Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1938, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle winds, mostly northerly. today—Highes! tf 81, at 66, at 5 am. Full report on page A-2. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 ‘Temperatures 2 pm.; lowest, 86th YEAR. No. 34,384 U.5.15 AWAITING REPERCUSSIONSIN SPY INDICTMENTS Hull Refuses to Discuss Intrigue Charges Until He Reaches Desk. HIGH REICH OFFICIALS ARE AMONG THOSE CITED Only Four of 18 Are Under Arrest. Theft of Plane Plans and Codes Are Accusations. BACKGROUND— The American Government's first intensive spy investigation since the World War, bringing indictments against 18 persons, including high German officials, covered a period ©of four months and five weeks of Jury hearings. Activities of the spy ring entered in military bases and airplane factories near New York City, and ome high ranking Amer- dcan Army officer was marked for abduction. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21—With 18 per- sons already indicted, the Federal Government stepped back today to awalt possible international repercus- sions before proceeding with its ex- posure of what a special grand jury described as a far-flung plot to steal ,1American defense secrets. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, re- turning to Washington from the Dartmouth College commencement ex- Ace Investigator Turrou Resigns F. B, 1. Post to Write Experiences. The inside story of the amazing operations of German spies in Amer- ica, 18 of whom were indicted in New York yesterday, will be told, through The Star. in a series of articles, be- ginning Thursday, by Leon G. Turrou, who “broke” the case for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and then resigned to write of his findings. Mr. Turrou, one of the ace in- vestigators for the F. B. I, worked an average of more than 16 hours every day for three and a half months on the spy ring investigation. After the indictments had been secured, he decided to resign and write a strictly factual account of the ring’s activities for two purposes: First, to inform the people of this country of the methods used by the | spies and the scope of the conspiracy | so they may be on guard in the future, iand‘ second, to point out what he | regards the inadequacy of America's | Intelligence services in combatting high-powered espionage within its | borders in the hope of creating a public demand that these departments be strengthened. S Mr. Turrou, who has been with the F. B. L for 10 years, lives with his family in Arlington County, Va. Two of his sons are students at George Washington University. Forty-two years old, he is anxious to spend more | time with his family, and also feels @h LEON G. TURROU. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. his health has been somewhat im- paired by the terrific strain under which he has been working. He is one of only three G-men rated (See TURROU, Page A-4.) APPROVE SPANISH BENSON RETURNS ¢ Fhening WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1938—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. G-Man Who Cracked Spy Ring To Tell His Story in The Star TREASURY GIVES ECGLES 48 HOURS 100.K.BANKPLAN Recommendation to White House May Omit Approval of Reserve Head. VIEWS ON LIBERALIZING EXAMINATIONS DIFFER Utahan Favors More Latitude on Loans—Morgenthau Sees First Duty to Depositors. BACKGROUND— Imminence of new Government spending program has renewed talk of inflationary action such as fur- ther devaluation of dollar. An im- portant part of same general finan- cial picture has been question of liberalizing present banking restric- tions to permit easier lending and investment policies. Opinion on this problem has been divided in governmental committee now study- ing bank examination code. BY the Assoclated Press. The disagreement between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board over bank examination policy neared a climax today, following de- mand by Secretary Morgenthau for immediate adoption of his program. The Treasury Secretary announced he would send his recommendations to President Roosevelt for approval wita- out the indorsement of Chairman 4 - Star OOSTER 1E695 fii HUSTLING! =TT sweal \*; e, - SO $%% (#) Means 55008 SETTES MELLONTAXSUT U. S. Ends $3,000,000 Fight | Physician U rges Storing of Eyes For Ofiemtions Plan Similar to That SLEEPER MAY PUT WRECK TOLLAT 43 {23 of 31 Known Dead Now | The only evening in Washington wit Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. aper the Associated Rre THREE CENTS. INQUEST BELAYED, TAT MAN” HUNTED INCREEK SLAYING Story of Fight With Woman Resembling Victim Is Sifted for Clue. EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY BRUNETTE ARE FUTILE Two Describe Seeing Person of Same General Appearance Crying on Highway. By GARNETT D. HORNER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. PRINCE FREDERICK, Md., June 21.—An inquest into the mysterious death of an attractive young expectant mother whose body was found floate ing in Lyons Creek near here yester- day was postponed indefinitely for lack of evidence today as police sought to trace a fat, thin-haired Washington man in connection with the case. Baffied in attempts to identify the woman they believed was murdered or to determine definitely the cause of her death, investigators checked closely for possible clues the story of & brunette answering her description be- ing beaten at North Beach last Priday evening by & man so corpulent that he had to hitch up his trousers each time he swung his fist. A woman of the same general ap- pearance was reported seen standing in the roadway near Lyons Creek about two hours later, erying and attempting to hail a ride toward Prince Frederick - TOLEAD IN RACE Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Re- | Used for Blood Is ercises, declined to discuss the intrigue 1 which was charged in a series of in- | dictments returned yesterday against two officers of the German war min- istry and 16 other persons. He sald he would “be able to co- operate with you newspapermen” when he reached his desk in Washington. Secretary Hull announced he would forego his customary summer vacatioi: and would remain at his desk in ‘Washington. It was recalled that United States Attorney Lamar Hardy conferred with Secretary Hull shortly before the in-| dictments were returned, indicating that he desired Washington's author- | ity for releasing such sensationa;, charges. Only Four in Custedy. Of the 18 indicted, only fow were 4n custody. The others were in Ger- many, where they are safe from ex- | tradition proceedings. ! The German foreign office in Berlin | SPain in an effort to remove foreign | said it regarded the whole matter as | “an attempt to create a sensation in | the United States for obvious reasons.” | “It is quite evident that the allega- \ tions overshoot the mark,” a foreign | office spokesman said. “It is not so | much a case of spies caught as spies | imagined.” But United States Attorney Hardy | indicated the investigation was far | from finished without saying there' - would be more indictments. The | grand jury, now in recess, was ordered | to hold itself ready for additional evi- | dence. Conspiracy Ts Charged. The defendants were charged with conspiring during the last three years to obtain United States defense se- erets and deliver them to the German government or “factions” in Germany. ‘Two other indictments detailed specific dcts—theft of plans for an Army pur- suit plane from the Seversky plant at Farmingdale, Long Island, and theft of an Army and Navy code book. Those available for prosecution are & former woman hairdresser on the German liner Europa, two former United States Army soldiers and a former Seversky plant mechanic. { The others indicted included Capt.- | Lt. Erich Pfeiffer, head of the German secret service; Capt.-Lts. Udo von Bonin and Hermann Menzel, German ®ir ministry espionage officers; sev- | eral suspected agents of theirs; Dr. Ignatz Griebl, New York doctor who | fled to Germany during the investi- gation; Werner Gudenberg, airplane designer who fled similarly, and Mrs. Jessie Jordan, who was recently im- | prisoned in England as a German spy. The indictment of the presumably | unavailable German officials was re- | garded generally as an international criticism, deliberately delivered after consultation between Lamar Hardy, ‘United States district attorney in charge of the investigation, and Gov- ernment officials in Washington. Digest of Indictments. Here is a digest of the indictments’ delineation of the spy ring's opera- | tion: The participants were divided into five groups— 1. The high German officials, who | named the agents, directed their operations and paid them. . 3. The “working” group here—Erich | Glaser. 28, German-born private—in | the Army Air Corps at Mitchel Field, Long Island, until his arrest; Gunther Rumrich, 37, Chicago-born, who en- listed in the Army Medical Corps in 1930 and deserted in 1935, and Otto Voss, 36, German-born, the Seversky mechanic. 3. An intermediary group in New York City ‘which passed on the in- formation group 2 obtained; headed by the fugitive Griebl, assisted at one time or another by Rumich and Wil- lam Lonkowski, ace German secret agent here during the World War, who was indicted. 4. A messenger group who worked 88 crew members on German liners, including the Jjailed hairdresser, Johanna Hofmann, 26, and carried data from group 3 to Germany. 5. An agency at Dundee, Scotland, operated by Mrs. Jordan, through which orders, information and pay were sometimes routed to avoid sus- picion. Aside from the two specific thefts, the indictments detailed 24 “overt acts” —meetings between Lonkowski, Voss, Griebl, Rumrich, Preiffer and others— always only in pairs—at Hempstead and Floral Park, Long Island; Hotels Astor and Taft in New York, Buffalo, N. Y, and Berlin and Bremerhaven, Germany. The first of the meetings, at which secret data was sometimes passed along, was August 1, 1935, and the last January 25, this year. } EVACOATONNOVE IPowers Would Send Groups | in Effort to Remove Foreign Troops. | BACKGROUND— Britain has revived move for agreement on withdrawal of foreign volunteers fighting in Spain to pave way for operation of Anglo-Italian friendship pact. Outlook appears bright at meeting of Non-Interven- tion Committee in London. French Jfrontier closing seen as contribution to success. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, June 21.—Delegates of Europe's major nations today agreed to send evacuation commissions to troops from 23-months-old civil war, and atrove to make this a means of obtaining a truce, Agreement on the evacuation com- missions, feature of a revised British plan for withdrawing alien soldiers from Spain, was reached in a morning sitting of the chairman’s subcommit- tee of the 27-nations’ Non-Interven- tion Committee. Even Soviet Russia bowed to the will of the other powers. The subcommittee was to meet again late today. Meanwhile members worked on texts of notes to be sent the Spanish government and the insur- gent regime, seeking approval for the evacuation commission’s plan. The British government pressure on France and Italy to get a truce in Spain to permit the com- mission to operate. Necessity of ob- taining acceptances now becomes the biggest hurdle to be taken in the pro- gram of Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, for general Eu- | ropean appeasement. S. B. Kagan, Soviet Russia’s member of the subcommittee, declared there were “good prospects” of reaching an | accord. Informed sources said the British government now was satisfied that | Prance had effectively closed her frontier to the shipment of arms to government Spain. This was consid- ered another contribution to success for British efforts. Stocks Advance. Success would clear the way for a sweeping new series of maneuvers to reach a general European appease- | ment, particularly a settlement with Germany. The prospect of a brighter inter- national outlook led to a minor boom in the “city,” London’'s financial quar- ter, with sharp rises in the big com- modity markets, and leading Amer- ican shares made considerable ad- vances yesterday. ‘The Premier depended on the non- Intervention Committee to clinch an agreement, already sighted, on means (See BRITISH, Page A-3) —_— CONNAUGHTON WEDS Former Georgetown Grid Star Is Married in Chicago. CHICAGO, June 21 (#).—Harry N. Connaughton, 32, assistant United States attorney in Chicago and for- mer Georgetown University football star, and Miss Florence Knight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William U. Knight of Minneapolis, were married today. Mr. Connaughton, a former resi- dent of Philadelphia, has been Fed- eral prosecutor in charge of hi-jacking cases since 1932. exerted | Governor Given 5,628-Vote Margin Over Petersen in Minnesota. Bt the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, June 21.—Gov. Elmer A. Benson, Minnesota, pushed ahead of his challenger, Hjalmar Pe- | tersen, for the Farmer-Labor nomina- ltxon in Monday's primary election, as | additional returns were compiled to- | | day. The lead had changed hands | frequently. Gov. Benson had a 5628 lead on the basis of 1,689 of 3,739 precinets in | the State. Mr. Petersen's margin, built up with rural votes, was slashed heavy when a batch of ballots' came {in from Hennepin County (Minne- apolis), Benson stronghbld. The vote with about half the precincts re- ported was: Gov. Benson, 112,895; Mr. Petersen, 107,267. The two Farmer-Labor candidates polled 75,000 votes more than the four Republican aspirants, lending credence to the belief that thousands of Re- publican voters had jumped the party fence in a move designed to eliminate Gov. Benson from the general election | in November. Overshadows Other Contests. Despite a 10,000-vote advantage piled | up by Gov. Benson in two-thirds of | the precincts in Minneapolis and. St. Paul, considered his strongholds, Mr. | Petersen cut deeply into the lead of opponent as rural votes began to pour {in. Mr. Petersen seemed to maintain | the margin in out-State precincts. ‘The Farmer-Labor race overshadowed the Republican and Democratic con- tests. Harold Stassen, Republican, and Thomas Gallagher, Democrat, both young lawyers, were leading their re- spective flelds. In the Republican column, where the total vote of the four candidates was 97,000 in 1,249 precincts, as com- pared with 163,000 for the Farmer- Labor candidates, the vote stood: Mr. Stassen, 47,362; Martin Nelson, 25,396; Mayor George Leach of Minne- apolis, 23,207; Harson Northrop, 1,439. The Democratic vote for Governor, in 1,249 precincts, was: Mr. Gallagher, 9.227; Fred Schliplin, 7,757; Michael Murray, 6,872; Victor Anderson, 3,465; Chartes Lethert, 2,118, and Joel Ander- son, 1,272, Christgau Was Issue. Although the national administra- tion kept out of the campaign, Presi- dent Roosevelt recently approved the ouster of Victor Christgau as State W. P. A. administrator. Gov. Benson had urged Mr. Christgau’s removal, and Mr. Petersen criticized the dis- charge. Mr. Petersen broke with Gov. Ben- son shortly after the latter's induction into office in 1937. Since then he re- peatedly has attacked the Governor, promising in his campaign to “drive thel political racketeers from Capitol Hill" On the death of the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson in 1936, Mr. Petersen, then Lieutenant Governor, ascended to the executive post where he served four (See MINNESOTA, Page A-3.) | | Italians Call at Malta. VALETTA, Malta, June 21 (#).— This key point of Britain’s Mediter- ranean naval power today thundered 8 164-gun salute to the first Italian warships to visit Malta in 12 years. The battleships Giulio Cesare and Conti di Cavour and four destroyers arrived for a courtesy visit. Eastern Shore Bee Catchers Compete for By the Associated Press. PARSONBURG, Md., June 21— Beekeepers entered final rounds of training today for Saturday’s big con- test which will see crowned the bee- catching champion of the Eastern Shore. The contest is part of an all-day program sponsored by the Eastern Shore Chapter of the Maryland State Beekeepers' Association at the home of Laurence Adkins in this Wicomico County town. The bee-catching contestants must stop at the entrance to & bee colony and catch the flying—and sometimes 4 Title Saturday stinging—honey-makers bare-handed. The man catching the most uninjured bees in five minutes will gain the shore title now held by Harry Vanee. Contestants are allowed to wear veils to protect their faces. Other features of the program in- clude demonstrations of latest meth- ods of apiary management and ad- dresses by Harold L. Kelly, Forest Glen, president of the State associa- tion; Clarence J. Kern, Denton, East- ern Shore Association. president; J. P. Brown, Wicomico County agent, and R. T. Grant, Worcester County agent. } his Farmer-Labor Convention indorsed | serve Board if the latter were not re- | ceived in 48 hours. Secretary Morgenthau has held up | the new policy two weeks in an ef- | | fort to get Chairman Eccles’ approval. The controller of the currency, the | Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and | the National Association of State Bank | Examiners already have indorsed it. | Mr. Eccles has opposed the policy | on the ground it does not go far | enough in liberalizing bank examina- tions. He has reiterated in recent | weeks that ‘“restrictive” rules were retarding the flow of credit into busi- ness and thereby delaying recovery. Differences Summed Up. Secretary Morgenthau's new pro- gram provides some liberalization of banking rules, but places more em- | phasis on standardization. The chief differences in view as ex- pressed by the two officials in recent discussions can be summed up briefly: Secretary Morgenthau holds that the first duty of banks is to their depositors, and bank examinations should be strict enough to insure full compliance with that obligation. Mr. Eccles contends that deposit insurance, by removing the threat of bank runs, should permit more latitude in making loans, and that liberalized credit policies would stim- ulate recovery. Among the “liberalizing” provisions of the Morgenthau program are those to permit banks to purchase some lo- cal bond issues which they do not purchase now and to permit banks to | disregard temporary market deprecia- tion of their highest grade securities. Eccles Has No Comment. Mr. Eccles had no comment on | Secretary Morgenthau's | ment made late yesterday. A mem- | ber of his staff said it was not known what the Reserve Board would do in response to the demand for a decision. The two financial chiefs have dif- fered before, just as they differ in appearance and background. Mr. Eccles is short and slight, a native of Utah, where he became head (See BANKS, Page A-3.) SPANISH SILVER ON WAY New Shipment Reaches France for Transfer to United States. PERPIGNAN, France, June 21 (P). —A new shipment of Spanish govern- ment silver valued at $2.160,000 ar- rived from Barcelona today for trans- fer to the United States. Cases weighing 180 tons arrived at Cerbere by railroad, were pushed through the French customs and placed on a train for Le Havre to be stowed on shipboard. announce- | | Over 1931 Income Levy. $182,000 Interest. | BACKGROUND— The Government's income tar case against Andrew W. Mellon, former Secretary of the Treasury under three Republican Presidents and later Ambassador to England, | has been pending for several years. | Mr. Mellon, who charged that he | was being “persecuted for political | reasons,” died last year, a few months before the Board of Tar Appeals vindicated him on fraud charges. By the Associated Press. | The Government settled today for‘ | $668,029 a $3,000,000 tax eonuoverl}'i { involving the estate of the late An- | drew W. Mellon, former Secretary of | the Treasury. The settlements included $485,809 principal and $182,220 interest figured from 1931, the year in which Mr. Mellon allegedly underpaid his income taxes. A rulfng by the Board of Tax Ap- | peals had awarded the Government | 403,053, plus interest, and had ex- | onerated the Pittsburgh financier of | income tax fraud charges. Both | parties agreed today not to appeal | that decision. | The controversy principally con- | | cerned the method of taxing certain | sums received by Mr. Mellon in the | | sale or liquidation of companies m; | which he was interested. It involved | | to a lesser extent his gift of paintings | to his private educational and chari- | table trust. | The paintings were among those which Mr. Mellon later donated to the Federal Government, The tax litigation followed an un- successful attempt by the Govern- ment to indict the financier for erimi- nal fraud on his income tax return. A Pittsburgh grand jury in 1934 declined to indict. A formal statemen of the Treasury said: “The facts elicited and the prece- dents set in the Mellon case have been of great importance to the Internal Revenue Bureau in the determination of other cases. As a result, deficiencies have been asserted and collections made in amounts much larger than those involved in this case.” No figures were available on how much money was involved in similar cases. The capital gains tax, how- ever, has been changed since 1931 and the decision does not necessarily affect taxes for later years. Summary of Page. Amusements B-18 Comics ..B-16-17 Page. Short Story..B-12 Sports A-14-15-16 Society ‘Woman's Editorials __A-10 Finance -17 Lost & Found B-11 Obituary ..-A-12 FOREIGN. Nazi press says drive on.Jews is defensive. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Morgenthau-Eccles tilt over banking policy nears climax. Page A-1 Early start on railroad financial study by Congress proposed. Page A-1 returns to lead in Minnesota Benson oa n spy in- Page primary. U. S. awaits repercussions ii e dictment case. Government settles Mellon tax con- troversy for $668,029. Page A-1 Hull at work on program designed to humanize warfare, Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. . Driver, unhurt when B. & O. express crashes into ;u'gl.fl 2 Pued At:ll: Inquest in Lyons mystery dea continued. Page A-1 D. C.’s desire for vote to be kept before public. = Page A-2 Police arrest three suspects after hold-up here. Page A-2 Landis, Convicted, Faces 20 Years to life in prison. Page A-3 Potomac River boat crash results in near-disaster. Page A-5 Plans being shaped for study to over- haul D. C. taxes. Page B-1 President signs D, C. zoning and nar- ©cotics measures, . Page B-1 Today's Star Maj. Donovan to call for preparation of District’s 1940 budget. - Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 ‘The Capital Parade. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. Rail bonds climb (table), U. 8. deficit smaller. Page A-17 Stocks move higher (table). Page A-18 Business loans off slightly. Page A«19 Scrap copper boosted. Page A-19 (Oil output gains, Page A-19 Page A-17 SPORTS. Louis, as 2-to-1 shot, rated false favor- ite over Schmeling. Page A-14 Punches launched by grudges promised {0 pep up big fight. Page A-14 Lou Fetle, Boston’s 1937 slab hero, is jinxed this year. Page A-15 Nats hope to profit against lowly Chi- sox and Browns. Page A-15 Huskies threaten again to mop up in Poughkeepsie regatta. Page A-16 Ailing arm dims Helen Jacobs’ tennis hopes at Wimbledon. Page A-16 City News in Brief. Vital Statistics. Nature's Children. Croes-word Puzsle, Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Winning Contraet. Page A4 Page A-6 Page B-12 B-16 B-18 B-18 Proposed. BY the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. June 21.—A pro- | posal for an ‘“eye-bank'—to store | donated eyes for sight-restoring oper- | ations similar to the method used in | preserving blood for transfusions— was discussed in Philadelphia medi- cal circles today. Dr. Louis Lehrfeld, chairman of the eye division of the County Medical Society, offered the suggestion after corneas were transplanted recently to the eyes of two Philadelphia women. The corneas were taken from persons soon after they died. Dr. Lehrfeld said it might be pos- sible to preserve eye tissue at least | 24 hours. D. C. YOUTH FOUND SHOT TO DEATH Automatic Pistol by His Side on Lawn of McMillan Filter Plant. An automatic pistol by his side, William §. Johns, 27, of 71 8 street N.W., was found shot to death shortly after noon today on the lawn of the McMillan Filtration Plant, North Capitol and Douglas streets N.E. His father, William M. Johns, 55, was quoted by police as saying his son, a hunchback, had been forced to give up his job as a shoe salesman last fall when a doctor advised him he was aggravating his condition. Detective Sergt. John Wise said a note found in the youth's pocketbook explained he was worried about his health and gave directions for disposal of his personal belongings. The body, with a bullet in the head, was discovered by three boys who went to the reservoir to play ball. Near Mr. Johns' autstretched hand was a .32- caliber automatic. containing one empty shell and two not fired. The father told police the gun be- longed to another son, Gaines Johns. WARMER WEATHER USHERS IN SUMMER Change Officially at 9:04 P.M. Today—Temperature Reaches 76 Mark. Fickle spring, with a toss of her head, perhaps, will haughtily turn the elements over to that more depend- able master of the mercury—summer —at exactly 9:04 p.m. today. What happens after that, the man in the street will know best. Seasons The forecaster sees nothing un- [ bottom. usual in sight. Today probably will be overcast but warm; tonight will be generally fair, and the same goes for tomorrow, with not much change in temperature, At 9:30 am. the temperature reached 76, about 6 degrees above the reading for the same hour yesterday. Yesterday's high was 72 at 12:45 p.m. This morning’s low was 66 at § o'clock. Driver, Unhurt,Left Holding Wheel as Train Wrecks Car (Picture on Page A-2.) A southbound express train craghed broadside into an automobile near Blair road and Rittenhouse street NE. today, demolishing the rear of the machine and leaving the colored driver clutching the steering wheel, uninjured. The driver, Cammel Braxton, 50, of 104 Rittenhouse street N.E., an em- ploye of a real estate firm, had left his home, just across the tracks, and was on his way to work when the crash occurred. The train, a Baltimore & Ohio express traveling at high speed to- ward Union Station, crashed into the rear of the sedan a few inches Whck of the driver’s seat and carried the debris into a nearby telegraph pole. Braxton was left clinging to the wheel and pushing down on the accelerator. “I didn't have no time to get ex- Identified—Car Jacked Up, Slips Back in Mud. B> the Associated Press. MILES CITY, Mont, June 21.— With 31 already known dead, fatigue- worn searchers worked today to lift up again from the silt-oozing bed of Custer Creek a tourist sleeper which railroad officials estimated contained 12 more victims of the Nation's worst railroad tragedy in a decade. Twenty-three of the 31 known vie- tims were identified. The bodies of two unidentified women were taken last night from the sleeper which plunged with the Milwaukee -Railroad’s crack Olympian train through a flood- weakened trestle early Sunday. Twelve other bodies were found earlier yes- terday and a woman died in a hospisal. The sleeper, submerged nearly 36 hours by the cloudburst “flash ficod” that filled Custer Creek with a torrent 20 feet deep, was jacked up on blocks after hours of slow toil last night. Suddenly, the heavy steel car slipped loose and sank again into the sticky silt left in the stream’s bed when the flood subsided yesterday. Probe Is Started. Grimly the 75 railroad workers and volunteers started their slow job again, working without halt through the night. Meanwhile railroad and Gov- ernment officials launched an investi- | gation of the wreck. All save one of the victims met death instantly, officials said. Lucille Stumley, Volga, 8. Dak., nurse, died last night at Holy Rosary Hospital here. One other person, a train por- ter, was still in a serious condition in the hospital. Of the 65 injured who were rushed to the 85-bed hospital here, nearly all were released after minor treat- ment. The crash, which occurred shortly after midnight, caught most of the ill- fated passengers of the railroad's pride asleep in sleeper cars. Stories of heroism were told and retold as passengers and relatives gathered in groups today. Unknown men and unidentified porters and trainmen moved from car to car aid- ing passengers imprisoned in the overturned cars. Accounts of most passengers who escaped serious injury brought the expression, “It happened so fast I didn't realize what happened until water began pouring in on me.” As the runaway creek quieted yes- terday, workers were able to penetrate the submerged sleeper B, extracting seven bodies. Last night the creek was almost free of water and workers had jacked up the car on blocks when it slipped loose and fell back on the muddy J. R. Regan, divisional freight and passenger agent of the road, said he believed more bodies would be recov- ered from the car as soon as workmen could dig through the mud and debris which flowed through the sleeper while it was submerged. Officials said they expectdd to find other bodies along the bed of the now shallow creek and possibly along the banks of the Yellowstone. it was too late. And boy, she wasn't standing still!” It was Braxton's own private drive- way he was crossing. The narrow cinder street runs from his home, which he has occupied for s month, into Rittenhoust street, just over the double tracks. The train, operated by Engineer J. TU. McManee of Baltimore, ground to & stop several hundred yards track and was held up for 45 right-of-way. Officers M. F. Collins and C. 8. Price of the sixth precinct were cruis- ing near the New Hampshire Avenue Viaduct when they saw the train stop and went down the tracks to investigate. They found a crowd gathered around Braxton, who was telling one and all: “I ain’t hurt & single bit.” After he had time to think about the accident, the driver commented: “Boy, I'm sure lucky that baby didn't hit me. I dom’t care ‘bout - while a man stood nearby beside s parked automobile bearing District license tags. Approximately 100 persons from North Beach and vicinity have viewed the body in futile attempts to estabe lish the Woman's identity. May Ask Clerks’' Aid. Meanwhile, authorities considered enlisting the co-operation of the Julius Garfinckel & Co. department store of Washington in an effort to identify the dead woman, whose garments bore the establishment’s label—the only ap- parent clue to her identity found on her body or clothing. It was sug- gested the store clerks who might have sold the garment may be asked to view the body, held at Hutchins & Son funeral parlor at nearby Owings, Md. State's Attorney Arthur W. Dowell of Clavert County told an inquest jury convened béfore Justice of the Peace William W. Duke in the county court= house at 11 am. today that he be- lieved the inquest should be continued indefinitely *in view of the fact that our investigation has not developed as speedily as we had hoped.” “At this time, we have s0 little evi- dence to offer that you could arrive at no definite conclusions after hear- ing it,” Mr. Dowell added. “You will be called back at some indefinite date when we think we will be able to pre- sent evidence on which you can bring in a verdict that would mean some- Request Is Granted. Magistrate Duke then granted Mr. Dowell's request for an indefinite con- tinuance, pointing out that it was un- certain when the jury would be called again. Mr. Dowell said there were no def« inite leads toward identification of the woman or toward solution of the mystery of her slaying, but that he and other officials were investigating the stories of the woman being beaten at North Beach and the woman being seen on the highway near Lyons Creek “as circumstances to be con- sidered.” He planned to question George Pree- land and Frank Smith, who live near Prince Frederick and reported that about 10 p.m. last Friday while driv- ing in a truck over a hill near Lyons Creek, they saw & woman in a blue, red-flowered dress with big red bute tons standing in the highway erying and waving a handkerchief. They dimly glimpeed & man standing be- side s District automobile nearby, They did not stop to investigate, No Water in Lungs. Ina n\)on‘. prepared for the inquest, Dr. Page C. Jett said a post-mortem examination showed there was no water in the woman’s lungs, indicating she had been killed before being thrown into the creek less than 24 hours be- fore she was found about 7 a.m. yes- terday. His gross examination failed to disclose the cause of death, Dr. Jett said, leaving suffocation or poisoning as possible causes. Contents of her stomach were being analyzed for traces of poison. There was no evidence she had been drinking, he said, Although somewhat skeptical of being able to connect the North Beach altercation with the apparent slaying, officers pushed investigation of this angle when a witness partially identi- fied the dead woman as the brunet involved in that scuffie. Edgar S. Browning, 23, of 3211 (S8ee MURDER, Page A-4.) U. S. OIL PROPERTY IS BOMBED IN CHINA Damage at Hong Kong by Planes Is Reported as Slight, With No Casualties. By the Associated Press. HONG KONG, June 21.—Eighteen Japanese air raiders, it was reported today, bombed property of the Amer- ican-owned Texas Oil Co. in an at- tack on Wuchow, in Kwangsi Province, One bomb, it wag said, fell in the Texas company’s grounds, another on property of the British-owned Asiatic Petroleum Co., and three others barely missed Standard Oil Co. grounds, near & Chinese air fleld. Dsmage was sald to have been slight. No casuslties were reported. A Japanese seaplane also bombed and Tungkin, in Far §outhern Kwang= al Province, fell mogtly in suburban districts, \