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Evening star., 1934-04-26
D|LL|NGER VICTIM
RITES TO Be HELD
Willis c. Baum, Federal
Agent, to Be Buried in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
BY q StafY Correspondent Of The Star.

SILVER SPRING, Md, April 26-
The body of Willis Carter Baum,
Federal agent who gave his life in
the Dillinger hunt, was returned today
for burial.
Mrs. Baum, their two children and
her mother were on the B. & o.
train which brought the body.
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
division of investigation. headed by
party Of five Department of JUS
tice agents who received the body Of
their slain companion, who was killed
when Dillinger and six companions
shot their way out Of an ambush near
Rhinelander, Wis, early Monday.
Hoover Escorts Widow.
Hoover greeted Mrs. Baum and es-
corted her to relatives waiting nearby
to drive her to the home of her
parents, Rev. and Mrs. John A. Grose
at Layttonsville
Meanwhile, other Federal agents
walked solemnly beside the casket as
it was lifted from the baggage car of
the train, carried to a waiting hearSe
and then removed to the mortuary
here of Warner E. Pumphrey.
Friends and relatives were to gather
at the funeral home at 2 o'clock and
then proceed with the funeral cortege
to Rock Creek Cemetery in Wanhing-
ton, where services will be held at the
chapel by Rev. C. S. Briggs, pastor of
the Ryland M. E. church.
Attorney General Cummings will at
tend rites at the cemetery.
Cousins to Be Pallbearers,
The pallbearers will be Lee r Pen
nington, acting agent in charge of
the Washington field office Of the
Division Of Investigation, and five of
Baum'S cousins. Robert C. Carter. F..
E Carter, William c. Carter, Henry
Hall and Golden Yeatman.
Baum, who was 80, was born in
Washington and was educated there
at Mckinley Technical High School
and the George Washington Univer-
sity Law School After engaging in
the practice of law in the District he
entered the service of the Department
OF Justice in 1880 and served as a
special agent in the New York CITY
and Chicago districts.
He married Mary E. Grose of Lay
louisville. His father resides in Cali
fornla, and his mother is dead.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
England Without q Parallel
In Judging Dillinger Pursuit
Neper Had C"""on Running An"ck:
and PuzzIed Scotland Yard Ascribes
Happy Plight to Gun Sales Ban.

Copyright, 1894. by the Associated Press)
LONDON, April 26.-Famed Scot
land Yard probably would be of little
help to the heavily armed American
officers Of the law hot on the trail
of John Dillinger.
Odd as it may appear to Americans
accustomed to thinking of Scotland
Yard as a premier run 'sm- down. and
lock- emup organization, gunmen are
the least Of the noted units worries.
The men of Scotland Yard could
recall today only one English case
even approaching that involved in
the headlong hunt for the No. !
public enemy Of the United States.
This famous incident, which Brit
ons term ''the siege of Sidney street"
occurred in 1911 in London's world
known East End.
Two desperate foreign criminals
led by Peter the Painter" took refuge
in a house and met their would-be
captors with a hail of bullets The
police withdrew to safe distance
until they were reinforced by SOL
dierS ordered out by Winston
Churchill, then home secretary. who
himself rushed to the scene OF battle.
Churchill Criticized.
The desperadoes ultimately perished
when the house was fired, but the
incident remained in the hmelight
as Churchill was roundly criticized
for calling out the troops.
Except for that. there have not
been any British Dillingers, and Scot
land Yard finds it difficult to con-
ceive of situation involving gunner
lurking in England instead of the
woods of Minnesota.
What plan would Scotland Yard
follow if Dillinger and his gang were
running amok in the London area?"
an Associated Press correspondent
asked Scotland Yard.
II cannot imagine a car speeding
Evening star., 1934-04-26
ROY A: ROBERTS
MANA. PRESIDENT
Managing Editor of Kansas
City Star Heads Large
News Service.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, April 26 (NANA).-
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor Of
the Kansas City Star and a member
OF the board of directors of that news
paper. has been elected president of
the North American Newspaper AL
lance, an organization of the leading
newspapers in the United States,
Canada, South American and Europe
He succeeds the late George E. Miller,
who was editor of the Detroit News.
In his distinguished career, Mr..
Roberts has specialized in politics and
economics. He started his newspaper
work by serving the Star as the COL
lege correspondent when he was
student at the University of Kansas.
In 1905 he went to the Lawrence.
KanS., World, Of which he became city
editor, and in 1909 he Joined the staff
of the Kansas City Star as a reporter.
Washington Correspondent.
Mr. Roberts covered four sessions of
the Missouri Legislature for the Star,
and then he was assigned as Wash
lngton correspondent for his news
paper, becoming the head of the
Washington bureau and establishing a
wide reputation by the quality of his
work. He was honored with the presi-
dency of the Gridiron Club. that
notable organization of Washington
correspondents
Mr.. Roberts was detailed in Wash
ington from 1915 to 1928, and then he
was made managing editor of the
Star, later being chosen for the
papers board Of directors and becom-
ing one of its largest stockholders.
Captain During War.
During the war Mr.. Roberts served
as captain in the Adjutant Generals
Department, and was detailed to
Camp Sherman. Ohio, and later to
Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana.
He is a member OF the Alpha Tau
Omega Fraternity and his clubs are
the National Press, Gridiron, Colum-
bia, Overseas Writers, University,
Kansas City and Kansas City Coun-
try.
Mr.. Roberts is a member Of the
Executive Committee of the Managing
Editors of Associated Press Papers
and of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
UNION CHURCH MEETING

SALT LAKE CITY, April 26 P-
Representatives Of many religious
faiths will unite in a meeting here
Sunday, dedicated to a better under
standing between the various groups.
Mnsgr. D. G. Hunt, vicar general
of the Salt Lake diocese of the Cath
olic Church will preside. and speakers
will include Anthony w. WINS, a
member of the first presidency of the
Latter-day Saints Church; DR.. Rollin
H. Ayers, pastor of the First Methodist
Church; Rev. AlWyn E. Butcher, rector
of st. Paurs Episcopal Church, and
Rabbi Samuel H. Gordon Of Temple
BNai Israel
The meeting will be held in the
assembly hall on the Latter day Saints
Temple grounds
Evening star., 1934-04-26
PUBLISHERS VOTE
FREE PRESS EIGHT
Adopt Resolution Fixing Pol
icy of Vigilance Against
Suppression.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26.-The Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Association
yesterday unanimously adopted reso-
luton urging its members to be lin
creasingly vigilant" to protect the
principles of the freedom of the press
from impairment
The resolution-watched closely in
view of the fight waged by an A. N.
p. A. committee for a free-press
clause in the daily newspaper code
avoided any criticism of the N. r. A.
or Government officials.
Davis Praises Code.
It's passage without q dissenting
voice came several hours after Howard
Davis, president Of the association and
chairman of its Code Committee. said
the daily press had a good code un-
der which to operate, one which is
concise, clear and specific"
In his opening address Davis, the
business manager of the New York
Herald Tribune, said the constitu-
tional guaranty of the freedom of the
press remained unimpaired.
The resolution was introduced by
the chairman of the Freedom of the
Press Committee, Col. Robert R. Nc
Cormick of the Chicago Tribune, who
criticized the recovery administration
in his argument for it.
Text Of Resolution.
The resolution read:
Whereas, the freedom of the press
Is one Of the most important princi-
Piles of a free government, and
Whereas, the unrestricted right to
collect and disseminate information is
essential to national recovery. inter-
national trade and peace between
nations:
Resolved. That the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
thank its officers and the members of
the Code Committee for their fore
sight In recognizing the Importance
OF the freedom OF the press and their
courage in maintaining it in a ma
tionaI emergency; for their tact and
Judgment in co-ordinating the inter-
ests OF all daily newspapers; for
bringing together for the first time in
the history OF American journalism
all associations of daily newspaper
publishers for expression of the Amer
lean ideal of liberty, which was above
politics and political beliefs, and for
negotiating a code, which. as approved
by the President, maintains unim-
paired this principle of a free gov
eminent; and be it further
Resolved. That the members of
this association be increasingly vigil
ant In their efforts to protect this
principle from impairment from any
source"
Evening star., 1934-04-26
POLLARD is SPEAKER

John Garland Pollard, forme: Gov
error Of Virginia. will be the principal
speaker at the annual banquet of the
George Washington University Law
School Association Saturday at 1880
p m in the Willard Hotel Mrs. Pol
lard also will attend the affair.
Matthew H. OBrien, prominent To-
cal attorney and head of the associa-
tion. will preside. Dancing will follow
the dinner.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
CLOSING OF HOUSE
CAFE ADVOCATED
Florida Representative Of
ferS Resolution After De
Priest Measure Passes.
BY the Associated Press.

The House today had a suggested
alternative of closing down its restau-
rant or airing formally the delicate
question of letting colored persons
eat there.
The proposal to shut the cafe and
auction off its fixtures was offered in
a bill by Representative Green, Demo-
crat, of Florida.
He submitted it yesterday soon after
the House had, approved. 236 to 1l3,
without even a hint Of debate. a reso-
luton by its single colored member,
Representative De Priest, Republican,
of Illinois, that would have a COM
mittee determine by what authority
Chairman Warren of the Accounts
Committee had barred colored per-
sons from the restaurant.
Green gave these two reasons for
his move:
To correct the impression that the
restaurant is free for Congressman
and the Government loses money
on it."
Further, since the House has
adopted the De Priest resolution, it
looks as though We may have to eat
with Negros, and where ! come from
We don't do that"
The De Priest resolution was intro
duced after his secretary, Morris
Lewis, and a companion were refused
food in the public dining room in
January.
Taber Of New York, one of the
two Republicans voting against the
resolution, demanded the roll call
when the resolution came up yester-
day. Representative Peavey of Wis
conSin was the other Republican who
voted with Ill Democrats against the
resolution.
Ninety-nine Republicans, 1872 Demo-
Gratis and all five Farmer Labor mem-
bers voted for it, Representative
Underwood, Democrat. of Ohio, voted
present. Speaker Rainey did not vote
A committee OF five will be named
by Rainey to make the investigation
De Priest has said he would fight
10 the last to see that members Of
his race were allowed to eat In the
public dining room
Just now, however, there is no
public" part of the restaurant, be-
cause some weeks after the Lewis
incident. continued attempts by COL
ored persons to be served there re-
suited in replacing the public signs
with member only" placards.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

at 80 miles an hour through London'S
narrow, winding streets: nor could
conceive of a situation in London in
which criminals could be armed with
machine guns" the spokesman said.
There are three reasons" he ex-
planned, why gunner are rare here.
Weapons Hard to Get.
"First is the difficulty of obtaining
weapons; secondly the heavy penalties
imposed when a criminal is caught
carrying arms, let alone using them,
and lastly, the islands size gives crimi-
mails little choice in regard to means
of escape"
The firearms law in England is tight
ened periodically-the House Of Com
mons only recently passing an amend
ment designed to restrict sales Of So
called toy pistols-and the situation
never is allowed to get out Of control
Because the penalties are so severe,
criminals seldom take a chance on
being caught armed and policemen
normally go about their duties un-
armed.
Weapons Rarely Used.
1t would require a desperate situ-
alton, the Associated Press learned
at Scotland Yard. before police would
resort to the use of weapons-though
all are trained through a certain
amount Of target practice.
Even If police are dealing with
gunman. they are skeptical of his
craftsmanship over anything but the
shortest ranges. Under some condi-
tions the police could envisage resort
ing to the use of weapons themselves,
though in such case they might use
rifles. which are more accurate and
allow the forces of the law to remain
at discreet distance.
Not only London's boobies. but all
British police go around unarmed.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
BISHOP is SUED

Puerto Rico Churchman Named
in Breach of Contract Action.
CHICAGO, April 26 CR.-Bishop
Aloysius ]. Wili1nger of Ponce, Puerto
Rico. was yesterday named defendant
in a breach Of contract suit brought
by r. s. 10th of the R. S. 10th
Association, New York, in the Circuit
Court.
The bill asks $500 damages and al
leges that the bishop broke a contract
with the association to carry on a
campaign to raise funds for the Cath
olic Puerto Rican Child Welfare As
sociation.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

Meeting, Washington Board of
Trade, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, Federal Advisory Board,
Mayf1ower Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, Father and Son, Mayfower
Hotel, Z pm.
Card party, East Gate Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, Rhode
Island and Mills avenues northeast,
8 pm.
Card party-bingo party, True Blue
Council. Sons and Daughters of Lib
erty, Phoenix Hail. No. Fourth
street northeast, 8:45 pm.
Dinner, Phillips Exeter Academy
Southern Alumni Association, Army
and Navy Club, pm.
Meeting, Conduit Road Citizens
Association, Our Lady Of Victory
Church, 8 pm.
Buffet supper, Harvard Club, Uni
versity Club, 8 pm.
Meeting, American Society of Inter-
national Law, Willard Hotel, pm.
Dance, Kentucky State Society,
Willard Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Chemical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, pm F.
G, Brickwedde, N. H. Darton and
c. A. Browne, speakers.
Meeting, Beta Gamma Phi So
rority, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, Congress Lodge Chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, 60 M
street northeast, $3.50 pm.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, Buick Motor Co., Shore
ham Hotel, 10 am. Luncheon, 1890
pm.
Meeting, American Society OF In
ternational Law, Willard Hotel, 10
am, 2 pm. and pm.
Dinner, Engineering Society, May
flower Hotel, pm.
Hearing, Malt Products Industry,
Mayflower Hotel, 10 am.
Luncheon, Washington Board OF
Trade, Mayflower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Phia Delta Phi Fra
ternity, University Club, pm.
Luncheon, Round Table, University
Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, University
Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Congressional Country
Club Committee, University Club.
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
WHITE HOUSE PEANUT VENDER
WILL AID "FAIR' At PRESS CLUB

to create such a fund by bringing his
peanut and popcorn wagon to the
Fair.
Assisting Miss Katharine McKiever
in chaNe Of the booth ~will be Mrs.
Florence Burton Livingston. Mrs. VIII
liam F. Sheehan. Miss Betty Law
rance and Mrs. Josephine Tighe
Williams lis
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Gets Belata1 Yule Card.

WHEELING, w. V. April 26 Up).-
Sister M. De Lellis of st. Mary's Cath
Ole High School, Clarksburg, is going
TO see a Ghost of Christmas Past"
A Christmas card mailed to the nun
Is years ago, has just been found in
the Wheeling post Office.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Asks Damages for Dog Bites

MIAMI, Fla, April 26 CP.-Mrs.
Bess Bond Caylor Of Indianapolis, was
asked to pay $4,000 damages to Mrs.
Katherine Bryan of Miami in a suit
filed in Federal Court here yesterday.
alleging injuries suffered when Mrs.
Bryan was attacked by a dog said to
have been owned by Mrs. Caylor.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Do "Put to Death"
IL Days Ago Eats
Again II, ReUiual
Canine Bdrks, GrO,0ls in
Eating-Cai11s
Strength.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calf, April 26.-Roll-
ing over for the first time since he
was put to death clinically u days
ago, mongrel dog barked and growled
while eating his food in a laboratory
here yesterday.
DR.. Robert E. Cornish, observing the
improvement in the animals condi-
ton, said he believed he might sue
ceed eventually in his experiments 20
revive human beings after death.
For the first time, the dog got up
on his front feet and barked and
growled when he was fed liver" said
DR.. Cornish, research professor at the
University Of California.
He is getting stronger, day by day,
but we can't tell yet whether his
brain, the most vital part, Is i'm
proving.
Death Damaged Brain.
"The higher, most intelligent part
of the brain doubtless was damaged
by death, but we hope that it will
show improvement to the extent that
consciousness will return.
IF we succeed III causing the anima /
to live again and its brain to function,
we will be a step nearer our ultimate
endeavors to revive persons who have
drowned. or who have been asphyxiat-
ed or electrocuted.
The inhalator, we believe, Is ef-
fective In reviving dead persons only
If it is applied before the heart has
stopped beating altogether.
In the cases of the three dogs
upon which we have experimental
here, the hearts had ceased to beat.
but they were started again and the
dogs physical functions were restored.
Two of the dogs died again within
a few hours and an examination Of
their brain cells disclosed they were
considerably changed and damaged.
Eats Like Normal Dog.
eve are hoping that in the case
of the third dog the brain cells will
repair themselves and thereby restore
the animal fully to life"
The dog, put to death on Friday,
April l3, eats more than half pound
of liver day, besides eggs, oatmeal
cruel and milk. He seems to prefer
the liver and growls and snaps while
devourlng it, like a normal dog, DR.
Cornish said.
"If we succeed in restoring the dog
completely to life and consciousness.
DR.. Cornish declared, 'our next step
will be experiments to save the lives
of human beings"
Evening star., 1934-04-26
NET IS TIGHTENED.
Escape Of Dillinger Is Feared by
Officials.

CHICAGO, April 26 (P3.-The law.
with 5000 eager arms, slammed shut
the stable door today, but the horse
John Dillinger-apparentl was gone.
A great circle OF men blocking high
ways and stopping all suspicious ap-
pearing persons, was swung for hum
dreds of miles around Mercer. Wis,
to prevent the escape of the gunman,
yet even as the circle tightened. there
came reports that the desperate had
slipped through.
Federal men, burning under such
criticism as seldom is made OF Gov
ernment detectives, were maSsing some
where in the vicinity of St. Paul,
Mimi, believing Dillinger to be in that
neighborhood and that a fight to the
finish with him was imminent.
From other sections of the country,
however. as far South as Virginia,
came reports that Dillinger had been
seen. Most of the report were dis
proved. One or two, however, re-
manned question marks today.
Attack on Purvis Unanswered.
Residents of Mercer, Wis, charged
the Federal Agel.tS with smuggling the
attempt to capture DillInger at the
little Bohemia resort near that town
Sunday night. To their demands that
Melvin H. Purvis, head of the Chicago
office of the Bureau of Investigation,
resign his post there was no reply,
Purvis said: Il never comment on
things of that kind"
Another denunciation OF the FED
eral men came from Commissioner
Oscar G. Olander of the Michigan
Department of Public Safety. He
charged at Lansing that agents had
failed to cooperate with the Mich
igan State police, and that their fall
ure probably was responsible for the
criminals escape when he passed
through Michigan last week. He &C
cused them of refusing to permit
Sergt. Fred Kune of the State police
to attend a Dillinger conference called
to map out details of the hunt for
the desperate.
Bremen Solution Seen.
Despite the criticism, Federal men
kept their own counsel and plugged
away, confident they would maintain
their reputation of always getting
their man"
Although the Government techni-
cally wants the ''million-dollar gang
ster" only for the comparatively minor
crime of transporting a stolen auto
mobile from one State to another,
Purvis disclosed last night the belief
of investigators that the downfall OF
Dillinger and his men may definitely
clear up the 100000 abduction of
Edward. G. Bremen, the st. Paul
banker.
The Federal operatives believe that
Alvin Karpis of Chicago, Fred Barker
and the latter's brother, Arthur Doc)
Barker, who have been identified
through fingerprints in the Bremen
SNATCH" were with Wooden Gun"
Dillinger when they shot their way
out of the Government trap at the
Little Bohemia resort. Homer Van
Meter, John Hamilton, the first lieu
tenant of the Dillinger gang; Tom
Carroll and George (Baby Face) Nell
son are reputed to have been the
other marksmen with Dillinger when
the Federal raid was made.
Train Is Searched
Alert to pass up no information
the authorities acted on such tips"
without success Police at Staunton,
Va, acting under instructions from
the Department of Justice, boarded
an East-bound Chesapeake g. Ohio
train on information that Dillinger
might be aboard. He wasn't
Evening star., 1934-04-26
D|LL|NGER ELUDES
NET Of PURSUERS
U. S. Men Mass in Vicinity
of st. Paul, Preparing
for Finish Fight.
Continued From First Page.)

desperadoes shot their way to free
dom, killing two men and wounding
four others.
Dillinger's other wound was sus-
tanned March 81, when he and at
least two associates blasted their way
out of a police and Federal trap in
a St. Paul apartment. Dillinger was
shot in the leg and later attended by
DR. Clayton E. May, Minneapolis phy
sician. May and his nurse are now
held on charges of harboring a
criminal.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
PLAN BRIDGE PARTY
Burleith Citizens to Hold Benefit
for Community Center.

for Community Center.
To start a fund for the opening Of
a Community Center in Georgetown,
the Burleith Citizens Association is
sponsoring a benefit bridge party to
be held in Gordon Junior High School
May at 8 pm.
Tickets are obtainable from Mrs.
Towson Price, 1920 r street, Mrs.
George F. Gephart, 1911 Thirty
seventh street, or at the door.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
Iobless to Get Land.

Unemployed men Of Edinburgh,
Scotland, are to be allotted nine acres
each for farming this year.
Evening star., 1934-04-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY

IODAY.
Meeting, Washington Board of
Trade, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Federal Advisory Board,
Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

Dinner, Father and Son, Mayfiower
Hotel, z pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

Card party, East Gate Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, Rhode
Island and Mills avenues northeast,
pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-26

Card party-bingo party, True Blue
Council, Sons and Daughters of Lib
erty, Phoenix Hall, No. Fourth
street northeast, 8:45 pm.