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HOPKING DOCTOR ANDNURSE SUICDE Poison That Kills Former Taken by Woman at Scene of His Death. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 30—Dr. Fred ennings, jr., 42, an instructor in| cal’ School ‘of Johns Hopkins | B. J the Medis University, and Miss Mona O. Ritten- house, 27, a registered nurse, who had been caring for him for some time, committed suicide in the phy.\icmn‘s: suite, in the Warrington Apartments, on North Charles street, late last night, by taking a powerful poison. Dr. John J. Morrissey, coroner, gave a suicide verdict in both cases Dr. Jennings and his nurse recently | returned to Baltimore from Saranac Lake, N. Y., where the physiclan re- celved sanitarium treatment Nurse Second to Die. The physician, according to the au- thorities, took a quantity of the poison about 10:30 o'clock. The nurse sum- moned two doctors living in the apart- ment house, one of the most fashion- able in Baltimore. As soon as Dr. Jen- nings was pronounced dead the nurse took some of the same poison and died almost immediately. Dr. Jennings, according to the Johns Hopkins University book of registry, was an assistant in pathology at the medical school in a volunteer status. He received his degree in medicine from Columbia University in 1921. In 1923 and 1924 he was an assistant in- structor in bacteriology at Harvard Medical School and for two years was research assistant, Trudeau Laboratory, New York. before coming to the Hop- kins in 1929, Nurse Native of Canada. Police said hospital information gath- S®q by them showed that Miss Ritten- to be a Canadian, a graduate of & Buffalo nursing school and was taking a graduate course -at Hopkins. Her father, they sald, lives in Philadelphia. The nurse, according to the author- ities, had applied for initial naturaliza- tion papers, prepegatory to becoming an American citizen, Coroner John J. Morrissey returned verdicts of suicide in both deaths, but sald that he could not find any evi- dence of a concerted plan on the part of the two to destroy themselves. WILBUR WILL ADDRESS DENTAL DELEGATES T. 8. School and Walter Reed Ex- perts in Charge of Clinic Today. The “Four-State Post - Graduate Clinic” being held in the Mayflower Hotel this week under the auspices of the District of Columbia Dental So- clety, will be in charge of dental ex- perts from the United States Dental School and Walter Reed Hospital today. Clinicians will be Dr. A. W. Chandler, United States Navy, and Majs. M. H. Welck and Roy A. Stout. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will be the principal speaker at the banquet of the clinic tonight. He will discuss “The Relationship of Dentistry to the ‘White House Conference.” Dr. Clarence O. Simpson of St. Louis, z::gsscr of radiodontia in the Wash- n University School of Dentistry, lectured to assembled dentists Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia and the District. A bridge luncheon under auspices of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the District Dental Society marked the sessions yes- terday. from West ELLIOTT RE-ELECTED BY DAVIDSON ALUMNI North and South Carolina Repre- sentatives Attend Annual Din- ner of Chapter. William A. Elliott was re-elected Eresldcnl of the Washington Chapter, avidson College Alumni Association, at the annual dinner of the group last night at the Racquet Club. The chap- ter has about 60 members, most of whom attended the banguet. Among those present were: Representative Stevenson of South Carolina and Rep- resentative J. Bayard Clark, North Carolina. Ermest Milton of the Davidson fac- ulty, now in charge of its alumni af- fairs, spoke on “Progress and the Fu- ture of Davidson College.” He showed motion pictures of campus scenes and athletic activities. Other officers elected included J. R. Minter of the State Department, vice president, and H. M. Morris, secretary and treasurer. These officers. with Rowland S. Marshall and J. A. Thames, make up the Executive Committee. D. C. BILLS ON SLATE Flag Day and Game Sanctuary Proposals to Be Considered. Chairman Palmisano of the Judictary Subcommittee of the House District Committee, has called a special meeting for Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock in the District Committee room to con- sider three bills These measures would designate June 14, Flag dag, a legal holiday; incorpo- rate the Supreme Council. Illustrous Order Knights of the Cross, and provide a game and bird sanctuary on the Po- tomac River. SPECIAL NOTICES. fONG DISTANCE MOVING TO AND FROM al cipal cities. 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Photo, ‘rash Victim PLANE CRASH KILS [ < WASHNGTON YOUTH Marion Stanley, Son of Ex- Senator, Had Studied Flying Secretly. A Washington youth who had been taking flylng lessons without the, knowledge of his parents crashed 10| his death yesterdsy at Lexington, Ky.. | on his second solo fiight. | Marlon Stanley, 20-year-old son of former Senator A. O. Stanley of Ken- tucky, who now practices law here, lost control of the plane shortly after he had taken it aloft to show & group of fellow students at the University of Kentucky how well he could fly Crushed to Death# The plane crashed on Lexington Air- port and young Stanley's skull was' crushed and the plane demolished. Death occurred & half hour later in & Lexington_hospital. | Stanley had borrowed the plane from | Joe Schuster of Covington, Ky.. & li- DEPRESSION HELD «n CHALLENGE TO PEACE him make the flight and they wit- Catholic Association Head Says nessed the crash. o o . . Advised by telegram of their son’s| Principles of Organization Provide Solution. MARION STANLEY. death, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley left this| morning for Lexington to take charge of the body and arrange for the fu- neral. | Graduated at Western. | BY the Assoclated Press Young Stanley, who was studying CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 30.—See- engineering at Kentucky, graduated |ing in the world’s economic condition & from Western High School here in|gpaneng. to the international peace June, 1930. In addition to his par- ents, he is survived by two older broth- | movement, Prof. Parker T. Moon of ers, A. O. Stanley, jr.. and William S. | Columbia University, president of the Stanley of Washingion. | Catholic Associatfon’ for International Senator Stanley has law offices in | Peace, yesterday urged the sssociation the National Press Building. The Stane to meet this challenge, ley home is at 1681 Thirty-first street. “The present economic unrest throughout the world is & challenge to CLASSMATES SEE TRAGEDY. |such socleties as ours.” he said | “We have the principles of religion, of == social justice and social charity which Stwdent Wiyet Eewss Contral of Flame |ty oiovide! the somition.. Our tadl- ot Lexiagton: Akport, vidual efforts may be small, but we LEXINGTON, Ky, March 30 (#— May join with others in bringing about Flying slowly about 125 feet from the | the solution of present conditions.” ground, Marion Stanley, 20, son of for- _ After the final session of the annual mer Gov. and former United States Sen- | conference of the association, Prof. ator A. O. Stanley, crashed to his death Moon was re-elected president. Bishop at Lexington Municipal Airport late Thomas F. Lillis of Kansas City was yesterday. re-elected ~honorary president; Rev Young Stanley, a University of Ken- | Robert E. Lucey of Los Ang elected tucky sophomore, was making his sec. | Vice president, and Miss Mary R. Mad- ond solo flight after a short period of den of Boston, elected treasurer. tralning as o pilot. He tumed to . make & landing, lost control of the | Dlane ‘and crashea. s skul was| PARISHIONERS ELECT crushed. Several of his schoolmates | S i witnessed the accident. 3 The student was & member of the [Aadicws Kappa Alpha Fraternity and was in the university’s College of Engineering. | “RADIO CITY’.‘ BUILDING TO HOUSE FRENCH ART | (o0 "liaty ot o Sovenn. o Clark Conway, registrar: vestrymen New Structure Will Be Dedicated E. J. S. Coe, W. A. Morningstar, Masou B. Lawton, Henry P. Erwin and C. L Bowen. st. Episcopal Church Names A. B. Le P. Mesny. The following officers were chosen by | the parishoners of St. Andrew’s Ej sco- | pal Church at the annual election . .on- day night: Arthur B. Le P. Mesny, sen- for warden; Capt. A. G. L. Toombs, jun- to Nation's Industry and District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. Expeditionary Force, _received the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary herolsm in action with the enemy near Verdun, France, Oc- fober 23 and 24, 1918, hen is Sy ~=—ghattallon com- manders, who had gone forward on & Teconnaissance preparatory to gn attack, [ vented P turning by the | - heavy stell and machine gun fire, Lieut. Col. Minni- gerode personally led his regiment into position under cover. With a soldier, he then went forward for By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, March 30.—The Met- ropolitan Square Corporation today an- | nounced plans for s new building to be known as La Maison Prancaise, in the center that has come to be known as “Radio City.” The bullding wiil be dedicated to the industry, art and commerce of France. | An American corporation organized by the French Committee for the Develop- ment of Economic and Intellectual Foreign Relations will be the lessor. The committee is headed by Jean Philip of the French Senate. Plans for the structure duplicate those of the British Empire Building which also is to be erected in the cen- ter. The structure is expected to be- come headquarters for leading French firms, and it will contain salons for permanent and periodic exhibitions of merchandise never before displayed out of France. HAVENNER T0 SPEAK Minnesota Society to Hear D. C.| Bicentennial Official. | Dr. George C. Havenner, executive | vice president of the District Bicenten- nial Commission. will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Minnesota a distance of 2 kil- State Soclety in the Willard Hotel to- | ometers under ar- morrow night. Dr. Havenner's talk will tillery and machine gun fire, found the battalion commanders and guided them be ATt o & PALiiouc brogram arranged | pack to their comrades. Residence at nt. et Cotist eI% \r. and | RPPOIntment, District of Columbia. Mrs. E. E. Gann will be guests of honor | He retired from. the Army with the at a reception and dance beginning at | full rank of colonel. He is associated 9 o'clock. The Capital Socie Children | with the New York Times, New York, N. Y (Copyright. 1932 ) PRINTING RUSH SERVICE W. F. Roberts Company Telephone, NAtional 4894 | Commerce. [ | | S recorded in the official cita- tion, Fitzhugh L. Minnigerode, lieutenant colonel, 114th In- fantry, 26th fvision American from re- classical dance program. Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS, matter what the poor old cumb Government tries to do, the “big boys” have a scheme that beats it. Now the big bankers have got A new “racket.” In- stead of them going direct to the new Pinance Commission for dough, they send the folks that owe them. He gets it from the Governmit and then pays them off. That don't leave a single Calify—No ¥V hat— The Modern Home Should Be Sample Home 326 Madison St. N.W. 7 Rooms—2 Baths e big bath roo Oxford kitchen 32-inch sink—Fr Bronze screen: Rich decorath acing 200-ft, re ulking Park Drive” it Nw, North 4z~ #t's Open 10 AM. to 10 P.M. Furnished by Dulin & Martin H.G.Smithy Co. Nat. 5008 118 Eve soul out snipe hunting with a sack but the Government. And, brother, when one of those “big babies” transfers one of his loans over to Uncle Sam it's not a “frozen asset”; were pre- | ARKANSAS GROUP PLANSMINE AD Visit Arrangements on as Other Students Leave Ken- tucky for Washington. By the Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky, March 30— | As two busloads of Eastern students left | the State after protesting to Gov. Ruby | Laffoon their ejection from the South- western Kentucky coal fields, another | group from an Arkansas labor college | announced plans to visit the mine area. Lucian Koch, head of Commonwealth | College &t Mena, Ark., said he and Harold Coy, instructor; Leo Crulion, New York newspaper man, and Sam Sandburg and Isaac Greenburg, stu- dents, would take relief supplies to Ken- | tucky miners | Koch announced they would leave Mena today, and come to Frankfort to ask Gov. Laffoon for protection before proceeding to Bell and Harlan Counties. County Attorney Walter B. Smith has announced Bell County officials will teke no notice of future student in- vesions, leaving them to citizens to handle. The Eastern students because Mr. Smith said he had evi- dence they were affiliated with Com- | munists. Koch, declaring members of | his group were mot communists, said | they “would carry “copies of the bill of rights to deputized mine superintend- ents barring the highwa A Pineville, Ky., citizens' committee has invited 21 Eastern ministers who requested a senatorial investigation to come to the mine area themselves to | view conditions. “As ministers of the Gospel you are not Communists and | * « % gre welcome,” the invitation said. County Attorney Smith was one of the signers The Eastern students left Kentucky | yesterday after passing through Ash- | land. announcing they would proceed to Washington to lay their request for | investigation before a group of Senatars. | They had protested to Gov. Laffoon of Kentucky and to Gov. Horfon of Ten- nessee, but both executives told them had no_author were ejected th in the matter. SPRING HATS REMODELED Bachrach 733 Eleventh St. N.W. 3530 Connecticut Ave. N.W. UNITED X STATES | N\STORAG | OMPAN Y! 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A House committee had before 1t to- | day a description of a “dull night" aboard a “floating gambling palace” 3 miles out in the Pacific off San Pedro, Calif, with a plea that “speed boat taxis” operating between the shore and the ship be required to have licenses. James P, Coslel'o, deputy district at- torney at Los Angeles, told the commit- tee which is considering a bill to re- strict_activities of such floating resorts h‘uw he had gone aboard ome of the <hips, Only 400 Aboard. “It was a dull night.” he testified +There were only 300 or $0) paseriyers aboard, most of them gambling.” "What he saw, he assérted. convinced MISS JANE W. FICKLIN, him these ships were “a rendezvous for Winner of the oratoric-1 contest con- gangsters, hoodlums and kidnapers' ducted by the Bealeton, Va. High pay-off men.” He said California could | School. Miss Ficklin, 17-year-old senior, not act and urged that Congress &p-|spoke on “The Constitution and Modern prove the pending Evans bill which Tendencies.” She is the daughter of would stop “free taxi service” in"speed | Mr. and Mrs. John D. Picklin of Beale- boats now offered those who wish t0|ton, She will represent her school in go_aboard the gambling ships. | the county finals of the International Testimony was given that such a boat | Oratorical Contest, sponsored in this had been operated off the Florida coast. | area by The Star. but was now en route northward to anchor off Atlantic City. Paul J. Christian, a Washington at- torney, who said he represented Garvin Bros., operators of the California speed- boat taxis. objected to the idea of re- quiring & license for all boats overating between shore and the vessels three miles off shore. Declared “Confiscatory.” He sald the measure would be “con- fiscatory” and ‘“unconstitutional” in that it “would deny these men judiclal rights.” Their speedboats would in ef- fect be confiscated because they could not continue to be used as they are now, he testified. Furthermore, he said, “Federal legis- Iation is not necessary to cope with the local conditions complained of.” The legislation was indorsed by A. J. Tyrer, commissioner of navigation of the Commerce Department; Roy St.| Lewls, Assistant Attorney General; Rep- | resentatives Evans, Crail, Free and Swing, California Republicans, e | FIRE BLAMED TO “SHORT" e Tt | A fire which started in the stock room | of the Ourisman Chevrolet Sales Co., at 610 H street northeast, was extinguished | by firemen before it spread last night. Damage was estimated at less than $100. | ‘The blaze is belleved to have been | caused by a short circult in the slec- trical wiring system. 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