Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy, probably occasional showers today and tomorrow; cooler to- night; gentle winds, mostly north. Tem- peratures—Highest, 84, at 1 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 71 at 5 a.m. yesterday. Full Report on Page B-3. () Means Associated No. 1,635—No. 33,682. Press. Eutered second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. < Government Is Reformed by Barrio. SHIPS. PLANES ORDERED OUT Strikes Are Called| _ If Martial Law Is Decreed. BACKGROUND— | Fascist and monarchist elements in Spanish army resenting suppres- sive measures taken by Spain’s Lejtist government, in power as rg- sult of radical front's victory n February 16 election. General am- mesty for Socialists and Com- munists followed poll victory. Two thousand Fascists have taken place of 25,000 of their encmies in Spane ish jails. Unrest in Spain heightenced this week when men dressed as Assault Guards assassinated Jose Calro Sotelo, monarchist leader. By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 19 (Sunday).—The Bpanish cabinet of Premier Santiago Casares Quiroga, harassed by a mili- tary revolt in Spanish Morocco and the | Canary Islands and outbreaks in Bpain itself, resigned early today. Diego Martinez Barrio, chief of the JOSE CALVO SOTELO, Fascist leader, whose murder after he was kidnaped has brought revolt to Spain. he WASHINGTON, D. SANTIAGO CASARES QUIROGA, Ousted Spanish premier. His Leftists are “ready to go into the streets and fight.” - LANDON CAMPAIGN OPENS THIS WEEK Delivers First Speech at To- peka on Thursday.—G. 0. P. Hopeful. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. i Republican Union and for a brief time | President of Spain, immediately or-| Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican ganized a new cabinet, containing five | nominee for President, slips out of Imembers of the previous group. the realm of silence this week. He The resignation of the Casares Qui- | delivers his first speech of the presi- ARREST VIOLINIST IN GO-£D MURDER Asheville Police Question Mark Wollner, Musician, Who Lived Here. By the Associatea Press. \ ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 19 (Sun- | day)—Mark Wollner, 35-year-old classic German violinist, was held to- | day for questioning in the -death of | foga government came only a few | hours after it had sent air and naval forces against the rebellious soldiers In the two Spanish possessions and | had claimed complete control of the internal uprising, which it is said cen- | tered at Seville. Backed by Labor Front. dential campaign against Franklin D. Roosevelt in Topeka Thursday (night. | honor student. More than a month ago the Kansas| Wollner, who has played difficult Governor was selected by the Repub- | transcriptions of Bach, Pranck and lican National Convention to be the | Mozart -on three continents, was ar- party standard bearer. He has keld | rested last night shortly after officers conference after conference with Re- | announced a “prominent white man” publican leaders since then. But re- | wag sought. pretty Helen Clevenger, New York The Leftist Casares Quiroga cabi- net—installed May 13, when former Premier Manuel Azana was raised to | the presidency of the republic—had | won the support of a solid labor front | lg‘:;d::d;h:o’“:;lsxc"i:th:r:;:m‘g“ he | The German musician immediately One speechpdoe: not win 61‘ lose I{ prodiiced an Alibd e the perion of csmpaién nece=<al';l\‘ Te Tandonihas | 19-year-old Mildred Ward, daughter a speech that is well received, how- | Cf S Iandindy, Wik geld he wie | ‘ . | home from 9 p.m. Wednesday until 8 | ever, it won't do him any harm. It { am, Thursday, when Miss Clevenger's | el WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION C., Appeals to Delegates to Rally to Socialism to End Capitalism. ONLY SMILES AT B0OOS AS DOCTOR INTERCEDES Proposal to Reorganize and Strip Townsend of Power Is Tabled. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 18—Norman ‘Thomas, Socialist candidate for Presi- dent, told the National Convention of Townsend Clubs today that their old- age pension plan is unworkable, but he was met with a chorus of boos and the session wound up with a vote which left Dr. Francis E. Townsend in_control of the movement. Thomas appealed to the delegates to rally to the socialistic movement to do away with the capitalistic system. He said he did not believe that the transactions tax, through which the | Townsendjtes propose to pay $200 a | month pension to all persons over 60, would work. i He was interrupted frequently by‘ boos, once so prolonged that Dr. Town- send appealed for order. Reorganization Tabled, A resolution was brought before the convention proposing to reorganize so | that the board of directors would bei elected by the citizens maximi or dis- | trict leaders. This would have stripped | Dr. Townsend of much of his power. | “If it 1s your will that I renource ownership—which means control, then I will,” he said as a roar of “no” swept the crowded public auditorium, Amendment upon amendment en- tangled debate until finally the whole resolution: was tabled. | ‘Tomorrow’s session at which Repre- | sentative William Lemke, the new| Union party candidate for President, | will speak, ends the convention. Smiths Rally Delegates. The Socialist presidential candi- date’s speech came just after the con- vention had been stirred into a whoop- ing, purse-opening frenzy of enthu- siasm by a display of unanimity among the leaders of the movement and a series of emotion-rousing appeals by Gerald L. K. Smith and Gomer Smith. #gainst the revolt. | is what the Republicans are praying | Socialist, Communist and Syndicalist | for. President Roosevelt got in the | feaders had ordered general strikes in ' first lick of the campaign with his ac- ! any places where martial law was | ceptance speech at Franklin Field | proclaimed contrary to government | immediately after his renominltion’ orders. | in Philadelphia. Roosevelt's was a re- | Reports from Tangier, interna- | markable speech, an appealing speech | tionalized zone in Morocco, said 20,000 | to many who believe as he does. rebels, headed by Gen. Francisco With the formal acceptance of the| Franco, military governor of the Ca- | Republican nomination by Landon, | nary Islands, held complete control the decks will be cleared for the ac- | of Spanish Morocco. | tion of the campaign. There have, An unconfirmed dispatch received | Deen two schools of thought in the @t Oran, Algeria, related, however, Republican camp. One which has The Smiths who have been at outs, | her room. asked the delegates to rally behind | Arrestéd at Friend's Home. Dr. Townsend in defending a suit The' musician was taken into cus- | brought by Dr. A. A. Wright of Cleve- | tody by two deputies at the home of f land, a former Townsend director de- a friend, a piano salesman, at manding an accounting of funds and | 9:30 p.m. the ousting of Townsend. Sheriff Laurence E. Brown quoted ‘Thousands of dollars had been col- Wollner as saying he was with a|lected in cash and pledges before the young woman friend at 1 am.| 98Y ended. Hundreds of delegates Thursday—the hour officers fixed as | Pushed@their way to the platform, body, shot and stabbed, was found in | the time of the mysterious murder. Wollner, whose parents live in Ger- that Franco had been arrested, two | generals killed and 30 other officers seized at Tetuan, capital of Spanish | Morocco. | This report stated loyal soldiers, Joined by naval aviation forces, which refused to join the rebels, made & successful counter attack. Border Is Closed. British authorities at Gibraltar. on | She southern tip of the Iberian Pen- insula, closed the Spanish border after en encounter at La Linea, Spain, in which one person was killed and at Jeast 20 were injured. Reports received at Gibraltar said £0,000 troops of the Spanish Foreign Yegion were participating in the Mo- goccan revolt, Spanish government airplanes bombed the cities of Melilla and Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. Warships had been sent to aid in attempting to crush the rebellion across the nar- row strait separating Spain from North Africa. The civil governor of the Canary Islands informed the government at Madrid he and the civil guard chief at Las Palmas were beseiged in his palace. Admitting the revoit had spread to Bpain proper, the government de- clared it had crushed a rebellion movement among soldiers at Seville, gmportant southern city. | Gen. Franco was relieved of his | eommand by a cabinet decision, along | with Gen. Queipo de Ilano, who the government accused of leading the outbreak at Seville. French sources provided uncon- firmed reports that fighting had oc- curred at Cadiz, Burgos and Barce- fona, as well as in Seville. The administration announced all Boldiers implicated in the revolt would be granted immediate and indefinite home leave. The move was seen as #n attempt to weaken the rebel forces. Rebellious Elements Checked. An official note said the public (See REVOLT, Page A-4) | | JUDGE LIKELY TO BAR LABOR BOARD HEARING | Endicates He Will .Enjoin Body | From Hearing Workers’ Complaint. , By the Associated Press. EAST ST. LOUIS, Hl, July 18— fFederal Judge Fred L. Wham indi- cated today heé would grant a pre- liminary injunction to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from hearing a complaint that the Weil- Kalter Manufacturing Co. had dis- charged employes for union activity st its Millstadt, IIl, garment factory. Though not passing on the consti- tutionality of the Wagner labor dis- putes act, Judge Wham expressed the opinion the act provides for an in- vasion of rights of the company, which he did not believe was engaged in interstate commerce. Weil-Kalter attorneys were asked held to the idea that Landon should do | many, was held simply “for question,” a minimum of campaigning and| adopt a front-porch style. The other | considers that Landon should actively ! campaign throughout the country. Landon Unknown te Big Majority. The country has a great curiosity about the Republican presidential | nominee. He is known far and wide | through newspaper comment and newspaper pictures. But personally he is unknwn to the vast majority of voters in all sections of the country, except ‘his own immediate bailiwick. Many of the Republican leaders who have visited Gov. Landon are con- vinced he Will aid himself materially by getting about the country and meeting the people face to face. And that he seems likely to do. Speaking of first bows, Representa- tive William Lemke of North Dakota, Father Coughlin's white hope, is to address the Townsend old-age pension conference in Cleveland today. Dr. Townsend has personally declared his (See POLITICS, Page A-5.) E — MRS. AMY PORTER DIES Was Widow of Secretary to Presi- dent McKinley. NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 18 (#).— Mrs. Amy Betts Porter, 79, widow of John Addison Porter, secretary to President McKinley, died today in & hospital. She was born here September 8, 1856. During the Spanish-American War, Mrs. Porter was active in Red Cross work, assisting Clara Barton as a nurse in Cuban hospitals. Drought Aid Plan Is Extended By Tugwell to 11 More States a classification under which police | said they could detain him for 48 hours. The sheriff said he had been in-| formed by a witness, whose name he | did not reveal, that Wollner had re- marked about 10 p.m. Wednesday: “I've got a date with a girl at the Battery Park Hotel tonight.” It was at that hotel that Miss Cle- venger, pretty 18-year-old blond, was found shot to death, and her face stabbed with some sharp instrument. Sheriff Brown said Wollner would be detained and questioned further. ‘Wollner, who came to Ashevilie more than a year ago, maintains a studio here. He speaks English with a barely distinguishable accent. Formerly in Washington. Previously, the violinist, who studied music at Berlin and Paris, lived in New York and Washington. He gave a series of concerts in Florida last Win- ter. (Wollner's wife, Mrs. Mary Bowen Wollner, is a teacher at the Cathedral Schools for Girls. She said last night she married Wollner here in 1928, but had been separated from him for two years.) A few years ago, after his American debut at the town hall in New York, Wollner made a number of appear- ances in South American cities. While here, he has played on a number of national radio hook-ups. Guests and Employes. The dozen witnesses questioned at the inquest were guests and employes of the fashionable Tesort hotel (Bat- tery Park), where the girl was found shot to death. 3 While officers pressed their hunt (See VIOLINIST, Page A-3) (Copyright. 1938, by the Associated Press.) RAPID CITY, S. Dak, July 18.— ‘The Federal drought relief program was ordered extended into 11 South- ern, Central and Northwest States tonight by R. G. Tugwell, resettle- ment administtator. 3 : Communicating with resettlement supervisors and regional heads of 16 States, Tugwell was informed that at least 664,000 farmers and their de- pendents must be taken care of at once. - A quick order for immediate applica- tion of the aid program to Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carol Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, souri, Nebraska, Kansas and Western Wisconsin followed. Residents of the sections were described as victims of drought conditions constantly becom- ing more serious. “Extend immediate aid to the needy to presept & form of injunction to tigs coart Tuesday. farmers and place every agency at Wour command into the fleld at once,” Resettlement Head Acts When Told 664,000 Need Immediate Help. Rain Relieves Lakes Area. was Tugwell's general order to Reset- tlement Administration officials of all drought States. Five States Previously Listed. Previous plans had contemplated the drought relief program'’s operation only in North and South Dakota, Mon- tana, Wyoming and Minnesota—the Northwest drought sector. “The President has ordered that no one must be permitted to go without food,” the resettlement head told his staff members in the added. territory. “The job is up to you.” In the 11 States the Resettlement Administration listed 122,500 farm families representing 490,000 depend- ents, as requiring immediate help. By | speakers. , 18,000 15.000; Oklahoma, 10,000: Missouri, (8% DROUGHT: Page A) | opening bill folds, check books, bat- | tered pocketbooks and untying money | from handkerchief corners. Resolutions Adopted. ‘The day saw, too, the adoption of a series of resolutions, which put the convention on record as: Condemning the congressional com- mittee which recently investigated ( Dr. Townsend. Declaring that partisan political speeches made before the convention | represented only the views of the{ Resolved, not “at any time during the campaign, directly or indirectly,” indorse any presidential or vice presi- dential candidate. Determined to leave up to the board of directors the question of recon- sidering previous approval that may have been given to congressional can- didates: Empowering the national board and State area manager areas to devise a new method for a systematic way of financing the organization. Desirous of investigating the pos- sibility of sending a representative to the World Youth Conference at Geneva. . Recommended that a youth be (See TOWNSEND, Page A-5.) Readers’ Guide PART ON. Main News Section. Gen;&al News—Pages A-1, B-3, Washington Wayside—A-2. Lost and Found—A-3, Death Notices—A-10. Resorts—B-4-5. Sports Section—Pages B-6, B-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-9, PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Page D-1. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Political Round-Up—D-3. Civio News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard, Organized Reserves—D- Cross-word Puzzle—D-5. Congquering Contract—D-6. News Yy Star SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1936 —NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. # FIVE CE THE THREE MUSKETEERS! SHIFTS EXPECTED INSECRET SERVIC Morgenthau Said to Reflect Roosevelt Views on ““Snip- ing” Report. BY REX COLLIER. | A shake-up in the Secret Service is expected to follow the disclosure— | officially characterized as “horrify- | ing"—that agents of that veteran in- | vestigative service have been “spying” on their fellow Government agents, the Justice Department’s G-men. Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau is said to have reflected the attitude of President Roosevelt when he expressed to the Department of | Justice his consternation over pre- liminary substantiation of “sniping™ reports that have been current for some weeks. Grady L. Boatwright, agent in charge | of the St. Paul office of the Secret Service, is said to have confirmed under questioning here yesterday that he and another Becret Service man under his command have been ques- tioning eye-witnesses to the fatal| shooting by G-men in 1934 of Eddie Green, Dillinger machine gunner. Murphy En Route Here. Boatwright, first of several agents ordered to come to Washington and explain their “ill-advised” activities, is understood to have said he was directed to make an investigation of the Green case by Joseph Murphy, assistant chief of the Secret Serv- jce. Murphy is said be en route here from the Pacific Coast, where, reach- ed by telephone, he expressed sur- prise that his men “might have mis- construed” anything he told them. Murphy is to be interrogated as to what he might have told his men that could have been. interpreted by them as instructions for a check-up on work of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation in St. Paul and Chicago. Thomas J. Callahan, in charge of the Chicago office of the Secret Serv- ice, and Harry Schaetzel, agent in the Chicago office, have been called upon to explain certain inquiries made of police and other persons about the death of John Dillinger at the hands of F. B. 1. agents just two years ago. Duties Limited in 1908. The present explosion parallels somewhat the furore caused in Con- gress in 1908 over disclosure that the Secret Service was “spying” on em- ployes of various executive depart- ments and on Senators and Represen- tatives, themselves. As a result, the Jjurisdiction of the service was lim- ited to suppression of counterfeiting and protecting the President. President Theodore Roosevelt threw & bombshell into Congress when he sent a message denouncing the restric- tion of Secret Service activities and insinuating that members of Congress were afraid to be investigated. In discussions on the floor of the Senate, it was brought out the Secret Service had “shadowed” a naval officer who had run away with the wife of some one else, and had made a report upon which the officer was discharged. Roosevelt’s Message Direct. In asking for elimination of the limitations on Secret Service activity, Theodore Roosevelt told Congress: “The chief argument in favor of the provision (for restriction) was that the Congressmen did not themselves wish to be investigated by Secret Serv- ice men. Very little of such investi- gation has been done in the past, but it is true that the work of the Secret Service agents was partly responsible for the indictment and conviction of Stamps—D-6. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1, E-9. Well-Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9, PART FOUR. = r:atuu gect(m';“ A ews Features—Pages F-1, F-4. Jien Clagett Broctor's Article on Oldeu};ll?gtfikF-% o re the Haj " e Tho? Dl:k Mlnsflelgp—yl'-fy Radio News and Programs—F-3, Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F-6. . Aviation—F-6. Children’s Page—F-T7. High Lights of History—F-7. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment— Classified %xv'eg;ffng Pages ass G-5, G-13, | i (See SECRET SERVICE, Page A-3) TYPHOID FEVER CASES . _IN LOWELL REACH 21 Children in Orphanage. ‘Peak Expected Within 72 Hours. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, July 18. — Twenty-oné cases of typhoid fever in Lowell were reported tonight by State health offi- cials. Sixteen of them were children at 8t. Joseph's Orphanage. In Lowell Dr. John J. McNamara, city director of health, reported five ‘were new cases since yesterday. The peak should come, he said, “within 16 department, cheek of water and milk nothing wrong, ¢ Woman’s Face Cuts Found Sewed With | Thread and Button | | |Vietim Is Discovered in | Church Yard in Dazed Condition. Py the Assoctated Press. | PAID FORWRITING, FARNSWORTH SAYS Received $1,000 From Japa- nese Agent for 2 Articles, IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS He Asserts. BY BEN H. PEARSE. Jchn S. Farnsworth, dismissed naval LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 18.-—Police | sought tonight to solve the mysiery | surrounding a woman discovered at| | tal, ARMING A noon in a downtown church yard. in a dazed condition from face wounds sewed up with black thread and a button. After treatment at the City Hospi- the woman was questioned by Capt. William A. Oeltjen, then com- mitted to jail on charges of disorderly conduct and vagrancy. She was booked as Edna Morris, 33, of Cincin- nati. Capt. Oeltjen termed “unsatisfac- tory” the woman's story of receiving tomobile accident. He sent her pho- tograph and fingerprints to authorities (See WOMAN, Page A-3.) LLOWED AT DARDANELLES Lausanne Post-War Treaty Signatories to Sign Con- vention Tomorrow. ! BACKGROUND— Turkey refused to violate a treaty pledge openly, although well able to defy any opposition to her wishes, and asked for the privilege of refortifying the Dardanelles. Smarting from the sting of Ger- many’s sudden reoccupation of the Rhineland, the powers long ago gave quick assurance Turkey's wishes were most reasonable. By the Associated Press. MONTBEUX, Switzerland, July 18. —Immediate right to remilitarize the | Dardanelles was granted to Turkey tonight by nine signatories to the Lausanne post-war treaty. Delegates to the international con- ference resulting from the Turkish request to rearm the straits agreed to sign a convention Monday. The decision was unanimous, with only the Japanese making slight res- ervations because of what a spokes- man described as Japan's ‘“‘unfor- tunate departure from the League of Nations.” The countries agreeing to the con- vention included Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Turkey. Greece, Bulgaria. ‘The convention would grant com- plete liberty to merchant marine pas- (See DARDANELLES, Page A-3.) PLEASURE RIDE TRUCK UPSETS, KILLING YOUTH By the Associated Press. WELCH, W. Va, July 18.—A truck filled with young people out on a pleasure ride overturned on a moun- tainside near the mining town of Gary tonight, killing one youth and injur- ing an undetermined number of others. Séventegn-year-old Louis Barta was killed when the machine rolled 100 feet down the steep hill. Seven of the injured were brought to Welch hospitals and ambulances returned for others who- were reported hurt. Doctors said those at the hospital are expected to recover. Three of the injured, whose names were not learnéd immediately, were taken to & local hos- pital. Others hurt were treated at a doctor’s office in Gary. the wound in a Jefferson County au-" Rumania, Yugoslavia and | | considerably officer, charged with espionage, ad- miited yesterday he had received $1,000 from an agent of the Japanese government, but stated the money was in payment for two articles, or monographs, he had written. One of the monographs, he said. was on the London naval conference last Winter and the other on naval dviation training. Neither, he said. contained information he considered secret or confidentjal. The charges against Farnsworth al- lege that he sold a secret naval docu- ment, “Service of Information and Security,” intended for -circulation only among high-ranking naval offi- cers, to an agent of .the Japanese government. ~ The agent has not been named by the prosecution, for fear of diplomatic complications, as he, re- portedly an officer in the Japanese Navy, has diplomatic immunity. Visited by Cousin. Defense plans in the case were still unsettled last night, although John Farnsworth was visited by his cousin, Ward Farnsworth, Chicago real estate broker, and retention of an attorney was discussed. Ward Farnsworth left last night for Cincinnati, to meet his cousin’s father, Frederick Farnsworth, | who was in California at the time De- partment of Justice agents arrested the former Navy flyer at the home of his former wife here. He is expected to return tomorrow. The one-time Navy lieutenant com- mander, whose condition had improved yesterday, although he was still in the District jail infirmary, readily admitted he had been paid by the Japanese government, but declared that the money he received was for his writing. “The article on the London naval conference was merely an estimate of the situation as I saw it, to the effect ‘that if Japan should withdraw as a signatory of the limitations pact, due to preoccupation over present economic conditions, nothing would be done about it. All the conclusions reached were my own and had no relation to the opinions or policies of the Navy,” Farnsworth said. “The other monograph was on a plan for training of naval aviators and (See FARNSWORTH, Page A-3.) SAN FRANCISCO FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LSS Shipbuilding Plant Is Destroyed, Another Is Damaged and Boats Are Burned. Bt the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.—A spectacular water front blaze was brought under control tonight after causing damage estimated by fire of- ficials at $50,000 to $100,000. The George W. Kneass Co., ship- building plant, was destroyed, the roof of the John Twiggs & Sons Co. plant was burned, T cruising launches were consumed by the fre, 14 skiffs destroyed and 1 oyster boat burned. The Twiggs company also is a shipbuilding concern. Two firemen were Injured, neither seri- ously. - Origin of the fire was un- known. “The flames, whipped by a strong wind, menaced two blocks of water front. The Mariposa Yacht Club and the Union Iron Works Co., were the other principal structures in the path of the fire. Neither was damaged, although a number of boats were Full Associated Press and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. S | ELSEW! NS pomes| TEN - CENTS EXAMINERS DELVE INTO FINANCES OF CLOSED LOAN FIRM |Fidelity Association Placed in Charge of Receiver After Probe. |$13,000 LARCENY LAID TO FORMER PRESIDENT “Apparent Irregularities” Re- vealed in Investigation by Federal Agents. With operations suspended, the Fidelity Building & Loan Association was placed in charge of a receiver yesterday, while Treasury and Justice agents continued to delve into its finances. The association, with headquarters at 610 Thirteenth street, and six nches over the city, was closed early yesterday afternoon, after the former president, Fred B. Rhodes, 60, promi- nert attorney, had been arrested on & warrant charging a $13,000 larceny. The closing was ordered by William Prentiss, jr., acting controller of the currency. He said an examination had revealed “apparent irregularities and losses which exceedsd the profits and reserve accounts of the associae | tion, which, in the judgment of the controller. rendered the association in- solvent.” It was announced that the shut- down would be “for at least 10 days."” and M. L. Barnett, jr. a bank ex- lam\ner. was named receiver. | Released Under $5,000 Bond. | Rhodes was taken into custody shortly after 1 p.m. in his offices in the National Press Building by De- tective Sergeant Paul Ambrose. At police headquarters he was booked, | fingerprinted and released under $5.000 bond. “There is not a word of truth in this charge,” said Rhodes, who re- signed several months ago as president | of the association. “I have never taken a dollar from the association. At the proper time it will be shown that everything I have done was for the best interests of the association.” Rhodes. who is married and has four children, lives at 4715 Seven- teenth street. For several yvears he | has been identified with important banking litigation here. ‘The warrant was issued at the re- quest of Assistant United States Ate torney Henry A. Schweinhaut, who | said transactions by Rhodes, in addi- | tion to the one described in the ware ;nnt. are under investigation. Charged With Obtaining Loan. The former president was charged | specifically with obtaining a $13.000 loan from the Pidelity last November | 8 through a “straw” party, crediting | the proceeds to his own account at the Fidelity to meet an overdraft. The | loan supposedly was made for use on | & construction project in the Guilford | subdivision, Fairfax, Va., Schweinhaut | said. When the alleges overdraft had been satisfied, according to Schweine haut, only $398 of the $13,000 re- mained. Issuance of the warrant followed in- vestigations by agents of the Treasury and Justice Departments, working with Assistant United States Attorney Charles B. Murray, who is now out of the city. These investigations, it | was said, will be continued. The Fidelity association has about | 16,000 accounts, most of them small. | It is not 8 member of the District of Columbia Building and Loan League, and its accounts, officials said, were not insured. 5 The association’s statement of assets and liabilities, filed with the controller on June 30, 1935, listed installment | dues paid in at that time at $1,862, | 655. This, it was said, represented | the money owed the general public | by the association at that time. Dr. | Ralph Bonnett, the president, said the | financial statement for 1936 had not | been completed when the office was | closed. Dr. Bonnett said he would confer on the closing tomorrow with I. I Chorpening. chief national bank ex- aminer. After a meeting with other officials of the association, Dr. Bonnett issued the following statement: “The transaction which led to the closing of the Fidelity Building and Loan Association by the controller of the currency occurred before I be- came president last March 1. The Treasury Department has been inves- (See FIDELITY, Page A-4.) SIAMESE TWIN WED AT TEXAS FESTIVAL Violet Hilton Becomes Bride of Dancer—Denies It's Pub- licity “Gag.” By the Asscclated Press. DALLAS, Tex., July 18.—A brunette Siamese twin sister was married here tonight to a tall, dark dancer and musician with the other twin assuring: “She has never resented my pres- ence when on dates with gentleman friends and I know this marriage will cause no rift between us.” In the cotton bowl of the Texas Centennial Exposition, winsome 28- year-old Violet Hilton became the bride of James Moore of Cleveland, cut from their lines at the yacht|Ohio club and taken out into the bay. Political News From the States Editorial Section. Another presentation of developments “back home” in the political campaign, as re- ported by, The Star’s special correspondents, appears in today’s Star on Page 3, Part 2, the “Sure, I know every one has tagged it a publicity gag,” smiled Violet. “After all, you know, we're show people. > “But I've been in’love with Jimmy since I met him two years ago at San Antonio. You know we tried in several Eastern States to arrange a wedding, but strict State laws calling for the establishment of a residence stopped .“They’ll hardly know I'm around,” said sister Daisy, joined with Violet since birth by cartilage at the base of the spinal column. Moore, a member of the Hilton sisters’ night club troupe, will continue a8 Violet's professional as well as do- mestic partner.