Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1937, Page 4

DENHARDY S SUED INDEATHOF BB $70,000 Damages Asked for Hotel Fall—Trial in Fiancee Case Pends. BACKGROUND— The jury disagreed in a trial re- «eently in which Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, 61, was charged with maurdering his fiancee, Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, 40, when they went for an automobile ride. By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 3.—An- other mysterious death of a woman was charged today to Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt in a civil suit filed against him asking $75,000 damages in the fatal injury a year ago of pretty Pa- tricia Wilson, 25-year-old “party girl,” in & hotel here. No criminal charges have been filed, | The former Lieutenant Governor | and adjutant general of Kentucky faces a second trial next Fall in Henry County on a charge of murdering his flancee, Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, 40. Edward C. Dangan, Jefferson Coun- ty, public administrator, who filed the suit yesterday as administrator of Miss Wilson’s estate, alleged Denhardt “as- saulted, beat and bruised” the girl, | “causing her to fall down an elevator | shaft at the hotel.” At his Bowling Green, Ky, home, | Denhardt was quoted as denying any connection with Miss Wilson’s defi[h‘ and described the suit as “ridiculous.” | “They've accused me of killing 20 | men, shooting a judge off the bench, | burning a woman to death and kill- ing my wife," the general added,| laughing. “The body of Miss Wilson, whom | Night Police Chief Edward Seiller de- | ecribed as a “party girl,” was found atop of an elevator the morning of July 15, 1936. Her skull and both legs were fractured. A coroner's jury | found she came to her death by her | own “negligence.” Seiller said Miss Wilson was not | registered at the hotel at the time of her death and had disappeared the afternoon of July 14, while on a | “drinking party” at a bar room in the hotel building Commonwealth's Attorney Merit O'Neal said his office was investigat- ing the case and Detective Sergt Henry Riebel asserted “We are still working on it.” A suit was filed against the hotel in connection with Miss Wilson's death, but it was dismissed without prejudice. Shipping News Arrivals and Departures at New York ARRIVALS. Today. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT— Hamburg Tomorrow. GEO. WASHINGTON—Norfolk PM. | CAMERONIA—Glasgow A QUIRIGUA—Port Limon _____ PM. | Monday, July 5. 9 CARABOBO—Curacao CHEROKEE—Jacksonville EUROPA- —Bremen LR STORES_Cristobal UEEN MARY—Southampton AMARTA—Liverpool 10:00 > gRzzRR2Z SAILING. (Trans-Atiantie.) Today. AMERICAN IMPORTER— Li 0l 11:00 AM. | ARIA—Southampton _ Gdynia BERGENSFJORD—Oslo CHAMPLAIN—Havre CONTE DI SAVOIA—Genoa E_GRASSE—Havre _ EXTAVIA-—Constanzia ILSENSTEIN —Stockholm RPAARNDAIN —Rotterdam ~__ BCANSTATES—Gothenburg Midnight | 9:00 AM Noon ca, West Indies | LADY DRAKE St Kitts _ ATLANTIDA “eiba FORT TOWNSHEND—Canada ancisco 10:00 AM J11:00 AM. T11:00 AM 2:00 PIM. Noon Noon Noon Noon PM ORIENTE—Havana PLATANO—Puerto Cortez SAN JUAN—San Juan = SANTA ELENA—San Prancisco SOUTH'N__ CROSS—Buenos Aires 4:00. TOLOA—Santa Marta oon ETANDARD—Arnba 3:00 P.M. Tuesdav, July 6. GUAYQUIL—Port au Prince Wednesday, July 7. MERICAN——Cristobal ARABOBO—San Juan QUEPN OF BERMUDA— Bermuda £ 1:00 P.M. 6:30 AM Z 400 PM. 3:00 P.M. Traffic Convictions. SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Charles L. Martin, 1920 Kearney place nertheast, $10. Odell O. Watson. 2112 H street, $10. FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Elvin Crumlin, 2262 Ninth street, $5. Ruseell R. Baker, 3111 Thirteenth street, $5 Alonzo Gartrell, 913 T street, $5. George E. Flather, 3750 Jocelyn street, §5 Cecilia A. Martinez. 1430 V street, $5. | Richard W. Hauxhurst, 3217 Twelfth street northeast, $5. Charles H. McAteer, 1819 Nine- teenth street, $5. James L. Clark, 14 M street north- east, $5 George R. Scott, place northeast, $5. Donald E. Allen, 34 Sherman cir- cle, $5. 1735 Kilbourne BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band at the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “The Monarch,” Walter Smith Overture, “Fraternity”__Herbert Clark Sufte Oriental, ‘The King's Bal Masque” Bendix 1. “The Dervishes. 2. “Bluebeard and Fatima.” 3. “The Hindoo Priests.” 4. “The Cossacks.” S Soenes from the opera “Il Trova- tore” _ Popular numbers, “‘Wabash Blues' Waltz suite, “Kuenstler Leben” (artist's life) _____ Strauss Finale, “Military Life". --King “The Star Spangled Banner.” bl o e Births Reported. Car! and Alice Lewis, girl. Joseph and Eleanor James. girl. Dewalt and Virginia Willard, boy, Preston and Frances Bryant. boy. Irving and Anna Price. boy. Franklin and Irma Stuart. boy. Irving and Rose Love. boy. Raymond and Alma Kirchner, girl, Robert and Viola Russell. girl. Ermindo and Hildo Pompilio, girl. Frank and Lillian Mannarino, girl. Albert and Anne Mesirow, girl. Charles and Mildred Sager. girl. John and Kathleen Cown, girl. Weldon and Ida Shelion. boy. Edward and Virginia Hass, Jr.. boy, Hil Nethan Rudner. 24, and Florence Ehren- Sallie O. Linton. 84, 22 Ell Dr. Lawrence Jacques, to the investigators missiles he and which were picked up at 27 REPORTED DEAD IN COAL MINE BLAST | Rescuers Unable to Reach 18 Men Trapped by Disaster in England. E: the Associated Press. LONDON, July 3.—Officials counted | |27 dead last night in the explosions and fire which continued to burn in the Brymbo coal mine at Chesterton, Stoke-on-Trent. | They said it was impossible to get to 18 men trapped by the disaster. A rescue team retreated without success, reporting there was no hope the men were alive. Four bodies were brought to the | surface and five rescued men died in the hospital. Eight were injured About 200 men were working in the pit when the first explosion sent them running for their lives. The second blast killed four officials who had en- | tered to investigate. — Marriage Licenses. James E. Smith. 1. 1625 6th st. and Martha E i9, 1664 Kalo- rama rd.: Rev John E_De Vile. 2 Sarah V. Hampton. rd.: Rev. J. L. Pinn Clarence T. Murchison. 1 pl. and Rosa L. Toliv B. H. Per 1830 T st. and 1810 New Jersey h m Gresham 421 Kth Rey Spencer. Williams, Rev. E. C. & h O Watkins, 21. 1118 51st and Winifred Johnson 48th st ne.: Rev. C. Eugene Whitmore. 2 both of St 8w, Adna L, Lucy D. ave. Meredit Dl n.e 850 < Hill. 28 and Zorah A ) th of 40 Depee st.. Re: O Reilly J. Fontain, 32 Brooks, 31 Key, Carter v. A J Brooklyn. N. Y. 3 2009 11th st.: Rev. Willie C.’ Puckett. 20. 608 P st. and Wilma C. Weems. 19. Muirkirk, Md.; v Hooy William A Cissel. 31. 619 Sth st. s.w and Lucille M. Barnes, 26. 15 M st Rev. A D. Bryant. Harry E. Keller, ir. 25320 and Marie P Gailagher, 2; se: Rev. P. L. Norris Hubert W. 8mith, 3% and Minnie B. Nash, | 31. both of Quantico. Va; Rev. J. H. | Dunham Daniel E. Brown, 23. and Margaret Selby. 22 both of 516 Rickers ct.; Rev. Ernest | Gibbs and Stephanie Nicholas M. Connelly. 31, Wasowicz. 26. both of Baltimore; Rev. 18 e | ond at. s 7616 A st Mclver, © Annte M. Taylor. 2 st. and 312 P 1427 3rd st Rev. berg. 23, both of 405 Decatur st.; Judge Nathan Cayton Franklin W. Shriner, jr. 26, 321 Oth st. se. and Merena E. Willis, Glouces- ter W, W. Ru: C.; Rev. J. Arthur J. Rickenbacher, 27. 635 Keefer pl. and Helen L. Rose. 24. Alexandria. Va.: Rev. M. W. Hyle James H. Dant, 2 2 Independence ave. s.w., and Margaret E. Barney, 20, Floyd, Towa: Rev. A. F, Poore. J. Culhane. 3K, 4612 46th st. and len Prentiss. 30, 3447 Hoimead 8. Spence. s. 25. 1812 Newton st.. and F. Parker, 24, 1642 Irving st.; v, Mayo, Clarence E. Pulley, 22. Arlington, Va.. and Mary G, Watt 18 Burke, Va.'Rev. J. C. Ball. Willlam “A.’ Butler. 27, and Virginia_ P. sen. _20. both of Richmond.; Rev. G. B. Faucett Thomas L. Gulick. 25. 523 14th st. n.e., and Virginia E.' Miller, 20, 1350 U af. se.: Rev C." Keena: Robert F. Ashton. 9. 1706 16th st.. and Florence A. Kohler, 26. Seattle, Wash.; Rev. E. D. Ziegler Clyde H. Bartlett. 25, Newland. Va., 1182 Morse Virginia L. Shuee: ne: Rev. Wilson Holder. Archie C. Taylor. jr. 21. 1341 L st. and Cora C. Tucker. 31,°5826 Kansas ave.; Rev. D W. Safford. Thomas A. Calhoun. 30 and Mary E. Met- calf. 27. both of Canton, Ohlo; . W. Snyde RLaEORe;RAY . Sclias.” 28, and Athina_P. . both of 3616 Park Rev. Thomas Daniels. Joseph P. Bergen. 19.° 716 6th st.. Alice L. Brandenburg. 18, 630 M s.w.: Rev. J. H. Zerhusen. . 25. Philadelohia, and heeler. 19. 123 10th at. d_McAdams. 22.°4109 Tilinois ave., Posner, 21, 1768 Kil- A. A Pou- pl; and st Margaret L. Lem Rev. R. A. Oartmelil. Benjamin Bparks. 36. Oamden, N. J.. and Dorothy M. Rhodes, 33. 1468 Girard st.: Rev. C. C. ussen. Stanley P. Jones, 705 A _st. and Mildred L. Fisher, 18, 1319 rd.: Rev. A. F. Fool 80l Greenberg. 33, and Carlyn H. ne. P re. 3813 Kansas ave., ufman, 24, 3816 Hunt- s. 22." and Helen C. Richard- . 22. both' of 1332 Massachusetts ave; Rev. J. W. Rustin. g Deaths Repgrted. e. lace. erson. 73, 8t Eilsaveth's al Louis E. Felton. 69, 2650 Wisc. ave. Alice M. Bennett. 89. 1219 Orren st. n Louis E Annie Nunnelle, Johnston Russell. 61. 1218 11th Arthur B. Clawson, 9. Samuel E. Snyder. . Newer, 69, Georgetown Hoepital. 62, Emergency Hozpital, at. . 1 47.'1701 Park 37. Gallinger Hospital. 23, Emergency Hos- James and Teresa Lansinger. boy, Axel and Elvi Soderlund, boy Clarence and Perale Kessler, girl. Joseph and Mae Nash. girl. George and Agnes De Grosse, girl. A Bernesd Hussinger. al. mifdred Herndon, 73. 1008 34 st. Charles Ciark, 72, 60 G st. s.w. Irene Williams, 52, 334 Dixen court 8.9, K, 72, st 71 th A t < THE EVENING STAR, WASHI ‘Here’s Where Bullet Entered’ 3 who treated many of the Chicago Memorial day steel strike victims, uses a rag doll to illustrate the location of the wounds of those who fell before police gunfire, as he testifies at the Senate Civil Liberties Committee hearing. Capt. James L. Mooney of the Chicago police force displays said were used by the strikers he scene of the riot. Orlando Lippert, Paramount cameraman, whose news reel of the clash, originally sup- pressed, was shown to the committee. —Associated Press Photos. Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. Here is one that is going to get you, if you don't bear down. We give fair warning, because the solution is perfectly reasonable, but you're | apt to overlook it. A bachelor owned a home in the | suburb of a city and was frequently away. For this reason, TELL ME he feared YOU TELL HOW YOU GOT ) ME HOW TO | IN HERE / W burglars. The house had only seven windows and one door through which a burglar might enter. When leav- ing one day, the bachelor made sure no person was in the house and then departed, to be gone for the day. When he returned, he found a bur- glar in the house, although the win- dows were untouched and still locked and the door had not been forced. How did the burglar get in if he d:d not use a pass-key or pick any locks? Careful now! (Copyright, 1937.) (See Answer on Page B-6.) STRIKER SLAYERS MAY FACE COURT Senate Probe Adjourned. Testimony Points to Po- lice Maliciousness. BACKGROUND— For weeks the Senate Civil Lib- erties Committee has heard testi- mony on violence growing out of anti-union activities. One of the high lights of the prolonged ses- sion was a probe of terrorism in the coal flelds of Harlan County, Kentucky. When the steel strike brought on the Memorial day riot in Chicago the committee turned to that aflair. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Criminal prosecution of members of the Chicago Police Department who can definitely be linked with the slaying of 10 steel strikers last May 30 was under advisement of counsel for the Steel Workers' Or- ganizing Committee today as the Senate Civil Liberties Committee ad- journed its inquiry into the battle. The open hearings of the com- mittee ended at 8 o'clock last night as four Chicago police officials reap- peared briefly to maintain their stolid insistence that they and their offi- cers were justified in killing 10 of the crowd of marching strikers, permanently disabling eight others and inflicting less serious injuries on approximately 100 more Although Senator Thomas, Demo- crat, of Utah said the evidence in- dicated “extreme police brutality,” neither he nor Chairmam La Follette | indicated what further action their | committee might take. Committee employes said they prob- ably would publish a full report of the shooting and “leave the rest to the people of Chicago.” The final day of the committee's hearing was packed with drama from the beginning to end as pictures, verbal testimony, the reports of the Chicago coroner and a young surgeon's analysis of the fatalities were crowded | into the records. Surgeon’s Testimony Damaging. Most damaging, perhaps, to the | claim of the police that their gun- fire and clubbing attacks were en- tirely in self-defense were the motion pictures and stills displayed during the day, but of telling eflect also | was the detailed testimony early in the evening of Dr. Lawrence Jacques, | young Chicago surgeon, who testi- | fled in detail on the causes and | | circumstances of the deaths and the | injuries. Holding aloft a rag doll swathed in | tape, the medical man punctured it | | innumerable times through the back | and head with an ice pick as he de- | to the deaths. ! One by one he called the roll of the dead: Earl Handley, who died of| hemorrhages because his wounds were | not treated soon enough: Alfred | Causey, who had four bullet holes; | | Lee Tisdale, who died of blood poison- | ing from a bullet entering the rear | of his thigh; Otis Jones, whose spinal | cord was severed by a bullet in the back; Anthony Tagliori, who died also | from a bullet in the back: Kenneth | | Reed. who bled to death in a patrol | wagon after a bullet had torn through | | his back and into his abdomen; Leo Francisco, shot in the back: Sam Pop- ovich, whose skull was so badly shat- | [ tered by clubs and a bullet that he| | was identified with difficulty; Hilding Anderson, who died of peritonitis, and Joe Rothmund, who was shot low in the back. Emphasizes Shooting in Back. Dropping his doll, the doctor stepped | to a serles of charts to show that not one of those killed had been shot from in front and that of 40 gunshot cases treated, scarcely a half dozen had bullet wounds with points of entrance | { in frontal parts ef their bodies. For | | 8ll the rest, he said, it was the same story—shots in the back. It was Dr. Jacques who presented to | the committee the recapitulation list- |ing eight more of the strikers as | Permanently disabled. | Just before his appearance on the stand, one of these eight had testified. | With one eye removed and the other virtually useless, Harry N. Harper, young steel worker who did not belong to the strikers, was led to the stand by | his pretty wife. For three days she had escorted the near-blind man in day shs led him to his chair before the | 4§ committee and rested a hand on his | knee 22 he told in a choking voice how he had gone to the plant in an effort | to see a brother still at work inside, how he had been refused admission, then had been beaten down when the hostilities suddenly began, how he had EDUC}TI(EAL SUMMER SESSION Opening Intensive Courses July § Exclusive Placement Servies MOUNT PLEASANT SCHOOL FOR SECRETARIES TIVOLI THEATER BUILDING Fourteenth Street at Park Road Telephone COlumbia 3000 ALWAYS ask for JACOB RUPPERT BEER Jossh Ruppert, New Yerk Ctty Distributed by Reiner Distributing: Co., A 1073 31st St. NW,, & Gt Four persons, including a mother and her two children, were killed instantly when their automobile was wrecked at this grade crossing near Little Silver, N. J. The body of one of the victims still rests in the wreckage. The dead were iden 4; Sally, 2, and John Neafie, 15, nephew of Mrs. Collins. ' tified as Mrs. Anne Collins, 33; George, A. P. Photo. been thrown into a patrol wagon, neg- lecied for hours in a hospital, jailed | for three days and finally released | with one eye hopelessly blind and the other dangerously infected from lack of care. Quotes Commandment, “*‘Thou shalt not kill’ stands out in | my mind today.” he sobbed as he fin- ished his testimony. ‘I wonder if some of these officers have not for- gotten.” Strength to the union claim that the police action was concerted and premeditated was given by testimony of Robert Fleming, who watched the whole horrible drama from a néarby second-floor window of his home and | heard an officer say, ‘Give it to them, boys, let them have it” just before the shooting began. Earlier in the afternoon, the com- mittee heard Mrs. Lupe Marshall, little Mexican social worker, admit- ting to a height of 4 feet and 11 inches and weight of 92 pounds, tell how she had been knocked down by a police club, kicked in the side and struck three more times with a police club as she tried to arise. Arrested, she patrol wagon and then was taken from a hospital against a doctor's orders and thrown into a cell to re- main for three days. A climax of the hearings was reached early in the day when the previously suppressed newsreel show- ing the police repulsing, pursuing and attacking the panic-stricken crowd was exhibited, Demand Photo Be Shown. CHICAGO, July 3 (#.—Chicago Corporation _Counsel Barnet Hodes A SCOUT IS THRIFTY 8o, when he telephones Mother and Dad to tell them what a swell time he is having at the Jam- boree, he waits until 7 p. m. weekdays, or any- time on Sunday, and takes advantage of the low night retes. ME wopoditen 9960 o= === e e EDUCATIONAL. Courses o K & i 8 weeks' intensive work Shorthand and Typewriting Classes Open July 6 @ Attractive to high school and college graduates. l: teachers. Young men an women, let Strayer ynlpcr: you for better positions. Register now! COLLEGE stn,!‘mvnsgfl"“ A 17 FAMOUS FOR FLAVOR Washington, D. C. Tel. West 2929 watched Kenneth | scribed the course of bullets which led | R¢€d die in her lap in a crowded and out of the hearing room. Yester- | The €. and P. Tolophons Gompany |Strayer Summer} | | ! demanded today that a photograph of | 'NDUSTR'ES‘ PAY ROLL the South Chicago steel strike riot snapped by an Associated Press cam- | eraman be exhibited by theaters show- ing news reels of the Memorial day battle. Hodes, acting in the absence of Mayor Edward Kelly, telegraphed the demand to & Paramount news film company after it had ordered the re- | lease of the film for general exhibi- tion. The corporation counsel said the | news reel fails to show “the attack of the mob on the police,” which the latter contended caused them to fire on the demonstrators, 10 of whom were killed, “The nature of this attack on the | police, however, is graphically shown | by & still photograph made by an As- sociated Press photographer,” Hodes saild. He declared the picture should be exhibited “in simple justice to the City of Chicago.” Lieut. Harry Costello, head of the Crime Prevention Bureau and Police Department censor, said the films will not be exhibited in Chicago on the grounds it would “incite people who see it." Theater officials and police at St. Louis banned the news reels from theaters there as “unfit for women and children.” Margaret Bourke-White Outstanding pher of Industrial and News-Interest Subjects. Ruth Alexander Lichol: Nationally Known Photographer of Photographer, and Editor of Amateur Babies and Children. | Manufacturing Increase Is 2.6 1929 average. 2.4 PCT. OVER '29 LEVEL Per Cent From April to May, Figures Show. Bv the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—Psy rolls in | the manufacturing industries jumped | 2.6 per cent from April to May and now stand 2.4 per cent above the 1929 | average level, the National Industrial Conference Board & research organi- zation sponsored by large corporations, reported yesterday. The gain was attributed to an in- crease in hourly and weekly earnings and in the number of workers em- ployed. The latter item showed a gain of 1.2 per cent compared with April and was 3.0 per cent above the | KODAK FILMS Y ROOSEVELT SIGNAL WILL START RACE Touch of Telegraph Key to Speed Auto Drivers in Van- derbilt Cup Event. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 3 —Presi= dent Roosevelt turned “telegrapher’— for just one dot—for about the twentieth time this year today to open the Vanderbilt Cup auto races on Roosevelt Speedway, Westbury, Long Island. At 1:20 pm., E. 8, T, he had agreed to touch a key starting the race. He will return to the instrument at 10 pm. tonight to inaugurate the twenty-seventh annual festival and rodeo at Nampa, Idaho. Before his first “pressing” engage~ ment the Chief Executive arranged to see his first callers since arriving at his Dutchess County home Thursday morning. Rev. William J. Noonan, Catholic clergyman of Hyde Park village, was his first forenoon visitor. Ten min- utes later James Townsend, Dutchess County Democratic chairman, was down for a discussion of county affairs, Only Mrs. James Roosevelt, jr.. and 8 few members of the White House staff were at the estate today, follows ing a grand exodus yesterday. The President’s mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr, and his youngest son John left in midafternoon for New York, where they were to sail for Europe today. Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger were on their way home to Seattle by plane. After signing mail and bills the President issued a public appeal last night to prevent forest fires which, he said, were destroying growth at the rate of $51,000,000 worth a year. “It is hard to believe,” he said, “but 25 per cent of all our forest fires are incendiary in origin. Another 25 per cent are caused by smokers.” In the Government's battle sgainst this “frightful waste” he listed the acquisition of 12,000,000 acres of non= farm lands in the last four years for transition into a ‘“rich domain of useful trees,” planting of more than | & billion seedlings and fire-prevention work by foresters and C. C. C. youths, Nomination Confirmed. 1 The Senate has confirmed the nome ination of William H. Hornibrook of Utah to be Minister to Costa Rica. PSYCHIC MESSAGE 6 or 8 Exposure Rolls | Anv ‘Size Developed & Printed Reprints RITZ STUDIO, 1 COUNCIL 1100 12th St. N.W. Cor. of 12th and L CIRCLES: 2 and 7 P.M. DAILY $1 Private Interviews from 11 a.m. GRACE GRAY DELONG—Resder Telepbone: MEL. 5234 The four pictures judged to be the best in The Evening Star Amateur Snapshot Contest will be eligible to compete for $10,00 0 in cash prizes in the Newspaper National Snap- shot Awards to be judged in a National Salon in Washington, D. C., by the following distin- guished board of Howard Chandler Christy Hlustrator and Writer. judges’ Franklin L. Fisher Photogra- Famous Portrait Painter, Chief of lllustrations Di- vision, National Geo- graphic Society. Kenneth Wilson Williams Publications of Eastman Kodak Co. The Star Will Award the Following Prizes: $5 FIRST PRIZE every week. $2 PRIZE FOR EVERY photo used weekly. $25 each for r 4 winners at the end of the contest and a chance to win the NATIONAL AWARDS. All contest photos published by The Star will be eligible for The Star’s FINAL AWARDS at the close of the contest. * * * Winning pictures will be published each week in the Rotogravure section of The Star, beginning Sunday, July 11th, and each Sun. day thereafter until the close of the contest. Pictures made prior to May 15th will not be eligible for competition. The Sunday Star