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A-2 #% “THRILL MURDER" LAID T0 LEGION Black Legionnaires Held for Hearing Denounce Accuser as “Crazy.” P the Associzted Press. DETROIT, July 23—Five accused Black Legionnaires, denied bail, will be given court examinations Tuesday on charges of kidnaping ard slaying | an unsuspecting colored man for a| thrill Four of the five joined in decllnng that Dayton Dean, their accuser, was | “crazy and getting crazier every time he opens his mouth.” They are Harvey Davis, reputed Black Legion “colonel”; Ervin D. Lee, John Banner- man and Charles Rouse. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea said the fifth defendant, James Roy | Lorance, ad made a statement cor- roborating Dean's story in essential | details. Pleas of not guilty were entered | for all five in Recorder’s Court yes- | terday after their attorney had cha | lenged the jurisdiction of the Wayne | County (Detroit) Court on the ground that the slaying occured in | Livingston County. | According to Dean’s story, the vic- | tim was lured from Detroit to the swamp where he was slain, and Prose- | cutor McCrea said that under Michi- gan law the case could be prosecuted | in either county. The body of the victim, Silas Cole- | man, 42-year-old colored hodcarrier, was found in a Livingston County marsh on May 26, 1935. Dean said Coleman was employed by Rouse, who helped him lure his employe to the swantp because Davis “wanted to see how it feels to shoot a Negro.” Davis, concurring in the defense characterization of Dean as ‘“crazy.” added: “Dean, his wife and kid sponged off us one whole Summer at | my lakeside cottage until my wife got tired of feeding them and told them to get off. Dean’s had it in for me | ever since.” RESCUER OF MINE PAIR EYES MOVIES Diamond Driller Still on Company | Pay Roll, Official Says. By a Staff Correspondent o: Ine Star TORONTO. Ontario, July 23.—"It fsn't the throbbing needle of the dia- mond drill, but the Kleig lights of Hollywood that Billy Bell wants now,” | was the comment of Michael Dwyer, Nova Scotia minister of mines, when shown a newspaper story based on a letter Bell had written to Alfred Scadding, who, with Dr. D. E. Rob- ertson. was intombed for 10 days in | the Moose River Gold Mine in Nova | Scotia last April. Bell was the dia- mond driller whose efforts first estab- | lished contact with the men and' showed a waiting world they were still alive. The letter definitely stated Bell was out of work and would take | “almost anything” to make a living | for himself and family. ‘He is still on the pay roll and has never been out of a job since | his diamond drill bored a shaft of life to tne Moose River Mine vic- tims.” Dwyer continued. ‘Three weeks ago he was ordered out with a diamond drill outfit, but he refused. giving as his reason he had a better job with a Hollywood studio in prospect and did not want | to waste time, Bell has been kept on | the pay roll and is receiving $50 a month from the Nova Scotia govern- ment as a retainer. When actually employed he is paid for full time. Dwyer had no knowledge of dissatis- faction on the part of Bell. “He could have spoken to his im- | Mediate superior, Deputy Mines In- | rpector J. P, Messervey, Deputy Minis- ter Norman McKenzie or myself. De- | partment of mines records reveal that Bell has done nothing like that.” | Scadding, with prospect of nnomer‘, Bix weeks in a hospital here before | he walks again, is progressing favor- | ably, and at present there are no plans for further operations on his feet. He already has had all his toes and | part of the left foot amputated. (Ccpyright. 1936, by the North American | Newspaper Alllance Tnc.) $55 SENT TO TREASURY | FOR “CONSCIENCE FUND” “Religious Affiliations” Move One to Reimburse U. §.—Both Letters Mailed Here. Two more contributions to the *con- #cience fund” of the Treasury Depart- | ment were received today from this | city. In an envelope postmarked “Wash- ington. D. C.” one person sent a $5 bill, with a note written in ink that the sender was moved by “religious affiilia- | tion to reimburse the Treasury.” In another envelope postmarked | Washington, D. C., came a $50 Federal | Reserve note. with a penciled notation | saying only “Yours very truly.” DON’T “Thou Shalt Nots” for Capital’s Citizens. DID you break the law July Fourth? You probably did. Selling, delivering or setting off any noise-making explosives containing powder is a violation of Police Regu- lations, punishable by a fine up to $300. Skyrockets, torpedoes, Roman candles, devil chasers, sons of a guns, bombs, and firecrackers all answer this description. | Fireworks used in public exhibitions, for which permit is issued by the fire marshall, are exempt. The fireworks little girls prefer are specifically exempted, the regulation providing that the rule shall not ap- ply to sparklers, torches, box-fire, fountains, dip-sticks, snakes, colored lights and toy pistols of the friction and automatic type. Washingto Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. other’s flying ability. Truly, it is one of the most fetching cases of profes- sional animosity you could imagine, That being the case, it seems only the courteous thing to tell you the story of a case where a commercial n NO SALE. OU know, o1 perhaps you did not, that commercial and | pilot dealt with absolute honesty with an Army Air Corps man. They met in a fog—on the ground—at a Southern ' airport, both bound for Washington. They had known each other for a long time and the Army man con- ceded that the commercial pilot, fly- ing the route ahead day after day, knew it like a book. “How about sticking with you through this soup?” asked. The other chap would have the other plane never more than a few feet away—the Army being that accustomed to flying forma- tions. “I'm sorry,” he said. “it would drive the passengers absolutely nuts.” “And me, too,” he added, as an important after thought. * ok ox X DEMONSTRATION. One of the key men in The Evening Star'’s composing room lwes to tell the tale, but he is still a little shaky. He was being shaved by a barber who had lost considerable money in a bank which failed to reopen. The barber, telling of his misfor- tune, added that a recent invest- ment had also gone sour and that once more he was out of pocket. “You know what they ought to do with those birds? They ought to treat 'em like the Chinese do,” he said. “How is that?” asked the printer. With e slashing sweep of his razor in the general direction of the printer's throat, he said, flercely: “They cut 'em from ear to ear.” * % % x OPPORTUNITY. A LETTER addressed to the “adtor” but which, strangely enough, bore the salutation “Dear Senitors of the U. S. A.,” ended up in the Wayside mail basket this morning. Its author says he is writing to the Senators to tell them that the country | is in “bad shap and I will Bee mor than glad to the matter.” which makes it sound | as if the Senators have been pretty remiss about their responsibilities. But the letter writer does not stop with such a purely destructive criti- cism of public affairs. He is willing, he says, to put his whole knowledge of political economy at the disposal | of the Senate in solving current prob- | lems, after which he adds: “I born 40 mills n. e. of Jerosalem and if any of you all like to go there I will Take Hem to a Good Country after we Get Everything street here.” Any Senator who happens to be in town and is willing to work hard | this Summer probably can win him- | self a trip to Jerusalem as a reward. £ *x ¥ x FAREWELL TO ARMS. THE re-enactment of the battle of Manassas was certainly a soldier’s holiday—or don't they play war on their day off? In fact some of the boys seemed to be having too good a time to be fighting in such a “grim” struggle. One ‘“wounded” soldier lay out on the battlefileld for an hour and a half and the stretcher bearers always passed him by. But he didn't | seem to mmd md was apparently | enjoying the jand not caring if they ever remem- | “war” to the utmost bered to pick him up. Indeed, participants in the fray seemed to have the definite idea that “war is swell.” I SONG OF LOVE. W. C. O’'Brien, Post Office De- partment attorney, stoutly denies aspirations to become a song writer, but a lyric he scratched off and submitted to the Universal Song Service of Hollywood when he was mapping a Post Office in- vestigation of that concern’s rights to use the mails is earning fan mail for him. The lyric, which ran, “Girl of the dale, I love you,” was referred to time and time again during the Post Ofice hearing. O’Brien laughs at his composi- tion, but some ome out in Mis- souri may have liked it. At any rate, the Post Office attorney is ezhibiting a post card, mailed from St. Louis, with the brief message: “I love you. Girl of the Dale.” * % % ¥ WARRIORS STILL. MAJ STONEWALL JACKSON, U. 8. A, who commanded the *‘Confederate” troops in the re-enact- ment of the first battle of Manassas the other day, is not the only bearer of a name famous in military history in the United States Army. Though his was the most appro- priate for this battle, the War De- Jartment, if it desires to reproduce another, has the following from whom to select: First Lieut. Richard H. Lee, Capt. Robert E. Lee, Col PFitzhugh Lee, retired; Capt. Thomas J. Jackson, retired, and Capt. Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Union side is represented by Col. Ulysses 8. Grant, 3rd. Has Private Airdrome. King Edward plans to increase his flying activities and is having his pri- vate airdrome in Windsor Park, Eng- land, improved. ' military pilots have something | of a mutual disregard for the | the Army man | reflected for a | minute, knowing that it meant he | e You All Look into | THE EVENING VIGE “ROUND-UP" BEGUN IN CAPITAL Two Women Placed Under Bond and Many More Arrests Slated. Several more arrests, “in Washing- ton and in the South,” are expected momentarily, police said today, in connection with operations of an al- leged white slave ring, which were uncovered with the arrest of two women and detention of two other persons for investigation. Mary Hipple, 31, white, was charged with violating sections of the white slave law, and Ida Jackson, colored, was charged with pandering. Their bonds were set at $10,000 and $5,000, respectively, by U. S. Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage, when they were arraigned before him yes- terday. The complaint against Mrs. Hipple specified the charge of bringing a girl here on or about July 15 from Thur- mond, W. Va., “for purposes of pros- titution.” Mrs. Jackson has no crimi- nal record. Mrs. Hipple was booked | for investigation and then dismissed on July 29, 1932, on the only occasion her name showed on police records. Lieut. George Little, chief of the vice squad, conferred with Justice Department agents on the case late | yesterday and today said additional | arrests were imminent and that as many as 10 or 15 persons may be in- | volved before the case is considered | closed. ! Belmont Street Arrests. The women were arrested with two | | other women and a man, who were not charged, in a police raid on a house in the 1400 block of Belmont street, which Lieut. Little said netted evidence showing operations of the alleged ring. The Hipple woman also | has last name aliases of “Sherman” and “Castanella.” The raid was based on information given a police officer by a girl whom he had arrested in & downtown hotel. | The girl was quoted as saying she | |was “one of Mary Hipple's girls.” | The Hipple woman, she said. met her in a Southern city and persuaded her | to come to Washington for “easy money” and “wonderful opportunity.” In Own Apartment. After living for several weeks ln' the Belmont street house, the girl | said, she was transferred to her own | apartment, subject to call by the| Jackson woman to go to local hotels | for ‘“dates.” Half the proceeds and | a $5 weekly service charge went to the management, the girl told police. | Patrolman Roy E. Blick, who talked | |to the girl, said he learned there | were 15 girls in the xing at the time Mrs. Hipple and Mrs. Jackson were arrested. J Lieut. Little said no effort will be | spared “to rid Washington of white | I slavery.” 'V, S. JURY STUDIES | SEWER CHARGES Conspiracy to Defraud Govern- ment Is Claimed in Niagara Projects. By the Associated Press. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., July 23.—The affairs of two Niagara frontier sewer projects, designed to remove pollution from the Niagara River from which | many communities take their water supply, were under the scrutiny of a Federal grand jury here yesterday. William W. Barron, attorney for the | Department of Justice in Washington, | opened an investigation into the | Niagara Falls Sewer Authority here | yesterday and announced that inquiry | into charges that a conspiracy existed {to defraud the Government of large sums of money in the $15.000.000 | | Buffalo project would begin tomorrow. ' Barron declined to disclose the com- plaint in the Niagara Falls case, but | | asserted it was “still in the investigat- | ing stage” He said he would present | | the entire case to the jury if develop- | ments warranted. | The projects are being constructed | with Public Works Administration | funds amounting to nearly $17,500,000. | State health authorities have asserted | | pollution, caused by the dumping of | | waste in the Niagara River at Buffalo, has been traced through Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River, 300 miles away. MISSING GIRL FOUND AT HOME IN BETHESDA Police Probe Absence of 11-Year- Old With Man She Is Said to Have Met on Car. An 11-year-old girl was being held | at the receiving home this morning | and a 33-year-old man was in custody | at fourth precinct police headquarters while an investigation was being con- ducted into their absence from the city for nearly a week. The girl was found yesterday at a home in Bethesda where she had gone with the man last week. According to the story told police the two had become acquainted on a street car and | after an evening at an amusement park had hitch-hiked their way to a Bethesda beer garden. A friend of the man had offered to let the girl live there in return for entertaining and waiting on table. After a missing persons report on the girl, Officer John O. Patton had traced her and the Washington man to the Bethesda place. The STAR, WASHINGTON D. €, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1936. Figures if Attack on King Edward PLAN FOR STRIKE PARLEY HITS SNAG Rand Refuses to Discuss Settlement With Ohio Governor. B: the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio. July 23—A proposal that Remington-Rand strikes in Ohio, New York and Connecticut be settled at a conference of Gov- ernors of the three States with com- pany officials and employe represent- atives went awry today, so far as Ohio was concerned, when the company president declined to meet with Gov. Martin L. Davey. Announcing his stand through A. R. Rumbles, vice president in gharge of the strike-closed plant at Nor- wood, near here, H. Rand, jr. said he did not care for the Ohio Governors attitude. “Mr. Rand said remarks attributed to Gov. Davey at a swimming pool dedication in Norwood July 4 were to the effect the Governor never had called troops to a strike zone and never would,” declared Rumbles. “Mr. Rand contends that this atti- | tude prevents the Governor from be- ing a proper person to discuss settle- ment of a violence-marked strike such as the one at our Norwood plant.” Davey was not immediately avail- able for comment on Rand's state- ment or on the conference proposal of Gov, Wilbur L. Cross of Connecti- cut. Cross suggested that he, Davey and Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York meet in New York some time next week. POWER REVERSE GEARS ARE URGED FOR ENGINES | Bv ihe Associated Press. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen urged the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission today to require railroads to install power reverse gears. A brief filed by the brotherhood said these gears, used to reverse the direction of locomotives, are more “suitable, practical and safe” manually operated ones. On behalf of railroads, the Associa- tion of American Railroads has op- posed the proposal, contending it would not increase safety and would cost several million dollars. National Scene a tendency to holder. re-election he BY ALICE LONGWORTH HE veneration of Americans for the presidency has never been shown more clearly than in the comment aroused by Father Coughlin’s calling the President a liar. The action was criti- cized just as strongly by opponents of the New Deal as by its supporters. There seems to be identify the office with the office It is true that the President is the symbol of our National Government, but when he is seeking is, a3 » matter of fact, just a politician trying to keep his job. Mr. Roosevelt is President of the United States and PFather Coughlin is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, but they are not entitled on either scare to immunity from criticism when the one is running for political office and the other has adopted the role of an opposing political leader, (Copyright, 1936.) President James | than | Lindbergh Warns ‘azi Air Leaders Of Responsibilities | Their Deadly W eapons Create New Fears, He Declares. Br the Assoc'ated Press. ’ BERLIN, July 23.--Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, speaking at an air club | luncheon. called upon Nazi aviation | leaders today to realize the re- sponsibility they bear for the deadly | weapons they have created. “Aviators,” he said, “unlike the builders of the first dugout canoe, have lived to see their harmless wings of fabric turned into carriers of de- struction—even more dangerous than the guns of a battleship. “We have lived to carry on our shoulders the responsibility for the | results of our experiments, which in other fields have been passed on to future generations.” Aviation, the distinguished visitor declared, had created the most funda- mental change ever made in war. “It has abolished what we call de- fensive warfare,” he asserted. “We can no longer protect our families with an army. * * * | “Aviation has brought a revolu- staggering from changes. It is our responsibility to make sure that in so doing we do not destroy the very things we wish to protect.” Farnsworth | lCor!aniuedigtom Pirf-t.f?m.) planes and ships to the Japanese wil! not form a part of the specific charge that such plans ever were stolen, and statement of the accused which he could readily deny. Lewis is considered the key witness | of the whole case, and the Farnsworth | story as outlined to him will play an | important part. The Government has as documentary evidence a brief of | the proposed narrative, which the | to show him the nature of the story | he could furnish. ‘pmsent its case, William E. Leahy, | Well known Washington attorney, con- ferred with United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. He said that, after his conference, he would announce whether he would undertake to rep- resent Farnsworth. Rumors that Leahy would go into the case have been prevalent for several days. held in the District Jail. ‘The presentment to the grand jury is expected to cause a cancellation of the scheduled hearing on the espionage charge July 29 before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. Farnsworth is being held for want of $10,000 bail. BURTONSVILLE FARMER IS FATALLY STRICKEN By » Staff Correspondent o1 Ihe Star. BURTONSVILLE, Md., July 33.— John Gilbert Thompson, 52, nephew 81 the late John 8. Thompson, founder of Thompson's Dairy in Washington, succumbed to a fatal stroke on his Greenbriar Farms near here Monday. A native of Binghampton, N. Y, Mr. Thompeon had devoted his life to farming. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pmcuh Hardesty Thompson, and three brothers, Arthur, Henry and Theron Thompson. He was not & member of the dairy firm. Funeral services will be held at the Burtonsville Methodist Church at 3 ;fi 'Hl\lnlhy prior to burial In Ivy tionary change to a world already | | against Farnsworth, it was thought, | | since the Government has no evidence | would have to rely on a purported | former officer allegedly wrote for Lewis | As the Government prepared to/ Meanwhile the accused man is being | These photos, the first to arrive by steamer from London, depict the recent attack on King Edward. No. 1—Police sur- round the assassin, George A. C. McMahon. indicated by arrow at left, after he a!tempted to shoot the King The latter. on horseback at left, has turned his head to watch the commotion, while the policeman at right is running to aid in the arrest photo shows, many of those in the crowd failed to observe attack. As the No.2—McMahon, No. 3—Mrs. M¢Mahon, wife of the assail- ant. No. 4—Anthony Gordon Dick, special constable, credited with knocking revolver from McMahon's hond BE[}APITATEU BODY PUZZETO PU[I[}E; Beheved Work of Maniacal Killer Responsible for Four Similar Crimes. By the Associated Press. | CLEVELAND, July 23.—Police today started a systematic check of finger- prints and missing persons’ records in an effort to identify the decapitated body of a 40-year-old man, believed | by Detective Sergt. James Hogan to be the work of a maniacal killer responsi- ble for four similar crimes in the last year. | Not a single clue was discovered in the muddied clothing, piled beside the head, 10 feet from the body, in an iso- lated East Side woodland section. As in the case of the other victims, three men and one woman, the body was nude. Coroner A. J. Pearse said he would | examine today bloodstains on the coat and blue polo shirt, part of the cloth- ing. He said a preliminary investiga- tion disclosed there was some doubt that the man was murdered. | “There is nothing to indicate that there was any violence on the skull or body,” Pearse said. “The whole thing | | was 50 decomposed that it is possible ! for the head to have dropped off.” He said the man was dead about two months. Cleveland police have found no traces of the man believed responsible for the previous slayings. The head- less body of an unidentified man of about 25 was found in the same sec- tion on June 5, and the head discov- ered a mile away the following day. Last September the headless bodies of Edward Andrassy, 27, and another older man, still unidentified, were found in the same neighborhood. The other decapitation victim was Mrs. Florence Sawdey Polilla, 41, whose head never has been found A girl of 17, Marie Barkley, ered the latest body yesterday. Murder (Continued From First Page.) discov- | | told Danville police he could not re- member the date of the crime, but promised to take officers to the spot. | wife’s neck before he buried her. He | Police said no attempt would be made to have Rose locate the scene of the alleged drowning until his con- dition improved. On the way to Gal- | linger Hospital police made a stop at | Casualty Hospital to administer a drug to Rose to quiet him. Months on Rlief. At the Rose home, 216 Twelfth place northeast, Mrs. Rhua Rose, his mother, said that her son and his wife had been on relief for several months before the wife's disappear- | ance, and they had been living with a sister nearby. Police are expected to investigate, | however, the statement of Rose’s sister, | Carrie Rose, 18, that she had seen Mrs. Mary Rose on the street in Wash- | ington last Thi y, and asked her | where she had been for the past sev- | eral months. Mrs. Mary Rose had| made no answer, but got in a cab and was driven away, the girl stated. In his alleged confession Rose lhud he killed his wife because “she ran | around with another man,” and named | a man living in Harrisonburg, Va. She | formerly lived in Harrisonburg. CONDUCTOR HONORED Roosevelt Awards Meda! of Hon- or to Carl Mathis. President Roosevelt has awarded a bronze medal of honor to Carl N. Mathis, railroad conductor of Wil- mington, N. C., who saved the life of s 13-year-old boy at & grade crossing in Chadbourn, N. C, May 8, 1934. Byh'nlchmdallm:wdd(u outstanding bravery in saving life on railroads. Annflnupnt of the award was made by the Commeree Commission. ] |they jumped on the right »A P and Wide World Photos. FATHER'S TRUCK KILLS 2 GHILDREN Expectlng Candv Sons, 4 and 6, Run to Greet Par- ent, Hit by Machine. B¥ % Staff Correspondent o1 I'ne Star WOODS CORNER, Md.. July While their father desperately tioned them away from the truck he was driving. two small running to greet him, leaped to the car's ning board, slipped to the roadway and were almost instantly killed at their home near here yesterday. Stocked with candy purchased for his expectant youngsters in Washing- ton, Joseph A. Burch was entering his yard when Walter A, 6, and James E. Burch, 4, joyously jumped to the side of the slowly moving truck. The children suffered fractured skulls, injured by impact with the road or by the car's wheels. Dazed with shock, Burch said he didn't know “exactly how it happened, but the first I knew my little girl screamed and I saw the two little ones lying in the road.” The victims' mother. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Burch. was working in a nearby field when the accident oc- curred, but apparently did not see the mishap. Justice of the Peace Harry 1. Anderson and Prince Georges County Policeman John Dent said the parents were too grief-stricken to give entirely coherent accounts of the acci- dent. Dr. James 1. Boyd of Forgstville declared the youngsters had died within a few moments after they struck the road. Burch, who has four other children, said he had “told them a hundred times not to run toward the truck.” “When I waved them away from | the car, I thought they would stop.” !he declared. “T felt a slight jar as running they sons, board, then my girl told me had fallen.” A hearing to determine details of | the accident will be held in Upper Marlboro on Wednesday, Judge An- derson said. SR : U. S. Exhibit Leads. The greatest number of foreign prod- ucts shown at this year's Interna- tional Fair in Lille, France, were from | the United States. Passes Test GOVERNMENT CLERK FLIES FOR RECREATION. MISS COBA OVERMAN, Clerical employe in the pro- cessing tax division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, yesterday passed her Bureau of Air Commerce tests for a rivate pilot’s license. She ook the flight tests at College Park Airport. Miss Overman, whose home is at Salem, Oreg., lives at 2150 Pennsylvania avenue. She said she learned .;!'vinq for sport and recrea- on, RIPPY, RALLYING, ADVANCES AGAIN Washington Golfer Defeats Kammy Lau of Honolulu, 2 and 1. By ihe Associated Press. FARMINGDALE, N. Y, July 23— Claude Rippy of Washington, D. C., | co-medalist and twin favorite, rallied | sharply today to defeat Kammy Lau, | Honolulu clerk, 2 and 1, to enter the | quarter-finals of the national public | links golf championship One down at the turn, Rippy shot | the next eight holes in two under par |to win On the seventeenth hole Lau | almost prolonged the match as his | 40-foot run-up shot hung on the cup | lip. | Par—out __. Rippy—Out .. | Lau—Out 445 344 354—36 5 445 354—40 565 445 343—39 Rippy—In 254 443 53 Juufln - 445 454 53 | Walter Greiner, Baltimore student, | also staged a comeback to eliminate | Vash Hromyak, 1 up, joining Harry Umbinetti quarter finals. Umbinetti defeated | George Studinger, dashing cab driver | from Burlingame, Calif.. 2 and 1 | Johnny Lucas of Sharon. Pa., scored an upset by coming from the rear to defeat Arthur Owen, Jacksonville, Fla,, schoolboy, 1 up, on the final green Bruno Pardee, New Haven. Conn., defeated Mike Stefanchik, Gary, Ind, 1 up. | . DRUG QUESTION RAISED | French Deputy to Ask Govern- ment Data on Spain. PARIS, July 23 (# —Deputy Ren | Dommange, a Rightist. announced | day he intended to question the go | ernment on the subject of arms plied to the Spanish government | He said he wanted to know | true that France was furnis was arms and munitions of war to 1 Spanish government and. if so, ‘ur der what treaty of assistance.” The Deputies of Premier Blum party adopted a resolutio ming complete solidarity toward h Republics and expressing e republic will emerge vic- from the bloody civil war pr clerical and Fascist U. S. Ships (Continued From First Page.) ircumstances made this impossible the report said The State Department announce- ment of its appeal to the American Export Line said “The State Department tonight (Wednesday night) was endeavoring to make arrangements with the Amer- ican Export Line for the steamship Exeter, due at Marseilles Thursday morning. to be diverted from its course to call at Barcelona to evacu- ate those Americans who wish to leave.” Warships on Way. The battleship Oklahoma and the heavy cruiser Quincy already are under oiders to speed to Spain to stand by ready to take away Ameri- cans, but they are not expected to arrive befome the week end Eric C. Wendelin, third secretary of the Madrid Embassy chari of the building in the absence Ambassador Claude G. Bowers. who recently went to the Spai capital of San Seba been able to return Wendelin, in the latest received here, told of fears * responsible youths may start ing houses at any moment, putting people in considerable danger.” In broadcasting an invitation to Americans to enter the embassy, he told them they “must bring their pass- ports and simple traveling bags and toilet articles and if practicable a blanket and food for one meal.” Rebels, he said, had killed guards at the reservoirs, arousing fears that the water supply might be cut off. All available receptacles in the embassy were being filled and at- taches were trying to collect a quan- tity of canned food. Secretary Hull revealed at his press conference yesterday that this Gov- ernment has given some considera- tion to re-establishing a permanent naval squadron in European waters as a protective measure in behalf of Americans abroad. Agents (Continued Prom First Page.) as to the motive of the bomb mailer | The couple picked up their mail en route home from the golf links shortly after 6 pm., and had driven the mile and a half to their farm home before starting to unwrap the package, which Mrs. Thomas described as about 4 inches square. It had | ordinary wrapping and was tied with string. The explosion hurled parts of the Thomas sedan a hundred yards away, and demolished the upper portions. Phe couple had been married. &+ | momgh and 11 days. Both had been | magsed before. Mrs. Thomas was | the former Mrs. Elsie Salmons of Hillsville. Thomas' first wife was killed in a train accident about two years ago. | Surviving Thomas are his mother, | Mrs. Keren Thomas of Onancock; & | sister, Mrs. George H. Powell of Onan- cock, and three brothers, Francis and William N., both of Cape Charles, and Jesse D. of Richmond. | Friends said they knew of no ene- | mies of Thomas, who was well known | and generally well liked. | INSPECTORS SENT. 1']‘*0 More to Investigate Cape Charles Bombing. Two more postal inspectors today | were sent to Cape Charles, Va., to in- vestigate the bombing tragedy which last night cost the life of Curry Thomas and seriously injured his wife. J. E. Sontman went down from Salisbury, Md., under instructions from Thomas M. Milligan, inspector in charge for the Washingtcn area, and B. B. Webb was sent from Rich- mond, where the package containing the bomb reputedly originated. They joined Inspector C. H. Burrows, who was dispatched to the scene last night from Newport News, Va. Milligan last night received a brief account of the case from the c-n- Charles postmaster. ‘The package, it was said, was about 7 inches square, [ Seattle steel worker. in the