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His advice is often Zought by the police of many cities when | confronted with particularly baffling cases. This problem has been taken from his case- ook covering hundreds of criminal investi- ®ations. r wits on it. It takes but one .~ Every fact and every ciue to ifs solution are in thestory ow necessary itself—and there is only, one answer. ®ood a detective are you? Inspector Kelley Gives a Lesson. BY H. A. RIPLEY. OHN SPAULDING, his sister | Vera, Dick Richards and his sister Ruth were returning to the States after a trip through Canada. A double wedding was planned when they reached New Yo 1ding lthy young Cana: “Spaul , & wea - dh:p;mnr.x owned a farm near the village of St. Paul in the Province of . His own [{3 rather taciturn fel- low; a good chauf- feur. “As they neared St. Paul, Vera was taken ill and they put up for the night at Spauld- ing’s farm house. were tired from thetflr” lgn( journey | of ay. | HThe gitis retired immediately to the | same room and Spaulding volunteered to drive himself to the town of Marley for a doctor after instructing Bering to Jook after things. “This was about 9 p.m. Richards said he would try and get a little sleep ! on the living room divan, At about 10 Vera awoke with a start. She reached across the bed and found that Ruth was not there. She heard a noise. The room | was in pitch darkness. Hearing a| stealthy footstep, she became paralyzed | G OF THE_STOCK- | JAPAN INDORSES | HovPever, on Non-Aggression Pact at Present. | By the Associated Press. Though assuring President Roosevelt of a “hearty response” to his plea for | universal peace, Japan, with thousands Jit2 | of troops in Northern China, said it pre- | ferred to make no comment now on his | appeal for a treaty binding the nations against sending armed forces beyond | their borders. Japan also indorses the | President’s plea for earnest co-operative | efforts toward success at the London | Economic Conference and the Geneva arms reduction parley. Japan expressed its views in a brief | communication replying to the historic | message Mr. Roosevelt dispatched on May 16 to virtually all the world's rulers | proposing his non-aggression pact. Exerting Best Efforts. Reference to this projected treaty by Japan was entirely inferential. After asserting that the Tokio government is economic parley and is exerting its “best efforts” toward an arms reduction agreement, the message sald. “Their (the Japanese government'’s) views upon the different steps detailed in the President’s message can, if neces- sary, be presented as occasion offers.” Officials here interpreted this to mean Japan prefers to withhold an expression of opinion on the non-ag- gression proposal until the subject has advanced to the status of active discus- sion between the nations. Mr. Roosevelt had asked in his May 16 message that all the nations ‘“‘enter | into a solemn and definite pact of non- | aggression” and “individually agree tHat they will send no armed forces of whatsoever nature across their fron- tiers. ‘Many unofficial commentators were quick to apply this phrase to the posi- tion of the Japanese Armies in China as well as to the President’s later ex- pressed definition of an aggressor na- tion as one whose troops are found on alien soil in violation of treaties. Conferred With Ishii. Since sending his peace message, Mr. Roosevelt has conferred with Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, chief Japanese delegate to the London conference. While here, Mr. Ishii took exception to the definition of an aggressor nation ad- vanced by the President. After sweeping through Manchuria and nearby provinces the Japanese troops advanced south of the Great Wall of China, until, a fortnight ago, they were at the gates of China’s ancient capital, Peiping, and nearing the important commercial area of Tientsin. A truce was arranged under which the district between the Peiping- Tientsin area and the Great Wall is to be de-militarized, but policed by a small Chinese force under occasional Japanese supervision, After its success in Manchuria, Japan established the State of Manchukuo, which it contends is an independent nation. It is anxious to obtain diplo- matic recognition for it. ~This the United States has not extended. Presi- dent Roosevelt \}‘i':d n:sea,ewd that(tfm_rré; torial gains acquire y use of wmu:oc be recognized by the United Sta THREE ROBBERIES NET $380 LOOT HERE IN DAY Woman Reports Hotel Room Rob- bery—Virginian Tells of Northeast Hold-up. Cash, a check and clothing having a total value of more than $380 were re- ported stolen in the last 24 hours. Miss Claire E. Fraser said her room on the third floor of a downtown hotel was looted of & small amount of cash and a check for $125 by a thief who with fear. She saw the luminous dial of a man’s wrist watch. He was stand- | ing in the far corner—silent. A few | seconds and she heard him approaching | the bed. She let out a shriek and “All right, you rookies,” concluded r Kelley. “Let's see just how good detectives you are. If you can't spot the flaw in that story, well—" WHAT WAS IT? entered a window through a ventila- tor shaft. ‘Warren O. Dempsey of Vienna, Va. reported he was held up and robbed of $59 by two men near Third and H streets northeast. Some $200 worth of cloth and shirts were reported stolen from a tailor shop in the 500 block of Pennsylvania avenue. (See Solution on Page A-9.) | ‘Perhaps you have a story or problem | you would like to submit to Prof. Ford- | ney. If so, send it to him, care of this paper. He will be delighted to receive it. King Receives Warren Robbins. i LONDON, June 7_(#) —King George received Warren Robbins, American Minister to Canada, at Buckingham F all the gyp men and [ street workers in my acquaintance,” said Joe the Fiddler, “I think Wink Solomon is the most re- sourceful. He gave me a good ex- hibition of his cleverness one day when we were broke in St. Louis. We had left Kansas City in a hurry after a certain man with a star had become too curious about a beauty prize contest we were run- ning. TWO CHAPLAINS NAMED Two acting chaplains today were ap- pointed by the Navy Department. They are Rev. Lon P. Johnson of the Epis- copal Church of the Messiah, Gonzales, Tex., and Rev. Frederick W. Meehling of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Anderson, Ind. The appointments fill cancies caused by recent retirements. s a racket- By James E.Grant just as another man reached for 1t “‘Look what I found,’ says Wink, real pleased. “‘It's mine’ the other chap says. He was a tall, thin fellow | with real close-set eyes and a | sharp, edgy face like the end of a | canoe. | “‘You will have to prove it | Wink says, smiling. ‘Can you | identify the contents? If you can, ‘ I'll give it to you—or wait—I'm always a gambler—tell you what. —another man reached for it. *“When we took inventory of our assets we found we had 80 cents, a night club hat check, and a wad of cigar coupons, We had friends in Joplin who would stake us, but we had to get our railroad fare there. 1 was stumped, but Wink took an empty wallet and told me to watch him operate. We went into a crowded hotel lobby, and the next thing I saw was Wink pick- ing up the wallet from the floor I'll take $20 and give it to you without opening it." “The fellow couldn't get the money out fast enough, and we waited to see the expression on his face when he opened it and found nothing but cigar coupons inside. You see, Wink had scuffied the wallet as if by accident while he was picking it up, and he had let the other fellow get a glimpse of the money-like color of that wad of coupons.” These exposures of rackets are printed to advize .m‘pueut public. (Cupsright. 1933.) PEA FORPEACE 5 | Prefers to Make No Comment, “fully resolved to collaborate” at the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Mattern’s Own Story Solo Round-the-World Flyer Has Had to Battle Bad Weather and Wind Conditions on W hole (The following dispatch was writtes off from Omsk in continuance BY JIMMIE By Cable to The Star. Flight. n just before Jimmie Mattern took of his round-the-world flight.) MATTERN. OMSK, Siberia, June 7 (N.A.N.A.).—I have been battling bad weather and wind conditions on each leg of my flight. ture changes tanks. But I am determ: . I have been beset by terrific tempera- and I have been having trouble getting fuel out of my fuselage ined and confident that this attempt at a solo flight around the world will be successful. As I leave Omsk I am behind the time whicl had been set at this point by Wiley Post an Harold Gatty, whose record I am trying But I fully expect to make uj back in New York in decidedly shorter time than | to beat. for this and to be that made by Post and Gatty. I intend to make my next 1 was Moscow. stop at Chita, Siberia. very tired when I reached Omsk from In Moscow I had only three hours’ sleep and the rest of the night I worked on my ship. But now I am feeling fine and rested and ready for the next lap on this dash around the world. They have been awfully good to me at the| stops 1 have made and have done everything pos- | sible in the way of providing food and relaxation and welcome. the orani hopped morning. The reason that I am But I have been eating little but ges which I had in my plane when I off from New York last Saturday having trouble getting fuel from the fuselage tanks is that the motor- driven pump is not working. This means that I have to “wobble” my gas. In other words, I| have to Jimmie Mattern, tanks. ‘When I say the temperature chang terrific. use a hand pump to get fuel from the And this is no fun. es had been terrific, believe me, I mean They have ranged from zero to 100 degrees. D. C., WEDNESDAY, OPERATES SYSTEN OF ORGANZEDPLAY Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Program to Be Extended. By Staff Correspondent of The Stas. | BETHESDA, Md., June 7.—A mnew system of organized recreation has been inaugurated at the Bethesda-Chevy n | Chase High School and is expected to, d | be extended to other public schools of | Montgomery County next term as a re- sult of its success here. the new pian | student body of 800 children engages in |archery, Japanese ball, shuffle board, ping pong, beach tennis, roller skating and social games on the school cam- pus at the noon luncheon recess when | the weather is clear. Rooms Are Thrown Open. door program two huge recreation rooms are thrown open for indoor con- tests. Group singing is held in the | auditorium, the library is made avail- able to the students, a study hall is | provided, and dancing is held in the school gymnasium. The new system was devised by Principal Thomas W. Pyle after a num- ber of patrons had pointed out to the head of the institution that their chil- dren had only 25 minutes for lunch and had no time for play before afternoon stucies were resumed. Pyle immediately set to work on his The New York-to-Oslo hop has been the hardest so far. Four times whfl’lplm. decided to allow the students 50 I was over the Atlantic ice formed on crusted, I made an 8,000-foot dive and | a wing cracked. I had to fly blind 200 | feet above the ocean to get warm air. | The only way to get through was to | run north. | The motor continues to run in great | shape. During my brief pause in Nor- way the crack in the wing was re- | paired. My flight across the Baltic | Sea to Moscow involved four hours of | blind flying. On the lap between Moscow and Omsk everything went well. But most of the way I encountered headwinds. I crossed the Urdl Mountains and took & direct airline over the flat steppes. I was exhausted when I reached Omsk and slept on the ground by my ship. At intervals they would get me awake for refueling instructions. But never- theless I got a good three hours’ snooze. Now watch me streak home. « . 1033. by North American News- ey il liance. Tnc. World rights reserved ) the wings. Once, with the wings thus Flights Compared By the Associated Press, Cumulative elapsed time is shown after each point of arrival, with the time spent aground shown in parenthesis. Both flights started from New York. The Post-Gatty record is 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. Mattern. Jomfruland Island, 23:55 (16:45). Oslo, 41:00 (3:20). Moscow, 51:37 (9:17), Omsk, 73:15 (11:35). Post-Gatty. Harbor Grace, 6:52 (3:40). Chester, England, 26:49 (1:20). Hanover, Germany, 31:49 (1:30). Berlin, 34:31 (11:08). Moscow, 54:34 (11:30). Omsk, 74:09 (no stop made). MATTERN PASSES NOVO SIBIRSK ON HIS WAY TO CHITA (Continued From First Page.) the weather and other conditions are unfavorable I will land at Krasnovarsk.” He encountered head winds almost all the way from Moscow, but, except for the broken strut, he and his plane functioned smoothly. ONE HOUR 43 MINUTES BEHIND. Mattern Gains 9 Hours 30 Minutes by Not Stopping at Novo Sibirsk. NEW YORE, June 7 (#)—Just be- fore Jimmie Mattern passed over Novo Sibirsk, Siberia, he was 11 hours 13 minutes behind the Post-Gatty ‘round- the-world time table, established in 1931 Just after he passed over the Si- berian city, he cut the Post-Gatty lead to 1 hour 43 minutes. This strange result arises from the fact that Post and Gatty stopped at Novo Sibirsk and stayed there 9 hours 30 minutes. Mattern kept right on m‘figtwm lost 32 minutes on the jour- ney from Omsk to Novo Sibirsk. Start- ing 84 hours 49 minutes after he left | New York, he required 3 hours to reach Novo Sibirsk. Post and Gatty did the same distance in 2 hours 27 minutes. Their elapsed time on ar- rival at Novo Sibirsk was 76 hours 36 minutes. Mattern was officially given a pre- cious present of 60 seconds today, which might conceivably mean the difference | between success and failure in his race around the world. When he took off from Floyd Ben- nett Field last Saturday morning his time was generally clocked at 4:20 a.m. Eastern standard time. But today John Heinmuller, whoi acted as official timer for the National | Aeronautic Association, which decides | who is a record holder and who isn't, announced that he’had recorded the | take-off at 4:21. Two messages sent from Omsk were received from Mattern today. One, to his backer, read: “Feeling fine. Everything okay. Jimmie.” The other, to the manager of Floyd | Bennett Field, where Mattern began nis race around the world, said: “T'll be glad to get back on those concrete | runways.” BRITON SEES WEAK | SPOT IN DEMOCRACY Time Wasted Coming to Decision on Problems, Says Sir Josiah Stamp. By the Associated Press. DURHAM, N. C., June 7—Sir Josiah Stamp, distinguished British economist, analyzed the democratic form of gov- ernment today and said one of its weaknesses is a lack of adaption for coming to a decision upon economic problems. The noted Briton, chairman of the London Midland & Scottish Railway, member of numerous scientific socie- ties, and the British representative in 1920 on the Reparation Commission’s Committee on German Currency and Finance, was the commencement speaker at Duke University. “We have taken upon ourselves as a philosophy of government the various democratic forms and we find by ex- perience that democracy has certain demonstrable weaknesses,” he said in his prepared address. “It is excellently adapted for deal- ing with all problems that do not de- teriorate by waiting or while we dis- cuss them or suffer from the very process of discussion, and is suited to settle matters such as the questions of religious and civil liberty, national and local expenditvre, and many of the States, its leaders features of social life. But it is not well adapted for coming to a decision upon economic problems. “In the present stage of education, judgment as to what is the correct ac- tion in foreign affairs on matters with international reactions is a highly com- rlicated process, to be solved out of the realm of emotions and predilections.” =g : HITLER FRIENDS ORGANIZE MONTREAL, June 7 ().—The Swas- tika flag flew today over headquarters of “The Forelgn Friends of the Hitler Movement,” members of which pro- claimed themselves in favor of all prin- | ciples enunciated by Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany. society was organized under in- structions from Hans Neiland, Ham- , Germany, and plans to work with milar organization in the United 2w oHehtat CANADA ADVOGATES PUBLIC MUNITIONS Removal of Private Gain From Trade in Arms Urged by Dominion. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, June 7.—Canada is con- vinced the manufacture of arms should eventually be restricted to State-owned establishments, the Disarmament Con- ference was advised today. This stand was announced by Dr. W. A. Riddell, Canadian representa- tive, in answering a question put to all governments as to whether the private manufacture of arms should be abol- ished. England, Germany and Japan op- posed the abolition of private arms factories and announced themselves in favor of control. Against Private Gain. Dr. Riddell asserted that Canada be- lieves eventual State ownership is nec- essary in order to remove one of the dangerous factors in international rela- tions, namely private gain from the manufacture of arms and the trade in arms. However, he said, Canada realizes the necessity of accepting a certain delay in application of the principle, making it possible for nations depending on pri- vate manufacture to make required ad- Jjustments. He declared that Canada regards the internationalization of the manufacture of arms as wholly impractical. | Negotiations Ordered. Disctission of the private manufacture issue occurred before the General Com- mission of the Disarmament Conference dealing with the regulation of arms traffic. Capt. Anthony Eden, British dele- gate, explained his government's view that private and state manufacture of arms should be treated alike. ‘The meeting concluded with adoption of a resolution requesting Arthur Hen- derson, chairman of the conference, to carry on negotiations about the ques- tion with interested delegations. 'WHEAT HELD DOWN Stanford Expert Tells Pacific Sci- ence Congress of Surplus and Other Effects. By the Associated Press. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 7—Dr. Holbrook Working, wheat ex- pert of Stanford University, told the fifth Pacific Science Congress yesterday three factors are preventing recovery of world wheat prices. “The surplus which has depressed prices for five years, due to the record crop of 1928, still exists,” he said. “Thc world acreage at the present time is adequate to supply food, and there is no |incentive to restrict acreage in Europe due to artificial price pegging spon- sored by governments. “Where an abnormally large crop is not followed by an equally abnormal small one, restriction of acreage is the |enly " preventative _of long-continued | price depression. Since the large crop of 1928, the world acreage has in- creased and made conditions worse in- stead of better. “The economic slump also is a fac- | tor contributing to low wheat prices, but unless existing stocks are disposea |of, the return of prosperity will not benefit the farmer.” Reappearance of Russta as a large scale wheat exporter reduced world values still more, he said. i Make your stay in New | York doubly enjoyable. | Enjoy a sunshiny out- | side room with bath, | bfndw with your choice H \ Servid and m NEW hotel | conveniences at rates | that start at §3 for one l —$4 for two. 2 guse 19, BY THREE FACTORS & minutes for lunch and placed Mrs. ¥. M. Black of the faculty in charge of the pretentious recreation program. The students are now required to devote the first 20 minutes of the noon recess to eating their lunch, after which the games are made available. | The children must participate in the | contests that are held on the campus and are not permitted in the building | in favorable weather. ¥ | Conduct Games. Fourteen members of the faculty conduct the various games, which are held as an entirely separate activity from the regular physical educational classes. They are Mrs. Black, Mrs. M. D. Mohler, Mrs. G. B. Hoyle, Mrs. Rosa Moss, Miss Dorothy Johnson, Miss Janice Hyatt, Miss Janet Broadbent, Miss Katherine Bulger, Miss Julia Rowe, Miss Dorothy Young, Miss Helen Price, Miss Virginia Mullinix, Miss Edna Goodwin and Miss Louise Massey. Mrs. Black declared today that the new system has proved immensely pop- ular with the children. The games have served to settle a number of school athletic championships. MRS. BULKLEY AGAIN HEADS GARDEN CLUB Ridgefield President Re-elected by National Organization at Meet- ing in Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 7.—Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley of the Ridgefield Garden Club, New York City, was re-elected president yesterday of the Garden Club of America. Other officers chosen were: First vice president, Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd, | Haverford, Pa.; second vice president, Mrs. Carl A. De Gersdorff, Lenox, Mass.; third vice president, Mrs. John Sherwin, Cleveland, Ohio; fourth vice president, Mrs. Lyman Rhodes, Millbrook, N. Y.; fifth vice president, Mrs. William H. Wilmer, Baltimore, Md.; sixth vice president, N. Penrose Hallowell, Milton, Mass.; recording secretary, Mrs. Samuel Seabury, East Hampton, N. Y. and corresponding secretary, Mrs. Robert H. Fife, Middletown, Conn. 'ALABAMA DRYS OPEN | BATTLE ON REPEAL| | Prohibition Forces of State Or- ganize for House-to-House Campaign. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, June 7.—Pro- ;hlbltlfln forces of Alabama yesterday | prepared for a “battle to a finish” | against repeal of the | amendment, with two house-to-house campaigns planned before the voters | cast their ballots on July 18 to select | delegates for a convention to act on | the twenty-first amendment. | The set-up to make the canvass was outlined yesterday afternoon by Charles | Rice, mayor of Homewood, who earlier had been designated as State campaign manager. Those ‘favoring repeal met recently | in Montgomery and selected Col. Alfred | M. Tunstall of Greenshoro as manager of their campaign. “In my judgment, Alabama will be the first State in which the drys will carry the election,” said Rice. “You stand in a most responsible position. If our adversaries carry Ala- | bama it will be broadcast to the N tion as an example to the entire coun- | Bishop James Cannon of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church South was present at the meeting, but said he | had been called here on “other mat- ters” He read a letter from Judge Edwin H. Webb, presiding over the; United States District Court of West- ern North Carolina, denouncing the | alcohol traffic. Judge Webb was one of the authors of the Webb-Kenyon act. RABBI BLOOM HERE | Rabbi Charles Bloom of Boston, rep- | resentative of the American headquar- ters of the United Gallil Aid Society, arrived in Washington today for a series of appeals to local Jewish con- gregations for funds for benevolent in- | stitutions maintained by the society in Palestine. Thousands of persecuted Jews are flocking to the Jewish home'and, he de- | clared, increasing the need there. The | United Gallil Aid Society maintains an orphan asylum and public kitchen in Safed and Tiberias and a sheltering home for immigrants in Haifa. S | Heads Franciscan Order. | ROME, June 7 (#).—Benjamin Ryzil- ski, a Pole, was yesterday elected pro- curator of the General Franciscan Order. the entire ! | tennis, rope jumping, horseshoe pitching, | ‘When rain interferes with the out- | eighteenth | jof the Curtis Publishing Co. to JUNE 7, 1933. Publisher Dead | | | CYRUS H. K. CURTIS. (YRUSH. K. CURTIS DIES AT AGE OF 82 Noted Publisher Succumbs to Heart Ailment at Phila- delphia Home. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—Cyrus H. K. Curtis, whose rise from newsboy to publisher was one of the epics of American business, died today at his home in suburban Wyncote of a linger- ing heart ailment. He would have been 83 on June 18. One of the world's great magazine and newspaper publishers, Mr. Curtis Paued away at 2:10 a.m. (Eastern day- ight time). He had been ill since May, last year, when he was stricken with a heart attack while on his yacht Lyndonia, near New York, and was hurried to this city aboard the vessel. Five days later his wife died sud- denly. She had taken a room in the hospital to be near him and passed away in her sleep from a heart ailment from which she had suffered for a number of years. She was his second wife and a second cousin. Head of Publishing House. Mr. Curtis was chairman of the board of the Curtis Publishing Co., which publishes the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and the Country Gentleman. Alsc, Mr. Curtis was president of Curtis-Martin Ne pers, Inc., which {ublhhes the iladelphia Public er and Evening iger and the New York Evening Post and owns the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was a mem- ber of the Associated Press. The publisher left one daughter, Mrs. Mary Louis Curtis Bok, widow of Edward W. Bok, for many years editor of Ladies' Home Journal. She was his only child. John C. Martin, vice president of Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc., is husband of the former Miss Alice ‘Wedgwood Pillsbury, a daughter of the |second Mrs. Curtis by her first mar- riage. At his bedside when he died were his daughter and her two sons, Willlam Curtis Bok and Cary Bok; his step-daughters, Mrs. John C. Martin and Mrs. Preston Wells of Detroit; John C. Martin and Drs. Martin E. Rehfuss of Philadelphia and PFreeman Brown of Rockland, Me. Funeral Planned Friday. day at the home. The Portland Men's Singing Club of Portland, Me., is to be in attendance. tis was removed to his home and later taken to his Summer home in Maine, where b remained until Fall. Lass Winter he spent two months aboaru to Wyncote early in April. Although in close touch with his vast publishing interests, Mr. Curtis did not Last October he resigned as president become head of the Board of Directors. He was succeeded as president by George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Curtis left his birthplace, Port- land, Me., when a youth of 19, to take a job as salesman at $10 a week in a Boston store. At the end of a year he turned to advertising soliciting for the Travelers’ Guide, the Boston Times and the Incependent. Ledger, a weekly, magazine, which he moved to Philadelphia in 1876, when he was 26. In 1878 he sold the maga- zine and egain turned to advertising. A year later he and his brother-in-law, Hamilton Mayo, started the Tribune |and Farmer, an agricultural magazine. Wife Edited Journal. It was from this publication that the Ladies’ Home Journa] sprang. Mr. Cur- tis’ first wife, who was Miss Louisa Knapp of Boston, read every issue closely and one day criticized a_column. devoted to women'’s interests. Her hus- ?-nd asked her to try editing the fea- ure. In a short time the column had grown to a page. Then it became an eight-page supplement, known as the Ladies’ Home Journal. Finally its suc- cess led Mr. Curtis to devote his entire attention to it. He disposed of the farm paper to a junior partner. With Mrs. Curtis in the editor’s chair, he dis- covered a new circulation field. Later he acquired the Saturday Eve- ning Post, the Country Gentleman and the newspaper properties. In personal life Mr. Curtis had two outstanding characteristics, simplicity of manner and love of the beautiful. Among the arts his greatest interest was in music. As a boy he was en- thralled by the playing of Hermann Kotzschmar, an eminent organist, who was a close friend of his father. The father commemorated the friend- ship in his son's two middle names, Six counsellors generals are to be elected Thursday. 7th Avenue at 31st Street oPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA STATION C.W. RAMSEY, JR.. MANAGER that it is wise to buy us today and order supply of Marlow’s S Reading Anthracite—that better Pennsyl- vania hard coal. Deliveries carefully made at the time most conv Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. the | of the Japanese army, died Funeral services are to be held Pri- After his attack last year, Mr. Cur- his yacht in Southern waters, returning | visit his office much in the last year. Then he established the People’s | Even Professors Agree WOOW IS CRERED HELD N SLAYIG luquest Holds Mrs. Wiede- man for Grand Jury in Death of Husband. After hearing testimony that Mrs. Prances Wiedeman had admitted shoot- ing her husband, Philip J. Wiedeman, during a quarrel Monday night, a cor- oner’s jury this afternoon ordered the 37-year-old mother of three children held for action of the grand jury. ‘Wiedeman died early yesterday at Cas- ualty Hospital. Policewoman Caroline W. Alexander told the jury Mrs. Wiedeman admitted to her that she had shot her husband after a card game at their home, 334 Tenth street northeast. Earlier Detec- | tive Sergt. John W. Wise had read to | the jury a sworn statement in which | Mrs. Wiedeman denied the shooting and claimed she was in another part of the house when the shots were fired. Policewoman Tells Story. “She told me on the way back to the Women’s Bureau after she had been questioned that she and her hus- band had had an argument,” the po- licewoman said. “She said he had been drinking and that when he was grinkihrxbh‘:dw:“ery ugly. er hus| thrown her on the W mitted she said that if she had had a gun she would have shot him. “He got a gun out of the bureau drawer, she told me, and tossed it on the bed, saying, ‘Here it is; and shoot.’ She said she took the gun and pulled the trigger and that’s all she remembers.” William Martin Long, 54, & roomer in the Wiedeman home, was the only witness to the shooting. He also testi- fled it followed a quarrel after a card game. He said he saw Weideman strike his wife and throw her across a bed. He sald that after she had told husband, “If I had a gun I'd you,” Wiedeman went to a bureau, got a gun and threw it on the bed. - Shoots Husband. “She was all mixed up in the spread,” Long said. “Then the popped and Mr. Wiedeman fell down.” He said he had been summoned to the Wideman's bed room by their younger daughter, Barbara, 10, who told him: o and mamma are fighting.” bed- gun GEN. KANAYA DIES Former Chief of General Staff of Japanese Army Succumbs. TOKIO, June 7 (#)—Gen. Kanaya, former chief of the general staff had been suffering from muhm"?n,een WEATHER DUTIES TRACED Dr. Marvin Discusses History of ; Bureau’s Service. The history of weather studies and forecasts, from 60 years ago to the pres- ent, was sketched yesterday by Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau, in an address before the Civi- tan Club. He told his audience establishment of regular reports and information service to aid aerial navigation was the most recent addition to the bureau’s duties. and years later the publisher presented one of the World'lwhr:m organs to Portland in memory of the musician. At his Wyncote home Mr. Curtis de- lighted in playing the simple organ melodies he loved. In his collection of art treasures are canvases by the great masters and of Mane, Ppaintings of the wild coast Charitable and educational _institu. tions recejved I gifts from Mr. Cur- tis, including $1,000,000 to the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, $2,000,000 to the Pranklin Institute and Memorial in Philadelphia, $1,125,000 to Drexel Insti- tute in Philadelphia, $600,000 to Temple University, $650,000 to establish the lege “ana oopital e P lospf Philadel; $300,000 to the Pennsylvania ] of Art, $200,000 to the American Philo- | sophical Society, $400,000 to Ursinus | College, $800,000 to Bowdoin College, | 200,000 to Main General Hospital, | $100,000 each to Wellesley College, the {gmmxm: )(Déec-) Cathedral, Knox y . neral Hospital | County Memorial, Nm'tnDo Ynl}mm | Ac:fllemy and n'zell:, Academy, Me., | and large sums 3 = Sy e delphia’s Com: CAREER WAS OUTSTANDING. Frank B. Noyes Lauds High Standards | Set by Curtis Frank B. 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