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A—4 xx = . CHECK-UP BEGUN - INDEATH OF BOY Alexandria Police Take Writ- ten Statements From Neighbors and Kin. By 8 Stafl Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3.— Conflicting and contradictory infor- mation furnished investigators today were viewed by Lieut.- Edgar Sims, chief of Alexandria detectives, as threatening any possibility of ever solving the mystery surrounding the disappearance and death of 15-year- old Luther Cummins. The skeleton of the George Wash- ington High School student was dis- covered by his 12-year-old brother Robert in a clump of trees in Hume swamp last Saturday. The mystery today seemed far from a solution as Ppolice began a thorough check-up on statements made by members of the boy’s family and by neighbors. Be- ginning with Mrs. Franklin D. Cum- mins, mother of the youth, Lieut. Sims will take written statements from sev= eral persons in the neighborhood. It was understood that investigators are particularly interested in locating one woman neighbor who was at the Cummins home while the search of the swamp was being made last July 16, a few hours after the dis- appearance. Lieut. Sims last night questioned members of the Potomac Rescue Squad who were present during the search for the boy. Sims sald numerous contradictory statements had been made to police since the Investigation got under way and that he will use the written state- ments obtained today to check against testimony to be given Dr. Willlam B. Wilkins, acting coroner, at an inquest at 11 am. Saturday. Commonwealth Attorney Albert V. Bryan said he will be present at the inquest to aid in the interrogation of witnesses in an effort to learn the cause of death. The bleached bones of the youth yesterday were interred in Glenwood Cemetery following services at the George W. Wise funeral home, in Georgetown, Naval (Continued From First Page.) admiralty lord announced, would swell Britain’s mighty armada. $390,325.000 From Taxpayers. Only $135,000,000 of the cost will be borne by Britain’s new $2,000,- 000,000 defense loan, Sir Samuel de- clared, forcing the nation’s taxpayers to dip into their pockets for the addi- tional $390,325,000. The 1937 new program of construc- tion. he said, was an increase of $118,000,000 over the 1936 figures, of which $45,000,000 would be spent for modernization of capital ships al- ready in service and maintenance. The increase in manpower, Sir Samuel told Parliament, was made necessary by the increased program of new construction for 1936 and 1937, including expansion of the fleet and the fleet air force. Great Britain, he said, would con- tinue to observe the qualitative lim= itations of the London naval treaty. No Quantitative Limit. “As the Washington and London 1930 naval treaties expired December 31, 1936,” Sir Samuel said, “there is no longer any quantitative limitation | on naval construction in any category of warships. “But pending ratification of the | London naval treaty of 1936, the| qualitative limitations contained therein are being observed in the con= struction of ships now laid down or : THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3, 1937. Figures in Mystery Death Upper: Lower: f widowed mother of the girl, is and Chris England. That Japan ever can com- pete against such expenditures of money is hardly possible. Already the people of Japan are crying out bit- terly against the taxation and high cost of foods brought about by the armaments program. Tariffs Are Cut. Great Britain ordered into effect today deep cuts in tariffs on iron and | steel for munitions of war to insure her rearmament program. The sweeping reductions were seen as the first step in & broad program | to make certain Britain is not ham- pered in her $7,500.000,000 defense | program, termed by Foreign Secretary | Anthony Eden “the greatest contribu- tion in our power to the preservation of world peace.” Cleo Sprouse, 18-year-old high body was found yesterday near the University of Virginia Ceme- tery, at Charlottesville, Va., by two engineering students. Too shocked for tears, Mrs. Lulu Sprouse (seated), school girl, whose comforted by Mrs. Alice Poole, Cleo’s sister, and her three brothers (left to right), Lester, James —A. P. Photos. Spain (Continued From First Page.) placed them as high as 2,000 dead. The Jarama front is vitally im- portant to the defense of Madrid. In- surgent victories there would mean isolation and encirclement for the city. The Madrid governor has issued a decree putting the city on a daily bread ration of 300 grams (about 10 ounces) for each individual. A similar order was issued at Barcelona, where the ration was put at 250 grams (around 8 ounces). It is there that Gen. Jose Miaja, CITIZENS DISCUSS SUFFRAGE FIGHT Effort to Obtain Local Vote Now Seen Danger to Na- tional Ballot Change. Efforts to obtain local suffrage at this time would jeopardize the possi- bility of obtaining a vote in national elections, Ernest F. Henry of the Petworth Citizens' Association told a citizens' committee on local suffrage last night at a meeting which followed the monthly meeting of the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association. Henry expressed disaproval of the so-called Burroughs plan, which asks that Washingtonians be given the right to elect local officers as well as their national representatives in Con- gress and the electoral college. The Citizens’ Committee, composed of representatives of several associa- tions, also heard a suggestion by Byrd Payne of the Citizens' Forum of Co- lumbia Heights that the greater part of the District be ceded back to Mary- land as a means of giving residents here the same privileges enjoyed by citizens of the States. Payne said that under the Con- stitution it would be possible for the seat of the Federal Government to be limited to the area on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue and as far east as necessary Wwilliam McK. Clayton of the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations ex- pressed the opinion an elected officer was of far greater importance to & community than an appointed officer. The Suffrage Committee has ap- pointed & subcommittee to study sug- gested methods for obtaining a vote and national representation for the District. At its meeting the Columbia Heights Association reiterated its stand in favor of the Norton bill to legalize horse racing in the District, and asked the President to appoint a people’s counsel for the District as soon as | possible. OFFICIALS STUDY Proposal Reported to Involve Re- vamping of Existing Legis- lation. BY the Associated Press. fiscal and pension officials today. Informed authorities said the pro- posal involves a projected agreement ployes, under which existing retire- long conference yesterday with Mur- ray W. Latimer, chairman of the Rail Retirement Board. and Arthur J. Alt- meyer of the Social Security Board. Treasury officials reported Morgen- thau was anxious to determine whether the proposal would upset the Gov- ernment’s fiscal program by calling for additional Federal expenditures. Persons close to the rail labor and management negotiating committees which drafted the new program said it probably would provide a tax of 92!1 per cent on both employers’ pay | rolls and employes’ wages. This tax would be scaled upward to 3': | cent over a period of years. It would be levied on wages up to $300 a month, compensation in excess of this being | exempt. |BANK EMPLOYE’S BOOKS FOUND SHORT $23,393 RAIL PENSION PLAN | A proposed new retirement system | for the railroad workers of the Nation |, absorbed the attention of Government, | between the roads and their em- | ment legislation would be revamped. | Secretary Morgenthau, flanked by a | battery of Treasury experts, held a | per | U.S.NAVY OUTLAY EXCEEDS BRITAIN Supply Bill for $526,555,428 - Covers Only 12 Ships in New Construction. BY the Assoclateu Press. Great Britain's $525,325,000 cost es- timate for its 1937 naval program is almost the same as the American Navy proposes to spend in the next fiscal year in carrying out its fleet develop- ment plans, The annual naval supply bill, as re- ported by the House Appropriations | Committee, carries a total of $526,~ 555,428, The actual American building pro- gram for the coming fiscal year begin- ning July 1, however, is much more modest than the 80 warships of various types on which Britain proposes to be- gin construction this year. Aside from the two new battleships already authorized, the Navy supply bill provides only for 12 ships in new construction—eight destroyers and four submarines. Most of the $130,000,000 set aside for actual construction in the measure work on the 2 battleships and on 3 aircraft carriers, 11 cruisers, 48 de- stroyers, 16 submarines and a gunboat | already building Latest available figures compare the present British and American fleets, including ships built, building and | authorized, as follows: United Great Britain. Capital ships .- Aircraft carriers Cruisers - Destroyers .. Submarines Total ships ........ 405 Total tonnage...1,429,740 1545473 Great Britain’s plan to build 80 new ships this year would give that nation | a potential numerical superiority in vessels of almost 50, counting the 12 new ships the United States plans to lay down after July 1. POLICE SEEK SADIST ' INWOMAN’S MURDER | Cincinnati Victim Attacked and Beaten—Third Violent Death in Family. BY the * -~ociated Press. CINCINNATI, March 3—A 26- year-old police character, whom Lieut. | George Schattle described as a sadist, was hunted today in the killing of Mrs. Edith Caudill Hirl, the third violent death in her husband’s family in seven years. | John Hirl, W. P. A night watchman, told Schattle he married the 28-year- | old former resident of Ashland, Ky., | and Huntington, W. Va., January 6 in | Newport, Ky.. and they separated two whom she had introduced as her brother. | Schattle previously had identified the woman through fingerprints. Mrs. Hirl's broken and beaten body was found yesterday in a shelter house in Inwood Park. Declaring the woman had been choked and criminally attacked, | Schattle said the body bore fresh | scars, including teeth marks. Police have tentatively identified the man | believed to have been the “nattily dressed” escort with whom she spent several hours preceding her death, he added. Three taxicab drivers supplied in- | formation on a night of celebrating, drinking and dispute in which the fcouple engaged. They told Detective Chief Emmett D. Kirgan the man's will, be devoted to carrying forward [ Red Cross Presents Awards Three Washingtonians received certificates of merit and ap- reciation today Jrom the Red Cross in ceremonies at headquar- ers of the District chapter. Pictured, left to right, are Gen. F. R, Keefer, chapter chairman, presenting to Maj. E. L. Dyer a merit award from the National Red Cross organization for saving a young woman from drowning at Marblehead, Mass., last Summer, and Mackall R. Bruin, who received an appreciation award for 300 hours of volunteer first-aid work during the past three years. The third recipient, Mrs. Thelma De Atley, was not present to receive a similar honor for teaching life saving. BREAK WITHNAZL CHURGH'S THREAT Expropriation of Catholic Land Would Bring Denun- ciation of Concordat. BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 3.—The Roman Catholic Church will denounce its concordat with Adolf Hitler's govern- ment, it was asserted today in church circles, if the Nazi regime carries out its threat to expropriate church lands for resettlement. The office of Hans Kerrl, minister for church affairs, meanwhile re- mained close-mouthed with regard to more complete details of the resettle- ment plan, except to say it was “noth- ing new.” The Nazi-Catholic concordat, signed July 21, 1933, under which Catholic leaders have sought to enforce spiritual training of Catholic youth, defined spheres of church authority, relegating youth training in civic concepts to the state. Lutheran circles, aside from specu- lation as to the course of-the reset- tlement scheme disclosed Saturday by Kerrl, expressed mystification over the reported death last week of Dr. Weissler, chief of the Administrative Bureau of the Confessional Synod's | provisional church government, in & | concentration camp at Oranienburg. | Weissler, a baptized Jew, was ar- weeks ago after a quarrel over & man | o ceq lac’ October. His friends said | | he had showed no indication of ex- | cessive mental depression and appar- ently was in good health. No one suggested the death was not | suicide, but some recalled Rev. Martin | Niemoeller's pulpit reference on Sun- | day to the case and emphasized Nie- moeller’s words: “‘Weissler was discovered dead in [PonTIAC IMMEDIATE DELIVERY| Flood Motor Co. —Star Staff Photo. his cell. According to a report of the secret police, he hanged himself with & towel.” BERLIN 1S SILENT ON'SECRET DEBT' Details o S. E. C. Statement Awaited by German Foreign Office. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 3.—The German foreign office, the Reichsbenk and other official quarters yesterday re= | fused to comment on a Washington | statement that Germany has a huge “secret debt,” pending receipt in Ber- | lin of details of the statement. The Securities and Exchange Com- mission announced in Washington, in connection with registration of a $69.- 000,000 German bond issue to pay for= eign debts, that the German govern- ment has a $2,000,000,000 secret debt. ‘The commission asserted Germany re- fused to include the debt in acknowl- edging her present obligations. You will be surprised at the LOW estimates we will give you ts. tory Painting service for vears N . FERGUSON } 3831 Ga. Ave. COl. 0567 1 SOCIETY SHAVED! In Juvenal's time, the pleasures of shaving were reserved for the Roman upper class—others had to grow beards. 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[FITE-T3Y i") Official of Baltimore Institution | projected.” Officials hoped the abolition of the | il:gxr:g:; :oml:rer;m}l‘d‘:rmt:!“;::l::; ‘fg; | attire was in marked contrast with the | Direct Factory Dealer Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads are made in special sizes for Corns, The naval appropriation estimates, | as announced to the House by the | first lord, will be made an integral part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain’s budget, to be announced in April. ITALY ACCEPTS CHALLENGE. Mussolini Has Decreed Lifetime Serv- ice for Citizens. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 3.—Mussolini 4s the first of the masters of men to give Britain a concrete answer to her | colossal armaments program—ad- vertised as designed to ensure peace— and the reply is far from reassuring, for 11 Duce has squared that famous jaw of his and slammed his gauntlet down. Italy has decided to compete against England. Specifically, the Fascists have de- creed what amounts to lifetime mili- tary service, for all citizens between the ages of 18 and 55, and have in- augurated a five-point plan to increase war forces and armaments. What is perhaps even more im- pressive, Italy has started a fresh drive ta raise the birthrate. They need niore boys to rear as soldiers. How far Mussolini will be able to compete against England’s $7,500,- 000,000 program is problematical, but economic experts say he cannot go all the way, or anything like it. He would bankrupt Italy. This was what England has in mind in providing for a program with which nobody could compete except the United States, and Britain doesn't re- gard America as a competitor, but as a friend, in matters of arms. Britain hoped that her gesture would be stag- gering enough to dampen the warlike 8pirit of other nations. Hitler Talks of Peace. Thus far the only thing Hitler has #aid is that Germany wants peace, and wants it badly. He has made no i.;u;au of trying to compete with Eng- nd. British statesmen have charged that Germany and Italy are mainly re- sponsible for the necessity of rearma- ments, which would seem to be that England’s big program is directed mainly toward keeping Hitler and Mussolini in hand. France and Russia both have been rearming on a big scale for a long time and have pretentious plans under way. One of the most ambitious of the major powers is Japan. Her arma- ments program is so big it has plunged the country into economic difficulties and precipitated a political crisis. Nippon’s main worries are caused by Russia and the United States, and she is building against both those countries. Admiral Yonai, Japanese minister of the navy, has said that if Japan's present plans for her navy apd naval airforce are completed, she need not fear the United States for three years. Japan is concerned about the Brib- ish program because she knows Amer- ica will build ship for ship alongside (‘ 335 per cent duty on pig iron and a | cut halving the 20 per cent duty omn iron and steel products would stimu- late the flow to England. 1t was learned the British decided to put 14-inch guns on the three new bat- tleships after considering making them 16 inches. Under the new London treaty April 1 is the deadline for non-signatory Japan to register objections, if any, to clauses fixing & 14-inch maximum for British, American and French war- ships. Italy, also & non-signer of the new treaty, has agreed to 14-inch guns. In naval circles here it is assumed the United States has delayed starting the two new American dreadnaughts already authorized until it is known what the Japanese will do. Authorities see little chance that | Tokio will prove any more receptive to the armament limitation chan it was to the British proposal for an ex- | tension of the Washington treaty’s ban on new fortifications in the Pa- cific. As for the United States, it is as- sumed it will be quick to take the op- portunity to install 16-inch guns if Japan refuses the 14-inch limit. The noted naval annual, Jane’s Fighting Ships, last December asserted they al- ready had been adopted. The British admiralty, however, is said to have perfected a 14-inch gun which can be loaded quicker than the larger piece and shoots 8 1,560-pound shell which will pierce any armor up to a range of 9 miles. " ANNIVERSARY PARTY Federal Employes Group to Cele- brate March 16. ‘The twenty-first anniversary of Local 2, the departmental local of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, will be observed with a dinner at the National Press Club on March 16. The guests will include Chairman Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, of the Senate Civil Service Commit- tee; Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, author of the Government workers' pay bill; Chairman Rams- peck, Democrat, of Georgia, of the House Civil Service Committee; Rep- resentative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas; Luther C. Steward, national president of the Federation, and Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary-treasurer. It gives & sense of | | he calls a plan of “defense with par- tial attacks,” and has tried to train the Madrid army gradually for offen- sive warfare. After the original insurgent push of February had been stopped, all but on the highway, the government troops succeeded in forcing the invaders back so as to relieve pressure on the imme- diate vicinity of Morata. One Unit Isolated. One insurgent unit was isolated on Pinzarron Hill, a strategic eminence. Morata itself, torn by shell and bomb, lies 19 miles from Madrid and 5 miles southwest of the Valencia road, and has served as headquarters for a crack division engaging the in- surgents in the hills a few miles farther to the southwest. Government forces on the southern front were reported by Febus (Spanish news agency) to be pressing forward on Orgiva, a town 25 miles southeast of Granada, and nearby Lanjaron. (A dispatch to the Talavera de la Reina insurgent headquarters asserted the government’s Orgiva thrust had been crushed and 13 government troopers killed, including an officer.) TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Spain, March 3 (#)—The insurgent command reported today heavy losses among government militiamen had forced the government to weaken its attack on besieged Oviedo. SHIP FORCED INTO PORT. Dutch Steamer, Halted by Rebels, Disloads Cargo at Ceuta. GIBRALTAR, March 3 (#).—The Dutch steamer Rambon reported on her arrival here today she had been halted by Spanish insurgent warships and forced to discharge her cargo at Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. It was reported, without official confirmation, the ship’s cargo was a consignment of guns and ammuni- tions for the Madrid government. e R Spanish Refugees Reach Cuba. SANTIAGO, Cuba, March 3 (®).— One hundred and thirty-three Cuban refugees from the Spanish civil war area arrived here yesterday aboard the steamer Saint Dominique. Miss REE LEEF “CAPUDINE relieves HEADACHE quicker because its liquid... abkeady dissolred Says Bond “More Than Covers” | Alleged Peculations. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 3.—A bank | shortage of $23,393, disclosed by State | Bank Commissioner Warren F. Ster- ling, drew State and city investigators to the Calvert Bank here. Commissioner Sterling said the shortage was discovered in the ac- counts of an employe and was verified by an examination of the bank’s books, directed by Chief Bank Examiner H. E. Meeks and P. Walker Turner of the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich- mond. | The Calvert Bank is a member of | the Federal Reserve System and of the | Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. | John S. Townsend, vice president | of the institution, announced the bond of the unnamed employe in | | the employe left the bank February | 17 suffering from an attack of grippe pital. “I don’t know whether he is still there,” eral children. [ PPN W S Cardmfll‘ Dougherty Returns. SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (P).— San Francisco extended a welcome today to Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, returning to America from the thirty-third In- ternational Eucharistic Congress in Manila. A great party of Catholic prelates accompanied the Cardinal on the pilgrim ship. Among them was Archbishop John J. 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