Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weatner Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow gen- erally fair and continued cool; moderate ! northerly winds. Temperatures today— Highest, 65, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 56, at 7:15 am, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 20 85th YEAR. No. 34,103. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C., -U. S. HOSPITAL BOMBING " DESPITE FLAG DISPLAY -CHARGED TO JAPANESE Attack Deliberate, Says Adventist Mission Head. TKawagoe, Behind Heavy Guard,| fReassures Foreigners of Safety ‘ SHRAPNEL HITS (JapaneseEnvoy to China Breaks Silence ‘ to Urge Americans Not to Be CHINESE AIDES Shanghai Defense Positions Are Abandoned. BACKGROUND— American lives and property in gerat peril during Japanese inva- sion of China and “undeclared” war around Shanghai and in North. Five Americans have lost lives. Japanese “big push” to Shanghai was held up by stiff Chinese resistance to landing of heavy Japanese reinforcements from the Yangtze River.. Chi- nese have been constructing strong second line entrenchments on which to fall back when Japanese attack becomes too hot. By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, September 13.—P. V. ‘Thomas, head of the American Sev- enth-Day Adventist Mission Hospital at Waichow, charged Japanese today with the apparently deliberate bomb- ing of the hospital despite the promi- nent display of American flags. Thomas, who arrived here today, bringing wounded members of his Chinese staff, said Japanese war planes bombed the hospital for 15 minutes yesterday. American flags, he declared, were prominently displayed over the mis- sion and the attack was apparently deliberate, as there were no military objectives nearby. Barracks Bombed Later. A barracks 2 miles away, he said, | was bombed later and was subjected to a new attack this morning. | Several of the six Chinese members | of his staff were placed in a hospital | here suffering from shrapnel wounds. Waichow is some 50 miles, up the | on River, . northwest of Hong | C “Ignoring big American flags in the | hospital compound,” the Council | Bluffs, Jowa, mission head said, “Japa- nese aviators rcpeatedly bombed the ! hospital and nearby airport. | “Several members of my Chinese staff were wounded. I have brought two of them hete for treatment.” Chinese troops today repulsed a Japanese landing party which at- tacked several “anti-piracy” forts at Bias Bay, northeast of Hong Kong. Japanese bluejackets, landing from cruisers in the bay, inflicted serious damage on the forts before they were beaten back. Purpose of the maneuver was be- | lieved to be the cutting off of war supplies from China which have been moving to the interior by way of Hong Kong. It was believed the Japanese would try to occupy the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway to carry out their objective. Chinese planes were reported to have attacked three Japanese war- ships off .Samichau Island, turned to Kong Moon-ching. Chinese Abandon Kiangwan. SHANGHAI, September 13 (#).—Un- der heavy fire from Japanese land and sea batteries, the Chinese Army aban- doned the hotly-fought Kiangwan salient north of Shanghai today and withdrew all forces to the powerfully fortified second line defense network of trenches stretching from Shanghai 25 miles to the northwest. The Chinese retreat was orderly and strategic to prepared positions which they had expected to fall back on as soon as the full force of Japan's mechanized advance surged against them. The Japanese followed hard on the heels of the retreating Chinese and quickly occupied the Far Eastern race course and the now completely ruined Kiangwan civic center. The Chinese had held the area for a full month against the flercest Japanese assaults. Cholera, constant Oriental peril of either war or peace, took a grave turn | in the international areas, while 23 Americans were being evacuated on a United States warship. There were unconfirmed reports that one American left in Shanghai was dying of the dread disease. In all Page A-3.) ELLIS P. BUTLER, 67, NOTED AUTHOR, DIES Humorist Was Best Known for Story “Pigs Is Pigs"—Long Had Been Il By the Associated Press FLUSHING, N. Y., September 13— Word was received here today by a PARADEDBY MAZS near | Macao. The planes eventually rc-j “Unnecessarily BY MORRIS Associated Press St Gates of the Ambassador’s house many Americans fleeing for their lives. We sat in semi-darkness. The win- dows of Kawagoe's house were covered with shutters. The palatial official quarters, which had been the scene of many brilliant functions in the past, virtually were deserted. A few servants flitted about silently in the gloom. Almost mechanically, Kawagoe re- | iterated the Japanese view of his country’s aims in China: “Anti-fapanism and communism must be stamped out.” “How long will it take?” I asked. “I have no. idea,” he said. Asked about a statement credited to President Roosevelt—that the Sino- Japanese situation was an “awful mess"—Kawagoe replied: “It may be possible that the United States does not understand what Japan is trying to accomplish in | China. Foreigners should not be ap- | | prehensive of their future trade pos- | Apprehensive.” J. HARRIS, aff Correspondent. SHANGHAI, September 13.—Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe fidgeted nervously today in his machine-gun protected official residence and declared Americans and other foreigners in Shanghai should not be “un- necessarily apprehensive” of their safety. in the French concession were locked and barred. o Annamese. machine-gunners from French Indo-China patrolled outside the walls, alert to protect' Kawagoe from any threats to his safety Breaking his silence for the first time since Shanghai hostilities started, Kawagoe tried to present to me a calm view of the upheaval which has sent He professed to believe that the situation “is not so serious as it seems.” sibilities if Japan wins her objectives. “Foreign trade and commerce need not be affected unfairly.” The Ambassador refused, however, to discuss the situation of American and other foreign commercial inter- ests in Manchuria and Northern China since Japanese occupation and presented a pathetic figure. When he became Ambassador to China in April, 1936, his declared ob- Jective was to untangle conflicting in- terests of Chinese and Japanese. The thunder of Japanese guns in North China July 7 endangered any chance of peaceful settlement. Shang- hai hostilities starting August 13 wrecked it. So the Ambassador is awaiting the turn of events in which, officially at least, he is supposed to take part. GERMANY'S MIGHT 600,000 at Nurembergf Watch Two “Armies” Locked in Combat. By the Associated Press. NUREMBERG, Germany, Septem- ber 13.—A feverishly excited throng of 600,000 Germans saw today on Zeppelin Field & mighty display of Germany's new armed might—two “armies” locked in mock combat. These vivid games of war stirred by far the greatest enthusiasm of na- tional socialism’s annual congress. Twice they were repeated on and above the crowd-jammed terrain. Twelve thousand men, 1,400 motor- ized units, 1,500 horses and 450 air- planes took part in the mimic war and in proud parade before Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler. | New Bombers of three makes and | “63.7” anti-aircraft guns of a type :u,sed successfully in Spain thrilled | | the people. A few new tanks were | | shown. Heils Are Exchanged. Der Fuehrer's voice blared from a loud speaker soon after his arrival at| the field: “Heil, soldaten!” A swelling chorus roared back: “Heil, Mein Fuehrer!” And Hitler proclaimed: “You are the nation's pride. have become men!” | All branches of Germany's armed | forces took part in the demonstration marking the last day of the annual | congress. Rank on rank of roaring bombers and | swift pursuit planes paraded over-} head, and then a large group gave the 250,000 spectators their greatest thrill by flying across the Zeppelin fleld in Swastika formation while anti- | aircraft guns barked in salute. | Germany's pressing needs were | summed up by Hitler as “peace and | colonies,” Those two things would permit Ger- | many to concentrate on the great problem of obtaining food supplies for her millions, Der Reichsfuehrer told foreign newspaper men in an in- terview at Burg Castle after reviewing | | 100,000 Storm Troopers at the Nazi | Party Congress yesterday. Needing peace for many years, Hit- er said, Germany has no time for “senseless adventures” while building | toward economic self-sufficiency, a task that should occupy her forces | for 40 or 50 years. | Needs War-Lost Colonies. | But to gain that self-sufficiency the Reich needs the colonies she lost in | the World War and “no more,” de-| | clared Der Fuehrer, reiterating Ger- many’s “moral right” to her old pos- sessions. “Pure economics” dictate the de- mand for colonies which would wipe out any Reich food shortages, Hitler contended. Further, he predicted Eu- You | Comics_. B-14-15 | Radio Woman Accused Of Frightening Miner to Death By the Associated Press FAIRMONT, W. Va., September 13. —Prosecuting Attorney Harrison Con- away, in filing a charge of manslaugh- ter against 8 woman, said today she had frightened a 60-year-old coal miner to death. The ‘prosecutor said he was told Mrs. Rose Laktich went to the home of Frank Dobbie Sunday and began beating the side of his house with a club because of reports her son had married his daughter. Dobbie, an in¥alid, got out of bed to investigate, Conaway added, stum-~ bled and dropped dead. In addition to the manslaughter charge, Mrs. Laktich also was held on a warrant charging disturbance of the peace. A coroner’s inquest will be held Wednesday evening. ROOSEVELT THREAT LEADS T0 SENTENCE Former Deputy Marshal Also Ac- cused of Writing Former Ethel du Pont. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 13.—Morton D. Wainwright, 72, former Seattle deputy United States marshal convicted of sending a letter threatening the life of President Roosevelt, today was sen- tenced to serve a year in jail. Federal Judge Hugh D. McLellan imposed the sentence upon the recom- mendation of Assistant United States Attorney Arthur J. B. Cartier. Federal investigators said Wain- wright also had sent leters to Miss Ethel du Pont, now the bride of Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr. son of the President. They described the lan- guage in the letters as ranking with the most violent ever to come before them, although the contents were not made public. The letter threatening the President was received at the White House July 1. Summary of Page. | Page. A-15 Drama B-16 } Short Story..B-6 Editorials. . A-10 | Society. B-3 Lost & Found B-11 ‘ Sports A. 7-18 Obituary._ | Woman's Pg. A-14 WAR IN FAR EAST. Kawagoe, guarded heavily, reassures foreigners of safety. Page A-1 U. S. hospital bombing charged to Japanese airplanes. Page A-1 Sixth article by Upton Close on Sino- Japanese “war.” FOREIGN. A-12 daughter of the death of Ellis Parker | ope would not “settle down” until| Germany’s armed might paraded at Butler, humorist, author of “Pigs Is| the colonial question is solved. Pigs,” at his Summer home in Housa- | tonic, Mass. He was 67 years old. The daughter, Marjorie Butler, said her father died this morning of com- | Whether Germany would use such col- plications following gradually failing | Ohles as naval bases. health over the last several years. He is survived by his widow Ida, three daughters, Mrs. Elsie Walker of Chicago, Mrs. Jan Chapin of Yonkers, N. Y. Miss Marjorie Butler and & son, Ellis Olmsted Butler of New | York City. Sculptor's Trial Postponed. NEW YORK, September 13 (#).— Trial of Robert Irwin, 29-year-old | sculptor charged with the murder of | pretty Veronica Gedeon, a model; her | mother and a man lodger, was post- poned today until & commission ap- pointed to inquire into Irwin’s sanity, reports to General Sessions Court. 2 Colcnies are wasted if an enormous armed force is necessary to maintain them, he said, in reply to a question First, it is | necessary to have a navy before mak- | ing bases, Hitler sparred with his in- | terviwers. He denied any German ambition “to subordinate any foreign peoples in Europe” and limited German activity to “within the framework of our own people.” Dr. Paul Goebbels, minister for propaganda, today turned his report on Nazi social welfare achievements into an attack on churches. “Churches always have talkeC ‘Love thy neighbor,’” Goebbels charged, “but they have made no attempt to relieve Hitler of the care of the poor. No wonder churches lost the popular Nuremberg by Nazis. Page A-1 Insurgents break loyalists’ line in Leon Province. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Black holds life membership in Klan, reporter finds. Page A-1 Borah quotes Black as denying Klan charge in private talk. Page A-5 Martin begins purge of United Auto ‘Workers. Page A-13 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. At least 200 sailing craft expected for regatta opening. Page A-2 Crowd gathers at Capital as two tons of cork catch afire. Page A-3 Business group formed to fight for repeal of new tax. Page A-7 Ramspeck assails McKellar as good government ‘‘menace” Page B-1 ‘Work on new bridge across Rock Creek faces more delay. Page B-1 Mattern describes fruitless search for respect which the Nazis gatned.” sl lost Soviet fiyers. Page B-1 L control. In many respects Kawagoe | Page A-4 | ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, [EACE REPULSE FRANET'S DENAND FOR SPANS SEAT Rebel Chief Holds Fascists | Are Only Representative Government. ANGLO-FRENCH FLEET OF 60 SHIPS FORMED China’s Appeal to Assembly Is Made Under Art. 10, 11 and' 17 of Covenant. BACKGROUND— Ethiopia, Spain and China are providing tasks for League of Na- tions Assembly. Conquest of Haile Selassie’s kingdom by Italians led to demand for recognition of the new Italian empire embracing for- mer Ethiopia. Insurgent forces in Spain have received recognition of Germany, Italy, Portugal and the Vatican as a de facto government in Spain. Japanese invasion of China, begun July 7, appears des- tined to become struggle for domi- nation of all China. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 13. — The League of Nations rebuffed an attempt to unseat the Spanish government | from its Assembly today at the outset of a tense, closely guarded session | which is to hear a Spanish accusation |of Italy as a Mediterranean pirate power. ‘While the Assembly met, unani- | mously electing the Aga Khan, famous | sportsman of India, president, France | and Great Britain assembled a mighty | fleet of 60 men of war to drive mys- | terious raiders from the inland sea. Already there were unconfirmed re- |ports from Spanish Cartagena, on the Mediterranean, that a pirate sub- marine, her crew still alive, lay | blasted and crippled under the water. French and British naval authori- ties decided to start the patrol by the end of the week—regardless of whether Italy decides to take part. The position of the twq countries was that the patrol must get started, regardless of any modifications Italy might suggest. Italian objections, it | was said, could be brought up later, | possibly at a meeting of the Spanish Civil War Non-Intervention Com- mittee. (Italy today viewed the “anti- piracy” patrol as an imperfect in- strument, tending to revive the possibilities of - war, Rome reports said. Premier~ Mussolini and his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister, debated the mat- ter of Italian participation in the suggested policing of seaplanes.) Franco Writes to League. The Spanish insurgent Generalis- simo Francisco Franco, in a letter to the League, contended his government was the only one representing the will of the Spanish people. But the League Credentials Com- mittee decided credentials of the Va- lencia delegation were in order and the Assembly seated it. The Assembly likewise spiked any hopes of Mussolini that the League would expel Ethiopia—which he has conquered — from membership. No voice was raised against Ethiopia dur- ing the session of the Credentials Committee. Her right to continue in membership as an independent na- tion, although she actually now be- longs to Italy, was not questioned. Neither Italy nor Ethiopia was rep- resented by a delegate; but the de- throned Emperor, Haile Selassie, sent (See GENEVA, Page A-3.) Paredes May Quit. MANILA, September 13 (P).—Spec- ulation as to plans of Quintin Paredes, resident commissioner for the Philip- | pine Commonwealth at Washington, was aroused today when Paredes an- nounced he planned to open a law office here. Paredes did not say di- rectly he would resign. / Grounded Ship Safe. SEATTLE, September 13 (#)—The 141-foot motor ship Eastern Prince of Seattle, which ran aground Saturday near Sandpoint, Alaska, south of the Aleutian Peninsula, was safe at a pier in the Sandpoint Harbor today. Today’s Star EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 H. R. Baukhage. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown Page A-11 Lemuel Parton. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds gain (table), Delay in steel upturn forecast. Stocks slump again (table). Curb list down (table). Missouri Pacific plans ready. A-19 A-19 A-20 A-21 A-22 SPORTS. Chase, Phebus, Krakauskas loom large in Nats’ slab plans. Page A-16 Giants, Cubs in tight stretch run for pennant. Page A-16 Riggs looms as heir apparent to net throne of Budge. Page A-17 Bantam limit may sap power of Jef- fra in Escobar bout. Page A-18 McLeod rounds out 25 years as golf pro at Columbia. Page A-18 MISCELLANY, Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature’s Children, Page A-14 Page A-14 SEPTEMBER 13, Page B-6 Page B-6 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-15 Shipping News. Criss-word Puzzle, Bedtime Stories, Letter-Out. Winning Contract. ¢ Foening Star 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. ##* BUT, DOC, THAT PREHISTORIC RPETUAL EATING MONSTER BLACK DECLARED MEMBER OF KLAN Life Allegiance Status Held Voted in Presence of Imperial Wizard. BACKGROUND— The Senate confirmed nomina- tion of Semator Hugo L. Black to the Supreme Court by overwhelm- ing vote despite charges at the time that he was a Klansman. The Judiciary Committee, after a perfunctory hearing, recommended confirmation, and the Senate acted favorably after a bricf but heated debate. Some of Black’s support- ers denied the charges of Klan membership, but he made no com- ment himself. Hugo L. Black, newly appointed as- sociate justice of the Supreme Court, holds a life membership in the Ku Klux Klan, although he resigned in 1925, according to a scries of copy- righted articles released for publica~ tion today by the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette and the North American Newspaper Alliance. The material in the series is based on an independent investigation of Klan records by a reporter for the Post-Gazette, Ray Sprigle. It touches on some of the points raised in the Senate during the fight against Black’s confirmation as a Supreme Court jus- tice. At no time has Black either admitted or denied being-a member of the Klan. According to the Post-Gazette ar- ticles, Black holds a life membership in the Klan and is one of half a dozen men in the United States who has been awarded the solid gold engraved grand passport that betokens life membership in the organization. Black, according to the Post-Ga- zette, joined Robert E. Lee Klan, No. 1, Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in Alabama on Sep- tember 11, 1923. According to the articles, Gov. Bibb Graves of Ala- bama, who appointed his wife, Mrs. Dixie Graves, to Black’s seat in the Senate, was a member of the Robert E. Lee Klan at the same time. Regarding the disclosure the De- partment of Justice issued the follow- ing statement without further com- ment: “In response to imquiries from the press as to whether the Department of Justice conducted an investigation of Senmator Black prior to his ap- pointment to the Supreme Court, the Attorney General said: “‘His record of public service and selection on two occasions by the State of Alabama as United States Senator made his suitability beyond question.’ " Resignation Held Unaccepted. According to the Post-Gazette, Black joined the Klan before his future as United States Senator and Supreme Court justice had begun to take form, and submitted his resig- nation on July 19, 1925. His resig- nation, however, apparently was never accepted by the Klan, but remained, unannounced to the membership, in the files of the Alabama realm. Black’s resignation, written in longhand, was submitted shortly be- fore he entered the primary race for the Democratic nomination to suc- ceed Oscar W. Underwood as Sena- tof from Alabama. After he had won in the primaries, however, according to Klan records discovered by the Post-Gazette, Black attended a State meeting, or klorero, of the Klan held in Birmingham Klan headquarters September 2, 1926. Im- perial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans and leading klansmen from other (See BLACK, Page A-5.) Sergeant Stony Craig and his United States Marines A comic strip for all the family STARTING TODAY In The Star (Page B-15) NOT EXTINCT. A PICTURE OF A VERY . HERE'S LIVE ONE! SATURDAY'S Circulation. 130,198 SUNDAY'S Circulation, 147,079 (Some returns not yet received.) Man, 72, Found in Tatters H ere, Has $1,494 Cash in Pockets All Relatives Have “Gimmes,” He Tells Hospital Attendants. Malnourished and tattered, a shiver- ing old man found wandering in Northeast Washington early today was sent to Gallinger Hospital by pitying policemen, who later found $1,494 in cash and bank books listing deposits of $15,000 in' his pockets. At the hospital the man gave his name as Herman Bode,.and said he was 72 years old. But his mind ram- bled when he was questioned further, and he said he could not remember where he came from or what he was doing in Washington/ Policeman G. W. Cardona of the twelfth precinct found Bode shivering and wandering aimlessly at 8:30 a.m. today at New York avenue and Fair- view street northeast. The man car- ried an old sack containing kitchen knives, a bag of coffee, a cup, some scraps of bread and a few figs. Believing the man was starving, Cardona took him to the hospital There a search of his pockets revealed one $500 bill, four $100 bills, two $50 bills and the remainder of the $1,494 in $20, $10 and $1 bills. Pressed for information about his relatives, the man said: “I had a wife and three children, SECRETARY FOUND GAS FUMES VICTIM Attractive F. S. A. Worker, 33, Discovered in Base- ment of Morton Mansion. Mrs. Lenore S. Newson, 33, attrac- tive Farm Security Administration secretary, was found dead today in a gas-filled basement apartment in the old Levi Morton mansion, at 1500 Rhode Island avenue. Fumes poured from four unlighted stove burners, and a letter addressed to Mrs. Newson's estranged husband was lying sealed on a table when her body was found at 7:25 a.m. by her roommate, Miss Jean McAllister. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald read Mrs. Newson's letter to her hus- band and said it contained nothing that would explain her death. He said he will issue a certificate of sui- cide ‘later today, although no motive for such an act has been established. Mrs, Newson and Miss McAllister, also an F. 8. A, secretary, moved into the former Lome of Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrison and one-time Ambassador to France, about a month ago. The mansion, still decorated with the lavish furnish- ings of its days of splendor, is now operated as a lodging house. Shocked by her discovery, Miss Mc- Allister could shed little light on the mystery of Mrs. Newson’s death. She said her roommate appeared in good spirits last night. When she awakened this morning, Miss Mc- Allister related, she found her miss- ing. In the corridor she smelled gas and traced it downstairs to the kitchen. Mrs. Newson came to Washington about two and a half years ago from a regional office of the Resettlement Administration. She brought her small daughter and told friends she was estranged from her husband, Robert J. Newson of Shreveport, La. About a month ago Mrs. Newson obtained leave to place her daughter in a convent school in Louisiana. Mrs. Newson was secretary to Ma- son Barr, special assistant to the dep- uty administrator. The Morton mansion was recently purchased by the National Democratic Club of America, which plans to take it over about November 1. RARE VASE SHOWN NEW YORK, September 13 (#)— A rare Syrian glass vase, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art located after ‘a world-wide search, was on display today. The vase, dating back to the sixth or seventh century, was said by mu- () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. U. . TO RELEASE §300,000000 GOLD 10 “EASE™ CREDIT Open-Market Purchases of Short-Term Securities Also Approved. REVERSAL OF POLICY TO AID BANK RESERVES Stock Market Rises, Then Drops. Government Bonds Also Fail to Hold Gains. BACKGROUND— Decision to release “frozen™ gold and begin open-market pur= chases marks a sharp reversal of Government’s fiscal policy and con=- statutes a mild inflationary move. Principally at the insistence of Reserve Board Gov. Eccles, the Government in recent months had endedvored to clamp down on credit sources, fearing a too-rapid business erpansion might lead to excessive prices and dangerous speculation. By the Assoclated Press ‘The Government today began a new credit-easing course of action designed HERMAN BODE. —Star Staff Photo. but they are dead. I haven't any relatives who haven't got the ‘gim- mes’ I don’t want to see them. Everybody has got the ‘gimmies.’” 8lyly, he joked with the young and prefty nurses and grinned broadly as he said: “Maybe you think what I need is (See BODE, Page A-3.) ROAD 10B FOREMAN KILLED BY TRUCK Man in Charge of Arlington Grading Force Victim of Accident, Raymond Neil, 30, of Chase City, Va., grade foreman on the Lee Boule- vard extension project in Arlington County, was crushed to death beneath & concrete mixing truck today. The accident occurred at Lee Boule- vard and Fort Myer drive, Arlington. Police said Neil was standing behind the truck, driven by Robert Thomas, colored, 1209 Potomac street south- west, and it backed over him while he was talking to another man. Coroner W. C. Wellburn issued a certificate of accidental death. It was the second death from traffic accidents in the Capital area over the week end, which was unusually free of serious automobile accidents in the District proper. William E. Moore, 70, of Friendly, Md,, died in Casualty Hospital yester- day of injuries received Saturday night in a collision near Allentown, Md. Police said he was riding in a car driven by John J. Bickines of Ana- costia, which collided with another machine, operated by Edward Biggs, also of Anacostia. Less than a dozen persons were re- ported hurt, none of them seriously, in District accidents yesterday. Mrs. Etta Durbin, 48, colored, 1300 block of Ninth street, was taken to Casualty early today with painful chest and head injuries received in an accident near College Park, Md. She was reported il fair condition. WOMAN DIES OF HURTS IN FALL FROM WINDOW By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 13. —Mrs, Anna McDonald, 47, of 1457 Monroe street, Washington, died in Sibley Hospital last might from”in- juries suffered when she fell or leaped from the second floor of the Sacred Heart Home near here, Mrs. McDonald, who is survived by her husband, Louis McDonald, and a daughter, Miss Hazel McDonald, was removed to the Washington hospital by Prince Georges County police, who are Investigating circumstances sur- rounding her fall, Good Samaritan Role Fatal. GREENWICH, N. Y., September 13 (#)—The role of Good Samaritan seum officials to be one of four of its type in existence. Dr. M. 8. Diamond, curator of Near Eastern art at the museum, said he had made many trips to Europe in search of the vase. He finally found it—in an East Side curio shop here, ) cost Amos Marceill, 40, his-life today. Taken ill while helping a neighbor carry furniture from a blazing house, to assure continuance of the “easy” money which fiscal authorities have credited with spurring business re- covery. It provides (1) for expenditure of $300,000,000 of the Treasury's “frozen” gold hoard—the first release since the gold “sterilization” program was be- gun last December; and (2) for open- market purchases of short-term Gov- ernment securities, Fiscal authorities kept a close watch on the day’s erratic stock market, but official comments on effects of the new credit program were few, Noting early market gains and the later sharp recession, one high fiscal authority said it appeared many traders merely had been waiting a slight upward tilt in quotations to re- new the liquidation movement of re- cent days. Gains Wiped Out. Stocks mounted one to three points in an opening market rally, but later selling pressure wiped out gains and cut some securities to even lower levels. The Government security market followed the anticipated course in pointing higher during early trading, with some bonds recording a $3 gain per $1,000. A later loss of part of these gains brought expressions of surprise from some authorities. Federal Reserve Board officials em- phasized the purpose of the credit plan was not to support the Govern- ment security market, but it generally was assumed the program would have this collateral effect. This program was agreed on late yesterday by the Federal Reserve Board. FPiscal experts said it was a logical continuation of the board’s recent policy of lowering rediscount fates of Reserve banks, It also marked, they sald, & distinct reversal of the policy of tightening money rates initiated with the gold sterilization program. At that time, however, banks held large surplus lendable funds. The policy then was to prevent credit inflation. Open-Market Purchases. The open-market purchases of Fed- eral securities will be made by the Reserve Board's Open-Market Com- mittee. The effect of both this opera- tion and the release of gold from the Treasury’s inactive account will be to swell banks' supplies of excess re- serves, or lendable money, These reserves, which form the basis for credit expansion, now total about $750,000,000. Although the Re- serve Board was said to consider this sum presently adequate to provide an abundance of credit at low interest rates, officials cited that Fall and Christmas currency and credit de- mands customarily reduce excess re serves by $400,000,000 to $600,000,000. ' Such a reduction in lendable bank funds, officials said, might bring a “squeeze” in the money markets this Fall, lifting interest rates. Reserves at Present Level. Reserve Board officials said the new credit program would be 50 op- erated as to maintain excess reserves at approximately their present level. This will be accomplished, of- ficials said, by adjusting purchases of Government securities to needs for excess reserves. When the Re- serve Board acquires Federal obliga- tions, much of the money paid for them goes to banks, bolstering their supplies of idle money. In releasing $300,000,000 of its $1,« 370,000,000 “sterilized” gold holdings the Treasury will issue that sum of gold certificates to Federal Reserve banks, which will credit the Treasury with a $300,000,000 deposit. Can Draw on Deposit. ‘The Treasury then can draw on this deposit for day-to-day spending and the money will flow intd commercial banks, increasing their lendable funds. Officials said the $300,000,000 of “spending money” might eliminate the need for some Treasury borrowing in the future, or might be used to pare down the outstanding $37,200,« 000,000 debt. Future Treasury gold acquisitions will continue to be “sterilized”—that is, they will be financed with funds borrowed from the money market. This borrowing removes from the supply of lendable funds amounts equivalent to those added by gold im= ports. Gilbert A. Geist Dies. PHILADELPHIA, September 13 (#), —Gilbert Allan Geist, artist and for- mer professor of architecture at (the Texas Agricultural and Mechaniecal College, Bryan, Tex., died last night. He became a member of the Texas Marceill died 20 minutes later at his own home of what Dr. D. F. Mc- Arthur described as s heart attack brought on by excitement, 4 college faculty in 1915 and since his retirement two years ago had been’ employed as architect on a Federal project,