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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
ENDEAV0UR |
BELIEVED NEAR
{ NEWPORT
Racing SIoop Thought
/. Safe Despite Ocean
Crossing in Storm

NEWPORT, r. T.. May al
U.NS0 Somewhere on the At.
lantic, forging forward under two
sheets Of sail. . slim British rae.
ing sloop, Endeavour !, with q
crew Of 10 men, was struggling
today in a battle to reach port.
She may arrive over the week
end. That was the prevailing
opinion Of veteran yachtsmen gath
cred here, in the absence Of def
mite word from the Americas Cup
challenger which lost her convoy
ship in a storm a week ago to.
night, when q tow.line parted.
nearly 1000 miles off Newport.
Separated BY Storm
The power yacht Viva, which
had conveyed the Sloep from
Gosport. England, to a point west
Of the Azores before the storm
separated the vessels, arrived here
yesterday with news Of the mishap.
Capt. Wallace Grint Of the Viva
expressed confidence In the sturdi-
ness Of Endeavour and was GER
tain the vessel outrode the 65-mile-
an-hour gale which struck her. He
expected Endeavour I to arrive
sometime late Saturday or Sunday
Forty.HOur Search
The last he heard from En-
deavour ], he said, was In q radio.
telephone message last Saturday
indicating she was plugging ahead
on a southwesterly course at six
knots. The Viva gave up search
for her after 40 hours.
Endeavour I, owned by T. o. M.
Sopwith, British sportsman. is
equipped with q jury rig Of head.
sal: and trisail. She was en- route
here for the second time as a chal-
lengcr for the Americas cup. Her
sisters ship, Endeavo1r II, arrived
last Tuesday.
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and admitted that she was the
woman who occupied the adjoin-
ing cabin, No. n.
But she denied vigorously that
she had made any telephone call
to the office or knew anything
about the case, injecting the new
mystery as to the identity Of the
woman who called and said she
was Mrs. Lopez"
Heard No Noise
Mrs. Lopez. a middle-aged, gray
haired woman, described herself
as a light sleeper" and said that
she heard nothing all night from
Keene's cabin, No. 70.
She retired early, she said, and
was kept awake for a time by the
rafting fher door, which she
renedied by putting some paper
under it, and later by some men
out in the hall playing q game
Of some kind"
But she insisted that she heard
no scuffle or any noise from
Keene's cabin all night.
Heard Noise Like Shot
!. Possibility that any crime in
Keene's cabin took place at exactly
l:45 q. m. was seen in testimony
given by William H. Bowen, 80,
Of 1859 Oates st. N. E., the night
Waterman on the. steamer.
He was making his rounds, he
testified, when he heard an un-
usual noise. Looking at his time
clock, he saw it was exactly las.
The noise might have been a
muffled shot, he admitted. He
went around to all the cabins, but
heard no more noise he said, and
thought nothing more Of the mat.
ter until the next morning he was
informed that passenger had
disappeared.
He looked at the grill over all
the cabin doors and saw that all
lights were out at the time he
heard the noise, he testified. There
was no one on deck or in the
corridors at the time, he said.
Orderly Crowd
There was a particularly quiet
and orderly crowd on board that
night, the Waterman testified.
n identified Keene as . man he
saw wearing Q brown beret. The
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-21
U. A. w. Sitdown Strike
In Cleveland Is Settled

CLEVELAND, May 81 U.NSJ.
Maintenance men today prepal ed
the Globe Machine and Stamping
Company plant here for resump-
ton of production Monday after
a U. A. w. sitdown strike was sets
tied through efforts of Ralph A.
Lind, regional N. L. r. B. director,
! and James F. Dewey, Labor De-
partment conciliator.
Settlement of the Globe strike
provided wage increase Of eight
cents an hour and a N. L. r. B.
hearing May AZ to determine If
the q. A. w. or an A. F. Of L.
union should represent the men.
TOLEDO, Ohio, May 81 I.N.SO.
A four-day sitdown strike of United
Automobile Workers members in o
plant of the Logan Gear Company
here was settled today when the
company agreed to recognize
seniority rights of q foreman.
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Murray was advised by the Of
flee of Attorney General Homer
s. Cummings, in Washington, that
his charges that Republic Steel
sought to interfere with the J. and
L. election would be given to the
United States Attorney at Pitts.
burgh. Murray had demanded an
investigation by the Attorney Gen.
eral. -
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for mine operators to arrange
such a division Of work before
closing a mine for repairs.
The Eagerville shaft was
closed last week for installation
of q modern steel tipple.
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Evening star., 1937-03-06
RUSSIA TOPERM|T
VOTE ON OFFICIALS
Democracy introduced in
Communism's Ranks on
Eve of New Trials.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, March 6.-The Commu-
mist party instituted sweeping po-
litical reforms today. as q new treason
trial loomed for leaders once powerful
in high Soviet councils.
Secret, direct voting for minor party
officials, to introduce democracy with
in communism's ranks, was ordered by
the Central Executive Committee on
the heels of the expulsion of Alexis
Rykoff, former premier, and Nikolai
Bukharin, former editor of the news
paper Izvestia, from the party.
The custer Of the two leaders, it was
indicated authoritatively, foreshad-
owed q third trial such as revealed
testimony of widespread Rightist op-
position movements in Soviet Russia
during recent months. Sixteen men
were shot after the first trial and 13
received death sentences at the second.
Elections for Council.
The voting change. provided in the
new Soviet constitution. was a step
toward putting the Communist house
in order before Forthcoming elections
for q new Supreme Council.
The party hierarchy remained un-
affected by the election revision. The
Politbureau, which is the real, master
of both the party and the government.
will continue an appointive body, with
Joseph Stain at its helm.
Elimination of abuses by minor po-
litical bosses, an aim of the secret bal
loting program, admittedly was
necessity to hold control over the COM
(See RUSSIA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-06
REBEL PLANES KILL
MANY IN ARANJUEz
Drop More Than so Bombs
in Raid on Central
Spanish Front.
BS the Associated Press.

MADRID, March 6-Many persons
were believed dead today in the gov
ernnent-held City Of Aranjuez after
q night Of terror, in which insurgent
planes, making repeated visits, drop
ped more than so bombs.
The attacks on Aranjuez, which
started at the dinner hour last night
and lasted ltermittently until after
2 am today, were the most severe Of
series in a broad semi-circle of in
surgent air raids on the Central Span
ish front.
Aided by q star-studded sky, the
bombing squadrons dropped explosives
with telling accuracy into Villaneuva
del Pardillo, is miles west of Madrid;
Alcala de Henares, IS miles to the
east; Tarancon, so miles to the south
east on the Valencia Highway. and
other points near Madrid and the
Valencia Highway.
Precise figures on the casualties at
Aranjuez were not Immediately avail
able. Property damage was severe.
particularly along vital government
railroad where insurgents attempted
to disrupt communications.
Madrid itself was given q fright
when the insurgent warplanes zoomed
overhead early in the evening. They
sped of. however, without bombing
the city. The rays Of giant search
lights pointed them out quickly in
the bright night.
REBEL CRUISER BOMBED.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
|$1,ODO,0DOHOSP|TAL
TO Be BUILT HERE
Patients of Moderate Means
to Gain by Structure
on | Street.

A new million dollar hospital owned.
and operated by doctors only. largely
for patients Of moderate means, will
rise on street between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth streets to connect two
medical buildings already on the site.
to form one of the greatest medical
centers in the city, The Star learned
today.
Property lying between these two
medical buildings. already purchased
by the physicians, includes the his.
toric old I street Friends Meeting
House and the Sidwell Friends School,
both of which will be razed or moved
from the site.
Plans already are under considera-
ton for construction of the hospital,
but construction will await removal Of
the two Friends institutions. which
have another year to vacate.
The hospital will connect Columbia
Medical Building, 1885 I street. at the
corner of Nineteenth street with Wash
ington Medical Building, 1901 street,
at the corner of Eighteenth street. It
will run back in the form Of T. al
most to the alley.
Own Two Medical Buildings.
The men behind the project have
been planning to bring this dream
into reality for 10 years. They own
and operate the two medical build
ings, which have interlocking direc-
torates, and have formed new $780,
900 corporation to be known ofncially
as Doctors Hospital, Inc. 1t has been
chartered by the State of Virginia.
The officers of Doctors Hospital,
Inc, all prominent in the medical pro-
fession here, are:
DR.. Charles Stanley White, presi-
dent; DR.. Edward L. Morrison. vice
president; DR.. Charles w. Hyde, treas
urer, and DIR. Oscar B. Hunter, secre-
tary.
DR.. White is president Of both the
Columbia Medical Building and the
Washington Medical Building Corps.
These two building corporations also
have the same treasurer, DR.. Hyde,
and the same secretary, DR.. Hunter.
The new Doctors Hospital, Inc, will
have an interlocking directorate from
(see HOSPITAL. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-03-06
ARMS POLICY HITS
BRITISH INDUSTRY
81, 500, 100000 Defense
Program Threatens to
Hamper Business.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated PreSS.
LONDON, March 6.-Britain's ST.
00,000,000 rearmament program
promised today not only to nick tax
able incomes by an extra IL per cent.
but threatened to hamper normal in
dustrial production for three years.
The five-year program of perfecting
war defenses. with its prospective in
roads into supplies of steel and other
materials, would take precedence over
regular peace time industry. Sir
Thomas Inskip. defense coordination
minister. suggested.
1T would be no bad thing" he de-
clared in a speech last night, IF some
orders were postponed two or three
years while contractors sre busy on
the government program"
The airplane industry, for example.
is so busy with government orders that
even now it is not attempting to meet
private orders.
Meanwhile. the English taxpayer
gradually was learning the full import
of the arms program as it promises 10
affect his purse. and labor troubles
continued to harass the government
efforts to catch up with a rearming
Europe.
It was believed certain an increase
of at least cents on every IS in the
standard income tax rate would result.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville
Chamberlain, who must devise means
of raising an additional $3.50. .000, 600
by taxation in the financial year be-
ginning April 1. limited as much In an
address last night at Edinburgh, Scot
land.
He referred to the prospect the gov
eminent would divert any treasury
surpluses to rearmament and added:
Nothing but stark necessity would
have made me confess to such mega.
ton of common sense and common
humanity"
Evening star., 1937-03-06
foes Of JUDICIARY
| PLAN MAP FIGHT
Senate Opposition Develops
on Two Fronts-Party
ReaIignment Hinted.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senatorial opponents of court reor-
ganization massed their attack today
on two fronts: The Presidents call
for immediate action and the ap-
proach Of crucial public hearings on
the issue
Senator Burke. Democrat. of Ne
braska told reporters there would be
"a new alignment of parties in this
country by 1898" if Mr.. Roosevelt
should carry his point.
The Presidents foes, carefully pre-
pairing to trade blow for blow, ar
ranged . series of addresses cul-
minating in q mass meeting next Fri
day at Carnegie Hall, New York.
They also hinted they had lined up
. prominent surprise" witness to lead
of their side of the case before the
Senate Judiciary Committee. They
would not disclose his name.
Sale Campaign Goes Forward.
While Burke and his colleagues were
serving notice of a fight to the Bit
ter end" the President and his chief
tains went ahead with their campaign
to sell the court program to the
Nation.
Mr.. Roosevelt worked on the fire
side chat" in which he will make his
second plea to the country Tuesday
night.
On Capitol Hill, his lieutenants pre-
pared to follow up this speech with
supporting testimony before the COM
mittee hearings beginning the next
day.
Opponents announced replies to the
Presidents speeches would be given by
four Democratic Senators from Is
many sections of the country at the
New York meeting.
The speakers, they said, would in
clude walsh Of Massachusetts,, pub
licly, at least, q new recruit to their
cause. The others are George Of
Georgia, Copeland of New York and
Burke.
On Wednesday night Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Of Montana, will
reply to the President from Chicago.
Burke's suggestion of a realignment
(See COURTS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-03-06
FOntaine F0x's Sister Reveals
Friend Is Really Their Sister

met Mary Fox. who is now Mrs. Reut-
linger. Mary Fox knew Jessie Adams
then, Is her sister, but kept the pledge
Of secrecy.
Later Jessie Adams married Dan
MacDougald and moved to Atlanta
and Mary Fox married Adolph Reut-
linger and remained in Louisville.
Last Spring Mr.. and Mrs. Adams
died. Mrs. Adams made Mrs. Mac
Dougald her heir, leaving an estate
valued at 100000. With the foster
parents both gone, 1t was decided the
secret no longer need be kept.
So last week Mrs. Reutlinger wrote
the revealing letter. She said that,
aside from herself, there was q sister,
Miss Francis Fox, and two brothers,
Barton and Fontaine.
Fontaine Fox, now in Florida, last
night referred questioners to Dan
MacDougald in Atlanta, while in
Louisville Reutlinger, an insurance
executive, told Of q proposed family
ysunion hare next week.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Actor Disappears From Ship
After Beauty Queens Party
Briton Missing at End
of Champagne Affair
in Girls Cabin.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, England, March g.
Frank Vosper, gifted British actor
playwright returning from Hollywood,
vanished today from q gay journeys
end champagne party aboard the
Europe-bound liner Paris in circum-
stances baf1ling both to Scotland Yard
and to his beauty queen hostess.
Vosper, 81, and Miss Muriel Oxford,
Miss Great Britain" of 1886, talked
together on .darkened deck veranda
about 3 am. while their friends "were
drinking champagne and everybody
was happy" The beauty queen did not
disclose the subject Of their CONVERSE
ton.
Then, Miss Oxford told Scotland
Yard officers, she returned to her own
party The gay guests missed Vosper,
and general ship alarm was sounded.
Il heard mans voice saying: If
you don't marry me, I'll Jump over
board" one Paris passenger asserted
to investigating officials.
Nothing like that ever happened"
retorted Miss Oxford, 23-year- r-old
chorus girl, who has been appearing in
New York revue
Investigations Started.
When the Paris docked at Plymouth
two hours later, Vosper was still miss
ing. Ships officers and Scotland Yard
began separate investigations.
Peter Wiles, a fellow Londoner, said
Vosper might have tried to climb down
to the next deck from the veranda in
order to return to his own cabin un-
noticed and then lost his balance He
said he was sure Vosper was drowned
accidentally.
The actor, he asserted, went to bed
before Miss Oxford's party started.
Il and several others went around
and dragged Frank out of bed and
made him come to the party" said
Wiles. He later told me: I am bored;
I want to go back to bed"
Friends of the brunette beauty queen
(See ACTOR, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-03-06
DOOM NOTE FOUND
ON BODY OF MAN
Death of Missouri Relief Admin.
istrator Thought Likely Due
to Fright.
By the Associated Press.

BY Lle hSSOCidtco EACoos
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo-, March g.
Federal and State officials today
sought to determine whether "dooms-
day" note found in his pocket held
a clue to the sudden death yesterday
Of Delois F. TeeG, Butler County
relief administrator.
Teed died unexpectedly at his desk
late yesterday-the day designated in
an abusive letter received week ago.
Coroer Grover Greer ordered a post.
mortem today. Possibility that death
was caused by heart attack, induces
by fear, was indicated by the coronef'
The note read:
Leave town for good in seven days
or it will be judgment day for you.
Police cannot help you. II you stay
we will get you or the boy If it takes
q year.
There won't be no more warning
If you mix the police or other people
In this. We will get you here or
where you 60. Leave and save your
dirty hide or stay and we get you"
The boy is believed by police to bs
Teed's 10-year- -old son, Jackie.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
CUMMINS WHIPPING
TESTIMONY GIVEN
Witness Said Boy Threatened to
Take Own Life Before
He DISAPPEARED.

~ star Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March g.
Testimony that Luther Cummins, Is.
year-old George Washington High
School student, whose skeleton was
found in Hume Swamp last Saturday,
threatened to take his own life be-
cause of beatings at his home a short
time before he disappeared last July
is was given at a coroner's inquest
here today.
William Harlow. a road roller oper-
ator, living at 308 South Patrick
street, told DR.. William B. wilkins,
acting coroner, that Luther took ref
uge on his steam roller last Summer
when chased and "teased" by other
boys in the neighborhood. Harlow
said he asked the boy why the others
were taunting him and quoted Luther
as replying:
"They are making fun Of me be-
cause my father and mother beat me
30 much. But they can't hurt me
because I am going to hang myself
or Jump out Of tree or something.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Sailor accused
Of millionaire
Spending Spree
$4OO Bill Leads to
arrest of Man in
HdgerstOiUn.
HGgerStOlCn.
By the Associated rress.

By Inc ASSOCIATED lreSs.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, March g.
Oficers charged today John o. Lonas,
3l-year-old sailor, apparently tried to
play millionaire for a day" here at
the expense of approximately dozen
merchants and business men.
Here is what they said Lonas, who is
attached to the U. S. S. Reina Mer-
cedes, station ship at the Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis, arranged to buy
and promised to pay for:
One $4,000 house Ton which he
paid $40)
$400 worth OF groceries from chain
store.
A new truck.
A new tractor.
A new, expensive automobile.
An expensive sewing machine.
Various farm implements.
A new typewriter
approximately 500 worth Of drugs
and sundries.
Awnings, measured to At the win
dovs Of his new home.
But. police here charged. Lonas
(See SAILOR. Page AID
Evening star., 1937-03-06
OBTAINS FIRST PAPERS

HOLLYWOOD, March @.-
Marlene Dietrich, . Berlin girl who
made good in Hollywood, was formally
on the way to United States citizen
ship today.
II live in the United States-my
interests are here-I think this Is
. great country" she explained when
she obtained her first papers yester-
day. She must wait two years for
naturalization.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Police to Quiz ~Young Hellions''
In Staying of Girl, 4, in Pond

F. Whitney prepared to conduct an
autopsy. Preliminary examination
disclosed, States Attorney Albion
Parker said, that the child met death
by violence and that there was an
attempted criminal attack"
At Claremont, N. H., General Hos
pital, about 10 miles away, nurses
shielded the child's mother, who gave
birth to . daughter only last Mon
day, from news Of her only other
daughters fate. Relatives asked that
q hospital radio be shut on to pre-
vent news reaching her through that
medium.
The staying Of the light-haired,
brown-eyed child was Windsor's sec.
ond murder in 10 years. John winters
of Windsor Is serving q life sentence
/GAA nYnY nnNa A-fAN
Evening star., 1937-03-06
By the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, March 6.-Mrs. Dan
MacDougald knew today, for the first
time, that she was not the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmer Speed Adams
of Louisville, KY. but the child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Fontaine Talbot Fox.
She also learned yesterday that she
has two sisters and two brothers, one
Of them Fontaine Fox, the cartoonist.
Mrs. MacDougald. socially promi-
nent and the wife Of successful at
torney, said one of the sisters, Mrs. A.
Reutlinger of Louisville wrote her the
story that had been carefully guarded
since her babyhood.
Mrs. Reutlinger told her, she said.
that her mother died when she was
born, and that she was adopted by
the Adamses and named Jessie Adams.
They asked that the adoption be kept
secret and under that name she grew
into womanhood.
Occasionally, after she made her
debut In Kentucky soeistIs Mis- Adams
Evening star., 1937-03-06
BULLITT CONFERENCES
WITH PRESIDENT BEGUN
General Aspects of World Eco
nomic Situation Discussed
With Secretary Hull.

By the Associated Press.
william c. Bullitt, American Am
bassador to France, began q series
of conferences with high administra-
ton officials today.
He was received by President Roose-
velt shortly after his arrival in Wash
ington late yesterday and held a
lengthy conversation with Secretary
Hull this morning.
The Secretary of State said they
discussed only general aspects of the
world economic situation. The Ameri-
can envoy said he will sail for Paris
March "A.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
BY the Associated Press.


WINDSOR, VT, March 6.-Police
Chief John Edmonds said today .
gang of young hellions" would be
questioned for information in connec-
ton with the Staying Of 4-year-old
Beverly Ann Page Of Claremont, N. H.,
whose battered body was found last
night in Mill Pond.
Edmonds said residents Of this little
town on the Connecticut River had
told him Of a group Of boys mot much
older" than Beverly Ann who practiced
cruelties on younger children. One Of
their customs, he said, was to hold
others under water until they came up
gasping The chief. half Of Windsor's
police department, did not identify the
group further.
Meanwhile, State Pathologist Charles
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Nazis Hit Two Societies.

BERLIN, March 6 CP.-Govern-
ment oficiaS who belonged to the
German Peace Society or the Pam
European Union before the Nazi as
sumption of power, an official decree
announced today, henceforth either
will be removed from their posts or
will be barred from future ad-
vancement.