Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy and slightly cooler to- night; tomorrow fair, winds. Temperatures—Highest, 1:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 74, at 3 am. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14,15 No. 33,323. PATION REVEA BOND PURCHASES T0 LOBBY PROBE Discloses $3,000 Deals | Qver Period When He Drew $3,100 Pay. SURPRISE WITNESS TELLS OF MYSTERY BOX | E. V. Sellers of N. R. A, Clnims‘ He Carried It Away From Utility President’s Room. By the Associated Press. Members of the Senate Lobby Com- | mittee expressed surprise today at | testimony by Representative Patton. | Democrat, of Texas, that he had bought $3,000 worth of bonds during & period this Spring when his salary was only $3,100. This followed testimony by a sur- prise witness that he had seen Pat- ton carry a small box away from the | hotel room of John W. Carpenter, | president of the Texas Power & Light | Co., the day before Patton voted against the provision in the utility bill for compulsory abolition of “un- necessary” holding companies. “ The witness, E. V. Sellers, an N. R. A. employe, expressed doubt that the package was cigars and quoted Patton’s nephew, who was with them, as saying later: “Hell, that wasn't cigars.” ‘There had been previous testimony that he took a box of cigars from Carpenter’s room. | Patton Cites Checks. “I have never been so shaken and | chagrined in all my life,” Patton tes- tified when recalled to the stand. bank account is open, and the can- celed checks are there. “I've told you the straight, honest- to-God truth about the situation.” Patton obviously was nervous and shaken when recalled. i “I never was so profoundly fooled gentle northeast 90, at Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. . “Never So Shaken in My Life” REPRESENTATIVE NAT PATTON, On the sta: The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News ch WASHINGTON, nd today. —A. P. Photo. Silverman’s Lbbbying Power Bared by Speicher at Probe Army Goods Dealer Boasted of Influ- ; ence With War Dep | Frank E. Speicher, long a myste! vestigation of lobbying at the War House, Witness Testifies. BY REX COLLIER. artment and W hite | | rious figure in the congressional in- Department, made his first public ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. O, LEAGUE'S SESSION JULY 3115 SPUR TO PEACE IN AFRICA of Rome Prefers Revival Conciliation Unit, but Ethiopia Objects. WISH TO AVOID BREAK WITH GENEVA IS SEEN Settlement of Frontier Dispute Held Essential, but Duce Will Not Permit Its Discussion. By the Associated Press. The League of Nations Council is expected to meet July 31 to deal with the controversy between Italy and Ethiopia. With the proposed session recognized as unpopular with Italy, authori- tative sources in Rome indicated the Mussolini government preferred a revival of the Italo-Ethiopian Con- ciliation Commission. The Ethiopian government, however, was represented as opposed to such a revival, largely on the grounds that the dispute with Italy could be | placed on the path of conciliation | only through the deliniations of the | frontiers between Ethiopia and the | Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland, a matter which Italy contends cannot be undertaken by the Conciliation Commission. ! The British government is understood | to have ordered 100 soldiers from | British posts to guard the British Legation at Addis Ababa. | Ethiopia to Refuse. ADDIS ABABA, July 26 (#).—Au- thoritative sources said today that Ethiopia would refuse to accept a re- vival of the Conciliation Commission in its controversy with Italy. This stand was made known upon | receipt of & new note from Italy, ex- pressing willingness to have a fifth neutral member appointed to the com- | FRIDAY, JULY and Wirephoto Services. ny Star Yesterday’s Circulation, 121,388 Some Returns Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. DEPORTING OF 151 CRIMINAL ALIENS SETS NEW RECORD President Issues Orders Clearing Federal Prisons of Many Offenders. |NAMES OF DEPORTEES WITHHELD BY OFFICIALS 1935—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##%% 26, () Means Associated Press. IF 1 HAD TH WINGS OF AN ANGEL --- Group Ousted Will Be Sent to 20 Countries—One Woman on List. Orders for the deportation of 151 criminal aliens now serving sentences of from one year to life in Federal prisons—the largest single deportation order in the country’s history—were signed today by President Roosevelt, it was announced by the Department of Justice. The names of the deportees were | not made public with the announce- | ment, but it was explained that they all are individual criminals and are not members of gangs or groups, and | it was not believed any are nationally known figures in crime. Of those ordered deported 50 were serving sentences for counterfeiting, 64 for violation of the narcotics act and 37 for miscellaneous offenses, in- | cluding violations of the postal laws, i CLOSE HARMONY. 1934 Blood Purge Mood Grips IPRES"]ENI CTATES i s i % | violations, theft, violation of the Dyer Berlin Anew, Diplomats Feel act and other crimes. i None From Nearby Areas. i { None of those deported will go to | countries contiguous to the United | States, it was explained. Offenses | committed by aliens from contiguous countries, it was pointed out, are Purchases to Be Made in mostly uniawful entry, and deporta- Py . 9 = 'MOSt Advanta eOUS’ Wa tion in these cases is relatively use- Cleansing” Drive Pursued. , g ¥, less, since they can readily make their By the Assoc Press | Senators Told. iated Pr War Veterans’ Organization Dissolved, Jews Eliminated From Olympic Team, | | let _these aliens serve out their terms. | The deportations are to be made to | more than a score of nations in all | way back. It was thought desirable to BERLIN, July 26.—Certain Jews and members of foreign diplomatic By the Associated Press The method of in my life as I am at the testimony | mission which collapsed at Scheven- | missions said today that the general atmosphere in Germany has come Suggestions by 45 Senators that the parts of the world. you have just heard,” he began slowly, standing at the witness table. He added that he had met Sellers at his hotel and they had become in- timate friends. “My bank account is open and the canceled checks are there,” he con- tinued. the little box Mr. Sellers tells about.” A couple of days after the box inci- glent, Sellers had testified Patton {tured Joseph Silverman, surplus Army goods dealer, as the mal claimed he had the Assistant Secretary of War's office “in his back pocket” and could change Army tru | Speicher stirred the committee tions by motor company representatives for a $10,000,000 truck order, | during which there was discussion of< “cuts,” divided business and “pay- “I have never heard tell of offs. | In all the dealings Silverman was | characterized by Speicher as a power- | ful influence in getting Army con- appearance today before the House Military Affairs Committee and pic- | n who | | ment over issues to be discussed. | The contents of the Italan note ck contracts at will. | were not divulged, but the minister of | with a startling story of negotia- Ethiopian delegation to the League of | structions to deal with any proposal | for reconvening the commission. Although the nature of these in- NYE CENTRAL BANK structions were not disclosed, informed | party. This consensus was expressed 1 foreign affairs announced that the developments which took place today: 1. The Steel Helmet, the German war veterans' organization corre- Nations has received the necessary in- | sponding to the American Legion in<* the United States, was dissolved throughout East Prussia, which lies between Poland and Russia. 2. The Nazi party continued in its ingen, The Netherlands, in disagree- | to resemble that of June, 1934, shortly before the famous “blood purge” |administration continue buying silver deportation, whether in groups or | by which Reichsfuehrer Hitler crushed dissident elements in the Nazi to push up the price today brought singly, is in the hands of the Immi- from President Roosevelt a statement | gration Bureau, it was explained. argely on a basis of four important | he would execute the silver-purchase Orders Set Record. law “in the manner most advan-| The orders signed today represent tageous to the public interest.” the largest single deportation of alien In a letter -igned by 46 Senators, ' criminals in history, it was said. There headed by Senator Thomas, Democrat, | were five such orders signed Novem- Jew would participate on that team of Oklahoma, tht:lresidem :u ul;:d ]ber st. ;““m‘)ms;;w;m is :;: Lhex “|to press the silver-purchase law | list of deportees. e is a native of - s ERCe ApE e h " | Ireiand snd s serving s sentence foe ly, it appeared improbable that any “enthusiastically” until the price of tator of non-Aryan art with the spe- | 0 ‘Ghite metal had reached $1.29 an | violation of the postal laws. &ific duty of eliminating Jewish influ- | once—monetary “parity” with gold—| The deportation move was agreed ences from German art. lor that the Treasury amass the goal | upon. it was explained, as a means of Chief Heinrich Himmler of the of 300,000,000 in monetary metal.| reducing the Federal prison population showed him a bond he said he had | 2 . ts aw: E 565t Rought: | tracts awarded to suit his wishes, and On Patton's first appearance on the Silverman, the witness asserted, even sources insisted that Ethiopla was not | uncompromising stand opposed to | willing to accept any recalling of the | “political Catholicism.” ‘bo:r | 3. The official German Olympic | claimed he could get in touch with stand today the committee questioned | .\ "y white “House at Warm ! Springs, Ga.” Tells of Loan to Williams. Speicher also told the committee | he lent $4.500 to Col. Alexander E. | Williams, then assistant quartermaster general of the Army, and that it was because of fear he would hurt Wil- liams if this became known that he | absented himself from Washington on the eve of a grand jury investiga- tion miore than a year ago. Previous witnesses have testified that Silverman sent envelopes of money to Speicher to “keep him away from Washington” at the time the Department of Justice was conduct- ing a wide search for Speicher. Wil- liams recently was convicted by a court-martial of accepting a $2,500 loan from Speicher. Tells of Meeting Haig. Speicher outlined numerous nego- tiations he had with War Department officers in 1933 and 1934 in an effort to sell his automobile tubes to the| ‘War Department. In the course of these negotiations, he said, he was introduced to Norman K. Haig, an executive of a General Motors Corp. subsidiary. Haig was | | interested in selling the Army Chev- rolet trucks for the National Guard, | and he and Haig, he said, worked to- gether to get Speicher’s tire tubes used on the trucks bought by the Govern- ment. | _ Silverman then entered the picture, | Speicher declared, by claiming he had | used his influence to get the War De- partment to insert in truck specifica- tions a clause regarding force speed lubrication barring Chevrolet from bidding. He said Silverman made a proposition to have the restriction lifted so that Chevrolet, instead of Chrysler, could get the contract. O'Neil and Weodring Linked. Gen. Williams, the witness asserted, told him that Silverman had been do- ing business in Washington for 15 | years, that he “knew his way around and hadn’t gotten hurt yet” and that | Silverman and Speicher “better get together.” The witness said Silverman intro- duced him to Ralph T. O'Neil, former | national commander of the American | Legion, representing O'Neil to be “the | closest man to Assistant Secretary of War Woodring in the United States” and declaring O’Neil was “on my pay (See SILVERMAN, Page 5.) him about his investments and he testified he had bought four Gov- ernment bonds of $1,000 each face | value since he came to Washington, | in January. Chairman Black then obtained state- ments several times from Sellers that he went with Patton to Carpenter’s hotel and the Representative left 30 or 40 minutes later with “a light box.” “The box wasn't as large as that one,” Sellers said, pointing to the box Patton had brought into .he com- mittee room. Sellers, a gray-haired man, testi- fied in a low voice that the box car- ried out of the hotel by Patton did not seem to be a cigar box, which the Representative said it was, but “it may have been.” Nephew Is Quoted. He then told of conversations later with Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, in which the latter expressed doubt that the package was a box of cigars. Sellers said the nephew asked him (See LOBBY, Page 4.) PEASANT PRESS HITS HAPSBURGS' RETURN Tyroler Bauernzeitung Asserts Real Issue Is Whether Change Will Benefit. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, July 26.—Opposition de- veloping within government monarchy received fresh impetus to- day with publication of an anti-Haps- burg editorial in the Tyroler Bauern- zeitung, organ of the Tyrolese peas- Aants. The newspaper asserted, “The real question is not whether a new Em- peror would be joyfully received by aristocrats, officers and higher gov- ernment officials who in their best years stood loyally by the black and vellow (Hapsburg) flag and think of the good old days with yearning. “The real question is whether the common people, who formerly, as now, never had things easy, are justi- fied In hoping for better times under the monarchy. Also whether the young generation, which has no per- sonal connection with the old mon- archy and is cold toward everything which reminds the older generation of its own younger and better days— whether this young generation, in- ecluding men and women up to 30, is really capable of developing an un- derstanding affection for the mon- archy of state form.” Aid Pledged by For “Bourgeois” Democracies By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, July 26—The Com- munist party today jumped the hurdle of class differences to pledge its Uefinite support of a “bourgeols” democracy, the existence of which the party declared threatened by Fascists. Wilhelm Pleck, the German red leader, sounded the keynote of this new policy in the opening address to the Seventh Communist International In session here. Accusing the German Nazis of pre- paring war against the small demo- cratic countries of Europe, he de- ie] ranks | against restoration of the Hapsburg | Food Victims Recovering. NORTHPORT, N. Y., July 26 (#).— Made ill apparently by tainted food, about 100 World War veterans were believed to be recovering today at the United States Veterans' Facility here, with one death recorded. Communists | clared: “A defensive war by the na- tional bourgeoisie of those countries will be a fair war in which Com- munists must take part.” He stated that in those democratic countries a proletariat have the free- dom to organize and defend their in- terests, while under Fascism, they have “none whatsoever.” ‘Two American Communist leaders, Earl Browder.and William Z. Foster, took their places today in the con- gress. About 400 delegates from 50 coun- treis met in the red-decked hall of columns, A § PROPOSAL BEATE Senate’s Vote Scores Second Victory for Com- promise Bill. hiopian government officials, ex- | | pressing disappointment at the Brit- | | ish government’s ban on the emrti of arms to both Italy and Ethiopia, charged today that the British action favored Italy. | ‘The empire officials said the ban re- | sulted in & definite disadvantage to | Ethiopia because there are no arms | factories here, while Italy is well | Senate and House. The latter cham- By the Associated Press. The Senate overwhelmingly reject- ed the Nye proposal for a Govern- ment-owned ceniral bank, offered as a substitute for the main section of the banking bill placing control of | the Natlon's credit in seven Reserve | Board members and five representa- tives of the regional reserve banks. Proposed by Senator Nye, Repub- lican, of North Dakota after consulta- tion with Pather Charles E. Coughlin, | Detroit priest, the substitute would have set up a “Bank of the United States of America,” with full powers over issuance of money and regula- tion of its value as an agency of Con- gress. Second Victory Scored. Its rejection represented the second victory of supporters of the com- promise bank bill, which Democratic leaders hoped to put through before nightfall without major change after only two full days of debate. The vote agamst the central bank substitute was 59 to 10. Those voting for it were Gore, Cara- way, Holt, Neely, Thomas (Oklahoma) and Wheeler. Democrats; Frazier, Nye, Schall, Republicans, and Shipstead, Farmer-Labor. ‘The Senate hoped to pass the bill within a few hours, although Senator Glass, Democrst, of Virginia, and his subcommittee have made changes not welcome to Marriner S. Eccles, New Deal governor of the Federal Reserve Board. In order to push the bill the Senate met an hour early. There were signs that if the ad- ministration plans to push for any counter alterations it will stake its hopes not. on the Senate but on a conference between representatives of ber already has passd a bill more in line with the views of Eccles, an ad- vocate of more centralized control of money and credit. Nye Argues Point. “Day after day,” Nye said in sup- porting his amendment late yesterday, “comes increased evidence that the present banking system is not meas- uring up to needs, that it is not giv- ing the response the people might expect.” Under a Government central bank, he argued, “criminal speculation” (See BANK, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide Page. B-12 .B-8 .B-8 % .A-8 ~13-14-15 .A-9 .A-2 Amusements . Comics Cross-word Puzzle ... Editorials Finance .. Lost and Found ..... Mallon Vital Statistics . Women's Features . | ing the nation. equipped to meet the requirements for | munitions manufacture. Htaly Fears Council Session. ROME, July 26 (#).—Italy persisted today in the hope that its gesture in consenting to revive the Italo-Ethio- | pian Conciliation Commission would make unnecessary action by the League of Nations Council in the East African dispute. Government sources, asserting they have received no official confirmation of reports that the League Council would be convoked July 31, said Italy would not welcome a Council meeting because of danger of a rupture between Italy and the League. Informed quarters explained that the Italian people, under Premier Mussolini’s leadership, have their minds set on an occupation of Ethiopia | —as demonstrated by the wave of | monster Fascist demonstrations sweep- The widespread manifestations have been organized by Fascist Black Shirt authorities, but to the Italian mind, this in no way lessened their impor- tance. “Abyssinia for us,” was the common cry in demonstrations last night by (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) — e NAVY IS BLAMED FOR MACON CRASH Refused to Strengthen Ship When Told of Weakness, Says Investigator. By the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, July 26.—Prof. A. V. Deforest, a member of the eight-man commission appointed by Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson to inves- tigate the cause of the loss of the dirigible Macon. said today the United States Navy was responsible for the crash. “The Navy's refusal to permit rein- forcement of the Macon’s ship struc- ture at the vital point at which it gave way, was responsible for the crash,” said Prof. Deforest. “Dr. Karl Arnstein, vice president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp. re- peatedly begged the Navy to allow him to strengthen the structure of that ship when he was building it,” Prof. Deforest. continued. “The Navy refused to allow it to be built right. The Navy refused to per- mit the fatal weakness to be rectified even after it was notified about it,” he asserted. The Macon crashed in the Pacific Ocean last February and two men met death. Prefers Death to “Life.” CHICAGO, July 26 (®).—Frank Committee office disclosed that there are no Jews among the athletes ai- ready chosen to compete for the Ger- man Olympic team, and, consequent- secret police issued a decree making | his would be the goal sought by the | and of freeing the United States of it fllegal for confessional church youth | gilver Senators—that of having one- | the expense of keeping criminals sub- J (See GERMANY, Page 5.) COHEN FIGHT AGAIN ENDS CONFERENCE Objection to Presence of Administration Utilities Adviser Renewed. By the Associated Press. Congressional conferees on the utili- ties holding company bill broke up again today after another row over whether Benjamin Cohen, adminis- tration adviser on the legislation, should be permitted to attend the meetings. Cohen, Government attorney who helped draft the bill, attended the sec- ond conference today and Represent- | ative Huddleston, Democrat, of Ala- bama, who objected to his presence at the first meeting, raised the issue again. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tana, chairman of the Senate con- ferees, insisted Cohen should remain, contending it had been the custom to have Government experts who assist in drafting leglisation attend such parleys. No New Date Set. No date was set for another confer- ence. The principal dispute is over whether to retain the provision voted by the Senate to abolish “unnecessary” hold- ing companies in seven years. Disre- garding President Roosevelt's wishes, the House eliminated that clause. The two Republican House con- ferees, Cooper of Ohio and Holmes of Massachusetts, also were said to have protested Cohen’s presence. Senator Wheeler would make no forecast as to how the matter would be settled. “If they don't object on that, they will object on something else,” he told reporters, adding: “This is the first time in the history of Congress that I know anything about that either the House or Senate has objected to an expert from one of the departments sitting in at a con- ference to act as drafting clerk. “We have .no objection to anybody they want to bring in. As a matter of fact, I said to Huddleston if he wanted to bring in an expert from the power companies to act in a similar capacity he could do s0.” Huddleston remarked afterward that “there ap- parently is a permanent breach on this legisiation.” “1 don't know when, if ever, the conferees will meet again,” he added. “This is & fundamental question as to whether Congress or the President shall legislate. Cohen's presence con- stitutes executive interference.” _—_——— FINNS VOLUNTEERING HELSINGFORS, Pinland, July 26 (#).—The Italian and Ethiopian con- sulates sald today that 1,400 Finns have volunteered for service in the event of an confiict. One thousand have volunteered for Army, but no appli- Ethiopian | cations thus far have been accepted. 4 INDICTMENT FAGED 'BY BONDHOLDERS Sabath Threatens Action in Fraudulent Realty Transactions. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Wholesale indictment of persons iguilty of fraudulent real estate bond transactions in a number of large | cities throughout the country, includ- ing Washington, was predicted today by Representative Sabath of Illinois, chairman of the House committee to | investigate real estate bondholders’ re- organization. Sabath made his prediction at the | White House today after a conference | with President Roosevelt during which ! he discussed some of the frauds he said his committee had discovered, and the bill his committee has recom- mended to set up a permanent body to protect real estate bondholders. Further Probe to Be Made. Sabath said that during the next week his committee will investigate further charges of fraud in connec- tion with an attempt to prevent re- organization by bondholders of the National Press Club, at Fourteenth and F streets. He said there is evidence that an effort has been made by unscrupulous outsiders to buy bonds of this valuable property at low figures to prevent honest reorganization and with a view to creating a condition which would make it possible to get control of the property at a ridiculously low price. Sabath said this practice is wide- spread throughout the country and has developed into a “racket.” He declared his committee has produced a quantity of evidence of fraud and that it proposes to proceed with a view to bringing these “crooks,” as he described them, to justice, and at the same time protect the interest of the bondholders. “The people of this country generally have no conception of the racket that has developed in this business,” Sabath declared. “The people have no idea what these so-called bank mortgage company and lawyer sharks have done.” According to Sabath some little fric- tion has developed among several ex- isting agencies of the Government which have a direct interest in the provisions of the committee’s pending bill. The agencies in question are the Securities Exchange Commission, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and the Controller of the Currency. Because of this, Sabath plans fo have the wording of the bill changed 80 as to leave to the President’s dis- | fourth of the Nation’s monetary metal composed of silver. In his reply letter to the Senators, made public today, Mr. Roosevelt said he was complying with the “broad objectives” of the silver purchase act—those of attaining “a wider monetary use of silver.” “Such particulars as the amount and price of day-to-day purchases of silver and the issuance of silver certifi- | cates in excess of the cost of the | silver,” he said, must be left as pro- vided in the law to the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury. | Text of Letter. The text of the President’s letter made public by Thomas follows: There has just come to me your | joint statement dated June 20 on the general subject of silver, and I am | glad to have the benefit of your ob- | servations and suggestions on this subject. As evidence of the broad ob- jectives, I need only to refer to my | message on silver to the Congress on May 22, 1934, which is but one of numerous statements I have made on the desirability of a wider monetary use of silver. “I was glad to have that message supplemented by statements made on | my behalf to the Senate to the effect | that, if the silver purchase act were | passed, it would be carried out vig- orously and in good faith. The ad- | ministration of this act has been and, | of course, will be characterized by this | spirit and purpose. | “When we come to such particulars as the amount and price of day-to- day purchases of silver and the is- suance of silver certificates in excess of the cost of the silver, their determi- nation is a duty which the Congress, by the provisions of the silver pur- | chase act, has laid upon the Secre- tary of the Treasury. I know, from my frequent conferences with him on charged with such great possibilities { for our national welfare and the ad- vantage of the world, that that duty has been, and will be, discharged in the manner most advantageous to the public interest, as the act itself en- joins, and in pursuit of our common objective of a wider monetary use of | silver.” [ Thomas Was Critical. The letter came after Senator Thomas had stated to newspaper men that the Treasury instead of pushing the program “enthusiastically” to in- crease the price of silver or acquire the legally required $3,000,000,000 had depressed the price from 81 to 67% cents. 'Free Meals on By the Associated Press. GUNNISON, Colo., July 26.—Meals still are free at the old La Veta Hotel here on sunless days, but the cooks i never have been overworked for that t reason. For only 16 times in the past 23 years has the hotel found it necessary to serve free meals to uphold a 1912 promise. J. H. Howland, first manager of the hotel, started the custom to 2 Gunnison as “the sunshine city,” re- lmmmummzwumml I the administration of this act, sur-| ject to deportation. THREE ARE SHOT - IN PAY ROLL FIGHT Woman Shopper, Bandit and Guard Wounded—Part of | $25,000 Taken. By the Associated Press. PEORIA, I, July 26.—Three per- sons, including a woman shopper, were shot and wounded today when three pay roll robbers battled police in a downtown gun fight. Ore robber, who gave the name of Ed Mace of Kansas City, was cap- tured after he had been wounded by pursuing police. He was hit in the | nght leg. | His two companions escaped with | an undetermined amount of money. | Nearly $25,000 was in a bag wrested from a pay roll guard, the police said, but much of the money was scattered over the streets as the robbers fled. Joseph Backus. 50, guard for a tavern, was probably fatally wounded by a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun. Mrs. John Edinburgh of. Peoria, shopping on the third floor of a de- partment store, was struck in the forenead by a stray bullet. NATIONALS LEAD NEW YORK, 2 T0 0 | BY FRANCIS E. STAN. NEW YORK, July 26.—Washington | was leading the Yankees here this aft- | ernoon, 2 to 0, at the end of the sec- | ond inning. Ed Linke and Johny Broaca started | on the hill. Jake Powell tripled in the first in- ning, after Buddy Myer had walked, for the first run of the game. Linke was injured by a liner from Hill's bat and was carried off the field in the second. { -— Gen. Liggett Improving. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26 ().— After an operation Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett's condition was de- scribed today by attending physicians at toe Letterman General Hospital as “satisfactory.” Gen. Liggett has been in the hospital since last January. His wife, who also has been confined | to the hospital, was reported “doing | nicely.” Sunless Days " Cost Hotel Little in 23 Years judge of whether the sun actually hid its face throughout a day. The first day the free steak dinner was served was December 4, 1913, and the latest January 2, 1935. “We have received letters from all parts of the world asking about that agreement,” commented L. B. Stitzer, present manager. What happens when the sun fails to shine? “The cooks throw a couple of extra logs on the fire, slice a lot of steaks and peel an extra tub of potatoes” said Stitzer, A !