Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1935, Page 7

WARDMAN ASKS “Could Pack Them In,” He Says as Mortgage In- quiry Recesses. The House Subcommittee investi- | gating mortgage refinancing completed its hearings in Washington yesterday after Harry Wardman had charged there is a definite conspiracy to de- press the market price of Wardman bonds. After an executive session, in which the evidence presented will be re- viewed, the committee will move to New York and resume its inquiry there. | Wardman, who lost his interests in the properties he once controlled dur- ing a reorganization in 1928, asked the committee to give him another chance as head of the properties ‘I could pack them in” he said “It needs somebody who can get the people there His assertion that the price of the bonds is being depressed was denied by Thomas D. Carson. president of | ‘Washington Properties, Inc.. the cor- poration now owning the old Ward- man holdings. Carson denied that Halsey, Stuart & Co. or any other banking house has any interest in the properties at this time or that any attempt is being made to drive down the price of the securities He said, however would ask the voting trustees now charge of the the stock of the owning company to consider a suggestion by Wardman that this stock be placed in escrow for the bondkolders. THE WEATHER \ District of Columbia—Partly cloud probably occasional showers tonight and tomorrow: slightly cooler tomor- row: gentle to moderate south winds, shifting to west tomorrow. Maryland—Probably occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler tomorrow afternoon. Virginia—Partly cloudy, probably showers tomorrow and in west and | north portions late tonight: slightly cooler in west and north portions to- morrow West Vi ~Showers tc probably orrow morniny cooler in extreme northwest tonight 2ht and htly portion THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935. Red Letter Day for Johnny Alyce Jane McHenry, the upside-down tummy girl, paid a visit to ear-old Johnny Steinbrugger, who has undergone 21 operations, &t ngs County Hospital, New York, and it was quite an occasion. Alyce Jane brought crayons, a book, a game and—apparently—a captivating smile. DANGER HELD PAST N KANSHS FLOOD Death Toll Is Set at 124 as Waters of Kaw Reach “Big Muddy.” NSAS CITY, June 7—The last link in a path of desolation nearly & thousand miles long was completed to- day as the flood crest of the Kaw | River began pouring into the already Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. inches, 77 3002 30.04 30.06 Yesterday— 4pm. . 8pm . Midnight . Today— 30.06 30.10 30.08 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon vesterday to noon today.) Highest, 79, today. Year azo. 83 Lowest, 59, 4:30 am ago. 68. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 89, on April 27 Lowest, —2, on Januar Humidity for Last 24 Hours, (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 86 per cent, at 5 am today. Lowest, yesterday. noon today. Year 42 per cent, at 5:30 pm Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today Tomorrow. 1:00am 7:43am 1:02 pm 7:56 p.m The Sun and Moon. Rises 4:42 4:42 Sun, today.... 8Sun. tomorrow Moon, today... 10:36am. 11:47pm Automobile 'ignts must be turned on one-half hour after sunsec. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 1935, Record. January 5.27 7.09 '82 February.... 237 6.84 339 8.84 395 9.13 354 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 November December. ., U. S. PORTRAIT GALLERY | PROPOSAL IS ADVANCED ! Walsh Resolution Ready for Con- sideration in Senate on Unani- mous Consent Calendar. ‘The Walsh resolution to create a commission to prepare plans for crer-‘ tion of a National Portrait Gallery somewhere in the Mall will be ready for consideration in the Senate on the next call of the unanimous con- gent calendar. In filing the favorable report of the Public Buildings and Grounds Com- mittee late yesterday, Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Masachusetts, called at- tention to the indorsements given the proposal by officials of the Fine Arts Commission and the Smithsonian Institution They recommend that the portrait gallery be a separate atructure from the proposed National Gallery of Art. EDUCATION SUMMER SCHOOL CAMP Vacation opportunity for normal and superior children Archery. pony riding, #hop work. coaching meres. 500 feel water front. water swimming YEAR-ROUND SCHEDULE FOR RETARD- ED CHILDREN S| . Director | Wild_Rose Shores. Annapolis Phones: Annapolis 1. Usual Age 6 to_ 14 Years salt- | —— o { National University | Law School i Summer Term Begins June 17, 1935, at 6:30 PM. | Standard three-year. course lesdingi to degrees of LL. B. and J. D. Graduate courses leading” to de- grees of LL. M., M. P. L. and S. J. D. All classes held at hours conven- jent for employed students. School of Economics and Government Degree courses of collegiate grade offered in Political Science, Govern- ment, FEconomics. Psvchology, His- tory. Finance, Business and Lan- Ruag Address Secretary, National 6617, 818 13th St. N.W. overflowing Missouri. The threatened overflow in the large industrial district here failed to develop as the crest reached here Levee breaks and overflows in Kansas had robbed the stream of much of its destructive force. At the same time eagineers expressed little appre- hension over the added burden of the Big Muddv.” now running five miles wide in Eastern Missouri. Many Lose Lives. The loss of more than a hundred lives and millions of dollars in damage marked the passing of the flood waters down the Kaw and its tributary, the Republican. Starting in Eastern Colorado, the flood waters swept into Southern Nebraska and down into Kansas leaving a desolate, silt and —A. P. Photo. Daughters Elope, Mother Announces I She Will Rewed Tennessee Widow Feels Marrying “Epidemic” Is Catching. By the Associated Press | HOLLYWOOD, Calif, June 7— With one actress daughter starting a honeymoon, another ending one and & third only recently wed. Mrs. Freda Anderson, widow. formerly of Nach- ville, Tenn., decided today that maybe the marrying “epidemic” in her fam- ily was catching, Mrs. Anderson brought her three attractive daughters out here three years ago when one of them, La Unra, | won a “Panther Woman” contest in Nashville. Each of the girls within the last few weeks has eloped Now the mother said she may wed a “prominent politician” in Nashville. She declined to give his name. The eldest daughter, Margarette started the parade when she eloped with & fire captain, C. R. Smith, and was married in Santa Barbara The second daughter, now known Lona Andre. likewise selected a anta Barbara elopement. She mar- ried Edward Norris, an actor. Last night the youngest daughter, Betty Ann, 20, journeved to Agua Caliente to marry Dr. Al Goodman, voung physician. debris laden path in some places as wide as four and five miles, Red Cross reports disclosed that 124 persons had met death in the disaster. The report also showed that 536 homes were totally destroyed, 2423 homes seriouslv damaged and 4.293 families affected. $100,000 for Relief. William M. Baxter, jr. manager of the Midwestern area at St. Louis. an- nounced the organization had appro- priated $100,000 for flood relief activ- ities in Nebraska. Kansas and Missouri The passing of the flood threat in Kansas City, Kans., brought relief to hundreds of families in the danger zone. A small army of men, however, still patrolled the dikes. Near the mouth of the Missouri there was a different picture. From Rocheport to the mouth at St. Charles, a distance of more than 200 miles, the river is out of its banks and in many places is five miles wide. The river was falling at Boonville early today. but the work of strengthening levees continued. . - BATHER IS DROWNED Bathing in a water-filled excavation near New York avenue and Bladens- burg road northeast yesterday after- noon, Sonny Davis, 21, colored. of 1318 B street northeast. was drowned. No one was near enough to him to effect a rescue when he called for help. Harbor police recovered the body and it was taken to the morgue. Cor- oner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a certificate of accidental death. @he Forming Htar Riwcy | Is An Authorized HERE is no other practical way to Copy for The Star NATHAN DIRECTS KIDNAP SEARCH Hoover’s Aide Leads Hunt; Spreading to Montana and San Francisco. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) TACOMA, Wash, June 7.—Search for the kidnapers of George Weyer- haeuser spread today to San Fran- cisco and Montana as & high De- partment of Justice official assumed direct command of the hunt. | Harold J. Nathan, assistant to J Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation, flew here from | Washington to lead the quest for the abductors and the $200,000 ransom they obtained | | Soon after his arrival, Capt. of De- | | tectives John J. Keegan of Portland | announced that Jack Bailey, former | Pacific Northwest rum baron, end | Herbert Lester Johnstone, another man wanted for -questioning in the kidnaping, had been reported seen | Monday at Perma, Mont. Hunted Men Seen. Early today Police Inspector Fred | Butz at San Francisco sald J. R. | McKee, a former neighbor of Harold | McAtee, also wanted for questioning i in a St. Louis killing, reported he saw | McAtee in the bay city recently. | McAtee was described as & former resident in the Weyerhaeuser neigh- borhood. The reported whereabouts of Bailey and Johustone, Capt. Keegan declared, tied in closely with reports that a tan sedan sped nearly 100 miles an hour to escape two Umatilla County deputy sheriffs cruising in search of kidnap suspects Sheriff W. D. Rapp of Sand Point Idaho, informed Keegan that two prisoners told him they saw Bailey and Johnstone ut Perma and talked with them Sheriff Rapp said Sam Latum, a prisoner, who knows the wanted men declared they were riding in a black sedan with three other men, and were headed rapidly toward Missoula Mont. Wealthy Families Warned. Shortly after Nathan's arrival here it became known that Government agents have been in this locality for ALWAYS BLOATED AFTER MEALS? The chances are that those gas pains and bloated stomach sre caused by acid indigestion—the effects of eat- acid-forming foods. Here is & simple way to easily relieve these an- noying conditions. Go to your nearest drug store and buy a bottle of FATH- ER KELLY'S PREPARATION: take as directed. 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Floyd E. Baker, one employe, said the day of the kidnaping he sold a | special delivery stamp to a man for an envelope marked “urgent—urgent.” These words were typed across the envelope which carried the ransom demand to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wey- erhaeuser, jr. DR. MARTIN TO SPEAK ‘Will Address Graduating Class of ‘Woodward School Tonight. Dr. Theodore D. Martin of the National Education Association will address graduates of the Woodward School for Boys, affiliated with the Young Men’s Christian Association at commencement ceremonies tonight at 8 o'clock ut the Central Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets. James J. King, headmaster, will present diplomas to graduates of the high school and grammar school George A. Lewis, chairman of the Educational Committee of the Y. M C. 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