Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1936, Page 5

HEAD AND TORSO Resigns in ‘OF WOMAN SOUGHT Boston Harbor Searched in Effort to Identify Mur- der Victim. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, October 7.—In the oily waters of Boston Harbor police sought today the head and torso of a woman whose severed legs were found wrapped in burlap bags two days ago. Medical Examiner William J. Brickley pictured the victim as a brunette in her 20s, about 5 feet 2 or 3 inches tall and weighing about 120 pounds. The feet, taking a size 8 shoe, were well cared for and Dr. Brickley suggested she might have been a professional dancer. Dissection Crudely Done. Dr. Brickley said the dissection was %crudely performed, but must have been the work of some one acquainted with anatomy.” “It does not look like the work of a physician or a surgeon,” he said. *“The purpose of hacking her body to pieces undoubtedly was to obscure her identity.” The legs were found in the harbor awithin a quarter of & mile of each other and by.different persons. Objects Discarded as Clues. A woman's under garment, a stained rubber glove and a hospital sheet also were found, but later were eliminated as possible clues. Police learned from Charles J. FPischer, an authority on burlap, that one of the bags in which one of * the legs was wrapped was of a type used by meat-packing concerns. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; moderate winds, mostly southerly. Maryland and Virginia—Showers probably tonight and tomorrow; not wmuch change in temperature. West Virginia—Showers tonight and tomorrow; ~ cooler tomorrow. River Report. Potomac River clear and Shenan- doah little muddy today. Report for Last 21 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. probably somewhat Record for Last 21 Hours. to noon today.) ngh:st. 75, 4:45 p.m. yesterday. Year Lowest. 64. 6:15 am. ®o. 35. Record Temperatures This Year. Hllhuu 105. on July 10, Lowest, 0, on January 23. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) today. Year Jlghest, 20 per cent. at 1:30 a.m. today. | Lowest, 61 per cent, at 3:10 p.m. ¥yes- Serday. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and od etic Surves Tomorrow igh 52 & w ish v Todlv am. un, todsy n, tomorrow 00n, today - Automobile must be turned om @ne-half hour l!ler sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation In, mrhu in the Oapital (current month to d: 1938, e Record, 87 "3.55 7.00 82 8 p.m. 8:01 pm. The Sun and Moon. - | agency had been convassed. the Civy Counoil ‘of the cn, o{‘ dnnursh In the one-sentence resig: to his small law office. RED CROSS NEAR 30000 IN DRIVE Federal Employes Make Up | 77 Per Cent of D. C. Enroliment. Red Cross membership took an- ! other big jump upward yesterday | and seemed certain to pass the 30,000 mark today. Total enroliment at the end of the annual drive's eighth day was 27,252, an increase of 5,063 over Monday's figure. Membership of Government em- | ployes represents more than 77 per | cent of the total, the Government | solicitation unit having signed up 21,035, compared to 1,590 for the next highest group, the financial di- | vision under Robert V. Fleming. Other membership totals were re- ported as follows: Utilities, 1,297; professional, 1,189; general business, | 1,021; residential, 369, and miscel- | laneous, 751. W. P. A. Leads. Leaders in yesterday's drive were the Works Progress Administration, Government Printing Office and Gen- eral Accounting Office units, report- | ing memberships totaling 1,134, 1,011 and 839, respectively. Dean Brimhall, chairman of the W. P. A. division, said about hall half of the personnel of this | Lloyd B. Wilson, campaign chair- man, will meet tonight with his ex- ecutive committee to review the progress of the drive to date and strive generally to quicken the pace of the roll call, which has set a goal |of 65000 by midnight October 16. | This will be the first such meeting | | siince the drive started September 27. Volunteers’ Work Cited. Campaign officials called nmnuon to the work of two volunteers, Miss William N. McNair brought to an end his tumultuous mayoralty career in Pittsburgh. Lower photo shows Mayor McNair waving good-by to his secretary, Gregory Zatkovich (left), as he retired | purpose of the holy alliance of Fascist 5 | Grace S. Wright and Mrs. Tyree R. | Rivers, both war-time Red Cross ) | workers. They have just completed one of the biggest jobs of supply dis- | tribution in the history of the or . :ganimtion, In the past three weeks | | they wraped, packed and distributed 190,000 enrollment blanks, 191,000 buttons, 618,000 leaflets, 12,000 posters, | 10,000 report envelopes and 91,000 glnm | window flags. 4 ~__ Cloudy | Miss Wright is chairman of the Si03e Ol District Red Cross Chapter's surgi- i cal dressing unit and has made near- 1y a million bandages for use in local hospitals. in Vnriolu Cities. “Temp. Rain- . H'h Low.fall. Weath'r ~ Cloudy 0.46 0.02 Legion Magazine Editor Dies. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., October 7 (#).—Philip von Blon, 47, of Pel- ham, N. Y., managing editor of the American Legion Monthly, died today in the New Rochelle Hospital after an illness of several weeks. He was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where funeral services will be held. Cly 0.06 : 0.04 At Practically No Cost to You!! 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Fernando de los Rios, newly ap-| pointed Spanish Ambassador to the | United States, is expected to arrive in Washington tonight with his fam- ily—his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs, Laura Gravia, and his nephew, Fran- cisco de los Rios. The envoy, appointed September 19, two weeks after the resignation of Ambassador Calderon because of his disagreement with the policies of the Caballero cabinet, arrived in New | York yesterday aboard the French liner Ile de France, the Associated Press reported. Spain, he told interviewers, is | struggling for liberty and democracy. He deeply regretted, he said. that “democratic nations lack the unity of countries.” “I am here as the representative of the legal government of Spain,” the Ambassador said, “that at this tragic moment is struggling for the demo- cratic idea against new forms of tyranny. This is not new for us. ‘We have struggled for liberty, and the word liberal was discovered and created for Spain. The destiny of Spain is struggle for the incarnation of the liberal idea.” De los Rios has not been in Spain since the beginning of the revolution. He was acting as Madrid's delegate to | the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, throughout the Summer, and his orders to proceed to the Unmd States were sent him there. Bottle Traps Skunk. STROUDSBURG Pa—The little girl breathlessly related it was a pretty animal with its head caught in a bottle. Garage man George Pannebaker gave a look. It was a skunk and very much alive. Valor got the better part of discre- tion. Pannebaker lifted the skunk, broke the bottle, released the animal. sleeper. The extra | alarm will be sure anteed. NO INTEREST OR DIAMONDS . ) 1317 F ST {7 vo Stores RADID ENGINEER BACKSHIGH POWER| 70 GETBOMBCASE Joe A. Chambers Says It Is Best Means of Reaching Rural Listeners. By the Associated Press. Joe A. Chambers, Washington broad- casting engineer, spoke in behalf of high-power radio stations today as the best means of reaching rural listeners, Testifying at & hearing before the broadcast section of the Communica- tions Commission, Chambers said local stations on low power served largely the cities in which they are located. Chambers until recently was an engi- neer for WLW at Cincinnati. “The primary purpose of high power,” Chambers said, “is to serve the remote rural sections.” ‘The hearing is being held to gather information bearing on a possible re- allocation of radio broadcast channels, It early developed into a contest be- tween “local” stations and high-power stations desiring to retain their pres- ent allocation of 30 clear channels on which no other stations operate. Chambers said there was no harm- ful “blanketing” or interference of the lower-powered small sttations by the large stations. T. A. M. Craven, commission engi- neer, asked if rural listeners could be served “by 15 of the 30 clear chan- nels “In the best hours of the evening, yes,” Chambers responded, “but not during the daytime.” Columbia Is Opposed. First opposition _came yesterday from the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem, which contended the change would “make the big fellow still stronger, and the little fellow weaker.” Testimony on both sides of the question was written into the official record for guidance of the Commis- sion's broadcast division in passing on a dozen pending applications for authority to increase broadcast power. Newspapers in Group. The initial ples for higher power in broadcasting came from a group of stations about half of which are owned by newspapers. Their arguments that 500,000-watt stations are practicable, both from an economic and service standpoint, were contained in a statement pre- pared by Edwin W. Craig of Nash- ville, Tenn. Craig’s statement, read by Louis G. 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A. foreman, is charged with mailing a bomb which killed Curry Thomas at Cape Charles, July 22, and injured his bride cf six weeks. Mrs. Thomas, Wwho was employed as a nurse by Dr. Hege before her marriage, was semi- conscious for days after the explosion ITH a plump bankroll, it's no great trick to enjoy wearing clothes that “look Iikc? million”. But how about all the fellows withla bread-and-butter budget? They're entitled 1o’£ break, too! And now they get it, with the introduction of our Park Lane Suits. They have everything that it takes—everything but the high-hat price. The ace weavers of New England are responsible for the woolens—the kind that feel soft as a kitten's ear, and are veritable bulldogs for wear. The premier needleworkers in our Rochester of the innocent-appearing parcel md‘ is still in the Nassawaddox Hospital. Officers took Hege and Banner into custody as they rode together in Car- roll County, Va., and placed them in separate cells here yesterday. Dr. Hege, who is himself married and who has practiced dentistry at Mount Airy for 20 years, made no resistance when officers rode along- side the car in which he and Banner were driving northward through Car- roll County. Banner, who has boarded at Dr. Hege’s Mount Airy home for a number of years, also went calmly with Sergt. J. C. Aaron and Officer T. W. Carter of the Virginia highway force. A Building is active in Panama. tailoring shops have given them shape-retaining quality —with stitches so fine and close together that you can hardly see them. The fitters who bestow the final touches of perfection are all factory-trained experts, who know what to do and how to do it. And the tariff is typically Bond! Park Lane Suits at $35 (including 2 trousers) can be seen at no other store in town! With the bulging selections that have just rolled in from our Rochester shops, this is the week to get a real eyeful. *Reg. V. $. Pot. OF, ‘3 cLOTHES 1335 F St. N. with two trausers AID URGED FOR NORRIS Urging re-election of Senator Norrls of Nebraska, the Independent Legisla. tive Bureau of the District of Columbia today appealed to local supporters ol the Senator for contributions to his campaign fund. The appeal vas sent out by Richard W. Hogue, director o} the Non-Fartison Bureau. In explaining the appeal, Hogue recounted the Senator's decision to retire from office, his refusal to accept either Democratic or Republican nomination and his subsequent con. sent to run on an independent ticket, Treasurer of the campaign fund i1 W. E. Barkley, 220 Cornhusker Hotel, Lincoln, Nebr. _es =TT Y — It's a great convenience to “charge it the Bond_ way—to pay weekly or twice a month. This popu- lar service does away with large lump payments and monthly bills. And it costs nothing extra.