Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1935, Page 5

RAINBOW DIVISION VETERANS GATHER Famous War Outfit Will Hold Three-Day Ses- sion Here. ‘The Rainbow Division, famous ‘World War contingent, today assem- bled in convention for the seventeenth time since the guns of the western front were silenced by the armistice. Memories of the conflict, its friend- ships and tragedies, were revived by informal groups at the Willard Hotel, the convention headquarters. The progress of registration last night and this morning indicated to officers an attendance approaching 800 or 1,000. The Rainbow Division, as its name implies, is national in scope and vet- erans from the most distant of the 26 States representd were expected, as well as more than 100 members of the District of Columbia Chapter. “Fun” Is Main Object. Speeches and business during the three-day convention ending Sunday will be subordinated to “fun,” officers said. A business session scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today and the election | of officers Sunday morning were the only events of their kind on the program. Officers said controversial issues, such as the soldiers’ bonus, probably would be left untouched in the interest of harmony. A special train bearing some 509 Rainbow men from New York, mostly from Manhattan's East Side, was due | at Union Station at 12:45 pm Delegations from the South ahd West ‘were assembling rapidly. ‘The division’s Women's Auxiliary is meeting also, with business sessions to be held separately. Nationally known figures expected at the convention include: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, U. 8. A; Charles MacArthur, author and play- wright, and Col. J. Monroe Johnston, recently appointed Assistant Secretary | of Commerce to succeed Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted. Gen. MacArthur will deliver the principal convention ad- dress at Sunday night's banquet. It will be broadcast over a Columbia network. Johnston has been named | master of ceremonies. Opening Session Today. The opening session was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today, but probably will not get under way until 2 pm. be- cause of the late arrival of the New York delegation, officers said. M. | Manning Marcus, president of the division’s national association, will preside, and the convention will be | greeted by Engineer Commissioner | Dan I. Sultan. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY_ 12, 1935. Rainbow Veterans Arrive In the afternoon the sports fans | among the delegates will be guests of Clark Griffith &t the base ball game between the Senators and De- | troit. Those not so inclined were in- vited by J. Edgar Hoover, director of | the Bureau of Investigation, to visit | the Justice Department’s crime lab- ortaory and learn how the “G men” do it. Delegates who want to mix rem- Iniscence with refreshment will gather at a smoker tonight in the “Cafe de la Crystallerie,” otherwise the Willard rainbow room, which has been dec- orated appropriately for the occasion. Wall panels have been painted in imi- tetion of chalk drawings with scenes of the less seamy side of war-time life. ‘The smoker will be conducted by Wil- liam H. (Bill) Kay, 401 Twenty-third street, who directed delegates to “pol- ish up on your A. E. F. songs” and commanded that all orders for re- freshments be given to the waitresses in French. To Seé Cavalry Drill. Entertainment planned for the dele- gates tomorrow includes a sightseeing tour of Washington and a Cavalry drill at Fort Myer. A pilgrimage will be made to Arlington Cemetery | at noo nto honor 125 Rainbow com- rades buried there. Battle deaths in the division totaled 2,950. A reception and ball tomorrow night will be followed Sunday by election of officers in the morning and a boat trip down the Potomac in the afternoon. After Sunday night's banquet will be held a “Champagne Hour” to commemorate the Rainbow’s most stirring experience. Men of the di- vision were with Frenech troops at Champagne the eve of Bastille day, July 14. According to veterans who related the experience here, the Ger- mans chose that moment for a fierce attack, thinking the French would be somewhat the worse for celebrating their national holiday. At 12:05 am. July 14 the first German shell came whistling across the lines, followed by a storm of fire. ‘The French and their Rainbow allies launched a successful counter-attack which many historians believe marked & turning point in the war. Had Germany broken through and occu- pied the railhead at Chalons it would have made renewal of a drive on Paris . “inevitable” and the results “dire,” it was said. . Citizens’ Group to Hear Two. Garnett C. Wilkinson, assistant su- perintendent of schools, and Capt. Hugh H. Groves, newly appointed commander of No. 11 police precinct, will address a meeting of the Barry Farm Citizens' Association Tuesday at 8:15 pm. at 2846 Elvans road southeast. Calhoun (Continued From First Page.) hundred dollars. The Daily News also is raising a fund. The Columbia Heights Business Men’s Association has received $25. The Southwest Citizens’ Association and the South- west Civic Association appropriated $25 each and the latter organization planned a mass meeting to get addi- tional offerings. Meanwhile funeral arrangements ‘were completed for little Richard and Mary Kerns, who drowned at Buz- gards Point after Calhoun failed to reach them, and for Calhoun. The funeral for the Kerns children will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. from Chambers branch chapel, 517 Eleventh street southeast. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 5 Calhoun’s funeral will be held Sun- day at 2 pm. from the Bethlehem Church of God, on First street be- tween F street and Virginia avenue southwest. The body, now at the Barnes & Matthews funeral estab- lishment, 614 _Fourth street southwest, will be taken to the Calhoun home, 117 L street southwest, tomorrow. In- terment will be in Lincoln Cemetery. The death of the Kerns children has spurred the efforts of citizens of the Southwest and Southeast sections Above: Who remembers? This scene will bring back old memories to members of the Rainbow Division, who are registering today at the Wil- lard for their annual reunion. are re-enacting the scene. Mildred Thompson and William H. Kay Below: Veterans registering. Left to right: Oscar Jackson of Wash- ington, R. J. Hudson, Decatur, Mich., ORCHESTRA SHIFTS REHEARSAL TIME Change Necessitated by De- layed Work on Float- ing Stage. L Because workmen have been unable | to finish the floating stage from which the National Symphony Orchestra will present the first in a series of Sum- | mer concerts beginning at 8 p.m. Sunday near the Arlington Memorial | Bridge, “dress” rehearsals will be held Sunday morning instead of today, as| had been planned. | The concerts by the Nationa! | Symphony Orchestra this Summer will be an innovation, the director and musicians being stationed on a Navy barge anchored in the Potomac River and the augdience seated on the terrace of the watlr gate, which forms an ideal seating arrangement for such an outdoor program. Sounding Board Plan. ‘The barge will be equipped with a sounding board, being constructed by F. E. R."A. workers supplied by Com- missioner George E. Allen, and the most modern amplification facilities. The shell, or sounding board, was de- signed by William Haiber, chief engi- neer of the National Capital Parks. Dr. Hans Kindler, orchestra musi- cal director, has been drilling his musicians into playing form in the auditorium of the new Labor Depart- ment Building. After the rehearsal today he announced that he was well pleased with the co-operative spirit of the personrel and the performance of the orchestra as a whole and promised Washington a musical treat in the concert series this Summer. Opening Sunday Night. ‘The first concert, Sunday night, will be opened with Wagner’s famous “Die Meistersinger,” with Dr. Kindler di- recting. During the Summer severa: guest conductors will come here and the baton will be turned over to them on different evenings, Dr. Kindler said, but he will supervise all orches- {ral arrangements for the series. A heavy dembnd for tickets, both singles and season, was reported this morning by C. C. Cappel, business manager, as the date of the opening concert neared. He said the supply of single 25. 50 cents and $1 tickets is fast being exhausted. In the event of rainy or unpleasant weather on any concert evening rain checks are at- tached to each ticket which will be good at the next succeeding concert, Cappel said. RAIL LABOR LEADERS ASK ROOSEVELT’S AID By the Associated Press. Railway labor representatives today sought support from President Roose- velt for enactment of a retirement in- surance act at this session of Con- gress. ‘The group went over details of the bill seeking a law to replace the one passed last session for railway work- ers and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. While no word ‘was attributed to Mr. Roosevelt, the Jabor chiefs, headed by Timothy Shea, chairman of the Legislative Committee, said to secure a public swimming pool in that vicinity, A ) they were hopeful of action on the pending Wagner-Crosser bill, and Fred W. Jordan of Washington. —Star Staff Photo. Hired Slayers ADMITS SHE AGREED TO PAY $500 FOR MURDER. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS. BLANCHE DUNKEL, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 12—Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, who allegedly confessed she hired assassins to slay her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, “swamp murder” victim, today admitted, Police Lieut. Thomas Kelly said, that she had taken Lang to an apartment where “knockout drops” were administered before he was slain. The lieutenant said that Mrs. Dun- kel told him that Evelyn Smith, a for- mer dancer in a burlesque show, had induced Lang to take four drinks of liquor in which the “knockout drops” had been placed last Saturday night. The Smith woman is being sought as the alleged “go-between” in ar- rangements Mrs. Dunkel allegedly made to have her son-in-law killed. ‘The legless body was found last Tuesday in a swamp near Hammond, Ind. Policemen Patrol Halliburton Home Following Threats By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Special police today guarded the home and properties here and in Duncan Okla., of Erle P. Halliburtoa. millionaire oil man, who disclosed the lives of him- self and family had been threatened because of his criticism of dole recipients. Halliburton <aid he had been warned his oil well cementing plant would be “blown up.” The oil man'z two youngest chil- dren have been platcd in a private camp under guard, and his home, in fashionable Berkeley Square here, is being patrolled. Halliburton several days ago was quoted as saying he would not employ any person who had been on re.jef. “What I meant,” Le explained last night, “was that I would not hire any man who had been on relief for all five years of the depression.” A HOUSE OBEDIENGE SEEN BY LEADERS Base Forecast on Roosevelt Victory in Passage of T. V. A. Measure. By the Assoclated Press. Looking back ,at the 278-to-100 vote by which the House approved Tennes- see Valley Authority amendments ac- ceptable to President Roosevelt, Demo- cratic leaders today predicted “the House will stay in line from now on.” . Speaker Byrns was one of the fore- casters, saying he expected “compara- tively smooth sailing.” “It indicates,” he sald, “that the House vote rejecting the utilities ‘death sentence’ was not & revolt against the President, but just an honest difference of opinion.” Talk of postmastership nominations cropped out on Capitol Hill as legis- lators discussed yesterday’s adminis- tration victory on T. V. A. One high Democratic chief, speaking privately. said he saw no direct connection be- tween the House voting on T. V. A. end 250 postmaster nominations made and sent to the Senate for confirma- | tion. But he added: “If I were doubtful on the question, and if I were told that the President would rather have no bill than the | one reported by the committee, and if a postmaster nomination in which I was interested went to the Senate, 1'd be inclined to think twice before I voted ‘wrong.’” Representative McLean, Republican, of New Jersey, a leading opponent of the T. V. A. bill passed by the House, had this to say on the subject of ters: . “It is the same old game that has been practiced from the time of George Washington down. I'm not surprised. I expect a politician to use every power he has. I would if 1 could.” President Victorious. Other legislators stressed different factors. They recalled that at last Tuesday’s conference the President told 13 House leaders he would rather have no bill unless four alteracions backed by the administration were made in the measure. Consequently, the 13 men worked hard for the aiter- ations, which won. Another legislator contended that every 50 often the House “has to kick over the traces.” Having done that on the utilities measure, he said, it | would “stay in line from now on.” | A third party chief reminded that appeals by mail, telegram and per- sonal visits had deluged members, urging them to work against the utilities bill the President wanted. | There was no such deluge on the | T. V. A The T. V. A. bill is now in Senate- | House conference because the legisla- | tion as previously passed by the Sen- ate is not exactly like the House measure, though similar to it. When the measure reached the Senate late yesterday, that body speedily went through parliamentary maneuvers necessary to send to con- ference the House bill and the similar Norris bill passed by the Senate weeks ago. The House Military Committee had tabled Norris’ original measure. Senators Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska; Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, and Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana were named as the Senate conferees. EXECUTIONER KISSED BY MAN HE KILLS North Carolinan Electrocutes Slayer and Colored Man Con- victed of Criminal Assault. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., July 12.—A white | | man convicted of murder and a Negro | sentenced for criminal assault were| | electrocuted at State’s Prison here | today. Louis’ Sentelle kissed Executioner R. A. Bridgers on the cheek before | stepping into the chair to pay for| slaying Mrs. William Drake on a Shelby street. George Whitfield, Negro, convicted of criminal assault on a Guilford County white woman, prayed as he walked to the chair and then, just before the current was turned on, complained at attendants for allow- ing the wet headpiece of the chair to drip into his eyes. —_— CHILE HAS 64 QUAKES 48-Hour Siege in Copiapo Marked } by Crash of Plane. SANTIAGO, Chile, July 12 (#)— Earthquakes, which have continued 48 hours and included 64 distinct shocks, were reported today from Copiapo. | A national airliner made a forced landing near Copiapo yesterday be- cause of a storm which has been beat- ing on the Chilean coast for two days. Pilot Olmedo reported that he and his three passengers had landed with- out injury but that the plane was | wrecked. —_— 0TTO WEIGHS RETURN Austrfan ' Pretender May End Exile by Seeing Estates. BRUSSELS, July 12 (®.—Young Archduke Otto of Hapsburg was ab- sent today from his seat of exile at Steenockerzeel Castle and it was ru- mored he intended to enter Austria, where he aspires to rule. Castle officials declined to comment on the rumors that the 22-year-old pretender to the throne was going to tour incognito the Hapsburg proper- G-Man Quits MELVIN PURVIS, Purvis (Continued From Pirst Page.) 1., had assigned Purvis and another agent to watch a motion picture theater in Chicago which Dillinger was in the habit of attending. Other agents were stationed at other movies in the neighborhood where Dillinger was known to be hiding. Purvis, sitting in an automobile near the Biograph Theater, saw Dil- linger and two women enter the amusement place early in the evening. Purvis telephoned Cowley and re- inforcements were ordered to the scene, Cowley arrived and took per- sonal charge of arrangements. Agent Hollis was one of the more than a dozen ucn‘ who came quietly to the vicinity “and loitered in hallways, at the curb, in the lobby of the theater and other vantage places. Recognized Gangster. Purvis entered the theater once to see if he could locate Dillinger, but it was too dark and the theater was too crowded. After the show the crowd poured out and among the first to come out were Dillinger and his | girl friends. Several agents, including Purvis, recognized the gangster imme- | diately, despite his facial operation. In accordance with Cowley's direc- | tions, the agents began to close in as Dillinger walked down the sidewalk. | Purvis, standing nearby, lighted 8 | cigar, just as Dillinger reached an | alley. The women had dropped back. | Dillinger, apparently sensing trouble started to run’ down the alley, drawing | a pistol from his pocket as he turned | to look back. Before the gangster | could fire there was a burst of bullets | from three Government pistols. Nei- | ther Cowley nor Purvis fired any of | the four bullets which found their | mark. Agent Hollis fired one of the | shots and the identity of the two cthers who fired never has been di- vuiged. Purvis was assisting Cowley in a | search for Thomas H. Robinson, jr., | tugitive kidnaper of Mrs. Berry Stoll | of Louisville, Ky, when Hoover or- | dered both to drop that job temporarily snd enter the hunt for “Pretty Boy” Fioyd, who had escaped from local | police in Ohio. Floyd Trapped on Farm. Cowley and Purvis, with other agents, caught up with Floyd on a farm and cut him down with bullets as he fled after refusing to surrender. Neither Cowley nor Purvis fired thel fatal bullets on that occasion. Because Purvis was the only agent known to newspaper men in Chicago, Le found his name blazoned boldly as commander of the Dillinger and Floyd captures, The more he denied things the more convinced reporters became that he was “just modest.” Holly- wood has fashioned a movie arouna Purvis and his reported feats. | Purvis, as a matter of fact, was in the thick of many hazardous skirm- ishes which Hcover's men had with gangland in the Midwest. He dem- onstrated repeatedly he was without | fear in the face of underworld bullets | and won commendation time after time for his achievements. He, as well as several other agents, received promotions for work in the Dillinger case. As agent in charge at Chicago, Pur- vis supervised the round-up of the ‘Touhy “mob,” which kidnaped John Factor, the capture of Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn, kidnapers of Charles Boettcher, 2d, and many other desperate criminals. Purvis is a native of South Caro- lina. 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