Two Aerial Daredevils Start on Non-Stop Trip ? , Reginald Robbins and H. S. Jones Hope, to Reach Goal 5,000 Away by Refueling in Air Seattle, Wash., July 8.?Two dare devil fliers rode their yellow and white monoplane northward tonight in quest of a record no mait has yet at tained, a nan-stop flight of 5,100 miles over treacherous land and sea to Tokyo. * Reginald C. Robbins, a Texan who broadens his As, and Harold S. Jones, oil man who flies as a hobby, started with the dawn from Seattle, pointed the nose of their Lockheed-Vega ship * toward Fairbanks, Alaska, for the first of two scheduled refuelings in the air, and flew steadily all day. They were reported passing over Prince George, B. C., shortly before - 9:30 a. m., Pacific coast time. From a previous sighting at Soda Creek, B. C., it was calculated that they were ( flying slightly less than 100 miles an hour, the ideal speed for their fuel- , economizing motor that burns only ( about half as much gasoline per hour as similar faster models. From Prince George they head acress Stuart Lake into the wild mountain wilder- ( ness of British Columbia. Robbins, 28 year old drawling sou therner, who said he was "kidded" in to risking his neck in this attempt to win a $25,000 prize, was at the con trols of the monoplane Fort Worth as it roared along on the flight that may become an epic. _ .< Jones, an oil man who left Cnicago for Texas and a fortune, was the nav- ,j igator. Laughingly, he told friends , before they started that "if we land on a cake of ice in Siberia, it will be ( my fault." Lifting their heavily loaded plane with difficulty, the fliers, eager to get away after being delayed five days, took off into a hazy Pacific dawn at 3:59 a. m. Eastern standard time. .As Jones, smiling broadly and pre dicting he would "have his next real cockpit, there was a commotion near meal in Tokyo," stepped into the cockpit, there was a commotion near by. Robbins, looking more like a cowboy than an aviator, was having trouble convincing a policeman he should be allowed near the ship. "Man, ah'm goin' to ride in that ship to Tokyo," exclaimed Robbins, , embarrassed, as the policeman shoved him backward. The policeman apologized. Robbins climbed aboard, and almost before the group realized he was in the pockpit , the ship was rolling down the runway, wabbling dangerously under its heavy load of 410 gallons of gasoline. "Tokyo by tomorrow night," shout ed Jones, as the ship rolled away. "So long," shouted Robbins. The ship picked up speed slowly as it roared down the long runway and for a moment spectators gasped as it appeared Robbins would not be able to lift it in time to clear some trolly wires. The route Robbins and Jones plan ned to follow would take them first to Fairbanks, then to Nome for the final refueling, thence westward across the ocean and down the Asia tic coast to Tokyo, where a $25,000 prize, offered by a Japanese newspa per for the first non-stop airplane flight from the United States to Ja pan, awaits them. Jones, to whom Robbins leaves most of the talking, estimated the trip would take about 55 hours. The Fort Worth, built more for endurance than for speed, has a cruising speed of ap proximately 100 miles per hour. It uses only from 111-2 to 12 1-2 gal lons of gasoline per hour in contrast to almost double that amount by speedier ships of the 3ame design, such as Wiley Post and Harold Gatty used in their flight around the globe. The fliers carried only a few sand wiches, prepared for them by the chef of Washington Athletic Cluh. U. S. Takes Mai Sehnefing Champion Musi Pay the 1 Government $17,546 on Share of (lie Gate | Cleveland, July 6.?Max Schmeling will have to give Undo Sam 117,546 on his share of the gate in his title bout Friday night and may jtove to pay an additional yw to 6I? cative by the. internal fievenue Bureau here on the basis of flfl?,l38X which promoter Dick Dunn said was the champion's share. Tax officials ?ahi Schmeling will have to pay the differ Slate's Deficit Is $2,230,064 Explanation Made That $720,000 Due to Late Collection of Taxes Raleigh, July 9.?North Carolina's third biennium under the executive budget act ended" on June 30 with a deficit of $2,230,064 as compared with a surplus of $1,403,583 on June 30, 1927, and $2,121,079 on June 30, 1929, it was officially announced yesterday by the budget bureau. The actual deficit compares with an estimated deficit carried in the pres ent budget of $1,224,151. The statement issued in the name of Governor O. Max Gardner, ex-offi cio director of the budget, who is ex pected back today from a ten day va- j cation that has included Atlantic City, New York and Shelby, explains the deficit as due entirely to shrinkage in collections. It is explained that ex penditures only exceeded the esti mates of last November, which had been revised downward sharply, by only $122, although the general as sembly exceeded its own appropria tion of $180,853 by $5r,737, and it was necessary also to absorb an in crease in debt service expense ,of $50,531. ' "On the decrease in revenue collec tions, $240,000 inheritance taxes are assessed but uncollected and $480,000 Schedule B license taxes should have been collected in June, but on ac count of the general assembly pass ing the revenue act as late as the end of May, collections of Schedule B usu ally begun June 1 were only begun July 1," says the statement "These two items will be collected now in 1931-32 the effect is to increase the debit balance to .$2,230,064 when it should be $1,510,064. The disadvan tage to the year 1930-31 should be to the advantage of 1931-32 and the re sults for the biennium should not be affected." "The collections for 1930-31 should be a warning to us for the new bien nium a call for economy and retrench ment in spending," says the 'state ment, presumably written by Henry Burke, assistant director of the budget. The statement shows that revenue fell $86,775 below estimates for the fiscal year 1929-30 and $3,392,190 be low estimates for the year 1930-31. Roger Caldwell Found Guilty Tennessee Banker Con victed in First of Trials Growing Out of Crash Nashville, Tenn., July 6.?Eight months after his nationally known in vestment banking house failed, Rog ers Caldwell was convicted today on the first of several criminal charges growing out of the collapse, and the jury fixed his punishment at one to three years' imprisonment. The 41-year-old president of Cald well and Company was found guilty of fraudulent breach of truft, a charge carrying indeterminate? Sen tence of one to ten years in the dis cretion of the jury. Regardless of the maximum ' stipulated, however, one is eligible for parole after eleven months. Counsel* for Caldwell gave notice of a mation for a new trial. "The verdict came as a tremendous surprise," the former banker told newspaper men. "I shall use .every means I can to fight it. #I am confi dent of complete vindication eventu ally," He was accused in the indictment of having moved collateral pledged to secure deposits of Hardeman county, Tennessee, and to have substituted securities of less value in violation .of a trust agreement with the county. * ? Harold patty and WOey Post (right) are sfrwh looking-at course of the night tney nave eiccmnea uie world by nuking. Ten days was all tbey allowed^for the feat. Below are shown closcups of Post (left) and Gatty. Above is shown Ruth Nichols' plane shorty hefioreit crashed lm attempt to fly the Atlantic. * ^ New Auto Law Is Severe On Drivers Law Says You Must Compensate Those You Injure or Surrender Drivers'1 License Greenville, July 9.?A new law which went in effect in this state on July 1 penalizes reckless driving and points the way to sound protection both for motorists and those dotting the daily casualty list in the state, says Mr. Moseley, local agent of the Standard Accident Insurance Com pany, Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Moseley continues: "It is a sound law and a credit to the state which has been often wise in its legislative acts. It is sound be cause it reaches the reckless drivers without making safe drivers suffer its rebound. It is sensible because it points rather than forces the way to sound accident cost production?it has teeth because the law is almost auto matic in its enforcible qualities. "If you cannot compensate those whom you injure while driving and through your own fault then you can not drive, says te law. "The law takes a shot at reckless driving in the clause which, says, 'Op erators' and chauffeurs' license and registration certificates of any person shall be forfeited if convicted or pleading guilty to any reckless driv ing while in the state.' "The new Financial Responsibility Law points the way to sound auto in-1 surance protection, when it says, 'Op erators' and chauffeurs' license and registration certificates of any per son shall be revoked in case of fail ure within 3C days thereafter to sat-1 isfy any judgment which shall have become final for damages on account of personal injury or damage to prop erty in excess of $50.00 and the li cense or registration certificate will not be renewed until such judgment shall be satisfied.' Bankruptcy will satisfy the judgment but will not give back the license or registration plates." "DADDY" DISTILLERY IS FOUND IN EDGECOMBE Tarboro, July 6.?Chief of Police J. T. Parker and Deputy Sheriff C. E. Pridgen made a raid 6n a still Friday afternoon in No. 13 township near Norville's store, and found one of the largest and best equipped stills in cent years. It was a still of 50 gal lons' capacity steam plant. The offi cers found three vats with 3,000 gal lons of beer, two wboden tubs, six barrels and a pump. They took pos session of the still and the equipment, but the operators could not" be lo cated. HIGHWAY SYSTEM SAVES $1,000 DAILY Raleigh, July 9.?A savings of ap proximately $1,000 a day in the main tenaee of the 10,000 miles of state highways, has been announced by Les lie R. Ames, highway engineer. Mr. Ames explained the sayings had been effected chiefly by elimin ating of^ lOl of the 369 maintenance sectiond. In addition, a t?h per cent cut in wages was put into effect for work ers on the revised sections. - . . ?. By . the.interception of eight letter*, i written jwith lemon juice, the warden of the state penitentiary, Salt Lake City, was" enabled to frustrate a plot i Ounnj[ his 12 y^ears .^^s cluef ThisfVeekln Washingto | Washington^ D. C., July 9.?The weeks that have elapsed since Resi dent Hoover made his notable sug gestion for a debt moratorium to the European governments have served only to strengthen his position. When a week later iie hacked it up by a suggestion to the Federal Farm Board that it withhold its surplus of wheat until the domestic price had gained a satisfactory level, he only added to his prestige. In both moves he has done what the country has been demanding of him; assume active leadership. Mr. Hoover has never been accused of lacking force, but ? many observers had come to wonder whether his life time habit of proceeding as the head of a big business was not handicap ping bim as far as results were cor cerned. Acting as bead of a concern staffed with politicians is far differ ent from initiating the policies of a private, business concern, and his at tempt to adapt his old methods is said by many hare tfehavu been the cause for many of hls Hecisiohfl tfiaf Kate aroused criticism. Twice within a month he has bro ken through red tape, each time his action being met with such a storm of approval that it will undoubtedly hearten him to similar actions. As Will Rogers, one of the most astute of all commentators on public offi cials, says, the coming campaign is almost certain to be a contest between Hoover and Curtis, on one side, and Governor Roosevelt and some running mate on the other. The strong tide that is setting in favor of Vice President Curtis' re nomination, threatens to overturn one political precedent, that no vice presi dent ever succeeds himself. In the 150 years of this government there has always been a different vice'pres ident every four years and Curtis, if he is^re-elected, will hold a unique honor. His choice is by no means sure, as political trades for votes for head of the ticket at rtext summer's convention may return him to his Kansas prairies. John 'J. Ra&kob, the executive head of the Democratic party, who has just returned from a three months' trip to Europe, has nothing but praise for President Hoover's debt proposal, but declares it has nothing to do with the coming campaign, which will be fought on the old familiar lines of prohibition and the tariff. What he does not say, however, is that- the president has unquestionably won votes by his display of eminent states manship and bis evident desire to give the country the leadership it had a right to expect from a man of his known ability. Foreign newspapers frankly ex plain that the