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MM: mux PRICE THREE CENTS SIXTY-FITTH YEAR VOL. 59, HO. 304. i rs TW firillW TftTTT A AIIT ftTHLTTIlTn A TiTJ TT 1 VCl A o) A o) 0) Dl THE WEATHER Calisthenics Are Officer Finds Judge Violates Traffic Laws; Fines Self $5 GOV. LONG TO 80 TO TRIAL THIS WEEK BODY OF SLAIN WOMAN FOUND IN MOTOR CAR FOUR CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM STATE PRISON CONTRAPTION OF DEATH MAILED TO N.

Y. CHIEF Overpower Louisiana 'Pen' Guards and Dash to Freedom. Magnolia, Miss. (JP) A posse of several hundred men with bloodhounds Sunday night were reported to have surrounded three convicts who escaped early today from the Louisiana state penitentiary near Baton Rouge. A fourth was captured after a gun battle on Magnolia's main street, during which about 100 shots were exchanged between the convicts and officers.

Baton Rouge, La. (JP) Four state convicts, two of whom participated In the spectacular prison break last September, escaped from the Louisiana penitentiary receiving station near here Sunday by overpowering guards and dashing for freedom. The four, all from Orleans parish, were led by Steven J. Beck and Jim Heard, who were facing trial on a murder charge resulting from the death of a trusty in the September prison break. They were to go on trial tomorrow at St.

Francisvllle. Adam Webster, serving three years for breaking and entering, was recaptured two hours later by Pike county. deputy sheriffs after a gun battle in the streets of Magnolia. The other three headed for New Orleans amid a hail of bullets, Fred Wilson, serving 10 to 20 years on a felony charge, was the fourth. Draw Guns on Employe.

The break took place while the men were at breakfast. Beck and Hard covered a prison employe with pistols they had obtained in an undetermined manner and took car tridges and $12 in cash from a desk drawer. Wilson broke into the gun room with a hatchet and grabbed a rifle and shotgun. The gateman and a trusty were overpowered vand the four convicts seized a penitentiary automobile parked near the gate and sped away. No one was injured.

After Beck escaped in September during a running gun battle with guards and trusties, he was captured at Alexandria while a search was under way for his body. He had been reported to have escaped in a skiff on the Mississippi river under Lou isiana Senate to Sit 3 Court of Impeachment. (JP) The backwash from wa of political dissension and cor-rjpticn tn office swells to another 'or' this -week. Two men, the ore go', crnor and the other a su-prro- court judge, go before the inatri of their states to defend official acts in high courts of Go Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, a -d Carlos S.

Hardy, of Los Ancles, judge of the California court, are the latest of a. train of state officials who have kept impeachment tribunals in session almost perennially" through the last six storm broke in California i'three yrars ago upon the sensational disappearance of Aimee Semple "Mcpherson, the evangelist, will be echoed Monday at Sacramento where Hardy is to stand trial on a charge of unethical court conduct. A $2,300 check paid him by Mrs. 'McFherfon brought him the censure of the state assembly. 1 Senate Meets Thursday.

Thursday at Baton Rouge the Louisiana senate meets to write its rules for the trial of Gov. Long, the seeoni soutnern state executive 10 answer at a senate's bar this year. The special session called by Gov Long to adopt a taxation program ended its work Saturday by turning upon the governor with a charge that he threatened to publish, the fact that a brother of Charles Manship. Baton Rouge publisher, is an inmate of an insane asylum, if Manshin did not withdraw from his editorial campaign against a pro posed oil tax. The 36-year-old erutio was cited by a 50 to 40 vote to appear before the senate.

Lss than a month ago, the governor of Oklahoma, where impeach went has become a habit, was removed from office on the single charge of incompetency while nine other charges were washed from his record. Seven years ago Oklahoma sought to impeach Gov. J. B. A HoVertson, but the motion failed by a single vote.

It was easier the i.est time, however, and in Novem 1923, Gov. J. C. Walton was im peached and expelled from the gu bentatorial chair while his lieutenant governor, N. E.

Trapp, defeated a similar attempt to drop the ax upon him hy a successful demurrer to the charges and Trapp became governor. Johnston Removed. If Cow Henry S. Johnston knew Oklahoma history, he may have forewarned that Walton's fate ui'uid h-- his own. forewarned, he to be also to be forearmed and arrayed national guard troups about the legislative halls an intractable assembly tried tr meet to consider an investigation r'" his administration.

The supreme "urt dr-cided the legislators had no to call themselves into session and thus incurred the lawmakers' Three justices subsequently ciU'd for impeachment and will Wad before the senate court April thf for the moment, not the piiards nor the concerted of lli'? Women's Christian 1 union "that our dry be no, impeached" could entual impeachment and i he governor was convicted -T the impeachment been the cf governors and justices Five other state h-r. hcn impeached in re-' three were acquitted, one sii'd and one was ousted, '''''mors have been the fondest of state legislatures. Twelve Veil brought to the bar, all (' ntinued on Page Three.) DISMISSAL OF I MISSOURI "PROFM UPHELD 'v'- vhia. Mo. The full "rd curators of the University upheld dismissal of Dr.

Har-run o. DeGraff. assistant pro-fsor of pomology, for his part In io 0f a Bex questionnaire r'To-p students and granted rein-. fo Dr. Max F.

Meyer, sus-r-f-M '1 professor of psychology. at the University of lowa -t. Aeyr was ordered suspended! or rn year Monday. permanent discharge! pffcof rru 1 VlHill I Ll 1 j' gunfire. Cleveland Owen.

leader of tnat break kmed ln tne giff, Beck was returned to the receiving 'station and until a few weeks ago rapists police TEMPERATURES. 8 a. .38 9 a. 38 2 p. 48 3 p.

60 10 a 87 11 a. 39 12 noon 42 4 p. m. .51 oi ,.49 .47 5 p. m.

6 p. m. 7 p. m. 1 p.

45 Maximum temperature Kundav was 51 degrees above zero and the minimum was 37 degrees. The sun will rise today at 5:57 a. m. and will set at 6:59 p. m.

THE FORECAST. Chicago. (SV-Iowa: to cloudy, possibly showers in east and soutn portions Monday; Tuesday mostly unsettled. bOUth Dakota: KcmfwVnt uneot- tled Monday and Tuesdav. r.niw late Monday or Monday night; continued com uesaay.

Mostly fair Mondav ex. cept possibly rain In extreme south. east portion; Tuesday unsettled and cooler. Minnesota: Mostlv fair Kntv, possibly rain or snow flurries in north portion Monday; Tuesday unsettled ana continued cold. tosslblv irwi rain or snow.

NEWS SUMMARY DOMESTIC. Plan to bomb governor of New York is balked. Page 1 a our convicts escape from the Page 1. Louisiana prison. Body of young woman found in a stolen auto.

Pa? (Soy. Long faces court of impeach ment this week. Pae 1 iioay or murdered girl, aged 12. is found in creek. Page 1 Chicago morons attack two girls; tnree men arrested.

Page 1. concord seen in the farm relief measure. Page Search Des Moines hotel fire ruins for two victims. Page 5 Keller work well organized in storm swept region. Page President Hoover faces a busy leg islative week.

Page 8 FOREIGN. Mexican rebels fleeing from ad-vancing federal troops. Page 1 IOWA. Pioneer teacher in Harrison county will soon be 90 years old. Page-2.

SOUTH DAKOTA. One of founders of Lead city still alive and very active. Page NEBRASKA. Eighty-acre playground may be provided by Walton league. Page 2.

MINNESOTA. Creamery to cost $25,000 will be built by Renville firm. Page 2 SPORTS. Bantam bout features week's ac tivities in fistiana. Page 7 National high school cage tourney to be continued.

Page 7 Golf proves popular sport at Sioux City clubs Sunday. Page 7. A. A. U.

head starts move to promote close harmony. Page 7 National amateur boxing tourna ment starts tonight. Page 7. W. Pringle wins handicap pin tour ney at War Ragle.

Page LOCAL. Knife victim is near death; reluc tant to discuss stabbing. Page 10. Funeral rites for Henry Metz, to be held today. Page 5.

Rev. A. L. Semans gives main talk at U. C.

T. memorial service. Page 5. B. B.

Semple, of Bronson, in grave condition in S. C. hospital. Page 10. Omaha pastor accepts call to Trinity Lutheran church.

Page 10. Woman's club to hold annual elec- v- a Spring rally of Sioux Valley Young People's group ends. Page 10. Mrs. Ellen Crawford, Iowa pioneer woman, passes away.

Page 10. Minnesota pastor opens week's in slitute for teachers. Page 5. 2 PERSONS HURT AND LIVE STOCK KILLED IN STORM Darlington, Wis. UP) Two persons were injured, buildings on three farms were demolished, homes and barns on more than SO other farms were wrrenea, ana i -ivv of cattle were killed by a tornado which struck northeastern Lafayette county and northwestern Greene county about 6 p.

m. Saturday. Herbert Elnerson was picked up by the wind from his barnyard and carried nearly half a mile before he was dropped to the ground, breaking several ribs. Mrs. Marion Otterman, the other one injured, was watching the storm clouds when the wind hit the house.

She and her son were picked up by neighbors under a pile of wreckage. The son was not injured. State AgetltS LOIiailCt "'ffnfnn Raid at Clinton, Ma. Clinton, la. JP) Agents from the sffi of Tame Risden.

chief Of the state bureau of investigation, con- ducted a city wide liquor raid here Saturday night. The men arrested are in the county Jail awaiting arraignment in municlpalcourt Monday morning. A quantity of liquor was seized at several places, the agents said. Nurse Crushed to Death in Elevator Lincoln, Neb. Mildred Fag-erqulst, 19, a nurse in the Bryan Memorial hospital, was crushed fa tal iv in an elevator Sunday.

The nurse was removing food from the lift, and her arms, shoulder and back were in the cage when it suddenly started upward, pinning her fast. Her neck waa broken. Branded as Silly by an Instructor Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York. Setting up exercises. which hundreds of thousands of Americans practice more or less reg ularly, supposedly to keep fit, are branded as "silly, superstitious and artificial" in a report by Dr.

Jesse F. Williams, professor of physical education at Teachers college, Co lumbia. Dr. Williams answers the question: "What is wrong with modern exer cise?" and presents a program of rec reational activity In place of traditional exercise drills. What many regard as the ideal way to start the day Jumping from bed to the sound of a dangling alarm clock, rushing to take a cold plunge and then indulging in physical calis thentcs is viewed in the report of the Columbia physical educator as -de cidedly the wrong way to begin any day.

"The alarm clock is an Institution which should be abolished," Dr. Wil liams points out. "It Is the worst way of awakening to awaken suddenly to a clanging bell." MAN KILLED, WIFE INJURED AT A CROSSING Ames, la. (JP) A. M.

Weyrauch, 48, was killed and his wife was seriously injured Sunday afternoon when their automobile was hit by a westbound Chicago and Northwestern freight train a mile east of Ames. Mrs. Weyrauch received scalp wounds and possibly internal injuries. Weyrauch was superin tendent of the Milford consolidated school, and Mrs. Weyrauch conduct ed an employment agency here.

REBELS FLEEING FROM FEDERALS Mexican Insurgents in Several Sectors Abandon Hope. Washington. (JP) Mexican revolu tionary forces have now to face a firmer stand by the United States against any activities in their strug gle against the federal troops hold ing Naco which might endanger lives and property on the American side of the border. The reneated disregard of The repeated dlsregaid or warn ings sent by the American author! ties to Gen. Fausto Topete, leader of the rebel forces attacking Naco, has aroused the Washington government to tne point where additional lorees have been dispatched to Naco, Ariz The United States is determined that bombs from rebel airplanes no longer are dropped on American soil and that bullets do not cross the border into the American town.

The American commander, Brig. Gen. Frank S. Cocheu, has been given additional forces and will not hesitate in the event decisive action is deemed necessary. Mexico City.

Satisfied that no important military problem remains in Chihuahua and that it is a question there only of driving out scattered bands of rebels, Gen. Plu-tarco Calles, commender in chief of the federal forces, has turned his attention to northwestern fronts where rebel opposition still exists. Even on this sector, an announcement from presidential headquarters says the rebels have been retreating so rapidly that the pursuing troops of Gens. Carillo and Cardenas have been unable to overtake them and have had to be satisfied to occupy the towns which the rebels have evacuated. Gen.

Carillo occupied Culiacan- Saturday amidst rejoicing by the inhabitants. A few straggling deserters surrendered and reported to the federal commander Man zo and Iturbes, rebel troops were ready to give themselves up at the first opportunity. Seeks Place of Refuge. Reports reaching the presidential palace Saturday night were that rebels were rapidly quitting Chihuahua City and the belief was expressed in government circles that Gen. Jose Escobar, principal rebel leader in the state, might be attempting to seek refuge in the United States fol lowing the virtual breakup of his army last week in the battle of Re-forma.

Meanwhile the federal campaign directed by Gen. Sedilloe against the rebels in Jalisco has be gun with the first clash at Encar nacion De Diaz in that state, where federals forced flight of the rebels to the mountains after a spir ited encounter. The forces of Gen. Juan Almaban, which nearly annihilated Escobar's troops at Reforma, are occupied in taking possession of abandoned fcities in Chihuahua and repairing rail roads preliminary to opening a' final cleanup campaign in that state which Gen. Calles believes will be finished within 15 days.

On the west coast rebel forces are presumably concentrated at Ban Bias at the upper end of the state of Si-naloa and close to the border of So-nora, which state la expected to be their last stand. Press dispatches from Aguas Ca- Uentes Saturday said that three passengers were wounded Friday night when rebels or bandits tore up railroad tracks and attacked a train from Mexico City. The soldiers (Continued on Page Three.) i Explosive;" It Is Table Salt (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York. Patrolman Finnigan found four 50-gallon kegs of "explosives" near the Burns Bros, coal yard on the East river this morning. He called up his station house and asked that the bomb squad and the bureau of combustibles rush men to the scene.

James Callahan, inspector for the bureau of combustibles, hurried down. He found the kegs containing a white powder. For half an hour he tried in vain to burn or explode some of it. Then he tasted a few grains. It was salt.

GROUNDED FRENCH LINER is freed BY TUG BOATS New York. (JP) After being stuck on the mud flats off Brooklyn for 26 hours, the French liner Paris was frel by 15 tugs and continued her interrupted voyage to Europe Sunday afternoon. The floating of the huge liner was accomplished so quietly that passengers who remained on the ship for the night were not awakened, officials of the French line said. Jean Tillier, an official of the line who was on board, reported to. the line officers that an inspection showed the liner had suffered no damage.

He said the Paris was able to resume her journey under normal conditions. The steamer went aground at 2:58 a. m. Saturday during a heavy fog. The ship was lightened by the removal of 3,000 tons of fuel oil and 500 tons of water ballast.

ATTACK TWO YOUNG WOMEN Three Men Jailed Following Assault One Shot by "Cop." (Special Dispatch to TTie Journal.) Chicago. Two brutal attacks upon young women early Sunday, one committed by three men who kid naped their victim on the street, lent new Impetus to demands for favorable action by the legislature of the Courtney bill which would send gang to the electric chair. Because of effective work by the both of the assaults today ended disastrously for the perpetrators. In one case the assailant, who was at liberty on bond pending trial for a previous offense, was shot and critically wounded by a policeman. In the other, the three involved crashed their automobile trying to escape capture and one of them, Edward Zowsky, alias Andrew Heinz, 20 years old, sustained a skull fracture and Internal injuries.

His companions are in Jail. With Zowskl on the escapade were Frank Folver, 22, and Walter Wo-Jlezk, 31. The three youths seized Marie Sedero, a waitress, and took her to the suburb of Broadview In an automobile. Maid Is Second Victim. Attracted by the girl's screams as one of the trio, who' she said was Wojiezk, assaulted her.

Chief of Police Andrew Borg, of Broadview, stopped the car, put the girl in his own machine and ordered the men to follow him to the police station. En route they swung around and raced away, overturning in a ditch. Zowsky was knocked unconscious. The other two, who fled on foot.v were captured later. Katherlne Kulesvitz, 23, a maid, was the victim of the second attack, which resulted in the shooting of William Regalado, 25, her alleged assailant.

Regalado is a Mexican. According to the girl's story, she was returning home from a wedding about 8 a. m. when Regalado stepped from an alleyway near her home and seized her. Her screams brought Patrolman Er6kine Hill to the scene.

A hand to hand struggle ensued and when Regalado got free and tried to escape the policeman shot him. He was taken to a hospital where hla wound was described as serious, but not fatal. Jos Sezano told police that Regalado was awaiting arraignment on charges of snatching a woman's pocketbook several weeks ago. TWO BROTHERS ARE JAILED ON LIQUOR CHARGE Keokuk, la. (JP) Two brothers giving their names as Moore, of Quincy, 111., were ln Jail here following their arrest on a liquor charge.

Two policemen said they seized 100 gallons of alleged Canadian whisky in the Moore car. The police car happened to pass the Moore automobile, and the officers became suspicious of the men's conduct. The policemen said the men attempted to escape when the officers'- car drew alongside theirs, which had stopped at a filling station." Raiders Lose Many Men. Basra, Ira. (JP) Reliable reports were received Sunday that a body of Akhwan raiders composed of Atal bah.

and Mutair tribesmen had suf fered heavy losses In an attack and dispersal by a force of 40,000 men led by Ibn Saud, tyng of the Hadjaz. I Eugene, Ore. (JP) E. S. Bryson, municipal judge and recorder, fined himself Saturday for failure to stop at a through The judge, not noticing until too late thaPhe had come to a through street, applied the brakes to 'his car but they slipped and the car crashed into a stop sign.

Without a murmur the judge handed himself a ticket, ordered himself to appear in court and fined himself $5, the customary penalty for failure to stop at through streets. BLAST AND FIRE IN CHICAGO HURT THREE PERSONS Chicago. (JP) Three persons were injured, glass and automobile tires were hurled several hundred feet, and traffic was held up for more than an hour when an explosion, followed by fire, almost destroyed a three-story building on the near west side Sun day. It was the third time in 18 months that fire has attacked the building-and Fire Marshal Corigan expressed the belief that the blast was of incendiary nature. Fire Destroys Home Governor's Daughter (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Tarrytown.

N. Y. Fire destroyed the new $100,000 mansion of C. B. Dall on the Brlarcliffe-Sleepy Hol low road, on a high hill adjoining the estate of John D.

Rockefeller on the outskirts of North Tarrytown Sunday morning. Mrs. Dall Is a daughter of Gov. Roosevelt. BODY OF SLAIN GIRL IS FOUND Parents Identify Corpse as That of Their Daughter.

Terre Haute, Ind. (JP) The body of Edith Mae Dierdorf, her feet and hands wired together and a deep hole in the top of her head, was found Sunday lodged against a log in Bus-seron creek, two and a fourth miles west of Paxton, Ind. The disappearance of the 10-year-old West Terre Haute news girls 10 weeks ago caused a sensation and citizens Joined in a search for her. Her body was found by Nlmrod Sla-ven, principal of the county school at Pleasantvllle, who was in the woods with his wife and four children searching for early spring flowers. Identification was made tonight by Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Dierdorf. parents of the slain girl, from a signet ring, the shoes, and the girl's coat. The body Itseh was in an advanced stage of decomposition and was unrecognizable. Coroner W.

H. McGrew. of Sullivan county, where the body was found, said he believed death was due to the wound in the top of the head, apparently made by a blunt instrument. The arms were wrenched from their sockets and were lodged over the head. It is believed that this was due to the force of the current rather than to action of a moronic abductor.

Because of the condition of the body it was impossible to ascertain if the girl had been attacked before Bhe was slain. NEBRASKA MAN TRAVELS 429 MILES FOR A NICKLE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) New York. You can travel 429 miles and 34 hours for a nickel In New York city, noted for Its high living costs. The discovery is that of Philip M. Beiswanger, a 21-year-old Nebraskan wh6 dropped a nickel In a coin box on the Fourteenth street station of the Seventh avenue subway at 2 p.

m. Friday and emerged at the same station S4 hours later at 12 midnight Saturday. Beiswanger spent a day and a half on New York's underground and elevated system. Shifting his route by means of a map, he systematically rode up and dow'n every elevated and subway line in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Jamaica and Bronx, never twice traveling the same route. He rode the subway In the small hours of the morning, was in the crushing Jams of the rush hour periods, and was questioned by suspicious conductors.

He did not sleep. A 5-cent chocolate bar was his only food during the trip. Beiswanger Is an embryo dramatic actor, using the stage name of Philip Munro. He holds an A. B.

degree from Midland college, Fremont, Neb. He was formerly a Lutheran preacher ln Ely, la. Girl Fatally Injured by Charge of Shot Council Bluffs. (JP) Discharging a snotgun as she tripped over it, Bessie May Hill. 6.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hill, was fatally wounded Sunday.

The sun had hn left leaning against the barn by her father, who had been hunting squir rels, mil said he thought the safe ty lock of the gun waa on. Gotham Police Think She Was Strangled to Death. New York. (JP) The body of a young woman, believed ny ponce io have been strangled to death, was found today in a stolen automobile parked on a mldtbwn street. The clothing was torn, the face scratched and the throat bruised.

The body was tentatively identi fied from a letter and from a de scription given by a landlady as that of Mrs. Linda Begglns. The letter found on the body waa addressed to Mrs. Begglns and -said insurance policies she had applied for were ready for The landlady told the police the description they gave her of the body fitted that of a Mrs. Begglns who had lived at her place during February.

She told them the hus band and wife both became ill and that he was taken to City hospital and Mrs. Begglns went to a home in White Plains. Car a Stolen One. The car in which the body was found was stolen from a Riverside drive address about 3 a. m.

Sunday, and police, from information gained from residents of the neighborhood where it was found, said it was parked there not more than half an hour later. Several persons no ticed the car. with the form of the woman in the front scat, as early as 5 o'clock this morning, but did not investigate. A woman pedes trian finally investigated and called firemen of a nearby station. Police were undecided the woman had been killed ln the automobile or somewhere else and her body placed in the car.

Police Commissioner' Grover Wha- len, after viewing the body said he believed the killing was the work of a maniac, because "of the bruises on the body and the torn clothing. PROBE OF DRY AGENT'S MURDER MOVING SLOWLY Jacksonville, Fla, (JP) Duval county authorities Sunday night marked time ln their investigation of the slaying of Joe Haywood, former deputy sheriff and prohibition ntrpnt a i o- a teirlnf. habeas corpus proceedings, seeking release of Tom Holland and D. Oglesby, held in connection with the case. Sheriff W.

B. Cahoon said that warrants charging the men with first degree murder had not' yet been Bworn out, as was reported previ but that formal charges prob ably would be preferred against them Monday. The sheriff said that Frank Hilton. also held! in connection with, the killing, probably would be released, as detectives had not uncovered sufficient evidence against him to war- want detaining1 him under formal charges. LABOR PLEDGES AID PROSECUTORS OF KIDNAPERS Elizabethton, Tenn.

(JP) The Influence of the American Federation of Labor and all its allied organizations was pledged Sunday by William Green, president of the federation, to the prosecution of alleged kidnapers of two labor organizers who charge several Elizabethton citizens with forcing them to leave town. Green's promise was made In a speech delivered here Sunday afternoon to more than 3,500 persons. Shortly before he made his speech. Green talked with the two organizers, Edward McGrady and Alfrod Hoffman, heard their version of the Incident which brought him from Washington to Happy Valley and then made his public pledge. "They will be prosecuted to the fullest extent in criminal and civil courts." the labor leader said while the crowd cheered.

MAN WOUNDED BY POLICE ESCAPED FROM OHIO "PEN" Philadelphia, (JP) Police announced Sunday that a man wounded in a running pistol battle Saturday night had been identified positively as William S. Healey, alias James A. Walton, alias William Morton, who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary February 1 last, along with four other inmates. Under guard in a hospital here, Healey or Walton told police that he was one of those who had escaped from the Ohio prison. His description tallied closely wtih that of Walton and the identification was completed after a comparison of fingerprints.

To Compete for the Iowa Spelling Title Des Moines. (JP) Spelling champions selected from each Iowa county and five cities will meet in Dee Moines April 19 to compete for the srelling championship of the state. The winner will represent Iowa at the national championships In Washington, May 21 Porter Balks Plan to Murder Franklin Roosevelt. New York. (JP) A dynamite bomb in a package addressed to Got.

Franklin D.R-oosevelt, of New York, was found Sunday in the general postofflce at Thirty-third street and Eighth avenue. Discovery was made by a porter who was cleaning the parcel post room: He accidentally stepped on a package and there was a small re- -port, followed by the odor of something burning. The porter, Thomas Callegy. of Ho-boken, N. thereupon stepped on the package with his full weight and in so doing broke a fuse which led to the bomb.

Bup Is Not Found. Examination disclosed that the botrib was made of a four-Inch piece of iron pipe, one inch in diameter and capped on both ends. Police said it contained three-quarters of a stick, of dynamite. The bomb was Inside a tin candy box wrapped in brown paper and addressed to "The Hon. F.

D. Roosevelt, Mansion House, Albany, N. In the upper left hand corner was the address Bup. 459 Twenty-ninth Street." No one of that name could be found at that number in. either East or TVest Twenty-ninth street.

Police who examined the box found that it contained, ln addition to the iron pipe, a quantity of wax and a piece of sandpaper against which were several matches in such a way that if the box were opened the matches would ignite' against the sandpaper, burn the wax and light the fuse. The bomb was thrown Into a bucket of water Immediately after the porter discovered it. He explained that the package had fallen from a table as he was sweeping the floor with a broom. Treats Matter lightly. While police were inclined to believe the bomb plot to be the work of some criminal whose plea for a pardon had been turned down by the governor, no recent request for clemency was found in the records.

Significance also was attached to the fact that Gov. Roosevelt on April signed a Baumes crime bill drawn to block the escape of criminals. It was thought a relative of some long term convict might have made the attempt on the governor's life. Friends of Gov. Roosevelt revealed the executive had received a number of threatening lettrs since his Inau guration but no Importance had been attached to them.

Gov. Roosevelt, when informed of the bomb at his home near Pough-keepsle, treated the matter lightly. He said he knew of no reason for any one wishing to take hs life and that he would take no extra precautions to safeguard himself. DES MOINES WILL GET ADDITIONAL AIR MAIL SERVICE Des Moines, la. (JP) Additional transcontinental air mail service, beginning May 1, will give Des Moines three stops dally, pOstofflce officials said here Sunday.

Cedar Rapids wiU have two stops and Iowa City one. The old eastbound transcontinental route will continue through Iowa at night, with a new one crossing Iowa during the day. The old westbound route will continue to pass Des Moines without stopping, reaching Omaha at 12:30 a. m. The eastbound plane will stop here at 2 a.

m. The new westbound route, which will be dally except Sunday, wJU reach here at a. m. The previous westbound day mall, which terminated at Lincoln, brought matl here at 9:30 a. m.

The new eastbound route will arrive at Omaha at 1 p. m. and De Moines at 2 p. m. SEEKS PROBE OF "BRAKES" POLICY OF U.

S. BOARD Chicago. (JP) A resolution de. manding an investigation of the federal reserve board's policy tendin to curb stock market speculation will be presented by Congressman Frank R. Reld of Illinois at the forthcoming special session of congress.

"The present action of the federal reserve board may be as unwise a was the drastic deflation pollciea charged to it in 1920," Congressman Reld said Sunday. "The country has not yet fully recovered from the paralysis inflicted upon agriculture by its policy then." The congressman charged that th board had exceeded Us powers In forcing call mftney to JO per cent and that the action was reflected lm i usurious rates of Interest on mercial loans. i A- hfd en kept in custody by means Oregon boot," a shoe heavily weighted with lead. He was kept in the hospital several months recovering from wounds that almost cost him his life in the attempted escape. MILL OPERATIVES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO STRIKE TODAY fSpecial Dispatch to The Journal.) Charlotte, N.

C. Operatives of the Chadwlck-Hoskins mill at Plneville, near here, have voted to walk out Monday and pickets will be placed about the plant to prevent any who might attempt to go to work. This brings the strike drive directed by communist agitators to unionize the south's textile workers more nearly Into the heart of the textile center. It began last Monday with a walkout of 1,100 operatives at Gastonla and according to Fred Erwln Beal, of the National Textile Workers union, and his coworker, George Pershing, of the communist party, it will be extended until within the week 15 other mills will be combating strikes. It Is expected that the High Shoals plant of the Manville Jenckes company near Gastonla, have a walkout by Monday night.

DRY AGENTS GET SHOWER OF ROCKS FROM A CROWD Bethlehem, Pa. (JP) State police Sunday rescued six Philadelphia prohibition agents from rock throwing crowa, numbering more than 600. The trouble followed a raid on a hotel at Roseto, near here. Tires on th agents' cars were slashed and the windows broken. One of the agents, Austin McGar-vey, had been arrested by Leonard Martoccl, a Roseto special policeman, on a charge of operating an automobile while intoxicated, but subsequently was released after examination by a doctor who declared him sober.

Mortoccl himself then was arrested, for Interference with a federal officer. The disturbance occurred when McGarvey returned from Bangor, where he had been cleared of the intoxication charge. The crowd showered the men with stones and drove them to cover. The agents telephoned state police at Reading, who sent aid. Fate of Four Fliers Still is a Mystery Sydney, N.

S. W. Another 24 hours have passed without a hint of the fate of Capt. Charles Kingford-1 Smith and his three companions who on March 30 left here ln the airplane Southern Cross for a flight to England. V- members which deliberated! two days in a "trial" of the v-uity members, did not mention H.

Mowrer, student assistant in-s-rtirtor in psychology, who was dismissed by the executive ''am of curators March 20, with Dr. er and Dr. DeGraff. ra- three faculty members had nctioned circulation of a among 1,000 men and worn-rri students asking them intimate "tlons regarding sex and mar-n'd. The row that followed even the floor of the state legls- Mowrer in permanently ousted lrrm the faculty, as the full board -iTovea the executive board's ac tion except as it affected Dr.

Meyer. The vote was unanimous..