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Evening star., 1936-07-10
MADNESS BLAMED
IN DEATHS Of NINE
Heat, Jealousy Held Causes
of insane Staying That
Wipes Out Family.
Ey the Associated Press


INDIANA HARBOR. Ind, July 10.
A sudden furry Of madness. caused,
police said. by jealousy. i'll health and
the excessive heat. caused Celestino
?. Gonzalez. Sc. to kill his wife. his
six children and a roomer and then
commit suicide here Yesterday.
Plans went forward today for a for
mai verdict by the Lake County cor
oner in the mass deaths and for the
burial of the victims.
Gonzalez, a Mexican. killed Jose
Aro, the rOomer. at the Inland Steel
Co. plant. and then committed sui
eide. When police went 10 the Con-
zalez home they found the wife and
the six children dead-their skulls
split open by an ak.
Mrs. Gonzalez was 33 years old.
The children we're: Juana, l6 Elena,
Is; Genaro. IL; Celestino. jr, II;
Philip, 8, and Jose, 7.
They apparently had been killed as
they slept early yesterday morning.
The bodies we're found on pallets on
the floor which they had fixed in an
effort to find relief from the extreme
heat.
A neighbor said she heard a boys
scream shortly before I o'clock yes
terday morning, but forgot it when
she heard no further cries.
Police said Gonzalez had been in
i'll health recently and apparently had
become jealous of Aro. Aro was killed
in the locker room at the steel plant,
where he worked,
Evening star., 1936-07-10
President FaUOrs
Restoration of
5 NaraL Vessels
Constitution Is One That
You'd Be Berthed
Here as Shrines.
~ the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt has recommend
ed that five naval vessels having his
torical and patriotic tradition" be
restored in so far as practical and
berthed together here as national
shrines.
The suggestion appeared today in a
letter written by the President 10
Representative Cochran, Democrat, of
Missouri, which the Missourian insert
ed in the Congressional Record.
In his letter. the President said he
had given the matter considera bic
thought and had come to the conclu-
sion that the Constitution. Constella-
ton, Hartford Olympia anG America
should be restored. in so far as prac-
ticsl. to their original condition and
berthed together in the District
and maintained as historical naval
relics for the inspection and inspira-
ton Of all the people Of the United
States who wish 10 visit such vessels" "
He suggested that such work and
expense be spread over period Of four
years" and added that lit is difficult
to select any one of these vessels as
having a better claim to preferential
treatment than the others
Evening star., 1936-07-10

as Siberia. Tigers inhabit Southern
Siberia, Persia, Java, parts of China
and Japan.
In India alone the tiger is said to
kill for meat at least 600 natives
yearly. The taste of human flesh
spoils a tiger for other diets. and he
often takes up his abode in some
swamp near a village almost helpless
against his forays. He also levies
heavy tribute on herds of cattle and
pigs.
The tiger is good swimmer, and
usually prefers the vegetation-grown
banks of a stream as hunting ground,
although he is found on grassy plains
and sometimes in deep forests. He
often ambushes his prey from hiding
beside a watering place.
In addition to the big bengal, the
Zoo has other tigers, two Of which
came from Siberia.
The Siberian variety has long, soft
fur OF a lighter color than his more
sorgeously-marked fellows Of the
tropics.
Even old Zoo fans are sometimes
surprised to learn that tigers live in
SUBJ -Artic climates of ice and snow.
Tomorrow: Bungo, the hippo
Nth mouth like cellar door. Uho
once dined on q whole nest OF
Easter eggs.
Evening star., 1936-07-10

the name of his most distinguished
fellow Texan. In vaudeville it breeds
a laugh when the second half of the
sketch makes the wrong answers, but
politics is something else again. Can
it be that Uncle Jack Garner has be-
come the Oracle Allen of his sex? Only
they do let Oracle talk!
A writer who isn't taking sides won
ders at length whether the homespun,
suspender- wearing qualities Of Gov.
Landon can overbalance the melodious
and limpid lines of President Roose.
yelt. For this problem the appropriate
musical accompaniment would seem
TO be Poet and Peasant"
@ .s Otherwise, for the moment, all is
comparatively quiet on both the East
ern and Western fronts. Il
tcbpyrigtt. 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1936-07-10
MILLER Will NOT
APPEAL VERDICT
Conviction in Threat Case Is
First Here Under Lind
bergh Law.

No appeal will be taken from the
guilty verdict returned late yesterday
by District Court jury in the trial
of Jesse j. Miller, 22-year-old bearded
Thurmont. Md, man, who was the
first person convicted here under the
so.cailed Lindbergh law his attorney,
Fred j. IcenhoWer, said today.
The jury Of three women and nine
men deliberated only five minutes, an
unusually short time for a case In
volving so serious an offense.
Miller was charged with sending an
extortion note to Mrs. Stephen NICK
Farrand, wife Of Justice Department
attorney, threatening to kill their
young son.
Sentence probably will be imposed
! Monday. The maximum penalty is
four to 20 years imprisonment and
$4,000 line.
Unmoved at Verdict.
Miller, who sat through the day
long trial without change Of expires
sion. received the verdict unmoved
His attorney had staked his hope ot
+ saving the youth from prison on an
insanity defense which was contra
dicted. however, by a Government
psychiatrist, DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert Of
Gallinger Hospital. who described Mil
Ter as middle or high grade moron"
but able to distinguish right from
wrong
He said the defendant was feeble
minded and of an unstable disposi-
ton. belonging to that class known
as defective delinquents" At both
times he examined Miller in the Dis
trict Jail, the defendant apparently
! feiened insanity, DR.. Gilbert declared,
explaining that Miller refused 10 tell
him anything about either himself or
his family.
Members Of Family Testify.
Only members of Millers family
we're put on the witness stand to sub-
stantiate the insanity claim. Orvllle
Miller. his brother, said Jesse had
wandered over the country for num-
Der of years. His mother, Mrs. Ella
MllIeI. IcSII1Icu tIdt JIIc uOy uNIl
act altogether right" and would
laugh sort of silly" when he was cor
/ rected.
| Asked where Jesse's home was, his
aunt, Mrs. Rosie Miller. responded
ANY place in the bushes" She eX-
planned that he lived In the woods
never worked and refused to asso-
ciate with other young people.
Letter Received July 8.
| The letter written by Miller TO Mrs
Farrand was received by her June 9
at her Chevy Chase residence, BOIL
/ Gates road. She Immediately turned
it over to the Department Of Justice.
! 1t directed that she send 5000 10
Orville Miller at Blue Mountain, Md.
Orville was questioned by Justice
Department agents. who exonerated
/ him of any completely in the plot
| In his argument to the jury, Icen-
/ mower made much of the fact that
! Jesse gave his brothers correct name
| and address This. he said, was not
| the action of a sane man.
Evening star., 1936-07-10

He knew how to conduct himself on
a beach. He would proceed with great
caution to the very edge of the water,
stick tiny foot out in challenge and
then as a wave even started in his
direction scamper back up on dry
sand At the end OF long after
noon of scampering, mother took him
home.
He was heard to murmur proudly as
he went, THE water hasn't touched
me yet. mamma"
X x
NICE KITTY.
The young lady Uho brought the
black kitten home from the grocers
in bag, has had numerous phone
calls since the story appeared in
this column.
Some haze called up to inquire
II the cat has brought her good or
bad luck, names hdve been sug-
gested, and offers of adoption
made
The ddpice she has taken came
from q friend, Uho reminded her
that feline nature is Daridble and
inconstGnt, and that q kitten upon
which euery benefit has been be-
Stowed, has been kno,Dn to Dalk out
on its benetactor. SO she has re-
turned the cat to the gunner.
"
MONUMENT.
THAT story which you may have
heard about the existence Of Sec
ond Washington Monument. which
stands in brick-lined well capped by
an iron man-hole in the immediate
vicinity of the world-famous obelisk
is entirely without foundation, accord
ing to o. c. Simmons, custodian of the
Washington Monument.
The tale goes that the 12.foot
sunken shaft was the architects work.
ing-model intended to be preserved
but through error had been erected
below the grade-line indicated in the
plans and therefore necessitated the
building Of the brick well to protect
it from the 40-foot filling.
Says Mr.. Simmons: Actually, this
l2-foot sunken shaft Is an engineers
bench h-mark-scientifically erected for
use as constant-point from which
to take accurate measurements by the
surveyors transit. This smaller obe-
lisk, which resembles the WASHINGTON
Monument in design, is to be found
beneath the nan-hole cap of the
brick-lined well within a short dis
tance from the base of the monument.
It Is located on the south side Of the
circle about 10 feet over in the
grass"
Evening star., 1936-07-10
VIRGINIA DRINKERS
TO HEAR CURFEW
A. B. C. Board Will Prohibit
EarIy.Morning Sale Of
Wine and Beer.
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, July 1o.-The
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board, under powers granted 1t by
the last General Assembly. today Is
sued curfew regulations forbidding
the sale Of VINE and beer between
am. and S am. III the Summer, and
am. and 5 am In the Winter, and
after midnight Saturday.
The regulations, which will become
effective July 40. will affect $500 re-
tail licensees, not all Of whom, how
ever. are in the custom Of running
all-night places.
The Summer hours will be in effect
from May IS to September IS, and the
restricted Winter hours will apply the
eight other months Of the year.
Stops Migratory Tipplers.
The regulations, aimed at migratory
tipplers who drink from place to place
in the early morning hours, also for
bid the consumption Of beer in public
places after the curfew hours. They
do not affect home consumption OF
beer and wine, other than that the
purchase Of 1t must not be made
within the curfew hours.
The board said licensees would be
held responsible for seeing that their
tables we're cleared Of all alcoholic
beverages when the curfew hour ar
rived.
The extra Summer hour was added
in difference to vacationists and the
general population. which usually
keeps later hours in Summer than In
Winter.
The regulations will not affect the
am. curfew already decreed In
Portsmouth and Norfolk, nor will they
affect Alexandria and Arlington
County until the closing hour there Is
moved back in September Alexan-
dria and Arlington licensees now halt
sales at 2 am, to coincide with the
District of Columbia curfew.
Local Authority.
The board SAID 1t felt that. in is
suing the regulations, it was Civ.
ing local authorities full power tc
cope with local situations in regard
to night "nuisances" Such regula.
tions could not be issued until the
board was given authority by the AS.
sembly to control 80 per cent beer, a,
we'll as beer of higher potency.
No regulations we're issued to hall
the sale of beer and wine on Sun.
days, it was said, because the Stat,
board did not feel that its contro
Of licenses governed that point. Any
action on the part of a communit,
| to stop beer and wine sales on Sun.
day would have to be taken through
the general blue" laws, it was said
Board members said they could moi
take away what they could not give
the right to sell beer and wine or
Sunday. The decision in that matte,
would rest upon local constructions
OF the law as to work OF necessity"
The early-morning prohibition viii
hit night clubs. all-night restaurants
and beer gardens the hardest.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
G. LOGAN PAYNE, go
ONCE D. c. MAN, DIES
Former Publisher Of Times and
Founder Of Advertising Firm
Expires in California.

by the Associated Press.
Logan Payne. so. wner-publisher Of
the San Jose News. died today at his
Los Gatos home.
Payne was a native of Washington,
Iowa. He purchased the San Jose
News in 1927 from H. L. Baggerly.
Prior to that time he was publisher of
the Washington ID. c. Times. and
was founder of the @. Logan Payne
Co.. an Eastern newspaper advertising
representative firm.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mary Payne, and two sons, Robert,
circulation manager of the San Joes
News. and George H. Pawne, assistant
publisher.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Students Help Build Church.

Brethren of the Community of the
Resurrection in Mirfeld, England,
have started to erect a modern COM
munity church in their grounds, They
are being assisted by students of their
college. Early Cistercian simplicity is
the keynote of the project, with a
great nave, a sacristy with a rose
window, an aisle and a crypt under
the nave. There also will be galleries
and chapels and eventually a tower
with large dome.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
SMART COPS.

WHO ever said these dumb cops?"
w A glance at the grades made
by the graduates Of the last police
school class shows an average of 90.87
per cent, while they had to make only
10 to pass. The lowest grade made
was 851s and the highest 9616.
Out of the last class of 10, II quail
fed as pistol experts and the remain
ing five as sharpshooters. This was
the highest average IL craftsmanship
ever made in any police school class
here.
The course is easy, say you?
Well, it only includes u single spaced
pages on criminal evidence. study of
the District and United States codes
for the District. city geography, police
regulations. report writing, first aid,
athletic training and miscellaneous.
Lieut.. Walter H. Thomas is chief
instructor.
\ X Y
BATHER.
A YOUNGSTER, aged perhaps 3,
was cavorting on Ocean City s
beach on the Fourth, with considerable
disdain for the silly people who were
getting wet in all that water.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Mire Yields Antique.

SUPERIOR. Wis. (R.-Frank Meyer
wasn't happy when his automobile
became mired in the red clay along
the Nemadji River. He was later.
though. He got q shovel and started
to dig out. The shovel struck some
thing metallic. Out Of the clay he
pulled chain. He took it to q jewell
er who said 1t was antique, made OF
gold and Of . type worn In the
seventeenth century.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
MOTORISTS WARNED
TO WATCH CHILDREN
Rules to Guide Drivers Passing
School Grounds Issued by
Motor Club.

Five rules for guidance of motorists
while passing school grounds, many
of which are used as Fairgrounds dur
ing the Summer, were issued today by
the District Motor Club Of the Amer
ican Automobile Association.
Motorists were urged to have their
cars under complete control when
approaching children; never to pass
q school at q fast rate of speed; to
use their horns when seeing children
about to cross the street, never to as
sumo that child will stop. and to as
sumo that every child on the street is
looking to the motorist for protection.
During the months when schools
are in session safety patrols are pres
ent to protect the children. but dur
ing the Summer the patrols are not
on duty and special precaution must
be taken by the car owners to avoid
accidents, officials of the club ex-
planned
Evening star., 1936-07-10


wart friends began going over to the opposition.
It was from the editorial page Of the World
Herald that William Jennings Bryan went to the
Chicago convention to make his famous cross
of-gold speech. In recent editorial, the Omaha
paper deplores MIR. Roosevelts war upon the
existing economic order. It makes the emphatic
declaration: This newspaper believes the Amer
ican system is not so desperately sick that it
Is necessary to replace it with an order alien to
our traditions"
As the weeks 60 by there will be a great
rallying Of those who still believe that the
American system Is better than any other that
has yet been devised.
Copyright. 1e36)
Evening star., 1936-07-10
BACKED FOR GOVERNOR
NICE KITTY.

MILWAUKEE,, July 10 R.-The
Republican State Convention yester-
day selected Alexander Wiley, Chip
pewa Falls attorney, as its indorsed
candidate for Governor. Wiley won
on the second ballot after he and
julius P. He'll, Milwaukee manufac-
t,rer, ran q close race in the first
ballot with neither getting Q ma aiority.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Join World Labor Unit.

MEXICO CITY, July 10 P,.-The
Confederation Of Workers of Mexico,
this country's largest labor organiza-
ton. announced last night it had
affiliated with the Interna tionai Syn
dical Federation, which has head
quarters at Amsterdam, effective yes
terday,
Evening star., 1936-07-10

not getting ready
to run for any
thing. At least he
wasn't up until
1880 pm. New
York standard
daylight savings
time). Later re-
ports may change
this. He likes run
ming second.
Organizing the
speaking bureau
for the Demo-
Gratis, Chairman
Rayburn does not
list amongst the
- \, ~ A~a&A~~
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
HEADSTONE.
.HERE is a strange tombstone In

THERE is a strange tombstone In
a little Virginia graveyard
along the back road from Will
Il liamsburg to Washington,
which probably expresses more love
end sacrifice than q costly monolith.
The graveyard is just collection
Of pathetic little mounds. most OF
them with wooden headboards, and
faded flowers. But one mound has nc
stone at head or foot. Instead in the
center of this grave. there is placed
the cover of china vegetable dish
its shiny white surface festooned with
painted roses and its handle brave ir
gilt.
There is no name. Just this tribute
EXPLAINED.
A stunning young girl, and con-
Siderably less than stunning escort,
climbed on t,Do stools at an uptoDn
drug store fountain couple OF
cocktail hours ago.
An aspirin and uater, please"
said the man.
1t WaS served and the escort
pushed the glass and the tablet
oDer to the girl.
One for you. too?" the clerk.
asked the man.
NO" said the escort. "I'm her
headache She does not affect me
the same uny"
X
DEPRESSION.
"NfOTHER. where will I be Wher
N the 17-year locusts come again?'
asked a small Washington boy.
Evening star., 1936-07-10

ao WOuiu pun IeCA
wv Especially those of q
great bengal like Danger,
one of the Zoos finest.
Yet the natives of the East Indies
would face almost anything Except
the rightful owner for set Of tigers
whiskers.
They are supposed to ward off evil
in a land where misfortune strikes
swiftly. The brown men of the deep,
equatorial jungles are superstitious
about a beast which sometimes holds
the power OF life and death over q
whole village.
inexperienced white hunters are apt
to find their finest pelts bereft OF
whiskers in q mysterious manner.
They vanish like the hairs Of an ele-
plants tail, to which African natives
attribute supernatural power.
Nevertheless, Danger left Sumatra
In 1892 with his whiskers intact. Or
perhaps they hadn't grown then, since
he was only Is months old.
Danger, the great bengal, is one OF
the biggest and most highly y-devel-
oped types of the cat family.
His ancestors are native to India
and certain islands of the East In
dies. Other types range az far north
Evening star., 1936-07-10
- WEARS. HuH

Il don't know. my dear" answered
his mother.
We'll, I will be 81 years old then"
continued the lad. "and I guess I'll
be looking for a Job like all the other
boys"
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Irwin s. Cobb
Says:
Everything Is Compare.
lively Quiet ON Polit.
ical Fronts.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, July 10
On the Republican side there tempo
rarily is lull. Incredible though it
sounds Col Theodore Roosevelt, jr., is
Evening star., 1936-07-10
The National Scene
BY ALICE LONGWORTH

ME Omaha World Herald turning from half centuys mill
tant support Of Democratic party to fight for the
ddacy Gov Landon of the severest of the
Evening star., 1936-07-10
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, JR.

w YHO would pull tigers
whiskers?
Wv Especially those Of q
great bengal like Danger,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
MONTANA LIBEL LAWS WILL BE TRIED OUT

Of Montana will be the OF the eoncon
filthy methods used in the recent primary Libel SUITS
forth will place responsibility it hoped for
campaign SANDER that reminded of the Henze Clark
days
More than 100000 expended the recent campaign IN the
governorhp reliably informed Any who
knows what it publish newspapers and dis
tribute every in the state has pretty good idea
what the Yet these items do not show the
expense filed required by law There might be another
antcimax growing from this fact.
candidate is suing the of
weekly branded this candidate the who drove
automobile sensational lynchng Butte The
wears old at the ynchng This directed against
who leased the to elect friendly
to the state insurance law.
said be directed against the editor
Falls weekly who 12O headlines that
a candidate for governor robbed bank.
Probably viii be collected of these libel suits
give people of the satisfaction know
that get by with mhds such employed in the last
primary will prove refreshing find that have
adequate for the situation hand obvang the
geston that there ought to be law
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
The Farmer Who diversified"

business men. The misfit farmer and
the misfit business man are relegated
to the same limbo.
We happened to know of one farmer
who was getting by while all his
neighbors were moving out or appeal
ing for charity. He told us how he
does it. While he was getting good
crops, he did not continue to "spread
out, =" he said His neighbors kept
acquiring more land, buying more ma
chinery and planting larger crops
each year, always keeping a little be-
yond their means. He, on the other
hand, concluded that the adage of
all eggs in one basket applies to wheat
farming as we'll He got himself some
cows and pigs and chickens and he
did a little diversified farming. Fur
thermore he SET aside some funds for
investment. That is how we happened
to know him. He dabbled little in
royalties
81 thank you that you got me out
Of a bad place. he said. Pressed for
an explanation he said: eff it wasn't
for the little bit that is coming in
from our royalties, we would be in
bad shape. AS it is, we are going to
get by all right. You know it doesn't
take much cash to keep us going, but
we do have to buy some clothing and
some groceries, Well tide over until
we can get another crop and we viii
be all right.
We were well pleased with what he
said, for he had complained frequently
when pro-ration had cut his royalty
earnings and he had never seemed
contented with. his investments, pre-
viously. When we returned to the
office we looked up his account, and
figured his royalty income It wasn't
much: it was exactly one dollar and
sixty-nine cents per day!
That ism t much of an income. 1t is
hardly worth mentioning, but to this
man it was LIFESAVER 1t meant
the difference between dependence on
a governmental agency and indepen-
dence. We never realized that $1.69
per day could mean so much to a man.
There are many of his neighbors
who wish today that in the balmy
days of the wheat business they had
diverted some of their profits into
some other line of investments, not
ably oil royalties. The oil business
may be bad, but as long as auto
mobiles continue to burn gasoline,
there will always be a market for
SOME oil AS time goes on, there
SHOULD be a growing scarcity of Oil
which viii make more valuable any
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-08-15
RAILS AWAKE TO
TRUCK CONF ETITION
REGAINING TONNAGE

Railroads of the country are re-
gaining lost tonnage, against the
invasion of trucks in the oil in
dustry, according to r. t. Musser,
representative of the General Ameri-
can Tank company, who was wish
tor here last week from Los Ange-
les.
Railroads allowed trucks to make
tremendous inroads on their BUSH
ness before they made any efforts
to meet the threat. he says. Now
they are beginning to make ratee
that compete with the trucks. and
they are rapidly regaining a pro-
fitable tonnage.
Lacking statistics. he would make
no estimate OF the ratio OF lost
tonnage regained by the railroads
but in California and the west
coast in particular the railroads
have regained fully 90 per cent Of
the business from trucks which
formerly hauled crude oil and re-
fined products.