Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1936, Page 13

BALTIMORE EYED BY THREE AIRLINES Will Use City as Eastern| Base if Trans-Atlantic Service Develops. BY the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 6.—Balti- more, if it becomes the Western term- {nus of a trans-Atlantic airline, prob- ably will become one of the chief East- ern bases for three large transcon- tinental lines. City offictals already have announced that Pan-American Airways has agreed to lease part of the Municipal Airport for the transoceanic service. The serv- ice is scheduled to begin in 1938. C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines, said his company would make Baltimore a port of call if the trans- Atlantic service brings in a ‘“great amount of business to justify our stop- ping there.” W. A. Patterson, president of United Airlines, said the choice of Baltimore meant the city would be “the principal terminal for the exchange of air pas- sengers between the United States and Europe.” run a branch line from Cleveland to Baltimore, connecting with the main line to the West. Paul E. Richter, of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., said his company would consider running a line from here to Pittsburgh to connect with its existing lines. ? FIVE BARBER SHOPS TARGETS OF BRICKS Glass Shattered by Missiles Hurled From Passing Automobile. The list of barber shop windows broken with bricks during the early morning hours mounted to five within the last week as two more were added | today, police showed. All were de- scribed by police as “cut-rate” shops. The two reported this morning were #hops at 1517 Seventeenth street and | 916 Eleventh street southeast. Within the last week. windows have been broken at shops in the 1200 block of Pennsylvania avenue southeast, the first block of Fifteenth street south. east, and the 400 block of East Capi tol street. While police are without clues as to the identity of the brick-throwers, they blamed labor troubles. All the shops list prices from 25 to 35 cents for a haircut and other prices in pro- portion. In each case, police reported, the brick was thrown from a 'passing car. A restaurant proprietor in the 900 block of Eleventh street southeast heard the crash of the brick smashing the window of the shop at 916 Eleventh street southeast and ran outside in time to catch a glimpse of & car speed- | He sald his company might | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. 'FRIfiAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1836. Repeats Oft-Told Tales Jacob Texiere of Hans Christian Andersen’s native Denmark, regaling children of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Glenn Dale, Md., with Andersen’s immortal fairy stories. Texiere, an actor, visited the hospital yesterday because proceeds from the first sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals in Denmark built a chil- —Star Staff Photo. ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ Lauded By Only Woman in Hull Group dren’s tubercular sanitarium. Mrs. Musser Here on| W ay to Peace Parley at Buenos Aires. ‘The only woman member of the | United States delegation to the forth- coming Inter-American Peace Con- ference in Buenos Aires is foreign born and admits that the foreign born in! | her State of Utah look upon her “as a sort of godmother” to fight their battles. | The fact that she has worked for ears in the interests of the masses | and underprivileged may have been a | factor in her appointment to the dele- | gation, Mrs. Burton W. Musser of Sal Lake City, said yesterday upon her | arrival in Washington to join the |seven other peace representatives, headed by Secretary Hull, who will| | sail Saturday from New York for South America. As for her birth in Switzerland, Mrs. | Musser declared that she has become in American to the extent of arousing | ll little resentment among her Swiss SKYLINE SCEN ERY friends and relatives. However, she believes it probable that her European MRS. BURTON W. MUSSER. THREE MEN KILLED INOHID EXPLOSION Three Others Injured When Pulverized Coal Storage Tank Explodes. BY the Associated Press. PAINESVILLE, Ohio, November 6. —An explosion killed three men and injured three others late yesterday BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 6.—The once light fingers of Eddie Guerin reached across the Atlantic Ocean and half of the United States today for s share of the $67,000 estate left by & Chicago woman-he claimed as his half- sister. Through his attorney the aging Guerin, Chicago pickpocket, who 31 years ago became kpown as the first man to escape from the French Dev- iI's Island penal colony, represented yesterday that, frequent reports to the contrary notwithstanding, he was Famous Pickpocket Turns Up, Asking Share in $67,000 Estate tained afidavits to establish heire ship. His client asked an advance of $3,500 from the estate for *“im- mediate expenses.” Guerin's famous escape was fromn & hospital on the South American maine land and not from the island penal colony proper. . He had been sen- tenced for a 250,000 franc hold-up of the American Express Co. at Paris. He fled to England, where he es- caped extradition by pleading that birth on a British ship United States- bound from England made him a Brit= ish citizen. at the Diamond Alkali Co. plant at Fairport on Lake Erie, a few miles north of here. The force of the blast shook the whole Fairport community of 5,000 population. The - sheriff’s office at Painesville identified the dead as Byron Os- trander of Madison, Ohio; George Downing, 37, of Mentor, and Jack Butler, 28, of Painesville. Fire followed the explosion, which occurred in a storage tank filled with pulverized coal. J. C. Hobbs, superintendent of the company, said the cause of the explo- sion was undetermined. An investi- gation would be started immediately, he said. Employes said the explosion blew | out the walls of the coal-pulverizing | unit, causing the roof to cave' in. Fire broke out, but was soon extin- | guished by the company's fire crew and workmen. Those killed and injured were work- | as a charity patient in Baltimore city ing on a coal tank in the pulverizing | hospitals before he died, left an estate | unit. Fellow workmen extricated them as the flames were brought un- der control. Several hundred were working in the vicinity of the explosion. Attendants said Martin Kauppila, 26, of Fairport was most seriously in- jured. He was treated for severe burns, and was in a critical con- dition. and Joe Burkosvzky, both of Fair- port, were treated for minor burns. None of the others was seriously hurt. === Our Silver Anniversary Y RALEIGH HABERDASHER VWekingten s Fonest A low's Whew Stene 1310 £ 87REET Two others, Larry Wilbeck | alive, at 75, in London, The half-sister, Mrs. Harriet A. Mitchell, wife of a stock broker, died last May 18 without leaving a will. In the list of heirs, John P. Carey, attorney for the estate, included Mre. Mary Horan and Mrs. Anna Kailer of Chicago, her sisters; George Garin of Los Angeles, her brother, and “Eddie Guerin, address unknown.” Notice of Guerin's claim came from Attorney William 8. Kleinman. Filing an appearance in Probate Court on his client’s behalf, Kleinman said that through Charles Edward Leach, an English private detective, he had | found Guerin in London. | Kleinman said he went there to meet Leach and Guerin and ob- Save Your Car— Build a GARAGE arate no value to ing_gara nd &l sen free complete a to furnis estimate of the cos LABORER HAD $30,000 BALTIMORE, November 6 (A)— John Bookes, laborer who could not read nor write and who spent a year Phone us now. J. FRANK ELLY INC. Lumber and Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave. NOrth 1341 of $30,000 in cash. Letters of administration for the estate were filed yesterday by Johm |° Grebliauckas, undertaker. ‘The undertaker, in searching Bookes’ room, found a bank book showing de- posits of $30,426.65. The book cone tained no signature, only a mark, Adam Urbonas, in whose home Bookes lived for many years, said he came to America from Lithuania! about 1906. 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