Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 2

A2 CYY WEATHER FAVORS THIRD POLAR HOP Russians Planned to Leave This Mor ning for America. By the Associzted Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Daylight around the clock and ideal weather conditions most of the way lay head of a third Soviet trans-Polar | i scheduled today nounced destination An American-tra mund Levaneffsky. by k (Ea to five y Levan lane Three compa tored p. Russia,” July to for an in America. ined pilot known set as unan- Sigis- | 20— start the the take- ime) persons will ac- four v in a -mo- Absence of word of a take-off HI\N‘l of the announced time recalled delay Mascow in announcing previous trans- The 2 polar flights nct reported for firs: ho venture Refuel at Fairbanks. Panrbanks was listed ttop. A group of 'mpleted establis fueling station here. €an land. take o e way and of ic es preva can side of the Pole From here to wit Moscow day at t Fairba Mascow to Moscow Arctic O Russia W a refiu a ere the plane | was | | eling ee re- and then e reports of good | ng on the Am 1 1,500 miles of 24 hours a ho essaved a h Po was forced t he was well te in o re- because of a broken over Aided Rescue of 101 Marooned. Fairbanks cit men Pilot Wiliiam Clyde G. Armsto Polar regions wit Lat Soviet cecora ! sides us . and usiness and Mec o flew sian nee e tion, for work with the expedition. One runway 3.300 feet a hanic to the relief They Order of Lenin, | their | | d another | Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SWING. RIVING near Falls Church the other day, the car in front of us slowed down, driver swung his left arm out the window in one of those ambiguous cestures that make traffic the con- fused mess that it is We were about to bestow a few choice re- marks upon him when we noted that in his hand was a rolled news- | paper, which he drew back, poised & moment at the peak of the back- swing, then fupped straight across the front of his car. salled end over end, came & neat kerplunk on the porch of a subscriber's house. The “carrier boy" stepped on the gas. drove on down the line until he came to his next customer, where the miraculous pitch was re- peated. If you don't think i's a neat trick, try it. Pap ta rest * % GENEROSITY. Headline in a local newspaper. mak- ing us wonder whether it really isn't a darned sight more blessed to give than to receive GIFTS PUT FIVE MORE VICTIMS IN T. B. CAMP. ® x MYSTERY PLANT. BODY ever hear of a Con- federate rose? Anybody be- that is riend who used in Louisiana told us a tall other night about a small, flower that grows down bay or next door to the and is white in the morning in the afternoon, deep scarlet ndowr The color will not however Py « the . What- * to live tale the pink by chang flowe its rapid e of that may be hear of 1t?" said he. ' we said, Iying in our teeth, wondering whether we were being taken for a gentle ride await confirmation of * v ox x RICH STUFF. JPROBABLY one of the best known police court characters in Wash- gton. or in anv American city for hat matter, is known as “Two Bottles of Beer." Not only a frequent visitor, but an expensive one Seidom does & judge. faced with the eguiar Monday morning docket of d pass the day without hearing some old-timer say indignantiy “Your honor, T'd just had a couple 3000 feet long are available at Weeks | bottles of beer. when along came this Field, municipal airport. MURPHY TO TALK WITH ROOSEVELT Michigan Governor Will Be White House Guest if Cruise Is Canceled. Rnnsevelt will hold a week ce with Gov. Frank M who has been en- i trike settle- e, it was announced | | Pr end confere phy of Mich gaged ments in hi today The President had invited the Mich- {zan executive to a cruise aboard the | presidential Potomac this week end, | but the President was not sure today he will be able to leave Washington for this brief vacation unless the war-like situation in China takes a more favorable turn in the mean- time. Gov. Murphy will come Wash- ington, however, probably late tomor- Tow. If the cruise is canceled, he will be 8 guest at the White House. The President tnis morning held #eparate conferences with Secretary of | State Hull and Norman Davis, ambas- tador at large, over the Far Eastern crisis. He also conferred with Repre- sedtative Ceiler of New York. Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, David Sarnoff. president of the Radio Corp. of Amer- iea; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, accompanied by Representative Ferguson of Oklahoma, Marriner S. Ectles, chairman of the board of gov- ernos of the Federal Reserve system, | and Wayne C. Taylor of the Treasury | Department, DUCE CELEBRATES 54TH BIRTHDAY Reviews First Squadron of Adri- atic Fleet Anchored at Fa- vorite Resort. By the Acsociated Precs, RICCIONE. Ttaly. July 29.—Pre- mier Mussolini celebrated his 54th birthday today with a review of the first squadron of the Adriatic flest anchored at this, his favorite, Summer resort. | The review, however, was not con- | #idered by Il Duce as a celebration, but as part of his job as minister of the Italian Navy. Il Duce does not cele- bratk the fact that he is getting older Fifty-four vears old and twice a graudfather, Mussolini is a young man in vigor and health. He still keeps up the strenuous pace he set for himself when he became premier almost a decade ago as head of a young men's government This year the vacations have been more frequent, although brief. From time to time he spends from a few days to & week on the Adriatic and then re- trns to his office in Rome’s sweltering heat. The rumor rose a few weeks ago that one of the multiple wounds he suffered in the World War had reopened on a leg. Tl Duce quickly set the rumors at rest, however, by a fast mile’s walk over the uneven ground where the Itallan world fair will be held in 1941. Educator's Record Perfect. Having served 50 vears as a master in Velje Grammar School in Sealand without missing a day, B. M. Jensen bas’ just retired, officer. and what should up and arrest me?" The judge has a stock answer for that one. He usually says: “Ten dollars or 10 davs.” * ¥ ox % SUCCESS STORY. OVERHEARD on a Cherrydale bus Oh, dear. I thought my ex-hus- WAS gOINg to amount to some- and now what dn vou suppose 52 2 he do but Gettysbu * ROMANTICIST. The spirit of sweet romance—20 per cent offi—hlonms bravely in the heart of a florist up on Seven- teenth street. He has been adver- tising a reduction of one-Afth in the price of all flowers for weddings, provided you get around to it by the end of the Summer After that. the embeliishments of love and holy matrimony will be full price again. Makes you think, wouldn’t it? ® ox % x QUERIES. \‘YAITING at the periodical desk in Congressional Library the other dav we heard an elderly lady ask a clerk “Have you some travel folders and brochures?"” “No, madam,” he said regular travel agencies could help you. Or we have the magazine Travel.” “Indeed not.” said the lady. Strange request? Not at all. Peo- ple who work up there are accustomed to being asked for aimost anything, x o ow literature, from a match to a good cure for chest colds. One man even sauntered up to the desk one day and inquired confiden- tially: “Got any magazines?” “Yes, sir.” said the clerk; weeklies and monthlies.” 1,500, BURNS HASTEN DEATH OF CONFEDERATE CHIEF Gen. Lucius Manry, 91, Was Com- mander of 1st Brigade of Southern Veterans. By the Associated Press. COURTLAND, Va. July 29.—Gen Lucius L. Manry, Confederate veteran, died at his home here yesterday. He was 91 years old. Funeral services will be held here this afternoon. Gen. Manry, a nephew of Gen. M William Mahone, served in Company G, Ist Virginia Regiment, and Com- pany H of the 8th Regiment in the War Between the States. He was commander of the Urquhart Gillette Camp, United States Confederate Vet- erans, and of the 1st Brigade, U. C. V. Serious burns suffered several months ago were considered a con. tributing cause of Gen. Manry's death. Gen. Manry was a native and life- long resident of Courtland. Surviving are three sons, L. M, W.J. and E. S. Manry, and & daugh- ter, Mrs. G. W. Reese, all of Court- land. Growing goldfish near[ “I think the | | the | THE EVENING WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937 U.S. MINIMUM PAY MEASURE OFFERED Ramspeck Proposes $1,200 Lowest for Full-Time Adult Employes. BACKGROUND— Agitation for higher salary scale Jor Government employes has been increasing during past two years. Thus far, organized employes have concentrated on seeking establish- ment of minimum of $1.500 yearly, as provided by McCarran bill. Fed- eral employes now get 26 days an- nual leave and 15 days sick leave, Chairman Ramspeck of the House Civil Service Committee todayv intro- duced an administration bill to estab- lish 2 wage minimum of $1.200 for all full-time adult employes of the Gov- ernment This would affect 46.000 persons by increasing their salaries to $1.200, effective July 1, 1938. He said he does not expect any opposition and that when it will be passed “depends on how long Congress remains in ses- sion.™ This bill will be taken up by the House Civil Service Committee just as soon as Chairman Ramspeck is re- lieved from his service on the Labor Committee which has the wage and hour bill before 1t. He said that the | Civil Service Committee will promptly report the bill he introduced today | and that adminstration leaders wil arrange for carly action in the Hous Senator McCarran throughout the session has been endeavoring to get action on a bill 10 es mmimum for adults, full-time work- ers, with small increases for other | low-salaried employes up to $3.600 This measure was sponsored in the | House by the late Representativ llam P. Connery, then ch { the Labor Committee. The istration, however, asked t on the $1.500 minimum bill be post- poned pending further study. TOWNSEND MUST HOLD | PUBLISHING COMPANY | blish & §1,500 | | Ordered to Maintain It in Status Quo Pending Disposition E n cate. w C vesterday e Prospeii a Townsend {ormer associate, Townsend's former vice president and manager of the Townsend orga tion. withheld A $16.000 cashier check deposited in a Chicago bar to pay prizes in & subscription cc est c cted by the Prosperity Co publisher of the Townsend Nationa Weekly Judge Daniel P Trude send could not alter or company’'s Assets until af 15 heard, although he can to manage the business Brinton, 1n | & cross complaint, alleged Townsend | intended to sell the company. lessen- | ing the value of 17 shares of Sznrki | a charged he holds ORTHODOX Y-UGOSLAVS PUSH CONCORDAT FIGHT March Pa Bier Patriarch in Demonstration of Solidarity. Br the Associatad Press BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, July 2 Orthodox church members by the thousands marched past the bier of the patriarch Narvana vesterday in a d onstration of solidarity against government's proposed concorda the Roman Catiholic Church Members of all classes. rich and poor. statesmen and peasants, peid | tribute to the dead orthodox church | head in & demonstration such as this | country has not seen since the last | century’s unification against the Turks. | At the funeral ceremony today the | turnout of church followers is ex- | pected to exceed even that which marked the late King Alexander’s fu- neral. A movement gained headway fo canonize the patriarch. who, until his | death last Friday, led the orthodox | church fight against ratification of the | concordat. THREE BOYS ARE HELD | TO JURY IN ROBBERY | No Bond Allowed Two Because Thousands of of Investigation Pending in Another Case. Three 17-year-old boys were held | for the grand jury, two of them with- out bond. when arraigned before Po- lice Judge Isaac R. Hitt on a charge of robbing Andy Evans, 312 C street, All pleaded not guilty. They are: James W. Frady, 802 Sixth street southwest; Cecil R. Ken- nedy, 1542 Rosedale street northeast, and George Waterholter, 605 H street. The first two were held without bond. Bond in the case of Waterholter was set at $1.500. Detective Sergt. Joseph Shimon said no bond was permitted the two youths because of a pending investi- gation into another case. Italy Ousts Journalist. ROME, July 29 (#.—Dr. Franz Klein, an Austrian Journalist corre- sponding for the newspaper Basler Nachrichten of Basle, Switzerland, was expelled from Italy yesterday be- cause of what the Government consid- I continue |, REBELS CAPTURE TOREIGN CHIEF Brigade Staff Also Cap- tured—Death of ‘Russian’ Commander Is Claimed. "BACKGROUND-— Failure to capture Madrid ajter almost nine months of siege, jound Gen. Francisco Franco shifting his insurgent attack to Bilbao, Basque capital in north. Capture of city released thousands of troops and again push on Madrid was resumed with remcwed foree. Government resistance has been stubborn, how- cver, and ground gained has been at great cost. BULLETIN. NIMES, France, July 29 (9. —A Spanish government freighter was sunk and two others were damaged today by a submarine of undeter- mined nationality which attacked them off Port Grau-Du-Roi The two damaged ships reached Grau-Du-Roi, a small port Southern France. Names of the ships and the nature of their car- £0€S Was not given in first advices, Bv the Associated Press HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish tier, July 29 —Spanish insurgent mili- tary authorities said today the *Rus- sian commander” of an international government brigade had been Killed defending Mz Dispatches i identified the command- rubensco” and said fur- ther foreign chief” of the 4th International Bricade was cap- tured with all his gen Insurgent so sive der mine Gen ienca provinci over ti irid-Vale e fc Madrid on the front lapsed irgent miles western cked rfons the i le 100 rocky pro- his route and ar communications passed back f betweer nal victory o achieve of siege at nite months 1e took cog { government ments, including a foreien bricade, to protect the Madrid-Valencia road only remaint ct line of commu- 1cati be 1 the present and for- zance of The insurgents claimed conquest of | the | more than Teruel-Cuenca front LH‘n!h nt |t Cuenca, miles northe; {on the impor 700 square miles on while the gov- dug fortifications only about 30 v was burial | of the dead and fc The insurgents put the cost of Gen. | Jose Miaja's government salient mm; ins rearguard territory on the | Madrid front at 300 fighting planes | and 30,000 casualties. They called the | drive an expensive failure The government estimated Franco had lost 20,000 to 25.000 men and had | poured about $15000.000 worth of War materials iInto the struggle to| keep intact his siege lines. Francos losses in the air totaled at least 100 planes to the government's 20 or 30, it was said in Madrid Insurgents said that many of the government's 7,000 dead still lie in piles under the blazing sun in now abandoned trenches and the shell- raked villages west of Madrid BRITAIN IS BACKED. Other Nations Approve Neutrality Proposals in Principle. | LONDON. July 29 (P).—Informed | sources said today that the nations | pledged to isolate the Spanish war | have stamped British proposals “0. K. in principle. with reservations. A committee spokesman said about half the 26 other members of the Non-intervention Committee have re- plied to Britain's questionnaire on her latest proposal—‘neutrality blockade, withdrawal of volunteers, limited bel- ligerent rights for both side: | The fundamental difference, the | spokesman said, was still whether belligerency would be recognized or | volunteers would be withdrawn first. | — i Recaptures Bass on String. OKLAHOMA CITY (#)—Dr. Dale| Collins swears to this: He and his party caught 15 bass and strung them on a line. The line came loose and slipped into the lake, Collins diving unsuccessfully after them. Fifteen ered attacks on the Italo-German co- operation. Released Convict Threatens New Crimes U By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, July 29.—Marcus Reeves, 25, of Bellwood, Ill, walked out of Central Prison yesterday after completing a four-year term for lar- ceny and told State officials to “send me home or I'll break the law.” ‘The slight, reserved former convict said last night he would take his case to Gov. Clyde R. Hoey today. “They released me with a new suit, . a gray prison 3 he told re- porters. “I can get a job in Illinois, but not here. Itll cost the State $15 =—the price of a ticket home—for men to go straight, minutes later he had a strike. Up came all 15 bass, still neatly strung. nless State Pays “If they don't send me home? got to live, don't I? Tl steal.” Reeves, alias Bob Reed and Jack Hensley, swapped the prison shoes for |a pair of sporty oxfords and bummed a sky-blue shirt and brown tie from |a laundry owner yesterday. But he still wasn't satisfled with his suit. “A copper can spot this suit as the kind they give released prisoners,” he said. “Any kind of a man who hires | laborers can spot it a mile away.” He said his trade was electro-plating and that he could not get work of that sort in the South. I've Fron- | | Albert tion work. | Blasts Mar King’s Ireland Visit This radiophoto shows 1 of the 28 customs houses in Ireland blown up and burned. Bomb explosions, gunfire and incendiarism in Belfast and along the border between Ulster and the / virtually the entire constabulary of Britain's North- outrages marred the “coronation visit” to Belfast of King George VI Irish Free State prompted mobi ern Irish domain. These and Queen Elizabeth. Lord Mayor Sir Crawford this radiophoto from London Queen Elizabeth on their arriva gas main explosion occurred as the city hall M lization o, | Fund Wil cCullagh (right, areeting King Georg L at the city hall at Belj the King and Queen drove to ~-Wide World Photos. is pictured 1 RIOT COUNT HOLDS TWOINCAMBRIDGE ‘Strike Leader Arrested, Third Man Sought on Bus Operator’s Complaint. the Associntec Prase CAMBRIDGE. Md . July 28 —Po] today heid Lonnie Nealan. one of the | leaders of the Phillips Packing Co &trike, and another man while they | sought a third on charges of 1o riot By ps were by Nealan and Ricl arrested on w Kern Phiil worr C warrant f e 1ps canning plants J. Gorman Hil bus was stoned Ul WAIDIng one day because some | of the Phillips employes rode it to the ! plant. The following day. he said. the | operator of the bus was threatened | | with further violence if he continued to operate, and efforts were made to stop the bus. Hill said the bus line was not connected with the Phillips Pack- ing Co. {MEXICANS EXECUTED IN SPANISH REBELLION | Envoy Reports Four of Munitions Ship Captured by Insur- gents Were Shot. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY. July 29.—The for- eign department was informed yester- day that four Mexican members of the | crew of the Spanish munitions ship | Mar Cantabrico. captured by the in-| surgent cruiser Canarias off Spain in February, had been executed at EI| Ferror for “rebellion.” i A report from the Charge d'Affaires | at Lisbon, Portugal. said the Mexicans —Jose Carlos Gallo, Manuel Zavala, | Alejandro Franco and Ricardo Solor- zano—were court-martialed aboard the prison ship Contramaestre Casado along with Spanish members of the government ship’s crew, and shot The Mar Cantabrico, loaded with airplanes and other war supplies. sailed from Vera Cduz February 9. She wa near Spain when the Canarias cap- tured her. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: May vote on wage-hour bill. Government Reorganization Com- mittee holds closed session. & House: Considers legislation Senate-House Committee studies bill to plug tax loopholes. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- tinues hearing on regional planning bill. Agriculture Committee considers crop-insurance bill. Labor Committee continues revision of wage-hour bill. TOMORROW. flood-control planning Senate: May consider housing bill if wage and hour bill is passed today. House: Will eonsider Panama Canal toll bill Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee begins hearings authorizing investigation of public utility corpora- tions, 10 a.m. Holt's Sister Is Engaged to Ralph K. Chase Betrothal Announce- ment Due at Party Tomorrow. JANE HOLT. ‘The engagement of Miss J Holt sister and hostess of youtnful Sen. tor Rush Dew Holt of West Virgl to Ralph K. Chase, Maritime Commis- sion attorney, will be announced for Charleston. W. Va News of the betrothal was con- firmed by Senator Holt's office today Miss Marion McClure of Charleston will be hostess for the engagement party. Miss Holt, 23, became hostess for her brother two years ago when she | West Virginia. She lives with him | here at 3810 Reno road and acts as a volunteer secretary in his office. Chase, 35, and a native of Sche- nectady, N. Y, was associated with the Securities and Exchange Commis- sion until his recent transfer to the Maritime Commission. The couple will be married at a quiet wedding here in August, the exact date to be set later. They will reside in Washington. Alimony P(li \';mnts 'In California Near $10,000,000 Y early 100.000 Divorcees and Wives Collect on Maintenance. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 29.—Payment of alimony and separate maintenance is reaching the proportions of a $10,- 000,000 annual item in the economic life of Los Angeles County. With 13,000 divorces a year, officials estimated today divorcees and wives on separate main- tenance in the county. If only a fifth of these received financial support— and if they obtained but $40 a month —the yearly bill would be $9,600,000, officials figured. Most of the really big-time alimony payments are made privately, and the money is never handled by the county probation officer, however. In this category, screen funnyman Oliver Hardy recently agreed to pay Myrtle Lee Hardy $1,000 a month. When Film Director Joseph Von Sternberg was divorced, it was pro- vided he pay $25.000 within a year and $1,200 a month for five years. John D. Spreckles ITT of the wealthy sugar family pays $675 a month to young Roxana Giloria Spreckles, f Saturday night at a party in| was graduated from the University of | there were 100,000 | SI00 ALLOTTED FORCHANNEL 0 Be Used for Dredging and Removal of Rocks. The sum of £40.000 was allotted to- dat by Secretary of War Woodring for | dredging operations and remo Wast de contin the water adelplia 1 $13.000.000 appropriation ha allotted and expended on tne canal fost of the work is expected and the canal to water traffic route hed cpen t of the year Plans Near Completion pplementary plans and specifica- improvement of the Wash own by tions for Walt ater project The supplementary plans in clude items timbering for dock framewo! gnting proposed yac boat power | service lines, ho floats where tenders may be landed. drivewavs and the planting and sodding of land sur- such for 100 differ- to C. A engmneer in ge of preparing the pl Mearwhile. there was speculation whether the District's share of $380.- 000 channel 0 $1.650.000 ject money work that calls es 15 not sched vear of the eight-year program The United States Engineers Office | has made plans to spend $285.000 for | the first years work. This includes | construction of the east section of vacht basin No. 1. from the west end of the fish market halfway to Four- | teenth street southwest, and the east | | section of yacht basin No. 2. from Tenth and Water streets southwest | to the vicinity of G and H streets | . or from west the | n wharf to the edge of the| Powell Transportation Co. Building Value of Canal. Completion of the Chesapeake and | Delaware Canal will enable freight | vessels to save not only 300 miles on the present route from Baltimore | down Chesapeake Bay to the Virginia | Capes and back northward through | the Delaware River to Philadelphia, | but also one d: time on the trip. According to word from Baltimore, passenger vessels plying between Nor- folk and Philadelphia may use the inland passage afforded by the canal when storms prevail over the “out- side” ocean-Delaware River route The canal route is from Reedy Point, on the Delaware River, 40| | miles below Philadelphia, to the junc- | tion of Back Creck and Elk Ruver, about 4 miles west of Chesapeake City, Md,, a distance of 19 miles, with | | a branch channel extended from Del- aware City, Del. for 18 miles to the junction with the main canal from Reedy Point. The channel will be 27 feet deep. Other rivers and harbors appropria- tions included $24.000 for Annapolis, Md., Harbor: $50,000 for Baltimore Harbor and channel, and $19,250 for | Mattaponni River, Va. ‘The list of allotments for the new work follows Mississippi River, Missouri River to Minneapolis, $27.000.000; Missouri Riv- er, at Fort Peck. Mont. $7.704,000; Kansas City to Sioux City, $7.000,000; Bonneville Dam. Oreg, $6,940,000; | Great Lakes to Hudson River Water- way, $5,000,000; Tllinois Waterway, TiL, $4.488,951; New York and New Jersey channels, $3,118,000; Cape Cod Canal, | Mass., $3.500.000 | Kanawha River, W. Va., $2.480,000; | Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombig- bee rivers, ‘Ala. $1.684.00: Houston ship channel, Tex.. $1.500,000; Tygart River Reservoir, W. Va. $1.500.000; Sacramento River and tributaries, Calif. (debris control), $1500,000; Grays Harbor, Wash., $1.400,000, and Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., $1,350,000. Geyser to Run Trains. Engineers are harnessing a huge geyser near Larderello, Italy A power house is being built, and the geyser will drive four turbines pro- ducing in all 48.000 kilowatts. The energy will be used to operate electric trains for passengers and freight. | of “phony” GEORGE'S JOURNEY - T0IRELAND SCORED British Press Asks Why It Was Necessary Rulers Visit Belfast. BY the Astociated Press LONDON, July 20 — Protest against the official arrangements tonk King George and Queen Elizabetn tn Northern Ireland for a coronation celee bration that was marred by w desprear] political terrorism was voiced here - day ‘The Daily Mirror, peril involved in the Teferring to the Visit yesterday, “M: necessary to Belfast? Belfast po tive inquiry t was thought 4 Queen o g0 ied on an exhause powerful Jand mina which exploded near the route of ¢ roval procession. but had made no a rests in that connection Power Plant Believed Target, The Ulster authorities declared explosion, at a warehouse plan there was no officia an attempt Rather had tried to power and vas de Belfast authorities waited | until the King and Que aboard the roy bound before ti by the explosior of rags and which explosives. Explo been placed aga th of fuse—possib The fuse was found and mile from where Georg were riding to City H th the 1 gangste rifies and ed three men encemped on a mo. tain top Police said plot to d ite trains ca polir and other visitors on their return to e Londonderry area from Belfast, : S SYPHILIS CASE-FILE BEGUN IN CHICAGO Secret Index of Medical Histories of Victims to Aid Battle on Disease. B¥ the Associated Prece CHICAGO. July 20 — Chicagn physi- cians took up & new weapon thd e city's mass attack on svDhi Be file ecrat 6.000 dic 3.0¢0 2090 cases of svy medical treatmen; tors stated they were not ereal disease cases, but ingness to assist Federal, St al health officers in the the plague Arthur Carstens, W. P. A regi statistician, and Dr. Oliver C Wenger, Federal health service spectal: the survey of case histories in whi no names or addresses of patients or doctors are taken The survey supplements & citv secret referendum to d many persons are willing secret blood tests prevalence of sypl v will e . “is to find cases are actu in the city and all f taining to them. It this has been done in a ci of Chicago.” THREAT TO SUSPECT IN KIDNAPING DENIED Inspector Calls Report of Warn ing to Manning Strewl “a Lie.” By the Assoclated Press BINGHAMTON, N The record of the for the 1933 kidna O'Connell, jr., today held the de: of a high-ranking New York cit policeman that he ever threatened usc " ransom notes against on¢ ont the size Y, July 29 of eight me: ing of John defendant The witness, Deputy Inspector Ric |ard Oliver, gray-haired, 27-vear vet eran of the force, was one of severa metropolitan police officials called t. rebut defense testimony. Oliver asserted under cross-exami nation that he had seen Mann Strewl, “go-between” in the ransom negotiations and now on trial, at Albany County Jail in August, 1933 after O'Connell was released “Didn’t you tell Strewl that if he did not identify the men in certan photographs you had that you woulr use those ‘phony’ ransom notes against him?" asked Joseph G. M. Browne counsel for Strewl. “No, that's a lie,” Oliver replied Strewl has admitted writing three of ten ransom notes introduced by the Government, but claims thev were dictated to him by police after O'Con- nell was freed. He contends their in- troduction is an effort to “frame” him 40 Is Summer Temperature. PARSONS, W. Va. July 20 (/P Thermometers in Tucker County sank yesterday to new lows on the coldest, day of Summer. The temperatura dropped to 40 at Davis, 42 at Thomas and 48 in Parsons. § )