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Evening star., 1937-02-26
BY the Associated Press.


WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, February
26.-The Westchester County grand
jury today indicted Merle Vandenbush.
20, so-called public rat No. l." and
his two companions in the $17,626
hold-up of bank at Katonah, N. T.,
for robbery in the first degree.
The special grand jury acted speed
fly, hearing only two witnesses and re-
turning the indictment 20 minutes
after beginning its session.
As the grand jury was acting the
three prisoners, handcuffed together
and surrounded by guards, were rushed
from the Westchester County Jail at
East View. to the court Of County
Judge Gerald Nolan.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSS.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 26.-
An official of a large Pittsburgh steel
concern came here today to plead for
q trusted 38-year-old foreman who
escaped an Ohio prison farm more
than Is years ago.
w. r. Mossman, public relations di-
rector of the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Co., arranged an audience with Gov.
Martin L. Davey in behalf of Tor
rance j. Cannon, father of two girls.
A quarrel with his wife, Mathilda,
brought Cannon before a Pittsburgh
court on morals charge a month
ago. His wife's fearful pleas resulted
in his freedom after he was sentenced
But his fingerprints, placed on file,
matched those of q man who walked
away from the London, Ohio, honor
camp of Ohio Penitentiary after serv-
ing three years of q 1-to-l5-year term
Evening star., 1937-02-26
BACKWATERS SPREAD
OVER NEW LOWLANDS
Mississippi Crest Rolls On Toward
New Orleans, With No Change
in Reading.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, February 90
Backwaters crept over new loWland
areas in eight Louisiana parishes to-
day as the Mississippi Rivers flood
crest rolled slowly toward New Orleans
and the Gulf.
There was no rise in the flood stage
at any point during the "a hours end
ing last night and 2-10th of foot
drop was recorded at Vicksburg. The
gauge remained stationary at Natchez,
Baton Rouge, Donaldsonville and New
Orleans.
approximately 1900 backwater vic
tins we're being cared for by the Red
Cross and other relief agencies in
Mississippi and Louisiana.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
3O-HR. WEEK ISSUE
PUSHED BY j. A. ".
Minimum Hourly Wage Also
Discussed in General
Motors ParIey.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, February ga pro-
posal to establish national minimum
hourly wage in General Motors auto
motive plants was carried into strike
settlement conferences with corpora
ton officials today by representatives
of the United Automobile Workers OF
America.
The union also planned to insist or
some further discussion of the 30-houl
work-week, a demand which dead.
locked the conference yesterday. Gen.
eral Motors standard work-week i,
p nours.
John Brophy, director of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
who is one Of the union conferees, said
all remaining issues have been dis
cussed and tentative agreements
reached on most of them. He said the
negotiators should conclude their work
by Tuesday.
Wyndham Mortimer, U. A. w. A.
vice president, said before today S
meeting started:
ing minimum hourly rate in Gen.
eral Motors as well as a minimum
annual wage. In some General Mo-
tors plants+A-C spark plug in Flint,
Mich. for example-hourly rates are
as low as 40 cents an hour for large
number of workers. At this rate an
employe could not make more than
5000 a year If he worked full time.
Cited Other Companies.
"Such hourly rates hardly compare
with the 75-cent minimum already
established by the U. A. w. A. IN
many smaller and less profitable COM
panies."
The U. A. w. A. awaited reply from
the Murray Corp. of America to its
request for a conference and pre-.
pared for negotiations with the Chrys-
Ter Corp. while its representatives and
those of General Motors sought agree
ment on the length of the work week
The monthly report of the seventh
district Federal Reserve Bank re.
corded declines in automobile produc.
tion, industrial employment and pay
rolls in January due to the General
Motors strike, settled February IL.
At the conclusion Of the conferees
sixteenth session yesterday c. E. vii.
son, vice president Of General Mo.
tors, told newsmen that "as far as am
concerned" they had finished discus.
eior, of tho 20.bo,Ir week
Will Discuss 1t Again.
"As far as I am concerned" in.
terjected Mortimer, well take it ul
again tomorrow morning (today)."
Five years from now we may TAXI
it up again." Wilson replied. Earlier
he had said:
Il don't think the country is read!
for it yet Nor is the industry ready
for it, and I don't think any one whit
really thinks about it is in favor of i
right now"
The conferees still have to consider
alleged cases of discrimination agains
union workers and the unions demand
for minimum wages "commensurat,
with an American standard of iv
ing" They have disposed tentativel!
of machinery TO; handling grievances
seniority rights, methods of pay ant
speed of production.
The conference with Chrysler viii
open at 10 am. Wednesday in th'
corporations Office building in sub
urban Highland Park.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

FOREIGN.
Rebels report Madrid counter offensive
has collapsed. Page As
Conservatives open offensive on Blum
regime. Page Al
Soviet envoy defends trial of alleged
Trotzkyists. Page Ala
NATIONAL.
Autopsy strengthens police belief Pear
son death accidental. Page Al
Police gas bombs rout strikers at
Waukegan plant. Page Al
Senate passes Supreme Court retire.
ment bill, rs to 4. Page Al
Reciprocal trade treaty bill awaits
Roosevelt signature. Page Az
Argentine kidnap suspects escape after
gun battle with police. Page Al
Federal workers urged to seek appeals
court" Page A-13
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Farnsworth sentenced to 1 to II years
in spy case. Page Al
Second victim of auto-train crash dies
at hospital. Page Al
Policeman accused of practicing law
on side. Page AS
Two Montgomery County bills intro
duced after study. Page A-1O
Collins considers metropolitan and
park police merger. Page B-1
Hunter to appeal 20-year sentence in
wife Staying. Page B-1
Allen orders probe Of trailer travel
problem. Page B-1
Evening star., 1937-02-26

A tragedy which had a profound
effect on his life was the collapse
during a snowstorm of his Knicker-
booker Theater at Eighteenth street
and Columbia road, on January 28,
1922, with the loss of 98 lives.
Although relieved Of liability for the
catastrophe by the courts, Crandall's
friends said he always brooded over
the disaster. Incidentally. Crandall
(See CRANDALL, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-02-26
French Plane Headed for Toxic
Falls in Indo-China.

FAILS IN Ind0-Cnlnd.
HONG KONG, February rs R.-
Gilbert Denis and Georges Libert,
French flyers, who left Paris Tuesday
in an attempt to fly to Toxic in 100
hours, crashed today near Tahek,
Indo- China.
One Of the flyers (the advices did
not say which one) was injured and
the plane was wrecked.
It was the third Paris-Tokio fight
to come to grief in recent months.
Andre Japy crashed into mountain
side near Nagasaki when almost at his
goal, and Marcel Doret and Francois
Michelleti quit in the face of unfa-
vorable Indo-China weather.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
EVANGELIST Slayer Executed.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, February rs
@.-Jim Franklin, Tuscaloosa County
farmer, was executed at Kilby Prison
early today for the murder Of John
Pate, aged country evangelist.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Summary of Today's Star

Hearings on Federal pay bill de-
layed. fage B-1
Engineers reach bedrock for Jeffer-
son Memorial. Page B-1
SPORTS.
Track records expected to be smashed
in A. A. U. title meet. Page C-1
Mount Rainier to risk clean slate in
Star tournament. Page C-1
Sande picks Rosemont in 100000 race
at Santa Anita tomorrow. Page c.
Maryland's chances in ring tourna-
ment are hit by illness. Page C-3
Evening star., 1937-02-26

(See FARNSWORTH, Page A-30
Evening star., 1937-02-26
WEATHER.

%. s. Weather Bureau fUrecaStJ
Fair, continued cold tonight; minimum
temperature about 20 degrees; tomorrow
fair; gentle to moderate west and north
west winds. Temperatures-Highest, 81,
at 2 pm yesterday; lowest, 20, at 2:3O
am. today. Full report on page A-12.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
CRASH ENDS FLIGHT

(See PEARSON, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-02-26

(See INDICTED, Page A-39
Evening star., 1937-10-22
RED CROSS QUOTA
PASSED BY 1000
Total Enrolment Reaches n, 600.
Papers and Radio Stations
Thanked for Aid.

Washington's Red Cross chapter ex-
ceeded its quota by 1000 at the annual
roll call which closed last Saturday,
officials reported today.
The total enrolment had reached
1900 at latest reports. The goal was
$4,000.
Late returns have been coming In
all week as volunteer workers COM
pleted the ''mopping up" process.
l.. E. Rubel, chairman OF publicity,
issued a statement thanking the news
papers and radio stations for their CO.
operation in putting the roll call over
the top.
He also congratulated the Speakers
Bureau for it's work. The bureau was
headed by Gen. Albert l.. Cox, and in
Guided John S. Bleecker, Jr.; Rev.
Francis A. Cox, Mrs. Sam Conner,
Col. Lemuel Bolles, Representative
Jennings Randolph, Godfrey Hunter,
Samuel F. Beach, Rev. Howard E. Sny-
der, Earl A. Nash, DR.. r. E. Moran,
Frank j. Wideman, Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld, Rev, Albert j. McCart-
ney, Otto S. Lund, William E. Leahy,
Diller B. Groff, Col. o. r. MCGUIRE, r.
L. McKeever, Herbert Gill, Marx
Lansburgn, Harold Fitz and w. w.
Wheeler.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Stories of the Masters
MICHELANGELO

estrange him further from the Pope.
This gargantuan labor was begun in
1903.
He began by rebuilding Bramante's
poorly designed scaffolding, for he
too was an architect and later was to
build with consumate skill the mag
nificent dome Of st. Peters. Next
he got rid of the Florentine assistants
that had been procured for him. The
way was now clear. He remained
alone and shut up in the chapel with
a few workmen. For 40 months he
painted with the fury of a demon
possessed.
Julius was irritated by the painters
slowness of execution and there was
constant friction between them. In
the midst Of an argument tn Pope
struck him with his staff and .ichel-
angelo rushed home intending to leave
Rome. The Pope sent 500 ducats by
way of apology and Michelangclo for
gave him. In the next year Julius died.
On the wall of the chapel. Michel
angelo had planned painting of the
Last Judgement. Here he poured out
the full measure of his troubled, angry
soul. Roman ROLAND says of it,
"A whirlwind blows across this throng
Of giants. The same whirlwind which
sweeps through space the god who has
created the sun and hurled it like
a ball into the other. There is no
escape from the groaning tempest
which surrounds and deafens you.
1t is at once bestial and divine"
Nudity Criticized.
Paul, a succeeding Pope, criticized
the nudity Of the figures, but his
criticism was not needed by the
painter. However, when the master
of ceremonies dared to add his voice
to the Pope's he found himself un-
mistakably painted in the lower
reaches of He'll with asses ears, and
serpant twined around his middle.
The Pope pleaded in vain for his
official. Michelangelo replied, "Your
Evening star., 1937-10-22
JAPAN is ACCUSED
AT HAWAII HEARING
Korean Tells Congressional Group
of Move to Unite 0rientals
Against Whites.
By the Associated Press.


HONOLULU, October 22-Kil 500
Ham, alien resident of Hawaii born
in Korea, told congressional commit
tee yesterday the Japanese govern
ment, through its consulate here, was
engaged in move to unite Oriental
races against the white race.
The committee is here investigating
Hawaiis request for statehood.
Ham asserted he was present at sew
eral meetings, attended by Japanese
government officials, where plans were
discussed for forming an Oriental bloc
in Hawaii.
Questioned by Congressman, Ham
declined to give further details. He
said he had turned the information
over to proper officials"
Senator William H. King, Democrat,
of Utah asked: "Is your testimony
animated by your hostility against
Japan's annexation of Korea?" The
witness replied negatively.
Wilfred G. Tsukiyama, Honolulu city
and county attorney, termed the
Koreans statements "a mass of lies"
and Japanese Vice Consul Tsunoshiro
Yamazaki said Hams testimony was
ridiculous"
Most of the hearings have centered
around the questions of dual citizen
ship and whether citizens of Japanese
ancestry would be loyal to the United
States in time of war.
Evening star., 1937-10-22

Star Building each day 10 secure
sets of the famous paintings, which
are offered at a very nominal price.
The campaign opened last week. The
pictures are released in sets of four
weekly, each set with a lesson in art
appreciation by DR.. Bernard Myers
of New York University.
The Stars daily mail bag, bring
ing to the Office hundreds OF orders
for picture sets, is conclusive evi-
dence of widespread public support for
the campaign. Many letters, includ-
ing a number from persons Of promi-
nence, express approval OF the art
project.
In sending her order for pictures,
Mrs. Thomas Smythe Wallis, 1905
North Randolph street, Arlington, Va,
regent of Frances Wallis Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, wrote:
"As an artist and D. A. r., l
appreciate the movement to familiarize
the public and especially the youth
of the land with the best paintings.
1t should serve as great upllft
to the girls and boys of school age"
Doctor Wants Whole Series.
DR.. Donald j. Grubb, physician, OF
Asheville, N. c., reader of The Star,
wrote that he wants all 4S famous
paintings during the 12-week cam
paign and said that he is "very much
impressed with the movement"
II should appreciate very much
the privilege Of, securing this set Of
pictures ard the lesson booklets fur
nished with then1." he said. Il read
The Star every day and enjoy It
Evening star., 1937-10-22
MONTAGUE TRIAL
WITNESS IS HAN
Elderly Matt Cobb Fails to
Identity Positively Golfer
as His Assailant.
By the Associated Press.

BY Lile ASSOCidteC
ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y, October
22.-Elderly Matt Cobb, partially deaf,
failed today to identify positively
Hollywood Golfer John Montague as
the man who beat him during a s700
hold-up Of a roadhouse seven years
ago.
Now "a, the white-haired witness
hesitated a moment when State pros
ecutor Thomas w. Mcdonald asked
if he could pick out his assailant in
the court room and then said:
Il think (pointing at Montague)
that's the man there" he said. Mon
tague was returned from California to
face trial on robbery charge.
Questioned further, Cobb admitted
He seems too fat for the lad"
Defense Counsel James M Noonan
on cross-examination, pressed for q
more positive statement from the
hard-of-hearing witness.
You say you think this was the
man just because he's stocky, full OF
face?" the defense examiner asked.
Yes, and I remember something
about him across the eyes," the wit
ness replied.
Cobb is the father -in-law of Kin
Hama, owner of the Jay, N. Y, road
house looted seven years ago by a
gang of four robbers.
Montague stared at the elderly wit
ness as impassively as yesterday when
Roger Norton, a confessed participant
in the crime, testified Montague,
Hollywood golfer extraordinary, was
an accomplice. Norton said the golfer
known then as Laverne Moore-struck
Cobb on the head several times"
Prosecutor Thomas w. Mcdonald
shouted questions at Cobb, who sat
within foot of him.
On cross-examination the elderly
witness, seeming to have more diff
Guilty hearing later questions, said he
recognized Norton during the hold-up.
81 said hello to him." he testified.
Norton had a gun, Cobb said.
WAS he pointing it at you?" de-
fense counsel asked.
mo, at the floor" was the reply.
The witness appeared confused at
times by Noonan's vigorous cross
examination.
At one point Cobb said he heard
Norton call out: ivan, let's get out
Of here. They are going to have
help"
ibid you say 'Van?'" defense coun-
sci pressed.
"Yes," Cobb agreed.
Previously Cobb had said he heard
the name Verne"
Noonan drew from the witness an
admission there we're no lights burn
ing when he pulled the mask from
the first man who entered the bed
room.
Noonan attempted to show the jury
that Cobb could not positively identify
Montague as his assailant.
Evening star., 1937-10-22

and reel to hook the body and pull it
ashore.
Resuscitation efforts we're futile, and
the man was pronounced dead by an
Emergency Hospital physician.
On learning of the mans probable
connection with Rotary, Mrs. Ethel
Ward. executive secretary of the
Washington Rotary Club, called DR..
Winslow E. Holmes, president of the
Walpole Rotarians. by long distance
telephone to notify him of the case
and offer any assistance possible.
1T will be a shock to our entire
community" Dr. Holmes told Mrs.
Ward. "Dr. Mcguire was fine man" 4"
DR.. Mcguire, who had been in
charge of the Walpole Dental Clinic
for years, leaves his wife and three
children.
Though police found no money on
the mans person, there was no indi-
cation of foul play.
Park police explained that, al
though the body was barely sub
merged at low tide this morning, the
depth of the water was Z or 8 feet
at high tide last night, presumab bly,
the time when the drowning occurred.
The body was taken to the District
Morgue, pending investigation by
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald and
the police homicide squad.
Evening star., 1937-10-22

The body Of DR.. William H. Ma
guire, health officer of Walpole, Mass,
and a director of the Rotary Club
there, was found today in the Tidal
Basin, behind the John Paul Jones
Monument, at the foot of Seventeenth
street.
Luck Goldberg, manager of the A.
& N. Trading Co., who had gone to
the basin early this morning to fish,
discovered the middle-aged mans
head jutting from the water about 10
feet from the bank. A topcoat and
hat were lying on the concrete steps
leading to one of the fishing piers
built by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Dr. Mcguire, shell-shocked World
War veteran, had been missing from
his home in the Boston suburb for a
week, Levi S. Thompson, chief Of
police there, told the Associated Press.
The officer said there was no doubt"
the body was that of DR.. Mcguire.
Tentative identification had been
established from letters in the dead
mans coat pocket and cards in his
wallet, one of which showed he was
q Rotarian.
On discovering the body, Goldberg
hurried to the Tidal Basin boat house
nearby to notify park police and the
Fire Rescue Squad. When officers ar
rived, the fisherman cast with his rod
Evening star., 1937-10-22

very much. I consider it the most
reliable paper published in the United
States"
Another art appreciation fan is Mrs.
Frances Sutelius Smith, 1885 North
Upland street, Arlington, Va, who
said tin ordering my first set of
pictures may I express my feeling
of Joy when your gift picture came
with our paper.
II have prints from many of the
museums of the world in my home,
but shall treasure your collection"
Mrs. Smith wrote.
Indorsed by School Head.
Another Endorsement for the cam
paign came today from Wallace Luchs,
director of the Washington School of
Art, Ills Fifteenth street, which con-
ducts its courses by correspondence.
II am heartily in favor of The
Stars art project" Mr.. Lucas as
serted. Undoubtedly it will make
great contribution to the development
and stimulation of art appreciation
in the Washington area"
Several of Washington's regular art
schools were preparing today to make
use of the famous paintings and the
lesson material that is now available.
On all sides there were expressions
of commendation for the project and
the purpose which it is serving in
The Stars territory.
Miss Louise w. Blackwell will speak
on Art Appreciation" Sunday before
the Civic National Forum at the
Whitelaw Hotel, Thirteenth and T
streets northwest, at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
v. c. I. j. TO SEEK
NEW MEMBERS
Mrs. Florence w. Warner
Outlines Campaign at
Final Session.

A concerted membership drive for
the coming year was outlined today
by Mrs. Florence w. Warner as the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Of the District went into the final ses-
sion of its two-day convention.
Reviewing the progress that had
been made in the last IL months when
the membership was boosted to 1000,
Mrs. Warner said the contemplated
drive called for substantial increase.
New members totaled 200 during the
last year. she said.
Reports by directors this morning
included Health and Medical Tenn
perance," by DR.. Lauretta E. Kress;
Scientific Temperance Instruction,
Mrs. Marie N. Brinley; youths Tenn
perance Council" Mrs. James Coch-
ran, and Loyal Temperance Legion,
Mrs. Ival B. Stout.
A memorial service for members
who have died during the last year was
conducted by Mrs Belle T. Pickett,
first vice president, and Miss Bar
bara Dean Smell.
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle. president of
the Federation of Women's Clubs, told
the assembly yesterday that makeup
in public is awful, especially on ac-
count of the example to our daugh-
ters"
She scored cigarette smoking and
the flask on the hip" as two of the
most dangerous practices of the age.
She declared the women should hold
the banner of womanhood so high
that they would be put back on the
pedestal they occupied before the war"
Balloting on the new officers ended
this morning. Results will be an
nounced later in the afternoon.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
BRIDE OF II, SINGLE
AGAIN, TO BE PUPIL
Mary Lee Earl, Whose Marriage
to Carpenter Was voided, to
Be Placed in School.
3, the Associated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. october %.
Mary Lee Earl, II. who quit second
grade studies to become the sixth
wife of a carpenter 81 years her
senior. is going back to school again
as a single girl
Juvenile Court Referee Lillian r.
McDermott. who declared the mar
riage automatically void" under an
Arkansas law fixing IA as the min
imum age at which females may wed,
said she would place Mary Lee in a
church school in the State. 1t was
not identified.
She is very happy child and un-
usually we'll adjusted" the referee
said.
Mary Lee became the bride of o.
D. Parker, 40, at nearby Benton two
weeks ago. Mrs. McDer1nott reported
they gave her age as IS. She took
custody of the girl last week.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Glass in Body % Years.

After travelling through his body for
% years, a piece of glass has been re-
moved from Cecil P. White, a promi-
nent attorney of Sydney. New South
Wales. White believes it entered during
a railway accident. After suffering ex-
cruciating pain for three weeks, he was
operated on recently and the glass
found. 1t was an inch long, crescent
shaped and worn smooth except at the
needle pointed ends.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
GANDHI IN "TALK FAST"

BOMBAY, India, October % CP).-
Mohandas K. Gandhi, SO and ailing,
started daily talk fasts" today to
save his health.
He is so weak the slightest con-
versation tires him, so he decided OH
periods of silence. lasting many hours
each day.
The aged leader of the Indian Ma
tionalist movement also appealed to
Congressman and others to refrain
from bothering him with interviews.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
RITES SET SUNDAY
FOR MRS. PRICHETT
Funeral Services to Be Held at
Cathedral for Victim of Plane
Crash in Wyoming.

Funeral services for Mrs. Campbell
Prichett, who lost her life in the crash
of United Air Lines plane in the
wilds of Southwestern wyoming Sum-
day night, will be held at $3.50 pm.
Sunday in Washington Cathedral.
The final rites will be held in Beth
lehem Chapel in the Crypt of the
Cathedral. Canon Albert Lucas, who
is headmaster Of st. Adams School,
where Mrs. Prichett's son Wilson, jr.,
is a student. will ofiiciate at the
services.
Mrs. Prichett, who was contrib
uting writer In the social columns Of
The Star, had left week ago TO visit
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. James H.
Campbell, in Long Beach, CALI. She
was the former Natalie Campbell.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
SPECIAL NOTICE

In sending money to The
Star for picture sets please
be sure to designate the set
you wish. At this time two
sets are available-No. !,
with which the art apprecia-
tion campaign was inaugu-
rated last week. and No. 2,
offered this week.
Designation of the set de-
sired will be even more I'M
pOrtant as the campaign
progresses through the next
10 weeks.
Pictures of previous weeks
always will be available to
you at any time throughout
the campaign. For example,
those who have not yet ap-
piled for any of the famous
paintings may obtain the
first two sets by mail or in
person at the art booth on
the first floor of The Star
Building.