Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1936, Page 3

" WARNING IGNORED BY TRUCK DRIVER Occupants of Two Cars Shout “Don’t Pass” as 22 Dash to Death. Bv the Assoclated Press. LOUISEVILLE, Quebec, August 15. —A thundering freight train killed 22 persons and injured 12 others, 6 of them seriously, at a grade crossing here today. A large truck, loaded with 43 passen- gers, rolled on to the open, unobstruct- ed crossing in the path of the racing locomotive. “Don't pass! Don't pass!” cried oc- cupants of two other cars as the truck whipped around them and approached the tracks. A split second later the train struck. The truck splintered. Bodies were catapulted dozens of feet on to the right of way, under the wheels of the freight train. As it knifed through the mass of human forms, the locomotive applied | its brakes. Flung 90 feet and tossed into the ditch beside the right of way, the truck caught fire. Flames Lick Wreckage. Flames licked back from the engine cver the wreckage. the seriously injured ones groaned as rescuers, shaking off their paralysis, tried to pull them from the tangle of wood and steel. It was still dark when the accident nccurred—the occupants of the truck were returniny from a late political meeting—and the flames lighted the scene. On a jutting piece of the chassis, torn from the truck’s framework, a white and black hat hung grotesquely. Along the track for hundreds of yards were found bone and bits of flesh. Apparently most of the dead had been shot out of their shoes by the impact. Footwear littered the right of way. 1% Killed Outright. Seventeen men and boys, some of | them only 14 years old, were killed cutright. A dozen others were in- jured. Five died. The rest, reacting instinetively to the threat of danger, Jjumped to safety in the precious mo- ments before the collision. What chances for survival a half dozen other persons in the truck had tonight was a matter of conjecture. Doctors nursed their hurts in hospitals. Improvised morgues held the dead, covered with burlap sacks. Brake shoes shrieked. A | handful of spectators sat transfixed. | A half dozen of | T HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, They Are Watching a Man Die By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 15.—George | |S. Kaufman, the dramatist whose | name was linked romantically with | | Mary Astor in the Astor child cus- | |tody case, said tonight, “The case | doesn't change my attitude toward | Miss Astor—she is still a friend.” He said he left Los Angeles Satur- |day night, arrived here Wednesday. | |and stayed with friends until last | night, when he returned to his home. | “I have one wonderful piece of news | ‘tor the American public,” he said, | mopping his face with a large hand- | kerchief. “I have never kept a diary. Everything I write is to be acted on the stage.” | He declined to comment on his | failure to answer a subpoena in Miss band, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, or what California authorities might do should he reappear on the Coast. “I'm here to stay indefinitely,” the Two investigations were ordered, one by the Canadian Board of Rail- way Commissioners, the other by the | Quel?ec attorney general's department. Within an hour after the accident three priests were administering last rites to the injured, some of whom | Wwere taken to hospitals here and some to a hospital in Three Rivers, 25 miles away. A garage served as one of the tem- | porary morgues. Jumps to Safety. A 17-year-old textile mill worker, Fernand Tousignant, saved himself by jumping, but he said he did not | know why he jumped. He did not | see the train until he picked himself up in the roadside ditch. Tousignant said no screams of hor- | ror or fear of momentary death were heard before the train struck. 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Metropolitan 486L. playwright said. “I have two plays opening in the Fall, ‘Stage Door,’ untitled play.” During the Astor-Thorpe helring“‘ he said, he did not “run away or board anybody's yacht.” “I stayed in Hollywood at the home of my friend, Moss Hart. “I've been in the public eye long enough and I think the public eye is just as glad to get me out of it as I am to get out. As a matter of fact, it would neither have been worth while nor a pleasure to talk to me before. I couldn't have uttered six coherent words about it. happy about it. “I agree with Dr. Thorpe that the sooner it's forgotten, the better.” Kaufman was asked if he expected | to see Miss Astor again. “I have no objection to seeing Miss Astor again,” he replied. He said, “There are many mysterious things about this case, many that I don’t understand.” “This one—I don't drink,” he con- tinued. “I take a cocktail once every four weeks. If I take another one, I become violently ill. “I'm sorry about this. be able to drink, but I simply can't. That is why these stories of my stag- gering from one joint into another after rounds of brandy, cocktails and champagne are extremely puzzling. Can't Understand Interest. “Another thing I can't understand |is why there should have been so Asior is no longer a big figure in | pictures. In the ‘silent’ days, yes. I just can't understand it.” Kaufman was asked whether he had communicated with his wife, Mrs. Bea- | trice Kaufman, a fiction editor, who | is now abroad. “I certainly have—at great expense, on the oversea telephones.” “Is there any trouble as the result of the revelations?” “None whatever.” From time to time he arose from a small couch and paced the floor. Once he turned and said: “There is only one thing I resent about the case. “Some newspaper men referred to me as a middle-aged playwright. I am middle-aged. That's why I didn't like it, I suspect.” “I'm almost afraid to go to the corner,” he added. “It's like learning to walk all over again. However, I'm sure life will come back to me at some point.” GUARDS WATCH CHILD. Mary Astor Prepares to Resume Screen Work. LOS ANGELES, August 15 (P).— Pretty Mary Astor tonight picked up the threads of her screen career—in- terrupted by a sensational marital riff with her divorced husband—while a pair of large, amiable guards kept watch over 4-year-old Marylyn Thorpe, innocent center of the legal storm. “No official action is contemplated,” was the way a spokesman for the office of Will Hays, the “movie czar,” dis- missed reports that executive frowns might curtail Miss Astor's screen career. “You may say I did not keep a diary,” he told reporters. During the trial attorneys for Dr. Thorpe claimed Miss Astor’s celebrated diary showed evidence of a romance between the actress and George Kauf- man, playwright. The diary was impounded by the court without being entered in evidence. Kaufman Is Warned. Informed that the playwright had appeared, Judge Knight declared; “Mr. George Kaufman had better have a very good excuse for leaving California.” He reiterated his threat of a jail sentence against the playwright. In the past, he said, fines up to $1,000 and jail terms of 30 to 90 days have been levied against persons who ig- nored subpoenas. “The law is no respecter of persons, be they prominent, rich, intelligent, dumb or stupid,” said the judge. “This court would be lacking in self-respect s if it did not enforce its orders.” At Columbia studio, where Miss Astor is reputed to be paid $1,500 weekly, it was said her next assign- ment hasn't been decided. In Miss Astor’s ornate Toluea home | Astor's suit against her former hus- | to open around October 10, and an | 1 was miserably un- | T'd love to| much public interest in the case. The ! public doesn't care about writers, Miss | The dangling body of Rainey Bethea was the target of these pairs of eyes as the colored man was hanged at Owensboro, Ky. The tense-faced boys were among thousands of spectators, in- cluding women who brought babies in their arms rather than miss the spectacle. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Kaufman, Still Actress’ Friend, Proclaims ‘I Never Kept Diary’ | little Marylyn played unmindful of | the sensational controversy that cen- tered on her. The guards prowled around but admitted that they haven't had to order many curiosity | seekers away. Case Stamped Closed. Judge Goodwin J. Knight has stamped the case closed. The child, whose full custody was won by Dr. Franklyn Thorpe when he divorced Miss Astor last year, will spend nine months each year with her mother | and three months with her father. Adding a final comment to what looked for a time like a battle of | statements, Roland Rich Woolley, | Miss Astor's attorney, said today I do not wish the case reopened.” A formal statement issued by him after the setilement was announced brought a threat from Joseph Ander- | | son, Dr. Thorpe’s chief counsel, to seek a reopening of the hearing on grounds it was agreed no principals of the case were to speak. “I issued no statement during the |trial of the case and I issued one my client so the public might know the facts,” said Woolley as he left by airplane for Angels Camp. That seemed to end things. And to the movie work she began in 1921 when she made her first two-reel film, PACIFIC NATIONS Statesmen and Economists of World Open Sessions at Yosemite, Calif. By the Associated Press. YOSEMITE, Calif, August 15— Statesmen and economists of the world assembled here tonight to dis- cuss the problems of Pacific nations | as a means of fostering peace through understanding. Japan's spectacular advance in for- eign trade and her expansion in China, the New Deal in the United States, Russia’s development under the Soviet regime, China's money and | industrialization problems and Eng- | land’s position in the changing East | were among the discussion subjects, First Plenary Council. Meeting as members of the Institute of Pacific Relations, sat in their first plenary council to- | night. They included Albert Sarraut, for- mer French premier, and leaders in the social and economic life of Japan, China, Great Britain, France, Rus- sia and Holland. Opening phases of the institute were devoted to reports from the chair- man, Newton D. Baker, former Sec- retary of War, and the research sec- retary, William Holland. ‘The purpose of the organization is to bring to light the problems of Pacific nations as they affect each other and to rationalize the results, General Understanding. “We believe,” said Charles F. Loumis, institute representative from Hawalii, “that when these probiems are pre- sented as a whole, showing their inter- relation, the nations concerned have & better general understanding of each. The result makes for peace.” The institute will seek the rea- sons behind Japen’'s bid for a prom- inent place in the world's markets. Delegates will inquire into her pres- sing population problem and her lim- ited territory. Typhoon (Continued From First Page.) China Clipper is en route from Guam to Wake Island, bound for California. The Philippine Clipper is moving out of Midway Islands toward Wake Island and was scheduled to fly to Guam to- morrow. (Company officials said the Philip- pine Clipper could wait at Guam, 1,700 miles northeast of Manila, if the weather was unfavorable for the ::ght to the Philippine capital Tues- y). Typhoons have taken a heavy toll in the Philippines in recent jesrs. More than 400 persons were killed during the Winter season of 1934-35. In April, 1935, 70 persons died in a typhoon that lashed Southern Luzon. The typhoon is the Pacific counter~ part of the Atlantic hurricane—a cy- clonic disturbance revolving about ua area of low pressure producing a wind of 60 miles an hour velocity or more. A Washingtonian, Capt. R. F. As Studds, is in command of the Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Fathomer, officials here said. The vessel is owned and operated by the Philippine government, which built her about 25 years ago. She is said to be manned by about five American officers and 8 crew of Pilipinos. when it was over in the interest of | now Miss Astor is ready to go ba(‘k' PROBLEMS AIRED the delegates | Leiter (Continued Prom First P‘Eg) yesterday that the only approval which the commission could give to | the transaction was a “straight-out gift without encumbrances.” “The transfer to the Government was made with the understanding that the area would be immediately improved for a recreation center and park,” Settle explained. “Such a de- velopment, of course, would enhance the value of the remaining Leiter acreage and enable the estate to sub- divide it and sell it for building pur- In that way, the farm. which has been closed since Mr. Leiter's death, is destined to become an asset instead | of a liability on the Leiter fortune. Advantage to Patrons, The three-story country house will prove a distinct advantage to the park patrons. Built shortly before World War, the exterior is of frame, brick and stucco, and except for its size is not particularly imposing. On the first of the three floors is a huge dining hall, ball room and li- brary. A few paintings and large tapestries are the only furnishings. One of its attractive features is a wide fireplace. The veranda, screened against insects, commands a view of the Potomac. The Leiter wine cellar was famous |in the days before prohibition, but is now covered with cobwebs and the racks empty of bottles. A survey of the 160 acres along the water front, which have an average width of 900 feet, just barely brought the mansion within the tract. The estate no longer desired the house, which represented a tax burden. The final negotiations involved an additional seven acres providing an roadway, in excellent condition, lead- ing off the Leesburg-Georgetown pike. Should Prove Popular. By reason of its easy approach from the Leesburg-Georgetown pike, within 10 miles of Washington, the new Po- tomac park should be a popular ren- dezvous for thousands of residents ! from the District and nearby Virginia and Maryland. above Chain Bridge, it is as conven- !lently accessible to Maryland subur- | banites as to those in Washingotn or Virginia. | Now that the property has been turned over to the Office of National | Capital Parks, Superintendent C. Marshall Finnan will immediately call | out C. €. C. workmen from the Roose- | velt Island camp to carry out develop- ment plans, It is the intention of the Govern- ment to make as much use of the beautiful site as possible. For this reason it will combine the facilities such as are provided in Rock Creek Park and the purely scenic treatment as provided in a national park like the Shenandoah, for instance. From the house, which is situated out of sight back of the pike, the land slopes steeply to the water's edge. The 900-foot strip, extending a mile and a half along the river, is heavily wood- ed. Back of the slope are green pas- tures and orchards. Several cabins are scattered through the woods, Trails to Be Made, According to present plans, trails will be made for horseback riders and numerous paths for hikers and nat- uralists. There will be secluded picric grounds such as provided 1n the areas jalong the Mount Vernon Highway. Across from the-lower end of the estate is popular Sycamore Island, now frequently used for recreation purposes. The river has been dammed below this point to divert water into the old Chesapeake & Ohio Canal The dam has provided 2n ideal Lath- ing place and the shore of ihe estate is admirably suited at thic point, not only for bathing, but for canoeing and boating. Turkey Run, one of hose meander- ing Virginia creeks. flows through a portion of the upper part cf the estate and could easily be converted i.to & wading pool for young children. Officials said there is no end to the possible usage made available by the mansion. For the present, it will be used as a recreation center and tea room, similar to the concession in West Potomac Park. The Government was no less fortu- nate than the people who will make use of this beautiful parkway in ob- taining title to such a large amount of acreage for the Memorial Parkway. Other Tracts Acquired. The next largest tract acquired by the Government is 120 acres farther up the river, known as Stubblefield Falls, on the Maryland side. In addi- tion, another site of about 40 acres below Great Falls has been vurchased; 50 acres in the neighborhood of Aque- duct Bridge and one-half interest in some 100 acres more at the falls. Some years may elapse before the Park and Planning Commission ob- tains title to grounds on the Virginia side of the river to hook up with the acreage on the Leiter estate. For that reason, the site will serve at this time as an independent park, equal in area to the Zoological Park. Joseph Leiter was the son of the famous Levi Zeigler Leiter, Chicago financier, who died in 1904 after amassing & fortune. He had a con- trolling interest in the great dry-goods establishment of Potter Palmer, which Iater became the firm of Fleld, Palmer the | veranda equipped with an open air | | fore marriage and early in each preg- | access to the house by a wide, paved | Being only 2 miles | FIGHT ON DISEASE SEEKS PLAINTALK First Step in Social War Is Recognition of Facts, Surgeon General Says. BY DR. THOMAS PARRAN, U. 8. Public Health Service. (Written for the Associated Press.) An intensive, Nation-wide attack on public health enemy No. 1, syphilis, is to be launched in the near future through a network of Federal and State health authorities, public and private institutions and practicing physicians. ‘The first requisite for that attack is, however, an appreciation and under- standing of the problem by the pub- lic. For eenturies, people have con- sidered that it was immoral to even speak of the disease, but in the fu- ture it must be recognized as a health hazard and probably least of all as a question of morals. From now on, syphilis must not only be talked about but be fought active- ly because it is increasing so that if all conditions due to syphilis were re- ported as such, it would probably be found the leading cause of death in the United States today. Such a situ- ation can not be allowed to be ob- scured any longer by the fog of ig- norance. Little Combating Done. ‘We can be justly proud of our rec- ord in the United States in fighting tuberculosis and reducing its occur- rence to the point where we can talk about eradicating it entirely. It is shameful however, that so pitifully little has been done in fighting syph- ilis, cases of which are more numerous than measles, twice as numerous as tuberculosis and 100 times more nu- merous than infantile paralysis, to which so much public attention has been directed in recent years. There is an even greater opportun- ity for the eradication of syphilis, against which we have made no prog- ress, than for the eradication of tuberculosis. The fact that the re- sults of the disease crowd our jails, our poor houses and our insane asy- lums is not due to a lack of scientific | knowledge, because we have at hand | specific methods of controlling it | which are better authenticated by | science than the means of control- ling tuberculosis. Suggested Procedure. Then, since the methods of treat- ment and eradication are known, the steps to be taken are these: 1. Pinding cases of syphilis prompt- | ly through widespread use of Wasser- mann test and treating them imme- diately. 2. Examination of all persons hav- ing contact with a patient found to have the disease. | 3. Preventing the birth of syphiletic children by requiring blood tests be- nancy. [ 4. Teaching the facts about syphilis to all people. We know in general where syphilis | {s. Half the cases are found in per- sons between 20 and 30 years of age with six men having it for every | four women infected. It is four times | as prevalent in cities as in rural | areas and six times as prevalent | among colored as among white per- sons, To date, New York, Massachusetts and Maryland are among the States undertaking adequate programs of syphilis treatment and we have great | hopes that many others will under- take the work in the near future. $2.000,000 for Research. Under the terms of the social secur- | D. C, AUGUST 16, 1936—PART ONE. Ice Box “Bank” Robbed MRS. MARY Who operates a restaurant at twice and thought she had fou she hid the day’s receipts in a t: she went to the restaurant yes: empty. LANDON IS BOOKED FOR SWING EAST More Than 45 Stops on Itin- erary for Week Open- ing Aug. 20. By *he Associated Press. ESTES PARK, Colo.. August 15— Gov. Alf M. Landon virtually complet- ed plans today for his first Eastern campaign drive, which will include three major speeches, half a hundred rear-platform appearances and dozens of political conferences. ‘The Republican presidential nominee has charted a course which will begin at La Salle, Colo., August 20 and take him through Colorado, Nebraska, Iow: Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri and back to Topeka, Kans., by August 27. Landon will make more F. NICHOLS, 4274 Tenth street, was robbed nd a way to outwit thieves when in can in the ice box. But when terday merning the tin can was Now, says Mrs. Nichols, she’ll carry the money home with her. —Star Staff Photo. in Missouri, but will be only for a railroad change. Between 5:10 p.m. and 8:23 pm. the train will make stops at Washington, Jefferson City, Sedalia and Warrensburg. After another operating stop at Kansas City the train will go to To- peka, arriving there at 11:45 p.m. — Gets Transportation Home. NEW YORK, August 15 (#).—Rus- | sell Darbo, blind University of Caie| fornia law student, who hitch-hiked | here two weeks ago with his dog, | was on his way home tonight on a| thumbless trip. | His transporation was arranged by the New York Central Railroad and the American Society for the Pre- | vention of Cruelty to Animals. Petticoat Flag as Women Rule. ‘[ ALEXANDRIA, La., August 15 (®). | —A prim white petticoat fluffed with ruffies—official emblem of Ladies’ day —fluttered in the breeze today from | the City Hall flag staff. The emblem, | hoisted with ceremonies, inaugurated | a one-day municipal reign by femi- * AGTRESSES DENY WP A.VICE CHARGE Retraction Is Announced After Conference With Attorney. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 15.—Acting W. P, A. Administrator Paul Edwards ane nounced tonight that Attorney Harry M. Lewin, speaking for 10 actors and actresses, denied they ever ha§ charged corruption and vice to the W, P. A. administration in Massachue setts. Lewin yesterday entered the pro- tests of three actresses, who asserted they were discharged from a drams project because they refused to enter- tain “Federal men” at a stag party, where they were to model clothes. Four men also charged, through Lewin, that they had been dropped because of discrimination. Edwards tonight said that Lewin and one of the actresses, Miss Jean Colby, had come to his office and that Lewin had denied any statements charging corruption. Edwards said the stag party to which, Miss Colby referred occurred last October before the W. P. A. set-up had been organized and while Massachue setts was still under the Emergen | Relief Administration. i | But, he asserted, the charges relate ing to that party had not been made until yesterday. Meanwhile, he added, the 10 cone cerned had all been dropped from W. P. A rolls the latter part of June. Edwards declared that after he had talked with Lewin and Miss Colby he agreed to name a board of three ta decide whether the 10 had been dise criminated against. In Washington today Aubrey Wile liams, deputy W. P. A. administrator, reported after a long-distance tele- phone conversation with Edwards that the actresses had retracted their charges. Floods Bring Caterpillars. New Zealand farmers who saw theis pastures devastated by vast hordes of caterpillars are being told by sciene tists that the plague was due to floods which drove to the higher lands the birds accustomed to devour grubs and insects. PAINT For a Soft White Finish Use PEE GEE OLD KY. WHITE $9.50 For wood, brick or concrete. Presarv wood due to creosote contents. Paint Advice Free MUTH |and 15 west bound from New York. | cial train, | State-chats™ will start at La Salle, nine politiclans, and was lowered at sundown after a day of fun. HOME LOANS than 30 stops on his east-bound trip | | 710 13th N.W. Throughout the tour he will confer | with local party leaders in a lounge car, which will be included in his spe- | The first of these “across- when he will meet 40 Colorado party | leaders. | ity act, $10,000,000 is allotted for pub- lic health work. Two million dolllfl" will be used for basic scientific re- search and the remainder will be al- | loted to the States for the investiga- tion and control of disease. The States are given wide discretion in the use of | these allotments, but it is hoped that | a large part of the funds will be spent | on the discovery, treatment and eradi- cation of syphilis. The Public Health Service s assign- ing medical officers to the States, re- questing them to lend assistance in setting up their programs and is now alding schools for health officers and other physicians on syphilis work in preparation for establishing adequate facilities to meet the demand for treatment which we expect when the public learns what they are faced with | and the excellent chance for cure which can be promised. — & Leiter. Leiter retired from the firm in 1881 and devoted himself to the management of his large real estate holdings and corporation in- terests. One of his daughters was Mary Vic- toria, Lady Curzon of Kedleston. For many years the son, Joseph Leiter, divided his time between ‘Washing- ton and Chicago. The old Leiter mansion on Dupont Circle was the scene of many brilliant social func- tions in the years before the war. ade Famous by Wheat. Joseph Leiter became famous al- most overnight in 1897 when he be- gan buying wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade in an attempt to cor- ner the market. Wheat prices soared to double their normal value and at the opening of 1898 Leiter held the largest private ownership of wheat in the history of the grain trade. Concerted action on the part of his | competitors broke the corner and | Leiter was reputed to have suffered | losses amounting to $10,000,000. | For many years he was a director of the American Security & Trust Co. in Washington. 60,000 People Can’t Be Wrong e ANY MAKE BRING THIS COUPON Monday and Tuesday Special ANY SHAPE CRYSTAL. ANY MAIN SPRING. 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