Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1936, Page 22

ARMY WILL ENTER BALLOON N RACE Capt. McCormick to Pilot Bag in Colorado—Capt. Tarro Is Aide. - The Army Air Corps will enter one balloon in the national elimination balloon race, to be flown from Denver, Colo., July 3, it. was announced last night by the War Department. The winners of first and second places in the race will represent the United States in the international race for the Gor- don Bennett Trophy later in the season. Capt. Haynie McCormick, Air Corps, has been designated a s pilot of the Army balloon, with Capt. John A Tarro. Air Corps, as his aide. In this year's race. fof the first time, balloons of 35,000-cubic-foot capacity, filled with hydrogen, will be used in- stead of 80,000-cubic-foot types filled with equal parts of hydrogen and il- luminating gas, the War Department announced. Cant. McCormick, one of the Army's outstanding balloon pilots, is a native of Texas. He en- listed in the Cavalry in 1911, passed through the non-commis- =ioned grades in Cavalry, Coast Artillery and the aviation section of the Signal Corps, and be- came a second lieutenant of Cavalry on Sep- tember 8, 1918, while on duty in England. He has been rated a balloon observer since 1921 and an airship pilot since 1924. He | has been connected in various capaci- | ties with almost all the balloon races in this country since 1925 and has represented the United States twice in the international races, once as an aide and once as operations officer. Capt. Tarro, a native of Illinois, served in the Coast Artillery in the | World War and became an airship | pilot and baloon observer in 1926, being commissioned then as a second lieutenant, Air Corps Reserve. He was appointed second lieutenant, Regular Army Air Corps, later in 1926. Ground activities at the Denver | Airport prior to and during the race | will be under direction of Capt. Wil- | liam J. Flood, Air Corps, 1322 Massa- | chusetts avenue, also a veteran of international and national balloon racing. Capt. Flood, a graduate of George Washington University and | the National University of Law, was commanding officer of an airplane squadron in France during the war and holds all four Army flying ratings: Airplane pilot, airplane observer, air- ship pilot and balloon observer. — ITALY SPURNS TALK ON STRAITS’ ARMING Il Duce to Follow Conference Closely, However, for Sign of Mediterranean Pact. By the Associated Press. | ROME, June 20.—Italy will be an gbsent but interested partner when signatories of the Lausanne treaty meet Monday et Montreaux, Switser- land, to discuss Turkey's demand for permission to rearm the Dardanelles. Il Duce will continue his policy of | Capt. McCormick. Capt. Tar suspended collaboration in Eumpe-n’ affairs by sending no representatives to the conference, but he will follow | it closely from a distance in the belief | the conferees may discuss a Medi- | terranean pact. If the conference continues after the League of Nations Assembly lifts sanctions from Italy, as it is expected to do shortly, the Italians may attend. Behind this mask of hurt indiffer- ence, however, diplomats see guarded opposition to the Turkish aim. There are historic reasons for this feeling. PAY ENVELOPES SAVED TEN YEARS UNOPENED | Elderly Messenger for Hospital Found to Have Left 817,000 Estate. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—For 46 years Herman Schadow worked as messen- ger and orderly at the Lenox Hill | Hospital—and for 10 of those years he never opened his monthly pay en- ‘velope. Last week Schadow died at 73 and today Public Administrator James Egan disclosed that Schadow's pay envelopes for 10 years, containing cash, were found intact in his room. He was paid $42 a month. In addition he left Liberty bnods and a bank ac- count to bring his total estate to ap- proximately $7,000. Irate Sleeper F i.res 20 Shot Gun Slugs In Serenader’s Leg Victim’s Wooden: Limb Unscathed After Dare to Shoot. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, June 20. — Amos Higgs, 48, who has a wooden leg, serenaded Joseph W. Curry, a neigh- bor, with a mouth organ early today. Curry was sleeping soundly, he told police, but was awakened by the sound of the harmonica and vocal accom- paniment by two of Higgs’ companions. Curry told Magistrate John Loeber he warned Higgs to “go away and keep quiet or I'll shoot.” Higgs, Curry as- serted, neither went away nor kept quiet. In fact, he added, one serenader Seplied: “Dare you to shoot.” Curry shot. Later, at a hospital, ’hyfldlm picked 20 shotgun pellets ifrom Higgs' sound leg. The wooden “leg was untouched. Cury was held undgr $1,000 boid. | other organizations, took part in the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Pageant Marks ppenmg of Street One of the floats in the parade last night marking the opening of Kenilworth avenue. “ Miss Dorothy Leach (left) and Mrs. Minnie Farr tnaht; with children of the Kenilworth School Kin- dergarten Float sponsored by PARADE FEATURES KENILWORTH FETE Northeast Community Com-| plimented on Completion " of Avenue. Citizens of Kenilworth lest night celebrated the formal opening of Ken- ilworth avenue, from the Benning Viaduct to the District line, in 8| formal ceremony and parade at the Kenilworth Community Center. Opening the proceedings, a parade | was staged from the community center out Nash street to the District line, | thence along Eastern avenue to Olive | street, south on Olive to Douglas, | then back on Kenilworth to the start- | ing point. Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and William A. Roberts, peoples’ coun- sel, both complimented the North- east community on the new improve- ment. The road has been open for more than three months, but the for- mal acceptance of the compieted job was deferred until last night's cele- bration. Master of Ceremonies. W. H. Webb, president of the Ken- ilworth Citizens’ Association, intro- | duced Harry K. Kent, chairman of | the Road-Opening Committee, who in turn introduced Lieut. Walter H. Thomas of «the Metropolitan Police, who acted as master of ceremonies. ‘The Police Boys’' Club Band was one of the feature attractions of the cele- | bration, leading the parade and then following with a concert at the Com- munity Center. Morris Fox, assistant director of the club, staged a series of boxing and wrestling matches in which Lee Shew- laiter met Eddie Walsh, Dannie Petro met Charles Petro, Joe Spinelli met | “Popeye” Murphy ahd Kirk Miller met John Cavallere. Many Groups Take Part. Virtually every community organ- jzation in Kenilworth, including Lhr community council, the citizens’ asso- ciation, Kenilworth School, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, W. C. T. U. and celebration. A special detail of police blocked off traffic from Ord street to the District | line to permit the ceremonies. mre' was dancing in the new street after the addresses. DR. JAMES T. MASON EXPIRES AT SEATTLE President of Medical Association Suffered Leg Amputation Due to Blood Clot. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, June 20—Dr. James Tate Mason, 55, noted surgeon, Who was elevated to the presidency of the American Medical Association in one of the most dramatic meetings that body ever held, died today. He suffered an arterial blood clot April 6, which necessitated the ampu- tation of his right leg May 2. Critically ill, Dr. Mason was unable to attend the national convention at Kansas City to accept personally tke honor the medical association had voted him the year before. On May 12 the delegates installed as their president a man who lay close to death in a hospital 2,000 miles away. Three weeks later Dr. Ralph Fenton of Portland, Oreg., association trustee, read a document at Dr. Mason's bed- side awarding him the association’s presidential medal. Son of a physician, Dr. Mason was born in Lahore, Orange County, Va., May 20, 1881. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1905. He died in the hospital he founded. OUTING TO éE HELD BY COAL MERCHANTS Bay Ridge Program Wednesday to Include Games, Water Sports and Dancing. ‘The Washington coal merchants will hold their eleventh annual out- ing at Bauer's Beach Club, Bay Ridge, Md., Wednesday, Joseph B. Murphy, chairman of the coal division of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ As- sociation, announced. Members of the coal trade, employes and their families and friends have been invited. A _program of games and water sports has been arranged for the aft- ernoon and dancing at night. Cars assembling on the south side of Penn- sylvania avenue between the Peace Monument and Third street, will leave at 10 a.m., regardless of the weather. police. Murphy. secretary of the M. & M. Association, Kenilworth P.- —Star Stafl Phota. Officer Is In jured W hen Motor C ycle Skids in Gasoline Vehicle Slips as Fluid Is Spilled From Scout Car. Thrown to the pavement when his motor cycle skidded on gasoline spilled by a scout car, Policeman L. S. Hens- ley, 26, of the Traffic Division, suf- fered a sprained foot last night. Hensley was following the second precinct scout car on an emergency call at the time. spilled from the police automobile’s tank when it made a rapid right turn at Seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, and Hensley's motor cycle, di- rectly behind, slipped on the wet pave- ment. The officetr was treated at Emer- gency Hospital. TRIAL IN SLAYING OF GIRL 0 OPEN {Colored Man’s Life Asked by State—Witnesses May Total 100. By the Ascociated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 20—Earl Conner Williams, 24-year-old colored man, will go on trial for his life in United States Court here Monday on a charge that he murdered Fannie Kurz, | Fredericksburg girl, and seriously | wounded her companion, George Mil- ton Brown, the night of May 20, 1934. Judge Luther B. Way of Norfolk will preside at the trial, which is in Federal Court because the young couple were in an automobile in the Battlefield Memorial Park—a Federal reserva- tion—at the time Williams is charged with hitting them with an iron pipe. Approximately 100 witnesses have been called. The Government alone has 70, including many of the G-men, while Callom B. Jones and Leith Brem- er, attorneys for the defense, have summoned 30. Williams was arrested in Yuka, Miss., fessions and to have repudiated them both. R LAKE VESSEL, AFIRE, MOVING TO HARBOR Coast Guard Cutter and Life Boat Accompanying Smoking Freighter. EY the Assoclated Press. ERIE, Pa., June 20.—A lake freight- er with smoke pouring from it as a result of a fire tonight was moving siowly toward the Erie, Pa. harbor, with a United States Coast Guard cutter and a Coast Guard motor life- boat, both from the Erie station, mov- ing along with it. The freighter, which had not been identified, was first noticed some dis- tance off Northeast, Pa. The smoke was coming from it in clouds and persons along the shore notified the Erie Coast Guard station. Five minutes later, the motor life- boat, under command of Boatswain M. G. McCue and with a crew of five aboard, and the cutter, under com- mand of Capt. James Barrett, start- ed out into Lake Erie for the 14-mile run to the burning boat. Shore observers later reported the Government boats had reached the burning boat, which was proceeding ahead under its own steam. It be- lieved the crew of the freighter was left aboard to fight the flames. How- ever the Coast Guard boats moved close by in case of emergency. head the Arrangements Committee. The gasoline was | and is alleged to have made two con- | IRIVERA RESORTS CLOSED BY STRIKE Paris Rightists, Meanwhile, Eject Idle Workers From Shops. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 20.—A general strike of hotel and restaurant workers closed | the doors of fashionable Rivieria re- sorts in Cannes today and forced a prince to hunt for his lunch. The Rivieria strike coincided with the first move by Paris Rightists to eject idle workers occupying their place of | employment. The Rightists, numbering 20, under the leadership of Deputy Raoul Sabatier, smashed into a res- taurant, threw seven strikers into the street and occupied the place them- selves. Sabatier said it was the start of a “‘counter-revolution.” Since the labor occupation move- | ment hit the Cote D’Azus early in the season there were few guests, but the strike came just as Cannes heard King Edward VIII of England would arrive late in July for his Summer vacation. 1t also provided a bad day for Prince Andrew of Greece, uncle of King George, who was living at one of the affected hotels. The prince had a hard time finding some luncheon, finally obtaining a snack in a small cafe on a back street. Employes of all the major establish- ments took off their uniforms and re- | mained in the buildings awaiting ne- gotiations between their leaders and their employers. ‘The strike spread elsewhere in the | provinces, halting street car and bus | transportation in Bordeaux and closing | hotels and restaurants in Nancy as the workers sought the same benefits won for labor in the Paris region. TOWNSEND HINTS LEMKE SUPPORT Indorsement by Pension Convention All Right With Him, Says Leader. By the Associated Fress. SYRACUSE, N. Y. June 20.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, leader of the Townsend old age pension plan, made a flylng visit to Syracuse today and hinted at the possibility of his group supporting Representative Willlam Lemke's third party candidacy for President. Dr. Townsend said “It's all right with me if they back Lemke,” refer- ring to possible indorsement of the North Dakota Representative by the ‘Townsendites at their Cleveland con- vention in July. ‘The pension plan leader said “what- ever the convention says we'll. do in the matter of Lemke's candidacy. It's up to them. Right now, however, I know of no talk whereby I would join & third party movement with Lemke.” Indorsed by Coughlin. Lemke’s candidacy has received the [ indorsement of Rev. Charles E. Cough- lin, leader of the National Union for Social Justice. Accompanying Dr. Townsend was Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, one-time aide to the late Senator Huey P. Long and supporter of Longs’ “share-the- wealth” plan. Rev. Mr. Smith issued what he said was a joint statement for himself and Dr. Townsend in which he declared “we are convinced, that a presidential candidate who ‘will permit Rev. Charles E. Coughlin to define his money plank—Dr. Townsend to de- | fine his old age security plank—Ger- ald Smith to define his plank on la- bor, education and homesteads—the Farmers’ Union to define their plank of agriculture—this man will be the next President of the United States.” Conference Is Planned. He said that “somewhere in the East within the next.two days Dr Townsend and I will have a confer- ence with Representative Lemke. I have the assurance from him that he will join us in a meeting after Con- gress adjourns.” Rev. was “today issuing an invitation for Father Coughlin and Mr.. Lemke to | appear with us at a mass meeting in New Orleans very soon.” Asked if “us” old age and the Smith “sha wealth” groups, he replied “Y¢ he- Engine Tests Mystify. Complaining that for bile siren had sounded almost inces- santly, people of Milan, Italy, were | informed that an aviation nompany was giving a new engine bench tests. Mr. Smith also said that he | meant the Townsend | 10 nerve- | | racking days a mysterious automo- JUNE 21, 1936—PART ONE 5000 KIWANIANS CONVERGEONCTY 20th Annual Convention of Club to Open Here Today. With delegates pouring into the Capital from all sections of the country and Canada, the twentith annual convention of Kiwanis Inter- national will formally get underway today at the opening session of a four-day meeting. Registration started yesterday as the vanguard of an expected crowd of 5,000 converged on the city by train and automobile. Most of the meetings will be held in Constitution Hall, although group sessions are scheduled at the Mayflower Hotel, con- vention headquarters. The visitors will be welcomed to- night in addresses by Bynum E. Hin- ton, president of the Washington Club, and Dr. Lonsdals J. Roper, gov- ernor of the Capital Kiwanis district and member of the club at Ports- mouth, Va. Rev. B. C. Clausen, pastor {of the First Baptist Church of Pitts- | burgh, also will address the intitial session. The first regular business session will open tomorrow morning in Con- stitution Hall, with Harper Gatton of Madisonville, Ky, international president, presiding. After reports by officers and committees, Gatton will deliver his annual message, A number of distinguished speak- ers are scheduled to address the | meetings, including J. Edgar Hoover, | director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation’s Business; Will Durant, author;” Col. T. Russ Hill, lecturer | and author, and Dr. John MacKay, principal of Manitoba College, Win- | nipeg, Canada. One’of the high lights of the con- vention will be a dinner in honor of | past and present international officers and district governors at the May- | flower at 6 p.m. Wednesday An “All-Kiwanis night” celebra« | tion wil be held tomorrow night, fPalured by a “fellowship hour” and | the attendance of wives of the dele- | gates. Other entertainment arranged for the convention will be sightseeing tours, musicales and dances. Lewis T. Breuninger is general chairman of the Washington Committee in Charge of Arrangements. A religious musicale will be held this evening at the Syl Ex—Congress\man'Turns Guide Former Representative Charles Rogers Evans, who served in ,the House from 1919 ‘to 1921 as @ member of the Nevada delega- “tion, is one of the guides who escort tourists about the Capitol, Building. With arm upraised, he is telling a group of visitors to Statu- ary Hall about the memorial to Roger Williams, founder of the State of Rhode I*Iand —Underwood & Undcruood Photn ESPERANTO CLASSES ‘Two beginners’ classes in Esperanto, to be held throughout the Summer | months, will begin Thursday at 7:30 pm. One will be held at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, Sixteenth and Lamont streets, and the other at Northeast Public Library, Seventh lnd‘ Sl Sl win Nt D streets northeast. | a charge of failure to keep a record The advanced class in the interna- | of time emploves worked. Six em- tional language will be held each |Ployes of .the laundry were affected, ‘Tuesday at Thomson School, begin- ning this week. These classes also | will be at 7:30 pm. Teachers will be provided by the Esperanto Club ofl “sshmgwp LAUNDRY FINED $20 Police Court Judge John P. McMa- | hon yesterday fined the Arcade-Sun- | shine Co., Inc., a laundry operated at 735 Lamont street $20 when Harry Viner, president of the company, pleaded guilty to two charges of vio- lating the eight-hour female labor law. The Forman & “Biller Tree Expert Co. Dependable Service Since 1919 Phone Clarendon 567 Oatmeal Gains as Food. American oatmeal is becoming pop- ular in South Africa. | STAR RADIO CO. 409 11th ST. Double Your Roger Salengro, minister of the in- terior, falled to achieve an accord be- tween workers and employers in Paris department stores, inyolved in the last important strike in the capital. He hoped, however, to settle the dif- ficulties at a conference tomorrow, FIGHT EXCITEMENT DEATHS TOTAL 12 Women Included in List of Vic- tims—Two Die at Radio in Halifax. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, June 20. — Twelve deaths in the United States and Can- ada were ascribed today to excitement over the Louis-Schmeling fight. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, two women died while listening to the fight broad cast. Mrs. Margaret Mara, 63, col- iapsed during the tenth round and died shortly afterward, and. Mrs. Lois Tur- ner, 36. suffered a fatal stroke. | Pranklin James Lambert, 51, died at his Forest, Ontario, home after hearing four rounds. Death was due to heart seizure. In New York's Harlem, Henry Saw, 61, fell dead at the radio. Josephine Tandy, 66-year-old Negro woman, died in Madison, Ind., listening to the blow- by-blow account. She was stricken with a heart attack when Louis was knocked out in the twelfth round. e BLASTS STIR MADRID MADRID, June 20 (#).—A number of small petards exploded today in and near construction projects affected by the strike of building workers in Madrid. ‘The explosions created minor pan- ics, although there was small damage and no one was hurt. Several persons were arrested. 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