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Evening star., 1936-09-09

the door of her automobile. 1t tum-
a bath in the waters and debris of an
other basin.
She, too, called the Sewer Depart
ment, and they recovered the pocket
book in short order. 1t was ruined,
but the money was intact
Those are but couple of exam
Piles. In the past fiscal year nearly
three score valuable articles reported
lost in sewers have been returned to
the losers.
Jewelry and money are not the
only things taken from the Districts
1000 miles of sewers.
Find Guns and Shovels.
Guns, knives, tools and objects of
every description come to light each
year.
The weapons are turned over to
police, who check them for possible
criminal connection.
Fifteen Shovels were found in catch
basins last year after the heavy SHOWS.
They were lost by street cleaners and
carried to the bottom OF the sewers
with slushy water.
Key holders are lost and found
probably more often than any other
single thing. Nickels, dimes. quar-
tiers and sometimes bills are brought
to the surface when the basins are
periodically cleaned Finders are
keepers in the case Of small change.
Once a wallet containing several
hundred dollars worth of postal saw
ings certificates was scooped up. 1t
was returned to the owner, who had
been held up and his pocketbook
thrown away after the cash was ex-
tracted.
They are pretty lucky at finding
things, these sewer cleaners. but not
one Of them has ever fallen in and
come up wearing a pearl necklace.
Evening star., 1936-09-09
ENJOYS CAR UPSETS
FIRE RESCUE AUTO
Colombian Minister, Pumarejo,
and Capt. Mayhem Escape
Injury,

A collision between automobiles
driven by Senor Don Miguel Lopez
Pumarejo, Minister from Colombia,
and Capt. James A. Mayhem of the
Are rescue squad overturned the lat
ter's car yesterday afternoon, but
both men escaped injury.
The accident occurred on Bladens-
burg road when Capt. Mayhem was
making a left turn into Eastern ave-
nue. northeast. After he had sue
ceeded in righting his car and driv-
ing away, Senor Pumarejo continued
his trip to Baltimore.
Two pedestrians, Miss Sue Fox, so,
Of Ills Tenth street and Lucius Mont
gomery, SO, Of 81 Virginia avenue
southwest were struck by street cars
yesterday, but escaped serious injury.
Miss Fox was injured at Fifteenth
and H streets and Montgomery at
South Capitol and B streets.
Evening star., 1936-09-09
POLICE WILL FREE
PAIR IN SLAYING
Satisfied Men Quizzed in Watch.
mans Death Know Moth.
ing of Case.

Lug VI CdSc.
Satisfied they know nothing about
the Staying early Saturday Of Marion
J. Riley, 55-year-old watchman at
the James E. Collifiower coal yard in
nearby Virginia, Sheriff Howard B.
Fields Of Arlington County said today
he will release two men, said to be
former employees Of the coal company,
who were arrested here early yester-
day.
The men were taken into custody by
Washington detectives after Virginia
authorities had requested their arrest
on the suspicion they had some con-
nection with the case.
They were taken to the Arlington
County Jail yesterday by Detective
Hugh Jones and questioned extern
sively.
A report that a third white man
was being sought was denied by
Sheriff Fields.
Six colored men were arrested a few
hours after Riley, an Alexandrian
and father of eight children, was
found beaten to death in a boiler
room on the coal-yard grounds.
They have been finger printed,
Sheriff Fields said. and their prints
are being compared with those found
on a battered safe and In the Office
Of the coal firm.
Evening star., 1936-09-09

TOUR YEAR OLD JOSEPH
~ SlfITH, JR.. had a nightmare
last night which disturbed not
ouly his own sleep, but that
of his parents and the neighbors for
blocks around.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, who live at
1927 o street, tucked Joseph in bed
about o'clock and went out to visit
friends nearby. When they returned
at about II o'clock, his crib was
empty.
Distracted, Mrs. Smith called on all
the neighbors-first those who had
children about Joseph's age, then
everybody, in an attempt to find some
clue, but without avail. Then she
called police, who repeated the process
with no more success.
AS a last resort, and because they
could think of no place else to look,
police went to the home of Mrs Smiths
sister, Miss Josephine Duncan, % I
street. Joseph couldn't be there, OF
course, because it was too far for him
to walk.
When they reached the sisters house,
however, there he was, sound asleep
Evening star., 1936-09-09
WORK ON AIRPORT
BEGUN AS ARMY
FAILS TO OBJECT
100000 Modernizing Plan
Involves Runway Over
Military Road.
COMMERCE Department
IS CITED
Crews Shift Dirt After Fort Myer
Commanding Officer Announces
Non-Interference Policy.

No effort will be made by the Arm!
to block the construction Of Wash.
ington Airport runway across Mill
tary road, it was announced today
by Col. j. w. Wainwright, command.
ing officer at Fort Myer. Va, as grad
ing machinery was set to work OF
the airport to start 100000 i'm.
provement.
Col. Wainwright said that he ha.
notified Samuel J. Solomon, manager
of the airport. that the Army will
neither authorize nor object to tn,
constructor Of the runway, which will
involve q 2-foot I'LL across Military
road.
1t had been anticipated in som,
quarters that a last-moment objec.
ton by the War Department might
halt the new construction program
which Is intended to modernjze Wash
ington Airport, long regarded as on.
of the most dangerous major al
terminals in the United States.
Commerce Authority Cited.
Col. Wainwright said that an &C
Of Congress which became law las
March had authorized the Secretar,
of Commerce to set up such regulation
as he deemed necessary to permit tht
use by Washington Airport of a por.
ton Of Military road as a runway
and to erect safeguards to prevent
the danger Of collision between air.
craft and automobiles on the high.
way.
Under the circumstances" Col
Wainwright said, the War Depart.
ment feels that it has no right to OBJ.
ject or to authorize the proposed con
struction of runways, even though the
right Of way Of a military road il
involved. The matter has been re.
ferred to the Department of Com
merce"
Commerce Department officials
have stated that they ave no objec.
ton to the runway construction pro.
gram, but feel that it Is a commend.
able and very necessary improvement
and an important contribution to all
transport safety.
Almost Closed in Dispute.
Controversy over the installation oi
traffic lights and barriers across Mill
tary road at the runway crossing last
Spring threatened to result in closing
the local airport. Only through per-
sonal Intervention of the late Rep.
resentative John ]. McSwain, chair
man of the Military Affairs Commit.
tee, was the closing averted Ions
enough to enable Congress to pas!
legislation transferring responsibility
for policing Of the road to the Com.
merce Department.
There has been a question as Il
whteher the act of last March GOV.
cred such a question as the present
construction of runway across Mill.
tary road. The decision of the Wal
Department to pass responsibility tt
the Commerce Department, however
is thought to have averted the dan.
ger that this situation might arise Il
block the program.
Scrapers and "bulldozers" were K
go into action today. knocking tht
tops of two elevations along the right!
of way Of the proposed runways Ma
terial for the filling of Military roat
already has been trucked to the fiele
and dumped in piles along the high
way. Airport employees already wer'
at work on preliminary drainage con
struction, and the actual construction
Of foundations for the asphalt run
ways Is expected to begin next week.
Evening star., 1936-09-09
BAND CONCERT.

BY the student musicians, Navy
School Of Music, at the bandstand,
navy yard, this evening at 7:30, Band
master James Thurmond, leader.
March, "El Dorado Herbert
Overture, "Leonore"- Beethoven
Solo for cornet, Bride Of the
Waves" Clarke
Student Musician G. w. McReynolds.
Waltz, Southern Roses Strauss
Medley Of Victor Herbert's Fa-
'UAeCc oSA
Rhapsody, Southern" -Hosmer
Operatic excerpt. Entrance Of Gods
Into Valhalla" (from the opera,
"Rheingold") Wagner
Ballet music from Faust" Gounod
Grand marche, '.Marche Slav,"
T,vpaikowsky
The stax-epanslsd 1annsg."
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THUGS BEAT CHEF,
TAKE SUIT AND $45
Disrobe Victim, Leave Him
in AIIey-Purse Snatch
ings Reported.

Waylaid as he walked home early to-
day, James Lynch, 25-year-old chef,
was left lying in an alley in his under
wear and socks by thugs who beat him
until he was nearly unconscious be-
fore disrobing him.
At Emergency Hospital it was re-
ported Lynch may have fractures of
the skull and nose in addition to many
cuts.
Lynch, who lives at 1925 Clifton
street, was surprised by three colored
men as he was walking on Fourteenth
street near Swami street about $3.50
am.
Dragging him into an alley, his as
Evening star., 1936-09-09

- OF course but through care
Or has ring, pocketbook or some
other valuable object slipped through
your fingers and disappeared into one
Of the 1900 catch basins in Wash
ington?
Perhaps you haven't been so un-
fortunate, but many others have been
And for the initiated, who have
yet to be victimized by such freak
accident, it might be well to know
it's not as hopeless as it sounds.
Probably as many things lost in
sewers find their way back to their
owners as are swept through under
ground channels to oblivion.
Crew Always Ready.
Credit for these rescues belongs to
an emergency crew that stays on duty
"a hours a day to aid distressed citi-
zens.
Only a few days ago this group of
Sewer Department workmen proved,
as they have shown many times in
the past, that it is not like looking
for a needle in a haystack when they
hunt for q watch in a sewer.
A colored maid in the $500 block
Of Runnymede place, was toying with
the strap on her wrist watch when it
came unclasped and the timepiece
plopped into the mouth of a sewer.
A few hours later she had it back
A call to the trouble crew put them
on the job with long-handled scoops
They went through the sediment at
the bottom of the catch basin and
uncovered the watch.
The same day young woman who
was about to leave for a vacation at
the seashore balanced her purse on
Evening star., 1936-09-09
LEON F. TYNDALL, So,
LONG INVALID, IS DEAD

Leon F. Tyndall, 36, formerly q
teller at the American Security g.
Trust Co. died Monday at his home,
2700 Ontario road. He had been an
invalid for the last Is years.
He was son of the late Leon Tyn-
dali. ST.. who designed many of the
stained-glass windows at Catholic
y University.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Annie
Tyndall, and brother, william H.
Tyndall. Funeral services were held
at . am. today In the Shrine Of the
aecred Heart, with burial in Cedar
tdll Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-09-09
BOY CYCLIST BROWNS

An unidentified colored boy about
13 or IA years old was drowned shortly
before noon today when he rode his
bicycle of the end Of the Municipal
Fish Wharf. The boy was racing with
q companion.
The body, foAnd rs minutes later by
police. vas removed to The morgue.
Evening star., 1936-09-09

BY IRVING LASH.
~ I'D you ever drop your watch
down sewer-not purposely,
/ Of course. but through care
Evening star., 1936-09-09

Landrum discharged his gun when he
believed his life was in jeopardy, such
a belief being initiated by mental
process and not by any overt act or
acts on the part Of those under arrest. u
A second inquest was necessitated
after a coroner's jury became dead
locked Saturday night after deliberat-
ing the case nearly eight hours. When
1t was announced the jury could not
agree, Coroner A. Magruder Mcdonald
dismissed the members. The incident
was the first of its kind in the memory
Of District officials.
The last witness to take the stand
Landrum told the jury he shot Basey
when the five youths, one of them cry
ing Lets get him" prepared to mob
him while he was opening telephone
patrol box to call his station. Landrum
has been on sick leave for several
months.
Landrum told the jury that when
the men started to rush" him, his
first thought was of policeman who
he said" was beaten to death by a
group Of colored persons" several
years ago.
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Denied Effort to Gang" Officer.

Basey's companions on the night
of the shooting-Washingto Bell,
Thomas Hazlewood, Lynwcod Bembry
and Samuel Gill-denied on the wit
ness stand that they had tried to
gang up" on Landrum. Testimony
by a Casualty Hospital physician and
a ninth precinct officer that Basey had
been drinking just prior to the killing
also was denied by the youths.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
JUNIOR COLLEGE
FOR D. C. URGED
Mrs. William L. White Cites Need
Before Takoma Park
Citizens.

A junior college for the National
Capital was advocated at meeting OF
the Takoma Park Citizens Association
last night in the Takoma Public Lii
brary. The need for additional school
facilities was presented by Mrs. Will
liam L. White, chairman Of the School
Committee.
A special committee was appointed
by President Walter Trey to study the
proposal to widen and improve Eastern
avenue, between Laurel and New
Hampshire avenues. The committee
will confer with a similar committee
representing the Takoma Park Bound
ary Citizens Associations. The men,
bers of the committee include L. R.
Grabll, Burt w Andrews and Trey.
Resolutions of regret at the death OF
Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant su-
perintendent of schools were adopted.
DR.. William A. Hooker presented the
names of L. r. Grabill and Preston c.
King. who we're elected members of
the Historical and Memorial Commit
tee of the association.
The meeting adopted a resolution
pledging support of Mayor John R.
Adams, and Councilmen Chester C.
Waters, Harold A. AXtell and Fred c.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
VIRGINIA CONCERNS
FILE $4,000 SUIT
Lumber Firms Seek to Collect Elk.
cessive Charges From
Roads.

Suit to collect $157 900 from so rail-
roads transporting lumber from Vir-
ginia points to New York and New
England because of allegedly excessive
freight charges since April, 1928, was
filed in District Supreme Court yes
terday by nine lumber companies or
their assignees.
The plaintiffs told the court that
the Interstate Commerce Commission
has decided they are due reparations,
but that the railroads have ignored
the commissions order.
They estimated that the excessive
charges, plus interest up to the time
the litigation might be closed would
amount to $4,000. An additional
$25 1000 for attorneys fees was asked.
The concerns bringing the action
we're the Phillips Lumber Co. Inc,
Richmond, Va; Tide Water Oil Co.,
New York City; Farmers Bank Of
Boydtown, Va; Kentucky Flooring Co,
Inc, Orange, Va: Jeffrey Spaulding
Manufacturing Co, Inc. Chase City,
Va: A. L. Sheppard Lumber Co, Rich
mond, Va; Barnes Lumber Corp.
Charlottesville. Va; Lipscomb Lumber
Co, Richmond. Va, and Roper Broth
Evening star., 1936-06-20
SHRINE AND GROTTO
TEAMS MEET FOR CUP
Clark Griffith Trophy at Stake
in Base Ball Game
Today.

Base ball supremacy between the
Shrine and Grotto teams was to be
decided at Griff1th Stadium this after
noon in a game featuring the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home field day.
Mai. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. S. A., re-
tired, was to be the marshal.
The prize for which the two teams
were to vie is the Clark Griffith Cup.
Other features of the field day were
to be tumbling act by the Metropoli-
tan Police Boys Club team and per-
sonal appearance of Nick Altrock ard
Arch Mcdonald. radio sports COM
mentator.
The field day was to be under di-
rection of Robert B. Doing and Mrs.
Myrtle L Davis, under auspices OF
the Masters Association and the
Matrons and Patrons Association.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Dam for Plane Base.

PRINCE ALBERT, Canada Hp.-A
dam across the Saskatchewan River
to insure water depth for SeaplaneS
to alight during the low-level Fall
season is under way here, to cost
SIS 1000.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Traffic
CONNECTIONS
RECKLESS DRIVING.


Edward S. Bartender 201l Eight
zenith street, SIS.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Edward M. Donaldson, Maryland,
$40.
Bedie Anderson. 3OS e street, $40.
Joseph Crawford. Maryland. $40.
Louis E. Goethe, Maryland, $40.
Robert K. Desjardins, Maryland, S..
Joseph Goldsmith. 82S Fourth street
southwest, IS.
De Witt Marbley, Maryland, $40.
Mark A. Wingate, 1854 G street
southeast, $40.
verda j. Mora, 1909 Ninth street,
SIS.
Egbert F. Tingsley, Maryland, IS.
John E. Toole, 1900 K street, IS.
Leo F. Varnam, 1917 Van Buren
street, IS.
David G. Grimes, 1904 Van Buren
street, SIS.
Vito S. Ascosi, 241O Otis street, IS.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

ers' Lumber Co.. Inc, Petersburg, Va.
They were represented by John T.
Money and Spencer T. Money.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Refiectors on Dog Collars.

Light redectors which hang from
dogs collar to warn motorists have
been introduced in Scotland.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Meeting, Rainbow Division Veter-
ans, District Of Columbia chapter,
Duffy Sea Grill, 1903 Fourteenth
street, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

Dinner, Wakefield chapter, Mill
tary Order Of the Purple Heart, New
Colonial Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

Dance, Young Peoples League, Po-
tomac Boat Club, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

Dance. Phi Beta Psi Sorority, Ward
man Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

recently elected to the Town
Council of Takoma Park, Md. Waters
was elected secretary of the aSsocia-
ton last month and acted in that ca
pacitV last night.
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A FAR NJ Err BOY

ONE of the best
known medical
men in the United
States was DR.. r.
v. Pierce of Buff
falo, New York,
who was born on
a farm in Pa. He
noted daily in his
medical career that
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whom? Not even the Poles know,
but France is pledged to support
the Soviet Union against attack
and Poland is pledged to support
France.
Lead To General War
In any case not a single conflict
between two nations in Europe
today can be enviSaged which
does not lead inevitably to a gen.
eral conflagrstion.
Can the initial conflict be
avoided? Some would still say
eyes" But none would dare to
say it with as much assurance as
even two years ago, when Europe
was already alarmed. Within the
last year men under arms in Eu-
rope have been increased by
nearly two. million men; 900
Germans, 100000 Italians, 100000
Frenchmen, and at least 100000
EngliShmen, Poles, AuStrians,
CzechS and men in all the small
countries Of Europe now arming
desperately, not in the hope Of
being able to beat off an enemy
great power, but in the hope Of
holding off the invader until 9
friendly great power comes to the
rescue. ..
The old expressions, armed
camp" race or DEATH" "trem-
bling on the brink" have grown
hackneyed, and America may be
bored with the incesSant cry Of
"Wolf" from the European sheep
fold. But the cry comes from a
continent that is literally numb
with fear. It's poisons pour daily
into the economic blood stream.
It's toxins warp the minds of a
whole generation Of youth. What
are the realities behind this cry
which has become a chorus?
Number Four-Japan'S young
officers" untamed by Tokio'S
civil government, drive so far into
Mongolia that Russia replies with
a blow even Toxic cannot take.
War begins in the Far East. AS
the Soviet forces in Western Rus
STA are gradually depleted to re
inforce the Siberian army and as
Soviet transport and supplies
grow more and more disorganized,
Germany watches with waxing i'm
natience.
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wendell GUARD
TO TELL ALL

NEW YORK, May 4 O.N.SO.
A mysterious witness, now being
held by Brooklyn police, will re-
veal complete details of Ellis
Parker, sr.'s, connection with the
kidnapping Of Paul H. Wendell,
District Attorney Geoghan de-
clared today. He said:
"I'lI give out the witness
name after he talks to the
grand jury. He will testify
early this week-prObably to-
day"
The mystery witness was re-
ported to be one of the three
men who guarded Wendell at the
New Lisbon Home for the Feeble
minded, where he was kept from
the time he confessed" to the
Lindbergh kidnapping until he
was officially arrested in a sur
prise move that delayed Bruno
Richard Hauptmann'S electrocu-
ton.
Murray Bleefeld, who first i'm
plicated the elder Parker in the
kidnapping, is said to have pro.
vided the name of the witness.
Bleefeld is scheduled to go be-
fore the grand jury today and,
according to Geoghan he will &C
cuse Parker of being the "stage
manager" Of the entire abduction
plot against Wendell.
Meanwhile, Geoghan widened
his hunt for Ellis Parker, jr., son
Of the detective. Young Parker
is the only one of the five in
dicted men still at large.
Acting on reports that Parker
was planning to flee the country,
Geoghan sent detectives to Flor
ida and California to warn ship
masters against allowing him to
embark for the Orient or Cuba.
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100000
N0W0NU.S.
PAYROLL

The Federal Government pay
roll army went substantially be-
yond the 800, 900 mark in March.
The Civil Service Commission
records made public yesterday dis
closed that additions in excess of
separations from the service in the
executive departments and agen-
cies during the month totaled
CLOS, bringing the total Of en-
ployes on March 81 to 806,035,
compared with 799.93O on Febru-
airy 20.
Only 66 of the added 6,105 were
in the District Of Columbia. The
other 6,O39 being scattered
throughout the country. There
were 5,126 rated as permanent en-
ployes compared with only 979
on the temporary rolls. In Wash.
ington there were IL permanents
and 81 temporarieS. In the field
service the permanentS numbered
STA and the temporaries Gas.
The figures do not include the
Army and Navy, the legislative es.
Establishment, the judiciary or the
more than 800. 900 enrollees and
administrative personnel Of the
Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Army Status Issue
As Jap Diet Meets

TOKYO. May 4 G.N.S0.-Em,
peror Hirohito of Japan, today
formally opened a special session
of the Diet, during which the
position of the Japanese army is
expected to emerge as a para
mount issue.
The Emperor, in a significant
speech, expressed regret for the
attempted military coup in Febru'
airy and appealed to both civil
ians and the army to cooperate
for the prosperity Of the nation
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P.S. Double Your Money Back,
If you're not pleased

Smoke half a pack of Double
MellOSO Old Colds. If, then, you
don't say it's the finest smoke you
ever tasted, mail us the remaining
ten cigarettes and the wrapper
at any time within 80 days from
date, and Wen send you double
the price you paid for the full
package, plGS postage. Address,
119 West 10th St., New York.
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many Of his prescriptions prepared from roots,
barks, and herbs, such as Golden Medical
Discovery" produced astonishing results.
He early founded Clinic and Hospital in
Buffalo, n. Y Advice by letter is free.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Is
an herbal extract whiGh eliminates poisons
from the intestines and tones up the digestive
system. Pimples and blotches caused by faulty
elimination disappear and you feel the tonic
and strengthening effect of this well tried
medicine. Ask your Druggist nowl Tablets
50 cents, liquid $1O0 and $l.3S.