Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 2

A—2 wx¥w THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, CHOGEFORCORT GENTH HLD EAR Roosevelt Adds Weight to Belief He Will Act Before Adjournment. BACKGROUND— The ghost of the Supreme Court controversy, supposedly laid at rest July 22, when Senate voted to re- commit administration’s court en- largement bill, was raised again last week when Senator Vanden- Berg sought to put Senate on record against a recess appointment to the vacancy created by retirement of Justice Van Devanter. Supporters of the President say he can make appointment at tin Bs the Assoclated Press The belief that sident velt will nominate a or to J tive Van Devanter before Congress ad- r reased today among high ation support Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PURSUIT ROMINENT among the phe- nomena of the machine age is a phobia known as alarm- clockitis, a state of mind lead- ing the victim to believe he is perse- cuted by noisy little animals, noisy large animals, bill collectors, sewing machines, buzz saws and cantaloupes, all equipped with bells. This comes of being awakened every morning by an alarm clock We also are familiar, pupils, with the pursuit complex which induces the patient to believe he is chased by bean-ball pitchers, bill collectors (see above), highballs made with ginger ale, highballs made with iodine, friends self pression yestergay in a press co h 'he repeat of the n the “goes to the Ser y A recess appx torney General Cummi permissible, would not ate until next year Some of the President advisers £aid they v rging him to make the select ble while Con- gress is in sessi preme Court for the Fall &ppointment Senator Vandenbe Michigan has e declare the sense of t such a recess selection. Borah Denies Vacancr. Senator Borah, Republican, of Tda- | ho contended vesterday there was no vacancy on the He obtained some support from Repub- licans, but all Democ who voiced en opinion differed those who fouzht the sident the Supreme Court re he Pr rectly on Borah's view ress | corference the power ntment g0 S0 t be at ful without strength & recess | Republican, of ton to | nate against t on on bill fernal was check- | > background o: 69 or 70 | Among Senators the op preval thet the President select some one from the the Southwes: They said oth were more t sented on thi Wazner Unlikely Choice. his at held by the Presi- | dent, would exclude meny of those | who' have been i, including | of New | ady had was not was would | itheast, | or the Middle West 5 of the country oportionately repre- | ent cour likely selec It was the Pres: r e mote some judge from the | courts. Three eircwt judges from the | Areas regarded as acceptabie have been | mentioned frequently. They are i Former Senator Sam G. Bratton | of New Mexico, now serving on the | tenth circuit bench. Joseph C. Hutcheson serving on the filth cire Samuel Siblev of Atk ing on the fi Interest in vacancy over- | thadowed the impending Senate de- bate on the new lower court bill, | &cheduled to start im the Senate to- | morrow. It was not expected to| create much opposition, £ bench. nta, also serv- th circuit | | r.. of Houston, | | e A. F.L. T0 ORGANIZE ALL SHOW BUSINESS | Every One From Opera Divas to Burlesque Performers to Be Sought in Drive. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4—A drive to | Organize every person in America’s “entertainment industry”—from Met- ropolitan Opera divas to stage hands &nd burlesque’s torso-tossers—was pro- Jected today by American Federation of Labor leaders. They planned to adopt the rival C. I O. principle of vertical unionism, but without sacrifice of craft union autonomy. E. Browne, president of the Interna- tlonal Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Motion Picture Machine Operators, through creation of a giant governing council in which dominant unions in every branch of the amuse- ment field would be represented Browne, long a union leader in the &how business, said the council would include representatives of the I. A. T. S. E—which covers mechanical em- ploves—the American Federation of Musicians and Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Browne said the council would di- rect a Natlon-wide organizing drive, RE-EMPLOYMENT UNIT IS BEING LIQUIDATED | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 3 —W. Frank Persons of Washington, D. C., director of the United States Employ- ment Service, told members of the ! Disabled American Veterans yester- | day that the National Re-employment Bervice is being liguidated. “It was a temporary organization and within a year the 48 State em- ployment services will be extended to | accept jurisdiction throughout each of the respective States,” he told dele- gates to the national convention, Employment service for veterans, he said, would depend upon “our influ- ence upon autonomous State employ- ment services.” Bids for the 1938 convention were made by delegates from Atlanta, Ga., and Grand Rapids, Mich. Officers will be elected Friday. The day's program was closed with & banquet. T e Actress’ Damage Suit Settled. LOS ANGELES, August 4—Marie Marks, 19, stage and screen actress, has dropped her $200,000 damage suit against Cecil Sillman, Hollywood sportaman, after a compromise set- tiement of $2,500. She charged Sillman married her without divorcing his first wife. ¢ | man in Room No. 314. This they propose to do, said George } S who want to borrow : broom, and the of this brings us to no point at we never heard of but our lives who was m clock. His name Except e man in all chased by an & Tipton and he is an apart- e b of Davy (Lead-Foot) | column's favorite artist. her.) | a gentleman who has | 1on leading him to im- agine it is a perfectly sound idea to! an alarm clock for 5:15 in the morn:ing. get up and ko down to his! office to start whipping out the day's| wor He believes it, we said. Mr.| Crockett tells us of a typical morn- | g this last week, when Mr. T. set| theé clock for 6:15. Then for 6:45. After the last Jangle he jumped up. matched a blanket off the bed and | fled 1nto the next room, closing the between himself and the in-| machine. At 8:45 his pals in the apartment awakened him and said. “On your wav to work, my man,” which he was | in short order. A stions? | well, that is all for today's| lesson. Tomorrow we will take up | the case of the alarm clock that was | chased by a man * x x x SEA-ROLL. The queerest case of sea sick- ness we've heard of yet happened to a Star reporter and a ludy friend at Cape May last week. unk off the point is one of the old concrete ships used during the war, It's deck protrudes from the water. The bottom is tilted against a sand bar. This fellow boarded the old ship and went bdelow deck out of sight of the sea—and in @ moment both he and the lady he was escorting became so sick they thought their last hours had come. As soon as they could see the sea again the strange nausea left them. The native who had rowed them out told them that nearly every one is affected the same way. % % x EXPLANATION. (We Mr spu JTHY \\ Remember the ship was abso- | lutely without motion. | We suspect the reason goes pretty deep into neurology and psychology. What is “level?” The term is mean- ingless unless we have something for comparison. A floor level is level with respect to the surface of the earth, the surface of the sea, eic. ‘The human nervous system is ad- justed to this levelness—and quite complicatedly so. Now the floor of the hold of this concrete ship, actually slanted at about a 45-degree angle against the sandbar, was “level” with respect to all its visible surroundings. Its walls rose from it at approximately right angles, etc. One was completely shut off from all objects on the natural “level” with which to make comparisons. So it seemed as if walking along a level floor one was always being thrown sideways. The effect was the same as that of a ship in motion, only worse, because the disturbances of equilibrium were worse. ¥ ok ¥ ¥ MARK-DOWN. IGN of the times noted in an F street book store: “THAT MAN LANDON." [EALBACH DS AS I CONERES New Jersey G. 0. P. Repre- sentative for 10 Sessions Was Prohibition Foe. Frederick R. Lehlbach, 61, former Republican Repiesentative from the twelfth district of New Jersey, died this morning in his apartment at the Kennedy-Warren. He had been ill for some time with heart trouble. A member of Congress from the sixty-fourth through the seventy- fourth sessions, the former Repre- sentative was particularly known for his championship of civil service re- classification and his strong opposi- tion to the eighteenth amendment In December, 1920, as chairman of the House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. he sponsored the Lehlbach bill giving classification schedules for Federal employes, which eventually became the classification act of 1923, As an opponent of prohibition, Mr. Lehlbach told fellow members on the floor of the House there was only one way to enforce prohibition, and that it was to drop shams and subterfuges, declare the user of alcoholics & crim- inal and have a prompt and certain showdown on the issue. Born in New York in 1876, he moved to Newark in 1884. He was graduated from Yale College in 1897, and studied law in the New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1899 and had practiced in Newark ever since. A former member of the Newark Board of Education, he served three years in the State General Assembly, from 1903 to 1905, and from 1908 to 1913 was assistant prosecutor of Essex County. After fallure to be re-elected to the present Congress, the former Repre- sentative opened law offices in the Shoreham Building here. He 1s survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances M. Lehlbach, a brother and two sisters. CARNELL SENTENCED T0 330 DAYS, FINE Witness in Lyddane Case Pleads Guilty to 10 Cases of False Pretenses. John H. (Googy) Carnell, ex-police- | man, who turned State's evidence in the Lyddane case in Rockville, Md., tenses before Judge John P. McMa- hon in Police Court today and was sentenced to serve 330 dayvs and to pay davs All of the charges against Carnell in- volved issuauce of worthless checks. These were for small amounts, ranging from $3 t0 $9.85 and totaling $58.40. He had previously been arrested on two charges and demanded jury tria's Today. however, he withdrew his de- mand when the other charges were preferred against him Robert A. Dunn, who has been in Jail since June 15 serving a six-month sentence for bad checks following his conviction by jury, pleaded guilty to- day to the issuance of three more worthiless papers and was given 105 days by Judge McMahon. Police informed the court that the three checks, aggregating $35, had sent to jail The latter was brought from the District Work House to an- swer the additional charge. REV. MICHAEL A. MATHIS TO DESCRIBE GRID GAME 1935 Ohio State-Notre Dame Tilt Will Be Recounted Tomorrow to Cosmopolitan Club. The famous 1935 Ohio State-Notre Dame foot ball game will be described by Rev. Michael A. Mathis, C. S. C,, at a meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Carlton Hotel. Rev. Mr. Mathis, co-founder of the Catholic Medical Missionaries, and now stationed at Catholic University, will be introduced by William Edelblut, chairman of the club's Forum Com- mittee. Arthur W. Defenderfer, club president, will preside. RAIDERS SEIZE ARMS BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Au- gust 4 (P.—Police conducted a raid today in the Falls road area in which they seized a bomb, a rifle, three re- volvers and 1,000 rounds of ammuni- tion. A butcher was detained for ques- Was $1.50—Now 25c. <) = < L | 3 Pivomad ey * % ok ¥ ELEGANCE. Stenographers and clerks over at the National Labor Relations Board have picked up a new phrase re- cently. Heard a witness say it in a labor case hearing. Seems something was said to this witness about working conditions where she was employed. She made an airy gesture and replied: “Are you telilng I?” * ok K ok GAMBLER. DEPARTMENT of shock, suprise, consternation and grief: High executive of a very conserva- tive newspaper about town confessed to us the other day that every time he buys an Irish sweepstakes ticket, he suffers untold agonies, laying awake at night figuring out what he'd do with the money if he won it, wondering what might be his chances of winning a grand prize. This has upset us considerably be- cause we didn't realize managing edi- tors and people were ever kept awake at night by anything except the dreamy hum of presses, turning over and over in their minds. Especially not by things illegal, games of chance and the like. (Name to the Post Office Depart- ment on request. Just inclose three cents in stamps.), . Diplomat Dies. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, August 4 () —Luis Bogran, jr, 54, former Honduras Minister to Washington and son of former President Luia Bogran, died yesterday. . tioning. Uniformed and plain clothes officers started an intensive search for arms in various sections of the city. leaded guilty to 10 cas Ise pre- | P g 1010 cases of false pra- | (1€ X fines of $300 or serve an additional 135 | been issued prior to the time Dunn was | | | time in the near future—are the Mc- { chief of naval operations here, PRESIDENT VIEWS HOSPITAL SITES Visits Two Tracts Proposed for Construction of New Naval Unit. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today visited 2 of the 43 sites under consideration for the new $4,800,000 Naval Hospital. Read Admiral Perceval Rossiter, surgeon general of the Navy, who was among those who accompanied the President, later released the locations of all the sites. Previously the loca- tions of only five had been made pub- lic. Approximately a dozen of the 42 sites are “favored,” the admiral said, among them the two visited by Mr. Roosevelt today and the four mentioned Mon- day by Senator Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Committee. Rossiter added that he did not expect a decision to be reached before early September. It was the President's intention to inspect the five sites named by Walsh, but because of business engagements arranged in advance he had to re- turn to the White House. He said he would visit the others as soon as possible. The first site inspected by the President is situated on Foxhall road and comprises 62 acres of rolling woodland bordering on Conduit road | on the south. ‘The other site comprises 272 acres & short distance west of the Dale- carlia reservoir. Those who accompanied Mr. Roose- velt, besides Admiral Rossiter, were Senator Walsh, Representative Vin- | cent of Georgia, chairman of the | House Naval Affairs Committee, and Dr. Ross T. McIntire, White House physician Among the other sites—all of which | will be visited by the President some- Lean estate, Friendship, on Wisconsin avenue; a tract bordering on Sixteenth street just south of Walter Reed Hos- pital and another tract comprising | Forts Dupont and Davis, near the end | of Pennsylvania avenue southeast. | Mr. Roosevelt made the inspection | trip with the top of his car down, but | contrary to his usual custom did not | have a police escort. At one time he | was forced to trail a huge concrete mixer for a short distance. The President is understood to have made no commitments as to his pref- erence other than to say to news- paper men who accompanied him that, while the site near the reservoir com- prised the better acreage, the one on| the Foxhall road was much more ac- | The site in the Southeast section, however, is known to be the preference | of Senator Walsh. ‘There is already legislation authoriz- ing an appropriation of $4.800,000 for a new Naval Hospital on its present | site, at Twenty-third and E streets, but it has been decided to have the act amended to provide for construc- tion of a new hospital for the same | amount of money on a new site. The | present hospital site would then be! included in the area to be allotted for the proposed new War Department Building. MRS. M’FARLANE, 32, DIES IN HOSPITAL Wife of Naval Lieutenant Was Native of Texas—Rites Tomorrow. Charlsey Reid McFarlane, 32, Robert N. McFarlane, | S. N.. attached to the office of the | died Mrs wife of Lieut. U Sunday at Columbia Hospital. Mrs. McFajlane came here on the | Ist of July from San Diego. Calif., | where her husband was with the de- stroyer battle force. They moved then to their home at 3410 Fifteenth street in Clarendon. Born in Texas, she was graduated from Brenau College at Gainesville, Ga, and later lived 'in Washington. During the season of 1928 and 1929 she played with the Little Theater group in Schubert’s Theater. She is survived by an 18-month-old daughter, Charlsey, and by her parents, Judge and Mrs. L. V. Raid, and three brothers, Rayford, Moody and Thomas Reid. Funeral services will be held in Fort Myer chapel tomorrow at 3 pm. Burial will be in Arlington National e o On Honeymoon Tour. LOS ANGELES, August 4 (#).— Roger Sanderson Hewlett, New York, and the former Kathryn Pierce, de- scendant of President Franklin Pierce, were on a honeymoon tour of Cali- fornia today before returning to New York to make their home, Child Bride of Farmer Mary Frances Grimes, right, who says she’s 11 years old, and her husband, William H. Grimes, left, 67-year-old coiton picker, whose honeymoon ended in fail at Poplar Blufl. Mo. The girl told authorities she didn’t love her husband “nearly as much as my doll.” -§ i —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 2 | “all North Hopei Province has been ' AUGUST ¢4, 1937. President Tours Naval Hospital Sites Y Accompanied by Representative Vinson of Georgia, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and Rear F geon general of the Navy, President Roosevelt is shown today as he be- gan an inspection tour of various proposed sites for the new Naval Hospital, to be built at a Admiral P. S. Rossiter, sur cost of $4.800,000. APANESE CLAIM ALL NORTH HOPE Government Is Set Up in Peiping as Major Battle Looms. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, August 4 —Japanese au- thorities proclaimed today that con- tinuous bombardments by squadrons of warplanes had routed western con- centrations of the Chinese Army and blasted a clear path for the southward march of Japanese troops from this conquered Manchu capital. | ‘The Japanese statement declared that the Chinese troops, reported to have been concentrated in force at!} Paotingfu, 85 miles south of here, | “perished or fled during the air bom- bardment.” The announcement, scattered from the sky by Japanese planes in a| pamphlet bombardment, proudly stated occupied. The troops of the Nanking government will not come north. If| they do the Japanese will strike im- | mediately.” Government Set Up. The first fruits of the conquest of North China were believed borne today | When the autonomous government of | East Hopei announced it was opening | its administrative offices in Peiping. | Headquarters of the Japanese-dom- inated regime had been at Tungchow, | 12 miles to the east, until now. Estab- lishment of such a government for vir- tually ail of North China was believed | to be one of Japan's major objectives in the undeclared war. | A major engagement was expected. despite the pamphlets, at Nankow | Pass 20 miles north of Peiping, where | 4,000 Japanese troops were massed for | an attack on the Chinese positions | north of the Great Wall. All Japanese Nationals were ordered | to evacuate Kalgan, Chinese strong- | hold and capital of Chahar Province, 100 miles to the northwest. The government of China, appre- hensive of the safety of the 8000 Chinese in Japan, was reported to have | started their evacuation from the | island empire. While the Japanese troops at the Great Wall prepared to strike at the Chinese forces in the north, two re- inforced Japanese armies, marching in | parallel columns in FEastern and | Western Hopei Province, pushed steadily southward against the main defense lines of the Chinese central government troops. Major Battie Expected. The eastern Japanese column. & full | brigade based on Peiping, was be- | lieved less than 20 miles from the | advance positions of the Nanking | troops rushed to the north to dispute Japan’s conquest of North China. The western column had reached a point abont 20 miles southwest of Tientsin and was thought to be about | an equal distance from the Chinese | Army advancing along the railroad from Pukow to Tientsin. A major battle was expected momentarily in the undeclared wsar between the two powers to decide Japan's claims to unhampered eco- nomic domination of a North Chins freed from the control of the central government at Nanking. Japan was pouring troops into the area both by the railroad from Shanhaikwan on the Manchukuo bor- der and through the Great Wali passes north of Peiping. NEW PLAY FACILITIES Equipment to Be Christened at Palisades Center Saturday. Official opening of new recreational facilities at the Palisades Playground will take place Saturday, Secretary of Interior Ickes said today. Among the playground equipment to be christened are a paddle tennis court and tether ball poles—the first to be installed in the National Capital Park system. Other facilities include two shuffieboards, two badminton, two volley ball and four horseshoe courts. A Girl of 11 “Sorry” She Wed Man, 67; . Loves Only Doll Missourian Held in Jail on Charges of Falsify- ing Child’s Age. By the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., August 4— Mary Frances Grimes, 11, sobbed to authorities today she was “sorry” she married 67-year-old William H. Grimes, because she “didn’'t love any one but her doll.” * Grimes, held in Butler County Jail on charges of perjury in faisifying the girl's age and of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, told Sheriff Edgar Hammons: b “If they'll just leave me alone, I glve the girl a good home and make her a good husband.” —ary Frances was married to Grimes, @& cotton picker, last week. Grimes told the sheriff he had been living the past two weeks at the home of the girl’s parents. ' Her father, J. J. Alexander, consented to the marriage, he said. The sheriff said Grimes gave Mary Prances’_age 25 12 when he obtained the marriage loerwe. 4 | was a first cousin of President Roose- —A. P. Photo. Diplomat’s Widow Takes Oath; Will Furnish Mrs. Robbins Assumes New Duties. By the Associated Press. A diplomat's widow who has opened and closed 30 houses in 10 countries undertook today the job of helping Uncle Sam furnish his 300 embassies, legations and consulates. She is Mrs. Warren Delano Rob- bins, sparkling Argentinean whose husbend was United States Minister to Canada when he died in 1935. He Warren Delano velt. Mrs. Robbins took her oath of of- fice yesterday as assistant chief of foreign service building in the State Department. She will keep a regular workaday schedule. “I love making something hideous ! or commonplace into something pretty,” she said. “I like all phases of decorating. For years I did it only | by instinct, but last Winter I worked for a New York firm to learn the | practical side. | “I learned how to make scheme books and draw floor plans. I studied furniture, style and colors.” The varying needs of buildings in| tropical and arctic regions do not | frighten Mrs. Robbins. She speaks | five languages and has kept house in | all climates. Her own furniture has | been dragged all over the world. In Berlin she served meals or re- freshments to 1500 persons in one | ear. She dealt with servants in San Salvador, where a host's order for| “stuffed turkey” once resuited in a bird crammed with newspapers U. S. Embassies COUNTERFEIT RING CHARGE HOLDS 8 New Yorkers Responsible for Half Bogus Money in U. S., Agent Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 4 —William H. Houghton, in command of the Secret Service agents in this district, ane nounced today the seizure of a gang of eight persons, responsible, he said, for the circulation of nalf the counter= feit money in the country Houghton said the investigation of the gang lasted four months, 2o thorough was the search for evidence and so clever were the members of the band. The last of the eight was seized thia morning, Houghton said The capture netted $20.000 in counterfeit $20 New Vork Federal Ree serve notes and in $10 silver certifi- cates, “dangerous enough to fool the average small shopkeeper” but not good enough to fool a bank clerk, the Secret Service agent said Woman Arrested. | out undoubtedly { Zi MRS. WARREN DELANO ROBBINS. —A. P. Photo. Mrs. Robbins said today she was glad her parents had insisted that she learn to sew, cook and keep house. She was born in Buenos Aires. She had lived and studied in many | foreign countries before her marriage in 1910 to Robbins, then attached to | the United States Legation in| Argentina Mrs. Robbins, with two sons and & daughter, now has two infant grand- children. But she still doesn't like the color of her hair. prematurely white for many years. She tints it blue. COPELANDTOSTAY INMAYORAL RAGE\ Proposed Compromise, With | Whalen Also Withdrawn, Is Refused. By the Associated Press. 1 NEW YORK. August 4 —Tammany today made a “final” refusal to with-| | draw the name of United States Sen- ! ator Royal S. Copeland. its anti-New | Deal candidate in the city mayoralty primaries. Leader Christopher D. Sullivan dis- closed he rebvffed emissaries friendly to Postmaster General James A. Farler, who approached Tammany overnight with a proposal to withdraw Grover A. Whalen, pro-New Deal Democratic primary candidate, provided Tammany would also withdraw United States Senator Royal S. Copeland. its des- ignee, in favor of a compromise candi- date, who would not be vocally opposed to the New Deal. Frank V. Kelly, New Deal supporter and Democratic leader of Brooklyn, now the city's largest borough, was the chief emissary. His mission had the indorsement of the Democratic leaders of the Bronx, Queens and Staten Is- land. These four had previously agreed on the candidacy of Whalen, head of the New York 1939 World Fair Commission. ‘The backing of Mayor Fiorello H La Guardia, whose closest advisers urge him to make an independent run for re-election, was growing today still more subject to the confusion which has overtaken the major party organi- zations in the present primary fight. Republican leaders of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx reiterated their determination not to follow the leader of the Repubiican leaders of Manhat- tan and Staten Island in backing La Guardia for the Republican nomina- tion. American Labor party officials, strong backers of La Guardia, pointed to uncertainty in Republican, Pusion party and independent committee backing of La Guardia in declining to name any other candidates but La Guardia on the American Labor party ticket. Vacationers at Karuizawa, Japan's most popular mountain resort, fly from Tokio in 50 minutes by & new air service. Chinese Cut Down Like W heat - By Japanese, Says D. C. Man By the Associated Press. PEIPING, August 4.—An Amer- ican writer and his wife reached Peiping from s Buddhist temple refuge today with a story of ruth- less warfare. The Americans—Mr. and Mrs. Gene Lamb of Washington, D. C. —had been isolated in the temple, northwest of Peiping, since the out- break of Chinese-Japanese hostili- ties in the area. “Thank God we're back in town,” Lamb said. “A Japanese motorized brigade came in from Manchukuo. They had hundreds of tanks. They went through the Chinese troops like & scythe through wheat. “We saw them bombard Hsiyuan, but they didn't stop with thst. Their airplanes soomed over, spite ting machine gun bullets at help- 1 Y & RESIGNED TEACHER DIES AFTERPLUNGE [ | Miss Marjorie Paul, 44, Took Poison, Then Dropped | Five Stories. Miss Marjorie Paul. 44, who re- signed as a teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in June because of {il health, died earl a few hours after taking poison and plunging from today | the fifth-floor fire escape landing of an apartment house at 3300 Sixteenth | | street, | Miss Paul lived at 1650 Park road ! with her stepmother, Mrs. Edith Paul, | who said that she had been de- | spondent because of her ill health and | the death of a friend. Coroner A.| Magruder MacDonald withheld is- suance of a death certificate until | completion of an autopsy. Roger Thurston, colored elevator operator at the Sixteenth street apart- ment house, told police that Miss Paul rode up to the fifth floor about 7| o'clock last night. She dropped from the fire escape landing a few moments later. The body plummeted to earth a few feet from Roy Dent, 50. a resident of the apartment house, who was sitting on the lawn in a wheel chair. Miss Paul's stepmother was attracted to the scene by a gathering crowd as she returned from dinner in a nearby restaurant. Miss Paul was taken to Emergency Hospital, where she died at 1:10 am Physicians there found that she had swallowed a small quantity of a powerful antiseptic before the fatal plunge. A native of Washington, Miss Paul had taught in the public schools here for more than 10 years, most of her service being at Western and Woodrow ‘Wilson High Schools. USHERS’ PAGEANT SET Plans for a pageant, “The Progress of a Race,” to be staged at Griffith | Stadium on August 31 by the Inter- denominational Ushers’ Union of the | District of Columbia and Vicinity, Inc, will be discussed at a meeting of the | Ways and Means Committee at a meet- ing at the Mount Airy Baptist Church t 8 o'clock tonight. less Chinese there and in nearby villages. “Saturday, Japanese troops in- vaded my compound, The Amer- ican flag was flying over it, but they paid no attention to thal “They took our food and any- thing they thought might be valua- ble, including $300 mex. Then they had the nerve to offer me a drink of my own beer. “I didn't see it, but I can pro- duce at least 30 Chinese farmers who will swear that Japanese troops looted homes, threw chil- dren from the windows and doors, and attacked girls and women. “Some of the retreating Chinese who didn’t cross the Yungting River took to the hills and began | counterfeit | the rear room of his place of bus One of those arrested, he said, was s woman, in flat the agents found & quantity of narcotics as well as a card index of nearly a thousand ose a names. The proba n: bl Houghton omers” for * party girls soma drug add: Those under arrest Houghton idens tified as follows Robert Rosenth 70, 23; Vincenzo Co Conti, 37; Frank Poppalardo, 31; El- eanor Poppalardo, 34, said to be his wife: Edward Wagner, alias Nigger, 48: Pompeo Perfetto, 43, and Louis Bianco, 41. 2 Supplied Bills to Cities. Houghton said the members of this ring supplied counterfeit bills to trad- ers in bogus bills from Cleveland Kansas City, Baltimore and other cities “As New York 26 Anthony Rize ROes, £0 goes the Nation as far as counterfeit is con- cerned.” he said. “Fully 50 per cent of the counterfeit passed in the United States passed through h. will be arraigned ed Stales commiss on charges of sale and possess money. The Poppal woman also faces a Federal narcotics charge. e MARSHALL FACES KIDNAPING CHARGE Youth Held for Grand Jury Un- der $3.000 Bond After Arraignment, Police planned today to push a kid- naping charge against Cha W, Marshall. 18, before grand jury, after Marshalls arrignment before Judge John P. McMahon in Polics Court on a charge of housebreaking Pvt. W. C. Grooms told the court that Marshall had broken into a sports goods store in the 900 block {of D street on the night of July 29, where he stole five pistols. Judge McMahon held Marshall for the grand jury under a $3,000 bond While the Jocked-up lLst showed was charged also with kid- naping. it was decided he prosecu- tor's office of Police Court to have this | matter presented directly to the grand he held up of candy forced the man im (Mar- shall) to North Be where he was arrested July 30 @y Towr Policeman John Taylor and returned here to answer the two charges. LAUNDRY OWNER HURT Suffering from severe bruises and cuts on the back of his head. Charlie Wee, 36, a Chinese laundry owner, was found unconscious by police today ess at 5515 Colorado avenue He was taken to Emergency Hospital. where his condition was said to be critical Two colored women told police they looked through a rear window and saw Wee lying on the floor. Police were un- able to determine immediately whether the mau had fallen accidentally or was the victim of an attack. CHILD’S BURNS SERIOUS Severely burned yesterday when she set her dress on fire while playing with matches, 4-vear-old Dolores Brown, colored, remained in serious condition today at Children's Hos= pital. ‘The child, who lives in Baltumore, was lighting the matches while seated on a porch at 905 N street, the home of her aunt, Mrs. Nora Johnson. A number of persons heard her scream and beat the fire out before arrival of an ambulance. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Continues debate on Wagner housing bill. Considers conference report on Dis- trict tax bill. Rail Financa Committee continues investigation of Van Sweringen sale. House: Considers minor legislation. Banking Committee continues hear- ing on housing bill. Rules Committee studies new A. P, of L. amendments to wage-hour bill Senate-House Committee continues drafting bill to close tax loopholes. Agriculture Committee considers crop insurance bill. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- tinues hearing on regional planning legislation. TOMORROW. Senate: May take up court procedure bill, if Wagner housing measure is passed. House: Considers special rules. Subcommittee on Naval Affairs be- gins hearings on bill to amend cate- gories of vessels limited by London plunderinr ™ Lamb said he hoped to return to the hills to rescue an estimated 200 Chinese girls from Summer and Washington treaties, 10:30 a.m Subcommittee of District Committe begins hearings on bills authorizing Commissioners to restore to duty four dismissed policeman, 10 a.m. }