Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 2

INMURDER-SUICIDE Mother Shoots 5 of 7 Chil- dren and Self—“No More Shells” Saves the Others. By the Associated Pross. NORWALK, Iowa, November 1.— Neighbors aided a grief-stricken father today in making funeral arrangements for a 35-year-old mother, who shot and killed five of her seven children and herself. The mother, Mrs. G. R. McAninch, Wwho fired a charge from a small-bore shotgun into the forehead of each child, said in a note found beside an open Bible she apparently had been reading, that she did not have enough shells to take all their lives. The two surviving children, Ray, 15, and Gail, 11, came upon the bodies Saturday night when they returned home from a Halloween celebration. ddressed to them, the You will find us dead this morning. Don't get excited.” After advising them what to do, she added: “I have stood all I can take and best to take the kids along. All that saves the boys is no more shells.” The children slain were Cora Belle, 13; Geraldine, 10; Morris, 6; Max, 4, and Dickie, 2. The 42-year-old father was in the Polk County Jail when the tragedy occurred. He bad been seized earlier in the day for investigation in a case of breaking and entering. Yesterday he was released, however, to join his surviving sons. “I was afraid something like this would happen,” McAninch said. Ray and Gail told Coroner C. H. Mitchell that when they entered their home they saw an oil lamp burning on the table in the living room. Be- side the lamp was the note and the Bible, opened at the Thirty-third Chapter of Exodus, dealing with the birth of Moses and the slaying of male children as ordered by Pharaoh. After reading the first few lines of the note together, the boys looked across the room where Morris and Max lay dead on an improvised bed. In a small bedroom, off the living room, the baby, Dickie, lay with his mother on the bed. Both were dead. Racing upstairs to another bedroom, the two boys found their sisters dead. Hystericaily, the youths summoned neighbors, Ray, a sophomore in high school, told Coroner Mitchell is mother often had threatened to take her life “if it wasn't for the kids.” — MAN IS RESCUED FROM LYNCH MOB Prisoner, Charged With Criminal Assault on Young Bride, Rushed to Detroit. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Nov. 1—Rescued from & threatened lynching, John 8. Har- ris, 28-year-old colored man, charged with criminal assault on a young bride, cowered safely under guard in the County Jail here today. Detectives, reinforced by sheriff’s deputies, removed Harris Saturday night from Taylor Township Justice Court, on the city's outskirts, when an unruly crowd had assembled at the hearing. Nearly 40 men, from whom De- tective Jake Spolanski said he heard ‘mutterings of “Let’s get him,” had followed Harris and his guard into the court room, where the prisoner pleaded guilty to the attack last Mon- day. Detectives said they had been informed & rope and a five-gallon can of kerosene were in possession of the erowd. Encircled by his guards, Harris was led away to an automobile and driven quickly into Detroit. He had been placed under $100,000 bond by Jus- tice Stanley Grendel and bound over te Circuit Court. In a police show-up yesterday Detective Edwin Robinson said Harris was identified by another woman as her attacker August 27. —_— AUTO SHOW LIKELY TOBED. C.’S BIGGEST Gate Receipts So Far 60 Pet. Above Last Year's—10,000 Saw Show Yesterday. Increasing attendance indicates that the current automobile show will be the greatest in Washington history, officials said today in reporting that gate receipts yesterday showed a gain of 60 per cent over the corresponding day last year. More than 10,000 persons crowded into the Automotive Exhikit Hall at 1242 Twenty-fourth street N.W. yes- terday to inspect the 1938 models of a score of different makes of automobiles on display there. The eighteenth annual automobile show opened Saturday under Sponsor- ship of the Washington Automotive ‘Trade Association and will continue through next Saturday night. The doors are open from 11 am. to 11 p.m. each day. . Motorist Calls Car “Baby.” One annoyed motorist calls his car “baby” because it never goes anywhere without its rattle. in Upper: Gail McAninch, 11, who was alive today because his despondent mother had only siz shotgun shells with which to kill five of her seven childrgn and herself at Norwalk, Iowa. Gail and his brother, Ray, 15, were spared. “All that saves you boys is that I have no more shells,” a note left by the mother said. Lower: The single-shot .410 gun which the mother loaded six times to kill the children and herself. TRAFFIGVICTIM DIES OF INJURIES Colored Man Was Hurt Sep- tember 19—Dozen Figure in Week End Accidents. Walter Douglas, 76, colored, 1521 S street N.W., who was injured in an automobile accident September 19 on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard near Brentwood, Md., died yesterday Freedmen's Hospital. Prince Georges County police were investi- gating the accident. Meanwhile, a dozen persons received broken bones or were painfully cut and bruised in traffic accidents in and near Washington over the week end. The antler of a deer strapped to an automobile caught in the clothing of Jean I. Porrier, 57, infirmarian at the Georgetown Preparatory School on the Rockville pike and threw him to the ground last night as he was crossing the pike after getting off a bus in front of the school. His left ankle was fractured and hjs hand cut. The car driver, Loren A. Singer, 39, of Hyattsville, Md., told police he was returning from a hunting trip in New York State. He was not held: Nearly half the traffic victims treat- ed at local hospitals were pedestrians struck by automobiles. They includ- ed Harry R. Smith, 68, of 1720 New- ton street N'W.; Lewis Clague, 42, colored, 1734 U street N.W.; Mariel Butler, 8, colored, 1507 T street N.W., and May Albert, 48, of 524 Third street N.W., who was struck by a hit-and-run motorist late Saturday night. Perhaps the most seriously hurt, she remained in undetermined condition at Emergency Hospital to- day. Others injured included Marie Walk- ‘er, 33, colored, 305 W street N.W.; Alton M. Jones, 25, colored, 765 Gresham place N.W.; Helen Adams, 18, colored, 1720 Seaton place N.W.; Charlie Brooks, colored, 1841 Sixth street N.W.. and Oscar J. Loy, 32, of Arlington, Va. All were hurt in acci- dents in nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia. St eI SENTENCE SUSPENDED NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (#).—Gertrude O’Keefe, 36, Wall Street typist, whose flance, George O. Frank, a bank teller, was slain recently, was given a sus- pended sentence in Brooklyn Court today for illegal possession of a loaded revolver. She pleaded guilty on October 21 to the gun charge. Poiice found the Wweapon, a .32-caliber revolver, in her dresser before a complaint charging her with Frank's murder had been dismissed. oY ART PICTURES Sets Number 1, 2, 3 and 4 Now Available MNY one is entitled to one week’s set of Four Pictures in the Art Appreciation campaign of The Star upon payment of only 39c at the Art Counter in the Business Office of Star. The Evening By mail—inclose 46¢ (stamps not acceptable), addressed to the Art Aggreciation‘ Counter, The T Evening Star. Indicate desired set—No. 1—2—3—4 ° b ST 0 S S 24 F S R OO o ememsnecen et nmt et ———-—— e s a et e e Age (if student) —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. 3 THUGS TAKE $80, FLEE ONBICYCLES Gasoline Station Manager Is Victim of Cyclists—Two Taxi Drivers Robbed. ‘Three gasoline station managers and two taxicab drivers were robbed of a total of $201 by hold-up men over the week end. Three colored men escaped on bicy- cles yesterday morning after robbing Chester Jordon, 1827 Vermont avenue N.W., manager of a gasoline station at Third and M streets S.E., of $60. Clyde Montgomery, 1315 Belmont street N.W., manager of a filling sta- tion at Fourteenth and W streets N.W., and Samuel Pelicano, 41 K street N'W., manager of a gas station at 1302 H street N.E., were the other two hold-up victims. Gunmen robbed Mr. Mont- gomery of $65 and Mr. Pelicano of $70. Louis Baker, taxicab driver, told police two colored men robbed him of $1.50 and his cab last night at Eighteenth street and Kalorama road Nw. A 28-year-old man held up James E. Carr, 28, of 105 Fifth street N.E., & taxicab driver, and made off with his cab and $5 early yesterday. While Mrs. Mamie Jolly, 125 C street SE, was placing flowers on a grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery Sat- urday, & man snatched her purse containing 75 cents and fled. ‘When Harold L. Conradi, 1115 New York avenue N.W., refused the request of three colored men for & dime they beat and robbed him of a small amount of change, he *old police. Willard L. Brabson, 3401 Brothers street S.E, had his shoes, watch and $7 stolen from him by three colored men yesterday near First street and Massachusetts avenue N.W. FOR DETROIT AREA Observers Believe 450,000 Ballots Will Be Cast in Election. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Nov, 1.—The Detroit municipal election campaign closed today with every indication that to- morrow's vote would exceed by more than 100,000 that of any other in the city’s history. Showars were forecast for election day, but observers said 450,000 voters might reach the polls anyway. Chief Election Supervisor Oakley A. Distin said nearly 3,000 absentee voter ballots had been distributed and ‘that it was a sure sign of an extraordinarily large vote. For a strictly municipal election such as this one Detroit's record vote was 263,713, cast in 1931 when Frank Murphy, now the Governor of Mich- igan, was re-elected Mayor. Patrick H. O'Brien, candidate for Mayor sponsored by the Committee for Industrial Organization, was in- dorsed Sunday by Bishop Edgar Blake of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ‘who said he spoke not as the head of his church in Michigan, but as a citizen. Bishop Blake, speaking at a political rally, said the major issue of the non- partisan election was the laboring man'’s right to “representation in the city’s affairs.” “To deny labor this right,” said the bishop, “Is to deny every democratic principle on which this Nation was founded.” Richard W. Reading, so-called con- servative candidate for Mayor, said in a radio address that he had been made the victim of a “dastardly last minute attack” in being called a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Reading denied the charge. Minor violence was investigated by police. Property damage and assaults upon campaign workers were reported. Gov. Murphy returned Saturday from a two-week vacation in West Virginia and reiterated his belief the State’s chief executive should not par- ticipate in a nonpartisan election. He said he would take no part in the election except to cast his own vote. o MAN AND WOMAN SLAIN AFTER HALLOWEEN ROW Brother of Rochester, N. Y., Po- liceman Reported to Have Con- ‘fessed Double Killing. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 1.—After & Halloween party quarrel, a mother of three children and her escort were shot to death yesterday in the yard of the woman's home, a short distance from a police station. The dead were Mrs. Almeda Grif- fiths, 35, and Ralph E. Hall, 39. Held on a first-degree murder charge was Gordon Proctor, 43, brother of a city policeman. Detective Capt. Anthony A. An- drews said Proctor made a ¢onfession in which he told of a quarrel with Hall in a downtown restaurant, after which he went home, obtained his gun and lay in wait for the couple. When they arrived, he was quoted, he shot Hall down as he got out of the car and then turned his gun on the woman. Proctor was a former boarder in the Griffiths home. Capt. Andrews quoted Mrs. Grif- fiths’ grown sons as saying that Proc- tor had asked them to tell Hall to keep away from their mother. Judge Rules Whisky, Not Big Dog on Leash Made Woman Stagger The question whether a police dog or whisky caused a de- fendant to stagger confronted Judge Hobart Newman in the District Branch of Police Court today. “Guilty or not guilty?” the clerk asked Ruth Jones, colored, who had been brought into court on a drunkenness charge. “Not guilty, your honor,”. the defendant told the judge. “When the man arrested me for being drunk I was leading a great, big police dog down the street with & rope and he jerked so hard it made me stagger along.” Judge Newman set the fine at $10. Newlyweds Celebrate ° Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dikeman Chapin, jr., as they celebrated at the Ritz-Carlton, in New York City, their marriage there last week. The bride, the former Miss Ruth Mary Ruxton, is the daughter of Mrs. Carl Brandes Ely, New York and Greenwich, Conn., and William V, C, Ruxton, Darchester, England. Chapin and of the la A under Preside Motor Car Co. Dikeman Chapin of Grosse Point, Mich., ‘hapin, who w nt Herbert Hoover qnd presidefit of the Hudson Secretqgry of Commerce CONTROLLER RACE Man Who Found Road Fund Irregularities to Contest Tawes in_Maryland. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Nov. 1—Danfel H. Carjoll of P, former deputy State auditor who uncovered irregularities in the State Roads Commission ac- counts in 1928, announced yesterday he would seek the Democratic nomi- nation for State controller. Carroll's entry into the field insures & primary fight for the nomination, as J. Millard Tawes of Crisfleld has already announced for it. Both pledged themselves not to withdraw. “Having had several years’ expeti- ence as deputy State auditor and being thoroughly familiar with the State’s finances, I believe I am qualified to fill the office * * *” Carroll said. “I want to stress the fact that I am in no way affiliated with any political faction.” Carroll, 59, was elected to the House of Delegates in 1901 and re-elected. After he was appointed deputy auditor and discovered the Roads Commission irregularities, he charged that his salary was withheld for several months. Carroll and the late Ritchie, then Governor, published newspaper advertisements setting forth their sides of the case. The auditor’s office was reorganized in 1929 and Carroll was not re-appointed. He has been a private accountant since, JUDGE NEWMAN EASIER ON INTOXICATION CASES In sharp contrast to the stiff penal- ties imposed during Judge Robert E. Mattingly’s term on the bench of the District branch of Police Court, Judge Hobart Newman, who occupied the bench there today for the first time, was sentencing nearly all drunks to pay fines of $10 or serve 10 days in jail. Judge Newman'’s introduction to the court in which drunk, disorderly and similar cases are tried found him fac- ing a large number of persons arrested over the week end and held in the various precincts until today. Un- perturbed, however, he was dispatch- ing them with the swiftness of the more seasoned judges. Judge Mattingly, who was substi- tuting for Presiding Judge John P. McMahon during the latter’s vacation, had been imposing penalties averag- ing $100 or 90 days in jall for intoxi cation prior to leaving the bench Sat- urday. Albert C. TWO FOOTBALL PLAYERS RECOVERING IN HOSPITAL Two young football players were recovering in Casualty Hospital to- day from injuries they received in games yesterday. Harvey Balderson, 19, of 2022 North Capitol street in- jured his pelvis in a game be- tween the Crim- son Athletic Club team and thatof the Camp Sims National Guard at Tenth street and Michigan avenue N.E. Royal Sted- man, 16, of 3018 Park place NW., a player in the same game, re- ceived first aid treatment and was dismissed. Preddie Howland, 21, of 522 Seventh street 8.W., received an injury to his head and kidneys in a game at Thirty- fourth street and Benning road N.E. SLEEP BALKS INTERVIEW WITH THREE WARRIORS The Flaherty boys—Charles, Ed- ward and Frank—who left Boston last year to fight for the Spanish loyalists, failed to show up for a pre-arranged Harvey Balderson press conference this morning at the headquarters of the American Friends of Spanish Democracy in the Mary- land Building. Newspaper men, who gathered to hear why the trio had gone to Spain, where two of them were wounded, fidgeted for nearly three hours while Col. Coleman Blum, secretary of the Baltimore branch of the Friends of th: Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and others in charge kept the wires hot trying to locate the fighting Irishmen, who are to speak tonight at the Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street N.Ww. At 12:30 pm. Col. Blum called the hotel in Baltimore where the boys were to have spent last night. The Flahertys were still fast asleep. MRS. JOHN C. DOWD, 73, DIES AT HOME HERE Mrs. Mary C. Dowd, 75, widow of John C. Dowd, and for 40 years a res- ident of this city, died yesterday at her home, 2423 First street N.W., after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday in St. Martin’s Cath- olic Church, following brief services at the residence. Mass will be said by her son, Rev. Stephen Dowd of Rich- mond, Va. Burial will be in Mount ©Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Dowd was & native of Balti- more. Her husband was employed here in the Post Office Department. Besides her son, she leaves four other sons, Charles F., Walter A, Frank X. and William J. Dowd, and a daughter, Mrs. Eva F. Murray, all of this city; six grandchildren, several brothers and sisters, RACING RESULTS Pimlico— Rockingham— By the Associated Press. FIRST RACE—Pur: 3-year-olds and up: ight Don (Napier) rd Dalon (Hartle) Our Major (Seheih) :ih-.l: 'l 114, beeca Lee, ‘mentary. SECOND RACE—Purse, $600; claiming Maiden 2-year-olds; 8 farlengs. rathdale (Scheih) . '13.20° 5.70 3.90 tary (Dufty) 470 390 rst (Diekey). It ARe. le, Day Is Dene, Ji ik ty s ' Leading figures in the presentation of Braham’s “Requiem” by the Washington Choral Society of the Community Center Department in Washington Cathedral tonight at 8:30. There will be a chorus of 100 voices. Left to right: Lyman McCray, accompanist; Louis Potter, conductor; Mrs. Ruby Potter, soloist, and Edwin Steffe, baritone. Admission is free. Star Staff Photo. ECGLES SUMMONED FOR FISCAL TALKS Called to Hyde Park for Con- ference on Budget and Related Problems. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 1.—Mar- riner 8. Eccles, head of the Federal Reserve System, was added to Presi- dent Roosevelt's list of conferees today on budgetary and related problems. Eccles, one of the President'’s closest contacts with business and finance, was called to Hyde Park from Wash- ingten to confer with the Chief Exec- utive in connection with a Vvisit here by Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and Daniel W. Bell, the budget director. Morgenthau and Bell came to the seclusion of the Roosevelt study to resume work on the budget begun dur- ing the President’s brief stay in Wash- ington week before last. Eccles brought to the budget talks a knowledge of current business condi- tions, including the stock market situ- ation. His engagement was his first with the President since the Federal Reserve Board ordered stock ex- change requirements reduced from 55 to 40 per cent and fixed, for the first time, minimum requirements for short selling, at 50 per cent. The new re- quirements are effective today. The close relation of earnings of taxpayers to Government income made the general business situation im- portant to Mr. Roosevelt’s talks, Taxes must yield expected revenues if the Treasury's books are to be balanced, a5 the President says he hopes and expects during the flseal year that begins next July 1. An immediate problem before the President and his budget advisers was financing & proposed loan on corn, to help farmers hold their corn past the present period of low prices. Mor- genthau and Agriculture Secretary ‘Wallace have been studying possible means of financing that Government- aid program without increasing the Treasury deficit beyond the last esti- mate of $695,000,000. The corn loan—Ileading farm or- ganizations are asking 60 cents a bushel—would operate similarly to the 9-cent loan and 3-cent subsidy program for cotton, Morgenthau, Bell and Eccles were all White House callers during the President’s few days in Washington before he came here on a 10-day visit. Other conferences with them are ex- pected when Mr. Roosevelt returns to the Cepital the middle of this week. He is expected to start ‘back to the White House within 24 hours after voting in the local election here to- morrow, MARRIAGE LICENSES Fairfax. James Rellly Hatch. 33, and Dorothy Elizabeth Coyne. 28, both of Washington. Charlie Alexander Croson, 40. R. F. D.. Manassas, and Blanche Virginia Linda- 20, R. F. D.. Fairfax. Iph Anderson. 19. R. nd Marie Milis, 21, Church. Joserh Edward Collins, ir. 21, . 16, s Robert Baymond Brown. 27. Harlingen, Tex.. and Katherine Warwick Rust, 25, Fairfax. Le Roy "McKinley Robinson. 28 _and Eleanor Louise Carter, 19, both of Falls Chureh. Gegree Herald Nichols, 51. Philadelphis, and Eva Dell Fryer, 26, German- town. Pa. Marshall Gobin Kinback. 27, Buffalo, N. Y. and Mary Katheryn Wollaston, 37, Ridgeway. Pa. Saved by and Julia ngton . P._D East Falls | 6-Month,2-Pound Baby Still Lives, Gains 2 Pounds She isn’t due to be born for about two weeks, but she has surprised doc- tors at Providence Hospital by living for 11 weeks now and gaining 2 pounds under special care. She is Jean Frances Halley, whose father carried her in a shoe box to the hospital on August 13, an hour after she entered this world three months ahead of schedule. Doctors then shook their heads over the 2 pound 6 ounce infant and gave her only 1 chance in 10,000 to live. But special feeding, three blood trans- fusions from her father, Edward Hal- ley of Silver Spring, Md., and an elec- trically heated crib have kept her alive and gaining weight. As she passed the 4-pound 6-ounce weight mark today Baby Jean looked like almost any healthy youngster, and doctors said she was almost out of danger, REV. GERALD SMITH MAKES D. C. HIS BASE Ex-Long Ally to Take Over Cough- lin Broadcast—$96,000 Cost to Be Paid by Listeners. By the Associated Press. The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith—one- time Huey Long lieutenant—an- nounced today he is establishing head« quarters in the Mayflower Hotel for | his organization in the “Committee of One Million.” Smith said he had contracted to take over Father Coughlin’s so-called Sunday afternoon radio network and will begin a series of talks Novem- ber 14. N The broadcasts, *scheduled for 26 weeks, at a cost of approximately $96,000, will be financed by listeners’ offerings, he said. The “Committee of One Million,” Smith said, will oppose “concenira- tion of authority in the hands of the President, ridicule of the Supreme Court; a tendency to establish indus- trial dictatorship in the name of wages and hours bills; the Nazi-ism of agriculture; dictatorship in the name of democracy; the rising tide to overcome States’ rights; governmental encouragement to lawless groups, chief of which is the C. I. O, headed by John L. Lewis, and an attempt to bring us into a European war in the name of peace.” DAIRY HEAD WARNS OF MILK PRICE BOOST Cows Taken Out of Pasture and Feed Must Be Bought, Marylander Says. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 (®—I W. Heaps, managing director of the Maryland Co-operative Milk Producers, Inc., warned today several factors are tending to force up the price of milk. “There has been a decrease in milk production,” he said. “Since the frosts began, the cows have been taken out of the pastures and it has become necessary to buy feed for them.” are Operation In the children’s ward at Gallinger Hospital today 9-year- old Rosa Panhalzer of 515 M street S.W. is shown recovering Jrom an operation to remove an abscess from her liver, a malady rarely seen in children. Physicians, who performed the opera- tion Friday, say such a case is very rare. it Though mortality in adult liver operations is more than 50 per cent, Rosa is recovering rapidly, her attendants say. Though diagnosis of her case, made more difficult since the child felt no pain, was tompleted October 18, doctors waited until Friday to risk the deliccte operation. A ruptured appendit « or infection of heart valve$ are usual causes in adult cases, but the source of Rosa’s malady remains a mystery. % : ¢ tar Staff Photo. 10 BEAT MAHONEY Challenger in Mayoralty Race Makes 12 Speeches in Day in Last-Minute Bid. BY the Associa\ed Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Jeremiak Titus Mahoney, the man who made Tammany Hall climb on his band wagon, today laid down a last-minute oratorical barrage in an attempt to capture city hall from Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. The former athlete who heads the A. A. U—now engaged in the bit- terest fight of his career—iook the stump in a 12-speech marathon in a desperate bid to defeat his rival, the “little flower” of fusion, and restore the city to the Democratic party Tomorrow an estimated 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 voters will settle the city's political question No. 1: “Can Mayor La Guardia defy the Democratic organization's century-old boast that it has never been whipped twice in a row by any reform admi: tration?” Mahoney, a genial, blunt-tongued, crag-browed Irishman who ha on the State Supreme Cou predicted he would win by * million votes.” 750,000 Victory Seen. La Guardia's supporters picked the mayor to win by 750.000. A majority of New York's new papers also predicted the Mayor wou! be returned to office. ‘Three destinies apparently hung on the outcome of the election: (1) The political rise of La Gu already mentioned as a possible dential nominee in 1940. (2) The future local and national prestige of the New York Democratic organization. (3) The public career of racket- smashing Thomas E. Dewey, men« tioned as a possible Republican guber~ natorial candidate in 1940. Discarding an old local custom of concluding campaigns the Saturday before election, both candidates re- newed final appeals for support. Mahoney, who made 15 speeches yesterday, in a dozen more today erated his charges that La Guard, had favored “Reds,” crippled the po- lice force and increased taxes to carry out extravagant projects. Tammany Fights Dewey. La Guardia, campaigning on a “good government” platform and against “Tammanvism,” planned to wind up a I Jous schedule to- night at th » corner” at 116th and Lexingtoi. .ivenue, where he has concluded previous campaigns Behind Mahoney was the full strength of the powerful Democratic organization, welded into city-wide harmony by the need for victory, and such Democratic leaders as Postmas- ter General James A. Farley, United States Senator Robert F. ‘Wagner, Gov. Herbert Lebman and Samuel Untermyer, noted Jewish lawyer. Although Farley was active in Ma- honey’s behalf, the national admin. istration maintained an official “hands off” attitude, since both candidates have been friendly to it. ! The peppery little mayor drew his | support from the most heterogeneous group ever to unite on a mayoral can- didate here—the Republican organi- zation, the American Labor party, City Fusion party, Communists and a wing of the Socialist party. Second only in importance to the mayoral race was the outcome of the battle for the post of district attor- ney of New York County (Manhht- | tan) in which Special Prosecutor Dewey was opposed by Harold Hast- ings, Tammany candidate. Dewey, running on the La Guardia ticket, accused leading Tammany chieftains of protecting racketeers and the hall has concentrated its strength to defeat him. rved pr NOT GUILTY IS PLEA OF ARLINGTON MAN William R. Parmele, President of Toledo Guaranty Corp., Ar- raigned on Check Charge. By ihe Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 1.—A plea of innocence was entered for William R. Parmele of Arlington, Va., president of the Toledo Guaranty Corp., when he was arraigned teday on charges of passing six worthless checks. At the request of Christian Webb, Parmele’s attorney. the arraignment Wwas continued until November 10, and fixing of bond was postponed. Parmele is held in the Safety Building. Prosecutor Thomas O'Connor said he would ask the Lucas County grand Jury to investigate the Guaranty fim's affairs Friday and announced he will seek fraudulent check indictments against Parmele, John Rosse] and Eu A. Schwab, former officers of the com- pany, and three others whose names he would not disclose. Pleads Guilty to Assault. Robert D. Ricker, 31, no fixed ad- dress, pleaded guilty before Judge Ed- ward M. Curran today to three sepa- rate assault charges involving an 8- year-old girl. He was ordered to Gal- linger Hospital for mental observa- tion, pending imposition of sentence. Boy Is Found Asleep ‘at Show After Big Revel Even Shirley Temple couldn't keep 10-year-old Johnny Cordilla awake after midnight, especially after a strenuous Halloween celebration. Attired in a brilliant Spanish cos- tume, the youngster left his home at 1213 N street N.W. with several com- panions Saturday night to join the throng of revelers at the big parade. Shortly before midnight, Johnny and his friends had shooed most of the goblins away for another year and were in a drug store at Four- teenth and K streets N.W. topping off the celebration with a little ice cream_when a stranger asked them to join him in & midnight show. To the Capitol Theater and Shirley Temple went the group, while Johnny's grandmother, Mrs. D. D. Ellington, became more and more uneasy, Night life for Johnny was a new thing, o far as ghe was concerned. ¢ About 1:30 am. she was pacifg the front porch when she saw some of Johnny's schoolmates and asked if they had seen her grandson. “One of them had seen him going into the theater. The youngter’s uncle found him there fast asleep while Shirley was acting up—on the ascreen.