Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1937, Page 1

o ¢ Fhening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 13 WEATHER. (U, 8 Wenther Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, probably followed by local showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 91, at 1 p.m.; lowest, 76, at 6 am. " The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. @h Star Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 10 Yesterday’s Circulation, 134,772 osing N.Y. Markets— —| (Some returns not yet raceived ) 8th YEAR. No. 34,0 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 80. IRE RAZES 11-MILE AREA S JAPAN’S CONSULATE FROM CAMPAIGN N SHANGHAI 1S BOMBED WASHINGTON, D. SATURDAY, A GUFFEY'S QUSTER BODY DEMANDED rigin of Missile Fatal to Sailor Is Probed. jHINlES]{BE/\U Succumbs Happy in Thought He Had BELIEVED 5.000 Remon :\lfirli(‘fusvd by 500 U. Women. ACKGROUND— Sino-Japanese fiohting started from clasi of troop Juiy 7 near Peiping and spread to Shanghai ajter killing of two Japanese ti 12 days agoc Bomb Chinese plancs on Japanese ships in Wiangpoo River last urday resulted in killing of 1400 Chinese and jorcigners, including three Americans. American sailor was killeg vesterday when shell of unknown origin hit the cruiser Au- gusta, flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. s the Associated Press | SHANGHAI August 21.—War and re continued to lay waste in Shang- | ai today, with foreign police esti- | six months ago he told Col. Jones he, square miles of port had 11 largest ates that about e world's sixth een destroved Fire leveled most of Chinese Chapei, apanese Hongkew. Yangt istrial Pc across the W iver, and Kiangwan. Only Prnational Settlement, the French ncession and parts of Nantao in e Soochow Creek area remain intact. In the absence of firemen, who al- ady had ey the burning inued to spread stifling were driving from the ctions. noke and fierce heat any Chinese belligerents ongkew batile area. Aerial Warfare Renewed, ‘Three CI ver the smok arfare today, aimin e Japanese te. The pro- potiles fel the mark, but illed one Chinese and one Japanese Ind wounded 13 others, all believed to e Japanese (In Nanking Chinese air force officers declared their planes had fought off a Japanese attempt to raid Nanking in the largest and most bitterly contested air batile of the undeclared war. They claimed three . Japanese planes were shot down. Late in the after- | noon warning reached the Chinese capital 1 20 big Japanese bombing planes had taken off from aircraft carriers lying off the mouth of the Yangtze and were | heading for Nanking.) From the United States cruiser Au- usta, $10.000.000 flagship of the merican Fleet, grim-faced blue jack- s carried the shell-ripped body of a 1-year-old Louisiana boy, one of the rew and the fourth American to be illed since the hostilities started. The dy was wrapped in the Stars and lese warplanes droned ruins in renewal of their bombs at | window Augusta still lay reso- itely at anchor on a curve of the fvhangpoo near the heart of the In- rnational Scttlement to protect merican lives while investigators bught to learn the origin of the 1- | ch anti-aircraft shell that killed the eaman, Freddie John Falgout of celand, La. | A routine Navy board, headed by omdr. E. H. Kincaid of the Au- usta, heard testimony of persons vho witnessed the shelling. Chinese . ..Bo attack | Earned Place on Two Others Burned. osion of a gasoline blow torch at the National Training School for Boys ended 17-vear-old Pete Vakas' valiant le along the road back, but he died in Gallinger Hospital this morn- ing happy in the knowledge that he had won a place on the foot ball team Two-thirds of the lad's body was burned early vesterday when the blow torch exploded in the machine shop |and spraved him and G. Lancaster Llovd, 50, chief of machinery al the | institution, with blazing gasoline. | As Pete was carried into the hospi- al at the school, he sobbed to Col | Claude D. Jones, superintendent of | the institution: “Gosh, colonel, mean I does this | won’t be able to make the foot ball team after all?” ‘When Col. Jones assured the injured vouth that nothing could prevent him | from playing with the first team, Pete | smiled. Pete was a problem when he first came to the institution a year and a half ago and twice he escaped. But NURSE N CHCAGD RODSEVELT SCANS SLAIN N HOSPITA | Girl, 18, Attacked and Killed With Brick—Murderer Escapes. he Associated Press CHICAGO, August 21.—Miss Anna Kuchta, 18, a student nurse at the Chicago Hospital, on the South Side, ' was criminally attacked and slain, Police Capt. John B. Prendergast said, by a man who crushed her skull with A brick early today Detectives said the slaying was similar to those of other women in Chicago in the last two years The killer, police said, fled through By | a*fire escape window when Miss Flor- ence Palmowski, 19, another nurse. opened the door of the room to call Miss Kuchta after a rest period. Miss Palmowski found the body on the floor near a cot. It was clad only with stockings and white shoes. De- tectives said the killer had stuffed part of a pillow down the girl's throat A bureau had been ransacked and & small radio was reported missing. A coroner’s investigator said she had been attacked. Had Gone to Room to Rest. Miss Kuchta had gone to the room to rest about 4 am. and her body | was found an nour and a half later. | Miss Palmowski said she saw only the man’'s back as he went out the She described him as 19 or 20 year old, wearing a white shirt, dark trousers and a light cap. Police said she could not say defi- | nitely whether he was white or colored Detectives found a paving brick on the windov: sill. They said it was the weapon used by the slayer. Police said the killer apparently had attempted to gain entrance to the room two weeks ago. Nurses re- | ported at that time they saw a man | on the fire escape with a wrapped | package in his hands. Two days earlier a screen had been removed | i said b ‘Tryin.g to Make Good’ Dies After Blast at Training School ! this end. | tinue Wheeler and 0’Mahoney Take Senate Floor to An- swer Radio Attack. [PENNSYLVANIAN ALSO D HAD ASSAILED BURKE Foot Ball Team. B Montanan Declares Guffey Was *Afraid” to Deliver Speech on Floor. wanted to play with the foot ball| | team and intended to be a credit to| the institution, | = It was Pete’s eagerness to make| Senators Wheeler, Democrat, of good that prompted him to crouch Montana and O'Mahoney, Democrat, close to the pot in which Lloyd was Of Wyoming shouted defiance in the melting lead to repair a water pipe, ! Senate todav of threats from Senator alert for an opportunity to lend a| Guffey, Democrat, of Pennsylvania to helping hand, and caused his death. d;fefl;flwm‘and called f;:r !:mm’fll g' the ennsylvanian as ea of the As Lioyd adjusted the flame, the 3 | torch blew up. Lloyd and Pete, their | D¢Mocratic Senatorial Campaign Com- o mittee. :Ll;ir ‘:‘:”m::;:’ pl“:gm:"?‘m::“::: floor at the outset of today’s session to | Pete, hurled them 1o the ground and fyh 10 the speech last night by, b’::o‘i:;‘ :‘h:‘ "::"‘_:‘e'd R The sleek, well-dressed Pennsylvania Senator sat quietly in his rear-row and neck, but his condition is not' seat while Wheeler and O'Mahoney believed to be serious. William Decker. | turned toward him shouting their 17. of Tennessee, was burned on the | wrathful denunciations. He smiled a left leg. Doctors at Gallinger Hos- little when Wheeler promised to in- pital worked all last night in an vade Pennsylvania to campaign against effort to save Pete's life. him for election as Governor of the Pete was the son of a banana Keystone State. vendor. His family lives at 406 Eighth ~ O'Mahoney interrupted Wheeler to street southwest. | assert that if he had the power he - would not “change a word, or & line |or & vote” of his record. In ringing | Yoice. he told Guffey that Guffey had not harmed the Senators he had men- tioned, but the Democratic party. The three Guffey mentioned prin- cipally were O'Mahonev, Wheeler and Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska. | He predicted the defeat of O'Mahoney and Burke and said Wheeler would | before 1940 Sheuts at Guffey. ] O'Mahoney, turning 1o face Guffey, outed at him: | “The sooner we get that man re- moved from the position he occupies now the better it will be for the Demo- cratic party.” Follows Policy of Watchful Waiting After Killing of U. S. Sailor. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt and his cabi- Wheeler had obtained the Senate | net, studying everv report from the floor as soon a8 3 quorum was as- Sino-Japanese conflict, followed & pol- sembled. He started off by asserting icy of “watchful waiting” today. that Guffey had not written the The killing of an American sailor speech he delivered on the radio and and the wounding of 18 others at'that he wax “afraid” to deliver the Shanghai brought the President and speech on the Senate flopr. | his advisers together in grave dis-| Wheeler won the floor 0 reply to | cussion yesterday. It was a Japanese Guffev despite & point of order raised | shell. the cabinet was told, that struck by Senator La F\ the Augusta, flagship of the United Wisconsin, States Asiatic Fleet There was no indication, however there will be any immediate steps at | sh ollette, Progressive, of By & Voice vote the Sen- ate shouted down the objeciion and permitted Wheeler to proceed Wheeler's remarks on the floor came while & quiet movement got underway unofficially to depose Guffey from the chairmanship of the Democratic Sen- atorial Campaign Committee. Bitter Feeling Aroused. His demand that Senators who op- posed President Roosevelt's court re- organization be defeated aroused bitter Hull said Government officials had expressed no belief that the shell that struck the Augusta was fired in any hostile manner. Discussing plans for evacuating | civilians from China, Hull said suffi- cient American commercial and naval vessels are in Chinese waters to con- | feeling in the ranks of the opponents, to move out Americans svs- and precipitated one of the most ex- tematically and in as large numbers plosive political situations this session as necessar has known—just a few hours before Mr. Roosevelt rebuked at his press ' adjournment time. | conference private individuals who ‘Wheeler told the Senate: called for invocation of the neutrality | “I feel highly honored that the act, which bars shipments of arms Senator from Pennsylvania should o belligerent nations. have singled me out as one of three | Government officials, he said. prob- members of the Senate for the pur- | ably know more about the situation pose of broadcasting s speech last than outsiders. evening that every one knows he didn't The State Department has withheld Wwrite and that every one knows he | recommendations that the neutrality wouldn't dare to deliver on the floor | restrictions be laid down. The work- Of the Senate because he knows he | ings of the law in this situation, ofi- | Would have to yield to answer ques- | cials have said, would handicap only ' tions.” one nation, presumably China. i Burke Makes Appeal. | Secretary Hull said that the United | Meanwhile, Senator Burke, one of States will continue to protect iis| the administration’s most outspoken | citizens. | Democratic critics, asked the Nation | A far-flung system of communica- | '0day lo permit no future vallack” tions kept Hull and the President in ot “the independence of our courts.” close touch with military and dip-| He made the request in a radio | the case. 92 UGUST s 1, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #%# | DONT KNOW WHETHER HAMILTON OR FARLEY, BUT SOMEBODY'S TRYING To CUT THE GROUND RIGHT UNDER MY FEET! v *. » Y '(lk\»‘m,\‘ W wll i (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BULLET KILLS MAN AFTER WIFE FLEES Mrs. Eugene Williams Dis- appears—He Is Found Dead Few Hours Later. BULLE A penciled note addressed “To ‘Whom It May Concern” was found in a pocket of Malcolm Eugene Williams' trousers when his body was examined by police, Deteciive Sergt. John Wise disclosed this aft- ernoon. Contents of the message were not disclosed. pending com- pletion of the police search for Williams' missing wife. (Picture on Page A-2.) A few hours after his wife left for an unknown destination, Malcolm Eugene Williams, 34, a machine operator in an ice cream plani, was found shot to death today in the second-floor bed room of his home at 512 Fourteenth street northeast. At a lale hour this morning rel- atives and friends of the missing woman, been unsble to locale her They feared she might have atlempted suicide following an all-night dispute with her husband Police reported Willilams apparently had committed suicide. although the coroner’s office is still invesiigating The couple quarreled and Mrs. Williams fled the home about 5 a.m.. police were told, and the fatal shot was fired two hours later. Mrs. Maude Bailey, who, with her husband, Henry Bailey, rooms at the Williams home. heard a shot about 5 o'clock and found Willams lying in his bed, fully clothed, with a bullet wound in his head. An smbulance was summoned from Casualty Hospital and Willlams was pronounced dead by the physician in charge. A revolver, one cartridge of which had been discharged, was found beside Williams' body. Williams' two sons, Frank, 6, and Malicolm, 9, were in the house when the shooting occurred. Police were told Mrs. Williams had been up all night with her husband. who had in- sisted on drinking and was qugrrelsome mood. About daylight Mrs. Williams fled without telling anybody where she was gomng. Williams began & search for her. He went next door to the home of his wife's sister, Mus, Margaret | Hoover, in Socks, Talks Fishing With Shoemaker Former President Has Shoes Repaired in Oregon Shop. | | | By the Associated Press I | MEDFORD, Oreg. August 21—Ts | & usual thing for W. T. Stevens' cus- tomers to sit in their stocking feet and | gossip while he fixes their shoes, but today Stevens reporied a special occa- | sion The shoeless mar fishing and the Chinese war for minutes was former President Hoover | Conference Discussed. | ‘ PALO ALTO. Calif., August 21 (#\ | Former President Herbert Hoover said | Yesterday proposals for a Nation-wide ! party conference 1o consider Repub- lican principles had been discussed with both Alf M. Landon of Kansas, 1936 presidential nominee, and Na- tional Chairman John D. M. Ham- ilton ““I'he notion that over such said “The press carried a statement from there is friction discussion is piffie,” he eral conference of leaders and of all delegaies in the Spring of 1938, for the purpose of | making & declaration of fundamental principles was not discussed wiin Gov. Landon or Mr. John Hamilton. “That stalement is untrue. The idea arises from leaders in many States. Some of them have discussed it with Gov. Landon and so far as I know, discussions are still proceed- ing. It was discussed months ago ! with Mr. Hamilton, who undertook to recommend the proposal to the Re- publican National Executive Commit- | tee." all Republican CALIFORNIA’S WATER | SUPPLY IS GUARDED | Il Feeling Mounts at Banning Camp Over Wounding of Five | C. I 0. Pickets. | By the Associated Press. | BANNING, Calif,, August officers guarded the Banning camp of | | the metropolitan water district’s Colo- | | rado River Aqueduct today as ill feel- | | ing mounted over the woundiug last | night of five C. I. O. pickets. | RAIN MAY BREAK *HEAT WAVE HERE Forecaster Spots Rain- clouds That May Bring Week-End Relief. Temperatures Midnight Tam, 8am. 9am, 10am. 11am. 12 noen lpm. __ A relentless sun promised to broil the Capital again today, but the fore- caster has spotted rain clouds that might bring a measure of relief over the week end. The toll of prostrations increased by | five during the last 24 hours, which 2150 saw the temperature soar to a new Summer record of 97 degrees. With slightly overcast skies not ex- Mrs. Rose Williams, 32 had washington that the idea of a gen- Peeled o provide much of a buffer between the sun’s rays, this high mark may be jeopardized this afternooon if comparable temperatures ‘mean any- thing. At 9 am. today the reading was 85, five degrees higher than for the same hour yesterday Considering the official forecast of “partly cloudy. probably local showers tonight and Sunday, with not much change in temperature,” thousands of ‘Washingtonians prepared to embark on trips to beaches and other cooler climes. Employes Leave Early. As the mercury surged above the 90-degree mark for the third suc- cessive day, nearly all divisions of the Treasury, the General Accounting Office and the District Building turned their employes out early. Employes at the Bureau of Public Roads were not so fortunate, but a sympathetic restaurateur came to their rescue by donating 12 gallons of lemonade to help them withstand the oppressive heat, Hundreds of persons left their 21— | homes, made unbearable as the tem- | in & gquads of sheriffs' deputies and special | perature failed to go below the middle 70s during the night, and sought cool spots in the parks. Many spread blankets and slepl on the grass. Sleeper Falls Off Roof. Moses Henson, 35, colored, met with | SPECIAL SESSION SEENAS CONGRESS DRAWS T0 CLOSE {Rayburn Predicts Adjourn- ment Will Come by “Sundown.” MUCH OF ORIGINAL PROGRAM POSTPONED Housing Measure and Deficiency Appropriation Action to Conclude Work. BULLETIN, The House approved a compro- mise form of a $526,000,000 Jow-cnst housing and slum today. clearance bill By the Assoclated Press A weary Congress neared ad’' ‘irn- ment today, but with so much of its original program postponed that mem- bers half expected President Roosevelt to call them back in two months. Majority Leader Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas predicted this session’s end will come “by sundown.” Littie remained except to bring the Senate and House into agreement on the final form of the Wagner housing measure and the deficiency appropria- tion bill, Both branches had approved the two bills, but in such varied form tha | conference committees had to go work to compose the differences. Senators and Representatives abont | to head homeward were eager to Jearn at first hand how the voters felt about what they have accomplished—and what they sidetracked. Those Senators who helped defeat President Roosevelt's court bill were particularly eager 1o appraise the pos- sibility of reprisals. They had heard Senator Guffev Democrat, of Pennsylvania sav last night they ought not be sent back to Washington, In sensationally frank speech Guffey called specifically for the de- feat of Senators Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska and O'Mahonev, Democra+ of Wyoming, two of the leaders ; the fight on the court bill. He called them “ingrates” He also mentioned | by name Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana. o | Sugar and Tax Passed. Two major pieces of legislation went, to the White House vesterday—the | sugar quota bill and the tax loophole- plugging measure. The sugar bill's fate was obscure, de- Spiie efforts to amend W Mr, Roosevelt's satisfaction. He had ob- Jected to any limitations on island Possessions, which he said might be unfair. The tax bill, however, was certain of approval. The President had asked for 1t when he found revenue was far below expectations last Spring. It | hits particularly at what Treasury officials said was the use by the wealthy of personal holding companies o avoid taxes. The Senate also sent a $34,000.000 flood-control bill to the White House The President indicated he would sign it, although not approving of all its provisions Mr. Roosevelt vetoed a bill to set $2,000 as & minimum annual pay for United States marshals The Senate approved late vesterday & $150,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill and sent it to conference. The House had passed it earlier in the amount of $98,000,000. House Works Late, The House worked late at a night session, acting on nearly two private bills a minute and sustaining that speed for almost an hour, Representative O'Connor, Democrat of New York, presiding, hammered through decisions on 107 measures in 55 (See CHINA, Page A-3) inum a window of the room, police | [ lomatic authorities. By cable and | SPeech Union leaders asserted officers used | disaster when he tried to find com- minutes. Of these 94 passed omatic . By : Burnett, at 514 Fourteenth street ONTAGUE RETURNS | TO FACE CHARGE | ysterious Golfer and Friend of Hollywood Stars Waives ' Extradition. s the Associated Press | LOS ANGELES, August 21.—"Mys- | erious John” Montague—he of the ron grip and deadly golfing eve— vas en route to New York today to! ace a 7-year-old robbery charge. | Unexpectedly waiving extradition, | he man whom George Von EIm once | Hyde Park police placed a guard at the hospital for four days after the man was reported seen on the fire | escape. The guard was withdrawn when the man did not make another appearance in that time. The slaying, police said, was simila® to others in Chicago in the last two | years. In each case the victims were | women and the slayers used bricks | as the death weapons. Only recently a woman %Wwas at- tacked and beaten by a colored man armed with a brick who entered ner hotel room by a window. CALEDONIA SETS RECORD | falled “the greatest golfer in the | Crosses to Fo: Jrorld,” volunteered yesterday to re- | urn and “face the music.” He left| ast night with three New York ofi-| FOYNES, Irish Free State, August ers | 21 (). —The British flying boat Cale- As 1a Verne Moore, Montague i< donia arrived here at 10:15 a.m. (4:15 ccused of participating in the $700 am. E. S. T.) today after another ex- old-up of a Jay, N. Y. roadhouse | perimental crossing of the North At-| 1930. |1antic from Botwood, Newfoundland. Screen friends—Bing Crosby, Guy| The hop completed the third round | ibbie, Oliver Hardy and others—!trip of Imperial Airways planes over | allied to Montague's defense when | the Northern route since survey flights | e was arrested July 9. They plsad-‘ were started early in July. d with Gov. Frank Merriam of Cali-| The Caledonia’s flying time was an- ornia to refuse extradition on the nounced as 11 hours, 33 minutes, which grounds he had lived an exemplary | was the fastest crossing of any of the ynes in 11 Hours and | 33 Minutes. ife here. Gov. Merriam still had New York | tate's extradition request under ad- | visement when Montague announced | his decision. He had been free under | 10,000 bond. SABOTAGE RULED OUT 1LOS ANGELES, August 21 (P)— [Rollin C. McNitt, national labor re- lations examiner, said in a statement today he was certain no sabotage was committed on an Army plane under construction during a strike at the Douglas Aircraft plant. McNitt issued his statement at the close of a hearing into charges the Douglas company discrimina against employes for union activi He said it would be some time bef R~ made a decision. | Survey trips. NAZIS SENTENCE FIVE Members of Bible Student Society Sent to Prison. DUISBURG, Germany, August 21 {#).—Five members of the Interna- tional Bible Students’ Society, which has been outlawed in Nazi Germany, were sentenced today to terms of from four months to two years as “fanatical enemies of the state.” Originally, five men and two women were arrested. Police said one man committed suicide in jail. Another was acquitted. All were accused of trying to flood the country with pamphlets “contain- .ing allegations against the present | wireless, Mr. Roosevelt obtained infor- mation almost instantly from Ad- miral Harry E. Yarnell, commander | of the Asiatic Fleet. Summary of Books = Church News, Real Estate, B-4.5 C-1-7 -B-6-7| Serial Story..C-10 C-16 | Short Story-. B-5 - A8 Comics Lost & Found C-10 | Woman's Pg.. B-8 FOREIGN. Flames rave miles of Shanghai. Page A-1 Manila preparing to receive additional refugees. Page A-3 Franco's forces advance on Eastern Spain. Page A-3 Fierce battle is fought at Nankow Pass, Page A-3 NATIONAL. Ouster of Guffey from campaign post reported launched. Page A-1 Weary Congress nears adjournment 11 square Burke, discussing chiefly farm and | labor problems, touched only briefly on the court question and made no (See GUFFEY, Page A-3) Today’s Star Sneak thief steals $81 from hostess | and guests at party. Page A-12 Year's traffic told at 69 as motorist dies. Page A-12 | Spoils system denounced at closing ses- sion of Round Table. Page A-12 Gobel firm refuses to cease work on slaughter house. Page A-12 | Copeland-May sirport bill passed by | Congress. Page A-13 | Several important D. C. bills passed in session. Page A-13 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Fditorials. Page This and That. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page Answers and Questions. Page David Lawrence, Page H. R. Bukhage. Page Mark Sullivan, Page Jay Franklin, Page | Lemuel F. Parton. Page | sporTs. PrEEEERIP> Libbhlaaaa today. Page A- | Maranville likely big league manager closely. Page A-1 Chicago nurse attacked and slain in hospital. Page A-1 ‘Wage-hour fight is forecast in rani of A. P.of L. Page A-2 Aarmy-Navy defense fund largest in peacetime history. Page A-3 Mattern leads fiyers of three nations in search for Russians. Page A-5 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Husband found shot to death after wife disappears from home. Page A-1 Break in heat wave in prospect; five prostrations. Page A-1 Boy, 17, dies after explosioh at train- ing school. Page A-1 | D. C. National Guard ends_two-week Roosevelt studies Far East reports next season. Page C-8 Red Sox—and Grove—prove pet vic- tims of Griffmen. Page C-8 Pirates come to life, threaten Cube and Giants. Page C-8 United States Wightman Cup team seeks sweep over British, Page C-9 Middle Atlantic team play golf revival planned. Page C-9 Shotmakers ready for United States amateur golf tourney. €-9 MISCELLANY. Nature's Children, Traflic Convictions, Vital Statistics. Service Orders. Cross-word Puszle. northeast. Mrs. Burnett had not seen her sister. Williams then went to the home of | his father-in-law, George O. Berkley, 1227 F street northeast. Learning his | wife was not there, he returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey noticed he had a | gun in his pocket after he returned, they said. They tried to persuade him to give | up the weapon, they declared, but he | refused, saying he was going upstairs and get some sleep. Shortly later, the | shot rang out. Mrs. Williams® father said he had never known his daughter to leave her | children before. He and Mrs. Burnett | expressed the fear that the wife had | ended her life. MORTON D. HULL DIES; WAS REPRESENTATIVE Illinois Republican Served House 1923 | ! in | From to 1933. By the Associated Pr BENNINGTON, Vt, August 21.— Morton Deuison Hull, 60, former Re- publican Representative from Illinois, died during the night at his Summer home after a long illness. A native of Chicago, he was gradu- ated from Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H, in 1885 and from Harvard four years later. He was admitted to the bar in 1892. After serving in the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1916, and a member of the Sixty-eighth to 8ev- enty-second Congress from 1923 to 1933 from the Second Illniois district. His wife, the former Katherine Bingham, died in 1931. He leaves a son, Denison B. Hull. Cabin Cruiser Burns. EGG HARBOR, Wis., August 21 (#). Bedtime Story. encampment. e A-2 ‘Washingtonians among ricans regime. safely evacuated “Page A3 Letter-Out. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. —One person was injured when & 38- foot eabin cruiser car 12 passen- gers and a crew of two'sgught fire and exploded in Green Bay today. buck shot in the disturbance. Sheriff | Carl Rayburn of Riverside County | denied the assertion. ‘ The injured men were part of a| crowd assembled near the entrance to | the camp, which has been picketed for the past week by members of the Mine, | Mill and Smelter Workers' Union, a | C. 1. O. affiliate. Sherifl Rayburn said violence be- | came necessary when the pickets threw | rocks at highway patrol cars which were following a bus taking workers into the camp The ubion is demanding a closed shop. BLOND TO FACE COURT IN POISON DEATH CASE Mrs. Hahn Will Be Arraigned To- day—Must Also Answer Two Other Charges. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, August 21.—Mrs. Anna Hahn, 31-year-old German- born blond, accused in two indict- | ments with poisoning elderly Cin- | cinnatians, returned io court today for arraignmenl on warrants charg- ing murder, larceny and being a fu- gitive from justice. The woman attended yesterday arguments on motions of her attor- neys attacking the two indictments. Arraignment today before Municipal Judge Otis Hess was on indictments charging Mrs. Hahn with the poison deaths of George Gseliman, 67, and Jacob Wagner, 78, the larceny war- rant, issued by George Heis, 63, charg- ing theft of $140 and a $75 ring, and the fugitive warrant, issued in Colo- rado Springs, charging theft of three rings worth $305. Chicken Thief Chases? Congress today considered a bill that might conceivably, opponents de- clared, put Federal G-men to chasing chicken thieves. The measure 1d make it a Fed- eral offense to ngport stolen live stock or poultry aercss State lines. fort by sleeping on the roof of his home, 447 Second street southwest. He rolled off and fell three stories At Gallinger Hospital he was said to have suffered fractures of both arms, broken ribs and possibly in- ternal injuries. Those overcome were Mr: Bess Crawford, 40, of 335 W street; Herbert Bobo, 50, of 235 Morgan street north- east; Willis Barnes, 24, of 1309 I street; George Fleming, 31, of Ta- koma Park, Md., and Dewey Baker, 33, of Seat Pleasant, Md. Of the country's larger cities only Boston, where the high mark was 98, was hotter than the District. Other “hot spols” were St. Louis, 94; New York, 94; Atlanta, 94; Richmond, 92; Tampa and Jacksonville, 92, and New Orleans, 92. ‘The only city that had much in the way of precipitation was Kansas City, where the rainfall totalec 1.68 inches. VIRGINIA TROOPER SLAIN BY SON IN ARGUMENT Prosecutor Says Shooting Near South Boston “Clear Case' of “Self-Defense.” By the Assoclated Press. SOUTH BOSTON, Va., August 21.— Deputy Sheriff H. E. Boelte said State TraMc OMcer N. G. Terry, 62, was shot to death at- his home 6 miles south of here last night by his son, Bwover Terry, 26, following an argu- ment. Commonwealth’s Attorney M. B. Booker, who Investigated the shooting, said it was a “clear” case of ‘“self- defense.” Booker said a preliminary warrant charging murder had been issued and that Stover's bond for release pending hearing next Satur- day would be given today. The county coroner viewed the body, but no inquest was held, Booker said. Officer Terry had been on the State police force January 15, 1929, and was assif to South Boston and Halifax, and 13 were blocked by objections. ‘Through session as a whole, however, speed was noticeable on| by its absence. The debate on the court bill, wind- ing up in passage only of a procedure reform measure that could have passed any time, was the notable feature | of the session. From early February on, in Con- gress and out, arguments raged | the merits of Mr. Roosevelt's propo: 'BINGHAM EN ROUTE TO SEE ROOSEVELT | Sails Unexpectedly From London. Far East Believed Likely to Be Main Topic. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 21.—Robert W, Bingham, Ambassador to London, sailed unexpectedly today to confer with President Roosevelt on the in- ternational situation. One report, which was not con- firmed, said Mr. Roosevelt had sum- moned the Ambassador for urgent discussions of how far Great Britain is willing to go with the United States in efforts to halt the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The Ambassador departed from | Southampton aboard the Empress of Britain. News of his going, & spokes- man said, had been concealed care- fully at his instructions. While it is known that Bingham will discuss international affairs with the President, their exact nature was not revealed. The Embassy spokesman declined to comment when asked whether the hasty trip was connected with the Sino-Japanese crisis. “Mr. Bingham will be back within & month,” a spokesman said. on Reasons for Trip Personal. Secretary Hull said today that Am- basador Robert W. Bingham was res turning homgffrom London for pere sonal reasond® Hull said Bingham's visit would be briet,