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Evening star., 1932-07-04
AIR FORCE DESERTI0N
HALTS CHINESE WAR
Eighty Per Cent of Canton's Flyers
Refuse to Take Part in Further
Civil Conflict.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HONGKONG, China. July 4.-deser-
ton of most Of the Cantonese air force
brought hope yesterday of a truce in
Canton's civil strife involving the re-
bellious navy Of Admiral Chan Chak.
The air force, under Gen. Chan Chai-
Tong, which has been operating against
the rebels, was crippled by the desertion
of 80 flyers, including many American
trained aviators and representing 80 per
cent Of the total air strength,
The flyers refused to take part in
further attacks upon Hainan, seat of
Admiral CHAINS separatist naval admin
istration. They declared adherence to
the recent statement Of their former
leader, Chang Wai-Chung that the air
force would not be available for future
civil wars
This detection raised hopes of peace
agreement for which Sun Fo, a former
Cantonese leader now in the Nanking
government, and Gen. Tsai Ting-Kai,
leader of the Chinese armies during the
heavy fighting against the Japanese at
Shanghai last Winter, have been work.
ing.
The gallant young Gen. Tsai received
an enthusiastic welcome at Canton,
leading to suggestions that the Can
tonese navy and air force, as a COM
promise, might go TO Annoy and join
Gen Tsais 18th Army.
A local newspaper said the Hongkong
government had seized a dozen armed
| launches OF Admiral Chan's feet, which
| took refuge here after an aerial attack,
and would hand the boats over to Can
ton authorities, but a spokesman for
the admiral said permission had been
obtained for the launches to remain
here. They are too small for the voyage
to Hainan
Evening star., 1932-07-04
JERSEY RIFLEMAN
WINS TWO EVENTS
Lieut.. Walter R. Stokes of Wash
ington Scores 199 Out of 200
at Sea Girt.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAGIRT. N. j., July 4.-William P
Schweitzer, Maplewood Rife Club, Hill
side, N. j., yesterday scored 186x200
over "a competitors to win the small
bore Spencer match and 396x400 over
80 entries to capture the Camp Perry
special event at the Eastern small-bore
rife tournament.
First Lieut.. Walter R. Stokes, Med
ical Detachment, 12Ist Engineers, Dis
trict of Columbia National Guard, out
shot SO participants and took first hon
ors in the 100-yard individual cham
pionship match with one point less than
a perfect score of 200. Fifth prize was
awarded John D. McNabb, national
headquarters, American Red Cross. Ma
tional Capital Rife Club, who rang up
1877 points.
The 3OO-yard individual champion
ship event, which involves the longest
competitive distance for .22-caliber am
munition, attracted only 50 marksmen
and was won by Lawrence j. CorSa,
Crescent Athletic Club, New York, with
90 points out of possible 100. Tenth
and eleventh places, respectively went
to Mai. Clarence S. Shields. I'd Bat
talon. 121st Engineers, District of Co.
lumbia National Guard, and Donald II.
MCCARTHY, 1882 quincy street, lI-year-
old manager ELECT of the Central High
School rifle team, by reason of their
88-point totals. Mai Shields also took
tenth place in the Spencer match with
1872 tally.
The official bulletin also listed the
following local prize winners: Palma
individual match-John D. McNabb,
ffth place, 2l7x225, and Lieut.. w. r,
Stokes. ninth, 2l6. William P.
SchWeitzer, already winner OF two
events, led the field of SO with 2l8
points and took home the gold watch
lob. Eastern individual championship
M5o-yard stage-won by Alex Eisen-
hauer. Frankfort Arsenal Rifle Club
Philadelphia, possible 100 points; 100
ward stage won by Harold j. Wood,
Elizabeth. N. j., possible" 100; First
Lieut.. Thaddeus A. Riley, headquar-
ters. l2lst Engineers, fifth place, SO;
2OO-vard stage, Walter N. Kendall
Lowell KY, 9s, winner, and Ralph H
mccarthy, National Capital Rifle Club,
SO, twelfth prize. j.,
II championship aggregate-Harold j.
Wood. 2s4. first prize, and R. H. Me-
Garity, 2o9, twelfth.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
SHUTTLE DRIVER
ON HILL RET|RES
Robert C. Perkins Forced 0ul
by Economy Program
at Age of SO.

Another familiar figure today was
missing from the ranks of elderly
Government employees forced to step
aside by the new order of things de-
creed by the economy program.
Robert C. Perkins, 1900 @ street
southeast, who since 1910 has been a
shuttle pilot between the Capitol and
Senate ONCE Building. turned his
duties over to younger hands.
He is retiring earlier than most of
those forced to drop out now, being
only 68, but he was subject to the law
at IS, and has been serving under a
second extension.
In the two decades Mr.. Perkins has
worked on the Hill he has come in
contact with most of the Presidents.
all of the Vice Presidents and all the
Senators.
The times change, Perkins comedies
heartily, but, regardless OF the years.
"the big men are the easiest to get
along with"
life are fussy about things" he con-
tinued. and displayed the warm place
he holds in his heart for the leaders
of the era in which he began, William
o. Bradley, John Sharp Williams and
Bob" Taylor.
"Those three were birds" he chuckles
reminiscently.
President Harding was prince, ne
added. I'VE used to have lots OF talks
when he was Senator.
Vice President Coolidge only rode
the cars when it was raining outside
No, 1 don't think Wilson ever was on
one of these cars.
President Hoover, believe, rode
sometimes when he was Secretary OF
Commerce or food administrator.
II used to drive down the corridor to
pick up Vice President Marshall and
meet him halfway from his office"
Perkins came here in 1907 from
Caney, Kans., to a job as House door
keeper.
He went over to the Senate side in
1910, driving the first vehicle that piled
in the subway between the two build
ings, with Vice President Sherman his
first passenger.
Two cars were put in use-masslve,
10-seater, battery propelled, jaunting
automobiles with two drivers seats and
steps.
Monorail cars, made by the Navy De-
partment, came into use about is years
ago. Perkins has driven continuously
since.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
DIR. CADMAN URGES
WASHINGTON SPIRIT
Patriotic Sermon at Cathe'
draI BIameS World Ills on
Ethical Stupidity.

The spirit which George Washington
bequeathed to the Nation is necessary
today to drive 'the charlatan and the
spokesman" from high places in our
Government, Rev. S. Parkes Cadman,
radio preacher for the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America,
declared yesterday in a sermon in the
great choir of Washington Cathedral
at a national patriotic service held in
cooperation with the Bicentennial
Commission.
The world today still suffers col
lapses of the public good traceable to
greed, folly and ethical stupidity" DR..
Cadman declared.
Rogues Still Flourish.
"The churl and the clown still gain
official preferment," he said. "RogueS
still flourish in high places and betray
the trust of those who elevate them.
Nevertheless, ignorance, insolence, flip
pancy and downright treachery are
always liable to encounter the spirit
washington engendered in our Repub-
lie, and when they do it Is nightfall
for them"
DR.. Cadman, discussing the unde-
served abuse that was heaped on WASH
ington after he became President, and
which has been heaped on Presidents
of the United States since, declared
this wretched tendency to abuse the
Chief Magistrate for not furnishing a
fool-proof world for our Republic per-
sists till now, defiant of facts, RATIONAL
ity and decent behavior"
Always True to Self.
The secret of Washingtons ascend
ency, DR.. Cadman said, is that "he was
always true to his fundamental self and
more careful Of his conscience than OF
the opinions Of his fellow men"
The Divine Providence which gave
Washington to this country in its time
of dire need, DR.. Cadman concluded,
will continue TO be gracious to a peni-
tent and believing America; an America
determined to silence the demagogue,
the charlatan and the spokesman; an
America set against the crime which
strains its very soul; an America worthy
of that great patrician of political in
tegrity and honor-President Washing
ton"
Evening star., 1932-07-04
MANAGER is BOUND
IN DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP
Woman One of Three Robbers
Taking $25 From 0ehmler
Floral Store.

A daylight hold-up was staged in mid
town washington yesterday by three
robbers. one a woman, who took SIS
from the manager of the Oehmler
Floral Co., Inc, shop, 1928 G street,
and escaped in a taxicab after binding
the manager with cord. Police believe
the three are the same persons who
perpetrated several similar robberies
here in the last few weeks.
The manager, Sidney Resnick, 80, OF
the 5000 block of Wisconsin avenue,
was alone in the shop when one OF the
men entered and asked to be shown
some roses. Resnick felt a gun in his
back as he started to comply with the
mans request.
Resnick said he saw the mans COM
panions seated in a taxicab in front OF
the shop as he was robbed Of $40, which
he had in his pockets, and SIS, which
the bandit took from the cash register.
Resnick was obliged to lie on the floor
while his wrists were bound with cord.
Resnick freed himself and gave the
alarm a few minutes later. While he
could not describe the man and woman
in the cab who served as lookouts. he
said the robber who entered the store
was dark complexioned and of small
stature and heavy build. The man was
unshaven and wore a reddish-brown
suit, black shoes and no hat.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
CITIZENS TO PROTEST
PROPOSED GAS TANK
Meeting Will Formulate Plans for
Senate Hearing to Fight
Project.

Five citizens associations will be rep
resented at a meeting tomorrow morning
to formulate plans for Senate hearing
TO protest erection Of a gas holder on
Virginia avenue southeast.
The Southeast Citizens Association
made an effort last Thursday to BLOCK
Senate action on the bill authorizing
construction of a 5000, ,000-cubic- -fooi
gas holder by the Washington Gas Light
Co. The bill was reported fayorably by
the Senate District Committee and is
new on the Senate calendar.
Gas holders in the Southeast section
it is argued are a menace to health,
the odor from them polluting the alr
and the waters of the Anacostia River
and saturating the soil The citizens
also contend the proposed holder would
serve as an auxiliary to existing storage
tanks and should be located in the Sec
ton OF the city it is intended to serve
and not in the Southeast
The associations to be represented al
the meeting tomorrow are Soutneast,
Lincoln Park, Anaco5tia. Randle Elgn-.
lands and Congress Heights. Each VIII
send two delegates
Evening star., 1932-07-04
Bonus Army Child's
Funeral, Lacking
Funds, Problem
Father Seeks Burial of
4Year-Old Pneumonia
Victim in Arlington.

Although nobody knew where the
money was coming from, arrangements
were being made today to bury 4-year-
old Johnny Greer, bonus army child,
who died yesterday OF pneumonia in
Gallinger Hospital.
The childs father, Robert c. Greer,
came here from Union, S. c., with the
bonus marchers. Mr.. Greer, his wife
and brother-in-law are living at 1882
A street southeast with IA children.
Johnny, suffering from malnutrition,
caught cold several days ago and
soon developed pneumonia. Lacking
the money for funeral expenses, the
parents were obliged to leave the body
at the hospital yesterday and last night.
This morning a representative of W..
w. Chambers Co., took the body away.
They said they would bury the child
as a charity case If necessary, provid-
ed a cemetery lot was made available.
Capt. Kirby I. Tyndall, head of the
North Carolina delegation of bonus
marchers, said arrangements had been
made through B. E. F. headquarters to
pay the childs funeral expenses. At
the headquarters, however, it was said
the treasury was empty and that they
we're hoping to meet the expense
through public contributions.
Mr.. Greer was out this morning try
ing to make arrangements for his child
to be buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
D. C. MAN ESCAPES
BANDITS BULLETS
William W. Scott, Jefferson Junior
High Teacher, Reports Expe-
rience in Indiana.

William w. Scott, teacher at Jeffer-
son Junior High School, was fired upon
by supposed bandits just outside of In
dianapolis, Ind, Thursday afternoon,
but escaped uninjured, according to re-
ports reaching the Capital.
Scott, who was on his way to Virden,
Ill. stopped his car to rest near Green
field, Ind, he reported, when car
bearing two men pulled up alongside Of
him, and one of the men leveled a
revolver at him. Scott was eating an
orange at the time, and, hurting the
fruit at the bandits eyes, he dashed
across a field before the hold-up man
could regain his composure. Shots fired
at him as he ran went wild.
The description given police by Scott
tailed with that of two gunmen who
shot two Springfield, Ohio. policemen
the night before, fatally wounding one
Of them.
Scott formerly lived at 1901 MaSsa-
chusetts avenue
Evening star., 1932-07-04
THREE DROWN|NGS
|. IN CAPITAL AREA
HELD ACCIDENTAL
Police Investigate Death of
CorpI. D. A. Quick at
Boiling Field.
WIFE WATCHES SWIMMER
DIE IN OCCOQUAN CREEK
Carpenter Loses Life Mysteriously
in Potomac Near Wide
water, Md.

Police investigation of the deaths of
two or three persons whose bodies were
recovered from the Potomac and its
tributaries, showed all were accidents.
Although the death of Corpl. David A.
Quick, 90, stationed at Boiling Field,
will be probed, police stated there were
no suspicious circumstances surround
ing it.
Quick had been missing since Thurs
day. His body, fully clothed, was sight
ed IN the Eastern Branch. opposite the
Navy Yard, by Charles Webber. a men,
Der of the Bonus Army at Camp Marks.
Harbor police recovered it. Both mill
tary and local authorities will hold in
vestigations tomorrow
John Alton Lynn, 29, of Woodbridge,
Va, seized with cramps while swimming
in the waters of Occoquan Greek, near
Occoquan, Va, was drowned despite the
valiant efforts of companion to save
him. William Pearson of Woodbridge
went to his rescue, but was grabbed
about the neck and pulled under by
Lynn. He was able to break the hold
and swim to shore.
Wife Sees Drowning.
A group of persons, including Lynn's
wife, witnessed the tragedy, but none
was able to swim. Pearson recovered
strength and swan back to bring the
body to the surface. 1t was removed
to the Hall g. Davis funeral home, at
Occoquan. Lynn's mother, Mrs. jamie
Lynn, and Mrs. Gladys Anderson, sis
ter, live at 504 Maine avenue southwest
A physicians examination of the
body of c. A. Patterson, 80, carpenter
h.
east, who was drowned in the Potomac
near Whitewater, Md, Saturday, showed
no marks of violence, W. Reuben Pum-
phrey, Rockville coroner, said.
Patterson, a World War veteran, dis
appeared while swimming with his
roommate, John Vollmer The latter
missed Patterson about l O'Clock, but
thought he had gone off in the woods
and did not become alarmed until sew
eral hours later. He notified police
about $50 o'clock.
Arranging Funeral.
While arrangements have not been
completed, Pumphrey announced, funeral
services will be held from the Colonial
Funeral Home, in Rockville. Patterson
will be buried, Pumphrey said, in
Arlington Cemetery. He is survived by
MS WlIe VINO uVeS IN Fnladelpnla,
brother, willard W. Patterson, HOO
block of K street, and his mother.
Police said that although the body
Of Corpl. Quick was badly decomposed,
it bore no suspicious marks as far as
they could ascertain. DR.. c. j. Murphy
deputy coroner, issued certificate of
death by drowning, and left open the
question of whether it was accidental.
Police said Quick was widower.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
THREE DIE IN GERMAN
POLITICAL CLASHES
Score or More Injured as Nazis,
Communists and Police Battle
in Many Cities.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 4.-Three persons were
killed and a score or more injured in
Sundays political clashes throughout
the Reich.
At Essen a Communist clash
ended with one fatality, and Com
munist-police pitched battle brought
death for one policeman
Communists shouted Kill the police
dogs!" at their sports meeting, where
upon the police guards resisted with
firearms. One of their number was rid
died with bullets.
A Hitlerite was slain in NaZi-Com-
munist setto and two Communists We're
hurt. Communists fired into group Of
pedestrians who failed to answer their
shout of Hail Moscow, wounding two
persons.
Seven were wounded in a Nail
Reichsbanner disturbance at Neurup-
pin, and at Stuttgart several we're in
iured il similar disturbances, while 80
were arrested.
A Communist was slain In clash
with police at Eschwege. Three persons
were injured.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
GIRL IS CAPTURED
IN POLICE CHASE
Four Officers in Cars and on
Motor Cycles Pursue Her
as Liquor Suspect.

-Four policemen, two in automobiles
and two on motor cycles, had to show
some fancy driving last night to arrest
the girl chauffeur of a supposed rum
car. And their success was modified by
the fact the arrest was accomplished in
another jurisdiction, one of the police
machines had been hit and dented and
the supposed liquor had been tossed onto
the highway in fragile bottles.
Policemen A. H. Prusser and E. E
Dewey, seventh precinct, noticed what
they termed a suspicious car leaving
Potomac and Prospect avenues with a
young woman at the wheel and two
men on a rear seat. The officers fol-
lowed as best they could in separate
machines.
Crosses Key Bridge.
The fugitive car threaded George
towns crowded streets and made for
the Virginia end Of Key Bridge, while
motorists urged their machines over the
sidewalks and police sirens sounded an
alarm and some apprehension.
Two Virginia motor cycle officers
joined the procession which by that
time was vending its way through
RosSlyn. The party was almost a mile
uONA AOaQ DNFCJ AANN
abreast of the girl driver and then got
In front.
Held as Speeder.
There is large dent in Devey's ma
chine, marking the spot where the
woman driver stopped. Virginia police
arrested the three. on charges preferred
by the visiting officers, and the prison.
ers, police said, offered no protest at re-
turning to the local jurisdiction.
A case of whisky, police said, had
been tossed out en- route. AT No. pre-
cinct the girl, who said she was Frances
P. Windsor, %, of the 400 block of
Sixth street, was charged with speeding
and passing red light. One compan-
ion, Stanley Grey, 90, Of the same ad-
dress, was booked for breaking glass On
the street. The second mans name was
not learned. He fed on foot, police
said.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
PROGRAM IS HELD
At ENGINE HOUSE
Oldest inhabitants Conduct
67th Celebration With Judge
MattingIy as Speaker.

The sixty-seventh celebration of the
Nations birthday by the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants of the District of
Columbia was held today at the old
Union Engine House, Nineteenth and H
streets, with Judge Robert E. Mattingly
of Municipal Court delivering the prln-
cipal address.
Previous to the July Fourth celebra-
ton the association members held
regular business meeting.
In the absence of Theodore w. Noyes,
president of the association, the meet
in was presided over by Fred A. Emery.
vice president.
Declaration Is Read.
Rev. j. Harvey Dunham, pastor OF
the Western Presbyterian Church, gave
the invocation. Following this, decla-.
ration by the House o. Burgesses OF
Virginia, entitled mo Taxation With
out Representation" was read. The
declaration is as follows
mo power on earth has right to
impose taxes on the people or take the
smallest portion of their property with
out their consent given by their repre-
sentatives. This has been considered as
the chief pillar of the Constitution.
without this support no man can De
said to have the least shadow OF liberty.
"My District" Is Sung.
Frederic William Wile's MY District
was sung by the assembly. The Dec
laration of independence was read by
John B. Dickman, ST., after whlch
Judge Mattingly delivered his address
The celebration was concluded with
the singing of Aud Lang Syne." How
ard Moore sang several selections, ac-
companied by Miss Esther Spier.
The Celebration Committee was COM
posed of James F. Duhamel, chairman;
Washington Topham, vice chairman;
j. Eliot Wright, secretary; Samuel AIT
man, Henry L. Bryan, Frank w. DOW
ling Mr.. Emery Artemas c. Harman
Percy B. Israel George Bruf Jack
son, John Clagett Proctor, Theodore
w Moves eX OfficiO,
Evening star., 1932-07-04
a ESCAPE DEATH
IN TAKOMA PARK AS
BLAZE RAzES HOME
Fire Is Believed by Police to
Have Been Incendiary.
Girl, 16, Is Cut.
KITCHEN DISCOVERED
ENVELOPED IN FLAMES
Wife and Husband Arouse Two
Families and Lead Them to
Safety Through Window.
BY STAFF Correspondent o. The Star.


TAKOMA PARK, Md, July A.
Fourteen people fed to safety when a
fire believed by police to be Of incen-
diary origin destroyed the home of
Frank Collins at Third street and
Cockreu avenue here early today. Only
the charred framework OF the struc-
ture, a frame bungalow, was left stand
ing.
The fire was discovered shortly be-
fore am. when Collins wife, Mrs.
Florence Collins, arose to prepare
breakfast and found the kitchen en-
veloped in flames and the fire rapidly
spreading to other parts Of the house.
Arouse Family in House.
Mrs. Collins screamed for her hus-
band and together they managed to
arouse their nine children, a son-in-
law and two grandchildren and led
them to safety through a side window
which they smashed out when the
flames spread to the hallway and cut
off escape by the front door.
A daughter, Irene Collins, 16 years
old, suffered severe lacerations of the
right leg in climbing through the WIN
dow, and was taken to the Washington
Sanitarium, where she was admitted for
treatment. Mrs. Collins, who is 40, suf-
fered minor cuts about the fingers of
her right hand and was given 1rst-alo
treatment by neighbors.
Meanwhile, a driver of milk truck
saw the fire and called Town Policeman
Frank Lane, who notified the Takoma
Park Fire Department. A valiant effort
was made by the volunteer flremen to
save the structure, but the fire had
gained too much headway, and the
building was razed.
Collins family and that of his son-in-
law which were forced to flee from the
bungalow with only their night clothes
and whatever apparel they managed to
gather I'D in their haste, were being
cared for at the home Of neighbor
today.
List Of Those Escaping.
In addition to Collins, who is So,
and his wife. those who escaped were
Their nine children, Ernest, %; Frank,
18; Irene, 16; Harold, Is; Bernard,
u: Edith, TO- Audrey, Z; Louise, 8.
and Mrs. Mildred Milestad, 81; her
husband. Eugene Milestad. %, and Mr..
and Mrs. Milestad's two children, Jean,
2 years old, and Kenneth. 6.
Ernest Collins, a cripple, was helped
through the WINDOW 10 Salety py I"o
of his brothers.
It was estimated by Collins that the
damage to his home would total $4,000.
The building was not covered by in
surance, he said.
Town police declared they are OF the
opinion that the fire was the work OF
a fire bug" The blaze is the fifth
in which homes in that area of Takoma
Park. in which Collins bungalow was
located, have been destroyed by fires
of mysterious origin.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
CHINESE DYKES FINISHED
Tribute Paid to Workmen on Flood
Relief Program.

SHANGHAI, July 4 (tP)-Sir John
Hone Simpson, having completed his
work as director of the Chinese Ma
tional Flood Relief Commission, sailed
for England yesterday with Lady
simnson aboard the liner Empress OF
Japan. ,oo
Telling how a colossal force of AGO.
600 workmen built 5000 miles OF
dykes to check floods. he paid tribute
to the devotion of thousands OF Voiun-
tary Chinese workers.
1T Is impossible to believe there Is
no hope for the future OF China wnen
such devoted service can be commanded
ON such q huge sale he said.
Evening star., 1932-07-04
Eve Has Four Lambs.

ELKIN. N. C. P).-A eve owned by
j. G. Ray, Elkin farmer, attracted at
tention here by giving birth to four
lambs this Spring. When the mother
sheep was one year old she startled the
farm with twins, and year later bleat-
e.. the news of triplets. Her latest
In this section.