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RUSSIA MAY QUIT STRAITS PARLEY Litvinoff Ordered to Leave Conference Unless Brit- : ish Yield. BACKGROUND-- Revision of Lausanne treaty de- i militarizing the Dardanelles dis- *cussed by conference of powers on . request of Turkey made after Gere = many remilitarized the Rhineland » last March, Question of restricting = passage of war ships into the Black o Sea soon divided delegates with « Russia demanding free passage for = her war vessels in and out of the = Black Sea, while entrance of all = Other war vessels is forbidden. % Great Britain has demanded free =~ passage through the straits for her % war vessels. By the Assoctated Press. MONTREUX, Switzerland, July 8. ~—The Soviet delegation announced today that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff had been instructed by Mos- cow to leave the present Dardanelles conference unless he received con- Biderable concessions from the British. The conferees, assembled to study Turkey’s demands for the right to refortify the famous straits counect- ing the Black Sea with the Mediter- ranean, recently has been close to a geadlock over rival Russian and Brit- ish desires. Demands Unrestricted Passage. Great Britain demanded the right of unrestricted passage through the Dardanelles for her warships; Russia has contended that the eastward passage of non-Black Sea powers should be restricted. At the same time Russia, herself a Black Sea power, has demanded the right to move her warships in either direction through the Dardanelles in unrestricted numbers. Litvinoff, it was stated, deemed in- sufficient Great Britain's offer to mod- ity her demand for an unconditional entry into the Black Sea in case Brit- ain was at war. The British modification would have changed the right of entry to a case in which Britain was at war with a Black Sea power. The conference thus is threatened with a deadlock, although Great Brit- ain’s offer would allow Turkey to pre- vent the entry of British warships if ‘Turkey believed her security menaced. Russia Demands Full Closing. The British also pointed out that if no Black Sea power was engaged in war, Turkey undeniably could at all times close the Straits to all bellig- erents. The Russians argued that future wars could only be waged within the framework of the League of Nations and demanded the Straits be closed to all belligerents, whoever they may be. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and warmer tonight, tomorrow generally fair and continued warm; gentle winds, mostly southwest and west. Maryland—Fair and warmer tonight, tomorrow generally fair and con- tinued warm. Virginia—Fair and warmer tonight, Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PARK COMBERS. ACKING a beach, Washington has no beach combers, but park combers are another mat- ter, and quite a large one at that. You can see a great regiment of them any morning after a dramatic production has been staged in the Sylvan theater on the Monument grounds. They find quite a few ar- ticles, according to Albert Clyde-Bur- ton, assistant superintendent of Na- tional Capital parks. Among the items he lists rings, bracelets, coins, pencils, handker- chiefs and similar articles. Some- times the park comber gets something of real value as, for example, a rather expensive bracelet lost by & woman from out of town at a recent fete held there. * k¥ % LAND LOCKED. Out at the Zoo they're trying to teach the baby sea lion to swim. Meanwhile, they keep him in a pen so he won’t go near the water. x ox % FISH CATCHES MAN. ON'T make the mistake of trying _to tell a “tall” fish story to any of the personnel of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington. They can, and probably will, top it with the story of Aviation Machinist L. L. Jar- rell, VP Squadron 4-F. Jarrell, it seems, was fishing, when suddenly a fish known as a “half beak,” a species of garfish, leaped out of the water, struck him under the chin and pierced through the roof of his mouth. The fish lashed, pulled out its sharp beak and dropped, leaving a triangular wound about three-quar- ters of an inch in width. —— o “At first hearing,” it was reported in the version sent to the bureau, “this appeared to be a tall fish story. The doctor checked the story and, upon consulting expert fishermen in this area, learned that these same fish often dive into the side of a small boat, imbedding their beaks up to one-half inch in the planking.” * ok X % ROMANCE. THE phrase “undemonstrative New Englanders” is going to get a lot of snorts from one of our opera- tives from now on, although in the past it was one of those idioms which he was wont to use. The experience of riding down one of Washington's busy avenues beside a couple of youthful New Hampshire- ites taught him differently. They used every red traffic light as an oc- casion to snatch kisses, completely THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C Virginia Family SENATE INCREASE ISSEENFORG.0.P. Senator Townsend Predicts 8 to 10 More Seats for Republicans. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Optimism for success not only of the Landon-Knox ticket in the com- ing election, but also in winning some eight or ten additional seats in the Senate, was expressed today by Sena- tor Townsend of Delaware, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Com- mittee. Senator Townsend returned to ‘Washington today after opening head- quarters for the Senatorial Commit- tee in Chicago, where he conferred with John Hamilton, the national campaign manager, and Col. Franks| Knox, vice presidential nominee. Townsend left this afternoon for New York to establish Eastern headquarters for the Senatorial Committee. Strength Seen in East. He expressed the opinion that the Republican ticket will show surprising strength in the East and Middle West. He predicted that starting this week the poll will reveal a very definite trend for Landon and Knox and G. O. P. candidates generally. While in Chicago, Townsend ap- pointed Senator Steiwer of Oregon, keynoter at the Republican convention | in Cleveland, vice chairman of the senatorial committee in charge of the Western campaign He also called into | conference at Chicago Republican senatorial candidates in that part of | the country, including former Repre- sentative Simmons of Nebraska, whom he confidently predicted will win the | Senate seat in that State. Senator Townsend expressed con- fidence that Republican nominees will capture Senate seats in South Dakota, Illinois, Colorado, West Virginia, Massachusetts and possibly Kentucky and Montana. Effect of Funds Feared. While expressing his general opin- ion that the situation is “more en- couraging than he expected to find | it,” Senator Townsend said large sums | being spent for drought relief in the | Middle West may affect Republican | changes. Senator Townsend said that while on his trip he talked whenever he had opportunity with “the man in the street” and casual acquaintances in railroad trains and that it was from | them that he received his greatest encouragement for the success of the Republican campaign, FATAL PLANE CRASH TERMED AVOIDABLE Error of Judgment Laid to Army Pilot Killed in Ship Fall at Lincoln, Nebr. By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., July 8.—Charles | Doyle, secretary of the Nebraska Aero- | nautics Commission, last night called the airplane crash which took the life here yesterday of Second Lieut. Charles Edward V. Smith, 25, of Hastings, JUDIGIARY SQUARE SOONTO BE BEGUN Police Court Building Bids Will Be Opened in 45 Days. When bids are opened in 45 days on the new Police Court Building to be constructed in Judiciary square, the recorder of deeds. Its position will will have its first actual development. Since the original plan was put forward in 1922, many designs for the proposed center have been offered, each to meet with ultimate failure, either because of a lack of money or because the Fine Arts Commission, the National Capital Park and Plan- | ning Commission or some other agency, raised a barrier. The new Police Court Building, however, has passed all the required tests, and under authority from Con- gress will pe the first of three build- ings that will transform Judiciary square from its present open park space to the center of legal activities of the Capital. Forms Boundary of Court. The new building will be erected north of E street, facing Fifth street, and will form the western boundary of an enclosed court that will be the largest park area in the city outside | of Potomac and Rock Creek Parks. According to Capt. Hoel S. Bishop, jr., assistant engineer commissioner, the enclosed park space, when the entire courts building plan is completed, will be larger than either Lafayette square or Franklin Park. The other two buildings have not | yet been specifically authorized or | appropriated for, but approval by | Congress of the first of the three buildings has given what is viewed as virtual official sanction to the completed ‘“‘court square” develop- ment. When completed, a second build- ing, the duplicate of the new Police Court Building so far as exterior architecture is concerned, will be | erected on the east border of Judiclary | square, directly opposite the Police Court structure to house the Munici-, pal Court. Off-setting the Court of Appeals Building will be another duplicattng it to house the Juvenile Court and the recorder of deeds. Its position will be directly east of the present Court of Appeals Building and will match it so far as outside appearance is concerned. Will Cost $1,500,000. The Police Court Building will cost $1,500,000. Congress in the current appropriations act set up $1,000,000 to start the work and the Treasury made the money available yesterday. Plans and specifications had al- ready been prepared, and when the | Commissioners learned the money was at hand they authorized the bids. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936, RAVEN, Va., July 8.—Mrs. Rosa Lambert and her four child: were piled up by the force of the water as shown. “Bal Bohemes” Play Big Role In Costuming Arts Club Cast Every Detail Is Now Correct for Presen- tation of “Phaeton, Son of Phoebus.” “Crusade Ball” provided metal cloth And The remnants of past “Bal Bo hemes” won't be conspicuous as such, | for such personages as Jupiter. costume role in the pageant, “Phae- odds and ends which will do nicely ton, Son of Phoebus,” when it is pre- ‘ for draperies. sented in the Sylvan Theater at 8 pm.| When M. Forney Reese, vice chair- Friday by the dramatic committee of | man of the dramatic ecommittee, the Arts Club of Washington. finally emerged from the deep recesses The drama group—gone Greek for of the wardrobe room—thunder sheet its debut in the Summer festival series | in one hand and sun-tan make-up box on the Washington Monument in the other—the public was definitely Grounds—has a word for this costume | assured that all details were cared for, business. It's ingenuity. | even down to the thunderstorm. Faced with the delicate task of pro- | Dancing and Music, viding, without funds, correct wearing | The pageant, written by Miriam apparel for a cast representing nearly pangs Hilton for presentation in the all of the Olympic gods. officials| neyw garden back of the club, includes |turned toward the wardrobe room.| dancing and music as well as the only to remember its been years since | drama of the old Greek myth dealing the Arts Club has done anything|with Phaeton's attempt to drive the Greek. Bustles, hoop skirts and even | gun chariot usually guided by his pompous Roman regalia were there in | father, Phoebus. Assisting the dra- abundance, which is well enough if| matic club will be a chorus of 40 voices you're not looking for classical lines.| recruited from several local choral And while the wardrobe room yields| clube, the United States Marine Band a complete stock of breeches, the| and the Chace dancers. Greeks went out for tunics. Two white horses from Fort Myer All Details Cared For. will also take part. All was well in hand for the dress Prior to its presentation to the pub- | rehearsal last night, however, and the lice Friday under the auspices of the | “Bal Bohemes,” for which the club is i festival series sponsored by the Com- famous, wouldn't have recognized | munity Center Department and the | themselves. | Office of National Capital Parks, the For instance, the Marian Chace | pageant will be given tonight in the | dancers, who are to present a war- | garden of the Arts Club. | riors’ dance, will be well equipped with | Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest is direct- The structure will run north and | armoyr once proudly displayed in the |ing the production and Mrs. Maud south 303 feet, facing Fifth street, and 110 feet east and west, with en- trances on both E and F streets. It will be air-conditioned throughout and a part of the contract will include the drilling of two wells in Judiciary Square to supply the needed water. Capt. Bishop said that soundings have already indicated that water can be reached at a level not too far Costumes from the | Howell Smith is casting director. WISCONSINAVENUE “Underseas Ball.” ROBBER REVEALED Trapped by Cloudburst ren were trapped in this house for four hours when a cloudburst sent a torrent of water through and around the house. Boulders but they’ll play a pretty important | even the “Circus Ball” contributed | W.P.A. ART SHOW OPEN AT MUSEUM Wide Scope Represented by “Index Designs” of Amer- ican Times. BY LEILA MECHLIN An exhibition of drawings, paintings and photographs for the “Index of American Design,” a W. P. A. Federal art project, may now be seen in the foyer of the National Museum. The purpose of this “Index” is a Nation-wide survey of design in the American decorative arts which w serve as record and reference for al time. Throughout the country, tie 300 artists employed under this section of the W. P. A. are working in and private collections, and eff 2 ot are being made to discover piec private ownership which have heretofore been recorded. —A, P. Photo. In the research division, much ma- terial of historical value is be sembled, such as names of local c: men and data concerning the cond tions under which they worked. In every instance where photographs will tell the story a photographer is ployed, but more often, and esp | when the color element must be reck- | oned with, artists are called in to number of these w d ed 101 Conferences' Renewec’ After | and thus made availabie for & 30 Are Injured in Run- tribution; but none will be ning Fighting. duced, or given out for pul By the Assoctated Press. without the consent of the owner in no case will these drawings furnu | specifications for manufacturers. CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 8—A 24- hour truce and renewed conferences between strikers and Remington- | Rand officials grew today from a bat- | tle at the company entrance, in which & bystander was shot, 30 or more } persons injured and two busses wreck- | ed in running fights. H. T. Anderson, mana’ger. ordered the factory shut down today after | . - Sl Ak " three days of partial operation, each | crY little about ‘3”5‘,’ = of which has been marked by vio- ‘du.'ém: ll‘lvl‘ gold rush of 1849 a |lence. Anderson said he would con- ;'Eelmg i | fer with union officials and Common r"’ iona .2 ST Pleas Judge Alfred Mack today in o reProctctions an attempt to reach a settlement. T IeDiere 95 O Rand Parley Sought. the early settlers of Santa Fe Anderson said he also would ask “,‘:,he mfal;xrf ,r:‘.fm‘“,: a',". s James Rand, jr., of New York, presi- | Fation of “‘”,i.‘;‘jc a')' gluER dent of the company, to meet with Iy strike leaders. His announcement served to dis- perse a crowd, which kept more than color or other suital Wide Scope of Work. ‘The scope of the work is wide. cov- ering furniture, iron work, work 1 metal, glass, pottery, embroid costume, needlework, toys, etc., I the far South and West, as well as | from the East. We know a good deal about the craftsmen of New Er d | in the early da I’ t | BIDS ARE RECEIVED 30 employes prisoners in the plant. | gaines | A crowd, estimated by police at more | gecor than 1,000 persons, gathered about the | k | gates of the plant, in suburban Nor- | Intere | wood, late yesterday. As busses con- Q'CF‘:. s taining many of the 250 workers left Jicholas Disbrowe, the plant they were greeted with a shower of stones. | Men in automobiles pursued one bus- load of women workers 6 miles to the yard of the Hamilton County Court | House. Another, en route to the plant, | was overturned, set afire and hacked | with axes, while a third was wrecked in a traffic jam at a busy street inter- section. Police sald wrecking of the third bus apparently was accidental. Bystander Shot in Leg. Jack Veneman of Norwood, a by- stander, entered a hospital early to- day for treatment of a bullet wound designs for ing are the i ade by a craftsman n bo! Colonies became more | works of st cabinet ma Phyfe, are quite Victorian in xties in San ASHUNTED KILLER F. B. 1. Check on Finger- Nebr., "an avoidable accident—a pilot’s in his leg. Police said that 30 or more minor casualties among employes did not require hospital treatment. A com- pany guard was treated. . | down, although the volume has mnot error. yet been determined. Bids for the Doyle said the stories of witnesses | wells will be opened Friday afternoon. who saw the ship crash in flames at| Tpe building, to be three stories the municipal airport shortly before | high, will be of limes®ne exterior to | undeterred by the high visibility of Wrought lIron Grills. their romance in a car with the top lowered. “I guess,” says our man, “he’s the one guy in the world for whom there tomorrow generally fair and slightly ‘warmer. ‘West Virginia—Fair and warmer to- night, tomorrow generally fair and Nearer hon wrcught iron and specimens of cr: State and U. S. Road Offi- noon agreed: gontinued warm. % River Report. + Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers Blear today. § Report for Last 21 Hours. Temperature. Buxromehr oees. Iggiee 3004 30.0% 30.03 30.03 20.99 (Prom noon vesterday to noon today.) Highest. 88, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; year ago, 8 Lowest, 67, at 5 a.m. today; year ago, Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 96. on June 3 Lowest O on January 23. Humidity for Last 23 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon to Highest. 05 Der cent, at 3 a.m. Towest, 33 per cent, at 4 p.m. Tide Tabl % (Purnished by United 8t ‘Geodetic Burve 5:24 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Bun. today - Sun._tomorro 4350 6 Moon, today - 9:57pm. 9:05a.m. * Automobile lights must be turned on one- half hour after sunset. Precipitation. | Monthly precipitation in inches in the €apital (current month to date. 15)13'_!,. A'_‘Ver:(.. Record, 8’ .09 '8 3.83 o, oaimen Lee opoikibgD 3ti0io DI BRRREEE3SaNS; [y 59 SBAGEGRS R iy Weather in Various Cities. Temp. Rain- Baro. H'h.Low.fall. Weath'rs 3 0" 70 Clear Stations. 20.98 90 70 88 90 68 uron. 8. Dak. indianapolis Jacksonviile, PER PR RS R e 8t. Louis, Mo, __ Seattle, Wash _ Booke; ‘Wash. FOREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time. tod: Stations. Temperature. .“,76) ther. 5 ather. ndon. England. Rain rrent obse s:. Georges. Bermuda. n Ji Puerto Ri Havans. Cuba - Colon, Canal Zon i Discover 0il in Turkey. American engineers employed by the Turkish government have made & valuable discovery of ofl in Turkish could not be too many red lights.” Ry, CHASE. A YOUNG lawyer who habitually drives his sport phaeton too fast was coming from Alexandria on the Mount Vernon boulevard the other night when he happened to glance in his rear view mirror and spot a snow white car behind him in hot pursuit. He glanced at his speed- ometer, saw it read “60” and simul- taneously two visions flashed in his mind—“State cops” and “$25 and It was only a short distance to " | Memorial Bridge and he decided to make a run for it. Pushing the accelerator to the floor he roared up to 70, to 75, to 80, jammed on the brakes at the turn into the bridge, screeched around the curve and shot across into the District again. He was rolling flippantly around the Lincoln Memorial when the pur- suing car came alongside. A taxi driver for the company that has those new white cabs leaned out and yelled, “Hey, buddy, I been tryin’ to catch you to tell ya somethin’ blew out of the back seat of your car down the road a couple of miles. Looked sorta like a sweater.” * % x % LATE. The siz sightseers from Hawail who arrived in Washington the other day had seen the Pacific and the Atlantic; they had seen the Rockies and the great Ameri- ican desert, the Grand Canyon, Chicago, New York and the Capi- tal of the Nation, “But we wasted several days at the Grand Canyon,” sighed the youngest member of the party, “and got here too late to see Representative Zioncheck!” * ok k% BALD HORSES. ID you ever hear of a horse getting bald? ‘You would have were you an em- ploye of the soil chemistry division of the Department of Agriculture. Word came to that group recently that in certain parts of the Northwest horses were losing their tails and manes for no apparent good reason. The Federal experts looked into it. They found that a certain chemical in the soil got into the grain, which, when the horses ate it, led to the loss of tails and manes. The affected areas were fenced off and are not being used for grain production. How about human beings are eating bread made from grain grown on such soil, the Federal scientists were asked. They didn’t care to say. Dance of Death. ST. LOUIS (#).—William O. Pasch, 31, was under treatment for heart disease, but that didn’t stop him from jumping into & river to rescue a child. “Now, watch me dance,” he told friends soon afterward, and glided out on a dance floor. He collapsed and died. “Smith pulled up in a steep climb- | ing turn, stalled, went into a spin and | crashed. It was poor judgment on the part of the pilot, since the steep turn was not required and it is a dan- gerous maneuver.” Smith, formerly a cadet at Selfridge Field, Mich, recently was commis- sioned and assigned to duty at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Il. He was cleared last year of charges in connection with a low flight over the University of Nebraska stadium during a foot ball game. FIANCE OF M.RS. OWEN DUE IN U. S. TOMORROW Capt. Boerge Rohde Expected to Be Married to Bryan's Daugh- ter Some Time This Week. By the Assoclatea Press. NEW YORK, July 8—Capt. Boerge Rohde, & member of the Life Guards of King Christian of Denmark, is ex- pected to arrive tomorrow from Copen- hagen for his marriage, probably this week, to Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, United States Minister to Denmark. Mrs. Owen, a daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, returned to the United States Sunday from Den- mark to take a short rest and aid in President Roosevelt’s re-electign cam- paign. Chew of Tobacco Lures Four Tough Foxes From Den By the Assoclated Press. HAGERSTOWN, Md,, July 8— This is the story of Dewey Cut- shaw, Clearspring fox catcher ex- traordinary—and he has the foxes to prove it: While he was roaming through a fleld with several companions, he saw a Reynard take to its den. He put a chew of tobacco on the end of a stick, thrust the stick in the hole and drew it out with an angry fox dangling on the end. He repeated this process until he had brought out four Reynards —each having grabbed the end of the tobacco-coated stick with its teeth, conform with the present District Su- | preme Court Building and the Court of Appeals Building. “Bull Pens” in Basement. The basement floor will be taken up chiefly with the mechanical equip- | ment for the air-conditioning and eievators, but almost & third of the north end will be converted into two | ! “bull pens” for prisoners, divided to | separate men from women. One of | them will be for United States pris- oners and the other for District pris- oners. To reach the detention rooms a driveway from F street will be con- structed with space below the ground level for the truck or ‘“black maria” to turn. ‘There will be no heating plant, for the structure will be connected with the central heating plan, bullt for the Federal triangle. The first floor will provide offices for the District attorney, the corpora- tion counsel, the marshal, the bailiffs, the financial clerk and the docket clerk. A special room will be con- structed for the press. All of these will be arranged around a central corridor. The second floor will have four court rooms, with adjacent judges’ chambers, jury rooms, witness rooms and the quarters for the probation officer. The third and top floor will be only half finished. The completed part will include two more court rooms, with the necessary judge's chambers, jury and witness rooms. The unfinished half will allow for expansion when it is needed and its use will be determined by demand. The municipal architects office now is completing interior plans for the building to face the new Police Court structure. In general it will follow the same plan, but the interfor will be revised to fit the needs of the Mu- nicipal Court. All of the public rooms will be fin- ished in paneled oak. A feature will be two auxiliary ele- vators, not necessarily for public use, that may be utilized to hustle prison- ers in and out of the building, or for the judges to come and go privately from their court rooms. The structure is to be completed 14 months after the contract is let on August 25. Some cod, haddock and herrings live from 15 to 18 years. prints Identifies Fugitive From Texas Prison. A robber who was captured Monday at Canon City, Colo., after fatally run- ning down an 1l-year-old boy in an | attempt to escape by automobile, and | . who sought to " hide his real identity behind an “alias,” has been betrayed by his fingerprints, on file at the Fed- eral Bureau of # Investigation. : Telltale whorls and loops on the prisoner’s fingers have identified +* him as T. B. At- ¢ kinson, life term- - Meli er at the State T.B.Atkinson, P eDitentiary at Huntsville, Tex, who killed a guard i escaping from the prison last June 19, it was disclosed today by J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I director. Atkinson previously had escaped from the Huntsville institution and had been recaptured last October. He has a long criminal record as a hold- up man and burglar. Atkinson was arrested last June 27 by police of Wichita, Kans, and charged with vagrancy, but was re- leased before his fingerprints were re- celved by the F. B. I. identification division here and identified as those of the prison fugitive. He had given the name of Jack Richard Jackson. The desperado again fell into hands of the law when he committed an “aggravated robbery” at Canon City, threatening to kidnap an elderly wom- and and killing a boy as he drove his car from the scene of the crime. Captured by pursuing officers, the robber was placed in the State Peni- tentiary at Canon City, and his finger- prints were forwarded immediately to ‘Washington. Huntsville and Canon City authorities have been notified of the man’s real identity. Ex-Employe of Sultan Killed. BEACON; N. Y, July 8 (#).—Murat Bey, whose credentials indicated that he was formerly a personal employe of the Sultan of Turkey, died today in Highland Hospital from internal injuries suffered in an automobile accident yesterday. Police Court’s New Home Architect’s drawing of the $1,500,000 buildin, to replace the present shabby D street structure which houses the Police Court. Construction will begin in August, with occupancy ezpected by October, 1937. ‘ e cials Study $44,939 Low Proposal. BY & Staff Correspondent ot The Star. BETHESDA,; Md., July 8.—Highway officials of the State and Federal gov- ernments today were studying a bid of | $44,939 submitted by the Blue Ridge | Amiesite Co. for improving the center of Wisconsin avenue. ‘The quotation was the lowest of those submitted to the State Roads Commission at its offices in Baltimore yesterday and it is expected the con- | tract will be awarded as soon as engi- neers determine whether the specifica- | tions of the bid are satisfactory. | Included in the work is the paving | of the unimproved center strip from | old Georgetown road to Bradley Lane and the construction of curbing for a parkway from that point to the District of Columbia line, a total distance of 1.69 miles. Work on the landscaped parkway from Bradley lane to the District line will be undertaken by employes of the State Roads Commission as soon as the curbing is installed. The center strip was left unimproved when the ‘Washington-Rockville street car line was discontinued. The project is to be carried out with Pederal funds allocated to the State and the bids are subject to the approval of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, as well as the State Roads Commission. The paving will be of concrete with bituminous base. Rockefeller (Continued From First Page.) John D. Rockefeller, jr., the only son, was not present to congratulate his father on the opening of another year. He is in France. Mrs. E. Parmelee Prentice of New York, a daughter, was amongithose to greet him. Others listed as guests were Mrs. Fannie A. Evans, a cousin and for many years his hostess; Miss Madeline Prentice, a granddaughter; Laurance S. Rockefeller, a grandson, and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. His birthday is one of two anni- versaries which the pioneer of mod- ern business methods celebrates. The other is September 26. It was on that date in 1855 that he got his first Job. He worked at that job more than three months and was paid $50. Then he got a raise to $25 a month. Years later his fortune was esti- mated—and denied—to be as high as $2,400,000,000. In 35 years he gave away considerably more than half a billion dollars. In the statement given out through his New York office last night he $aid: “Everybody is good to me and I send them all most cordial thanks. “I have no words to express my gratitude both for all their kindly attention and for my own good will to mankind. “My good condition of health is stmply & miracle to me and I am grateful for the unusual blessings that have come to me in all my life.” Premonition Saves $500. BINGHAM, Utah (#).—Saturday night Harry Brownlee, a coal dealer, put $518 in his office safe. Sunday, acting on premonition or sheer good luck, he removed $500. That night safe was opened by yeggs who MURDER CHARGED IN ‘GIFT BOMBINGS’ | Wilkes-Barre Miner Denies Mail- what battered but piquant still; & | o hobby horse and a very primitive ing Fatal Boxes at | steam engine. Bed quilts, samplers ¢ les e rk Easter. and other examples of needlework By the Associated Press. | WILKES-BARRE, Pa, July 8— i_state troopers, their handcuffs clin |ing on the wrists of Michae! Fug- ;mann, hustled the anthracite miner to jail late yesterday, charged with murder as a resuit of the “Easter gift” Obviously much of the material has | bombings. been reproduced before, but never in “My heart is clean,” the 52-year- |the past has so comprehensive a pic old man said when he was arraigned | torial reccrd been attempted. before Judge John S. Fine on 10 only does this index witness to a high charges, 3 of them for the deaths of | average of taste among our early Michael Gallagher, cemetery sexton; | craftsmen and designers, but of prev- Thomas Maloney, former Drefidemlalen: culture among the people they of the now-disbanded United Anthra- | served. Also, in some instances, un- cite Miners of Pennsylvania, &nd | less recorded now, some of th Thomas Maloney, jr., 4. | works would disappear through wear Fugmann snapped out “no” as each |and tear of use, and their existence | of the warrants was read. His attor- | be entirely forgotten. | ney, E. F. McGovern, pleaded inno- | 1cence for his client, contending that | the cigar boxes, which the State con- | tends were used as containers for the VICTIM OF A ibombs, were stolen from Fugmann's car. Judge Fine sent Fugmann to jail without bail. | B5 the Associated Press. State troopers, flanked by city po-| MONTGOMERY, Ala, July 8.—An lice and county detectives, tarried | attractive, brown-eyed girl identified long enough on their way to jail to i as Virginia Osmun, 18, boarded a train permit Fugmann to talk briefly with e y | yesterday for Everett, Mass., from | She had been silent and tense as|which she said she wandered a year Margaret Maloney, in her ‘teens and | g0 an apparent amnesia victim. her face almost as white as her crisp Chief of Detectives Hall Rapport said Summer dress, started for the wit- | the girl started hitch-hiking toward ness stand to tell how the bombs kill- | Everett from New Orleans after a ed her father and brother in their | serious illness and delirium in which home on Good Friday. The girl, in- | she kept muttering “Virginia Osmun, jured by the blast, walked with a& |41 Valley street, Everett, Mass.” limp. | Miss Frances Gorrie, Montgomery McGovern stopped the girl's testi- | County welfare director, said she mony with the declaration that it | communicated with Mrs. Mollie Os- would not be necessary for her to|mun, the mother, and established the testify. | girl's identity. The National Scene BY ALICE LONGWORTH INCINNATI, July 8—The great agrarians of the Roosevelt administration come, almost without exception, from non- agricultural areas, and the finishing schools they attended neglected to inform them about droughts and many other interesting facts of farm life. They put into effect a system of destroying crops, killing live stock and paying farmers for non- production, with the explanation that manue facturers control their output according to mar= ket demands. If they had taken the trouble to visit & farm before writing the laws they might have learned that crop production is controlled by weather conditions. In a year of drcught like this one the coun- try could still eat if the farmers were per- mitted to till their lands as they used to do. Not even a doctor of philosophy can make life more abundant by destroying the goods that sustain life. There will be an overproduction of nonsensical oratory this sea- son, but you will pay more for your bread and potatoes. | owner: | especiall here of earl, manufacture of | spread than m ssware, was wider There manship. a use—a fact which seems to called forth from the artists their best effort. MNESIA | IDENTIFIED AFTER YEAR Alice Lonsworth. (Copyright. 1936.)