Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1937, Page 2

A—2 wx GUN VICTIM FOUND NEAR HOME AFIRE rederick Police Unable to Learn How Woman Was Wounded or Blaze Started. By the Associated Press. . FREDERICK, Md, August 28— Neighbors found Mrs. Sarah Staub, 63-year-old Daysville farm woman, lying groaning in a muddy lane near her blazing home early yesterday suffering from asbullet wound inflicted under strange circumstances. A bullet had been fired through her body, entering the abdomen and com- ing out at the back. Her home, where she lived with her 40-year-old son, Guy F. Staub, a Lewistown bartender, was in flames when the. neighbors found her about 5 am Sheriff Roy M. Hiltner said during the day he had been unable to find out who fired the bullet or how the fire started in the rock and frame cabin. Officers Quiz Kin.. The sheriff said Mrs. Staub, hurried to the Frederick County Emergency Hospital, in a critical condition, re- fused at first to make any statement, murmuring only: “Where's Guy? Where's Guy?” The officers questioned her son and her estranged husband, William D. Staub, about 70, for several hours, but they were unable to throw any light on the mystery. Guy Staub, the son, told his ques- tloners rain-swept roads had pre- vented him from following his custom of spending the night at his mother’s home. He was surprised and shocked 8t the tragedy, he explained. To Continue Probe. ‘The woman's husband, formerly a resident of the Bethel section, had been living recently near Mountain- dale. Only a short time ago he lost his Mountaindale property through a debt judgment. State’s Attorney Sherman P. Bowers announced a searching investigation would be continued. He did not dis- close whether he was pursuing a suicide or attempted murder theory or some other angle. So far the officers have been unable %o find the weapon with which Mrs. Staub was wounded. Sheriff Hiltner and Deputy Denver J. Shook plan to gearch the ruins of the Mrs. Staub home as soon as they cool sufficient A young son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harp discovered Mrs. Staub in the lane near her home. The boy had gone to the home with his parents | who were awakened in morning by the fire. HUNT FOR FLYERS TURNS NORTHWARD Pilots Convinced Levaneffsky and Companions Never Reached Alaska, By the Acssociated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, August 28.— Pacific Alaska Airways pilots said yes- terday they were convinced Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five Soviet com- panions never reached Alaska on their attempted transpolar flight from Moscow to Oakland, Calif, by way of Fairbanks. The flyers have been missing two weeks Three P. A. A. planes have covered 100,000 miles of Northern Alaska ter- ritory without find missing plane. Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted Pxn]anr,{ earrying on the search in a Russian- | owned 17-ton flying boat, expressed belief the Levaneffsky plane was down somewhere 500 miles on the North American side of the North Pole. While Wilkins refueled at Copper- mine, N. W. T, for a third long- distance - Arctic flight, three Soviet | planes were at Anderma, in Northern Russia. + The Soviet airmen planned to fly dbreast 15 miles apart over the North | Pole to Alaska along the route be- | leved to have been taken by thei Yanished fiyers American Airman Jimmie Mattern, ¥ho withdrew from the search, said | he planned to remain in Alaska for the duration of the hunt. TEN BEST CITY FARMERS LEAVE ON VACATION Members of Boys' Garden Club Will Spend Week at Camp Letts. Ten boys, who best proved that city folk can farm, left by bus this morn- ing for a vacation at Camp Letts, on Rhode River, near Annapolis. Members of the Boys' Garden Club, each has a plot of ground, 40 by 50 feet in size, on Anacostia road. Vege- tables of a'l sorts are grown and used by families of the 90 members. W. R. Beattie, senior horticulturist of the Agriculture Department, judged that the 10 had produced most abundant harvests. The youths’ ex- penses during their week at the Y. M. C. A. camp are borne by the Civitan Olub. The winners, named according to the heigh® of their corn and tomato plants, are Joseph Sullivan, Robert Hoddinott, Frank Warner, Edmund Willlams, Edward Tillinghast, jr.; Rudolph Ruehl, Fred Gebricka, John Trusheim, Willlam Donnelly and How- ard Hudgins. the early ing a trace of the | size front lawn. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LOCK. HEN Mr. and Mrs. George Baumeister left their home in Newark, N. J., to come to Washington for a visit with their brother-in-law, Edward Spliedt, they discovered for the first time that they had been living in a house for 14 years without ever lock- ing the front door. As he was about to leave home that day Mr. Baumeister turned back, he doesn’'t know why, and tried the door. It opened. He looked for the natural explanation—a push-button that had been set with the latch off. There was none. Then for the first time it occurred WY BusT w'@ wiNDow - TH! s ot DooR’s OPe - - to him that the door had no auto- matic catch, needed to be locked ‘with a key just like the doors inside the house. It also struck him that for 14 years he had been sticking a key in the keyhole, turning the knob and letting himself into a house that wasn't locked in the first place. Thinking back over the possibilities of innumerable robberies that might have been facilitated by that door, the Baumeisters recalled that only once in the 14 years had their house been molested. That was by a burglar who must have spent at least half an hour Jimmying a locked window. * % %k x ALIBI. When employes of the Depart- ment of the Interior are late to work, they are required to submit directly to Secretary Ickes a writ- ten statement of the reason for said tardiness. A young man who | was woefully late one morning re- cently set about this duty of ex- | planation with what we regard as | a certain flair. He gave as his | excuse: “Misapprehension as to’ time.” * X % X SORCERY. E of our friends at the Depart- ment of Justice who likes to poke around among dusty legal tomes re- cently came across this old English | statute, which we offer without com- | ment, being afraid to say a thing. The law was passed by Parliament in 1700 and says: { "That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, that shall from and after such act impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of His Majesty's subjects by means of scent, paints, cosmetic washes, arti- ficial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stay<, hoops, high-heeled shoes or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty lof law now | craft and like misdemeanors, and that the marriage upon such conviction | shall stand null and void.” x ox x % FARM. A LITTLE tea room just opposite the Federal Housing Administra- | tion and hard by the National Labor Relations Board offices has a pocket- A customer going in for lunch the other day noticed some vines growing in this two-by-four gar- den and, being something of a farmer- ette herself, stopped to examine them. They were cantaloupe vines. % K % BIG BUSINESS. ASIDE to the Securities Exchange Commission: Was it by your or- | der, or did the gentlemen think it up | | themselves? We mean that law now reported to' be'in effect on the New York Stock Exchange, making it a $50 fine to fill a member's pocket with water. Understand the statute was passed to stop the more playful citizens from going about shooting water pistols into one another’s pockets during dull trad- ing hours. * ok ok X . MISSING. Standing at Ninth street and Washington drive the other day was a perplezed fellow who was almost wringing his hands as he watched wreckers at work on one of the old “temporary” Govern- ment buildings. Every time some one passed by he'd ask in pleading tones, “Please, can you tell me what they’ve done with the Bureau of Animal Hus- bandry? “Here I came down to see it about some business, and I find a man inside with a steam shovel!!” (Sorry. We don’t know ourselves, but it's probably around town somewhere.) * K k% SILENCER. 'OR this we'll probably be accused of trying to sell something, but the story involves a tip given us by a grandmother, and we never pass up tips from grandmothers—whether on horse races, fights, weather, books or remedies for the megrims. The tip should be joyfully received NOEL COWARD'S AGENT TO MARRY PRINCESS Theatrical Aide Applies for License to Wed Daughter of Former Grand Duke Paul. By the Associated Press. FAIRFIELD, Conn., August 28.— John Chapman Wilson, theatrical agent for Noel Coward, has filed an application for & license to wed Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the former Grand Duke Paul of Russia. i Reached at his Sasco Hill home here last night, Wilsod said no date has yet been set for the wedding. His - tended bride, the ex-wife of Lucien Lelong, famed Parisian couturier, is staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. In the blank filed in the office of ‘Town Clerk Samuel Glover, Princess Natalie's age is given as 31, and Wil- son’s as 38. It will be Wilson’s first marriage. British Tourists Increase. by those who have been driven mildly hysterical listening to those wild-eyed adventure stories put on the air for “the children’s hour.” This grandmother listened to shrieks, groans, rockets bursting in midair and other cheerful diversions of the young until she could stand it no longer. Then she plotted escape. Now each evening when the time comes for one of the more vociferous programs to be turned on by her grandchildren she goes to work at her electric sewing machine. Says the ru * has worked, too. The interfer- “ence finglly convinced the youngsters that at twilight young people should be standing outside watching for the first lightning bug, not sitting around the house getting the slats scared out of 'em. . 1,200 Marines Sail Sunday. SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 28 (&). —The transport Chaumont will sail from here at 2 p.m. Sunday with 1,200 Marines for Shanghai, officials an- Poreign tourists visiting Britain in dune totaled 33,883, a large increase over the corresponding month of 1936. # nounced yesterday. Aboard the cruiser Marblehead, acting as eonvoy, will be 108 Marines. in force against witch- | THE EVENING, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1937. .. Death in Shadow of Hell Gate Bridge NEW PENSION-BILL DRIVE PREDICTED Averaqe 0id-Age Benefits of $80 to $100 to Be Sought Next Session. By the Associated Press. Demands for more liberal old-age pensions may increase the complexi- ties of the next regular session of Congress. Little was heard of the subject dur- ing the recent session, but Represent- ative Crosby, Democrat, of Pennsyl- vania, chairman of an unofficial Steering Committee supporting the so- called general welfare bill—all that remains of the Townsend old-age pen- sion plan—said a determined drive for its enactment will be made next year. During the recess, he said, members of the Steering Committee will en- deavor to stimulate support for the legislation by speeches in the field. Also, he said, efforts will be made as soon as Congress reconvenes to unite all congressional old-age pension ad- vocates under one banner. Crosby said his group has been promised a hearing on the legislation by the House Ways and Means Com- mittee early next January. The measure would levy a 2 per cent transactions tax to finance the pen- sions. The bill would provide pensions up to $200 monthly if sufficient revenue were derived. Proponents said, how- ever, they believed the benefits would average closer to $80 or $100 monthly. Crosby said additional Townsend clubs are enlisting in support of the legislation daily and asserted he con- sidered this an indication Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the $200-a- month pension plan, has “lost his in- fluence.” The Pennsylvanian said the last ses- sion of Congress had been “encourag- ing” to his group because they had obtained signatures of 106 House mem- bers to a petition designed to bring the bill to the floor for debate. The previous year only 60 signatures were obtained. MONTAGUE VISITS AT PARENTS’ HOME Bail Granted Golfing Marvel, Awaiting Trial on Robbery Indictment. Py the Associated Press SYRACUSE, N. Y. August 28— Syracuse's Laverne Moore, whose amazing golf feats won him fame in Hollywood under the name of John | Montague, was with his parents here | today after the first night spent at | his home in more than seven years. His plans for the immediate future are vague, he indicated after his ar- | rival yesterday. He may remain with his parents while, free on $25000 bail, he awaits trial on a first-dagree robbery indictment in Elizabethtown, | or he may go to Hollywood “on busi- | ness,” he said. { Moore said his plans depend on the condition of his mother, Mrs. | Matthew Moore. | Mrs, Moore expects soon to go to a hospital for an operation. Moore is accused of participating in the robbery of the rocad house of Kin Hanna at Jay, N. Y., in 1930. 'U. S. TO CONTINUE TWO MELLON SUITS Financier's Death Won't Affect $3,000,000 Income Case or Aluminum Litigation. By the Associated Press. Officials said yesterday the death of Andrew W. Mellon would have no effect on the Government's $3.000,000 tax suit against him nor on its anti- trust suit against the Aluminum Co. of America. Mellon, stockholders, was named by the Gov- ernment last April among 36 de- fendants in the Aluminum Co. case. The Justice Department charged that the firm was engaging in monopolistic practices, and sought to have it dis- solved. The suit is awaiting trial in New York. ‘The Treasury’s tax claim against its one-time chief is based on his 1931 income tax return. It is pending be- fore the Board of Tax Appeals. Treas- ury officials said any judgment the Government may win would be ap- plicable against Mellon's estate. BIDS FOR TWO VESSELS TO BE OPENED NOV. 17 Bids for the construction of a de- stroyer tender and a seaplane tender will be opened November 17, it was announced yesterday by the Navy Department, which explained that building funds were made available in the third deficiency appropriation act. Contract plans and specifications for these two auxiliary naval vessels now are practically ready, it was said. Advertisements inviting bids from private shipbuilders will be issued next month. Under the leg- islation authoricing the’ craft at least one of the vessels must be built in & Government navy yard. George Pollock Co., Sacramento, Calif,, yesterday was awarded a con- tract for $2,790,875 for a new dry dock at the Mare Island Navy Yard. Careel:lu_'nds CLINTON B. EILENBERGER, (Story om Page 4-1.) < as one of the principal | PACT OF AIRLINES DECLARED ILLEGAL Postal Official Hits Proposed | Contract of Companies as “Monopolistic.” B3 the Associated Press. | Karl A Crowley, solicitor of the Post Office Department, ruled today | 8 contract for co-operation between | United Airlines Transport Corp. and | Western Air Express Corp. is illegal | and monopolistic. | Crowley described the proposed con- | tract between the airlines as mtended; {to permit the two companies to op- | erate a through plane service between New York and points east of Salt Lake City to points west thereof and { to the terminus at Los Angeles. | | Passengers boarding the plane east of Salt Lake City might remain on | board at that point and continue to | their destination at Los Angeles or |any intermediate point west of Salt Lake City, the department said, had the contract been approved, “It is clearly the intent of Congress that monopoly in the air transport | services of the United States should not be permitted,” Crowley said. “If the proposed contract should be | approved, then similar arrangements | would be made by the three larger | aviation companies with the smaller airmail contractors which would neces- sarily result in complete control of the air transport industry and of the carriage of mail by airplane be- coming concentrated in the hands of a few large monopolistic corporations. No agreement which may result in the creation of such a situation should receive the approval of the Post Office Department and no such agreement is within the letter or spirit of the air- | mail act. * * = “I am of the opinion that the con- tract entered into between United | Airlines Transport Corp. and Western Alr Express Corp. * * * is contrary to the provisions of the airmail act of 1934 as amended.” ARMED PAID HOLD UP LOCAL LIQUOR STORE Escape With Undetermined Amount—$95 Is Stolen From Apartment. ‘Two colored men armed with pistols held up a liquor store at 2901 Sher- man avenue shortly before last mid- night and escaped with an undeter- mined amount of money, police re- ported. Alvin M. Fugitt, 18 Ninth street northeast, reported $95 in cash was | stolen from a dresser drawer in his apartment by some one who entered | through the bathroom window. Fred W. Passon, colored, 2300 bloc! of Georgia avenug, gave police the name of a suspect he believed stole $74 that was hidden in a suit case under his bed. Police said the suspect | had a criminal record in New York City. A handbag containing $17 was snatched from Carol Healy, 37, of the Cordova Apartments, by a colored man who escaped through a vacant lot near OConnecticut and Florida avenues last night, THIEVES DUPE VICTIMS TO OBTAIN LOOT OF $178 ‘Two “flim-fiam” larcenies, involving total loot of $178, were reported to police late yesterday. Mrs. Lydia Porter, 223 B street northeast, reported that a gypsy or Indian woman known as Mary Brown made off with $103 in cash and a large cameo ring value at $60. The woman had been treating her for an illness for two weeks, Mrs. Porter said, and yesterday persuaded her to let her take the money and ring to a church to get them blessed. She failed to return. The other victim was Richard Hart- well, colored, 1300 block of Ninth street. He sald he got into conversa- tion with four strange colored men yesterday evening. They suggested that if he didn't want to lose his money, it should be wrapped in a handkerchief and " replaced in his pocket. One of the strangers kindly wrapped Hartwell’s $15 in & handkerchief and returned the handkerchief to him. When he got him he found it oon- tained only paper, Where a beachcomber found the body of a woman crammed into a barrel on the rocky East River shore yesterday in the shadow of Hell Gate Bridge, New York. Police said the barrel, shown in circle, apparently was rolled over the ledge above, but caught among the stones and failed to roll into the Hell Gate tide, which probably would have ca 3,000 Twins Flock to Indiana For Sixth Annual Reunion By the Associated Press. FORT WAYNE. Ind., August 28.— Doubles predominated in confusing| array today as approximately 3,000 twins flocked to this city by air, rail| and automobile for their sixth annual | national reunion From as far away as the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts they came to enjoy & two-day fete of fun. They had no seri- ous problems to solve, no weighty questions to debate. All they had to do was to look at each other and “talk it over."” Top attraction on the opening pro- | gram was a parade late in the day | through the downtown area. The twins planned to square off tomorrow | and compete for sundry prizes which only doubles could win Mrs. Henrietta S. Billings, 81, of | Los Angeles. Calif., hurried by airplane and bus to be one of the first arrivals and put up a claim for “coming the longest distance.” “Why, I wouldn't have missed this for anything.” she exclaimed, a bit out of breath. “You know, last year broke my leg and couldn't come. I was Jjust sick, because I wanted to come 56 much. I've been to three conventions. and I'll be on hand for a lot more. | Mrs. Billings’ twin sister, Mrs. S. W. | Camby of North Judson, Ind., joined in praising the reunion. Early registrations showed twins had | come from Iowa, Colorado. Mississippi, | Kentucky, Florida, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania. North Carolina, West Virginia, Missouri, | California and Indiana. TAX OF $35,000,000 SEEN FOR MELLON Family's Holdings Have Value of $243,000,000—State to Get 80 Per Cent of Levy. Bs the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, August 28—Tax | attorneys estimated yesterday that the | Federal inheritance tax on the estate | of Andrew W. Mellon would exceed | $15,000,000 and might run as high u“ $35,000,000.° An attache of the register of will's | office, which will collect the tax for the | State, said the estate of the former | Secretary of the Treasury would prob- ably exceed that of his brother, R. B. Mellon, which has arranged to pay the | State approximately $12,000,000. Howard M. Johnson, secretary to Mellon, declined to estimaie the estate’s assets, but during Mellon's income tax appeal in 1931 the family's holdings were disclosed to have a value on today's market of about $243.000,000. Much of this wealth has since been transferred to the Coalesced Co. with 200,000 shares of stock being given equally to Paul Mellon and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, Mellon's children. Johnson said the Federal inheritance tax was graduated from 65 per cent on estates between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 to 70 per cent on all assets above $50,000,000. He declined to estimate the time that would be required for flling an accounting. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania will receive 80 per cent of whatever funds the Federal Government collects in inheritance taxes. Most financial observers agreed that Mellon's estate would exceed $50,000,- 000 despite bequests of more than $100,000,000 during the last 25 years. | H. 0. L. C. ANNOUNCES NEW WORKER POLICY Employes of Future to Be Taken From Civil Bervice Whenever Practicable. New employes of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. hereafter will be drawn from civil service registers wherever practicable, Charles A. Jones, general manager, announced today. This policy will be followed all over the country. In the ~bsence of civil service eligibles, instructions are to make the fullest possible use of lists maintained by Federal and State em- ployment agencies. ‘The new policy, Jones pointed out, is in accord with instructions issued by President Roosevelt last August. At that time the President expressed satisfaction with the progress made by the H. O. L. C. in co-ordinating its personnel more closely with civil serv- ice standards. Since then, progress has been m: in improving employment standards. Arrangements have been made with the Civil Service Commission to use its facilities in fill- ing vacancies and making new ap- pointments. 3,000 GREET TAYLOR LONDON, August 28 (#).—Robert Taylor was greeted at Waterloo Sta- tion last night by 3,000 screaming movie fans who almost mobbed him. The actor escaped through a lug- gage elevator and even then police had difficulty in protecting him. Women fainted in the surging crowd at the station. ) ‘OVERTIME’ WORKED BY A. F.L.’S COUNCIL Crowded Calendar Keeps Members Busy—Green Reports Lewis Group Failures. E¥ the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, 28.—The American Federation of Labor's Executive Council worked overtime today on its crowded cal- endar. Ordinarily, the council works only five days a week, its members advo- cate a five-day week and believe in | practicing what they preach. | Since several members have Labor day speaking engagements and must | leave the seashore by next Friday n:} tne latest, however, the council de- cided to meet this afternoon to work on & report to the Denver convention. President William Green reported to the council yesterday that hun- dreds of textile workers were “turning thumbs down” on the C. I. O. organi- zation campaign and joining A. F. of L. unions. Green presented reports from both | Southern and New England organizers showing 15 locals had been organized recently and several more likely would be brought into the A. F. of L. fold soon. N. J, Au(ust’ TWO KILLED IN FALL OF “MAGIC CARPET” | 1.500-Pound “Prop” Being Used | Establishment of Commercial Air in Eddie Cantor Film Crashes to Ground. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, August 28.—The collapse of a 1,500-pound “magic car- pet” on a studio sound stage in an Eddie Cantor picture, which killed one property man yesterday, resulted in the death of another today. Harry Harshka, 36, died this morn- ing of his injuries. Last night Philo Goodfriend, 47, died a few hours after the “props” fell. ‘Two others suffered serious injries. Cantor was scheduled to ride the “carpet” today, studio officials said. MISS KATE S. TERRY, 82, DIES IN HOSPITAL Funeral Services for Retired Gov- ernment Employ Set Monday. Miss Kate S. Terry, 82, of 11 R street northeast, retired employe of the Government Printing Office, died yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. Miss Terry was the daughter of the late Judge E. 8. Terry and the late Mrs. Flizabeth B. Terry. Her father at one time was a circuit judge in Indiana and later a member of the Illinois State Legislature. Afterwards he held important positions here at the General Land Office and in the War Department. A resident of this city for 55 years, Miss Terry was retired from the Gov- ernment service a number of years ago. She leaves three sisters, Mrs. Lena T. Minor and Mias Cora A. Terry, both of this city, and Mrs. Emma Morris, (Long Beach, Calif. Funergl services will be held at 11 am. Monday in St. Agnes Episcopal %« rried the body out to sea. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. CORPSE OF WOMAN FOUND IN BARREL Widow of Maxie Gordon,! Dope Peddler, Found Dead on Bank of East River. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 28 —The body of the comely young woman found stuffed in a barrel on the rocks beside East River here yesterday was iden- | tified today as that of Mrs, Essie Gordon, widow of Max (One-Eved Maxie) Gordon, notorious narcotics STUDY EXPEDITED ONTAX AVOIDANCE Congressional Experts Gear Inquiry With Eye to Spe- cial Session. By the Associated Press. Congressional tax experts, exploring the need for general revision of the Nation's revenue structure, geared their inquiry today with an eye to the possibility of a special session Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee as- signed to conduct the investigation, said the group would return to Wash- ington two or three weeks in advance of the next session of Congress, whether it is called in November or January. In the meantime preliminary studies are being made by Treasury officials and employes of the Senate-H: Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Stresses Inquiry’s Aim. Stressing the inquiry was designed to eliminate “inequities and injustices from the tax laws, Vinson said he had mapped its scope in conferences with Roswell Magill, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and other tax authori- ties, “to be sure we will be able to ish what we start.” The Kentuckian said the subject listed for review include the undis- tributed profits tax, so-called “nui- nce” taxes, proposed codification of the revenue laws, the capital gain and community property taxes and the controversy-laden subject of reduc- tions allowed mining and oil com- panies for depletion. Vinson explained the subcomm: sought to determine what, if any, “cushions” should be ovided under the undistributed profits tax for firm desiring to use their surpluses for deb: payments and plant expansion, Case of Weaker Corporations. “Particularly in the case of weaker corporations, such as those ju pleting bankruptcy reorganiz; g there probably ought to be special con- sideration given,” he said. “Instead of taxing every dollar, there mayv have tc be lower rates or other concess provided.” Vinson said there had been no hearings on “‘nuisance taxes” s; they were revived in 1932 No public hearings will be held on the proposed revisions until the sub- committee has presented fts recom- mendations to the full committee, he said. 50 SHOE REPAIRERS FORM UNION HERE C. I. 0. Organizers Balked as New Group Announces Its A. F. L. peddler. Gordon was killed in an automobile | accident near El Paso, Tex., last July | 31. He had served one prison term | after being convicted on a narcotics charge in Boston. Benjamin Joseph, a friend and guest at the same hotel where Mrs. Gordon resided in New York, led to the identification of the body today. After reading a description of it in the newspapers, he prevailed upon the night manager of the hotel to enter her room. They found that the bed had not been occupied. Joseph then viewed the body and identified it Joseph, according to police, said he had an engagement with Mrs. Gordon for Thursday night, but that he was “stood up.” He said he did not see the woman after that. Detective William Jackson of the homicide squad made the investigation which determined that Mrs. Gordon was the widow of “One-Eyed Maxie.” He said he also had learned that she | had been twice married. the first time to Isadore Mustman, a Boston butcher. | Tony Casanova, & beachcomber, | found the barrel in which Mrs. Gor- | don’s body was stuffed. Medical Ex- aminer Jacob Werne said she had been stabbed nine times with an ice pick. The point of the instrument was im- | bedded in her skull and a bullet was | found in her brain. | ‘The barrel evidently had been shoved over a 15-foot embankment near the Triborough Bridge with the idea that it would be taken by the swift-running tides of Hell Gate and be washed out | to sea. Instead it bounced down to a stony ledge 4 feet from the water's edge and clung there. A beachcomber encoun- tered it in his search for driftwood. BRITISH SHIP TO SET UP RADIO STATION IN PACIFIC Route Between Canada and Australia Seen. By the Associated Press SUVA, Fiji. August 27.—The British warship Leith left last night for tiny Canton Island with two wireless op- | erators, building material and equip- ment to establish a radio station in the equatorial Phoenix group midway between Fiji and Hawaii. Rumors have been frequent that a British commercial airways line would be installed between Australia and Canada, following surveys of the route by warships in the South Pacific. American enterprise has been busy in the same area, a Pan-American | Airways Clipper having made a trip between Alameda, Calif., and Auck- land, New Zealand, last March. Canton Island is the sandspot from which the joint United States-Na- tional Geographic Society expedition observed the eclipse of the sun last June. The island is claimed by Great Britain. — PLANS BAPTISM The House of Prayer for All Peo- ple, 601 M street, will hold a baptism tomorrow morning and & religious parade in the afternoon. The bap- tism will take place between 0 a.m. and noon at the Francis Junior High School pool. The parade will astart at 2:30 pm. at Sixth and N streets, go out N to S, thence to Eighteenth street and back to N. The House of Prayer was founded by Bishop C. M. Grace. Earle Meadows Hurt. TOKIO, August 28 (#).—Earle Meadows, co-holder of the unofficial world pole vault record of 14 feet 11 inches, dislocated his shoulder today. Meadows was competing with a United States team now touring Japan. He Church. | Burial will be in Rock Oreek Affections. Faced with a C. I. O. organizing drive. 50 workers in four of the city's largest shoe repair shops have formed a union which they intend to affiliate with the A. F. of L, it was an- nounced last night after an agreement was reached with em- plovers Negotiations which resulted in signed agree- ments with the Golden Star Shoe Renewers the Star Rapid Shoe Repair Co., the Diamond Bhoe Repair Co. and S. P. Troiano, the Globe Shoe Repair Co. were handled by commit- tees headed by Salvatore Paul Tro- iano, president of the Washington Shoe Workers' Union, and H. Zoslow, representing the employers The union members received pay increases averaging 2! hour week. overtime week's vacation under terms of the agreement, Zoslow said. Previously the employes had worked a 54-hour week The union was formed and tiations started after organizer the United Shoe Workers of America began seeking members in local shoe repair shops, it was said. BRIDEGROOM, 92, DIES 72, Had Married Him as “‘a Business Proposition." WAQUOIT, Mass.. August 28 (& — Edward J. Crowell, 92. a bridegroom of six months and an old stage- coach driver. died today. In March, Crowell married his 72- vear-old housekeeper, Carrie Lizzie Pulsifer, who described the marriage as “a pure business proposition inherit his big house and be taks care of for the rest of my life.” was Crowell’s third marriage. For 20 years, 1880 to 1900, he drove a two-horse coach to meet incoming vessels from New Bedford. Later he became postmaster of Waquoit, serv- ing for eight years before entering the hotel business. President Taft Still Retains Travel Record Roosevelt Still 10,000 Miles Shy of ““‘W hile in Office” Mark. By the Associated Press. President Rooseveit, who travels much and likes it, was still nearly 10,000 miles shy today of equaling William Howard Taft'’s 114,000 mile- age “while in office” record. But he has invitations pending which, partially accepted, would carry him far beyond Taft's total. The late President and Chief Jus- tice, however, chalked up his 114,000 miles in four years, from 1909 to 1913. Mr. Roosevelt is approaching the end of his fifth year in the White House. Before leaving for his Hyde Park, N. Y., home this week the President had traveled 104,271 miles by land and water since March 4, 1933. He covered 96,838 miles up to 1937 for an average of almost 25.000 a year. Since January 1 last he has gone 7,433 miles. The President's current trip to Hvde Park is his fourth there this year. He has invitations of long standing to visit the West Coast of South America, the Philippines, the West Coast of the pay Housekeeper, probably will be on the sidelines for the rest of the tour. ) and many points in the