davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-05-05
GANG IS BLAMED
IN BAR SHOOTING
Effort to SIay Persons
Shedding Light on
Fontaine Case.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, May 5.-An un-
successful attempt to slay a tap room
bartender led police today to regard
it as another desperate effort by the
underworld to silence those who may
shed light upon the attempt to slay
Lenora Gooslyn Fontaine and other
crimes.
Leon zanchuck, %. Philadelphia,
alone in the tap room was ascending
a flight Of stairs when three bullets
perforated a window and missed him
by two steps.
Police quoted Zanchuck as saying
he knew Of no reason for the attack,
but they recalled two telephone mes
Sages Thursday from a man who said
he was calling from the tap room and
offered information about the at
tempted Staying of Mrs. Fontaine in
Upper Darby last week.
Ten extra policemen were sent
during the night to the hospital where
Mrs Fontaine is confined after it was
reported her would-be killer planned
to return and make a second attempt
on her life
Mrs. Fontaine, a former resident of
Canada, has said several times since
she was SHOT that she fears death at
the hands of the men who wounded
her and apparently left her to die. A
man with whom she came to the
United States was killed by Washing
ton police some time ago.
Department of Justice agents have
been investigating the shooting be-
cause her aSsailants are reputed to be
involved in several hi-jackings of in
terstate trucks and in the killing of
a Federal Reserve Bank employe.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
Girl, 4, Starring,
Eats Poison WeedS,
CausingHerDeath
Hunger Forced Child to
Go Into Yard for Food,
Parents Declare.
By the Associated Press


SEATTLE, May 5.-Hunger drove
4-year-old Angeline D'Ambrose to eat
poison weeds, causing her death, Mr..
and Mrs. Angelo D'Ambrose, the
parents, sobbingly told investigators
yesterday.
The parents said the baby had
virtually nothing to eat for days and
had been driven to eating plants and
weeds in the yard.
Investigators found the D'Ambrose
home a dismal place. There was only
cents in the house, and no food.
The mother sat in chair and stared
at the wall. The father, heartbroken
said:
"The baby was the only thing We
had in the world, and now she's gone.
"Oh, if it had only rained yester-
day. Then our little girl wouldn't
have been out in the grass
DR.. w. H. CorSon, chief deputy
coroner, said one of the herbs in the
stomach resembled belle-donna, also
known as deadly nightshade, and
another plant which the child had
eaten was poison hemleck.
D'Ambrose was tramping the streets
in search of work when the child
was stricken suddenly.
Authorities quoted the father as say
ing he had not applied for public re-
lief because he did not know how to
do it. He had not worked for more
than yea9he said.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
AMERICAN LEGION POSTS
IN NEW MEXICO OUSTED
Twenty-one Stripped of Charters
by Order of National Ex-
ecutive Committee.
B. the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. May 5.-Six
months after the New Mexico Depart
ment of the American Legion was sus-
pended, 2l Legion posts in that State
have been stripped of their charters by
the National Executive Committee of
the organization.
No explanation accompanied the an
nouncement of the lists of posts whose
charters we're Cancelled. Last Novem-
Der, however, the State Department
was charged with factionalism, po-
litical activity and with padding men,
bership rolls to control the organiza-
ton.
The action taken by the Executive
Committee here yesterday followed
recommendations of three investigators
named by Edward A. Hayes, national
commander. The three are William M.
Alter of Denver, I. A.. Jennings Of
Phoenix and Co-ordinator Ollie A.
Davis.
There we're 10 posts in New Mexico
last November when the Executive
Committee suspended the department
for alleged violation of the Legion con-
stitution, which states the Legion shall
be non-politiCal.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
CAPITAL JULY q
PLANS TAKEN UP
Athletics, Parades, Decorations
Assured as Chairmen Are
Considered.

Preparations for Washingtons July
celebration will get under way at once,
it, has been decided by the Citizens
Committee in charge Of the event.
In past years the affair has been
largely attended. The day always is
brought to an end with an elaborate
fireworks display at the Washington
Monument
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin. president
Of George Washington University and
chairman Of the committee, an
nounced that there will be athletic
games and contests in all sections of
the city. parades and pageants during
the day and official exercises in the
evening. The city will be decorated
and Illuminated.
Chairmen of specialized groups will
be appointed within few days, Dr.
Marvin stated.
The citizens committee was chosen
by the District Commissioners at the
request Of James G. Yaden, president
of the Community Center Council
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peoples. director of
the Community Center Department,
Is committee secretary.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
Y. M. C. A. WILL REPEAT
SHOW FOR VETERANS
Dormitory Council Members Will
Entertain at Mount Alto
Hospital Monday.

Members of the Y. M. C. A. Dormi-
tory Council will give a minstrel
show Monday night at Mount Alto
Hospital for the entertainment of war
veterans there, it was announced to-
day by Louis B. Nichols, dormitory
secretary Of the Central Y. M. c. A.
The show will be repeated next
Wednesday night before patients at
st. Elizabeths Hospital.
Decision to entertain the hospital
inmates followed an enthusiastic re-
ception given the minstrel show dur
ing two semi-public performances
this week at the Central "Y." The
council, composed of residents of the
Y. M. c. A. dormitories, has been
besieged with requests to repeat the
show. which was written and directed
by Herbert P. Strople, president Of
the council.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
JOHNSON REPEATS
TORIES CHARGE
Says They Would Make
Eagle Walk PIank-CoIi.
scum Half Filled.
BY the Associated Press.

BY he Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio. May 5.-Ene-
mics of the new deal are pictured by
Hugh Johnson as "old Tories who
would 'scuttle the whole recovery
walk the plank"
In a message to the Nation" the
N. R. A. chief asserted last night
they would host the jolly Roger on
the Ship Of State and sail back to
the good old piracy that brought the
crash Of 1929 and all that has hap
pened since"
The fact that his audience did not
match by half the capacity of the
Ohio State Fair Ground Coliseum,
where the general was invited to
speak by the Wholesalers and Manu-
facturers Association of the Colum-
bus Chamber of Commerce, did not
check his ardor The coliseum, which
seats 10000, was approximately half
filled.
His address bristled with such
phrases as "arrant buncombe-su-
preme Observation-Disclosures tears"
Warns OF Tactics.
There is one way in which they
might succeed" he said. Split the
friends Of recovery into small, quar-
reling groups and then absorb each
one in detail"
He asserted, however, that the re-
covery program is not being weakened
by the administration in answer to
attacks.
The results of the Presidents re-
covery program are all on the plus
side and the man who asserts to the
contrary is assuming a heavy respon-
sibility to a distressed and abused
people" he asserted.
Balance Sought.
"Codified industry, organized la
Dor, farmers and consumers all sing
the same song" he declared, in vary
ing words: Keep N. r. A, but cut
out its Objectionable features; Keep
the codes, but cut out their restric-
tionS'; Keep section IA Of the
act, but impose no responsibility on
labor"
His answer to the same old songs"
Of roses without thorns" and some
thing for nothing" as he put 1t, is
"the best we can do Is to balance bur-
dens and benefits equally so the net
result is good"
Evening star., 1934-05-05
RETAINING RETIREMENT
AND GUARD PAY BANNED

Justice Jesse C. Adkins in District
Supreme Court yesterday ruled
against Brig. Gen. Ransom H. Gill
lett, World War hero, In his fight to
retain his Federal pay as retired
Army officer, and at the same time to
Guard.
Justice Adkins held he had no au-
thority to compel Secretary of War
Dern to grant Federal recognition to
Gen. Gillett as an officer of the Ma
tional Guard.
The question arose when Congress
passed a law requiring him to elect
between his retirement pay and his
National Guard post.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
X. OF C. TO COMMUNE

Forest Glen Council to Have An
nual Breakfast.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FOREST GLEN, Md, May 5.-The
annual communion and breakfast of
the Forest Glen Council, Knights of
Columbus, will be held tomorrow at
st. Johns Church at $3.50 o'clock.
Lee D. Ward, State deputy of Mary
land, will address the knights at the
breakfast, which will be held in the
church hall Immediately following
mass. He will discuss plans for the
tercentenary celebration at st. Marys
City in June. G. E. Horton, past
State deputy from Nevada, is expected
to be present.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
w. F. FRANKLIN HEADS
EMPLOYEES LOCAL No. 81
George W. Popkins Named Vice
President and Mrs. Lucille
Appel Secretary.

William F. Franklin, employed in
the District water registrars office.
was elected president Of Local No. 81
of the American Federation Of Gov
ernment Employees at a meeting
Thursday night at the District Build
ing. The unit is made up of District
Government employees.
George w. Popkins of the assessors
Office was elected vice president, Mrs.
Lucille Appel of the arrears division
of the assessors ONCE, secretary, and
Robert r. Moore, water registrars
Office, treasurer.
A thorough organization of District
employees is planned by President
Franklin in move to improve work.
ing conditions in the municipal gov
eminent, full restoration of Govern
ment pay and the IS days annual
leafy7.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
JOHNSON At PEACE
WITH LABOR BOARD
Adviser Unit to Nominate
Worker Representatives
as Code Arbiters.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The dove Of peace settled today
between Hugh s. johnson and his
Labor Advisory Board. marking the
end Of their sharp conflict over trou-
blesome company union and related
questions.
Between them they had agreed on
solution for the acute issue.
The administrator granted that the
labor board, now solid with top men
Of the American Federation of Labor,
shall make all nominations Of worker
representatives to the hundreds of
industrial relations boards now being
set up, one under each code, to hear
disputes in each trade.
In exchange, the labor board
pledged itself, in cases where the in
dustry is not organized under the
A. F. of L., to name impartial out
siders instead Of federation officials.
Rejection Power Retained.
johnson did not bind himself to
accept any of their nominations. But
if he rejects any the labor board will
supply additional names rather than
have johnson pick his own or take
suggestions from other sources.
The labor board stuck fast to one
point: 1t will not in any circum-
stances nominate company union
representatives to any such board,
even II the industry involved is solid
with company unions.
Trouble had started because John
son concededly feared the board would
pack every one of the dispute agen-
cies with federationiSts, thus WELD
ing a tremendous influence far be-
yond the scope Of its actual union
ization and causing fresh trouble with
the union fighters in industry.
Darrow Makes Report.
Meanwhile. President Roosevelt has
received from Clarence Darrow the
verdict of the National Review Board
on a number of N. R. A. codes, to-
gether with recommendations for
policy changes in administration Of
the recovery act
The voluminous report was under
stood to urge more emphasis on the
antitrust laws. some of which were
suspended under the recovery act.
and to hit heavily at industrial price
control.
President Roosevelt indicated he
would make public the report next
week, after studying it.
300 Codes Protested.
The job the Darrow board was
given by the President was to hear
the protests of small business against
N. r. A. and its codes, decide
whether they were justified and rec
ommend remedies. A score Of hear
ings have been held, but complaining
units have filed protests against 800
codes or code provisions.
Steel, COAL motion pictures and
rubber footwear are among the in
dustries touched on in this first re-
port, product of six weeks labor. A
supplemental report is expected later.
The National Review Board was
instituted after criticism of applica-
ton of N. r. A. codes to small bust
ness had been leveled at Johnson's
organization by Republican Senators,
including Nye of North Dakota and
Borah Of Idaho.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
SOLDIERS QUELL
HAVANA STUDENTS
Troops on Guard in Funeral
Rites for Slain
Youth.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, May 5.-Soldiers went
into action to end rioting and dis
orders in Havana today as Com
munists called upon striking students
to maintain a united front against
the government"
Havana students, denouncing the
administration of President Carlos
Mendieta as a government Of aSsas-
sins" called a 48-hour island-wide
strike yesterday in protest against the
Staying of a student by soldiers.
Today military guards kept close
watch around Havanas important
schools, searching the buildings for
student rioters.
1000 Attend Funeral.
More than 1000 persons marched to
cemetery late yesterday carrying
the coffin of the slain youth. The
throngs sang the "Internationale B"
Soldiers lined the route. Machine
guns covered the cemetery from near
by vantage points.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, leader of the
army, directing the drive on disorders,
blamed the newspaper FL Pals today
for the fatal outbreaks in which the
student was slain Thursday.
The blood of May will fall like
an infamous stigma upon the shoulders
of the men Of Ell Pals" he said.
El Pals is an independent daily
printed in Spanish. 1t was burned
during riots LIST December during an
editorial campaign against the then
President Ramon Grau San Martin.
Torture Story Told.
Batista asserted a story in El Pals
charging that Ludovico Moreno, a
student, had been tortured to death
was false and that 1t had precipitated
the student uprising.
jefferson Caffery. United States Am
bassador, was assailed by student
demonstrations yesterday.
I'VE should be carrying Caffery's
cofin-not the Students" some
Chanted
Evening star., 1934-05-05

New World migrations. They left
faint trail which indicates an origin
somewhere in the Northwest.
If the Ozark region was the middle
Asia Of these North American migra-
tionS the forested hill country Of
Tennessee and Kentucky was the great
junction point. corresponding to Asia
Minor in the Old World. Here Algon-
quinian, Iroquoian and Siouan met.
clashed and separated-the fate of
the various migration waves there de-
terminlng the future ethnic map Of
the country.
Evening star., 1934-05-05

. I'd J6, dSO udO
made their way
out Of the South
west by a direct
eastward route.
T h e Algon-
quiniar peoples
W no inhabited
the A t ! a n t / C
Coast from Vir-
ginia northward
and came most
frequently into
contact with the
English settlers
appear to have
been the North
men" of t h e
Evening star., 1934-05-05
H0N0RED ON MAY DAY

Miss Elizabeth Ogilby, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. r. Ogilby of Chevy
Chase, Md, and Miss Kathleen Spiller,
daughter of Mrs. George S. Holmes
of Washington, were two of the
ladies Of the May Queens Court in
the annual May day festival at Sweet
Briar College yesterday.
Miss Lydia oodwyn of Richmond,
Va, was crowned queen.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
SULTAN AT SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, Calf, May 5 Op).-
Sir Ibrahim, sultan of Johore, and
his wife, formerly Mrs. Helen Wilson
of Glasgow, Scotland, arrived from
Los Angles yesterday for a brief visit.
They visited Aqua Caliente, Mex, and
were honored at a dinner in Coronado.
The sultan and sultana are en- route
to England.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
Ancient Remnant
OF Early Primate.

Discovery of bones Of a primate
more than 100000 years old in a
fossil deposit in California is an
nounced through the National Aca-
deny Of Sciences here by Chester
Stock Of the California Institute Of
Technology.
1t is probably the oldest member
yet found in the New World of the
race which has its highest develop
ment in the anthropoid apes and in
men. While it lived the race still
was far even from the monkeys. 1t
is described as a tarsiid creature,
somewhat like the weird spectral tar
sier which is found in the East Indies.
America seems to have been the
starting point of the primate line
which later shifted and made its
great progress in the Old World.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
MACON LEAVES FLORIDA
Dirigible Sails for Navy Maneu-
Vers in Caribbean,

MIAMI, Fla, May [P).-Lifting its
giant hulk into cloudless skies, the
Navy dirigible Macon sailed today for
Caribbean waters for tactical maneu-
verS with the fleet.
The great gray craft slipped easily
from its mast at the Opalocka Naval
Base, passed over the city of Miami at
low altitude and then headed SOUTH
ward toward the Florida Straits and
Cuba. 4
Evening star., 1934-05-05
RETURN Of TROPHY
TO CANADA ASKED
Roosevelt Would Give Back
Mace Taken by U. S.
Officer in 1912.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Back to a distant day when a vic
toriouS United States officer found a
British mace with a scalp hanging
over it, and had the nerve to carry it
off, President Roosevelt yesterday led
history lovers.
The President proposed to Congress
that this War of 1912" trophy, now
at Annapolis, be returned to Canada
whence it came 121 years ago, as a
fitting gesture to Canadian memorial
izing of our World War dead.
In knowing about the mace in the
first place, the President proved he'd
learned about the Battle of York (now
Toronto). on April 81, 1913, from Off
cial original sources.
Messenger Brought Story.
It was a stirring battle, as written
I'D by the American and British COM
manding officers to their respective
chiefs. The mace wasn't mentioned
in the first hot news dispatches. It's
story was told in the letter which
came with it, by messenger, to Wash
ington.
Isaac Chauncey, commanding the
United States ship Madison and the
attacking feet, wrote as follows on
June 4. 1918, to William Jones, then
Secretary of the Navy:
Sir. l have the honour to present
to YOU. by the hand Of Lieut.. Dudley,
the British standard. taken at York
on the 9th of April last, accompanied
by the mace, over which was hung a
human scalp.
These articles were taken from the
Parliament House by one Of my offl-
GERS and presented to me.
The scalp l caused to be presented
to Gen. Dearborn, who, believe, sun
has it in his possession.
II also send by the same gentleman
one of the flags taken at Fort George
on the 9th of May
Dearborn Mentioned Mace.
The Secretary Of the Navy had pre-
viously received a mere mention oil
the mace from the posSessor OF the
scalp souvenir. Maj. Gen. Dearborn,
in command of the troops that sailed
on Chaunceys ship. in the following
OI lIlE l4Og NANNOA
"As nearly as l have been able 70
ascertain, the loss Of the enemy in
the late affair of York amounted TO
100 killed, 200 prisoners, 300 wounded.
There was an immense depot OF
naval and military stores. York was
a magazine for Niagara, Detroit, etc,
and notwithstanding the immense
amount that was destroyed by them,
We found more than We could carry
off. Gen. Sheaffe's tthe British COM
mandersy baggage and papers fell
into my hands The papers are
valuable acquisition.
"A scalp was found in the execu-
tive and legislative council chamber,
suspended near the Speakers chair, in
company with the mace, etc"
The Americans, Chauncey and Dear
born. and the British commander,
Sheaffe, gave vivid but conflicting
first person accounts Of the mace-pro-
ducing fray.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
JAPANESE ACCEPT
TRADE CHALLENGE
Ready to Battle Britain in
Markets of World, Toxic
DiScIoSeS.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May 5.-Japan is girding
for the threatened trade war with
Great Britain, it was indicated ON
cially today, confident she possesses
the most formidable weapons for such
a conflict.
Instead OF manifesting concern at
the British threat to take action to
protect the empires textile export In
terests against increasing Japanese
competition, officials said, in effect,
that Japan can take care OF herself.
Trade leaders pointed to the gov
ernment's new trade protection act"
under which the cabinet may quick
ly hike or lower import tariffs by
executive decree, or limit and prohibit
imports.
The British trade warning, given
japanese Ambassador Matsudaira by
Walter Runciman, president Of the
British Board Of Trade, is being
studied by the foreign Offices COM
mercial bureau.
Hirota Answers.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. in
dicating no intention to relent in the
drive for new outlets for japanese in
dustries said:
I'VE must strive under all circum-
stances to safeguard and promote our
foreign trade"
On top of this, trade leaders ex-
pressed the opinion that even If Great
Britain does impose quotas on Japa-
nese goods, Japan will not be hurt
seriously-especially since Japan's i'm
ports from the British Isles in 1888
totaled 100000 yen. or almost as
much as was exported there, 10000, 900
yen.
Reprisals Hinted.
Hence, they said, the Toxic govern
ment would be able to make reprisals
1t was pointed out further that
Japan's exports to the British Isles
formed only Al per cent Of the total
exports for 1888.
Trade with the British dOminions
is considered far more important and
the japanese are confident the British
dominions will not follow the mother
country's lead-especIally Australia,
which sold to Japan in 1888 four
times her purchases and Canada.
which sold seven times as much as
she bought.
Japans imports IN 1888 from Aus
tralia. Canada, India, New Zealand
and South Africa totaled 4630000 900
yen, and her exports 292,000,000.
Neither japanese nor American off,
cials here are able TO foresee any
American benefit from an Anglo
Japanese trade war, unless it should
spread to India.
Cotton May Be Factor.
In such an event, a condition would
be produced marking repetition Of
Japans 1888 boycott on Indian raw
cotton, in which event Japan would
buy more American cotton.
However. it is considered as highly
unlikely that the seemingly impend-
ing conflict would affect America in
any other respect.
The war probably would be con-
fined to markets and commodities in
which the United States has little in
tereSt.
Vernacular newspapers noted an
other trade development today, saying
negotiations whereby the Japan In
dustry Co., a wealthy investment and
holding concern, would acquire so per
cent of the stock Of General Motors
of Japan, Ltd, a subsidiary of the
American General Motors Corpora
ton, are nearing conclusion.
Business men consider the deal evi-
dence of an increasing tendency by
japanese to absorb foreign enterprises
in Japan.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
MASTERS NAMED
Norfolk and Martinsville on Vir-
ginia List of Six.

President Roosevelt yesterday sent
to the Senate the nominations of the
following to be postmasters in Vir-
ginia:
Norfolk, Robert W. Shultice; Bu-
chanan, William r. Allen; Chatham,
Judson j. Patterson; Hampton. Will
liam S. Crockett; Holland, Benjamin
w. Council, and Martinsyille, James
R. Gregory.