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his time travelling, but lived mostly
here and at his home in Cincinnati,
Ohio. He had been here for several
days and had spent the night sleep
ing on desk in a downtown Office
just before he was picked up by agents
of the Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton. He said he was asked to go to
the F. B. I, and went voluntarily.
FarnsWorth's arrest followed
long vigil by naval intelligence officers
and agents of the Department of JUS
tice. His every move for many months
has been carefully watched. officials
indicated.
The identity of the Japanese naval
officer to whom Farnsworth allegedly
sold the document on May IS, 1895,
was being carefully guarded. AS
sistant United States Attorney Robb
intimated, however, his name is
known to American naval authorities.
He was said to have left this country.
however. Officials were doubtful if
charges could be placed against him
under existing statutes.
Farnsworth, who was dismissed
from the Navy in 1927 for conduct
tending to impair the morals of the
service" is allaged to have held at
least one meeting in Washington
with the Japanese officer.
Robb said Farnsworth in recent
years had divided his time between
Washington and st. Louis, Mo, being
kept under surveillance in both
places.
The complaint attached to the war
rant alleged specifically that Farms
worth on May Is, 1885. did. with in
tent and reason to believe that the
same was to be used to the injury of
the United States and to the advan-
tage of certain foreign nation, COM
municate. deliver and transmit to an
ofhcer and agent of the imperial jap
anese navy a certain document and
writing relating to the national de-
fense-to wit, a certain book entitled
The Service of Information and Sc
curity, confidential publication Of
the United States Navy"
Questioned After Arrest.
It is understood Farnsworth was
held during the night at headquarters
OF the Federal Bureau of Investigation
at the Department of Justice, where
he was questioned until late this
morning.
The United States code section un-
der which the dismissed naval officer
was charged fixes penalty upon con-
viction of mot more than 20 years
Imprisonment" for "unlawfully dis
closing information affecting the ma
tional defense"
In time of war the offense is pun
ishable by death.
State Department officials said the
affair probably would not be brought
to the attention of the Japanese gov
ernment through diplomatic channels.
Farnsworth graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1915 and served
two years of duty afterward. The
Naval Academy year book of 1915 said
of him:
His daring and reckless conduct
has been the utter despair Of the
executive department during his four
year sojourn."
j. Edgar Hoover, chief Of the Justice
Departments Bureau of Investigation,
said Farnsworth's activities were not
connected with those of Harry Thomas
Thompson, sentenced on July 3 to
serve Is years Imprisonment after con-
viction in Los Angeles of selling conf
DENTAL feet data to a japanese agent.
Born in Illinois on August Is, 1898,
Farnsworth was appointed to the
academy In 1911. E..
In the Autumn of 1927 he was tried
by a general court-martial at the
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business. only one of whom, john, is
now living.
OF the 10 indictments returned.
four charge conspiracy to defraud
and one alleged a general conspiracy
by all six persons named. The gen.
eral conspiracy indictment charged SO
overt acts in a continuous conspiracy
from 1918 to 1882.
Other indictments charged:
Attempt to defeat and evade the
payment of income taxes.
Aiding and advising, counseling
and procuring, in the preparation
and presentation of false income tax
returns.
Conspiracy to aid, counsel and pro-
cure. prepare and present false tax
returns.
Tons of Records Seized.
Federal agents said that in the
course of their inquiry they seized
tons of circus records and files. They
said the conspiracy was perpetrated
principally by filing false claims for
depreciation. some of which. they
added, were inflated the same as
some statements made on circus bill
boards"
They said that one time an inven-
tory of Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers Circus as carried on the
books for depreciation purposes was
found to be 100 per cent fictitious
These shows were absorbed by the
Ringlings.
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"Daring, Reckless,'' Said Naral
Yearbook of Farns,v0rt1, w is

charge guessing that time and almost
slipped through for another touch
down.
Aside from these escapades. In
which there was little really wrong,
Johns career has been filled with the
usual round of pleasure and enjoy
ment He is fusser in a qualified
sense and can pour tea with the best
of them.
He is SAWYER than his class stand
ing would indicate. but his knowl-
edge expresses itself in ways other
than by the usual recitation room
route. His diagram Of curves for
range corrections is a notable ex-
ample of original thinking. Thence
the name 'Mayevskie'
His multiple has suffered princi-
pally from his preference for areu-
ment over merely receiving a good
mark"
The quotation from poetry beside
the picture of Farnsworth in the year.
book was from Milton
He can, know, but doubt TO think
he will
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FarnsWOrth
Continued From First Page.)

Farnsworth conversed with reporters.
The Department of Justice agents
stood quietly among newspaper men
until after the arraignment. There
was no oral testimony of any kind.
Farnsworth told reporters after the
brief hearing that he knew nothing
of any confidential papers. but that
some papers relating to naval mat
tiers had been stolen from his home
in Chevy Chase, Md. while he was
living there about year ago. The
charge, he said, is "a lot of hooey."
He said that, as nearly as he could
remember, the theft occurred last
July. but that the papers stolen, while
they we're official Navy documents.
were his personal property and had
been obsolete for many years.
He admitted having shown the
documents to several persons, and
declared the theft took place shortly
afterward. He denied they were OF
a confidential nature.
Farnsworth also admitted having
dealt with the Chinese and Japanese
governments regarding naval aVlallon
matters and said he had submitted
plans of his own to the Chinese gov
ernment relative to its military air
forces, with the understanding he
would receive a commission in the
Chinese Army to put them into effect.
The negotiations fell through and he
later made a proposition to the jap
anese government of a similar nature,
he said
At intervals during the last several
years, Farnsworth said, he had been
a representative of the United Amer
lean Bosch Co. and in that capacity
had dealings with the Japanese gov
ernment. He said he was not repre-
senting that company at the present
time.
Farnsworth said he spent much of
Evening star., 1936-07-14
AIRPORT FUND DENIED

SOMERSET, Pa, July II R.-The
City Council refused to appropriate
$4,000 for the purchase of an airport
site, where w. P. A. and Department
of Commerce officials promised the
Government would spend $167, 900 Civ
ing 200 men employment for 10
months.
The councilmen gave no reason for
their action. They previously had re-
fused to appropriate $4,000 for the
same purpose.
Government officials say a modern
airport is badly needed in this section
of the Allegheny Mountains.
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By the Associated Press.

BY tne hSSOCl2tcO IIesS.
Calling John S. Farnsworth by
nickname "Themer" - the Naval
Academy year book for 1918 said:
Had he lived in the days of the
old Navy l doubt not that he would
have been famous for desperate deeds
and hairbreadth escapes.
His daring and reckless conduct
has been the utter despair of the exec
utive department during his little four
year sojourn at the academy. Young
ster year a smoking pap sent Johnny
for his first cruise on the Reina
Mercedes. which punishment had Just
been revived by the new administra-
ton
Since then. his career has been
checkered with periods of sea duty"
Among all of his wild deeds. one in
particular stands out alone and above
Who has not heard of the mid
night ride of Paul Revere and the
equally daring midnight raid of
Johnny Farnsworth, or the mystery
Of the missing pap sheets?'
He had the o. C's, (officer In
Evening star., 1936-07-14
SUPERIOR EDITING
HELD RADIO NEED
Swing Tells Affairs Institute
Present System Is Danger
to Democracy.
By the Associated Press.

6y lhe A6SOClkLeQ eTebS
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July IA.
Raymond Gram Swing former edi-
tor of The Nation, told the Institute
Of Public Affairs today that the radio
may destroy American democracy un-
less its programs are better edited
from commercialism.
The radio presents public affairs
In such a muddle of confusion that
listeners are unable to cope with the
flood of material" while another dam
ger lies in the sale of radio time for
political purposes" he said.
Swing, radio commentator on
American affairs fer the British
Broadcasting Corp. and commentator
on European affairs for the Columbia
Broadcasting Corps School of the
Air spoke on Public Opinion in a
Democracy"
Political Problem "Thorny."
The present method of handling
public affairs. he said, leads listeners
to conclude that they are too diff
cult to think through"
Sale of radio time for political pur-
poses is a 'thorny problem" Swing
declared.
But the principle that radio COM
panies may derive revenue from SELL
ing political time is fundamentally re-
pugnant to democracy. for it limits
the radio to political interests which
10 for the time and
that at once makes ability to pay the
test of time"
He expressed sympathy for broad
casting companies. which give their
time free of charge three years, but
which cannot afford to do so on elec-
ton year. when so much more time
Is demanded.
Cease to Be Democratic.
The truth remains he added,
that the moment broadcasters sell
time for political purposes, they cease
to be democratic. If newspapers were
to cease publishing political news un-
less they were subsidized by politl-
eal parties. they, too. would cease to
be democratic institutions"
: Lambdin Kay. general manager OF
Station WSB of the Atlanta Journal
voiced the opinion that the American
system of broadcasting merited ever
lasting credit for patriotically. mill
family and intelligently plugging along
in the public interest, convenience
and necessity, despite the tempting
material rewards for abuse of this
power beckoning at every hand"
Radio has brought a new type OF
political convention into being. Swing
asserted.
Conventions Not Deliberative.
= "The political conventions of this
year were not deliberative. They were
not representative bodies, made up Of
chosen persons who met together tc
discuss choices and then to make
them. They were nothing but gigan.
tic studios for broadcasters, with the
delegates acting as supers. yelling
their heads off to provide that great
counterfeit for enthusiasm called
hoise.
There ought to have been discus
sion at Cleveland, for one of the ma
ior parties was going through the
confusion and perpleXity of changing
leadership and modifying control. But
it wasn't done because you mustn't
debate on the air. you must hide diff
ference of opinion and make the mil
aions believe the party is united"
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THE WEATHER

/: District of Columbia-Mostly cloudy
and warmer, possibly local thunder
showers tonight; tomorrow generally
fair; cooler tomorrow afternoon or
night; moderate southwest shifting
to north winds
. Maryland - Mostly cloudy and
slightly warmer; possibly local thun-
der showers tonight; tomorrow gen.
orally fair. except local thunder show
ers in extreme West portion; cooler
tomorrow afternoon and night.
Virginia-Scattered thunder show
ers probable tonight and tomorrow;
warmer tonight. cooler tomorrow aft
srnoon and night.
West Internationally fair to-
night and tomorrow, except scattered
thunder showers tomorrow afternoon:
continued warm, except not quite so
warm in North portion tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac cloudy, Shenandoah clear
today
Evening star., 1936-07-14
TWO RED PARADES
ARE HELD IN PARIS
"People's Front" Victory Is
Celebrated on BastiIle
Anniversary.
sY thu Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 1.-two red parades
swarmed through Paris today as
France celebrated the anniversary Of
the fall Of the Bastille in 1889.
The marchers we're celebrating not
only the revolution which overthrew
the monarchy, but also the victory OF
the Peoples Front" in the elections
six weeks ago.
Police and mobile guards, watchfrl
lest the celebrations develop into riots
with Nationalists, broke up series Of
petty clashes.
Mobile guards we're called for brief
actions In Barbecue and Lille.
In the capital the Peoples Front
professions converged on the Bastille
following great army parade through
the length of the city. The soldiers
were reviewed by President Lebrun
and. for the first time in history.
Socialist premier, Leon Blum.
Masses Of Red Flags Wave.
In the civilian professions masses Of
red flags. with the Communist hamme-
and sickle emblem in the center and
tricolor patches on one corner, waved
above the marchers heads.
Men. women and children swung
along together.
Truckloads of Communist children
joined with their elders in singing the
"Internationale" and shouting ''Soviets
everywhere!"
Red predominated in the costume,
many marchers wearing red hats, red
shirts and red skirts.
Many of the women had decorated
their dresses with three arrows, the
symbol Of the Peoples Front.
Communist cells (units) carried
banners with the names of the fac
tories in which their members work.
Over most of the routes of march
few policemen were to be seen. Their
main forces remained out of sight,
while 10000 carefully selected mem
bers of the Leftist party kept their
marching forces orderly.
Paraders Estimated at 100000.
The total number Of paraders was
unofficially estimated at more than
O.000.
As they passed a stand where
chorus of 800 voices sang revolutionary
songs, the marchers saluted huge pic
lures of the famous Leftists. Voltaire,
Rousseau and Jaures
They also saluted pictures of Rouget
de Lisle. composer of the "Marsail-
laisc, and of Eugene POTTER, composer
of the "Internationale.
Police estimated the crowds had
svelled to 100000 when Premier Blum,
accompanied by his wife and an off,
clal party, mounted the speakers
tribune in the Place de la Bastille.
Followers of the Peoples Front gov
ernment-including Socialists, Radi-
cal Socialists and Communists -
masSed into two huge marching COL
umns in the factory suburbs.
Thousands cheered the annual mill
tary parade which preceded the politi-
cal celebration and filled the area
around the Arch of Triumph with
martial display Of tanks and field
guns.
Shouting, pushing crowds thronged
the boulevard as the parade progressed.
"Hurray for Blum! Hurray for the
Peoples 'FRONT.'" shouted the Leftists.
"Hurray for the Army of France
for the French!" shouted back Ma
tionalists.
A few scufies occurred along the
route but mobile guards lining the
avenue shoulder to shoulder prevented
an outbreak of disorders.
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FISH RAIN REPORTED
Waterspout Believed to Have
Scooped Fish From Sea.

MEXICO CITY, July IA P).-A
dispatch to the newspaper El Grafico
said today 1t rained fish in Aqua Cali
ente. The brief prevailed, the news
papers correspondent reported, that
waterspout had scooped the fish
from the sea, carrying them over the
town, where they we're released dur
ing a heavy rain yesterday. Prices
dropped with the unexpected supply Of
sea food, the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1936-07-14
FORMER U. S. EMPLOYE.
Rabner Resigned Internal Revenue
Post in 1926.


Post In 1926.
Nathaniel Rabner was employed as
an auditor in the income tax unit of
the Internal Revenue Bureau from
March IL, 1919. to August Is, 1926,
when he resigned voluntarily He is
listed as an accountant today with Of
fees in the National Press Building.
He lives at 7009 Wisconsin avenue.
Bethesda, Md
Rabner himself could not be located.
His secretary said he left today for
two-week trip.
Evening star., 1936-07-14
Cuban Minister Approved.

HAVANA, July IA P.-The Senate
approved yesterday the nomination Of
Count Nicolas Del Riyero as Cuban
Minister to Austria and the Vatican
City.
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years. 1t is generally recognized that activity
during July and August is largely a matter of
marking time until the weather cools of and
politics warm up.
One argument is that even if the conventions
were held at date nearer election it would only
mean a longer pre-convention fight. Another is
that 1t would give a great advantage to
President in office. who was seeking a second
term. He would have the opportunity to tour the
country before the opposition had selected its
standard bearer.
On the other hand, it would be difficult to
campaign with sustained fervor without def
,,;.. .dvsrsarv and nroerano N attach
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composition, where the Sands of the
Desert Roll" which had been serviced
for a local stenographer, Miss Alma
Becker, Isl G street northeast. to her
expressed satisfaction. Miss Becker
paid $50 for the assistance.
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AUTO LAUNDRY.


The picture OF WdShingtonians
washino and polishing their cars
along the banks OF the stream in
Rock Creek Park is one that q
uisitino New Yorker wiH not soon
forget.
On driue through the park
the other day he looked on pith
the deepest interest at citizens rub
bing and waring at their cars.
His eventual comment. his
Washington host figured. ,Uould be
something uorth remembering. He
thinks noW that it ,UdS:
Il think" said the uisitor, that
you have here the most beautiful
auto laundry in the world."
x
ALA RECHERCHE.
HARKING back year or two it
= might be recalled that this torrid
spell is mot so hot" as illustrated by
the following incidents:
Some two years ago, when the
United States Weather Bureau kiosk
was standing in the park across from
the National Theater the thermome-
ter began to climb to record break
ing heights one Summer day. Of
fcially the instrument was limited to
Ito degrees and when it reached l0e
degrees a crowd gathered. many hope
full and others expectant, that wher
the limit of 110 degrees was exceeded
there would be an explosion. The
mercury climbed to LOT. 1903, but when
it hit 109 degrees a thundershowel
came along and the records and the
thermometer remained intact.
In hot period few years ago the
heat was intense enough to start the
automatic fire extinguisher in the
show window of a downtown depart
ment store.
CAMERA MEN.
These telloDS lrho snap a candid
camera at you Uher you are wdlk-
ing along the streets and then
hand you a card so you cun order
picture are fast workers.
They take several hundred pic
lures q day. Eight or nine side
palk camera men" are uorkirg in
Washington.
One OF them told US there Uere
ttUo riDdl companies in the field.
Sometimes man Uorking for one
company and the employe OF an
other talk together in friendly
manner-traternize in the trenches.
so to speak.
The Sidewalk camera business
has been in rogue in Washington
tuo years.
1t fouriShed in NcD York and
Atlantic City before that. 1t has
also spread to Western cities. Be-
lteDe it or not, tits said q good
camera man can make 900 side
Wolk snapshots day.
REHEARSAL.
A RESIDENT of Northeast Wash
ington was awakened out of his
slumber Sunday morning by the
oldest noise that ever woke him, or
maybe any one else. In his half-con-
scious state, he could not tell whether
he was dreaming he was hearing a
broadcast of a ball game or actually
listening to one.
Ball four. Gehrig walks" said
the voice.
The citizen turned over, rubbed his
eyes, looked at his wrist watch and
found it was $3.50 am. A ball game
at such an hour was impossible, but
there was the voice droning on:
Strike two"
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Just as they were recovering the
soap bubble blowing eXpertnesS Of
their childhood. with excited "ahs"
and "ohs." one of them spoiled the
party by letting particularly prom
ising bubble burst while she remarked,
"A couple of gay divorces at the
Nations Capital on Saturday night"
They both went back to their read
ing
Evening star., 1936-07-14
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
GAY DIVORCES.

A OPERATIVE returned to the
~ Office today with tears in his
~ eyes. having heard a SOUL
4 a soaring tale about two young
divorces who work in Washington.
1t was Saturday night and very hot
in their apartment and neither had
date, so they sat in their nighties
and amused themselves blowing soap
bubbles.
Evening star., 1936-07-14
The National Scene
BY ALICE LONGWORTH

INDER the present system of holding the nominating
tions in June, there is no to avoid the tedious
Of political skrmishing that the country undergoes eve
Evening star., 1936-07-14

Some major parties should take the risk.
knot of CUSTOM call convention in September and make
tensive six to eight weeks campaign.
(copyrisht, 1850
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Indictments

Continued From First Pagel
Evening star., 1936-07-14
ort for Last "a Hours,

Record for Last II Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest IS. noon today Year ago. 50.
Lowest. 20. 6 am today. Year ago. SO.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 105. on July 10.
Lowest O on January %
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayl
EiEhest. 81 per cent at 5 am today
Lowest 50 per cent. at noon today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Today. Tomorrow
Hleh 3:15 am. 4:49 am
Low ----- 10:47 am. 1l:4S am.
High ---- 4:23 pm. 5:24 pm.
Low -- 1888 pm. 1855 pm
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
sun. today 4:03 7:33
Sun tomorrow 4:54 7:33
Moon. today 1859 am. 4:06 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
ane-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
The Washington times., 1936-08-01
DEATH
INVESTIGATED

Seeking the cause of the death
of Mrs. Lulie Cardwell Stone,
whose bruised body was found on
a concrete pavement four floors
below an open window at 1880
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W., yester-
day, Coroner A. Magruder Mac.
Donald was to conduct an autopsy
today.
Mrs. Stone, who was about So
and divorced two years ago from
Percy Stone, wealthy manufacturer
of Rockford, ILL.,, fell from a
height of so feet to an areaway
in the rear of a rooming house
she had opend on June /. Death
was almost instantaneous. Th e
body was removed to the morgue.
Immediately after the tragedy,
police notified her only child, a
daughter, Mrs. Sara Clark, Of
1918 Emerson st. N. W., who hur-
ried to the scene with her hus,
band, Waldo Clark.