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A2 * NEUTRALITY PAGT NEAR STALEMATE Portuguese Attitude Chief Obstacle to Final Agreement. £y the Associated Press. PARIS, August 15.—French efforts to align the European powers in an agreement to keep “hands off” the Spanish civil war appeared stale- mated tonight by the attitude of sev- eral, notably Portugal. Spain’s western neighbor demanded as a condition of her adherence to neutrality that the rest of Europe con- demn “mass assassinations.” Although it adhered to the proposal in principle, Portugal assailed Leftist factions in Spain, charging unwar- ranted destruction of property and mass murders executed with “cold pre- meditation.” The Lisbon government regarded a neutrality accord valueless without guarantees for the “strictest appli- cation by all powers with a spirit of absolute impartiality.” Germany, Italy and Russia also have withheld agreement to a neutrality pact, although approving its purpose, demanding assurances it would be strictly observed. Notes established an accord between France and Great Britain on the text | of the neutrality agreement were ex- changed today between Paris and| London. the Quay d'Orsay announced The agreement would become bind- ing, however, only after Germany. Italy, Russia and Portugal abided by it. - The agreement would prohibit ex- | ports of arms and munitions to the Spanish belligerents, the British for- eign office said at London. PORTUGUESE FIRE ON SPANIAR Lisbon Foreign Minister Fears In- volvement in War. LISBON, Portugal, August 15 (#).— Portuguese border guards fired on Spanish government troops today in the third encounter in 24 hours, and the foreign ministry expressed fear | this nation might be drawn into the civil war. ‘The encounter resulted, the Portu- puese government said, when Spanish loyalists crossed the frontier to re- | capture two bus loads of bombs al- legedly seized by custom guards. The Spaniards fled when gunfire greeted their sally. Thirty “Communists” allegedly erossed into Portugal, seized a Spanish | army officer and killed him in one | earlier incident. The invaders, the | Portuguese Radio Club charged, | threatened laborers with guns. | Protests to the Madrid government | “in terms of great energy” were ordered. i BRITISH, FRENCH IN ACCORD. Arms Embargo Order Awaits Replies of : Other States, LONDON, August 15 (/) —Great Britain tonight announced complete | accord with France on a Spanish arms | embargo, stayed actual order of a ban to await other governments, and warned against danger of meddling in the civil war. The step toward neutrality, the for- eign office announced, will become ef- fective when assent of Germany, Italy, | Portugal and Russia is received. “Maintenance of a strict, impartial | attitude of non-intervention is essen- tial if the unhappy events in Spain are Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations OKEH! GIRL up before Judge Mattingly in Police Court recently Drunkenness was the charge, the offense compounded by the fact that it was a rather public and slightly of Interesting Events and Things. A Okeh-ed herself right out of the toils of the law. disorderly affair. “You know you shouldn't get fendant. “Okeh, your honor,” said the girl, looking abashed. “And especially in public places,” the judge went on. “Okeh, your honor,” reiterated the girl. They went on that way for some time, much to the amusement of the spectators, an amusement which grew when hte judge started putting his Okeh on the girl's every Okeh. Finally the admonition reached the point where the judge asked the girl's assurance that she would do better, “‘Okeh,” said the girl. “Okeh,” said the Judge. * % X ¥ WAR'S END? Blackthorn street, in Chevy Chase, is quiet again. If you won- der when it wasn't quiet, that’s be- cause you did not read thc earlier chapters printed here of the strug- gle that went on out there between a robin and a certain outomobile in which he used to see and daily at- tack his own image. It went on for months. Well, this is to report that the robin has not been around for some time now, but Blackthorn street residents are unable to determine whether he has gone away to cogi- tate, to gather reinforcements or simply because he became sick of it all. {L ke PARK SCENE. AFAYETTE PARK might as well have been the forest primeval for all the awareness of civilization shown by a man sitting on a bench pounding away merrily at a portable typewriter the other afternoon. The erowds no- ticed him, but he was entirely uncon- scious of everything except the muse which was dancing through his fingers to the keys. drunk,” the judge admonished the de- : THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. AUGUST 16 1936_PART ONE. SUIT CHALLENGES COMMODITY AGT Federal Court is Asked to Enjoin Officials, Includ- ing Wallace. ET the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 15.—Constitu- tionality of the commodity exchange act of 1936 was challenged on 19 counts today in a suit filed in United States District Court in behalf of William S. Moore and all other mem- bers of the Chicago Mercantile Ex- change. The court was asked to issue an injunction to restrain enforcement of the law, which became effective June 16, until its validity has been passed upon. Arthur Magid, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said he believed the suit was the first one brought to test provisions of the act. Wallace a Defendant. Named defendants were the Mer- cantile Exchange, its directors, Secre- tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Ro- per and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, who comprise the Com- modity Exchange Commission; Mi- chael L. Igoe, United States district attorney here; Ernest J. Kruetgen, Chicago postmaster, and Leslie A. Fitz, supervisor in charge of the Commod- ity Exchange Administration in Chi- cago. Charges of unconstitutionality of the act were based principally on allega- tions of violation of interstate and due process of law clauses, improper dele- gation of legislative power to the Sec- retary of Agriculture and improper delegation of judicial power to the commission. Became Law June 16. The act became law June 16, amend- ing the original grain futures act of 1922. It authorized the Commodity | Exchange Commission to regulate | trading in wheat, corn, oats, rye, | barley. cotton, rice, flaxseed, grain sorghums, mill feeds, butter, eggs and Irish potatoes. Certain provisions of the act do not | become effective until September 13, including those making it unlawful | for futures commission merchants and | floor brokers to engage in business on the exchange unless they register as such under the act, and those dealing with the handling and investment by | & broker of the fands and securities of his customers. Magid said an application for a temporary injunction would be made | soon. those who paint in public places. In contrast with the dozens who will logk stopped to check on what, exactly, the mystery man was writing. He made a piquant picture, sitting there in his artistic trance with two pigeons perched behind him on the back of the bench apparently reading to be prevented from having serious | repercussions elsewhere,” the Britisn | government declared in a communique. Notes agreeing to ben shipment of | arms and munitions were signed by | French and British diplomats in Paris ' today. P DEMOCRATS EXPECT | BATTLE IN OREGON| Concede Improbability They Will Win by 77,000-Vote Margin of 1932 Victory. BY RALPH WATSON, &pecial Correspondent of The Star. PORTLAND, Oreg., August 15— Oregon Republicans had their big day last Tuesday, when National Chair- man John Hamilton came to town for @ day, huddled with State organiza- tion leaders, went into secret session with the Finance Committee of the State Central Committee and con- ¢luded his visit with a broadcast ad- dress at the public auditorium in the dvening. It was the formal opening of the Landon-Knox campaign and brought together all the headliners of the rty from United States Senator Charles L. McNary, who presided at the night meeting, down to precinct eaptains. - Oregon in 1932 “went Roosevelt” By 77.852 votes. Democrats concede, ivately, that they have a fight on eir hands, which they expect to &in, but not by anything like 77,000 Yotes. Present indications point to one of the hardest fought campaligns in re- eent years, with Roosevelt having the feading position now. _ DELAWARE DEMOCRATIC WOMAN IN HOUSE RACE Mrs. Margaret D. Bodziak, Attor- mey, of Wilmington Must Await State Convention. . BY C. C. GRAY, « Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. ‘WILMINGTON, Del., August 15.— I! the Democratic State Convention, which meets September 1, is willing, Delaware will have its first woman ¢andidate for the National House of Representatives. She is Mrs. Marga- fet D. Bodziak, an attorney of Wil- mington. She is the Democratic na- tional committeewoman and was at @ne time assistant city solicitor. Two more Democratic aspirants for the nomination for Governor an- nounced their candidacy this week. They were Edward M. Cooch of Coochs Bridge, New Castle County, and Henry R. Isaacs of Wilmington. They are lawyers and have long taken #n active part in the affairs of the party. . Representative George Stewart of this city, finishing his first term in $he House of Representatives, has an- nounced hs candidacy for renomina- tion at the Republican State Conven- ton. State Treasurer Warren T. Moore of Harrington also said he _would seek renomination. Poor Get Bulk of Income. “~ Half of Britain's total national in- “@ome now goes to the poor, 28 per every word as it was spread on the paper. * ¥ ¥ X FINISHED. An order issued by an Arlington County board in 1924 was carried out this week, Sheriff Howard B. Fields informed the present board yesterday. The order was for filling in a well built in 1898 to supply the Arlington Court House with water. No reason was given for the slight delay. * k% % DXEAM'S OVER. FALL from his bicycle was a bigger thing in the life of Allen Froet, aged 10, than in the case of most children who fall off bicycles. Allen’s crash cost him those two teeth, central incisors, which are so important in certain phases of liv- ing. His father rushed him to the dentist at once, but, sorry though he was, the dentist had to say there was nothing he could do until the boy Allen looked depressed for a mo- ment, but finally disclosed the sturdy stuff of which he is made with & shrug of his shoulders and the philo- sophic comment: “Well, that'’s the end of Hollywood, I guess; unless I just go out there and design scenery or become a di- rector.” * % % % GAME. A NUMBER of persons walking down to one of the Water Gate concerts last week were treated to an unusual sight in the vieinity of Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. Parked just to the rear of the old toligate house at that corner stood a large automobile, end within it sat two men playing a game of checkers, oblivious to the stares of passers-by and the hooting horns from the stream of traffic flowing by. The owner sat on the rear seat while the chauffeur squatted on the floor and reached up from time to time when it was his move. The “boss man,” smoking an ex- penstve - looking cigar, appeared to dominate the situation and played with an air which indicated he was satisfied with the chauffeur as a checker opponent, but proposed to keep him in his place socially. Eye- witnesses to this out-of-the-ordinary scene speculated as to whether the checker game might be a daily di- version or just a means of passing away the time while waiting for an appointment to materialize. DELEGATES CHOSEN @5 & Btaff Correspondent o1 fue Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 15.— The Snyder-Farmer unit, American Legion Auxiliary, has elected Mrs, Caesar L. Alello, Hyattsville, and Mrs Carl W. Walzl, Colmar Manor, as dele- gates to the department convention to be held at Baltimore, August 26 to 29. Mrs. Hugh McClay and Mrs. Kath- arine Middlecamp were elected al- “eent to the middle classes and 16 per cent to the rich. ternate delegates. Mrs. Ralph Sheffer will attend as a delegate at large. [} munity from curiosity which is denied { over the shoulder of an artist, not one | HIRTH TO SUPPORT G. 0. P. CANDIDATE Declares Intention to Oppose Stark, Saying Macihne Used Unfair Tactics. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, Mo., August 15.—Wil- liam Hirth, defeated by Maj. Lloyd C. | Stark for the Democratic nomination ment today announced, “I hereby de- clare my intention to vote for Jesse W. Barrett, the Republican candidate for Governor, in the forthcoming No- vember election.” The Columbia farm leader added, “Meanwhile, being a life-long Demo- crat, I shall support the remainder of the Democratic ticket with whatever influence I possess.” Hirth, who made his campaign for the gubernatorial nomination a direct attack on the Tom J. Pendergast Kan- sas City Democratic organization, which supported Stark, said it was “common knowledge” that “thousands of fraudulent votes were cast for Maj. Stark in the recent primary, and that thousands of my votes were not counted, and that the vast army of State employes and the committeemen and women and other influences, in- cluding money, were marshalled against me in a manner without pre- cedent.” TENNESSEE TO HONOR DAVY CROCKETT TODAY Bix Governors Invited to Join Celebration of 150th Birthday of Hero of Alamo. By the Assoclated Press. GREENVILLE, Tenn., August 15.— This historic East Tennessee section will honor one of its most famous sons tomorrow and Monday in a his- toric festival, celebrating the sesqui- centennial of the birth of Davy Crockett. Six Governors have been invited to attend and two of them, Gov. McAllister of Tennessee and Gov. Allred of Texas are scheduled to speak. The others invited are Gov. Peery of Virginia; Gov. Ehring- haus of Narth Carolina; Gov. Chandler of Kentucky and Gov. Tal- madge of Georgia. - The principal celebration is slated for Monday, with a parade and pa- geant depicting episodas in Crockett's life. Some visitors already had gathered here tonight for a pilgrimage to Crockett’s birthplace tomorrow afternoon. The hero of the Alamo was born in 8 cabin in Limestone Creek, near 'h:are. The site is marked by a large ne. —_— 4,000 MINERS AGREE TO TERMINATE STRIKE Employes of Glace Bay, N. S, Return to Work Tomorrow. Follows Heated Conference. By the Associated Press. GLACE BAY, Nova Scotis., August 15.—Nearly 4,000 members of five Glace Bay collieries agreed tonight to return to work Monday, ending & one-week strike. Decision to call off what was de- scribed as an unsanctioned walkout was reached after a heated confer- ence between strike leaders and the district executive of the United Mine ‘Workers. Another session will be held two weeks from today with a temporary agreement binding the workers, mean- while. Grievances of 200 Longwall miners of the No. 3 colliery, whose refusal to work caused the tie-up, will be investigated by the union’s district officers and officials of the Dominion Coal G for Governor of Missouri, in a state- | SOVIET PLOT LINK LAID TO GERMANS Communist Party Newspa- per Charges Reich Police Aided Foes of Stalin. By tne Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 15.—German se- cret police tonight were linked b} the Communist party newspaper Pravda with the counter-revolution= ary plot, attributed to three one- time Soviet leaders. ‘The revolt was aimed at Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the Com- munist party and dictator of Ruse sia, Pravda Declared, and the cone spirators maintained “systematic cone tact with the German Gestapo (se- cret police).” Soviet police arrested and indicted 16 persons and will bring them to trial August 19. Pravda made thinly-disguised fore- casts of executions to follow the trial of the defendants. Death before a firing squad has been the customary method of executing political prisoners. Trotsky Termed Key Man. The key man of the plot was said to be Leon Trotzky, exiled revolu- tionary, living in Oslo, Norway. Included among those indicted were Gregory Zinoviefl and Leon Ka- meneff, who at one time were joined with Stalin in ruling Russia after the iliness in 1823 of Nikolai Lenin. Zinovieff and Kameneff are serving sentences imposed in 1935 on charges of participating in counter-revolu- tionary activities said to have been uncovered in an investigation follow- ing the murder the previous year of Sergel Mironovitch Kiroff, Stalin's chief aide. (During the months following the assassination of Kiroff hundreds of persons were executed, imprisoned or banished to Siberia in a general purge of the Communist party.) Pravda charged, “We know there was a direct and organized co-opera- tion between the Trotzky-Zinovieff gang and Fascist police spies.” Charge Branded as Untrue. | (Trotzky from Oslo branded the Moscow charge a lie and said he had no connection with Russia.) | “Individual terror was a plank which | the malcontents joined to form a united center,” Pravda said, “the pur- | ism.” (Trotzky, whose chief aim was the extension of Communist doctrine | thorities since the death of Lenin, | whose funeral he did not attend. (The former leader was once for- eign minister of Russia, and as min- ister of war controlled a fighting force of some 1.500,000 soldiers. (In 1927 he was expelled from the | party, and Stalin assumed leadership | of the country. Trotzky, driven from one land to another in the years of ihh exile, has supported himself by | writing.) TROTZKY DENIES CHARGES. | OSLO, Norway, August 15 (#).— Russina counter-revolt, in a statement tonight branded the Soviet allega- tions as “totally untrue.” In vindication he proposed the for- mation of two commissions to investi- own actions in Norway, where he has been living in exile. To the first commission, he said, “I am willing to tell what I have done every day and every hour of my time in Norway.” The second group, an international labor commission, he said could go to Russia to investigate. “I am sure (his commission will destroy the Soviet lies against me” he said. “I have nothing to fear or hide.” Trotzky continued: *Since I came to Norway I have had no connection with Soviet Russia,” and he added that he and Mrs. Trotzky had not even exchanged “one word” with their son who is working in Russia. The Soviet charge, Trotzky with Gregory Zinovieff and Leon Kamenefl, was characterized by the former Soviet minister of war as “ome of the greatest distortions in political history.” “It is very probable numerous ele- ments are using my name and ideas,” Trotzky declared in a statement pub- lished in an Olso newspaper. “But I am most certainly not the leader of a terrorist plot, and I have always been opposed to individual terrorist methods.” THIEF GETS $117 Watch Also Stolen at High Ice Cream Co. Store. Jimmying & rear door of the High Ice Cream Co. store at 505 C street northeast last night, a sneak thief stole $100 in cash belonging to the company, $12 from Ruth Lee, man- ager; a wrist watch valued at $75 from Mary Bossett, a clerk, and $5 from Valentine Klein, a roomer on the second floor. Police said the money and watch had been left in supposedly safe hiding places. Epecial Dizpateh to The Star LURAY, Va., August 14.—Restoration of the Old Beahm School House in the Shenandoah National Park moved & step nearer with the appointment yesterday at the Beahm-Moyer-My- er'’s Reunion of Prof. I. N. H. Beahm of Norkesville, as chairman of a com- mittee to confer with Department of Interior officials as to ways and the first schools in this section. An old log house, long since de- stroyed, was the means of establish- ing the difference in literacy found ‘mountaineers of this section and of sections of the Biue before the school house and neighbors’ children. re- , but teaching in a hich time it is pro- the school house re- centennial will be cele- the President of the ml. es would B i i § § g3z i E by g £ : ] g sga H i i 4 i s § i : | Bg i E it i} > pose of which was to sabotage social- [ Leon Trotzky, accused of plotting &/ | gate the charges and to examine his | | which linked | Beahms Hope for Restoration Of Old Family School House| - Legion Inducts New Department Chiefs Newly tllectzd officers of the Distric Lieut. Horace W. Lineburg, commander, Ra; t Department, American Legion, are, left to right: L. Zwinglus, first vice commander; Helen L. Opitz, second vice commander, and Rolland W. Phillips, third vice commander, with Joseph J. Ma?loy, retiring department commander, Police (Story on Page B-1.) SLUGGED MINISTER GUARDEDBY POLIGE Takes Part in Clergymen’s Sessions—Meeting to Be Held Here Oct. 15-16. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C. August 15—A guard was posted in the Langren Ho- tel tonight near the room of Dr. Charles Vaughn, minister of a Los Angeles Christian Church, who told police he was slugged and knocked unconscious when he entered his room |in the hotel last night. | | Late tonight police, with only a de- | scription of the man Dr. Vaughn said | assaulted him, had made no arrest. Detectives took a physician to ex- | |amine Dr. Vaughn, whose forehead | bore a knot and a bruise. He was not | !injured seriously and today took part | |in a meeting of the conference of | | throughout the world by force, has! Christian clergymen and laymen at | | been in the bad graces of Moscow au- | the First Christian Church. The con- | TU UUST SHERIFF 1 | | ference is made up of persons who said | they withdrew from the National Con- | ference of Clergymen and Laymen in | session at Lee Edwards High School | here because Jews were on the pro- |gram and the word Christian was eliminated from the name of the or- | sanization. | Dr. Vaughn said his room was rob- | bed of 250 letters addressed to various persons ‘“opposed to communism" | throughout the Nation and an address book containing 1500 names and diary. The room, he added, had been | thoroughly ransacked and many let- | ters had been opened and thrown upon the floor. | Rev. Gerald W. Winrod of Wichiia, Kans., in charge of the organization meeting of the group, to be held in ‘Washington, D. C., October 15 and 16, eaid the “crisis through which Chris- tianity is passing at this time is not a new thing.” that Great Britain ex- perienced it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when an attack was made against Jesus Christ in the name of English deism. That became the religion of the Prench Revolution, he continued, describing it as “plai Judaism garbed in Christian terminol- o8y.” ——— 'HARRY RICHMAN SET FOR HOP TO LONDO Pronounces $100,000 Plane Ready—Expects to Set Round- Trip Record. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif. Aug. 15.— Harry Richman, singer and sportsman, tested his $100,000 airplane today and ! pronounced it ready for a New York- | London round-trip flight. With his pilot, Dick Merrill, he flew to Muroc Dry Lake last night and put the craft through its paces. Then ; he retired to his hotel room for a good sleep preparatory to hopping off tomorrow for New York. After a few days there he plans to head out over the Atlantic. Of his Atlantic flight Richman said confidently, “We'll breakfast in New York, dine in London and have break- fast again the next morning in New ! York.” ‘To avert accidents the big transport plane is equipped with a device to cast loose the motor in 30 seconds. An- other to dump the gasoline and seai | the fuel tanks in a like time, & two- way radio with extrs batteries, a big kite to attract steamers in case of a sea landing and 40,000 buoyant table tennis balls filling in the wing spaces. Richman plans to hop off early to- mOoTTow. No reunion was held last year be- cause of the paralysis scare, but a crowd variously estimated at from 600 to 1,000 from Virginia, Pennsyl- vania, West Virginia and Florida at- tended the eighth annual reunion this year at Rocky Branch near Lu- ray. When the Park Service officials were tearing down houses they found one of the Beahm homes had been formerly a log house and was prob- ably 150 years old. Its weather- boarding had disguised it. Though the knowledge came too late to save the house, it led to a close examina- tion of others. S. L. Batman of near Luray was elected president of the organization, succeeding J. C. Beahm of Greencas- tle, Pa. Other officers elected were: Mrs. Prank Beahm of Roanoké, vice president; C. O. Myers of Clarendon, treasurer, and Mrs. Zada Kemp Shenk of Kimball, secretary. ‘The program for this reunion con- sisted of addresses by I. N. H. Beahm, who discussed the restoration of the school house; Prof. M. N, Luzador of Lon, Fla., who talked on citi- castle, Pa. Musical entertainment was furnished by the foljowing frofn Clarendon, Va.; J, O. Myers, Mrs. Berths Hill, Prof. Calvin Caulkins gwood, zenship, and J. C. Beahm of Green- | Los Council Surprised As Speaker Fails to Seek Any Favor Sgec'al Dispatch to Tho Star. LURAY, Va., August 15.—The Luray Town Council recently had what it believes is an experience unique in the history of town councils, a visitor who wanted to address them and didn’t ask for anything. Elder D. Walter Strickler, 79, retired minister and local mer- chant, sent word to the town council he would like to address them. Upon appearing, he said: “I want to compliment the present council and mayor on the good work they are doing in the town. May it continue.” Rev. Strickler then went into detail as to benefits inaugurated by the present administration. VIRGINIANS SEEK |Franklin County Officer Ac- | cused in Petition of Neg- lecting Duties. By «ne Associated Press. | ROCKY MOUNT, Va., August 15— | In accordance with section 2705 of the (code of Virginia, as amended, com- plaint in the form of a petition, signed by five citizens of Franklin County, was filed in Circuit Court here this | afternoon requesting the removal of Sherifl Harry B. Lee from office. | In compliance with the petition, | Judge A. H. Hopkins issued an order | that a rule, returneble August 22, be issued against Lee, “requiring him to show cause, if he can, why he should not be removed from office.” | The petition is signed by E. L. Pugh, , J. A. Murphy. D. H. Wray, W. T.| Skizzkic and Elbert McGuire. It was examined by the court and filed with Clerk T. W. Carper soon after noon. In the complaint it is alleged that the sheriff, who was elected last No- vember, has, since he qualified Janu- | | ary 1, “been guilty of malfeasance, | | misfeasance and gross neglect of offi- | | cial duty, and knowingly and will- | fully neglected to perform his duties | | enjoined upon him by the laws of | this State, and has repeatedly been in | public places in the County of Frank- | | lin 1n a state of intoxication produced | by ardent spirits voluntarily taken.” These statements were sworn to by | the signers before a notary public. | Sheriff Lee, who was formerly ser- | geant of State police here, could not be found in Rocky Mount for a state- ment. It was said he had not been here for several days, so far as is gen- erally known. Rumors of the action had been heard for some time. $100,000 AWARDED MRS. VANDERBILT Decision for Legacy First Court Victory Over Mrs. Whit- ney in Year. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 15.—Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt's applica- tion for immediate payment of a $100,000 legacy she charged was being withheld by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Gertrude Whitney, was granted today by Burrogate James A. Foley. The decision gave Mrs. Vanderbilt her first legal victory over Mrs. Whit- ney since the State Supreme Court granted principal custody of Mrs. Vanderbilt's 13-year-old daughter to Mrs. Whitney more than a year ago after a protracted suit. The legacy was left to Mrs. Vander- bilt by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt. Mrs. Whitney and her brother, Gen. Cornelius Van- derbilt, children of Mrs. Alice Van- derbilt and executors of her estate, had contended Mrs. Vanderbilt had no right to sue for payment of the legacy because shie had pledged it as collateral on loans totaling $50,000 from the Guaranty Trust Co. Louis D. Frolich, Mrs. Vanderbilt’s counsel, told the court payments un- der the will had been made to servants and he did not see why Mrs. Van- derbilt should not receive similar consideration. Ordering payment, Surrogate Foley said the delay had been justified by dificulties encoun- tered in settling the estate. Blaisdell Family Meets. YORK, Me., August 15 (P).—East- ern descendants of Ralph Blaisdell, shipwrecked 301 years ago today at Pemaquid Point, met today in this village where he first settied, while Central and Western relatives were reuniting at Lawrenceburg, Ind., and | Angeles. The Easterners, presided over by Dr. J. Harper Blaisdell of Boston, president of the National Blaisdell Family A. Lin- and B. C. Strickler, .the latier of Lu- ey, Association, coln Blaisdell's invitation to meet .at his home in Winterport next year. ‘ SUSPECT AWAITS WARRANT VAINLY Ohio Officers Refuse to Hold | Man on “Black Legion” Charges. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Ohio, August 15—Virgil F. | “Bert” Effinger, termed by Detroit | officers “major general” in the Black | Legion, went home tonight after wait- | ing at police headquarters for several | hours for arrival of a warrant charg- | ing he possessed six hand grenades on | a visit to Detroit a year ago. i The warrant did not come, and Police Chief Ward Taylor said he could not hold Effinger without a | warrant. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea of Detroit asked authorities here to ar- rest Effinger and search his home. On learning of the request, Effinger went voluntarily to police headquarters. Acting City Judge Carl M. Blank told | Chief Taylor that Effinger could be | freed on $500 bond. | At Home if Wanted. While Effinger was arranging bond, | however, the magistrate decided he ! could not be held or bonded merely on the strength of McCrea's telegram. Effinger went home, notifying officers he would “be there if wanted.” He declined to comment on the charge except to say that he was acquainted with Arthur F. Lupp, sr., | Michigan commander of the legion, | and had visited him in Detroit snme1‘ time in the past. He said he did not | know others mentioned in the case. He has not admitted any connec- tion with the Black Legion, but once | asserted the organization had 6,000,- 000 members. The warrant was issued following a statement by William H. Guthrie, a Black Legion printer held by Detroit police. 1 “Executioner” Backs Story. Effinger showed him the grenades in the home of Arthur F. Lupp, sr., | Michigan commander of the leglon.| Guthrie said. The printer’s statement | was corroborated by Dayton Dean, | confessed “executioner” in the Black Legion slaying of Charles A. Poole, Prosecutor McCrea said. | Effinger handed him some suitcases, | Dean told the prosecutor. and re- marked, “Guard these well, captain, because there is enough explosives there to blow up this whole block.” Dean also asserted that Effinger told a legion meeting that the organization was “going to take over the United States Government™” and that he set September 16, 1936, for an attempted coup. | | TRUCK IN FLAMES | DRIVEN INTO CREEK Gasoline Explosion Averted by Bystander After Driver Is Burned. Twenty-four-year-old Louis Ed- wards, employe of the Northern Vir- ginia Construction Co., yesterday drove a blazing truck loaded with a | 50-gallon drum of gasoline into | Holmes Run, near Alexandria, there- by averting what might have proved | to be a disastrous explosion. The drum had been filled with gas- oline in the construction company yards on Telegraph road, just west of | Alexandria. A spark, presumably orig- | inating in a short circuit, ignited gas fumes and set fire to the truck. ! Norman Fitzgerald, 34, of Alexan- dria, driver of the truck, was burned superficially on the arm and leg, but | Edwards, who was etanding nearby, | jumped te the driver's seat and drove the blazing truck through underbrush | and across a field to the creek a quar- ter of & mile away. Then he drove the truck into the water and dumped | | the drum of gasoline before the flames | | reached it. LUDENDORFF DIVORCEE | DIES OF HEART STROKE Marriage to German War Lord in | 1909 and Memoirs in 1929, Fol- lowing Separation, Recalled. #y tne Assoctated Press. | MUNICH, Germany, August 15.— | Frau Margarethe Ludendorfl, divorced first wife of the German World War lord, Gen. Erich Ludendorfl, died last | night at Solln. near here, of heart disease. - They were married in August, 1909, | and divorced in 1926. | In her memoirs, written in 1929, | publication of which the general un- | successfully tried to prevent, Frau Lu- | dendorf! called their marriage “a love | match.” They had no children, but | she had four by a previous marriage. | Gen. Ludendorff remarried three | months after their divorce. Speed Records Smashed. J. Whitehead topped all records when he drove his car the 812 miles between Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa, without food or drink | in 15 hours and 16 minutes, an aver- age of 53.2 miles an hour, in spite of | being stopped by the police at Mar- tinsburg for 15 minutes, ANNHEWITT AIDE HITS AT GHARGES Assertion Client “Dupe” Made to “Camouflage Is- sue,” Lawyer Says. By tne Assoctated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 15— Dark-eyed Ann Cooper Hewitt's per sonal attorney struck back sharply to- night at the assertion of a lawyer for two physicians accused of illegally sterilizing her, that she was a “tool” of conspirators seeking riches from her own inheritance. Miss Hewitt, heiress to an inventor's estate estimated as high as $10,000.- 000, conferred with her lawyer, Rus- sell P. Tyler, during the week-end recess which interrupted her dramatic testimony in the mayhem conspiracy trials of Dr. Tilton E. Tillman and Dr. Samuel G. Boyd. The physicians were charged with sterilizing Miss Hewitt in a plot ale legedly engineered by her mother, Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, to gain control of Ann's estate. The criminal charges developed after Ann sued her mother and the physicians for $500,~ 000, asserting she was tricked into submitting to the sterilization opera- tion. Charges Miss Hewitt Duped. Defense Attorney I. M. Goiden, in questioning Ann yesterday, charged she had been duped into proceeding against her mother and the physicians by Tyler and other persons seeking a part of the fortune left by the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, Ann's father. Out of court, Tyler asserted Golden's charge was madg “only to camouflage the real issue—Alx guilt or innocence” of Dr. Tillman and Dr. Royd. Tyler said he would be a witness for the State and challenged Golden to question him about the advice he | gave Miss Hewitt and the filing of the | etvil suit. Golden said he would seek to show through Miss Hewitt and others that Tyler, Dr. Pedar Bruguiere, first hus- band of Mrs. Hewitt, the present Mrs, Bruguiere, and Florence Slavich, Mrs. Bruguiere's sister, conspired to extort money from Ann's mother. i Trial Reopens Tomorrow. | Miss Hewitt, termed by a psychi- atrist as having the mentality of a 10-year-old child, insisted she was not apprehensive over the proepect of fac- ing Golden's searching cross-examina- tion when the trial is resumed Mon- day. “But whether she is nervous or otherwise,” said Tyler, “she will be ready and willing to answer any ques- tions put to her, and to tell the truth. “She has nothing to gain or lose by the criminal proceedings.” Tyler said he was attorney for Dr Bruguiere for several years and that Mrs. Hewitt asked him to serve as Ann’s attorney upon her coming of age. Ann now is 22. VIRGINIA CRASHES KILL 1, INJURE 5 D. C. Residents Are Hurt in Two Auto Smash-Ups—Car Plunges Over Bank. Five Washingtonians were 'inji in accidents on Virginia high S yesterday and last night, one of the mishaps resulting in the death of a Centreville, Va., colored man. The dead man, Luther Scott, 55, was killed when his car was in colli- sion on the Manasses-Centreville Highway with one operated by Cadle Hooppaw, 5863 Chevy Chase Park- y. Hooppaw suffered severe head lac- erations, while his wife was severely shocked and bruised, and his two children silghtly hurt. A two-car crash at Connecticut avenue and K street early today resulted in severe injuries to Harold Hadley, 26, of 1822 I street. He was taken to Emergency Hospital, suffer- ing possibly from a skull fracture. Raymond P. Laudensiager, 41, of 2540 Massachuseits avenue, and two Marines were injured when Lauden- slager’s car left the Richmond High- way about 25 miles south of Washing- ton and careened over a 12-foot em- bankment. | Richard Simpson, 21, one of the Marines, suffered a severely lacerated hand and cuts over the eyes, and Elza | Haynes, 20, received minor cuts. All | three were treated at the Quantico Marine Hospital. JEWISH CONGRESS {ENDS FIRST SESSION Four Americans Are Nemed to Office—Will Present Resolu- tion to Britain. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, August 15.—The first world Jewish Congress in history ad- journed tonight after a week of ses sion. It elected a group of officers by ac- clamation, including four Americans: Federal Judge Julian W. Mack. hon- orary president: Louis Lipeky, vica president of the American Jewish Congress, chairman of the Central Committee; Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, chairman of the Executive Committee, and Louis Sturz, financs secretary of the American Jewish Congress, treasurer. It also elected Dr. Nahum Gold- man, League of Nations representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, chairman of the Administrative Com- mittee. The congress’ first official act as a representative body will be to present to the British Legation in Switzer- land a resolution asking Britain, as mandatory power for Palestine, to raise no barriers to Jewish immigra- tion there. The Administrative Committee will meet tomorrow to set up a permanent organization and to arrange for offices in France, Switzerland and the United States. The congress hopes to mak¢ effective measures adopted authorize ing it to act against anti-Semitism and for the rehabilitation of needy and exiled Jews. Roon?r Exiled to Maryland. CHICAGO (#)—Mrs. Susan Crib’s pet rooster, Pete, became a victim ol his environment. Dr. John Carpenter, a neighbor, complained that Pete signaling thy dawn each day, kept everybody arount there awake. The doctor appealed t4 the polic2. Mrs. Cribs said that rather thar see Pete fricassed she'd exile him te the Maryland farm home of he | coustn, where e could erow whenever he pleased. ¢