Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; contin- ued cool, minimum temperature tonight about* 35 degrees; gentle to moderate north winds. Temperatures—Highest, 86, at 2:30 pm. yesterday; lowest, 38, at 7 am. today. Full report on page A-5. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,594. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @h WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Eoening Star Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,599 (SBome returns not yet recetved.) Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 3P (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. RESCUERS REACH TWO MEN IN MINE SELASSE PLACES| 5500000 LUNPNEW TAX NEASLRE PAR FOUND ALNE SUM 1S RESTORED S GVENTO OLSE: IN DEEP SHAFT AS Slides Safely WISH CAPITOL HILL WOULD LET ME ALONE. I'M GETTIN' ALONG oXK! \ CROWN PRINCE IN CONTROL AS TROOP BT 1 RUNORED Orders Son to Take Over Government, While He Leads Army in Last Stand Against Italians. TAKES UP DEFENSE IN MOUNTAIN PEAKS | § Emperor Reported to Be Success-| ful in Holding Up Enemy Ad- vance at Warra Hailu, 70 Miles South of Dessye—Fear Decreases in Capital. BACKGROUND— Ethiopian troops, making stand in high passes of Shoan Mountains, hope to repulse the hard-pressed Italian drive toward Addis Ababa, capital of the African country. The Italian northern army, push- ing hard to complete its invasion and absolute submission of Em- peror Haile Selassie before the rainy season sets in, has captured Dessye, former field headquarters of the King of Kings. By the Associater ~-ess. ADDIS ABABA, April 22— Crown Prince Asfa Wosan took control of the Ethiopian govern- ment today on direct orders from his father, Emperor Haile Se- lassie. The prince returned to the capital from the fighting front in the midst of reports that his father's troops had revolted in mutiny against him in the northern sector. The prince established his headquarters here. Meanwhile, Halie Selassie was un- | derstood to be making his last stand against Italian troops moving south- ward from Dessye. Earlier in the day the Emperor was reported to be successful in holding up the advance at Warra Hailu, 70 miles south of Dessye. Takes Stand in Mountains. It was stated that the King of Kings and his men have taken a position on the 9,000-foot-high moun- tain pass in that region to defend the capital against the strong Italian col- umn coming from the morth. As a result of the Emperor’'s opera- tions, the fears of the population of Addis Ababa decreased. The run on the Bank of Ethiopia eased off as the Italian occupation of the capital appeared more distant, and the British officials of the insti- tution decided to keep operating in- definitely. Earlier they had announced their intention of closing the bank April 24. Some shops in the cley also seopened. U. S. Minister Plays Polo, The report that the Italians are eloser to the capital are not interfer- ing with the polo game of Cornelius (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) Landon’s Gree;ing Nearly Makes Him Lose Train Ticket Kansas Governor Visits Oklahdma ‘Homestead ! Run’ Re-enacting. By the Associated Press. GUTHRIE, Okla., April 22.—Okla- homa’s first capital rippled back the pages of history today in a gay and glamorous re-enactment of the “home- stead run” of 1889, with Gov. Alf M. ZLandon of Kansas as the honor guest. Gov. Landon was the principal in an amusing incident upon his arrival. A delegation of costumed and bewhis- Xered greeters had begun to shake Landon’s hand at the railroad station when he broke from the group and dashed toward his departing train. The train stopped and one of Lan- don's party swung aboard to retrieve the Governor's $4 return ticket stub. Landon said he had forgotten it. Thousands of visitors thronged the bunting-draped streets of the city which grew from the “run” of 1889, when Oklahoma Territory was opened to settlement. Answers to Questions. Comics Cross-word Puzzle Sports ... A-12-13- Washington Wayside..._B-18 ‘Women's Features .._B-11-12 Judge E. A, Stowater, 74, shown holding the rope on which he slid to safety and rescued another in an earl morning fire at an Elevent, street rooming house. His it_ands were scorched by fric- on. TWO ESCAPE FIRE WITH GLOTHESLINE | Retired Judge, 74, Slides to Safety and Then Aids Another. A T4-year-old retired judge rescued himself and a young business college teacher with a clothesline early today when fire routed them and fellow roomers from their beds at 1111 Elev- enth street. The fire was one of five in the Dis- trict during the last 24 hours. Others were at the new Interior Department Building; a four-story apartment house at 1701 Park road; a seed ware- house at 411 New York avénue north- east and a residence at 122 M street southwest. The apartment house fire drove about 200 persons into the street. In the Eleventh street blaze, fire- men rescued L. C. Smith, whose warning awakened the retired jurist, E. A. Stowater, formerly of the Lin- coln, Nebr., Probate Court. Judge Stowater’s foresight in buying a 50-foot clothesline recently when he noticed the lodging house had no fire escape probably saved him and E. E. Mangus, 29, a teacher at Poteet’s Bus- iness College, from serious injury. Flees in Pajamas. The blaze broke out about 5:30 am. in a second-floor front room oc- cupied by Robert Colby, 24. Colby, pajama clad, grabbed two suits and galloped to the sidewalk. He donned one of the suits and borrowed a pair of shoes. Smith ran from his fourth-floor room and banged on Judge Stowater’s door, yelling, “Fire!” . The ex-judge attached the clothes~ line to his bed, ran to the window and slid to the roof of an adjoining house. His palms were scorched by friction ard he was treated at gency Hospital. Meanwhile, Emile Bernston, 30, a dancing teacher, clambered from his third-floor window and joined Judge Stowater on the roof. They saw Mangus, at a fourth-floor window, (See FIRE, Page 3.) - VON SEECKT APPOINTED Hitler Gives Him Regiment Com- mand as 70th Birthday Gift. BERLIN, April 22 (#).—Chancellor Adolf Hitler today appointed Maj. Gen. Hans von Seeckt to the command of an infantry regiment on the occasion of the old warrior's 70th birthday an- niversary. In a letter to the former comman- der of the Reichswehr, Hitler eulogized Von Seeckt's merits as creator of the German Army whose chief he was from 1920 to 1926, It was recalled that Von Seeckt once described war as “man’s highest achievement.” BY SENATE BODY Bill Carrying $43,860,129 Is Reported Out by Appro- priations Committee. SUM $1,286,837 INCREASE OVER HOUSE MEASURE Provisions Made for Court Build- ing, Chain Bridge and East- ern High School. BY J. A. O'LEARY. ‘With the Federal share restored to the budget figure of $5700,000, the 1937 District appropriation bill was reported out by the Senate Appropria- tions Committee today, carrying a total of $43,860,129. This is an increase of $1.286837 over the House bill, which passed more than a month ago, containing $42,573,- 283, but with a Federal payment of only $2,700,000, which would have left the District facing a huge deficit for the coming year. The Senate Committee retained the several construction projects the House had 1nserted over and above budget estimates, including $1,000,000 to begin a new Police Court Building, $250,000 to commence reconstruction of Chain Bridge, and $353,000 to enlarge East- ern High School. Reductions Restored. In addition, the Senate committee restored generally reductions the Housé had made in numerous miscel- laneous maintenance items and put in several new items not in either the budget or the House bill. High lights of the Senate revision of the bill are: Character education, $78,660, stored for another year. Fifty additional men allowed the Police Department. To improve conditions at the Na- tional Tralning School for Girls, $100,000. For an addition to Alice Deal Junior High School, $165,000. For a stadium and athletic field at ‘Woodrow Wilson High School, $83,000. The Senate committee did not go above budget estimates for public health and hospital r:aintenance, but did restore cuts the House had made in the budget figures for these pur- poses. Remove Threat of Deficit. ‘The Senate changes remove the threat of a deficit under the House bill and give Washington a substan- | tially balanced budget on the basis of | continuing the Federal payment at | tnis year's figure of $5,700,000. The committee authorized the offer- ing of two amendments on the floor of the Senate, one to permit installa- tion of automobile parking meters on District streets, and the other to re- quire snow removal from sidewalks. ‘These were part of a group of pro- posed amendments District officiais had submitted for consideration fol- lowing a hearing on traffic problems 10 days ago. The Senate committee struck out the House proviso which would have prevented District officials or employes who received $2,400 or more a year from engaging in any outside employ- ment. This rier would have been es- pecially serious in the health and wel- fare activities, where, it was feared, physicians could not be induced to pefform public service if confined to their District salary. It also would have affected some school teachers and certain other officials who teach in evening classes. Library Funds Increased. ‘The free Public Library system was given an increase of $20,000 for the (See D. C. BILL Page 3.) UTILITY LAW ASSAILED Former Illinois Justice Charges Unconstitutionality. ST. LOUIS, April 22 (#)—The New Deal’s public utility holding company law last night was assailed as “viola- ting more provisions of the Consti- tution than any law previously enacted” by Floyd E. Thompson of Chicago, former Illinois Supreme Court justice and president of the Illinois Bar Association. re- Tugwell’s Daughter, 12, to Help Dogs Attain Marcia Tugwell, 12-year-old daugh- ter of Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell, today launched an enterprise to afford dogs the more abundant life envisioned for all Amer- icans by her father, Marcia is conducting a dog laundry for pets in the neighborhood of the Tugwell home, 1731 Hoban road. She is assisted in her business by Mary Prances Cottrell, daughter of Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Washington Board of Trade, and Joyce Helmick, daughter of Maj. C. G. Helmick, U. 8. A. Both are 12 years old, too, and live at 4466 Reser- voir road and 1719 Hoban road, re- spectively. ‘The young laundry operators are distributing a neatly typewritten cir- cular, which proclaims: . “Dog Laundry—by Joyce Helmick, Marcia Tugwell and Mary Frances Cottrell. “Notice—These dogs must be good- natured, but if you are not sure of your dog's nature, please furnish a Abundant Life muzzle. We cannot wash large dogs.” ‘The notice then lists the proprietors’ ftelephone numbers and announces Minority Hits Plan as “Vicious Threat to Sta- bility of Business.” LEVIES ON CORPORATION NET INCOME ASKED Hard Fight on Proposal Seen as G. 0. P. Outlines Objections. Debate to Begin. BACKGROUND— 4 Much to distress of Democratic members of Congress, President Roosevelt last February asked new taxr legislation by which entire structure of corporate tazation would be revised. Emphasis on taring wundistributed profits was made, although companion sugges- tion of bringing dividend income within normal income tar range probably would have brought greater revenue. After mearly two months of de- liberations, House Ways and Means Committee reported bill yesterday. Legislation now ranks with relief appropriation as two major issues, barring adjournment of Congress, By the Assoctated Press. Estimating the revenue yield at $803,000,000, the Ways and Means Committee majority formally recom- | mended its new tax bill to the House today as a means of correcting “the | greatest defect in our present system | of taxation.” The Republican minority already had called the tax plan drafted on | President Roosevelt's suggestions “a vicious threat to the stability of busi- ness and employment.” The opposing views foretold the heated controversy into which the 249-page bill headed as leaders set aside tomorrow for opening debate. ‘The Democratic committee majority, filing its report on the bill, said the new plan of taxing corporation net income, with rates fixed according to the proportion of earnings undistribut- ed, would provide the remedy for the major defect in the existing tax system by which “surtaxes on individuals are avoided by impounding income in corporate surpluses.” Method of Taxation. Chief purposes of the proposed change in the method of taxing corporate incomes, the report said, were: To prevent avoidance of surtax by individuals through the accumulation of incomes by corporations; to remove serious inequities and inequalities be- tween corporate, partnership, and in- dividual forms of business organiza- tions, and to remove the inequity as between large and small shareholders resulting from the present flat cor- porate rates. The committee majority conceded that its tax program would not come up to the revenue requirements out- lined by President Roosevelt for the next three years. Mr. Roosevelt's sug- gestion that processing taxes be in- cluded was omitted entirely. The report said the new corpora- tion tax system “is estimated to pro- duce an average of at least $620,000,- 000 in additional revenue annually (See TAXES, Page 3.) CAPITAL’S WEATHER OUTLOOK IS BLEAK Mercury Expected to Drop to 35 Degrees Tomorrowv, With 60 Maximum. Bleak weather was in prospect today as the Capital shivered after a 48-de- gree drop in temperature during the last 24 hours. The forecast for today was cloudy, with a maximum temperature of about 48. The mercury is expected to fall to about 35 early tomorrow, remaining around the 50 mark in the afternoon. After setting a high record for the year at 2:30 p.m. yesterday, when it climbed tp nearly 86, the temperature shot down during the cold rain last night. By 7 a.m. today it had fallen to 38. By ‘The official temperature was 85.7 degrees, .2 of a degree above the pre- vious high mark, recorded last Wed- nesday. ‘Winds that reached a velocity of 51 miles an hour at 5:30 p.m. yes- terday gave pilots some uneasy mo- ments at Washington Airport as they brought their planes in. No mishaps 22 il <o .. OFFERS 35,000 FORKARPIS ARREST Reward of $2,500 for Data on Harry Campbell Also Announced. BY REX COLLIER. Alvin Karpis, fugitive leader of the | disrupted Karpis-Barker gang of kid- napers and bandits and so-called| “public enemy No. 1,” today had the dubious distinction of having a price of $5,000 placed on him by the Justice Department. Harry Campbell, fellow gangster and companion of Karpis in the latter's several sensational escapes from the law, was valued at only half that amount in a department statement. Attorney General Cummings fixed rewards totaling $7,500 for informa- tion leading to arrest of the two des- peradoes, wanted in connection with numerous State and Federal crimes. The rewards were announced in| thousands of “wanted” posters sent throughout the Nation today by J. Ed- gar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Karpis Flees Trap. Karpis, named by Hoover as one of the ringleaders in the $100,000 kid- naping of William A. Hamm, jr., St. Paul brewer, and the $200,000 abduc- | tion six months later of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul bank president, is reported to have fled recently from a hideout near Hot Springs, Ark. just before G-men arrived to raid it. Hoover announced the Attorney General will pass on all claims to the rewards and no part of the money “shall be paid to any official or em- ploye of the Department of Justice.” Reward in Dillinger Case. It was a similar reward of $5,000 which induced Mrs. Anna Sage, some- times called the “woman in red,” to lead Johm Dillinger into a trap set by Federal agents at a Chicago movie theater. “Lester Gillis, alias “Baby Face” Nelson, slayer of two of Hoover’s men in a gun battle near Barrington, Ill, is the only other fugitive for whom the Justice Department has offered re- wards under an act of Congress ap- proved June 6, 1934. He died from bullet wounds received in that battle. The slain officers were Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Agent Herman E. Hollis. Reyards totaling $7,500 for Nelson were not paid, as he was dis- covered and killed by Federal officers without outside aid. OXYGEN FORGOTTEN | seconds. IN HUGHES’ FLIGHT Flyer Admits Memory Lapse *in Record Miami-to-New York Hop. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22.—Howard Hughes, motion picture producer, ofl man and now holder of three national air speed records, confessed today to & bit of forgetfulness—a lapse, how- ever, which did not interfere with his setting a new Miami-New York air record. Late yesterday, out of the haze over that “office hours” on school days|were reported, although several trans- | Coney Island, he brought his silvery are from 3 to 5 p.m., on Saturdays, ports were forced to land on the low-wing monoplane down to Floyd Sundays and holidays, 10 a.m. to|Hoover Field section of the airport| Bennett Field just 4 hours 21 min- 5 pm. As fast as Misses Tugwell, Hel- mick and Cottrell can type their ad- vertisements and paste them on white folders embellished with dog pictures cut from magazines, they distribute them throughout the neighborhood. they have had interim they practice almost daily on the Tugwell bull pups, Sary and Jumby, and the Cottrell chow, Fu Manchu. As a result, Sary, Jumby and Fu Manchu have been nearly washed away. Laundries in the basements of the Tugwell and Helmick homes have been equipped with dog soap, curry combs and flea powder. It had been the girls’ plan to charge extra for fies powder, but they are not saying anything about it in their advertise- because of gale-like cross-winds, - MISSING GIRL FOUND Child Walked Away in Sleep, Po- lice Believe. BOSTON, April 22 (#).—State police announced today they concluded 10- year old Marilyn Miller, who disap- peared last night and was found in an outhouse near her Canton home this morning, walked in her sleep. Capt. John F. Stokes said that De- tective Michael Fleming, who directed State police investigation of the child’s disappearance, asserted his conclusion was based on the report of a physi- cian who said the child had not been assaulted, An aunt of the girl and a friend of the family found her unharmed save for a few scratches on her legs. ) utes and 32 seconds after leaving Miami, Fla., to establish the first of- ficial speed record for the 1,196 miles from South to North. He held the ship, with its super- charged 1,000-horsepower motor, to its most efficient altitude for most of the trip—13,750 feet—a level at which he might have felt the need of oxygen. But he didn't and ue couldn’t have had extra oxygen if he had wanted it—without landing. “The trut of the matter is I for- got to turn on my tank before taking off,” he grinned. April Snow in London. LONDON, April 23 (#)—Great Britain is experiencing the coldest April in 95 years. There was & light covering of snow again todsy on Lon don roads. Several parts of South ‘Wales are snowbound. i il 3 M%lbw.s.!m Its Electric Chair Fastest in World, Is Chicago’s Boast Mechanized Clamp De- vice Cuts Execution Time by Half Minute. BY the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, April 22.—An electric chair, described as the “fastest-work- ing” device of its kind in the United | | States, was completed today at the Cook County (Chicago) Jail. Warden Frank Sain said it was de- signed to reduce the brief but trying period the condemned must spend in the death chamber. He figured the chair, rebuilt and mechanized, would cut the time re- quired to clamp in the victim to 10 Previously from 35 to 40 seconds were spent in fastening the old-fashioned belts. Under the new set-up the straps are inserted in grip-type buckles. An operator shifts a lever and the belts are pulled tight by a mechanical | process. At the same time the leg | |and arm fastenings and the headpiece are adjusted. STANDLEY URGES 15, STAY AT HONE Supports Washington’s Plea to Steer Clear of En- tanglements. Admiral William H. Standley, Act- ing Secretary of the Navy, today told the Daughters of the American Revo- lution that the United States has no rightful place in the inter-relations of the European powers. More than ever I believe in the wisdom of George Washington, when, in his testament to his people, he counseled them to avoid foreign entanglements.” Admiral Standley, a delegate to the London Naval Conference, said three years of the Roosevelt administration had resulted in the Navy being “on its way to realize its stipulated treaty strength.” “More than that we do not ask,” said Standley. “Less than that our coun- try should not tolerate.” Scoring Communists and Socialists, and their alleged <o-operation to establish a third party, the Farmer Labor party, with a “united front of radicals and liberals of all hues and beliefs,” Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson, chairman ' of the National Defense Committee earlier called on the D. A. R. to give whole hearted support to the society’s campaign against radicalism. “No one can doubt,” she declared, “that the revolutionary purpose of the Communist party of the United States still exists, if members but read a few of the many radical papers and magazines put out by this group. The new united front in this boring within method is not only to gain numerical strength but to disarm.” “Radical and pacifist groups are orgarizing every congressional district in the country for mass attack in (See D. A. R., Page 4.) TOWNGEND GIVEN HOUSE SUBPOENA Bell Probers Act on Report 0. A. R. P. Founder Was Planning to Go. BACKGROUND— Out of vision of $200 per month prosperity for every person over 60 arose one of greatest mass move=- ‘ments ever to sweep Nation. Realiz- ing their own power, group leaders turned to politics and pressure upon members of Congress became strong. With both major parties fearing to take initiative on attack, they joined in authorizing investigating committee to scrutinize business practices of pension groups. Open hearings began late in March, but suddenly recessed about two weeks later while committee members, counsl and investigators hurried to West Coast for probe. With these members still absent committee suddenly reopened hearings here yesterday. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Alarmed at reports that Dr. F. E. Townsend, co-founder of the $200-a- month old-age pension scheme, was planning to return to California, the Bell Investigating Committee today located him here and served a subpoena ordering him to appear be- fore the committee in open hearing on May 5. The subpoena was served while Townsend was conferring with his attorney, Sheridan Downey, in the La Fayette Hotel. Chairman Bell, Democrat, of Missouri said committee agents had been looking for the doctor since yesterday. With the committee thus assured of the physician’s presence, members turned again to questioning Dr. Rob- ert R. Doane, economist, of New York. Tolan Directs Testimony. Although most of the morning’s questioning was directed by Repre- sentative Tolan. Democrat, of Cali- fornia, an avowed Townsendite, in an effort to discredit Doane’s repudiation of the Townsgnd economy yesterday, Chairman Bell succeeded in bringing out the point that the average tax for each of the 31,000,000 families in the United States under the 2 per cent transactions proposal would amount to about $800 a year. Income statis- tics show, Doane said, that the av- erage income amounts to $1,800 a year per family. “And would not these people, no matter how poor, have to pay their tax before they eat?” Bell asked. “Yes; they would pay while they eat and every time they eat,” Doane agreed. Representative Tolan read excerpts from Doane’s testimony before House and Senate committees more than a (See TOWNSEND, Page 3.) Boy Sought in Creek. SALAMANCA, N. Y., April 22 (#).— Little Valley Creek, running high and muddy, was the scene of a search to- day for 2-year-old Tommy Woodworth. He was last seen late Monday, a half mile from home and headed toward the creek. A search was started when his dog returned. Going Like a Blue Streak!? Because It Gives You Opening Market News—Racing Selections—Seratches—Entries—All the Lat- est Pre-Noon News and Wirephotos in the Complete Newspaper. Blue Streak Edition of The Star ON THE STREET BEFORE NOON ‘Get the Blue Streak Habit WORKERS BREAK THINNING BARRIER Both Men, in Agony of Pain, Are Given Hypodermic Or- dered by Dr. Robertson Before Rock Penetrated. THREE VETERAN MINERS LEAD DIGGERS TO GOAL Mounted Police Clear Space at Top and Warn Crowd to Stay Back — Stretchers Rushed to 141-Foot Level to Assist in Transfer to Surface. (Copyright. 1036, by the Assoclated Press.) MOOSE RIVER, Nova Scotia, April 22.—A rescue crew digging through 141 feet of rock and dirt reached the two living men en- tombed more than nine days in the Moose River gold mine today. They broke through a final wall of stone and dirt to reach Dr. D. E. Robertson and Charles Alfred Scade ding, both of whom were in agony from the privations they had endured during their long wait underground. A group of three veteran coal miners, members of Nova Scotia‘s fa~ mous mine rescue organization, the Draegermen, formed the spearhead of the underground attack which reached the noted Toronto surgeon and his friend. Their companion on the descent into the gold mine on Easter Sunday night, Herman Magill, died two days ago from privations. So unbearable was the pain that the two entombed men suffered that Dr. Robertson asked for hypodermic in- Jections at once. Crowd Jubilant at Rescue, At the top of the rescue shaft stood hundreds of persons. Many of them had been on duty day and night, striving as best they could to assist in the work of rescue. When the report came up from the depths that the two imprisoned men at last had beer reached, cheers broke out. The excitement was on intense that | royal Canadian mounted police cleared | & space and warned the crowd to stay back from the mine head. Stretchers, prepared by the ambu- lance unit on duty during the last five days, were taken down the shaft to assist in bringing the men up. Danger Still Great, There still was danger down below, for the rescue crews had pushed for- ward so fast that little time had been wasted in shoring up the crumbling walls properly. The announcement of the rescuers’ apparent success was made by an ex- cited miner who came to the top of the rescue shaft and shouted: “We've got through!” For anxious moments afterward there was no further news from the workings, but it was surmised that the miners had reached a comparatively unobstructed gallery leading to the trapped men. Dr. F. R. Davis, minister of health of Nova Scotia, went down the rescue shaft carrying a hypodermic needle and other medical supplies. Other men picked up blankets and hot-water bottles to be used in caring for the suffering men below. Hour More Underground. It was not known on the surface how long it would take to get the two living men and the body of their dead companion up into the open air, but officials said they thought it would take at least an hour. The way which lay before them was a long, twisting, narrow, low tunnel, through which it was difficult to carry anything. The special siretchers which had been devised for the rescue had rope supports to permit them to bend around the tortuous passageway. Miners said they feared any jars against the sides of the tunnel might cause a landslide. The three men’ in the lead of the rescue efforts were Joe Simpson, unit head; George Morrell and H. Hirshe fleld. They had worked steadily since 9 a.m. in the last push to reach the men. It was those three who first opened the Reynolds’ shaft, through which the approach was begun, and it was they who tore out the last rock from the rescue tunnel. They were the “face workers” who tore material blocking their progress from its place with bare hands or picks. In an unpropped tunnel going through an area which has already (See MINERS, Page 4.) 2 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Six Others and Mother Escape as Flames Sweep Home. PETERSBURG, Ill, April 22 (P).— ‘Trapped in an upstairs room, two chile dren, Lois McWhorter, 9, and her brother Arthur, 6, were burned to death today. Six other children and their mother, Mrs. George McWhorter, escaped bee fore fire destroyed the family home, {8 & lumber camp near here. The father was abeent overnight on business. A