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| “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edie tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Buresu Forecast.) * : Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 31,507. post office, £ Entered as second cl ‘Washing! ‘WASHINGTON, Foen ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING :nmoxg D. .q, HOOVER AND HYDE CONFER ON MEANS OF DROUGHT HELP ‘Department of Agriculture to Submit Report Monday of Effect of Weather. CAPITAL SEES NO RELIEF FOR PRESENT HOT WAVE Prisoners Impressed to Combat Forest Fire Spreading in Nearby Virginia. President Hoover took a hand in ef- forts to relieve distress from the un- precedented drought today as reports to the Weather Bureau failed to bring any promise of immediate relief from the heat wave. The seriousness of the situation in a wide area east of the Mississippi and | in the Middle West has been the sub- | Jject of conferences between Mr. Hoover and Secretary Hyde. The result was to order a detailed survey made by the nt of Agriculture which will have a report next Monda President day said: President’s Statement. “The drought situation has been the subject of several conferences between y. Hoover in a statement to- in the country. far indicates great variation in the effect of the drought, both as between States, between counties in those States, and even between farms in the following” the Potomac, the Ohio and the Mississippl Rivers. “The measure of assistance that the Farm Board and the other agencies of the Federal Government can and should undertake arr being determined. Relief Planned Later. “It is evident that w of feed movement to live in the drought areas or movement of out of the worst areas will be undertaken later in the Fall. It is too character | the further vestiga portaton point of view.” SR 3 wasknis sections ‘404 local 6 verious sections and | i ashington % An ominous pote crept into discus- Imd:?wum the drought-seared jons Central and Southern as agricultural interests began ' relief through governmental commercial channels. Forecasts by the United States Weather which indicates no relief in from general rains, added to the of conditions said to threat- supply of the Nation and GREENLAND FLIGHT | ABANDONED BY TWO' Danish Government Asks Depolit" for Trouble Incurred by Trip. By the Assoclated Press. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 5.— ‘Wolfram Hirth, young German aviator, who wished to fiy from Iceland to Gresnland and the United States, was ‘bound for Montreal today aboard theI steamship Minnedosa, with his plane strapped securely to the ship's deck. He will fly from Montreal to New York, while his companion, Oscar Weller, will take the next ship home to Germany. ‘The two aviators abandoned their pro- Jected flight when the Governor of Greenland notified them that there were 1o suitable landing places in Southern Greenland and when the Danish gov- ernment requested a deposit of 100,000 kroner (about $2,700) for expense and trouble they might bring to the govern- ment in the event they made the flight. They arrived here August 1 after Jeaving Berlin July 24. They flew by way of Cologne, Calais, Croydon and the Orkney Islands. POISON RUM KILLS SIX Hobo Camp Members Die From Drinking Poor Alcohol. PATERSON, N. J., August 5 (®).— Six men were dead today from drink- ing poison alcohol at a hobo camp out- sids the city Saturday night. of the dead was sald to be Bd- w A. Pranz, Youngstown, Ohio, for:->r Army sergeant. " ivee of the men were found dead, the others died in hospitals. = MACARTHUR PKED MAJ. GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, | New chief of staff of the Army. | Contest in Eighth District Centers 'KANSAS FARM AID /ISSUE HOLDS STAGE AS 4 STATES VOTE | Republican Primary Today Brings to Close Bitter Battle Over Wheat. WET-DRY FIGHT COMES TO FRONT IN VIRGINIA on Liguor Stand—Party Loyalty Question Enters in Fifth. By the Assoclated Press. Farm relief, party regularity and prohibition were issues interwined with primaries today in Kansas, Missouri, | Virginia and West Virginia, but for the ' most part the questions and candidates | concerned only voters within the States. Out in Kansas, plagued by the drought and low wheat prices, Sena- tor Henry J. Allen, strong administra- tion supporter, was seeking the Re- publican nomination. The contest for Governor, however, in the State and | out, drew more attention. Gov. Clyde M. Reed, who thinks the Federal Farm Board’s acreage reduc- tion campaign foolish, was opposed by Frank Haucke, legislator, Legionnaire and farmer. BRIG. GEN. BEN H. FULLER, Appointed eflfllllllllllc nt of the Marine y. AS HEAD OF ARMY, Haucke has charged the Governor with attempting to undermine the af- fairs of the government. He did not take direct issue with Reed on the wheat reduction matter. Allen Runs for Curtis’ Term. Allen, a Reed appointee, is_running for the remainder of Vice President Curtis’ unexpired terms. Ralph Snyder, who thinks like Reed on wheat reduction, has tried to make this an issue. The Senator replied he regretted that Chairman Legge of the Farm Board has failed to deal directly with the wheat emergency. In Virginia, where the fact that some Democrats did not support Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee, has not been forgotten, Senator Carter Glass had no opposition for the Democratic FULLER OF MARINES need | Youngest Major General to| Replace Summerall on Re- tirement This Fall. President Hoover today named Maj, Gen. Douglas MacArthur to be chief of staff of the Army to succeed Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall when he retires from that office next November, and Brig. Gen. B. H. Fuller to ke com- mandant of the Marine Corps to fill the vacancy left by the death of Gen. ‘Wendell C. Neville. Gen. MacArthur is at present on temporary duty in China, but is expect. ed to report to Washington considerably in advance of November 21 when Gen. Summerall will retire as chief of staff. selection of the youngest major general to take command of the Amer- jcan Army came as somewhat of a sur- prise to officials in Army circles here. It iS known, however, that, besides his brildant record, he was picked because | he is the senior major general whose age would permit him to serve the full four-year term as chief of staff. The group of major generals who outrank Gen ur in the matter of seniority would be unable to serve four years before their retirement. Gen. MacArthur's selection was made by the President upon the recom- mendation of Secretary of War Hurley. Speculation on Commandant. The selection of Gen. Fuller was made upon the recommendation of Sec- retary of the Navy Adams. 'There was considerable speculation in various quarters of Washington as to the selec- tion of Gen. Neville's successor. Gen. Fuller has been commandant of the corps since Gen. Neville's death sev- eral weeks ago, and it is understood that his long service at the commandant headquarters in Wasnington, during | which time he acquired wide knowledge of the administration of the aflairs of the corps and displayed a r2al capacity as an administrator, is understood to have had much to do with his selection. | Both of these important selections | were announced personally today by ident Hoover. Both Gen. Mac- rthur and Gen. Fuller were compli- mented highly by the Executive. Re- garding the appointment of Gen. Mac- Arthur, the President said: “It gives me pleasure to promgte so brilliant a soldier. He is the only one of the major generals having a suffi- clent period to serve in the Army before retirement to serve the full four-year term as chief of staff. There are sev- eral very eminent generals who rank Gen. MacArthur, but none of them could serve more than a year and a half of the full term. I feel certain that Gen. MacArthur will maintain the high standard set by the eminent men | 'l:l?f have preceded him as chief of Native of Arkansas. Maj. Gen. MacArthur, who s es- pecially well known in Washington be- cause of his frequent services at _the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ALEXANDRIA TO TRY RAIN POWDER ON CLOUDS WITH PLANE’S AID Chamber of Commerce Manager Buys 200 Pounds for Test and Asks Hoover to Call for Prayers. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 5.—Dan S. Hollenga, business manager of the Chamber of Commerce, whose plea to Gov. Pollard for State-wide prayers for has arranged rain was recently with A. . Ober, vice-president of the Wuh\n‘umb Alr Ten!;in’slo, for d.'.lz: spreading by airplane of “rain-producing powder over m&, in an_effort to produce rain. The powder, the invention of Romero ‘Bros. of Santa Fe, N. Mex., was recom- mended to Mr. H by F. B. Ro~ mero recently, upen of the gerious drought that threatened this portion of Virginia. It is sprayed over senatorial nomination. ‘The liquor question and rumblings from the presidential campaign were heard in contests for the House. In the fifth district Representative Joseph Whitehead has been accused by his opponent, Thomas G. Burch, of giv- ing Smith lackadaisical support. Ball Gets Dry Favor. Pive Democrats were seeking the seat vacated by Representative R. Walton Moore in the eighth district. Only one, State Senator Frank L. Ball, has been characterized by the Anti-Saloon League as “satisfactory.” By..ch All 16 of Missouri's Rep tatives were asking to be sent back to Washing- ton. Four Democrats who were swe] off the political mountain by the Hoover avalanche also wanted their old seats in the House. There was more interest in the drought than the election, and an extremely light vote was expected. Five candidates were seeking the Re- gubu:::\ se_lq;:orm ng;-ain&t::n '_l;; West irginia. y_jum) race after Senator Goff decided to retire. The winner will oppose a former Sen- ator, M. M. Nlelg.ln the November election. Senator Hatfield, Republican, had a hard time beating Neely in 1928. Prohibition only m tinged the contest, although in L. Rosen- bloom, former Representative, favors modification of the Volstead act. 18 Seek Kentucky House Seats. Kentucky is preparing for the general election in November, when 10 of the State’s 11 Representatives will seek re- election in a field of 18 candidates. In the primaries of Saturday, with com- plete unofficial remrn.s,'te%ur l?emocrlfihc members were unopj , six ub- lican members !aunnhzy 'mll)dugave strong Democratic opposition and one Republican was unopposed. Senator John M. Robsion will be opposed by M. M. Logan and Ben Wil- liamson, Democratic contenders, in the race for the long and short term, with Logan seeking the long term, William- son the short period and Robsion after both. All were without opposition in the primary, VIRGINIANS GO TO POLLS. Two District Contests Expected to Bring Out Heavy Vote. RICHMOND, Va. August 5 (#).—A wet-dry issue in the eighth congres- sional district and an_argument over party loyalty in the fifth were expected to bring a larger-than-usual number of voters to the polls today in those areas for the Democratic primary. Only three Representatives will be nominated by the party today. Senator Carter Glass of Lynchburg, who comes up for re-election this year, opposed within the e ntinued on Page 3, Column 4) FREIGHTER SEVERS SWEDISH VESSEL Four Men Reported Missing in Collision Account From Stockholm. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, August 5.—The Amer- ican freighter Chickasaw, owned by the Moore MacCormack Co., collided early today with the Swedish freighter Fem- mern, cutting the Femmern in two. Four men were reported missing. The forepart of the Swedish vessel went to the bottom. The Chickasaw, slightly damaged, was expected to arrive here this after- noon. The Chickasaw took the afterpart of the Femmern in tow and was making | an effort to bring the derelict with it clouds by the same apparatus that is used in spra; cotton to kill the boll weevil, condensing the steam of the cloud to produce rain. The .nnwder has already been ordered and will be given a trial as after its arrival in Alexandria e ) drought 7 turn into a national dis- aster, the Chamber of Com-. merce most respectfully requests that your excellency issue a proclamation for Nation-wide prayer meetings to ask divine aid for rain.” 4 rican . - 'XheYCl:le—kllJ llyw.“o! ".U 3, tons, left few York Ju or 3 Stockholm and Le; Dopmhsan ‘The Femmern is 1 in the Ameri- can shipping record as of 387 net tons, built in 1890 at Oslo, owned by Angbats. AR Nugget Starts Gold Rush. BENDIGO, Australia,'August 5 (#).— mmver{l:t a 30-ounce nugget at Tarnagul Victoria, miles from here, has started & new gold rush. More than 250 prospectors, most of them driving high-powered American cars, have already reached the field and pegged out claims. FINGER OF WOMAN SENT BY CHINESE IN DEMAND FOR$50,000 Evidence of Torture to Mis- sionary Accompanies Mes- sage Asking for Ransom. TROOPS OF NATIONALISTS RE-ENTER CHANGSHA CITY One American and Three British Sailors Wounded as Reds Renew Attack on Gunboatse By the Assoclated Press. PEIPING, China, August 5.—British government authorities have received one of the fingers of Miss Edith Net- tleton, English missionary, with a de- mand for $50,000 ransom for her and Miss E. J. Harrison. Both have been held captive by Communists about 100 miles from Foochow for several weeks. ‘The British legation staff were very reticent on the subject, but it was be- lieved the bandits threatened to cut off all the other fingers of the woman if the ransom was further delayed. CHANGSHA RE-ENTERED. Nationalist Troops Go Back Into City Captured by Communists. NANKING, China, August 5 (#).—It is officially announced that Nationalist troops this “mo: re-entered Chang- sha, which recently was captured by Communists. Mrs. A. R. J. Hearne, wife of a Brit- ish official of the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- way, was attacked and seriously wounded by a Chinese soldier while asleep in her home at Puchen, north of Pukow, early today. ‘The soldier wielded a bayonet, in- flicting several wounds on Mrs, Hearne before her husband reached her bed- side. The attacker escaped. Mrs. Hearne was not expected to recover. British consular officials here vi - ously protested to the Nationalist for- eign office. AMERICAN SAILOR SHOT. Five British Also Wounded as Reds Attack Foreign Gunboats. SHANGHAI, August 5 (#).—One American and three British sailors were wounded when Communists attacked foreign gun pear . Changsha, belted _dispatches from the Hunan Province capital closed today. The American bluejacket was shot thm:gn the chest ‘%!ltcrdny ‘when nzli machine gunners spra; the side the United States l\m’b‘&t Pllm. "'Ith lead for the second time in a week. The Palos quickly silenced the of the Brif gunboat Teal. Attacked Last Wednesday. Five sailors on the Palos wete wounded last Wednesday when Com: munlfi:dnndnlhe:,unbwultl proached Changsha to observe - tlons after Reds had looted and burned many sections of that wealthy eity. Pifty bandits were killed and many wounded as the Palos replied with ma- chine guns and 3-inch rifles. Dispatches said the latest Communist attacks upon foreign gunboats involved Japanese and Italian vessels, as well as the Palos and Teal. Eleven warships, including two Amer- ican, were concentrated today at the tri-cities of Hankow, ng and Hanyang to_protect foreigners against threatened Red incursions. Every One Searched. Hankow was virtually under martial law. Chinese soldiers searched every one on the streets and a volunteer defense corps was nized by the French community for roac g'm previously ambushed & band of cadets sent to fight them and took their arms and ammunition. i Province tches said Ku- , near Kiukiang, had been evacuated by more then 500 foreigners _ Kiukiang itself was nearly (Continued on Page 2, Column 1). . BUCKINGHAM PALACE ART IS GUARDED Unscrupulous Wealthy Collector Believed Responsible for Recent Thefts. By the Associated Press. LONDON, . August 5.—The Daily Herald today said it was understood e sine Turther thelt ot priotiss ar :u t.n‘:um from Buckingham Palace. Several such thefts have occurred re- cently in the palace and the Herald the theory that some un. found support in 1al the paper named an “eminent detective” as saying that America was the chief market for stolen pictures. The Herald commented that there was a type of American ready and will- ing to pay £10,000 for pictures which he knew to be worth £50,000 without asking questions as to how the pictures were obtained. o Lt ST ENDURERS FLY ON “ | Jackson and O’Brine Are Within 200 Hours of Mark. ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 5 (#).—Dale CUBBAGE IS FREED AFTER 30 MINUTES Crowd Applauds When Ver- dict of Jury Acquits Ac- cused Grandfather. BY WILLIAM SHIPPEN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. LURAY, Va., August 5—Uncle Cubbage set his wrinkled old face toward his native mountains this afternoon, a free man. It required only 30 minutes for a jury in Page County Circuit Court to find him not guilty of the murder of his 19-year-old grandson, Fred Cubbage. A burst of applause greeted the ver- dict as pronounced by the jury fore- man, but court attendants quickly quleted the demonstration. Before Uncle Jake left the prisoners’ box . to receive the col ulations of the cham- Jake ‘The court censured Uncle Jake in no uncertain terms for what was de- scribed as “the most unnecessary, fool- ish and stupid murder” which Rad ever come to his attention. The court told Uncle Jake to let his a warning to him and to home in Cubbage Hollow the remainder of his the 80- be his knotted his bux,‘ which he swung over back. on many previous occasions, Un TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1930—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,838 UP) Means Associated Press. 0 IER\MAR BALLOT Box Score FIRST GAME. WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. 0. Myer, 2b... Bluege, 3b.. Manush, If. Cronin, ss. Harris, rf E. Rice, rf. Judge, 1b.... West, cf.... Spencer; . Hadley, p.. puBeRRARAN cHucuemccen CRHRECHEEME cRhACHERES meCHmoCNCCRP ccemceccocceh NEW YORK. AB. R. H. . b 1 0. Combs, Reese, Ruth, Gehrig, - Bworchara S = 3 i cmubcemccernns R R N ol ccemmuncencrccncy iy "'l eec !COII BY INNINGS: 123485678 0R Washington 2 0 ¢ 2 1 0 1 ¢— 6 NewYork..0 0 0 1 0200 1— 4 Summary: Lazzeri, Myer, th, H. Rice. judge, Gehris. West, Spencer, H. Rice. Jake turnéd toward his home, 15 miles | Stoles back in the mountains south of here, and expected to arrive in his mountain cabin before sundown today. Uncle Jake was represented by Rob- ert Keyser, H. B. Strayer and C. A. Hammer, Luray attorneys. A man's grandson, as Uncle Jake learned it in the 80 years of his life- time, is supposed to listen to his elders, listen and take heed while the gray heads tell him what is within reason and right. Uncle Jake told that to the jury late yesterday and the jurors heeded his words. Most of them were from the Blue Ridge Mountains surrounding (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) MAGISTRATE BRIBE WITNESS OFFERED Attorney Is Informed New York- er's Job Cost Him By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 5.—A witness, who testified before a Federal grand jury that George F. Ewald said he had Ppaid $12,000 for appointment as & city trate, was of by United States Attorney Tuttle to Disirict At- torney Crain of New York County, for ques! 3 Tuttle did not name the witness in announcing his offer, but he forward- ed w&:s of bank records showing, he said, that a deputy commissioner of the City Department of Plant and Struc- trues m.mnm $10,000 about the time of 's appointment. Ewald resigned recently as a magis- trate after he had been indicted for mail fraud in connection with the sale of Cotter Butte mine stock. ‘The witness Tuttle offered to produce testified, he said, that Ewald had told him df making a $12,000 payment in order to obtain the magistracy. Magis- trates are appointed by the mayor. PLANE GROUP RESCUED Pilot and Five Passengers Taken From Burning Craft in Water. SEATTLE, Wash., August 5 (®).— Five passengers and the pilot of Alaska-Wi s ton Vi Seattle Jackson and Forest O'Brine today had ' ing less than 200 hours to go to better the world’s record endurance set last for refueling t month at 11 am. (Central standard time) today, Jackson and O'Brine had been up 361 hours in their monoplane Greater St. Louis and still were Ove':dth& fiyers’ intent ining and added that ma up a_mon this woul endurance flight. th ld be his last CAMDEN, N. J., Al 5 )" A by Johmson, 2. Hits—Off_Pennock, it pitcher—By teh_-Pennock, 9 in 7 innings. Jobnson (Spencer). Hildebrand, Ormsby and NATIONALS DEFEAT YANKEES, 6104 Bunch Blows Off Pennock in Three Innings—Ruth and Judge Hit Homers. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, August 5—Bunching hits off Herb Pennock in the Second, fourth and fifth innings and aided by two errors, the Nationals defeated the Yankees in the first gafne of a double- header here today. The score was 6 to 4. Babe Ruth hit a 450-foot home run, his forty-first of the season, off “Bump” Hadley, in the sixth inning. Judge also hit for the circuit in the eighth. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON — Myer _popped Reese. H. Rice went to left center for Bluege's high one. Manush grounded to ‘Gehrig. No runs. YORK—West came in for Gehrig popped to Bluege. No runs. SECOND INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Dickey had a finger split by a tip from Myer's bat in the first inning, so Bengough was sent in to catch for the Yanks at the start of the second inning. QUAKE RUMOR DOUBTED 50 ILLEGAL STUDENT VOTING IS ALLEGED Witness Tells Nye Group of| ™ Keystone Primary Ir- regularities. By the Associated Press. Charges that students at the West- chester State Teachers’ College voted in the May Republican senatorial pri- mary in Pennsylvanis, in violation of State laws, were made before the Senate campaign funds committee today by F. 8. Wood, a Westchester manufacturer and an alumnus of the school. ‘Wood claimed to have definite evi- dence of a ‘“clean-cut conspiracy” on the part of Dr. Norman Cameron, prin- %)Ir‘olf the school, and State Senator illiam H. Clark to violate the law by voting non-resident students and 5. Affidavits were in his possession, Tie wing students were pald $2 each for voting. He added ‘were being taken for a grand jury investi- gation. Says “Machine” Backed Grundy. gl et Pinchot, whose Repul for Governor is now being contested by Prancis Shunk Brown. Wood said he was a member of the Republican Club of Westchester, formed to “clean up” politics in Chester County. This club suj Secretary Davis, atorial nomination. S. Davis Wi , campaign manager for Pinchot in Philadelphia, prom Chairman Nye to ask Wood if he knew the source of the money the stu- dents. The witness r he -had “hearsay evidence that it was Grune money.” He added he was not charg- ing Pinchot leaders with paying any of the money. natorial . contest and 80 such ballots had been thrown out in one district and 50 in another. Questioned by Chairman Nye, Geasey said no senatorial candidate had asked for a recount. Many Erasures Found. He said ballots in bundles marked had been also thrown out as “identified ballots.” Many "“l‘;em also for the Senate, ahd Thomas W. Phillips, wet _candidate for Governor.” ‘The recount up to yesterday had cov- ered 377 of 411 precinct division boxes. Nye read from a record showing il,- 261 errors in 92 election divisions, dnd from another showl Secretary Davis, who won the Republican Senatorial nomination, lost 1,833 votes and Senator Grundy, defeated candidate, gained 30 ulnxesultolthcueoununcemlndl- ions. S. Davis Wilson, deputy_controller of Philadelphia County and Pinchot cam- paign manager in Philadelphia, testi- fied that “very material " ha resulted from the recount in Philadel- phia Cotnty. Wilson went with detail into what he termed the “ramifications of utility- controlled bosses, manipulations of elections and control of the minor ju- diclary.” He sald there was evidence to show “concerted action by election offi- " (Continued on Page 32, Column 6.) TWO CENTS. YEGGMEN ROBBING POST OFFICE TURN TOWN INTO INFERNO Scores Homeless as Firemen Are Helpless to Fight Blaze Due to Water Famine. HALF-MILLION DOLLARS’ DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED Postmaster Larrick of Gore, Va., Rescues Daughter and Both Are Badly Burned. e Special Dispatch to The star. GORE, Va., August 5.—Fire believed to have been started by yeggmen at- tempting to rob the post office today had transformed this prosperous little valley a half mile long and a quarter wide into a seething inferno of flame, with scores homeless and firemen stand- ing by helpless in the face of a water famine. Two persons have been badly burned, rail and road traffic on the northwest grade out of Wirichester, nea: here, has been halted, and the roaring tongues of fiame, licking up millions of feet of lumber stored here, already have de- stroyed more than a dozen dwellings and business buildings. Damage already is estimated at half a million dollars. ‘This once-tiriving little lumber center, in a setting of fertile Shenan- doah Valley farm and woodland, today ted a scefje of desolation. The heat from the burning lumber yard forces back any motorist who mpfi to take the northwest highway gh the town, the es. ve eaten .lcn‘ the Winchester and War- densville and halted rail trafie and other buildings are in danger as the fire continues. South Side Buildings Destroyed. loser tion daughter by The post office, eight dwellings. a hotel, several stores, filling stations and other buildings on the south side of the town have been completely destroyed. They - burned before their occupants could save much of their household goods, and these, piled high in the roadway that divides the town, are in the midst of the seething mass of flames and smoke that marks where Gare once was to the watchers on the hillsides youndabout. Piremen say that nothing can be done flames, the drought that has the entire Shenandoah Valley in its hao so dried up the streams that it to get water to quench the flames, The injured are Blondel Larrick, Gore and his daughter, Ida, T 'u{hr;fik' who- discovered the ove: fire. fiu morning he went to office, found the front door open and smoke filling the . Rushing to the second floor of the bm{‘guudin‘. he rescued his ing her out a second- story window. Both were badly burned in making their escape. Yeggman Blamed for Blaze. It is thought that the yeggmen who attempted to rob the post office, set fire to the building to cover their trail. As soon as he rescusd his daughter, Larrick notified Miss Emma Shorb, night operator at the telephone ex- :hange, and the Sarah Zane and Friend- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) - CHILD’S JOKE WITH MATCH RESULTS IN INJURY OF 23 . { Boys @ive 'Show,” and Spectator, ballots cast in the Pinchot-Brown guber- Wishing to Frighten Audience, Fires Film—10 May Die. | By the Assoclated Press. SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 5.—A child’s prank with a match was blamed today for serious burns and injuries to 23 Sao Paulo children. Ten of the chil- dren probably will die of the burns. The two Archimarchi brothers, aged 14 and 15, decided to givé a movie show with their new projector and charge the neighboring children 3 cents each admisisol n. Many came. One, wishing to frighten the others, touched a match to a pile of celluloid film in a corner of the darkened room. The film exploded and set _the room afire before the, children could. get out. The two_ brothers, owners of the pro- Jector, both were badly burned iin at- tempting to beat out the blaze. 40 WOMEN SEEK MAN Police Hunt Swindler Who Took Money From Applicants for Job. CHICAGO, August 5 (#).—Forty d | young women and the police are looking for George L. Wilson. ‘Wilson advertised that he necded an assistant in his Loop ®Tice. Forty young ‘women applied for the position and he “hired” each of them, requiring & $5 bond from each to insure appearance the next morning. Yestercay all 40 appeared, more or less on time, to find no Wilson, no work, no bond. % BATTERY PARK CITIZENS WIN OUT IN “NIGHTIES,” CATCH “PEEPER” ‘|Army Sergeant Said to Have Admitted Peering in_ Windows of Homes for Last Two Weeks. t0 | By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESD. )A, Mdi, August 5.—Fash- Mrs. F. Bruce McMullen, who said sh~ had seen a face at the window and had roused the neighborhood, but the man fled after several shots were fired. dsor Poole and Theo- with the “peeping Tom” appearing at half a dozen houses within a radius of three or four blocks. Fully a hundred residents turned out in all stages of dress and undress, and armed with all manner of weapons for automobile parked on a dark drew the attention of Maj. R. B. of 411 Wilson lane. Together McMullen and John Clark,