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Evening star., 1936-07-31
.LANDON STUDIES
HOUSE PROSPECTS
Confers With Representa-
tive Bolton and Congrat-
uIateS Col. Knox.
Nv Tic Associated Press.

By ttt Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans, July 31.-The pos
sible political division of the United
States House of Representatives was
canvaSsed today by Gov. ALI M
Landon.
Flying to q luncheon conference
with the Republican presidential NOM
inee was Representative Chester C.
Bolton of Ohio, chairman Of the Re-
publican Congressional Campaign
Committee.
Flies From Chicago.
Bolton attended the notification of
Col. Frank Knox, vice presidential
nominee, in Chicago last night and
hastened here to discuss campaign
strategy, especially relating to the
winning q majority of House seats
from the Democrats in November.
Gov. Iandon, after listening to the
broadcast of Col. Knox's acceptance
speech, telegraphed his running mate:
MY earnest congratulations upon
your eloquent address Of acceptance.
1t is . comprehensive survey of the
grave problems which challenge us.
Its strong conclusions are justified by
the review it phrases of the past three
and a half years. In my judgment
the American people will accept it as
added proof Of your spirit and your
craftsmanship and as loyal pledge
OF your high service"
Comparatively Light Day.
The Governors program today, &
yesterday, was comparatively light.
He received q report from State
Treasurer j. j. Rhodes that the Kan
sas treasury had closed its fiscal year
with an unencumbered cash balance of
S1,575, ,507 in the general revenue
fund, as compared with $1,007,40 q
year ago.
Rhodes reported general revenue ex-
penditures were s7.700.e27. as COM
pared with s7,e3e,341 for the previous
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
CORPORATIONS SHOW
HUGE REFINANCING
Securities Commission Reports
$2,664, ,s47, 900 Registrations
First Half of Year.
ey ihe Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
Huge refinancing of corporate in
debtedneSS during the first half OF
this year to obtain lower interest rates
was disclosed yesterday in Securities
Commission report.
Registration statements for securi-
ties totaling S2,664, ,947 900 became ef-
fective during the six-months period
the commission said, more than qua
drupling the 1856, ,339, 900 figure for the
1885 period, but less than per cent
was for new equipment.
The figures did not include securi-
ties registered in connection with ex-
change plans for companies in reor-
ganization, or issues of voting trust
certificates and certificates of deposit.
Manufacturing companies led in
registrations, with $l,O26, 6,291 900, or
S8.5 per cent of the total This, the
commission said, largely reflected
financing by the iron and steel and the
oil refining industries.
Utility companies, which had the
largest registrations in the first half
of 1885, were second for the period
this year, with $S41, ,421 900, or 31.e
per cent.
The commission said the main use''
of funds derived from the securities
issues in the 1885 period was the re-
tirement OF debt and preferred stock.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

IT you imagine" said q cynical
lieutenant on the other side Of the
field, that yon captain is throwing q
f1t out of humane sympathy, brotherly
love or anything thereto related, you're
nuts.
Those antics are inspired by the
fact that f1ve minutes before this
muddy battle began the colonel bor-
rowed the captains polo pants"
SINGER.
A TINY pickaninny in q starchy
n white dress and patent-leather
shoes goes dancing and skipping
through Farragut Square each morn
ing during the rush hour, singing to
employees on their way to work In the
big Federal buildings nearby:
GOOD morning to you,
Good morning to you.
Good morning, dear workers,
Good morning to you"
The dear workers" bestow many
pennies on the child. They wonder
II the stunt is her own idea.
Il X
BARRIER.
DARK officials have roped or a
little triangle out at Tenth street
and Massachusetts, avenue, where
they hope to grow grass. The rope
is startling, being hawser-like in its
proportions and strong enough to
keep an elephant of the seeded plot.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

and lived in Washington until his
death. when she returned to her ma
tive city. Her father is an of1cial OF
the Edison Electric Co.
A graduate OF the Boston Normal
School, Mrs. Schall met her present
husband when he was under treatment
by DR.. Coupal for injuries received in
an automobile accident in 1880. Young
Schall was entering the United States
Naval Academy for his third year
when his injuries forced him to resign.
Since he received a degree from
Georgetown Law School. where he led
his class, In June, 1885, Schall has been
practicing here. The couple, who said
their marriage by a justice of the peace
was mot an elopement, since our
families knew oil about it," will move
to Minneapolis, the Senator's native
city. within few days to establish a
permanent home there. Schall said he
planned to continue his law practice
with q view to entering politics.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
WINFIELD SPRAGG, 81,
DIES IN ATLANTIC CITY
District Residents Funeral Serv-
ices to Be Held in West
Virginia.

Winfield H. sprsgg, 81. of 1928
Twenty-second street. retired business
man, died yesterday in Atlantic City
N. J., Of a heart attack, according to
word received here.
Mr.. sprasg for number Of years
operated coal mines in West Virginia,
He owned considerable real estate in
this city, besides having other invest
ments here.
Mr.. sprase left Washington, ac-
companied by his wife, Mrs. era
Ogden spragg, Tuesday for a stay in
Atlantic City. Mrs. Spragg Is q
sister Of H. C.. Ogden Of wheeling,
w. Va, large newspaper owner In
that State.
Besides his wife, Mr.. Spragg leaves
q niece, Mrs. George K. Nutting. this
city, wife of Or. Nutting. Mr.. Sprasg
was q native of Waynesburg, Pa.
The funeral services end burial were
scheduled to be held In Fairmont,
w. Va.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Star STAFF Photo.

The local estate, which has been for
sale for six months, was not sold yes
terday, since sufficiently high bids were
not offered. Personal furnishings
brought about $1,000. Mrs. Schall, ST.,
declared she would not sell the prop
erty. including a 13-room residence. a
lodge, stable and swimming pool, for
an inadequate price"
The auction was held, the Senator's
widow explained, because I'VE want
to 60 back to Minnesota where we
have other property TO administer" :"
Recently defeated in the Republican
prims ries for the senatorial nomina-
ton in Minnesota, she will be active
in the presidential campaign, she de-
clared. Her other son, Richard, "a,
and her l6-year-old daughter, Padgett
Anne, who have been here since the
Senator was killed by an automobile
on Bladensburg road near Colmar
Manor in December, will return 70
Minneapolis with her.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

Today, the lawyer was out Of town
and no one at his ONCE could DO any.
thing about the case.
Durig and his family would have
been allowed to stay had the rent
been paid today, according to Deputy
Marshal Fitzgerald.
The owners directed us to 60
ahead with our diSpossession papers.
which is in regular order" Fitzgerald
said.
The marshals drove up to the resi-
dence with two city policemen and
reported that Durig became almost
violent.
He Strode forward to a bust of
Huey Long, which rested on a stand
in the front hall, the officers said. He
picked it up, looked at 1t and ex.
claimed:
"Huey Long ought to be here. Long
ought to be here
Mrs. Durig was under An obviously
great nervous strain as she rested be-
hind curtains on a couch in the parlor.
Two colored porters proceeded with
removal Of the family's personal be-
longings Durig had rented the house
furnished.
The sculptor has been teaching art
classes at the University of virginia
Summer School.
Durig, the modeler OF b,Ists and
statues Of such hesdliners as President
AMI Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Herbert
Hoover and Cardinal Fumisoni- Biondi.
created q sensation June 30, 1888.
when he smashed all his work within
reach rather than let it be taken from
mis- apartment by marshals who came
then for the same reason they came
today-to dispossess him for rental
arrears.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
L0VERIDGE THANKS
JUDGE FOR 80 YEARS
Slayer of Miss Jessie Posey in
Southeast Section Last May
Pleads Guilty

Pleading guilty to second degree
murder, Carl Loveridge, 2s-year- -old
taxicab driver, was sentenced yesterday
by Justice Oscar r. Luhring of Dis.
trict Court to 30 years in prison. The
defendant thanked the Judge for the
sentence. He could have been i'm
prisoned for life.
Loveridge was indicted for first-de-
gree murder in the Staying of Miss
Jessie Posey, "a, in front of her home
at 244 Ninth street southeast May 1.
Jealousy is said to have impelled
Loveridge to shoot her as she sat in
his cab.
A not-guilty plea to the first degree
charge had been entered by the cab
driver, but at the request of his at
torney, Joseph Kelley, he was allowed
to withdraw the plea and admit he
was guilty of second-degree murder.
Loveridge told police he had been
drinking heavily since he had quar-
relied with another man over the
girls affections.
The other man told police he had
driven Miss Posey home just before
the shooting, but left after letting her
out in front OF the house.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
REPORT MADE BY r. B.L
Microscopic Analysis Made for Ashe.
willie, N. c. Police,

Microscopic Analysis Made for Ashe.
willie, N. C. Police.
A secret report on d microscopic
analysis of some mysterious evidence
examined by scientific experts OF the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation was
in the hauds Of Asheville IN. c. DO
lice today, as they weighed a new
clue in the Staying of Helen Clev-
enger.
The evidence, subjected to an in.
tensive scientific study in the F. 3. I.
technical laboratory yesterday, was re-
ported to include several strands OF
hair found in the hotel room OF the
murdered New York University stu-
dent.
j. Edgar Hoover. director OF the
bureau, declined to discuss the nature
Of the evidence submitted to his men
for examination or to disclose their
findings.
He said the examination was COM
pleted yesterday afternoon and an
official report turned over to three
Asheville detectives who brought the
articles to Washington.
This is not Federal case" Hoover
explained. 1t is local crime, in the
hands of the North Carolina author
tiles. We have no agents inveStigat-
ing the murder, but we were glad to
cooperate with the police by tender
ing them the services of our experts
and equipment in the laboratory. Our
work had been completed"
Three Leave of AsheviIle.
The detectives, Robert Patton, James
DAYTON and Vincent Bradley, left for
Asheville Immediately after receiving
the report Of the laboratory experts.
Asheville police had been quoted by
the Associated Press as declaring the
evidence sent to Washington might
break" the case, il the findings were
OF certain nature.
Evening star., 1936-07-31


that some of the regulations are dras-
tic, unreasonable and capricious, and
as q result thereof are largely re-
sponsible for the high cost OF milk in
this milk shed, without tending in any
way to protect the public health.
THE Commissioners desire to OBJ
tain the view of the present health
off1cer as to the reasonableness of the
present regulations and their effect on
this market, both as to price and
quality.
1.-THE health officer is requested to
review the regulations now in existence
and to report rs soon as practicable il
the existing regulations, or any OF
them, appear drastic, unreasonable,
capricious or do not have the effect Of
preserving or tending to preserve the
public health, and if so, to recommend
to the Commissioners wherein said
regulations could be changed in order
to make the said regulations more
equitable, just and reasonable"
Evening star., 1936-07-31
July Sno,ostOrn,
OUer NetU Jersey
Sighted by Airliner
Ship Finds Route From
Chicago So Cold Heat
Is Turned On.
ny ne Associated Press.

ny ASSOCldbCo ETcSs
NEW YORK, July 31.-The Trans
continental & Western Airways told
today Of q July snowstorm over
New Jersey, encountered by an air.
liner swooping TO y landing at New
ark. N. J.
The ship, the Sky Ranger, made it,
run from Chicago in weather % cold
it was necessary to turn on the planes
heating apparatus, the lines ofnces
said.
Pilot and passengers reported that
frost covered the windows at the
12,ooo-foot level over Newark and, as
the plane eased downward, they
sighted q dense snowstorm swirling
between two layers Of clouds to the
northward.
The line attributed the storm and
chill to a cold mass" Of air lying over
the Eastern United States.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Bv a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

Bv q STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
~ ERWIN HEIGHTS. Md, July
K 31.-The marriage Of Thomas
- d. schall, tr., 2s-year- -old son
Of the late blind Senator
from Minnesota. and Mrs. Martha
Lillian Wilfert Coupal, widow Of DR..
J. r. Coupal, White House physician
during the Coolidge administration,
was revealed here late yesterday dur
ing the auction sale Of the Schall
estate.
Rumors OF the matrimony. which
eliminated four-year friendship
with o wedding in Carmody, VT. July
ID, had been prevalent, but the couple
gave persistent denials until yester-
day.
Mrs. Schall, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Wilfert of Boston,
was widowed by the death Of DR..
Coupal, Army colonel, in January,
1885. She married the officer in 1915
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Loss Of @,OOO,0DO
BY TRUST |SBARED|
Investment Firm Failed to
Get Stock in Abortive
Transaction.
ey thC Associated Press.

~ tAiS AS90SAakCu EACSos
A story of an abortive stock trans
action, from which the purchasers
were said to have emerged without
either the stock or $4,000, 900 they had
paid to Standard OIL OF New Jersey on
account, was on record today with
the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion.
Continuing its investigation of in
vestment trusts, the commission yes
terday heard from Hunter 8. Marston,
former president of Bancamerica.
Blair Corp, the account Of the I'LL
fated deal in which Interstate Equities
Corp. of New York participated.
Formed by Bancamerica Blair.
Interstate, an investment trust, was
organized by Bancamerica- Blair, an
investment banking firm. The COM
mission has been studying relation
ships between the two companies.
In 1880, said David Schenker, COM
mission counsel, Bancamerica- Blair
made a series of agreements for the
purchase OF 1,076,000 shares Of Tide
water Associated Oil Co. common stock
at about $2l q share, or o total OF
$23, 3,ooo, 900.
The purchases were to be made
from Standard Oil of New Jersey
through Mission Securities, Ltd,
Schenker said, and were to be
financed by a syndicate headed by
Bancamerica- Blair. Payment was TO
be made in three equal installments,
but neither Mission Securities nor the
syndicate were to receive any Of the
stock until the entire commitment
had been met.
The initial installment OF more than
$1,000, 900 was paid on the principal,
plus an interest payment, which
brought the total to s8,25o, 900, Mars
ton testified. OF this, Interstate had
put up 100000.
Tidewater Price Tobogganed.
BY 1882, correspondence introduced
by Schenker showed. the market price
OF Tidewater Associated OIL common
had tobogganed to $2.25 q share, and
no dividends were being paid.
At this point, r. l.. Crawford, Sec
retary of Mission Securities, wrote to
Standard Oil Of New Jersey request
ing q three-year moratorium on pay
ments under the agreement, pointing
out that the original principal INSTALL
ment of more than 81 900 900 was more
than three times the market value OF
the stock In 1882.
This request was refused, and Will
liam F. Humphrey. Mission Securities
attorney, then asked that the pur-
chase contract be Cancelled and the
90, ,250. 900 payment returned.
He made this request, Humphrey
said in letter to Bancamerica- Blair,
because the purchasers had received
no benef1t from the contract and the
seller had suffered no loss"
But 8. B. Hunt, vice president OF
Standard Oil Of New Jersey, was
quoted by Humphrey as saying that
his board Of directors would not con-
slider returning any part of the con-
sideration."
"It was then urged" Humphrey
wrote, that the very least the COM
pany should do in satisfaction Of the
contract would be to deliver shares
Of common stock in the Tdewater As
sociated Oil Co. at the per share con-
tract price to the full amount Of the
payment made"
This also was refused, and Schen-
ker said Bancamerica- Blair and its
associates abandoned the deal and
chalked up an Ss,250, 900 loss.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
ENTIRE AMENT ESTATE
BEQUEATHED TO WIDOW
Will of Late President Of Ma
tional Park Seminary Ad-
mitted to Probate.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 3l.-Mrs.
Teresa Catharine Ament, widow Of
the testator, receives the entire estate
Of James E. Ament, for many years
head Of National Park Seminary,
Forest Glen, by the terms of his will
which has been admitted to probate
In Orphans Court here.
The instrument, executed June 8,
1921, names Mrs. Ament executrix but
does not indicate the value Of the
estate.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
SOUGHT IN SLAYING

Los Angeles Cafe Operators Wife
Found Shot.
LOS ANGELES, July 81 (P1.-Poltce
widened q search today for wellington
McCaudless, cafe operator, whose 2S-
year-old bride, Vanthelis, was found
shot to death in their apartment yes.
terday.
Discovery OF the womAr's bullets
pierced nude body came six weeks
after her elopement to Yuma, Ariz,
to climax a transcontinental bus trip
romance.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
POSTAGE.

Postmaster General James A..
Farley pays postage on his political
mail. Also, he foots the bill for
correspondence toriDarded en- bloc
from his oDices here to his head
quarters in Ne,o York. Every after
noon q heavy parcel is dispatched
from the Benjamin franklin Sta
tion. 1t goes frst-class, and the
,Drapper is literally couered with
stamps.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

p or t land (Me.)
Evening N e W S
and turning it
into a powerful
New Deal ally
during the ex-
pected b i t t e r
fight for Names
presidential elec-
toral votes.
B a X t e>r, who
once was manag-
Ing editor o. the
Washington Post
and president OF
the N a tion n a !
P r e S S Clu b,
io;rar3 tho ma
Evening star., 1936-07-31
Washington
Waysiide
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
DIR. TURKEL.

y vENRY TURKEL works In a
- Washington parking lot. He
dresses as o man who works
/ Il in a parking lot Is supposed
to dress-sweater and all that. But
when he hands you his card 1t has
this on it: Henry Turkel, M. D." He
can practice medicine If he wants to
do so. He is graduate Of Ohio State
University and q graduate of the Medi-
cal School of the University of Michi-
gan with degree In anatomy. He
has not made up his mind to practice
medicine. He may devote his tlife TO
medical research. There would be
more money, perhaps, in the practice
of medicine. He thinks money Is i'm
portant, but he does not think 1t is
the most important thing in the world
He knows a lot about parking lots,
too. He has been working in park
ing lot in Washington for the last
five years during the Summers. You
may think a parking lot is just a
parking lot. But he says parking lots
lend themselves to identification. The
parking lot in which he works has a
concrete floor and attractive signs.
He is proud of this parking lot;
almost as proud as he Is Of his diplo-
mas.
STORY'S END.
Edt0fna Hombleton, the little girl
Uho thought pay station telephones
1Uere human enough to make
change, lDiu find that the tele-
phone company itself is that
human.
Its officials read the story here
the other day about hoU EdwinG
sat Daitino TOR her change When
she deposited q quarter for q S.
cent call; iDditino With calm and
beautiful faith that made the other
children tDho Dere iDith her at the
time laugh Dery hard.
The telephone company did not
laugh. 1t liked Edwina and her
faith and it has sent her 20 cents.
NO SYMPATHY.
SPECTATORS at a polo match at
Fort Myer the other day gasped
when a pony slipped, fell, tossed a
lieutenant colonel on the muddy turf.
They were also alarmed to see young
captain in fun uniform jumping up
and down on the sidelines as If the
sight had given him the leaping filters,
anguished angina and other pains too
numerous to mention.
Evening star., 1936-07-31

and t00s riding IN the London pro-
cession tOheH q revoluer clattered
at the feet OF his horse. Andrew
McMahon UGs seised I'm the croiDd,
and great excitement tollowed az
reports spread that attempt had
been made to dssdssfnate the King.
ss the Associated Press
LONDON, July 3l.-George Andrew
Mcmahon was committed for criminal
trial today on three charges after he
had sobbinsly testified at q Bow Street
Police Court hearing that he "slith-
cred" q revolver at King Edward on
Constitution Hill two weeks ago.
Weeping in the witness box, the
prisoner testified he had planned to
shoot himself but, instead, decided to
toss his revolver in the roadway in q
protest against wrongful imprison-
ment."
Biting his lips to suppress his emo
tion, Mcmahon drew his clenched fist
across his eyes as he related the
"aeonies" he had suffered as q result
Of the unjust" imprisonment on q
criminal libel charge, later quashed.
Il had been brooding on the subject
for many months and in my weakness
gave way to drink" he gasped.
II experienced the tortures OF q
damned SOUL"
To BE Tried In Autumn.
Mcmahon will be tried at Old
Bailey in the Autumn.
The three charges on which he was
committed are:
l. Presenting near the person OF
his majesty q revolver with intent to
break the public peace"
2. Producing q revolver near the
person OF his majesty with intent to
alarm his majesty"
,. Being in possession OF o re-
volver with intent to endanger life"
Speaking with q distinct Scottish
accent, the crippled prisoner told the
court how he stood in the crowd watt
ing for the King to ride by last
July Is.
Il saw all the people happy and
content" he declared. Then re-
membered had hardly the price OF
meal.
Il thought: What is the good of
hving?' l was going to shoot myself.
"Then I saw how distracted my wife
would be.
The thought suddenly struck me
that If I could only draw the Kings
attention to the wrongs I imagined
had been meted out to me, at least,
he would not allow his subjects to be
so treated"
Mcmahon always had carried q re-
volver for his own safety, he ex-
planned.
Il remembered about the gun" he
went on.
Il stopped down.
'I waited for a few moments and
when the King was approaching ]
threw the gun"
It clattered at the feet Of the
monarchs horse,
Did you ever point Il at any one?"
asked Alfred Kerstein, McMahons
solicitor.
Definitely not!" replied the pris-
oner.
Did you intend your revolver to
hit anything or any one?"
mol"
"How did you throw it?"
Il stopped and slithered IL along the
road"
Previous Protest to King.
Previously, Mcmahon had testified
he protested to both King Edward and
his father, the late King George,
against unjust imprisonment" follow
ing his arrest and conviction on a
charge of criminal libel. The convic-
ton later was quashed.
He denied he had threatened either
monarch or any one else and said he
had attempted to take no ones life.
A lengthy letter to the late King
George. read into the record. appealed
"for a full inquiry into the disgraceful
treatment of one of your subjects"
Mcmahon said the arrest resulted in
two letters he had written to Scotland
Yard. relating to the conduct OF two
detective sersesnts.
Evening star., 1936-07-31
CLEvENGER "CLUE"
PROVES USELESS
Hairs Found on Towel Do
Not Match Those of Man
Held for Quiz.
BY tht Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. c., July 3f.-Chief
OF Police w. j. Everett announced TO.
day the secret clue" in the Helen Gle
venger case sent to the P. B. /. in
Washington for analysis was several
hairs from a mans head found on a
towel" In the girls hotel bath room.
but that they did not match hair of
d. H. Grady, hotel night watchman,
held for investigation In the killing.
Everett said, however, the strands
still were important "in the event We
take in suspect" in the mysterious
Staying Of the 1S-year-old New York
University honor student.
Detective Capt. Fred Jones had said
the clue either would crack the case
or won't amount to hill Of beans"
The wisps of hair we're taken to ths
Federal Bureau of Investigation by
three city detectives.
Meanwhile, Sheriff Laurence y.
Brown, who is conducting a separate
investigation, continued to hold Gaddy
for questioning.
REPORT MADE BY F.B.L