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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow; gentle northerly winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 96, at 4:30 p.m. yes- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News terday; lowest, 77, at 5:30 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 No. 33,678. 0.A.R.P. CAMPAIGN SEEKS AMENDING OF CONSTITUTION Convention Leader Reveals Plan to Legalize Old- Age Pensions. {TOWNSEND PROPOSAL WILL BE MADE LATER Fight for Control Grips Delegates, With State Managers Asking Dominant Position. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, July 15.—Martin F. Bmith, temporary chairman of the National Convention of Townsend Clubs, addressing the opening session today, said ‘adoption of a constitu- tional amendment to legalize the *Townsend old-age pension plan is “the essential part of our campaign this Summer.” He described the proposed amend- ment as one “drafted and proposed by Dr. Townsend, which he will later submit to you and the Nation.” A prolonged demonstration inter- rupted Smith as he told of a plan to submit to all State Legislatures the proposed amendment embodying the ‘Townsend program. The Democratic Representative from Washington said a “vital and essential part of our campaign to re-elect the Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. @h WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, - 1936—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##% Polly Moran’s Husband Held; Attempt to Shoot Her Charged By the Associated >ress. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif,, July 15.— | Polly Moran’s screams of “don’t kill me” summoned officers to the resi- dence of the film comedienne here today and they snapped handcuffs on her husband, Martin Malone, while he was clicking a pistol. present members of Congress, who have already proved their loyalty and | devotion to the Townsend plan, and | to elect new members who have pledged | themselves to our cause, will be the | adoption of the twenty-second amend- ment to the Constitution of the United States as drafted and proposed by | Dr. Townsend.” Candidates to Be Quizzed. Smith added that every candidate for State Legislatures would be re- quired by the Townsend organization to indicate how he would vote, if| elected, on the adoption of a memor- | 1al asking Congress to enact the Townsend plan into law and the sub- mission of a constitutional amend- ment. “This action,” Smith explained, | “will provide the legal machinery for | & non-partisan referendum on the Townsend plan by the citizens of | America and will make the Townsend plan the outstanding issue in every | legislative and congressional district election in America this year.” | Meanwhile, a convention-floor battle | was in prospect ever an announced | drastic revision of the Townsend pen- | sion organization set-up, which con- siderably curbed the authority of the | movement’s founder, Dr. Townsend. | As some 15,000 delegates opened | their second national conclave, State managers said they believed con- trol of the board of directors should be given them instead of to “Citizens Maximi,” a national advisory | board composed of one member from each State, named at Townsend State conventions. Dr. Townsend nodded assent from | time to time and corrected at other times as Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, self-styled leader of the share-the- wealth forces of the late Senator Huey P. Long, read the plan to newsmen. New Board Would Include 15. The original board was appointed by the movement’s founder and en- jarged by vote of the board. A total of 15 persons would comprise the new board, which at present has a mem- bership of 11. The corporate name of the organization, the Old-Age Re- volving Pensions, Ltd., would give way to the Townsend Recovery Plan, Inc. ‘The elderly pension chief said “for the time being” he would retain his controlling financial interest in the Prosperity Publishing Co., which pub- lished the Townsend weekly. Rev. J. Vint Laughlin of Philadel- phia, manager for Maryland, Dela- | ware and Eastern Pennsylvania, said;1 an attempt would be made to sway | Dr. Townsend from his announced | decision. Meanwhile, a movement opposing any merger of the Townsend forces | with a third party was set on foot | by 40 members of the Florida dele- gation, led by B. J. Cohen of Or- lando, who announced . the vote as unanimous. The Minnesota delega- tion followed suit. Cohen predicted that scores of delegations wduld join them today. Third Party Opposed. Dr. Townsend spoke against a Townsend third party this year, de- claring “it is out of the question as far as I'm concerned. But, eventually, a third party is the only solution in this country. After the November elections, we Townsendites can begin definitely thinking of one.” The Townsend goal of $200 monthly pensions for the aged and resultant prosperity for everybody was upper- most in the minds of most delegates, both “voting” and “visiting.” Sweltering delegates, many of the men in shirt sleeves, plodded in a constant stream down the hotel corri- dor to the room where Dr. Townsend held court behind a pitcher of ice water. Doormen tried to protect him from so many callers, but the Town- sendiates were insistent. They wanted to “see the doctor,” and most of them did. Politics vied with pensions for dele- gates’ interest, since one of the prin- cipal questions expected to be an- swered by the convention was how the ‘Townsend family would vote in the coming elections. Candidates on the “approved” list were to be announced sometime before the convention closes Sunday. Townsend Given Ovation. ‘The appearance of Dr. Townsend at the opening ‘'session was greeted with an ear-splitting demonstration. Enthusiagts stood on tables, leading the crowd in cheers and shouts. Bands played, bells were rung and noise-makers of every description were brought into play. The floor of the auditorium was crowded and there were hundreds more in the galleries, although spreads (See TOWNSEND, Page 3.) ’ A A jammed cartridge in the pistol saved her life, Sheriff’s Deputies Wal- ter Schottmiller and Robert Jorgeson said. The officers said in the struggle to subdue the attorney husband of the Polly Moran and her husband, Martin Malone. bt At b ebtad e movie star he nearly knocked one of them out. He was boéoked on suspicion of as- sault with a deadly weapon. The of- ficers said Malone was intoxicated. Schottmiller and Jorgeson said Miss Moran told them that Malone had pointed a pistol at her and pulled the | trigger repeatedly, but a cartridge | jammed the weapon and it did not fire. | “Don't kil me. Don't shoot me,” the officers said Miss Moran was (See MORAN, Page 5.) LEWISHITSALF.L 10 PRESS, FIGHT Brackets Labor Federation With U. S. Chamber and Steel Institute. BACKGROUND— Division in ranks of organized labor over issue of craft vs. Indus- trial unionism has become increas- ingly sharp during past year. Last Fall John L. Lewis, head of mighty industrial union of mine workers, resigned vice presidency of A. F. of L. and formed Com- mittee for Industrial Organization as instrument for extending indus- trial principle. Federation committee attempted to persuade C. I. O. to disband, but failed. Council then summoned C. 1. O. unions to explain stand, but none responded. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Bracketing the American Federa- | tlon of Labor with such organizations as the American Iron and Steel In- stitute, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the National | Association of Manufacturers, John | L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, this aft- ernoon told an audience at the Na- tional Press Club that resistance from one or all of them will not be suf- ficient to deter the organizing drive in the steel industry. Meanwhile, the Executive Council of the federation was continuing its deliberations of what to do about the C. I. O. unions. Before them was a proposal from President William Green that specific charges be drafted and submitted to the C. I. O. with a date named for hearing on these counts within the next two weeks. At his midday press conference, made on this proposal, but that he | expected very definitely to have a vote taken on the issue this afternoon. The possibility of further conferences was increased, as Green said the council had discussed this morning the naming of a new committee to confer with C. I O. representatives. Lewis' biting remarks in sweeping the federation into the company of the outstanding representatives of in- dustry were echoed today also in an editorial in the United Mine Workers’ Journal, containing the following: “The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has joined hands with the great steel companies to prevent the organization of the workers in the steel industry.” Devoting most of his Press Club speech to the steel organizing cam- paign, Lewis refuted charges that the workers do not desire organization by pointing to the vastly improved conditions of mine workers since their organization. Asked how he might enforce his collective bargaining objective - with the steel industry, Lewis said it would be by weight of public opinion in back of requests for copferences between industry and real representatives of labor. In presenting his council proposal, Green is understood to have em- phasized _his _conviction_that _the (See STEEL, Page 4.) Alaskan Scores By the Assoclated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 15—The senatorial Alaska Indian Investigation Committee, headed by Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat of Oklahoma, met with criticism here today when Cyril Zuboff, president of che Alaska Na- tive Brotherhood, told the committee the money spent on their trip should be used for the betterment of Indians. “We have been investigated by dig- nified Senators, Representatives, su- pervisors, directors, department heads ' Green said that no decision had been | CREDIT INFLATION CHECKED BY BOARD Federal Group Increases Reserve Requirements for Member Banks. By the Associatec Press. By jamming down a brake, the Fed- eral Reserve Board figured today it [ had gone far to prevent any runaway credit inflation. The board, acting under powers con- ferred on it by Congress in 1935, an- nounced that reserve requirements for Federal Reserve member banks would be increased 50 per cent beginning August 15, The effect of this action was to nail down a sizeable portion of the $3,000,- 008,000 in excess bank reserves, to pre- vent it from being used for credit ex- pansion. The board ruled that in the central | Reserve cities of Chicago and New | York the portion of demand deposits which must be held in reserve shall be boosted from 13 to 1912 per cent. At | banks in Reserve cities, the rate is increased from 10 to 15 per cent, and at other member banks from 7 to 102 : per cent. The requirement on time | deposits at all banks will be increased from 3 to 4! per cent. Ten-fold Expansion Possible. Monetary experts figure that the $3,000,000,000 excess reserve could have been used as the basis for credit ex- pansion of $30,000,000,000 or more, unless it had been reduced sharply. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said the $3,- (See INFLATION, Page 6.) | | POLICE BREAK UP CAMDEN PICKETING One Hurt in Disorder as Strikers Hurl Threats—Reply to Ulti- timatum Awaited. By the Assoclated Press. CAMDEN, N. J.,, July 15.—Mounted Camden police broke up mass picket- ing today near the R. C. A, Manufac- turing Co. plant. One man was injured by a missile and one arrest was made on a dis- orderly conduct charge. Strikers gathered in small groups and shouted threats to renew mass picketing later today. A formal reply from the United Electrical and Radio Workers of Ameri- ca to the ultimatum of the R. C. A. Manufacturing Co., was awaited to- day. The letter said the company would insist: That demands for pay increases, a closed shop and abolition of the employes committee union—so-called company union—be withdrawn and that the strike be called off immedi- ately. Bomb Kills Five Children. KIKSIC, Yugoslavia, July 15 (#).— Five children were killed today in the explosion of a World War grenade, with which they were playing. Fund Waste By Indian Probe Committee and even Representative Zioncheck, Democrat of Washington, came up last Summer, but the Indian is still the poor Indian,” Zuboff told the com- mittee. Charles Flory, regional forester, answered charges he had discriminated against Indians in Civilian Conserva- tion Corps camps, saying he acted on instructions from Washington, D. C. The other Senators on the commit- tee are Lynn J. Frazier, Republican of North Dakota, and Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Labotite o Minnesota. | ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION GOV. NICE AND 235 PASSENGERS SAFE AFTER SHIP CRASH Landed in Baltimore by Ferry Following Ramming by Freighter. FLOOR SHOW IN FULL SWING AS BOATS MEET SHeRLoCK WHAT Do You DEDUCE FROM THE FACT THEY'RE GOING IN QNE DIRECTION? Automobile Trade Group Was Re- turning From Convention When Accident Occurred. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July 15—A steel- laden freighter, plowing through the darkness, rammed its prow deep into the side of a Chesapeake Bay boat outside the harbor here and gave the 235 passengers what one of them de- scribed today as-“the closest shave I ever had.” After a scene of near panic aboard the rammed ship and several hours anxiously awaiting rescue, the pas- sengers, Gov. Harry W. Nice among them, landed safely in port at day- break aboard a ferry boat. Nearly all had been badly jolted and some were painfully bruised in the collision. Tightly locked together, the two ves- sels, the bay ship State of Virginia and the freighter Golden Harvest, | drifted aground off Seven-Foot Knoll with their crews still aboard. The SHOWERS RELIEVE Probe Is Started. | Temperature Again Soars Ship officials started an investiga- in Northwest—Nation’s { tion into the cause of the collision, | i Toll Is Over 3,400. which occurred between 10:30 and 10:45 o'clock last night. | The passenger boat, & three-decker, By tr Associated Press. was returning members of the Automo- | CHICAGO. July 15 —Scattered bile Trade Association of Maryland | thundershowers scored local triumphs terrific impact brought a floor show to , of the Middle West and a mass of Great Lakes eastward today, but Weather Forecaster J. R. Lloyd said the victory over the 12-day heat wave ment going at full blast aboard the ship. Some of the girls in the show became | * hysterical. Woman passengers screamed | Was far from complete. and men turned from fun-making to| Added deaths in the affected areas kneel on deck and pray for safety. | sent the list for the period over the Danger Soon Passes. | 3:400 mark. In the Northwest States of Mon- William J. Wells, jr., Baltimore Sun automobile editor, who was aboard, tana, Wyoming, Nebraska and the said the crash was “the closest shave Dakotas, visited early this week by I ever had.” | rains, temperatures again soared, with The danger soon passed and the | no indication of additional showers. passengers speedily regained their| This. together with failure of the | composure, Sergt. Manash Katz of | drought relief generally to materialize, | State Police, personal aide to Gov.| brought new outbursts of buying in | Nice, aided in restoring calmness by | the grain pits of the Chicago Board | leading them in old-fashioned songs. " of Trade. Corn jumped up more than The ferryboat Pittsburgh took the |3 cents a bushel at times and wheat passengers from the Golden Harvest | as much as 44 cents a bushel, and and brought them to port. They had | the limit of 5 cents in Kansas City. from a two-day convention at sea. The | over the drought in the central part a sudden halt and interrupted merri- | cool air enveloped the States from the | gone aboard the freighter soon after the collision. Capt. W. I. Woodall of the Pitts- burgh, veteran of many a bay rescue, said his latest one was “all in the day’s | work.” | Governor Tells of Crash. i Gov. Nice, smiling broadly as he | came ashore from the ferryboat, told | of the crash as follows: | “It occurred about 10:45 p.m. off | Seven Foot Knoll. Every one was in the main salon when the crash came. ! | The next thing we heard four blasts of the boat whistle and men rushed to their state rooms. “The freighter struck us on the port side, near one of the state rooms. The bulk of the freighter crashed clear through the state room and broke several pipes. Knocked From Chair. “I was sitting on a chair near the top of the stairs when it happened. The impact knocked me from the chair and everybody around me was either knocked down or jolted. “We rushed down the stairs and there was a great deal of excitement. However, there was no hysteria among the many women passengers or panic. “The captain of the Golden Har- vest had the presence of mind to keep his motors runnin to keep the nose of his ship against the hole it had bored in our boat. It was two hours before | we got help.” The Governor said the only injury he received was a bruised arm. Others reported similar hurts. Wells said that while he was watch- ing the floor show “there was a terrific crash. “People were thrown from chairs. Those standing up were thrown in heaps on the floor. The girls in the T (See COLLISION, Page 2.) WEBSTER IS NAMED SHRINE POTENTATE Hugh M. Caldwell, Elected to Office at Convention, Re- signs at Once. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 15.—Deputy Impe- rial Potentate Hugh M. Caldwell of Seattle, elected Imperial Potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, resigned immediately at the imperial council session today and Im- perial Chief Rabban Clyde 1. Webster of Detroit was elevated to the position. ‘World War veteran delegates, rep- resenting the more than 10,000 mem- bers of the Shrine’s Legion of Honor, announced election of Col. Harry H. Green, Atlanta, Ga., as their national commander to succeed Robert A. Burri, Clevland, Ohio. The Shrine was represented by delegates from 109 temples, from Hawali to New England and from the Canal Zone to Toronto. More than 4,300 uniformed nobles, some in bands, others forming march- ing patrols, and some on camels or horseback, were assigned places in the huge parade yesterday. ‘The parade, honoring Imperial Po- tentate Leonard P. Steuart of Wash- ington, D. C.; Deputy Hugh M. Cald- well of Seattle and others, was the preliminary before the formal open- ing session. Chanters from Zurah Temple, Min- program. Rye and oats also moved upward. Death Toll Heavy. Local storms drove down the tem- perature in four States where the loss of life was the heaviest, but a tabula- tion in these States showed the fol- lowing deaths: Minnesota, 707; Michigan, 508; Illi- nois, 401, and Wisconsin, 363. These States furnished more than half of the Nation's total. Hot weather continued over the lower Missouri Valley, the middle and upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and the southwest portion of the Great | Lakes region. Maximum temperatures of 100 or higher were general in the Middle West yesterday. Highest recordings were at Davenport, JTowa, with 112 de- grees, and Peoria, 1lL.; Springfield, IIl.; Dubuque, Iowa, and Terre Haute, Ind., all with 110 degrees. Rains totaling 0.88 of an inch fell at Springfield, Ill, breaking the heat wave there, at Green Bay, Wis,, and in New York City. Rain Falls in Wisconsin. An inch of rain fell in the Fox River | Valley and the door peninsula in Wis- consin, and half an inch fell in the North Central portion of the State. Light rains fell in the Western part. To the list of a half dozen cities in which the price paid farmers for milk was boosted because of drought and resultant feed shortage today was added Pittsburgh, with a 1-cent-a- quart retail price increase expected to follow. ‘The heat and drought continued to dry up rivers and streams. The flow of the Ohio River was reduced to a comparative trickle. Its volume was scarcely one-seventieth of that at flood stage four months ago. Agriculture officials said privately that $35,000,000 to $40,000,000 prob- ably would not be an excessive esti- mate of the damage to Illinois crops. Yesterday the total damage to the country as a result of the heat wave was estimated at more than one billion dollars. Corn Crop Imperiled. At Washington the Weather Bureau said that “more or less irreparable damage” had been done to the corn crop as & whole, but that the bulk of the crop would recover if rain and cooler weather come soon. Most of the crop in Iowa was said to be still in fair condition. The greatest harm to the corn crop so far has occurred in Missouri, Kan- sas and Oklahoma, the bulletin said. En route to Bismarck, N. Dak, to direct a clean-up of the drought wreckage in the States where the aridity was most costly to crops and live sock, Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell and four aides boarded a train at Chicago. He said he planned to “make a per- sonal study of drought conditions in the Dakotas and to get the resettle- ment offices in strategic points func- tioning properly.” As heat relief impended or arrived last night, the Nation counted a stag- gering total of more than 1,000 fatali- tles, directly or indirectly attributable to high temperatures, in a single day. For a time yesterday, before rain drove down the mercury, harassed police and medical authorities of Minneapolis were forced to handle heat death cases at the rate of three every minute, comparable to condi- tions in the influenza epidemic of World War days. The same compar- ison was made by morgue attendants (8ee DROUGHT, Page 3.) ng Star 1 THNK | KNOW BUT J AINT SAYIN' Q) Elliotr’s New Son Is 7th Grandchild ! Born to Roosevelt |Six - Pound - 12 - Ounce" Boy Begins Life in | Fort Worth, Tex. By the Associatea Press. | FORT WORTH, Tex.. July 15.—The | seventh grandchild of President Roose- velt, a boy weighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces, took his first look at the world today from a hospiial here. | Early today the father, young Elliott Roosevelt. took a look at his son, as- | | sured himself Mrs. Roosevelt was rest- ing well and then went home. The boy was named Elliott, jr. The child, born late last night, was pronounced “perfect” by the attend- | | ing physician. | | Both mother and son were re- | ported in excellent condition. | The couple’s first child, Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, was 2 years old last May 8. Her mother formerly was Miss Ruth Googins of Fort Worth. | SHOTGUN TRAGEDY zlnquiry May Be Postponed, ! However, Waiting F. B. I. Fingerprint Report. | Svectal Dispatch to The Star. and Wirephoto Services. INQUEST THURSDAY | BERRYVILLE, Va, July 15.—An in- | quest into the deaths of four members | |of a mountain family found shot in | beds that had been set afire near here | }Mondl_v has been tentatively set for | | tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. At | |the time Commonwealth’s Attorney | | Edward McC. Williams announced the inquest it was learned that Winchester authorities have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine finger prints on a shotgun found in the cabin where the quartet were slain. Thousands at Funeral. If the F. B. I. report is not available tomorrow it is understood the inquest will be postponed. A thousand or more people, mostly curious minded, swarmed into the Blue Ridge Mountains today to attend the funerals of Mrs. Susan Virginia Elsea, 87; her daughter, Mrs. May Smallwood, 59, and the latter's two sons, Elbert, 23, and Alkin, 17, The four coffins were placed in a row in the little mountain Baptist Church, where services were con- ducted by the Rev. Dr. L. A. Parker, Berryville, and the Rev. Clarence Lloyd of Boyce. The services were simple and plain, and at the con- clusion the coffins were carried out and buried in the nearby grave yard. Leaves Three Daughters. Mrs. Smallwood is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Meda Erick- son, Mrs. Carl Chappell and Mrs. Roger Beanstaffer, all of this vicinity. Sheriff W. W. Smallwood, father- in-law of the slain woman, and Dr. A. P. Osborne, acting coroner, believe Mrs. Smallwood, who suffered from a mental disorder, killed the other three and shot herself after setting fire to their kerosene-soaked beds. The long-awaited break in Wash- ington’s heat wave is due tonight, but the change will be a gradual one. Gentle northerly winds will begin to cool the city late this afternoon, the Weather Bureau said, probably keeping the temperature in the low 90s. At 2 o'clock it was 92. Generally falr weather is in sight for tomorrow and the temperature is not expected to go above the low 80s. Humidity, an important factor in sultriness experienced here during the past week, is decreasing, Forecaster Charles Mitchell pointed out, and will make conditi¥s much more bearable. If it doesn’t rain this afternoon— and there is none in sight—the Capital is due for 40 days of dry weather, ac- cording to tradition attached to St. Swithin’s day, which is today. And if it should rain, the superstition is that it will pour for 40 days. With relief in sight, two additional deaths, one from prostration and the other from drowning, were added to the Capital's heat toll yesterday as the mercury jumped to 96 degrees. ‘The latest Cooler Weather Is Due Today After Ten Die in Heat Wave s Associated P LANDON T BRITAIN INCREASES DESTROYER FLEET Formally Invokes Escalator; Clause to Save 40,000 Tons of Ships. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 15.—Great Britain formally has invoked the escalator | clause of the 1930 naval treaty to | save 40,000 tons of overage destroy- ers, it was learned authoritatively to- day. Sir Robert Craigie of the foreign office handed a note on the matter to the Japanese Embassy. A short| time later, an identical note was | handed to United States Ambassador Robert W. Bingham. Britain’s action automatically en- titles the United States to retain an | extra 40,000 tons and Japan 28133 | tons of destroyers. Destroyer Fleets 150,000 Tons. Under the treaty, the destroyer fleets of the three nations were to be re- duced by December 31, 1936, to 150,000 tons each for Great Britain and the United States and to 105,500 tons for Japan. Britain and the United States, de- spite the new increase, have other excess tonnage which must be broken up or scuttled under the treaty by the end of the year, unless the esca- lator clause is further invoked. Latest figures available here show the United States has 227,000 tons of destroyers, all but 12,000 tons of which is overage, compared with the 190,000 tons now allowed under the treaty. Japan has 123.050 tons, of which | 85,000 tons is underage, compared with | 133,633 tons she is now entitled to keep under the pact. Great Britain has a total of 204,000 | tons, of which 85,000 tons is underage, compared with 190,000 tons now al- lowed. Japan May Act Similarly. Naval observers said they believed that since Britain has established the precedent of invoking the escalator clause, Japan is likely to take similar action to save excess submarines from the scrap heap. Each nation is supposed to have re- duced its submarine fleet by the end of the year to 52,700 tons. Figures available here show the Unted States as having 75,000 tons, Japan 73.000 and Great Britain 55,000. CLASH OF ARAB REBELS AND TROOPS HURTS TRIO Two British Officers and Young U. S. Jew Are Wounded in Palestine Clash. JERUSALEM, July 15 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—Two British of- ficers and a young American Jew were wounded this morning in a sharp clash between Arab rebels and a military patrol near Ain Hara- Maya. The Arabs suffered several casualties. The wounded Jew is Joel Reis, 18, a bus driver who has been living at the American Jewish colony of Ra- anana for the past seven years. total here to 10, 7 from the heat and 3 from drowning. The drowning victim was Ellis Marsh, 28, of 923 Potomac avenue Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,744 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. SPY GASE RUSHED 10 GRAND JURORS: FARNSWORTH ILL Former Navy Officer Is Un- der Doctor’s Care in District Jail. SCOUTS CHARGE HE SOLD U. S. SECRETS TO JAPAN ress. Knew He Was Being Watched by Intelligence Operatives and Federal Agents. BY REX COLLIER. While former Lieut. Comdr. John S. Farnsworth remained under a physi= cian’s care at the District Jail, Justice Department and Naval Intelligence officials today prepared to present to the District grand jury at an early date evidence allegedly linking him with the sale of naval secrets to Japan. A preliminary hearing in the sen- sational case is scheduled for July 29 before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, but indications are the case will be presented to the grand jury shortly, without benefit of a commissioner’s hearing. It was hinted the grand jury evie dence might implicate other persons. Standley Denies Obsolescence. Meanwhile, Admiral William H. Standley, Acting Secretary of the Navy, denied that the document al- | legedly sold to a Japanese naval officer by Farnsworth was either obsolete or the latter’s personal property. Farnsworth told reporters yesterday some documents had been stolen from his home in Chevy Chase. Md.. about & year ago. but added that they were | “antiquated” and his personal prop- erty. Questioned about this statement, Admiral Standley pointed out it is the policy of the Navy Department to re- quire all dismissed officers to sur- render any confidential material in their possession at the time of their dismissal. Farnsworth was dismissed by court-martial verdict in 1927. Consequently, Admiral Standley said, if Farnsworth did sell the docu- ments described in the warrant, he must have secured them after his dis- missal. The admiral said he did not know where Farnsworth obtained the k he is alleged to have sold, a ca ‘tml publication called “The Service of Information and Security.” * i Issued First in 1916. | Admiral Standley said this docu- | ment was issued originally in 1916 as “Scouting and Screening.” He added he was under the impression that one revised addition, the date of which he did not remember, was not confidential, but that all subse- quent additions have been. Questioned concerning the possi= bility of additional arrests, Admiral Standley said the matter is in the hands of the Justice Department and he did not feel free to discuss it. Farnsworth, obviously unnerved, en- tered a faltering “not guilty” plea yes- terday to the charges brought against him by speclal agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was com- mitted at once to the District Jail in default of $10,000 bong. When he requested hospitalization because he was “all shot,” Jail Super- intendent Rives had him examined by the jail physician, who reported he could find no ailment necessitating the orisoner’s removal to a hospital. Farns- worth told the physician he was suffering from “gastritis.” He is being kept under observation in the jail ine firmary. Meanwhile, The Star learned that leFarnsworth has been aware for some time that he was under surveillance of Naval Intelligence officers and G-men. He is said to have visited the Navy Department not long ago and discussed his activities with officials. Farnsworth characterized the charges as “hooey” and said he would have more to say about the case when he “feels better.” He told newspaper men he had shown certain naval documents to several persons and that the papers were stolen from his home not long thereafter. Planned Air Corps in China. He said he had “negotiated” with certain Japanese and Chinese officials regarding aviation matters, explain- ing he had drawn up plans for an aviation corps in China with the ex- pectation of obtaining & commission. The plans had failed to crystallize, he added. A similar proposal to Japan had also been futile, he asserted. The name of the Japanese naval officer to whom Farnsworth is alleged to have sold the confidential book is being withheld by Government offi- cials, who fear “embarrassing conse= quences.” One official said he under- stood the officer had left the United States. In another official quarter it was (See FARNSWORTH, Page 3.) Kaye Don to Drive. LONDON, July 15 (#).—Horace E. Dodge confirmed Detroit advices that Kaye Done, British sportsman, would drive Dodge’s Delphine VIII in the Gold Cup speedboat race at Lake southeast. His body was recovered by harbor precinct police two hours after he fell from a cande in the Eastern Branch under the Pennsyl- vania Avenue Bridge. Edward Howard, 23, of 1108 K street southeast suffered a broken knee in diving in an effort to recover Marsh’s body. He was treated at Gallinger Hospital. Mrs. Mary A. George, 86, of 3107 South Dakota avenue northeast, a District resident for 40 years, dropped dead while working in her garden when the heat aggravated a heart ail- ment. Two youths—William Beard, 17, of 3517 Seventeenth street northeast, and Albert Schaeffer, 16. of 420 Irving street northeast—narrowly escaped drowning yesterday after their canoe capsized in the choppy waters of the Potomac, near the Railway Bridge about 200 yards from shore. They were towed ashore by the fire rescue i George, N. Y., July 25. Don will sail on the Europa Friday. Readers’ Guide Amusements Death Notices Editorial Finance ........ Lost and Found - Radio Serial Story Short Story Society - Sports - Washington Wayside_.___A Women’s Features ......B-13 L)