Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1937, Page 4

A—4 = BIG THREE' IN CARS MAY BOOST PRICES Speculation on General Ad- vance Based on Ford Announcement. BACKGROUND— The automobile industry, ifs ef= ficiency pyramided to the nth de- gree, has been a symbol of mass pro- duction, each advance in design and marketing driving down the cost to consumer through keen sales competition. No let-up in pub- lic capacity and willingness to pur- chase the entire output has kept an increasing number of factories and workers busy. More than one big Midwestern city has all its “eggs” in the motors basket, By the Associatea Press. DETROIT, July 31.—Automotive | trade circles speculated today over the | possibilities of a general car price in- crease in the wake of a first definite ennouncement by the Ford Motor Co. and producers’ complaints of “rising | costs.” | Ford’s announcement, in the nature of a surprise, stirred talk directly whether the other two members of the | automobile field's “big three"—Gen- eral Motors and Chrysler—may follow suit Over the last several months, observ- ers pointed out, the producers have felt rising material costs to greater or lesser extent while some were troubled simultaneously with labor difficulties. It was recalled that only last Tues- day Alfred P. Sloan, jr., chairman of General Motors Corp., had broadly hinted an increase in prices. Price increases of $15 to $35, ef- fective Monday, on several passenger models of the 1937 Ford line were announced Iast night, with the terse explanation: “Rising costs.” The ‘base price” will remain unchanged. The increase excludes five types of passenger cars and all trucks and commercial cars. When reporting a $22,377,277 de- cline in net earnings for the second quarter of this year compared to 1936, Sloan predicted a possible “sub- | stantial , increase in selling prices’ | for General Motors cars because of a “decrease in labor efficiency” and higher materials costs. Chrysler has yet to indicate its| position formally. | Criticizing strikes which redu(‘ed‘; ‘production, Sloan said “sound and desirable progress” is impossible | through “arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing ef- +Aciency.” Higher wages and shorter hours, he said, are a by-product of tech- hical advances.” JOHN B. DENSMORE, LAWYER, SUCCUMBS ‘Was Former Solicitor in Labor | Department and War Job Agency Head. John B. Densmore, solicitor in the | Labor Department during the Wilson administration and director genersl of the War Emergency Employment Service, died Thursday at his home, 2813 Woodley road, after an illness of two years. He was 60. Funeral services were held at the | home at 8:30 a.m. today, with requiem mass in St. Thomas the Apostie's Church at 9 am. Burial was in Ar- lington National Cemetery. Mr. Densmore left the Government shortly after the end of the war to take a position with the Commercixl} Solvent Corp. of Philadelphia. Main- taining & home here, he remained with the Philadelphia firm until his recent illness, when he was forced to give up work. He was a member of the bar both | here and in Indiana, and had served | in Cuba with the United States Army .during the Spanish-American War. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eliza- +beth Densmore; a daughter, Jeanne, and s sister, Miss Jeannette Densmore | of California. (left), who shot and seriously w CODONA SHOOTS WIFE KILLS SELF Trapeze Artist Was Hus- band of Lillian Leitzel When She Fell, By the Associated Press. LONG BEACH, Calif, July 31—A | marital squabble and five pistol shots | spelled the end today to the sensa- | tional career of Alfredo Codona, once internationally known “daring young man on the flying trapeze.” | Codona, 43, only circus aerialist ever to do the difficult and hazardous triple somersault, shot and seriously wounded his divorced wife, Vera Bruce Codona, 32, and killed himself late yesterday. Mrs. Codona’s mother was the only witness, The couple were at a lawyer's office to discuss division of their property. The lawyer had stepped outside at Codona’s request. Codona was star performer of “the Flying Codonas,” family troupe which made several world tours. Accidents Ruined Career. Accidents killed Codona's second wife, Lillian Leitzel, and ruined his | own trapeze career, | Miss Leitzel plunged to her death ! in Copenhagen in 1931, when a ring | of her equipment snapped. In 1933 Codona so seriously injured | his shoulder in an act in New York that he never was able to make a comeback Codona had been in the garage busi- ness here recently, although he ap- peared in three films, once as a dou- ble for Johnny Weismuller in a “Tar- | zan” picture. | Codona and Miss Bruce, also an | aerial performer, were married at San Antonio, Tex., in 1932. She di- vorced him a month ago, charging cruelty. Mother Refused to Leave. | Yesterday they met at the lawyer's office. Mrs. Annie Bruce, Mrs. Co- dona’s mother, said Codona asked her | to leave with the attorney, but she | | remained. | Mrs. Bruce said Codona lighted a | | cigarette for her daughter and said: | TWO HOLD-UP SUSPECTS | ARE HELD FOR LINE-UP| Liquor Store and Filling Station | Manager Identify Pair Taken \ Thursday Night. | Two hold-up suspects, identified last night by a liquor store and fill- ing station manager as the men who robbed them recently, were being held for investigation today, pending a police line-up Monday night. Chief of Detectives Bernard W. Thompson said the men would not be charged until other victims had looked them over. The men held were identified by C. H. Fox, liquor store manager at 2100 New York avenue. and Robert Parkinson, service station manager at 5340 Wisconsin avenue, according to Inspector Thompson. In the first robbery, two men obtained $291 and in the second $6 The suspects were arrested Thurs- day night by Motoreycle Policeman G. L. Norris, eighth precinct, who stopped to question the men when he saw them run to an automobile 88 he passed e querying the two, one of them tried to pull a pistol from his pocket, Norris said. BANK OFFICIAL IS SHOT: LOAN REFUSAL BLAMED Auto Dealer Said to Have Ad- mitted Overdrawing His Ac- count $2,000 to $3,000. By the Associated Press MUSKOGEE. Okla, July 30— County Attorney A. Camp Bonds said today that J. C. Fast. jr, 32, admitted a Colorado vacation in which he had overdrawn his bank account between $2,000 and $3,000 led to the shooting of L. W. McLean, banker and civic leader Bonds reported Fast said he shot McLean when the banker refused to make good the checks Fast, automo- bile dealer and member of a prom- inent Muskogee family, had written while in the West. Bonds said Past had confessed the shooting and a formal charge would be placed against him today. McLean, 49, was shot yesterday as he sat at his desk in the Commercial National Bank. A fellow officer of the bank and a customer tackled Fast 83 he started to leave and pinned him | to the floor | Fast admitted he had been drinking, Bonds said. The Past and McLean families are Deighbors. 4 4937 Tild A house that has all Bruce (right), and killed himself at Long Beach, Calif. picture of Codona was made here in 1935 when he appeared as ringmaster for the Hagenbeck and Wallace Circus. Figures in Shooting Afredo Codona, former world’s premiere trapeze performer vounded his divorced wife, Vera The MRS. ANNA BRUCE, Mother of the girl trapeze artist, who witnessed the shoo@gng. —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. “Vera, this is the only thing you have | left for me to do.” [ Then he drew a pistol, shot her | four times and fired into his own| head, Mrs. Bruce said | Mrs. Codona replaced Miss Leitzel | in the Flying Codona troupe After Alfredo’s injury in New York, he returned here to recuperate and a few months later started training | with the others in an abandoned ware- | house under direction of the veteran | Eduardo Codona, the brothers' father. | He never regained his old artistry, however, and his public appearances became limited largely to benefit shows. Haiti’s 2,000,000 Negroes speak & French pato PSYCHOMETRY DELINEATIONS Grace Gray Delong Life Reader Adviser 11 AM to 9 P.M. PSYCHIC MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Twelfth 5t. N.W. Corner of 12th end Telephone MEt. 5234 RESORTS. ATLANTIC CIT N. J. 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THE EVENING SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1937. _— ——————— e e e VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN IN BELFAST New Explosion Shakes City and Thugs Beat Man Termed “Spy.” BACKGROUND— For half a century Catholic- Protestant friction has provoked clashes in Northern Ireland and, more recently, an anti-crown ecle- ment in Ulster has been active. Northern Ireland is predominateiy Protestant, while Southern Ircland is Catholic. Anti-crown sentiment 13 pronounced throughout country. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, July | 31.—Terrorists awakened Belfast with | dynamite today in & fresh outbreak | of the violence which greeted King | George on his visit to Northern Ire- land three days ago. Explosion of & land mine 50 yards from a police barracks in the West End and beating of & man his as- sailants termed & “spy and police tout” sent officers on & house-to-house search for political extremists Both the city and the Ulster-Free | State border were quiet after the early | morning violence, but police took extra precautions against fresh dem- onstrations. A band of terrorists held up Thomas Doherty and five companions before dawn. While three men kept the companions lined against a wall the others bludgeoned Doherty with re- volver butts. | They left him seriously injured with | a card hung around his neck, in-| scribed: “Spies and police touts be- ware.” Families in a wide section of the West End tumbled from their beds in | terror at 2:15 o'clock when the mine ripped a large hole in an occupied | store near the police barracks, where 20 men were sleeping. The three-story building was nearly toppled by the explosion. The bomb had been planted against a wall. 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