Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 12

A-—12 ST. LOUIS MAYOR PROBES GUN FIGHT Four Wounded in Shooting| in City Hall, Result of Faction Fight. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 12.—Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann was investi- gating today the Democratic factional fight that led to a politiclans gun fight and the wounding of four men at the City Hall. Mayor Dickmann said last night he had left the city early yesterday and was not fully informed on the ahooting. State Representative Lawrence Fon- tana lay wounded in City Hospual, | two policemen had slight wounds and | City Market Master James O. Stuvbs a bullet-marked face from the spray ©f bullets that threw City Hall workers into an uproar yesterday. Shooting in Recorder’s Office. The shooting began in the office of Recorder of Deeds John P. Engiish head of a factin opposed to Mayor Dickmann. Stubbs was an adminis- tration key man in his ward. The gun fight was regarded as an outgrowth of a factional fight that started this Summer when rebellious city committeemen ousted Mayor Dickmann’s friend, Robert Hannegan, as head of the Democratic City Com- mittee, and elected English to the post. Police were seeking two men who accompanied Stubbs and Fontana to English’s office to remonstrate with ‘English over a dispute that occurred in the bond election Tuesday. Chief Deputy Recorder Gregory Moore, according to his own account 1o police, proved quickest on the iriz- | ger when the shooting began. Enghish took no part in the shooting. 25 or 30 Shots Fired. ‘The police quoted Moore as saying he fired about 10 shots. Twenty-five or thirty fired. Patrolman James Painter and Poiice Chauffeur Arthur Sullivan were slightly wounded as they pursued Fon- tana across a court to the Municipal Courts Building. They said they did not know who shot them. Stubbs, who was scratched near the eye by a bullet, asserted to wu- thorities that Moore began the shoot- ing. Moore told police he fired when | Stubbs pulled a pistol. English said Moore knocked Stubbs down and istarted firing. shots were Fishermen Fight Wolf. M. Granitski and his son of Ortels- burg, Germany, went fishing on Lake Schobensee. When'casting their lines they noticed an animal swimming toward the boat. They took it to be a .dog. It turned out to be a wolf, and it made a savage attack on the boat and its occupants. The men fought off the wolf with their oars and broke three before they killed it. mission, | tion on the cars, which stopped the ! | build radio stations not too close to | { which will carry trouble in both di- | Destructive Radio Sought Marconi Reported Experimenting With Short Wave Beams. EW YORK (#)—Maiconi, on \N the eve of war, is reported making experiments with short wave radio beams de- signed to stop the engines of enemy planes in midair. His method is a secret. But instead of having discovered some force hith- erto unknown, it is likely that he is developing some radio principle al- ready known. | There are three of these: Electrical interference with ignition, heat and power. Interference with ignition of an oncoming plane is the method ascribed by rumor, because it is the best known and apparently the easiest | approach. Auto Interferes With Radio. | Radio stations have not interfered | with engines, but the reverse, auto engines interfering with radio trans- has been a common com- plaint. S The interference was caused by the auto ignition. Two remedies were effective. One was shielding the igni- “sending” by autos. The other was to | highways. | The fact that the ignition waves could be so easily cut out by a shield, | and that they carried so short a dis- | tance, made it appear exceptionally difficult to hope that a radio beam | could interrupt effectively the ignition of an engine at a distance more than | a few feet, or at most a few hundred feet. | Yet the knowp interference shows that the radio wave is a two-way line | rections. | Beams Operate Small Motor. A start has been made in some laberatories. In Westinghouse experi- ments at East Pittsburgh short-wave radio beams have operated a small electric motor. But the motor had to bs within a few feet of the trans- mitter. ‘The beam itselef did not run the mo- tor. It first had to be changed by & receiving tube into electric current. This power transmission through the air was done with a 60,000,000~ cycle radio beam, with, vegy short | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, GUGLIEMO MARCON wave lengths. about five meters. The | experiments showed that real power | can be sent but that effective power | transmission by air must await the | invention of new devices. | The discovery that heat is trans- mitted by radio rapidly developed into practical medical uses. The radio waves are cold. But ultra short waves meet resistance in whatever they penetrate. The object heats up the same as a wire carrying too high a current. i Human beings or inanimate things heat alike. Water boils, metals grow | hot, human bodies show fever, ana QU food has been baked and cooked tn laboratories by radio waves. Distance Only Few Inches. But no one yet has announced any way to do this radio heating more than a very short distance from a powerful transmitter. The distance ordinarily is only a few inches. The probabilities of overheating an airplane engine enough to stall seems visionary at present. But the shortest reported radio wave in laboratories is now about an inch long. And the longest infra- red rays isolated for study by scientists are a few hundredths of an inch long. Between these, in & space of less than an inch, lie true heat rays, beams which carry reai heat at the speed of light. The only known dif- ference between these heat rays and the short radio waves, is the wave length. Precisely where a ray ceases to be heat and becomes so long that it is a radio wave has not been measured. Marconi might work in this no man’s land of rays between heat and radio. PERKINS THREATENER GETS SUSPENDED TERM Jersey Man Menaced Secretary With “Unwritten Law” to Speed Naturalization. BY the Associated Press. ELIZABETH, N. J., September 12.— Stefan Orban, 58, of Hillside was free | yesterday under suspended sentence on | his promise to cease writing threat- ening letters to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins concerning his nat- uralization status. Orban pleaded no defense to the charge before Judge Edward A. Mc- Grath yesterday. Orban wrote Secretary Perkins that he would be “forced to the urwritten law” unless she expedited his natural- ization claim and that he would take the case in his own hands. The Department of Naturalization made the complaint against Orban. VIRGINIA cashor NORFOLK Each sports. Overnight from Washing- ton. Twe hundred delightful miles, snowy beds, glorious meals. Take your auto free. Steamer Leaves Daily 6:30 P. M. City Ticket Office 1423 H St N.W. NA. 1520—DL. 3760 BOMB FAILS TO FIRE UNDER HOOD OF AUTO Faulty Connection Saves Life of Man After Stolen Car Is Recovered. By the Associated Press, DENVER, Colo., September 12— Homer L. Freehafer is under poueel protection after officers reported he| had escaped death from a bomb planted in his motar car. Detectives W. G. Williams and G L. Phillips said a 15-stick dynamite bomb had been fastened to the starter of the machine, but that one connec- tion was not tight, thus saving Free- hafer’s life when he tried to start the motor. Freehafer reported his motor cart stolen Monday afternoon. Last night, he said, a woman told him by tele- phone where he could find it. He called police after an unsuccessful at- tempt to start it. Freehafer figured in a sensational divorce case several months ago when a decree was refused to his wife Bes- | sie, and later an interlocutory decre2 | was granted to him. “Air-Londition yourmo for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935. Like Master, Like Pigeon. Two unemployed men, next-door neighbors in Sunderland, England, keep pigeons. One man, John Mitchell, | lost his right leg during the World War; the other, Matthew Tulip, lost his left eye when he was 10 years old. Recently each entered a pigeon in the homing race from Hull. A fort- night later Tulip's pigeon returned home minus its left eye. 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