Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Buresu Porecast.) Occasional rain this afternoon and to- night and possibly tomorrow; continued cool; gentle to moderate northeast winds. ‘Temperatures today—Highest, 72, at mid- night: lowest, 64, at 2 p.m. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report page A-19. Closing NY. Markets—Sales—Page 18 34,082. 85th YEAR. No. Three Americans Are Listed in Wounded. U.S.WAREHOUSE ALSO 1S STRUCK | | Scores Periled in 6-Story Navy Building. I BACKGROUND— Undeclared Sino-Japanese “war” brought to Shanghai by killing of two Japanese there three weeks ago. Ensuing battles in attempts of Chi- nese to expel Japanese land forces resulted in killing of 1.400 Chinese and foreigners mine days agn and the death of one American sailor last Friday. American women and children are almost completely evacuated from zome of strife. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, August 23.—An esti- mated 400 persons were killed and perhaps 1,000 wounded. including | three Americans, by a heavy artillery zhell that smashed into a crowded de- partment store section of the Inter- national Settlement today. S8cores of Americans marvelously ezcaped death when a second projec- tile pierced the =six-storv United States naval warehouse and crashed through to the bottom, but failed to explode. The wounded Americans were An- thony Billingham, staff correspondent for the New York Times, Hallett Abend. chief of staff for the Nrw‘ Yerk Times in China, and Blanche ‘enney, Shanghai-born American. Other Americans may have been killed or wounded. Police said thev were unable to esti- mate accurately the toll of injured and killed. but 200 bodies were counted and there must have been as many more. Origin of Shell Unknown. Origin of the department store shell | was unknown. Some military ex- perts said it may have been a 120- pound 8-inch shell which Japanese | warships off Woosung were firing | to protect landing of reinforcements. | The shell struck Nanking road at | the busiest corner of Shanghai. On one side of the intersection, the huge seven-story building of the Sincere Co.. Ltd, department store was crowded with shoppers. Across the street the newlv opened 16-story building of the Wing On & Co. department store, somewhat | larger, was equally jammed. The two stores are Chinese-owned. Japanese Land 50,000 Troops. Supported by an all night bombard- ment, Japanese landed reinforcements H down the Wangpoo River, near the | Chinese Woosung forts. The Japanese | consular office reported 50,000 fresh | troops landed in the face of intense Chinese artillery fire. Military observ- | ers said they expected Japanese to launch a heavy offensive tonight. | Chinese said their troops “drove off" | 8 Japanese force moving inland to strike Chinese lines from the rear, but Japanese held the right oank of the Wangpoo near its confluence with the | Yangtae. Most. of the nearly 100 Japanese warships in Shanghai waters joined in | the protective barrage which preceded | landing of reinforcements. Chinese said daring raids by their | new mosquito-like sea sleds had sunk several Japanese warships. The “sui- cide” boats zip over the water to launch torpedoes After the explosion on Nanking road Chinese and Japanese troops intensi- fled the air, land and artillery battles on the fringes of the flame-swept city. Fronts of Two Buildings Blown Away. The shell screamed toward the mettlement and exploded in a mass of humanity. The fronts of the two buildings occupied by the Wing On & Co. were blown away. The entire facade and one whole corner of the Bincere & Co.'s great department store also were blown out. After the explosion, bricks, timbers and even steel girders hurled through the air, adding to the destruction. The crowd went crazy in its panic. Bome probably were trampled to death. Abend, wounded in the foot, fought his way through a mob carrying Billingham. Semi-conscious, Billingham collapsed in the street. There were four shrapnel wounds in his chest. His left arm and hand were mutilated. He suffered from shell shock. A shell also struck the crowded Ward road prison in the northern sector of the settlement. At the Sincere & Co. building the destruction was terrible. Only a few minutes before it had been crowded with shoppers. Hundreds of bodies lay in piles. It seemed as if the force (See CHINA, Page A-3) BODY OF MAN ABOUT 45 IS FOUND IN BRANCH Unidentified Victim Is Described a5 5 Feet 8 Inches, 160 Pounds in Bize. The body of an unidentified white man, about 45 years old, and clothed in dark pants, black shoes and a striped polo shirt, was found floating in Eastern Branch at the Anacostia Bridge today by Policeman F. W. San- ford of the eleventh precinct as he 'Wis en route to work. The dead man was described as hav- inz & mole on his left cheek, being bout § feet 8 inches tall and v!llhy ng 180 pounds. No papers or mone were found in his pockets. | | By the Asseciated Pres Entered as second elas» matter post office, Washingtoa, D. C. ch - WASHINGTON, Destroyer Also Badly Da_n:aged, Says American Witness—Force to Go Into Shanghai Batile. By the Associzted Press. SHANGHAL August 23.—An Amer- ican eyewitness stated tonight he had seen one Japanese destroyer badly damaged and a Japanese gunboat sunk by Chinese air bombers as the warships were covering the landing of Japanese Army units near Woosung. Michael Hermann of Chicago, an oil chemist, said he viewed the battle from the deck of a Texas company tanker. The Japanese destroyer, he said. was hurried from the scene in tow of a sister destroyer. The gunboat keeled over at an angle of 45 degrees and went down. This fight apparently waa one of many that raged along the banks of the Yangtze River as a new Japan- J apanese Ship Reported Sunk J In Covering Landing of 50,000 ese Army Chinese soil. Under heavy barrages from 26 Jap- anese cruisers and destroyers the Japanese Army landed a formidable force in the Woosung area north of Shanghai, to be thrown into the battle for this city. Japanese said they had put 50,000 officers and men ashore; Chinese offi- cials sald not more than 15000 had | landed; independent estimates ranged between these figures. The reinforcements were regular army divisions brought directly from | the homeland. and Japanese said their eniry would open a new phase in the devastating Shanghai conflict, which has raged for 11 days on almost equal terms. They predicted the Shanghai area (See LANDINGS, Page A-3) sought a foothold on 20 TOWNS TAKEN, FRANCO ASSERTS Five Columns of Insurgents Driving Forward to Santander. BACKGROUND— Troops of Gen. Francisco Franco have been closing in on Santander, last remaining stronghold of gov- ernment forces of the Bay of Bis- cay. for past two weeks. Franco needs complete victory in Northern Spain to permit use of all his forces against Modrid, which has with- stood his siege for more than nine months. HENDAYE. Pranco-Spanish Border, August 23 —Hammering at the gov- ernment’s “iron ring” around San- tander, five insurgent columns drove forward today to consolidate their control of the Spanish Biscayan Coast. The high command of the insur- gents claimed they occupied 20 vil- | lages between Valmaseda and Villa ! Sana de Mena, as Gen. Prancisco Franco's troops pushed toward San- tander from five directions. One column drove southwest into the Valle de Mena, turned about and assisted three other columns, pointing from Reinosa, Corconte and Villa Car- riedo, in their drive to the north. Castro-Urdiales France Base. ‘The Franco coastal brigade operated from Castro-Urdiales. Villa Carriedo fell into insurgent hands after the capture of prominent neighboring positions and an inten- sive bombardment. Earlier, insurgents captured Celavas, a half-mile to the south, and sent swelling waves of in- | fantry, machine gunners and tanks sweeping across fertile wheatflelds and | through ripening orchards. Overcoming thunderous counter-at- tacks, insurzents moved on the town of Ontaneda, six miles to the south- west, but despite terrific bombard- ments from the land and air govern- ment troops continued to hold the town. Insurgents reported their advance on the Asturian front, gained sev- eral new positions and caused gov- ernment forces to retreat to Can- tiella and Aguilebo in the Belmonte sector southwest of Oviedo. Bitter Fighting in Aragon. Insurgents claimed to have downed 10 government pursuit ships Saturday at Salamanca and eight others de- fending the Astillero airdrome from three insurgent squadrons. Bitter fighting raged on the Aragon front. Submarines of unknown nationality attacked two of Generalissimo Fran- ciaco Franco’s warships in the Bay of Biscay. Insurgent officers said neither ship was damaged. Child Refugees Frightened by Manila Planes Bolt Below Decks as Flyers Welcome Liner Hoover. By the Associateq Press. MANILA, P. I, August 23—Child refugees screamed today as welcoming airplanes swooped low over the liner President Roover, bearing 871 persons fleeing from the Shanghal war zone. The vessel was held several hours at the breakwater while the Ppassengers were inoculated against cholers, small- pox and typhoid. Two planes roared overhead and s group of children bolted below, mem- ory-ridden by terrifying experiences in 8hanghai when similar roaring birds cast death about them. Three hundred of the refugees were housed at Fort William McKinley. Others were given lodging in Manila and at the mountain resort of Baguio. Immediate financial help was asked by 332. President Manuel Queron, with an escort, was at the pier to meet Mrs. Victor Osekga and her S-year-old daughter Ann. Osmekga, now of Shanghai, was with Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his first antaretic tion, and Queson met Mrs. rd regiies SPECIAL SESSION SEEN INEVITABLE Congress Key Men Prepare for New Term, Probably in November. BACKGROUND— First talk of a special session was heard three weeks ago from a group of Senators bent on legislating crop control. Nothing has been said about it by the President, dbut the rumor has been gathering, espe- cially since Congress decided to ad- journ and leave behind a crop bill, the wage-and-hour bill and other legisiation. wanted by the White House. The last special seasion ad- journed mm June, 1933—the first Roosevelt Congress. | By the Associated Press. A few of Congress' kev men, re- Mmaining at the Capitol despite ad- journment, are quietly preparing for A special session they said today they | believed inevitable about November. They described much of the un- finished business left by their home- ward-bound colleagues as too urgent to await the regular session next Jan- uary. i _Senator La Follette, Progressive, of | | Wisconsin, one of the President’s most | | intimate congressional advisers, frankly ‘asserted the administration would court disaster if it delayved its | permanent farm program until next year, Warns of Dangers. Unless production control machin- ery is set up before farmers begin | their Winter planting, he\predicud. | bumper wheat and cotton érops may send farm prices tumbling next Au- {tumn and jeopardize the prosperity of the Nation. Other congressional chiefs laid their | plans to rush through farm legisiation | in November, if the President decides to call Congress back. Leaders of both Houses already have put this item at the head of their calendars for “next session”—whether special or regular. The Senate Agriculture Committee scheduled a series of public hearings on propesed crop control iegislation in 17 cities, beginning September 30. Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho re- mained here in connection with ar- rangements for this. Other legisiation, most of it highly controversial, will be awaiting action Whenever Congress reconvenes. Administration leaders have indi- cated they will use all the pressure at their command to obtain passage of the wage-hour bill, already approved by .the Senate. Republicans and Southern Demo- crats on the House Rules Committee combined to keep it pigeon-holed until Congress adjourned, despite efforts of House chiefs to force it to the floor. Another farm measure, passed by the Senate but overlooked by the House, is the administration’s crop in- surance bill, designed to protect wheat growers against flood, drought and in- sect damage. Northern Senators of both parties |- have exacted a promise from admin- istration leaders to bring up the high- ly - controversial anti - lynching bill early in the next session. Federal Reorganization, Almost equally controversial will be measures pending in both houses to carry out the President’s program for Treorganizing, merging and reshuffling more than 100 Fedaral agencies. Opposed are legislators who have expressed concern over enhancement of executive power and by some—such 88 Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginai—who demand greater economies than the President’s plan provides. The administration's flood - control program, calling for the establishment of seven regional agencies similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority, also faces determined oppositon. — . 841,664 WORK FOR U. S. “More civilians were employed in the Government's ‘That was 1,505 more ¥ 31 and only Armistice day, 191 all- | strategy: | Guffey predicted that the “rebel” Sen- | party. WITH SUNDAY MORN D. C, MONDAY, Choice Between 2 Courses of Strategy Must Be De- cided Before ’38. FARLEY, GUFFEY TALK HELD TRIAL BALLOONS If New Deal Does Not Break With “Rebels” a Labor Party in 1940 Is Seen Likely. BACKGROUND— In June President Roosevelt and Democratic members of Congress gathered at Jeflerson Island to lift their glasses to peace and harmony in the Democratic ranks. Not long afterward many of the same Demo- crats rufled haromny by rejecting the court-reorganization bill. The President suflered further defeats on crop-control legislation and wage-and-hour legislation. And on the last day of Congress four Dem- ocratic Senators wupset harmony atill further by rowing with Sena- tor Guffey. a congressional spokes- man for the White House, By the Associated Press. Democratic leaders, worried by the strife within their party. predicted today that before Congress recon- venes President Roosevelt must choose one of these far-reaching courses of 1. Reconciliation, at the cost of | abandoning some of his most cher- ished objectives, with the party fac- tions which have refused to support all of his program. 2. A new campaign to rally public support and hammer through his controversial issues, risking disruption of the party beyond all revair. One of the New Deal's most trusted strategists said privately todsy that Mr. Roosevelt will base his decision | on the trend of public opinion within | the next few weeks. He described as “trial balloons” two contradictory speeches. mads al- most simuitaneously last week by men | often regarded as White House spokes- | men—Postmaster General Pariey and Senator Guffey, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania. Rebels Supply Reaction. Farley assured a young Democrats’ convention in Indianapolis that there | would be “no reprisals” against Sen- ators who fought the President’s court | plan. He promised & return of party harmony. In a savagely worded radio speech ators—notably Wheeler, Democrat. of Montana; Burke, Democrat, of Ne- braska, and O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming—would be driven from the Reaction to these pronouncements, | Democrats predicted. will guide. in } large measure, the President’s future strategy. ‘The first reaction was promptly sup- plied by the three S8enators Guffey had denounced. In ther last major ad- dresses of the session they defied any | one to oust them from the party, and | bluntly told the administration they | were ready for open war. It the fight comes, their friends #ald, the “rebels” can count on strong support from other disgruntled ele- | ments within the party. Peace May Be Impossible. With them would stand the “old- line” Democratic leaders, who are determined to name an anti-New Deal presidential candidate in 1940; a host of Southern Congressmen, perturbed by the administration’s wage-hour | legislation and friendship with organ- ized labor, and foes of the President's (See DEMOCRATS, Page A-5) Yacht Race Off. EDGARTOWN, Mass., August 23 (#). —With & 25-mile-an-hour northeast breeze blowing, the New York Yacht Club today canceled scheduled races. The 60-odd sailing craft, including the two British and three American cup sloops, were to have engaged today in a 42-mile race to Newport. Summary of Page. S8hort Story__B-11 Soclety B-3 Woman's Pg. B-10 Japanese ship reported sunk covering landing of 50,000. Page A-1 Twenty towns are captured, Franco claims. Page A-1 400 believed dead in shelling of Shang- hai crowd. Page A-1 Americans urged to leave Nanking in bomb menace. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Special Congress session about Novem- ber seen inevitable. Page A-1 Forest fire claims 12 dead, 40 in- Jured. Page A-4 Two possible courses of action for Roosevelt are seen. Page A-1 Republicans find cheer in record of Congress just adjourned. Page A-2 Holding companies’ dissolution seen from new tax law. Page A-8 Ex-dancer forgets inability to swim, rescues boy from river. Page B-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Colored janitor confesses murder of 38-year-old widow. Page A-1 ‘Two killed, score injured in accidents in D. C. and nearby. Page A-1 Job marchers huddle around campfire in rain; 1,000 now here. Page A-9 Northland and District -of Columbia crews return to work. Page B-1 Demand for social security numbers keeps tattooer busy. Page B-1 Corporation counsel offers objections to small claims court bill. xhu B-1 Nine men held in thefis 1 Whole- ING EDITION MEMORIAL TO THE DEPARTING CONGRESS. ¢ Foening Star AUGUST 23, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ### 400 DEAD, 100 INJURED [ROOSEVELT FACES BELIEVED SHELL TOLL IN GURBED PROGRAM SHANGHAI STORE CROWD (R DIVIDED PARTY (P) Means Associated Pre: il THANK GOODNESS THEY DIDNT DESTROY US fi il COOLER WEATHER, RAINHERE TOSTAY Maximum of Only About 70 Seen Today as Heat Wave Ends. Continued cool and rainy weather for tonight and tomorrow is forecast by the Weather Bureau which today | could see no signs of a return of such blistering heat as prevailed here last | week. The temperature was expected to reach & maximum of only around 70 today. as compared to the high of 95 recorded Saturday before rain clouds broke the heat wave. The thermometer fell 13 degrees | within an hour yesterdsy afternoon | when & thunder and rainstorm swept the eity, plunging from 83 at 4 p.m. to 90 at 5 p.m. The maximum yesterday was 86, at 2:20 p.m. Hanging around 12 during the night, the mercury be- gan descending again at 5 a.m. today, registering 64 shortly before 10 a.m. Rainfall yesterday afternoon and last night amounted to .29 of an inch, the Weather Bureau said. Occasional rains are expected again today. Lightning struck in two places dur- ing yesterday's storm, setting fire to the home of Walson Salkeld at 3812 Twelfth street northeast, and slightly damaging the roof of the Janney School at Forty-second and Albemarle streets. Bobby Neary, 2-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neary, slept through all the excitement at the | Twelfth street residence. The light- ning struck a telephone pole and fol- lowed the wires in around his erib, scorching the walls. None of the five persons in the house were injured and damage was slight. 3,000 BODIES FOUND IN LAKE NEAR MADRID Mostly Moorish Insurgents Killed in November Battle, Say Loyalist Officials. By the Associated Press. MADRID, August 23.—Spanish gov- ernment officials said they discovered more than 3,000 bodies when they drained a lake today in the eastern section of the city, near the Casa de Campo Park. Most of the bodies, they said, were of Moorish insurgent troops who died when an attack on government posi- tions was repulsed last November. Today’s Star Tydings asks competitive bids on Greenbelt concessions. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Questions and Answers. Washington Observations. David Lawrence. H. R. Baukhage. Dorothy Thompson. Constantine Brown. Lemuel Parton. Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 SPORTS. A Rookie Rudy York outslugging the famous Di Maggio. Page A-14 Griffmen willing to make deal for Ostermueller. Page A-14 ‘Wildness proving greatest handicap of Bob Peller. Page A-14 Farr cheerful facing ring doom from Louis. Page A-15 Bob Jones picks Goodman as amateur golf bitlist. Page A-16 FINANCIAL. Federal bonds improve (table). Rail gains forecast. Lower bank rates studied. Stocks hesitant (table). Curb list mixed (table). Rise in steel orders due. MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Shipping News. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature’s Children. Cross-word Puzsle. Bedtime Stories. Latter-Out. Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-2 King to Wed EGYPTIAN TO MARRY DAUGHTER OF COURT COUNCILOR. KING FAROUK. The engagement of Egypt's young King Fearouk to Mlle. Sasi Naaz, 16-year-old daugh- ter of Youssef Bey Zulfikar, councillor of the Alerandria mired Court of Appeals, was officially announced today at Cairo. Her mother, Mme. Henem Zulfikar, is lady in waiting to the queen mother. FATHER COUGHLIN TAKES ‘LONG REST' Forced to Curtail Service Yesterday by Nervous Indigestion. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 23.—Father Charles E. Coughlin began a vaca- tion. today. necessitated, an assistant said, by nervous indigestion, which forced him to crutail a sermon before an audience of 4,000 persons yester- day. Father Cyril J. Keating said Father Coughlin had left for an undisclosed destination for “a long rest.” For several Sundays Father Cough- lin has been performing the ceremony of blessing stones from various States which went into the building of his Shrine.of the Little Flower at Royal Oak. Persons from Michigan, Wiscon~ sin and Minnesota gathered at the shrine yesterday for such a ceremony. Cutting’ short his sermon, Father Coughlin left the pulpit and hastened to his living quarters. “‘He has been suffering from nervous indigestion for some time.” Father Keating explained today. “The pain became unbearable in the pulpit yes- terday and he was forced to leave. His physician attributed his illness to ths strain of the past three months and advised him to leave at once for a long rest. We do not expect him to return before September 15." e VALENTINO HONORED Wreaths Placed on Tomb of One- Time Actor. HOLLYWOOD, August 23 (#).—The film colony remembered today the eleventh anniversary of Rudolph Val- entino’s death. Every year wreaths are banked on the marble crypt in Hollywood Mau- soleum. which bears the inscription “Rodolfo Guglielmi Valentino, 1895- 1926.” They are expected again today. Hollywood awaited for the appear- ance of the mysterious biond woman who has unfailingly visited the crypt on Christmas, Easter and the anni- versary of the one-time screen lover's death. Never identified, she slipped in last Friday. Mausoleum attentands spec- ulated whether she sought to avoid the spotlight and made a premature tryat. —_— ELIGIBLE FOR DIVORCE RENO, Nev., August 23 (#).—Mrs. Helen Wills Moody became eligible today to file s di suit here against , §r., S8an PFran- TWO KILLED, SCORE HORT IN' TRAFFIG Mrs. A. ). Webb of Fairfax and W. E. Kenyon of Oak- | ton, Va., Are Victims. ‘Two persons were killed in nearby Virginia today and more than a score of others were injured in traffic ac- | cidents on slippery streets and high= ways in the Capital area during the | | 1ast 24 hours. | The dead were Mrs. A. J. Webb, | 809 West Broad street, Pairfax, Va.. | and William E. Kenyon, 38, Oakton, | Va., farmer. Mrs. Webb was killed when struck | by an auto-railer, & machine built for | traveling either on raiiroad tracks or the highway, as she was crossing the Arlington-Fairfax Railroad tracks in | | West Falls Church today. She was | decapitated and badly cut about the | body. Police said she was dragged 144 | feet by the auto-railer, | Police said the vehicle was oper- {ated by Harry Finnell, 1016 North | | Quincy street. Ballston, Va. No | charges were placed against him im- | | mediately. The accident occurred at | Spring street and Lincoln avenue. | Mrs. Webb's body was taken to the | | O. C. Pearson funeral home in Falls | | Church. Police said Mrs. Webb was the wife of a Commerce Department employe and had one son, William, 14. | Hit-Run Victim. | Kenyon was injured fatally when| struck by a hit-and-run motorist early ! today as he was repairing a flat tire | on his car on the Lee Highway near | the Fairfax cut-off. Falls Church police said the hit-and-run death car crushed Kenyon against his own auto, careened and struck a third machine without stopping. Washington police were asked to be on the lookout for a | car with both front fenders damaged. | Kenyon was taken to Georgetown Hospital by Falls Church Policemen | H. C. Knox and Edwin Scheid. He was | pronounced dead on arrival. Three persons were injured in a | head-on collision between two auto- mobiles on the Lee Highway about 5 miles west of Fairfax shortly belorej noon today. ‘The injured, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Wilson, 1200 block of D street north- east, and Francis Dobo, Astoria, N. Y., were rushed to Emergency Hospital, where their condition had not been | determined early this afternoon. Cause of Collision Unknown. Deputy Sheriff Henry T. Magarity and County Officer Murray C. Wells of Fairfax County said they were un- able to learn immediately what caused the collision. Both automobiles were demolished, the officers said. Alman Jones, 20, of 3820 I street southeast, suffered a possible skull fracture when the car in which he was riding was in collision with another at Benning road and Minnesota avenue northeast. Franklin Pierce, 19, of 3864 Halley terrace southeast, driver of the car, and Coletta Quattroichi, 20, of 235 R street northeast, were treated with Jones at Casualty Hos- pital for minor injuries. Mrs. Ann Sanford, 70, of 4225 Brandywine street, was in serious con- dition in Georgetown Hospital with injuries received when she was struck (See TRAFFIC, Page A-12) Reward Posted For a Skeleton Taken From Cell By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 23.—A reward of $25 was posted today for the return of & 250-year-old skeleton stolen from & prison cell. The skeleton, chained upright to an oaken chair, was stolen from Rye House at Hoddeson, Hertfordshire, scene of the famous Rye House plot against Charles II. The castle now is a tourist attrac- tion. Its owner, T. Green, said he belleved the “kidnaping” was some- body's “grisly kind of joke.” The Rye House plot was a scheme by one of Cromwell's Republican offi- cers to murder Charles II and the Duke of York, later James II, in 1683. ‘The plan was to kill them when they returned from the Newmarket races, but it was folled when they returned & day ahead of schedule. ‘The plottes ere arrested and the le supposed to be that | | 'S 127,696 (Bome returns not | and | in the 1700 block of M street. SUNDAY'S Cireulation. yet received.) TWO CENTS. WIDOW'SSLAYING HERE GONFESSED BY JANITOR, 10 Colored Man Tells of Beat- ing Mrs. Henrietta Ander- son to Death. 143,959 FURNACE SHAKER USED IN L STREET KILLING Major McAfee Says He Was Threatened With Ice Pick in Apartment. (Pictures on Page A-2.) Grinning broadly and apparently unshaken by an all-night grilling, Major McAfee, 70-year-old janitor, today confessed the slaving of Mrs. Henrietta Anderson, 36, Veterans' Bureau clerk and widowed mother of three children, according to Capt. Ira E. Keck, assistant chief of de- tectives. Mrs. Anderson was beaten to death with a furnace shaker in her apart- ment at 1633 L street yesterday after- noon. McAfee, befuddled with drink, was arrested in his quarters in the basement of the building. Keck and Lieut. George E. Darnall, chief of the homicide aquad, said de- tectives fastened their suspicions on McAfee when they found the newlyv- washed and spotless shaker on the furnace, which was covered with dust. In the drain pipe of the sink in the Janitor's quarters, the detectives said, they found human hair. Behind the #ink, they added, was a blood-stained handkerchief. McAfee, according to detectives, was charged with the murder of his com- mon-law wife several years ago. He was acquitted of this killing, however, he told police. Killed By Three Blows. Mrs. Anderson, an attractive bru- nette, was killed by three vicious blows which crushed her skull, police said. Her body was found by her niece, Miss Roberta Lucas, 20, hat-check girl at the Mayflower Hotel. who shared the small apartment with her. McAfee, according to detectives, said Mrs. Anderson threatened him with an ice pick when he called at her apartment under the influence of whisky. He fled to the basement, the janitor said. obtained the shaker and forced his way into Mrs. Anderson’s apartment. When she threatened him again with the ice pick, McAfee told detectives, he struck her. Detactives pointed to the similarity between the murder of Mrs. Anderson the slaying of Mrs. Florence Goodwin, 1102 Sixteenth street—Irss than a block from the L street address | —last September. Mrs. Goodwin was beaten to death with & furnace shaker by her janitor, Norman Robingon. 27. colored. who has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. Ironically, McAfee was a witness in the Goodwin murder case. He rented a room on U street in which Robinson had lived and found the killer's blood- stained clothing. Mrs. Anderson had planned to move from the L street address at the end of this month into a larger apartment Her 10-year-old daughter, Barbara, who has been in the Children’s Tubercu- | losis Sanitarium at Glenn Dale, Md. for the last year, was going to rejoin her mother when she moved. Husband Died Last December. Mrs. Anderson's husband, Linwood Anderson, a World War veteran, died of tuberculosis in Mount Alto Hospital last December. When her husband became Il Mrs. Anderson went to work in a restau- rant to support her children, Barbara, Linwood, jr., 14, and William, 2. After her husband’s death Mrs. Anderson was appointed a clerk in the indexing section of the Veterans' Administra- tion. When detectives learned of Mrs. Anderson's death, they took into cus- tody all occupants of the building in which she lived. Among those ques- tioned was John Moran of Cathedral Mansions, Veterans' Bureau attorney, who was the last person to see Mrs. Anderson alive. Moran left the apartment shortly after 2 pm. The murder was dis- covered at 6:30 p.m. Denied Knowledge of Crime. From the beginning, Detective Sergts. Joseph W. 8himon, Harry Brit- ton, William J. Christian and John C. Dalglish concentrated their attention on McAfee. The janitor at first de- nied any knowledge of the crime and told the detectives he had seen two strange men enter Mrs. Anderson's apartment shortly before her body was found. Thraughout the night the dectec- tives talked patiently to McAfee. Capt. Keck said McAfee confessed after the detectives told him they had found his blood-stained handkerchiet and strands of Mrs. Anderson's hair in his sink. After signing a confession, McAfee emerged from the office of Inspector B. W. Thompson, chief of detectives, grinning broadly and posed for waiting photographers. McAfee told them, detectives said, that he shot his wife in 1925. Mrs. Frances Clausen of 1508 Seventeenth street, sister-in-law of the murdered woman, said Mrs. Ander- son was gay and happy over the pros- pects of being reunited with her daughter when she called at her apart- ment at 1 p.m. yesterdey. Earlier in the day, Mrs. Anderson had planned to visit her son Linwood at a boy's camp near Manassas, Va., but can- celed the trip because she had a cold, Mrs. Clausen said. Cudahy Presents Credentials. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, August 23 (A).—John Cudahy, recently ap- pointed United States Minister to the Irish Free State, presented his ereden- tials today to President Eamon de Valera. Cudahy was escorted by a troop of cavalry in -dress blue and gold uniforms the Legation of Dublin