Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 22

VETERAN SUICDE INOFFCEBULDING Richard 0. Melton, Jr., Had Been Under Medical- Treatment. Richard O. Melton, jr., 49, Customs Bureau accountant and past com- " THE EVENING: STAR, WASHINGTON of the building. Hill sald he was in the room and heard the shot fired. A note left by Melton, police re- ported, read: “I alone am to blame.” Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a verdict of suicide. Melton was gassed and shell-shocked in France, where he spent 21 months in the Army during and after the World War. He was under medical juries, and also had been worried about the condition of his father, R. O. Melton, who is {ll. He had been em- ployed by the Government, first in the Loans and Currency Division of the | present post, since his discharge from Treasury Department and later in his ters, Mrs. Franklin Monroe, Miss Anna May Melton, Miss Nora F. Melton, Mrs. N. H. Robbins and Mrs. H. O. Grack. He lived at 2211 Thirty-first street southeast. BURNS FROM TROLLEY FATAL TO ENGINEER treatment as & result of his war in- | gajtimore Man Dies in Hospital After Accident at Union Station. Allen W. Ecker, 52, of Baltimore, railroad engineer, who was burned on lthe head and hand yesterday when mander of Ace-Rasmussen Post, Dis- abled American Veterans of the World | ‘War, shot himself through the heart | late yesterday, a few minutes ‘after he had finished work in the Washington the Army in May, 1919. Widow at Funeral. His widow, Mrs. Edith Melton, an employe of the Potomac Electric Power Co., had been attending the funeral of he came in contact with a high- voltage trolley while inspecting the top of his engine at Union Station, died last night in Emergency Hos- pital. ¢ As the train finished its run from Building, Fifteenth street and New York avenue. Police, summoned by Clarence H. Hill, 1315 Park road, a fellow worker, found an old-fashioned | death on her return home, to friends. .| Funeral services will be conducted , | in St. Patrick’s Church at 9 a.m. Sat- according .41-caliber | urday. Burial will be in Congressional single-shot pistol beside the body in Cemetery. Besides his father and the wash room on the seventh floor | widow Melton is survived by five sis- | at 10:30 p.m. | a friend and learned of her husband's New York, Ecker climbed on top of the electric engine caband accidentally brushed against the trolley. He was taken inside the station for artificial respiration treatment and later re- moved to the hospital, where he died o With many more refinements not found in motors selling for nearly twice our price. drive shaft, departure ball bearings. b.0.P. WILL SEEK NEGRO SUPPORT Expected to Press Anti- Lynching Bill to Gain Favor. By the Assoclatea Press. A determined drive to obtain anti- lynching legislation at the next Con- gress was planned today by Senate Republican leaders in a move to re- capture the potent Negro vote of the North. Disturbed by evidence of wholesale desertions by Negro voters in the last election, the Republicans seized on the anti-lynching move as the most likely to regain for the party the strength it once held with the Negro race. Ordinarily, a party with less than & score of votes in the Senate would ea'td Open Zu'elty & taIZ’filt&tma,/ 2 Nothing would please & boy more D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936. have little voice in shaping legislation. In the coming Congress, however, the administration will face a half dozen vital deadlines which would make ob- structive tactics particularly embar- rassing. The Republicans could delay action and perhaps force an agreement to consider anti-lynching legislation. The first deadline is likely to involve an appropriation for relief. With the $1,425,000,000 appropriated last year almost gone, the administration must get new funds by the end of January or thousands of families dependent on work relief help will go hungry. Another will come with expiration of President Roosevelt's monetary powers at the end of January. Operation of the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, a fundamental part of the new monetary understanding with Great Britain and France, will end at that time unless Congress votes new authority. Other “Deadlines.” Many other “deadlines” will occur later, including expiration of the tariff law, the R. F. C., the Public Works Administration, and many other powers created under emergerncy leg- islation, Many times anti-lynching bills have 33-Piece Tool Chest 9 3| than a set of this type. why even Dad could use the real tools it holds. Other Chests at $3.95 and $9.95 for the handy man | | T-inch deluxe bench Double toggle switch, new Other Motors to $57.50 Polishing Head Sturdy frame, bronze bearings. 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These Senators might be helpless if the Republicans should demand an agreement for a vote on an anti- lynching bill in exchange for assur- ance that the Senate would be per- mitted to vote on a much needed ad- ministration measure. —_— BID FOR MATRIMONY The District Commissioners have been offered an opportunity to act as a matrimonial agency for a 32-year- old resident of Quebec who advised them he wished to marry a Washing- ton woman provided she was “rich and healthy.” The offer came from Jean Du Bair of Quebec, who described himself as “a learned and clever writer of man- ners and stories of peoples,” and said he was versed in both French and English and came of a “prominent family.” The Commissioners’ secretary re- ferred the problem to District Building reporters, but not to the .Commis- sioners. DE LUXE BENCH SAW 12.006 Precision made ;semed ball bear- Knurled and hardened jaws, anvil oack steei screw. slide bar and Pandie. De- pendable. 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