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A—-2 xxx BGETLONG TERMS INO'CONNELL CASE *“Last Kidnap Ring” Draws 28 to 77 Year Sentences on Conviction. B the Assoclated Press. BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., August 13. =—Fight men, said by Federal agents to be members of the “Nation's last organized kidnap ring” faced today | prison sentences of from 28 to 77 years for the 1933 abduction of John J. O’Connell, jr., of Albany, N. Y. Convicted by a Federal jury after | less than thre hours of deliberation | on 11 weeks of testimony, the enghl; men, securely shackled to each other, paled visibly as the verdict—-guilty | on the charges"—was spoken. HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SOUVENIR. R. I. R. METCALF, of the Bureau of Air Commerce, tells us about an enchant- ing instrument called the comfort meter, whereby you can telt how comfortable you are, whether your guests are boring you, if your shirts are too small or too short, your hats too large. Well, maybe not all those things, but at least it tests | the temperature and humidity at the A few minutes later, gray-haired, | soft-spoken Federal Judge Frederick | H. Brvant pronounced sentence on | Manning Strewl, 35; John Oley, 36, | and Perey Geary of Albany, and | Charles Harrigan. 37; Thomas Dugan. 35. George Garguillo, 31; John Mc- Glone, 34, and Harold Crowley, 31, of New York City. Two Others Face Sentence. The fate of two other confessed participants in the crime—Frank Fischer, 53. and Thomas Burke, 39, | guards at the Hoboken, N. J,, hideout where O'Connell was held prisoner | for 23 days, rested with Judge Bryant. AT 4 o wonayp 0> »Es 28, same time, and lets you know how cheerful you should be over the com- bination. Our guess i& you wont be pleased at all, during this week. Incidentally, we asked Mr. Metcalf He planned to sentence them today. | Strewl, “go-between” in the $40,000 ransom negotiations that led to the release of the young National Guard lieutenant and scion of a politically- | prominent Albany family, was sen- tenced to 58 years and fined $10.000 for conspiracy to use the mails and use of the mails to extort Each of the other defendants was | eonvicted of those charges, as well as | conspiracy to transport a kidnaped | person in interstate commerce and | the actual transportation (the Lind- | bergh law). All of the other defendants except | Crowley were sentenced to & total of | 77 vears and fined $10,000 on all| eounts. Crowley's penalty was a total | of 28 years and a fine of $10.000, Wives Sob at Verdict. EBeated only a few feet away as they were sentenced, wives of two—Mrs. John Oley and Mrs. Percy Geary— aobbed openiv. They had sat there, | eonversing quietly and occasionally | Wiping away a tear, throughout the jury's deliberations. | Both women are under Federal in- | dictment on charges of harboring fugi- tives. For four of the convicted—Harrigan, Dugan, McGlone and Garguillo—the | verdict meant long extensions of the prison life they dy lead. Garguillo is under sentence of 25 to 30 vears in Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown for a 1936 Boston bank pay roll robbery, The other three were plucked from Alcatraz Federal Prison cells to stand trial here. Each #s serving 25 yvears for participation in & $120.000 mail truck robbery at Fall River, Mass., in 1935, Missing from the court room for the first time in two days as the jury re- turned was the kidnap victim, now 28, married and the father of an infant #on, born during the trial ‘The nephew of Daniel P. and Ed- ward J. O'Connell, Albany Democratic leaders, he was seized outside his Putnam street home in Albany early on the morning of July 7, 1933, FLOW KILLING TREES | LAID TO NEW SPRING about blond ladies selling their hair, making fortunes at it, for use in hygrometers and psychrometers. the instrument was about all that is .needed. Any enterprising scout should be able to make one date with a blond supply a manufacturing i concern for A year. R DIVERSION. Mr. Meicalf (who is inventor of the propeller de-icer, by the way, apropros of nothing to do with blonds/ omce drove a taxicab in Chicago for eight months. Did it just to find out how and why cabbies lived, loved and learned. Personally, he learned how to make money at it, Aguring out mathe- matically all the spots where there would be lots of people, but not 3o much trafic at certain hours. (You can make a fortune any time you know the answer to that one.) . Says quite a few women gypped him out of fares: only one man. Largest tip he received was from a priest, with whom he had been discussing astronomy. * % % X FICKLE. THIS changing world, where nothing is stable and all that is not flux is getting that way, we now discover that even elephants forget, Like a flash. We are writing to the copybook peo- ple and asking them to change that line “Women and elephants never forget” to “Out of sight. out of mind— and that goes for both of ‘em.” Scems that a young Sumatran pachyderm named Ketchel was a constant companion and pal of Old Babe, the Zoo favorite that died the other day. When Babe became ill, Headkeeper W. H. Blackburne had the two separated. That was several weeks ago. So long as Ket- chel could see Old Babe lying down and pining away, Ketchel was one nervous, fretful, unhappy elephant. Finally, Mr. Blackburne had to shut Old Babe behind closed doors, in the hope Ketchel would quiet down. “It worked, too,” he says, “the | minute she was out of sight, Ketchel Drain Tiles Probably Will Be In- stalled When Cause Is Fixed Definitely. When the cause of excess ground- water—responsible for killing two trees in Lafavette Park and endangering others—has been determined. drain tiles probably will be installed in an effort to divert the flow to the city's gewers, C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of National Capital Parks, said todav. | “That would be the cheapest and most logical way of doing it.” he said. | “The most likely cause of the excess | water.” he explained. “is cropping out | of a new spring on the slope occupied | by the park. The park lies at the | brink of a gravel terrace, and water, maintaining a safe level, as far as trees are concerned, to the northward, might | easily come to the surface when the downward slope is reached.” | The investigation, started a month ago by the National Capital Parks| Office, has consisted so far in sinking pits and using pumps to isolate the | center of the water trouble. With a | magnolia and a beech already dead, | fear has arisen other trees in the park | might die. Finnan, however, empha- | eized today he did not anticipate any wholesale destruction of trees in the | park. He further emphasized the trouble was not in any way the result of the | recently completed $1.950,000 P. W. A. project for rehabilitation of Washing- ton parks or of defects in the city water system. COOLER WEEK END PREDICTED FOR CAPITAL Although occasional showers may eut 1n on outdoor activities, a some- what cooler week end is in prospect for Washington and vicinity, the fore- caster said today. The humidity probably will con- tinue fairly high, but temperatures are expected to be lower than last week. Overcast skies. were keeping the mercury in the lower brackets today after it had dropped to 69 degrees by 5 am. The. “high” yesterday was 91, reached at 4:20 p.m. Congress in Brief Today. Sugar—Senate probably will vote on sugar quota bill. Government reorganization—House debates bill to let President revise de- partments. Supreme Court—Senate Judiciary Subcommittee considers nomination of Senator Black. Housing—House Banking Commit- tee continues study of Wagner bill. Tax loopholes—House Ways and Means Committee continues study of anti-tax evasion legislation, TOMORROW. Semate: May take up Distriet airport legis- Tation, followed by Army and Navy housing measure, Homse: . Not expected to be in sesslon. L) forgot about her.” ¥ ok ok % PROFESSIONAL PRIDE. ’l‘ms i5 another of those daisies that almost need affidavits to gain our credence, but we have the word of & lady that it's true. Fellow was ar- rested out in Maryland for stealing chickens. Police took him back to the scene of the crime, and the owner of the farm, a naturally kind-hearted lady, said: “Young man, if you needed food, why didn’t you come to me and ask for it? I'd have given you some chicken to eat. But why did you steal?” Prisoner drew himself up haughtily, “Madam,” said he, “I'm no bum.” * K K X UNEXPLAINED. CHAP whose favorite way of doing nothing is to walk along the street and peer in store windows, each and every one of them, reports that most of the time he gets extremely bored with his avocation. Other times he is | rewarded for hix patience. One of the latter times popped up the other day. He spent half an hour with his nose pressed against a win- dow pane, watching a fellow peel po- tatoes. There were no signs, the man wasn't making any speeches or recom- mending anything, he didn't even | throw in any demonstrative gestures. He merely sat in the store window and peeled potatoes. NEW TWIST. SIGN on a Virginia road near Lees- burg: “Car Washing Not Allowed. ‘What do they do up there, dry clean 'em, or let 'em stay muddy? x kX ok THANKS. The Department of Insult and Injury wishes to express its grati- tude to the ranks of contributors Jor gallant response to a barrage of pleas for more and better items. Things picked up noticeably today (we thought), but don't forget that one turkey doesn't make a turkey shoot. One turkey doesn’t even make a column, and we want none of your cracks about “and vice versa.” —_— NEW LOAN Kung Gets Aid in Switzerland and Netherlands, Is Report. BERLIN, August 13 (#).—China’s Finance Minister H. H. Kung was re- ported today to have obtained from-a group of Swiss and Netherlands banks & third European loan to strengthen China's financial position. Kung previously had negotiated loans in Great !flh}n and France. FOR CHINA He | laughed out loud. Said one hair to| POLICE UNCOVER BRADY GUN SHOP Indiana Detectives Return Home Convinced Gangsters Have Left Maryland. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 13.—Two In- diana detectives, trailing the notarious Brady gang, prepared to return home today, apparently convinced their prey had left Maryland, but “deter- mined to get these killers.” Meredith Stewart and William Span- nouth, the Hoosier State detectives who came here early in the week after | the gang shot it out with Baltimore police and escaped, sald they were | going home for the week end and probably would not return unless there were new developments here, “I am convinced that the bandits have left Maryland,” Stewart said. | “Of course, there is always the pos- sibility they may double back, but if they do, the Baltimore police force can handle them. Never Let Trail Grow Cold, “The Indiana police, meanwhile, will never let this trail grow cold. We are determined to get these killers.” Police uncovered a small arsenal in the house the Midwest desperadoe: sought for robbery, murder and jail- break, had occupied while niding out | here. Larceny Suspect Voluntarily Keeps Court Engagement Sent to Hospital, He W as Set Free Prior to Time for Appearance. John Branison, colored, charged with larceny after trust and plain larceny, was sent from Police Court to Gallinger Hospital more than a week ago for treatment as a tubercu- losis case. Under usual procedure Branison would have been returned to the District Jail after treatment and would then have been sent back to Police Court for final disposition of his cases. Yesterday was set as the day for his return, but he was not in the van when it arrived at court from the jail. Tater he walked into the| probation office and asked Assistant Probation Officer Joseph Sanford what had become of his case. “How in the world did you here?” inquired Sanford. “Oh, I just walked,” replied Brani- son. “They turned me loose down At the hospital a couple of days ago, 80 I thought I better come in, al- though nobody told me to come back. They told me at the hospital to g0 home.” A call to the jail elicited the in- formation that records there showed Branison to be still in the hospital. “Such honesty deserves fair treat- ment,” said Judge John P McMa- hon, who placed Branison on proba- tion. get Officers arrested four members of the Raimondo family on charges of | conspiring to obstruct justice by hid- | ing guns and ammunition belonging to the gang. | Those arrested were Mrs. Minnie | Riley and her sister, Mrs. Mary | Schwarz, wives of Lee Shaffer, alias| Mickey Riley. and James Dalhover, | alins Herb Schwarz, confederates of | Alfred Brady: their brother, Anthony | Raimondo. and sister, Mrs. Josephine Economidis. Gun Shop Found. A gun shop. equipped with motors, tools and machinery capable of in- creasing the deadliness of firearms, | was found yesterday by police in- vestigating activities of the gang, in the basement of the house in which the gangsters had lived with their wives. An automatic rifle, with maga- zine capacity increased from 15 shots | to 50, was found in a secret compart- ment in a sedan the trio abandoned after a running gun-battle with un- | successtully pursuing police officers a few days ago. Dominick Raimondo, 13, told Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation men leader, Alfred Brady. built the RUN shop several months ago. He said the door was kept locked and the Rai- ;;wndos were not allowed to look into Detective Capt. John A. Conoey said investigatiion of the gang's recent movements has shown that they had made inquiries about several local pay rolls, 'PRESIDENT’S AIDES | END D. C. TAX STUDY | [Return Bill to White House. Roosevelt Delays Action on Van Orsdel Seat. | The District tax bill, carrving the controversial ~ Miller-Tydings price | maintenance rider, has been returned | to President Roosevelt's desk after a | study by some of his advisers, but he | has not decided whether he will sign it The President explained at his press conference today that this study, con- ducted by seven agencies. had been productive of some conflicting rec- ommendations, but there were no de- | tails as to these, | Mr. Roosevelt also said that no con- | sideration yet was being given to ap- pointment of a successor to the late Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the Court of Appeals. He added that no names had been submitted to the White House in this regard. Hoover “Opponent” Dies. BURLINGAME, Calif., August 13 (P).—Walter M. Bird, 63, who gained renown by his persistent efforts to hale Herbert Hoover into a Justice of the Peace Court on a California speeding charge during the latter's presidency, | died yesterday of a heart attack. that Dalhover and Shaffer, with their | THO ARE SOUGHT INBUILDING RUNS Steam Shovel to Help Find | Missing Women—Grand Jury to Open Probe. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August 13.Seeking | two missing women, 150 firemen and | | police dug wearily today in the deso- |late ruins of a Staten Island tene- ment building which collapsed during A rainstorm, killing 19 persons. Exhausted the long search, they ordered a steam shovel to help sift the tangled, sodden wreckage be- i’nrn’h which they expected to find | the broken bodies of Olive Rogers and Louise Heinz. District Attorney Frank H. Innes said he would ask a grand jury to | investigate the cause of the disaster | Monday. Three other Investigations were also underway from Police said the building, formerly used as a factory, crumbled Wednes- | day night under the impact of a tor- rent of muddy water tumbling from ;n overflow storm sewer on a nearby i1, Flags on all Staten Island public buildings flew at half-staff today for | the victims—Patrolman Joseph J. | { McBreen, a rescuer; six women, five children and seven other men. Hos- pital physicians said the condition of four injured was “fair." Between 40 and 45 persons were | made homeless when police ordered ‘SP\rn nearby buildings vacated as & Precautionary measure. Ropes were strung about the debris to keep back the crowds, A citizens’ committee started a fund to help survivors and bury the im- poverished dead. More than $500 was subscribed 1n a few hours. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, after | | Inspecting the ruins, said the tragedy ilustrated the immediate need for | widespread slum clearance “That building was about 95 vears | old.” he said. “We're doing what we can to replace that type of old hous- ing, but we cant make that kind of housing new.” | " ROOSEVELT TO CRUISE | Will Board Potomac at Annapolis Tonight or Tomorrow. President Roosevelt will board the | vacht Potomac at Annapolis, Md., to- night or tomorrow for a week-end | cruise. | He told a press conference today he would keep in close touch with the Far | Eastern and congressional situations | land be back Sunday afternoon. the Potomac. Claire Gregorie, the steamer redl, « Showgirls Rehearse on Boat Local entertainers in the cast of the “Going Native Revue,” which opens next Friday at Loew’s Capitol, held a rehearsal yes- terday during an excursion aboard a Wilson Line steamer on dancer and singer, is shown on —Star Staff Photo. | civie | toward procedural reorganization : thorough | condition, | mental background, and would study TAX AVOIDANGE BILL AGREED UPON House Committee Will Ap- prove Measure to Close Law Loopholes. By the Associated Press. The House Way: and Means Com- mittee agreed today to approve later in the afternoon a measure to close tax-law loopholes. Chairman Doughton said the bill would be introduced this afternoon and the committee would meet again to act on it. He said he expected to call it up in the House Monday. ‘The bill, he said, should yield $75,- 000,000 to $100,000.000 of new revenue | and save “untold hundreds of millions” that might be lost through loopholes. Measure Far Reaching. ‘The measure would apply stiffer tax treatment to domestic and foreign per- sonal holding corporations, incorporat- ed yachts, country estates and personal talents, multiple trusts, non-resident aliens and to persons who use artificial deductions for losses from sales or ex- changes of property or for interest and business expense. Recommendations of the Senate- House Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance were written into the bill virtually intact. There were only two major changes One would retain, instead of elimi- nate, & provision of present Jaw al- lowing personal holding companies to make unlimited deductions for tax purposes for amounys used or set aside to retire debts incurred prior to 1934 Conflict Is Avoided. | The other provides that the pro- posed tax law revisions shall not con- flict with & tax treaty negotiated with Canada. Under the treaty, a 5 per cent withholding tax may be applied to | income derived by Canadians from American sources. as against 10 per cent for other aliens i The new measure also would sub- ject to normal and surtaxes the net incomes of aliens—except Canadians— | who obtain such income In excess of $21,600 from American sources. These aliens also would be required to file American tax returns. CRIME DISCUSSED BY JUDGE CURRAN. Punishment Not Answer to Our Problem, He Tells Club. Punishment is not the answer (o our | crime problem, Police Court Judge Edward M. Curran said yesterday in a talk before the Cosmopolitan Club at the Carlton Hotel Speaking on “Crime and Justice in Its Relation to the Police Court of the District,” Judge Curran made a plea for the support of clubs and organizations in his efforts of the court Most of the 1.333.526 major crimes committed annualiy in the United | States are by criminals who started their career with petty offenses han- dled by police courts, the jurist de- clared. “Crime does mnot start with the commission of felonies and major offenses.” he said, “but with the petty crimes prosecuted and dispased of in a court that many people think is a joke—the police court. Many & youth convicted in police court of stealing & necklie is likely under the present system to find himself some years | later convicted of murder or robbery.” | He said many judges and prosecu- tors are more interested in making 200d records for themselves than they are in the administration of justice. ) To remedy such conditions Judge | Curran said he believes changes | should be made in the present system of dealing with small offenses. Chief of these would be the estnhlx»hmem’ of a behavior clinic, consisting of psychiatrists, social workers and pro- | bation officials, who would make & investigation into the of- physical and psychological his family and environ- fender's means of restoring the petty criminal to society This would mean that the attitude taken would be one of “treat- | ment” rather than punishment Without such a clinic judges are “merely guessing in many cases when they decide to send & man to jail on‘ no more of a basis than that of his previous record and the facts of the | offense,” he stated Other reforms he suggested include the appointment of a public defender, who would represent indigent per- | sons; changing the name ‘Police | AUGUST 13, | A mass funeral will be held Sunday at | from 1937. Mlssmg Boys JOHNNY HAAS. These 4-year-old boys ven Back Home TOMMY GLEASON. tured alone from their homes Johnny to see the American Legion parade and Tommy to find his dog Boots. their parents claimed them last Johnny, who lives at 216 E Fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue his name was “Johnny Johnny Johnny.” Tommy lives at 3006 Massachu Jound under the Pennsylvania Both ended up at the Receiving Home, where night street, followed the parade to He told a policeman usetts avenue southeast. He was Avenue Bridge —Star Staff Photos FIVE ARE DROWNED ON EASTERN SHORE Bodies of Wading fluintet' Recovered in Sinepux- ent Bay. By the Associnted Press OCEAN CITY, Md, August 13.— The bodies of the five young victims of a Sunday school picnic tragedy were taken to their homes near St. Martin's today for burial the St. Martin's Methodist Episcopal | Church South Coast Guardsmen from here recov- ered three of the bodies this morn- ing. The other two were found yes terday shortly after the five boys and | girls, ranging between 13 and 22 years in age, lost their lives in Sine- puxent Bay off Henry's Grove. As her aged grandfather, with whom she had lived, watched the nearby shore, the Coast Guardsmen brought up the body of the youngest victim. Margaret West 13. Earlier today the bodies of Dan- iel West, 22. her cousin, and of How- ard Avdelotte. 16, were recovered. West, drowning | SUGAR BILL NEARS Complaints of Unfairness to Hawaii and Puerto Rico Ignored. By 1he Associated Press, Sugar State Senators, paying scant heed to complaints of unfairness to Hawaii and Puerto Rico ught their sugar control bill today into position for a final vote. They won Senate approval vester of an amendment to “freeze” refining output at current figures in the United States and its island possessions Senator Harrison, Democrat. of Mis- sissippi proposed the amendment answer administration criticism of a House-approved section to curb re- finery expansion on the islands a President Roosevelt wrote Harr that the amendment, in his o) did not correct the situation. Secre- tary Ickes has said “no legislation would be better” than any which might prevent islanders from improv- ing their economic ot Senator Adams, Democrat. of Colo- rado, leader of the sugar bloc, com- A fisherman picked up the bodies of Naldia West, 14, vesterday They were floating on the water near where the five wandered over the steep drop into the bay channel. Ciifford Holloway. the only swimmer AMONRg the group of 10 boys and girls who were plaving in the water, said the five victims were wading further | out in the bay than stepped into & hole. “Suddenly I heard Daniel call for help.” he said. “I looked and only could see their hands frantically w: ing above the water. Then they di: appeared.” The children were sons and daugh- ters Of farmers residing about St Martin's, north of Berlin, Mrs West, mother of two of the victims said she allowed Naldia to go only be- cause Daniel had promised to look out for her. REPUBLICANS LOSE FIGHT ON ELECTION Balked in Attempt to Have Com- mittee Report Barred From Floor. By the Associated Press Republicans failed today in an at- tempt to keep from the House floor a report of its Elections Committee rec- ommending the unseating of Repre- the rest and | market. | Corfgress in 1934 enacted the Jones- Costigan law, which embodied prin- ciples of balancing supply and demand | through marketing quotas for the American beet and cane producers Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto { Rico and the Virgin Islands The Supreme Court in its 1936 agr ire adjustment act decision validated a system of benefit paymen to producers financed by a processing tax of half a cent a pound. SAFETY UNIT ASKS sentative Arthur B. Jenks, Republican, | of the first New Hampshire district The committee recommended that Jenks' seat be given to Alphonse Roy Democrat. Its findings were based on an election contest. Representative Tobey, New Hamp- shire Republican. raised a parliamen- tary point of order against the report. He said House rules made it manda- | tory that the report be filed within six months after the opening of the ses- sion. Speaker Bankhead overruled the point of order Representative Snell. Republican. of | of the port authority of New York, gular offices of the S 16, sister of Daniel, | | and Katharine Davis, John | mented, however, he was “not Jooking for a veto.” Members of the bloc said they might yet be able to find an acceptable limitation on refining, probably when the measure reaches a conference com- | mittee to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions. The controversy recalled attempts, in 1933, to stabilize the in- dustry, which annually sells $500.000,- ‘HIRING HALLS’ BAN, Senate Committee's Maritime Probers Urge End of Mode of Ship Crew Selection. Senate safety-at-sea recommended yesterday that Congress outlaw the ‘hiring halis” through which maritime unions control the se- | lection of ship personnel | Chairman Copeland of the Senate Commerce Committee presented to the Senate a report from the technifal committee charged by the Senate with | investigating the Morro Castle and | Mohawk ship disasters | He also introduced legisiation to | carry out the committee’s recom- | mendations. It provides that hiring shall be su- pervised exclusively by United States ship commissioners. | Howard C. Cullman, wice chairman Court™” to one which would be “more | New York. minority leader, appealed | filed a minority report in which he accurate and less suggestive.” and the establishment of a uniform system of fines and penalties in traffic cases. ILL CARDINAL HAYES REPORTED IMPROVED No Cause Condition of Prelate, 69. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 13.—Patrick Cardinal Hayes was reported “much improved” today at St. Vincent Hos- | pital, where he became a patient last night after suffering an attack of indigestion Tuesday at his Summer home near Monticello, N. Y. There is no cause for alarm, the hospital said, adding the 69-year-old | prelate probably would remain a few more days for observation before re- turning Upstate. His physicians here, Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan and Dr. Oswald La Ro- tonda, decided Wednesday it would Physicians See for | Alarm Over be best to bring the cardinal to the hospital for treatment. They accom- | panied a private ambulance yesterday to St. Joseph’s Camp, Cardinal Hayes' Sullivan County Summer residence, and returned with him. In their statement they said: “Cardinal Hayes is not seriously ill. He spent a very comfortable night and is in fine spirits.” — SENATOR HOST TO BIRD In addition to the weighty problems that flll his day at the Capitol as chair- man of the Foreign Relations Commit- tee, Senator Key Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada has been feeding and caring for a carrier pigeon that picked out his | yard on Foxhall road in which to| pause for a rest two days ago. The Benator has been trying to trace the home of the pigeon from a band on its leg bearing the number “N B C 1904 A U 3 7.” The Senator plans to release the bird today if he does not find its owner. from the Speaker’s ruling tabled the a of 212 to 63. The House | denounced the “ineffectiveness of the ppeal by a standing vote | committee’s methods and the con- |peen jssued on sequent triviality of the report.” Her First Blue fiibbon Joan Moore, 5Y,-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moore, 1 Eighteenth street southeast, appears rather amazed over her victory in the baby Washington Community Center School playground, Nearly 150 other babtes. ¢ contest sponsored by the East yesterday at the Eastern High persons saw Joan win over 30 —Star Staff Photo. » VOTE N SENATE the first 000 worth of sugar in the American | SPANISH TANKER SUNK, 12 KILLED 128 Survivors Reach Safety. Master Blames Attack on Italian Ship. By TUNIS, Tunisia August 13 28 SUrvivors of the crew of the Span- h government reached the safefs of the | session today, asserting been torpedned killed by an c, Fc tanker, repc ship | ranean Italian { 50 miles 1 he A tan Campead-r French and 2 pt wa t & p | his .m ortheast of here engine room T the two following he b The attack by a Italian destro | he was unable to identif took no part in the action (In Rome, however, th | T Messagero stated the ‘had been sunk by the Span gent torpedo boat Velasco.) One-Sided Engagement The story the captain told wa of a na engageme as a cat playin The Campeador tons of benzine Spain from the | variou. i partu Black Se The Sa | tain, picked Wednesday morr was only 60 m =aid the Itali flag” and that ahead in cha course, the Tunisia coast But the Italian w completed in 1932, car steamed circles around The captain said an ship joined in the mane ing his progress and th which way he turned appeared on his bow. Shots Fired After Dusk hrough the day the game v agd still no shot d :nd C; Ga for the best Land ght he might er cover said, was obee second . a newsr Campezd as one- with a mo loaded w East up the ng wher from Ke P ip a he ordered f effort [ to escape o nip the A or s fell pt Lo be abie to ck amid the first t He asserted there was no oth flag ships | war | wate two m inflamm he tanker bodies of the 12 dead men ab: Some of the men made shore boats. The B p Dido picke up three at sea CHANGES HANDS TWICE. Spanish City Called No-Man's Land After Bitter Battling. MADRID. A 13 & olive-clad slopes of the castled ¢ Lopera Jaen Province was ported a no-man's today bitter e & e investigators | t was repor | claim “complete government’s co Cucalon strength of the gove the so Madrid remained quiet ment planes were successful in bos ing forays against gent positin at Burgos and two raiiroad cen |on the central f 1 RBritain Orders Offices Closed. | GIBRALTAR, Aug 13 (#) —B ish authorities today ordered the com- panish insurge regime here closed down The order was understond tn ha the grounds that ate for several montr | unauthorized passp 3 | Spanish government at Valencia wa understood to have made representa tions to the British authorities throuz its consul general herg The Britisn government recogn:z the Valencia authorities as the legi mate government of Spain, t EXTRADITION POLICY ABUSE IS CLAIMED Other States Use D. C. as “Collec- tion Agency,” Officer Tells Judge. Abuse of local extradition proced.is« by authorities of other States w2 | protested to Police Court Judge John | P. McMahon today by Detective Sergt | Richard Cox of the fugitive squad Cox recommended that Garnet | Head, who had been held in the Dis- trict Jail for 30 days at the request o Greenville, N. C., authorities be ré- lessed. Judge McMahon complied The detective pointed out that Green- ville police had failed to take ag action in Head's case after he Was ar- | rested. - | “To some extent,” Cox said. “poliec of other jurisdictions attempt to us us as a collection agency, asking us Y arrest people and later requestinc that we merely hold them while an attempt is made to effect a settlemen: in money matters. This fact, howeve; is seldom made known until the fug- tive squad has combed the city lookin for the person wanted.” In numerous instances, Cox said persons arrested here at, the reques of authorities in other ‘jurisdicti are forced to spend 30 days in | needlessly, because no serious effort exttadite them is contemplated. U the law, persons arrested to anail cx- tradition are compelied to remain locked up for 30 days if they fai 3o ., faise bond, Cox pointed out.