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Evening star., 1935-07-12
WORK IS STARTED
ON D. c. PROJECTS
President Gives Hopkins
$3,826,00O to Defray Ad-
ministrative Expenses.

President Roosevelt today turned
over $3.826 900 to Work Progress Ad-
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins to help
defray administrative expenses of the
Governments $4,000 100000 work-re-
lief drive, starting first today in Ala
bama, Indiana. Georgia and the Dis
trict of Columbia
The administrative expenses. it was
said at the Division of Applications
and Information. will be proportioned
among all the States to speed plans
for the employment drive.
AS work started today in the three
States and the District, projects ap-
proved by the President IN these sec
tions were again announced. From
lists submitted by Hopkins to employ
1898 now on relief rolls In these
sections, the President approved the
following ALLEGATIONS:
District of Columbia, five street and
highway projects, 81, ,236,7l3; Alabama,
IS projects, s222, 1893; Indiana, Al prof.
ects, s519.653, and Georgia, 81 prof.
ects. s294,060.
The five District of Columbia prof.
ects would provide a years work for
500 men. OF the total amount about
75.9 per cent, $938, ,424, goes for wages
and superintendent. The balance
would be spent for supplies, material
and equipment.
The five projects. calling for the
construction and Improvements of sec
ondary roads, specified as follows
Cleaning. clearing and repairing sides
of roads, $106,6l6; construction OF
shoulders, planting grass and shrub
berry adjacent to highways, $43l 1866;
widening the streets and other repairs
S217.O68; performing general nursery
work, trimming trees, etc, $4,000;
finishing newly graded streets, 1891 1893
This fifth program omits reference
to sewer projects previously submitted
by Commissioner Allen.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Giant Bag Splits at Top as
Helium Is Poured in Before
Altitude Hop Starts.
FIVE SAVE LIVES BY LEAPINC:
CROWD ON CLIFF JAMS RAIL
Inquiry Planned to Solve Mystery of
Accident That Ruins Geographic
SOciety's Sl75,OOO Venture.
BY the Associated Press.


S. the
Geographic
morning The collapsed from unexplained
accident.
injured but five working gondoa preparatory
balloon jump
also scattered quickly.
the burst warning permitting
feet hem definitely the
jected flight.
flight
mishap added
be
balloon
suddenly slackened the like
appeared
Color Ascrbed Taum Powder
National Washington
believed tacum which
balloon they said which
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Dollars Balance Human Lives
In Funds Fight, Doctor Says
District Public Health Work Held in
State of Emergency as King Asks
S6,24O Extra of Subcommittee.

Dollars are being balanced against
human lives in the controversy which
has been going on for months over
the amount of funds to be made avail
able to the District Health Depart
ment, it was declared this morning by
DR.. Sterling Ruffin. president of the
District of Columbia Medical Society.
There really is an emergency here
with regard to health work. particu-
larly in the field of tuberculosis" DR..
Rufin said, land it is an entirely dis
creditable and unnecessary condition.
The funds we are seeking in the pend
ing deficiency bill would supply our
Evening star., 1935-07-12
IL u. S. FLYERS PLAN
To AID ETHIOPIANS
Former Commercial Air Pilot Says
Maj. Pollock Helping Him
Sign Recruits.

By the Associated Press.
GRASSE, France, July 12.-Hal
Duberrier, former American CONNER
cial air pilot, announced today he
had recruited IL American flyers to
fight for Ethiopia.
Duberrier said Maj. Granville Pol
lock, the famous veteran of the old
Lafayette Escadrille, was aiding him
to raise force to form a nucleus for
an Ethiopian air corps. He refused to
divulge the names of the other pilots.
we are willing to fight for an
ideal" said Duberrier. 1.-THE Ethiopian
authority assured me there would be
plenty of promotions and decorations. :"
He said Emperor Halle SelaSsie
would furnish the planes, but he re-
fused to say when he planned to go
to Adds Ababa. He said that his
party, he hoped, will be greatly
strengthened" in Egypt.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
POLAR AIR COMING
TO R0UT D. c. HEAT.
95 Degrees This Afternoon,
With Relief Tomorrow
Forecast.

While Washington today sweltered
in some of the hottest weather of the
year, with a maximum temperature of
95 degrees forecast for this afternoon,
the Polar Pacific air mass which Is
bringing relief to the sunbaked West
advanced through Missouri Northern
Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin and was
on its way East, with promise of relief
here tomorrow night.
The cool wave today centered over
the DakotaS and the temperature at
Rapid City. S. Oak, fell to Sc degrees
this morning.
Tonight the cool wave is expected
to move into the Great Lakes area.
by Sunday morning the center will be
over the Atlantic Seaboard.
At IL noon today the Weather Bu-
reau reported the temperature was
down to 80 degrees, as clouds tenn
porarily obscured the sun, and that it
had been fluctuating between go and
81 degrees for nearly two hours.
District employees were allowed to
leave their Offices at 3 O'Clock this
afternoon because of the excessive
heat. Government departments will
close at the usual time. The tempera-
ture had reached 81 at o'clock
The next "a hours in Washington
are to be plenty warm" Weather
Bureau officials reported informally.
Allen Klinger, Al, Liverpool, Pa,
was overcome by heat at the north
entrance to the National Museum,
Tenth and Constitution avenue, to-
day and was taken to Casualty Hos
pital in an ambulance. Doctors found
him not seriously affected. Relatives
were with Klinger at the time he was
stricken.
Benjamin F. Moore, 81, of Beckley,
w. Va. was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital this afternoon from Second and
D streets and treated for heat pros
tration He was admitted to the hos
pital, physicians there announcing his
condition as undetermined.
There probably will be local thun-
derShowers late tonight.
Heat deaths throughout the United
States since the torrid spell started,
about July l. had mounted to 48 to-
day, according to unofficial reports
compiled by the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

A cross-section of residents of the
Capital City found time today in the
whirl of public and private business to
add their contributions to a spon-
taneous relief fund for the stricken
family of Sterling Calhoun, unem-
ployed colored man, who sacrificed his
life in a futile attempt to save two
children from drowning.
Citizens and organizations responded
quickly to appeals for money with
which to rescue Calhoun from burial
in potter's field and to aid his desti-
tute widow and her three young chill
dren, one of whom is critically Ill at
Gallinger Hospital.
More than $50 came to The Star
overnight, to be added to the 500
which The Star itself contributed to
the family yesterday. Because OF the
wide sympathy aroused by the CAL
Evening star., 1935-07-12
New Flight by Fall
May Be Attempted;
Inquiry Is AuOaited

Whether an effort will be made to
salvage the torn bag of the National
Geographic Society-Army Air Corps
stratosphere balloon Explorer II and
ty it later in the season, will depend
upon an investigation to be made here
and at Rapid City, it was announced
today at society headquarters.
Neither DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor.
president Of the National Geographic
Society, nor DR.. Lyman J. Briggs,
director of the National Bureau Of
Standards and head of the Scientific
Committee on the flight. would say
definitely that efforts would be aban-
doned for this year. 1t was said that
if it is possible to repair the ripped
balloon or make a new one before
Fall second attempt will be made.
Stratosphere flights are possible as
late as early Winter. the present Off
cial altitude record of 6l,237 feet hav-
ing been set by Lieut.. Comdr. T. G..
w. Settle and Maj. Chester Fordney
on November 20, 1888.
Photographs showing damage to the
great bag, which was reported badly
cut up, were made early today under
direction of Capt. Albert w. Stevens,
its commander. and are being sent
here for study by members of the
Technical Committee in Charge of
Arrangements. This committee is
headed by DR.. Briggs.
Shortly before noon today Dr. Gros-
venor was notified that the collapsed
bag still was lying on the dew
drenched grass of the stratosphere
bowl in the Black Hills and that no
effort will be made to move it until
the grass has dried. 1t was believed
that thus less damage to the already
torn fabric would result.
Until a detailed examination is
made. it probably will not be possible
to determine just what caused the
great bag to burst and discharge its
300, ,000- -cubic-foot load of helium gas
officials at the society said.
Officials Here Notified at Once.
DR.. Grosvenor and other Geographic
Society officials were in radio COM
munication with Rapid City during
the night, while the great bag was
being inflated, and were notified i'm
mediately of the bursting of the bag,
which occurred at o'clock this morn
ing, Washington time.
DR.. Grosvenor Immediately tele-
graphed Rapid City for details and
received the reply that no one had
been hurt but that there had been a
wild scramble on the part of the
ground crew to escape the collapsing
bag.
1t was said at the society headquar-
tiers that the use of helium probably
had averted a disastrous fire, since
there was considerable evidence of
static electricity during imitation of
the huge bag. as the folds of rubber
lied fabric unfolded and slid over
each other. The explosion of thou
sands of cubic feet of hydrogen might
(See INQUIRY, Page 81
Evening star., 1935-07-12
CAPITAL MANS PLEA
FOR BURGLAR FAILS
Friend Is Sent to Prison in Spite
of Story of Rescue in
Cuban Gale.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, july l2-DeSpite a
plea by a man whose life lie once
saved, George GarC'a 25-year-old
Cuban. was given all in6eterminate
term in prison soda7 on a charge of
unlawful entry.
Alexander R. Shepard, an account
ant, of Washington D. c., wrote
General Sessions judge John j. Fres-
chi, who meted out the sentence
that Garcia had saved him from
drowning in a sale of the Cuban
coast, and later had nurSed him
through malaria. Shepard offered to
take Garcia to Washington ana see
that "he went straight"
IF let you go 10 Washington you
might burglarize the United States
Treasury" Judge Freschi said. In
stead, I'll send you tc the peniten-
tiary.'
Garcia was arrested after forcing
the door to the apartment of Philip
de Ronde, consul general of Paraguay,
on June IL.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Copeland as Physician Urges
Early adjournment of Congress
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of
New York a doctor Legislator who
recommends complete rest for this
Congress, elaborated todoy on the
symptoms.
Prayed nerves, lack of poise and
general restlessness' led him to be-
lieve. he said, that Congress should
adjourn Immediately.
Il don't think I have ever seen
Congress in such bad shape" Cope
land, who has been here IL years,
said
Deliberate thinking is going out
the window. We are tired"
Evening star., 1935-07-12

DR.. George w. Calver. attending
Capitol physician, said:
81 am advising the Legislators to
get at least an hour of exercise q day,
to be careful of their diet and par
ticularly to eat larger proportions of
fruits and fresh vegetables.
"The tendency is for them to eat
and sit around all day, so I am en-
couraging exercise. About 100 of the
members of both houses make 1t q
practice to play golf every morning
early. That u fine
Il advised them to avoid too many
iced drinks, but q highball now and
then Is ali right"
Evening star., 1935-07-12

ton would be more than justified on
both economic and human grounds.
1t is a matter of balancing dollars
against human lives. Washington,
with its more than half-million popu-
lation. should not be forced to get
along with health funds comparable
to those available in many cities of
100000 persons
Meanwhile, although the Budget
Bureau has refused to recommend
that Congress make a supplemental
appropriation for the Health Depart
(See HEALTH, Page 49,
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Spontaneous Fund for Relief
Of Calhoun Family Cr0,vs

houn case. The Star will be glad to
receive any other donations for the
family. Make checks payable to the
Calhoun Fund, care of The Evening
Star.
The Star acknowledges receipt Of
the following contributions: Mrs.
James Quinn, 81; Matthew A. Dunn,
So; F. A. Linger, S.; Mike Durso, 81;
C. E. p, 81; Mary S. Nixon. 81: Miss
Sallie Ward, IS; Mrs. w. Kesley
Schoepf, IS; Robert L. O'Brien, IS;
Mrs. C. j. T., 81: T. A., IS; Lewis
Edwin Ryan. IS; Barbara E. Sazama.
81; r. Z. Farr, IS: Widows Sons
Lodge, No. Z, IS, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Wedlake, 81.
Many other sums have been con-
tributed to other organizations, SWELL
ing the total relief fund to several
(See CALHOUN, Page So
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Father of 29 Asks
Old-Age Pension;
Wed Four Times
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ENGLAND, Ark. July 12.-
Sixty-five-year-old John Perkins,
colored, father of 20 children, in
cluding seven sets of twins, has
filed application for an old-age
pension with the Arkansas We'll
fare Department.
Mrs. Ben B. High, supervisor
of the Old-Age Pension Board
here, said the Keo, Ark, mans
application shows he has been
married four times and that rs
of his 20 children are still living.
The oldest is 40.
Perkins first marriage was at
the age of l3. Three of his wives
are dead.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

LIT. JllDeTL II. GTOSVe0Or. president
of the National Geographic Society,
which financed the S175,000 expedi-
ton, issued the following statement:
The catastrophe to the balloon that
was inflated and ready to take the air
is at this moment inexplicable. but we
thank God that no one was injured.
which is the most important thing
of all.
The officers Of the National Geo.
graphic Society and Army Air Corps
must await the results of the investi-
CATION by Capt. Stevens and Capt. An
derson and the experts of the Good
vear-Zeppelin Corp, makers of the
balloon. together with the scientists
composing the Technical Committee
of the stratosphere flight, as to the
cause of the explosion and whether
or not the balloon can be repaired and
placed in an absolutely safe condition.
With the National Geographic So
ciety, which throughout its nearly so
years of scientific activity and many
expeditions placed in the field has
never lost a man, the first and last
consideration is the safety of per-
sonnel."
Flight staff Is Stunned.
Pending investigation. the mass of
fabric was left untouched in the middle
of the big Illuminated ring where the
balloon was being prepared,
The flight staff. as well as spec
la olf
stunned by the shock After the in
itial confusion the crowd slowly began
to scatter
Before the collapse the helium was
concentrated in the top of the bag.
which was inflated to only about one
eighth its capacity. This was to allow
for expansion in the suns heat.
Sergt G. w. Money of the United
States Army Air Corps at Scott Field,
Ill., one of the men who was work
ing on top of the gondola, described
the miShap.
Il was working on cross bar on
top of the gondola" he said. Sud
denly felt the ropes slacken. The
next thing I knew the whole fabric
came down on me"
Goodyear Official Puzzled.
j. F. Cooper of the Goodyear-Zep-
pelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio, said he
knew of no reason for the collapse.
In Akron, Goodyear officials, in the
absence of a complete report, refused
any comment. The balloon. the largest
ever made, was fabricated in the Akron
factories of the Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der Co. and its subsidiary. the Good
year Zeppelin Corp.
The first reaction at the flight camp
was one of relief that the accident
did not occur after the take-off. 1t
also was pointed out that had such a
mishap occurred in last years flight,
when explosive hydrogen was used,
the result might have been calamitous
Helium is non-explosive and non-in-
flammable.
Mrs. Orvil A. Anderson, wife of the
balloon pilot. was one of the first to
rush onto the scene, searching for
her husband. He was unhurt.
I'm sick with disappointment.
she said, particularly for Capt
Stevens and Andy"
Asked about her reaction to another
fight. she said, however, that she
would not oppose her husbands
taking part.
The collapse of the balloon, which
was said to be the worlds largest.
brought an abrupt end to Is hours
(See STRATOSPHERE Page 81
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Detroit Woman Killed.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, July IL P.-
Mrs. Ella F. Anderson, 70, of Detroit
was killed anc four other women in
jured today in collision of two au-
tomobiles a mile east of the Glou-
cester-Rockpo,-t line,
Evening star., 1935-07-12

British Engines Sent to Germany.
LONDON, July IL (P).-Eighty Brit
ish airplane engines were exported to
Germany in the IL months ending last
May, according to an official return
submitted to the House of Commons
today.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
ITALY IS PUZZLED
. BY BRITISH SPEECH
Wonders What Hoare Plans
as Next Step for Ethio-
plan Peace.
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, July 12.-Italian official cir
cles interpreted the foreign policy
speech of Sir Samuel Hoare. British
foreign secretary, as tending to clarity
the Ethiopian situation today.
The officials said they were curious,
however, as to what Great Britain's
program would be to preserve peace in
East Africa. Despite this skepticism,
they regarded the speech as evidence
of more understanding attitude
toward Italy's policy.
Belief was expressed freely on all
sides that England would not cease
her efforts to settle the Italo- Ethiopian
dispute despite Italy's determination
to seek complete solution" The
Italian press warned the people not
to be optimistic about the speech.
Official circles expressed interest in
knowing exactly what the British
foreign minister had in mind when he
said he was ready to act to avoid a
conflict between Italy and Ethiopia
on the basis of the treaty of 1906 or
through the League of Nations.
They thought Sir Samuel, in refer
ring to the 1906 treaty between Eng
land, Italy and France. establishing
spheres of influence in Ethiopia. had
in MIND convocation of three-powe-
conference. Official circles said thai
if this is SO, Italy has no intention ol
attending.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
VETO OF SPEEDERS' BILL
COSTS LEGISLATOR FINE
Illinois Senator Tells Judge He
Was Pondering Governors De-
cision When Arrested,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 12.-Called into
Speeder's Court on charge of driving
so miles an hour, State Senator
Thomas v. Smith, one of the signers
of a bill to abolish the 45-mile-an-
hour speed limit, told Judge John Gut
knecht:
"Your honor, at the time I was pom
dering the speeders' bill, wondering if
Gov. Horner would sign or veto it.
and I didn't pay much attention to
my speedometer.'
Said the court:
THE bill was vetoed. Four dollars
and COSTS"
Evening star., 1935-07-12
PURv|S,ACE G-MAN,
RESIGNS POSITION
Agent Famous for DiIIinger
Trap to Take Up New
Duties"
E,Y REX COLLIER.

Melvin Purvis, whose nonchalant
gesture with a lighted cigar signaled
the death of John Dillinger in front
of a Chicago theater year ago this
month, and who also was present
when Pretty Boy Floyd fell under
a hail of Federal bullets. has resigned
from J. Edgar Hoover's force of &c"
men to follow more prosaic pursuits.
The 32-year-old lawyer-turned-de-
tective was quoted by the Associated
Press as explaining he wished to take
up new duties" the nature of which
he did not disclose. Slender and mild
hammered, despite the reputation
which came to him as a result of
his dangerous work. Purvis has not
been in vigorous health.
Purvis' resignation as special agent
in charge of the Chicago office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation has
been accepted by Hoover, who was
in Atlantic City today and not avail
able for comment.
D. M. Ladd, veteran agent with a
colorful record of investigative achieve
ments in connection with major kid
napings and other Federal crimes,
has been appointed to succeed Purvis.
Purvis. by reason of his Chicago
assignment, was in the center of the
stirring hunt for Dillinger and his
gang and for other desperadoes op-
Grating in the Midwest. Through
no fault of his own he has been
credited in the press. on the radio
and on the screen with many exploits
for which others were jointly re-
SnQnSihle
Evening star., 1935-07-12
New Solution Sought.


government, persisting in its efforts t
head eff hostilities between Italy an
Ethiopia, sought today another solu
ton to the crisis.
Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary
called Joseph A. c. Avenol, secretar
general of the League of Nations. t.
conference at which informed cir
cles said some new way out of tn
impasse might be advanced.
Avenol also arranged second con
ference with Anthony Eden.
Several points in Sir Samuel's sur
vey, pledging Britain's continued ef
forts for peace, emerged clearly in hi
speech:
l. England admits Italy's need TO
expansion and admits to some exten
me charges against Ethiopia.
2. 1t questions whether these rea
sons are sufficient cause for plungins
into armed conflict.
3. 1t will grasp "any reasonable
chance which may offer itself fo
helping prevent disastrous war"
a. 1t looks to Germany to help con
clude Eastern European and Danubial
pacts, thereby giving a great impuls'
to the conclusion of an air pact"
From Sir Samuel came the state
ment that he is working through tw'
sets of machinery-the League of Ma
tions and the 1906 treaty.
BY indirection, Sir Samuel advises
Anglo American cooperation in worlt
affairs
New Formula Advanced.
VIENNA, July IL L9.-An Austrian
proposal for the settlement of tn
Italo-Ethiopian dispute, launched yes
terday by the semi-official ReichpoSt
has excited considerable interest il
diplomatic circles.
The plan is believed to have beer
published after consultations in au
thoritative Italian quarters and henc'
is regarded as incorporating terms ac
ceptable to Mussolini, consequent.
capable of averting an outbreak of wa
in Africa
The Reichpost proposes that Franc,
take the initiative with the League o
Nations to obtain an agreement fo
objective consideration of "the ETH
opian case" as problem of the ma jo
powers responsibility toward a back
ward region. rather than as a disput,
between Italy and Ethiopia
1t suggests that France propose tn
view of the Adds Ababa government
inability to suppress the slave trafh'
and border raids on neighborin,
colonial powers and that England ant
Italy be authorized to undertake tn
pacification and civilization of thi
region. England would be allotted tina
section which includes Lake Tsana
where she had negotiated for 80 year
for dam to serve agriculture in tn,
Sudan and Egypt,
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Worked Under COwley.

Although Purvis has been widely
hailed as the leader of the squads
which got" Dillinger and Floyd, and
has been repeatedly referred to as
the man who actually fired the shots
that ended Dillinger's mad career.
the facts are that Purvis was under
command of the late Inspector Samuel
P. Cowley on both occasions and he
did not fire a shot when Dillinger
was slain.
Cowley, killed with Special Agent
Herman E. Hollis in a gun duel with
Baby Face" Nelson at harrington,
(See PURVIS, Page s.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
WEATHER.

tU s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Local thunderShowers probably late to-
night or tomorrow: continued warm TO-
night cooler tomorrow and tomorrow
night. emperatures-Highest, 90, at $3.50
pm yesterday; lowest, rs. at am. today.
Full report on page B-4.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

(See TAXES, Page 81
Evening star., 1935-07-12

(See LOBBY, Page g.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

(See CALHOUN, Page So