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|.C. C. FIELD MEN PROBE BUS CRASH Report on Tragedy Fatal to Five Will Be Mada. in Few Days. B the Associated Press. Motor Carrier Bureau officials r- ported that field work will be con- pleted today in the Interstate Cem- merce Commission investigation of the bus crash at Natural Bridge, V., in which five persons were killed. H. H. Allen, a safety invesigator, and C. E. Talbert, a member of the field force, have been working at Nat- ural Bridge in conjunction with State authorities. They will file a resume ¢ the facts with John L. Rogers, h-ad of the Motor Bureau, in the nect few days, and a formal report on the accident will be issued later. By the Associated Press. NATURAL BRIDGE, Va., July 2— Five bus crash vitims, identified nearly 24 hours after they met death, lay in an undertsking establishment here today as Rockbridge County coroner Dr. E. P. Tompkins debated whether or not to hold an inquest. They were killed, and more than a &core of other passengers injured, when a heavy bus skidded on rain-slicked pavement just before midnight Tues- day and rolled over atop the scenically famous Natural Bridge. Only a board fence kept it from plunging into a 200-foot gorge. Mrs. William A. Boyles, of Chatta- nooga, Tenn., last of the dead to be identified, was positively named here last night as members of her family were en route to Natural Bridge. Others who died in the crash were: List of Dead. J. J. Olderson, Roanoke, Va., the driver. J. P. Hamilton, Birmingham, Ala., a driver for Southeastern Greyhound | lines John Keesee, Washington. Lolita Holdren, Goodview, Va. Thirty-four persons were in the vehicle as it fought through a rain | storm en route from Roanoke, Va., to ‘Washington, D. C. Most of them were asleep. Driver Olderson attempted to stop the careening bus by turning it into the rock wall As it rolled over the front end was smashed end Olderson and others in foreward seats were crushed. Slightly injured passengers went to nearby Natural Bridge Hotel, while others, requiring hospitalization, were taken 14 miles to Lexington. Word from Chattanooga said Mrs. Boyles was on her way to Norfolk, Va,, to visit a brother, Lonnie Hobbie. She was the wife of the late William A. Boyles, purchasing agent of the Tennessee Electric Power Co. Her daughter, Mrs. Ola Lee Saylor, was reported to be among those en route to Lexington to claim the body. Miss Holdren, whom relatives iden- tified late yesterday, was said to have been on her way back to New York after having spent her vacation at| home. Dr. E. P. Tompkins, Rockbridge County coroner, said an inquest might not be necessary and would be post- poned, at least temporarily. Just Missed 215-Foot Drop. Highway officials said it was easily possible for the huge bus to have broken through the stout fence, which prevents travelers from knowing they are crossing the great gorge, although the highway is protected by trees on either end of the bridge for a con- siderable distance. The bus stopped short of the span, which is 90 feet Something different in the way of sea voyages is being planned by Ernest Biegazski of Buffalo, N. Y., shown here with the model of a barrel now being built for an ecean trip to Europe. He says he will sail from New York late in July, ING STAR. o —A. P. Photo. ballooned upwards toward the rear, probably saving the lives of those back | of the front seats. “Unless the chair backs had been strong, all of us might have been pulverized as the roof and floor came together,” Eisenman said from his hospital cot. “Only those backs prevented the tragedy from being worse than it was. W. E. Delaney, assistant manager of the nearby hotel, said little Phil Burman was one of the heroes of the | tragedy. Suffering a broken lower | jaw, the child helped extricate his mother and brother from the bus. “I can't cry because I might worry mother,” Delaney quoted him as say- ing as-Delaney took him to a hospi- tal. Delaney said most of the pas-| sengers appeared in a daze and did | | not talk much. WIFE TO CLAIM BODY. John Keesee, Bus Victim, on Way Here at Time of Accident. Mrs. Hannah Keesee, 1435 Newton street, clerk in the Disbursement Division of the Treasury Department, | left last night for Natural Bridge, | Va., to claim the body of her husband | John, 29, who was among those killed | in a bus crash there Tuesday night. Keesee, a carpenter, had been em- ployed since April on construction of |8 bank at Gratton, Va, and was en route to Washington to spend July 4 with his wife when the accident oc- curred. His work at Gratton had been finished and his future plans had been indefinite. News of her husband's death reach- ed Mrs. Keesee at her desk in the Treasury Department yesterday noon. They had been married three years. Mrs. Keesee was accompanied by | her brother-in-law, William Keesee, 3719 Twenty-ninth street, Mount Rainier, Md, and the latter's wife long and from 50 to 100 feet wide. Cedar Creek flows 215 feet under- neath. Henry D. Eisenman of Richmond, injured in the crash, said the fact that no one was smoking in the bus probably prevented a holocaust. “The fuel tank had broken and gaso- line streamed through the bus, to mix with blood and wash the wounds of the injured,” Eisenman said. “If any one had been smoking when the accident occurred I feel sure that all of us would have been trapped in a; blazing inferno.” The roof in front crushed down, but _— LOST. CAMEO PIN. with plain gold band_in Lans- bureh’s store. nd floor: reward. Phone Mrs. W. P. Hawkins. La Plata. Md.. 61. * CASE—Left in Diamond taxi at Union Sta- tion Sat.. June 20, 12:40 p.m., small black ather case. containing 's_toilet ar- icles. Reward. Cleveland 9. ANG: E PURSE. lady's, tan, con- tained $10 bill. change. diamond ring. wed- gin ring: Tuesday Jurie 0. between 2 4 pm. between Capitol Garage and and P sts. nw, or in City cab. Rew Georgia 4634 CAT—Maltes e fleld_place n.%. _Col. 84: . collle pup 4 mos. old. ; ‘answers to name of Pal Spring: reward. _ Davs, Shepherd 3721 821 Dela- t Columbia . pink. in Joseph Harri; h and G n.w. Potomac CLASS RING—Sardonyx setting, U_of M. “T. C. L": Monday eve.. Blue Bell Restau- rant. Conn. ave.. sentimental value. Re- ward__North 67 KEY CASE. brow nnd 14th. containing vicinity on F st between 1ith ataining 5 keys. District 3410. OXFORD GLASSES. white gold with small piece of chain attached. Priday-afternoon in Siiver Spring. Md. Reward. Shepherd 1. brown. vicinity PAY ENVELOPE. v en 4 and &:30 p.m. 2th and G nw No. TBOOK. SHE. cash. vicinity 14th and K sts. o ain cash, return pocketbook. __ | the club last year. . contained $30 or §: evening in Shoreham Hotel lobby o room or porch. Reward. Bhoreham Hotel__Adams 0700 BPITZ, male. clibped, 2 years old. Reward. Adams 08RG [TE-HAIRED TERRIER, male: white with brown ears and dark &ray saddle over back; tag No. 24092; answers to name of ink: lost or strayed from 2611 31st st., ass. Park: 825 reward. Phone Cleve- Jand 5175 WRIST WATCH, lady's. white gold, with giamonds; business section Wed. afternopn. 5: Wed. r dinine 405-A. . | dren of the District this year through an_and viciity | and four children. | The body will be sent to Bluefield, | W. Va,, for burial. Funeral arrange- | ments have not been completed. Other survivors are two brothers, Harry Keesee, Bluefield, and Oscar | | Keesee, Norfolk; and three sisters, Mrs. Lewis Gregory and Mrs. Walter Bourn, Bluefield, and Mrs. George | Gregory, Gratton, with whom Keesee | resided while he worked there. NEWSPAPER WOMEN AID NEEDY CHILDREN Check for $300 Presented by Club for Purchase of 4,000 Quarts of Milk. More'than 4,000 quarts of milk will be supplied to undernourished chil- the efforts of the Newspaper Women's Club of Washington. A check for $300 for this purpose was presented to Providence Hospital today by Mrs. Josephine Tighe Williams in behalf of the club. A similar amount of money will be. given next week by the newspaper women to the Ladies of Charity for their milk fund. Sister Margaret, in charge of Provi- dence “Hospital, received the check in the presence of Miss Grace McKerr of the Nebraska State Journal, second vice president of the club. Last month a check for $1,000 was presented to Children's Hospital for maintenance of a bed established by These donations represent the pro- ceeds raised at the St. Patrick's day carnival, given by the club, in the auditorium of the National Press Club. U. . TRADE POLICY ASSAILED BY PEEK Undermining Whole Basis | for Recovery, Former Aide to Roosevelt Says. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 2.—George N. Peek, former special advisor to President Roosevelt on foreign trade, charged today that the administration’s policies | had opened “the United States and the America’s to economic and per- haps political colonization by other nations.” He declared, in an address prepared for delivery befores the Agricultural | Club: “The trade agreements program fis breaking down the American market for American agriculture and industry and by contributing to the prolonga- tion of the farm crisis is undermining the whole basis of recovery. * * * “Those in the administration charged with the responsibility of disposing of our farm surpluses have | refused to trade realistically in for- eign markets and have prevented others from doing it when substan- tial trades were offered. * * * This is & matter which calls for full and searching congressionel inquiry.” Peek accused Secretary of State Cordell Hull of attacking “the inde- pendence of the American economic system” in pursuit of a low tariff policy. “In their zeal to reduce tariffs gen- | erally,” he said, “they extended all our concessions to all nations (except | Germany), including nations in de- | fault on public and private debts, na- | tions whose exchange restrictions were | crippling our trade, nations which had negotiated special agreements from which we were excluded, in fact to all nations whether or not they offered | us reciprocal treatment of any kind | in return. “This was not reciprocity, nor was it bargalning in any real sense—it was general tariff reduction with a fancy name and with fancy trim- mings.” POLICE VETERAN STAYS Private Lusby Begins 40th Year as Member of Force. Pvt. Thomas A. Lusby, 67, today be- gan his 40th year as a member of the police force and his 39th with the eleventh precinct. Lusby was eligible for retirement seven years ago, but chose to remain. WASHINGTON, EDUCATORS URGE Resolutions Committee to N. E. A. Seeks Action at Portland, Oreg. BACKGROUND— The Red rider was an amend- ment attached to the District ap- propriation bill of 1936 jorbidding the teaching of communism in any of its aspects. It was fought bitterly through the last session of Congress, when the Sisson bill was introduced to repeal it. Favorable action seemed likely until Congress became jammed with controversial New Deal legislation and the repeal of the Red rider went by the boards. By the Associated Pres PORTLAND, Oreg., July 2.—Reso- lutions of protest against “‘war prop- aganda,” the “militarization of schools and colleges” and the “danger of fun- damental principles of democracy” in academic restrictions came before the National Education Association today. The Resolutions Committee sought action at the final business sessions in one proposal asking Congress to repeal the District of Columbia law requiring teachers to take oath they have not discussed communism in | their classes and in another asking | the association to reaffirm its oppo- sition to compulsory military training. Editor Bolsters Report. The report asking repeal of the | District of Columbia “red rider” bill was bolstered in a talk today by Frank Miles, editor of the Iowa Le- gionnaire, who quoted R4y Murphy, national Legion commander, as say- ing “the Legion would make a mis- take if it advocated the teachers’ oath bil” Miles said & 1934 Legion resolution calling for teachers’ oaths was not in force because it was not reported out at the last convention and com- force or coercion Americanism does not consist of throwing children in jail because they failed to salute the flag. * * * “And neither does Americanism consist of enforcing compulsory oaths of loyalty upon any class of citizens.” U. S. Pushed Into War. be attained by Miles, in reference to the World War, of which he commented that “America was pushed in from the inside,” also said “Our country had been propagan- dized until, indeed. the average citi- zen knew not what the war was about. * * * Education, with prac- tical Christianity, can save us from another such catastrophe.” He commented that “educators are the strongest group in America in- tellectually, but in my judgment they are the weakest politically for their number.” mented that “Americanism is not to | D. ¢, THURSDAY, ROMANCE IS READ RED RIDER REPEAL| T0 HELEN HAYES Actress and Husband Find Amusement in $100,000 Balm Suit Proceedings. By tne Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 2—Helen Hayes, noted actress, and her playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, listened with smiles today to a romantic ac- count of their love affair read as evi- dence in a suit for $100,000 for aliena- tion of affections brought against Miss Hayes by Carol Frink, MacArthur’s former wife. MacArthur married Miss Hayes in 1928 after he and Miss Frink were divorced. ‘The account of the romance was contained in & deposition from Adele Whiteley Ormiston, a free-lance writer of New York. She told of interviewing | Miss Hayes in 1932 for two fan mag- azine stories. A paragraph which brought a laugh from the actress and her husband quoted Miss Hayes as telling of leasing an old farm house at Syosset, N. Y., “mainly because it seemed.the sort of place Charlie would love.” ‘Quotation Writer.” “I pictured him poking around in the cupboards; lounging around the porch steps,” the story said. “Do you remember whether Miss Hayes told you that?” the writer was asked in the deposition “That poking around and lounging I would say was my own addition,” | Miss Ormiston replied. | Today's session of the trial, the sec- ond day, brought Miss Hayes, Mac- Arthur and Miss Frink, who is dra- matic critic of the Chicago Herald- Examiner, on stage for their first face- to-face meeting. They took their places around the | narrow counsel table without any sign | of recognition. Miss Hayes entered with MacArthur. She was wearing a blue taffeta suit with a- printed top, a matching hat with a veil, and blue gloves. Miss Frink meanwhile strolled in the corridor, smoking a cigarette. She, ' too, was smartly costumed, in black with touches of white galyak fur. When they sat at the counsel table, | she listened intently to the reading of the deposition, her eyes sober. Capacity Audience. The three played tc & capacity | audience, Circuit Judge Walter J. La Buy is hearing the case without a Jury. | Attorney Gerald T. Wiley, one of | Miss Frink's attorneys, took the wit- | ness stand in the role of the absent magazine writer to read the deposition. | Quoting Miss Ormsby, he read: i “She (Miss Hayes) told me how, when she first met Mr. MacArthur, people warned her that she would be ! unhappy, because when a Miss So- and-so returned to New York she would not be seeing him any more.” Mexico (Continued From First Page.) | dant, called troops, who disarmed the police and established guard posts throughout the city. The slayings, Gen. Pablos declared, resulted from “absolute lack of dis- cipline and control of the police.” Gov. Lopez Cardenas, at the time of his resignation, declared the dem- onstrators had been “used as an in- strument of capital against labor and the public authority.” OFFICIAL PROBE ORDERED. MEXICO CITY, July 2 (#—An official investigation into the killin of 13 strikers at Merida, Yucatan, was ordered today by President La- zaro Cardenas. The President ordered Agustin Ar- royo, undersecretary of the interior, to fly to Merida to conduct the inquiry. Leaders of two labor groups calle emergency sessions of their executive councils to discuss the disturbance in Yucatan. The councils of the Confederation of Workers of Mexico and the Gen- eral Confederation of Workers were reported considering general strikes in Yucatan and Campech, the neigh- boring state, in protest against the deaths. Disgruntled employes of mines at El Oro, in Mexico State, telegraphed the government they were planning a march on the capital after the shafts were closed down yesterday. 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Principals in Balm Suit Helen Hayes, left, the actress wife of Charles MacArthur, playwright, is defendant in $100,000 alienation of affections suit brought by Carol Frink, right, dramatic critic and former wife of MacArthur. Court room photos made yesterday as trial opened at Chicago. of the defense, this first meeting took place in December, 1924, before Mac- Arthur had continued seeing her,” the Frink. “I asked her if she had any theory —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | a5 to how it happened that Mr. Mac- Arthur had continued seeing her” the writer’s story continued. “She told me that in the time she had been with him she had come to | understand that he was a person of great independence, and that. he | would not like a possessive quality in & woman, so she had striven to be more of the type of personality he would like.” Attorneys asked MacArthur to take the witness stand to identify letters he had written his former spouse and plaintiff in the action, Carol Frink, Chicago dramatic critic. Miss Hayes Testifies. Miss Hayes set the scene yesterday in a 45-minute appearance as witness No. 1. The petite stage and screen star—now smiling, flushed or pensive then regal as she was in “Mary of Scotland”—participated in a colloquy on her romance—from peanuts- to orange blossoms—with MacArthur. Attorney Samuel Golan, frequently referring to a movie magazine inter- view by Dena Reed, sought to estab- lish that Miss Hayes “willfully” stole the love of the co-author of “Front Page” before his divorce from Miss Frink in 1926. He asked her to recall their first meeting in 1924—at Artist Neysa McMein's New York studio, with Irving Berlin and George Gersh- win playing the piano. Then: “And did you say you were petrified when Charlie came over to you?” “Yes,” she responded. 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