Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1936, Page 1

WEA' . (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and possibly tomerrow morning; slightly cooler tomorrow; mod- erate southwest, shifting to northwest, winds. Temperatures—Highest, 92, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 75, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on pa; Closing New York Markets, Page 12 Entered as seco post_office, Wi 2DEASTRAN HIS TRUCK WIH AOMENAND BOYS Quebec Crossing Collision | Splinters Vehicle—Four Leap Just in Time. No. 33,709. FOUR PHYSICIANS AID INJURED IN GARAGE Witnesses Say Truck Went Around Two Cars Halted at Tracks. By the Associated Press. LOUISEVILLE, Quebec, August 15. ~Twenty-two men and boys were «rushed to death early today when a fast Canadian Pacific freight train struck and splintered a large truck in which they were riding. Returning from a political rally, a party of some 40 persons drove di- rectlv into the path of the locomotive at a grade crossing as it hurtled to- ward them at high speed. A dozen or more were injured. Four men who sensed danger a split sec- ond before the locomotive struck Jumped to safety. Witnesses said the truck passed two passenger cars which had halted at the crossing for the train. Seventeen Killed Outright. Seventeen men apparently were killed outright and within a few hours five others had succumbed to their injuries. The accident occurred at a level crossing 1 mile west of this village. The wreckage of the truck blazed 8s it ricocheted along the right of wav and thumped to a stop. The truck was struck squarely. The | Yocomotive crushed it as though it were | & fragile box, and the men spilled out, =ome of them rolling under the wheels of the train. Steel shrieked against steel as the engineer in the locomotive applied the brakes and the train jolted 0 a stop. Rescuers Work Frantically. Rescuers—the handful of persons Who witnessed the accident and mem- bers of the train crew—raccd down the right of way to pull bodies from the wreckage. Many of the truck's occupants were mere boys from 14 to 16 years of age. Within an hour after the accident Canon Elisee Panneton, Rev. Father Donat Baril and Abbe Paul Decarufel were walking among the dead and in- Jured administering last rites. Ambulances took some of the in- jured to hospitals in nearby Three Rivers. Four local physicians attend- ed the injured as best they could. A garage was pressed into service as & temporary morgue and first-aid sta- tion. Among the dead was Edmund Houle, R. T, 45, driver and owner of the truck. Rival Speakers Lend Aid. Paul Caron, a candidate in the election contest which had occasioned the political rally, and his opponent, L. J. Thisdel, met at the garage to Jend what help they could as village residents started identifying their dead and injured. The victims were all residents of | Louisville and the immediate vicinity. ‘The highway is straight where it erosses the tracks and there are no obstructions to blind an automobile driver io the approach of a train. As the opposing candidates for Par- liament debated the issues of the | campaign at last night's meeting fist fights broke out in the crowd between Liberal and Union Nationale parti- sans. The meeting over, the crowd dispersed for their homes by horse and buggy, automobile and truck. The Houle truck was jammed to capacity. Invitation Saves Life. Albert Bergeron said he had just grasped the hand of one of the men n the truck after the meeting to_pull himself over the tailboard See CRASH, Page A-3.) PASTOR IS SLUGGED, LETTERS STOLEN California Minister, Foe of Jewish Inclusion in Church Confer- ence, Is Victim. By the Lesociated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C,, August 15.—Dr. Charles Vaughn, pastor of the Los Angeles Christian Church and leader of opposition to inclusion of Jews in the newly-organized National Confer- ence of Clergymen and Laymen, re- ported today he was slugged as he entered his hotel room. Dr. Vaughn said he was uncon- scious for .several minutes, awaking to find his room had been looted of 250 letters addressed to various peo- ple throughout the country who are combating communism. Police Detective C. B. Joyner said Dr. Vaughn told him, “I have to ex- pect things of that kind in the work I'm doing,” and attributed the attack and robbery to “sinister influences.” Dr. Vaughn said he did not suspect any one person. He told officers many letters had been opened and thrown on the floor and an address book with 1,500 names was missing. The minister said he went to his room after 10 o'clock last night and noticed as he approached a light ‘was burning. He said he first thought some friends had gone to the room to wait for him. Suddenly, he said, the light went out and he was struck on the head with & “blunt instrument.” Dr. Vaughn had a severe bruise on the head, but was continuing partici- pation in a conference. Pennsylvania “Reds” Defiant. ‘UNIONTOWN, Pa., August 15 ().— Teaders of the Communist party of America, who claim more than 6,000 members in the Fayette County soft coal region, declared today they may attempt to hold a meeting in Union- town this evening despite failure to obtain a hall or official permission. ge A-8. nd class matter , D. C. ‘WASHINGTON, France’s Rising Cost of Living Seen Overthrowing Blum When Foreign Crisis Passes Necessities Grow Almost Prohibitive in Priceas New Premier Rams Through Laws for Working Class. D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION LEFTISTS REPULSE ATTACK UPONRUN, HOSTAGES' PRISON { British Give Warning That| L BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PARIS.—It is the empty basket of the housewife which will throw Blum out of office. ‘This is the general opinion among Blum's friends and foes. As soon as the immediate dangers of an international crisis are over, France wil! settle once more to home politics which this time will be more violent than ever because of the rising cost of living. Faris is the most expensive town in the | Portuguese Border Guards Fire on world, and French people have told me that life in the French capital is cheaper than in the provinces. of prohibitive. course, the price of luxury articles is And luxury articles, while not necessary to the French people themselves, are an important part of France's economic life. Foreigners used to come to Paris in droves and purchase those pretty, useless things because they were in good taste and reasonable. Thou- sands of French workers who found a remunera- tive employment in the luxury industry are out of work at present. Not only do foreigners shun Paris—in 1928 and 1929 the American tourists alone contributed about $400,000,000 to Constantine Brown who are are expensive, restaurants are expensive. the welfare of the French republic—but thofe there spend as little as possible. Hotels In the cheapest “bistro” (the equivalent in cheapness of our cafetéria, but unfortunately without self- service) the dinner is 12 francs (about 80 cents). To this you must add the compulsory tip of 10 per cent. The average price of a meal in a second- class restaurant is $1.35, inclusive of tip. (See BROWN, Page A-9.) _ RODSEVELT TOURS MOREFLOOD AREAS Surveys New York Projects, Then Leaves for Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. (Text of Speech on Page A-3.) B) the Associated Press. BINGHAMTON, N, Y., August 15.— President Roosevelt’s special train, carrying him from an inspecticn of a flood region at Binghamton to another at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., left here today at 11:3¢ am. (East- ern standard time). President Roosevelt drove for 50 miles this morning through river val- leys where flood waters poured six months ago and returned to his train to talk over flood control problems for Southern New York with State and Federal officials. Stop at Dam Site. Climaxing the automobile trip was a stop at the site of a projected earthen retention dam which would span the valley of the Otselic River near Whit- ney Point. It would be the first of a series of proposed dams to hold flood waters back from Southern New York cities, The Otselic Dam was described to the President, sitting in an open car on a hillside, as the key to prevent re- currence of floods in Binghamton and several nearby villages. A row of white flags, staked out by Army engineers, marked the point where it would cross the valley, 66 feet high. In normal times it would im- pound no water, but in flood seasons a spillway could be closed and 59,000 acre feet of water could be backed up some 15 miles. Gen. Markham Present. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers; Col. Francis Harrington, assistant W. P. A. ad- ministrator, and Robert Fechner, C. C. C. director, who were with the President when he visited the Johns- town, Pa., flood district Thursday, rejoined the presidential party here. Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York bhad accompanied the President on the special train which brought him overnight from Chautauqua, N. Y. En route from Chautaugua, where he set forth last night the adminis- tration’s course on international af- fairs, the President passed through Southern New York counties ‘which have seen uncontrolled torrents strike death and destruction. “I am more concerned and less cheerful about international world conditions than about our immediate domestic problems,” Mr. Roosevelt said at Chautauqua. “A dark, modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms, in which are n- tertwined race hatreds. “I wish I could keep war from all nations, but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to pro- duce or to promote war.” Chautauqua officials estimated the crowd at 12,000 and said it was the Jargest “since Theodore Roosevelt spoke here.” The President spoke from a plat- form which Gov. Alf M. Landon, Re- publican nominee for President, will occupy August 24. gl = Trotsky Denies Plot. OSLO, Norway, August 15 (&).— Leon Trotzky, exiled revolutionary, personally denied today any connec- tion with an alleged counter-revolu- tionary plot directed against Soviet Russia, as charged in Moscow. RESOLUTION BACKS ALLCOUGHLINACTS 'Convention Demonstrates on Introduction of Blanket Approval. BULLETIN. CLEVELAND, August 15 (. Delegates of the National Union for Social Justice jumped from their chairs with a new demon- stration of shouting and cheering when a resolution proposing the indorsement of Representative William Lemke of North Dakota for the presidency was offered Jo- day. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 15.—Louis B. Ward, chairman of the Resolutions Committee of the National Union for Social Justice, presented today a reso- lution indorsing, “with no exceptions whatsoever, all the acts of our presi- dent and great leader, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin.” The resolution set off a demonsira- tion. Another parade came with the introduction of another resolution authorizing the “officers to institute such litigation as would bring forth to view the unconstitutionality of the Federal Reserve act.” Ward began his report immediately afier the loudest and longest demon- stration of the convention. Surge in Aisles Nearly Hour. For nearly an hour delegates surged in the aisles and up to the platform, shouting, whistling and ringing bells. The delegates refused to be quieted until Father Coughlin urged them to be' seated for the consideration of “important business.” Near the close of the demonstration a group of delegates from the New York section marched to the platform and deposited a crude casket inscribed *“John O’Connor.” John O'Connor is the New York Representative whose controversy with the Detroit priest brought forth a statement from O’Connor that he would “kick the priest down Penn- sylvania avenue in Washington.” Father Coughlin said opposition to indorsement of Representative Wil- liam Lemke, the Union party presi- dential candidate, had collapsed. New Yorkers Back Lemke. Father Coughlin made the state- ment at & press conference as the second day's session of the National Union for Social Justice opened. “New York delegations,” Father Coughlin said, “decided in caucus to give full support to Representative DEATH OF SWIMMER 70 BE INVESTIGATED @irl Electrocuted in Contact With Current in Bottom of Ban- neker Tank. ‘Thorough investigation of the swim- ming pool electrocution death of Helen Berger, 22, colored, was ordered today by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. The bather came into contact last night with a wire which leads to the underwater floodlights at Banneker Pool, Georgia avenue and Euclid street and lost consciousness at once. She was taken to Freedmen's Hos- pital in a passing automobile and pro- nounced dead on arrival A life guard, who plunged into the pool to the girl's rescue, was shocked by the same wire. U.S. Citizen Held as Hostage L By Spanish By the Associated Press. GIBRALTAR, August 15.—Evacu- ation of 1 American and 37 British subjects reporied held hostage in Huelva Province, Spain, by labor syndicalists was reported authorita- tively here today. ‘To what point the 38 persons, in- cluding J. O. Ambler, an American consultant in the smelting depart- ment of the Rio Tinto Mining Co., were taken for transfer from Spain was not learned immediately, The British government tentatively bad considered using & sailor landing A Loyalists Freed party to protect the hostages, endan- gered by the imminence of a rebel Powers’ Meddling Will Be Perilous. ENGLAND INTENDING TO BAR PLANE SUPPLY Spanish Government Troops Near Campo Maior. BACKGROUND— Spain torn by civil war as land- owning and capitalist classes join army leaders in attempt to over- throw Popular Front, Leftist, gov~ ernment, in order to prevent a full Communist regime. Fighting approaches a stalemate as Loyalists succeed in holding Madrid against repeated rebel at- tacks, and in repulsing bitter as- saults on San Sebastian and Irun on morthern sea coast, where in- surgents hope to obtain a sea outlet in order to obtain supplies. Lejtist forces in San Sebastian hold several hundred captives as hostages, with threat of death if city is attacked again by insurgents. By \ne Associated Press. Government forces repuised a savage rebel attack directed today against Irun on the Bay of Biscay. ‘The five-hour assault was the heaviest and most vicious yet thrown at government strongholds in the coastal section. A grave warning was issued by the British foreign office that meddling in the Spanish civil war might bring “‘serious repercussions.” The fate of hostages, held by the government and threatened with death should rebels advance against either | Irun or San Sebastian, was not known. Rebel troops massed on = road lead- ing into lrun under protection of an artillery barrage. They were met with 2 withering government fire. Casual- ties were heavy on both sides. Government forts nearby opened up with big guns on the rebels storming Trun, and steady machine gun fire was directed on the soldiers. Seven Officers Execuied. | Execution of seven officers charged with resisting the government's cap- ture of key points in San Sebastian some days ago was recorded by a | government newspaper. ‘The London warning announced the British intention of using “every | measure open to them to prevent the supply of civil aircraft” to either side in the civil war, While the foreign office considered the munitions export question, three airplanes took off from Croydon Air- port for Barcelona. The communique added that British subjects assisting | in the civil war ran serious risks. Fourteen Americans will leave Ma- drid tonight for the seaport of Ali- cante to put behind them the terrors of the revolution. Quincy to Remove Them. At the embarkation point a war- ship of their own Government, the U. S. S. Quincy, will take them to Marseille, France. Others may decide to go at the last minute under the urgings of the American Embassy which announced yesterday United States nationals will remain here only on their own responsibility. Two Americans left last night. They were Elizabeth Mier of Fayetteville, N. Y., and Mrs. Mildred Byne of New York City. Another, Mrs, Fernando Gallardo of Tampa, Fla., left by plane for Mar- seille this morning. ‘Those leaving tonight include Alitha Dominguez of Tucson, Ariz.; Jacque- line Powers and two sisters, giving a Madrid address; Mr. and Mrs. George Calderon of New York City; Jesus Alderon Verela and his wife, and Mrs. Pilar Coder and her son, Juan, ail of Manila; Hernando Val- lecillo of Puerto Rico; Mrs. Dorothea Miller Casau of New York City; Ce- cilia Angelina Rivera of Puerto Rico, and Carlos Sarrivra, also of Puerto Rico. Evacuated by Cruiser. The State Department reported the following Americans from Washing- ton, D. C, were among those evac- uated from Palma yesterday by the cruiser Quincy: Laura G. Cappallonch and daugh- ter Gardeilla and Caroline S. Grubbs. Alarmed by the ncreasingly threat- ening situation in Madrid, the Co- lombian government asked the United (See SPAIN, Page A-8.) Court Decision Discloses Priest Was Married By the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Va., August 15— Judge B. D. White awarded an estate of approximately $50,000 to Mrs. Ade- lalde M. Grady, widow of the Rev. W. R. Hayes, pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic OGhurch, Newburgh, N. Y, in a Circuit Court decision here yesterday. Father Hayes married the former Adelaide M. Grady in Elizabeth City, Tenn., in September, 1932, and died in New York April 27, 1934. His estate, in tangible personal property, bonds and real estate was left to Mrs. Hayes in & will. A priest, Mrs. Mary Eartford, Conn., brought suit to con- SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, ¢ Foening Star 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. *% Creer UP. WERE NOT GOING To PUTANY MORE ON You In Crash at McKinley Student Just The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services, Colonial Beach Driving Virginia| Friends Home From Swimming Party W hen Car Strikes Tree. A 17-year-old McKinley High School student and two young companions were killed last night when their automobile swerved from the road in rounding a curve and crashed into a tree near Co- lonial Beach, Va. They bad been on a swimming party. The dead are Henry Windsor, 17, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel H. Wind- sor, 513 Nichol- son street; Miss Laura Waskey, 18, of South Boston, Va., and Sidney Heary Windsor. ;oo 23 of Fredericksburg, Va. U.S. SWINI TEAM WINNER OF TITLE Japanese Take Last Two Championships, but Fail to Block Victory. Final Totals Men'’s Swimming. Japan - 86 | Hungary ... 14 U. 8 __.-.%Fance __.. 4 Germany .- 20|G. Britain.. 2 Women's Swimming. U.S......55 |Argentina _5 Holland ..52%;|G. Britain__3 Germany .25%2| Hungary Japan ....16 | Canada Denmark .11 i (Points, which are unofficial, are based on 10 for first place and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, respectively, for the next five places.) Ay the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, August 15.—Japan cap- tured two of the last three champion- ships in the Olympic men’s swimming competition today, but failed to over- haul the United States for the un- official team title. ‘The Jaranese picked up 33 points in winning both the 200-meter breast stroke and 1,500-meter free-style titles, but surrendered team honors to the United States, 83 points to 7. Despite a brilliant record-smashing victory by Rita Mastenbroek of Hol- land in the 400-meter free-style final, representing her third gold-medal conquest of the Eleventh Olympiad, the American girls successfully de- fended team honors, finishing the seven-event program with an aggre- gate of 55 points to 52 for the Dutch girls. Prior to the Japanese triumphs in the last two swimming features, Mar- shall Wayne, tall, statuesque Floridian, won the 10-meter platform diving crown, with Elbert Root of Chicago taking runner-up honors and.Frank Kurtz of Los Angeles placing fifth. Medica Badly Beaten. The climax race of the aquatic championships, the men’s 1,500, was won by Noburo Terada of Japan in 19 minutes 13.7 seconds, good for a 25-meter margin over Jack Medica of Seattle, who was clocked in 19:34, beating off Japan’s Shumpei Uto for runner-up honors by half a second. Sunao Ishiharada of Japan was fourth in 19:485, while Ralph Flanagan of Miami took fifth, caught in 19:54.8. With & hot sun baking the stadium, holding 20,000, Terada took an early lead in the long race, heading Flana- gan by a length at the end of 300 (See OLYMPICS, Page A-2) Drop to 300 Pounds Fatal. weighed less than 100 pounds they married 18 years ago. ¢ Injured in the same accident and taken to Martha Washington Hos- pital. Fredericksburg, with broken legs and other hurts, were Tom PieTcy, Fredericksburg, and Miss Joan Geyer, West Point, Va, a cousin of the | windsor boy. Young Windsor, who was driving, and the other two killed were in the | iront seat at the time of the crash. They were crushed in the wreckage, more than an hour being required to extricate their bodies. Piercy and Miss Geyer occupied the rear seat of the small sedan. The party had motored from Fred- { ericksburg to Colonial Beach early last evening and, after a swim, were driving back to the Windsors’ Summer | place near Fredericksburg. | Young Windsor was chief ruler of the (See ACCIDENTS, Page A-3) Purse-Snatchings | Believed Solved | By Arrestof Gang 120 Colored Youths Are Blamed by Police for Stealing Wave. Aboui 100 pocketbook snatchings {and 25 or 30 cases of housebreaking were believed solved today with the round-up of 20 members of the “blue- shirt gang,” an arganization of about 25 colored youths. Second precinct police reported re- covery of & quantity of loot, includ- ing purses snatched from the arms of women, clothing and merchandise stolen out of parked trucks and au- tomobiles, walches and miscellaneous jewelry. The gang dodged police for weeks |by posting numerous lookouts to waich patrolmen and warn of the approach of scout cars. Police said the juvenile mob was well organized and carried on extensive operations during the last four months. Policemen George Cooper and H. | D. Miller and Precinct Detective S. | Ostenso “broke” the gang after many sleepless nights and futile races with the mob’s lookouts. The “blue shirts” were organized at Blue Plains from members of the old gang of “40 thieves,” who were serving reformatory sentences for a series of thefts and robberies in No. 2 precinct four years ago. Cooper helped to round up this gang also. Among crimes attributed to the “blue shiris” was the snatching of a pocketbok from Anna Gonstell, 2100 Pirst street, a nurse. One of the young T (See ARREST, Page A-8) election day. MERGER OF CLUBS VOTEDBY BOARDS University-Racquet Union to Be Put Up to Both Memberships. Consolidation of the University and Racquet Clubs has been agreed upon by the controling boards of the two organizations, it was learned today. Under the merger plan, the Univer- sity Club will take over the operation and obligations of the Racquet Club and will move there after remodeling parts of the building, at 1135 Six- teenth street. The University Club building, at Fifteenth and I streets, will be offered for sale or leased to the Government. Although it is believed the manag- ing boards of the two clubs have full power to close the merger deal, the proposal is to be put to a vote of the members during the coming week, to prevent any possible entanglements. Approval of both memberships is ex- pected. Negotiations for the merger have | been in progress for three months, | with Spencer Gordon, president, and | members of the Board of Managers, | acting for the Racquet Club, and William Warfield Ross, attorney for the University Club, and members of its Board of Governors acting for the ; latter group. Consolidation Contract. The consolidation will be effecied on | the basis of a contract between the two ! clubs which will result in dissolving | of the Racquet Club and the taking over of its property and membership by the University Club. The con- solidated group will be known as the University Club. Attorney General Cummings, active member of the Uni- versity Club, is being boomed for presi- dent of the consolidated club, with President Gordon of the Racquet Club, and Stanley P. Smith, president of the University Club, as vice presidents. It is understood that approximately half of the 15 members of the Board of Governors of the University Club will resign and will be replaced by mem- bers of Board of Managers of the other group. Bylaws of the University Club will be changed to allow all of the college men in the Racquet Club—about 75 per cent of its membership—to become resident members of the new Univer- sity Club, and to admit the others as special members of the new club. Life members of the Racquet Club will be admitted to life membership in the consolidated club. All personnel of the University Club will be taken to the Racquet Club and — Teeth Technique Inventor Dies. AUBURN, Calif, August 15 (®) O'Dell Wilson, 82, chemist who ac- quired wealth through his invention of a preparation to hold artificial teeth secure, died at his home here yesterday. David Lawrence on Political Swing S THERE a definite swing away from the New Deal? I Are Republicans flocking back to their party? Is the third party strength increasing? What factors are underlying the present trend of the country's attitude toward Government policies? These and many other questions will be answered in articles written by David Lawrence, Washington com- mentator, who has started on a tour of the country which will take him into 40 of the 48 States and will keep him on the road practically all the time until Each day he will describe to his readers the senti- ment and opinions of the visits them. people in the States as he On Saturday, October 31, he will make a summary of the entire situation and present his forecast of the way the scales will swing. Read the David Lawrence Articles and Watch the Trend of Opinion—They Are Printed Each Day in THE EVENING STAR (P) Means Associated Press. | Assistant Yesterday’s Circulation, 128,243 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. FIDELITY LOSSES EXGEED 20000 D'CONNOR THINKS Controller of Currency Asks Members to Present ‘Proof of Claims.” $13,000 WAS SUM SET * AT CLOSING JULY 18 Reorganization Is Under Consid- eration, but Decision Awaits Final Check of Assets. Announcing that “apparent losses” of the Fidelity Building & Loan Asso- ciation are “in excess of $200,000.” Controller of the Currency J. F. T. | O'Connor today called on members of the association to present their “proofs of claims” beginning Monday, Au- gust 24, in order to ascertain more | definitely the real outstandisg liabili- ties of the association. The last financial statement of the association, issued June 30, 1935, showed liabili- ties to members of $1,863,655, Reorganization of the association is under consideration, O'Connor said, but final decision on that or liquida« tion cannot be reached yet. When the institution was clesed on July 18 and put in the hands of a receiver, the only figure made public as to losses was $13,000 named as the amount of “larceny” with which Fred B. Rhodes, 60, former president of the organization, was charged. ‘The amount “in excess of $200,000,” disclosed today for the first time, was explained by the controller as the figure reported by his examiner. “This amount is not final” said O’Connor, “and the extent of the losses will not be known until a com- plete investigation of all of the affairs of the association has been made.” Rhodes Out on Bond. Rhodes was arrested on a police war- rant the day the institution was closed, and is at liberty on $5,000 bond. His case has been continued in Police Court to September 3, pending presen- tation of the matter to the grand Jury. Rhodes was charged specifically with obtaining a $13,000 loan from the Pidelity last November 8, through a “straw” party, and crediting the pro- ceeds to his own account at the Fidelity to meet an overdraft. The loan sup- posedly was made for use on a con- struction project in the Guilford sub- division, Fairfax, Va., according to United States Attorney Henry A. Schweinhaut, at whose ree quest the warrant was issued. Rhodes denied the charge, saying “there is not a word of truth” in it “I have never taken a dollar from the association,” he declared. Members of the association were asked by Controller O’'Connor to file proofs of claim beginning August 24, but they will be notified by mail as to the exact time to call. Details of how | to file these claims were explained. The controller in his statement said a receiver, M. L. Barnett, jr.,, had been appointed for the association *“owing to the fact that an examination of its affairs revealed apparent irregularities and losses which exceeded in amount the profits and reserve accounts of the association, and which, in the judg- ment of the controller, rendered the association insolvent. “Af the time of the appointment of the receiver,” continued O'Connor, “the apparent losses reported to the controller by the examiner were in excess of $200.000. This amount is not final, and the extent of the losses will not be known until a complete investigation of all of the affairs of the association has been made. “Several plans involving the pos- sible reorganization of the association T (See FIDELITY, Page A-8) SHOWERS FORECAST AS D. C. HEAT RELIEF Mercury Expected to Reach 90s Today, However, in Rise of Temperatures. Showers tonight and possibly early tomorrow are expected to bring slight relief from the high temperatures that have prevailed for several days. This afternoon, however, the mer- cury will probably climb to the low 90s, the forecaster said. There is some chance of showers during the afternoon. At 10 am. the temperature was 81, The humidity continued to be exces- sively high, at 9:30 registering 81 per cent, about 40 per cent above normal. From a “high” of 93 at 3 p.m. yes- terday, the temperature dropped slowly overnight until 6 o’clock this morning, when the reading was 75. Readers’ Guide Amusements . Answers to Questions AxG o Books Church news Cross-word Puzzle Death Notices Editorial Finance - Lost and Found Melcher in Hollywood - Music Radio Real Estate __ Serial Story Short Story - Society - Sports __ ‘Washington Wayside _ Women’s Features ___