Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1937, Page 3

FIVE-STORY FALL KILLS TWO GIRLS Police Rescue One With Rope, Batter Wal' for Other, but Both Succumb. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 3—Two little girls who fell five floors into a 10-inch &pace between two apartment buildings yesterday while at play on the roofs, died after emergency squads rescued |, one with a lowered rope and battercd through a brick wall to reach the other. Lorraine Chinchar, 10, died of a gkull fracture and other injuries soon after a courageous hospital interne, lowered from the roof by a rope, mar aged to remove her from the cramped area into which she feli. Later at the hospital, where both girls were taken, Marilyn Murphy, 9— who managed to smile weakly and thank policemen who battered through a thick brick wall to reach her— also died. The two girls, attempting to climb from one building to another, stepped on a netting of wire and tar paper, then plunged down between walls only 10 inches apart at the bottom. Sever thousand persons gathered as police and hospital interns worked to rescue the children. The crowd cheered as first one and then the other girl was removed. Russia (Continued F‘r‘om First Page.) “in the direction of the Japanese con- cession” while Japanese troops stood | . by guarding the area. PUSH SOUTHERN DRIVE, | Japanese Planes Bomb Chinese 80 Miles From Tientsin. | TIENTSIN, August 3 (P.—Japanese | war planes rained bombs on the van- | guard of the advancing Chinese Army | today at Tehchow, on the border of Hopeh and Shantung Provinces, 80 miles south of here. A clumn of Japanese infantry, sup- ported by artillery and tanks, was pressing southward by forced marches to dispute the advance of the central government troops into Hopeh Prov- ince Officially, Vice Minister Horinouchi | rejected the protest on the grounds that Japan was not involved The Japanese troops were reported to have reached a point 15 miles south | of Tientsin, fighting scattered en- | gagements as they advanced. Jap-| anese headquarters reported, however, | they had met no real resistance. The advance brought the Japanese | within a few miles of the eastern col- umn of the 29th Chinese Army, now being reorganized after their defeats at Tientsin and along the line of the railroad to Peiping | The Japanese advance to the south was along the Tientsin to Pukow ra\l-‘! road, the same route the large bodies of troops ordered to the north by the central government were said to be following. The Tientsin-Pukow line bisects Shantung Province and is the Nanking government’s direct link with the north. | Move to Control Hopeh. | The Japanese movement to the south from the general headquarters | at Tientsin was the materialization of their long-expected thrust to gain a deep enough front to assure strategical | and military control of Hopeh Prov- | ince. | Scouting operations were reported far afield in Shantung Province with | Japanese bombers attacking as far south as Pingyuan, 30 miles below the Hopeh border. Observation planes were said to have flown over Tsin- | anfu, capital of Shantung Province | and 200 miles in a direct line south | from Tientsin, Authoritative advices said the spear- | head of the Chinese advance had ! reached Techow and that independ- | ent units had already crossed the | border into Hopeh Province to bolster | the reorganization of the 29th Army. ‘The aproach of the two armies eouth of Tientsin turned virtually all| sections of Hopeh Province into a field of operations. Far to the north | Japanese reported Chinese troops | from Shansi Province were massing at Kalgan, just short of the Great Wall | and 116 miles from Peiping. Chinese asserted Japanese planes had bombed | the Nankou Pass in the Great Wall | 30 miles north of Peiping. To the southwest of Peiping a large body of Japanese troops were march- | ing against Paotingfu, former capital | of Hopeh Province and concentration point for the western column of the national Chinese armies. Chinese re- ported the Japanese were advancing | behind a screen of aerial bombard- | ment. Within the conquered areas of | Peiping and Tientsin, Japanese ad- ministrative officers were systematic- ally attempting to obliterate the last vestiges of the Nanking government's influence. Under Japanese direction at Peip- ing police were conducting a house- to-house search, destroying pictures of Chinese nationalist leaders and burn- ing nationalist literature. Chinese were warned future possession of such | things would be considered “incrimi- nating.” | Unconfirmed reports said that Japa- nese officials had formed a list of 125 prominent Chinese who were being tracked down and taken into custody. It was impossible to confirm the re- port, but one of those listed was said DON'T GUESS ABOUT COOLING COSTS! |in from Manchukuo, the Japanese- Girls Die of Marilyn Murph died later in a hospital. Left: Right. Rescuers taking the man was thinly covered with roofing 9, and Lorraine Chinchar, 10, were plunyed into a crevice between two buildings in New York. The Murphy child shortly gled form of Marilyn Murphy through hole cut in a wall. Lorraine was taken from the crevice by means of a rope. of Marilyn's apartment to the next building wh THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Injuries in Crevice Plunge HARLAN PROBERS LISTENTO DEPUTY Elusive Ex-Sheriff Admits Anti-Union Work at Labor Board Quiz. By the Associated Press. HARLAN, Ky, August 3.—Testi- mony by Ben Unthank, elusive former Harlan County deputy sheriff who was sought unsuccessfully by Senate investigators three months ago, was be- fore National Labor Relations Board examiners today as they began the second day of a hearing on Wagner labor act violation charges against the Clover Fork Coal Co., Kitts, Ky. Unthank, described before the Sen- ate Civil Liberties Committee as | “head road killer” for the Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association in its alleged efforts to keep the United Mine Workers of America out of the county, was the star witness at yes- terday’s session. He said he had been “on vacation” since before the La Follette commit- tee's investigation into Harlan labor conditions. Admits Anti-Union Work, Unthank described himself as chief | detective for the association and said 12 or 15 investigators, whose names he could not recall, were employed under him to check up on union ac- tivities. Asked whether he was still & deputy sheriff, Unthank replied that he was & “special deputy.” Leonard Shore, Cincinnati, an N. L. R. B. attorney, inquired “Was it your purpose to prevent the organization of the United Mine Workers?” “1 guess it was” Unthank replied Company officials denied the Clover Fork concern was a member of the operators’ association. New Ink for Old Entry, George Ward, association secretary, said the company 1934, but had continued to pay dues | for “safety benefits.” Shore, after examining the as50- ciation’s record book, however, de- clared the resignation was entered in ink similar to that used in recent | entries and different from that used in 1934 Irvine G. McCann, Washington, trial examiner, said he would ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ascertain whether Shore's observations were correct and if they were he would recommend criminal proceedings be | instituted against Ward | Unthank said he never had sent in- | vestigators to the Clover Fork Mine, fatally injured yesterday when they The girls were taken out aliv. t Dr. Philip Zoller (in white suit) being lowered into the crevice, after being removed. Lo E Open-air theaters in England are well patronized this Summer. ——— e ® ESTABLISHED 1865 o WINDOW BLINDS || Pz~ Sat 257 RO The girls were attempting to climb from the roof en they plunged down the shaft, the top of which Are Very Important material over w They make o home look clean to be Dr. Wilson Wei, a member of the | Hopeh-Chahar Political Council and editor of the English language news- | paper the Peiping News. It is known | that the American-educated editor fell | into the hands of Japanese Saturday | afternoon { The guards were lifted from Peip- | ing's gates today and free pcrmxsslon! was granted to foreigners to come and | 80. None, however, left the city. Large | numbers of Chinese students from the American missionary school in ’I‘ung-] chow, scene of a Japanese air bom- | bardment Friday, arrived at the walls | today after an arduous journey by foot. They were detained outside the gates. The local government at Peiping o Gen. Chang Tsu-chung. while func tioning nominally with the help of the Sino-Japancse “Peace Preservation Committee,” was considered like simi- lar governments at Tungchow and Tientsin to be only a stop-gap during the present military phase of the Japa- | nese occupation. Promise Protection. TOKIO, August 3 (#).—Japan, de- nying responsibility for a “white Russian” raid on the Soviet Consulate General at Tientsin, was reported to- day to be willing to supply nominal protection for the mission in the fu- ture. That was the unofficial reaction to a complaint lodged by the Soviet gov- ernment with the Tokio foreign office. While more reinforcements poured sponsored state on the north, Jap- anese scouting and bombing planes roamed over a wide area to the south. After twice bombing Paotingfu, on the Peiping-Hankow Railroad south- west of Peiping in Hopeh Province, one fleet of Japanese planes proceeded south into the heart of Honan Prov- ince to view Chengchow, strategic rail junction and the most important Chinese military center in the vicinity. Other Japanese planes scouted Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province, | to the east. ’ Central government air force con- centrations at Chengchow offered no BANJO, MANDOLIN, ETC. SOPHOCLES PAPAS 1308 19th St O, 0614 SUMMER RATE” Frigidaire Controlled-Cost Air Condition- ing gives you the facts before you buy. Air Conditioning to £it the requirements of stores, buildings, offices and homes. A. P. WOODSON CO. 1313 H St. N.W. 1202 Monroe St. N.E. Metropolitan 2315 A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS and inviting if blinds are new and fresh-looking or they make it look shabby if they are broken or duil. Barker blinds in all sizes are quality blinds that last long. Call the Lum- ber Number for quick delivery. 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PREPARING FOR A GIGANTIC Alteration SALE Our "F" street store will be closed tomorrow, but our clerks are busy preparing for the most dramatic sale in Crosby’s history. Only a limited time remains to dis- pose of our entire stock. Everything must go from floor to roof. In order to do this quickly, we have made drastic reductions. Don’t be amazed at anything. SEE TOMORROW’S NEWSPAPERS CROSBY SHOES 1115 “F” STREET N.W., [MAJ. J. N. HORNBAKER, Funeral Services and Burial to retired, died in St. Petersburg, Fla., Saturday, nounced today. burial will be in Arlington National | Cemetery at 2 p.m. tomorrow. entered the Army in 1913 as a vet- erinarian Corps. D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937. Watchman Missing, Scarecrow, Pistol Provide Hunt Clews By the Associated Press, DENVER, August 3.—"“George,” the watchman, was missing. After a week Frank Cameron, special agent of the Denver & 8ait Lake Railway, went to look for him at his shack. Breaking down the door, he found a scarecrow with a skull for a head, glued-on red whiskers and marbles in the eye sockets, An automatic pistol was in the dummy’s ragged coat pocket. A note on the door read: “Back in 20 minutes.” “George,” about 55, was watch- man at a junk yard near the rail- way tracks. His last name is un- known. Police were checking numbers on the pistol today, RETIRED OFFICER, DIES Be in Arlington Cemetery Tomorrow. Maj. Joseph N. Hornbaker, U. 8. A., the War Department an- Funeral services and | Born in Manassas, Va, in 1876, he | with the Quartermaster From 1913 to 1918 he was inspector | of animals at the Front Royal Depot, | rough food Va, and in 1919 was in the office of | footprints indicated ihs shoes had been the surgeon general spector with the China expedition in | through the alternating marshy and 1921, He was meat in- | He was retired in 1925 | Maj. Hornbaker is survived by a Mrs. James E.| MINNESOTA KILLER IS HUNTED INHILLS Jesse James Era Recalled as Posse Seeks Man in “Snake Area.” By the Associated Press. HOKAH, Minn,, August 3.—Engaged in one of Minnesota’s greatest man hunts since the days of Jesse James, possemen today surrounded a broad, hilly, rattlesnake-infected area where officers believed their quarry, a slay- ing suspect, to be hiding. Object of the hunt was a shoeless, bewhiskered man who identified him- self to a startled back-country farm widow as Jens Thompson, charged with the rifle slaying of three Free- born County brothers and the shoot- ing of a 12-year-old boy. Melvin Passolt, chief of the State Crime Bureau who has been helping direct the search, said upward of 100 men, including sheriffs, State officers and armed farmers, have the 20-mile- square area surrounded so thor- oughly the suspect could not escape But he declined to predict when the capture would be effected “If this man really is Thompson, and we have every reason to believe he is,” Passolt said, “it simply will be a case of waiting until his suffering drives him to surrender or step into a trap.” Passolt said posse men had found where the man had eaten field corn lood stains on the ears indicated his mouth had been lacerated from Furthermore, he said, “practically destroyed from scrambling rocky terrain.” The hunt started July 22, when | daughter, Mis. John H. Metzger, St.| Louis, Anton and Joe Lukes were Petersburg; a sister, Bradford, Manassas; two half brothers, had resigned in|F. R. Hynson, Manassas, and Read Hynson, Philadelphia, and a half sis- | ter, Mrs. W. G. Powell, Alexandria, Va. | i i shot through the head while working | in the fields. | Forays by the James gang on small- | town banks, some of them 125 miles | west of where Thompson was being | e sought, brought out similar posses bee fore the turn of the century. Densely wooded land made the search diffi~ cult, and they, too, were capable of evading capture because of their oute door livelihood and experience. BALDWIN IS CRIPPLED BY the Associated Press. STOURPORT, Englind, August 3.— Britain's retired prime minister, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was crippled by rheumatism today —his seventietn birthday. Walking heavily with the aid of a stick, he appeared on the grounds nf his home here yesterday to receive con- gratulations of villagers after opening & local flower show. He told friends he now is unable to stand for any length of time becauss of the rheumatism and has been ordered to take a complete rest. 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