Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1937, Page 2

A—2 =a THE . EVENING _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MURPHY TO CRUISE WITH ROOSEVELT Invitation Recalls Mention of Governor as Court Post Possibility. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. With Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi- gan and a small party of friends as his companions, President Roosevelt expects to sapend the week end aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. Gov. Murphy, who has devoted most of his time as Michigan's chief ex- ecutive to bringing about strike set- tlements, has been mentioned seri- ously as a possible appointee to the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Van De- vanter. The President said, however, that Murphy's visit would be purely social # The President said he expects to get away late today or tonight unless the Sino-Japanese situation becomes more serious, but on that account re does not expect to cruise very far. Unless summoned back earlier, he will return Sunday afternoon. Mr. Roosevelt, in continuing his close watch on developments in China, 1s being kept advised by the State De- partment by cablegrams and personal conferences with department heads. R. ‘Walton Moore, counsellor of the de- ‘partment, was invited by the President to have a long luncheon talk with him. The President is contemplating a brief vacation next week end at his Hyde Park (N. Y) home. He is hoping he will be able to leave here the latter part of the week for three or four days' rest there. He ex- plained, however, that this is con- tingent upon developments in the Far East. Mr. Roosevelt, asked if he thought Congress would adjourn in the mean- time, said that was something for Congress to answer. During the forenoon the President received an informal call from Italian Ambassador Suvich, who took this op- portunity to pay his respects before leaving Washington for a few months’ vacation. Later he talked with Sonza Costa, the Brazilian minister of fi- nance; with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was accompanied by Edward Me- Grady, Assistant Secretary of Labor; J. Butler Wright, who will leave in a few days for his new post as Ambas- sador to Cuba, and David Lillienthal, 8 director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, HARPER NOVEL PRIZE AWARDED TO PROKOSCH ‘Author of “The Asiatics” Chosen for $7,500 Honor From Several Hundred Contestants, By the Astoctated Press, NEW YORK, July 30.—Frederic Prokosch, squash and tennis playing author of “The Asiatics,” has won the Harper prize of $7,500 with his second novel. Prokosch calls the prize winner “The Beven Who Fled.” He is 28 years old, Wisconsin born of Austrian ancestry and has studied at Haverford College and Yale, and at Cambridge in England. At present he is working on a long Picaresque novel in England on a Guggenheim fellowship. Later he plans to travel extensively, His father, Eduard Prokosch, is sterling professor of linguistics at Yale. ‘The 600 manuscripts received in the prize contest were judged by Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder and Louis Bromfield. TALE OF GOLD TOOTH THEFT JAILS SEVEN | Complainant Charges Freight Car Companions Yanked Bright Molar in Robbery. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y, July 30.—A tale of a painfully purloined gold-tooth landed five men in police cells yes- terday—two of them accused of the theft and five others as material wit- nesses. “I've heard the expression about stealing an eye out of a person’s head,” Detective William J. Flynn said, “but this i an actual caze of a man ateal- ing a gold tooth right out of another man’s mouth.” Flynn said one of the men com- plained that two of the others beat him, robbed him, and then yanked the gold tooth out of his mouth as they all rode together in a freight car near Fort Wayne, Ind, last Tuesday. All were taken into custody at the Erie County Lodging House where they registered for shelter yesterday, HUNTSVILLE, Tex., July 30 (#).— George Patton, 55, died in the electric chair at State Prison here early to- day for the murder of a family of four. ‘Two years ago, after confessing he had killed the family in a quarrel over crop division, he led officers to his pasture and dug up the four skeletons. Druggist “Taken” For Shirt as Rain Shuns Waynesburg By the Associated Press, WAYNESBURG, Pa., July 30— Druggist Byron Daily lost his shirt today because it failed to rain yester- day in this Southwestern Pennsylvania town for the fourth time in 63 years. Daily, who has collected more than s dozen hats wagering on the tradi- tional July 29 downpour, paid off to credulous Lew Rapport, a merchant, whose wardrobe needed a shirt more than a hat. Loyal members of the “July 29 Club” put their feith in the weatherman's cheerful prediction of “showers late today” and refused to concede defeat until midnight. They were outguessed decisively. There wasn't a drop of rain. In fact, there wasn't a good-sized cloud and the sun shone brightly. Records of the July 29 rainfall were started by a man whose name has been forgotten. At his dessh, “Ab” Allison took over the club's log book and kept it until he died a decade ago. Bince then, the task has been Daily's. It was the first time since 1930 that he had lost the standing bet and he commented today that he “sould stand t.” Wayside Tales Random 'Observations of Interesting Events and Things. MEAT COURSE. ‘WNER of a huge estate of sev- eral thousand acres down in Virginia decided some time ago that he wanted to stock trout in streams on the place. Wrote to the Bureau of Fisheries, or wher= ever you would write, and asked them about it, describing the length, depth, etc, of the streams. The Governmnt replied that it would be charmed. to supply trout, would send down a few thousand by train the next day. Came the evening, and the gentle- man farmers's wife said to her cook: “You might go down and meet that train. I haven't ordered any meat for dinner tonight, so pick out three or four of the biggest trout and we'll have those. After all, with so many turned loose at once, somebody is bound to catch a few in the next two or three days.” Cook went down to the station, came back looking somewhat crestfallen. “Did you select the largest ones?” said his employer. “‘Oh, yes'm.” “Were they nice? Will they do?” “Well, I doan' know, ma'am; big- gest ones I saw were about an inch and a half long.” L PRICE RANGE. At a vegetable stand out on a nearby highway tourist passing by the other day stopped to have a look at the goods. Noticed that the price list said “Lopes, 50 cents” right at the top and down lower had “Cantaloupes. 35 cents” He asked what might be the difference. “None at all, mister,” said the operator. “They all come out of the same basket. It's just that some people take 'em off the top and rush on, and the smart ones stay around and think it out jor themselves.” * %k X @ NURSERY RHYME. HOWING you what the younger generation is apt to do to nursery rhymes, the verses and other such stuff on which we feasted our naive brains in .childhood, a young lady named Ida Sheppard, who lives in Sometset, has a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow. Every place that Ida goes the lamb is apt to go, but all that does is mix us up, because the name of the lamb is Mary. * ok % % | TOUGH LILY. \BLESSED are the Japanese cherry H blossoms, for they fll the hos- | telries with tourists and the city with | | the first pink joys of Spring, but not |80 beloved is a certain other variety |of Japanese plant flourishing in the | Potomac these days. Looks like a water lilv, so we are told, but acts like | no lily at all, entwining itself around propellers, rudders, oars, anchors and | whatnot until boatmen are in & frenzy. Story is that some workers were cleaning up the Botanic Gardens one day and tossed a couple of scraps of this stuff into the water. Now look at it—provided, of course, that you can find any, or that there is any such thing. We heard only a rumor. ® oK X % AH, YES. Sign on the Baltimore pike: FRESH FRYING CHICKENS KILLED WHILE YOU WAIT. DUCKS. O. K., Chefie Wefle. * ook ERRAND. COPY boy on this paper was sent downstairs the other day to get a paper from the counter, issue of June 13. Came dashing back in a few moments with the edition of July 25. “Whatsa idea?” who'd sent him. “I didn’t get it,” said the boy, dash- ing off again. This time he returned with a paper, date June 14. “Listen,” said the scribe. “I said the 13th. First you have the 12th of the month. Then you have the 25th. I said June 13. May, June, July, you know. Now, I want the paper of 8unday, June 13.” Boy departed again. Shortly aft- erward scribe's telephone rang: “Down here,” the boy announced proudly, “they say June 13 wasn't a Sunday.” Who are we to print the answer to that one? Eventually the boy returned with our nice, fat issue of Sunday, June 13, 1937. “Thanks,” said the scribe, when the peper was in his hands. The boy hesitated a moment. “You know,” he said. “I think I must have made a mistake.” HOG’S RIGHT HAM FOUND AS TENDER AS HIS LEFT Agriculture Department Tests Refute Theory Exercise Makes Meat Tough. By the Associated Press. The Agriculture Department, through tests completed to the satis- faction of official tasters, decided today a hog’s right ham is just as tender as his left one. ‘The question was an old one, grow- ing out of the theory a hog exercises his right leg more, thereby toughening those muscles. A Tests disclosed, however, a group of hogs which had not exercised at all turned out toughér than mates which had trotted all around the pen, A hog, it was pointed out, doesn't use his legs much anyhow. He just works his snout. said the scribe | Washington H]RD, 74, MARKS EVENT QUIETLY Attributes Splendid Physical Condition to “Keeping Active.” By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 30—Henry Ford is 74 years old today. Seemingly in the best of physical condition, he looks 60 and belies his years by still in- dulging in such exercise as bicycling and running. Ford, who was nearly 40 years old when he organized the present Ford Motor Co., has no intention of re- tiring. He surrendered the presidency of the company to his son, Edsel, more than a decade ago, but he con- tinues the guiding spirit of the great industrial empire. As usual, there was no birthday celebration for Ford today. 'It dif- fered from other birthday anniver- saries chiefly in the fact that it found him in his home office rather than at his lodge on the upper Michigan shore of Lake Superior. b Ford attributes his splendid physi- cal condition to the fact that he “keeps active and interested in things.” Somebody asked the manufacturer if he wanted to live as long as John D. Rockefeller. “I was asked that question not long ago,” he replied, “and I replied that I want to be around as long as I am useful” Ford's plants at present are shut down for the annual inventory. He plans to reopen them on August 9 and put assembly lines on a produc- tion schedule of 6,000 cars a day. Thus, barring labor interruptions, the volume of output for the current cal- endar year will run well above the million unit mark. To date output has totaled approximately 870,000 cars and trucks. By coincidence, the National Labor Relations Board was winding up today a hearing that has continued for four weeks on charges that the Ford com- pany violated the Wagner labor act. Except for one reference by a Ford spokesman to the N. L. R. B. as a “traveling court of inquisition,” Ford has let his lawyers do all the talking for his company in this case. TOBACCO FESTIVAL HEARS POLITICS Speakers at Mullins, S. C., Fete Bring Up Campaign Tssues. By the Associated Press. MULLINS, 8. C, July 30.—Mullins, South Carolina’s biggest tobacco market, held its annual festival yes- terday, and the thousands of cele- brants got something of a preview of the 1938 political campaign. Representative Ben E. Adams of Richland, Gov. Johnston's floor lead- er in the House, criticized the social security set-up in the State and the State highway department, long the target of the Governor. Representative Neville Bennett of Marylboro, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, answered Adams with the assertion, “This is not the time to dissect the activities of the last Legislature or to criticize the actions of officials. This is a to- bacco festival, when we should re- Joice over the splendid sales season which is approaching.” Ben T. Leppard of Greenville, State Democratic chairman and often men- tioned as a candidate for Governor, declared himself in favor of tax ex- emption for homesteads and a State- wide police system. Cole L. Blease, former Governor and Senator and perennial candidate for office, made no mention of issues but reiterated that he would be in the race for Governor. - DETROITERS TO SEEK EVICTION MORATORIUM Appeal to Gov. Murphy for One- Year Holiday Planned by Rent- ers’ League Agent. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 30.—Mortimer J. Furay, agent for the Detroit Renters’ and Consumers’ League, said last night Gov. Frank Murphy will be asked to urge the Legislature to enact a moratorium upon evictions because of Detroit's housing shortage. Furay is a member of the City Council's Housing Study Committee, which has asked Wayne County Circuit Court commissioners to defer action in pending eviction cases. The proposed one-year moratorium, Furay said, would be similar to emer- gency legislation enacted in New York State in 1921 during a post-war short- age which resulted in 750 eviction cases a month. He said the number of such cases in Detroit now runs from 1,500 to 2,300 for a simila# period. Tragic Figure QUARREL OVER CHILD LEADS TO SLAYINGS. SALLY LOUISE TALLMAN. Sally, who is 10 years old to- day, was the object of a bitter nluarrel that ended, according o Buffalo police, when her father, Buell G. Tallman, wounded his estranged wife, killed @ maid with a wild shot and committed suicide. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ¢ Jlitical and financial trouble. JULY 30, 1937 Saved From Burning Bay Steamer Second Mate Ernest Horseley of the burned ship as he was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of burns suffered during the fire. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. TAXLAW CHANGES ARE AGREED UPON Senate-House Group Ex- pects to Recommend Loop- hole Plugs Next Week. | By the Associated Press A special Senate-House Committee agreed today on recommendations it will make to Congress for preventing the seepage of revenue throush tax law loopholes. Details were kept secret, Chairman Doughton said the sug- gestions probably would not cover all | Government jobs, tax evasion devices which the Treasury | described in open hearings, but that | ould cover “the most important “We'll have to have further legisla- tion on this matter next Winter,” he | said The committee will Tuesday. By them, said, it is hoped to have the formal report ready for presentation to Sen- ate and House. A bill to seal tax loopholes also may be ready by that time, he added. The legislation is on the list of measures the administration would like to see enacted before adjourn- ment. Hearings to give affected tax- payers a chance to present their views may be necessary. Members of the committee said the new legislation would apply to 1937 incomes in the hope of picking up meet again $150.000.000 to $250,000,000 additional | revenue. The measure will be relatively sim- ple, members said, to take care of such tax reduction devices as incorporated vachts, country estates and hobbies by tightening up on allowable deductions. They intend also to cover foreign and domestic personal holding companies, foreign insurance firms and non-resi- dent aliens in their recommendations. ‘Technical and legal problems too in- tricate to solve speedily may prevent action this session against other tax avoidance practices. The Question of multiple trusts is an example. The committee has decided tenta- tively to eliminate a $1,000 deduction now allowed each trust. But there is & question of constitutionality involved in suggestions that all the created by one individual be lumped together and taxed as one entity. Treatment of pension trusts, along pletion allowances, generally is expect- ed to be held over until 1938, SOCIALITES WED Miss Margarét Mitchell Bride of Barrett Wendell. NANTUCKET, Mass, July 30 (. —Miss Margaret Mitchell, prominent daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leeds Mitchell of Chicago, was mar- ried here yesterday to Barrett Wen- dell, 3d, also of Chicago and grand- son of the late Francis Lee Higgin- son, Boston banker. The maid of honor was Miss Nancy Montgomery of Stamford, Conn. Other attendants were Mrs. Horace H. Soule of Brookline, Mrs. F. Lee | H. Wendell of Chicago and Miss Sidney Todd of Long Island. After a wedding ~ reception the couple left on a yachting trip, MONACO AIDE DIES BARCELONNETTE, France, July 30 (#)—Maurice Bouilloux-Lafont, former minister to Monaco and for- mer vice president of the French Chamber of Deputies, died yesterday at the age of 62. He was nominated by France in| 1932 to put things in order in Monaco, where there had been po- been a banker at one time. He also handled the tiny principality's rela- tions with foreign powers. the chairman | |in 1910, served later with the Postal | | Savings System and now is admin- | | istrative assistant and budget officer | | messenger for the Navy Department | York City Housing Corp. He was ap- trusts | | retary with community property laws and de- | soctally | | problems. | ministration He had | CAREER MEN SEEN ROOSEELTAIES Niné in U. S. Service Listed | as Likely Choices for Six Proposed Jobs. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt, when and if | Congress gives him six administrative | assistants, may find some who would fill the bill almost on the White House doorstep. Informed persons said today he robably would seek appointees among he “career men” already holding The House already has approved a bill authorizing the $10,000-a-year assistants, It is pending in the Senate. Officials who declined to be quoted by name listed nine men who they said might meet a presidential committee's specifications of “high competence, great physical vigor and a passion for anonymity.” Some in the group are “‘career men: Elbert K. Burlew, 51, a native of Sunbury, Pa. who became a civil service clerk with the War Department Forster Mentioned. ‘William H. McReynolds, a native | of Wilson County, Kans., who entered | the Post Office Department through a civil service examination in 1806 and worked steadily upward to his present post—administrative assistant to Sec- retary Morgenthau, W. A Jump. 44, who became a 30 years ago and now is director and budget officer in Agriculture Department. Rudolph Forster of Washington, who became a White House stenog- rapher in the first year of President McKinley's first administration. He now is executive clerk in charge of | ‘White House offices, and is the oldest | man in point of White House service. | Herbert Emmerick, 40, who came to the Farm Credit Administration as executive officer in 1933 after 10 vears as vice president of the New finance the pointed deputy governor of the F. C. A. in March, but expects to quit September 1 to accept a private pesition in Chicago. Newspaper Man Listed. Ernest G. Draper, 52, Assistant Sec- of Commerce since August, 1935. He was a naval officer in the World War and later became vice | president of a packing company. Daniel W. Bell, 46, acting budget director and special assistant to Sec- retary Morgenthau. He was born at Kinderhook, Ill, and in 1911 won a $700-a-year Treasury clerkship through civil service examination. Leon Henderson, 41, of New York, who came with the N. R. A. in 1934 as an assistant in charge of consumer | He now is a consulting | economist to the Works Progress Ad- Norman W. Baxter, 46, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and former news- paper man. From 1933 to this year he was an assistant to various di- rectors of the reconstruction corpora- tion. He recently took a position with the Distilled Spirits Institute. REMEMBERS EMPLOYES Former Dairy Executive Leaves Chauffeur $50,000. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 30 (#).— Thirty-six present and former em- Ployes of Seth K. Ames, former head of a dairy products chain, would re- ceive legacies ranging from $1,000 to $50,000, under his will, filed yesterday in Middlesex Probate Court. Grace Grant of Bangor, Me.,, was bequeathed the income from a trust fund of $100,000, while Roy W. Stiles of Melrose, Ames' chauffeur for many years, and Isabel L. Copland of Win- chester, a stenographer, were left $50,~ 000 each. Attempts to Ride Wild Ponies Feature Chincoteague Penning By the Associated Press. CHINCOTEAGUE, Va., July 30.— Elwood Quillen, owner and rider of “Pony,” captured top honors in the pony races held over a mile straight- away course here yesterday in con- junction with the annual pony pen- ning. Five races were held during the afternoon, with Quillen winning the third, fourth and fifth. Mark Daisey, riding Easter, won the opening race, and Hamilton Whealton, riding Joe Boy, took the second. ‘The rough-riding contests attracted large crowds. Many attempts were made to ride the wild ponies, but Wright Young ef Gloucester, Va., was the only contestant to remain on a pony as long as three minutes, Young won & cash prise for the feat, In the Coast Guard boat races the fourth district of New York won the two-mile race in surf boats with 12 men in the crew. The sixth and sev- enth districts also competed. Crews from the sixth district competed in a race in which the boats were capsized and the occupants crawled over the boat and uprighted it again. The Ocean City, Md., Coast Guard crew demonstrated beach apparatus. Using a barge as a “grounded vessel,” men were brought ashore in a breeches buoy. ‘The pony penning celebration was climaxed last night with four boxing matches and a firemen’s carnival. More than 200 ponies were rounded up on Chincoteague and nearby is- 1ands for the penning. A A Minus their clothes, Robert both of Shamokin, Pa., are shown being pu rescue from the blazing City of Baltimore. i E. Long, left, and Paul F. Shine, t to bzq after their Arrest of Californian Nets “Rookie” Policeman Here $100 Adelbert A. Schmidt, rookie " traffic policeman, is to receive a reward of $100 for capturing Harry Leroy Anderson, Berkeley, Calif., electrical engineer, shown charged with “stealing” his daughter, Doris Eli Jfrom her mother’s home, at San Luis Obispo, Cal: beside him. Anderson is beth (inset), 1. —Star Staff Photo. ROOKIE traffic policeman whose one-year probationary period ends Sunday is slated to get the $100 reward posted by San Luis Obispo, Calif., authorities for apprehension of Harry Leroy Anderson, 31, Berkeley, Calif. electrica engineer, on charge of “stealing” his own daughter, Doris Elizabeth, 21 ears old. The rookie is Adelbert A. Schmidt, | who spotted Anderson's automobile at | Thirteenth and I streets yesterday and arrested him as he approached the car. Anderson readily admitted his identity | and police, at a home on Hudson street in Takoma Park, daughter. Anderson was held at first precinct pending extradition proceedings. He said he would resist extradition and also fight to keep his daughter. The Md, found the child, whose custody was awarded to | her mother, Mrs. Carmel Anderson, San Luis Obispo high achool teacher, & year and a hal{ ago, was held at the Receiving Home. Anderson is accused of “stealing” = 1 { his daughter from her mother's home on June 3. The charge does not in- volve kidnaping, but was created by California statute to cover parent- child cases. Police learned that Anderson, after taking away little Doris Elizabeth, drove leisurely across the country in a large sedan. He had been here for two weeks, working as a linoleum layer and roominz and boarding in Takoma Park. Although he thought police might be looking for him, he made no effort to hide his identity, ! he said. Anderson required about a month to reach Washington, stopping at sev- eral cities to work and earn expense money. Meanwhile, the sheriff at San Luis Obispo issued a lookout for Anderson, and police all over the country were on the watch. It was through the lookout that Schmidt was able to spot the Californian’s automobile. Anderson is a graduate of the Uni- versity of California and an engineer by profession. {WOMAN ORGANIZER WILL DEFY OUSTER Red-Head Says She Was Taken Forcibly From Hotel—Plans Return te Finish Job. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, Bailey, red-headed labor organizer who declared she was ‘“carried forcibly” from Barnesville, Ga., Wed- nesday night, said yesterday she planned to return there to continue organization work. “I'm going back as soon as pos- sible,” she said. “The work I'm doing is perfectly legal and you can't afford to be afraid.” Miss Bailey said she was engaged in organization work among workers of the William Carter Co.,, manufac- turers of underwear. “I was trying to organize thc work- ers peaceably,” she said, “and was re- ceiving fine response. A number of them had signed membership cards. “A band of people stormed my hotel room, packed my grip and forced me to get into an automobile. Five of them brought me back to Atlanta.” Miss Bailey said the International Ladies’ Garment Workers® Union, with which she is connected, would file a statement outlining the incident with the National Labor Relations Board. The sheriff at Barnesville said Miss Bailey was asked to leave “by a group of about 50 people— mostly women.” C. C. C. YOUTHS KILLED Two Nebraska Enrollees Die in Truck Crash. RED WING, Minn., July 30 (#).— A sommersaulting truck killed two Nebraska C. C. C. youths yesterday and injured nine, one critically and two seriously. Robert C. Nelson, 17, of Winne- bago, Nebr., and Walter E. Vincent, 18, of York, Nebr., were crushed to death when the vehicle, laden with trainees, overturned. In critical condition was Leonard Shepheard of Lyons, Nebr. with & fractured skull. July 30.—Billye [ CARS INJURE TRIO OF CHILDREN HERE All Reported Recovering After Traffic Mishaps Near Homes. Three children were recovering today from injuries suffered when struck by automobiles near their homes yesterday. Powell Thompson, 7, of 1223 N street was treated at Children's Hos- pital for bruises about the body. Bertha Irene King, 12, of 1231 Eleven-and-a-half street southeast suffered slight head injuries. She was taken to Casualty Hospital. Severe bruises were inflicted on Julius Davis, 7, colored, of 4939 Meade street northeast. He was taken to Gallinger Hospital. Richard Oulahan, who was seri- ously injured yesterday when his au- tomobile crashed into a stone coping at South Capitol street and Inde- pendence avenue, was reported in “fair” condition today at Emergency Hospital. He is & son of the late Richard V. Oulahan, noted Washing- ton newspaper correspondent. HALLUCINATION BLAMED IN MOUNTAIN SLAYINGS By the Associated Pre FREDERICK, Md,, July 30.—Fred- erick County officers advanced the theory today that an hallucination may have driven 58-year-old Charles Martin to kill two women and then commit suicide. Martin, widowed farmer in the Blue Mountains 12 miles from here, shot the two women and killed him- self Wednesday. Shortly before he killed himself he told William Green, & neighbor: “I just shot those women. They took me home Monday night and robbed me of $2.100. They took the money from under my pillow.” Deputy Sherift Charles W. Smith said an extended ‘search failed to turn up any money except a small sum found in the purses of the two women. He added Martin may have lost the larger sum of money over & long period of time, A . CAPTAIN ADVANCES SABOTAGE THEORY May Explain “Amazing” Spread of Fire on Ship, Commander Says. B the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July 30.— Capt. Charles O. Brooks of the charred, smoking bay steamer City of Baltie more suggested today that sabotage may have accounted for the “amazing™ spread of the fire which left two dead and two missing of a complement of 93 aboard the ship. “I wouldn't even think of sahotage as a theory under ordinary circum- stances, but the idea has been running through my head,” Capt. Brooks said. “I say this because of the amazing way in which the fire spread so fast all over the boat.” The speed of the flames as they flared through the wooden superstruce ture of the boat will be one of the chief interests of the two-phase in= quiry Jaunched here. A special Federal Inquiry Board was named in Washing- ton to hold the first of its hearings tomorrow, and the company said that it, too, would probe into the causes and results of the fire and a series of minor explosions which passengers said fole lowed the first burst of flames, Inspectors Go Aboard. Inspectors of the Marine Inspection and Navigation Bureau went to the smouldering hull of the ship, still aground on Bodkin Point, this morning for an examination of the blistered steel hull and the twisted mass of beams which had supported the wooden deck houses. Capt. Brooks emphasized that he did not hold to sabotage as “my theory.” “If there were any sabotage” hs said, “there ought to be a reason, and I must say I haven't the remotest idea why anybody should want to start it. This is only an idea . . . just one of the things I have been thinking about ” Prank Barnes, Baltimore, deck watchman, said he first saw flames leaping out of flour and meal bags on the cargo deck, the main deck below the passengers quarters. Crew Called On Deck. After he saw the flames in the piled cargo, Barnes said, “I rushed out on deck and informed the man on watch. The rest of the crew was called on deck and they began assisting the passengers with life belts.” Capt. Brooks took up the story. “The first thing you know,” he said, “it (the fire) was all over everye where “Because it spread so quickly, peo= ple went to work on the fire first. At that time the boat was heading into the wind . . . the fire had started a little in front of midships, 8o that the flames were whipped back toward tha stern.” He explained that this tended to separate the passengers from the life- boats. He said he turned his ship so the flames would blow away from the ship. DETROIT BUS DRIVERS GO BACK TO POSTS Return to Jobs in Time %o As- commodate Home-Going Rush. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 30.—S8triking bus drivers returned to duty yesterday in | time to accommodate the home-going rush from Detroit's business district. Their return ended a one-day strike marked by violence at bus garages and confusion among commuting | thousands. | A temporary agreement to end what union officials termed a “wildcat” strike was reached shortly after noon in a conference between representa- | tives of the union and of the De- | troit street railway system It was agreed that a charter amend- ment governing seniority, which was to have gone into effect yesterday and { against which the strikers were pro- testing, should be held in abeyance during arbitration. Detroit street railway company of- ficials estimated that 65 per cent of the 1016 drivers took part in the strike. Union officials said more than 300 of the striking drivers were members of the Motorcoach Operators’ Association, an independent organiza- tion. EX-ILLINOIS TAX HEAD APPEALS EVASION TERM Malone Sentenced to Two Years and $5,000 Fine After Trial. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 30.—William H. Malone, 59, former chairman of the Illinois State Tax Commission, was at liberty under $25,000 bond today while his attorney perfected an ap- peal from a two-year prison sentence and $5,000 fine for income tax eva- sion. Judge William H. Holly passed sen- tence yesterday in accordance with a Federal jury verdict last month. Ma- lone was convicted on each of two counts of an indictment charging de- frauding the Government of $59,574 in income taxes in 1929 and 1930. During the trial three corporation lawyers testified they split fees with Malone to aid him in political campaigns. Government attorneys charged Malone had used the powers of his office to collect graft from the corporations, TODAY. Senate: Continues wage-hour debate. House: Considers Panama Canal toll bill. Naval Committee continues hear- ings on replacing airship Los Angeles. Banking Committee continues study of wage-hour bill. Senate-House Tax Committee eone siders methods of sealing tax loop= holes. Rivers and Harbors Committee re- sumes hearing on regional planning bill TOMORROW. Senate: Is expected to meet, with program uncertain, depending on disposition of wage and hour bill. District Committee may meet io consider & variety of bills, 4