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A—2 wxux CROPINSURANGE CROLPINSESSN Black Calls Special Commit- tee Named by Roosevelt to Plan Legislation. By the Assoctated Press. The special committee selected by | President Roosevelt to work out a crop | insurance plan for suggestion to Con- gress was called together today, despite | the fact Secretary Wallace, chairman of the group, was at Hyde Park, sum- | moned last night by Mr. Roosevelt. | A. G. Black, former Agricultural Ad- | Justment Administration official and | now chief of the Bureau of Agricul- | tural Economics, called the special | committee together after an assistant | to Wallace had announced earlier the | initial meeting would be delayed until the Secretary’s return. To Call Farm Leaders. | A. A. A. spokesmen said one of the first moves by the committee would | be to call representative farm leaders | to Washington for a general confer- ence on crop insurance. They said leaders of national farm organiza- | tions as well as leaders in past Gov- ernment farm programs would be in- vited 2 All members of the committee ex- cept Wallace were reported at the closed session in Black's office at the Agriculture Department. These in- | cluded H. R. Tolley, A. A. A. head: As- zistant Secretary Taylor of the Treas- ury. and Assistant Secretary Draper of the Commerce Department. The “first thing to do,” Wallace told & press conference late yesterday will be to determine reserves neces- | gary for insurance—or the maximum | reserve stock of wheat, cotton or corn | needed to meet the country's demands from vear to year. ‘ After that, the Secretary said, “some form of production control” would have to be considered Program Worked Out. Agriculture Department officials | have been working on an insurance plan under which both premiums and insurance would be paid in kind, In good crop vears, a farmer would turn a certain portion of his crop over to the Government, which would hold the commodity in reserve. When crops failed, the farmer would receive an insurance payment in the form of the commodity. | At his press conference. Wallace #a:d President Roosevelt's action Sun- dav in setting up the Crop Insurance Committee was not timed to “steal the show" from Gov. Alf M. Landon. | Wallace asserted he did not know that Landon planned to discuss crop insurance in a speech tonight at Des Moines. The Agriculture Secretary said it would be up to the committee to de- | termine how much wheat, cotton and corn should be held in reserve to protect farmers and consumers from drought years | However, he said the 120.000,000- bushel carry-over of wheat regarded ' as sufficient during the “decade of the 1920s” probably would be considered | too small now. | Too Big for Private Firms. i “The crop insurance plan was too big a thing for private companies.” Wallace asserted, because they must plan to make a profit. “The Government could * .ze a loss and still be ahead.” he contended.! “because crop insurance would ecut the costs of relief in drought areas.| The Governmen' has a responsibility | for people in smitten aress anyway.” Questioned about methods of de- veloping the ‘“ever normal granary | plan.” Wallace said it could be done either by paying premiums and losses | in commodities or by making loans on ware housed grain and cotton. “Technical” problems of storing these commodities and transporting them will be worked out by the com- mittee, he added. The Secretary said corn could be stored without damage for “probably five vears” and wheat and cotton for “many years under modern warehouse eonditions.” However, he said It might not be hecessary to store the identicel farm product year after year because new | crops could be exchanged for the atored stocks. Roo (Continued Prom FY Page.) ence, the President had no other official engagements for the day. Aides said he probably would go for a short automobile ride around his mother'’s estate and may start working on the political speech he will deliver before the New York State Democrauc Con- vention at Syracuse September 29. ‘The naming of the committee fol- lowed the President’s moves to formu- late legislation on crop insurance, more efficient use of “dust bowl” natural resources and farm tenant aid. Serving with Dr. Reeves, professor of education at Chicago, will be repre- sentatives of four Government depart- ments and the Tennessee Valley Au- thority, and private authorities from the fields of labor, agriculture, home economics, industry, education and vocational rehabilitation. ‘The study is an outgrowth of pas- sage by the last Congress of the bill of Senator George, Democrat, of Geor- sevelt gia. authorizing an increase over the | next few years of more than $10,000.- | 000 in federation contributions to the States for vocational education. The act will become operative next July 1. but Congress will have to appropriate the additional funds first. Other Committee Members. Others named on the committee were: John P. Frey, secretary-treas- urer, Metal Trades Department, Amer- fcan Federation of Labor; Thomas Kennedy, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and secretary-treas- urer United Mine Workers of Amer- fea; Elisabeth Christman, secretary- treasurer, National Women's Trade Union League of America; Henry C. Taylor, director, Farm Foundation, Chicago; Dr. £dmund Brunner, Teach- ers' College, Columbia University, New York; Alice Edwards, executive secre- tary, American Home Economics As- sociation; Roland Allen, personnel manager, Ayers Department Store, Indianapolis; T. J. Thomas, president, | Burlington Mines, Chicago. John H. Zink, president, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Baltimore; Rev. George Johnson, director, Department of Ed- ucation, National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D. C.; Dr. A. B. Moehiman, professor of education, University of Michigan; Henry Esberg, Vocational Rehabilitation Authority, New York. Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Katharine Lenroot, chief of Children's Bureau, Labor De- partment; Mordecai Ezekial, economic adviser, Agriculture Department; Er- ) [ Washington I Wayside e Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SAP? EPRESENTATIVE DAVID J. LEWIS of the sixth Maryland district, which adjoins North- west Washington, is doing s lot of speaking these days in connec- tion with his campaign for re-election, but in the future the sound truck operator who takes the loud speaker equipment to the rallies is going to keep quiet. The operator never pretended to be | much of a speaker, but the few words | he spoke at a recent rally made him decide that, for him at least, silence is golden. A political leader, whose identity was unknown to him, had sat on the truck and talked pleasantly to the operator throughout the rally. When Representative Lewis finished speaking the stranger said: “1 guess we can go now." On the basis of his past experience, | however, the sound truck openlmi replied: | “Oh, no, they always call on some | sap to talk after Mr. Lewis finishes.” | Whereupon the loud speakers blared | forth: | “Is Mr.—— here? We would like to hear from him." | And the stranger walked from the ' truck to the platform as the operator | blushed from ear to ear. * % ¥ % SERVICE. The inebriate stood on a dowm- town corner in the dark of night. To the taricab driver who picked him up he looked sober, Once in the cab, the man in his cups wanted to fight. He was very polite about it. When the taricad driver refused. he was almost im- dignant. In fact. he threatened to report the cabbie to the head of the cab company—"an old friend of mine.” “Let's get out om the sidewalk and fight a few rounds.” he invited. The cabbie vourteously declined “Well.” the passenger Anally threatened, 1 know your boss, —— . and I'll Teport you to him. You take me right around to his house right mow. Maybe he'll fight.” * x ¥ & GO WAY RIVER. HE WAS bending over a drawing | board, listening to the buaz of re- ports about the approaching hur- ricane. Some one mentioned the Severn River and. with s start, he remembered he had a dearly beloved | boat moored in the Severn. He quickly | switched places with another artist | and dashed for his car. The wind | was rising and he fretted during the | drive, hoping he would arrive before | his boat had been smashed. Finally, he reached the river and, with a sigh of relief, began searching for his craft. It was gone. RS J L. ‘ “Probably wrecked,” he thought. | Then he caught sight of it, far out across the mud flats. The wind from | | the well-known high pressure area, | rushing toward the center of the hurricane, had blown all the water | | out of the Maryland tidewater rivers. | | leaving boats high and dry instead of | | sweeping them onshore. | . ow k% | BEAUTY BUSINESS. B!AUTY contest season iz about | over this yeer, but if you're a man | and intend to go to one (or more) next year, here’s a tip—watch your | pocketbook. Maryland police who, for years, have maintained special vigilance | against pickpockets at race tracks | and other places where throngs| gather, report that pickpockets have been making good hauls this Summer at beauty contests. As masculine eyes are trained in | 100 per cent concentration on the | bathing-suit clad contestants the light-fingered gentry find easy pick- ings. Police suspect there have been more vietims than their records show— that the male married spectators who have had their wallets stolen would rather suffer their loss in silence than take a chance on having their wives know what happened. *ox % % | MOO! SOMEWHAT mystified corre- spondent just returned from the wilds of Delaware reports seeing on the roadside a warning reading “Dan- gerous Cow Crossing.” S8ays he slowed | down, but saw no sign of the dan- WALKOUT. It's getting to be that you mo longer knmow where to look for the enemies of progress, expansion and other things of that kind. That's the conclusion of a down- town lunch room proprietor. He has been making money recently and decided to turn some of his profits back to the customers in the form of mew equipment, decora- tions, etc. He did s0. The first siz customers on the day of the big reopening came in and looked for the six old arm chairs in which they were accus- tomed to eat and talk. With siz snorts they turned and walked out again. nest Draper, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Gordon R. Clapp, per- sonnel director, T. V. A. Appointment of this committee came soon after the President made public | and drank from a 2-ounce bottle of | were James E. Blair, secretary-treas- | | a letter to Senator Bankhead, Demo- crat, of Alabama, and Chairman Jones, Democrat, of Texas, of tht House Ag- preparing meeting the (farm) tenancy problem that might be undertaken by the Fed- eral Government.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, KNOX AGAI TS SOCIAL SECURTY Renews Assault in Los An- geles and Then Heads for Arizona. BY the Associated Press. ABOARD KNOX CAMPAIGN TRAIN EN ROUTE TO PHOENIX, September 22.—Col. Prank Knox, Re- publican vice presidential nominee, headed into Arisona today on his cam- pPaign tour sfter making a new as- sault on the administration’s social security act. 4 ‘The Chicago publisher told an audi- ence in Los Angeles last night that: “We have now in operation s elum- sy, unworkabie thing called the social security Jaw. It plans to tax pay rolls of all working men nine dollars in every hundred. “Six of these nine dollars are paid in by employers, but in the end all of this heavy tax will come from the living of working men. “When the working men of this country discover what this acheme means in reduced wages and higher costs of living and fiscal improvidence they are going to rebel against it." ‘The audience that nearly filled the 9.200-capacity auditorium applauded Col. Knox when he declared: “Last week Mr. Harry Hopkins (Pederal relief administrator) told the people of California he thought there were five to six million more men at | work now than in 1933. If that state- | ment is true, it is private business that has put them back at work.” At last night's Los Angeles meet- ing. while Knox was aspeaking, » woman who identified herself later as Mrs. Mabel West of Philadeiphia arose in the sudience, shouted ‘“liar” poison antiseptic. She was hustled out and sent to a police hospital, where attendants said she would recover. She said she could not explain the reason for her act— that she must have become panicky. — e Labor vmonunued Prom First ML‘, fice. and admitted he was vhe “At- lanta office.” The third letter was from Ivev to an official of the company dated Au- gust 15. The document referred to the visit of Mr. Pinch, agent of the committee. Refuses to Anower. Ivey then refused to snswer when asked if he had destroyed subpoensed documents. To answer, he said, “might incriminate me” and would be in violation of relation between a lawyer and his client. Ivey then testified there was only one other person in the Atlanta office, but he insisted he “could not remem- ber” anything about destruction of documents. He then repeated his refusal to | answer all questions about destruc- tion of documents. Ivey was followed by Gray, who said he had been “operating” for the com- | pany in the Southeastern territory since September, 1934, He joined the company in 1916, he said. and was assigned to investi- gate German spy activities. Por about two years, he said, he worked for a | steel company. Gray said he had “worked” plants of the General Electric Co., the Penn- | sylvania and New York Centrsl rail- roads and numerous other concerns. Meanwhile Leonard Weinberg, at- torney-for W. W. Grove, W. B, Grove and four other Railway Audit officiais | indicted for contempt yesterday, an- | nounced that his clients would fight | removal to Washington. Four are in | Pittsburgh. one in New York and one | in Philadeiphia. ‘Weinberg ssid that as soon ax bench warrants reach them they will post bond pending removal hearings. Chief Assistant United States At- torney David A. Pine and Assistant United States Attorney Charles B. Murray, who have been assigned to the case, said the warrants would be in the mail today. ‘Those indicted besides the two Groves urer, and J. C. Boyer, all of Pitts- burgh: L. Douglas Rice, vice president, of Philadelphia, and Robert 8. Judge of New York. With officials and records of about & dosen companies now under sub- poena, the committee plans to devote itself to the National Corporations Service of Youngstown, Ohio, tomor- row. On Thursday. testimony is scheduled from officers of the Lake Erie Chemical Co. of Oleveland and the Manville Manufacturing Co. of Pontiac. Mich. Affairs of the Pinker- ton Detective Service are due for scrutiny on Priday. (Continued wa_n Pirst Page.) give his first detailed exposition of his views upon relief, old-age pensions and job insurance, in his third major address at Milwaukee Saturday night. Speech Excerpts Issued. ‘Two paragraphs of the Des Moines address were made public by the Gov- ernor yesterday in response to re- quests for eomment on President Roosevelt's appointment of commit- tees to work out plans for “all risk” crop insurance and s program pro- viding for “an ever normal granary.” “I am glad to see any well-consid. ered approach to crop insurance,” Landon said, telling newsmen he had discussed the subject with farm lead- ers for many months and that the excerpt, ealling for “fullest considera- tion™ of the proposal, had been writ- ten into the speech days ago. ndon German exports of paper this year are setting a new high record. youngest dei 89, Scranton, D. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1936. They Came for a Good Time and Are Having It George I. Randolph, 85, of Pittsburgh, who claims to be the zgala (right), pictured with William T. Simpson, a. W. H. Chesbrough, 91, of Be loit, Wis. (right), shows a friend his stance at the plate when knocking homers in his early days as a professional ball player. —Star Staff Photos. SEEKS TOADMINISTER| ESTATE OF ORPHANS | Unele of Six Children Who Lost Parents in Accident Appeals to Court. James C. Corley, uncle of the six ‘Thompkinson children, orphaned by a truck accident near Fredericksburg, Va.. on September 12, petitioned Dis- trict Court today to be named admin- istrator of the estate. ‘The estate consisted of some living and bed room furniture and a few per- sonal effects. all valued at about $25. Earl Thompkinson, the children's fa- ther, was believed to have had a small equity in a piece of real estate in Prince Georges County, Md.. but no Mrs, | Bertha Lee Thompkinson, the mother, | record of it has been found. is believed to have had a small life insurance policy, but no record of that has been found, either. Mr. and Mrs. Thompkinson were re- turning from Fredericksburg to their home at 1301 Pourth street southwest when their truck was sideswiped by a larger truck and crashed into a tree. The children, Earl, jr, 12; Clar- ence Allen, 11; John Allen, 9; Rheba Juanita, 7, and Frederick Hans, 3, are being cared for by the uncle and their | grandmother, Mrs. Sarah I. Corley, Mount Holly, N. C. The other child, Aloha Jean, 5, is in Mount Holly. e MATTHEW H. H. FUNERAL TOMORROW Funeral services for Matthew Henry | (Harry) Stevens, 53, prominent Wash- ington singer, who died Sunday at his home, 1763 Columbis road, will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Congressional Cemetery. Long prominently identified in musical circles, Mr. Stevens, for 23 years was a member of the choir of 8t. Thomas' Episcopal Church, retir- ing about five years ago. A large part of this time he was tenor soloist and choirmaster. He also sang in _the quartet at St. Thomas’ and at various times in the quartets of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Washington Hebrew Congregation. Many years ago he took leading parts in operss produced here. Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City ® Full Sperts - Scores, Race Results, it Base Day, ever THE Complete Market News of the News Flashes from Around the World. What- you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. NIGHT FINAL GPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and ervice STEVENS | | G.A.R.Boasts of LustyVoice Songs That Rocked Mountains Now Rock Hotel—Banter Shows Wit Keen. “When the Secomd Corps Went to the jore “With Hancock in the saddle, “They were the doys to start a noise, “And make the rebs skedaddle.” ‘There were more verses, many more. The huge veteran shouted them at the | top of his lungs, shaking his! stick. He shook his stick in 8 big fist, and his voice shook the banners and pen- ! nants, which draped the Mayflower | lobby. An audience collected. Veterans in blue hobbled up on sticks and crutches. Uniformed, | beribboned women of associated or- ganizations smiled or looked slightly annoyed. One said the old gentleman | should not be permitted to hold forth | 30 vociferously. “Any man who can shout like that at 92" chuckled an old-timer in a McClellan cap, “is entitled to his 58y ... go to it, Irish! Yipeeee!” The old-timer danced about on his orutches, and pulled st his beard. A Man in His Day. The declaimer had completed one poem and started another—something about “hitting the rebel line while the bullets whine.” When he finished he exchanged sallies with the crowd or shook hands. “Yes,” he boomed, “I was s man in my day! I had a voice to rock the mountains “Hi right,” agreed s veteran. “That's old James H. Clark of Com- pany M, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. 1 doubt if there’s many of the noisy Irish Brigade left, certainly none to shout like that. He was in the Irish Brigade, they called it, of the 3d “I'm Irish all right, but it's not my fault,” laughed Clark. “—I just can't help it!” ‘The blue coais of the veterans were | hung with decorations, badges, cam- paign insignia, and, in this election year, Republican and Democratic emblems. PFour Kansas sunflowers blossomed on the lapels of as many Pennsylvanianians grouped in the center of the lobby. Banter Flies, Now. “Hey, there, Connecticut,” called one of the group, pointing to the sunflower on the coat of a passing veteran, ‘“‘come over and shake the hands of some good Republicans!” “Eh?” said the newcomer, cupping s hand behind his ear. He obviously “We see you're for Landon,” the first veteran. He put his finger- on the sunfiower, “Eh?" repeated the man from Con necticut. “Oh, that! What is 3t?” “It means you're voting for Landon.” “The hell it does,” exclaimed Con- to give it back!” the war did you fight on, pop?” grinned the Pennsylvanian. “What do you mean, pop?” Te- torted the man from Connecticut. “When you old men lost the war we boys came down and chased the rebs into the Atlantic Ocean.” “Have a cigar anyhow.” “All right,” said the Yankee, squint- ing up and shifting his crutches, “but I'm not old enough to smoke it. I'll have to take it home to grandpa.” A lot of bantering went around the big lobby where the veterans .were scattered in small groups surrounded by & moving tide of younger dele- | gates to allied organisations. The favorite theme of the old sol- diers was youth. “Maybe you other boys are too old to understand the game, grinned W. H. Chesbrough of Beloit. Wis., a 91-year-old athlete, “but base ball is ‘where I shine. “It was only last year, or year be- fore last, maybe, when I got a two- base hit off the Chicago Cubs. I told them I was a ball player and they let me go to the plate before the regular game started. Their pitcher fanned me three times, but I knocked one all the way to the centerfield fence on my fourth time up.” Chesbrough. who will carry Wis- eonsin’s fiag in the parade tomorrow, borrowed s cane from another vet- eran to demonstrate for the photog- rapher how he pounded out a two- bagger. George 1. Rudolph of the Pennsyl- | vanis ocontingent believes he is the youngest veteran at the encampment. “I was born in 1850,—figure it out for yourself,” he said. “I was carry- ing a gun with the 8th Regiment, 6th Corps, before I was 15. “I was wounded four times, and | they laid me up in s hospital near Petersburg on the Appomattox and James Rivers. * “President Lincoln came to see the wounded. in the hoepital. He stopped by my bed and said, ‘Son. when you | get well we will send you back to your mother.’ “But T replied. ‘No. sir. when I get | well I want to be going back to the | oid 87th!" " e Rohde (Continued From First | ) X-Ray this morning revealed the frac- ture, her leg was placed in a cast. Drs. W. O. McKittrick and H. C. Wadsworth of Washington said the large bone in Mrs. Rohde's left leg was broken just below the knee and that she would have to cancel the remainder of her speaking engage- ments. They said, however, she could be removed from the local hospital within three or four days. The Rohdes have been traveling necticut. “A pretty girl just gave it |about the country in automobile and %0 me, and & good Demoerat is going | trailer, addressing Democratic rallies. They were delayed in reaching here “All right them, but which side’ of | becauss of motor trouble Bunday. s :EDWIN L. FUEGEL, 41, | EXPIRES IN HOSPITA Member of Constitution Sesqui- centennial Commission Was ! Lifelong Resident of D. C. ! Edwin L. Puegel, 41. niember of the | United States Constitution Sesqui- centennial Commission, died yesterday in Sibley Hospital. Although ill for about a year he had been seriously | 111 only about 10 days. | Mr. Fuegel had been closely sociated with Representative Bloom of New York, director of the commission. He also had served on | the George Washington Bicentennial Commission as chief of printing, pub- lications and personnel A lifelong resident of this city, Mr Puegel was a graduate of Business High School. His home was at 906 Gallatin street. He was well known | for his knowledge of history and had | | done considerable writing on histori- | cal subjects. | Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Leslie Fuegel; two sons, John Robert Fuegel | and Edwin Leland Puegel. and a sister, Mrs. Marie Lauder, all of this city PFuneral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Chambers’ funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. MRS. ZIONCHECK GIVEN LETTERS ON ESTATE Appearing at the court house late vesterday, Mrs. Rubye Nix Zioncheck obtained ancillary letters of adminis- tration for the estate of her husband, Representative Marion A. Zioncheck, | who leaped to his death August 7 from his office window in a Seattle building. The INCINNATT, September 22. on the same page in many appeal for a revival of & The appeal are destructive It is shocki ment’s agents the poor and hungry, these and hogs, kill Alice Longworth. fireside talk, as- | Sol worthy. Since corpora MEMBER OF GUILD FEARED ADMISSION Seattle Reporter Asserts City Editor’s Attitude Restrained Him. BY the Associated Press. SEATTLE, September 22.—H, Riche ard Sellers, who said fear prompted him twice to deny to his eity editor he was a member of the Ameriean | Newspaper Guild, was called today to resume testimony at a National Labor Relations Board hearing of the Se- attle Post-Intelligencer news room strike. Sellers is president of the Reattle chapter of the guild which ealied the strike after two guild members on the paper were discharged. The strike caused the paper to suspend 41 davs ago. Queried by Edward G. Woods. Chi- cago attorney representing William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Post-Intelligencer, whether he was | “afraid” or “ashamed,” Sellers denied |he was ashamed, but said he was afrald because of the attitude of his city editor, Oliver 8. Morris. Asked by Woods if he joined the | guild and “continued to take Hearst's [money when * * * the guild was 1fighnm{ Hearst?" Sellers replied: | “Hearst was attacking the American | Newspaper Guild. T was on the side {of the organization fighting for a chance to live." | _ Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, in Washington for their 70th annual encampment, shown staging an old-time LAST SERVICES TODAY jig contest outside the Mayflower Hotel. FOR LIEUT. LEDERER | Veteran of Spanish-American and World War Gets Burial in Arlington. Lieut. William Lederer. 6. U 8 A, retired. who died Priday at Walter | Reed Hospital. was to be buried this afternoon in Arlington National Ceme- | terv. Puneral services were to be held At 1:30 p.m. at Hines' funeral home 2901 Fourteenth street, with special | rites by Scottish Rite Masonic bodies. Entering the Army as a private in 1897, Lieut. Lederer served through both the Spanish-American and World | Wars. He was retired in 1932. and for the past few years had been living in | Orlando, Pla. His death followed an | iliness of several months. A Scottish Rite Mason. Lieut. Led- erer waz & member of Kismet Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Brooklvn, N. Y. HICKEY FUNERAL RITES Retired Army Officer Is Buried in Arlington. Puneral serviees for Maj. Joseph H. Hickey, Quartermaster Corps. U. 8 A, | retired, who died Priday in Walter Reed Hospital, were held yesterday at the hospital memorial e 1. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, Ma). Hickey, who was 57. lived at 7019 Georgia avenue. He sntered the | Army in 1902 as a private and attained | the rank of major in 1933, | | | Shooting (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) | 4 Jimmie with him. He calied her oute side, where neighbors saw them sit- ting on a bench in front of the house, | engaged in a heated argument. Sud- denly Fling jumped up, drew a .33- caliber pistol from his pocket and shot his wife, the neighbors told police. As she fell screaming to the sidewalk, | police were told, he shot himself . |through the right temple and toppled | down a flight Jf steps to the basement | areaway. | Police said they found several let- | ters written by Fling to his wife, urg- ing her to come back with him and take care of the boys. They learned from neighbors, however, that enly this morning Mrs. Fling had called & lawyer, making an appointment to dis- cuss the filing of a suit to secure eus- tody of the child Neighbors said Fling frequently at- tacked his wife, and on one occasion | siashed her face with a knife. They sald he was under bond at this time not to molest her. Fling, who was appointed to the | police force in September, 1920, was burned about the face and overcome by smoke while effecting the rescue of & 4-year-old colored girl from a burning building in Pebruary, 1925. Arriving before firemen, Pling, then attached to the ninth precinet, en- | tered & two-story frame house at 730 Twelfth street and carried Olivia Burchert to safety. As the policeman reached the rear | door of the house, he fell unconscious and had to be rescued himself. The District Commissioners commended him for his heroism In April, 1930, however, Fling was suspended from the force when the Police Trial Board found him guilty of | failing to pay his debts. | The policeman served in the Army before his appointment. For about two months last year, Pling and his wife operated a res- | taurant at the Columbia Hotel, 2125 | G street. | | | Iron and steel are leading the busi- | ness revival in Csechoslovakia. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. .—Two press stories that appeared newspapers recorded the President’s the spirit of charity, and ecertain affidavits concerning the destruction of food by New Deal agents. for individual charity is praise- and nationalised giving e of the true apirit of charity. ing to every American's sense of decency, charity and pity to read how the Govern- destroyed cattle and hogs and re- fused to permit the distribution of meat among unemployed. While millions were emissaries of the more abundant life went about paying high prices for cattle ing them, slashing the hides of the cattle to prevent their being used to make shoes for the barefooted, and burying the carcasses or fouling the Wesatern rivers with them. If the President can find a scintilla of charity or common sense in these nightmarish doings, he should tell us sbout it in & special (Copyright, 1986.)