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Phoenix, Arizona (7 flouM LLED Death Hovers Near In Crash yjongo)a rWPhilUos Cprrist I Flaming Air Farm Bill Declared bless' Liner Plimges Into Pacific (Additional Story, Page 3) PAGO PAGO, Samoa, Jan. 12. (AP) The shattered wreckage of the Samoan Clipper was found afloat 14 miles northwest of here today, indicating the sky liner caught fire as it plunged into the Pacific with Capt Edwin C. Musick, America's No. 1 international mail flier and six associates.

Pres. Juan T. Trippe of Pan American Airways immediately conceded in Washington that all seven fliers were dead. Trippe said fire developed as the 21-ton plane was dumping its gasoline in an attempt to make an even-keel emergency landing near Pago Pago. The disaster, first in the history of Pan American's nearlv thr Nothing Settled At Conference, Says Smith WASHINGTON, Jan.

12. (AP) Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, said today the senate house conference committee trying to agree on a farm bill was "in a mess." He blamed the department of agriculture for aggravating HisonrH. years of transpacific flying, put at least a temporary end to operation -3" -siar f-- ffr 1 f'-: I -ex I Nj I vt i I A 4 I i' .,1 i iTip i itfir 11 i Vi May Fight Japanese Chinese Troops Prepare For Last Stand (See Editorial Page Cartoon) SHANGHAI, Jan. 13. (Thursday) (UP) Two Japanese armies were reported today to be driving across North China in a race to occupy Kansu province and cut off land communications between China and Soviet Russia.

Warning of the ambitious Japanese operation came from Gen. Yeh Chien-Hing. chief of staff of the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army after a Chinese announcement that Outer Mongolia has been declared a formal war zone. Russian Aid Hoped For It was believed here that the Outer Mongolian announcement might lead to increased Russian aid to China and that the Japanese offensives were designed to cope with such a development. The Chinese, meanwhile, organized to stake everything on a defense of the Suchow area north of Nanking, massing more than 1,000,000 soldiers to meet an attack by 500,000 Japanese moving up in four columns.

Foreign military experts said that should the Japanese smash the 'Chinese forces on that front, reorganization of China's armed resistance would be futile and the outcome of the entire war might! easily be decided mere. Mongolia May Fight It was speculated here that anv Japanese invasion of Outer Mon golia would lead to quick action on Russia's part under the 1936 mutual assistance pact between the Soviet and Outer Mongolia, despite the fact that China refused to recognize the pact. Although Russia might be hesitant to take warlike measures against the Japanese, it was believed that Outer Mongolia's Russian-trained army would Join China. Agnes Smedley, Misouri-born schoolteacher who has been in China for 20 years arrived at Hankow and reported that Gen. Chien-Hing's Eighth Route forces are starving Japanese columns to death in the north by removing residents and foodstuffs from towns in the path of the enemy advance.

(Additional Story, Page 4) France Plans Big Warships PARIS. Jan. 12. (AP) France projected two battleships today to match the rising might of Fascist Italy's seapower. These giant warships, exceeded in size among the world's listed fiehtine vessels only by Great Brit ain's 42.100-ton battle cruiser Hood, would be France's direct answer to the authorized construction of two new Italian battleships.

Premier Benito Mussolini announced January 7 Italy would build two 35.000-ton battleships the Roma and Impero as fascism's latest move in the Franco-Italian race for naval supremacy, particularly In the Mediterranean. (France previously had laid down the 35.000-ton battleship Richelieu in 1935 and a sister ship, the Jean Bart, in 1937. as "replies" to Italy's Littorio and Vittorio Veneto. also 35.000-ton warships, laid down in 1934 and launched last summer.) The French chamber of deputies naw committee was preparing to ask Georges Bonnet, minister of finance, to supplement the 1938 naval budget by 2.000.000,000 francs (currently $68,000,000) from the sorely-pressed treasury to keep ahead of Mussolini's forces at sea. No! He's not dead yet.

And he may not die. But Clifford Vettengl, 26 years old. Phoenix credit manager for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is certain to lie on his back for days, possibly weeks, because of internal injuries suffered early last night when his coupe crashed into an abutment of the Central avenue bridge over the Salt river. Vettengl told officers he swerved his car to avoid "an old man on a bicycle." The white marks on the windshield are where it cracked when Vettengl smashed against it. A physician said "if there are no complications" Vettengl will live.

But it's a gamble and death holds the dice. (Republic Staff Photos.) or me recently inaugurated line between the United States and New Zealand. Third Crash In Week It also marked the third major American airplane crash in a week and the loss of two top-ranking American aviators. Nick Mamer, pioneer Northwest flier, died along with nine other persons in the crash of his Northwest Airlines plane near Bozeman, Monday. Last week six naval fliers perished when their bombing plane plunged into the sea off Southern California.

The navy minesweeper Avocet found the Samoan Clipper wreckage in an oil slick a telltale floating patch of lubricating oil on the ocean surface. A motor launch began picking up the fragments. Wreckage Identified "Identification satisfactory," the Avocet laconically reported to the naval radio station here. The fragments were floating at the place where Samoani yesterday sighted a sinister column of smoke rising above the ocean. It supported the theory of observers that the plane was within a few miles of its regular landing plane when tragedy struck.

Musick was known as one of the most methodical and conservative fliers ever to negotiate an ocean, with more than 1,000,000 miles of sea flying to his credit and never a serious accident. Oil Leak Reported He had just taken the Samoan Clipper out of Pago Pago harbor for an non-stop flight to Auckland, N. 2 southern terminus of the new route he inaugurated at the turn of the year. About 38 minutes after the takeoff Musick reported an oil leak in one of the plane's four motors. He stopped that motor, set the brake on its propeller and turned back toward Pago Pago.

There was 900 pounds of express but no mail aboard. "At this point," said a Pan American statement, "a preliminary quantity of fuel was released through the emergency dump valve provided for this purpose (to lighten the plane's load for landing.) Headed For Base "In this message the captain indicated that the situation was entirely normal, stating that he planned to land back at the base at approximately 8:30 (3:30 p. m. Tuesday). "Although constant contact was maintained through an exchange of routine signals, no further messages were dispatched (immediately) indicating that everything was in normal order.

"Shortly after 8 o'clock the ship reported over Apia Harbor (74 miles west of Pago Pago), which is in the direction from which a normal approach for landing in Pago Pago would be made. "The aircraft was never at any time more than 75 miles distant from Pago Pago and its farthest point when it turned back was approximately 50 miles from, port. Sought To Lighten Load "Thereafter the cruise off the coast of the island was undertaken for the purpose of making its fuel load lighter before returning for a landing x. "An uninterrupted chain of radio check signals followed the message from Apia until 8:27, when the clipper signed off, reporting that it was dumping excess gasoline preparatory to landing at Pago Pago, which then was approximately six minutes ahead of the aircraft." Apia residents saw the ill-fated plane passing over their city at 7:55 a. heading toward Pago Pago.

Failure of the plane to report within a few- minutes after the expected landing time of 8:30 caused the spreading of the alarm. The wreckage was sighted after a 12-hour search. Search Made By Plane A naval plane from Pago Pago started the search. Count Von Luckner of war-time German submarine fame, also joined the hunt with his yacht Sea Devil, out of Apia. President Trippe's statement said it had been "definitely determined" that the seven fliers were killed about 8:30 a.

as the plane was preparing to land. Trippe stated that the fire was of "unknown origin," incidental to the dumping of gasoline. Other Pan American Airways officers informally expressed the belief that the gasoline dump valves, located under the plane's high wings, permitted the highly explosive fuel to vaporize sufficiently near the exhaust of the engines to cause combustion under certain favorable atmospheric conditions. Crew Held Blameless "Captain Musick and his flight crew are entirely blameless," Trippe said. "Radio reports from the plane prove that on this flight as on all previous flights he carefully followed the most Conservative operating technique possible.

"Needless to say, everyone connected with Pan American Airways is grieved beyond expression at the untimely fate of Captain Musick 1IE know a fellow who carries two valets around with him. Just to take the cellophane off things. "Tobacco Road" has completed five years on Broadway and is still going strong, and the author muse shudder whenever he thinks what would have happened If he had written a clean play. They say an American industrialist had a terrible nightmare last night. He dreamed there were two Robert H.

Jack-sons. U. S. Grounds Airplanes As Crash Result Lockheed 1 4 Type Is Affected By Order WASHINGTON. Jan.

12. (AP) Fred D. Faee. director of the air commerce bureau, ordered grounding of all lockheed planes, 14 series as a result of the crash Monday of a Northwest Airlines plane of that type near Bozeman, Mont. Ten men died in the accident.

Fare said the Northwest Airlines had six or eignt locicneeas or me 14 series. No others were in op eration, he asserted. The order grounding the planes was proposed by A. D. Niemeyer, an air commerce bureau inspector on the scene the wreck, and was confirmed by Fagg.

"We don't know how lone the planes will be grounded," Fagg said. "They will, however, be grounded until the investigation is completed. Fagg said he was receiving "per feet co-operation" in the investiga tion from the Lockheed Company and Northwest Airlines. INQUEST CALLED BOZEMAN. Jan.

12. (AP) An Inquest which Howard Nelson, coroner, described as "a mere formality" was called tonight into the deaths of the 10 persons killed in the crash of a Northwest Airlines plane late Monday. The Inquest, the coroner said, was to question witnesses "for the record rather than to try to determine the exact cause of the crash. Witnesses summoned included Glenn White and A. Larsen ranchers, who were chopping wood only 200 yards from the spot where the Diane fell: Deputy Sheriff Tom Marley, one of the first peace of ficers to reach the scene, and A u.

Neimoyer of Seattle, bureau of air commerce inspector, in addition to postal inspectors and Northwest Airlines employees. Attempts of relatives to identify seven of the charred bodies resting in. Bozeman mortuaries were delayed until after the inquest. Three of the bodies were identified last night through personal effects. Nine-Story Fall Broken By Wire WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (AP) Mrs. Orfa Keeler, 24 years old, Pittsburgh, jumped or fell today from a ninth-story window of a bank building. She was saved from immediate death when her fall was broken by a single telephone wire running from the bank build ing to a nearby structure. Mrs. Keeler, who had been under the care of a physician because of a nervous breakdown, was taken in a semiconscious condition to a hospital.

Doctors found she had suffered multiple fractured ribs and a fracture of the right leg. The extent of her internal injuries was undetermined. The wife of Chester Keeler of Pittsburgh, she had been visiting her uncle, Ray Farrell, here since October. surrounding cases similar to that in our own Heaviside layer, an ionized region about 65 miles above the earth's surface. But whereas the earth's atmosphere reflects radio rays, and makes long distance reception possible, the big star's Heaviside layer is so much more powerful that it reflects light and causes an opaqueness.

The smaller star is much the hotter of the two and it lights the infrared gas layer about the larger component. The brighter star passes behind the larger one every 27 years. Dr. Struve said. and.

when it does, its light, as seen from the earth, is reduced by nan inai lasi oe curred in 1929-1930, he said Dr. Strove termed the discovery of Episilon Aurigae "one of the most outstanding contributions by Yerkes in its 40 years." The observatory is located at Williams Bay, Wis. The conferees, seven from the uniitt nnri fivp frnm th" hmisp have been sparring almost two weeks about conflicting drafts of an "ever-normal granary Dili. Their job is to prepare a new crop control program from the separate measures adopted by both branches at the behest of Presi- dent Roosevelt during the recent special session of congress. Vnthinv SttlH "So far," Smith said, "we have Attlarf Tfi in cr nf imnnrtanrp nnH even today everything is in a mess.

When ho pallorl thf stvpisl fS lion Mr. Roosevelt urged speedy anar-tmant nf a national acrririil- tural act which could be put into euect ior liwa crops. "The public might as well know," Smith added, "that these bills were ill-digested that they were not thought out in all particulars. It is only fair to tell the whole country that the conference committee is struggling: with the most incomprehensible farm bill that has ever been before congress." The veteran of a double decade at farm i-oiief loerisiatinn snoke in formally, asserting officially for the nrst time tnai secretary Wallace was taking a direct hand in tftaping conterenee decisions. Pope Defends Wallace Hanatnr Pnn Democrat.

Idaho n-authnr nf the senate bill, said that so far as he knew Wallace had not tried to influence the conferees. TVi mnfiwni mmmittee. Smith cairf "is suDDosed to con sider only matters in the two bills, but numerous amenamenis and suggestions from the department of agriculture for changes not in either bill constantly cause discord. "Both bills are so inadequate Viot- hae shanre nmhablv im- kUBh fc. 1 V.

prove the proposed program, so wnat can we aoi Senator McGill, Democrat, Kan- anthnr with Pore. con ceded progress was slow but said me committee couia ciaim ucmuic achievements. David Lawrence Says New Deal Fund Plan Is Good WACwrwrrrnM 12. (Bv David Lawrence) There's a lesson In the Jackson Day dinners far more significant to the nation than was contained in the speeches themselves. It's a lesson that concerns the Repub- aa lican party far 99999 more than the ap- mmMMM 9 99 pointment of a policy committee ffffE ar soafrchPrS LAWRENCE ciples or plat- DISPATCH form.

It relates to the way the dinners were financed. Chairman Farley has announced that the dinners brought in a profit of about $400,000 and more than (Continued On Page 5, Col. 1) Wilkins Reaches Northern Base FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Jan. 12.

'AP) A message received here today said Sir Hubert Wilkins landed safely at Aklavik, N. W. yesterday afternoon after a flight from Barrow, Alaska, and found the snow landing conditions much better for his planned renewal of the search for the missing Russian polar fliers. M. B.

Beliakov, Russian agent here, said Wilkins did not indicate when the next searching flight ght start, but he believed it would be around January 15, with the full moon. Wilkins three companions accompanied him. Mother Spanks Thief-Son, 26 NEWARK, N. Jan. 12.

(AP) John Haller, deputy police chief, aid a prisoner held as a jewel thief Sot a spanking today from his 76-year-old mother. when police took Michael Var-recchione, 26, to his home in Orange, Haller said, Mrs. one "belabored" her son, threw an alarm clock and a variety of armies at him, then took off a slipper and went to work, until the ncers intervened. fc 'Grave Fears i Held For Life Of Cardozo WASHINGTON. Jan.

12. (UP) Grave fears were held tonight for the life of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the Supreme court after three prominent specialists examined him and announced that his condition has not changed since this morning, when it was reported "not so good." The liberal jurist, 67 years old and considered by many to be the greatest living master of the law, was too ill to receive President and Mrs. Roosevelt when they went to his bedside late today. They returned to the White House after leaving a bouquet of roses.

Cardozo was stricken with shin gles, a nervous ailment, on December 10, but his condition did not become critical until last week when he suffered recurrent heart attacks. His condition became in creasingly grave this week and his physician, Dr. J. P. Earnest, jr.

began issuing bulletins twice daily. This morning Dr. Earnest an nounced that Cardozo was "not so good today" and. that hopes he would rally had not materialized. He declined to amplify his statement, but summoned Drs.

Worth Daniels and Thomas S. Lee, Washington heart specialists, into consultation this afternoon. Later they reported him unchanged. It was believed the justice was sinking slowly. Pictures Are Banned WASHINGTON.

Jan. 12. (AP) President Roosevelt signed today a bill prohibiting the making of photographs, sketches or maps of vital military and naval defenses. Largest CHICAGO, Jan. 12.

(AP) Dis covery of the largest star ever reported was described today by Dr. Otto Struve. director of the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago. Dr. Struve said the star was so large that if placed in the center of our solar system it would reach out to Uranus and leave only the planets Neptune and Pluto outside.

It would include the sun. Mercury, Venus, earth, the asteroids, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The astronomer and his associ ates, Prof. Gerald P. Kuiper and Bengt Strongren, made a formal report of their work in the Astro-physical Journal The star has been named Epsilon Aurigae.

It was described as a binary star, or in two parts, with a diameter 3,000 times that of our sun and Truck Wreck Takes Life Of Elderly Man AN ELDERLY prospector was killed and at least three Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees were injured" when a truck overturned 46 miles north of here late yes- 19S8 This Date Jan. 12 19S7 13 9 terday afternoon, and a Phoenician was hurt seriously early last night when his coupe crashed into an abutment of the Central avenue bridge over the Salt river. The dead man was identified as Bill Smith, about 60 years old, a prospector in the Seven Springs district, and handy man for Joe Hand, U. S. forest service rancer aAAshdale.

He was killed aliosTt instantly when the truck overturned on a curve at the bottom of a steep hill. It was the 13th fatality resulting from motor vehicle accidents in Arizona since January 1. Reportedly seriously hurt and en route to a Phoenix hospital were Jesus M. Andrade, 216 South Grand avenue, Tucson; Arturo G. Garcia, Arfas and Grover C.

Harville, San Angelo, Tex, but they had not reached any local hospital at a late hour. One report said the truck loaded with CCC enrollees had picked up Smith only a short distance from where the accident occurred. The truck reportedly was en route to the Ashdale camp from a work PrFirst information of the mishap was telephoned Capt. M. H.

Ham, Executive officer of the Arizona CCC district, from Camp Verde, where a radio report had been received from the Ashdale camp. F. Lee Kirby, supervisor of National forest: Harry Westf a coroner, and E. E. Brown, deputy sheriff, went to the accident scene.

The Phoenician hurt on South Central avenue is CUf ord et-tengl, 26, 1012 West Adams street, who suffered cuts on his face and Internal injuries when his car crashed into the bridge abutment, reportedly when he swerved to avoid striking cyclist. He was taken by ambulance to St, Joseph's hospital, said Lee Sei-del of the sheriff's safety squad. o- Seattle Waterfront Dispute Is Settled SEATTLE, Jan. 12. (AP) The cargo-handling dispute which closed this port last Wednesday was settled amicably tonight.

Th. nort will oDen at 10 a. m. tomorrow," said M. G.

Reingenberg. manager of the Seattle Waterfront Employers Association. Ten Known Dead In Mine Blast PITTSBURGH. Jan. 12.

(AP) The 10th body was recovered tonight trom the Harwick Coal Company's mine which was damaged by an explosion earlier in the day. E. W. Judy, vice-president and general manager of the Duquesne Light Company, which owns the mine, said the last four bodies discovered by the rescuers were so badly burned they could not be identified immediately. Another man also was unidentified.

He identified the other victims as: Thomas Keffer, 38 years old; Joseph Koprivinkar, 41; Frank Harp-ster; Joe Prelesnik and Matt Anderson. 59. mine foreman. Judy said one more man still was unaccounted for. making the pos sible death toll 11.

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f- and his splendid crew. At tnis time, witn au details unxnown, we can only express the belief that after a thorough analysis of the possible causes of the fire, a way will be found to prevent a recurrence." Trippe said Musick "contributed much to American prestige in the air." Musick Pioneered Clippers It was Musick who started the big clippers across the Pacific back in 1935, to pioneer the world's longest overseas air line. Again it was Musick who blazed the air trail from the United States to New Zealand, in the very plane which carried him to his Honolulu fliers recalled that the plane arrived there December 18, last year, with one motor idle due to oil trouble such as that which caused the crash here. At that time Musick said the multi-motored planes for transocean experience "proved the value of service." Star Is Discovered i The trouble quickly was repaired and Musick went en with his pioneering toward New Zealand. Delivered Nearly Year ago The clipper was built at the Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, and delivered to Pan American in Alameda, February, 1937, when it became known as "Pan American Clipper No.

2. The following month Musick left with it-on the initial flight to Auckland; from there he flew back to Honolulu, where it was overhauled and made into a plane for shuttle service between. Manila and Hong Kong. It was renamed the Hong Kong Clipper. equal to 20 times the distance between the earth and the sun.

The larger component has a diameter of 2,000,000,000 miles and is of relatively low temperature, about 1,000 degrees centigrade. Betelgeuse is 350,000,000 miles in diameter, one sixth the size of Epsilon Aurigae. Dr. Struve said it was some 3,000 light years from the earth and near the first magnitude star Capella, in the constellation Auriga, but was not visible to the naked eye. The first clue to the exist-' ence of the giant body was detected by the late Edwin B.

Frost, former director of Yerkes, in 1899. Dr. Struve said attempts to photograph it were being made with plates particularly sensitive to infrared rays. These rays were due, he said, to a phenomenon in Epsilon Aurigae's la November, 1937, the bigger clippers began running direct Into Hong Kong from Manila and No. 2 was flown back to Honolulu and again remade Into a plane for the New Zealand service.

Left For Auckland With Musick still. in command, it left Honolulu last December 23 for Auckland, from which it inaugurated the new southern service-starting January 2. It took a load of mail, and express from Auckland to Honolulu and was on its way back to New Zealand at the time of the disaster. Honolulu sources reported the coast guard cutter -Taney was ready to head for the scene to investigate, and might take E. L.

Yurevech, commerce department air inspector, who was on the 111-, fated clipper on its preceding voyage. Yurevech declined to comment, saying he was "awaiting orders from Washington." (Continued On Page 3, CoL 2.