Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain with mild temperature tonight and tomorrow, followed by colder late tomorrow afternoon or night; much colder Wednesday. Temperatures—High- est, 87, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 57, at 6 am. today. New York Stock Market Closed Today Full report on page A-T. Entered as secy No. 33,431 BIGGEST BALLOON INWORLD REACHES| 4000 FEET FOR ALTITUDE RECORD National Geographic-U. S. Army Stratosphere Bag Soars Past 14-Mile Mark After Perilous Take-Off. STEVENS AND ANDERSON REPORT BITTER COLD Thousands Cheer Start From Rock-Walled Bowl in South Dakota as Aeronauts Dump Ballast to Clear Trees by Scant Margin. By the Associated Press. RAPID CITY, S. Dak., November 11—Capt. Albert W. Stevens reported the stratosphere balloon Explorer 11 had reached 74.000 feet, setting a new unofficial world altitude record sur- passing even the mark set in 1934 by three Russian flyers. The best previous official American stratosphere mark was 61.236. set by the Settle-Fordney flight in 1933. This mark is recognized as the official world balloon altitude record. An unofficial record of 72,176 was claimed for three Soviet Russian balloonists in 1934, but they were killed making their descent. Falling pressures on the balloon’s meters indicated to the ground crew that Explorer II was still climbing. Explorer II was somewhere near Martin, S. Dak, and had traveled about 100 miles southeast from the natural bowl here which was its base. 55 Degrees Below Zero C. It was 55 degrees below zero (centi- grade) outside the sealed metal gon- dola, Capt. Stevens reported by radio and the thin-air chill penetrated the light shell. Inside, the temperature was “minus 7 centigrad Below the fiyers the sky was an ex- panse of white, grading into bright blue, said Stevens, and above them was a jet black mysterious sea of space. It was even darker on the side of their little metal ball which faced the sun, than on the “shady” side, Stevens told his ground crew via radio. The world’s largest balloon took off at 7 am. (Mountain standard time) | today on its long-awaited journey into | the stratosphere for scientific ex- | ploration. | The giant balloon reached a height of 55000 feet at 10:17 am. (moun- tain standard time). It was heading south into Nebraska. At Gordon, | Nebr., the balloon was reported sighted | half way between Gordon and Rush- | ville, Nebr, at 10 am. At 9:25 am. (mountain standard | time) Capt. Albert W. Stevens, com- mander, reported an altitude of 28.- 000 feet, with the balloon going up 500 feet a minute. Capt. Stevens reported it was 49 below zero outside the gondola when the 28000 feet altitude was reached. | Everything, he said, was still all right, adding however, “We have to watch everything very carefully.” He said the instruments. including the specto- graph and stratoscope, were working well, Earth Radiance Registered. “We've registered the earth radiance at 200 candles,” the captain reported. The sun's radiance varies with the angle of observation. At 9:07 am. Stevens had radioed: “We're up 21,000 feet and going up 300 feet a minute. “Everything going all right now, his message said. “It’s getting more comfortable in here. Temperatures now 2 degrees above zero, C. Not bad. ‘We got one leak here. We put a bal- | loon over it and it's not such a good one. We've got to fix it.” Culminating a six-week wait for | perfect weather the giant craft rose | successfully from the rock-walled natural bowl. 11 miles southwest of | here, about two hours behind the | scheduled time. Ballast Dumped to Clear Rim. At the start Capt. Orvil A. Ander- son, pilot, dumped several bags of | ballast when it appeared the balloon | might come too near the trees on the rim of the bowl, and the bag success- fully cleared the obstacle. Capt. Anderson expected to land about 2:45 p.m. (Mountain standard time). Capts. Anderscn and Stevens drew a flexible schedule. At about 13,000 feet they had expected to close the portholes, sealing themselves in their metal sphere. They will depend upon ~(See STRATOSPHERE, Page 2.) KINGSFORD-SMITH SEARCH RENEWED Royal Air Force Bombers to Skim Low Over Islands and Bay of Bengal. By the Associated Press. SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, November 11.—Another fleet of Royal Air Force bombers roared into the air today, resuming with renewed vigor the search for Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith, missing three days on a proj- ected England-Australia flight. The pilots carried instructions to skim low over every island and the coast line of the Western Malay Pen- insula, as well as a wide strip of the Bay of Bengal between Rangoon, South Burma, and Victoria Point. C. James Melrose, who last saw the monoplane in which Kingsford-Smith and his copilot, Tom Pethybridge, were flying over the Bay of Bengal early Friday, flew again to the spot where he saw the pilots bucking a raging monsoon. Melrose expressed belief that Kings- ford-Smith might have glided to an uninhabited island and made a land- ond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Capt. Albert W. Stevens, into the stratosphere. @h flight commander, Anderson, pilot, shown as they appeared before taking off today in the Explorer II on the National Geographic-United States Army expedition WASHINGTON, . Set Altitude Record and Capt. Orvil A. —A. P. Wirephoto. ITALIANS CLOSE IN ROOSEVELT HALLS | advance patrols. | In occupying Sasa Baneh the Ital- | and less than 150 miles from the rail- ON RAILWAY LINE, PAGT WITH CANADA Nations’ Jealousies and Arms Races Deplored in Armistice Talk. While thousands stood by in rev- erent respect in the shadow of the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ar- | lington National Cemetery President Roosevelt today called upon the Na- tion to “go forward with all our| strength to stress and to strive for international peace.” Honoring particularly the hundreds | of thousands now dead who served | their country in the world's greatest war, the President took this occasion to make initial announcement of a newly reached “good neighbor* agree- ment with the Dominion of Canada. Essentially commercial, the agree- ment, he said, was arrived at after “thoughtful discussion of our na- | tional problems” between himself and | the Canadian prime minister. Its effect, he continued, will be to “elim- inate disagreements and unreasonable restrictions, and thus work to the | advantage of both Canada and the | United States.” | Included with this evidence of con- crete progress in the cause of peace, | however, was a note of disappoint- ment, sounded not only by President | | Two More Towns Reported Taken in Advance From South. By the Associated Press. | Italy's southern army. under the | command of Gen. Rudolfo Graziani, | | pushed menacingly today toward Eth- | fopia’s “life line"—the railroad from | Addis Ababa to Djibouti, French So- | maliland seaport. Dispatches to Rome said Graziani’s forces occupied Sasa Baneh in a week- end drive and held Daggah Bur with | ians have crossed more than half the | | desert region lying between Italian Somaliland and the provincial capital | of Harar. Warriors Defend Railway. Sasa Baneh is 100 miles from Jijiga | | road. Defending the railroad and Harar is a vast concentration of Haile | Selassie's warriors about Jijiga. Daggah Bur, reported held by the advance patrols, is 30 miles on to- ward Jijiga. An unconfirmed Italian press dis- | patch from Djibouti said Ras Nassibu, one of Emperor Selassie's chief aides in the southern-southeastern sector, .porled a total of $44524 from 4,706 was killed when his troops revolted in | the engagement at Sas Baneh. The last report of Nassibu's where- abouts available in Addis Ababa said the commander was in the neighbor- hood of Harar, rallying his forces for a stand against the Italians when | they reached the plateaus at the edge | of the desert. Occupation Is Denied. . The Ethiopian government officially denied Graziani's troops had occu- | pied Sasa Baneh. As evidence of the |scarcity of communications from the front in Addis Ababa, the government made no further comment except to deny the town had been taken. and Jijiga, Graziani's forces were faced with a more difficult terrain; the desert’s end brings a succession of steep cliffs, high plateaus and mountains. Graziani's campaign, carried on without the fanfare of the Italian drive in the north, has been much more successful. In the north, a much larger army has pushed only about 75 or 80 miles into the interior, and without any resistance from the Ethiopians, However, a determined stand against the northern army appeared in the making. Addis Ababa reports said Ras Kassa was joining Ras Seyoum, governor |of Tigre province, with 100,000 war- riors. Seyoum, at last report, had From Sasa Baneh on to Harar | | Roosevelt, but by others speaking at ithis and similar observances of Ar- | mistice day, that “the world's gain| thus far has been small.” “I would not be frank with you,” |the President told the listening throng, “ife I did not tell you that| the dangers that confront the future | of mankind as a whole are greater to the world and therefore to us than the dangers which confront the people of the United States by and in themselves alone. “U. S. Must Protect Self.” “Jealousies between nations con- tinue, armaments increase, national ambitions that disturb the world’s peace are thrust forward. Most seri- ous of all, international confidence in the sacredness of international contracts is on the wane. * * America must and will protect herself. Under no circum- stances will this policy of self pro- tection go to lengths beyond self pre- tection. Aggression on the part of the United States is an impossibility insofar as the present administration of your Government is concerned. Defense against aggression by others —adequate defense on land, on sea and in air—is our accepted policy; and the measure of that defense is and will be solely the amount necessary to safeguard us against the armaments of others. The more greatly they de- crease their armaments, the more (See WAR, Page 7.) (See ARMISTICE, Page 3.) Veterans Take Up Arms Again In Battle for Highway Safety American Legion and V. F. W. Signing | Army Air Force, and music by the ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, $00115 IN CHEST GIFTSREPORTED ON DRIVE'S FIRST DAY 8,209 Citizens Have Con- tributed Toward Goal of $1,877,900. HOPE FOR 120 PER CENT CAMPAIGN EXPRESSED Special. Assignment Unit Leads Way With Total of $92,333 by 100 Persons. Getting off to a good start in the drive to raise $1877.900 for Wash- ington’s needy, an army of more than 5,000 Community Chest workers by noon today reported total contribu- tions of $200,115 on the opening day of the drive. Tabulating initial returns at an enthusiastic luncheon rally in the big ball room of the Willard Hotel, the Chest workers reported that 8,209 cit- izens already had contributed toward the goal of the campaigners. The first day's contributions amount to 10.7 per cent of the minimum re-| quired to alleviate suftering in Wash- | ington in 1936, it was announced. | Dr. William McClellan, general cam- paign chairman, commended the units | and teams on their work and urged them to continue their city-wide efforts to send the campaign at least 20 per cent “over the top.” 100 Citizens Give $92,333. The largest sum of the day was reported by the special assignment | unit with a total of $92,333 contri- buted by 100 citizens. Coleman Jen- nings. chairman of the unit, said this represented 16.11 per cent of the unit's goal of $573,000. John Poole. chairman of the group Solicitation Unit, reported contribu- tions totaling $46.463 from 2464 givers, or 12 per cent of the unit's| quota of $388,000. Maj. Gen. Merritt W. Ireland, chair- man of the Governmental Unit, re- contributors, or 6.57 per cent of the units's quota of $677,000. ! Bernard Wykoff, head of the Metro- | politan Unit, reported $16,794 from | 939 givers, representing 7.3 per cent | of the unit's quota of $230,000. While others paid respectful tribute | to the memory of the Nation's war dead. the equally patriotic members of the fully mobilized Chest organ- ization remembered the needs of the | living who are besieged by want and suffering. Optimism Marks Session. Optimism marked the gathering of the various campaign units for the “big push” today. McClellan ex- pressed hope of achieving a campaign that will net the agencies of the Chest a grand total of two and a| quarter million dollars. “We know that the money is in Washington,” Dr. McClellan declared | on the eve of the drive. “We know | that these imperative needs exist. We | feel that if these needs are placed squarely before Washington the city | will answer our call for a 120 per cent | campaign.” | A military flair will be given the opening of the campaign when a huge | Army bombing plane, accompanied by |a blimp flashing a neon-sign, will broadcast tonight by short-wave radio a message of encouragement to the Community Chest campaigners and contributors. The radio program will includev’n address by Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover, acting chief of the Army Band. Solicitation Under Way. Solicitation in group solicitation, governmental and metropolitan units, got under way last week. Because of the closing of business establishments and governmental offices over the week end solicitation in the two units handling these groups ended Saturday at noon. Each of the units faces a more diffi- cult task than that of last year. The goal of $1,877.900 is nearly $200,000 above that of last year, approximately 15 per cent higher. In addition to| this increase, the sudden decision of | the Federal Government to withdraw Federal aid funds from Washington has precipitated a crisis which, it is felt, can be met only by additional Chest funds. The extra amount of approximately $400,000 is to be set aside for relief purposes only. Spiritual leaders of Washington threw the weight of the churches be- hind the campaign yesterday in cele- (See CHEST, Page 3.) “CONSPIRACY” SEEN IN CHRYSLER DEAL Auto Magnate Not Included in British Decision, but His Attitude Is Scored. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 11.—Justice Up Members in War on Death From Reckless Driving. | Traffic Deaths to November 11—93; Same Period, 1934—108 l Seventeen years ago today the Army and Navy of the United States laid down their arms, ending one of the world’s greatest conflicts. Today, many of these ssme men, comprising the American Legion and the Veterans of Forelgn Wars in the District of Co- lumbia, take up their arms again— this time in a war equally as great— the battle against wanton death and destruction on the streets and high- ways due to reckless driving. With the same grit and determina- ticn these men are preparing for another victory, and are resolved never to turn back until the enemy, an enemy of all mankind, is vanquished. With this in view the American Le- gion and the Veterans of Foregn Wars ing in moonlight, L) have indorsed The Star's safe dnv:u campaign, and are signing up their members as irrefutable proof that the battle is on. There are no bands playing in to- day's parade against death. It is a solemn affair. In place of the flag are stickers that conscientious members are affixing to the windshield of their cars as an_inspiration. The, colors appropriately are red, white and blue. Capt. Joseph J. Malloy, department commander of the District American Legion, which comprises 6,000 mem- bers in 35 posts, led the way for his outfit. s “I am only too glad to subscrible to the fine campaign of The Star,” he stated. “It is in line with many safety (See SAFETY, Page 5.) A Akinson of the King's bench division, delivering judgment today in the long- fought Chrysler shares case, said he was satisfied that in November and December, 1927, there was an action- able conspiracy to obtain Chrysler shares at a price lower than their value, He did mnot, however, complete the deliverance of judgment in the suit brought against Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile magnate, and certain associates, adjourning court for the day with his judgment still un- finished. He said the actionable conspiracy was limited to Bernard E. Hutchinson, Stephen D. Briggs and Joseph Fields of the Chrysler Corp. The judge said the repudiation of an agreement made in December, 1927, for the purchase of shares was with- out justification of any kind what- soever, either legal or moral, and was thoroughly dishonest. He severly criticized Chrysler him- self, declaring some of the automo- bile leader’s answers during the case “show his standard of business moral- ity lamentably low.” @ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, ATTACK JAPANESE STORE N SHANGHA | store elicited a chorus of vehement RUSS\A R & s New Outbreak of Terrorism as Tension Grows in “Marine Incident.” By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, November 11.—Anti- Japanese terrorism flared anew today when a group of Chinese threw bricks | and bottles through a plate-glass show window of a Japanese-owned store just after 500 Japanese marines had | disembarked here. | The Japanese landing party strength reached more than 2,000 with the ar- rival of the new force, although Japa- nese navy officers asserted they were merely replacements for an equal number of blue jackets who will sail to Japan November 13. The situation arising from the un- | solved slaying of a Japanese marine Hideo Nakayama, which Japanese au- thorities said was “serious.” was con- sidered to be increasingly threatening by the outbreak of new terrorism. Hundreds of persons saw the Chi- nese break the window of the store, at one of Shanghai's busiest street | corners, but the perpetrators escaped | after scattering handbills emblazoned | with the charcaters “War on Japan to | save China!” Slain Marine Honored. ‘The slain Nakayama, who was scheduled to return to Japan with the departing contingent November 13, was buried with full naval honors after Japanese Gen. T. Ishii called on Gen. Wu Teh-Chen, mavor of greater Shanghai, urging an intensified hunt for the killer, Despite reassuring proclamations by the Chinese authorities, the exodus of Chinese from nearby Chapei to the! International Settlement continued although on a greatly reduced scaie. | Refugees were stricken by fear of| Japanese military action. Japanese admirals, a major general, the Japanese consul general and many | other gold-braided officers participated | in the services for Nakayama, at which 1,000 blue jackets and a larg® sectcr of the Japanese civilian population also paid him tribute. The Japanese naval attache’s office | sald there was no basis for wide- spread reports that the slayer was a | Japanese or a Korean, insisting the assailant was a Chinese. (At Nanking, officials said the case was handled by Shanghai authorities as a local issue and they' hoped it would remain so.) Promsies Seen Broken. The attack on the Japanese-owned | comment from Japanese military and diplomatic authorities. A spokesman for the military at- tache saw the incident as “a viola- tion of the Chinese government's as- surances regarding suspension of anti-Japanese organizations.” He said the circulars distributed by the window smashers were signed, “Anti-Japanese National Salvation As- sociation,” which he asserted probably was closely linked with the Kuomin- tang (Chinese Nationalist party). A spokesman at the Japanese Em- bassy declared that repetition of such an unfortunate incident “might lead | to a reversal in the improving rela- tions between Japan and China.” Feeling Runs High. Feeling ran high in Shanghai's Japanese community, where a resolu- tion was adopted by the Japanese Amalgamated Street Federation, as- serting the Nakayama case “caused great uneasiness among our residents.” The resolution demanded “that the naval landing party promptly take stern, adequate measures for main- tenance of peace and order.” The membership of the federation (See CHINESE, Page 17.) Readers’ Guide Amusements Cross-word Puzzle Editorials - Finance - Lost and Found Serial Story Short Story - Society -..-- ‘Washington Wayside - Women's Features ......B-11 [ 3 1935—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. (ELPED TG MAKE THE Hw SAFE FOR £ M4 ' G,g,p Pslg/ I 07147‘0,9 NOVEMBER 11, 1935. LAKE STEAMER AGROUND Passengers Declared Not in Dan- ger in Detroit River. DETROIT, November 11 (#)—Offi- cers of the Trenton, Mich, Coast Guard station reported early today that a 472-foot lake passenger steamer. the City of Cleveland 3d, was aground in the Detroit River off Amherstburg, | Ontario. Coast Guardsmen said the vessel | left Detroit Sunday night carrying passengers and added that it was in no danger. Although the stranded steamer did not block the channel, the river was closed temporarily to navigation be- | cause of fog. | RESCUERS SEEKING MAROONED CREW Brave Perils of San Ber- nardino Straits to Reach 50 on Rocks. By the Associated Press, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¢ Foening Star MANILA, P. I, November 11.—A | small fleet of rescue vessels braved | the perils of notoriously dangerous | San Bernardino Straits today in an | attempt to rescue passengers and crew | of the shipwrecked British freighter | Silverhazel who were marooned on a rock. Fifty or more persons were reported | aboard Lhe freighter when it broke in two on San Bernardino Island, off | the southern tip of Luzon Island. The Governor Taft, an inter-island | | steamer, radioed that 30 persons were | on the rock. Others were reported aboard the forward part of the ship. FH¥ PROCESSING TAXES DEFENDED BY U. § out Power to Restrain As- sessment or Collection. In a challenge to the State of | Georgia's attempt to force an imme- | diate test of the constitutionality of the Bankhead cotton control act, the Government today held the Supreme Court is without power to restrain as- sessment or collection of the A. A. A, processing taxes. Since the enactment of the agricul- tural adjustment and Bankhead laws. however, more than 700 lower courts have issued injunctions despite the Government’s argument. Grounds of Objection. ‘The Government also voiced objec- tion to the suit brought by Gov. Tal- madge on the ground that: ‘The United States may not be sued without its consent, and the Govern- ment has not ccusented to be sued. | The Georgia suit is directed against the Secretary of the Treasury and other Federal officers and not against the Government by name. At the same time, eight Southern rice millers joined in another attack ou the constitutionality of the ad- justment act and asked the hig tribunal for injunctions to restrain collection of processing taxes on rice. Justice Cardozo received the millers’ petitions, previously refused by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court at New Or- leans. A total of 65 cases was before the court as it reconvened after a two- week recess. Foremost among these will be a on. © 126,396 Bome Returns Not Yet Received. () Meuns Associated Press. SUNDAY'S Circulation, 138,922 TWO CENTS ARREST OF WOMAN EXPECTED FOR QUIZ IN'LORING SLAYING AS TWO ARE HELD Police Refuse to Identify Person Sought—Diamond Engagement Ring Gone from Hand of Dead Girl. HAIR CLUE SUBMITTED FOR D. J. EXAMINATION Man's Glove Found Near Scene of Supreme Court Held With-| The rock to which the survivors | ruling on a request by James Walter escaped was turned into a prison by Carter, presiaent of the Carter Coal the powerful current which races Co. for a temporary injunction to pre- through the strait, rip tides, heavy | vent assessment of a tax imposed by swells ahd high winds. The tides repeatedly turned back ! | the Guffey bituminous coal bill. ‘Twenty-five cases have been argued small boats from at least three steam- | and are ready for final decision, and ers when they attempted to reach the | the court may announce whether it | marooned party. “Winds and seas increasing,” Capt. | tribunals in 28 cases. | will pass on the decisions of lower Twelve mo- Brust of the United States Steamship | tions also are pending. Co.’s freighter New York wirelessed as night fell. “Doubtful if rescue can take place untii daylight. Will try if weather permits. ‘Crew on foredeck and appears safe. | Understand tug Travafor Rulings Made, Soon after it mef today the court | made these rulings: Any life boat with motor would help enue under which the Government a great deal.” The Governor Taft and the Japan- ese freighter Chicago Maru, whose | boats also failed in attempts to reach ! the rock, asked that motorized life- boats be sent out. The steamer Tana was also stand- ing by, and the Navy sent the de-| stroyer Perry from Manila. The Perry was due at the scene Tues- day. Capt. Brust reported the forepart of the chip was firmly wedged in the rocks and the marooned party had plenty of food. The Chicago Maru reported the Silverhazel struck a where she was pinioned until the seas cracked the hull in two. One half of the hull sank. “Apparently the Silverhazel struck suddenly early Sunday,” said A. G. Henderson, vice president of the Silverjava Pacific Line. *“Maybe her wireless was immediately decommis- sioned. If so they have been on the rock two days and one night.” He said the 3,091-ton freighter car- ried a crew of 40 or 45 and four or five passengers on her voyage from San Francisco to Manila. Relatives said among those on board were Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bis- singer. He is director of research of the Philippine Sugar Association. 10-foot rock | assessed $120,169 of taxes in six cases. [ The question was whether profits from | sale of stock received as a gift were subject to Federal taxes as capital net gain or as ordinary income. Unanimously affirmed a decision by the District Court of Appeals the Gov- ernment cannot tax stock left by Mrs. who died in 1927. loses a potential $4,847,000 as a Tesult. Some time during the week, the court will receive a petition from Bruno Richard Hauptmann asking it to pass on his conviction of kidnaping and murdering the Lindbergh baby. The highest New Jersey court has unanimously upheld the conviction of Hauptmann, who must file his appeal before Friday. Guffey Act Attacked. Carter, a West Virginia and Mary- land coal producer, attacked the validity of the Guffey act, which es- | tablishes a “little N. R. A.” to regulate the soft coal industry, and asked the court to enjoin collection of the 15 per cent tax on production until a ruling has been given on the consti- tutionality of the legislation. The District Supreme Court is now trying the suit brought by Carter to test the validity of the law. He asked (See TAXES, Page 4.) South Carolina ‘Blue Law’ Jails 25 on Sunday Dancing Charge By the Assoclated Press. CHARLESTON, S. C, November 11.—Twenty-five young Charleston County men and women spent the night in jail charged with violating an old “blue law™ which bans Sunday dancing. With three others, who later made bond, they were arrested at a road- house near here by county policemen, and lodged in jail to await a magis- trate's hearing today. County police said they had in- voked the blue laws several times recently, but yesterday was the first time that a raid resulted in whole- sale arrests. The raid brought the largest num- ber of “blue law” arrests since former Gov. John G. Richards made an in- tensive enforcement campaign soon after taking office in 1926. The State statute, enacted in early days and still on the books, prohibits a long list of pastimes on Sunday including “bear-baiting” and other sports of bygone days. The Richards .drive was directed mainly at golf ard Sunday sales of gasoline. & The State Supreme Court held in a test case, however, that golf and other sports such as polo, which were not specifically banned by the statute, might be played on Sunday. The Set aside by six to three a ruling | coming, | by the Commissioner of Internal Rev- Irene C. Helmholz of Sherwood, Wis., | The United States | Murder Also May Aid Search for Killer — Baltimore Detec- tives Expected to Aid Mount Rainier and County Officers. Arrest of a woman for questioning in connection with the brutal garrote ing of Miss Corinna Loring was exe pected today by police, who are holde ing a former suitor of the attractive | 26-year-old bride-elect and her fiance, Richard Tear, 29. Investigators refused to identify the woman or say if she was wanted as a | suspect or merely for questioning. | They confirmed previous rumors, howe | ever, that there were indications a | woman might have been involved in the weird murder. } It became known today that an expensive diamond engagement ring was missing from the hand of the murdered girl when her body was i found Saturday afternoon in a lonely clump of pines about 400 yards from the Loring home, 3110 Beech street, Mount Rainier, Md. Jewelry Found Trampled. Tear, an attendant at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. gave the ring te Miss Loring, whom he was to have married in Washington Wednesday. The girl's | wrist watch and earrings were found trampled into the earth near the scene |of the crime, but a thoroughgoing search failed to disclose her engagee ment ring The possibility that a woman might have participated in the murder was | strengthened somewhat. police said, | by a Tow of deep indentations on the knuckles of the dead girl's left hand, ! believed to have been tooth marks. | Dr. Oscar Lavine. who conducted the autopsy. said today the wounds ap- peared to have been made by teeth, | although he could not be certain. A number of human hairs found | under the coat sleeve of the strangled | bride-elect were to be submitted te | the Department of Justice along with | a length of wrapping cord found twist. | ed 2round the girl's neck. It was hoped the hairs might be identified with an ‘mdn'idunl later. The heavy wrapping | twine will be tested to determine if it was of the same type 2s some cord | found yesterday in the basement of the Loring home Similarity Revealed. A casual examination revealed the | two lengths of twine were similar. | Police followed up the arrest late | Saturday night of Tear by taking inte | custody Aubrey Hampton. 30, of the [ 1000 block of New Hampshire avenue, a former admirer of Miss Loring. No charges were booked against either Tear or Hampton. Hampton, a Government clerk, had gone out with Miss Loring several | times before the pretty public steno- grapher became engaged about fout months ago to Tear. Police Chief Eugene Plumer of Mount Rainier, said Hampton told him he had not seen Miss Loring since last Summer, when he chanced to have a glimpse of her on a moonlight cruise_on the Potomac in company | with Tear. Will Be Held Another Day. Hampton, who came here from Kene tucky as an enlisted man in the Army, later obtaining a Government posie !tion, was believed to have been at night school at the time Miss Loring | disappeared from her home between 8 and 9 pm. Monday. Police said ooth | young men probably would be held for at least another day until a thor- jough check could be made upon their | movements on the night in question. Chicf Plumer said the first joint was missing from the middle finger of | Tear's right hand. A man’s glove for the right hand found Saturday near the scene of the murder is regarded as a valuable clue. Efforts will be | made to learn if the glove shows signs | of unusual wear in the middle finger, There was nro indication, however, that this is the case. The medium-sized motorist's glove might have fit most any man except one with unusually small or unusually large hands. Tear’s story of his move= Imenls Monday night corresponds with | checks from other sources and only a comparatively short interval remaius | to be proved by other parties. Waited at Fiance’s Home. Tear left night school at McKinley High about 8:30 o’clock Monday night. He drove to the Mount Rainier home of his fiance, learned no one was home and waited for less than half an hour before leaving a note, explaining he had left for work at 9:15. It is almost a half-hour drive to (See SLAYING, Page 4.) WOMAN PILOTS RACE Championship Events Being Held at Long Beach. LONG BEACH, Calif., November 11 (#).—Speed-hungry feminine pilots trundled their planes to the starting line today for the concluding races of the first women's championships | at the Long Beach Municipal Airport. Martie Bowman, in a fleet Waco, proved herself mistress of the airwa; yesterday by winning the 30-mile main event at more than two-mile- a-minute speed. Fay Lucille Cox, a parachute jumper, dabbed her nose with & powder puff, then gave a crowd of 35,000 & brief chill by dropping 10,- 000 feet before jerking the ripcord of her ‘chute a few hundred feet above the airport. n