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The Washington times., 1938-05-24
CROSS PRAISES
MISS HEPBURN

HARTFORD. Conn.,, May "A
Q.N.SD .-Connecticut's Katy
Hepburn may be "box office
poison" but to Governor Wilbur
L. Cross she is "a fine actress"
In a letter today to a local thea
er manager, who has scheduled
Miss Hepburn's latest picture for
next week, the governor wrote,
in part:
In view of the recent con-
troverSy about Miss Hepburn'S
popularity, I am glad to know
that she now has an opportunity
to prove what we in Connecp
ticut have always thought.
The rapid success which Miss
Hepburn has enjoyed in Holly
wood Is, I think, a source Of
much pride to the people Of our
State. The popularity Of an
artist Of her ability should grow
with the years."
The four-tisne governor Of the
Nutmeg State, among other things,
is chancellor of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, preSi-
dent of the National Institute Of
Arts and Letters, editor of the
Yale Shakespeare, and director Of
Connecticut College for Women.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

who threw acid on her hand and
dress when, in response to his as
sertion that he was Governor
Earle's secretary, she put out her
hand to receive a message"
The Amkino corporation, a
group of Russian communists, dis
tributing the film won an appeal
to Common Pleas Judge Curtis
Box, liberal member of the Phila.
delphia judiciary who set aside
the ban, an appeal from that
ruling by the Board of Censors
is now pending in the Pennsyl-
vania Supreme Court.
HOME BOMBED HERE
Mrs Palmer recalled the time
the front of her Washington home
was blown to bits while her hus-
band. then Attorney General,
under President Woodrow Wilson,
was out of the city
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
TWO IN MERCY
KILLING BURIED

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, May
24.-With only a small group of
relatives and friends present.
Capt. John S. Stringfellow, 81
year-old retired Army officer and
his wife whom he shot in a
mercy" killing before turning
the gun on himself, were buried
quietly here yesterday in River
view Cemetery.
Captain Stringfellow, according
to authorities, shot his 50-year-old
wife, who had been an invalid
three years, while she lay in bed,
and then shot himself through
the head.
Mrs. Stringfellow, the former
Miss Grace Root, of Huntington,
w. Va, had been an invalid since
six months after their marriage q
little more than three years ago.
She suffered a broken back when
the couples car overturned near
West Point, Va. Captain String
fellow lost control of the car as
he tried to brush aside a wasp
which had flown into the car and
stllng Mrs. Stringfellow.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
GERMANS STRIP
u. S. WOMAN IN
SEARCH At PORT
Mrs. Lewis Rose, Radio
Lecturer, Protests

BERLIN, May "a H.N.S).-Of-
ficials of the Hamburg. American
line today rendered formal regrets
to Mrs. Lewis Rose, lecturer and
radio commentator of Hartford.
Conn, who was disrobed and
searched on her arrival at Cux.
haven aboard the Hansa Friday.
1t was explained that Nazi Gus
toms authorities occasionally
carry out a test search" Of
various arrivals of any nationality
as part Of their drive to prevent
currency smuggling.
The inference was that Mrs.
Rose merely had been chosen at
random for the test search and
that there was no suspicion
against her.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Find Nude Woman
Beaten in Park

DENVER, May "a G.N.SD.-Po.
lice today sought two men after
q nude, brutally beaten young
woman was found unconscious in
Bushessin City Park.
A driving all-night rain had
pelted the unclad body Of Miss
Emma Romero, Is, as she lay
suffering with fractures Of both
jaws, a broken chin, cuts about
the face and her left eye almost
torn out.
During a conscious period, she
told police she had met two men
at a downtown drug store, had
several beers with them and gone
riding with them in an automo
bile, from which she finally was
thrown as it passed through the
park,
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Jury Is Completed
For Trial of Youth
In Murder Of Girl
State Holds Staying
OF Sweetheart
"DeLiberDte"

NEW YORK, May "a ONS)
An allmale jury was completed to-
day to try Donald r. Carroll, jr.,
for the puppy love" murder Of
his sweetheart, Charlotte Mat
thieSen, IS, in q suicide pact the
a6-year-old boy failed to carry out.
Donald returned to his trial to-
day to hear the State reconstruct
his life and his young love and
the tragedy that came of it. calling
the death of his sweetheart a
"cold and deliberate murder"
Assistant District Attorney
Joseph v. Loscalzo, in his opening
address to the jury, will offer a
simple chronology of the facts in
the case, and he will illustrate the
facts with the dramatic stage
props"-a gun, spray Of valley
lilies that a boy bought for a girl,
q girls blood,stained dress, and a
boys confession.
NARROWING DAY
For the defendant the day
promised to be the most harrow
ing day of his life since the chilly
afternoon last March when he and
his lovely brown-eyed girl de-
cided to die together, and she
died, but he lived.
The State will recreate for him
the fabric and texture of the
dreadful day; it will hand back to
him everything from a picture of
his 18-year-old sweetheart to the
flowers she was wearing when she
died.
Prosecutor Loscalzo said he did
not intend to offer the jury a
suggestion of motive for the STAY
ing until his summation; he will
merely present the evidence, and
claim that it adds up to murder
in the first degree.
The State has no intention at
this stage of attempting to dis
prove Donald's contention that he
shot the girl in suicide pact
when they both became panic
stricken at learning Charlotte was
to become a mother.
DOCTOR is WITNESS
The first prosecution witness
will be DR.. Howard w. Neail,
assistant medical examiner of
Queens county, who performed the
autopsy and verified the girls
fears concerning her condition.
He will testify she died as a re-
suit of a single gunshot wound
through the heart.
Prosecutor LoScalzo up to the
last moment had not decided
whether he would call Mrs. Chris
tina Matthiesen, mother of the
slain girl, to testify to Identified
ton of the body.
Mental incapacity" or "defec-
tive reasoning" is expected to be
blamed for Donald's shooting of
Charlotte. Defense Attorney Sid
ney Rosenthal asked each pros
pective juror if he would hold the
boy accountable if it is proved he
shot the girl while emotionally un-
balanced.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
DIPLOMATS S E 7.
ABUzzING over.
MERRILL'S SUIT.
IHeIIen's Party Escort.
Stirs Tempest

Half of Washington's diplomatic
set-the half that is up with the
sunset and still up with the dawn
lis going back to the night Of
November 20, 1887, trying to re-
member the name Of the daShing
gentleman with the monocle who
escorted Mrs. HELEN Ingram Mer-
| rill, of New York, at the Shore
ham and elsewhere.
Charles z. Merrill makes public
mention of that party in his cross
bill for divorce, filed yesterday in
New York, where Mrs. Merrill is
suing for separation, and seeking
to get an Injunction to prevent
her husband from obtaining o
Reno divorce.
CITES LICENSE TAGS
Mr.. Merrilps bill says that on No
vember 20 last MRS. Merrill, in q
car bearing license tags issued to
Oswaldo Aranha, then Brazilian
ambassador here, now foreign
minister of Brazil, rode with "a
man about IS; he looked like a
Brazilian, and wore a monocle."
Mr.. Merrill further state
through his bill that Mrs. Merrill
kept looking into this mans face,
and hung on his arm, and that at
the Shoreham she danced with him
several times, and that they drank
several bottles of champagne.
There were six in the party. Mr.
Merrill's bill says, and it relates
that at 1:5O a. m. they went. to
a house in Washington which,
Mrs. Merrill says, was the home
of her hostess, Yolanda Norris,
The Washington city directory
does not list any Yolanda Norris
in 1887 or 1898. Nevertheless, Mer.
rilPs affidavits say they entered
the house, and went to the second
floor and remained until 4 a. m.
when all the lights went out.
DRINKING CHARGED
The next day was Sunday, and
Mr.. Merrilrs affidavits say no
body was seen leaving the house
that day, and that there was no
sign of life there until a. m.
Monday, when a light went on
again.
For the rest Of the barrage of
complaint and counter complaint,
he charges she imbibed too freely
and too frequently, and she alleges
that it was he who did so, and that
he locked her in a closet in their
swank Hotel Carlyle suite in
March, 1887, for three hours while
he was intoxicated. He, however,
says he did it because she was in
toxicated. a.
The Merrills were married in
1925 and have one child, James,
born in March, 1926. Their mar
ital discord has been known to
friends since October, 1887, when
Merrill advertised in New York
that he would no longer be re-
sponsible for bills incurred by his
wife.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

Mrs. Palmer admitted, however,
that since the Pennsylvania board
of censors, of which she is chair
man, had banned Baltic Deputy"
as a "rabble-rousing Russian film, ="
she had been threatened, bonn
barded with acid and Swallowed by
men who told her that unless the
ban is removed "she would never
have a chance to ban another Rus
sian film"
MLEAN-MEEM WEDDING
She is in Washington, she said,
to attend the wedding tomorrow
of Ned Mclean to Ann Meem.
Mrs. Palmer denied she would
seek the aid Of FBI men or of J..
EdgaE Hoover, and pointed to the
fact that she is being guarded by
a detail of Pennsylvania State
troopers. This followed the ap-
pearance. of a man at her home
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Formal Protest
Made to u. s.

NEW YORK, May "a Q.N.S0
Mrs. Lewis Rose, lecturer and
radio commentator Of Hartford
Conn, who was subjected to q
thorough personal search by
authorities at Cuxhaven. Germany
has lodged a formal protest with
the American State Department
her brother, Norman R. Moray
president Of the United States
Casualty Company, announced to
day.
Mrs. Rose reported to the Ameri
can consul in Berlin that she was
stripped of her clothing when she
arrived at Cuxhaven aboard the
North Germsn-Lloyd Hansa last
Friday. She said that after
woman inspector subjected her tc
a minute bodily search, Naz
agents fine-combed her luggage
and personal effects. She was per
mitted to go on to Berlin after
the search.
MOTHER INDIGNANT
Moray was indignant. He de
clared he was lat loss to under
stand an action like that"
He said his sister left here, as
was her annual custom, to &c
abroad and get an atmospheric
background for another series OF
broadcasts and lectures on inter
national events.
So far as he knew, she had said
nothing derogatory about Chan
celor Hitler or the Nazi govern
ment.
"She was the first to predict
Hitler would become dictator of
Germany" said Moray. "She
has a keen woman's intuition
and a canny foresight into the
future"
BLAMES ESPIONAGE
Moray declared his belief that
the search of his sister was the
result of the NaZi government s
far-flung espionage system which
keeps a thorough check on all
travellers, particularly those en-
gagged In political activity.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Gasoline Taxes
Total 756 Millions

NEW YORK, May "a QN.s).
Gasoline taxes collected in the
United States in 1887 totaled $685.
$50, 900, a new high record, and
500, 299, 900 ahead of 1886, the
American Petroleum Industries
Committee estimated today.
In the last decade gas taxes
have increased $498, O91 900, the
group stated. New York led al
States in collection of such taxes
with $61,O41, 900, an increase of
! Sc, 2O6, 900 over the preceding year.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Staying Suspect
Yields, COnfesses

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May "a.
Earl Vass Anderson, %, colored,
sought 48 hours by police in con-
nection with the Staying of Ernest
Fletcher, coIored, walked into po-
lice headquarters and surrendered
last night.
Police said Anderson signed a
confession that he shot Fletcher
after an argument in a beer tav.
ern Sunday night.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24
Marineli Freed
By n. Y. Jurors

NEW YORK, May "a UN.S0
Albert Marinelli. Tammany district
leader, and former county clerk
was freed today after being &C
quilted by a jury of harboring a
fugitive from justice. Marinelli was
charged with employing Charles
Falci as a chauffeur while Falci
was sought under an indictment
charging him with violation OF
election laws.
The Washington times., 1938-05-24

A beauty's five slippery steps Of
matHimOny. Much.married woman.
who has recently divorced her fifth
husband. IL now trying to void the
divorce from her third husband,
and-lf she succeeds-it may lead to
embarrassing results. Read this story
Of marital troubles among the rich In
The American Weekly, the magazine
distributed with next Sundays Wash
inRtOn HeFaId-TimeR
Greenbelt cooperator., 1938-06-15
TO TIE EDTToR:

FIR. Ress ener wants to force the ton
ants Of Greonbolt, presumably By rails
ing the rentals, to contribute "a each
month to his proposed munic i pal ly-owned
bus systom--nhothor they ride the bus
or not, whether they want to support
the bus system or not and whether they
like it or not. IF the contribution Of
"a por month woro left entirely to tho
free choice Of each Individual tenant,
to woro Fortunately the contributions
to the Hoalth ASS oci tion, would the
bus systom fare bottor than tho Hoalth
Association? But no, he would use
force. Arc contributions to the Health
Assoc iation the next "must"?
Eo wants the profits derived from
this bus system "divcrtod to expansion
and Improvement, or to Othor useful
onds". What rrofits? What useful ends,
Irr. BossoHcr? Fireworks? "6O-day"
studies b. biasod Investigators? He
socks tho appointment Of an authority
on public ownership. Ownership is inpor
tinort. Presumably he wants to use our
rcnt money to hire his expert. He en-
phaticallv ass sorts that only BY taxing
each tenant $48 per yoar cen our trans
portation problem be solved. In direct
contrad lotion to this, he asserts that
only an expert can dotcrmino whether
this is true. He referred to certain
conc lusi ons Of "2uthoritios". What
auth0ritics? Like othor general and
mooningloss statomonts, this enc is
unsupported.
If his proposal. or that Of 31r.
Porter, woro adopted: % Bus and
Strootccr transp sportation would cost us
moro than it docs now and e. the ser
vice would b. inadequate and unsatis-
factory. IF it wore adopted, bus trans
portati On would cost some tonants, not
$A8 per year, but at least $ll3 per
year. Bus transr rortation now costs bus
ridors, not 384 per yoar, as stated il
his article, but "9l per year. Tho
prosont bus systom would not require Sc
large 8 subsidy (out Of ront money! if
tho appr oprioto laws were observed.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1938-06-15

iuriSdicti on and arc not lncOns lStent
WI tn the constitutions Of the respect
i've iurisd icti orls. The morality or
propriotv of laws different mat
tors. If tho mayor sanctions the vio-
lation and non-onforcomont Of federal
and state laws, how can he consistent
ly expect the town ordinances to be
observed and rospCc ted?
Tho determining factors in the cost
Of transportation syster are the
w2gos, Frequency, adequacy, mainton-
onco, nature and oxtont Of the service.
Likewise, patronage and rates the
solo dotorninants (oxcopt for Mr.. Boss
omor's niquitous scheme to fCrcibly
te7; each tenant 248 per year for bus
scrvico) Of the revenue. Revenue would
DC derived, not out Of patronagc, but
from direct taxation. The question Of
ovnlorship is utterly Irrelevant as to
cost. To attempt to ascertain the cost
Of {. municipality ow2od, opposed to
comparatively or privately ow2od,
utility, is urni ii gated nonsense. Pub
licly owned bussos use as much gasoline,
for ms tanco, as privately owned bus
Sos, other things boing equal, and
on. The factors that change the pic
turo to cost Of operation end coat
to the patron, insofar asthe Capital
Transit co. is concerned oro: (l) .4E
transfer privilogcs, e. the streotcar
limo at Borr7nn, and (3) accessibility
t0 any point in the District Of Colum-
bia via it's transp sportation system.
Thoso three foctOrsare not predicable
Of any runic ipally comparatively
privatel y-oN1ed system ether than the
Capital Transit Co. These are vital
Factors to the patron. In view Of
those facts, what kind IF munic ipelly
or comparatively or privotol ly-oNnlod
(othor than CT) trans portati on system
be operated $42, ,48O per year?
r. Pesscmor seems to be Of those
pooplo who seek public ownership of
utilities for it's own sake.
Fortunately, the adoption Of this
proposal requires scmthing more than
Evening star., 1938-06-11
Winning Contract
Nv TIE rouR Acrs

BY THE FOUR ACES.
Osvid Durnstine. Merwin D.. Maier.
Oswald Jaeoby. Howard 6chenken.
world's leadtng team of-four. inventors
o. the system that has beaten every
other system in existenee)
Evening star., 1938-06-11
BY John Hix

CHARTERED In 1875 to carry mill
tary supplies, the river steamer
Far West penetrated up the Missouri
to the Little Big Horn, farther than
any ship had gone before. Upon ar
irving, Capt. Marsh discovered that
the terrible massacre of the Little
Big Horn had just taken place: the
immortal last stand" Of Gen. Custer.
Racing against great difnculties-
treacherous sandbars, innumerable
mags and tortuous river bends-he
plunged on through the wilderness.
His men cut grass along the river
banks and improvised mattresses on
the decks for the wounded men he
would have to take back ! 200 miles to
Bismarck. Reaching the headwater,
Marsh took on wood and his cargo
Of 50 wounded and dying men.
From the mouth Of the Big Horn
1t was better than 900 miles to Bis
marck. All night long the steamboat
plunged through the darkness under
full steam. an unheard-of practice on
50 dangerous route. After two more
stops the Far West safely reached
Bismark at II pm. Of July s, ending
. 1,ooo-mile trip In 50 hours, 4 record
that stands today.
Evening star., 1938-06-11


U). Correct.
(2). Proper response.
(3). Justifiable overcan, not vulner.
able.
%. The proper rebid.
(5). North Svishes to convey the in
formation that he has . substantial
hand with . strong spade suit and
some very mild interest In . slam.
90. South realizes that four spades
Is q safe contract. At the same time,
since he holds . singleton club, solid
hearts and the ace Of diamonds, he
knows that five hearts Is also safe and
he sees distinct slam possibilities II his
partner holds any strength In dia-
monds; hence the rebid to iive hearts.
CD. North knows that II his part.
ner were not interested in . slam he
would have passed four spades. Since
he realizes the value OF the king Of
diamonds he contracts for the slam In
his partners suit.
There Is very little to the play. A
club was opened and continued, Mr.
Won zedwitz running the second lead.
After looking the hand over he de-
cided to play on the assumption that
neither opponent held . singleton dia-
mond; hence he played over the king
OF diamonds, returned to the ace in
his own hand and rlfied . small dia-
mond with dummy's 10 Of hearts.
He then drew trumps and discarded his
remaining diamond on dummy's king
Of spades.
Oopyrisht. 1889
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-21
One Is Thrown Clear Of
Wreckage and Other Bad
ly Burned as Flames
Consume Wreck
FOUND FOUR MILES
FROM POPE FIELD
Were Engaged In Routine
Flight; One of Victims
From Quincy, Mass, and
Other from Paris, Texas;
No Witnesses. to Accident
Have Been Found

Fayetteville, Jan. 81 (AP)-An army
airplane crashed and burned to death
here today, killing its two occupants
Lieutenants Lewis 4E. Countway and
Earle T. Macarthur, both stationed at
Fort Bragg.
Countway was about % years old
and his home was in Quincy, Mass.
He was reserve officer, but had been
on active duty at Pope Field, Fort
Bragg, since last July.
Macarthur, about % years old, was
a regular army officer, and his home
address was given as Paris, Texas. He
is survived by a widow and two chill
dren.
Pope Field headquarters said no
witnesses to the accident had been
found.
The -charred wreckage of the plane
was discovered in a wooded place
about four miles from the flying field.
Countway had been thrown clear and
apparently had been killed instantly.
Macarthur was trapped in the plane
and his body was badly burned.
The two were engaged in a routine
flight. Macarthur was believed to
have been the pilot.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-21
Capitalization Decree Sign
ed by President Lebrun
Common Only in
War-Times
CHAUTEMPS SEEKS
CHAMBER BACKING
Takes New Cabinet Before
Parliament for Approval;
Extremist Parties Unwill-
ing To Attempt To Over
throw Ministry in Present
Crucial Hour

Paris, Jan. p (AP)-France today
ilecreed Capitalization Of all her army,
navy and air forces under the defense
minister, a measure usually adopted
only in war-times.
The coordination decree was sign
ed by President Albert Lebrun dur
ing a meeting of the government be-
fore Chautemps presented his cabl-
net to Parliament for approval.
Pierre Jacomet, army comptroller,
was named general secretary of the
defense ministry of Edouard Daladier
to aid in putting the almost unpreced-
ented defense program in effect.
The decree made General Gamelin,
present chief of the army staff, chief
of the general staff of national de
Tense, embracing army, navy and air
services. Air and navy ministers be-
came subject to Daladier's supervi-
sion.
There were assurances that the
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-21
HartLe Jury i.
~
Deadl0cked
80
At Winston

Winston-Salem, Jan. 21.-(AP)-
Twenty-four hours after retiring to a
court house chamber jury of bust
ness men and farmers had failed to
decide the fate of John Hartle at noon
today.
Tense crowds 'milled around in For
syth Superior Court room during the
morning, waiting to hear the fate of
the 63-year-old groceryman, charged
with the murder of Walter Lee Smith.
AS hours passed. the belief spread
that the jurors were deadlocked be-
tween verdicts of manslaughter or
acquittal and that a mistrial might
be declared.
Hartle shot Smith November 26
when he found the barber and Mrs.
Hartle in a darkened room of the
groceryman' home.
Defense attorneys pleaded self-de-
tense, contending Hartle shot Smith
because he thought the barber was
going to attack him.
Presiding Judge Donald Phillips
charged the jury to return a man.
slaughter verdict if it found Hartle
killed Smith Sin defense of his home"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-21
Puppet Regime Forming
Under Jap Sponsorship
To Rule Subdued China
Beal Freed From
Jail In Lawrence

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 21.-(AP)
Fred Beal, Al, labor organizer,
was released from the county Jail
today after DIR. Albert Coolidge, of
the Harvard chemistry department,
and Miss Jessica Hyland, of Way
land, furnished $1,000 bail on which
he was held for hearing January
rs.
Beal is charged with being
fugitive from justice in North Car
china. Authorities in the southern
state have sought him eight years
in connection with the death of a
police chief during labor distur-
bance.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-21
REED APPOINTMENT
WIDELY APPROVED
Scarcely a Ripple of Oppo-
sition to FDR'S Supreme
Court Choice
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press ColumniSt

Washington, Jan. 21-Such adverse
criticism as 1 have heard concerning
Stanley F. Reeds appointment to the
Federal Supreme bench has been
based solely upon the ground that the
appointees geography was not quite
right.
That is to say, since Reed is a Ken
tuckian the trans-MiSsissippi region
is left without representative in the
high tribunal, which makes it little
jealous, mayhap.
However, that is not much of a
count against Reed personally.
1 do not discover that even the west
is seriously miffed, either. It's spokes-
mems complaints are mild. And all
Of them supplementary, include ex-
pressions of good will toward Reed.
About the meanest remark that anti
New Dealers can think up, to make,
is that the presidential selection not
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