ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI DEMOCRATS ESPECT HARMONIOUS STATE MEETING THIffISOAY All Factional Disputes Ig nored in County Con ventions Held Saturday Throughout State. GOVERNOR McLEAN WARMLY ENDORSED! Morrison Has No Idea of Bringing Up His Ports Measure on the Floor of the Convention. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, April 27.—The dove of peace hovers over the Democratic party in North Carolina, if the pro ceedings at county Democratic con ventions the state over, held last Sat urday, may be taken as and a state convention harmonious in th« nth degree is freely predicted here Lff political leaders. Entering the convention hnlls in nil of Nortti Carolina's 100 counties, delegates ignored all factional dis putes which might have caused dis sension and disposed of the business at hand with a unanimity of ideas 'and opinion such as has not been exhibited in a number of years. Since the delegates came directly from the great mass of voters, (tie har mony that existed may safely be tak en as indicative of the attitude of that great portion of the public which is affiliated with the Democratic par ty, the political leaders here point out. It has been freely predicted tfiat the question of state-wide eight months school terms would divide the osrty this year. In only two coun ties was the question even brought tip. according to reports which have readied Raleigh thus far. The teaching of evolution in pub lic schools was another shoal upon which several political prophets pre dicted wholesale wreckage. The mat ter was not eveq mentioned in the county conventions heard from so far. Even in Mecklenburg county, w4iich is generally considered the stronghold of the fundamentalist faction, no ef fort was made upon the convention problem over which alarmists pro fessed to be losing many nights of sleep. It did come up in a few counties, including Lenoir, but even in those few the question larked much of becoming a serious issue. Practically every county conven tion endorsed the present state ad ministration in the most heart-warm ing terms and, in even more unquali fied terms than usual, praised the business- 1 ike management of the state's affairs furnished by Governor < McLean. I | Not a cloud was discernible upon the clear sky of a harmonious and united democracy. The prophets of , disaster had guessed wrong again. - . I'iKin the bases of these peaceful" i county assemblies, there is leßs evi- , dence than ever before of possible strife in the state convention to be , held here Thursday, it is generally ; accepted here, and Raleigh * looks for j a harmonious gathering, largely at- , tended, but with nothing more than routine matters to come up. The conclave will convene at 12 olclock. W. C. Feimster, the tem porary chairman, will deliver the key- , note speech and then will come the | matter of a permanent convention or- , ganization. There are two alternatives. One is that the convention rote to make , tbe temporary organization perma nent. This would put Mr. Feimster in tiie chair for the duration* of tbe convention. The other is that a com- i mittee on organization be named to | recommend a permanent chairman , and secretary. It would surprise no one to see the . form course adopted. Mr. Feimster, who bails from Newton, is not only , an able orator and student of the prin- . ciples of his party, bat a skilled par- , liamentarian and a man with a boat | of friends over the state. It is gen- | orally conceded that his accession to | the permanent chairmanship would 1 be acceptable to all wings of the state party and unless there should be unexpected political developments between now and Thursday noon, there are many who predict more or 1 less openly that be will be given the 1 most difficult job the party haa to ' give at convention time. The state chairmanship fs, of ' course, an entirely different matter. 1 That position is filled by tbe state 1 executive committee.' 1 If there are- any plans for stam peding the convention for any one candidate in the Democratic primary, 1 politicians here who usually are con- I versant with such matters deny all j knowledge of them. The conven- j tion, they predict, will adhere to a j strict policy of hands-off in all pre- j primary scraps. It is possible, of j course, that dome militant supporter of one or more of the various candi- j dates will insist upon offering a reso lution laudatory to his man, but it seems likely thgt such tactics will be frokned upon by the convention as a J whole. That was the policy followed ( in 1024, when, with the convention ] ninety per cent, for McLean, no sides j were taken. ' ' } Reports placed in circulation Mon- ] day that former Governor Cameron i Morrison planned to revive his porta < (Continued on Age Bight) ( The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily Variety Os Measures Calculated To Solve Farm Problems Ready HOW VOLCANOES > SAVE THE WORLD Are Really Safety Valves.—But for Them Earthquakes Would Occur More Frequently. Washington. D. C\, April 27. — : Mauna Loa, the “burning mountain'* ] of Hawaii, now active after several I years of comparative quiet, is one of I the Pacific’s biggest and most dreaded volcunoes. Happily, this latest erup tion has not been accompanied by the terrible loss of life and property that lias marked numerous of its outbursts in the past. Although volcanoes are often re ferred to as burning mountains, in reality they do not burn at all. er are they mountains in the true sense of tile term. The scientific defi nition of a volcano is “an opening in the earth’s crust, through which heat ed matter is thrown up from the earth's interior to the surface, where it usually fogms a bill, more or less conical in shape, and generally with a hollow or crater at the top." Where eruptions frequently occur, the heated materials forced upwards pile themselves to heights which causes liicm to be classed as moun tains. What looks like fire belching forth is merely the reflection of the molten lnva on the clouds of steam which hang over the water. The steam it self is often wropgly spoken of as smoke. The cause of volcanic actioil is not known. The most popular theory is that it is brought about by water get ting into the white-hot furnace below the earth's crust. In support of this fact is cited that nearly all the most active volcanoes are close to the sea. Volcanoes are really safety-valves. Without them humanity could hardly have existed at all. for scientists say it is due to volcanic action that the continents emprged from the sea. Earthquakes, which ore usually more terrible in their effects than vol canoes, would occur much more fre quently but for these safety-valves. Between six hundred and seven hundred volcnnoes have been counted in various part of the world, and of these two hundred and seventy are still on the active list. Vesuvius vvas silent for over two thousand ytors before it suddenly woke up and, to a few hours, destroyed Pompeii. have toNW-wtiV Ss for back as 500 p. C. In 1188 it destroyed 11,000 people, since when at vifylttg intervals it has been the scene of a number of disasters. Scientists are awaiting with much interest to see if the eruption of Mauna Loa is of the type to cause marked variation in weather. Al though the volcano is reported to have emitted vast quantities of ashes, it is riot known whether a sufficient quan tity has moved into the upper at mosphere to cause weather changes ofer a period of some months to come. 8s is sometimes the case in violent eruptions. The effects of a volcanic eruption are sometices far-reaching, as was il lustrated ip 1883, in the Straits of Sunda, between the islands of Suma tra and Java. The explosion when tht volcano burst out on the island of Krakatoa was heard in Ceylon, 2,000 miles away, and the ocean wape set up by the outburst carried French warships ashore at Madagascar. The island of Krakatoa was blown to fragments and over 35,000 persons perished. All over Asia, in the British Isles, and at Trinidad the sun was observed to have a curious green or blue aspect. This was due to the dust thrown up by this fright-1 ful explosion. Thinks Sandhill Peach prop Dam-' aged About 25 Per Cent. Raleigh, April 2ft—-The Sandhill peach crop is damaged not to exceed 25 per cent, Frank Parker, crop I statistician, announced today after a week of study of the damage to the . «op made by experts Bn ibis de partment. Tbe damage was caused by the cqto of April 19 and 20. Many peach growers have felt that the crop was damaged to a greater extent than that estimated by Mr. Parker, but he believes that a production of 75 per cent of that formerly expected ia probable. ' Again Try to Raise 8-51. New London, April 27.—0P>—With a fleet of boats carrying expert naval men and salvaging material arriving ■ off this port, the Navy again took up its task of attempting to raise from its ocean grave the submarine 8-51 sunk off Block Island last September, after being rammed by the steamer City of Rome. May Ist 1926 New Series Opens If you contemplate building in the near future and need a loan, come to see us now and take out your stock. May the first is tax returning time. Invest your idle funds in Prepaid Stock at $72.25 per share, which is non taxable. CITIZENS BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION OFFICE IN CITIZENS BANK Widely Different Plans for Solution of Surplus Crop Problem Submitted to the House. BITTER FIGHT IS EXPECTED ON THEM Commodity Marketing BUI, Tincher Bill and Haugen BUI Among Those Pre sented During Day. Washington, April 27. —04 s )—Wide- ly different plans for solution of the surplus crop problem were submitted to the House today by members of the agriculture committee which has been devling into the situation for several months without reaching an agreement on a single measure. The plan with the endorsement of Secretary Jardine was reported by Representative Tincher. republican of Kansas. It would provide a special agency with a $100,000,000 loan fund to aid co-operative marketing asso ciations in dis posing of surplus crops, and thus. Mr. Tincher said, "would bring about stabilized prices and the orderly flow of farm products In con sumptive channels through machinery set up, operated and managed by the farmers themselves.” Representative Aswell, democrat, of Louisiana, presented the Curtis-As well commodity marketing bill, which calls for an appropriation of only $10,000,000, to establish national and subsidiary sectional marketing asso ciations owned, controlled and oper atend by the farmers. This plan, he argued, provides for permanent rath er than temporary relief, ami contem plates a national rather than section al system of organization. Chairman Humen ot the committee introduced his bill to authorize a re volving fund of $375,000,000 to sta bilize price* of basic farm commodi ties. He said it was evident the farmers could not at this time ac quire funds necessary for the purpose. Mr. Tincher asserted that the ad ministrat'ou proposal "plans at the disposal of farmer-controlled agencies, additional resources of the govern ment. and would stimulate (heir da-, vjOopniFur ai&iii- sound Bird roiufruti. tine Hues.’’ *.» »* d i ■■in WANTS MORE CANADIAN TRADE FOR THIS COUNTRY This Point Will Be Stressed at Nat ional Foreign Trade Council Con-1 vention at Charleston, S. C. Charleston, 8. C„ April 27. —(A*)— Trade co-operation between the Unit ed States and Canada will be stress ed by the Canadian delegation to the 13th convention of the National For eign Trades Council, C. P. gchwen gers. president of the Victoria. B. C„ Chamber of Commerce, said here to day upon hia arrival for the meeting. An annual .trade of $1,500,000,000 already exists between the two coun tries, Mr. Sehwengers said. He will preside at the special session tomor row afternoon which has been arrang ed for the Canadians, and will speak on “Friendship Across the Border." DR. R. C. BEAMAN IS DEAD AT TARBORO HOME Had Been Active in the Methodist Ministry for the Past Fifty Yean. Tarboro. April 27.— OP) —Dr. R. C. Beaman, for nearly 50 years active in the Methodist ministry in North Carolina, died here early today at his home. He had been ill for several months and only recently had return ed from Rochester, Minn., where he wbnt for treatment. Dr. Beaman during his mln'stry, held many important pastorates' in the state and was widely known in the denomination. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church here tomorrow at 11 o'clock and interment will be- at Goldsboro. He is survived by his widow, one son and two daughters. Hogue Sentenced to Prison For Life. Bt. Clairsville, 0., April 27.—CP)— Pleading guilty to Hecond degree mur der for the slaying of his step-mother, Mrs. Lunda Hogue, three months ago, Kenneth Hogue was today sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary at Columbus. Hogue, who celebrated his twentieth birthday in jail last Sunday, con fessed that he killed bis step-mother because of a three-year grudge against her for having accused him ot steal ing $3.00. CONCORD, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926 « War Seems to Be China's Regular Diet f■' ———• ’’jy —"——— Pforia weapona still roar la Cftina where various factions are engaged in martial conflict. Thin picture, token after Hie recent battle at Slnyanehow, in Honan Province, shows one of the field guns used by Anti-Red * —’ll—— toroaa. THE COTTON MARKET ; Opened Steady Today at Advance if j J to 7 Points.—May Rallied After I Opening Decline. I New York. April 27.—CP)—The j cotton market opener! steady today at an advance of 1 to 7 points in r<- sjionse to rather steadier Liverpool cables and covering after the decline of yesterday. May sold off to 18.51 after the call under little liquidation brought out by circulation of notices estimated at abont 4,000 balea. TVs month's offerings were steadily ab sorbed by the trade buying presuma bly to fix prices, however, and price soon rallied to 18.60. October mean while sold up to 17.20 to 17.81, the i general list showing net advances of about 1) to 13 points at the end of the first hour. Early weather advices indicated no rainfall of importance in the South, but showed rather low temperatures at a couple of the eastern belt points, and rejwrts reaching here from the Southwest brought reiterated eoni pla'nts of delayed planting. Cotton futures opened steady : May 18.08; October 17.22; December 16.87 and January 16.78. GOVERNORS ARE INVITED TO WILLIAMSBURG CELEBRATION Governors if Thirteen Original States To Be Guests at Sesqui-Centem nial. Williamsburg. Va., April 27.—OP) — Governors of the thirteen original states 'have been invited to attend the •eeWHHMoff here on M«y 1$ Qf -ftie. sesquT-eentenniai of the adoption of the Virginia resolution which culmin ated in the Deelarnt’on of Independ ence. President Coolidge will deliver the principal address. The invitations were extended by j Governor Harry Flood Byrd, of Vir ginia. and were sent to the Chief Ex ecutives of Massachusetts, Rhode Is land. New York. North Carolina South Carolina. Georgia. Maryland New Jersey. Connecticut, Pennsylvan ia aDd Delaware. Ail are expected to attend e'ther in person or by per son representatives. WANTS FARM PROBLEM SOLVED BY CONGRESS Republican Club Would Keep Con gress In Session Until Matter is Concluded. Chicago, April 27.— UP) —Calling the agricultural problem the greatest, present challenge to statesmanship, the Hamilton Club of Chicago, the greatest republican club west of New York, has gone on record against ad journment of Congress until adequate steps have been taken "to redeem the promise made to the farmers of the nation” in the Republican platform of 1924. A resolution adopted by the club directors last night calls the attention of Congress and the administration to the agricultural plank of the party platform and expresses confidence that the farm problem can be solved if the party addresses itself seriously to the task. With Our Advertisers. Miss Allie Legg now is in New York buying the latest styles in mil linery for Robinson’s millinery de partment. ~ The California tours contest ends Monday, May 3, at 6 p. m. Pay 1 your accounts before that time and the Ritchie Hardware Co. and got 300 votes on the dollar. Every public school student should have a memory book. Kid-Frix Music and Stationery Co. has them. Judge McCamant. Resigns. Portland, Ore., April 27. —(4>)— Judge Wallace McOamant of the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Ap peals has resigned, effective next Mon day. He has been serving under re cess appointment by President Cool idge, which the Senate refused to con firm several weeks ago. Deputies Withdrawn at Passaic Mills. Passaic, N. J.. April 27.—(4*)—The withdrawal of deputies guarding tex tile plants in this city affected by the 14 weeks’ strike, was announced to day by Sheriff Charles F. Morgan. Tbe sheriff said he was convinced there was no further occasion for the 150 deputies who were brought here on the night of April 18th. Dtr. Harvey's discovery, of the circu lation of blood about 300 years ago marked the beginning of the growth of modern medical science. The Canadian wheat belt haa been | extended northward more than 100 miles by the propagation- of garnet j wheat, a new early maturing grain. I I CHURCH GAINS COME FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL Progress in Eviry Departmfnt of the Snnday School Work s Reported. Nashville. Tenn., April 27.—0 f the 142 025 members uniting with the M. K. Chure’.i, South, during the past year 92,428 came from the ranks of Sunday school pupils, while further proof that the Sunday sehool is be coming more and more the central doorway to churco membership is seen in the fact thnt during the past four vents of the 503,449 aecissions to the Southern Methodist Church, "63,- 938 Sunday school pupils are report ed as having been received ou profes sions of faith. Sunday school growth in many di rections will be reported to the gen eral conference of the denomination when that body meets in quadrennial session in Memphis, May sth. Ac cording to statistics compiled at Sun day sell tail headquarters in Nashville, the number of Sunday schools in 1925 was 18,324 with a total enrollment of 2,048.198 pupils in the United States and 66.398 in foreign fields. Total collections for missions and other Sunday school causes during the past year was $3,305,988, while for tiie quadrennium which will close with the convening of the general con ference, Sunday school pupils raised for all purposes, $12,223,487. The annual circulation for 1925 of 1.859,000 copies of Sunday school ro llers and lesson texts, is < evidence,- eaders say of continuous .develop ment in the quality and ,variety of Sunday school literature and indi cates an increasihg attendance upon the Sunday schools of the denomina tion. Methodists lend tiie religious wmld lr. the matter of teacher-training cred its according to leaders in charge of this department, the gain during the past quadrennium over the preceding six years being nearly 100,00 credit units. During the past year all over the territory of the Southern Metho dist Church, in China, Japan and Cuba, as well as in the 88 annual conference divisions in the United States, men and women and young people attended standard training schools for Sunday school leaders, and according to reports received 44,- 192 awards offered in courses under Methodist auspices, thereby outdis tancing the next five denominational ho)—Robert B. Dula, director of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., died today at his Park Avenue home. In 1874 the famous Dr. Osier ex amined two of his friends for life in surance. The one now surviving was refused insurance because of val vular lesion of the heart. Star Theatre W ednesday-Thursday, April 28- 29th Another Good Picture “Kentucky Pride” With J. Farrell MacDonald, Gertrude Astor, Henry B. Wal thall and a host of the world’s greatest race horses Man o’ War in great cast. A crook story of the race track You Will Like It A John Ford Production TODAY Your Last Chance To See ' “SANDY” Played to a Packed House on | Monday: Everyone Liked It ♦44444444444^ * Y. W. C. A. OPPOSES *! 4- ANY CHANGE IN’ J*- 4 VOLSTEAD L, 1 " 4 Milwaukee, Wis.. April 27. C _ 4; <4“)—Opposition to any law 4S that would weaken the prohibi- 4- 4$ tion amendment was expressed 4: today in a resolution adopted at 4: 4£ the bi-enn:al convention of del- jK 4: egntPs representing 560.900 mem- 4 4 bers of the Young Women’s 4 1 4 Christian Association. 4 * 4 ♦444444444444^ GOV. McLEAN PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO ELECTRICITY As the Force Which Has Made Pos sible the Mapic Development of j North Carolina. lta'.eigh Bureau of The Tribune Pinehurst. April 27.—High tribute to electricity as the force which has made possible the magic development of North Carolina, and all of Ameri ca, for that matter, within the past twenty-five years, was paid by Gov ernor A, W. McLean today in his address before the fourteenth annual convention of the southeastern divi sion of the National Electric Light Association' here today. "Twenty-five years ago." the gover nor declared in the course of his ad dress, "there w;as not in the whole state of North Carolina a single cen tral electric plant, in the modern sense. The first, on the Catawba River near Charlotte, was a frank experiment . Not an industry, ex cept a few mills using water-wheels, knew any source of 1 lower except its individual steam plant. Only a few of our cities were lighted and they with infrequent and uncertain arc lights, while in tiie home the incan descent w>a« still too expensive a lux ury except for the well-to-do. "Today there is a conservatively estimated li.vdro-electric power instal lation of 60.000 horse-power on North Carolina streams. Today there is an output of electrical energy which reaches the total of 1.500.000.000 kilowatt hours per year. Today elec tric power and light utilities have in stalled in this state 433,711 horse power and in addition deliver the out jiut of 41..300 horse-power installed in other states, and this 845,000 horse-power available for industry for civic uses and for homes is carried over 2,000 miles of high power trans mission lines. “What the release of this store of clean, economical and reliable power has meant: to North Carolina is re flected in wliat Nortti Carolina indus try ha* been achieving. Over 500 textile mills give employment to 90.- 000 people and manufacture products of a yearly value of $400,000,000. Great tobacco factories, the largest in the world, make North Carolina the nremier state in the manufacture of the solacing weed and product pro ducts haring a value of upwards of | $300,000,000 annually. Several of our towns, notably the city of High Point, are centers of a furniture in dustry important in the nation, the value of whose products is in excess of SSO 000,000 annual). In 1923, ac cording to official figures of the Unit ed States department of commerce, the total value of our manufactured < products was $951,911,000. "The marvel of these figures, the lesson of which has not been lost on the nation, is that the industry they reflect should be powered to the ex tent of 75 per cent, by the electric utilities that so lately as twenty years ago were, practically speaking, non existant.” Calling the convention to order, President Robert L. Lindsey, who is vice president of the Durham Public Bervice Company, delivered the an nual presidential address—an appeal for a more compact and business-like southeastern division organization. It was largely through Mr. Lindsey’s ef forts that a full-time secretary of the division was engaged and headquar ters located in Atlanta. It is the hope of the president, as expressed in his address, to weld the organiza tion into a more effective agency for the electric light and power indus try. While interpolated as incidental re marks. Mr. Lindsey's references to rural electrification in the South were regarded by the audience as most sig nificant. “I cannot refrain," he said, "from referring so a slowly .but surely de veloping movement that is beginning to grip the thought of the entire na tion—that of electrifying the farms of America. We probably do not realize yet the momentum which that movement already has gained or what has been accomplished right here in North Carolina. The matter of plac ing electric power in usable form in the hands of our agricultural indus try is one of the greatest problems the power and light business has been called upon to solve. If agriculture is to keep paee with tiie other indus tries of America it must be enabled to utilize power instead of man-pow er just ns do the other industries.” The sessions of the convention will continue through Thursday after noon. 1 “jfl Escapes From State Prison Camp. Raleigh. April 27.— UP)— State prison officials reported today the es cape late yesterday of J. J. Thomas, a white man of Rutherford county, ser ving a sentence of two to four years for larceny and receiving. Thomas escaped from the honor camp at the prison at Zebulon. Fleet Returning From Maneuvers Miami, Fla., April 27.— UP)— Three squadrons of the United States navy scouting fleet, comprising twenty-nine planes, took off from Biscayne Bay early today en route from winter manevuers in southern waters to their base at Hampton Roads, Va. THE TRIBUNE 4 1 PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODA|| NO- 97 fP Tn " IN BEING 1 "iußyimisi AFTERLONG FlflW John Adams Abbott Is Al leged to Have Made In sulting Remarks Abo# Italian Premier. ARGUMENT FIRST STARTED TROUBLE j Italian Guide Is aid to Have Taken Place in Line of Tour ists at Vatican Gardns. Rome. April 27. — UP) —John Adams Abbott, aged 24, son\of Mrs. Craft on St. Lee Abbott, of Boston, Mass., was arrested Monday on a charge of aft- \ saulting Salvatore Astrologo, a Hom- -4 an guide, and innulting Premier J Holini. Abott and Astrologo engaged in an argument after the guide is said t<> have usurped the American’s place ia a line of tourist** awaiting entrance ; the Vatican gardens. The quar&t ' was renewed in halls of one of th/k Vatican buildings, and again at Ab bott’s hotel, to which he invited the I guide in order to settle tiie affair. M The pair engaged in a fist fight in from of the hotel, the American land ing with such effect that Astroiojjo j was taken to a hospital. The guSflq ‘ Accused Abbott of having uttered ih sulting remarks about Mussolini and fascism. To Go Over List of Candida tea. Tribune Bureau Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh. April 27.—Judge W. H. Neal, chnirman of the State board of elections, is expected in Raleigh to day to begin the task of checking ov er and passing upon all notices of candidacies .received at the board’s of fice here Friday and Saturday. He has checked over all received up to Thursday evening. • "-q Tiie judge ba« announced that theV: notices would be passed upon "on their merit" and in full conformance J with the election law. Several telegraphic notices are in- 3 eluded in the lot which awaits his de- i cision. The complete list of candidates will be given out at tbe same time 4h«—d candidacies are certified to the sere- 1 tary of state, the judge stated Satan- 1 day. Astor Dunned Monroe But He! DM It - Diplomatically. ;‘ f New York, April 27. —OP)—-When the John Jacob Astor of 1802 decld ed to dun former President James Monroe for an old loan, the deliqate- | ly sandwiched his request between. congratulations and best wishes. This is revealed in an autographed Astor letter just sold by the Alpgri- J cun Art Galleries. Dated in jthia city. April 26, 1826. and addressed | to "Honle. James Monroe,” tbs com* mounication reads: '"'- Jill "Dear Sir: '*>' ;sfl “Permit me to congratulate you on your honorable retirement (from .Pub lic Life) in which I most sincerely | wish you may enjoy that Peaee and Tranquility to which you are so just ly entitled. "Without wishing to cause you any inconveuieuey on account of t|ie loan which I so long since made to yoji I would be glad if you would put it in a train of settlement if not whole let. it be a part with the duel " “I hope Dear Sir that you and Mrs. j Monroe enjoy tiie best of hMHb 3 that you may live years to witness : the Prosperity of tiie country Sia which you have so eminently contri|i- j uted. "I am most respectfully. Dear Sir, - | "Y'our obed. Svt. “J. Ja Astor.” The Los Angeles on Test Cruise. Lakehurst, N. J., April 27.—OP)— The dirigible Los Angeles was re leased from her mooring mast shortly before noon and started toward Phil- J adelphia on a test cruise. Captain George W. Steele, Jr., in ('large of the ship, planned to return to the hangar in thq early afternoon. The weather conditions were good. America is the only couutry to standardize color for industrial pur- i poses, 1.410 textile and allied con- ;4 corns agreeing each season upon the : same color card. With seven former major league players it its roster, the Portland team should be able to keep in the running for rhe Pacific Coast League title this season. ■■ n mu i BAT'S BEAR BATB| . .Vo s 3 \ Fair and warmer tonight, Wednes- « day cloudy probably showers" In west A and central portions, warmer In the ■ east and eolder in extreme west per-S tion, cooler Wednesday night. erate to fresh south and aoutbwjffifl winds.