Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1935, Page 5

" STRANGE DEATHS N BATHS PROBED ‘American Woman and Eng- lishman Not Believed Victims of Fumes. By the Associated Press. TIVOLI, Italy, July 16.—Friends of Mrs. May Katherine Thompson, 40, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and H. N. Scott, English manager of the American Ex- press Co. in Italy, came to this moun- tain resort today to hear an official verdict in the strange deaths of the couple. Mrs. Thompson and Scott died Sun- day in a cabin of the fashionable sul- phur baths. A doctor treated them for asphyxiation from sulphur fumes in a futile attempt to revive them, but | police ordered an autopsy when glasses containing red liquor were found in tae room. | Declared Ordinary Wine. Attendants said the liquor was ordi- nary Italian wine, but the local au- thorities insisted on the autopsy. A chemical test was made of the liquid found in the cabin and of the contents of the victims' stomachs. Authorities said it was difficult to accept a verdict of death from sul- phur fumes because of the position of the bodies. Mrs. Thompson, in a bathing suit, | was lying in a tub through which the | ‘water flowed. Scott, also in a bathing suit, sat in & chair at the other end of the cabin, into which sulphur water | comes fresh from a spring. Officials said it was possible for Mrs. Thompson to have died from the xfumes because she disregarded a warn- ing posted in the cabin not to enter the tub before the water reached the top and before all dangerous vapors | that might have concentrated in the tub were released. | Doubt Expressed. | ‘They expressed doubt, however, that Bcott could have died from the fumes &s he was some distance from the tub. | One possible explanation offered by | Moreover, he refuses to say just when | complexion. medical examiners was that the cou- ple had drunk more wine than they realized and that their condition in- creased the effect of the sulphur va- pors. Mrs. Thompson, an art teacher, whose husband is Edwin F. Thomp- #on of Brooklyn, arrived in Rome on & tour a little more than a weck ago. | Bar (Continued From First Page.) of the Constitution and of the im- mutable rights and liberties of Amer- | ican citizens.” “If a change in our organic law is deemed desirable,” he continued, “the | method provided by the Constitution is the proposal of an amendment which can be adopted after thorough discussion and deliberation by the Ppeople. Stalls Off Temporary Whims. “This prudent provision was made by the founders of our Government to forestall changes without due thought and mature consideration and to pre- | vent popular whims and false philoso- | phies of government from being incor- | Pporated into our Constitution.” | Loftin said when there is agitation, | following a judicial pronouncement | that a statue is in violation of the | Constitution, for a change in the | judicial system “which would take | away the court’s power in this respect, the bar should condemn vigorously any such proposal.” Discussing the need for new | methods in selecting judges, Loftin said “every State should have a plan that will attract to the courts the best talent and the most worthy | lawyers so that justice under law may be administered without fear or favor by an able, fearless and independent Jjudiciary.” Reciprocal legislation and inter- state compacts were advocated as effective means of combating crim- inals who operate in several States by Gordon Dean, special attorney of the Federal Department of Justice, in an address today before the association. Four fields were suggested by Dean for immediate enactment of reciprocal legislation or compacts. They would provide for simplier procedure for the arrest and return of fugitives, the | return of non-resident witnesses in criminal cases, the supervision of paroles and return of violators and the | creation by neighboring States of | Joint detection and fingerprint units, | and wire and radio hook-ups. P. W. A. Dictation Denied. A sharp denial that dictatorial powers have figured in administration | of the New Deal’s vast public works program was made in an address by E. H. Foley, jr., director of the Legal Division of the Federal Emergency Administration of the P. W. A. “There has been no dictation,” he | asserted, “unless it can be said that | Federal dictation consists of drafting bills at the request of the chief ex- ecutive of a State for the purpose of | overcoming legal obstacles which would | have precluded the participation ofi the State and its municipalities in the | public works program.” - First Fire in Tunnel. England’s famous Mersey Tunnel had its first fire recently when an au- tomobile burst into flame. Scouts Off for Camp May Flather A happy group of Girl Scouts of the District, Maryland and Virginia as they left Union Statios ing for Camp May Flather, in the George Washington National Forest near Harrisonburg, Va.—Star Staff Photo. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Farley, Weary of Double Job, To Go Into Seclusion on Trip By the Associated Press. | James A. Farley, long regarded as | an iron man whom no amount of handshaking, phone calling or letter | writing could wilt, is tired at last. He's “going into seclusion” to rest “Seclusion” is his way of describing a trip he will take shortly to the West Coast and Hawaii. He was supposed to start yesterday, but he didn't.| he is leaving, because— | “I don't want people to know where I am.” Double Job Wearisome. He explained the wear the double job of Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. “Boy,” he said as he mopped a per- spiring forehead. “Phones, letters, telegrams, appointments are making me nervous and irritable. I need a Test.” | Something 2kin to a pallor has re- | placed the normal ruddiness of his| “I look forward to my trip to the| Pacific. The schedule calls for me to spend a day or two in New York | and then I head straight for Yellow- | tear of | stone National Park, stopping at Chi- ' hundred letters a day. PALM BEACH SUITS... ARE THE BEST BUY FOR THE MONEY 5.75 Choose your Palm Beach Suits at | telephone. cago only to changp trains. After we get through Yellowstone (Mrs. Farley and Ambrose O'Conmnell, an aide, are to accompany him), we go to San Francisco and sail for Honolulu. ‘Wants to Avoid All Phones. “I guess thatll be my last vaca- tion, until after the '36 campaign.” What he wants to do, he indicated, | is to get some place where there is no “! was in New Yark four or five days not long ago and my phone bill | was $250. And I had to pay that| bill myself; it wasn't on the Govern- | ent. “I hope they haven't got any of | these transoceanic phones in Hono- lulu. “And mail; do I get mail? “I have to handle two or three | Yep, I'm tired.” | The Hecht Co. Here are five important reasons why: 1. We have the wanted Palm Beach styles . .. in the wanted colors— meaning plenty of WHITES. We have sizes for men of every build. OCur men serve you courteously. D. C, TUESDAY, SEC. SPEEDS FIGHT ON STOCK RACKET Bulletin Bares Schemes and | Reveals Secret Service Man Was Mulcted. By the Associated Press. A clesring house to spread infor- mation on get-rich-quick promotion schemes has been created by the Se- curities Commission in its broaden- ing war on stock racketeers. With the intention of protecting investors, the commission has begun issuance of & monthly bulletin chron- icling actions of public and private agencies seeking to suppress fraud- ulent stock and bond transactions. The circular, giving complete facts | concerning the identities of stock | swindlers and the place and type of | their activity, is compiled by the | commission’s securities violations sec- ; tion, nerve center of a country-wide | network of fact-finders. | In the bulletin are described pro- ceedings instituted throughout the country against those swindlers trap- ped in conducting such illegal opera- tions as “bucketing,” the “sell and switch” racket and “boiler rooms,” through which prospects are sub- jected to high-pressure telephone | salesmanship in the effort to make | him invest his funds in fraudulent | paper. Bulletin No. 1, just issued, tells what happened during the past month Combating the Pain of ARTHRITIS Now you can relieve arthritic pains by fol- lowing the health resort method at home. Drink Mountain Valley Mineral Water direct from famous Hot Springs. Arkansas. A natural corrective. Endorsed by physi- | clans for over 30 years. Phone for booklet. | __Met 1062 Mattresses Remade The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. NW. ME. 9490 JULY 16, 1935. to 63 firms and Individuals against whom criminal and civil actions have been taken both by the commission &nd other agencies. These range from injunctions preventing future fllicit dealings to arrests for grand lar- ceny. Among them was the case of a firm which speclaiized on mulcting Gov- ernment employes here by seeking subscriptions on the installment plan to misrepresented securities. Victims included a secre® service operative, a clerk in the War Department and a Veterans’ Administration employe. Aside from information in the bul- letin supplied by outside agencies, the commission gets direct reports from its own regional offices at Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Denver and San Francisco, DORSET RITES TODAY Agriculture Scientist to Be Buried in Front Royal, Va. Dr. Marion Dorset, prominent sci- entist in the Department of Agricul- ture, who is credited with the discovery of a preventive serum for hog chol- era, will be buried at Front Royal, Va., today, following funeral services to be held there at 3 p.m. Dr. Dorset died Sunday of heart disease at his home, 1851 Lamont street. During the national campaign to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, Dr. Dor- set was in charge of production of all tuberculin used by Federal veterinar- ians. At the time of his death he was chief of the Biochemic Division, Bu- reau of Animal Industry, of the Agri- culture Department. YEAR’S ILLNESS FATAL TO MRS. ADDIE LENNON Native of Alexardria Lived in Capital Most of Her Life. Funeral to Be Thursday. Mrs. Addle Lennon, 76, widow of Jesse R. Lennon, died yesterday at | the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lillie | Errico, 915 Eleventh street southeast, after an illness of more than a year. Mrs. Lennon was born in Alexandria, Va., but had lived in Washington mos. of her life. affairs for many years. Besides Mrs. Errico, she is survived in one. Frames Phone ME. 0218 Registered ptometrist 7 MeGill Blds. 4 G NW. Eyesight She was active in church | =i 1 S@ave 25% to 50% 9 AM. to6PM. Toulk ver Spring; a son, Charles G. Lene non; another daughter, Mrs. Eva Brown, and a brother, Charies Rudd of Baltimore. Funeral services will be held Thurs- day at 3 pm,, at the H Street Chris- tian Church, Sixth and H streets southwest. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. —— DIVORCE SHUNNED SOFIA (#).—A survey having shown less than 6,000 divorces in this coun- try of 7,000,000 inhabitants, Bulgaria claims the lowest divorce rate in the world. Peasants, who form 90 per cent of the population, regard matrimony as a bond which can be broken only by a sister, Mrs. Kate Waple of Sil-! by death. On the Cost of Your. 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