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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
WOMAN ARRESTED
IN SWAMP Staying
Mrs. Evelyn Smith Denies
Completely When Found
in New York.
BY the Associated Press.

ny ihc hoSOOAdtCd LCoos
NEW YORK, July 27.-Mrs. Evelyn
B. Smith, as, long sought in connec-
ton with the swamp Staying" of Err
vim Lang Of Chicago, was located by
detectives today in a West Thirty
fourth street rooming house.
Mrs. Smith. who denied any knowl-
edge of the killing, expressed surprise
that the police had been looking for
her.
Taken to Brooklyn police head
quarters for questioning the woman
was quoted by detectives as acknowl-
edging that she knew Lang's mother
in-law, Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, who al
legedly has said she contracted to pay
Mrs. Smith $500 to get rid of her
son-in-law.
Lang's body, from which both legs
had been amputated, was found in a
swamp near Hammond, Ind, on July
10. The legs later we're found in an
other place
Mrs. Smith. who said she also was
known as Pearl johnson, declared it
had been year since she last saw
Harry Jung. Chinese laundryman,
who was named by Mrs. Dunkel as her
helper in the crime.
Mrs. Dunkel was alleged to have
said she hired Mrs. Smith to do away
with Lang because he had mistreated
her daughter, Mrs. Mallie Lang, who
died last December 20.
The Smith woman said size was
born in Germany and had gone with
her father, cabinetmaker, to China
as a young girl. There her father
hired Harry Jung to work for him and
brought him to the United States.
Mrs. Smith said the last time she
had seen Jung he was running a
laundry in Chicago. She said she had
been in New York since July 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
ROOSEVELT THREAT
CHARGED TO MAN, II
Tennessean Accused of Having
Announced Plan to Shoot Up
Presidents Train.


JOHNSON CITY. Tenn, July 81
A gray-haired man listed as George A.
Boston. II, was held under 81. 500 bond
by United States Commissioner w. r.
RepaSs here today on q charge Of
threatening the life of President
Roosevelt
Unable to make bond he was re-
moved to the Greene County Jail at
Greeneville. Tenn, to await hearing
next Wednesday.
Commissioner RepaSs said the man
was charged with having uttered the
threat that if the Presidents train
should ever pass through johnson
City he would riddle ali the coaches
with bullets"
Boston. the commissioner said,
denied making the statement.
Repass explained that officers started
searching him and found q 80 caliber
revolver in a shoulder strap.
Repass said Boston had lived in
johnson City for some time and was
"on Government relief" He was ar
rested by q q United States marshal
and q secret service agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
CAMDEN STRIKE
BREACH W|DENS
Union and Ship Building
Firm Issue Statements.
"Lie" Charge Printed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN. N. j., July 27.-It was
quiet at the front gate of the New
York Shipbuilding Corp. strike today,
but a battle of words was fought by
management and union.
The yard was closed. Trudging
pickets provided the only activity.
But in their headquarters the COM
pany and union representatives is
sued statements that widened the
breach made IL weeks ago when $500
men left the shipyard.
Commissioners Criticized.
The company fired the first verbal
shots In a newspaper advertisement
that accused City Commissioner
George E. Drummer of telling House
labor subcommittee at Washington
ian unmitigated lie," and described
his presence with Commissioner Mary
Kobus at the strike scene as the
most sickening episode" of the dis
pute.
The commissioners, the company
said, 80 forgot their oaths OF Office as
to mix with the mob. joining to some
extent in their antics"
Commissioners Drummer and Kobus
and the union replied to the COM
pany's attack.
Denies Violating Oath.
Drummer, who denied he had vio-
lated his oath Of office, said he was
willing to be target for abuse" if
he can help in ending the dispute.
He said what he told the House COM
mittee still goes" He had accused
the company of violating condolences
and breaking its pledge not to employ
strike breakers.
The commissioner declared he would
continue to offer his services in be-
half of a satisfactory settlement cir
respective of any more false or libel
Gus statements ."
Commissioner Kobus said she re-
fused Ito get perturbed over the SLAM
derous charges" was proud of the
part Drummer and she had played in
seeking to end the strike fairly to
both sides, and would continue her
efforts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
WOMEN ATTACK
MEAT PURCHASERS
Fight Men in Protest Against
High Prices in Mar
kets.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 27.-A housewives
war for lower meat prices left numer-
Gus men scratched and bruised In
Hamtramck today. kept police scout
cars dashing from one beleaguered
butcher shop to another and sharply
curtailed retail meat sales.
Most of the casualties were hus-
bands of women not connected with
the women's Committee for Action
Against the High Cost of Living" the
organization which arranged the dem
onstration and placed 500 militant
pickets in the field.
The men were seized as they came
out Of meat shops, their faces slapped.
their hair pulled and their packages
confiscated and hurled in the gutter.
A few were knocked down and tram
pied.
Several persons we're arrested, but
the majority were quickly released.
Strike to Be Continued.
The strike will be continued, de-
clared Mrs. Mary LUX, leader, until
meat prices are reduced 20 per cent.
She predicted it would spread from
Hamtramck, a Polish section, into all
other parts of the metropolitan area.
Hamtramck police corroborated Mrs.
Zuk's assertion that the strike was
not communistic, as some of the mer-
chants charged.
I'VE aren't going to interfere with
the women as long as they are reason
ably peaceful" Police Chief Joseph
Rustoni said. However. Id like TO
catch my wife out there"
Mayor Joseph A. Lewandowski of
Hamtramck said he believed some
Communists appear TO be partici-
pating"
The big majority are good. honest
citizens with a legitimate complaint
against exorbitant meat prices" he
said.
Mrs. zuk said the picketing was
decided upon after the committee had
called unSuccessfully on several meat
packers and merchants TO demand
price Reductions.
Packer is Blamed.
zone of the packers told us why
don't you go see President Roosevelt
/ He started this" Mrs. Zuk said.
Maybe Roosevelt started it by kill
ing the little pigs and the cattle. We
don't know and We don't care. We
aren't going to pay such high prices
/ for meat and that's all there is to it."
Mrs. lux is the wife of an unem-
ployed factory worker and the mother
Of two children.
The committees headquarters Is in
the international Workers Hall, which
, Mrs Zuk said was the only one they
could obtain.
| A pile Of pamphlets entitled plan
/ of Work" and outlining methods for
organizing a buyers strike appeared
mysteriously in the headquarters. The
/ committee members said they had not
! seen them before today and ordered
them destroyed.
Garry Placards.
I The women. carrying placardS and
| banners, picketed the stores through
out the day. Some of the placards
read: Strike against high meat prices.
Don't buy" Another bore legends de-
riding the meat packer millionaires"
and demanding lower meat prices for
| Negroes. who pay extra high prices"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
BAND CONCERT.

Concert by the United States Navy
Band in the Ampitheater, Arlington.
Va, at $50 pm, Lieut.. Charles Ben
ter, leader: Alexander Morris, assistant
leader.
Program.
March, knights Of the Holy Grail,
Wagner
Largo, from 1.-THE New World Sym
phony' Dvorsk
Cornet solo (a), THE Lost Chord"
Sullivan
OBJ None But the Weary Heart"
Oscar Short.
"Andante Cantabile"- Tschaikowsky
Sacred selection. THE Angelus," Buys
Reverie, "The Unknown Soldier" o.
Woodtn
Romance, The Revel of the An
gels" -HuninStem
Mediation, Alteration" -Borowsd
Hymn.
Holy God. We Praise Thy Name"
The National Anthem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Ohio Girl, Aged TO-,
Is "Hun,an Slate"
Her Skin Sensitive
Mother Writes Ans,Cer to
Hard Problem on
ChiId's Body.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARION, Ohio, July 27.-Mathe-
NAUTICAL perfection came to Betty 10
Lister, 10, Marion's human slate"
because her mother used her sensitive
skin to write the answers to difhcult
problems.
Betty 10. whose formal name is
Elizabeth Josephine Lister, is suffer-
ing from dermatography, an unusual
skin condition that causes marks made
by a fingernail or pointed instrument
to remain visible for varying periods,
depending ON weather conditions.
Her physician. DR.. Carter L. Pitcher
said today the girls skin probably viii
become normal as she grows older.
Last Winter Betty 10 had trouble
mastering the 9-times-6 combination
in the multiplication table. Finally
her mother wrote the problem and
the answer on her arm and Betty 10
won her effort at mathematical per-
lection.
DR.. Pitcher defines dematographism
as the reaction of a representative
nervous system to outside mechanical
stimulation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Special Dispatch to The star.

SPECIAL ptSpatGn 70 Au9 SCAR.
BAR HARBoR. Me-, July 81
Shattered In health as q result OF his
last expedition 10 the Antarctic and
the persistent attentions that America
lavishes upon its heroes, Admiral Rich
ard Evelyn Byrd Is In seclusion at his
Summer home here, where 1t was
learned today that he may never again
seek adventure at q far corner OF the
earth.
Despite his illness and despite the
comparative isolation Of his home on
the shores Of Latty Cove, the Nations
foremost explorer b still plagued by
the efforts OF photograph seekers.
With q sort Of ghoulish enterprise the
collectors of signatures have redoubled
their efforts since learning Admiral
Byrd Is III. One of them was flank
in declaring he wished to obtain the
explorers signature before 1t was too
late"
Although Admiral Byrd. the only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
WIDOW AND rs INJURED
IN RIOT SUE K0HLER co.
$275 900 Damages Sought as Re
suit of Bloody Battle in
Strike Last Year.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE. July 27.-Twenty-
seven suits to collect s275. 900 in dam
ages as a result of the strike riot at
the Kohler Co. plant at Kohler. Wis,
last July have been started. A. G.
Goldberg, associated counsel with At
torney Joseph A. Padway. announced
today.
The announcement came on the an
niversary of the riot in which two
men were fatally wounded and rs
injured.
The plaintiffs are the Is persons
who were wounded and Mrs. Envy En-
gelmann. widow of one Of the men
killed. The defendants are the Koh-
Ter Co, Walter j. Kohler, ST., presi-
dent: his brother and executive vice
president, Herbert Kohler; Robert and
Walter Kohler, jr, sons of the presi-
dent; Mrs. Robert Kohler, John Case,
Kohler Marshal, Edward George
Ernst r. Schuelke and Edward Biever
special deputy Sheriffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
STADIUM RIGHTS
GIVEN C0UGHLIN
Radio Priest Wins Court Order
Reversing Park Board at
Chicago.

ny llic hoooNiabCa 1859
CHICAGO, July 27.-Attorney Sam
uel A Ettelson announced today he
would ask court approval Of August
81 as the date for a Soldier Field
mass meeting to be addressed by Rev
Charles E. Coughlin. Detroit radio
priest
He said the date would be en-
bodied in an order being prepared for
Superior Judge James j. Kelly's sig
nature, to carry out the ruling yes
terday granting Father Coughlin a
writ Of mandmus commanding the
Chicago Park Board to grant him q
permit for the stadium,s use.
Despite his Superior Court victory,
Father Coughlin today faced a pro-
tracted fight.
The proposed address, said the
judge. would exalt human rights over
property rights. but would not consti-
tute. as the board claimed. "propa
ganda" on controversial political or
economic subjects"
The priest originally hoped to hold
his Chicago mass meeting on June l9
for the benefit of claimed following
of 100000 in the territory.
Park Board attorneys said today
they would appeal and lawyers said
this would tie up Judge Kelly's man.
damus decree until the appellate court
rules, probably in the Fall
But Attorney Samuel B. Ettelson
representing Father Coughlin, said he
would fight any more delay.
Park Board attorneys claimed the
board had full discretion over who
should use the big stadium. located
on Chicago's downtown lake front in
Grant Park, but the judge rebuked
the board for a hostile attitude" de-
claring it had abused its powers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
WASHINGTONlAN KILLED,
BROTHER HURT, IN CRASH
AGREE Shreve, SO, Dies Instantly
When Auto Leaves Road at
Ingram, Va.

AGREE Shreve, 80, of 1882 Twelfth
street. was instantly killed in an auto
mobile accident at Ingram, Va, last
night, the Associated Press reported.
Samuel Shreve, his brother, of the
same address, was seriously injured at
the same time when the car in which
they we're riding skidded from the road
and crashed broadside into telegraph
pole.
The accident occurred 20 miles from
Danville, the city to which the broth
ers were driving to visit their sister, a
Mrs. Link.
Samuel Shreve is in q hospital at
Danville. q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Man Gets Page l Publicity and
Jail Term-by Kidnap Hoax

explained. THE Loser was to buy the
winner q dinner"
He said food. telephone tolls and
gasoline cost him approximately $25
between Thursday night, July 1s. and
his return to Columbus July 20. The
fine and costs In that city amounted
to SIS, he said. bringing the total
to $50. .
"If I pay my fine and costs here
I'd be paying out $I35 and so would
lose the bet" he said. Later he had
q change Of heart and telegraphed
Columbus friends in an appeal for
funds.
He had received no response when
the police patrol left city Jail for the
workhouse. so he was placed aboard
TO start his sentence.
German. In jacksonville, Fla, said
he'd gladly buy ths dinner for Byers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
BY the Associated Press.

Dy VIC s1SoOtldtcu EECoS-
CLEVELAND, July 27.-Robert C..
Byers, a., of Columbus has So DAYS In
which to whet his appetite on work
house fare for dinner, the stakes in
a publicity wager he won through a
kidnap hoax.
Byers entered his optional period of
Incarceration today after refusing to
pay o fine Of $50 and costs levied as
he pleaded guilty to making a false
police report on his fictional abduc-
ton a week ago. He was fined $50
and costs at Columbus yesterday on q
guilty plea to a similar charge result
ing from the same incident.
IT bet Al German Of Jacksonville.
Fla, at the Elks' convention in
Columbus I could get front page
newspaper publicity within ~ hours
at q cost Of less than $780," Byers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
LIBEL SUIT SLICED
Demurrers Sustained in Part in
$12,oOO,OOo Action.

TOPEKA, Kans., July 81 @.-
District Judge George A. Kline today
sustained demurrers to two of six
counts in the $4,000, 600 libel suit Of
Henry L. Doherty, utilities magnate,
against the Kansas City Star and Roy
A. Roberts, managing editor.
In sustaining the newspapers de-
murrers, the court reduced the libel
action to 100000. Doherty had
asked 100000 on each of the
counts.
The libel action grew out of cam
paign of the newspaper for reduced
utility rates.
Judge Kline held that an article
and a cartoon on which two points
were based were not libelous.
On two other counts demurrers
were overruled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
London Busmen Warned.

LONDON, July II R.-The London
Passenger Transport Board, controll-
ing the London area, tonight told
2,597 striking bus drivers and con-
ductors in suburban London to get
back to work by Monday or face dis
missal. Five hundred and sixty buses
were halted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
A. A. A. TAX UPHELD

Memphis Judge Dismisses go, S63
Suit of Packer.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, July ~ R.-
Federal Judge John D. Martin in an
oral opinion handed down tonight up
held the constitutionality of the agri-
cultural adjustment act in dismissing
a suit to recover s6,s63 paid by Mem
phis packer in processing taxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
PALESTINE NABS REDS
10 Arrested in Roundup After

10 Arrested in Roundup After
Shooting Melee in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM, July n (Palcor
Agency).-A roundup of Commu-
nists in Palestine was ordered today
and 10 arrests were reported within
a few hours.
Authorities ordered the drive after
a Communist demonstration held a.
Post ONCE square Thursday resulted
in the injury of a policeman and con-
siderable shooting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Live on "Loneliest Island"

That all residents Of Tristan da
Cmha, the worlds loneliest island"
be transferred to South Africa and q
meteorological station be established
on the island, has been officially rec
commended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28

States in paying pensions to aged
needy persons. the BIZ. also provides
for Federal contributory old-age in
surance plan for the retirement In
later years Of those now at work. The
question of whether to allow indus
tries to operate private retirement
plans. provided such plans are equal
TO or exceed the Federal system. is
still IN conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
WIFE SLAYER GETS LIFE

Death Insurance Plot.
CONVICTION. Ga, July 81 CP.-
George Jones. Porterdaie mill worker,
was convicted of poisoning his wife
and sentenced to life Imprisonment
here today.
Mrs. Jones became violently ill June
Is. was taken to an Atlanta hospital
June "a and died the following day
A physician testified that she died of
poison. The prosecutor told the Jury
that Jones poisoned his wife to col
lect insurance"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Boys Build Pipe Organ.

Boys of Northampton, England,
school have built a pipe organ, COM
plete with electrical blowing apparatus.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
M|DC|TY CITIZENS
URGE LOCAL MAN
Petition Calls for "Home
Rule" on Appointment
of Penal Head.

Opposition to the appointment Of an
out-of-town man as superintendent of
District penal institutions when the
present chief. Capt. M. M. Barnard,
retires. was expressed last night by
the Midcity Citizens Association in a
resolution which pointed out the
Board of Public Welfare already has
recommended the appointment of a
Baltimore man to the post.
The resolution said the appointment
was inconsistent with the American
idea Of representative government and
home rule"
The need for a larger and more
adequate building for the work Of the
Woman's Bureau of the Police De-
partment was outlined by Capt.
Rhoda Milliken, head Of the bureau.
Capt. Milliken also described the
activities of the bureau to show that
additional personnel also is needed.
On motion Of George E. Warren, the
group commended Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts for his efforts in
helping to bring about the offer Of
the Washington Gas Light Co. to make
a further reduction in its rates. The
association approved the proposed re-
duction.
Miss Sibyl Baker, director Of the
District Playground Department. urged
the association to join with other units
in q concentrated appeal for more play
space in the midcity area. The
Thomson School playground, which
was described as "our postage stamp
playground" Is wholly inadequate,
she said. A committee Of three,
headed by Warren, was appointed to
seek additional facilities.
Discussing the plan Of District off,
cials to hold hearings on public
transportation facilities, the group de-
cided to send delegates to request the
following: Elimination Of the one
man street car; express service on
the Friendship Heights line; universal
transfer from bus to street car and
vice versa; additional buses and
elimination of the de luxe" coach
line on Connecticut avenue.
President A. j. Driscoll presided
over the meeting, held in Thomson
School.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
WILLIAM G. H0YT DIES
Former Consolidated Gas Co. Off,
cial Expires at Pasadena.

NEW YORK, November 26 Dr.
William Greeley Hoyt, 76, a former
president and director Of several units
of the Consolidated Gas Co., died
suddenly Sunday at Pasadena, Calf,
1t was learned here yesterday. He
lived in Garden City, Long Island,
but recently had been visiting son.
w. Lathrop Hoyt.
He retired last August as president
and director Of the Standard Gas
Light Co.. the New Amsterdam Gas
Co., the East River Gas Co. Of Long
Island City and the Municipal Light
ing Co, all consolidated units. He is
survived by the son and his widow,
Mrs. Carrie j. Lathrop Hoyt.
Evening star., 1935-11-26

favored selection Of q Washington man
familiar with local penal institutions
and their problems for this post.
The association also urged that
steps be taken to protect school build.
ings from destructive pupils by edu-
eating them to take pride in the ap-
pearance Of the buildings.
OfRcers Elected.
Selden M. Ely, delegate to the Fed
Grafton Of Citizens Associations, said
this educational program should begin
on the Fairgrounds.
e. B. Lawless, acting president, and
James A. Crooks, acting secretary and
treasurer, were elected to fill the posi-
tions. Others elected were Mrs. Ada
Mills Payne, first vice president; Guy
r. Numbers. second vice president;
G. J. MacMurray, financial secretary;
Ely and william r. Sheehan, delegates
to the federation, and Henry K.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
CATHOLICS IN BRITAIN
FIGHT MERCY KILLINGS
Bishop of Pella Leads Movement
to Halt Move for Legal
Right to Die.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 26.-A group
Of Catholics, led by the Catholic
Bishop Of Pella, opened q national
campaign last night to stop the British
mercy killing" movement.
Lord Moynihan, one Of the country's
leading surgeons, recently opened
campaign to establish legally the right
to die of persons suffering from in
durable diseases.
Leaders of the opposition urged Ro-
man Catholics over Great Britain to
bishop, in o speech, declared:
Such a change in the law would
welcome would-be wife murderers and
other potential criminals"
Evening star., 1935-11-26
$50 POISONED SODA
PACKAGES ARE HUNTED
San Francisco Health Officer
Checking on Sales to Prevent
Further Death Toll.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 90
Search for $50 packages of poisonous
powder mislabeled and sold as soda"
was announced yesterday by DR.. J. G.
Geiger, city health officer.
DR.. Geiger said the one-pound pack
ages had been filled from a barrel,
part of the contents Of which had
been mixed with salvaged soda in an
other barrel.
He expressed hope that purchasers.
warned by the disclosures Of three
deaths and many illnesses from con-
tami lated soda, had destroyed all the
packages.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
Better Lighting Asked.
Tobacco Road" Censored.

ST. LOUIS, November 26 R.-"To-
bacco Road"-barred by Chicago and
Detroit as ohscene-may continue It's
run here unmolested but some Of the
strong language must be deleted, 1t
was agreed yesterday between attor-
neys for the city and the theater.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
ns WearnbIes for Cold Dl

Warm garm e is Of
fleeced cotton, in waist
style, with short legs or
French legs. Sizes 2 to
IL years.
Main FInor
Evening star., 1935-11-26

Murphy, Mrs. r. L. Boch, r. r. Stef-
fens, w. r. Sheehan, Mrs. r. G. Ehling
and J. r. Hardie, executive committee
members.
Better Lighting Asked.
A resolution requesting better light.
ing 30 that street Identification signs
will be visible at night was approved.
The group decided not to meet again
until January because the regular date
conflicts with Christmas holidays. The
meeting was held in the Mckinley
High School.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
Perfect Nut Kernels
Magruder Inc.

Grocers and Wine Merchants Since 1878
Phone District $3.50 18th 6 M SITS. NV.
Evening star., 1935-11-26
PEAKE |NDORSED
BY CITIZEN GROUP
North Capitol Association
EIects-Curb on School
Vandalism Urged.

Appointment Of Col. william H.
Peake as superintendent of District
penal institutions was urged last night
by the North Capitol Citizens Asso-
ciation.
Members of the association said they