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MRS. KEITH-MILLER TELLS OF TRIANGLE Lancaster Planned Suicide . | for Benefit of Her and Clarke, Jury Told. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., August 3.—Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, Australian fiyer and for- mer aviation partner of Capt. W, N. Lancaster, testified at the former British Army aviator’s murder trial today that Lancaster had contemplated suicide in @rder that she and Haden Clarke, her fance, might receive $1,000 from his fnsurance policy on their wedding day. Called as a witness for the prosecu- #flon in its efforts to prove Capt. Lan- caster killed Clarke, a young writer, in a love triangle, the aviatrix said the men quarreled over her affections at dinner the night before Clarke was shot at her home. They settled thelr dife ferences, however, she said, after Clarke admitted Lancaster’s accusation that he | had been unfaithful to the former Army | fiyer in making love to her. Door of Room Locked. Her voice broke as she spoke of lock- | ing the door of her room upon retir- | ing that night. | “Why did you lock the door?” State | Attorney N. Vernon Hawa.crne asked. “Because Haden told me he did not want that (Lancaster) to come to my Toom and talk me out of our marriage | plans,” she resporided. | Mrs. Keith-Miller said Lancaster hur- tled home from a business trip to St. | Louis after learning she and Clarke had become betrothed. as the youth wrote her memoirs which she hoped to sell. “Mrs. Miller, were you engaged to Capt. Lancaster?” Hawthorne asked. “You can't be engaged to a person who is married,” she replied spiritedly. “I always intended to marry him—for almost five years.” | ‘“Were you infactuated with Haden | when Lancaster left here on March 62" Hawthorne inquired. “No, I changed my mind later. I ad- | vised Bill Lancaster by letter sent to St. Louis and so did. Haden. We read each others' letters before they were mailed.” Told of Suicide Plan. She said Lancaster was sad upon his return from St. Louis, because of her engagement to Clarke and told her he planned to kill himself in an airplane so she would benefit from his insur- ance. Later, he learned the insurance com- pany had failed and he abandoned the ! plan, she added. { As she testified, Mrs. Keith-Miller frequently glanced at Lancaster and smiled, and he responded in kind. | Judge H. F. Atkinson recessed court at 12:05 until 2 o'clock, with the avia- trix still on the stand. Another witness, Policeman Earl Hud- son, quoted Lancaster as saying on one | occasion that Clarke had contracted a disease and it was preying heavily upon his mind. The officer recalled Lancaster insisted that Clarke committed suicide and sug- gested the disease might have led him to it. Tells of Revolver. E. H. Huston, Miami, attorney; testi- | fied today that the British aviator tried to persuade him to say He owned a Tevolver found under the body of Clarke. , Huston was the first witness of the day. He said Lancaster called him to Mrs. Keith-Miller’s home about 3 am. April 21, advising him of the shooting. He said Lancaster gave him two notes with the explanation Clarke wrote them before he was found fatally wounded in & room he shared with the fiyer. They were couched in terms of de: spondency and mentioned contemp! tion of sulcide. Huston said Lancas- ter and Mrs. Keith-Miller suggested g}:su‘cymz them, but he dissuaded | em. These were the notes Lancaster later admitted he forged with hopes of re- moving any suspicion that might be cast at Mrs. Keith-Miller. Ownership of Pistol After he refused to claim ownership of the pistol, Huston said Lahcaster begged him to say it belonged to the American Airways, a COmpany in ‘which Hustop was interested and with which Lancaster had dealt in re- gard to a proposal for commereial fly- g:g' between Mexico and the United ates. Again he refused, Huston told the eoyrt. Under cross-examination by James Carson, chief of defense counsel, Huston testified Lancaster and Mrs. Kelth-Miller talked to him at various times about the captain's desire MJ| divorce his wife. GIRL ROWS 30 HOURS TO SAVE LIFE IN STORM Swedish Descendant of Vikings, Meking Trip Around World in ¢ Small Boat, Safe in Nice. By the Associated Press. NICE, France, August 3—A re-| markable feat of endurance by a Swed- | ish girl of viking strain, Anna Ceder- | blom, who rowed a boat for 30 hours in | 8 storm, was reported here yesterday. | In a tempest on the way from Calvi | to" Nice, the small boat Rosbiggen, on which she was making a trip around the world, shipped water. Stopping the engine, she rowed untll the boat was | taken in tow by the steamer Cyrnos, 30 miles from Nice. In addition to the waves, said the ac- count of the exploit, the craft was beset | by giant porpoises which threatened to | capsize it. MARRIED IN LONDON Richard Stillwell and Miss New- hall of Boston United. | | LONDON, August 3 (#)—Richard Stillwell, director of the American | School of Classical Studies at Athens, | and Miss Agnes Newhall of Boston, were married today at Bt. George's Church, | | ! i | BUREAUS COMBINED COLLISION WITH TRUCK | Corporation, became the mother of a 50th Anniversary GOLDEN WEDDING CELE- BRATED BY COUPLE. MR. AND MRS. E. BROOKE RECTOR, Who recently celebrated their fiftleth wedding anniversary at the home of their son, Rozier R. Rector, 3402 Fif- teenth street northeast. Mr. Rector was born in Rectortown, Va., April 7, 1854, and married Eva R. Foley of Prince Willlam County, Va, in 1882. —Harris-Ewing Photo. LAMONT ORDERS |Navigation and Steamboat Inspection Service Will Be Consolidated, Secretary of Commerce Lamont to- da_\' ordered . consolidation of the de- | partment’s’ Bureau of Navigation with the Steamboat Inspection Service in | order to carry. out provisions of his organization’s 1933 appropriation. The order calls for a director to be appointed and the offices of the two assistant directors will be filled by Commissioner A. J. Tyrer of the old Bureau of Navigatlon and Dickerson N. Hoover, supervising inspector gen= eral of the old Steamboat Service. It is understood the office of director will call for a salary of $9,000 an- nually. The office is not to be filled for several months, it was said. Commissioner Tyrer and Inspector General Hoover will receive their pres- ent salaries of $7,500 annually as assistant directors. New Title. The consolidated service will be known as the Bureau of Navigation and Steam- boat Inspection. The order becomes effective at once. This reduces the number of bureaus of the department to 10, the radio divl- sion having been consolidated with. the Federal Radio Commission one month ago. A total of 612 employes of the two bureaus are affected by the order. Sixty of these are located here. Secretary Lamont said he would order 1 of all officers and employes | of the two old bureaus who are not, in his judgment, indispensable to the effi- cient operation of the new agency. ‘The consolidation calls for transfer- ring of the two buredus’ 1933 appro- priation, amounting to $1.576,165, to the new organization. Of this amount, the navigation agency had been al- lotted $347,540 and the Seamboat Serv- ice $1,128,625. The Navigation Bu- reau’s appropriation for 1932 was $486,- 280 and the Steamboat Service's was $1,395,120. Revenues Exceed Appropriations. The Navigation Bureau returned more than six times more money to the Treasury in the past fiscal year than was_appropriated ‘for the bureau’s op- eration, Commissioner Tyrer ‘said. On the basis of complete reports of the 12 months ending June 30 revenues totaled $2,323,865, as compared with appropriations for the current fiscal perl of $347,000. "The function of the Inspection Serv- fce was to inspect the vessels of the American merchant marine and to ex- | amine and license their officers and | crews. The Navigation Bureau was re- | sponsible for the enforcement of the | laws and regulations applying to the American merchant marine and_to| American merchant seamen. The Bu- | Teau also supervised enforcement of laws concerning neutrality, so far as they related to offenses involved in the clearance of yessels fitted out for mili- tary purposes. [FIVE KILLED IN AUTO Viotims of Speeding Accident Had Been Drinking, Tennessee Police Are Told. By the Assoclated Press. COLLIERVILLE, Tenn., August 38— Five men were killed near here late yesterday as their car collided with a | truck loaded with cottonseed. The dead; Sam Karr 33, Mount Pleasant, Miss; Willlam Karr, 30, Mount Pleasant, Miss: three unindentified men. All of the bodies were so badly mangled indentification was difficult. Lee Warren, driver of the truck, said the other car came toward him at high speed and hit the rz’r of the truck as it passed. Edgar Russell, proprietor of a res- taurant here, told police the five men had been in his place shortly before the accident. He sald they had been drinking. s - Schenck Has New Danghter NEW YORK. August 3 (P).—Mrs. Nicholas M. Schenck, wife of the presi- dent of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture in Hanover square. They met in Greece, where she was | studying archeology. Mr. Stillwell was graduated from Princeton University in | 1921 7-pound daughter Monday, it was learned last night. Schenck said the mother and child, their second daugh- ter, were progressing well at & sani- THE EVENING VIRGINIAN TAKES GLADIOLUS HONOR Best Flower Award Goes to Capt. M. H. Davis at Ta- koma Park Show. Capt. M. H. Davis of Cherrydale, Va., was awarded the honor of having the best flower on exhibition in the ninth annual gladiolus show of the Takoma Park Horticultural Club, which opened yesterday in the Takoma Park branch of the Washington Public Library and closes tonight at 9 o'clock. The winners in the various classes follow: Class 1, collection of 25 or more va- rleties—First, Rev. L. A, Hansen; sec- ond, Mrs. A. P. Harrison. Class 2, collection of 10 varieties— First, Capt. Davis; second, E. A. Hal- lowell; third, Mrs. H. A. Morrison Class 3, collection of five varleties— First, £. B. Axline; second, John Kurz. Class 4, gandevensis and other tall spiker varietles—White, first, Capt. Davis, Mrs. Catherine Edwards; second, Capt. Davis, Mrs. Ann Pfitzer; third, W. H. Youngman, Mary Pickford. Class 5—Yellow, first, Rev. L. A. Han- sen, Gold Eagle; second, Mrs. Morrison, Niagara; third, Capt. Davis, Yellow ‘Wonder. Class 6—Pink, first, Capt. Davis, Mrs, Sisson; second, Mrs. Morrison, Giant Nymph; third, E. F. Lines, Mrs. Sisson. Class 7—Red, first, J. T. Gable, Dr. Bennett; second, J. T. Gable, Dr. Sklmok third, John Kurz, Crimson Glow, Lavender Class Winners. Class 8—Lavender, first, Capt. Davis, Minuet; second, E. A. Holloweli, Capt. Boynton; third, Mrs. Morrison, Capt. Boynton. Purple, first, Capt. Davis, Aide; second, Mrs. Harrison. Class 9-—Salmon and orange: First, Capt. Davis, “Marnia”; E P unex “Betty Nuthall’ i 10—Any other color: First, Capt. Davis, “Sward of Mahonet”; sec- ond, Capt. Dnvts. “Marmora”; third, Capt. Davis, “Marmora.” lass 11-<Primulinus hybrids, yel low: First, none; second, Mrs. E. Brown. Class 12—Pink to red shades: PFirst, none; second, Mrs. Charles Young; third, C. B. Axline, Class 13—Salmon and orange: First, Mrs. Morrison; second, Capt. Davis; third, E. F. Lines. Class 14—Any other color: First, Capt. Davis, “Orchid”; second, Capt. Da “Orchid”; third, Rev. L. A. Han- sen, “Darritt.” Class 15—Ruffled varieties: First, C. B. Axline, “Dr. Van Fleet”; second, J. T. Gable, “Annie Laurie”; third, Rev. A. L. Hansen. “White Glory.” Class 16—Best Seedling: First, none; second, Rev. A. L. Hansen; third, Rev. ‘Mr. Hansen. Class 17—Best basket with own foll- age: First, E. F. Lines; second, J. T. Gable; third, Mrs. Brown. Class 18—Best vase with own foli- age: PFirst. Mrs. Morrison; second, J. T. Gable; third, E. F. Lines. Class 19—Best basket with other flowers or foliage: First, Rev. A. L. Han- sen: second, Mrs. T. C. Moore; third, John Kurz. Best Vase Class. Class 20—Best vase with other flowers or foliage: cecond, Mrs. Charles G. Morgan; third, H. C. HefIner. Class 21—Best basket or vase of other flowers: First, W. H. England; second, John Kurz; third, Mrs. E. B. Brown. Class 22—Balsams: First, none. Class 23—Calendulas: ' First, second, Mrs, Harrison. Class 24—Lilies: First, Mrs. Harri- son; second, Mrs. Evelyn E. Riley; third, H. C. Heffner Class 25—Marigolds: First, Mrs. Harrison; second, Carol E. Plerce (French marigolds); lhird. Patricla M. Pierce (African marigolds; Class . 26—Petunias: Fu'st, W. H. England; second, Mrs. Evelyn E. Riley; third, Mrs. Harrison. Class. 27—2Zinnias, large: Pirst, Mrs. Harrison: second, Mary Whitney; third, G. H. White. Small: First, second and third, W. H. England. Class 28—Phlox: First, Mrs, E. B. Brown; second, Mrs. Harrison; third, 1 John Kurz. Class 20—Flowering shrubs: First, Mrs. Harrison; second, John Kurz. Ciass 30—Any other flowers: First, John Kurz (seablosa);: second, John | Kurz; third, W. H. England. DETROIT POOR TO GET IMPROVEMENT IN DIET City Completing Petition for U. 8. Loan as Grocers Hold Up Welfare Orders. . By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 3.—Detroit’s in- digent, who have been on a bread-and- milk diet for two days, so far as city aid is concerned, are going to get a little more—at least for the rest of the week. When city officials refused to set a definite date for payment of relief bills totaling $2,650,000, dating back to Feb- ruary 1, grocers refused yesterday to il welfare orders. So Monday and yes- terday 22,000 indigents were given only bread and milk or Red Cross flour and milk tickets at welfare and rellef sta- tions and cafeterias. Mayor Frank Murphy said withdrawal by grocers of their ban on welfare orders for the remainder of the week will FVE the city time to complete its petition for a P‘edenl loan of $1,800,000. none; Boy, 13 Kflll Self. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, A 3(P)— Thirteen-year-old Donald Bowers com- mitted suicide last night soon after he was_reprimanded for failure to wash his hands and face. 1t is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank ! tarfum. We vacate August 6. Last opportunity to get one of these wonderful plants at a low price. RODMAN BROS. e 14th and H Sts. NW. First, Mrs. A. P. Harrison; STAR, WASHINGTON, An BUT HIS ADVICE IS TO SEE J. S. Lippert and his aides as they D. C, WEDNESDAY, ator Sees a Dentist HIM ONCE IN A LIFETIME. finally took a strangle hold, half nelson, EE your dentist once in a lifetime is the advice of Swamp Angel, prize S alligator at the World's Fair Exposition grounds in Chicago. Here is Dr. quite a few toeholds and all the Angel let them remove the painful tooth. trick. other grappler tricks to make Swamp ‘Two-foot forceps turned the P. Photo. TAX COLLECTIONS SHOW FIRST GAIN Effect of New Billion-Dollar| Bill Reflected in August 1 Report. By the Associated Press. ‘The effct of the new billion-dollar tax bill was reflected for the first time today in the Treasury statement for August 1, which showed miscellaneous internal revenue reported that day amounted to $2,631,125, compared with 1,139,500 for the same period last year. Miscellaneous internal revenue, under which the new taxes will be listed, de- clined steadily in July, compared with last year. This was brought about be- cause the first payment of tax under the new revenue act, that for the last nine days of June, was not due to be paid over to collectors of internal rev- enue until the end of July. While the amount for those nine days is not expected to be large, it will bring a gradual increase in the Governemnt | income and cut down the $265,807,533 | deficit which faced the Treasury at the end of the, first month of the 1933 (the present) fiscal year. While the miscellaneous internal rev- enue showed an appreciable increase, income taxes continued to decline, only $627,759 being reported on August 1, | compared with $996,454 the same dly last year. Customs duties also continued down- nrd, returning $1,171,347 on the first of the month, compared with uunss on meume day a year ago. FORMER RESIDENT DIES McRee Green, 56, to Be Buried in 8t. Louis—Once Lived Here. ‘McRee Green, 56, formerly of this| city, died yesterday in St. Louis, where | funeral services will be held and in-| terment will take place. He is survived by his wife and four children, two | brothers, and a sister, Mrs. Carl F.| Jeansen, of this city. Mr. Green was born on the planta- tion of his paternal grelt-grandtnher. Judge John Day, in Tennessee, and | spent his boyhood days in Georgetown. Mr. Green was from a prominent fam- ily, his father coming from New Hamp-, shire and his mother from Tennessee. S & During the recent shopping week at Kenton, England, a woman of 85 won a two-plece bathing suit and & man aged 70 a free permanent wave. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR DR. FREDERICK MEYST Veteran Employe of Department of Agriculture Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services were held today for Dr. Prederick W. Meyst, veteran em- ploye of the Department of Agriculture, who died Monday at his home, 3509 Idaho avenue, following a long illness. Burial was in Rock Creek Cemetery following the services at the home. Dr. Meyst, who was a native of St. Cloud, Minn., was regarded as an au- thority on pure food inspection prob- lems. He had been with the Depart- ment of Agriculture since 1906. Pallbearers at today’s services ins cluded Dr. U. G. Houck, Dr. A. J. Pistor, Dr. L. T. Hopkins, Victor Se- horn, Dr. Harry Doemer and M. W. Kling. BURIED IN ARLINGTON Lieut. Hampson, Who Died in San Diego, Given Military Funeral. Funeral services and burial with full military honors were held today in Ar- lington National Cemetery for Lieut. Edgar Wilson Hamj , United States Nuvy, who died Ji at San Diego, Thie curtoge formed st 11 s S the Ptk Shvers e ae. 1o e cemetery. Mrs. F. W. Pope, mother | of the Neutenant, came from New York | to attend the funeral. The honorary pallbearers were Lieuts. B. H. Hanlon, R. B. Tompkins, J. O. Saurette, L. C. Grannis, J. E. Hamilton and M. E. Serat, jr, all of the Navy. Oapt. Sydney K. Evans, chief of the Navy's chaplains, officiated. AUGUST ECONOMIST DENIES GOLD STERILIZATION Central Banks Have No Con- trol Over Situation, Polit- ical Institute Hears. 3, 1932. By the Associated Press. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., August 3.— Dr. T. E. Gregory of the London School of Economics toda; Ju&old an Institute of Politics group re was very little truth in charges of sterilization of gold in France and the United States. He sald the central banks have been made nsible for a state of affairs they really have no cmtrol the Bank of Prance and the Federal Reserve System,” he uld “have issued additional currency. What gold sterilization there has been is indirect through the circumstance that addi- tional currency has been hoarded, mainly by the pulation. To some extent the 18 in excess reserves and undue liquidity by the commercial ‘a said unless other causes of the world depression are removed “redistribution of gold stocks would not hntv)er the least effect.” & . Stephen Plerce Duggan, director of the Institute of International Educa- tion, said American students are “too much interested in athletics and alto- fiether too little interested in the po- tical, social and economic problems which confront our country.” He contrasted American universities, “where student participation in contro- versial social questions is a new de- velopment,” with Latin American uni- versities “where students practically run the institutions.” He said Latin American students, un- like Americans, regard themselves as “guardians of public welfare.” He ex- pressed the hope students in the United States would assume more responsibility for government, though not to the neglect of education which he sald is often the case in Latin America. PSRRI Cermak Reaches Europe. BREMERHAVEN, Germany, ly\m {#)—Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chi- cago arrived her on the steamer Bremen today. He intends to visit his ances- tral city, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and to the middle of August. 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