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Evening star., 1936-03-09
FRENCH DISAPPOINTED
AS EDEN FAVORS STUDY
OF HITLER PEACE OFFER
100000 Armed
In Europe, With
100000 Ready
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoc ated Press.
Europe's five great powers muster
over 100000 men at arms in their
standing armies, survey showed to-
day, backed by second line of re-
serve 100000 strong.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
REVOKE
WALKOUT ORDERS
La Guardla's Proposal for
Arbitration Is Accepted
by Union Leaders.
BACKGROUND

ID ~
New Workers haze been Walking
up and dotgn or running their oDn
elevators during past week, tuhile
building seruice employees and real
ty management dispute issues Of
tDages. hours OF employment and
closed shop.
Seeking to gain permanency Of
,oorking security. employees union
has emphasized closed shop stand,
but determined refusal by manage
ment interests forced deadlock. In
Seuerdl individual cases realty con-
Germs reached agreements ,Uith
union.
Mayor La Guardia and Assistant
Secretary OF Labor McGrady hare
attempted to bring about general
settlement.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
WEATHER.

GU g. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Rain tonight and tomorrow; colder to-
morrow lowest about As degrees; gentle,
shifting winds. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SO, at noon today; lowest, AZ, at 7:l5
am. today. Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1936-03-09

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
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See STRIKE, Page o.
Evening star., 1936-07-24

ervell said 1t apparently was a mes
sage for McMahon's wife.
The first witness. Marie Blencowe.
a barmaid. said Mcmahon came to the
Two Brewers" pub as usual" the
day before the incident apd told her:
Il am going away; you'll never see
me again
John William Remes. an eye-wit-
ness at Constitution Hill, said he first
saw McMahon when the latter asked a
constable to move. He did not see
the revolver.
The first thing l heard" said
Remes. was some one-I think it
was my wife-saying: An insult to
the Kingn l pushed my way through
the crowd and saw the prisoner in
the arms of a policeman. AS they
turned him around l said, You swine!'
and struck him."
Mrs. Lily Yeoman testified she stood
in the front row of spectators, in front
OF Mcmahon.
When the King rode by, she told the
court, "a man pushed forward. pushing
me to one side by spreading his arms.
The prisoner held his arms up above
his head and 1 saw something in his
right hand. 1t was bright, but ]
couldn't see what it was"
She looked at the King, then glanced
about and saw Mcmahon in a STOPPING
position.
Il thought it must be a bomb being
thrown" she said. Then someone
rushed to the left-hand side of the
prisoner and got hold of his left arm.
1 saw an object leaving his right hand.
I followed it with my eyes and saw it
touch the horse"
Whose horse?" asked the prosecu-
tor.
His ma jesty's horse" the witness
replied.
The object" she testified. hit the
horse near the left foreleg and fell to
the ground.
Il could see then it was a revolver" a"
she added L asked a policeman at
my side If 1t was a toy one"
Under ross-examination, the wit
nesseS asserted the revolver seemed
thrown out In an "underhand man.
ner"
Samuel Edward Green. retired
newspaper man, also said he saw the
pistol drop between the horses feet,
but did not actually see Mcmahon
with the weapon.
Throughout the testimony the pris-
oner made copious notes.
Evening star., 1936-07-24

reliable source said took place last
week, had anything to do with Father
Coughlin's subsequent apology and
promise to "obey orders" from the Vat
ican were he silenced, was not dis
closed.
1t was suggested in some quarters
that Bishop Michael Gallagher of De-
troit, Father Coughlin's superior,
might ask Pope Plus to transfer him
from his diocese to spare him further
embarrassment in the controversy.
Prelates, however, expressed The be-
lief the holy father would prefer to
transfer the radio priest himself,
rather than taking any action which
by implication, might reflect on the
aged bishop.
ANY question of transfer or CELL
sure. informed Vatican circles said,
certainly will arise only after posi-
BILE private warning to Father Cough
lin and his refusal to heed it.
The prelateS were declared to be
awaiting with utmost interest Bishop
Gallagher's expected arrival here to-
morrow.
He will be the key witness in an ex-
animation of the radio priests crusad-
ing tactics in the United States, high
American prelate said, adding that
Coughlins recent assertion that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was "a liar" had caused
painful impression" in the Vatican.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
FAINT SOUND CLUE
TO BOMB OUTRAGE
Bride Tells Postal Agents of
Slight Click Before Blast
Killed Mate.

CAPE CHARLES, Va, July "a
Postal inspectors followed a clue OF
sound here today as they sought to
learn why Curry Thomas. wealthy
farmer, was blasted into death by .
parcel post bomb
From her bed in Nassawodox Hos
pital. Mrs. Thomas told Of q clicking
sound she heard like a mouse trap
just before q package her husba nd
started TO open burst. mangling him
and throwing her. wounded, through
the door Of their automobile
fragment of steel entered her side
and one eve was injured
Postal inspectors from Richmond
and Newport News examined the
wrecked automobile yesterday and
picked fragments of ash-like substance
from the shredded, bloodstained up
holstery OF the seat. Early today they
had not identified the substance, but 1t
was believed to have been thrown into
the seat when the bomb burst We'd
nesday night.
Friends and relatives of the couple.
who had been married only a short
while, could give little help. They told
the officers they knew of no one who
might have wished Thomas death.
Mrs. Thomas told Clayton King of
Cape Charles. en- route to the hospital
after the blast, that the package had
carried the name IF. C. Thomas,
Richmond. Va" in the space ordi-
narily used for a return address. John
Willis. postal clerk. who gave Mrs.
Thomas the package about PIN.
Wednesday. said it was wrapped m
plain paper, was about nine inches
square and Of average weight" He
said he did not notice the postmark.
Other postal workers said the parcel
post was not mailed from Cape
Charles. A. P. Disparoon, q clerk.
said he believed 1t arrived in the earIy
morning mail, and Postmaster Thomas
Nottingham said it would have been
possible for the package to have come
from anywhere in the East II 1t ar
rived on the morning train from
the North.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
RETIRED POLICEMAN.
J. T. KENNEDY, DIES
Former Giant of Force Was Ma
tive of Virginia and Served
80 Years.

John Thomas Kennedy. IS. once
the biggest policeman on the District
force, died yesterday after a long ILL
ness at his home, 4709 Georgia ave-
nue..
Mr.. Kennedy. who had received a
number of concentrations prior to
his retirement, was feet inches tall
and weighed about 295 pounds. A ma
tive of Virginia, he was appointed to
the force in July. 1893, and retired in
October, 1928
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Belle
F. Kennedy; two sons, Frank A. and
j. Thomas Kennedy, jr.; brother,
George B. Kennedy, this city, and a
sister, Mrs. Eli Delano, Warsaw. Va.
He also leaves five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at IL
am. tomorrow at his late residence.
Burial will be in the Ebenezer Church
Cemetery, Oldham, Va.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
'MURDERED' WOMAN
BELIEVED IN WEST
Relative Says She Received Post
Card From Mrs. Rose
in Kansas.

Search for Mrs. Mary Rose, whose
body her husband, Eugene Rose, ZIG
Twelfth place northeast, claimed to
have buried on the bank of the Poto-
mac after he drowned her. turned to
Kansas today.
A sister, -in-law of Rose, Miss Mabel
Leahy, 1888 M street. told police she
had received postcard from Mrs.
Rose last week postmarked Hutchins,
Kans, saying she was travelling and
IN good health.
Meanwhile, Rose, who was brought
back here yesterday from Danville,
Va, where the police chief said he
had confessed" the murder of his
wife was in Gallinger Hospital Po-
lice said he was suffering from the
effects of drugs.
Inspector Bernard w. Thompson,
chief of detectives, said Rose repudi-
ated his confession" stating he did
not remember making it, and if he
had, it was under the influence of
drugs. The last time Rose saw his
wife, according to the inspector, was
when she visited him in Gallinger
Hospital about eight months ago.
Just to clear this thing up" In
wife, was in Gallinger Hospital. Po-
spector Thompson said, I'VE are going
TO try to locate Mrs. Rose out in Kan
try to locate Mrs. Rose out in Kan
sas. We are pretty we'll convinced
there was no murder"
Whether or not any action will be
taken against Rose, Thompson de-
clined to state.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
SLAYER'S ARREST
.! PROMISED TODAY
AsheviIle Sheriff Insists So
luton of Girls Murder
Is Near.
Yy the Associated Press.


ASHEVILLE, N. c., July "a
Sheriff Laurence E. Brown reiterated
today he expected to arrest "at any
moment now" the man he suspects as
the slayer of Helen Clevenger, 49,
year-old New York University student
found dead in her hotel room eight
days ago.
Brown made it plain the suspect is
not one of the three persons detained
for questioning, but declined to discuss
the identity Of the person he believes
was the actual killer-"a particular
person known to me-"
The sheriff admitted, however, he
would have to question the suspect be-
fore preferring formal charges.
Brown promised Wednesday night
he would seize the man within 48
hours" That would place the arrest
by O'Clock tonight, and today Brown
said: "Ill stick by the pm. dead
line"
Girls Uncle Returning.
Brown said Prof w. L. Clevenger,
64-year -old uncle of the slain girl,
was expected to return to Asheville to-
day to aid in the investigation. eleven
ger went to Ohio to attend his niece''s
funeral.
His work as dairy specialist at North
Carolina State College in Raleigh takes
him on frequent tours of the State, and
his niece was accompanying him on
one of these trips when she was slain.
The three still detained in the in
vestigation are: Mark Wollner, con-
cert violinist; Daniel Gaddy, 2S-year-
old hotel night watchman, and L. D.
Roddy. IS. Negro bellhop,
The sheriff released Miss Mildred
Ward, 19-year-old daughter of Woll-
ner's landlady, who corroborated the
musicians statement he was at home
the night of the assault-slaying.
Told Straight Story"
Il became convinced she had finally
told me a straight story the sheriff
said.
Miss Ward told newspapermen after
ward she had stuck to her original
statement
The sheriff declined to say why he
continued to hold the three others. He
questioned Gaddy again last night and
announced afterward: "Gaddy's men,
ory is getting much better"
Evening star., 1936-07-24

ever. testified there was a woman in
a blue dress at the scene, who did not
touch the mans arm.
The formal charge against Nc
Mahon was producing a revolver
with intent to alarm his majesty"
Attorney General Sir Donald Som
ervell. in charge of the prosecution,
quoted the prisoner as telling the po-
lice: Il wanted to shoot myself in
front of the King, but I lost my
head"
Said Sir Donald: THE first offense
with which this man is charged is with
presenting near the person of his
majesty a revolver with intent to
break the public peace; the second
with producing a revolver near the
person of his majesty with intent to
alarm his majesty"
These charges, he said. were in
addition to that of being in possession
of revolver with intent to endanger
life.
Limps Into Court.
Mcmahon, bald-headed and club
footed, limped into court from side
door, accompanied by a policeman
He was wearing dark brown suit.
Judge Sir Rollo Graham Campbell
told him: You can sit down if you
like"
The attorney general said the pris-
oner had told the police, Il wish had
done the job properly: that he also
had said, Il could easily have shot
him." and that subsequently he had
said, cit would have been better if 1
had shot myself"
Somervell credited Constable Dick
with knocking the revolver from Nc
Mahon's hand.
He said that as the King reached a
point about 20 yards from Mcmahon,
Dick saw the prisoner raise his arm
with something in his hand. He
stated Dick knocked the prisoners arm
and an object left his hand and
Travelled some distance into the middle
or near the middle of the road; the OBJ
ject was revolver"
Reviewing the events of July Is,
Somervell stated mounted policeman
stopped his horse in front of McMa-
hon as the King approached. He said
Mcmahon shouted: Take your damn
horse away. 1 want to see the pro-
ceSsion!"
The policeman turned his horse to
face the procession as 1t came through
the arch on Constitution Hill.
Afterward. he said, Mcmahon was
seen to write on a newspaper. The
paper later was picked up and the
message was: May I love you?" Som
Evening star., 1936-07-24

You mustn't 60 about abandoning
vegetables. garbage, dead animals,
ders, paper or refuse matter of any
kind. Kindling any combustible upon
sidewalks or roadways in an attempt
to evade this regulation is also a
violation Of the District CODE
The use of your own garbage can
or incinerator. or public trash con-
tainerS Is insisted upon by the city
fathers, apparently.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
SATISFIED TO DIE

CHICAGO. July "a (P.-Facing q
death sentence for the murder of her
husband. Mrs. Mildred Mary Bolton,
As, told Criminal Court Judge Robert
c. O'Connell yesterday she was salts
Ned with the verdict
"A new trial would only be q repe-
tition of the other" she said.
Nevertheless, Judge O'Connell con-
tinued her counsels motion for q new
trial to August 3. The widow was
convicted by jury of staying her
broker husband, Joseph, during q
quarrel in his Loop office June Is.
Evening star., 1936-07-24

Continued From First Page)
shall be only too happy to sccede to
the request and obey orders"
The speech in which he referred
to the President as a liar" and as
Franklin Double crossing Roosevelt"
was made at the recent national con-
vention of the Townsend organiza-
tion in Cleveland.
Gracious, Says Townsend.
Informed of the apology. DR.. Fran
els E. Townsend said it was the
gracious thing to do: I think more
of him for it" Father Coughlin, he
said, let the word slip in the heat of
a speech and 1T should not be held
too harshly against him"
Father Coughlin said that he ap-
pesred at the Townsend convention
at the request of DR.. Townsend ano
another man whom he did not
identify.
They said Jim Farley's man. Conner
Smith, was disrupting the convention
and that could be of great service in
nullifying his attempts" the priest
said. Il went to try to keep Dr. Town
sends following behind him"
There, in a speech he said was ex-
temporaneous, he declared:
''AS far as the National Union is
concerned. no candidate Endorsed for
Congress can campaign, go electioneer-
ing for. or support the great betrayer
and liar Franklin D. Roosevelt, he
who promised to drive the money
changers from the temple and sue
ceeded in driving the farmers from
their homeSteads and the citizens from
their homes in the cities"
In his open letter OF apology. Father
Coughlin said his reference was not
to promises made by the President to
him. but to "the recorded promises
held out to Nation during 1882 by
candidate for the presidency. I had
in mind the noble inaugural address
delivered by that candidate-elect. and
had in mind an oath of office to uphold
the Constitution OF the United States"
He recalled that President Roosevelt,
in an address on May IA, 1885. used
the word Lying" in referring to critics
Of his farm program and said that
the President of the United States has
not pussyfooted when attacking either
those with whom he is in disagree
ment or his political enemies"
II wish to state for the record"
the open letter said in conclusion,
that my remarks and criticisms de-
livered in Cleveland were directed
at a candidate for the greatest politi-
cal ONCE within the gift of the people"
SPECULATION AROUSED.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
Sun Hatches Goslings.

LEBANON, Ohio (P.-Lew Stibbs,
farmer, revised the story Of the goose
that laid the golden egg. He said it
was so hot two weeks ago that q
goose on his farm abandoned a nest
of nine eggs on which she had been
sitting. He said later he found eight
newly matched goslings in the nest.
He thinks the sun did 1t.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
DON'T
"Thou Shalt Nots" for
Capitals Citizens.

TOSSING a cigaret stub to the
sidewalk, or a newspaper into the
street is against the law in Wash
ington.
1t is very likely none has been
fined the maximum OF $500 levied
for infractions of the regulation in
volving only cigarettes, but it might
happen.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
MAY DRAIN POND
|NTERR0R|ST QUIZ
Police Consider Move After
Alleged Black Legion
Victim Is Found.
pArKCPOUND

BACKGROUND
Last Spring a young husband at
Detroit was fatally beaten by
mob, Which accused him o. cruelty
to his iUite. The iDite denied her
husband had been cruel and police
Investigations OF the case disclosed
the existence -ot ni0ht-riding
band of terrorists known as the
BLACK Legion" Almost score
OF its members iDere taken into Gus
tody. Several admitted night rides.
beatings and other forms OF intim-
idation. Investigations repealed
other deaths traceable to the Black
Legion.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 24-Authorities
studied today the advisability of
draining a pond near Pinckney. Mich,
where the body of one alleged Black
Legion victim was found, in their
search for further evidence against
masked and hooded members of the
terroristic band.
An assertion attributed to Harvey
Davis, Black Legion colonel" that
that Sinkhole could tell plenty II 1t
could talk" spurred them In their
search.
Prosecutor Duncan c. McCrea said
Dayton Dean. confessed Black Legion
"executioner," told him of the re-
mark and that James Roy Torrance,
one Of five. including Davis. who are
accused by Dean of the thrill Staying
of Silas Coleman. 42-year- -old colored
hod carrier, corroborated the story.
Colemans body was found q year
ago in the swamp. Deans recent
statement offered the first explana-
tion of his death.
Police took Dean to the marsh yes
tfrday. There he pointed out the
spots where events in his narrative of
the hod carriers slaying-which he
said members of the legion perpetrated
lust for the hell of it"-occurred.
Detective Sergt Jack Harvill of the
Detroit police homicide squad accom-
panied Dean as the confessed killer OF
Charles A. Poole. who died when the
legion rode on May II. helped the
State prepare its case against the five
men accused in the Coleman case.
Sergt. Harvill, who said he was with
Dean continuously. denied widely cir
culated report that Dean told officers
seven bodies would be found in the lake
if II should be drained
The five accused in Coleman's death
are awaiting q preliminary hearing
next Tuesday. They are Davis, Lor-
ance, Erwin D. Lee, Charles Rouse and
John Bannerman.
Dean has pleaded guilty to the fatal
shooting of Poole.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
SPECULATION AROUSED.

VATICAN CITY, July "a ga
trans Atlantic telephone conversation
between Father Charles 4. Coughlin
and Vatican officials aroused speculs-
ton today among prelates who ac-
knowledged that the radio priests
liar" attack on President Roosevelt
had created a painful impression"
here.
Whether the conversation. which q
Evening star., 1936-07-24
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Coughlin

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-07-24
KINGS ASSA|LANT.
GETS CONTINUANCE.
Remanded to Jail After
Counsel Says Mcmahon
Wished to Call Witnesses.
BACKGROUND

BACK kGRUUNU-
Returning from formal guard
mount at Hyde Park on July is,
King Eduard ayaS threatened by
pistol in the hands OF George
Andrew Mcmahon, q retormer. A
mysterious ",ooman in gray" is said
to hare knocked the ,Ue1pon from
the mans hand. TWo constables
also Uere credited With the act
Mcmahon, arrested and hustled
of to jail, insisted his act ,Dds only
a protest and that he meant no
harm to the King.
Evening star., 1936-07-24
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Evening star., 1936-07-24

Whether the conversation which q
Evening star., 1936-07-24

poG-Brown. white throat and paws.
National 2S2H
The Washington times., 1936-02-26

the rebellion was engineered by
young officers who demanded
more resolute action in China and
against Russia, it was understood
Three thousand soldiers Of the
Third Infantry regiment of the
First Army division, stationed up
to today in Tokyo, staged the dar'
ing revolt under the leadership OF
one Captain Nonak. when they
were ordered to Manchuria for ser
vice on the Russian border.
The regiment was actually on
its way to the station to entrain
for Manchukuo at dawn when
the troops broke loose and rushed
to strategic points in the heart
Of the metropolis, the reports in
dicated.
Without meeting with any Sc
rious resistance at first, they
seized the war office. the home
office, police headquarters, the
ministry of justice and ministry
Of the interior.
Other Of Japan'S famous men
repeatedly killed were Baron Con
Suke Hayashi, privy counsellor
and former ambassador to Great
Britain: Seihin Ikeda, head of
the gigantic Mitsui industrial and
banking interests, who is one of