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. JURYINDEATH CASE T0 HEAR DENHARDT General Accused of Murder Makes Affidavit Fiancge Killed Self. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 16.— Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt said tonight he would waive his constitu- tional rights and testify Monday before a Henry County grand jury investigating the death of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, his fiancee. Denhardt, at liberty under $25,000 Pond on a charge of murdering the attractive 40-year-old widow, made public a copy of an affidavit which he said his attorneys would file Monday ! msking Judge Charles C. Wilson to advise the grand jurors of his wil- lingness to testify. Gen. Denhardt in his affidavit also bffered to bring before the grand Jurors at his own expense “reputable authorities upon the subjects of blood technique and forensic ballistics.” Stain Declared “Chicken Blood.” The affidavit stated that a stain on the highway several hundred yards from where Mrs. Taylor's body was found in a ditch the night of Novem- ber 6, 1936, was analyzed as “chicken blood” by Dr. Alexander S. Wiener of Brooklyn and Dr. J. A. Kennedy of the faculty of the University of Louisville and Louisville city chemist. | Blood stains on the general's over- coat also were examined, the affidavit stated, and Dr. Wiener “* * * dem- onstrated that those stall drops of blood could not have come from Mrs. 's wounds.” ':!;!1’:’: :ffida\'\t attacked paraffin tests tmade by Sergt. John I. Messmer of the Louisville Police Department of both the general's hands and Mrs. Taylor's and quoted Dr. O. W. Muehl- berger, professor of Northwestern Uni- versity and assistant coroner of Cook County, Illinois, as saying “of itself,| the test is ordinarily anything but conclusive, as evidence that a certain hand did fire a gun and is utterly worthless as evidence that a certain hand did not fire a gun.” Messmer, in his report, said the tests showed Mrs. Taylor had not fired a gun recently. The results of a similar test to determine whether Denhardt had recently fired a weapon of lawful pursuit. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON BERRY PRESENTS WAGE, HOUR BILLS ilndustrial Omnibus Measure Taken to White House by Co-ordinator. | An amnibus legislative program em- bracing proposals for the fixing by | law of maximum hours and minimum | wages in industry, abolition of child | labor, prevention of unfair methods American Radios Oust Log Drums In Belgian Congo When the natives of the Belgian Congo lay aside their hollow log drums and native musical instruments and tune in the white man's jazz and symphonies most of them do so with the ald of American radios. American radio receiving sets in the Belgian Congo constitute 75 per cent of the total and of the nine different makes of radios on sale there, seven are of American manufacture. accord- | ing to a report from the American Consul there, made public yesterday by the Commerce Department. Were 1ot revealed. of competition, Federal aid to small| Tells of Her Mental Distress. | business and the creation of a per-| The general's story as told in the | manent economic advisory commis-| affidavit, stated that Mrs. Taylor had | sion was presented to President Roose- | “been in mental distress all day and Velt vesterday afternoon by George L.| was very much depressed and de- Berry, Federal co-ordinator of indus- spondent.” | trial co-operation, on behalf of the Discussing the events leading up to | Council for Industrial Progress. the tragedy, Denhardt said that at| Making a personal visit to the White her request he had started into the House, Maj. Berry submitted tentative | home of G. R. Baker to call a garage | drafts of bills pointed toward these in La Grange, Ky., to ask why a bat- | objectives, discussing them briefly with tery he had asked for to aid them | the President. The proposals, it is in starting their stalled automobile €xpected, will be etonsidered by ad- had not been sent. | ministration leaders along with numer- “Before he reached Baker's home,” | Ous other suggestions for legislation the affidavit continued, “Mrs. Taylor | bearing upon hours and wages and called for him to return. He started | other industrial problems. back, but when he reached the car | Explains Bills' Purpose. he found Mrs. Taylor had disap- | . peared in the darkness; that at that ' In explaining the proposed legisla-| | tive treatment of hours, wages, child | time he called to her but there was = . no answer to his call. That shortly -2CCr 8nd competitive practices, the Although the white colony in the 20.000, the market for radios is very active and last November there were 1,421 receiving sets registered, at least 1.200 of them having been imported since July 1. PUBLISHERS REPLY 10 LIBEL AGTION Declare Comment on Com- munications Commissioner Belgian Congo numbers only lhcutl thereafter he heard the first shot and that after that was heard he found that his revolver, which Mrs. Taylor knew was always in the glove com- partment, had also disappeared. Then for the first time the affiant etates that he felt the worst had hap- pened.” The affidavit stated that when the second shot was fired he was standing in the presence of Baker. BIDS FOR LIGHTSHIP CALLED FOR JAN. 26 New Vessel for Long Island Sound Will Embody Novel Safety Features. Bids for construction of a new steel, single screw, Diesel-engined lightship embodying ‘many novel safety fea-! tures will be opened at the Commerce Department January 26, according to Commissioner H. D. King of the Lighthouse Service. The new ship, to be stationed on Cornfield Point Lightship Station, in Long Islnad Sound, will be 114 feet long, of all-steel construction, and will be rated as a second-class light- ship. It is to carry the latest types of signaling apparatus, ipcluding power- ful electric masthead light, com- pressed air-operated fog signal and radio beacon. It will have radio- telephone communication with the shore and with other ships of the Lighthouse Service. Among the new features will be longitudinal bulkheads forming a series of wing tanks, which will protect all | the main compartments, such as the engine room, from flooding should the | co-ordinator’s office announced it to | be “premised upon the fact, £o be es- | tablished by legislative finding, that | sweated labor and employment of | children constitute unfair methods of competition in commerce, as is the case now recognized by statute and the courts as regarding certain other spe- | cific competitive practices held to be | unfair.” It is part of the council’s plan that such legislation, if enacted, would be | Made Without Malice, | B the Associated Press. Broadcasting Publications, Inc., con- tended yesterday it had published in good faith, without malice, an article | which Communications Commuissioner | George Henry Payne has made the basis of a $100,000 libel suit. | Payne filed suit December 7 against | the company; Martin Codel, its pub- lisher, and Sol Taishoff, editor. He | bers and containing equal representa- | Crosley, jr., presicent of Crosley Radio | tion of labor, management and the | COrp., during a hearing on proposed public. | revision of broadcasting regulations. | Regarding the proposal for Federal| In an answer filed in Federal Dis- ald to small business, the council’s| trict Court yesterday the Publications suggestion contains a provision for | Corporation and Codel and Taishoff Federal insurance of loans to small | asserted “the regulation of radio and administered by the Federal Trade|alleged he was libeled by published | Commission, enlarged to nine mem- | Criticism of his guestioning of Powell | would not necessarily prevent the | enterprises made by banks and other private lending institutions. Such in- | surance, it is contended, would make money more easily available to small business. Job Census Unmentioned. # Although the council went on record | at its meeting about six weeks ago |in favor of an employment census | every five year, no proposal for this task was contained in the program submitted to the President yesterday. The purpose of the proposgi Eco- | | nomic Advisory Council, it was ex- plained, would be “to aid in the stabili- zation of employment in industry, agri- culture and commerce, and make com- prehensive and continuing study of | the national income, to prevent in- | dustrial stagnation and a recurrence of depression conditions.” e — = UNITED DRY FORCES TO.DINE JANUARY 26 | i Representative Ralph O. Brewster outer skin of the ship be punctured. of Maine will be one of the speakers 1t will have an unusually complete ' at the United Dry Forces banquet to ;uxmnry power plant to meet the be held at Calvary Baptist Church vy demands for compressed air and electricity. FURNITURE MART LIVELY Bhow Closes With _Becord At- tendance and Heavy Sales. CHICAGO, January 16 (#).—The Tuesday night, January 26, it was an- | | nounced today. ! The banquet will be a testimonial to Representative U. S. Guyer of Kan- | sas. Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins is | chairman of the General Committee | which includes Dr. W. L. Darby, W. J. | Mahoney, Col. W. O. Tufts and Page | McK. Etchison. Associated with them iare the following sponsors: Bishop American Furniture Mart'’s twenty- | Edwin H. Hughes, Bishop William F. sixth semi-annual show closed today | McDowell, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, with heavy sales'and a record at- | Leonard W. De Gast, Chancellor Jo- tendance written or its books. |seph M. M. Gray, Hugh A. Thrift, Prank 8. Whiting, vice president ; Maj. Ernest W. Brown, Rev. B. G. of the mart, "estimated the retail Wilkinson, Mrs. William H. Ramsey, value of goods sold during the two- | Mrs. Lloyd W. Biddle, Mrs. Eugene V. week event at $60,000,000. Buyer | 2ugh, Rev, C. E. Hawthorne, Wilbur registrations numbered 10,300, com- | La Rce, jr.; Rev.:Charles Enders, pared with the previous high of 9,237 | Charles E. Resser and Miss Hattie P. at last July’s market. REPAIRS AN Just Phone CO. 0067 OLONY RADIO 4835 GEOR Anderson. in Safe Hands RADIO TROUBLE DAY OR NIGHT D PARTS FOR ALL MAKES public importance and interest.” | “The statements of fact contained in the said article complained of in | the declaration were true,” tne an- swer asserted, “and the expressions of comment and criticism theremn upon | the said facts were tair comment on, { and criticism of matters of great pub- lic interest and concern made in good faith without any malice.” At the hearing, out of which the case grew, Payne closely questioned Crosley about the policy of his sta- tion at Cincinnati with regard to broadcast time for political parties. | He asked him also about time for manufacturers of products competing with those of companies in which Crosley was interested. o U. S. SCIENTIST SUES FOR DIVORCE IN RENO Melvin F. Fischer Charges Wife With Cruelty—Another D. C. Resident Files Action. Melvin F. Fischer, scientist in the Bureau of Standards, filed suit for divorce. in Reno, Nev., yesterday against his wife, Mrs. Mildred J. Fischer, charging cruelty, the Asso- ciated Press reported. The couple were married here in 1816 and have one child. Fischer’s residence is given as 1722 Varnum street. In a second Washington divorce suit filed in Reno yesterday, Mrs. Eva A. Pugh charged cruelty against her husband, John S. Pugh. The tele- phone directory lists the address of a John 8. Pugh as the Chastleton Hotel Sixteenth and R streets. The Pughs were married here in 1830. GIA AVES N.W. 710 12th St. N. W. broadcasting” and “matters of great | CONTROL Temperamental Temperatures Too hot to keep windows closed! Dangerous to health to have them wide open, UNLESS you install this Ventilator! Then you get the air with- " out the drafi. Enjoy perfect comfort all winter. GET AN ESTIMATE ON ONE OR MORE OF THESE VENTILATORS. Brackets finished in highgrade enamel; makes them rustproof. Free Parhing for customers twe deors merth of our store E. J. Murphy Co., Inc. Outlaw Gets Niche in Missouri Capitol Because Easterners know Missouri as the home of Huckleberry Finn, Jesse James and | “Frankie and Johnnie,” Thomas Hart Benton, the mural artist who decorated the House lounge, | in Jefferson City, Mo., included those characters in his paintings. The famous outlaw is depicted above with members of his banding holding up a train and a bank, while flanking it are scenes From the welter of praise and criticism over tRe murals, there rose the question of a $2751 erpenditure for eggs, which the artist denied, saying he used about $10.50 worth in mizing his colors with egg whites. Wide World Photo.’ WINDSOR MAY GO T0 CANNES SOON Feeling Is Expressed That Mrs. Simpson and Duke Will See Each Other. By the Associated Press. CANNES, Prance, January 16—A sudden dash of the Duke of Windsor to the woman for whom he sacrificed | his throne would be no surprise to| most Riviera folk. Repeated and emphatic statements made in behalf of Mrs. Wallis Simp- son that she has no plans for seeing the Duke before.Spring and that in | no event will he come to Cannes, have not dispelled the local belief that he may show up at any moment. Such statements, at first doubted, are now generally accepted as sincere. | But, people point out, the Duke is known as a very impulsive person and any plan can be changed. ‘The voluntary separation of the two who seem destined to a high place in future accounts of the great loves of history puzzies the people of Cannes and nearby resorts. ‘Why, they ask, should two persons who showed a disregard for con- ventionalism to the extent of shaking an empire, now become 5o scrupulous on the score? Question of Sacrifice. Why, they ask, should a man who loves a woman so much that he gave up his kingdom for her, and who surely must long to see her, deprive himself of her company for months? Some fine day, they predict almost unanimously, the Duke, bored with | the loneliness of his Austrian castle, will rush to her, final decree or no final decree. The coming of the former King granting of Mrs. Simpson's final de- cree of divorce. in the period be- tween the granting of the decree nisi and the final decree Mrs. Simpson is put on good behavior. But she is not forbidden to see any man. not even one who has publicly declared his | love for her. In predicting the coming of the | duke before Spring, Cannes folk ad- | mit they are fathering the thought ! with the wish. They don't deny they would like | to see him—the visiting foreigners because it would provide a new thrill and the local people because it would | be good for business. Purchase of Villa Possible. And if he doesn’t arrive before then he surely will buy a villa on the Riviera and settle down here, Riviera people say, pointing out that this strip of coast has always been at- tractive to him. Meanwhile, Mrs. Simpson lives at Villa Lou Viei and participates more and more in the social life of Cannes. No longer do crowds gather when she goes shopping, no longer do people stare at her. Cannes has become ac- customed to her. She attends dinner parties and plays bridge both at Loui Viei and at the villas of several friends, she takes drives through the mountains, she strolls in the garden and reads and writes—and talks each day by telephone with the former King. Her plans are to remain at Lou Viei until the final decree is granted —and then, presumably, to marry the Duke of Windsor. Some say the marriage will take place in Budapest, some say in Italy. Nothing in this respect has been con- firmed, and doubtlessly nothing will until the cetemony is performed. ‘Where they will live also is a mys- tery, perhaps as much to themselves as to others. Two things are certain, a person very close to Mrs. Simpson says—they will not go to America and will not return to England for some time. Doe JANUARY 17, AMERICANS SAFE; REMAINAT SIANF Stranded in Shensi Prov- ince With Other Foreigners, They Want to Leave. By Cable to The Star. SHANGHAL January 16.—All the foreigners, including about 30 Ameri- can missionaries at Sianfu, capital of Shenst Province, are safe and well, but so far have not been able to leave the city, Willys R. Peck, counselor of the American Embassy, reported to- day on his arrival at Nanking from the northwest province by plane. The big Junkers plane made a haz- ardous six-hour flight from Sianfu because of difficult weather conditions. Peck did not evacuate any of the for- eigners because the rest of the space in the plane was occupied by Chinese officials, their families and govern- ment army officers stranded at Stanfu. The American official said: “I saw all the foreigners at Sianfu. Although they are hoping to evacuete they do not feel desperate. Sianfu is peaceful, showing no signs of trou- ble.” Among the cther plane passengers was Gen. Mi Chun-lin, Nanking gov- ernment official who was formerly in charge of northwest bandit suppres- sion activities. He accompanied Peck to Sianfu to interview Gen. Yang ™ behalf of Nanking officials. Gen. Mi reported the troops of Gens. Yang and Chang Hsueh-liang, captor of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and now in sthe government's custody, continued to maintain a re- calcitrant attitude. They demanded, he said, cessation of the civil war (cessation of the anti-Communist campaign), with the evident inten- tion of interposing themselves be- tween the government and the Com- munists. Peck reported a definite plan for removal of the foreigners had been formed and presented to the foreign office for approval. He plans to transport them by truck from Sianfu to Huahsien, a village 50 miles east- ward, and thence through govern- ment lines to Tungkwan, on the Lunghai Rallway near the eastern Shenst border. The plan requires the co-operation of the military authori- ties of Shensi, as well as Nanking, and, if it is approved, is expecied to begin Monday. (Copyright, 1937.) HIMMELFAhB HEADS Service Agency—Board Members Chosen. Paul Himmelfarb was re-elected president of the Jewish Social Serv- ice Agency at its annual meeting a few days ago in the Community Chest headquarters, 1101 M street. Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith was re- elected honorary president. Other of- ficers chosen were Mrs. Fedora Lewis, first vice president; Morris Garfinkle, second vice president; Joseph L. Tep- per, recording secretary; Milton Na- than, treasurer; Morris Stein, assist- ant treasurer, and Joseph A. Wilner, Lawrence Koenisberger and David J. Kaufman, trustees. Sixteen board members were elect= ed, 13 of them for a three-year term and 3 for two years. The new members were Rabbi Isadore Breslau, Norman Fischer, Hyman Goldman, §. A. Golden, Sidney Haas, Mr. Himmel- | larb, Dr. Alex Horwitz, D. J. Kauf- man, Mr. Koenisberger, Mrs. William { Levy, Mrs. Lewis, Joseph Mazo, Rev. Louis Novick, Herbert Rich, Louis E. Spiegler and Isadore 8. Turover. Continued development of the agency's case work service was stressed by Morris Klass, director. He said there was a great need for an ex- | tension of services in the field of child care and care for the aged. I0WA STATE. SOCIETY SETS DANCE THURSDAY New Members of Congress Will Be Guests of Honor at Celebration. Jowa’s new members of Congress will be guests of honor at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday at a dinner and dance to be given by the Iowa State Society of Washington at the Shoreham Hotel. Among the guests will be Senator and Mrs. Guy Gillette, Senator and Mrs. Clyde L. Herring, Representative and Mrs. Cassius C. Dowell, Repre- sentative Willlam §. Jacobsen and Representative and Mrs. Vincent F. Harrington. Miss Gertrude M. Louis is in charge of arrangements, BRIERHURST APARTMENT HOTEL 4527 Walnut St., Philadelphia Furnished housekeeping apartments of 1, 3 and 3 rooms. Compiete hotel serviee. $9.50 to $22.50 Weekly Siagle Room & Bath, $1.50 wp Dally. Dothie, 4380 up. . C. Davempart, Mar: s veers Eye Examina 50% savings. reading and distance. POSITIVELY RELIEVED. OCTAGON RIMLESS Engraved white gold-filled rimless mountings and fine quality clear lenses KRYPTOK LENSES value Invisible Bifoeal Invisible Bifocal Lenses. " NAY1 2477 One pair to 56'95 see far and near. $12 value Cylindrieal or tinted not included The Shah 0ptiea OCULIST nosions 812 F St. N.W. 1937—PART ONE. Townsend Back with Representative Lemke, who in District Court here February congressional followers to chart pension plan. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, left, is shown conferring yesterday Dr. Townsend, whor must face a criminal contempt charge TOWNSEND TALKS - T0 CONGRESSMER Charts New Campaign for Old-Age Pension Plan. . No Senators There. By the Associated Press. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, frosty= haired California physician, mustered & handful of congressional followers in an “informal caucus” yesterday to chart & new campaign for his old-age pension plan. About two dozen Representatives, gathered in the velvet-draped Senate conference hall, directed Chairman Crosby to name a seven-member com- mittee to organize their fight in the House. Not s single Senator answered Townsend's summons, although he said 103 Representatives and 8 Sena- tors had been elected with his indorse- ment.» Smartly dressed in brown spats, a brown suit and a brown silk tie, ‘Townsend described his scheme as “a Just system which will wipe out poverty” and predicted that 30,000.- 000 persons would petition Congress to give $200 pensions to every one 1 over 60. He told newsmen he was “still in contempt” of a House Investigating Committee. which he defied at hear- ings last year. but said he would ap- pear in the District of Columbia Fed- eral Court February 8 to face con- tempt charges, m he backed for the presidency. 8, conferred yesterday with his a new campaign for his old-age —Harris-Ewing Photo LEGAL KNOTSBIND | STORK DERBY GOLD Further Hearings Delayed Until Late in Week or Even Later, BY the Associated Press, TORONTO, Ontario, January 16.—1 NEW DISTRICT ENGINEER DUE HERE NEXT MONTH 25 INBLACK LEGS CASE AWAIT TRIAL Men Charged With Terroriz- ing Hill Section Face Jury Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. PRESTONSBURG, Ky, January Maj. Theron De Witt Weaver to Have Charge of Dreeging of Potomac River. Maj. Theron De Witt Weaver, Army Engineer Corps, newly appointed dis- trict engineer for the Washington area, is expected to arrive in Wash- ington next month to take over his new duties. Maj. Weaver, now on duty in the New Orleans district, will be relieved there on January 27, it was announced yesterday at the War Department. The pot of gold at the end of the | 16 __Trials of 25 men charged with | The new district engineer, who will SOCIAL UNIT AGAIN Re-elected President of Jewish stork derby rainbow, which a dozen | prolific mothers thought they had | reached last Halloween, was still a long court journey ahead today. Lawyers said that further hearings on the disposition of the late Charles Vance Millar's $500.000 award to the | mother who bore the most childran in a 10-year period probably would not be held until late next week, and might go over to the week after. The “mother’s clause” of the ec- centric barrister’s will was ruled hy Mr. Justice Middleton to be valid in the first court test last November. | The justice, however, said that ille- | gitimate children should not be counted. Both of the points on which the justice ruled will be challenged in | the hearing which, though set for | | Monday, was expected to be post- | poned. His ruling that the clause was valid | was challenged by counsel for “dis- tant kin,” Arabella West and Alex- ander Butler. They contend a prize for a “mothers’ marath is con- | trary to public policy, “encourages | immorality” and therefore is invalid. As “next of kin” they ask that the | fortune revert to them. | Justice Middleton's ruling on “il- | | legitimate children™ isechallenged by counsel for Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke; | five of her ten children were born band. The Clarkes, despite the sepa- ration, were never divorced. It fis | in wedlock. CLUB OF TEMPLE U. Dr. Beury, President, to Be Honor Guest at Event Jan. 30., | The Washington Club of Temple University, Philadelphia, will give its annual banquet Saturday evening, Jannary 30, at theeMayflower Hotel. Dr. Charles E. Beury, president of the university, will be the honored guest. The banquet is being arranged by the officers of the club—Dr. Charles | J. Bowne, president: Dr. Valentine M. Hess, past president; Dr. Charles C. Clark, treasurer; Miss Viola Wilder- muth, secretary, and Mrs, E. W. Cott- man, | | Now 3 Brand New Adding Machine For Only ss 5.00 New modern design. Small—light weight. Portable. No business can now afford NOT to own an adding machine, Rent one—$5.00 per month. CAPITOL TYPEWRITER CO. 822 13th St. N. W._ NAt. 4858 Special Offer tion Included 5w Every one who wears bifocals will appreciate this White seamless lenses EYE-STRAIN und for ADACHES Co. ACCURATELY FILLED Established 25 Years | appear in time for the trials. The | fter her separation from her hus- | | contended that the children were born | WILL GIVE BANQUET| terrorizing residents of remote m:-‘ have charge of dredging of the Po- tions of Floyd and Magoffin Counties ' tomac River and other local engi- - g | neering operations, served here as a by whippings and ravishings Will| it;dent in the Army War College from open here Monday. | 1933 to 1935 and is 8 member of the All but six of those indicted have | Army and Navy Club here. surrendered, but B. M. James, attor- | ney for some of the group, expressed | the opinion the missing men would | LOCAL or L/?NG DISTANCE band, known as the “Black Legs,”| roamed the Southeastern Kentucky | hills, allegedly whipping, beating, rav- | ishing and threatening persons in | what them termed an effort “to clean | up” the area. | The group was indicted under a! charge of criminal syndicalism after | 8 rural storekeeper, Miles Barnett, | testified the band whipped him for | criticisms of the gang's activities. | Commonwealth Attorney Hall said | today several of the group had indi- cated they would turn State's evi- dence. One of the defendants, Jim Marshall, already has told officers of | the gang’s activities. \RVBECKII\G The final five old buildings in the new Federal Triangle at 13th and D N.W. All Materials Must Be Sold 100,000 ft. of well-seasoned lumber that'will not warp or CHECK. 150,000 BRICK—cleaned, ready for use. This is a great OPPORTUNITY to save. HARRIS WRECKING CO. 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