Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 5

WASHINGTON, - D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, ' 1937. THE ‘EVENING STAR. ) W A5 M Bullet Fired Into Man’s Brain Improves His Mental Condition DRIVER OF TRUCK HELD IN DEATH Four Men Tell Police They | Were in Vehicle When It Struck Victim. Lacey E. Morelock. 29, of 256 Four- teenth street northeast, was ordered held pending a coroner’s inquest today after four colored men were reported to have told police they were passen- gers in his truck when it struck and fatally injured Matthew J. Cusack, 60, of 1931 Sixteenth street at John Marshall place and Pennsylvania avenue last night. Morelock was detained for question- ing by police when he took Cusack to Fmergency Hospital, explaining he | had found him “lying in the street.” Cusack died of a fractured skull sev- | eral minutes after arrival at the hos- | pital. At the scene of the accident police discovered a broken automobile ra- diator cap lving in the street. Later, they said, they found Morelock's truck had no radiator cap. He was arrested and held at No. 1 precinct station for questioning. Detective Sergts. William J. Liver- man and Jerry Flaherty said they ob- tained the statements from Morlock alleged companions after several hours’ questioning. “Their statements show, "Liverman | declared, * “hat Morelock, who worked | for the same company as they do, was | taking them home when his truck | hit Cusack, knocking him uncon-' scious.” Morelock then drove up the block. rehearsed an alibi to the effect that he found the man in the street, | then returned and drove him to the hospital.” = . Landon (Continuied From First Page.) 1236 presidential election, Landon dubbed the oceasion a ‘“radio meet- ing " He sharply questioned the Presi- dent on his foreign policy. announced in his Chicago speech, and asked: “How far does he intend to go?” “We are faced with a situation,” eontinued Landon, “where he may make a mistake that would indeed be tragic, that might lead to war.” The Kansan =aid observers have increasing doubts that the Pres, really had thought his recent international dec- laration through to its logical con- clusion. Conaress, he d, at its last gession passed & neutrality act, and the Preside n it upon him- eell he pi ple of the act.” t Wb for Congress will be to decide whether the President’s own poliey is to be followed or whether we are to adhere to the policies which the last Congress adopted,” said Lan- don. predicting & controversy over foreign relations in the special session. Sees Ny R. A. as Progress Check. Giving Roosevelt full credit for hav- ing dealt with the emergency in 1933 Landon said s failure had come in a second period of his administra- tion. when far-seeing and long-range < were necessary. Industrial on roe 37 per cent in the earlier part of the Roosevelt adminis- t-ation and then came the N. R. A and “progress stopped.” He the N.R. A. as a miserable fail &0 admitted by all. Relief was made & “political foot ball” and “unemploy- “ment s s our biggest problem.” Taxes hold back progress, too. The gocial security ac:, admittedly needed in this coun . was not fair or bene- ficial to all the people. The Wa labor Landon predicted, *unworkable, a m legislation that have to be done il over azain. True, it is a step in the right direction. It is a move in the direction of collective bargaining. Despite its present weaknesses and failings we should place our feet kquarelv upon this act. The wisdom and fairness of the people will eventu- ally bring about & modification so that Justice and equality of all rights, in- cluding that of the public, will be rec- ognized.” Sees Labor Policy as Dangerous. but dan- relations act, would be found ssed-up piece of “Not only unsatisfactol gerous,” was Landon’s description of ¢Roosevelt’s labor polic: He accused the President of failure to protect both life and property. “Men,” he said “were shot and clubbed. And accord- Ing to press reports the President shrugged his shoulders. He sald, ‘a plague on both your houses,’ and went on another vacation.” The court biill, Landon charged, was just another and more serious at- | tempt on the part of Roosevelt to seize | power for himself. The appointment | c” Associate Justice Black to the Su- | reme Court, and the declination of | public hearings in his case by the ad- | The cameraman caught this a and partly in Virginia, on the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, just north of the Railroad Bridge. HE latest development in the) famous boundary dispute be- | tween the District and Vir- ginia came to light today after workmen of the National Capital Parks had painted lines showing just where the boundary runs, according to Uncle Sam's definition. Park officials said | the lines have been painted on the | Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, on | | U. S. route No. 1 and on Military road, which cuts across the Washington- Hoover Airport, so United States park | police may know just where to bring {in traffic violators. Infractions of the law in Virginia are heard, when the United States park police make the arrest, before United States Commissioner John | Barton Phillips in Alexandria, while if the alleged offense takes place in the District the local courts handle it. Most of the violations with which the park police have to deal on the other side of the Potomac River ara traffic cases. Stakes have been set out surveyors to denote where the runs, and broad, white lines painted across the highways con- cerned. On either side appear the letters “D. C.” and “Va.” C. Mar- shall Finnan, superintendent of Na- tional Capital Parl directed the by the line are D. C.-Virginia Boundary Lines Marked on Mt. Vernon Highway AGTION OF CZECHS ANGERS GERMANS Berlin-Prague Relations Are Strained as Pro-Nazi Group and Police Clash. | Es the Associated Press. BERLIN, October 20.—Relations be- tween Nazi Germany and Crechoslo- wakio, never very cordial due to con- stant friction over treatment of Ger- man minorities in the Czech Republic, became more strained as a result of a new border incident. Czechoslovakian police were said to have manhandled some members of the Sudeten Deutsche party October 17 during a rally at Teplice Sanov, | close to the German frontier. Of Czechoslovakia’s 15,000,000 popu- lation, more than 3,000,000 are Ger- | mans, many with Nazi leanings. Czech authorities had forbidden the ! rally, but the party members assem ! bled nevertheless. Czech police broke up the gathering and in the confusion arrested two of the German dele- gates to the Prague parliament. They were taken forcibly to the | police station and afterwards com- utomobile, partly in the District —Star Staff Photo. painting of the lines. It is now possible for a motorist traveling southward from the Dis trict to pass into Virginia along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, | get back into the Diatrict again and | at the Capitol Overlook be back in Virginia again. | The first boundary line is located | just north of the Railroad Bridge. It is encountered again at the bird sanctuary at Roaches Run, and then | just north of the Capitol Overlook is another of the nheavy white lines separating the District and Virginia. The troublesome boundary question between the District and Virginia has long engaged the attention of public officials and Congress set up & Boundary Commission in an effort to settle the dispute, but, although a report was rendered. no final de- cision has been reached. The United States claims it has title to the high- water mark of 1791, when the Dis- trict of Columbia was laid out under the direction of Gen. George Wash- ington. The Mount Vernon Memorial High- way was constructed by the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture, so there is no question of Jand titles involved there. Sprinz. Next Tuesday night former President Herbert Hoover will go on the air in a broadcast outlining his ideas of the New Deal administration | and what should be done by the Re- publicans. Vote Is Postponed. While not turning his back entirely on the proposed national confersnce, Landon has been lukewarm to the pro- posal which has been ardently backed by former President Hoover. While the Kansan was speaking last night ' the National Republican Club in New York postponed a vote on a resolution indorsing the conference, offered by former Representative William S. Ben- net. Andrew J. Humphrey, a charter ! member of the ciub. objected “Mr. Hoover and Mr. Landon are on opposite sides of this question and there is a rivalry for the control of the next national convention.” said Humphrey. “We should steer clear at this time of any unreserved action.” The Republican National Commit- tee is expected to settle the national conference question at & meeting in Chicago November 5. When the com- mittee gathers, George A Ball, com- mitteeman for Indiana, will not be present. He submitted his resignation as a member of the committee last | night. Ball. a 74-vear-old industrial- ist, gave as his reason his age, saying he could not take part in the next campaign with “that attention and vigor conditions call for.” Senator Borah of Idaho and former Senator Watson of Indiana have de- clared their opposition to the national conference plan. Mr. Hoover replied to the Borah statement, saying he did not believe the Idaho Senator had been fully informed on the proposal. It is known that on every list of sug- gested members of & committee to ar- range the convention Borah's name has appeared prominently. Declared Strong Speech. Senator Van Nuys, Democrat. of ministration was all of a piece with | Indiara, who split with the President oosevelt’s denial of the operation “of our constitutional methods of govern- ment. Mr. Landon made no mention of Intraparty affairs, failing to mention the much-discussed plan for a na- tional Republican conference next ST On Displ To get double-value out of your furnace use ‘blue coal vania anthracite that gives you more heat- ing comfort our prices on Colored Blue to Protect You 1413 New York Ave. N on court reorganization, commented lon Landon's reference to foreign policy: | "I can conceive of no situation that | would warrant our becoming an active | participant in the Far East conflict unless we provoked it ourselves.” YOUL’LL find that the MOTORSTOKOR exactly meets your definition of home comfort. It provides clean, automatic, steady :I:Il with anthracite. See e ' TOR KOR y at Our Showreoms ' . the high-quality Pennsyl- from your fuel dollars, ‘blue coal’ Get, LW ME. 4840 $10 BOND FORFEITED IN NEWSPAPER THEFT Charles H. Dabney Captured Sun- day on Charge of Stealing | Sunday Star. | Charles H. Dabney, colored, 17, of 1617 Eleventh street, forfeited $10 in Poiice Court yester on & charge of stealing a Sunday Star from a door- step on T street between Ninth and Tenth streets. | Captured early Sunday morning by Pvt. James A Goddard of the second precinct, Dabney was charged with the theft of four newspapers, which he is-alleged to have placed in a bag preparatory to reselling them. He was charged in court, however, with but one offense. The theft and resale of Sunday newspapers is raoidly spreading, espe- cially in. that part of the city, police were told. Dadney’s arrest followed an ‘agreement between a Star route man and second precinct police. Meryweather to Speak. Thomas A. Meryweather director of the Crime Pre sociation of Philadelphia, the annual meeting of Directors of the Bureau tion at noon tomorrow. * 1703 K street. He for his crime prever the youths of Phils executive ion As- peak at ¢ Board of . Rehabilita- Wesley Hall, widely known Jn work among Aphia. Air Trainipg for Students. Univegsity students are being trained for the South Africa Air Force. 714 13th St. N.W. A 100% Locally Owned and plained they were brutally treated. Konrad Henleln, leader of the Sude- ten, promptly wrote a flaming letter | to Czechoslovakia's President Eduard | Benes insisting on autonomy for the | German districts and hinting at “dis- astrous consequences” if Germans were not given their “rights.” In Prague, an official communique stated that it was the German depu- ties who started the trouble at Telpice Sanov by resisting efforts of the police o stop the rally. 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Johnson, manager of the Veterans’ Administration facility at Tuscaloosa, Ala., who reported the case, ‘'did not recommend ‘shooting as a genéral remedy for mentai illness. Writing in the Military Surgeon, Dr. Johnson said a 43-year-old World War weteran permanently disabled be- causé of .a bone infection, has lived in the base of his brain near the: pi- tuitary gland—the master regulator of the body's gland secretions. One day in 1932 this veteran, suffer- ing constant mental depression and | finding himself unable to work, pointed & revolver at the middle of his fore- head and pulled the trigger. Today he | 1= mentally normal, remembers well, and his worries of five years ago have almost entirely disappeared, Dr. John- | son declared. Immediately after the attempted suicide, the bullet was located by | conacious, was “greatly depressed.” had little to say, and preferred to be alone. “Three days later,” Dr. Johnson declared, “he appeared greatly im- proved and appeared mqre rational and as & result it was decided not to make any attempt to remove the bul- let.” Now, the writer added, he “has taken a new lease of life, being in- terested in his surroundings, playing cards with other putien's, and show- ing greater interest in affairs gen- erally.” Eyeball Glasses, Several near-sighted movie actresses wear lenses to fit over their eyes, en- abling them to see without the aid of for five:years with the ‘bullet imbedded -X-ray examination. 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