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The Washington times., 1937-10-27
Music Lovers

1t was interesting to hear
. Mrs. Lawrence Townsend's
. remark that Fritz Kreisler
had played in her home AZ
years ago. Keen lovers of
music, the Ambassador of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics and Nine. Troyan-
ovsky had a party of guests
with them in their box. Nine.
. Troyanovsky was wearing a
gown of hunters green satin,
fashioned with a sweeping
. train. Her elbow length
cape of ermine had a match
. ing muff. In their party was
Nine. Oumansky, wife of the
Counselor of the Embassy.
Miss Mabel Boardman, in
DELPHI blue gown with a
corsage of gayly colored
flowers, had with her in her
box the Minister of Sweden,
Mr.. Bostrom and the Min
lister of Yugoslavia and Nine.
Fotitch, the latter gowned
in black velvet. Countess
van der Straten Ponthoz,
wife of the Ambassador of
Belgium, affected black
satin with great charm,
setting off as it does her
lovely hair. In one box l
spied the Minister of Fin
land, Mr.. Zero Jarnefelt,
and Nine. Jarnefelt.
During the intermission the
Ambassador Of Germany and
Frau Dieckhoff were surrounded
by friends. Frau Dieckhoff wore
silver fox over her black gown.
Still other diplomats enjoying
the concert were Nine. Saito,
wife of the Ambassador of
Japan, with a party Of friends;
the Commercial Counselor of
the British Embassy and Mrs.
Frank Haywood, the Naval At
tache of the Italian Embassy,
Capt. Don Umberto Cugia Mar
quis Of SAINT OrSola, the First
Secretary of the Rumanian Le-
CATION and Nine. Babes and the
Attache of the Rumanian Lega-
ton, Mr.. Laurence Bungardeanu,
who squirrel a pretty blond visi-
tor from Toronto, Mrs. John
Balm.
FRIENDS IN BOX
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss entertained friends in their
box, Mrs. Bliss in a lovely gown
Of black lace, her black wrap
trimmed with silver fox, and
still others in the tier of boxes
were Mr.. and Mrs. George Angus
Garrett, who had with them Mrs.
James Clement Dunn and Mrs.
Matthew Hanna; Mrs. William
r. Castle, Col. and Mrs. c. C.
Schiffeler, Mrs. Harlan FiSke
Stone and Mrs. Edwin Watson.
Certainly the most striking
costume last evening was that
worn by Mrs. Celeste Crosby Mil
Ter. The dinner gown of close
fitting gold lame made with long
sleeves was completed by a huge
brimmed black velvet hat,
trimmed with a band Of the
matching lame.
Amongst others seen were
Mrs. Wilton j. Lambert, DR..
Kemper Simpson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry P rsons Erwin, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Rowland Hill, Mrs.
Harold Hinton. Miss Stellita
Stapleton, Mrs. P. S. ConStan'
tinople. Miss Nell Dowling, Mr.
and Mrs. Jouett ShouSe and
Miss Claire Moran.
Weddino Told
The Washington times., 1937-10-27
KabeIacs Arrive

Mr.. Otakar Kabelac, First
Secretary of Legation Of Czech
oslovakia, who has been spend
ing some time in Czechoslo-
vakia, has returned to Washing
ton accompanied by Nine. Ka-
belac and they have taken an
apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Robertson,
of Mobile, Ala, are at the
Raleigh while here to visit their
son, Mr.. John Bestor Robertson
jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. I. Camp. OF
Wardman Park Hotel, are
spending several days in New
York City.
The Washington times., 1937-10-27

her chosen sport, and she plays this game exosp-
tionallv well-so well that she has collected sew
eral trophies and was also women's golf cham
pion at Fort Leavenworth in '29. Her favorite
costumes are those of sports, sweaters, soft
woolens and tweeds. She doesn't mind being
really dressed up but hates those in:between
clothes" She loves music and plays the piano
very, very well, but is bitterly disappointed be-
cause she can't play jazz! Her good-look1ng son
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Harry NJ. Crandall Ends Life;
Once Theater Magnate Here
Suicide by Gas Planned
for Six Months,
Note Reveals.

Harry M. Crandall, whose pioneering
venture into the motion picture the
ater business here 80 years ago
brought him fame, fortune and, finally,
sorrow, ended his life by Illuminating
gas early today after penning a plea
to the newspaper boys" that they re-
frain from, being "too hard" on him.
The 60-year-old former builder and
operator of a chain of more than
score of movie houses in Washington
and vicinity now conducted by Warner
Bros. was found slumped in chair
by police, who ignored do not dis
turb" sign on the door of suite on
the ninth floor of the Parkside Apart
ments, Thirteenth and I streets.
A postscript on the note to the
newspaper men revealed he had
rented the rooms six months ago for
the purpose of committing suicide, but
had failed to get up sufficient nerve to
go through with it until his attempt
today.
The sole reason for his act, he said
in one of two notes found with the
body, was dependency over loss of his
theaters He had retired from the
theater business in 1929, when War
ner Bros acquired the chain. which
includes the Earle, Metropolitan and
Tivoli theaters.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
BRITAIN TO PROBE
MINE HIT BY SHIP
INQUIRIES Seek to Determine
Which Faction Placed Ex.
plosive in Sea.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY inc ASSOCldVeQ FIcoSs
LONDON, February 26-Three de-
partments of the British government
started exhaustive inquiries today into
the near disaster of the British steam
er Llandovery Castle, which struck a
floating mine off the Spanish Mediter-
ranean coast yesterday.
The 10,609-ton Union-Castle Mail
Steamship Co. liner, with 300 passen-
gers aboard, barely reached Port
Vendres, France, after striking the
mine off Capo De Creus.
The admiralty Office, Board of Trade
and foreign Office investigated the in
cident, particularly to learn whether
the Spanish government or insurgents
placed the explosive in the Gibraltar
Marseille shipping lane.
The foreign Office at the same time
reminded the Spanish insurgents no
answer had been received to official
protests against what was believed an
insurgent attempt to bomb two Brit
ish destroyers, the Havock and the
Gypsy, in Mediterranean waters.
Insurgent sources had said the
bomber, apparently an insurgent
plane" in reports to British officials,
was q disguised government ship try
ing to involve the insurgents in diff
eulties with Great Brittany
The Office received message from
Valencia expressing the Spanish gov
ernment's "lively sympathy" for the
bombing of the British battleship Royal
Oak. A government anti-aircraft shell
burst on its quarter deck, njuring
several officers, Tuesday during o
Spanish insureent bombardment Of
Valencia.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
CRASH
IS FATAL TO TWO
Driver Dies at Hospital Sew.
eraI Hours After His Com
panion Expires.
(Picture on Page BID

James T. Corbin, 46. Internal Rev.
enue Bureau auditor, died in Casualty
Hospital today, the second victim of
an automobile-train crash shortly
after midnight at the Bates road
northeast grade crossing, in which
companion, also an auditor at the bu-
reau, was killed.
Charles c. Shipton, about As, of $3.50
Colorado avenue. was dead on arrival
at the hospital. Corbin's injuries
proved fatal several hours later.
The crash occurred when the car in
which the pair was riding was struck
by fast freight train at the crossing,
located near the Catholic Sisters Col
lege in Brookland. An investigation
was launched this morning.
The fireman on the train, Joseph
J. Pessagno Of No. 2 Seventeenth street
southeast. is in Emergency Hospital
with cuts about the face and head.
received when he was struck by pieces
of the shattered automobile
Corbin, who lived at 8l0 Bonlfant
street, Silver Spring, Md, was driving
Shipton home from friends house,
where they had been visiting and
playing cards.
Auto Thrown $50 Feet.
Corbin's car. new sedan, was
knocked approximately $50 feet and
the engine torn loose and hurled 80
feet into field by the impact.
Corbin was removed from the
wrecked automobile without much
difficulty by rescuers, but acetylene
torches were needed to extricate Ship
ton who was pinned in the wreckage
for more than an hour.
The speed of neither the train. q
Baltimore & Ohio freight. coming
into Washington, nor the automobile
has been determined by police.
It was not learned either whether
(See ACCIDENT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-02-26
TRANSIT FIRM REPORTS
S4,O73 JANUARY PROFIT
Deficit of $11,796 Was Shown in
Same Month Last Year.
-. Bad Weather Factor.

Net earnings Of the Capital Transit
Co. in January amounted to s4,07S.73
as contrasted to a deficit of $11. .796.75
in January, 1886, an improvement Of
$15,870.48, according to the monthly
report fled with the Public Utilities
Commission this afternoon.
Bad weather had much more to do
with the net results than the change
In the cost of weekly passes from 81
to S125. While there was falling
of in the number Of weekly tickets
sold, this was practically offset by the
increase in the number of tokens
taken by patrons.
January operating revenues totaled
1896, ,48477, a gain of IA per cent over
January, last year. Total operating
expenses, taxes and depreciation
amounted to $685., 8,635.1e, an increase
Of 5.4 Per cent and leaving an oper-
ating income of s56,849.61. Non-op-
Grating income was lower than last
year.
Revenue passengers carried on Cap
ital Transit street cars and busses in
January numbered 13,62o,455 against
13,3S2.S4o . year ago. an increase OF
237,60s or 1.s per cent
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Steel Foreman Who Escaped
Prison Backed by Employers

for holding up an Akron, Ohio, pedes-
trian while with two other men.
No immediate request was made for
his return by Ohio prison officials,
who said they had not received formal
notification of the arrest Wednesday
night.
His wife said she would join the
steel company executive in the plea
today before Gov. Davey. Mossman
said the company decided to back
Cannon because of his good record.
He became a foreman at the Pitts
burgh steel mill in 1885 after serving
as q member of the suburban Swiss
vale Police Department and as a spe-
cial patrolman in the exclusive Briar
Cliff road residential district.
When arrested, said Detective IN
spector Walter Monaghan, he COM
mented:
I'm glad It's ovsr. I was always
hunted"
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Slayer of Two Hangs.

HULL, Quebec, February rs Cana
dian Press) .-Omer Girard. lumber
jack-evangelist, was hanged today for
the murder of two men at Namur last
April Z.
Girard was convicted of Staying Leon
Leclair, 84-year-old goatherd. and his
friend. Alfred Dudevoir, 70. Their
charred bodies were found in the smol-
dering ruins of Leclair's home. They
had been robbed of $3.50.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
DISTRICT FORECAST
is FAIR AND COLD
Minimum of 20 Degrees of Last
Night Is Due to Be Reached
Again.

Fair and continued cold weather is
forecast for the District tonight and
tomorrow
The forecaster, studying what he
described as "an uninteresting map Of
weather conditions" predicted
minimum temperature tonight of 20
degrees-the low recorded early today.
The mercury dropped to the 20
degree mark-the fourth lowest of the
seasonal 2:30 am. 1t began rising
Immediately, however. and at 10 am.
had reached %.
The temperature climbed to IS at
II am. yesterday, but shortly after
ward dropped to below the freezing
point.
On December /, the Winters lowest
emperature-14-wa recorded. On
November 10 there was temperature
Of 10 and on February II mark Of 20.
Forecasters foresaw possible change
to slightly warmer weather by Sunday.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
REICH REVIEWS
COLONIAL DEMAND
Won Ribbentrop Calls Un-
expectedIy on Eden to
Insist on Empire.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 26.-Joachim
Won Ribbentrop, German Ambassador
to Great Britain, called Unexpectedly
today on British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden to renew Germany's
demands for return of her war-lost
colonies.
The Nazi envoy remained in long
conversation with Eden, in which they
talked over the general European sit
uation and the prospects of reaching
an agreement on a prospective pact to
secure the peace of Western Europe.
Diplomatic sources said Eden reiter-
ated Great Britain's stand that MOTH
ing can be done to restore the Reich's
colonies or surrender of British-held
League of Nations mandates until the
security of Europe is established by a
general accord.
Won Ribbentrop had laid the Ger
man demands before the British on q
visit to Viscount Halifax, lord privy
seal and leader of the House of Lords,
February IL while Eden was abroad
on a vacation.
The British government recently in
formed the House of Commons 1t
was not contemplating the surrender
of any of its war-won territory.
One important subject of today's
discussion, it was learned, was Bel
GUMS recent reply to British note
regarding a new Locarno security pact
for western Europe.
At that time Brussels stated that,
although Belgium wants her security
guaranteed by the powers, she Is
unwilling to enter into an agreement
guaranteeing theirs.
There have been frequent discus
sions between British and Belgian
diplomats on this point in recent days.
Today Adolf Hitler's recent offer to
guarantee security to Belgium, the
Netherlands and Switzerland figured
in the Ribbentrop-Eden talk.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
GETS
4-T0-12-YEAR TERM
IN ESPIONAGE CASE
Denounced by Judge as Per.
petrator of Crime 'Abhor-
rent to Good Citizens
WITHDRAWS MOTION
TO Defer SENTENCE
Ex-Naval Officer, Back in Jail,
Likely to Be Sent to Lorton
Reformatory.
BY WILLIAM S. TARVER.

Denounced by the court as the per-
petrator of crime "abhorrent to
every good citizen" John S. Farms
worth, former Navy lieutenant COM
mander. was sentenced today to serve
from 4 to IL years in prison as pun
ishment for an alleged espionage con-
spiracy.
The indictment, to which he had
pleaded nolo contendere, charged that
he conspired with two erstwhile assist
ant naval attaches of Japan to COM
municate defense secrets to that ma
ton. The maximum sentence was 20
years.
At the last minute. after the court
refused to allow Farnsworth to change
his plea to not guilty, Richard L. Ted
row, attorney for the accused officer,
announced withdrawal of a motion in
arrested judgment, filed yesterday.
The basis of the motion was the con-
tention that nolo contendere plea,
which has the same legal effect as an
admission of guilt. may be accepted
by the court only in misdemeanor
case. Tedrow said he probably will
raise the point again in a habeas
corpus petition.
Meanwhile, Farnsworth was re-.
turned to the District Jail, whence
he will be transferred to the
District Reformatory at Lorton, Va,
unless the Justice Department makes
other arrangements for his incarcera-
ton.
Court Is Crowded.
Farnsworth was brought into the
crowded District Court chamber
shortly after 10 am. His face bore a
worried frown. He uttered no word
while in the court room. appearing
content to leave the matter in the
hands of his youthful attorney, en-
ployed only yesterday. After being
informed of the withdrawal of the
motion in arrested judgment, Justice
James NJ. Proctor addressed the de-
fendant.
"Farnswortil. 1t is a very unpleas-
ant duty to sentence any one," the
jurist began. land it is unusually dis
agreeable to impose sentence on a
man of your background. which in
cludes a long period of honorable
service to your country, unfortunately
terminated by dishonorable discharge.
you have conspired with two
foreign emissaries to obtain informa-
ton vital to your country, and you
conveyed to them, with reason to be-
lieve such information would be used
Evening star., 1937-02-26
PEARS0N'S DEATH
SEEN ACCIDENTAL
Bullet Fired From Gun Held
Close to Writer'S Chest,
Autopsy Shows.
By the Associated Press.

by Inc hSSOCldlcu EAcSS.
PALM SPRINGS, Calf. February
26.-An autopsy showed today the bull
let that killed Humphrey Pearson,
movie scenario writer, was fired from
a gun held close to his chest. Under
sheriff Steve Lynch of Riverside Coun-
ty reported.
I'VE are Of the opinion it was an ac-
cidental shooting" he said, adding, I
don't think We will be able to get
anything from the paraffin tests"
He referred to paraf1n tests made
of the hands of Pearson and Of his
wife, after the writer was found dead
in the bed of his desert cottage We'd
nesday night.
Investigators previously hinted that
the parafin impressions failed to show
powder marks, which indicate either
Mr.. or Mrs. Pearson had fired pistol
recently.
Doubts Theory Of Outsider.
II am we'll satisfied that it was not
done by an outsider" said Lynch.
IT think she was trying to take the
gun away from him whei the shooting
occurred. We found out from several
witnesses that when he got hquoreo
up he used to get gun, and that she
had taken a gun away from him be.
fore under such circumstances.
Mrs. Pearson has not yet been able
to make a coherent statement, sale
Lynch, who hopes to take q statement
from her today or tomorrow.
Lynch said a deputy sheriff 1
waching Mrs. Pearson in her room
in a Riverside hospital "for her owT
protection"
"She might attempt to injure her.
SELF he said.
Lynch took over The investigation
because of the illness of Sheriff Car
Rayburn, stricken with influenza. Tht
work here is being done by Police Chic.
j. L. Boiler.
Shooting Occurred After Party.
The shooting occurred after gay
party in a restaurant at the luxuriou!
desert resort. Friends said that Pear
son was in the habit of working almos
night and day on his film assignment!
and then relaxing as whole-heartedly
as he had labored, drinking consider.
ably.
Il am still of the opinion it was ar
accident-that they were fighting fol
the gum" said Lynch.
The undersherif said two shots wer,
fired. one piercing the authors lef
chest and the other lodging in th'
ceiling of the trim bungalow the couple
occupied.
A .38-caliber revolver was found
from which two shots had been fret
recently, he said Investigators previ
ously pointed out that the fact th'
| see PEARSON. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Action Comes Shortly After
President Announces He
Will Make Nationwide
Radio Address March g.
MESSAGE is EXPECTED
TO TOUCH ON JUDICIARY
Day Selected for First of Fireside
Chats Since Before Election Is
Same as That Chosen for Open
lngs of Hearings Before Judi.
ciary Committee.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY a vote Of rs to 4, the Senate TO-
DAY passed without amendment the
House bill authorizing voluntary re-
tirement of justices of the Supreme
Court when they have reached the
age Of 70 on full pay.
The bill now goes to the President
for his approval, which is confidently
expected. The measure passed the
Senate after less than an hours de-
bate. The four Senators voting against
the bill were Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, johnson of California, Republic
ans, and Bulow of South Dakota and
Moore of New Jersey, Democrats.
The Senate's action came only a
short while after President Roosevelt
announced at his press conference that
he would make a Nationwide radio
address at 1890 pm. March 9. It
is expected by White House officials to
include discussion of his court pro-
posals.
The Presidents address will be the
first of his "flreside chats" since Sep
tember 6, before his reelection. The
day selected by the President. March
8, is the same on which hearings on
his court bill are slated to begin be-
fore the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bitterness Is Manifest.
During the brief Senate debate on
the justices retirement bill the ex-
treme bitterness which the Supreme
Court issue has developed came to the
fore.
An amendment offered by Senator
Bridges would have postponed the
operation of the retirement bill for
four years, or until the end of Presi.
dent Rooscvelt's present term of Of.
flee. The amendment was shouted
down and no record vote was taken
on 1t.
During the brief debate some Sena-
tors said they would not respect court
members who might retire under pres
ent circumstances.
This view was expressed by Senators
Johnson. Republican, of California
and Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska,
both opponents of President Roose-
velt's court-reorganization plan.
Some administration LEADERSHIP
cluding Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the Democratic floor chieftain-have
expressed the view that passage of the
Summers bill might lead to the retire.
ment of one or two justices now on
the court.
After johnson spoke, Robinson de-
manded:
AT what time would the Senator
(See JUDICIARY, Page AID
Evening star., 1937-02-26
THIRD MAN DIES
AFTER GUN FIGHT
Detective Who Helped SIay
Escaped Convicts Loses
Battle to Live.
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, February 26-Detective
Sergt. John Thomas Sullivan died 10
day of bullet wounds suffered in gun
battle in which two escaped Michigan
convicts were killed yesterday.
Sullivan, shot five times, was para
lyzed by bullet which lodged in his
spine and had he lived would never
have been able to walk. He was IS
years old and had been a policeman
for nearly Is years.
The dead bandits, linked with q
series of hold-ups here Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, were identified by
fingerprints as Ray Rusch. 10, and
Alvin Mott. 19, who with Joe Scofic,
escaped from the Michigan State
Prison at Jackson last Friday.
Rusch was killed in a hotel room,
where Sullivan and Detective Ray
mond Roessler cornered the men. Mott
escaped, after bullets had felled the
police officer, and was fatally wounded
few blocks away, as he fled in a
commandeered automobile, owned by
Warren Scott, a salesman. Mott died
last night.
Given Blood TRANSMISSION.
Sullivan was shot in the abdomen,
arm and chest He was given a blood
TRANSMISSION last night.
A bullet grazed Roessler's hand and
another pierced the shoulder of his
overcoat.
A detectives "hunch" was credited
as the principal lead in the discovery
of the bandits and the subsequent gun
battle.
Cruising in a scout car near the
point where a car, used in a hold-up
Wednesday night was abandoned, the
detectives decided to check hotels in
the vicinity for possible suspects.
At one of the midtown hotels
Oeonard) they obtained information
that two young men had registered
from Detroit on Tuesday. Miss Mari
lou Holley, clerk, led the officers to
the second-door room occupied by the
young men.
With drawn revolvers the detectives
waited as a man opened the door.
Il Just had chance to see he was
in an undershirt and pants and had
a gun in his hand before he began
firing" Roessler related. I'VE both
fired back and he went down $.
Then a second man jumped out from
behind the door and backed toward q
window, firing. We fired back. Sulli-
van fell. The man got to the window,
threw it open and jumped"
Returned to Hotel.
The fleeing bandit returned to the
hotel from the one-Story extension, on
which he had landed, and ran out OF
the building and down the street,
where he forced Scott from his parked
automobile.
Three detectives, rushing to the
scene in response to the clerks sum-
mons, picked up Scott and set out In
pursuit of the gunman.
Overtaken in a short distance, Mott
ignored the command to halt, made
move apparently to draw a gun, and
was shot by Detective Louis Shoul-
ders.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
"Suicide" Strike
OF Miners Ends
In Bitter ROiC
25O Quit Shafts Half
Dazed From Hunger
After T,cO Days.
BY the Associated Press.

PEGS, Hungary, February ga
Suicide" strike of $50 miners collapsed
today, and the men, half-dazed from
hunger and many bleeding from
wounds suffered in an underground
fight. staggered out of the shaft.
Sobbing wives and relatives greeted
them. Some of the grimy-faced work.
ers, too weak to walk. were carried on
the shoulders of their comrades.
One miner said they had eaten the
last sack of oats intended for ponies
used for underground hauling during
the two days they remained defiantly
in their stronghold.
Each striker, he said, received a
handful of the grain twice day.
The 16 ponies which were with them
when they declared the hunger strike
(see MINERS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-02-26
'.PubIic Rat No. I" Is Indicted
In Less Than Half an Hour

Their arraignment YVES completed
with such dispatch that none of the
prisoners removed his overcoat. They
were informed of the indictment,
which was not read, and all three en-
tered pleas Of innocent. Then they
asked that counsel be assigned to de-
fend them, stating they had no funds.
Judge Nolan told them this request
would be granted and they were
rushed back to jail.
No date was set for their trial.
The two witnesses heard by the
grand Jury were Stanley Shafer. as
sistant cashier of the Northern West
chester Bank at Katonah, and Po-
liceman william @. Hendricks, one OF
(see INDICTED, Page A-39