Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow, probably followed by local thundershowers late tomorrow afternoon or night. Temperatures—Highest, 95, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 73, at 5:30 am. ® The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. today. Full report on page A-7. Closing New York Markets, Page 14 No. 33,676. Entered as seco post office, Washington, D. nd class matter = he & WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936. —THIRTY PAGES. STEEL UNION MEN M[HHER BEI_IEVED Clouds Halt D. C. Heat W ave; SUICIDEAND KILLER OF 3 IN VIRGINIA Coroner Says Woman Shot Parent, 86, and Two Sons to Death. BEDS OF VICTIMS ARE FIRED BY SLAYER Bodies Found in Farm House Near Berryville by Another Member of Family. BY JOHN H. CLINE, Staft Correspondent ot The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., July 13.—Triple | murder and suicide is the theory of | the quadruple gunshot killing early today of an 87-year-old bed-ridden | grandmother, her 45-year-old daugh- ter and her two grandsons in a lonely farm house 8 miles east of here, pro- | pounded by authorities this afternoon. | Mrs. May Smallwood, one of the| dead, is believed by Acting Coroner | A. P. Osborne to have gone suddenly | insane and killed with a shotgun her mother, Mrs. Virginia Elsea: her son, | Elbert Smallwood, 23, and another son, Alfred Smallwood, 17. The slay-) er then is believed to have set fire to the beds of her victims. Then she is believed to have turned the gun on herself. The four lived in a frame dwelling in the western foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short distance from the Shenandoah River., Discovered by Son. i ‘The tragedy was discovered at about 6:30 am. by Joe Elsea, son of the dead octogenarian, and Gilbert Fowler, who, according to their custom, came | up to the farm house at that time to | meet Elbert Smallwood, who worked with them on an adjoining farm. The two men noticed smoke curling from the house. When they found all the doors and windows barred from the inside, they forced an entrance. In a smouldering bed on the first floor they found Mrs. Smallwood, a divorcee and daughter-in-law of Sher- iff William Smallwood of Clarke Coun- ty and Mrs. Elsea. In the kitchen next to the bed room were splatters of blood and a single-barrel .12-gauge shotgun. Reys’ Bodies Upstairs. Ups.airs in another bed room and in different beds were the bodies of Elbert, the back of his head blown | away by a shotgun blast, and Alfred, | dead from two bullets in his chest. | ‘Their beds, too, smouldered from a | fire fed by kerosene. | Elsea and Fowler beat out the fires | and dragged the bodies into the farm | yard. Then they notifiled authorities in Berryville, the county seat. At once Sheriff Smallwood, Coroner Osborne and Commonwealth Attorney Edward McC. Willlams hurried to the scene. ‘When they had completed their in- vestigation, after the four bodies had | been sent to the John A. Enders fu- neral parlor here, it was decided to hold | an inquest at some time later in the! afternoon. | Coroner’s Theory. According to the theory held by | Osborne, Mrs, Smaliwood, who has | been in ill health, reached for her | shotgun at about 6 am. She stalked upstairs and blew off her elder son's head. As she reloaded, Osborne thinks, Alfred awoke. His mother fired hur- riedly, striking him in the chest. Fear- ful lest he not be dead, she fired again. Her next step, in the Osborne theory, was to walk downstairs and aim her weapon at Mrs. Elsea, whom she fatally wounded in the breast. Then she set the beds afire and walked into the kitchen, where she pointed the gun at her left arm pit and pulled the trigger. The shot missed her heart, but pierced her lung. She staggered the five steps from the kitchen to her bed—and fell on the smouldering mattress. One gun and five empty shells were turned over at once to Winchester fingerprint experts. Family Lived Peacefully. The slain family, who lived near Providence Chapel, a church on a farm owned by a Winchester citizen, had had no trouble with other per- sons, according to Mrs. Ammi Kelly, a kinswoman, who visited the death house this morning. “The four died in their beds,” she said. “But they weren’t much burnt. Mr. Elsea and Fowler must have got there soon after they were killed.” Mrs. Smallwood was in good spirits late yesterday, Luther Thompson, a neighbor, told the authorities. “I was over there all day yesterday.” he said, “and everything was all right. Mrs. Smallwood had asked me to spend the night.” JAPAN SPARES TWO IN EXECUTING 15 Former Communist Nakamura and Former Quartermaster Cap- tain Escape Firing Squad. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 13—Two of the 17 leaders of the February military re- bellion apparently had escaped death before a firing squad today. A curt war office announcement yesterday told of the death of 15 of the 17 condemned by a special mili- tary court last week. It did not dis- close the reason why the death sen- tence was not carried out against ‘Yoshiaki Nakamura, former Com- munist, and Asaichi Isobe, former quartermaster captain. ‘The other prisoners were reported to have died before a firing squad inside Shibuya military prison, where they had been held since their sur- render February 29. The war office, however, declined to disclose details 'of the mass execution. The rebel leaders .were sentenced for plotting the uprising February 26 in which three of Japan’s elder states- ¢ men were killed. t; [ son had the bulk of Rains Fail Western Dry Area Temperature May Not Go Above 85 Here Todafy, but W armer Weather Is Due to Return Tomorrow. Overcast skies and breezes from the Atlantic Ocean temporarily broke the Capital's heat wave today as hopes of immediate relief in the West were up- set after rain and cooler weather had been reported racing eastward against a death-dealing mercury that has killed more than 1,240 persons throughout the country. Rains and showers which checked the drought in portions of the North- west over the week end have “fizzled sut,” according to Associated Press dis- patches from Chicago, and no new ones of consequence are in sight for that or any other heat-baked area of the country. Government Meteorologist J. R. Lloyd at Chicago predicted generally fair weather with continued high temperatures today and tomorrow for drought areas in general, with cooler | weather likely tomorrow in the east- | ern portion of the Northwest. 85 Predicted Today. The clouds and gentle northeast { winds probably will keep the tempera- ture from going above 85 here this| afternoon, Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell said, but if the sun breaks through for a few hours the reading may go as high as 90. Even the higher mark would be considerably lower than the excessive temperatures that have taken eight lives, six from prostration and two from drowning, in Washington since Thursday. This total includes the deaths yesterday of an elderly man who was stricken at home and a youth who was drowned. The relief here will be short-lived, the Weather Bureau said, in pre- dicting slightly warmer weather to- night and tomorrow. Local thunder- showers are expected late tomorrow afternoon or night. The maximum tomorrow grobably will be about 95. Definite Break Wednesday. A definite break is due about Wed- nesday and Thursday, Mitchell said, but he declined to make any “rash predictions.” Showers and lower tem- peratures are expected to prevail over the entire North Atlantic region by that time. The change will not result, however, Mitchell indicated, from the cooler weather sweeping from the Pacific. (See WEATHER, Page A-2.) HELEOLAND ARHS ACTITYBARE Lord Cranborne Tells Com- | mons of Refortifying—No Right to Inspect. Ey the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 13.—Lord Cranborne, | undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, told the House of Commons today he understood Heligoland was being fortified by Germany. Asked if the island was being forti- fied by leave of the British govern- ment Lord Cranborne said, “No, it is not being fortified by leave of any one.” Lord Cranborne, acting in the place of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, made the announcement in answer to a question from Oliver Locker-Lamp- son Conservative member, whether Germany's promise not to refortify Heligoland had been kept. “Inquiries have been made,” said Lord Cranborn. “I understand the island of Heligoland is being reforti- fled.” He added that no right to inspect the island exists. Heligoland is a fifth-of-a-square- mile rock island off the German and Danish coasts in the North Sea, a strategic defense position to protect Germany's Kiel Canal and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg. Several naval battles were fought at the island during the World War, but the British never succeeded in cap- turing it. Under the Treaty of Ver- sailles, the island’s fortifications were destroyed. DENIED BY GERMANY. BERLIN, July 13 (#)—Official Ger- many gave this laconic reply, through the press today, to charges she has refortified Heligoland: “The Navy Intelligence Service ex- pressly and not without warning denies rumors that Heligoland will be made a forbidden area for military reasons and that bathing establish- ments will be closed.” MISS MOFFETT BRIDE Daughter of Former Housing Ad- ministrator Weds Broker. NEW YORK, July 13 (#).—Miss Adelaide Moffett, daughter of James A. Moffett, former Federal housing administrator and one-time Standard Oil official, was married today to David Brooks, a broker. They obtained a license early in the day at the Municipal Building and were married in the Municipal Chapel by City Clerk Michael J. Cruise. The bride is 23 and Brooks, 26. 23 DIE AS TYPHOON SINKS MOTOR SHIP Coastal Vessel Marie in Philip- pines Goes Down in Storm off Palanan By the Associated Press. . MANILA, “July 13—Word of the sinking off Palanan, Isabela Province, July 8 of the coastal motorship Marie was received here today by the Bureau of Customs and the Philippine Con- stabulary. A message from the postmaster at Palanan said the Marle, carrying a crew of 23, sank during a typoon. Unverified reports here said all hands were lost. The 939-ton craft, which sailed from Manila for Palanan June 21 to load lumber, carried no pas- sengers. GALLOWS DEATH OF INDIAN HORROR Gardner Dangles Many Min- utes After Body Strikes Side of Trap. By the Asscciated Press. SAN CARLOS, Ariz, July 13.— Boastful Eard Gardner, pint-sized Apache Indian, three times a killer, hanged from a Government gallows for 33 minutes at dawn today. Gardner, 31 years old, who insisted that the Government hang him for killing his wife and infant son, and boasted that he would take it “like an Apache,” met a horrible death. His body struck the side of the trap as the trigger was sprung. It dangled there while the helpless vic- tim groaned and kicked. Those di- recting the execution talked once of dropping him again, but decided against it. Every minute for fully 20 minutes the attending physician made an ex- amination and shook his head. The trap was sprung at 5:06 am. (Mountain standard time). It was 5:39 when Gardner was pronounced dead. Rock Crusher Gallows. ‘The Government's improvised in- strument of death was an old rock crusher used in the construction of Coolidge Dam. The rope was swung from a cross beam. A hole was cut in the floo. for a trap. The noose slipped as Gardner fell, the knot moving around in front and snapping his head backward and to one side. Meanwhile, armed men, sworn in by Ben J. McKinney, United States mar- shal, as deputies, patrolled the Coolidge Dam and the road leading into the deep gorge where the hanging occurred. But not an Indian was sighted. The guards were withdrawn as Gardner’s body was removed to a mortuary at Globe. McKinney had said “I don't expect any trouble, but there have been ru- mors of an uprising.” Gardner was secretly removed from the Gila County Jail at Globe 26 miles away, and brought to the execution site under heavy guard, arriving here shortly after midnight. Five Hours in Auto. For five hours he sat in an auto- mobile with guards equipped with a submachine gun and supplied with tear gas bombs, inside the protection of the deep gorge. He listened to Rev. F. M. Uplegger, veteran missionary, read the Bible in the Apache language. He chewed gum nervously and sn:oked many cigarettes. Occasionally he closed his eyes, placed his feet on the back of the front seat and rested. The death warrant was read as he stood over the trap. The reading re- quired several minutes. When it was finished, McKinney asked: “Have you anything to say, Earl?” “I have no interpreter,” Gardner re- plied. “But you speak good English,” Mc- Kinney said. “Well, I'll be glad to get it over with,” Gardner then insisted. It was the same story he had told (See GALLOWS, Page A-5.) NINE SYRIANS WOUNDED Nationalist Demonstrators Hurt Battling Police. BEIRUT, Syria, July 13 (#).—Nine Nationalist demonstrators were seri- ously wounded today in a gun battle with police at the village of Saida. Many shots were exchanged during the fighting, which was halted with the arrival of police reinforcements. Church Excommunicates Man For Failing By the Assoctated Press. CHICHESTER, Sussex, England, July 13—James Bunting was under sentence of excommunication from the Church of England today for failure to “honor thy father and thy mother.” The fifth commandment was in- voked against him by the Right Rev. George Bell, bishop of Chichester, following the deaths of Bunting's father and mother in a gas-filled bed room in their home. The father, the Rev. W. H. Boyne Bunting, curate in charge of Camels- dale Parish, left a letter saying his his fortune. & to Aid Parents At the inquest & coroner’s jury, in & rider to its verdict, censured the son for not helping his parents when they were in financial difficulties. AFFILIATING,. SAYS COMMITTEE HEAD Campaign to Continue Re- gardless of Federation Council Action. POWER HELD LACKING TO SUSPEND GROUPS Executives Debating Question of Action Against 12 Units Now With C. I. 0. BACKGROUND— Basis of labor’s internal troubles is difference of opinion over unioni- zation by crafts or by entire in- dustries. Majority faction favors Jormer system, but militant minor- ity headed by John L. Lewis and United Mine Workers favors ine dustrial system. Angered last Fall because A. F. of L. would not follow his pro- gram, Lewis resigned vice presi- dency of federation and formed alliance with some sympathetic unions. Retaining their federa- tion membership, these unions then announced drive to organize steel industry. Federation leaders called upon Lewis group to disband, summoned them to explain actions. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Actual union affiliations already are being recorded in the steel industry, it was declared by John Brophy, director of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization, on his return here this morning from Pittsburgh. Brophy sald that principal efforts on the part of the C. I. O. thus far have been to protect their own organi- zation and to establish personal con- tacts with workers in the steel plants, particularly those already sympathetic to union affiliation. It is from these latter groups that the first of the new members have been drawn, he said, their affiliation being with the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, which is a C. I. O. union. Drive to Continue. Declaring it inconceivable that the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor would vote to suspend the C. I. O. member unions, Brophy said that the steel organizing drive will go on in any event. “We contend,” he said, “that the council has neither the legal power to suspend unions nor the mass support of the A. F. of L. membership in an; such action.” ... Fearful of the consequences of whatever decision they make, mem- bers of the federation’s Executive Council went back into closed session this morning to continue debate on the question of suspending 12 unions now affiliated with the C. I. O. Eight of the unions have been in- vited to send representatives to ex- plain their C. I. O. affiliation, four already have defaulted and similar defiance was scheduled today from two more. Tomorrow the last pair is listed to appear and the council vote on the issue is expected in the after- noon. None of the alternatives open to the Council guarantee an end to their troubles. For instance, suspension of ihe 12 unions would cut the A. F. of L. membership by nearly one third, with $12,000 monthly revenue from 1,200,000 members being stopped. Secession Possibility. Failure to suspend, however, might bring even more drastic consequences. Firsy of these might be a move for secession on the part of some of those most insistent upon suspension, among them John P. Frey, who heads the Metal Trades Department of nearly 600,000 members. Second would be the increased prestige of John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O, with an accompanying decrease in pres- tige of the craft-union leadership of the federation. Successful in his deflance and un- punished, Lewis undoubtedly would attract ne wfollowers to his indus- trial union program and to the C. I O, and the eventual result probably would be that this faction soon would become the majority faction of the organization, an end which Lewis has sought for some time. A decision to appoint a special com- (See LABOR, Page A-2) TWO TO SERVE LIFE IN ELECTION DEATHS Four Others Imprisoned, One Granted New Trial for Slay- ing of Five. By the Associated Press. POTTSVILLE, Pa., July 13.—The Schuylkill County Court imposed life sentences upon two brothers today and imprisoned four others of their family, three of them sons, for five slayings in Kelayres on the eve of the 1934 general election. A seventh defendant was granted a new trial. Joseph J. Bruno, 52, former county detective, and Philip Bruno, 49, one- time political leaders of the little min- ing town, got life. Readers’ Guide Answers to Questions .. Comics Death Notices Editorial - Financial ___ Lost and Found . -A-3 News Comment Features_A-9 Radio Sports A- Washington Wayside... & Den WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION POLITICAL AGTIVITY SPURNED BY NYE Refuses to Commit Himself -to Any Candidate—Aids Drought Work. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, one of the group of pro- gressive Republicans in the Senate, | is going to give his “whole time and attention this Summer to aiding the drought sufferers and forget about the presidential election.” The North Dakota Senator, who came to Washington today from the West to urge that the administra- tion act with all possible speed in bringing relief to the people of his State, is not committing himself to Landon, to Roosevelt or to Lemke in the presidential race. “I shall devote my whole time and attention to seeing that the farm- ers in South Dakota who have suf- fered from this terrible drought get rellef. I am planning to leave here Friday and to move right into the area which has been most severely hit. I will open headquarters and take most of my office force with me.” Describes Heat Devastation. Nye said he had just come here from California, but that he had been in South Dakota prior to that and the conditions due to the drought were in- describable; that the crops had been wiped out, except in small areas, That included the wheat, and other grains, potatoes and grasses. “I expect that fully 30 per cent of the population of the State will have to go on relief—and the percentage among the farming population will be much higher than that,” said Nve. If the relief for South Dakota comes swiftly and without a lot of red tape, in Nye's opinion it will aid Roosevelt politically. If, on the other hand, there are vexatious delays, with a lot of inspectors of one kind or another going over appeals for aid, then the situation will be someth'ng else, Frazier in Alaska. Nye’s colleague, Senator Frazier, also & Republican Progressive, has gone to Alaska, after first declaring himself satisfied with the Landon nomination by the Republicans and then switch- ing to the support of Representative Lemke, North Dakotan, who is heading the Father Coughlin “Union Party” ticket. Lemke, it is expected, will draw some votes in North Dakota, although his home State may not take him too seriously. The votes he gets will come from the Roosevelt ticket, rather than from the Landon supporters. Nye said today Senator La Follette of Wisconsin had consulted with him before Congress closed about the pro- posed conference of Progressives, to be held within the next few weeks. It was hig opinion that the conference would consider particularly what might be done about putting & new Progressive party ticket into the fleld in 1940. However, Senator Nye, like others, has little doubt that Senator La Follette will be found supporting President Roosevelt in the present presidential campaign. La Follette is expected to announce details of the proposed conference of Progressives sometime this week. He is still in New England on a vacation. ‘Whether the conference is to be held here or in the Middle West, Nye said, had not been determined when he last talked with Senator La Follette. He indicated that he would attend the conference, if it were possible. La Follette consulted with other members of the Republican-Progres- sive group in the Senate, and also with some Democrats, regarding the con- ference. Nye said he was awaiting with con- siderable interest the speech which Gov. Landon will make on July 23, for- mally accepting the Republican presi- dential nomination. Landon would have an opportunity then, he said, to make his position clear on a number of important questions. HINDENBURG IN PORT Fifth East-West Flight Across Atlantic Ends at Lakehurst. LAKEHURST, N. J,, July 13 (#)— Zeppelin Hindenburg, completing ng Star OW Bout us ? K Whale Is Hooked By Cod Fisherman, But He Gets Away By the Associated Press. MEREDITH, N. H, July 13.— Ernest Boynton, a Boston and Maine railroad crossing tender, reported today he fished for cod near Hampton Beach yesterday and hooked a whale. Boynton said the whale, which he estimated was 70 feet long, carried away his bait, hook and 200 feet of cod line. NANKING REFUSES . TOWARON JAPAN | Canton Chiefs Denounced by Kuomintang for Inde- pendence Move. BACKGROUND— Growing division between North and South has marked history of Chinese Republic since 1911 revo- lution. Separate governments set up in Nanking and Canton. Re- sistance of Cantonese to full power for Nanking accentuated by recent Japanese aggressions against China, the Southerners demanding that the Nationalist government in the north act to halt Japan's growing sphere of influence. Recent threats of civil war alleged by conference of jaction leaders at Nanking. £y the Asscclated Press. NANKING, July 13.—Repeated de- mands by Southern Chinese officials today by the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Kuomintang (National- ist party). The committee adopted a resolution abolishing the party's Southwest Ex- ecutive Committee, dismissed L Chang Chai-tong as commander of the Kwangtung Province Armies and condemned Southern leaders for at- tempts to establish independent po- litical and economic groups in South China. (The Southern Government at Can- ton, comprising Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces, has been seeking assistance from the Central Govern- ment at Nanking for armed opposi- tion against alleged Japanese inva- sion.) The conference authorized estab- lishment of a National Defense Coun- cil, comprised of leaders of North, Central and South China. The coun- cil, it was hoped, will convene imme- diately to consider national problems. A proposal to include Kwangtung and Kwangsi leaders on the council was approved, the action being inter- preted as a National Government move to force the Southerners to halt their oBposition to its policies. If the political ruse were to fail, informed sources believed, the Na- tional Government would be furnished with an opportunity for military ac- tion against the South. The opinion prevailed in conference circles, how- ever, the Northerners would outwit the Southern leaders and liquidate the domestic crisis without hostilities. HEAVY QUAKE RECORDED Epicenter of Jar Placed Near Santiago, Chile. BUENOS AIRES, July 13 (#).—The seismograph at La Plata University registered a strong earthquake today. The epicenter of the jar was cal- culated at about 800 miles west—which would place it in Chile near Santiago. FH¥ for war against Japan were rejected | 58id St 123,480 (®) Means Associated Pre: Sunday's Circulation 137,066 TWO CENTS. NATIONAL INCOME RISES 10 PER CENT Value of Goods and Services | Produced in 1935 Is 53 Billions. BY the Associated Press. I A net gain of 10 per cent in the na- | | tional income during 1935, compared | with 1934, is reported by the Com- | | merce Department. The department’s division of eco- nomic research says that for the third consecutive year the national income showed a “substantial gain,” the net | value of goods and services produced, having increased from $48.400,000,000 in 1934 to $53,000,000,000 in 1935. ‘The 1935 estimate, it was added, compared with $39,500,000,000 in the low point of 1932 and $81,000,000,000 during the peak in 1929 Average Income $1,201. To the individual in full-time em- ployment this meant an average in- come of $1,201 in 1935, the report stated. . During 1933 the “average” employe had an income of $1,097, g:;l;plfld with the $1,466 income of Breaking the average figures down still further, the report said the wage earner took the brunt of the drop from 1929 to 1933, wages in industries which could be classified having de- clined 34 per cent during that period while salaries in the same industries declined 21 per cent. “During the next two years per capita wages increased substantially while per capita salaries varied but slightly, and as a result the disparity between the trends of these two series was reduced materially,” the report In relation to the cost of living sal- aries generally declined less and average wages declined more than food, rent and other living expenses, the department said. Of the total national income paid out during 1935, the report added, more than 67 per cent was distributed as compensation for labor services in salaries, wages and other payments for labor. This compared with 65.5 per cent in 1929 and 64 per cent in 1932, During 1935 agriculture received 9.1 per cent of the national income, com- POLIGE. EXPECTING ? ARRESTS SOON IN SLASHING OF GIRL Gang Reprisal for New York Vice Probe Testimony Is Charged. MAN VICTIM NAMED IS HUNTED IN GOTHAM Police Checking Report She Re- ceived $500 for Luciano State- ment She Never Wrote. BACKGROUND— Charles (Lucky) Lucania, or Luciano, a year ago sought to es- tablish a personal monopoly over all of New York City's vice. By February of this year the sallow racketeer was one of America’s most famous and most sought criminals. In March he was seized in Arkansas and brought to New York under $50,000 bond. Thomas E. Dewey began a vigorous prose- cution. Eighty prostitutes told stories of Lucky'’s power to a spe- cial grand jury. For siz weeks the parade of shady characters took the stand against the vice czar and four henchmen in court. Four weeks ago Lucky was sent to Sing Sing for 30 to $0 years, while the State's witnesses feared reprisals. Police said today they hoped to make two arrests shortly in connec- tion with the mutilation of henna- haired Margaret Louise Bell, 23, who said she was the victim of gang ven- geance for having testified recently before a New York grand jury in- vestigating vice charges against Charles “Lucky” Luciano. One of the suspects, the man named by Miss Bell as having scratched the initials “C L” on her and turned on the gas in her apartment in an attempt to kill her, is an “out-of- town"” man, according to Chief of De- tectives B. W. Thompson. He was presumed to be in New York. The other has a Washington address, Thompson said. Reported Paid for Statement. Police were checking a report that the girl had been paid $500 to sign a statement declaring Luciano was the victim of a “frame-up,” but had failed to comply. The statement was to have been used by Luciano’s counsel in appealing his conviction, it was reported. Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief of detectives, and Detective Sergts. Robert Barrett, J. K. Baker and Frank Brass went to the girl's apartment to- day to take photographs and search for fingerprints and other possible clues. New York authorities have con- firmed the girl's statement that she was a grand jury witness. A girl of many aliases and a police record here, Miss Bell—or Margaret Lewis or Mrs. Costello or Jean Arnold —was found early yesterday in her partially gas-filled apartment at 1230 New Hampshire avenue, the Bond Apartments. ‘The “C. L.” had been scratched on her right thigh and on her abdomen, the numbers “3-12." Miss Bell herself pointed out that the initials are those of Luciano, who recently was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in Sing Sing for organizing dealers in women on a “chain store” scale. The numerals represent the position of the letters in the alphabet. Plane Passenger Answers Description. Police said a man of the description furnished by Miss Bell left here by plane for New York early yesterday, a few hours after the girl was found in her apartment. Miss Bell said she had testified be- fore the grand jury which returned pared with 8.9 per cent in 1929 and 5.9 per cent in 1932. ITALY CUTS FORCES ON EGYPT FRONTIER Demobilization Begun as Result of Reduction of British Naval Strength. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, July 13.—The Italian gov- ernment today ordered the with- drawal of 40,000 troops from the Italian colony of Libya, along the Egyptian border, in answer to Great Britain's removal of her home fleet from the Mediterranean. These troops, ending their African service, will be assigned to duty along the frontier of France. The first unit to leave Africa will be the motorized Trento Division, the first section of which embarked today for Italy. Previously, this division was sta- tioned at Alto Adige near the frontier of Austria. The Austro-German ac- cord of Saturday released that fron- tier from the previous tension. ‘Two other units ordered home, im- mediately after the Trento, are the Assietta Division of Infantry and the Cirene 7th Blackshirt Division. “DON’T!” ‘Washington’s city fathers are saying that con- stantly to the nearly 600,000 persons who make up the municipal family, As a member of that family, you will want to know what is on the civic “don’t” list. You can find out by reading the new feature which starts today on Page A-3 1 The Evening Star the indictments against Luciano and his aides, but had given no damaging evidence. The name she used was Margaret Lewis, she said. Other aliases which she gave here were not recognized by New York authorities as those of any woman connected with the vice investigation, Connection to Trial Uncertain. Chief Thompson, before conferring today with New York officers sent here to question the woman, said he was uncertain of her connection with the Luciano vice trial. He is investi- gating the case as an attempted murder. Miss Bell was arrested here in March, (See MUTILATION, Page A-5.) PLOT OF 6 TO FREE SLAYER IS REPORTED Story of “Confession” to Farm ‘Woman Basis of Conspiracy, Attorney Says. E5 the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, July 13.—The Post- Gazette quoted District Attorney An- drew T. Park last night as saying in- formations will be filed today against six men, including several State policemen, charging them with par- ticipating in an alleged plot to free Justice of the Peace James J. West- wood, convicted slayer of his wife. ‘The newspaper said the alleged conspiracy revolved around a story by an old farm woman that a certain man confessed to her one night, while intoxicated, that he fired the three shots which killed Mrs. Westwood. It asserted the State police were brought into the picture recently to act as witting or unwitting bolsterers of the alleged plot to build up, through perjured testimony, a net of direct and circumstantial evidence against the man who “confessed.” The district attorney said the affi- davits of the witnesses were deposited with Willlam H. Coleman, counsel for Westwood, and in the convicted squire’s pending appeal to the higher courts. He was quoted as adding that the asserted “higher ups” would be named as well as those signing affidavits. Westwood is serving & l{fe sentence {for the slaying. r