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The Washington times., 1934-07-25
Chief of Police
Of Innsbruck
Shot Dead

BERLIN, July Is G.N.SD.-Four
unidentified men shot and killed
Heinrich Kicker, chief of police
of Innsbruck, in front of police
headquarters today. according to
an Innsbruck dispatch to the
Lokalanzeiger.
The shooting apparently oc-
Cured only a short time after
Herr Kicker had assured Inter
national News Service by long
distance telephone that all was
quiet at the Austrian resort town
but that he was putting the police
on an emergency basis because Of
the tension there.
Innsbruck has been the fire.
quent scene of Nazi clashes with
other political elements.
News of the Staying OF Herr
Kicker, apparently connected with
the Vienna situation, was the first
indication that the trouble has
spread to the Austrian provinces.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
Byrd's Chances for Escape
Or Rescue Put at | in 100

Admiral Byrd waited today in
the 12-by.8-foot shack on the vast
ice sheet of the South Polar
region for a rescue crew that
may or may not find him in the
blizzards that rage over the
frozen continent.
Mr.. Gay, Hollywood song
writer, pictured the contrast be.
tween the security of the Amer.
ican home, and the perils OF
Admiral Byrd'S tiny refuge, as
he estimated his former com
mander's chances of escape. He
said:
"Admiral Byrd's life hangs
by q thread. That thread is
the bIizxard-hidden trail by
which q hardy crew of Sc men
who were left in Little Amer.
lea may or may not reach the
wooden shack set up for the
commander in the frozen
wastes 123 miles south Of the
base camp"
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
Alexandria Council
ADDrODriUtes S6,O18

Alexandria city council appro-
priated $6,016 for material and
supervision on new FERA pro-
jects. for sewers, sidewalks and
cutters in the newer part of the
city. Labor will be paid out Of
Federal funds.
Among the projects is a $4,000
sewer and a 5000 sidewalk for
the proposed new high school.
The material for the sewer is
estimated to cost $4,000. Sewers
on Washington Avenue from
Grove to Lloyd Avenue; Wash
ington Avenue, Cliff Avenue to
Alexandria Avenue and at Huff
Run also are planned.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25

Although it appeared the move
ment would be short-lived, it was
not without bloodshed. Several
were reported killed and wounded
in fighting that followed the seiz.
ure by armed Nazis Of Station
WIEN, Vienna's official broadcast
ing station.
It was when a musical program
being broadcast from Station
WIEN was suddenly interrupted
that the nation got it's first ink
ling that unusual events were oc"
curing.
Resignation" Broadcast
A voice broadcast the state.
ment that Chancellor Dollfuss had
resigned and that DR.. Anton Rim
telen, former ambassador to Italy
and now a Nazi leader, had been
called upon to form a cabinet.
Except for DR.. Rintelen, no
other name has publicly appeared
in connection with the "putsch."
Rintelen, although supposedly the
leader of the government, was
understood to have left Vienna
yesterday for the provinces. It
was reported he was at Graz,
keeping in close touch with the
situation.
While the city and the nation
waited in an atmosphere of appre.
hension unequalled since the So.
cialist revolt of last February
which the Dollfuss government
crushed with howitzers and shrap-
mel, came the announcement that
the heads of the government were
in the hands of the Nazis.
Many Deaths Reported
No one knew definitely what
was happening. There were re-
ports of heavy fighting and many
deaths in Vienna.
From the provinces, however,
no anti-government uprisings had
been reported, and as far as could
(Continued on Pare 4, Col. 2.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
WOMAN TELLS
Of D|LL|NGER
SHOOTING
Red-CIad Movie Companion
| OF Desperate Says She
Didn't Know Identity
Rx GEORGE C. GALLATI

CHICAGO, July Is GN.S0
Before angered Federal agents
could pry her from police custody
today, Mrs. Anna Sage, 43, the
woman in red" who accom-
panied John Dillinger on his fatal
trip to q theater Sunday night,
told a revealing story of the arch
desperado's sudden end.
Her narrative went far toward
clearing up details of the death
trap into which Americas No. l
desperate walked unsuspecting
to be moved down by Federal
agents guns outside the Biograph
Neighborhood Theater.
The arrest of Mrs. Sage by
Sheffield Avenue police disclosed,
too, that 1.-The woman in red''
had been ordered deported by the
Federal Governmental as an un'
desirable alien. She had been
convicted Of operating disorderly
house.
Other Companion =
Dillinger's other woman com
panion at the theater was the
desperado's last sweetheart, Mrs.
Roy Keele, 26, divorced wife Of
d Gary, (Ind.) policeman. It
was her picture which was found
pasted in the back of the watch
Dillinger wore.
Mrs. Keele, whose maiden name
was Polly Rita Hamilton, left
after the shooting for Fargo, N.
D., where her father is said to be
a minister, Mrs. Sage told her
questioners.
Before Mrs. Sage was surren-
dered to Department of Justice
agents on orders Of Police Com
missioner John Altman, detectives
learned that the woman in red"
was an acquaintance of Sergt.
Martin Zarkoyich of the East
Chicago Qnd.) police, the man
credited with setting the stage
for Dillinger's end.
But Mrs. Sage, who insisted she
"never guessed that man was
Dillinger," denied that she had
had any contact with Sergt. Ear
kovich. Moreover, she said, she
had no hope Of collecting any of
the $4,000 reward money offered
for the betrayal and capture Of
the super-desperado.
Dillinger had posed as Jimmy
Lawrence a clerk on the Board
of Trade here, Mrs. Sage said
He was always a good spender
on beer parties and frequent
night club jaunts during his last
carefree weeks.
Entertained Couple
The woman admitted having
frequently entertained Mrs. Keele
and Dillinger in her apartment
OF Dillinger's last few hours on
earth Mrs. Sage said:
"POlly and her boy friend
came to my apartment Sunday
afternoon and we ment to the
movie in the evening. The
shooting happened when we
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
WOOD
BEAT ANZACS
By CHARLES A. SMITH

WIMBLEDON, England, July
IS GN.S.)-By one of the grand
est comebackS ever staged in the
history of the Davis Cup, Frank
Shields and Sidney Wood carried
America into the challenge round
today by winning the last two
singles matches from Australia
in the inter-zone finals.
First Wood defeated Jack Craw-
ford, the master Australian, 6-3,
81, As, E6, 60, in what
was called the 'key match" Then
Shields came on the courts to
beat Vivian McGrath in the clos
ing encounter in straight sets.
Thus was an amazing reversal
of form achieved. In the open
ing singles on Saturday, the
AnzacS seemed to clinch the
series. They won both Of the
singles matches to take a lead Of
2 to 0, leaving them the neces-
Sity Of scoring only one more
point to advance into the chal-
lenge round against England.
It was a point they never were
to get. Faced by failure, the
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Second SeceiOn)
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
ATTEMPT At 'PUTSCH'
BELIEVED HALTED;
MANY ARE SLAIN
Bv. ALFRED TYRNAUER

VIENNA, July Is (INs.) ).-Government troops and
police stormed the chanceory late today and arrested
the Naz terrorsts who holding prisoner Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss and three members of his cabinet
The Nal leaders, who had seized Dollfuss Major Emil
Fey minister of safety Secretary of State Korvlnsky
and Minister of Justice Waldenegg in what believed
to be putsch to overthrow the Dolfuss regime,
taken to prison
The official announcement said
Until the final settlement of the situation, President
Miklas has charged Minister of the Interior Kurt
schuschnigg to take charge of the government"
sorming of the chancelory cmaxed day of wild excite
ment in Vienna and throughout the nation as Ausrans
repetition of the Socialist revolt of last February
in which killed before the ruthless forces Of
Chancellor Dolfuss quelled the uprising.
Capture of the Nazs who had held the chancellor and his
aides prisoners for several hours believed to have sig
nailed the end of the Putsc the beginnings and leadership
of which were still obscure.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
AUSTRIAN NAZ|S SEIZE DOLLFUSS AND FEY:
POLICE STORM CHANCELLORY, JAIL TERR0RISTS
Britten Asks Relief
Probe Here, Hitting
Waste and Graft
any kind, will have been pre-

any kind, will nave been pre-
ferred.
RACKET DISCLOSURE"
"T would not be surprised If
relief i'm the District has not
degenerated into a gOOdsized
racket" which would be dis
closed by . searching investiga-
tiOn.
"ThiS condition is not unusual
in the larger cities. An authOri-
tative commission in Chicago
only last week determined that
approximately IS per cent of
the total cost Of Illinois State
relief distribution was wasted.
or i'm other words excessive"
An examination of the relief
rolls in the District will disclose
it is charged, that almost one
third of the cases are in error on
the record. Out of $500 cards
examined 1,400 are said to be
false in one way or another.
>. In one case it was shown that
the. relief recipients who had
been on the rolls for some time
had died several months before
his card was discovered.
Many Errors Found
Several cases have been discov-
cred, it is pointed out, in which
the persons involved revealed they
had never asked for relief and were
getting none. There are other
cases, it is said, which are on the
relief rolls, but which cannot be
found by case workers because of
erroneous addresses. zs"
It is pointed out that the reason
for much of the confusion is that
the relief record originates in the
fact that when the emergency re-
lief organization was first set UP
records of the various private char.
ity organizations were dumped on
the new Set-up, and that a great
number of them have never been
checked.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
BY JULIA A. BONWIT

Charging that there is graft,
incompetence and waste Of money
in the District relief set-up, Rep.
resentative Fred A. Britten of
Illinois, Republican dean of the
House. today demanded a
thorough and impartial investi.
cation by competent authority
of the entire relief administra.
ton in Washington.
The Illinois Representative de-
clared that many cases on the
relief rolls here have been brought
to his attention, and that in not
a few instances he has discovered
"a great waste of money" brought
about by inefficiency as well as
graft.
Waste Also in Chicago
Mr.. Britten who has just re-
turned to washington from Chi
cago, said that in that city there
is also excessive waste in the ad-
ministration of relief funds. He
said:
From what I have heard
concerning the distribution of
relief in the District, am
quite convinced that q thor.
Ough and impartial investiga-
tiOn by competent authorities
would disclose great waste Of
money as well as graft, in.
efficiency and willfuI decep-
tiOn in the relief records.
II am sure that the relief
rolls win show many namea M
& 40 lot exist a6 an
VINO nave beeM felfef fecipi-
ents. I am sure that the cost
Of distributing relief will be
found unusually high and, in
many instances, distinctly un-
fair. Hundreds Of families en-.
titled to relief will be found
to have received none, while
others in the more favored
class not entitled to relief of
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
Badly Hurt in Fall
At Miner College

Jesse H. Dunnevant, So, of the
900 block of Ninth st. N. E., was
seriously injured today when he
fell IS feet to the floor of the
stage of Miner Teachers College
when his scaffold broke.
He was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where he was treated for
back injuries and broken rib
x-rays were to be taken to see
whether he has a fracture of the
spine.
Mr.. Dunnevant was doing re-
pair work, preparatory to hang
ing the stage curtains.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
'POLicenayo's Wife
Takes Life Bu Gas

Placing the en- dof a rubber
Placing the end of a rubber
Cornett, "a, wife of Policeman
Robert F. Cornett, of the Traffic
Bureau, ended her. life early to.
day by inhaling gas. The woman
was found in the bathroom of
her home by her husband who
summoned the rescue squad
Members of the squad worked
over her for several hours but
were unable to revive her. Mrs
Cornett left two notes, one ad
dressed to her husband and one
to her two children, Barbara and
Robert.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
Coast Guard Cadets
ReceiUed BY POpe

VATICAN CITY, July IS
UNSO.-Sixty cadets of the
United States Coast Guard Serv-
ice were received in audience by
Pope Plus today. The Pope ex-
pressed his pleasure at meeting
the Guardian Angels of the
Coasts" and said he hoped their
guardian angels would protect
them from mjShap."
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
U. S. ARTIST HONORED

PARIS, July Is GN.SO.-Louis
Aston Knight, American artist,
was promoted today to the rank
of commander of the Legion Of
Honor. His father was the noted
artist, Ridgway Knight, of Phila.
delphia.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25

LITTLE AMERICA, Antarc-
tica, via Mackay Radio, July rs
N.S.).-The tractor party
which put out from here last
Friday in an attempt to reach
Rear Admiral Byrd at his ad-
vance base, 1913 miles south Of
here, fought its way back to
camp at 6:15 Monday night.
The party was forced back
by adverse weather and great
ice crevaSseS.
Another attempt to reach Byrd
will probably be made by sleds.
The Washington times., 1934-07-25
BY LYLE ABBOTT

LOS GELES, JulS Is
Q.N.S0.-Admiral Richard q E.
Byrd, loneliest man in the world.
has one chance in 100 to escape
from the grim icy jaws Of the An
arctic winter to the safety of his
base camp, according to- Byron
Gay who recently returne from
the expedition. -
The Washington times., 1934-07-25

WASHINGTON FORECAST
ThundershOwers probable tonight and Thurs
day; cooler tomorrow. "Details on p. q End SecJ
MEAN TEMPERATURES
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
DEANS FEUD
GETS D|Zz|ER

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug. II. -
Among developments in the war
between the striking Dean broth
ers and the st. Louis Cardinals to-
day one fact sood out
Dizzy and Paul are weakening
while the management is not. Both
pitching brothers have expressed a
desire for reinstatement on the
clubs own terms-fines and asses
ments for boiling an exhibition
game at Detroit Monday.
But after DIZZY went all the way
toward a reconciliation, he was
baked at first by Paul's stand-off
attitude which prompted Manager
Frank Frisch to announce that
both will come back or both will
stay out" When Paul finally ca
piulated, Dizzy-as Dizzy so often
does-had changed his mind.
1t appeared the elder brother
was going to Chicago to lay his
case before high commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Lands. He is
sued an extensive statement on
his attitude last night, but declined
to say where he was going Paul,
meanwhile, was ready to toe the
mark, but couldn't until Dizzy"
came along.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17

is Miss Edna Skinner, a pretty 81
year-old girl of Eldorado Ark,
Schoolboy's home town.
"I've been Edna IS steady for six
years. Schoolboy said. 1--WE aim
to get married. Nav, don't know
just when yet, but sorta calculate
it II be right after the world SER
les. You see, we can use that eX-
ira money. It'll come in right
handy
$50 you re pretty sure of getting
in the series,'' we said.
What's gonna keep us out?"
he replied.
The way he said it you knew that
the Yankees might just as we'll be
playing in another league insofar
as stopping the Tigers was con-
cerned.
We asked the Schoolboy if there
were any other contributing factors
to his success beside food that stuck
TO his ribs and Edna who stuck to
his heart.
"Yeah, there IS a couple more.
One is a doctor down in Atlanta
named Ferguson. You know that
sore arm that ruined me last year?
Well, it was still aching me when
we reached Atlanta on our trip
north this spring. But Doctor Fer
guson worked on the ligaments of
it and it s been okay ever since.
The other is that I finally got the
notion I'd rather be a fielder than
a pitcher out my head. You know
l can bust ball right smart. Hit
the longest homer ever seen in
the Texas league. But reckon I
can do better as a pitcher, and
once my mind was made up I start
cd improving. But boy, l still
think the most fun in baseball is
putting the old wood to one''
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results

1CSOcTGdy heSIlIS
Chicago 81, Boston 2-6.
st. Louis Al, Philadelphia 80.
Cincinnati 8, Brooklyn /.
New York Pittsburgh, rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
LEAGUE GAMES
PACIFIC COAST
BY United rress

The surprising Seattle Indians,
who many fans had believed
wouldn't be playing ball at all this
year, clung tenaciously today to
their one-game lead in front of
the Pacific coast league.
The team whipped together after
a late-spring financing plan made
its continuation in Seattle possible
won its third straight game from
Portland yesterday to hold its lead
over the Los Angeles Angels, first
half champions
The Seattle-Portland game was
fought closely. The Indians had a
four-run lead going into the ninth.
At this point Craghead faltered
and the Beavers scored three runs.
Yerkes stopped further scoring and
the final count was 4-3.
Los Angeles kept within striking
distance by defeating the Mission
Reds, 60 Dick Ward, biggest
winner last season, held the Reds
in check, while his mates fell on
Clarence Mitchell for five runs in
the second inning to sew up the
game.
Hollywood moved into a tie for
third with the Missions by defeat
ing the San Francisco Seals, Sd,
in an thinning struggle.
Oakland handed another setback
to Sacramento in 10-inning game.
Hal Haid was returned the winner
of 80 battle with Mamie Salvo
of the Senators.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
OLD TIME HURLERS NOT DOING
SO BADLY in MAJOR LEAGUES

lyn Dodgers, winning 81 for the
Redlegs.
Guarded Alex
Rhem, who comes from wide
spot in the road called RHEIMS,
down in South Carolina, is probab-
" the most successful Of the old
timers. having won eight and lost
only three for the Boston Braves.
Flint has been around since 1924,
but has had two trips back to the
minors. He is noted for his moral
influence as we'll as his pitching
arm, having supervised the per-
sonal conduct of Grover Cleveland
Alexander when Old Pete was
touring the Memphis beer halls as
member of the st. Louis pitching
staff.
Yesterday Rhem pitched an
eight-hit game against the Chica-
go Cubs trouncing them 6-1 in the
second game, after Chicago had
beaten Boston 80 in ten-inning
opener.
Jess Haines, another venerable
member of the ancient battalion
who has been doing business since
1914. received credit for beating
Philadelphia, 4-3, in an thinning
affair, although Jess pitched only
three innings for st. Louis. He
held the Phils hitless after reliev-
ing Tex Carleton in the eighth.
Bill Walker, who has seen l;
years of service-eight with the
Giants and Cards-pitched the
nightcap for the Cards, also win
ming, To. Jimmy Collins hit hi
9th homer off Digety Phil Col
Inns in the first inning, sending
two in ahead of him, to give Walk
er winning edge.
All four American league game
were rained out Chicago ant
Philadelphia, and Detroit and New
York will play doubleheaders to
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
TCnANS
.SPORTsPARACE.
NSAASs SssssSlisls Ss
BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press STAIR correspondent
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Corn-
bread, hogjowl turnip greens and
Edna Skinner.
That IS the recipe for perfect
pitcher.
Analysts, psychoanalysts, physio-
analysts, and plain baseball writ
ers have no such simple formula.
To them pitching is one of the fine
arts, the results of a happy mar
riage of mind, matter and muscle,
and a process which calls for per-
feet coordination between such
things as cells, cerebellums, nerv-
GUS ganglae, and the odd-number-
ed Vertebrae.
But all Of that becomes just a lot
of highfalutin nonsense when you
drag Schoolboy Rowe out of the
Detroit dugout and ask him how
he managed those 13 straight wins
for the Tigers. Schoolboy wouldn It
know a vertebra from a canvasback
duck and a cerebellum to him is
just a word that means after the
war.
But he knows what makes him
the standout pitcher of the year
"Taint nothing mysterious about
it, drawled the Schoolboy. "Not
bit. I just get well filled up
with a lot of substantial vittles like
cornbread and turnip greens, climb
out there on the mound, wrap my
fingers around the ball, and say:
Edna, honey, they amt gonna see
it. Then l let LOOSE
Edna it might be explained,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17

the best local cue stars, there will
be lecture on three-cushion and
the diamond system. Fancy shots
will be given at both three-cushion
and pocket billiards.
Admission will be free and the
public is invited to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-17
Here And There
In Sport World
BY United Press


MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. IT
The football season isn't under
way yet, but the first accident was
reported today Isidore Baron, 18,
suffered a broken leg when he was
tackled in practice game.
CHICAGO, Aug. ia. A. Stagg,
for 40 years coach at the Universi-
ty Of Chicago, celebrated his 72nd
birthday yesterday by eating fudge
and playing tennis. Fudge has
long been his favorite confection.
After he had consumed a portion
made by his daughter, he played
tennis with his son, A. A, Jr.
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. IT,
Three southerners and one mid
Westerner fill the semi-final brac-
ket of the Newport casino invita-
tional tennis play today-without
an easterner on the list for the
first time in years.
Davis cup ace, lost yesterday to
Berkeley Bell, Texan, who plays
frankie Parker, former Milwaukee
youngster. In the other half Will
mer Allison of Austin, Tex, meets
Bryan Grant, of Atlanta, Ga.
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. IT. -
Rainbow, the Vanderbilt syndicate IS
entry in the America IS cup defense,
today boasted for the first time a
regulation victory over the Boston
sloop, Yankee, leading cup candi-
date.
Skippered by Harold Vanderbilt,
the New York craft raced away
from the field in the Astor cup
event yesterday over a 28-mile
course, winning by more than six
minutes.
CHICAGO, Aug. II. - George
Sauer, former Nebraska fullback,
and Ed Krause, former Notre Dame
tackle, will be co-captainS of the
All-American college team which
will play the Chicago Bears, pro-
fesSional champions, at Soldier
field the night of August 81.
In the vote to name a captain,
KrauSe and Sauer tied and head
coach Noble Kizer decided to name
them co-captainS.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Aug. II.
With a new, high-powered rae
ing car, Bluebird w, Sir Malcolm
Campbell, famous English motor
speedster, will make what probably
will be his last attempt to go 300
miles an hour in tests here late in
January or early in February.
Definite plans of Sir Malcolm
were contained in a letter received
here yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IT.
Jimmy McLarrin, former welter-
weight champion bound for Los
Angeles today aboard the S. S. H.
F. Alexander, told friends during
brief visit here he is confident of
defeating Barney Ross and regain
ing the title when they meet at
Long Island bowl September 6.
81 think I have a good chance
of regaining my title,o the So
called Baby-Faced Assassin,n of
the prize ring, said.
AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND
Calf, Aug. 7.-Headlining the
first boxing show held here in
more than Is years, Tony Chavez,
1913, Albuquerque, drew with Mark
Diaz, 1913, Manila. last night.
Diaz proved the better boxer but
Chavez was more aggressive. In a
six round Semi-final Johnny Mar
tinez, lat, Los Angeles, decisioned
Tony Rcccaforte, 146, San Fernan-
| do.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.-Vic-
tor as usual in football matters,
Coach Howard Harding Jones,
gridiron mentor at the University
of Southern California, today stood
winner of a S2,084 lawsuit against
M. B. Bushnell, manager of a par
lor game company.
Jones claimed that amount was
due him as proceeds on the sales
of a parlor football game invented
l.