearing” is held with the special sail for the United States with large lieved to be alive. mother. noon for a flight to Montreal or master possessing unusually wide Three days after his capture The Ford plane hopped off at cargoes of whiskey and beer. They This was dis­ 7:45 Atlantic time, wireless dis­ Quebec. He said he hoped to leave powers of investigation. He can will try to slip through probably Marshall was alive and well in the closed here today in time to meet the crew of the subpoena any witnesses he deems along the Detroit “ front,” within a rebel camp. It was understood patches stated. It should arrive at as preparations the Lake St. A^nes airdrome this Bremen when they are brought necessary and can seize any ma­ few weeks, according to government that the rebels planned to work down from Greenly Island in the began for the afternoon, probably around two terial that he finds is likely to help advices. Neptune mine to obtain gold bul­ burial of the Los Ford relief plane, to whatever des­ him in .the investigation. Failure to “ No artillery battle is anticipat­ lion and wanted Marshall to show o’clock. tination they select for the first MILITARY FUNERAL Angeles youth The Ford plane Is piloted by respond to subpoenas renders the CITIZENS AROUSED ed on the lakes,” Lowman said. them how to do It. who was hurled to stop, and to bring them the rest nffending person liable to severe “ However, Coast Guard boats are Sandino Absent. Bernt Balchen, himself a noted of the way to New Yprk In the his death at Day­ trans-Atlantic flyer. nenalties from a federal judge. Ac­ armed with four-inch guns for use It-Is do-'btful If Augustino San- tona Beach yes­ cording to attorneys, the special FOR FLOYD BENNETT O V E SHER MURDER if necessary.” 'dlno, leader of the rebels, was with News of the start south, which The F-13 will be ready to fly terday in an at has been expected and delayed for naster’s powers under a ” 21-A” ex- Lowman declared that In the last the bands that raided the American tempt to shatter when its new propeller is completed imination are wider than even owned mines. In addition to the the world’s auto­ three days, was received from the at the Curtiss factory. 'The factory wireless station at Point Amour,, hose of a Grand Jury in a state (Coiitinned on Pjvgo 3) band entrenching themselves near • Lockhart mobile speed rec­ has promised the propellor for this court.