Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional showers to- night and tomorrow; slightly cooler toe night; gentle winds. Temperatures to-. day—Highest, 87, at 1 p.m.; lowest, 71, at 5:45 am. Temperature at 2 p.m., 86. Full report on page A-19. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 85th YEAR. No. S50 DENANDED BY KINWPER OF SOGETY HATRON Mrs. William H. Parsons Dis- appears From Long Is- land Estate. 34,008, RANSOM NOTE FOUND | ON AUTOMOBILE SEAT | Husband Returns From New York to Find Wife Strangely Missing. BULLETIN. STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 10 (®).—A blood-stained hatchet and an ax, found on the poultry farm of William H. Parsons, gentleman farmer, were rushed to New York City for examination today as Par- sons was reported ready to pay $25.000 ransom for the return of his missing wife, Alice McDonell Parsons, 38, and prominent socially, B: the Associated Press. STONY BROOK. N. Y. Two theories—kidnaping murd confronted Government investigators seck el the mystery today of the disappearance of Mrs. Alice Parsons, 38, New cial regis- from her nable North e on Long Island State police alarm June 10.— | was envelope, addressed to am H Parsons, husband of the missing wom- an. Pa of 1910, and ret The note was manded 000 sinister suggestion th nsigned. cont the at police activi- h for Mrs. Parsons. 1 murder theory d on chicken carefully pected to ns. though BEN CHAPMAN BY FRANCIS E. STAN, | Siafl Correspondent ol The Star. T. LOUIS, June 10—In a final, desperate effort to pull the Washington ball club out of the doldrums, Owner Clark | Griffith announced today that Out- | fielder Ben Chapman and Pitcher Buck Newsom had been traded to the Boston Red Sox for Catcher Rick Fer- | rell, his brother, Pitcher Wesley Fer- | rell and Outfielder Mel Almada. The announcement, coming from Chattanooga, Tenn., where Griffith is straightening the affairs of ¥hat Wash- ington ‘“farm” club, surprised even ' Manager Bucky Harris, although ne- | wrapped make an a it was sugoe: the ax might have been used to kill chickens Finds Wife Missing. | The ransom note was found last r Parsons. returning ty and sing, notified the v Shore, on the south side of the island. It was adcressed to “Bill Parsons.” | ‘The autho: would not disclose irs contents, it was learned from a reliable source the note read: “I have your wife. Bring $25,000 to the Jamaica bus terminal within the Ch ‘Nats Get Ferrell Brothers And Mel Almada in Trade WASHINGTON, | | BUCK NEWSOM. gotiations had been on for some time. As late as last night. Harris denied any | possibility of such a deal going through. Griffith declared there was no cash involved The “key” men in this deal. which is | one of the biggest swung by the Wash- | ington club in recent years, are Rick | Ferrell and Chapman. For the first time since Luke Sewell was sent away the Nationals now have a top-flight | | catcher in the slender Ferrell, while | the Red Sox are getting in Chapman | A badly-needed outfielder and right- | handed hitter. Chapman and Newsom will lenve‘ (Sée BASE BALL, Page A-4.) next 24 hours and my men will meat you and call you by name. Do not bring any cops. If you do, Alice will never speak to you again.” Mrs. arsons, t Mrs he former Alice W McDonnell, was said to be worth about $200.000, of which she recently inherited $50.000. Her husband, too, was said to be well-to-do. Drove Off With Couple. GUFFEY ATTACKS 2 STEE COMPANES pearance came from Mrs. Anna Declares Refusal Kupryonova, described by the police h-born Russian woman, who : | Contracts Smacks of ed for the Parsons family for about four yes \ “Dictatorship.” Mrs. Kupryonova, Assistant District | BULLETIN. Attorney Joseph S. Arata of Suffolk ! County reported, said a middle-aged Senator Guffy asked the Senate couple called for Mrs. Parsons yester-| today to broaden its proposed in- day morning at the Parsons’ homn, vestigation of the Midwestern steel Long Meadow Farm, and that thz‘ strike situation to include the im- matron drove off with them. portation of “gunmen” and the illegal holding of machine guns | The mystery deepened early this afternoon when Mrs. Leona Newton, | and “other war paraphernalia” by the steel firms involved. a former postmistress of Stony Brook, | toid the police she had seen Mrs. Par- gl e sons driving east through the village BY the Associated Press. about 1:30 pm. yesterday, about two Senator Guffey, denouncing refusal | and a half hours after the time fixed | of independent steel companies to sign | for her departure by Mrs. Kupryonova. | contracts with the unions, told the | Mrs. Newton was brought to the | Senate today their action “smacks of | Parsons home and looked at the Par- | an arbitrary frame of mind pretty | sons car to see if it was the one she close to dictatorship.” had seen. She said it was not the car.| The Pennsylvania Democrat laid | Mrs. Parsons, she said, was accom- | “sole responsibility” for the curren: | panied by another person, but the steel strike at the doors of the inde- police did not disclose whether it was | pendents, saying they could end it im- | a man or a woman. | mediately by signing up as the United | The road over which the car was | States Steel and other companies had moving would take it to Orient Point | done | or to Montauk Point, roughly 35 or 40 | Gufev delivered a prepared speech miles away. From Orient Point a to the Senate. He said the refusal of ferry runs to New London, Conn | the big independent steel companies | Parsons had gone to New York City, | to sign with the union “is a situation 65> miles away, yesterday morning to | which has no explanation in common met two Russians at Tenth street and | sense in morals or justice.” Becond avenue on the lower East Side “Perhaps we are here seeing the of Manhattan, The appointment With | dying gasp of the so-called rugged the Russians, he told Arata, had been | jngividualists—Tom Girdler, Frank made by Mrs. Rupryonova after he| pumell and the Block brothers in had expressed a desire to learn how to | Chicago,” he added. make a Russian delicacy called Eng- | | ey He said the independents had an- nounced recognition of the steel Mrs. Parsons drove him to the rail- ; | road station at St. James, about 10 | po ”;dflf“'d iheygrouldiacceptithe miles away, and promised to meet him | s of the contract but would not yhen he returned about sunset. sign. 5 Parsons told Arata he got off the | I contend that such an attitude, train at Stony Brook a little after 7| fie continued, “taxes one's belief in (See KIDNAPING, Page A-3) eir sincerity to carry out the terms LEAP FROM SHIP Tom Girdler, for instance, from issu- Eastern Men Tell How They ing an order tomorrow to cut wages and to lengthen hours. Of course, Jumped From $55,000 Plane in Blizzard. his workmen could go on strike, but that's exactly why they are on strike. “I confess, gentlemen, that this attitude on the part of Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Inland By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, June 10.—Two Eastern aviators, who had to “bail out” in a storm over Nevada, headed here today for a conference with flying authorities engaged in investi- gation of Utah's December air trag- edy that killed seven. The two, Maj. Clarence Hodge of the Massachusetts National Guard and Lieut. Joseph L. McNeil of Boston, were en route by train from Ely, Nev, 200 miles west, to relate how they leaped for their lives from an airplane driven out of control by 8 violent desert blizzard. , "I don't know exactly where the wreckage is—somewhere in the desert between Ely and Elko, Nev., probably —but I think I can find it with the aid of an Army map,” Maj. Hodge said. )| Steel and the others who are refusing to sign an agreement is one of the most amazing spectacles in our era. | "It smacks of an arbitrary frame | of mind pretty close to dictatorship. { It seems to me that the American | people should be told of this great | injustice being done to the steel | workers; and it seems to me American public opinion should tell Tom Girdler, Frank Purnell and the Block brothers that the just thing, the right thing to do is to sign a eontract with the union.” . Doctor on Case Stricken. WELLINGTON, Kans, June 10 (#).—Dr. H. A. Vincent, 61, diagnosed a patient’s ailment as heart disease yesterday And warned, “You might go at any time.” A few minutes later the physician was dead. Fellow prac- titioners said it was heart disease, 17 HURT INRIOT OVER FOOD TRUCK to Sign Republic Strikers and Police | a | Clash at Youngstown Plant. BACKGROUND— Steel strike began May 25, when Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion moved to force signing of con- tracts with four independent steel Airms: Republic, Youngstoun Sheet & Tube and Inland. Unionization drive had been spurred by accept- ance of contracts by United States | Steel, long considered strongest | anti-union company. About 70,000 workers were thrown out of jobs when the strike against the inde- pendents began. Violence has marked its progress and the death toll has risen to eight with many injured in rioting. By the Asspciated Press. YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, June 10.— Police and sheriff's deputies clashed with Great Lakes steel strike pickets here early today, leaving 17 persons injured. | Hand-to-hand fighting broke out at | the rain-swept gates of the strike- closed Republic plant in this North- eastern Ohio industrial city as a food- laden truck roared down a viaduct ramp into the mill, occupiei by maintenance “men and company guards. Tear gas and night sticks were | brought into play by the 50 policemen and deputies against a force of several hundred strikers. The strikers gave way only after at least 14 of their number were gassed, two policemen received head injuries and a spectator was wounded by an exploding tear gas shell. The newest outbreak of violence in the bloody controversy which, already has cost eight lives overshadowed peace moves by Governors of Ohio and Michigan in the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee strike for signed contracts from Republiic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Inland Steel Corp. Pickets Shout for Aid. The 20 pickets on duty under the viaduct amid a heavy rainfall shouted to fellow unionists for aid at the plant entrance. They claimed a police squad car escorted the food truck. Police sald their cruiser “by coinci- dence” had preceded the truck, but that the cruiser did not enter com- pany grounds. Pickets placed a car across the road under the viaduct, blocking it. Police attempted to remove the car. Strikers surrounded them in steadily in- creasing numbers. Suddenly fighting broke out. Tear gas was released and night sticks (See STEEL, Page A-5.) Studio Changes Actress’ Name. HOLLYWOOD, June 10 (#).—Study- ing for her first movie part is Vir- ginia Dale, 20-year-old blond from Charlotte, N. C., who was given the feminine lead in “Missing Witness” on the strength of ® camera test, 2 | mile out of the city, toward Toledo. | call for all Monroe County Legion- | | picket line. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, = 1937—FORTY-EIGH ¢ Foening Star PAGES. s*% L0, ORGANEER BEATE, DRNEN T OF MONROE Unionist Forced Out of Car by Workers and New Police. NEWTON PUSHES PLANS FOR REOPENING TODAY Special Deputies Are Sworn In, Strikers Ready to Resist as “Zero Hour"” Nears. 3 the Associated Press. MONROE, Mich, June 10.—Steel workers and newly deputized special policemen drove a Negro organizer for the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation out of the city shortly before neon today as the zero hour neared for the reopening of the strike-closed Newton Steel Co. plant. Fifteen or twenty men seizec the or- ganizer, Leonigas McDonald, on Mon- roe’s principal street as he attempted PoTATO,EM ? LAST TIME | TOUCHED 'EM, THEY BURNT MY FINGERS! YeaH, | REMEMBER THOSE FELLERS ON CAPITOL HILL HAND- ED 0L A HOT ONE". The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 139,307, (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. EAENPTIONSCLOLD DISTRICT TAY BLL READY FOR HOLGE ;?“Legal Resident” Amend- | ment Seen Clashing With Provision Remaining. (P) Means Associated Press. DIRKSEN TO ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY PROGRAM Chairman Norton Scheduled Call Measure Before Repre- sentatives Monday. to BACKGROUND— Faced with more than deficit in Dist of Colu get, Commissioners and mittees for months have been strug- gling to whip into shape new tares. Sales tar was discussed and dis- carded; program finally sifted down to levies on income. par o-meters, insurance, business prir lege, auto weight and more teeth in intangible tax. 000.000 se coma estates to flee in his automobile. They made him leave the motor car, beat him and forced him to walk a ROCKEFELLER KN There they said, an automobile con- taken from him. Some of his captors said he was bleeding from several cuts on his face. He was told not to re- turn to Monroe. One report said he was making an organizational speech when the trouble | began. Another report was that hel taining four or five men picked him | ) up and headed westward. i | McDonald’s C. I O. credentials were i Nurse Admits ‘Cooling Love’ Prompted Story About was seized as he emerged from tne| FiNAncier’s Grandson. post office and dragged for & block be- | g\ fore he managed to make his way to | s . : his automobile, from which he again | CHICAGO, June 10—Assistant State’'s Attorney Emmet Moynihan was removed. Thiere were other reports that two said today Miss Margaret Montgomery admitied a story she told of a plot more Negroes were forced to leave against John Rockefeller Prentice, the city. McDonald, husky, weighing at least grandson of the late John D. Rocke- feller. was a hoax designed to “make 200 pounds, came here a month ago from Ecorse, Mich, where there are large steel mills. & martyr” of herself. irst Violence at Newton. The first violence of the current | MethnRHoani L strike here came as special police- men, deputized by Mayor Daniel A Knaggs. were assembling to prevent any. interference with the reopening of the Newton plant, controlled by the Republic Steel Corp., that was scheduled for 4 p.m. | The 27 tice said he had met last September while a hospital patient suffering from injuries in a motoring coilision, had told police two men abducted her t bout thi uth Side Promptly at noon, representatives | Samith dovs bout theiBoty of the strikers, the company, and | fof some time and then directed her members of the Steel Workers' Asso- | to summon Prentice to a meeting ciation of Monroe, who are opposed place. :fit}:héolemr;l;n:e&zr";:: :!m::::?;' Moynihan said the girl admitted In an attempt to end the aties | she fabricated the story in the belief € | Prentice’s regard for her had cooled, Ppeaceabiy. = r Knaggs, who has r"'“"'d‘k‘f;‘:nifl;x;nmec} to re-establish their Mayo! a force of 500 civilian police, was | . 3 St onsotithetconterees Mmev sl faugz |, OFbic DENSIST e SR RO e t Ch S S g ment sRolice Chiet Jesse Flshiers| 20, a theory Prentice “was to have been atrolmen and Sheriff Jos : Tovs 50 fepunies T Joseph BAIr | ynaped and held for a large sum of p T money.” Fred Keehn, commander of the merican Legion post here, issued a vear-old nurse, whom Pren- Feared Losing Affections. Prosecutor Moynihan, after an inter- view with the nurse, said Miss Mont- ‘ere €OMery admitted “she framed the 2‘:,?;::;’ A% tndiTemperange €T Whole thing” to “make a martyr of Police said there was no indication | nerself becm:se Prentice’s affections of any influx of men from other cities | ¥€r¢ C00ling. to assist the strikers. C. I. O. or-| Prentice, an attorney and son of ganizers had declared that “8,000 or | the late John D. Rockefeller, sr.’s 10,000" union men from steel mills in | Second daughter, had told police he the Detroit area would help hold the believed Miss Montgomery's story be- cause he had received several mysteri- At noon, however, only 50 pickets | ous telephone calls recently. were on duty at the picket post. & | The lawyer added he had no reason mile from the Newton plant. They | to suspect any one of wanting to kid- were lunching on sandwiches, ice|nap him, but “a great many people cream and coffee. | seemed to think I had money, al- _The men who intended to return to | though I am not an heir to my grandfather’s estate.” naires to assemble at the Legion Home here at 2:30 pm. He said posts at " (See MONROE, Page A-8) Summary of Today’s Star Page. | Amusements B-14 | Radio Comics ..C-10-11 | Short Story-.C-6 | Americanization students get Consti- Editorials --.A-10 | Society _._.__B-3 | s get Consti | tution reproduction. B- Financial .._A-17 | Sports .___ C-1-3 | product Page B-1 Lost & Found A-3| Woman's Pg..C-4 Tomlinson gets sentence of 3 to 10 Obituary A-12 | years in robbery plot. Page B-1 P.-T. A. magic show postponed until FOREIGN. | September. Page B-2 Russia excluded from non-intervention | discussions. Page A-4 Five dead, many missing in fire at Halle, Germany. Page A-8 A. F. G. E. “rebel lodges” stage mass meeting tonight. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Edi.wrll.\s, Page A-10 This and That, Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms, Page A-10 Answers to Questions, Page A-10 David Lawrence, Page A-11 H. R. Baukhage, Page A-11 Mark Sullivan, Page A-11 Jay Franklin, Page A-11 Delia Pynchon, Page A-11 NATIONAL. Reorganization confidential draft laid before committee. Page A-1 Guffey denounces independent steel companies’ labor policy. Page A-1 Nurse admits Rockefeller kidnap plot story hoax. Page A-1 C. 1. O. organizer driven out of Monroe by workers. Page A-1 African tornadoes menace flight of Miss Earhart. Page A-1 17 hurt in picket-police clash in steel strike. Page A-1 Eight States and U. 8. seek missing society woman. Page A-1 Curtailing of proposed wage-hour bill gains in favor. Page A-2 President asks co-operation in giving medical aid to poor. Page A-2 FINANCIAL. Bond changes slight (table). Clearings below year ago. Stocks edge up (table). Curb list narrow (table). Pennsy declares dividend. Brisk farm trade due. SPORTS. Nats get Ferrels and Almada in Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-19 400 in Factory Felled by Gas; All Lives Saved By the Associated Press. | LILLE, France, June 10—Four hundred sugar refinery employes were overcome by gas today, but all were saved through quick actions of phy- sicians. Soon after work started dozens of men began to topple at the Beghin plant Emergency hospital crews and phy- sicians from surrounding hospitals quickly evacuated the buildings. Eight persons were taken to hospitals MISS EARMART OFF INAFRICAN FLIGHT ‘ Leaves Dakar on 1,140-Mile Jaunt Despite Warning ‘ of Tornadoes. BACKGROUND— Amelia Earhart's first attempt at | a globe-girdling flight ended in a crack-up in taking off at airport in | Honolulu. The noted aviatrir re- versed direction of journey when she began second eflort June 1 by flying from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico. | Bt the Assoctated Press. | DAKAR, French Senegal. June 10.— Amelia Earhart flew eastward across | Africa’s wild expanse today despite warnings that Tornadoes ranged the path of her “just for fun” round-the- world flight, After a smooth take-off at 6:55 am.,, | Greenwich mean time (1:55 am., E. | |'S. T), from Ouakam Airport, the air- | woman headed for Gao, 1,140 miles east and north of here on the Niger River, having altered somewhat her previously set course on account of unfavorable weather. | She had planned to fly her silvery, twin-engined monoplane to Naimey, French Niger Colony, 250 miles south- east of Gao and due east of Dakar, ! Gets Weather Report. | Arising before dawn, Miss Earhart hurried to the airfield where she re- | ceived reports of barometric depres- sions and tornadoes in the Sudanese region in the heart of Africa over which she had charted her course. So she decided to swing slightly to the north to Gao, but maintained the general direction of her itinerary through the center of the continent toward Lake Chad, French equatorial Africa. - Eager to be on her aerial way, the flyer climbed into her ship with her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan, after thanking French colonial aeronautic, air force and airport officials for their help. Plane Rises Easily. Her plane made a 500-yard run and lifted easilv despite its heavy fuel load. It circled the fleld once in a (See EARHART, Page A-4.) el Two Children Die in Storm. HARRISON, Ark. June 10 (#.— Ambulance drivers reported today two children were killed in a storm last midnight near Green Forest, 20 miles northwest of here. Dr. D. L. Owens said the drivers told him of the fatalities after bring- ing two injured persons here, but re- turned immediately to Green Forest without giving further details. Tele- phone communications with the town were disrupted by the storm. BY JAMES E. CHINN enned $6.000.000 add trict wai tion income vides ex, COMMITTEE GETS REORGANIZING BiLL Confidential Draft of Presi- dent’s Proposal Laid i Before Senators. i | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The confidential draft of the Presi- dent’s omnibus reorganization bill, which he insists should be passed at | this session of Congress, was laid be- fore the Senate members of the joint still w Reorganization Committee in an ex- Congress ecutive session today by Senate Leader Robinson. Minority Leader McNa vigorousiy that the bill much absolute authority to thegPresi- dent, and declared his opposition to the measure as a whole. He left the meeting apparently in no amiable frame of mind. Senator Robinson indicated he | would be willing to consider changes in the bill to meet serious objections by members of the committee. The bill as presented today, contains some very important changes over the meas- ure previously considered to carry out the recommendations of the Brownlow Committee. The committee is to meet again next week, at wihch time Sen- ator Robinson said he expects to have the provisions of the bill more defi- nitely and distinctly drawn. The broad general power which this publ | draft would give to the President and held on the ¢ against which Minority Leader Mc- . 1 t Nary particularly protested, takes it practically the same language used several years ago. during the Hoover administration, giving reorganization powers to the President for two years Provisions in the bill presented today, | however, makes that authority perma- | nent. Regarding civil service, the bill con- | sidered today is practically the same | as the Brownlow measure, providing |for a single civil service adminis- | trator directly under the dontrol of the President, with an advisory com- | mittee, abolishing the present Civil Service Commssion. | " The new measure would leave all independent offices and commissions, | such as the I. C. C. and the Maritime | Board, free fro mexecutive interference | It would leave the Forest Service in | the Agriculture Department. This is | one of the proposals under the Brown- low bill which resulted in Nation- wide protest, with direct appeals to | every member of Congress for preser- | vation of the Forest Service as an in- | tegral part of the Agriculture De- | partment. The new bill also leaves the engineers in the War Department The President apparently is still firm in his determination to get the | present controller general's office and the audit system on Government ex- penditures away from Congress and under executive control. This is one phase of reorganization which both houses of Congress seemed determined to preserve as an agency of Congress, with pre-audit powers. The new bill | differs from the Brownlow bill in that |it places the new office of auditor | general under the Executive and not in | the Treasury, but that officer could | be removed by executive order and would be wholly subservient to the President. Senator McNary questioned directly on this point and was told it would be | entirely a post-audit, rather than a pre-audit, on which many leaders in Congress, including Senator Byrd, | Democrat, of Virginia, chairman of the | original Reorganization Committee, are insisting. | The bill submitted today creates one new cabinet officer for the Department | of Welfare. It changes the name of | the Interior Department to the De- | | partment of Conservation. back home a dents La tee, on t Hull of Congress w own sal adopt a residents taxation Howeve ch specif > District Commi ce of Represe Dirksen to Seek Clarity. protest grants moulded it, exemptions Due Up Next Monday, except for the District tee announced she would call the tax bill up in the House Monday, the next so-called “District da W o'clock yesterday 5:30 p.m. Nearl riddle the bt beaten dow nine of the 21 members were presen nost of the time, and of those, five were members of the subcommittee ch framed the tax program he income tax plan was the prin- cipal target of attack. The proposed business privilege tax with its plan | for taxing receipts at 3-5 of one per cent also drew cansiderable fire, as did a provision that will dump into the spec gasoline tax instead of the general revent the deficit will exist, a sum of $1.500,000 expected to be raised by a motor vehicle tax gross a Income Plan Amended. ision 1n the would force Congress to pay at throughout committe agreed to eliminate it on the insistence of Hull. On second thought, however, the committee voted to re- consider its action, and then proceeded to restore the provision to the bill But Hull did not give up. He vir tually forced the commitee then to | adopt the amendment which stipulates the tax shall be levied only upon every “legal” resident of the District as “herein defined.” But the bill does not contain a definition of “legal” resident. There is a definition of “resident” which reads: “The term ‘resident,” in its application to in- dividuals, -shall mean any natural 5 (See TAX, Paze A-5.) MAN KILLS SELF IN HIS APARTMENT J. Noble Hoover, Meat Stand Proprietor, Found Seated in Kitchen Chair. J. Noble Hoover, 60, proprietor of a meat stan® at the Arcade Market, income membe! tax of siped The prc shot and killed himself early today in his third-floor apartment at 1346 Senate committee tenancy bill. approves farm Page A-3 Tax-dodging inquiry slated to start next week. Page A-5 Senate subcommittee O. K.'s anti- lynching bill. Page A-5 Souvenir hunters strip flowers from Jean Harlow's grave. Page A-5 White House secretary answers Snell on campaign book. Page A-9 Du Pont salaries disclosed in S. E. C. statement. Page A-15 Maritime Commission head jubilant over ship program. Page A-20 A. F. of L. seeks immediate funds for C. L O. war. Page B-11 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. D. C. income tax exemptions still re- main in doubt. Page A-1 Man in cleric's garb found uncon- scious on Military road. Page A-1 8potted fever causes two deaths in this vicinity, Page A-16 trade. Page A-1 De Mar gets sponsor in order to run in marathon here. Page C-1 Nats’ only interest in trade would be pitching talent. Page C-2 Macks picks Pirates to capture flag in National League. Page C-2 Rough at Detroit ordered cut, elating long-hitting golfers, Page C-3 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. ‘Young Washington, After Dark, Dorothy Dix, Betsy Caswell, Service Orders, City News in Brief, Vital Statistics, Traffic Convictions, Cross-word Puzzle, Nature's Children, Bedtime Story, Letter-out, Page A-9 Page A-14 Page B-8 Page C-4 Page C-4 Page C-5 Page C-5 Peage C-5 Page C-5 Page C-10 Page C-10 Page C-11 Page C-11 Park road Dressed only in his underwear, Hoover had a bullet wound in the temple when he was found seated in a kitchen chair by his wife, Mrs. | Minerva Hoover. A 32-caliber revolver, from which a single shot had been fired, lay on the floor mearby. In bed when she heard a shot, which she thought came from out- side the apartment, Mrs. Hoover dis- covered her husband unconscious when she went to investigate. An Emergency Hospital interne worked for almost an hour in a futile Man Unconscious on Road In Cleric’s Garb Unidentified Hospital attendants said the patient, about 50 years old, regained con- sciousness after treatment and that his relatives were coming to see him | | 1ater today. They refused, however, | | to give a clue to his identity. | | According to members of the ambu- | the south gate of Arlington National| lance company which took the man Cemetery. | to the hospital, residents in the sec- | First ald methods at the scene|tion said they had seen a Washmg-{ failed to revive the man and he was|ton taxicab drive up to the scene at | attempt to revive Hoover. removed to Georgetown Hospital in|about & o'clock this morning and| Tenth precinct police said they were an ambulance from Clarendon. Sheriff | then drive away hurriedly nf!er} told that Hoover, who had operated Howard B. Fields of Arlington Coun- | standing for a few minutes with the a stand at the Arcade Market for ty said he was not interested and| motor running. ‘mnre than 20 years, had been in ili would not investigate the case because| Only some small change was found | health. the man was found on Government | in the pockets of the black suit worn | The coroner issued a certificate of pmpény. by the man. suicide. Authorities at Georgetown Hospi- tal today declined to reveal the identi- ty of a man said to have been dressed in a priest’s habiliments, who was found lying unconscious shortly after daylight on a highway just outside|