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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-06-02

anywhere, you'll remember, and got
out of her contract, and all Holly
wood said she was crazy. as she
had just one performance to her
credit at that time.
And then Stage Door" and all
the opportunity in the world!
=
The Lone Ranger" craze is
growing every day. The actor who
plays the Ranger" in the screen
serial may go on personal appear
ance tour. National Broadcasting
company has arranged for tram
scriptiOn rights of the radio pro-
gram for the South, Canada and
Australia-at present it's heard on
42-station tie-up three times a
week. There's talk of circus stunt
and of cartoon strip for the news
papers. And the country will be
flooded with books, cowboy suits,
chewing gum, sweaters, and all the
other merchandise that can be used
in profitable tie-ups.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-06-02
Lesson for June 5
SERVING BY Personal
DEVOTION TO CHRIST

LESSON TEXT-Mark l4:3-1l, 27-3l.
GOLDEN TEXT-She hath done what
she could. Mark 1873.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Mary's Present to
Jesus.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Mary's Love Gift.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR
TOPIC-Showing Our Love to Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT
TOPIC-The Heart of Christian Service.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
MOTHER KILLED, d
HACKED BY MANIAC
Two Brothers and Two Sisters,
Slashed With Cleaver, Are
in Serious Condition.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA May Four
brothers and sisters Of a fugitive from
the City Hospital for Mental Diseases
were in critical condition today and
their mother was dead-hacked with
a meat cleaver.
Abraham Sarkis, SO, a former dentist,
who five times had escaped from the
hospital, was held by police on a
murder charge. He was in serious
condition from wound In his abdo-
men.
His sisters, Dorothy, "a, and Hettie,
20, and his brothers. John, 28, and
Louis, 80, were found by police slashed
and suffering from loss Of blood when
they broke into the house early yes
terday morning to investigate smoke
coming from window. The mother,
Mrs Fharise Sarkis, 81, was slain in
bed.
Mayor S. Davis Wilson said police
had been watching the house in an
effort to recapture Sarhs, described BY
DR.. Wilbur P. Rickert, superintendent
Of the hospital, as homicidal maniac.
The mayor said Sarkis apparently had
been sheltered in the house by his
family since his escape q month ago.
Police Capt. Edward F. Burke said
an investigation showed that Sarkis,
apparently. had attacked his family
while they were asleep. and then tried
to set fire to the house.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
PLEA
TO Be PRESENTED
Mrs. Anna Hend|ey to Offer
Nationwide Petition to
House Group.

Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, pioneer
in the suffrage movement, Is planning
to present to the House Judiciary
Committee this week a petition of
more than 1000 names of persons
representing many organizations in
different parts of the country in sup
port of the Districts plea for national
representation.
Mrs. Hendley was one Of the found
ers and for many years president of
the Susan B. Anthony League, later
known as the Susan B. Anthony
Foundation, and has been active in
the campaign to bring votes to the
voteless District Of Columbia.
She was a prime mover in having
the District Federation of Women's
Clubs indorse national representation
in 1918. She was the first woman
to present resolution for national
representation to the Society Of Ma
tiyes. which adopted it. She intro
dlced the first resolution on national
representation to the biennial session
Of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs at Chautauqua, N. Y, years ago.
1t was Mrs. Hendley who introduced
the national representation resolution
in the convention of the National
League of Women Voters in Chicago
in 1920
Hearings will begin Wednesday at
1890 am, when the House Judiciary
Committee begins consideration of
two joint resolutions providing for
suffrage by constitutional amendment
the Capper-N Norton resolution and
the Lewis Randolph resolution.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
DISHWASHER-WRITER
FALLS HEIR TO $1,000, 900
Elisha Waterman Cast Off by His
Father IS Years Ago for
Marrying Beauty.
3y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Cast of by
his rich father is years ago, Elisha
Waterman, 39-year-old dishwasher,
cook and pulp fiction writer, today
was the undisputed heir to a $4,000, 900
fountain pen fortune.
The father, Frank D. Waterman,
died May 6, still bitter at the son who
married in 1923 against his wishes.
He wllled Elisha only $780, but his
death made the son eligible to the
income from a $5,000,000 trust fund
set up by his grand uncle, Lewis Edison
Waterman, fountain pen inventor.
Terms of his grand uncle's will
provided that If the said Elisha HUI
son Waterman survives his father, the
said Frank D. Waterman, he shall
after the death of his father and as
long as he lives receive the funds
income.
Attorneys for the Waterman family
said no attempt would be made to
fight the bequest
Elisha incurred the enmity of his
father by marrying Canadian
beauty, Evelyn Audrey Allen. She
die din 1928 Her father-in still
unrelenting, took over the care of her
daughter, Audrey Allen Waterman,
now 13, but never was reconciled with
his son.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
By the Associated Press.

6y tne AsSoclhteO fIesS.
Seventeen major positions in the
Government, paying from $4,000 to
$17,500 year. either are open now or
soon will become vacant
President Roosevelt is expected to
fill some of them quickly, but others,
like the Office of controller general,
may continue officially vacant for
months. The controller generals post,
paying $4,000 a year, has not been
filled since j. F. McCarl completed
his term in 1896. r. N. Elliott is act
ing controller.
Some observers expected an appoint
ment for the l5-year term after the
House shelved the Government reor-
ganiZation bill, which would have
abolished the Office Others believe
the President may defer 1t still longer
in the hope the bill will be revived.
In the diplomatic service President
Roosevelt must choose an Ambassador
to Russia, paying S17,500 a year, and
Minister to Canada and Persia, each
paying $4,000. The Moscow post be-
came vacant last week when Ambas-
sador Joseph E. Davies was confirmed
by the Senate for similar position in
Belgium.
In the Treasury Department the
President soon may appoint a sue
cessor to j. F. T. O'Connor, WHO re-
signed the l5,000-a-year job of con-
troller of the currency to enter the
gubernatorial race in California. He
also may choose a director of the
budget, post now filled in an acting
capacity by Daniel W. Bell.
The nomination of John w. Hanes
last week to be an Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury to succeed Miss Jo-
sephine Roche left a $10,000-a-year
vacancy on the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
For months the President has made
no move to fill one of the $15,000-a-
year vacancies on the Federal Reserve
Board.
Neither has he taken any steps to
fill the vacancy created by his removal
of Chairman Arthur e. Morgan of the
Tennessee Valley Authority. The job
pays $4,000 a year, and DR.. Morgan,
who is expected by some Washing
tonians to fight the removal order,
Evening star., 1938-05-16
II Major Government Posts
Slated to Be Vacant Soon

may seek to collect his salary in the
courts.
Frank McManamy continues to
serve on the Interstate Commerce
Commission under an Interpretation
Of the law which permits commits
sioner to retain his post until his sue
cessor is named Mr.. McManamy' s
term in the S10000-a-year Office ex-
pired December 81, 1887,
One 0,000-a-year job as Federal
power commissioner has been vacant
since Chairman Frank r. McNinch
was transferred to the Communications
Commission last winter Another will
become officially vacant when the term
of Basil Manly expires June %.
There also is vacancy on the Ma
tional Bituminous Coal Commission,
untitled since Charles F. HoSford. jr.,
producers representative. resigned his
$4,000 job last month.
-Four ,000-a-year positions will be
open technically on June l, when the
terms of four members of the Board
of Tax Appeals expire They are
Clarence V. Opper Of New York, John
w. Kern CT Indiana, c. Rogers Arun-
dell of Oregon and John T. Tyson of
Misgi-sirri.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
MRS. ROBERTS RITES
WILL BE HELD TODAY
Services for Daughter of Late
Gov. Oden Bowie Set at
Collington, Md.

BY the Associated Press.
COLLINGTON, Md, May 16.-
Funeral services will be held here at
4 pm today for Mrs Annette Bowie
Roberts, daughter of Oden Bowie. who
was Governor Of Maryland from 1858
to 1872.
Mrs. Roberts, who was rs, died
Saturday at Fairfields her home at
Landover. She was the widow OF Eu-
gene Roberts, descended from the CAL
vert family and socially prominent in
Southern Maryland.
Survivors are two sons, Eugene
Bowie Roberts, Washington; :. Will
liam Roberts, Landover; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. George r. Veazey, Balti-
more, and Mrs. Alice Roberts Addi-
son, Washington, and two sisters, Mrs
Thomas Whitridge and Mrs. Carter
Lee Bowie, both Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
JOSEPH STRAUSS,
ENGINEER, DIES
World Famous Designer Of
Bridges Was SO; Invented
Several Types.

Joseph Strauss. SO, who was de-
signing engineer Of the draw span for
the Arlington Memorial Bridge here,
besides being engineer for San Fran
cisco's Golden Gate Bridge and other
world-famous structures, died today
Of a heart attack at hts apartment in
Los Angeles, 1t was learned through
the Associated Press. Private services
are to be held Wednesday.
Mr.. Strauss was born in Cincinnati
and was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati in 1892. later be-
coming an instructor in the engineer
ing department. He acted as designer
for the sanitary district Of Chicago
and then founded the Strauss Engi-
neering Corp. Of Chicago and San
Francisco.
He was the originator Of five types
of the Strauss trunnion bascule bridge
which is standard throughout the
world, and also originated two types
of lift bridges. He invented type of
portable searchlight used by the
United States and Russian govern
ments in the World War.
Among the 500 bridges he construct
ed in the United States, Canada and
European countries was the $l2,000,-
600 Montreal-South Shore bridge at
Montreal, Canada. He was consult
ing engineer for the Port of New York
Authority on the George Washington
Memorial Bridge.
Mr.. Strauss designing for the Gold
en- Gate Bridge is recognized as the
finest In existence This bridge is
the longest single span in the world.
the main span being 4,200 feet ane
the total length 5000 feet.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
NEW ARREST SEEN
IN ABDELL CASE
Detective Probing Death of
Norfolk Woman to Confer
With Arnold.
ES the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, May 16.-Detective
Leon Nowitzky, coroner's investigator,
said he probably would make another
arrest after conferring with Common
wealth's Attorney John M. Arnold to-
day in the death of Mrs. Audrey
Sharpe Abdell, 38.
Detective Nowitzky said yesterday
that man who told police he saw a
tall, well-dressed man" leave the
Abdell residence last Wednesday at
about the time Mrs. Abdell was be-
lieved beaten and left to die in the
gas-flled kitchen of her home, had
identified James Clifton Abdell, Al,
the dead woman's husband, at the
city jail as the man he saw.
Abdell, merchandise broker, Is
being held without bail on a charge
of murder in his wife's death. Her
bruised and scratched body was found
in the kitchen Of her home late
Wednesday afternoon. He denied the
charge, declaring he was in Washing
ton from Monday through midnight
Wednesday.
Detective Nowitzky said, however.
that Abdell was seen here by two
other persons in addition to the man
who said he saw him walking out Of
his home Wednesday morning about
$50 or 10 o'clock. The witnesses are
positive in their identification" the
detective said.
Abdell, in a statement after his
arrest, said Washington police awoke
him in his room at the Harrington
Hotel Wednesday at midnight and
told him Of his wife's death. He then
Immediately drove to Norfolk and
called Detective Nowitzky from At
torney Ivor A. Pages Office.
Detective Nowitzky claimed also to
have placed Abdell in Richmond later
Wednesday.
The man who reported he saw a
man walk on the porch said the man
pulled his hat down over his eyes and
turned after walking down the steps
and looked toward the left rear Of
the house. He said also that there
was dark coupe or roadster parked in
front Of the house at the time.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
JUNIOR LEAGUE OPENS
MEETING IN PITTSBURGH
Mrs. G. A. Garrett of d. c. Is to
Be Honor Guest Tomorrow at
Convention Dinner.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 16.-Smartly
dressed young society women from
New York to Hawaii gathered today
in Pittsburgh for the 18th annual
conference of the Association of
Junior Leagues.
Board members met today and the
opening dinner will be held Tuesday
evening, with Mrs. George Angus
Garrett of Washington, D. c., as the
honor guest. Mrs. Garrett was founder
of the Pittsburgh League and its first
president.
Alan Valentine, president of the
University of Rochester, will speak at
the dinner and James G. Mcdonald,
New York Times newspaper man, and
Philips Wickser Of Buffalo, president
of Buffalo Children's Aid Society, will
address the convention Wednesday.
The conference ends Friday with
the election Of officers. Mrs. Peter L.
Harvie of Troy. N. Y, is the retiring
national president.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
CONGRESS IN BRIEF

A0Qdy.
Relief-Senate subcommittee starts
closed hearings on 5000, ,00o, 900 relief
and public works BILL
Aviation-Senate debates bill to set
up new control board.
Radio-House committee begins
hearings on bill authorizing Govern
ment radio station.
House-Considers minor legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Program uncertain if Federal aid
highway bill Is disposed of.
House:
Resumes debate of civil aeronautics
bill.
Subcommittee of Appropriations
Committee continues hearings on
third deficiency supply bill at 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

The extensive disturbance that was CEN
tral over Southern New England Sunday
morning is moving slowly northeastward.
Eastport. Me, .26 inches. The western
disturbance has increased in extent. but
Nevada Las Vegas, 29.46 inches. These
disturbances have been attended by rain
Valley eastward to the Atlantic Coast.
and by showers in portions of the Plains
States Texas the Rocky Mountain and
fornia and the Lower Missouri Valley.
Pressure is high from British Columbia
and Southern Alaska eastward over the
District of Mackenzie and the Western
Canadian provinces. and from Manitoba
southeastward to Florida. Simpson, Dis.
Nashville Tenn, and Ketchikan Alaska,
30.14 inches. The temperature has risen
slightly in the Middle Atlantic States
Mountains and the Mississippi River.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
GLUE TO MISSING SHIP
is SIGHTED OFF PANAMA
Hatch Covers From Vessel That
Mysteriously Disappeared Are
Found at Sea.
BIZ the Associated Press.

SS lih hssOCAaCtU EicSS'
p LONDON, May 10 Owners Of
The missing British freighter Anglo
Australian" informed Lloyds today that
the ships hatch covers had been
sighted of Panama by the steamer
Dalhanna, which arrived at Cristo-
bal yesterday. The Anglo Austrian, :"
missing for two months with crew
OF 38, officially has been given up for
lost.
Discovery Of the hatch covers bear
ing the vessels name, however, failed
to clear up one Of the deepest modern
mysteries Of the sea.
An internal explosion or a water
spout were considered most likely
causes Of the apparent disaster, al
though some shipping men suggested
ss2e might have been a victim OF a
pirate" submarine ranging far from
Spanish waters.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
WEATHER REPORT

in
temperature diminishing
MayandFar tonight
portion tonight
portions tonight coudines probably
portion
West vrginiaFa increasing
coudnes. probably showers tomorrow night
Evening star., 1938-05-16
MARYLAND JOINS.
Woman Pilot Will Be Among Group
Making Special Airmail Flights.


BALTIMORE, May 16-With one
woman in the list of special pilots,
Maryland began yesterday its share
in the Nation wide celebration of Ma
tional Airmail Week, commemorat-
ing the goth anniversary of the serv-
ice
A series of special airmail flights
Thursday will highlight the States
participation. The only woman pilot
Mrs. Theodore Phillips of Cambridge,
will Fly the mail" from Easton to
Baltimore that day.
A seaplane from the Naval Acad-
eny, piloted by 1t. r. B. Pirie, U. S.
N, will cover an all-water route along
the Chesapeake Bay He will carry
''f1rst-fight" covers from Annapolis
and stop at six bay towns before COM
ing to Baltimore.
Twelve pilots will make the flights
between various towns and Baltimore.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Flights Are Past,
Says First Man to Fly atlantic
Capt. Read and 5 Others
BIazed Trail in 1919;
Took IA Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Inc ASSOClaCeQ PTeSS.
The day of spectacular airplane
flights is over, says Capt. A. C, Read
u S. N, who l9 years ago today blazed
an air trail to Europe with five COM
panions in Navy flying boat.
The trip of the NC-4 was the first
airplane crossing of the Atlantic. The
crew started at Rockaway Beach, N Y,
May IA and reached Lisbon, Portugal,
May 81. The first oversee leg from
Trepassey, New foundland, TO the
Azores was begun May 6.
Within two months the Atlantic was
spanned twice more. Two British
flyers made the first nonstop crossing
June IA, 1919, and British dirigible
made the first nonstop crossing in
lighter -than-air craft on July l.
THE war had just ended, and people
wanted to think about other things"
mused Capt. Read. now assistant chief
of the Bureau of Aeronautics in the
Navy Department. He added that he
Evening star., 1938-05-16
SIGNAT0RIES ABANDON
HAGUE TRADE ACCORD
Seven Northern European Nations
End Agreement Because Of
World Conditions.

BY the Associated Press.
OLSO, Norway, May 16.-The seven
small nations linked by the Hague
convention today announced they
would discontinue their mutual trade
agreement July l because OF world
conditions"
A lengthy communique issued In be-
half of the signatories-Norway
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxembourg
emphasized they would continue eco
nomic collaboration with the greatest
good will"
The trade agreement, signed just a
year ago, was an outgrowth Of the
Oslo convention of 1880 which bound
seven nations to seek lower trade
barriers, abolish exchange restrictions
and revive international credit.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
ARLliu,GT0k COUNTY
HIS SUNDAY MOVIES
Many Residents Drawn by First
Show to Be Given Following
Order of Court.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va, May 16-Sun-
day movies made their debut in
Arlington County yesterday
The Wilson Theater, in Fort Myer
Heights, acting under a declaratory
Judgment returned in Circuit Court
last week, opened it's doors to Sun
day audience for the first time.
Long before the opening hour of
2:30 pm. that was set by the court
many citizens were in line waiting
for tickets to 60 on sale.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Fire Proves Costly.

ENGLISH, Ind. tF1.-Mrs. Elwood
Mathers awoke to find the house on
fire and screamed.
Her husband, leaping up, crashed
into another bed. He broke three ribs.
The fire damage was slight.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
MRS. CAPEHART DIES
Widow of Naval Oficer Was
Former D. C. Resident.

. Mrs. Sadie Wadley Capehart, widow
of Capt. Edward Everett Capehart, U.
s. N, died Saturday Of a heart all
fnent in Kent, Conn, according TO
word received here. She was for
many years resident Of Washington
Surviving are two sons Corndr
wadleigh Capehart, U. s. NJ, and 1t
Comdr. Everett D. Capehart, U. S. N.
retired, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday In st. Johns Church, Ports
mouth, N. H
Evening star., 1938-05-16
lecord for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
Highest, SO. noon today. Year ago; ~.
Lowest 54. 1:30 am. today. year
ago. 40.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 81 on April %.
Lowest. 49, on January rs.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayo
Highest. 7e per cent at 8 pm. Yesterday.
Lowest, 35 per cent at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac River clear and Shenandoah
slightly cloudy at HarperS Ferry: Potomac
clear at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow.
HlRn ----I---- S.1u an. g.f Am
Low --------- - h.tH. .S.11 M
nlgn ------------ s.3r p'm' ~ r5 SMs
Low --------- fsio PIN L 90 Pun
The Sun and Moon.
Sun. Sun. tsmoyrov sSasy t::ss I'll
Moon, today-- e:26 pm. 6:31 am.
Automobile LIGHTS must be turned on
one-half hour AFTER sunset.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Nurses to Be Honored.

People of France have decided to
honor the memory Of 900 nurses who
died in active service during the World
War.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

believed the great pioneer flights Of
that day were made chiefly to show
that such things could be done
Evening star., 1938-05-16

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-haH hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

The Sun and Moon.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
SUCHOW R|NGED,
JAPANESE CLAIM
One Column 10 Miles From
Strategic Railway City,
They Say.

BACKGROUND
Fipe- long japanese ofen-
sipe to conquer Central China cul-
nlinating In pictory in spite of stout
resistaEce by Chinese and major
defeat they inflicted upon japanese
at TdierhchaOang about month ago.
Capture OF east-iOeSt Lunghat rail-
Ddy and junction city of Suchow
Mould consolidate japanese con-
quests in North China and Yangtse
Valley area.
Evening star., 1938-12-20
Moscow Press Sees
Still Grover Crisis

MOSCOW, Dec. 20 LP-Le Jour.
nal de MoScou, which often exs
presses foreign Office viewpoints, de-
clared editorially in an attack or
Prime Minister Chamberlains poll
cles today that Europe faces events
still more grave than those of Sep
tember, 1888"
The paper called the four-powe1
Munich agreement on the division
OF Czecho-Slovakia September % .
"scandalous surrender"
Countless moral and materia,
sacrlf1ces were made" it added, but
Europe faces events still more grave
than those of September, 1898.
AL the sacrifices were made In
vain. The British German
(anti-war) declaration signed bv
Chamberlain (on September 800 was
to serve as starting point for the
consolidation OF British German re-
lations.
In reality, Fascist Germany rude
ly laid her colonial claims and COM
menced an anti-British campaipn
right after signing that declaration. /"
LIE journal also described as
worthless the British-Italian friend
ship agreement of April 16 and the
French-German anti-war declara-
tlon, which, it said, serves as an
lntensification of aggression against
france and England for the Rome
Berlin axis"