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. NEWPOLIO’ SPRAY rs' Guide and Reade LOCKS DIGEAGE| | Meve Summary Advance Reported in Long == Fight on Infantile . Paralysis. Progress that has recently been made in the fight against infantile ‘pavalysis is discussed here by the wuational chairman of the Presi- .dpnt’s Birthday Ball Commission ~for Infantile Paralysis Research. "BY COL. HENRY L. DOHERTY. NEW YORK, August 21 (N.AN.A). =The frightful spectre of infantile paralysis, which has haunted human- 1ty since the world was young, appears to be giving ground at last before the termined attacks of scientists. ~Research workers are casting hope- ful eyes upon the gratifying results atfaiged with newly developed nose sprays when used on monkeys in podomyelitis laboratories, and the Naw York Acad- efiy of Medicine went so far re- cently as to issue ajstatement rec- ommending the use of the sprays ofi_ human beings ‘wherever infan- tile paralysis breaks out. Medical scien- tists say that the sprays have proven an effec- tive preventive in the case of mon- keys, and that there seems to be reason to hope they will act in the same way in the case of children and others susceptible to the crippling disease. Nevertheless, before the medical profession places its final cachet of approval on them, exhaustive records on their use must be carefully com- piled and analyzed. That is the way of science the world over. It is significant, though, that elready in many parts of the country the physicians, most cautious of men, are beginning to advocate the use of the sprays where infantile paralysis cases appear in any appreciable number. Sprays’ Ingredients Harmless. One admirable thing about the sprays is that they are harmless in themselves. The spray, which has come most into favor with medical men, consists of a 1 per cent zinc sulphate solution. Zinc sulphate has been used for years as an eyewash, as well as in the treatment of diseases of the nose. Danger lies in another direction, however. The spray solutions are so easy to procure, and apparently so easy to administer that parents in affected areas have taken it upon themselves from time to time to treat their children without bothering about advice from their doctors. Experiments have shown that the solution must be sprayed by physicians instructed in the handling of special atomizers. Otherwis» there can be no predicting the results, as far as the prevention of infantile paralysis is concerned. . The use of these sprays is what is known as a chemical blockade method of disease prevention. It is designed to prevent the polio germs from enter- ing the system, rather than make any one permanently immune from the disease. Science discovered that infantile paralysis germs attack the insides of nerves and nerve cells. Reasoning suggested that the virus, as a result, must enter the system by way of the nose, since the nose is the only place in the human body where nerves are exposed. Nose Gateway to Polio. Experimentation substantiated this theory of the nose as a gateway to polio, and there followed the develop- ment of nose sprays to blockade the germs from access to the nerves of smell, through which they can travel to the central nervous system to do their terrible work. Easily understood, though this new weapon against infantile paralysis Happens to be, even to the lay mind, it was brought to light only after years of heart-breaking research work in the laboratories of this country and BEarope. Poliomyelitis is probably as old as mankind. Definite historical evidence exists showing the disease was ravag- ing various parts of the world as far back as the eighteenth Egyptian dy- nasty, more than 3,000 years ago. Re- séarch into the nature of the disease, 1ts cause and its possible prevention and cure did not start until the middle of the nineteenth century, however. Viewed in this light, the progress that has been made is little short oi re- markable. The new nose spray treatments are beinz developed and studied on many fronts. Among those who have been experimenting with them, for in- fahce, are Dr. Charles Armstrong of the United States Public Health Serv- i8¢, Dr. David Kramer of the Hoagland REgearch Laboratory of the Long Is- Jand College of Medicine; Dr. Max Pedt of the University\ of Michigan; » Peter K. Oiltsky and Dr. H. R. % of the Rockefeller Institute for Maflical Research, and Prof. E. W. Itz and L. P. Gebhardt of Stan- ard University. . “Yast year, I am happy to say, a rtion of the funds raised through e 1936 birthday ball for the Presi- dent was used to further this research work in finding a method of control for infantile paralysis, grants being made to 14 groups of researchists. ‘The birthday ball movement, for which I have had the honor of serv- ing as national chairman since its in- ception, has raised more than $4,000,- 000 for the war against poliomyelitis during the four years these celebra- tions have been held. Recalls Warm Springs Visit. My own interest in the fight against the disease grew out of a visit to the Warm Springs, Ga., foundation in 1932 and a subsequent visit with Presi- dent Roosevelt, whose warm hearted and enthusiastic sponsorship of the cause of infantile paralysis sufferers has been an inspirftion to all the people of this nation. ‘The President’s Birthday Ball Com- mission for Infantile Paralysiz= Re- search was the outgrowth of the birthday ball movement and functions throughout the year. Those with whom I have the honor of serving on this commission as national chair- man are Jeremiah Milbank, vice chairman; Dr. Paul de Kruif, sec- retary; Dr. Edward 8. Harkness, treasurer; Mrs. William J. Babbing- ton Macaulay, John 8. Burke, Edsel B. Ford, Lessing J. Rosenwald and Felix M. Warburg. 8o widespread has interest become in the fight against infantile paraly- "Jickat more than 5,000 communities Col. Dolerty. The Sunday Star, Aug. 22, 1937, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Chinese repel big Japanese air fleet near Nanking. A-1 15 Americans quit Chinese air firm till conflict ends. Page A-1 Manila houses Shanghal refugees de- spite quake damage. Page A-4 U. & to maintain armed forces in China. Page A-S Hundreds of Russian peasants found killed by error, Page A-7 NATIONAL. Congress passes housing, deficiency bills and adjourns. Page A-1 Guffey assailed by anti-court bill Democrats. Page A-1 Accord clears way to reopening silk mills. Page A-2 Student nurse's attacker atill at large in Chicago. Page A-2 Lewis accused of working through Communist party. Page A-2 Scottsboro case believed headed for new appeal. Page A-6 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Commissioners extend District tax deadline. Page A-1 Five killed in auto accidents in nearby areas. Page A-1 150 D. C. passengers wait as sit-down halts ship. Page A-1 Slaughter house conference may await Ickes’ return. Page B-1 857,220 employes on Federal June pay roll. Page B-1 Camp 8prings airport bill left to next session. Page B-1 Jobless army of over 700 camps quietly beside Potomac. Page B-2 President may veto sugar quota bill. Page B-3 Milk Commission to decide on “irginia hearing soon. Page B-4 SPORTS. D. C. Typos defeat New York twice to gain title. Page B-6 Budge conquers Riggs to carry off Newport honors. Page B-6 Broadway is not warming up to heavy championship go. Page B-7 Duty keeps Robinson out of Federal tennis tourney. Page B-8 Widely fought stymie is doomed at golf clubs here. Page B-8 Fighting Fox, son of old turf cham- pion, scores in debut. Page’ B-9 Louis is declared to pack added T.N.T. as crown defender. Page B-10 | President's Cup swim draws largest list in its history. Page B-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Obituary. Shipping news. Vital statistics. Educational. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Stamps. Page D-4 Cross-word puzle. Page D-4 Military and veterans’ Pages D-4-5 news. Page D-6 Resorts. PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Well-known folk. Barbara Bell pattern. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. PagesF-1-4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Dick Mansfield. Page F-3 Automobiles. Page F-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Children's page. Page F-6 Radio programs. Page F-7 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. D. C. trade gains. Page Industry holds high level. Page Stocks improve. Page Stock table. Page Bond table. Page Page A-2 Page A-12 Page A-13 Page B-5 THE SUNDAY 8 WEATHER BALKS POLE FLYERS' HUNT Would-Be Rescuers Tune Up Planes at Barrow, but Stay on Ground. BACKGROUND— Pilot Sigismund Levanefisky, “the Russian Lindbergh,” and his crew 0j four vanished Friday, August, 13, just aster pecssing the North Pole on a projected 4,000-1nile Aight Jrom Moscow to Fairbanks. BY the Associated P BARROW, Alaska, August 21.— Clouds, fog and roughness of the Arc- tic ice pack combined today into a solid front against flyers of three na- tions seeking Soviet Russia’s lost transpolar airmen. In the face of almost impossible flying conditions and zero prospects for landings on the jagged ice, Jimmie Mattern, Texas flyer, Bob Randall, Canadian pilot, and the Russian air- man, Zadkoff, tuned up their planes for another sweap of the subpolar wastes while Soviet rescuers slowly pounded their way northward through the floes. Mattern and Randall said they would take off the minute condi- tions permitted. The caliber of the weather was shown today when Mattern's tri- motored refueling plane, forced down after being lost in dense clouds, over- turned in a meadow near Fairbanks without injury to Pilot Garland Lin- coln or his two companions. Crosson Flys Out. After Pilot Bill Lavery of Fairbanks sighted the ship along the Tanana River, Pilot Joe Crosson of Fairbanks flew a pontoon-equipped plane to the place and returned with Lincoln, Co- pilot Frank Tomicl and Charles A. Marshall, photographer. The refueling plane, which left Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, this morning en route to Fairbanks, capsized on the tundra. The extent of damage was not learned. There was a growing belief that the missing Russians, in charge of Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky, never would be found alive if they attempted to land on the ice pack. Mattern discovered the hazardous situation in the ice floes in his flight yesterday from Fairbanks to Barrow, during which he surveyed 400 miles of the Arctic Ocean. He reported the ice %0 rough that landing would be im- possible anywhere. Ice Breaker Gains Slowly. Amid the floes, the Soviet ice break- er, Krassin, lay with three planes aboard. She was working but made little progress against a northeast wind. Page A-13 | Curb table. Page Lost and found. Page Winning contract. Page Classified advertising. Pages G-. G G G: G G G G G 5- -1 -1 -1 3 -3 -4 -5 -5 5 — & TWO WOMEN INJURED Gravely Hurt in Highway Mishap in Ontario. ST. THOMAS, Ontario, August 21 (Canadian Press).—Mrs. W. Haddley of Syracuse, N. and Miss Hazel Ransom, Detroit nurse, were injured critically today in an automobile col- lision 2 miles north of Talbotville. The two women suffered internal injuries and were unconscious when brought here to the Memorial Hos- pital. Police said the accident occurred as J. R. Orendorff of London, Ontario, was attempting to pass a bus and his car collided with the one in which the two women were riding. The bus left the highway but none of its occupants was injured. Orendorfl and his uncle, John Orendorff, were injured slightly and went to London Hospital for treat- ment. Actress Files Property Suit. LOS ANGELES, August 21 (#).— Film Actress Barbara Stanwyck sued her former husband, Frank Fay, to- day for division of property acquired during their marriage. They were divorced in December, 1935. — throughout the United States, as well as Bermuda, the Virgin Islands, Alaska and Nassau join in the cele- brations. The gigantic task of form- ing this great organiagtion is in charge of Col. Carl Byoir as gen- eral director. Leaders of finance, in- dustry, society, the world of motion pictures, radio and the theater all join in making the parties success- ful. Seventy per cent of all the funds raised remains in the community where it originated for treatment of the more than 300,000 infantile pa- ralysis victims who have been crippled by the disease, the remaining 30 per cent going to the national fight against polio. With infantile paralysis claiming many additional victims each year, scientists are working feverishly to bring the hoped for method of pro- tection with nose sprays to perfec- tion in order that the yearly toll that poliomyelitis takes in twisted and maimed bodies may be forever elimi- nated. (Copyright, 1937, by the North American - Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) i’ ' Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Arctic explorer, and his party of four flew from Fort 8mith, N. W. T,, for Cop- permine, N. W, T, earlier in the day. Coppermine lies east of Aklavik, where Wilkins and other searchers will be based. The Krassin, famous rescue ship, Wwas expected to pierce the ice fields as far north as possible and establish A base somewhere along the 148th Meridian—the line Levaneftsky fol- lowed from Moscow toward Fairbanks. Wiltiams to Join Hunt. NEW YORK, August 21 (P).— Roger Q. Williams, veteran aviator, announced tonight he would take off early tomorrow for Pairbanks, Alaska, to help search for the missing Rus- sian trans-polar fiyers. His co-pilot will be Charles (Slim) West of Teterboro, N. J. They' plan to stop at Cleveland, Ohio; Edmonton, Alberta and Skagway, Alaska. They will fly a blue and orange cabin biplane William said had been bought by the White Pass and Yukon Airways of Alaska for commercial serv- lce and rented to the Russian gov- ernment_for the search. Les 10 HELD AS FORGERS IN $81,000 COLLECTION Were Alleged to Have Cashed All Checks in Various Surete Banks at Same Moment. By the Assoclatea Press. PARIS, August 21.—Detectives of the Surete Nationale today arrested 10 suspected members of a forging gang which collected 2,175,000 francs (about $81,000), by cashing worthless checks. They were alleged to have cashed the checks in branches of the Societe Generale Bank in 29 cities at the same hour on the same day. The Surete Nationale was hunting for at least 36 other suspects. Managers of the branch banks re- ceived letters purporting to be from the bank's central office at Lyon, authorizing payment of 75,000 francs (about $2,812) against the check of one “Charles Rocca.” Promptly at 10 a.m. yesterday, indi- viduals claiming to be “Rocca” ap- peared at each of 46 banks and tried to cash checks. These checks were honored at 29 branches, while 17 oth- ers withheld payment when cashiers’ suspicions were arcused. . Detectives recovered 230,000 francs (about $8,625) from the 10 suspects arrested. —_— CONGRESS APPROVED ONE OF EACH 18 BILLS More Than 18,000 Introduced at « Session—620 Have Been Signed by President. By the Associated Press. The Congress session just closed approved one of each 18 bills and resolutions introduced. More than 12,000 were introduced— over 9,000 in the House and 3,000 in the Senate. Of this total only 629 have been signed into law, although many still are on President Roosevelt’s desk. The last Congress enacted at its first session, 840 of 13,970 bills and resolutipns submitted to it. — DAIRY CONGRESS Tasting of Butter Completed at Berlin Exposition. BERLIN, August 21 (#).—Judges at the World Milk Products Exposition today finished tasting the last of 340 tubs of the world’s choicest butter. Thetr’ listing of the 10 best butter producers is expected to be published tomorrow, when the World Dairy Con- gress opens with 1,600 delegates repre- senting the countries of the world. Entries in the butter competition included tubs from Oregon; I6wa, Wis- consin and 10 other States as well as exhibits from South America. Pirty- three countries in all participated in the exposition. TAR, WASHINGTON D. C, AUGUST 22 Scene of Attack-Murder Up this fire escape early yesterday climbed an unidentified man who assaulted and murdered Anna Kuchta, 19 (inset), student nurse, as she rested in her room between duty calls. The attacker entered and escaped from the Chicago hospital through the window indicated by arrow. AGCORD 0 REOPEN JERSEY SILK MILLS Small Shop Operators Sign Contract With C. I. 0.’s Textile Division. By the Assoclated Press. PATERSON, N. J,, August 21.—The organized small shop operators signed a contract with the C. I. O.'s textile division today and cleared the way for resumption of near-normal oper- ations in the Passaic Valley's silk mills Monday. With the collective agreement cov- ering more than 2,000 employes, offi- cials of the Textile Workers Organ- izing Committee, C. I. O. affiliate, said only s half dozen mills employing about 500 men and women remained on the ‘“unsigned’ list. Approxi- mately 6,000 in this area went. on strike August 9 in conjunction with & general walkout in the Eastern tex- tile district. Abraham Brenman, counsel for the Paterson Silk Commission Manufac- turers’ Association, said no opposition was voiced when the contract was| ratified at a special meeting of the small shop owners today. An earlier settlement had been pre- vented by a deadlock over the union’s wage demands of weekly minimums of $15 for helpers and $18 for weavers. The agreement signed calls for a double wage scale for weavers—a $15 minimum for those on four looms, $18 for those on six looms. “We are happy that the union finally has managed to see the situa- tion as it exists in Paterson,” said | Brenman, “and I am happy to an- nounce we have been able to come to an agreement on that basis. “We are going to be sincere in our effort to co-operate with the union in our mutual aim of stabilization.” ITALIANS SWEEP 3,600- MILE RACE Mussolini's Son Is Third to Finish in Istres-Damascus-Paris Hop. By the Associated Press. LE BOURGET, France, August 21.— A one-two-three sweep of the 3,600- mile Istress-Damascus-Paris air race hoisted the Italian flag over this great afrport today and gave six Fascist pilots three million francs. One of the fliers—he finished third | —was Bruno Mussolini, son of Italy's Duce. First place went to Samuel Cupini and Amadeo Paradisi; second, to Umberto Fiori and Viovanni Lucchini, and third to Bruno and Col. Attileo Biseo. Cupini and Paradisi, with an elapsed time of 17:32.4!5, won a million and 8 half francs (about $56,000). Fiori and Lucchini, with elapsed time of 17:57.125, won a million francs (about $37,300). Mussolini and Biseo had an elapsed time of 18:3.35% which gave them the third prize of 500,000 francs (about $18,700). The average speed of the winners was 352.735 kilometers (about 220 miles) an hour. The noted French fiyer, Paul Codos, trailed a British plane into the fleld following the Italian winners. The race was singularly free of mishaps. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. STILL AT LARGE Four High Ranking Chicago Police Officials Take Up Search. By ihe Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 21.—Four high- ranking police officials took charge to- night of the hunt for a man who crushed a pretty young nurse’s skull | with a brick and attacked her in a hospital room—the fourth such slay- ing here in two years. While two policemen were reporting at the Chicago hospital, the slayer of 19-year-old Anna Kuchta slipped out of her room on the second floor early today. He fled as Miss Kuchta's roommate entered to awaken her. Instead the roommate, Miss Florence Palmowski, found her scarred and blood-stained body on the floor. The corpse was nude except for shoes and stockings. Her crumpled uniform lay nearby. . The two policemen at the hospital, Robert J. Hayes and George W. Bain- bridge, were making a regular inspec- tion of the hospital area, part of their duties since a colored man was re- ported lurking about the premises two weeks ago trying to break into Miss Kuchta's room. On the window sill of the room, the officers found the blood-stained brick. What police described as a *‘perfect” fingerprint was taken from the pedes- tal of a floor lamp. The room had been ransacked and a radio taken The slain girl's roommate said the man who leaped from the window sill to the fire escape and ran down to an alley below was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds and was wearing a white shirt, dark trousers and a light cap. Miss Kuchta had been in training for nine months at the hospital, where only last May the night supervisor, Miss Marcella Miles, was slashed by a dope-crazed colored man whom she refused narcotics. The student nurse's mother, Chris- tina, crying hysterically, rushed to the hospital on learning of the crime. The tragedy reunited the 46-year- old mother and her husband, John, a rag baler. Both Russian immigrants, they had separated three years ago because, Kuchta said, of arguments over “money trouble.” FUNDS FOR HELP SHORT, COTTON GROWER SUICIDE Bon Tells Coroner's Jury How Georgian Counted Money, Then Left to Die. By the Associated Press. MOULTRIE, Ga., August 2!.—John Langley, 40, checked available cash for wages and transportation of his cotton pickers. Some $40 was on hand. They had gathered eight bales on his tenant farm and more cotton was in the field, awaiting picking and sale. His 18-year-old son, Edward, helped with the figures. Edward told a coroner's jury about it today. “He said, ‘I'm a few dollars short,’” the son related. “He got up and walked outside the house and we heard a shot.” Langley was found dead, a shotgun beside him. Coroner F. A. White said the wound was self-inflicted. Pittman Is Forum Speaker NEUTRALITY PROBLEM HE problem of neutrality in the present Far-Eastern conflict will be explained to a Nation- ‘wide radio audience by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, speaking in the National Radio Forum at 9:30 tomorrow night. The Forum program is arranged by The Washing- ton Star and broadcast on a coast-to- coast network of the National Broad- casting Co. Senator Pittman brings to this most pressing question of the day an inti- mate knowledge gained from his po- sition as head of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee. In that capacity he had an important part in the re- vision and re-enactment of American neutrality legislation early in the pres- ent session. His long service on the committee dealing with. international issues also has given him a broad understanding of the question he will discuss in this ’ EASTERN CRISI§ SENATOR’S TOPIC. SENATOR PITTMAN. [ 1937—PART ONE. LEWIS ASSAILED BY UNION CHIEF Head of Longshoremen Charges He Operates -Through Communists By the Aitoctated Press. NEW YORK, August 23.—Joseph P. Ryan, president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen'’s Association, ac- cused John L. Lewis today of dperating through the National Maritir.e Union and the Communist party to “take over the shipping industry.” While the N. M. U. maintained s partial strike against coastwise ship- Ping in protest agamst I. L. A. ef- forts to organize seamen, Ryan left for Washington to confer with Presi- dent William Greeén of the American Federation of Labor on consolidation of the I. L. A. and International Sea- men’'s Union in the fight against the N. M. U. A consolidation plan which he said “will be eminently satisfactory to all American seamen who do not wish to follow the communistic leadership” will be presented to §he A. F. of L. Ex- ecutive Board Monday, Ryan stated. As “first proof” of his assertion that Lewis intends taking over the shipping industry through the N. M. U. and Communists, Ryan cited the arrest Murphy, I. L. A. organizer, as those who seized union records at the point of a gun in his hotel room last week. Police said the men identified by Murphy were Ashton Barle, 37, and Frank Holmes, 24, arrested for pos- session “of firearms; Andrew Shea, 21, and Thomas Donahue, 36, charged with possession of dangerous weapons. The latter two were arrested, along with two women, at Earle's apart- | ment. steamship lines on which its seamen { sat down yesterday, the National | Maritime Union today held the Shaw- | nee of the Clyde Mallory Line in port | here with 350 passengers long after | ft was scheduled to sail at noon for Jacksonville and Miami, Fla. The N. M. U. announced that Clyde Mallory ships also were strike- bound in New Orleans, Galveston and Tampa. The union claimed the line had refused N. M. U. delegates the right to board its ships, Strike Is Ended. NEW ORLEANS, August 2! (#).—A sit-down strike aboard one vessel here ended today while two other ships re- mained tied up. Officers of the 8. 8. Atlantic, of the American-South African line, had been on strike since July 31, were ordered off the vessel by its master, Capt. G. Holgren, and & new set of officers was placed aboard under police guard. The 8. 8. Atlantic planned to sail tomorrow for South African ports. ‘Two other ships were idle as a result of the strike against granting of passes to organizers of the Interna- tional Longshoremen's Association (A. F. of L) to visit the ships and converse with seamen. CLASHES IN POLAND Farmers Battle Police and Soldiers as Result of Nation-Wide Strike. BY the Associated Press. WARSAW, Poland. August 21.— Seventeen peasants were known to have been killed today in various parts of Poland in clashes with police and soldiers growing out of the nation- wide farmers’ strike. 1 It was estimated that complete re- ports might make the death toll more than a score. Eleven peasants were killed and 16 injured in the village of Manino alone. Six were killed and 20 wounded when troops fired on a mob attempt- ing to raid military ammunition stores at Jaroslaw. Five thousand members of the group were campaing tonight in a forest between Jaroslaw and Timenow after the fight in which they used clubs, hoes and spades. Twenty persons were arrested in other sections of Poland during at- tempts by farmers to prevent the de- livery of milk, fruit and vegetables. Warsaw prices have doubled since the beginning of the strike. The threat of a further spread of strike violence was seen in a declara- tion by Socialist workers at Lodz of solidarity with the peasants. YOUTH, 17, FACES DEATH IN SLAYING Delbert Lord Convicted in West for Murder of Robert Aubuchon. By the Assosiated Press. LAS CRUCES, N. Mex., August 21.—The electric chair cast its somber shadow tonight over 17-year-old Del- bert Lord of Peck, Mich., convicted of first-degree murder of elderly Rob- ert Aubuchon of Deming March 11, Lord's brother George and Walter Smith, the latter of Salem, Iil, were convicted of second-degree murder. Emmett Powell, 24, of Colfax, Ill., was acquitted. Delbert, accused by the other three as the trigger man, declared in a con- fession offered by the State that he shot Aubuchon, “because he made me mad,” as the exhausted and beaten victim admitted his claim to hidden wealth was a myth. Attorneys for the three convicted sald appeals were uncertain until sen- tence is passed early in September. Delbert’s sullen expression changed little as he heard the verdict, which carries a mandatory death sentence. The three convicted will be taken to the State Penitentiary at Santa Fe. Powell denied the slaying, declar- ing he had been afraid for his life after Aubuchon was kidnaped at Deming. WED AFTER. OPERATION “Appendectomy Fails to Stop Mar- riage Plans. BATH, N. Y., AMRust 21 (#).—An appendectomy failed to stop Frank William Aulls’ wedding_todey. Scheduled to be mariied 11 am, Aulls, Bath business man, underwent an emergency operation for acute ap- pendicitis last night. At 5 pm., Miss Frances KEstelle .Griswold stood at Auils’ hospita] bed- side and became his bride. He had re- Quested the ceremony “as s00n &8 pos- sible after I come out of the ether.” today of four men identified by Joe | | After releasing three“of the four | NURSE'S ATTACKER who | KILL 17 PEASANTS Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. - RETRIEVER. N THIS fine Sunday morn ft no gdoubt will be fitting to contemplate the ways of fate in bringing hobbies to life. We have heard of a chap who's think- ing of taking up golf, just because of fate. He never played the game, never had the inclination. But he does have a wire-hair he takes promenading down around Hains Point, in the woods near Burning Tree and so on. Never does he make such a jaunt but the pup uncovers at least two lost balls. . Collection is getting 50 big now the fellow is thinking seriously of invest- ing in a club or two. ok X SERVICE. Don’t remember seeing it report- ed before, but you ought to know there is a restaurant on Pennsyl- vania avenue that has, printed on the menus, this cheery legend : “Special attention given to ladies without escorts.” X X X NJMBER, PLEASE? AL PENDERGAST finally has gone for a ride in the blimp—after some difficulties. First he wasn't sure the blimp was | for varrying pessengers. (Neither did we. window all day long. Can't look up without seeing it.) Hal decided to call the airport. Entered a hotel, found | the phone booths with an open direc- tory on a table near at hand. Turning to the W's he began a search for Washington Airport. No find Thought it might be listed under the | “Airport” heading, but no sale again. Possibly it still was Hoover Field officially, he thought, but couldn't find it by that name, either. In desperation he pleaded with the | operator to get him the airport, some- | ‘!hlng she arranged quickly and with | | no fuss at all. Curious, Hal dechded to investigate and find out why the airport kept it- | self hidden from phone calls. In- | vestigation led first to the cover of the phone directory—and no farther. | The nahe of the city on the book was | not spelled W i was spelled P- d-e-1-p-h-i-a. * X ox % POSIES. It has just been called to our at- tention that Nebraska is not a floral paradise. When the famous twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Armstrong, jr. (she used to be the Associated Press’ Bess Furman), Postmaster General Farley wired $25 worth of flowers. Mrs. Armstrong at the time was in a small town in Nebraska, and the local florists were in a dither. Weren't that many posies in the whole village. All the florists near- by had to rush in their best and most beautiful blossoms to fll the order. * X K % AIR WARFARE. COMES now a tale to illustrate the lengths to which mankind is driven when soggy, steaming weather gives ne' /es too much of a beating. Stopping a. an Alexandria filling sta- tion on a recent 95-degree day, Claude Mahoney, one of the town's well- known news sleuths, was roused from his dreamy wait for gas by sounds of battle from behind. There were grunts and groans and dull thuds as poorly aimed fists found the wrong mark, feet scuffied on the paving, and loud voices were raised in raucous vituperation. Then a fist connected and there was & loud shout for the gendarmes. Mr. Mahoney dismounted from his charabanc in a hurry to see what went on. Found a couple of fellows on their way to town battling over who should use the free air first. * x % % FAME. IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA, this Spring, during the festival of States scuffieboard tournament, which the Washington team won, the local lads finished a game and joined the thousands in the grandstands to watch some of the other teams play. Said one of the spectators directly in front of our heroes: “Look at the scoreboard. who that D. C. team is.” “That's British Columbia.” “That's not a ‘B, its a “Its Dominion of Canad: “No, there is the Canada team playing down there.” “Oh, well, it must be some place We never heard of.” BINGHAM D.ENIES CALL No Special Significance in Trip Home, He Says on Ship. ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, August 21 (#)—United States Ambassador Robert W. Bing- ham, en route from his post in London for a visit in America, said tcnight there was “no special significance in my short visit home.” The Ambassador quelled reports that he had been summoned to Washing- ton to discuss international affairs with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull. “I am returning to my post in Lon- don after my short stay,” he said. - Judge Fights Two Duels. Following a fist fight in which Judge M. Arthur Zubovics knocked M. Feredc Balazs, a customs official, through a window, the two fought a double duel in Budapest, Hungary. The judge and the customs official first used pistols, and three shots were ‘Wonder o fired without result. They then fought a sabre duel, and in the fifth round M. Balazs was severely wounded. A reconciliation has been effected. ; Thought it just hung outside the | 1t | meeting last May WAGE-HOUR FIGHT FLARESINA.F.L. Final Decision on Legisla- tion, However, Is Post- poned by Council. BACKGROUND— Divided sentiment in the Ameri~ can Federation of Labor on wage- hour legislation led to consideradle confusion in the Senate several weeks ago when William Green, president, urged approval of the Black-Connery bill, while John P. Frey, president of the A. F. of L. Metal Trades Department, and J. W. Williams, president of the build- ing trades department, urged it be killed for session by returning it to committee. After the Senate approved the bill, Green obtained House Labor Committee’s approval of a long list of amendments and since then he has urged its enactment. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, August 21.—A fight over wage-and-hour leg- islation broke out in the American Federation of Labor's Executive Coun- cil today, but a final decision was postponed. The council faction favoring Fed- eral regulation of minimum wages and maximum hours proposed a resolution assailing the House Rules Committee for blocking a vote on the Black-Con- nery bill. The bill's opponents, however, suc- ceeded in having the resolution tabled until the council receives a report from William Green, A. F. of L. presi- dent, on the legislative situation. Green remained in Washington today to make a last-minute campaign for the wage-and-hour bill's enactment. The council is sharply divided on | the issue. The majority favors reg- ulation that would protect standards fixed by collective bargaining, but a !'strong and outspoken minority fears Congress could and soon would fix maximum wages and minimum hours once it undertook regulation of min:- mum wages and maximum hours Such regulation. opponents say, would destroy workers' freedom. Airing Due Next October. Confident the Black-Connery bill is dead for this session, these opponents said the whole issue probably would be threshed out at the federation's Denver convention next October. With Green absent, the council met only three hours, deferring any dis- cussion of John L. Lewis’ C. I. O., the big issue of the meeting. During the two-week session, members expect to draft plans for the federation's Au- tumn campaign against the rival or- ganization. ‘The opinion prevailed, however, that the council would continué the same strategy adoped at the Cincinnati This called for open war on all fronts without regard for the original issue, craft versus in- dustrial unionism. To Set Up Own Craft Unions. Where the federation finds it can best organize the workers by setting up a single union for all the crafts in & plant or industry, it proceeds to do so. Long before the federation adopted that policy, Lewis had started to in- vade the territory claimed by local craft unions with new craft unions of his own. The council at the current meeting also will draft its report to the Denver convention and hold & number of hearings on interunion disputes over jurisdiction. “BULLIES” SOUGHT IN FATAL BEATING Attacks on Other Children in Newark by Young “Bosses” Are Probed. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, August 21.—At- tacks on other children in the area were investigated by police tonight as they pressed their search for two “neighborhood bullies” in the connec- tion with the brutal beatings that proved fatal to 7-year-old Leonard Macali. While detectives prepared to attend tomorrow afternoon's funeral of Leonard in the belief “Blondie” and “Brownie” might attend the rites for their victim, other police authorities questioned boys who told stories of boy warfare in which sticks and ropes were used by the two ‘“bosses” on those who displeased them. Richard, 9, brother of the slain child, told police tonight of a second attack by the two “boy terrors” a day before Leonard died of injuries suffered a week before. Richard said his brother was beaten in a vacant lot by the two older youths who held a grudge against him more than a year because Leonard tipped over a wagon ome of them was pulling. Essex County Med- ical Examiner Harrison Martland said the beating was “the most brutal I have ever seen administered to a child.” There were more than 150 bruises on the boy's body. Detectives Daniel Perna and Thomas Boland questioned the father, Michzel Macall, whom they quoted as describ- ing Leonard as an unusual boy who “never complained.” The father said that his son was susceptible to bruises, the detectives added. Meanwhile, Leonard's pet dog Rex remained at home, forlorn and whin- ing for his master. INCOME OF FARMERS MAY HIT $9,000,000,000 Cash Revenue for Year Is Expect- ed to Top 1938 Figure .by $1,000,000,000. 87 the Associated Press. Government economists estimate farmers’ cash income for this year will top last ‘year's total by more than a Dbillion dollars and double the low figure of 1932. The 1937 income will be $9,000,000,~ 000, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics calculated today. It was $10,- 479,000,000 in 1929, $4,328,000,000 in 1932 and $7,865,000,000 in 1936, NAZIS IMPORT WOMEN Czech and Austrian Farm Work- ers Sought for Harvest. BERLIN, August 21 () An scute shortage of women for farm labor has compelied the Nazi government to im- port help from Czechoslovakia and Austria for the harvest. They will be paid on the same basis as German labor,