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NEHTCLUB BLAZE MLNG § PROBED 21 Others Injured in Fire Sweeping Resort in Chi- cago Suburb. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 25.—A county- wide investigation was launched today into the fire which early yesterday swept the paper-festooned interior of the Club Rendezvous in suburban Morton Grove and took the lives of four men and two women. Twenty- one others were injured. County police were ordered by Sheriff John Toman to visit all road houses and report immediately any fire hazards. They were instructed to pay particular attention to tissue paper and any highly inflammable decorations. At an undertaking establishment in Niles Center, another North Shore suburb, an inquest was opened into the deaths of the six persons who were engulfed in the blaze when more thaa 100 panic-stricken merrymakers struggled for freedom from the inferno. Festivities were at their height early yesterday at the road house, a re- modeled bungalow in suburban Mor- ton Grove, when the first tongue of flame licked out from the ceiling, near a suspended gas heater. Many Students. Drapes and streamers stretched from the walls and ceiling of the dance hall and dining room. The bar was packed. A mass of persons moved to the music of a three-piece orches- tra on the dance floor. Every table in the dining room was filled. Many were Northwestern University students who had just come from a school musical comedy stage produgtion, “Fire!” The girl who had sent the cry ring- ing through the building snatched her wrap and made for the only exit—ex- cept the kitchen door—a narrow doorway on the east side of the dance hall. This doorway led into an ante- room which led to the street. Seizing a bottle of seltzer water | Mrs. Elmer Cowdrey, wife of the road | house owner, squirted its contents at | the flame, which puffed at her— bigger and better. Door Opened Inward. i A frenzy of fear seized the merry- makers. Screaming, trampling, strik- ing, they surged to the east exit—only to discover, firemen said, it opened in- ward. The foremost were flattened | against the door and wall by the des- | perate press of the panic-stricken. Leaping to a chair, Cowdrey shouted directions to use the kitchen door. The cries of the guests and crackle of | flame drowned his voice. Forcing back the crowd. the leaders succeeded in opening the door as flames engulfed the dance hall and | raced along the drapes and streamers. | ‘The blazing cloth dropped. bathing the seething throng in a fiery rain. A light wire snapped. painting the place the eerie red of the flames. Frantic, several patrons trapped by the crowd fighting in the doorway | plunged through windows head first, oblivious to the gashes torn in their faces and bodies. Sees Companion Burn. Fred Nash, one of the survivors, who escaped to the ante-room, turned as the door jammed shut again and saw his companion, Robert Wolf, 22, clawing at the glass panel. __“Help me, help mel God, I'm burn- ing up!” His clothing and hair was a mass of flames. Others had similar experiences and Mrs. Florence Hronek, who was swept away from her husband, identified his body by a ring he wore. | Firemen devoted all their efforts to saving the victims. An inquest today will mark the | opening of a State, county and vil- lage investigation. List of Dead. The dead: Fred Robert Anderson, 20, Eau Claire, Wis.,, Northwestern University Junior, Jack ‘Cocker, 21, Cedar Rapids, Towa, Northwestern University senior. Miss Arlene Harvey, 22, Niles Cen- ter, checkroom girl at the roadhouse. James Hronek, 32, Chicago. Miss Helen O. Johnson, 22, Mil- waukee, formerly of Duluth. Robert Wolfe, 22, employed by an attorney. The condition of James Bradford, 32, Chicago, and Gerald Mickelsen, 20, Edison Park, is critical. SLAYER SENTENCED e Killer of Girl, 5, Sentenced to Serve 50 Years WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, March 25 {®).—Lawrence Stone, 24, descendant of a pioneer Connecticut family, pleaded guilty today in the second de- gree to the murder of Nancy Jean Costigan, 5, at Mount Vernon last Oc- tober, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. He had been indicted for first de- gree murder for killing the child and stuffing her body into an oil furnace | at an apartment house last October 14. — SPECIAL NOTICES. THERE WILL BE A MEETING ( stockholders of CORCORAN FIRE INSUIE ANCE COMPANY of the District of Co- lumbia at its office. 604 11th 8t Mouday. April 1 80: . N.W.. on . 1935. for the purpose of electing nine directors for the ensuing year and for such other business as may Droverly some before the meeting. Polls a an RIDGWAY, ’&_cru-fy?" b 1ahs TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ark Pope has sold his the “Pig e Dw. 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CHASE CASE T0 GO TO JURY LATE TODAY Chicago Trial Seen Test of New Law to Protect U. S. Justice Agents. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 25.—The trial of Federal Agent Samuel neared a close today as United States prosecutors asked the death penalty for the man accused with George (Baby Face) Nelson of killing Cowley and another agent, Herman E. Hollis, in the battle of Barrington. The case. first to be tried under new Federal statutes providing the death penalty for the murder of Federal agents in the line of duty, was ex- pected to be in the hands of the jury late today. The story of the bloody gun-battle, which also brought death to Nelson, was told the jury by Federal agents, colleagues of the men slain as they attempted to stop a car bearing Nelson, Chase and Nelson’s wife, Mrs. Helen Gillis, as they sped through Barrington. Chase, the only witness in his own behalf, admitted fighting the Federal agents shoulder to shoulder with Nel- son, but claimed he fired in self-de- fense. Outcome of the trial was watched closely as a possible test of the new law, one of nine enacted by Congress strengthening law enforcement. agencies of the Federal Government S | and attributed in a large part to the sensational exploits of the Dillinger gang. HONEST BELFAST FOLKS PAY THEIR CARFARE Only Two Out of Several Thousand Fail to Settle for Credit Rides. BELFAST (#)—Officials of this city’s street railway are ready to back the honesty of their patrons against that of any other city, in or out of Northern Ireland. Here’s why: Conductors are permitted to issue tickets to passengers who find they haven't sufficient money to pay their fare. Such passengers are asked to settle at the company’s offices. Last year several thousand pas- sengers took advantage of the arrange- ment. Only two failed to pay. SMOKE UP BONDS Serbs Use Them to Make Cigar- ettes With. BELGRADE (#).—Peasants in the Serb mountains near KoMshin have burned thousands of dollars’ worth of war reparation bonds by using them as cigarette papers. The discovery was made when a peasant tried to cash interest coupons from a bond retired a year previously. REV. J. E. ELLIOTT IS ELECTED RECTOR Succeeds Rev. Thomas J. Brown at St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Rev. Josiah E. Elliott has been . | elected rector of St. Luke's Episcopal | John Paul Chase for the slaying of | P. Cowley | Church, Fifteenth and Church streets. He succeeds Rev. Thomas J. Brown, ; who retired recently and is now rector emeritus. He will formally assume his duties about the middle of April. He is married and resides at 1754 8| street. Rev. Mr. Elliott was born in Vir- ginia, was educated in the elementary schools of Washington and Baltimore and later in an Episcopal parochial school at Savannah, Ga. He is a graduate of St. Athanasius Normal School of Brunswick, Ga. Later he studied at Howard University, College of Liberal Arts and Temple Univer- sity, leaving there in his senior year to enter the World War. Returning, he pursued studies for the ministry and was graduated from the Bishop Payne Divinity School, receiving the degree of B. D. VOTE OF AUTO WORKERS SHOWS NON-UNION TREND 69.5'Per Cent Unaffiliated With Labor Organizations, Election Reveals. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 25.—The Auto- mobile Labor Board announced yes- terday that 69.5 per cent of the auto- mobile workers voting for collective bargaining representatives in nomi- nating elections conducted by the board throughout the industry have been unaffiliated with any labor or- ganization. Workers of 46 automobile plants cast 146,948 ballots and 13.75 per cent expressed affiliations with various factory employe associations, 7 per cent favored American Federation of Labor ‘unions and 4 per cent the Mechanics Educational Society of America. There were scattering votes for 10 other organizations. WEEK END ROBBERIES $2,100 in Cash and Jewelry Re- ported Stolen. Cash and jewelry, totaling more then $2,100, were stolen over the week end, police reported today. An overcoat, with $800 in the pock- et, was taken from a closet in the home of Virgil E. Bradshaw, 2500 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. Chester M. Williams, 905 Monroe street, reported a violin, valued at $300, had been taken from the Church of the Nazarine, Seventh and A streets northeast. B HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, Where Six Met Death in Fire Trap - SEASON FORECAST Public in Mood to Spend for ; Pleasure, Scouts Report | After Survey. SARASOTA, Fla. (#).—The big show, “"bigger and better than ever before.” is getting a final polish for what General Manager Sam W. Gum- pertz believes will be “the greatest circus season in American history.” ‘They think in terms of superlatives in the tinsled realm of make believe, but Gumpertz insists his prediction is no press agentry, and is spending thou- sands of dollars to back it Canny scouts for the Ringling in- terests—including “the greatest show on earth,” Ringling Bros. and Bar- num & Bailey combined: the Hagen- beck-Wallace and Forepaugh-Sells Bros. combined, and the A. G. Barnes Circuses—have sounded business con- ditions in scores of key cities and re- ported the public is ready to pay for dazzling spectacles. Winter Attendance Gains. In addition, attendance at the Ring- ling Winter quarters here has in- creased 100 per cent over last year. MAURICE H. AVERY, BIBLIOPHILE, DIES Former Library of Congress Official Was Expert in Field. Maurice Hussey Avery, 54, former officer of the Library of Congress and well-known bibliophile, died yesterday at Emergency Hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Avery had lived in Washington since his graduation from the New York State Library School in 1905, when he joined the staff of the Library of Congress. He resigned in 1927 to devote his time to private interests and travel. An expert in the rarities of the book world, Mr. Avery was responsible for the acquisition of some of the finest items in the Library's collection. His part in obtaining the John Boyd Thatcher collection on the French Revolution was noteworthy. Born in Nashua, N. H., July 26, 1881, the son of Charles H. and Ida L. Avery, he was the descendant of dis- tinguished Massachusetts colonists. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1903. | A Scottish Rite Mason, he was a member also of St. John's Lodge No. 11, the Albert Pike Consistory and the Sons of the American Revolution, Phi Gamma Delta Praternity and the University Club. His home was at| 3701 Massachusetts avenue. | He is survived by his widow, the | former Evelyn Fant, sister of Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., and a brother, Philip S. Avery, architect, of Boston and Wellesley Hills, MEDIGINE BOTTLE | FETISH REMAINS Lancashire People Spurn| Doctors Without Liquid Cures. MANCHESTER, England () —The | old-fashioned medicine bottle, beloved | fetish of Lancashire people, has new- | fashioned doctors here worried | ‘With all of modern science at their fingertips, they find that “a doctor without a bottle is—a doctor out the door.” ' And, incidentally, out of fee. | In self-defense, many physicians | have armed themselves with boitles of | harmless colored water to appeese the | demand of patients for a ‘“bottle cur nd the fact that this city's medicine consumption 1s 50 per cent higher than anywhere in Great | Britaln has now become a matter of investigation by the Manchester In- surance Committee. “It is no exaggeration to say that a great many people in Lancashire do | not consider they have been properly | treated unless the doctor gives them | From his railroad car office here where he directs the reconditioning | jand preparatory activities of all the | | Ringling shows, Gumpertz has given orders to spend freely. Preparatory work was started here | | soon after the circus returned from | its Summer tour last Fall instead of | waiting until after Christmas as usual. | The old Forepaugh-Sells Show was | acquired as an addition to the Hagen. beck-Wallace Circus, aggregation of animals. Scout Back From Europe. Pat Valdo recently returned from a long scouting jaunt over Europe, in search of new acts, and brought back new sensations. Performers and acts have been shifted among the three shows to provide brand-new entertainment in the various sections they play. “Emir,” the largest tiger in cap- tivity, and other ferocious beasts will pace the floor of new aluminum cages; rubber tires have replaced the wide steel wheels on the huge circus wagons; sleeping cars have been re- modeled for more comfort; here and there throughout the vast equipage { can be found modern improvements. BLACK BILL CALLED ECONOMIC SOLUTION Senate Committee Report Urges Passage in Behalf of 5,000,000 Needy Workers, primarily an| By the Associated Press. Citing the measure as the solution for economic recovery, the Senate In- terstate Commerce Committee, in a report published today, called on the Senate to enact the Black bill to estab- lish a compulsory 30-hour week in industry. The report, written by Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia, said the bill would provide jobs for 5,000,000 workers now destitute. The committee classed the $4,880,- 000,000 work-relief bill with measures that are ‘“‘merely temporary pallia- tives.” “Hope for economic recovery lies in the 30-hour week,” the report said. “Jobs on emergency public works are merely temporary palliatives. They afford neither permanent nor suffi- cient security for our vast army of unemployed.” Though N. R. A. led to the “em- ployment in industry of several mil- lion idle workers,” the report said, business “has not pursued and ap- parently never will voluntarily pursue” the complete course outlined under the recovery program. The report outlined as the poten- tial results of passage of the Black | wij bill more jobs and purchase power without decreasing wages, increased production, reduced costs of produce~ tion and better living standards for “the average American family.” Keeps Vow by Shaving. MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (#).—Be- cause he is a grandfather, F. M. Brand, veteran attorney, no longer has & mustache. Years ago he vowed to shave it off if his first grandchild was & boy. It was—the son of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Earl Boggess. e —— LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS Y S a bottle of medicine,” said a member | of the committee. “I have actually known cases of pepole demanding a bottle. More than that, they have been known to leave a doctor whom they considered mean, or stingy, with medicine.” Love of bottled medicine, he said. was hereditary in Lancashire people, with generation after generation born, | eared and dying with blind faith | in the “old wife's bottle.” “The old faith lives on. It is seen in the remarkable number of herba- lists, faith-healers and bone-setters found throughout Lancashire. Many | people would never hesitate about calilng in an entirely unqualified man who has achieved a local reputation as a healer.” And for this reason, he said, they believe in medicine—the nastier the taste, the greater their faith. ACTORS ILL-PAID French Stars Share in Profits of Theaters. PARIS (#)—There is more glory than gold in being a member of the famous Comedie Francasie troupe nowadays. Last of the Paris theaters to be hit by the slump, the “House of Mol- lere” is now in such low water that temporary closing is being discussed. ‘The actors are not paid salaries, but receive shares of the profits ac- cording %o their ranking. This year the shares of the stars amount to less than $3,000 each. GENERAL TO HEAD BANK McKinley to Retire April 1, Tak- ing Position in Texas. Maj. Gen. James F. McKinley, Army adjutant general, will retire about June 1 to accept the presidency of the National Bank of Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, Tex. He entered the Army as a private of the Ohio Infantry during the Spanish-American War. He became assistant adjutant general in 1929, and ‘was promoted to adjutant general on February 2, 1933. No successor has been named. RO Y Births Reported. Walter J__and Evangeline Reck. bo Vincent W, and Irene V. Gillen. Edson A. and Virginia 1. Esson. boy. Franklin B. and Estell Roberts, boy. Andrew J. and Cecelia Middleton, girl. John and Eloise Belford. boy. George and Gussie Bell. boy. Russell and Mary Bacon, girl. John and Miriam Howard. girl. Theodore and Lenora Price. rlrl. Howard W, and Permilla Holbrook, girl, Louis and Zelima Lee, boy. Robert and Alberta Jones. boy. o, e and Mary Exinner, boy Wiihees M- and Mildred G. Taylor. boy. iliam and Ehel Harre, gl deri N nny Grinnage y. Wittam %"-‘m‘i‘ Hattle £ Guakins, bor. o B0y Sonn -'.;'edl‘c‘nel Tonugirest. bos. aranda Yates. boy. R .:lnd rgia binson. bo; Y. irl, p Turn your old trinkets, jew- elry and watches into MONEY at A.Kahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlum, Pres. 43 YEARS at935 F $TREET | |$11 Collected by Couple | other city officials will be presented | |PICTURES OF ENGINES MARCH 25, 1935. Librarian Dies MAURICE HUSSEY AVERY. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Evangelist Pair, Held in Slaying, Conduct Revival Given Freedom Under Guard. By the Assoclated Press. PASCAGOULA, Miss, March 25— About 250 persons yesterday afternoon attended evangelistic services con- ducted on the court house lawn by Rev. Joe J. Payne, “cowboy pastor,” who with his wife is held in connection with the killing of Adelbert Ewing | here March 21. | Officers gave him permission to go | outside under guard. | His wife and two daughters fur- nished music for the services during | which an offering was taken, $11 being collected He spoke on the text “I .Have Sinned,” from the book of Samuel, third chapter. Mrs. Payne testified at a prelimi- | nary hearing that she killed the middle-aged Ewing when she found him in a compromising position wit! her daughter. Payne wore the full regalia of a | Texas ranger, using an old-fashioned, | long-barrelled .44-caliber pistol, with | which Mrs. Payne allegedly shot Ewing, as a baton. The gun’s stock bears 15 notches, the number of out- laws Payne claims he killed while a | ranger. JEHOVAH SOCIETY STAGES PARADE Sending of Nine Auto Loads nf; Members Termed a “Pub- licity Stunt.” By a Staff Correspondent of The Star ! ALEXANDRIA, Va. March 25.—In he face of the recent jailing of nine Jehovah's Witnesses for soliciting here without a city permit. nine automobile [TALOETHIOPIAN FIGHTING RESUMED Rome Reports New Combat on Eritrean Border. One Killed. By the Associated Press. ROME, March 25.—An official gov- ernment communique today _an- nounced a new combat between Ital- ians and Ethiopians during the night of March 23 with the death of one Ethiopian. The skirmish was fought on the frontier of the Italian colcuy of Eritrea, It was the first instance on the Eritrean frontier since the tension between Italy and Ethiopia began, the other incidents having occurred on the frcatier of Italian Somaliland. Found Within Frontier, ‘The communique said that while a frontier squadron of Eritreans under the command of an Italian brigadier were patroling the border, it en- countered a body of armed Ethiopians 300 yards inside the border near Omager. | The Ethiopians were said to have | answered with rifle fire the brigadier’s | notice to leave. They fled after a | skirmish, leaving behind one dead and | some weapons. The government said the Italian Minister to Addis Ababa had been | instructed to protest and to reserve | the right to present, later on, an| account for reparations. | Troops Withdrawn. | Meanwhile, the Ethiopian charges d’affaires in Rome, declared Ethiopian | troops are no longer concentrated | along the frontiers of Italy's East African colonies. “This attitude,” the communique said, “has been assumed by the Ethi- | | opian government to give proof to the natives of the nation’s strong wish of peace which today as always animates | Ethiopia and to demonstrate that even in the face of danger to her! independence, owing to the vast mili- | tary measures of Italy, Ethiopia wishes only to confine her just cause to the League of Nations.” FUNERAL RITES TODAY FOR COL. C. A. M’KENNEY | | ‘Well KEnown Consulting Engineer ‘Will Be Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Funeral services for Col. Charles Albert McKenaey, 65, consulting en- gineer, who last year made 3 sur- vey of Georgia's inland waterways and is well known for his rivers and | harbors work .n South America. will be held 2t nis home, 1523 Rhode Island avenue, today at 3 p.a, fol- lowed by burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Formerly of the firm of Black Mc- Kenney and Stewart, dissolved a few years ago, he was a native of Wash- ington and graduate of Princeton. He died Saturday at George Wash:ngton University Hospitai. Besides his widow, he leaves two sons, James Hall and Charles Albert McKenney; a daughter, Francesca, and & brother, Frederic D. McKenney. . | Barge Line Service Opens. : KANSAS CITY, March 25 (®).— | loads of members of the sect were sent here from Baltimore and other | places yesterday in what Mayor E. C. | Davison termed a “publicity stun One member of the group W arrested, taken to police headquarters and later released after he had agreed to explain to other members the ne- cessity of securing a permit. Alexandria has in no way denied | this group. or any group. its right to| practice its religion here,” said Mayor Davison. in commenting on the hun- dreds of protesting letters sent out ! by the organization after the arrest of nine of its members last week. The point in question is a violation | of a city law which in no way con- | cerns religion or religious practices, the mayor stated. | Although the head of the organiza- tion in Washington denied that the group has been responsible for the flood of protesting letters, estimated at 3,000, which have been sent to newspapers, Gov. George C. Perry of | Virginia, Alexandria officials and | others, it was learned that they had | been sponsored by the society and its | affiliated groups. | Letters sent to Mayor Davison and to City Council at its meeting tomor- | row night. HOBBY OF ENGINEER Retired Railroader Has Collected 2,600 Photographs and Magazine Pictures. SAN DIEGO, Calif. (#).—For nearly | 40 years, although he never weighed | more than 100 pounds, W. E. Butler fired roaring locomotives or rode at the throttles of crack passenger trains. Now in retirement at the age of 72, the “Little Giant,” as he was known to the brotherhood, is still passionately fond of railroading. i His interest finds a less strenuous outlet, but the fascination, he says, is as great as ever. He has assembled a collection of 2,600 photographs and more than a thousand newspaper and magazine pictures of railroad engines. He has them neatly filed away or pasted in albums and he traces out the historical records of the more unique. Kara Coast Yields Fluorspar. ARCHANGEL, U. 8. 8. R. ().— By continuing operations through the ‘Winter, the Soviet fluorspar mines on the coast of the Kara Sea had 10,000 tons of the mineral ready for shipment with the opening of Spring navigation. ;?luglrspar figures in aluminum manu- facture. “See Etz and See Better” Regardless of how well you see— your eyes may be working un- der a strain. Our examination will tell. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. N.W. Modern barge line service was inau- | gurated on the Missouri River—cut o & 6-foot channel with Government funds—by the steamboat Bixby yes- terday. Handling barges with a cargo of 126,000 gallons of oil for Govern- ment engineering points between this city and Gasconade, Mo.. the vessel departed to the cheers of civic leaders. i Well known to thousands tunity for excursion business For full particulars apply 728 14th St. NW. 830 13th St. N.W. W. 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