Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Partly cloudy, probably local showers and thundershowers tonight and tomo The only evening paper in Washington with the row; not much change in temperatur gentle south winds. Temperatures today —Highest, 86, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 69, at 4 Associa.ted Press News and Wirephoto Services. 85th YEAR. —— No. am. Full report on page A-7. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 16 34,068. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1937—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. FATHER IDENTIFIES ADER IN LS AS DORIS MAJR Missing Cigarette Girl Is Located With Show in Norfolk. BLOND SEEMED DAZED Girl Found With Circus ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION CLASHINSHANGHA FOLLOWS REPORT VAR 1S NEAR EAD Japan Said to Be Ready to Declare Peace on Own Terms. MOVE FOLLOWS FALL HELEN MARIA! HOW THE SENATE MUST HAVE CHANGED A SINCE 1 WAS THERE! ¢ Foening Star *kkk Heintion, > 128,003 ; SUNDAY'S Circulat 144,836 me returns not. yst received ) (#) Means Associated Pres TWO CENTS. l | | NEARBY CHILDREN INSCHOOLS OF D.C. UPELD BY COURT Can Attend, Says Appeals Bench, if Parents Work in Capital. MANDAMUS WRIT VALID AND ISSUED DENIAL! OF PEIPING TO TOKIO IN CASE OF LOIS KEMP, Declared She was ‘Billy Sargeant’ | New Regime Set Up in Ancient 12,300 Pupils Are Affected by Rul- ) 3 and Never Worked or Capital—Manchukuo Emperor ing—Stephens Declares Law Lived Here. May Be Ruler. Is Mandatory. BACKGROUND— | BACKGROUND— | BACKGROUND— Friends of Doris (Billv) Maior | Chinese and Japanese troops { A week prior to opening of began search for her Monday when | “clashed a month ago at Peiping. schools last September, Supt. she failed to report for work. She | China accused Japan of seeking to Frank W. Ballou decided, with left mote saying she was “going up anner North China Provinces in Board of E tion backing, to the river” to swim Detectives same way it took Manchuria. Cen- close junior high schools to none were called in Thursday. River tral government at Nanking threat- reside: is. at least until after was searched and the girl's ad- ened to send troops to repulse Tokio ST doeny initial e ment, due to crowded mirers quizsed. A reporter for fighters, but weeks of conquests by QOGS T S pat i e e The Star found tazicab driver who invaders passed and Chiang Kai- N is';f:)qflz‘:: »:\@::9/4 DANE® M/ an interpretation by then Corpora- had taken the girl to Key Bridge | shek failed to send army. Yester- < Te< o R = / tion Counsel W. W. Bride that lax early on the morning of her dis- | day Peiping was taken over by SR = Sy regarding school admissions was sppearance, Japanese and new regime set up. ,_;}// ~ G A S e 5 e SHANGHALI, August 9.—The Chinese | E AT T atendota i Gt The missing Doris (Billy) Major, Peace Preservation Corps barricaded | | mediate and on October 19 cigarette girl at the Shoreham | roads leading to €hinese areas around | Child Bride. 9 | L monaipu achiorio compes Hotel, was identified this afternoon excited Shanghai tonight after a clash | ) et o ”‘”‘ c‘i 2 by her father, Malcolm Major, in which one Chinese soldier and i1e Se it s 3 e D e one Japanese were killed. | Juits School . £ newspaper artist, as she rode a Under a t pony about the tent of the Hazen- back-Wallace Circus in Norfolk. Va. The father, who had feared his daughter might have met with gome violence or have drowned in noon by the assistant manager of Doris (Billy) Major, missing from e her apartment here ! since August 1. was jound today with the Hagenback-Wallace | Circus at Norfolk, where she ha. | | The clash came as Japanese refugees evacuating the Yangtze Valley and other central Chinese areas poured into Shanghai. The Kiangwan area on the northern fringe of Shanghal, scene of major Chinese-Japanese fighting in 1832, was rapidly closed off. Chinese said tonight's clash came PARTY BOOK SALES | Snell Makes Public Letter He fied before Senate Railroad In- After Switching Husband Protests “You Can’t Whip An- spotlight last January when she and TAX LOOPHOLES ‘a House Group Hears Treaties charged. Last Thursday the joint States, Cour cials may not exc ton schools children Maryland and V chool , when hn 8§ Kemp, h the deciston was the Potomac River, flew to Nor- s been an equestrienne since last Members of the Peace Preservation Terms “Inane in Every . i With Several Nations | made was filed case was said to folk from Washington this after- | _Monday. o Tl e ol mpalied R L other Man’s Wife.” Are Di d laflr/v approximatels 2300 non-resi- f R SRS N e ANC DRI & re Discussed. dents, who had been barred beca n‘mn_on {Farn\n? !fm‘ a girl in H*i | grenades, and heaped up sandbag bar- ESpEC SNEEDVILLE, Tenn, August 9— ss | of erowded conditions in the Di circus was believed to be his Q i ricades | BACKGROUND— A switching for “general mischievous- BACKGROUND— | schools daughter. The girl had insisted ! : | = The Kiangwan and Chapei areas, on | Demand for investigation of | ness"—so her teacher said—was the When Federal tares failed to The Court of Appeals decision that she was “Billy Sargeant.” v | the north and northwest, border Jap- | golicttation of campaign contribu- |reason Mrs. Eunice Johns, Tennes-| reach previous estimates, a con- | . e ! | | anese military headquarters, the Jap- | tions by Democratic National Com- | see’s 9-vear-old child bride, was not | gressional investigation, launched The miscing Doris (Billy) Major, | anese community, and the northern | mittee from corporations was re- |at her desk in the Fairmount Grade into reasons for such shortages Bhoreham Hotel cigarette girl, was NEW FARM B||.|-| | R]- D fdg" of the International Settlement.| iterated after Robert R. Young, |School today dragged into the limelight many Va, Htinea Tt DO v (Rl e | Clash!'al Airdrome. New York railway magnate. testi- Eunice, who gained the national notables. Tar evasion tactics were School. | ‘Hagenback-Wallace Circus an equestrienne who had signed up with the show Monday, the day after the comely blond disappeared from her apartment here. Agriculture Group Votes to Report in First Week of Next Session. House Labor Group Holds It Would Strengthen Bar- gaining. when a Japanese marine motor truck attempted to enter the Chinese gov- ernment’s Hungjao Airdrome, in the western environs of the city. Sentries challenged the marines, but they refused to halt. Then the Chinese opened fire. vestigating Committee he bought $15.000 worth of Democratic Na- tional Convention books Scoring such solicitation as “de- plorable practice,” Senator Wheel- er. investigating committee chair- man, asserted there was “always Charlie Johns, 22, were married, was & pupil at the grade school several miles from here in a remote section of Hancock County—for two days only. Wade Ferguson. her teacher, said the child quit school last week after committee which held the investi- gation recommended an 8-pomnt | program to eliminate loopholes. By the Associated Press. Roswell Magill, Undersecretary of | the Treasury, told the House Ways on offi- cial Will Return to School. Although appeal by school officials of the District Con ion ordi- narily would have i enforce- ment of the court order. Corporation ; he switched her. The incident, he The girl herself, however, insisted | gy ine ascociared Preee | BACKGROUND— Even at the time of the new elash, | ooprmioenc® trat special Jors 7 | eaid. ‘brousht her lanks husband 1 | and Means Committee today the Gov- | Counsel Elvood . Seal agreed to pe she was “Billy Sargeant,” and had | p. genate Agriculture Committee The administration’s wage and | responsible circles said the Japaness St i the two-room school house where ernment was exploring the possi-| M the child to attend school pend- never lived or worked in Washington. | o104 unanimously today to report| hour bill, passed July 31 by the |Army apparently believed the time had | 3y the Ascociated Proms. Ferguson teaches 40 children bility of international efforts to pre- | N8 final disposition of the case. Her slthough she said the was born i | oy g general farm bill within a| Semate. has been delayed in House | come for peace negotions with China “Why, you can't whip another vent tax avoidance and evasion. | 3i(0rmeY. Robert E. Lunch. aareed to Arlington County, Va. The girl seemed | goay after the convening of the next | Labor Commitee awaiting amend- |on the Japanese Army's own terms. Houss Minority Leader Snell made| |\ . “Lice » Perguson quoted Johns| He testified when the committee | (AKe her out of s immediately damed as she talked to reporters, and | oo MO0 SO ments from the White House. One Chinese version of the airport | PUbIIC today a letter in which Attor- | ag saying when he came to protest| opened hearings on proposals of a | SBOuld the decision be unfavorable anewered auestions in monosyllables. |~ cpairman Smith said the new bill| With only lukewarm support of |incident said two Japanese and ome | nev General Cummings said the Jus- | against punishment | Senate-House Tax Committee for| Notified of the decision in hi st?;m“b“"u”y Wes under nervous | oould be ready for the Senate re- ;W"’:"" labor, the Semate bill | Chinese were killih The Japanese | tice Department was investigating | '{'Oh-f yes, Ih"’"‘ whip ““g”""" man’s | closing some of the major loopholes ir;’lhnral‘z;';‘n':'\::ua:[; ;-Z:n = N ik e Alesalior rnether e P laat Ted minimum wage mot to er- |did not issue an official statement on : tic Na.| ¥ife if another man sends his wife | in the revenue laws | Lois et S aver Picasu ha:h: ;f-fi\'m'ahr"'«;fl' uS:;:rPar:;, ;x‘xlilp, | called a special session or Congress C°¢0 40 cents an hour and work | the affair. | the legality of the Democratic N2-| 4 yenool 1o me,” Ferguson said he| In co-operation with the Treasury, | aid he had expected hich 1 £ Mics Majors char. | did not meet until January week of not less than 40 hours. Another report, was that a Japanese | {i0nal Committee’s sale of a 1936 year- | told Johns. Magill said, the State Department | BETy enhing ele A P2 s onep ORISR S8 01 ls il - ] ; 1 - officer and a private drove up to the | book autographed by President Roose- St = has discussed with several foreign|COuld be done under the law, as it is acteristics, strengthened the identifi- | President Roosevelt toid a recent | DENaC T ovesuh tosihs g | very clearly ten” he said. I Aokt aun 4 1 press conference that crop control BY the Associated Press airdrom2 and demanded permission to | velt. | countries the formulation of treaties | F’:vp_f‘ Rtfr';‘ . o £ ;‘?- ek The circus manager, Mel Smith, legislation should precede any renewal _ The House Labor Commitice form- |enter. The Chinese sentry Was said ' e |etter was in response to one ([fogexchangeotlcax § information |, EANCS eLier et e R momEnh s oY 3 2 v 5 : v v to have refused. and to have killed the 3 | Canada has expressed willingness to Of the out of Commodity Credit Corp. loans on AllV recommended today enactment d | phaiams (e 2 e : b : 3 of a revised version of the wage-hour | private when the pair attempted to | [rom Snell asserting he had evidence | undertake treaty negotiations, he| Kemp said he never understood why “Sure, she's Doris Major. But she's CIops e g e e A e TEads aoprovea thy et eate | force their way in | indicating sale of of the books was | | said the question was raised in the first a swell rider—one of the best we've been urging a 12-cent loan on cotton, P Al 9.0y < 3] o | : .. : | ST ¢ lace, but since it had been, he was got! She's over 21 and knows her Members who conferred later with | 2SSETUNR it would greatly strengthen | Then, it was reported, the officer | “an illegal device” to evade the law \'ni{:sm{ as.u:ned :: x;orrl\gll!"’“m';l‘i glm few favorably settled S the President said crop loans might | COlective barzaining efforts. | leaped from the car, ran into the | governing political campaign contri- mmd:{]’qfl:":{“g‘ ot ;“”CW_ “Tim glad Tols s Nxed Ba Govdon “If she savs she's ‘Billy Sargent,’|be forthchoming if assurance were| “The bill is intended to aid and not | field, and returned the Chinese fire | butions. | mittee. He said that if they could |Junior High now. She did very well ‘then Billy Sargent’ she is. as far as given that a general farm bill would SUPPlant the efforts of American | only to fall before Chinese bullets. Cinpiige (la Efe the - iorees e be put into effect at once, mot only | there last vear,” he added this outfit is concerned!” | be enacted either at a special Fall ses- Workers to improve their own posi- | Japanese troops, following a policy | General is permitted to give legal | : would revenues be improved, but the | Lois herself was elated at the de- Wearing Brown Slacks, sion or immediately on convening at fion by sell-organization and col-|of caution, refrained from a display | advice only to the President and Woynded in Arm at Hazle- | “asic Sictioes o fasabion | 1% wa. | clzlon: The girl was wearing brown slacks, | 1€ Tegular January session. The Pres- lective bargaining,” the committee’s of force after the incident. heads of »Go\‘emmem departments, cordance with ability to pay” would | “Oh, I'm so glad it's all settled!™” 8 polo shirt and low-heeled shoes, She i€t Jater told the press, however, | FePort said. | From Nanking, meantime, Chinese | but added ton, Pa.—Thousands | 15 about 5 feet 7 inches tall and looked some 25 years old. (Miss Major is 5 feet 7 inches and is 27 years old.) Confronted by a photograph of Miss | and hitch-hiked from New York to that he had not yet received sufficient assurances of new crop control legis- lation to extend loans Oppose Special Session. would be a considered in January. Terming the measure “a modest and conservative approach” to the ob- jectives outlined by President Roose- velt in his message to Congress rec- avoid some of the most vital prob- | Japanese were preparing to assault (See CHINA, Page A-4) protested formally to Great Britain | reported further indications that the | “However, you are informed that the department is making an inquiry Leave Looms. with respect to this matter. “If you have evidence in your pos- | | transmit it to this department for our consideration.” | BACKGROUND— where smoke of battle still hovers, be “better effectuated.” The recommendations were for more | drastic tax treatment of domestic and | foreign personal holding companies. 3 = 3 - — session which you deem indicates a Successful in gaining bargaining | incorporated yachts, country estates { Major, the girl denied the picture was = House leaders have expressed openly OMmmending such legislation, the com- | ; violation of the Federal corrupt prac- tracts with attomotive dustrs, | and personal talents, multiple trusts, | ¥ of nsist their t jon Mittee said it represented “an at-| Germany Protests Expulsions CONLTACIE AL ILOMOLFUE] CUSTY | of her. She insisted that she read of {hrir opposition to & special session T Sl | y P "I tices act, may I suggest that you| although failing in steel drive, |non-resident aliens and artificial de- 8 vacancy in a theatrical publication and have said a crop control bill| ®MPU 0 begin to meet and not to| 1ONDON, August 9 (P.—Germany 0 ductions for interest and business ex- pense and for losses from sales of ex- she exclaimed. Statute Cited in Ruling. te under which the girl ssion to Gordon last Fall f " John L. Lewis' Committee for In- charge in the apply for the job. JAction on a Senate resolution for lems of American economic life." | {oday against the expulsion of three| Snell, who has introduced a reso-| dustrial Organization has mow | change of property. e tinols! of aald Diatrichiic The girl said she joined the circus | 12-cent cotton loans Was deferred Desiened to apply only to indus- | Nazi newspaper men. lution calling for a congressional in- | turned to silk and rayon industry. While current proposals were de- Speaki for the appel et Covington, Ky.. last Monday. sign- | Pending a mid-afternoon conference | tries in interstate commerce and those | The three. Werner von Crome of the = 2 s ing as a bare-back rider. Miss Major, with Southern agricultural commis- directly affecting such commerce, the vestigation of the book sales, termed Employers of Paterson, N. J, signed to plug these loopholes, Maglll‘ Associate Justice Harold M. Stephe | Berlin Lokalanzeiger and the younger | Cummings' letter “inane in every| plants, where strike centers, object- |said the Treasury would present to | I B Taarial of et " e an enthusiastic horsewoman, has been | Sioners. bill would empower a national labor | writers, Franz Otto Wrede and Wold | respect.” ing to criticism for “indolence and | congressional committees in Novem- | '"d‘ S i = e Tiding since she was 8 years old. She| Senator Pope, Democrat. of Iduho, | Standards board to fix minimum | Dietrich Langen, working for a news| “It doesn't mean anything,” he said.| mismanagement” in survey by In- | ber data on which a new revenue law | Mandatory. ra e AL is passionately fond of animals, and @ member, said the committee would | Wages not higher than 40 cents an |agency which reports news and opin-| The New Yorker asserted, however,| dustrial Commission, said they took | might be drawn up. G Uit (T RREE) o . Ll had often told her friends she wanted | discuss the bill by Senate Gillette, | hour and a wor. week not shorter | ions of Germans abroad, were ordered | he would continue to press for the | to strike as means of stabilizing dutyRioladm Rauon monl-residenth pus to be an animal trainer or to join a circus. The tip concerning the circus rider's Tesemblance to Miss Major had come from the captain of the excursion steamer Robert E. Lee, who telephoned the Shoreham this morning from Nor- folk to say that a girl he believed to girl joined the circus last Monday, the day after Miss Major disappeared from Democrat, of Iowa, making funds now held by the Commodity Credit Corp. | available for loans on 1937 cotton. | TheiGillPI'P bill does not specify | (See CONGRESS, Page A-4.) MONCKTON VISITS DUKE | NOETSCH, Austria, August 9 (#) | Sir Walter T. Monckton, financial than 40 hours. The House committee discarded a | previously adopted amendment which | would have permitted establishment ti{ninimum V4 high as 70 cents (See WAC FORD PLANTS REOPEN be Miss Major had taken a pleasure sands of men and women to leave Concerning the contention by cruise vesterday to the Virginia Capes Trip May Precede Important De- their looms today in an announced | The purpose of this increase, Magill | Bajjoy that admission of non- with other circus performers. i 2 ; Page.| Dr. V. L. Kellogg, scientist-author, | effort to secure union contracts to im- | said, is to make the effective rate of | qent pupils would result in great con= The ship's officer saifl'he learned 'h'i cisions by Ex-King. Production Resumed After 3- Radio ._.___ A-12| dies in Hartford, Conn. Page A-4 |prove labor conditions and stabilize | taxation approximately the same &S| gestion in the already overcrowded Week Inventory Shut-Down. to leave England by the home office i last week end. There was no explana- tion of the order. Summary of Serial Story..A-14 Short 8tory ._B-2 investigation, although he expressed doubt the resolution would get be- yond the House Rules Committee. Today’s Star Col. W. C. Babcock, veteran, dies in Walter Reed. Page A-10 industry and giving them competi- tive parity. By the Associated Press. PATERSON, N. J.. August 8.—A C. 1. O. strike call to 60.000 silk workers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and New York caused thou- the industry. The only disorder reported along Discussing domestic personal holding | companies, Magill said the Treasury wanted to make them distribute all their income to the stockholders as a means of closing one tax leak. The | Joint Tax Committee recommended | surtaxes on such companies should be | raised to 65 and 75 per cent from the | existing 8 to 48 per cent. the highest rates of surtax applicable | to the individual, “with a view to pils “Refusal to grant the writ sought in this case would as effectively de- prive the appellee of the clear benefit granted her by statute as woul peal of the statute by Congres tice Stephens said Objections Held Legislative. junior and high schools and deprive District children of proper educational her apartment in Cathedral Mansions. | adviser to the Duke of Windsor whose | DETROIT, August 9 (#).—The | Finance - A-15| Sports .B-9-10-11 | Trafic in Washington area fatal to|the wide front was a Hazleton, Pa. | eliminating any tax advantage through | facilities, Justice Stephens remarked: He declared the girl “seemed con- | Visits several times have preceded |Ford Motor Co. resumed production | Lost & Found B-11 | Society __.B-3| 3: 21 hurt. Page B-1|where a picket at the large Duplan| (See TAX PHOLES, Page A-4.) “We think that the considerations fused” when he asked her if she ever | important decisions by the former |today after a three-week shutdown | Obituary .. A-10' Woman's Pg._._B-8 | D. C. right to suspend or revoke auto | Silk Corp. mill was stabbed in the SRR urged by the appellant are legislative had worked at the Shoreham. | King arrived today at Wasserleonburg | for inventory. Assembly plants, as drivers' permits upheld. Page B-1|arm. His alleged assailant was ar-| “ 95 rather than judicial in character. We The tentative identification was ' Castie. well as the Rouge plant at Dearborn, | FOREIGN. Civilian police trial board urged by |rested after being almost mobbed by| LONDON “AIR RAID” SET |cannot say that they were such as made from photographs the captain: Sir Walter's visit started uncon- |reopened. Japan reported ready to end war on! Gardiner. Page B-1|the crowd which gathered. required the Trial Court. in the exer- had zeen in the newspapers. rmed rumors that the duke was A company official said the pro- own terms. Page A-1| Taxicab insurance to bring fare boost, | Earlier four sheriff's deputies were I cise of a sound discretion, to refuse Was Lover of Animals. { contemplating some important new | duction schedule called for 6.500 units Insurgents start “finAl” drive against is view. Page B-1|gent from Wilkes-Barre to aid nine | Mock Attack to Test City's Newly m‘, writ. ) kins Major had valgite it ennhlfld‘s"p‘ possibly negotiations for his | daily, the sampe schedule that was Santander. Page A-3 School officials seek fireproof space for city policemen on duty. The Duplan “The statute involved in the instant her to handle wild horses, dangerous dogs and even untamed creatures at the Zoo. | return to England. maintained before the shutdown. Girl, 1 7,Flogs Man Tied to Tree Prance held sure to protest British- Italian pact. Page A-4 crippled pupils. Page B-1 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. management said pickets, some of whom were recruited from the ranks of anthracite mine workers, jammed Devised Defenses. LONDON, August 9 (#).—The big- gest mock air raid London ever has case being mandatory and clear, the duty of the appellant to admit the appellee to the public schools of the g Nazis postpone Niemoller trial after | gqjtorials, 8|50 tightly abouc the gates that some | xnown was set up for tonight to|District was purely ministerial” During her off hours Miss Maior protest parade. Page A-4 | Thie .n'; That. ;fi: :,: ;of 'tl}zw YI.IOB workers who pushed | test the vulnemhsny of London's Sought to Enter Gordon ‘was a frequent visitor at the Zoo. Hr.xj «Q . . U} | Questions and Answers. Page A-8|through the lines emerged With torn | newly devised defenses against attack Lois applied for admission to Gor- associates s'.";‘, she had made friends For bpreadl'l Lles About Her NATIONAL. Washington Observations., Page A-8 | clothing. from the sky. don Junior High last September, after with the wolves and other animals A House labor group reports revised ver- | David Lawrence. Page A-9 Successful in Jersey. Wave after wave of high-speed | completing the sixth grade in an ele- some of whirhkih@ petted through the (Picture on Page A-4.) Willis told him, “and had my daughter | 8ion of wage-hour bill. Page A-1|H. R. Baukhage. Page A-9| Representatives of the union and| bombers tuned up to fly high over | mentary school here. Under order of bars when Do keepers were in slght 10} 5, e amoniated Press, give him the beating he deserved. She | Cummings _investigating Democrats’ | Dorothy Thompson. Page A-9|employers disagreed as to the extent | the city, seeking out the key centers, | Dr. Ballou, the principal refused to Btop ez, | _NEW ORLEANS, August 9.—Pretty | hit him with & rope. I don't know| sale of year books. Page A-1 | Constantine Brown. Page A-9|of the strike in Pennsylvania, where|guch as Tilbury Docks, the oil depots [ aqmit her and others similarly situated Employes of the hotel telephoned pioice Willis, 17, accused of publicly | how many times he was hit.” H trails Senate in drive to ad- | Lemuel Parton. Page A-9 | more than 40,000 normally work in|along the River Thames, military | on the grounds there was no room for e e eopment to police, Who, fiogging Oscar Kay, 47-vear-old W,| Adams, called by the father, found | - somenmient. ER e the silk and rayon industry, but New | airdromes and the Enfield munitions | them. sent a detective to investigate. | P. A. worker, after her relatives had | K&y moaning in the Willis yard, with 1 g Des t chief BORTE. (See SILK STRIKE, Page A-10.) | works. Dr. Ballou had reported at that time Photographs and descriptions of the | tied him to a tree, defended her ac-|8& crowd of curious persons around Roose;llet seukBromt moore CAE’ Griffmen fare poorly against leading to the Board of Education the con- missing girl had been sent earlier to- | tion today by saying Kay had spread |him. They had made no attempt,| *° Hyde Park. Page A-3| " teams. Page B-9| ., o . gested condition of the achool and the ey to police chiels of a dosen cies “liex” about her. Adams said, to stop the flogging. L fo mikfatrike fopens g‘;:ly‘“ll Base ball enjoying return of golden Slx'Motored Flyln g Wln g (See KEMP, Page A-3) after detectives had elimina: vir-| The girl s b “ 30N area. B era. . T i e et girl said Kay circulated “false| Kay, nursing “bumps on his head Page B-9 disappearance. Several admirers of the pretty blond, :mles" after she went to a hospital | June 3 for an appendicitis operation. “My father did not hear about it and welts on his back and legs,” told the sergeant a brother of the girl, Alfred R. Willis, 23, came to his home House sends court bill to Conference Committee. Page A-2 Pine Valley rated too tough for even golf experts. Page B-10 Rippy among favorites in national Foreseen as Air Liner of 1947 BIGGE TAkES 0ATH -— s Lot Jobless census may help lay basis for ) (See MAJOR GIRL, Page A-3) ‘:‘“’;‘ 3""“"‘;_' '"1;‘"“ he decided | and said a W. P. A. foreman wanted | relief policy. Page A-2 u;?c?};r‘o"}x s "":‘3‘}" B3 the Associated Press. Hall L. Hibbard, chief designer for| George E. Bigge of Providence, R. I, 0 do somethirg about it,” she told | to see him. back high ell's “drop-shot” gaine e 3 5 Lockheed Corp., elaborated: took the oath of office today as & 3 | police. “I went along, not suspecting any- n:l:!oea?:“ T, ngy.;:‘r:m‘ Page Acd| tennis title. PageB-11| LOS ANGELES, August 9.—A giant | MO0p B o truts, braces and | member of the Social Security Board. SHIP FOUNDERS, 50 LOST! Kay. threatening to “swear out a|thing,” he sald. “Then Mr. Willis set it : MISCELLANY. six-motored fiying Wing With 10| .. "Gy disappear. The next step is| The former chairman of the Ecos y warrant against them for attempted | on me and beat me with his fists. Al-| WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. 2 fuselage and no tail was the picture the vanishing of the fuselage itself. nomics Department at Browr. Univer= murder,” charged Miss Willis flayed | fred beat me, and. another brother, - | Washington Wayside. Page A-2 ved | This, however, will be practical only | sity is the Republican member of the Venezuelan Excursion Boat Had | him with a steel cable before a crowd | Robert, beat me, too. Then they tied Cl::::m:fl::wm ne!;‘:qu:fl Vital Statistics. Page A-10 ::: m‘::hm,:r;rd:';:? Lo in a craft weighing more than 200,000 | board. SR of 100 persors after members of her| me to & tree in thelr front yard and "t upHolds mearby children | SRIPPIng News. Pagh 418 [T S0 CO8 & 3 pounds &nd carrying almost 100 pas- Sipe gt e family had bezten him and lashed | Eloise whipped me With a steel cable,» | ARPed)s court upholds nearby chilCfeR | young washington. PageA-13| “The wing will permit payloads of | songery Children's Plea Gets a Shower. MARACAIBO, Venezuela, August 9 him to a chinaberry tree at the Wil-| Kay denied spreading stories about| P D: C. schools. 8¢ A-l| Nature's Children. Page B-1| 100 persons, tons of baggage and mail,” | Both men said tomorrow’s airliner () —Between 40 and 50 native ofl | lis home. | the girl. Police said they would con- [ ReV. Dr. J. H. Mahoney heads Catho- | Dorothy Dix. Page B-8|said Donald Douglas, founder of the | would be controlled through wing-tip| UPPER DARBY, Pa. August 9 (# workers were reported lost today after| The father, Alfred C. Willis, in a|sult with the district attorney’s office| lic Theater Conference. Page A-12 | Betsy Caswell. Page aircraft factory here that bears his|fins and wing ailerons. Douglas said | —Ten-year-old Betty Jane Rodelz obe their excursion boat, returning from |signed statement to Police Sergt.|today on the filing of formal charges | D.C. National Guard set for first round | Cross-word Puzsle. Page B-14 | name. “Probably this super plane will | speeds of 350 miles an hour would be | tained the signatures of 63 chi u\:en', a holiday week end, foundered. John Adams said, asserted Kay “got|against Eloise and her father, now| of military maneuvers.. Page A-3 | Bedtime Stories, Page fly in the stratosphere, if we can over- | high enough for a long time, but|all under 12, to & petition for a s :e The boat, the Ana Cecilia, had about | what he deserved.” booked for battery and assault, if Kay | Old Babe, retired eircus elephant at | Letter-Out. Page come certain fundamental obstacles in | Hibbard prophesied even 500 might | shower. ~Commissioners sald the 200 oil field workers aboard. “T tied him to & tree,” Adams said fails to appeas. Zoo, shows effects of age. Page A-3| Winning Centract. PageB-15 the way of altitude traveL” not be “tops.” sprinkler would be installed this week. L] - ‘ ’ 4 a