Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain, with temperature at freezing or slightly above tonight; tomorrow, rain and warmer. Temperatures—Highest, 50, at 2 a.m. yesterday; lowest, 32, at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. el Full report on Page B-6. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,662—No. 33,871 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. e WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 27 DEAD AND 300,000 HOMELESS AS FLOODS EXTEND TO 13 STATES; DISEASE THREATENS REFUGEES Property Loss in Unestimated Millions. FOOD SUPPLIES ARE DWINDLING Medicine Also Is Badly Needed in Stricken Area. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 23 —Deaths attributed to flood waters increased tonight to 27, and residents in the stricken Midwest continued hurriedly to evacuate homes in widespread danger zones Nearly 300,000 were homeless as floods extended to 13 States. Many were ill from influenza, pneumania. hunger or exposure Scarlet fever broke out in two Indiana cities. Medi- cinal supplies and doctors were need- ed quickly in many flood-bound towns. Property damage ran into unesti- mated millions of dollars, Shawneetown, Ill, the State's old- est settlement. was evacuated, except for 250 men who sought to plug leaks in a levee. There was an acute food shortage. The supply of bread, flour and potatoes was completely ex- hausted. The town's 1.200 residents fled to nearby hills. Five-hundred refugees were housed in a school house out- side the village. One doctor attempt- ed to care for 25 cases of pneumonia and influenza and treat dozens of others for exposure. The tempera- ture was 14 degrees above zero. City Under Martia! Law. Looting of homes and stores in the Aurora, Ind., flood area resulted in Gov. M. Clifford Townsend placing the city under martial law. He or- dered 50 National Guardsmen at Co- lumbus, Ind., to leave for patrol duty at Aurora immediately. The Ohio River continued to rise most of the way along its course. Cincinnati, which had counted a prop- erty loss of at least $5,000.000, faced the prospect of the river rising to 735 feet, It stood tonight at 73. Carrollton, Ky., reported itself sur- rounded by water. All business houses were closed. A food and fuel short- age existed. Louisville, Ky.: Cairo, Ill.; Ports- mouth, Ohio: Ashland, Ky. and sev- eral other towns along the Ohio were notified the river would not reach its crest until some time between Sunday and Thursday. At Huntington, W. Va., a man was drowned tonight when a skiff cap- sized near the Marshall College campus. A young woman in the skiff was rescued. Reports Are Encouraging. % Flood Situation at a Glance By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON.—President appeals for $2,000,000 to succor nearly 300,000 homeless in flooded Ohio and Mississippi [ River Valleys. CINCINNATI—Ohio River reaches unprecedented stage of 73 feet, with $5,000,000 damage forecast; 11 square miles of city inundated. PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.—Twen! flow 11 feet deep through food. ty thousand refugees watch city streets; acute shortage of FRANKFORT, KY.—Reformatory prepares to evacuate 2900 prisoners Monday after 24 all but one recaptured. LOUISVILLE, KY.—Several squ | 6,000 homeless; theaters, sc | attempt escape by swimming; are miles of city under water; hools closed. PADUCAH, KY.—Ohio River covers half of city, forcing be- tween 8,000 and 10,000 to evacuate. EVANSVILLE, IND.—Fifty rive: r boats embark with supplies for other flooded river towns. CAIRO, ILL—Two hundred workers reinforce levees at con- fluence of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with water rising. SHAWNEETOWN, ILL.—First report in 36 hours pictures levee imperiled, pneumonia prevalent, 500 persons huddled in high school. FUNDS POURING IN FOR FLOOD RELIEF| OPENSTOKID WAR 'Hirota Rule Ends in Struggle Donations Coming in After Special Proclamation by Roosevelt. | Punds began accumulating at Red | Cross headquarters here last night in | response to a special proclamation by President Roosevelt appealing for $2,000,000 for flood sufferers. Mr. Roosevelt stressed that snow. sleet and freezing weather were adding | to the misery of the victims. He fixed | the number already driven from their | homes in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys at 270,000 men, women and children. This estimate, however, was in- creased shortly afterward to 288,000 | CABINET OUSTING Between Army and Po- litical Parties. Bs the Associated Press. TOKIO, January 23.—The Japanese | cabinet fell today before the bitter attacks of a Parliament aroused against apparent army efforts to sponsor a militarist or Fascist type of government. For the first time in the history of the Diet, the House of Representatives succeeded in ousting a government un- able to reach a compromise between the military and the opposing political | parties. After a tense 20-minute session, by Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, Premier Koki Hirota tendered to the | chairman of the American Red Cross, Emperor the collective resignation of | The President said it was likely to go the 320-day-old cabinet. ~His wife on climbing until the flood crest is and daughter urged him to resign. past. | His majesty commanded Hirota to carry on temporarily, pending selection | Plans to Spend $3.000,000. | of a new cabinet. During that time The Red Cross planned to spend a the Diet will remain suspended. minimum of $3,000,000 to meet the | Situation More Complicated. disaster, but already had $1,000,000 = | available. | Many observers agreed the cabiret's Washington’s quota in the drive for | Tesignation complicated rather than funds was fixed at $24,000, and con- | €ased the situation, with the crisis | entering & new stage of struggle be- | tributions are being received at 1730 | | E street, it was announced by Gen. | tWeen political parties and the army | for control of the next government. F. R. Keefer, chairman of the District Chapter. | This new government, many be- * 73-Foot Stage Is Reached at Cincinnati. 'TWO DROWN AS BOAT CAPSIZES MORNING, JANUARY 24, Water Shortage Is Feared at Ports- mouth. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, January 23.—The debris - laden Ohio River, moving sluggishly yet treacherously at unprece- | dented flood stage, claimed tonight its | fifth and sixth human lives from | drowning in the greater Cincinnati | area. The murky stream crawled slowly upward to reach a stage of 73 feet here at 9:30 pm. (ES.T.), 21 feet above flood stage. Two Negroes were drowned when a | rescue boat capsized. Two Red Cross workers were removing the two vic- tims and two others from inundated buildings. The last Negro to step into the craft | upset it, throwing all occupants into | the water. Firemen and a steamer | crew rescued the two Red Cross work- ers and two of the Negroes. Four ac- | cidental drownings occurred previ- ously. Portsmouth's 45,000 citizens, 100 | miles up the valley, where half the population has evacuated dwellings, faced the menace of a drinking water | shortage as the record tide put the | city pumping station out of commis- sion. Pians to Remove Pumps. | City Manager Frank Sheehan or- | dered water used sparingly and an- nounced plans to remove the pumps to the reservolr, with a capacity of | 22,700,000 gallons. In 24 hours, Shee- | han said, 2,000,000 gallons had been drawn from the reservoir. Drastic steps were considered by Sheehan to remove forcibly persons in flooded districts who have refused to, leave their homes. He also said he would open officially, if necessary,| rooms in elevated areas which home owners have not offered voluntarily. Portsmouth swore in hundreds of | special deputy sheriffs to cope with the desperate situation prevailing there, with the stream at the 67.5-foot stage. Barney Houston, Cincinnati fire; chief, said danger from fire after more | than a million gallons of gasoline flowed from overturned storage tanks and tank cars to Mill Creek apparently had passed. Feared Wall of Flames, 0. . MAY DEMAND CONFER ON PEACE | bile workers open peace negotiations, | A special radio appeal for Washing- ton contributions to aid the flood suf- lieved, would follow army insistence and be an outright militaristic cabinet, from which all party elements would | Piremen feared any spark would have converted the turbid waters into Pittsburgh and Wheeling, W. Va., | ferers will be made this afternoon in had the only encouraging reports. connection with the Joe Brown’s Kid- Flood waters in the Monongahela, Alle- | gies program over Station WOL from be excluded. Political parties were championing | & devastating wall of moving flames. | The creek borders Cincinnati’s Union Rallroad Terminal and follows a course | gheny and Ohio were receding in Pittsburgh after the city had experi- enced the third worst inundation in its history. Wheeling was told by meteorologists that the Ohio had reached its crest there, 46.3 feet. | In Washington Congressmen repre- genting the Ohio River Valley tenta- tively agreed to seek au appropriation of $320,000,000 for flood control and prevention projects already author- ized, but for which no fund had been created. President Roosevelt issued a proc- Jamation asking the Nation to con- tribute $2,000,000 for the relief of the hemeless. He ordered Federal agen- cies to lend their fullest assistance. Spurred by pleas for aid, mercy trains, boats, trucks and planes sped food, fuel, medicine and bedding to the inundated areas. Some 20,000 W. | (See FLOOD, Page A-4) POPE RESTING WELL, BUT ANXIETY KEEN Danger of Gangrene in Paralyzed Left Leg Continues—Injec- tions Given. B3 the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, January 24 (Sun- day).—Pope Pius early today was “resting as well as can be expected,” said a semi-official bulletin from the | Vatican. The danger of gangrene in | his paralyzed left leg continued to| cause anxiety to his physicians, i The Pope was given injections to | check possible infection in an open | sore on the leg, caused by the break- ing of a varicose vein. The 79-year-old Holy Father took less nourishment than during recent days. Drowsiness overcame him after the injections. Vatican physicians agreed a gan- grene infection might mean his end in a very short time. They have given up hope for his complete re- covery, but hold that if the threat- ened gangrene could be averted he might live for some time. | ‘The strain of the Pope's complicated | {llness on his heart presented another | hazard which, Vatican sources said, | might result in his sudden death even | if gangrene were forestalled. i His condition in the last few days, | they declared, has been the poorest | since he was stricken December 5 with partial leg paralysis. Today he received two German cardinals—Karl Joseph Sculte of Cologne and Michael von Faulhaber of Munich—and Arch- | bishop Maria Castellani, just back from Ethiopia, where he went to or- ganize the Catholic hierarchy. The pontiff occupied his new wheeled di- van. It replaced a specially construct~ ed wheel chair which he found un- comfortable. i ¢ 2:30 to 3:30 o'clock. | Contributions to the new fund be- | gan dribbling in to national head- | quarters yesterday morning as the re- | sult of an earlier appeal by Admiral Grayson. The first received was | $1,000 from the Red Cross Chapter at | Danbury, Conn., and the second $320 | from Wakefield, Mass. Red Cross offi- ‘ cials said most contributions would | be made to local chapters and the full | response would not be known here immediately. The President designated the Red Cross as the Government's official rep- | resentative in the flooded regions, but | renewed instructions to all Federal | agencies to co-operate with it. Chief among the Federal agencies battling the flood is the Works Prog ress Administration, with 18,000 men | (See RED CROSS, Page A-4.) KING CAROL’S SON, ILL, UNDERGOES OPERATION Prince, Visiting Princess Helen in | Florence, Is Stricken With Appendicitis. By the Associated Press, FLORENCE, Italy, January 23.— | Prince Mihai, 15, heir to the throne | of Rumania, underwent an appen- dectomy at a hospital here today. A hospital bulletin said he was pro- | gressing “nicely.” King Carol, his father, inquired by telephone concerning Mihai's con- dition. The Prince, who was visiting his mother, Princess Helen, had been :ll of influenza. During the night he was stricken with acute appendicitis and an emergency operation was per- formed. The King's younger brother, Prince Nicolas, is seriously il of scarlet fever in Bucharest. However, the marshal of the court announced tonight that “the condition of both patients is normal.” a coalition government, dominated by | Diet (Parliament) members, but in- cluding representatives of Japanese bureaucracy, one army man gnd one navy official, the latter two being im- perative under the existing imperial ordinance. Naval participants in the political fight were lined up apparently with | party leaders rather than with the military. Final decision to end the ecrisis, it appeared to informed observers, rested with the Emgperor, who was said to be depending upon the representations of veteran statesmen and close ad- visers to the throne. ‘The Emperor tonight dispatched an imperial mesenger to 87-year-old | Prince Kinmochi Saionji, last of Ja= an’'s famous genro, or “elder states- men,"” at his seaside villa at Okitsu. According to long-established cus- tom, the sovereign sought the advice of the genro on the choice of a new | premier. _ Leaders of the Seiyukal, minority (See CABINET, Page A-11.) FRANCE MAY IMPOUND GOLD SENT BY SPAIN Action May Follow Insurgents’ Halting Shipments of Copper to Germany and Italy. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 23.—Sources close to the French Foreign Office said to- day France would agree to impound Spanish gold shipped to Paris banks if Spanish insurgents halt shipments of copper to Germany and Italy in payment for arms and munitions. These sources estimated gold valued at 500,000,000 francs ($23,000,000) had been shipped into France by the be- sleged Socialist government of Spain. (A Spanish treasury official at Valencia Thursday denied anew that gold bullion belonging to the Socialist government has been shipped abroad except for payment of munitions bills.) Star Will Receive Funds for Red Cross Flood Relief The District of Columbia has been assigned a quota of $24,000 for tlood relief by the American Red Cross. The Evening Star will assist in raising the required amount by receiving and acknowledging in its columns the contributions of Washingtonians. Red Cross, for floo Evening Star. The Star has made a conf the ball rolling. relief. oke checks payable to District Chapter, American Bring or mail them to the cashier, The t;ibution of $250 to this fund to start Those who desire to submit their contributions directly to. the American Red Cross may send er deliver cash or checks to the District Chapter, American Red Cross, 1730 E street. | through an industrial area. More than 75,000 Ohioans were homeless in the valley of the Indians’ “beautiful river,” ruled as never before by the flood gods. For 300 miles down the stream from | Martins Ferry the story was much the | same—here a milk shortage threat- | ened—there food was running low. In one city gasoline pumps drew their last fuel, and in adjacent towns hun- dreds of persons clung to second-story rooms, still waiting to be rescued. Waters 73 feet deep pounded Cin- cinnati, in whose metropolitan area (See OHIO, Page A Lindbergh May Blaze Atlantic Airmail Trail | Flyer Reported Ready To Make Test Trip Soon. | Gpecial Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, January 24 (Sunday).— “Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the first man to fly across the Atlantic alone, will soon fly the ocean again, this time to blaze a trail for an airmail route,” according to the aviation correspond- ent of today’s Sunday Express. firmation of the report was not obtainable from Lindbergh, who con- tinues to remain reticent about all his plans. He now lives with his wife and son Jon at the Weald, in Kent. ‘The American aviator is technical adviser to Pan-American Airways, which will operate a service from Southampton to New York in co- operation with Imperial Airways. His advice led to the choice of Portsmouth 'as the English headquarters. He also selected a refueling base on the west coast of Ireland. “Now that all the ground details have been arranged, the first boat is ready to cross,” the Express reported. Trial flights, it said, would be made every month this year, and next year mails probably would be carried. ‘The first flying boat to cross will be one of Imperial Airways’' Empire types. This will be fitted with long-range tanks and have a range of more than 3,000 miles. According to present arrangements, sei¢ the paper, Lindbergh will be one of the pilots of this ship. He will report on weather and flying condi- tions found on the entire flight. Spe- cial attention will bc paid to the y Sthar 1937.—108 PAGES. =* FIVE CENTS |TEN CENTS ¥T SPwueon BUT YOou DIDNT PO IT ALl HEY, WHERE DO 5 1 COME INZ, L,JOHN! .M. C. AND UNION Miss Perkins Hints Rivals May Be Forced Into Conference. Strike at a Glance. SECRETARY PERKINS hints Gov- | ernment may demand automotive | strike negotiations; says she may “invite” John L. Lewis and General Motors to peace conference. ! WILLIAM S. KNUDSEN, General Mo- tors vice president, says next step up to union; announces some plants will reopen Tuesday; reports 125,- | 613 idle. | HOMER MARTIN, United Automobile Workers' president, says strike could be settled in 24 hours. | GOV. FRANK MURPHY, active in conciliation efforts, returns from fruitless Washington conference, withholds comment. GEORGE E. BOYSEN, president of Flint Alliance, announces mass meeting Tuesday to map “program of action” to put men back to work. National Guardsmen remain in background as strikers keep posi- tions in two Flint, Mich, Fisher Body plants. B\ the Associated Press. The Government may demand that General Motors and striking automo- | official conciliators indicated last | night. The way Secretary Perkins put it yesterday was that if other means fail she may send out “a formal invita- tion” to negotiations. However, there was no doubt among informed observ- ers that the “invitation” would be vir- tually a demand. Miss Perkins said she already had | suggested informally that Alfred P. Sloan, jr., General Motors president, and John L. Lewis, strike director, get together to work out a peace agreement. Lewis Accepts; G. M. C. Rejects. General Motors, she added, had re- jected her proposal. Lewis has said he accepted. “My desire is to get negotiations re-established,” Miss Perkins said. “That is the wise thing to do.” A peace conference arranged for last Monday collapsed. Secretary Perkins said she was making ‘“continual suggestions” to each side, and that “again there are favorable signs” that a peace agree- ment could be reached. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in its periodical, Wash- ington Review, said yesterday that “increasing labor disturbances con- stitute & major threat to continued ! business expansion and re-employ- ment.” Questioned by reporters on this top- ic, Miss Perkins said the effect of the auto strike on business was not precisely certain. It could not afe fect “recovery,” she said, because “re- covery has taken place, and “normal expansion” of business now is in progress. The Chamber of Commerce also called “significant” the “growing op- position to the automobile strike by many of the workers themselves.” G. M. C. TO REOPEN PLANTS. Plans to Resume Work Tuesday at Units Undisputed by Strikers. DETROIT, January 23 (#).—Gen- eral Motors Corp. announced plans tonight for partial reopening Tuesday (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) 19 ON NORWEGIAN SHIP ARE RESCUED IN GALE Storm Which Claimed Nine Lives Hits Steamer Karnt—One Crew Member Lost. By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, January 23.—Nine- teen members of the crew of the Nor- wegian steamer Karnt were rescued today from the ship foundering in a furious gale, but the twentieth crew member was drowned. The seamen were taken aboard the steamer Leda by a breeches buoy over quality of radio reception and trans- mission between Ireland and New- foundland. —s Radio Programs, Page F-3. mountainous seas that had battered in ‘the hatches and broken the captain’s leg. The pounding waves and high wind already had claimed nine other lives when a trawler was carried to sea and | et | been broken into two months ago. Hat Check Girl Electrocuted in Burglar Trap Police Hold Friend They Say Laid Live Wire. BY the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—Pretty Catherine Steyer, hotel hat check girl, was found dead late today in her | Brooklyn apartment, apparently the | victim of a slow electrocution by a| home-made burglar trap, her right arm nearly burned off by a 300-volt live wire. Police said she probably had been dead for three days and theorized that she brushed against the live wires which she had had an electri- cian friend conceal in draperies at | the apartment entrance after it had | | | The scantily clad body of the 33-year-old woman was discovered by acquaintances. The friend who pro- vided the bizarre man-trap, the police | said, was one of those who found the body. They gave his name as George Anton, 33. of Brooklyn. He was questioned by police tonight. Joseph Freitag, a butcher with a shop | under the woman's apartment, had been in the habit of receiving tele- phone calls for her, the captain said, | and had endeavored to summon her | several times in the last three days. | In company with Anton, Freitag entered the apartment, Capt. McGarty said, and discovered the body. Anton was detained by police on a charge of violating city ordinances by | failing to notify the Building Depart- ment of his installation and by failing to have fire underwriters approve it. | SLOLOFIN FORRELEFGVEN 0K, 15 REOR Bill Is Expected to Reach House Tomorrow for Action Tuesday. BY thie Associated Press. Some Representatives said last night that President Roosevelt's $790,000,000 relief request won the approval of a House appropriations subcommittee yesterday afternoon. Mr. Roosevelt requested the fund recently to carry on relief for the next five months. The subcommittee as- signed to consider the request heard demands from some groups, in Con- gress and out, for a much larger amount. But after it acted on the question at a closed session yesterday, word spread that the President’s figure had won. Chairman Buchanan has called a meeting of the entire Appropriations Committee for tomorrow morning and officials said the relief bill would be sent to the House at noon. Speaker Bankhead said, however, that con- sideration of the measure there would be delayed until Tuesday. Representative Boileau, Progressive. of Wisconsin, spokesman for a group which wants the appropriation in- creased to $1,000,000,000 and & 20 per | cent wage increase granted relief | workers, served notice he would fight | for these objectives. “We liberals plan to make every ef- fort to get the relief appropriation boosted to what we think it ought to | DISEASE WAR PLOT be,” Boileau declared. In an interview Boileau termed the amount recommended by the President | for the Works Progress Administra- | tion “totally inadequate to put all CHARGED IN TRIALS Russian Defendants Also Accused of Conspiring to Divide Nation. BS the Associated Press. MOSCOW, January 23.—Allega- tions of intrigue to spread disease germs in war, to overthrow Soviet Rus- sia and divide riches of the nation between Japan and Germany were un- folded todav at the trial of 17 once- powerful Bolshevists who pleaded guilty. Almost eagerly, the 17 went to trial in the elaborate ball room where nobles of the Tsar feted their ladies in a bygone day. They entered con- fessions of complete guilt—bringing them face to face with the penalty of death. Chief of the group was bewhiskered, suddenly aged Karl Radek, long con- sidered an authoritative spokesman for the government through his writ- ings in the newspaper Izvestia. Amazing was the story of a vast (See RUSSIA, Page A-2) employables at work.” Spurred by W. P. A. reports that existing funds will be exhausted by | February 1, House leaders planned to seek speedy approval of the bill. There was no immediate indication that any “gag rule” would be imposed, but the House program for the week disclosed that only two days had been reserved for consideration of the measure. Any hitch over passage of the $50,- | 000,006 crop-production loan _ bill, | which comes up Monday, might reduce | the time further. | KILLED IN MIDGET AUTO Control Apparently Lost in Film- ing of Movie Picture. LOS ANGELES, January 23 (#).— automobile around the Gilmore Sta- dium course as movie cameras ground out a scene, crashed into a post today and was killed. Lyous, driving one of eight tiny cars in a scene for a film “racing luck,” apparently lost control of his machine. His neck was broken. Mrs. Simpson’s Guards Advise Her Not to Return to England Scotland Yard Det ectives Say Cranks Would Endanger Security—Tone of Abusive Letters Cited. BY the Associated Press. CANNES, France, January 23.— Mrs. Wallace Warfield Simpson has been advised by the Scotland Yard detectives who guarded her during her first weeks at Cannes not to return to England. The detectives, assigned to her be- cause of their experience in guarding high personages and their knowledge of the ways of cranks, told her that only by keeping out of Britain can she have absolute security. There is no possibility of a popular demonstration against her—the British are too phlegmatic for that and want only to forget the affair which re- sulted in the abdication of Edward VIII, the detectives said. They were thinking, they said, only of cranks. The views they expressed were their own and not the official stand of Scotland Yard. They did not repre- sent any desire of the government to keep her out ol‘hm & ‘The detectives said that to many people in England Mrs. Simpson was & symbol rather than an individual, just as the King is largely a symbol. ‘The resentment of a certain part of the British population was shown in the abusive letters which came to her at Cannes. They were studied carefilly by the detectives. Virtually all of such letters came from the British Isles. The Scotland Yard detective charged especially with Mrs. Simpson’s safety was James “Athletic” Evans, a tall, thin, wiry sce of the special division for guarding the royal family and prominent visitors. Evans often accompanied the late King George V. He was for a time assigned to the Duke of Kent. He sccompanied the former King Edward and Mrs. Simpson on the famous yacht tfipmfiu"&i\m Frank Lyons, 29, driving a n-udget‘ S300.000 IN JEWELS STOLEN N CAPITAL FOUND IN MAILS; BUTLER ARRESTED Address in Servant’s Room Leads Police to New York, Where Another $50,000 Cache Is Located. PICKED UP IN HALL, PRISONER CLAIMS Secret Search by Local Detectives Results in Seizure of Property of Mrs. Henrietta M. Bugher. Package, Awaiting Delivery, Was Addressed to Maid. BY JOSEPH FOX. A trusted butler who had served in wealthy American households for nearly 20 years was charged with grand larceny yesterday as police an- nounced the theft and speedy recovery of $300,000 worth of jewelry belonge | ing to Mrs. Henrietta M. Bugher, 50- cially prominent widow of Frederick H. Bugher, residing at 1785 Massa- chusetts avenue. | Some of the gems came into the Bugher family as a share in the ese | tate of Mrs. ) ed McLean Dewey, | widow of Admiral George Dewey, | after a court fight among the heirs, more than five years ago. The prisoner is John Morcischeck, 49, who was arrested Friday night at the Bugher apartment in the exe clusive establishment which also is the Washington home of Andrew W. Mellon. The butler was arrested only four hours after the loot had been re- ported. The jewelry was located in the post office at New York yestere y and led police there to another | m; rious cache worth $50,000. New ! York police booked Mrs. Agnes Olson Johnson, 48-year-old domestic, on & charge of having received it. Morcischeck, according to authori- ties, denied stealing the jewelry out of a cabinet, where Mrs. Bugher says it was kept, but contends he found it in a hallway of the apartment. He at first disclaimed all knowledge of the matter, it is said, but finally ad- mitted h: ng shipped it out Thu when some persistent detective work uncovered the package. The robbery first came to light Frie day afternoon when Mrs. Bugher ree ported it to Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown. No word of the case was | allowed to leak out of police heade quarters as Brown detailed on it Ine spector Bernard W. Thompson, chief of detectives; Lieut. Clement P. Cox: Detective Sergt. Charles Warfield, in | charge of the jewelry squad, and De= tective Sergts. Joseph W. Shimon, Harry Britton and D. G. Fletcher, Wore Gems to Recent Events. Mrs. Bugher told the detectives she | had only recently removed the jewele ry from a safe deposit box in a downe town bank to wear to a number of | social functions, among them the lave ish New Year party given by Mrs. | Evalyn Walsh McLean. She said she had put it away in the cabinet Tues | day and had discovered her loss Fri- day afternoon when getting ready to wear it to a social affair that night. Convinced the theft had been ene | gineered by some one in the immee | diate household, the investigators | questioned the servants carefully and also inspected their quarters. According to Thompson, this search | pointed in Morcischeck's direction, i"‘d though the butler maintained his | innocence he was arrested. | Thompson says a number of ade | dresses in New York were in the suse pects effects, and Shimon went there early yesterday. Among the persons on whom he was to check was a Marius ’Hanseu. employed in an East Seve | enty-fourth street address, and on | calling there Shimon was told that he was away and that in his absence & registered package had come for him. This had been taken back to the post office because the receipt re< quired a personal signature. Shimon immediately got in touch with postal officials and had the pack- age held up until Hansen could be | located. He notified Thompson last | night that the package had been opened and the jewelry found. So far as Washington authorities know, there was nothing in the package tg indie cate what disposition was planned. Meanwhile, with the report of the finding of the package, investiators again brought Morcischeck in for questioning, confronted him with the evidence in hand, and then, they say, (See JEWELS, Page A-7.) COVERED BY GASOLINE, COUPLE AND SON DIE Surviving Child Says Father Ate tempted to Destroy Entire Texas Family. By the Associated Press. VERNON, Tex., January 23.—A farm couple and their 7-year-old son were burned fatally today in what an older brother, who escaped, said was his father's attempt to do away with the whole family. The three who died were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Duke and their son Tommie, Physicians said Glenn, 12, and Mo« zelle, 14, had little chance to recover. Running to a neighbor's home with his clothing in flames, Glenn told Mrs. J. C. Gray and Mrs. Edna Fain his father locked the family in the kitchen, threw gasoline on them and set fire to their clothing. County Attorney Curtis Renfro said a sanity hearing had been set next week for Duke, 60, who recently ree turned from a Fort Worth hospital, where he was treated for a mental disorder, H