Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder to- night with lowest temperature about 44 degrees; gentle north or northwest winds. Tempeatures—Highest, 72, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 64, at 7 a.m. tod Full report on page A- Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 9. No. 33,433. STRANDS OF HAIR FOUND AT SCENE OF LORING MURDER MATCH SUSPECTS | Microscopic Examination by | D. C. Criminal Investigator Also Reveals Shreds of Skin Under Victim’s Nails.i TEST OF BLOOD FAILS | TO SHOW ANY POISON| Hicks Refuses to Say Whethe Clues Point to Man or Woman. Confidential Report Submitted | n | T to State’'s Attorney Bowie, i Charge of Probe. Strands of human hair found on the coat sleeve of Corinna Loring, slain | Mount Rainier bride-elect, “pretty | definitely” match the hair of a suspect | in the case, it was learned today. | This disclosure followed microscopic examination of the hair by Robert W. Hicks. a District employe: who has | devoted 10 years to scientific criminal investigations. The tests conducted by Hicks. who | said he participated in the investiga- tion of the murder of the Lindbergh‘ baby. also are said to have resulted in | the discovery of shreds of skin under | the dead girl's fingernails. Exam-| ination of her blood. it was said, failed | to reveal any traces of poison. H Hicks said the physical evidence in the case was turned over to him Sun- day by State's Attorney Alan Bowie, | Hicks said he completed his examina- tions yesterday and submitted a con- fidential, written report to Bowie. ! Although refusing to divulge the contents of his report for fear it “might hamper the investigation.” Hicks confirmed reports he had ex- | amined the hair, blood and finger | nails. He also made a cursory examina- tion of her stomach. | Two Hair Specimens Found. | Hicks refused to say whether the hair found on Miss Loring’s coat sleeve was that of a man or woman. ‘This point, he explained. is of vital importance in the investigation and cannot be cleared up at this time. The hair, he said, was found on the | cuff of the right sleeve, apparently | having been torn from the murderer’s | head during Miss Loring's struggles. | The investigator, it was given two specimens of hair to compare with that found on the coat. ) One sample, however, did not match. | Hicks, an employe in the District | engineer’s office, has devoted all of his spare time during the past 10 years to criminal investigations. He said he expected to “co-operate” with | authorities in the future during the Loring investigation. Investigators assigned to the mur- | der of the 26-year-old bride-elect | complains that the treaty with Cuba | shifted their headquarters to Upper‘ Marlboro, Md., today. as the bereaved | family and friends of the pretty ste- | nographer assembled in the rain to | attend her funeral services at Mount | Rainier Methodist Church. Meanwhile, the investigators at Upper Marlboro. led by Lieut. Joseph Itzel, crack Baltimore detective, pre-| pared this afternoon to question a woman Government clerk from Wash- ington. The woman, Miss Edith Tavenner, 400 block of G street northeast, is| not under arrest, it was empha- sized, but had agreed to go from the Capital to Upper Marlboro for ques- | tioning. | Itzel plans to question at least 50 | persons, including Mr. and Mrs. George | A. Loring, the parents of the murdered | Mount Rainier girl: other members of the Loring family, and at least a score of friends. i Clues Being Analyzed. | Prior to Hicks' disclosures, Itzel #aid he had no idea where a num- | ber of clues to the murder had been | sent by the Prince Georges County and Mount Rainier police, who first investigated the crime. The clues | include the strands of human hair | found under the girl's coat sleeve, a | blood-stained paper napkin, the torn | remnant of a man's coat sleeve, and a | length of twine similar to that found | about the girl's throat. Itzel will work from a headquar- | ters in Bowie's office at the court | house here. After the funeral, he | plans to question Leo Lojacono, a brother-in-law of the slain girl. Lo- | jacono is an intimate friend of Rich- | ard Tear, 29-year-old attendant at | Bt. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Introduced Tear to Girl. | The brother-in-law, who also is | employed at St. Elizabeth’s, intro- tluced Tear to Corinna Loring about four months ago. The couple had been engaged for several months. The two were to have been married in | ‘Washington a week ago today. 1 Miss Loring dropped mysteriously | from sight shortly after 8 o'clock on the night of November 4, only 48 hours before her wedding day. She had been left alone in her par- ents' home at 3110 Beech street, Mount Rainier. Her body was found | Saturday afternoon in a pine thicket about a quarter of a mile from her home. Tear was released yesterday after- noon, following his arrest for inves- tigation Saturday night. Several hours later, police liberated a former suitor of Miss Loring’s, Aubrey Hamp- ton, 30-year-old Government clerk, «no was arrested for questioning Sunday. Itzel hoped to obtain some useful information from Lojacono, who was (See LORING, Page 5.) - Trujillo Trip Opposed. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, November 13 (#).—The As- sembly today by unanimous vote adopted a resolution calling upon President Rafael L. Trujillo not to take his proposed trip to the United Stal Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 7k $2,381,000 Castle Open, but Scotty Won’t Sleep There “l Just Get QOut the Mules and Go Up Into the Rocks,”” He Says. By the Associated Press. THE CASTLE, DEATH VALLEY, Calif., November 13.—Death Valley Scotty, king of America's most deso- late desert, has opened his $2,381,000 castle again—but he shuns its mag- nificent bed room to sleep on the desert rocks. “Why should I sleep here?” asked Death Valley Scotty. “When I want a good sleep, I just get out the mules and go up in the rocks.” He should know—after 35 years in Death Valley, which yielded him gold enough to satisfy his every whim. His bed room is finished in the per- fection of an Aladdin's dream. The | bed is hand carved. The rugs, made in | Spain, are an inch thick. There are pictures of Buffalo Bill Cody and P. | T. Barnum and draperies which cost | enough to build a bungalow. CANADA PACT GETS RODSEVELT'S 0. K Reciprocal Trade Treaty Is Under Fire of Lumber and Cattle Interests. By the Associated Press, President Roosevelt said at press conference today that he had signed an authorization for the Gov-| ernment’s signature of the Canadian- America~ reciprocal trade treaty. Che WASHINGTON, D. C, his | ITALIANSREPORTED I ADVANCE UPON HARAR AND J1JA | Force Believed Attempting to Encircle Ethiopians on Southern Front. ADDIS ABABA REPORTS | VICTORY IN 2 FIGHTS Mussolini and Drummond Talk Over Methods of Easing [ European Tension. By the Associated Press. A new threat to the cities of Harar | and Jijiga, focal points of Ethiopian | defense, was seen today in uncon- | firmed reports reaching Harar that two | motorized Italian columns were mov- | ing into advanced positions in the | | South while the northern Italian Army | occupied new territory. A motorized force was reported to be | rapidly circling the Ethiopian left wing on the southern front and ap- proaching Sasa Beneh, 155 miles southeast of Harar. Another such | | force was said to be advancing in the | | valley of the Webbe Shibeli toward | the Bale district, 125 miles southwest | of Harar. | Gen, Emilio de Bono. Fascist com- | mander in chief, informed Rome that the first army corps in the north oc- cupied the Dessa region and joined the | Danakil column. | Northern Line Extended. He declared the northern line was extended westward to the Takkaze River and the native army corps com- pleted occupation of the Gheralca re- He sald no time has been set for | signing the treaty. Mackenzie King of Canada is expected here tomorrow, however. States. Under the reciprocal tariff act the President first must formally author- ize signature and, after the treaty is signed, must give his official ap- proval. The Chief Executive customarily does not sign the actual treaty. Tariff Scale Not Revealed. There still was no official ifdication as to what provisions for mutual tariff reductions the Canadian-American compact contains, but it was believed details probably would be made public at the time of signing. Reports and apprehensions of what may be contained in it have brought threats of court attacks on its consti- tutionality from cattle and lumber re- gions, A rumored slash of 50 per cent {n lumber duties evoked from Dr. Wilson was learned, | Compton, manager of the National | Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, a declaration that such a move would be “selling the lumber industry down the river.” In Chicago, doubts over the agree- ment’s terms contributed to a bearish market. Court Test Looms. The legal attack on the reciprocal | tariff act is planaed by the Florida | Agricultural Tariff Association. It is operating to the disadvantage of Florida fruit and vegetable producers. The law will be challenged, it was said, as an unconstitutional delegation of power by Congress. In the face of these developments, Secretary Hull said at a press confer- ence that the department is “losing no sleep” over the question of the act’s constitutionality. ‘The law permits the President to reduce tariff rates by as much as 50 per cent, in return for similar con- cessions from foreign countries. Since its enactment it has been challenged frequently with Senators Vandenberg. Repub- lican, of Michigan, and Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa, among leaders @f the attack. THREE SEEK SENATE JOB TO SUCCEED LONG| Gov. Allen, Shreveport Lawyer and Alexandria Sociologist File for Race. BATON ROUGE, La., November 13 (#).—There were three announced candidates for election to the re- mainder of the late Huey P. Long's Senate term today after midnight ex- | piration of the time limit for filing of candidacy intentions. The three were, in the order of filing, Gov. O. K. Allen, Frank J. Looney, Shreveport, La., attorney, and Dr. Irving Ward-Steinman, Alexan- dria, La., sociologist. ‘Ward-Steinman was the last to an- | nounce his candidacy, submitting his qualification papers just before the filing time limit. Already a candidate for the full Senate \term beginning in January, 1937, he said would seek election for the “ehort term” as well. S , Secretary who is in charge of the investigation. Hull probably will sign for the United | in Congress, | Prime Minister| ~ prom Makale it was reported the | | northern Ethiopian warriors were | clashing daily in skirmishes with Pre- | mier Mussolini’s soldiers. Italian offi- | | cers saw the Ethiopian tactics as at- | tempts to harass the Italians in de- | | fending their communications, while | | Haile Selassie's men had time to con- | | centrate at Amba Alaji, 40 miles south ! of the captured Makale. | A Reuters dispatch from Harar said reports circulated there that Italian | airplanes had left Daggan Bur, 125 { miles southeast, for Harar. Planes Over Jijiga. Ttalian scouting planes flew over | Jijiga, advices from Addis Ababa said. | as the Italian military command pub- lished its views of prospective Ethio- | pian defense movements. | Possession of Harar and Jijiga would | constitute one of the steps necessary to extend the Fascist line joining the | two Italian colonies. | “The offensive capacity of the enemy cannot last' because he cannot | | be fed continually with fresh troops | |and the right supplies,” the Italian | military view said | The movement of the northern }mrces westward along the Takkaze | River pointed toward the Lake Tana region, seat of British power interests. Fight Reported in Ogaden. | | An official communique from Addis | Ababa said both sides suffered many casualties during an engagement yes- terday near Anele, Ogaden Province, {on the southern front. In another | engagement the Ethiopians chased the Italians out of position, the report said. In a northern engagement yesterday, | | the Ethiopians took the offensive, at- | tacked an Italian column, killed the commander and scattered the unit.| Eight Ethiopians died in this last en- counter, while the Italians lost “many | more,” the communique asserted. The main combat in Ogaden Prov- | ince, through which a great Fascist force under Gen. Rudolfo Graziani has been advancing from Italian Somali- land, was reported waged between | Ethiopian infantry and Italian tank| | and machine gun units. i The Italians turned a deadly fire on| the native foot soldiers, the Ethiopian | communique said, but Emperor Haile| Selassie’s forces succeeded in capturing four tanks after a sanguinary struggle | in which the Anele field was strewn | with dead. While the invasion proceeded. Pre- | mier Mussolini and Sir Eric Drum- mond, British Ambassador, discussed methods of relieving European ten- sions. Authoritative British sources, mean- time, said Britain would deliver a new rebuff to Mussolini by withhold- ing an individual reply to Italy’s note protesting the application ot League sanctions. Inasmuch as the nations are acting | jointly at Geneva, this source said, | there are no grounds for individual notes of protest and therefore Great Britain feels that a reply should be torwarded only after exchanges of views leading up to a joint answer. Such exchanges, it was said, have not been begun. Credit facilities of a London man- ufacture. of perfumes supplied from Italy were withdrawn. Many govern- ments weighed an answer to Musso- lini's note. threatening reprisals if economic sanctions are applied No- vember 18, the scheduled date. C.C.C. BossHang Police Scout By the Associated Press. RIPLEY, W. Va., November 13.— Three hunters found the flaming body of J. Fulton Gunnoe, 45-year-old C. C. C. camp foreman, hanging from a tree 4 miles from this mountain town early today. Investigators expressed conflicting opinions as to how he met death. Coroner C. R. Kessel, after exam- ining the charred body, said he be- lieved Gunnoe committed suicide. Police Lieut. James H. Fillinger con- tended the map was slain. The hunters sav the blazing body from the woods which fringe this community, about 40 miles from Charleston. The glare came from the farm of James Elliott, only 150 yards from a main highway. One of the men, Albert Hysell, 31, a son-in-law of Elliott, said they were afraid to approach. Fencing wire had been wrapped around the man's neck. ed and Burned; Suicide Theory Coroner Kessel sald Gunnoe was alive when the body was set afire, contrary to the opinion given by Lieut. Fillinger. The lieutenant said, “It can't have been suicide. We are working on a murder theory.” Two gasoline cans and a box of matches were found under the tree. Lieut. Fillinger sent them to finger- | print experts in Charleston. Gunnoe, reputed well-to-do at one | time, resigned as a deputy sheriff of adjacent Raleigh County in April. Acquaintances said he left the C. C. C. camp last night for a walk. They described him as a good-natured “boss” with no enemies. Several per- | sons saw Gunnoe on the street later | wearing a raincoat. The raincoat has | not been found. Gunrioe's widow lives in the mining community of Sundial, in Raleigh | County~ A | of Maryland and Virginia | of North China. | 17, 1927, he lost the key city of Hang- Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ‘WEDNESDAY, | HOPE THAT WISCONSIN CHEESE LEAVES A BETTER TASTE ny Star = » The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,128 Some Returns Not Yet Received NOVEMBER 13, 1935—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. IN YOUR MOUTH THAN \T | DID IN MINE ! Bus Companies Cab A4 Carry Safety to Reduce Traffic Toll—Sugges- tions Are Traffic Deaths to November 13 Offered. —95: Same Period. 1934—108 NAVIN, BASE BALL Campaign Into Border Statesi GLUB []WNER, DlES‘ ociation Also Joins Star Drive| {Boss of Champion Tigers Stricken While Riding Horse at Detroit. By the Associsted Press DETROIT, November 13 —Frank J. | | Navin, 64, owner of base ball's world % 35 3k ok 00T N INTERES *RATES BY BANKS \Expansion of Loans Held Essential for Recovery if Properly Used. 6 PER CENT MORTGAGE | EXAMPLE OF PRINCIPLE “Pirate Rates” of South and West of Former Years Believed at End. By the Associtted Press President Roosevelt expressed hope today that interest rates would be lowered so as to make large bank reserves more useful in the drive for recovery. ‘Talking with newspaper men. the President agreed that expanded bank portfolios would play a very essential part in recovery if properly used He added that if this money were not used in a reasonable way the large deposits would slow up recovery. He cited an instance of a man in the East who contracted to buy a farm. This man was able to pay 60 per cent cash and required a mort- gage for the other 40 per cent This fellow shopped around, the President said, and the best rate he could get was 6 per cent on & mort- gage. He added there were lots of cases like that, slowing recovery. The President said he did believe that the old “pirate rates” which pre- vailed in the South and West for years had been largely eliminated. | Asked if bank examiners were com- plaining to bankers against real estate loans, he replied that he thought this | was the case only where banks had excessive loans of that kind. PROSPEROUS PERIOD SEEN. Carrying the campaign for streeitaken the pledging of the drivers of champions, the Detroit Tigers, and | o 0 L Tp (0 b e and highway safety throughout the District and into the nearby Younties in their public service operations. two bus companies and a taxicab company have just joined The Evening Star | Safety Council and now are engaged in pledging all their drivers to strict compliance with the 12 primary safe- driving rules of the council. The Terminal Transportation Cab Association, under the leadership of L. N. Mouser, president, and Adrian A. Duvall, chairman of the Advisory Board of the association, has under- its fleet of 200 cabs as members of | vice president of the American League, | At the same died in a hospital today an hour after | the Star Safety Council. Spending Urged. time. Mouser called upon all District ' he fell, stricken with a heart attack.| gy ine Associated Press. transportation companies. individual drivers and pedestrians to assist in the campaign for safe driving and walking. With “safety of operation™ as the company slogan, the Washington, Marlboro & Annapolis Motor Lines, one of the pioneer bus companies in Washington, has joined The Star safe- | driving campaign to aid in decreasing the number of traffic fatalities in| Droeger, Mrs. Navin made a frantic T |search of the riding grounds for 15| minutes before discovering her hus-| " (See SAFETY, Page 8.) REBEL WAR LORD SLAIN BY WOMAN Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang Shot While Attending Buddhist Meeting. By the Associated Press. | TIENTSIN. November 13 —A woman | assassin today killed Marshal Sun| Chuan-Fang, bitter opponent of the Nanking government and often men- tioned as the possible choice of Japan to lead an independence movement Sun, formerly one of China's most powerful war lords, was shot -while | attending a Buddhist meeting in the | Chinese section of the city by a well- | dressed Chinese woman. She emptied her revolver into Sun’s | body. then calmly surrendered to the | police. The assassin was reported to be the | daughter of the late Gen. Sze Chung- Pin, for whose execution she was as- | serted to have held Sun responsible. Added Provinces to Power. Marshal Sun once was one of the| most powerful war lords of China. In/ 1923 he was governor of Chekiang | Province. Later he became military governor of Fukien Province, then was placed in control of the whole lower Yangtze area. By 1926 he was in control of Che- | kiang, Kiagsu, Fukien, and Kiangsi| provinces. On September 9 of that year, alleging that his territory .had been attacked by the Cantonese un- der Soviet influence, he declared war on the Canton government. For a month he was successful in | battle, then, weakened by the deser- tion of various allied generals, he was beaten back by the southern armies. Lost Key City in 1927. By February of 1927 he was forced back to Chuchow and, on February chow to the advancing Cantonese. At one time it was reported he might flee to Japan for safety. How- ever, with reinforcements, he retired to the lower Yangtse Valley, reor- eanized his forces and kept on fight- ing until June, 1928, when he resigned command of the Shantung and Chihli armies, to be replaced by Gen. Chi Hsien-Yuan. Peru Protests to Ecuador. LIMA, Peru, November 13 (#).—A foreign ministry communique made public today said Peru “repeatedly has protested” against the presence of Ecuadorean Army detachments on the Northern boundary of Peru. “UNDER THE GOAL POSTS” A Thrilling New Serial of COLLEGE FOOT BALL —by— Eddie Dooley . All-American Quarterback and Sports Writer BEGINS TODAY 1. -SOVIET-CHINA PACT IS TOKICRY Papers Allege Military Treaty as Cabinet Pre- pares to Frame Budget. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, November 13.—A majority of the afternoon vernacular news- papers gave great prominence today to dispatches from Hsinking, Manchu- kuo, of “reports reaching certain quar- ters” that a secret tri-partite agree- ment between the United States, So- viet Russia and China was imminent. The reports alleged that Maxim Lit- from his horse at the Detroit Riding and Hunt Club. First inkling of the tragedy came ! when Mrs. Navin, riding back of the widely known sportsman on the bridle path, saw his gentle Irish jumper | galloping toward her, riderless. Mrs. Navin followed the horse to the stable and with L. W. Droeger, | manager of the hunt club, and Mrs. band in a clump of tall grass. ' Found Unconscious. | The base ball owner was unconscious, one arm thrown across his chest. He was hurriedly removed to a hospital, where he died in a few minuts. Dr. J. P. Leonard said there were no bruises on the body and said that a heart attack caused his death. At- tendants at the club said there was no | evidence he had been thrown from the horse. | Navin is survived by his wodow, and a nephew, Charles F. Navin, secretary of the club, who now is in a sanitarium | at Battle Creek, Mich. | Navin's sudden death ended a 30- | year career in big time base ball which sporting luck happily crowned with a world’s championship early in Octo- | ber—his only one in three decades of | competition. | Around him through the years “Poker-Face” Navin gathered some of the brightest stars of the diamond from the days of Ty Cobb down to NEW ORLEANS, November 13.— | A prosperous period for banks and business was predicted today before the American Bankers' Association by a Government official and a British economist, while an industrial leader demanded a reduction in taxes and the cost of Government. | J. F. T. OConnor, controlier of currency, said the current six-months’ period would be the best for banks in the last four years and Maj. L. L. B. Angas said he expected a boom | that would include heavy industries | and retail trade. Lewis H. Brown, president of the Johns-Manville Corp.,, sought to en- | list the aid of the bankers in a | drive for lower taxes and less cost in Government. | Declaring that national banks had made a profit of 3.93 per cent on capital in the first six months of 1935, the national bank chief deliv- ered an optimistic address. “It has always been my custom simply to present the facts and never to make a prophecy.” he said. “These | facts, however, and my general knowl- | edge of the banking situation impel | me now to predict that the present | six-month period will be the best | the banks of the Nation have en- joyed for more than four years.” | 1,423 in Receivership. | O'Connor confined his remarks | mainly to rehabilitation work in the national bank field. He disclosed in (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT URGES CHEST TOTAL HITS §adB.347 IN' FIRST ~ S DAYS OF DRIVE Returns Show Nearly 30 Per Cent of Goal Figure Is Raised. iDICKINSON APPEALS | FOR LARGER DONATIONS Need Cited for Funds to Supplant | Direct Aid Withdrawn by Government. Pushing well beyond the half-million mark in their drive for $1,877.900, the Community Chest campaigners today reported contributions from 36616 Chest supporters totaling for the first three days of the campaign $558.374 The returns, constituting nearly 30 per cent of the minimum goal. were tabulated at a luncheon meeting of leaders and workers in the large ball room of the Willard Hotel this after- noon John Dickinson, Assistant Attornev General and vice chairman of the Governmental Unit in the campaign, gave an inspirational address to the canvassers. He expressed the hope they will be able to secure increased contributions this vear to meet heavier burdens confronting the Chest and 65 member agencies. “Best Possible Cause.” “The Community Chest,” he de- clared, “is the best possible cause for which you could be exerting your ef- forts. It is a cause that bears on our community responsibility to the sick and needy, the aged and the children “We have a direct challege before us this year—a higher goal and more difficult problems; but there is a spirit of optimism abroad in the land today, a feeling of thankfulness for blessings that have come to many of the peo) This is the time to get the citizenr: to re these blessings with the who are iess fortunate The Special Assignment Unit report- ed a total of $213.061 from 226 givers, representing 37.18 per cent of the unit's quota of $573,000. The Metro- politan Unit reported $62,162 from 3.455 givers. or 27 per cent of its quota of $230.000. The Governmental Unit reported $195403 from 25585 givers, or 28 per cent of its quota of $677,000. The Group Solicitation Unit reported $86,940 from 7,225 giv- ers, or 22 per cent of quota of $388.000. Campaign Chairman Wil- liam McClellan presided. Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss. chairman of the Speakers’ Bureau, advanced & ! thought-provoking suggestion in ad= dressing employes of the Potomae Electric Power Co. today. Before signing for any specific amount on & Chest pledge card, sne said, prospec tive contributors should divide e sum they had planned to give by 65, the number of Chest agencies, and figure out for themselves how much each agency will receive from their gifts. “Extra” Money Needed Declaring that cutting off of direct Federal relief in the District has brought “hundreds of families” face to face with the threat of starvation unless extra money from private | sources is provided through the Chest, Milton A. Smith, of the Speakers' | Bureau, made a plea for generous con= tributions at a meeting of 1300 em- ployes of the Government Printing | Office last night. “Of the 20.000 families now on re- | lief in the District, only those having :pn(’( was tantamount to an amance.i | scheduled to begin framing its 1936- Mickey Cochrane. News of his death hit like a bomb- shell in the city where he had made base ball a big business from April to October. Cochrane Move Lauded. The fans in Tiger town who knew all the details of Navin's base ball story from the turn of the century, had hailed him with louder cheers since the day he bought Mickey Coch- rane for $100.000 from Connie Mack vinoff. Soviet foreign commissar, and W. W. Yen, Chinese Ambassador to Russia, had already concluded the pact, which the United States was ex. pected to join shortly. The agreement. | the dispatches said, would obligate the | signatories to maintain armed forces | in the Orient to preserve peace there. | It was stated the Chinese-Russian Authoritative quarters said the re- | ports emanated from the headquarters ! of the Japanese Army in Manchu- | kuo. = Non-Japanese authorities, familiar | with Oriental propaganda, pointed out the story was given out just | before the Japanese cabinet was | pery catcher as manager of the Tiger club. That was the dawn of a new ball, brought on two league pennants 1937 budget. | and one world championship, and 4 | shifted the seat of American League Tokio newspaper reports of a secret | military alliance between the United | New York. States, Soviet Russia and China were | One million home town fans banged of Philadelphia, and installed the pep-] championship era for Detroit base | base ball supremacy westward from On Page A-13 described today at the State Depart- | ment as too “silly and ridiculous” to deserve notice. Service to Buyer and Seller Advertising is of real value to the reader when the merchant offers the newest, best and most desirable merchandise. The value of circulation to a merchant is the cost of the advertising in relation to pur- chasing power of the readers. “Advertising in The Star renders the greatest service to both buyer and seller. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines. The Evening Star_ 35,605 2nd Newspaper___ 21,465 3rd Newspaper___ 11,461 4th Newspaper___ 8,525 5th Newspaper___ 6,947 Total ( newdavers. ) 48,398 Due to its great circulation concentrated in and about Washington and its volume of advertising, which is the greatest in the United States, The Star is able to furnish both reader and advertiser the greatest value- at the lowest cost. the turnstiles into Navin Field in the years of base ball ownership. Adrian, Mich,, one of nine children of Thomas and Eliza Crotty Navin, natives of Ireland. He studied law, but persuaded ‘Thomas H. Yawkey, multimillionaire lumberman, to join with him in the purchase of the Detroit Base Ball Co. in 1902. He took over the manager- ship of the club and thereafter de- voted all his time to building it " (See NAVIN, Page 7.) 1935 season, the richest in Navin's | | | | chairman of the Federal Deposit In- this connection that there are still | no emplovable members—about 5,000— 1.423 national banks in receivership, | will be givén payments from remain= of which 593, with deposits of $1.- | ing Federal funds he said. “Of the 067.524,707, hdve been placed in re- | other 15.000. those families in which ceivership since March 16, 1933. no one can find a place in the works O'Connor, like Leo T. Crowley. |progress plan or private industry are faced with enduring many privations " (See CHEST, Page 7.) . FRENCH NAvY Funps | FIRE KILLS EIGHT BOOSTED $34,190,000 CHILDREN IN HOME Budget Figures Disclose Increased Parents Escape After Vain Effort to Save North Carolina Farm Victims. | By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. ALEXIS., N. C. November 13— PARIS, November 13.—France will Eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert increase her naval expenditures during | Cunningham. farm couple, were surance Corp.. who spoke yesterday. (See BANKERS, Page 4) Expenditures for 1936—Main- tenance Cost Drops. 1936 by 526,000,000 francs (about $34,190,000) over 1935, budget figures | published today disclosed. | Navin was born April 18, 1871, in | ‘The country will spend 3.429,000,000 francs (about $223,500,000) on the navy, for items which include the addi- tion of 4,650 men. Naval maintenance costs are lower, however, because of reductions in pensions and indemnities ordered under Premier Laval's decree laws and a drop in supply costs. Maintenance was estimated at 1.144.000.000 francs for 1936, compared to 1,228,000,000 francs in 1935. | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, November 13.—Ernest Elmer Baker, long, rangy bricklayer and cowboy from Menard, Tex., who walked across part of Germany and all of Poland to preach the gospel to the Bolsheviks, arrived in Moscow today. It is a year and nine months since his departure from Menard. He was brought here by two Soviet guards from a hospital near Minsk, where he had been for the past two and a half months, and turned over to the United States Embassy. The embassy has made arrangements to send him nome. Previous to his hospitalization, Baker spent almost a year in a de- tention camp near the Polish border, having been picked up shortly after entering the Soviet Union. He had entered unnoticed over a swamp. “I asked the Russians why they } Texan Taking Gospel to Soviet To Be Sent Home by Embassy} were carrying those six-shooters,” | Baker said, discussing his capture. | “I told them Jesus Christ was the | greatest of the Communists because he was the friend of the working man and the poor, so they didn't need to go around carrying guns.” His captors spoke no English, he said, nor did anybody at the deten- tion camp. His presence there be- came known here nine months after | his seizure. * Then Angus Teward, | head of the consular section of the | embassy, went to see him and began | the negotiations which led to his re- | patriation. | Baker, 39 years old and well over 6 feet tall, arrived in Moscow wear- | ing hob-nailed boots, soiled khaki | breeches and shirt, a heavy padded | coat and a fur hat, all gifts of Rus- sians. He appeared in good health after his rest in the hospital and said the Rusisans had treated him consid- erately. 2 it burned to death early today as fire swept their six-room, frame dwelling rear here. Cunningham and his wife were burned, but not seriously. Trapped and burned to death in the blaze were Robert Cunningham, 19; Thomas, 15: Louise, 7: Nellie, > Grace, 10; Jack, 2; Juanita, 4, and Ruth, 11 months. Mrs. Cunningham said she and her husband awoke to find the house in flames and she tried to go to the room where seven of the children were sleeping, but flames drove her back. She then sought to return to her room where she had left Ruth, she said, but it was enveloped in flames. , She and her husband escaped by the rear door. The house, a six-room, two-story frame farm home which Cunningham, a former Gastonia taxi driver, had rented last Spring, burned to the ground. It belonged to Giles Stroupe, Alexis farmer. Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics - Cross-word Puzzle. 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