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Evening star., 1937-08-03
Democrats to Plan Outing.

Plans for the f1rst annual outing Of
the New York State Democratic Club
Of washington will be made at Z
meeting at 4 pm. tomorrow in the
Raleigh Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-08-03
BAND CONCERTS

BY the Army Band at Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 o'clock tonight Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner,
assistant.
Program.
March. Second Regiment, Connecti-
cut N, G." Reeves
Overture, "Phedre" e"-M Massenet
Sextet from Lucia" Donizetti
Fox trot, Sylvia" Speaks
Selection from The Bohemians,"
Puccini
Souvenir" -Drdla
Toy shop fable, Soldier on the
Shelf" Myers
Excerpts from Hit the Deck"
Youmans
March, Rhode Island
Tercentenary" y"--J. A. Sousa
The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Soldiers Home Band in the
band stand at o'clock tonight. John
s. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
1EU8IA"s
March, Colonel Gonzales"
Uruguay INSTRUMENTATION Gubitosi
Overture, French Comedy"
Keler-Bela
Entr'acte, (a) I'm = Chinese Temple
Garden" Ketelbey
(b In q Persian Garden"
Ketelbey
Melange. Songs From the Old
Folks" ------ Lake
Popular, THE Peanut Vender" Simons
The Footlifter" (xylophone solo),
Fillmore
Wilbur D. Kieffer.
Waltz Mexicana, "Te Amo, Te Adore"
Il Love You, Adore YoU,
Martinez
Finale, General Lejeune,"
Taylor Branson
sThe etar Spaneied Banner"
Evening star., 1937-08-03

BY the Army Band at Walter Reed
Hospital at $50 o'clock tonight. Capt
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner,
assistant.
Evening star., 1937-05-06
UNION VETERANS
SONS PICK SLATE
D. c. Man Named Com
mander of Maryland
Department.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELkTON. Md, May 6.-The Mary
land Department, Sons Of Union Vet
erans. yesterday elected A. Van Ness
Veerst, Washington, D. c., as depart
ment commander at concluding ses-
sions OF their annual encampment
here
Rev. Emory NJ. Mcdowell, Whining
ton, Del, was uamed senior vice COM
mander and E. B. Hoover, Baltimore
Junior vice commander. Department
Council members named included
Howard Michael, Baltimore, three
years; Elmer G. Corrie. Smyrna, Del,
two years, and Frank de Groot, Wash
1ngton, D. c., one year.
John c. Bond, Washington, D. c.;
Elwood Huber. Wilmington, DEL John
l., Bateman, Washington, and William
j. Gillian, Wilmington, Del, were
named delegates to the national con-
vention
Other officers elected included John
G. Bond, patriotic inspector; chaplain,
Rev. Charles Coleman; guide, w. E.
Evening star., 1937-05-06

Baldwin: A. .. Hoover, color bearer,
Leighton. Pa; inside guard, Frank g.
Conner, Wilmington, Del, and outside
guard, Benjamin Hubert, Wilmington,
Del.
Bertha Reynolds, Baltimore, was
elected president Of the Ladies' Aux
iliary; Lillian g. Wood, Washington,
D. c., vice president; Agnes D. Will
helm, Wilmington, Del, and Anna
Garlock, Hagerstown, and Mary Pipes,
Wilmington, Council members. Ger
trude Denny, Wilmington, wes named
chaplain and Caroline Lille. Washing
ton, D. c., inspector.
Evening star., 1937-05-06
VETERAN WANTS WIFE
TO GET BIGGER PENSION
Senator Neely's Aid Asked in
Marriage Plan stipulating
Phone Operator.

By the Associated Press.
A war veteran yesterday asked Sen
ator Nicely Of West Virginia to get him
wife 80 he could qualify for larger
pension.
1t all grew out Of q decision BY
the Veterans Adlninistrat that the
ex-service mans pension could be in
creased only if he had dependents
Wrote the veteran:
Can you get Miss Blank to come
down and marry me. She Is a tele-
phone operator down there.
You can state the circumstance OF
my case that am required to have
dependent in order to get q raise
in pension. have known Miss Blank
ever since I was boy and she will
know who I am"
Evening star., 1937-05-06
CONDITION OF TENER
"AB0UT UNCHANGED"
Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
in Midst Of Crisis With
DnI hlA Pnauno min

IN Midst OF Crisis With
Double Pneumonia.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 8.-The condition
of former Gov John K. Tener OF
Pennsylvania, i'll with double pneu-
monia at the Hotel Vanderbilt, was
reported by relatives today as about
unchanged"
Dr.. Milton A. Gershel said the crisis
period for Tener was yesterday, to-
day and tomorrow and that he was
very sick
Relatives said his condition ap-
peared favorable under the crcum-
stances.
Tener, "a. divides his business time
between Pittsburgh. Pa, and New
York. He makes his home while in
New York at the Vanderbilt. In 1918
he retired after many years as presi-
dent Of the National Base Ball
League.
Evening star., 1937-05-06
POLICE LOSE 'PoSSUM
Animal Caught on r Street Van
ishes From Scout Car.

Two second precinct policemen
claimed they bagged an opoasum in
line Of duty last night-but they had
nothing to prove 1t today.
The hunterrPvts. q. v. Moore and
s. B. Myers-caught the animal in
the first block Of R street. The
opossum was treated to . ride in 4
scout Car back to the precinct, where
the officers quickly penned their quarry
In the basement. The opossum, how
ever, just as promptly did a disap-
pearing act.
Evening star., 1937-05-06

Nearly 10000 attended this years
motor cycle and bicycle show 1T
Milan, italy.
Evening star., 1937-05-06

FRANCES ROLLINS,
4, can't find anything to smile
about as she displays the in
jury receiDed yesterday Uhen
accidentally struck on the
head By a base ball bat in the
back yard OF her home, 652 E
street southeast. She 1Dus
matching her brother, Robert,
from too close a distance
Uhen he s1Oung to hit the ball
and struck her instead.
Star Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
BLAMED
IN AIR CRASHES
By PIERRE ]. HUSS

BERLIN, Feb. 10.--Red tape and
too much reliance on mechanical
controls and guides are chief con-
tributing factors to the recent Sc
ries of crashes which have clouded
American commercial flying, ac-
cording to the opinions of Ger
man air experts, expressed today.
Germany. one of the most air
minded nations of Europe, watched
closely the American Governments
investigation of these crashes,
which ended Saturday. German
experts we're interested especially
in the contention, strongly re-
futed by American Air Line Off
cials, that pilots sometimes were
sent up when they believed wea-
ther conditions too unfavorable
for safe flight.
Highly mechanical or Robot"
flying has become the American
vogue, it was pointed out.
The consensus of opinion here is
that in training of pilots and Law
ish equipment of air routes, Amer
lean companies have spared moth
ing, while the law forces every
consideration for the passengers
safety.
Nevertheless, there is growing
suspicion in air circles here that
the super-mechanization in plane
flying and constant guiding by
radio and beacon has tended to
lull the usually keenly alert navi-
eating sense of American pilots.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

room. He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital.
Alice Ekhart was credited with
probably saving the life of Moss.
She pounded on his door to arouse
him. She also aWoke several other
persons on the first floor before
fleeing for her own life.
Miss Ruth Weisberg, who lives
in an adjoining room, was trapped
by the smoke, and was helped
from her first floor window by
Policeman C. C. Johnson, of the
Third Precinct, and an unidenti-
fled citizen.
The entire building was filled
with smoke, but the fire was con-
fined to one room and a part of
the hall on the first floor.
Two alarms were turned in be-
fore the blaze was brought under
control.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
FRANCE TO AID
OLD ENEMY

PARIS, GN.SD-Abd-el-Krim
famous Riffian warrior captured
by the French on the island of
Reunion, may soon be given a place
of residence in France itself.
The colonial commission of the
Chamber in resolutions passed re.
Gently for the consideration of the
deputies declared that the Riff
fighter has insufficient means at
his disposal to live on Reunion.
1t is proposed that he be settled
elsewhere as "a gesture of the ira
ditional generosity of France to-
ward her enemies when they have
sincerely come over to the French
cause"
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

on the oil-covered water. A chill
wind moaned across the bay.
Bernard Doolin, superintendent
of the airport, made a minute
inspection of the plane and con-
cluded it rested in about Is feet
of water.
He said:
There's no possibility of any
one being alive and it probably
will be several hours before we
can recover the bodies"
Dooling declared the plane
probably would be towed to Oak
land and the bodies removed
there.
The plane arrivel in San
Francisco on schedule, and it's
pilots radioed at 8:44 p. m. to
Ted R. Martin. on duty in the
control tower, that it would land
at 9 o'clock.
When the landing lights were
turned on, the plane moved in
from over the bay which adjoins
the municipal airport here and
headed for a runway.
Makes RightabOut Turn
Suddenly the plane turned
sharply and went back over the
bay according to witnesses.
1t appeared to turn again and
then disappeared. Witnesses said
they heard a crash.
Lack of boats at the airport for
a time prevented would-be rescuers
from reaching the spot where the
plane was last seen. Three coast
guard cutters and the San Fran
cisco police department cruiser
were conducting the search, as
sisted by many privately-oWned
craft.
The fire department rushed two
huge trucks equipped with high
powered batteries of SearchlightS,
but the murky waters of the bay
refused to yield a trace of the
Wreckage.
In an effort to learn the exact
location of where the plane hit
the water another plane circled
over the bay and began coming
into the field under the same
radio instructions Pilot A. R..
Tommy" Thompson received.
Plane Circles Spot
Three times the plane came over
the same course as the ill-fated
airliner and each time that it
seemed to be in the same position,
a Coast Guard cutter was notified
by radio.
The cutter proceeded to the spot
as directed and dropped buoys
overheard.
Officials of the company de-
clared that Pilot Thompson was a
veteran of the air, with many
years of mail flying and transport
experience.
On the night of December 26, q
transport plane carrying IL pas
SengerS struck the side of a noun
tain near Los Angeles and all were
killed.
On January IL another paSsen-
ger liner crashed near the Los
Angeles airport, claiming a toll of
five lives. In this wreck, Martin
Johnson, the noted African ex-
plorer, was injured fatally.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
FIND A|RLINER
BURIED IN MUD
by TED R. MARTIN

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fated craft plummeted to it's doom
so swiftly the two pilots had no
time to drop them.
Seek to Recover Bodies
No bodies we're visible, but judg-
ing from the condition of the
plane, it seemed likely the eight
passengers, two pilots and steward
ess had been trapped and that
their bodies were still in the
wreck.
In service for only several weeks,
the liner was one of the latest
types of transport planes.
It was one of the % new planes
placed in operation by United Air
Lines, and represented all the
newest advances in safety and
speed.
The luxury craft was powered
by twin motors of IA cylinders
each and weighed IL tons. 1t was
designed to carry 81 passengers.
With the finding of the plane,
immediate preparations we're made
by United Air Line officials to re-
cover the bodies. A barge and
derrick, diving equipment and
divers were ordered.
Coast Guard cutters arriving on
the scene, set buoyS and made the
plane fast to the cutters pending
arrival of heavy barge.
No attempt was made to search
for bodies on account of darkness.
The plane was estimated to be
a mile and half off shore and
northeast of the airport.
List of Victims
The missing, all believed dead
Myron Lorge, 27. Los Angeles
automobile salesman.
Roger Myer, %, New York.
j. Franklin Gilmore, San
Francisco, vice president of an
oil burner company.
r. Margaron, believed to be
Reno Nargari, San Francisco
restaurant owner.
H. o. Friedlander, Los An
geles, president Los Angeles
casing company.
Mark Fontana, San Francisco
president Fontana Food Products
Company.
John Grennan, ST., So, Berke-
ley, real estate broker.
Gertrude Grennan, daughter
of Grennan.
A. R. Tommy" Thompson,
Burbank, Cal, pilot.
Ruth Kimmel, Alameda,
StewardeSS.
Joe De Cessaro, Glendale, CO.
pilot.
Work Under Spotlight
The scene of the wreck pre-.
sented an eerie sight.
A spotlight from the police
boat cut through the inky dark
ness and rested on the smashed
rear end of the plane; a half
dozen red flares burned fitfuIly
IL the wind.
Bits of wreckage floated lazily
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
DISCOVERY Hint S
Location Of
First Xmas

CAIRO, Feb. 10 G.N.SD-Tombs
of history's first great kings, who
ruled Egypt 5000 years ago, may
soon be found as the result of dis
covery today of the body of an
Egyptian noble of the first
dynasty-the first such find ever
made.
The ironic fate of band of
ghoulS who decapitated the
nobels body to steal his necklaces
was also bared-five millenia
afterwards. Apparently caught in
the act. they were slain and buried
in a pit in the same tomb.
Walter Emery, English archae-
ologist, found the tomb of the
noble, dating back to about 5000
B. c., near Sakkara. The body
was identified as that of Sabu,
a provincial governor under King
Azab.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
MADRID FAILS
TO RE TAKE
HIGHWAY
Three Attacks Beaten
OFF by Insurgents
Holding Road

MADRID, Feb. 10 1N.
Desperately striving. with pro-
digal sacrifice of man-power. to
reopen their life line" to Valen-
cia, Madrid's choked defenders
today vainly staged three futile
counter-offenSiveS against insur-
gent positions astride the high
road at Vaciamadrid.
Wave after wave of radical mil
itiamen plowed through ankle
deep mud straight into machine
gun and artillery fire, only to be
turned back, according to an in
surgent communique at Sala-
manca, with tremendous losses.
InSurgent sources estimated the
loyaliSt dead in the three assaults
at more than 1000.
Admit Road Cut
The Madrid defense committee
admitted the vital road had been
cut-leaving only one circuitouS
road to the sea open-but COM
munique said:
Republican troops cOunter-at-
tackled during the night, recap
turing a greater part of the
rebel positions"
Cutting a deep salient in the 10y
aliSt line, the insurgents occupied
Monte PeraleS del Rio and two
other hamletS on the road about
IN m i1oc cO1ithoocf of Madrid and
their artillery now commands sew
eral miles of the highway.
Farther south, according to
Madrid committee announcement,
inSurgent artillery and aircraft
heavily bombarded Cigarral Alto,
near Aranjuez, while infantry at
tackled, but the onslaught was re-
pulsed and positions remain I'M
changed.
Mountain Posts BOmbarded
Insurgents also bombed loyalist
positions in the snoW-covered Qua
darrama Mountains, as loyalistS
attacked inSurgent positions north
west of Madrid near Las RoZaS.
Fifty loyaliStS were killed when
an attack on Alcala Real in Gran
ada province failed, an insurgent
statement at Salamanca said.
while the loyaliStS also we're driven
off after attacks on the Villa del
Rio and Lopera sectors.
BARCELONA, Feb. 10 G.N.SO.
Venturing close under Barcelona's
harbor defenses, an unidentified
vessel today hurled large shells
into the heart of the Catalonian
capital.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Business Men Lunch

The Central Business Mems AS.
sociation will hold a luncheon
meeting at the Ebbitt Hotel to-
morrow at 1890 p. m. Michael
Keough, as guest conductor, has
arranged special entertainment.
Hugh H. Keiser, president, will
preside.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
ROOminS House Fire
ROutS 100 Tenants

One man was injured and near
ly 100 persons were forced to flee
into the street in their night
clothes by a fire in the Westmin-
ster, a four-story apartment at
1907 Seventeenth st. N. w., early
today.
John Moss, in whose room the
fire is believed to have started,
was burned on the hands and feet
as he escaped from the blazing
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

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fated craft plummeted to its doom
so swiftly the two pilots had no
time to drop them.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
DISTRICT RACE
DEBATE HOT
IN HOUSE
Mrs. Norton Denies
Bill Was RaiIroaded
Past Committee

In one of the most heated ses-
SionS held by the House District
Committee for some time, charges
that the District racing bill was
"railroaded" to the committee
we're warmly made and as stoutly
denied.
The charge that the bill had
been railroaded was made by Rep
reSentative Paul w. Shafer (R)
of Michigan, who contended that
the procedure by which the meas
ure was ordered reported was i'm
proper and that new members Of
the committee we're given no op-
portunity to study the bill.
Discussion of the matter was
opened by Representative Mary T.
Norton CD of New Jersey, COM
mittee chairman, who said:
"There has been much con-
fusion about the vote taken last
week on the race track bill.
There was nothing irregular
about the procedure, and no one
objected to it at the time the
vote was taken"
BATES NOT SATISFIED
Representative George j. Bates
(R.) of Massachusetts,, one of the
new members, interjected:
81 feel that there was a very
definite effort made to rush the
bill through the committee"
T. ont +hnt ho ond cnYoo
of the other new members were
not on the committee last year
when the hearings we're held, and
it was brought out that the hear
ings were never printed. Mrs. Nor
ton promised to get the hearings
printed so that any member who
desired could offer amendments
on the floor.
Representative Merlin Hull (P0
of Wisconsin, opponent of the bill,
asked:
81 want to know who's in back
of this bill"
O'HARA CRITICISED
Chairman Norton responded
that as far as she knew the man
who proposes to put up the track
here if the legislation is enacted
is the only one behind it. Mr..
Bates asserted:
That's what I'd like to COM
ment on. Our experience with
Mr.. O'Hara walter O'Hara,
owner of Narragansett track,
who proposes to build a track
here) has been very sad in New
England"
1t was at this point that Mr..
Shafer asserted:
II think the new members Of
the committee should have been
given an opportunity to study
the bill before such quick action
was taken. Personally, to be
frank, 1 think it was railrOaded
through the committee"
RUSH CHARGED DENIED
Mrs. Norton bitterly denied that
any such tactics had prevailed.
Agreeing with Mr.. Shafer and
Mr.. Bates, Mr.. Hull contended that
the bill sets up a monopoly for
Mr.. O'Hara and said:
II think we should have the
right to discuss this matter and
protect the District against the
granting of a franchise"
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
SIGNALS SHIP,
THEN SEES IT
DROP IN BAY
10. K" Last Word of
Pilot an Instant
Before Tragedy

The last man to talk to the ILL.,
tdted passenger liner tDh1ch
plunged into San Francisco Bay
carrying II persons to their
deaths wdS Ted r. Martin, United
Air Lines airport attendant, 1Uho
directed the plane into San Fran
cisco. Here is the story.
by TED r. MARTIN
As Told to International Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10
saw the plane go down in the
water of San Francisco Bay.
From my position sitting at the
communications controls in the
tower room over the airport puild-
ing, could clearly see the planes
guide lights disappear near the
surface of the water.
That was my first knowledge
that there was real trouble.
Until then everything looked to
be all right. I received a message
at 8:44 o. m. from Pilot Thomp-
son asking me for clearance orders
as he came in over the KPO radio
tower in San Bruno, nearby.
Gives Plane clearance"
I gave him complete clearance
and advised him of the good visi-
bility, wind velocity and such rou-
tine information. I told him 1t
was all right to taxi in on the
east-west runway.
He came in over the field but I
could see he was too high.
He cleared down past the east
west runway and towards the
north end of the field. and then
in wide arch he made a 180 de-
gree turn out to the right to the
bay as if he was going out to
come back in again lower.
Plane ZOOms Downward
But he didn't get that far. once
over the bay, the plane suddenly
zoomed downward. We could all
hear a loud thud followed by a
sort of wheeling, sucking noise.
And then we were out of touch
with her. The last word I had
from Thompson was when he said
"okay" in answer to my directions
to come on and taxi in.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Boy, 2, Is Drowned

ERIE. Pa, Feb. 10 1.N.S).
Unseasonal warm weather which
weakened the ice in fish pond
was blamed today for the drown
ing of Donald Raupers. two, in 1S
inches of water.
Evening star., 1937-07-29

Gill. He was sure that every one
else in the Office was impressed by the
feeling of friendship that existed be-
tween them.
A week before the day planned for
the crime, Fisher mentioned to ste
nographer that Gill seemed in III
health The stenographer scrutlnlzed
the old man closely and nodded.
HE does seem bit done up, doesn't
he?"
Thus did Fisher plant seed. The
stenographer mentioned the matter OF
Gills i'll health to several of her COM
rades. Before the day was over two
thirds of the force had commented on
it. They would remember this and un-
less the stenographer to whom Fisher
had first spoken were questioned,
which was unlikely. they wouldn't
know who it was that had first men,
toned the matter.
Thus did Fisher attend to details
On the morning Of the 2lst, the
day he had set for Gills end, the
Office force was startled by a shot
And when suddenly the door which
led to the little waiting room. of OF
which were Fishers and Gill'S private
offices, burst open and Fisher entered
the room, no one had remote thought
that he was in any way connected
with what was later discovered to be
the cause of the shot.
Fishers face was white and his eyes
wide and staring.
Call a doctor!" he shouted. Quick!
Mr.. Gill shot himSelf!'
ERITZ OGDEN, Mr.. Gill's private
secretary. calmly picked up the
phone on his desk and sent out sum-
mons for his own family physician.
Fisher stood by the young mans desk,
trembling as if under a tremendous
pressure.
You'd better call the police, too.
Ogden. Suicide Investigations are in
cluded in their line of duty.
The young man nodded in that
crisp. businesslike manner he had
and did as requested. After that. he
and Fisher returned to the room where
Gill's body was spraVled grotesquely
across a desk top
The doctor and police arrived simul-
taneously. The inspector in charge
picked up the automatic that lay on
the floor beside Gill's desk and carried
it into Fishers own Office for exami-
nation.
KILLED instantly" was the doctors
verdict. Bullet passed through his
brain and buried itself in the wall
over there" He pointed, Suicide, I'd
say, pure and simple"
The inspector nodded silently, and
began browsing about the room. Fisher
Evening star., 1937-07-29

American Embassy. A policeman told
them it was Soviet property, they said.
When they photographed the peas
ants bark-clad feet, woman passer-
by called police. who took the Wilson's
to the police station. Wilson said
while they were there 40 feet Of films
with scenes OF Moscow and Leningrad
were developed in a dark room and
the Aim was confiscated.
Recently there was another case Of
Americans being arrested for ''unau-
thorizeo' photography.
Tightening of Soviet supervision Of
passports had previously been mani
tested when a number OF passengers
from the liners Franconia, Kungsholm
and Rotterdam were refused permb-
sion to land, although they, too, had
the required visas.
In all, about 40 of the 2O8 tourists
who paid visits to Moscow were re-
fused landing permits from the Re-
lance at Leningrad, Hutter said
Americans not allowed to land we're
Mrs. Lydia Miller and her daughter
Philadelphia: Mrs. P K Miller, New
York; Mrs. A. c. Williams, New York
Mrs. Blake, New York; Mr.. and Mrs.
Staube, Short Hills, N j., and Mrs.
Tritsher. Mrs. Haines. Mrs. Bates, Mrs.
Schermerhorn and Mrs. Hinke, ad-
dresses not given.