Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1937, Page 3

. WIDE HUNT OPENS FORKIDNAP BANDIT Four Agencies Join Search for Man Who Abducted Pair. Law enforcement officers of four agencies, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today were engaged in a far-fiung hunt for the lone bandit who abducted and robbed a Wash- ington taxicab driver and a College Park, Md, gas station attendant on Monday night. ‘The bandit, who held his victims at gun point on a long ride through Maryland, the District and Virginia, finally putting them out of the car on a lonely stretch of road near the North Carolina line, will face Federal kidnaping charges and hold-up charges here and in Prince Georges County it apprehended. Search for the gunman was begun by G-men and police after Walter Lox, cab driver, of 26 Rhode Island avenue N.-W,, and Thomas Hanes, the gas station employe, returned to their homes yesterday. Lox told investigatiors he was cruising in his taxicab at Ninth and I streets after completing some Christ- mas shopping for his wife, ill in Gar- field Hospital, when a man between 25 and 30 years of age, hailed him and asked to be driven to College Park. Near Hecht's warehouse, on New York avenue N.E, the man drew a gun and ordered the hacker to drive into a side road, when Lox was robbed of $5.40. paign. A scene at the Christmas party given at the St. John’s Church Parish H first event where gifts were presented through The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B. The party was given for underprivileged children by Georyg: the seventh Metropolitan Police precinct and the Parent-Teacher Association. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ouse Monday night, C. Christmas Cam- etown American Legion posts, Toy Campaign A hunch, however, saved Lox $20. “I thought the man didn't look just right when he entered my taxi, 0 I their blue coats, rolled up their shirt- | ;lx‘gp;e‘i :figl‘,{‘lfi:" ci‘:f‘;_’:\ng_ :\:‘dne\'er | sleeves, moved their caps to unofficial The bandit then ordered Lo to | Angles and concertrated’ on Alling | drive out to College Park. Arriving | PAskets with material for well-rounded | there, he directed him to turn into | Menus. al Hunter's Service Station. At the| Will there be enougn to go around? direction of the bandit, Lox told the [ That was the question in the mind of attendant, Hanes, to fill the cab up | €Ven the officer who gave you a park- (Continued From First Page.) | well-dressed but American Girl Stowaway Held Aboard German Liner By the Associated Press. | ner ashore, however, the girl continued | CHERBOURG, France, Dec, 22.—A Vith the Hansa to Hamburg, Germany. penniless American| An American who described herself girl stowaway was held aboard the as “Elizabeth Schwartz of Chicago” German liner Hansa today after port|Pledded unavailingly with a British C., ON PANAY MADE Tokio Claims Americans May Have Received Stray Machine Gun Bullets. ‘TOKIO, Dec. 22.—The foreign of- fice, in what it called an “interim re- port” on sinking of the United States gunboat Panay by Japanese planes, declared today Japanese surface boats were machine-gunning Chinese at the time “and there might have been stray bullets flying toward the Panay” from these surface boats. The report declared also that the Japanese flyers, who sank the gun- boat in the Yangtze River above Nanking, also bombed Japanese troops and killed two soldiers despite the fact the troops waved 10 Japanese flags. “It has been reported that when the Panay was bombed army launches fired on the gunboat and also that Japanese soldiers boarded the Panay,” the statement said. “Japanese military authorities have done everything in their power to| ascertain the facts regarding the inci- dent. Unfortunately, various army units are scattered over'a wide area and means of communication are inadequate so investigations have | been delayed. Probe Is Progressing. “Investigations still are progressing, | conducted by military authorities on the spot in co-operation with a staff | officer of imperial headquarters who | was dispatched from Tokio after the | incident.” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Campaign Toys Feature Georgetown Party ‘|NTER|M REP[]R'[’ 22, 1937. Wanders Away From His Home, Man, 82, Found by Relatives William J. Bean Is Dil-? covered Mile From Residence. An 82-year-old man, reported miss- ing yesterday afternoon, was found last night a mile frora home, but now that he's with his family again he can't tell & thing about his experi- ences. “By “yesses and noes,” the only words William J. Bean is able to utter, due to partial paralysis of his throat, anxious relatives found he‘was not molested in his wanderings. Mr. Bean, who lives with his daugh- ter, Mrs. W. C. Miller, 2520 Eleventh street N.W., started out on his daily walk at 2:30 o’clock. When he had not Teturned at 4:30, another daughter, Mrs. K. L. Mook, 19 Pifth street NE.,, notified police, Mrs. Mook and her husband started out in their automobile to cruise the neighborhood ,while Mrs. Miller stayed near the telephone to await word from the police. “We were nearly frantic,” Mrs. Miller said today. “We knew father couldn't tell any one where he lives, because of his throat, and we were 30 afraid he'd become exhausted or some one would hurt him.” At 10 o'clock last night the Mooks found Mr. Bean, tired and confused, California Senator On Florida Holiday Is Afraid to Talk By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 22 California’s Senator Hiram W. Johnson settled down here for a two-week stay admitting he was “kidded a great deal” about va- cationing in Florida He declined to comment on na- tional affairs or the Florida clL- mate. “If I taiked at all I'd prob- ably talk too much,” he said. German Exhibits Shown. German exhibits were prominent at the 1937 Milan International Aircraft Exposition in Italy. Christmas Plants You’ll want mosphere in your WILLIAM J. BEAN. —Star Staff Photo. Christmas at - on Ninth street near U street N.W. “He takes little walks every day,” Mrs. Miller explained, “and I guess he just went too far and couldn’t find | his way back home again. Evidently he was following the Ninth street car | line, thinking it was the Eleventh | street line and would lead him home again.” Th simplest and fin- est way of pro- moting Yuletide atmosphere is with _ Christmas flowers. Our sup- ply of poinsettia plants holls. wreaths and fresh cut flowers will give you the Christmas idea. a mile), Japanese troops fired from the land and a motor launch pursued the Linta, firing machine guns. The Chinese steamer was captured. “As aboVe stated, the shooting was | aimed at the Chinese vessel, the Linta, |and the American ships were never objectives. It is supposed the allega- tion of the machine-gunning of the Panay was made on the part of those | who mistook this, and it is supposed | there might have been stray bulleul 12, a certain unit of .motor launches | YiDE toward the Panay. i left Taiping for Pukow. In the| “Briefly, the Japanese militlryg course of the journey downstream, two Q forces had no hostile intentions what- | The report continued: “So far it is established that Jap- anese soldiers boarded the Panay with | friendly intentions, but no evidence | was discqvered showing the ship was the target of intentional shooting. “At approximately 2 p.m., December with gas and oil. When Hanes had complied with the | order and he walked around to the | driver’s window to be paid, the bandit | threw open the rear door, covered | Hanes with the gun and told him: | “This is a stick-up; get in the cab.” | Hanes got in the front seat with | Lox, but a short time after leaving the | station the bandit asked Hanes for his money and when the attendant said he had none the gunman ordered them to turn around and go back to the gas station. The trio got out of the cab, Hanes took $50 from the cash register and the bandit then ordered them into an automobile sitting in the driveway. It was a car Hanes had borrowed from his brother-in-law to drive to work. ‘The two captives and their captor then started South. H. H. Follin, proprietor of the gas station, discovered Hanes' disappear- | ance. At 8:30 am. yesterday Hanes telephoned Follin from Southern Vir- | ginia and told him what had hap- pened. After hitch-hiking a ride from a Westmoreland Hills (Md.) motorist en route North, Lox and Hanes re- counted their story to agents at the Department of Justice. PLANNING CREDITED FOR D. C.’S BEAUTY Washington Will Be Even Greater | City in 2057, Newbold Noyes | Tells Air Audience. | All cities possess beauty, but Wash- | ington possesses beauty greater than ! most because it was planned by ex- | pert architects and built accordingly, | Newbold Noyes, associate editor of The | Star, said in a radio talk over Sta- | tion WMAL last night, sponsored by | the Board of Trade. { Taking a glance into the future, Mr. | Noyes described the even more beau- | tiful city of 2057 AD.: | “Our ‘depressed areas’ our slums | and alley dwellings should be gone | well in advance of the close of the | 20th century. And to the Capital there should be added the new Mu- nicipal Center, the expanded library system, the improved hospital facili- ties, the new schools, the new hous- ing developments we have dreamed about for years. ¥ * *” Mr. Noyes expressed the hope Wash- ingtonians would share with him be- lief in the constant growth of the Capital as envisioned by the city's founders, and added: “Particularly, I venture to hope for | the political and fiscal equity which | the people of the District of Colum- | bia require in their own, their coun- try's and justice's interest.” BILL SEEKS TO REGAIN POST FOR DR. SCHULZ Reinstatement of Dr. George J.| Schulz in the legislative reference sec- | tion of the Library of Congress is sought in a joint resolution introduced in the House yesterday by Repfp- sentative McFarlane, Democrat, of ‘Texas. A similar resolution has been proposed by Senator Sheppard, Demo- | crat, of Texas. The resolution charged Dr. SchulzI was dismissed as acting director of the. reference section “without proper and due cause.” His discharge, it as- serted, was “unwise and unjustified” and calculated to seriously impair the | efficiency of the service for members of Congress. SPECIAL Shaving Qutfit This Week Only 1 Tube Lather Shaving Cream 1 Bottle After Shaving Lotion 1 Can After Shaving Talc 25 Double Edge Blades Total Value, 60c All For 45¢ The Shaving Outfit comes in a fancy box. The Blades are separate. We deliver 3 or more sets in D. C. The Gibson Co., 917 G St. NW. National 2329 ing ticket. Today it seems doubtful. Lists of the needy are long. Last | minute donations must be large or | many families, already investigated | and found to be in desperate circum- | stances, will not be supplied with a | Christmas dinner. | Buying shoes for children with | pasteboard thrust over holes in their soles is one way cash donations to the | Metropolitan Police party are spent. | The remainder goes to supplementing food donations for Christmas baskets | | with wholesale purchases contracted | by Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, in charge of the party, and for emergency aid | all through the year. Often this| means coal for families existing with- out heat in winter weather, or a little cash to keep cooking gas meters from | being discontinued until the father of the family gets a job. Brush Tragedies Constantly. How does it happen, it is asked, | that the police are concerned with charity? It is because, while they go about their duties, they see daily the tragedies of mankind and that per- sonal contact with disaster always softens hearts. You may read in vour paper that a man was run over by a car, sustained a fractured skull, and was taken to the hospital where | it was thought he would recover. | Then you turn to the next page. But it is usually & policeman that takes the news to his home. When the family is one of extremely limited means he recognizes that expression on the face of the wife which means that she is not only frantic over her | husband’s chances of survival, but | about how she will feed her children without his wages. So it is that all over the country police have drifted into the habit of helping needy per- sons when circumstances beyond their cantrol —ill health, unemployment, | death of the breadwinner — remove their means of support. It is time aside from their official work that is donated to such events as the annual Christmas party in Washington. Cash, Food and Clothing. Cash donations for Christmas may | be sent to Capt. Morgan, precinct five, | or to the National Guard Armory, | Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue N.W., made out to “Metropolitan Po- lice Christmas Party.” Donations of | food and clothing—there is an acute demand for both—may be taken to the | armory or your nearest precinct sta- | tion house, or will be called for if you | telephone Mrs. Ada Minnix, Repub- | lic 0883. Following is the list of precinct sta- tions: First, New Jersey avenue be- tween D and E streets N.W.; second, U street between Ninth street and Vermont avenue N.W.; third, K street between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets N.W.; fourth, E street between Fourth and Sixth streets S.W.; fifth, Fifth and E streets S.E.; sixth, Nichol- son street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets N.W.; seventh, Vol- ta place, Georgetown; eighth, Albe- marle street, west of Wisconsin ave- | authorities refused to allow her ashore. The 25tyear-old girl concealed her identity. When she was taken before | court in Glasgow, Scotland, last Au- gust not to return her to the United States. . “Send me to jail, but don’t send me launches, acting as scouts, met at a ever toward American ships or na- | point below Taiping five steam ves- | tionals. It is impossible that a Japa- | sels which they judged were being used | nese force should ever intentionally | by Chinese troops and accordingly re- | attack or trespass on any American | she was | enteeth street and Rhode Island ave- | nue N.E.; harbor, foot of Seventh and ! | another treat, for their parents cal the Hansa's captain the day after the °ACK to America—I hate Americ she implored the court. liner sailed from New York she said | -N,cz a stowaway, the girl was “Katherine Schwartz”—but found aboard the United States liner that the name “might not” be her own, | California and was said to have hid- She was given a stateroom in third den alse on the British liner Queen Mary. class and continued to keep her iden- Spe was sent back to the Usffled tity secret. | States and on her arrival here identi- The captain had wanted his “ship's | fied herself also as “Molly Schwartz” mystery” stowaway transferred to the 204 “Molly Mollison.” She said she | had stowed away on the California to York-bound liner HAmMbUIZ. | marry an Englishman in answer to & When permission was refused to put|matrimonial advertisement. $10,000,000 SOUGHT FROM U. S. IN SUIT Water streets S.W. ; . 7 : Federal employes are reminded that | United Fruit Co. Files Action Due to Mail Contract Can- donations at their building collection | centers between now and Christmas : cellation. Damages of $10.000,000 are sought will go to the Metropolitan Police | from the United States in a suit filed New streets N.E.: tenth, Park road between Georgia and Sherman avenues N.W.; eleventh, Nichols avenue and Chicago street S.E., Anacostia: twelfth, Sev- Christmas party, allied with The Star- | Warner Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Cam- paign. the United Fruit Co. s a result of cancellation of two foreign ocean mail | contracts entered into under the old | Merchant Marine Act of 1928. The suit was instituted to protect | the interests of the company in event | negotiations for settiment now pend- |ing with the Martitime Commission | fall through. A e SANTA CLAUS IS REAL TO THESE CHILDREN U. 8. Army Unit Supplies Food, and Clothing Worthy Family. Under the new Merchant Marine i | Act, all ocean mail contracts were There is a Santa Claus! | canceled as of June 30 last. The Of this fact there is no doubt in| United Fruit Co. seeks reimburse- the minds of & family of six children | ment for termination of these pacts who today were guests of honor of the | " advance of the 10-year period they s originally were intended to run, and transportation branch, Finance Office, | for the excess costs involved by build- United States Army. | ing in American yards and operating Warm clothing, shoes and toys were | representing an investment of $21,- distributed by Kris Kringle himself Mi 000,000. the annual Christmas party held i\ The company, the suit says, does co-operation with The Star-Warner | not feel that the Maritime Commission Bros.-N. B. C. Christmas Campaign in | “has made a reasonable offer of settle- the Munitions Building. ment.” Ice cream and cake was served fol- | lowing a program that included mus- G- 0- P- NAMES ZTMORE icel numbers, and s kiddies' revue | presented through the courtesy of Miss | Program Committee Acceptances Now Total 157. Julia Cunningham by her pupils. | When the happy half-dozen left for The Republican National Commit- tee announced yesterday 27 more home it was with anticipation of ’““i persons had accepted membership on the party's recently created Program Committee. Acceptances now total 157. Toys for ried with them a basket containing a huge turkey and all the trimmings. Prominent among the guests in at- | tendance were Maj. Gen. Fred W.| Boschen, chief of finance, U. 8. A Maj. Gen. Fred W. Coleman, former chief of finance; Col. L. S. Morey and | Lt. Col. R. L. Cave, in charge of the ! transportation branch. 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The distance between the ships and the | army unit then was about 2,000 meters (about a mile). Ordered Care of Wounded. “The Japanese soldiers saw wounded from the first ship being carried to- ward the shore. Immediately after the second bombing a commander | approached the ship and discovered it was American. Thereupon he im- mediately ordered his men to care | for the wounded who were carried to | shore. Two Japanese commanders | were discussing the situation when a third bomb dropped in the vicinity.” | The foreign office declined to say whether the “interim report” would | serve as a reply or as basis for a reply to American notes protesting the at- | tack on the Panay. | ‘The report said: “A commander then ordered soldiers to wave Japanese flags in order to make the airmen cease | bombing. The latter failed to recog- | nize the signal and continued to bomb the ship which finally caught | fire. 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