SCHUYLKILL SWIM WON BY DOERFFEL; Sets Record of 58:06 by Sprint at Close of 3 1/2-Mile Event and Takes Pawling Trophy.

RANDOM GOSSIP OF THE STREET CALLED BROADWAY; Many Impending Musical Shows -- Mr. Milton and the Best Sellers

Brock Praises Newfoundland's Preparations.

THESE CHANGING UNITED STATES; Walter Lippmann Looks Into Some Illusions of Democracy MEN OF DESTINY. By Walter Lippmann. Drawings by Rollin Kirby. 244 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. These Changing United States

There is an unusual place to be filled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

H.A.H. SMITH'S WORK AT MUSEUM PRAISED; Metropolitan Official Calls the Death of Restorer of Old Paintings a Grave Loss. HIS POST STILL UNFILLED Success Not Dependent Solely on Secret Formula, but on His Talent, Says Joseph Breck.

OVER PLYMOUTH AT 2 A.M.; Schlee and Brock Find Weather Ideal for Flight. TAKE-OFF PROVES PERFECT Favorable Breeze Helps With Heavy Load, and Speeds Them Over Sea. CROYDON FIELD PREPARED Wives of Pilots, Waiting in Detroit, Express Confidence of Their Success.

Mary Anderson Thanks Poet For Tribute Written in 1885

Rhoades, T E, Co; payroll; J H Pratt killed

BUILDER SHOT DEAD FOR $4,700 PAYROLL IN TUNNEL IN BRONX; Body of Judson H. Pratt, 28, Found in Auto at Lonely Spot on Mosholu Parkway. PROPPED IN LIFELIKE POSE Police Believe Victim Was Slain Ruthlessly to Aid Flight -- Single Bullet Wound in Head. RAID IN COLUMBUS CIRCLE Two Bandits Flee With $1,900 After Holding Up Office, Binding and Gagging Man and Two Women. BUILDER SHOT DEAD FOR $4,700 PAYROLL

DEMPSEY PERFORMS 7 ROUNDS IN PUBLIC; Flynn Announces Policy of Admitting Fans Despite Earlier Statement to Contrary. SHOWING IS IMPRESSIVE Jack Works Eagerly and Surprises by Effective Use of His Right Hand. DEMPSEY PERFORMS 7 ROUNDS IN PUBLIC

Nanking Captured by Sun, the North Asserts, But South Declares It Has Hurled Him Back

Young Ruddy Breaks Record In Winning Potomac Swim

BRONX GARDENS IN BLOOM.; Dahlias Now Feature Exhibition -- Some Are Ten Feet Tall.

Goes ashore, at Morgan Harbor, N F, to save passengers in storm

SEAS BATTER COAST, STORM CHILLING CITY; Heavy Waves Pound the New Jersey Shore, Endangering Water-Front Structures.

CHICAGO, Aug. 27. -- The Audley Farm's celebrated mare Princess Doreen added another triumph to her long list at the Hawthorne track today, capturing the Greater Chicago Handicap, $5,000 added, in easy fashion.  

ANOTHER STAKE WON BY PRINCESS DOREEN; Mare Takes Greater Chicago Handicap by Two Lengths at Hawthorne Track.

No news; storm and high winds reported; por of him and wife

REDFERN'S FUEL EXHAUSTED; Head of Backers Believes Him Blown Off Course and Forced Down. DOUBTS REACHING OF GOAL Figures Flier Is on the North Coast of South America or Islands Near Trinidad. BRAZIL INTENSIFIES VIGIL Miami Airmen Volunteer for Rescue -- Severe Storm in Bahamas Reported. REDFERN MISSING, FUEL EXHAUSTED

Sec Hoover's flood control plan, in feature article by Speers

HOOVER'S PLAN TO HARNESS OUR WATERS; They Are the Nation's Greatest Undeveloped Resource, Says the Secretary of Commerce, Whose Program Embraces Seven Major Development Projects -- He Forecasts a Rich Harvest in Wealth HOOVER'S WATER-POWER PROJECTS Secretary's Program Embraces Seven Major Developments, Including Protection From Floods -- Estimated Cost and the Benefit

HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, Aug. 27. -- There is one thought in particular that we -- Bill Brock and I -- would like to get across, as we are on the point of starting over the ocean on the first leg of our attempt to circle the globe in a single motored plane. We have said that we hope to break the world's record of 28 days 14 hours and 30 minutes.  

Round-the-World Fliers Tell Aim; Hope They'll Prove Air Lines Safe; Schlee and Brock Say Record for Girdling Globe Is Only Incidental -- Believe Flight in Small Plane Will Help Make the People 'Air-Minded.'

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Aug. 27. -- There was a sensational upset in the twenty-fifth running of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes for two-year-olds at the course of the Saratoga Association this afternoon when A.H. Cosden's homebred colt Vito, by Negofol out of Forever, a rank outsider in the betting at 20 to 1, captured the famous juvenile classic in commanding fashion.  

VITO, 20 TO 1, VICTOR; NASSAK THIRD AT SPA; Winner Beats Sun Edwin by Three Lengths in Grand Union Hotel Stakes. TWO GOVERNORS ATTEND Smith and Ritchie, as Well as Tunney, in Crowd That Sees Upset on Sloppy Track. CHANCE PLAY TRIUMPHS Sande, on Harriman Colt, Takes the Merchants and Citizens From Black Maria. VITO, 20 TO 1, WINS; NASSAK 3D AT SPA

An address on "The Lost Art of Thinking" by President Nicholas Murray Butler will open on Oct. 17 a series of more than 200 public meetings of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, the non-academic branch of university extension work at Columbia University  

BUTLER WILL OPEN COLUMBIA LECTURES; Institute of Arts and Sciences to Begin Extension Meetings at McMillin Theatre Oct. 17. CONTINUES UNTIL APRIL More Than 118,000 Are Expected to Attend Public Courses for Adult Education. BUTLER WILL OPEN COLUMBIA LECTURES

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 27. -- The opinion that the Yankees are good is by no means unanimous. The one dissenting vote is cast by the Browns. They maintain that the Yanks are perfect and their contention is easily understood in view of what the Yanks have done to them this season in general and this afternoon in particular.  

RUTH CRASHES 41ST AS YANKS WIN, 14-4; Babe Also Get a Triple While Browns Lose 16th in Row to the Hugmen.

Finds the Foreign-Born Read Most on American Subjects

One of 4 great men named by E Ludwig, feature article

ARE THERE GREAT MEN TODAY?; Emil Ludwig Points Out the Difficulty of Applying the True Test in an Age When Fame-Making News Travels So Fast, but He Names Four -- Edison, Einstein, Masaryk and Bernard Shaw

Notes on the Dublin stage, with special mention of: L Robinson's Round Table

THE DUBLIN STAGE

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27. -- Chick Evans got his long awaited chance to meet Bobby Jones in the final round of a national amateur championship today and the outcome was just what everybody thought it would be. The Chicago veteran, who only ten years ago was as great a figure in the golf world as Jones now is, met the fate that every one else meets when he faces a golf superman.  

JONES BEATS EVANS, 8 AND 7, TO CAPTURE AMATEUR GOLF TITLE; Takes Lead at Second Hole and Is Never Headed in National Final at Minneapolis. RIVAL STAGES GAME FIGHT But Fails to Match Winner's Super-Golf -- Penalizes Himself on Last Hole. THIRD VICTORY IN 4 YEARS Atlantan Is Now One Short of Travers's Amateur Triumphs -- Has a 67 in Morning. Jones Wins National Amateur Golf Crown by Defeating Evans by 8 and 7

August 28, 1927

Headlines from August 28, 1927

SCHUYLKILL SWIM WON BY DOERFFEL; Sets Record of 58:06 by Sprint at Close of 3 1/2-Mile Event and Takes Pawling Trophy.

RANDOM GOSSIP OF THE STREET CALLED BROADWAY; Many Impending Musical Shows -- Mr. Milton and the Best Sellers

Brock Praises Newfoundland's Preparations.

THESE CHANGING UNITED STATES; Walter Lippmann Looks Into Some Illusions of Democracy MEN OF DESTINY. By Walter Lippmann. Drawings by Rollin Kirby. 244 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. These Changing United States

H.A.H. SMITH'S WORK AT MUSEUM PRAISED; Metropolitan Official Calls the Death of Restorer of Old Paintings a Grave Loss. HIS POST STILL UNFILLED Success Not Dependent Solely on Secret Formula, but on His Talent, Says Joseph Breck.