Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (D 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; colder tomorrow; lowest temperature to- night about 40 degrees. Temperatures— Highest, 53, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 7 a.m. today. Full report page A-10. Closing New York Markets, Page 11 33,912 85th YEAR. NEW ARREST SEEN AS SCIENCE AIDS IN SPROUSE CASE Dentist’s Office Ransacked for New Clues in Chloro- form Death. PLASTER CASTS TAKEN OF TIRE AND FOOTPRINTS No. Authorities Follow Up Theory Girl May Have Died in Miller’s Office. BY IRVING F. LASH, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 6.—Rumors of a second arrest in bizarre death of pretty 18-year-old Cleo Sprouse filled Charlottesville to- day as the authorities continued to piece together their case against Dr. Richard G. Miller, 53-year-old dentist, charged with her murder. Scientific crime detection was called into play to check portions of Dr. Miller's statement that the girl died while he was administering chloro- form preparatory to an illegal opera- tion, Still dissatisfied with the dentist's version, police yesterday ransacked his downtown office and explored every foot of the ground Dr. Miller said he traveled last Monday night, when Cleo met her death, in a search for proof of “out-and-out murder.” Plaster Casts Taken. Plaster casts were made of automo- bile tire tracks and footprints, sam- ples of mud were taken and the doc- tor's papers and tools collected. All of these will be subjected to intensive laboratory tests in an effort to re- construct events leading up to Cleo’s death and force Dr. Miller to explain what officials describe as “discrepan- cles” and “loose ends” in his state- ment. Mud samples were taken in the desolate graveyard near the University of Virginia campus, where the girl's body was discovered by two students, and at the point at the other end of town, where, according to Dr. Miller’s statement, he took Cleo to perform the operation. Fife revealed the mud samples will be sent to the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation to be checked against the mud found on the slippers worn by Cleo when she came to her tragic end. “We intend to establish through ehemical analysis of the dirt whether the girl left the automobile,” explained. “Miller said she did not.” Found No Instrument. In the raid on Dr. Miller's office no instrument, such as could have been used for an illegal operation, was found, but authorities reported they did find medical cotton similar to that covering Cleo’s mouth and nose when her body was discovered, and a towel similar to the one which was over her face. An instrument ease and several other articles, some ©f them bottles, also were confiscated. “Miller maintained he had this case ‘with him on the night Cleo died,” the Commonwealth’s attorney said. “In his subsequent confession he refuted the statement. At first he stead- fastly maintained the car reeked of chloroform because a bottle of the fluid had overturned in the kit. He denied this later.” Officers Advance New Theory. In ransacking the dentist’s omce,‘ it was learned, officials also were | working on the theory the girl might have died there, and not in the auto- mobile, a borrowed car, as claimed by Dr. Miller. Neighbors who knew both families reported that Dr. Miller has served a5 the family dentist to the Sprouses for a number of years and had been e frequent visitor to the house. It was recalled that on Monday night, ‘when Cleo failed to return home, and her rothers looked for her at the homes of friends, Dr. Miller was one of those visited. Meanwhile, it was announced at the Miller home ihat A. R. Miller, the dentist's brother, had employed E. V. Walker and Robert H. Taylor, well-known local attorneys, to serve for the defense, along with Harold M. Ratcliffe, commonwealth’s attorney for Henrico County. Walker was a law partner of Commonwealth’s At- torney Fife up until five years ago. Rumors that Dr. Miller might plead drsanity, resulting from a gunshot wound in the head received while hunting last January, were discounted. CUMMINS WHIPPING TESTIMONY GIVEN Witness Said Boy Threatened to Take Own Life Before He Disappeared. By » Staff Correspondent ot The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 6.— ‘Testimony that Luther Cummins, 15- year-old George Washington High 8chool student, whose skeleton was found in Hume Swamp last Saturday, threatened to take his own life be- cause of beatings at his home a short time before he disappeared last July 16 was given at a coroner’s inquest here today. William Harlow, a road roller oper- ator, living at 308 South Patrick street, told Dr. William B. Wilkins, acting coroner, that Luther took ref- uge on his steam roller last Summer when chased and “teased” by other boys in the neighborhood. Harlow said he asked the boy why the others were taunting him and quoted Luther a8 replying: “They are making fun of me be- eause my father and mother beat me s0 much. But they can’t hurt me because I am going to hang myself or jump out of a tree or something.” e Pope Studies Garden Plans. VATICAN CITY, March 6 (#).— Pope Pius, XI studied plans for re- arranging the Vatican gardens today, Vatican sources said, while continu- ing satisfactory progress in recovery trom his serious illness. Fife | Entered as second class matter post cffice, Washington, D. C. Actor Disappea . . . | Briton Missing at End | of Champagne Affair in Girl’s Cabin. BY the Assoclated Press. PLYMOUTH, England, March e.—‘ Frank Vosper, gifted British actor- | playwright returning from Hollywood, | vanished today from a gay journey’s end champagne party aboard the| Europe-bound liner Paris in circum- | stances baffling both to Scotland Yard | and to his beauty queen hostess. | ‘Vosper, 37, and Miss Muriel Oxford, “Miss Great Britain” of 1936, talked together on a.darkened deck veranda about 3 a.m. while their friends “were drinking champagne and everybody was happy.” The beauty queen did not ;l_i.sclose the subject of their conversa- ion. Then, Miss Oxford told Scotland Yard officers, she returned to-her own party The gay guests missed Vosper, and a general ship alarm was sounded. “I heard a man’s voice saying: ‘If you don't marry me, I'll jump over- board,’” one Paris passenger asserted to investigating officials. “Nothing like that ever happened,” retorted Miss Oxford, 23-year-old chorus girl, who has been appearing in a New York revue. i Tavestigations Started. ‘When the Paris docked at Plymouth two hours later, Vosper was still miss- ing. Ship's officers and Scotland Yard began separate investigations. Peter Wiles, a fellow Londoner, said Vosper might have tried to climb down to the next deck from the veranda in order to return to his own cabin un- noticed and then lost his balance. He said he was sure Vosper was drowned accidentally. The actor, he asserted, went to bed before Miss Oxford's party started. “I and several others went around and dragged Frank out of bed and made him come to the party,” said | Wiles. “He later told me: ‘I am bored; | I want to go back to bed.’” @ WASHINGTON, D. C., rs From Ship After Beauty Queen’s Party i FRANK VOSPER. MURIEL OXFORD. —A. P. Wirephotos. ARMS POLIGY HITS BRITISH INDUSTRY $7,500,000,000 Defense| Program Threatens to Hamper Business. BY the Associatea Press. LONDON, March 6.—Britain's $7,- 500,000,000 rearmament program promised today not only to nitk tax- able incomes by an extra 1.2 per cent, but threatened to hamper normal in- dustrial production for three years. ‘The five-year program of perfecting war defenses, with its prospective in- roads into supplies of steel and other materials, would take precedence over regular peace time industry, Sir Thomas Inskip, defense co-ordination minister, suggested. “It would be no bad thing,” he de- clared in a speech last night, “if some orders were postponed two or three years while contractors sre busy on the government program.” The airplane industry, for example, is so busy with government orders that even now it is not attempting to meet | private orders. Meanwhile, the English taxpayer | gradually was learning the full import of the arms program as it promises 0 affect his purse, and labor troubles continued to harass the government’s efforts to catch up with a rearming Europe. It was believed certain an increase of at least 6 cents on every $5 in the standard income tax rate would result. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, who must devise means of raising an additional $280,000,000 by taxation in the financial year be- ginning April 1, hinted as much in an address last night at Edinburgh, Scot- land. He referred to the prospect the gov- ernment would divert any treasury surpluses to rearmament and added: “Nothing but stark necessity would have made me confess to such a nega- tion of common sense and common humanity.” _— WINS 10-CENT JUDGMENT Rest of Suit to Collect $126.86 Declared Outlawed. BUFFALO, N. Y, March 6 (A).— Hardware Dealer William Y. Arthur won a 10-cent judgment today, repre- senting two steel bolts sold in 1931. Arthur sued to collect $126.86 for purchases made by a rural resident since 1927. The court held that all the claims except for two bolts had been outlawed by the legal time limit. Printer, Acquitted, Faints. CAMDEN, N. J, March 6 (#).—A jury yesterday acquitted Charles H. REBEL PLANES KL HANY I ARANILE Drop More Than 50 Bombs in Raid on Central Spanish Front. B) the Associated Press. MADRID, March 6.—Many persons were belleved dead today in the gov- ernment-held City of ez after & night of terror, in which insurgent planes, making repeated visits, drop- ped more than 50 bombs. The attacks on Aranjuez, which started at the dinner hour last night and lasted .itermittently until after 2 am. today, were the most severe of & series in a broad semi-circle of in- surgent air raids on the Central Span- ish front. Alded by a star-studded sky, the bombing squadrons dropped explosives with telling accuracy into Villaneuva del Pardillo, 15 miles west of Madrid; Alcala de Henares, 15 miles to the east; Tarancon, 50 miles to the south- east on the Valencia Highway, and other points near Madrid and the Valencia Highway. Precise figures on the casualties at Aranjuez were not immediately avail- able. Property damage was severe, particularly along a ¥ital government railroad where insurgents attempted to disrupt communications. Madrid itself was given a fright when the insurgent warplanes zoomed overhead early in the evening. They sped off, however, without bombing the city. The rays of giant search- lights pointed them out quickly in the bright night. REBEL CRUISER BOMBED. Government Planes Attack Ship Off Catalan Coast. BARCELONA, March 8 (#).—Gov- ernment planes bombed the insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera 40 miles off the Catalan coast today and put the vessel to flight, an official communique announced. Parachute Fails, But Jumper Grabs One While Falling By the Associated Press. KHABAROVSK, U. 8. 8. R, March 6.—Army officers told to- day of the strange escape of & red parachute jumper who could not open his ’chute. Junior Officer Krevoschefl jumped from & plane with several other aerial artists during ma- neuvers and plummeted into the ropes of a comrade’s parachute. Unable to open his own chute, Krevoscheff desperately grasped his comrade’s ropes and to- Wacht of illegal voting. Wacht, a printer, fainted. gether they glided safely to earth. Police to Quiz “Y oung Hellions” . In Slaying of By the Associated Press. WINDSOR, Vt, March 6—Police Chief John Edmonds said today = “gang of young hellions” would be questioned for information in connec- tion with the slaying of 4-year-old Beverly Ann Page of Claremont, N. H., whose battered body was found last night in Mill Pond. Edmonds said residents of this little town on the Connecticut River had told him of a group of boys “not much older” than Beverly Ann who practiced cruelties on younger children. One of their customs, he said, was to hold others under water until they came up gasping. The chief, half of Windsor's police department, did not identify the group further. Meanwhile, State Pathologist Charies 2 Girl, 4, in Pond P. Whitney prepared to conduct an autopsy. Preliminary examination disclosed, State’s Attorney Albion Parker said, that the child met desth by violence and that “there was an attempted criminal attack.” At Claremont, N. H, General Hos- pital, about 10 miles away, nurses shielded the child’s mother, who gave birth to & daughter only last Mon- day, from news of her only other daughter’s fate. Relatives asked that s hospital radio be shut off to pre- vent news reaching her through that medium. The slaying of the light-haired, brown-eyed child was Windsor’s sec ond murder in 10 years. John Winters of Windsor is serving a life sentence (See GIRL, Page A-10.) ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION COMPANY UNIONS MAPWARONC. 1.0, A.F.L.WONT HELP Arrests and Disorders in Chicago Taxi Strike Mark Week End. ELECTRICAL WORKERS’ NEGOTIATIONS PENDING Auto Conference Adjourned Until Monday—Martin Reports Union Progress. BACKGROUND— Present intensifled drive for union=- ized labor dates back to split last year between American Federation of Labor officials and John L. Lewis over craft vs. industrial organiza- tion. Lewis’s unions were suspended jrom A. F. L., pursued active organ- izing. First big offensive was auto- mobile industry, where series of sit- down strikes halted work in Gen- eral Motors plants early in this year. Finally G. M. agreed to meet Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in negotiations. These talks now are being held. Lewis announced steel as next ob- jective. Steel, in form of Carnegie- Illinois and other big Airms, met the labor leader this week and an- nounced union recognition, higher pay, shorter hours. Labor leaders hailed action as biggest victory for their side in recent years. By the Associated Press. The end of a week of momentous developments in the field of industrial unionization saw a quickening today of the struggle for control of labor. In the steel industry the leader of so-called “company unions” joined the battle whose major contending forces heretofore have been the American Federation of Labor and John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Or- ganization. Recognition of the C. I. O. as sole bargaining agent for its members in the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. gave Lewis’ supporters an early advantage, but their foes quickly mapped a coun- ter-offensive. At Pittsburgh, leaders of the cor- poration’s employe representatives drafted plans for combatting the C. I. O. intentions te enroll the Nation's 550,000 steel workers. A committee was authorised to reorganize the “com- pany union” structure. Green Won't Help. Although at odds with the Lewis organization, President William Green of the A. F. of L. declined to attack the C. I. O. through support of the Carnegie-1llinois employe group. He told the latter it must be wholly free from company influence before the A. F. of L could recognize it as an ally. The Committee for Industrial Or- ganization will meet in Washington Tuesday at the call of Lewis to dis- cuss unionization campaigns in sev- eral large industries, among them the textile industry, employing 1,250,000 workers. Reports of a threatened strike by Pittsburgh workers of the Westing- house Electric & Manufacturing Co. cropped out after a C. I. O. union demanded a 20 per cent wage increase for more than 8,000 employes. Pend- ing were bargaining conferences be- tween the C. 1. O. and another electric manufacturing concern, General Elec- tric Co., employing 60,000 workers. Arrests and sluggings marked a taxicab drivers” strike in Chicago. Leaders claimed 1,800 Yellow Cab drivers and 800 Checker Co. chauf- feurs were on strike for more pay and other concessions. Officials of the - (See LABOR, Page A-3) OBTAINS FIRST PAPERS HOLLYWOOD, March 6 #).— [ Marlene Dietrich, a Berlin girl who made good in Hollywood, was formally on the way to United States citizen- ship today. “I live in the United States—my interests are here—I think this is & great country,” she explained when she obtained her first papers yester- day. She must wait two years for naturalization. Summary of Page. Amusements C- B-3 Lost & Found A-3 ' Woman's Pg. B-8 FOREIGN. on minor officials. Page A-1 British actor disappears after party on ship. Page A-1 Insurgent bombers kil many in Aranjues. Page A-1 NATIONAL. McReynolds favors naval arms reduc- tion conference. Page A-10 Police to quiz gang in slaying of girl, 4. Page A-1 Officials forecast second arrest in chloroform death of girl. Page A-1 Court reform opposition develops voting Conference Tuesday to decide course of John L. Lewis. Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Suspect sought in series of attacks, thefts in Montgomery. Page A-2 Authorities say “friendly tussle” cost life of theater usher, Page A3 SATURDAY, MARCH 6, SPEAKING OF THREE-HORSE TEAMS. The only evening paper in. Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. 1937 —THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ¢ Toening Star *k% §1,000 D00HOSPITAL 10 BE BUILT HERE Patients of Moderate Means to Gain by Structure on | Street. A new million-dollar hospital owned, and operated by doctors only, largely for patients of moderate means, will rise on I street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets to connect two medical buildings already on the site, to form one of the greatest medical today. medical buildings, already purchased | by the physicians, includes the his~ toric old I street Friends Meeting House and the Sidwell Priends School, both of which will be razed or moved from the site. Plans already are under considera- tion for construction of the hospital, but constriiction will await removal of the two Friends’ institutions, which have another year to vacate. The hospital will connect Columbia Medical Building, 1835 I street, at the corner of Nineteenth street with Wash- ington Medical Building, 1801 I street, at the corner of Eighteenth street. It will run back in the form of a T, al- most to the alley. Own Two Medical Buildings. The men behind the project have been planning to bring this dream into reality for 10 years. They own and operate the two medical build- ings, which have interlocking direc- torates, and have formed a new $500,- 000 corporation to be known officially as Doctors Hospital, Inc. It has been chartered by the State of Virginia. The officers of Doctors Hospital, Inc., all prominent in the medical pro- fession here, are: Dr. Charles Stanley White, presi- dent; Dr. Edward L. Morrison, vice president; Dr. Charles W. Hyde, treas- urer, and Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, secre- tary. Dr. White is president of both the Columbia Medical Building and the ‘Washington Medical Building Corps. ‘These two building corporations also have the same treasurer, Dr. Hyde, and the same secretary, Dr. Hunter. The new Doctors’ Hospital, Inc., will have an interlocking directorate from (See HOSPITAL, Page A-4.) Nazis Hit Two Societies. BERLIN, March 6 (#).—Govern- ment officials who belonged to the German Peace Society or the Pan- European Union before the Nazi as- sumption of power, an official decree announced today, henceforth either will be removed from their posts or will be barred from future ad- vancement. Today’s Star 19 persons from 6 familles in one D. C. department. Page A-14 New camp announced for needy in nearby Virginia. Page A-14 Commissioners uphold liquor control act. Page A-14 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ° Editorials. Page A-6 This and That. Page A-6 Answers and Questions. Page A-6 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-6 David Lawrence. Page A-7 Paul Mallon. Page A-7 Mark Sullivan. Page A-7 Jay Franklin. Page A-7 Delia Pynchon. Page A-7 SPORTS. Cascarella making real bid for start- ing berth. Page C-9 Thrills due in indoor track meet at Baltimore. Page C-9 Western D. C. basket champs seek 8. A. tourney bid. Page C-9 G. W. high quint’s stock up in Star tourney. Page C-10 D. C. linkswomen looking to Dixie centers in the city, The Star learned | attdched o the U 88 Sons e | Property lying between these two | Sailor Accused Of ‘Millionaire’ Spending Spree $400 Bill Leads to Arrest of Man in Hagerstown. BY the Associated ress. HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 6— Officers charged today John O. Lonas, | 31-year-old sailor, apparently tried to play “millionaire for a day” here at the expense of approximately a dozen merchants and business men. Here is what they said Lonas, who is cedes, station ship at the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, arranged to buy and promised to pay for: One $10,000 house (on which he | paid $40.) $400 worth of groceries from a chain | store. A new truck. A new tractor. A new, expensive automobile. An expensive sewing machine. Various farm implements. A new typewriter. Approximately $100 worth of drugs and sundries. Awnings, measured to fit the win- dows of his new home. But, police here charged, Lonas (See SAILOR, Page RUSSIA T0 PERMIT VOTE N OFFIBALS Democracy Introduced in Communism’s Ranks on Eve of New Trials. BY the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, March 6.—The Commu- nist party instituted sweeping po- litical reforms today, as a new treason trial loomed for leaders once powerful in high Soviet councils. Secret, direct voting for minor party officials, to introduce democracy with- in communism’s ranks, was ordered by the Central Executive Committee on the heels of the expulsion of Alexis Rykoff, former premier, and Nikolai Bukharin, former editor of the news- paper Izvestia, from the party. The ouster of the two leaders, it was indicated authoritatively, foreshad- owed a third trial such as revealed testimony of widespread Rightist op- position movements in Soviet Russia during recent months. Sixteen men were shot after the fifst trial and 13 received death sentences at the second. Elections for Council. ‘The voting change, provided in the new Soviet constitution, was a step toward putting the Communist house in order before forthcoming elections for & new Supreme Council. The party hierarchy remained un- affected by the election revision. The Politbureau, which is the real master of both the party and the government, will continue an appointive body, with Joseph Stalin at its helm. Elimination of abuses by minor po- I‘Senate Opposition Develops | day at Carnegie Hall, New York. | off their side of the case before the litical bosses, an aim of the secret bal- loting program, admittedly was a necessity to hold control over the com- (See RUSSIA, Page A-2) FOES OF JUDICIARY PLAN AP FIGHT on Two Fronts—Party Realignment Hinted. BY the Associated Press. Senatorial opponents of court reor- ganization massed their attack today on two fronts: The President’s call for immediate action and the ap- proach ef crucial public hearings on | the issue. Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne-} braska told reporters there would be | 'a new alignment of parties in this country by 1938” if Mr. Roosevelt should carry his point. The President’s foes, carefully pre- | paring to trade blow for blow, ar-| ranged a series of addresses cul- minating in a mass meeting next Fri- They also hinted they had lined up s prominent “surprise” witness to lead Senate Judiciary Committee. They would not disclose his name. Sale Campaign Goes Forward. ‘While Burke and his colleagues were serving notice of a “fight to the bit- ter end,” the President and his chief- tains went ahead with their campaign to sell the court program to the Nation. Mr. Roosevelt worked on the “fire- side chat” in which he will make his second plea to the country Tuesday night. On Capitol Hill, his lieutenants pre- pared to follow up this speech with supporting testimony before the com- mittee hearings beginning the next day. Opponents announced replies to the President’s speeches would be given by four Democratic Senators from us many sections of the country at the New York meeting. The speakers, they said, would in- clude Walsh of Massachusetts, pub- licly, at least, & new recruit to their cause. The others are George of Georgia, Copeland of New York and Burke. On Wednesday night Senator ‘Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, will reply to the President from Chicago. Burke's suggestion of a ignment (See COURTS, Page A-3.) —_— BULLITT CONFERENCES UP) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,975 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. NEW RELIEF POLICY MAY BE BARED BY GOVERNORS' PLEA Action of Six Executives Seen Forcing Statement in Advance. ROOSEVELT WILL SEND MESSAGE THIS MONTH W. P. A. Head Bases Plans to Reduce Rolls on Recovery and Good Farm Year. BY the Associatea Press. A White House visit by six Governors to plead against slicing works progress rolls appeared likely today to bring & restatement or clarification of the Government's relief policy. ‘The Governors of New York, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Wis- consin and Minnesota requested ths conference with President Roosevelt after declaring State and local govern- ments already were hard put in trying to care for needy unemployables. They said their States could not stand having this burden increased by cuts in W. P. A, which enlists only “distressed employables.” The Governors held a strategy meeting in a hotel room prior to théir meeting with the President a lunch- eon at 1 p.m. Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. adminis- trator, has announced plans to reduce Federal relief rolls by 550,000 before June 1, cutting the total from 2,150, 000 to 1,600,000. President Roosevelt, however, has made no statement while studying figures for next fiscal year’s relief ap- propriation. He expects to send his relief message to Congress late this month. Assume Good Farm Year, Hopkins told a House committee the contemplated reductions were based on continued recovery and assumed a good agricultural year that would make drought relief unnecessary. The six Governors asked not only for an opportunity to protest cuts, but to suggest an “efficient and sound” solution. Asked for his views before going to the White House, Gov. Philip La Fol- | lette, Wisconsin Progressive, said the Federal Government should provide work for all on relief rolls and that none be dropped unless taken into private employment. He estimated half of those on relief in Wisconsin were unable to obtain jobs, and that the contemplated W. P. A. reduction would increase the State relief load 50 per cent, creating a serious financial situation. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, New York Democrat, declined to discuss the question in advance of the conference. He expressed a stand in his budget message February 1 similar to that of La Follette—that the Federal Gov- ernment should drop no relief workers until they can be absorbed in private industry. He also urged that such workers be replaced immediately by other needy employables taken from home relief rolls to give States and cities the first benefits from re-employment. Gov. Elmer Benson, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite, said: “The unemployment situation in Minnesota is serious. The Federal Government never has assumed its full responsibility in caring for the unemployed.” Burden Held Unbearable. Gov. Henry Horner, Illinois Demo- crat, said his State’s burden is be- coming unbearable. “I want the Federal Government to provide for 35,000 employables now on relief and other employables who may go on relief,” he said. “Such lessening of the load might make our relief burden more bearable. “Another matter of concern is the reluctance of W. P. A. employes to take private employment when offered because if they lose such employment they cannot get back on W. P. A. (See RELIEF, Page A-3.) WITH PRESIDENT BEGUN General Aspects of World Eco- nomic Situation Discussed With Secretary Hull. BY the Associated Press. William C. Bullitt, American Am- bassador to France, began a series of conferences with high administra- tion officials today. He was received by President Roose- velt shortly after his arrival in Wash- ington late yesterday and held a lengthy conversation with Secretary Hull this morning. ‘The Secretary of State said they discussed only general aspects of the world economic situation. The Ameri- can envoy said he will sail for Paris March 24. Fontaine Fox’s Sister Reveals ‘Friend’ Is Really Their Sister BY the Associated Press. met Mary Fox. who is now Mrs. Reut- linger. Mary Fox knew Jessie Adams then, as her sister, but kept the pledge of secrecy. Later Jessie Adams married Dan Fontaine Fox, now in Florida, last night referred questioners to Dan MacDougald in Atlanta, while in Louisville Reutlinger, an insurance 'DOOM NOTE FOUND ON BODY OF MAN Death of Missouri Relief Admin- istrator Thought Likely Due to Fright. BY the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., March 6.— Federal and State officials today sought to determine whether a “dooms= day” note found in his pocket held a clue to the sudden death yesterday of Delois F. Teed, Butler County relief administrator. Teed died unexpectedly at his desk late yesterday—the day designated in an abusive letter received a week ago. Coroer Grover Greer ordered a poste mortem today. Possibility that death was caused by a heart attack, induce® by fear, was indicated by the coronef. The note read: “Leave town for good in seven days or it will be judgment day for you. Police cannot help you. If you stay we will get you or the boy if it takes & year. “There won't be no more warning if you mix the police or other people in this. We will get you here or where you go. Leave and save your dirty hide or stay and we get you.” The boy is believed by police to be Teed’s 10-year-old son, Jackie. COLDER IS FORECAST Capital to Have Overcast Skies on Week End. A week end with overcast skies and colder weather is forecast for the Dis- trict. The minimum temperature to= night, however, probably will be in the low 40s. Yesterday the mercury rose to & executive, told of a proposed family seunion here next week. 4 high of 53 degrees at 3 pm. By T a.m. today it had dropped to 37, \J