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Evening star., 1938-08-20
HUGHES FINISHES
H|GH-FL|GHT TEST
Substratosphere Trip Over
U. S. Tries New Type
Oxygen Mask.
(Picture on pace A.,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Howard
Hughes landed at Floyd Bennett Air
port at 1855 am. eastern standard
time) today after high-altitude flight
from Glendale, near Los Angeles,
undertaken to test new type oxygen
mask.
His elapsed time for the trip, on
which he did not attempt to set a
speed mark, was 10 hours and "a min
.utes. He set a transcontinental record
of hours % minutes and Is seconds
in January, 1887.
Glenn Odekirk. Mr.. Hughes air.
plane company superintendent; Harry
Connor, chief navigator on Hughes
round-the-world flight. and Charles
Perrine. radio expert, were with the
wealthy fyer-sportsman and former
film producer. All wore 2-ounce gum
and rubber masks.
Mr.. Hughes flew the same ship in
which he made his record breaking
globe-girdling flight last month. Mr.
Hughes has been working for some
time on a lightweight oxygen mask
similar to that developed by DR.. Rich
ard Lovelace, Mayo Foundation sur
geon.
The crews masks we're fed through
rubber tubes leading from q single
cylinder and the oxygen was thrice
purified before they breathed it.
The four airmen hoped off from
Glendale at 6:22 (P S. t. last night
and rose at once to $4,000 to 10000
feet.
The two ,100-horsepower engines
of the plane were equipped with blow
ers" to cope with the fuel problem in
the rarif1ed air.
Mr.. Hughes indicated before he left
that if the tests are satisfactory he
will attempt much longer substrato-
sphere flight next spring. Meanwhile
he plans several trips between Los An
geles and New York to demonstrate
the value Of high-altitude flying to es-
cape winter storms.
Mr.. Hughes predicted substrato-
sphere passenger plane flights would
become common within few years.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Scientists Told of First Clue
Blank MiIIeniun,s of MAJ,
T,oo Head Bones Found of Boy Dro'c',ed
mEngland 100000 Years Ago Who
Nav Be Human ancestor.

ing the middle stages Of the great
ice-ages.
For the intervening period the only
record of mans existence has been
furnished by very rude Clipped stone
instruments found in many places
which, experts are agreed, are objects
of human handicraft. But, like the
mysterious Folsom hunters who
roamed over North America at the
end of the glacial period, the makers
of these artifacts neglected to leave
any of their bones around.
The Swanscombe fossil described
before the British Association for the
Advancement Of Science here today
apparently dates from this very blank
in time, some warm interlude in the
early ice ages. The climate, the geo.
logical evidence shows, was quite SIM
liar to that of England today, but with
giant elephants and rhinoceroses
crashing through the forests. At
that time there was swift river about
1,400 feet wide running through the
county Of Kent. In it this youth
was drowned, presumably under very
favorable circumstances for becoming
fossil. Within a generation or SO
the river itself was drowned and be-
came fossil-that is, its course was
(See SCIENTISTS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Boy, Taxing
Brothers Plane
Finds He's Pilot
BY the Associated Press.

TROY, Ohio, Aug. 20-Eugene
Netzley drew up for the Department
Of Commerce today a report explain
ing how his 17-year-old brother Tru-
man kept the 800 citizens Of nearby
Laura on edge for an hour and half
yesterday with an all-of-a-sudden
plane fight.
Truman, who never had flight les
son, got Eugene's secondhand mono-
plane out Of the Netzley barn and
warmed 1t up. He told playmates he
just wanted to taxi around the pas
ture."
The next thing they knew, Truman
was in the air wondering how to get
down. From time to time he waved
at those who came to watch. He
dropped scribbled notes.
Finally he made perfect landing in
another pasture.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
MRS. KRUEGER'S
WOUNDS SERIOUS
Assai|ant Confesses, Says
Symphony Leaders Wife
Broke Up Home.
pictures on Page A-3.)

fPtctufeS on rage A-3J
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 20.-A young
electricians belief that another wom-
ans domination Of his wife was re-
sponsible for his broken home was
blamed by police today In the spec
tacular Hollywood boulevard shoot
ing of Mrs. Emita Kruger, wife OF
Karl Kruger. symphony conductor.
While Mrs. Kruger lay in Good
Samaritan Hospital, her condition de-
scribed as critical, police questioned
Charles E. Mcdonald, 30, husband
Of Frances Mcdonald, Mrs. Krueger's
maid.
Detective 1t. George Whaley an
nounced that Mcdonald confessed he
fired the two shots which struck the
former Chicago society girl as she ran
for the safety Of q dancing studio
where her 8-year daughter, The
resa, was awaiting her.
The shooting occurred at q busy
boulevard intersection late yesterday,
in view of scores of terrified pedes-
trians who scurried for cover.
Mrs. Kruger broke up my home, -
1t. Whaley quoted Mcdonald as say
ing, after admitting that he had
followed her from her home in his car.
Mcdonald Sued by Wife.
"she pulled up at the curb and I
drew alonside Of her. I asked her
Where are my wife and baby?'
She got out of the car and said
she was going to call the police. I
pulled out the gun and fred. That's
all I remember"
The McDonalds have been involved
in q divorce action and fight for
custody Of their daughter. Mrs. Nc
Donald filed the suit July %, assert
ing that her husband threatened to
cause trouble to her employers and
prevent her continued employment.
In an answer filed August Nc
Donald alleged that his wife "has
permitted herself to be dominated and
controlled by a person who has an
abnormal interest in her which Is in
conflict with the plaintiffs (Mrs. Nc
Donald's) obligations as wife toward
this defendant"
Mrs. Kruger, daughter Of Mrs.
Lucy Mccormick Jewett Of the Nc
Cormick Harvester family, was shot
in the left side and left leg. Her hus-
band, conductor of the Kansas City
Symphony Orchestra, was in a den-
lists ofice at the time and was un-
aware Of her injuries for some time.
Receives Transfusions.
He had conducted symphonies in
Seattle, Philadelphia and Hollywood
since resigning q post as assistant
conductor of the Imperial Opera In
Vienna In 1924. Twice he returned
to Vienna for brief appearances.
After two blood transfusions were
given Mrs. Kruger she rallied and
gave police statement.
"Chuck Mcdonald Is an insanely
Jealous man." she said. He was a
trouble-maker all the time. I was
kind to his wife despite this and I let
her live with us as a maid and q COM
panion to me over the objections Of
Mr.. Krueger."
Mr.. Kruger said Mcdonald had
been q source of trouble for several
years.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Blind Mare Traded rs Times
At <Dauid Harun,' Convention

and hornets nest" (rupture) on
its side.
"Mr. Baham gave Mr.. Breese IS
cents to boot" Mr.. Kane said. "And
they actually shook hands after the
DEAL"
Harry Blaisure Of Montrose, Pa,
ofiiciated at an auction in which eight
horses and . team Of gray mares
were knocked down for prices from
$3.50 to $50. Mr.. Blaisure purchased
black mare with one short leg for
$3.50.
Mr.. Kane said most Of the trading
= done ct night.
"You can buy 'sm cheaper in the
/ GAGk," - eaid.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
WORLD MARK SET IN $50
Wooderson Runs Half-Mile in /
Minute 40.2 Seconds.

LONDON, Aug. 20 P.-Sydney
Wooderson, Great Britains great mid
dle-d distance runner, today bettered the
world record for the half mile, cover.
sing the distance in / minute 49.2 Sec
onds in q special handicap race at
London's Hotspur Park.
Wooderson, already holder Of the
universal outdoor standard of 4:0e. 4
for the mile, clipped four-tenths of a
second of the half-mile record of
1895, established by Elroy Robinson
of San Francisco at New York July
II, 1887.
Weighing only 124 pounds and
standing only feet inches, he al
most collapsed at the end Of the race.
He ran the first quarter in 0:52.6.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
By the Associated Press,

ALMOND. N. Y, Aug. 2o.-The
worlds hose traders convention
moved toward It's biggest and final
night today with 453 horses staked out
ior trading.
A blind mare had been traded Is
times in the first three days, and 1t
was expected she would be passed
along some more tonight.
President George Kane. on whose
farm the convention met, said Cliff
Baham Of Whitesville, N. Y, traded
. gray mare with the heaves to Carl
Breese Of Elkdals, Pa., for 3 black
.made with . 1elt hat a . xsas ~
Evening star., 1938-08-20
JAPANESE HALTED,
. CHINESE DECLARE
10000 Guerri|Ias Routed
in Shantung, Say
Nipponese.
BACKGROUND

0ASAA ~ 1tS
japanese striving to capture Han
koD, provisional Chinese capital,
haze met stoneudH resistance west
OF Kiukiang. Elsewhere in China
japanese control has been clal-
lenged By joint activities of Chi
nese troops and irregulars. Japan
yesterday ordered million more
men to stand by to reinforce armies
tn China and bring a quick pictory.
BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 20.-Chinese de-
clared today their forces had check
mated the Japanese on all fronts.
The Japanese said q new large
scale drive against Chinese guerrillas
in shantung Province already had
scattered 10000 irregulars near Tsinan.
shantung provincial capital.
But the Chinese insisted the $4,000
fight-and-run warriors in Shantung
still were active and that campaign
in other areas were continuing to be
successful" Guerrillas were said to
have driven within IS miles of Nam
king.
West Of Kiukiang, the Yangtze River
port used as a base for the campaign
against Hankow, 1875 miles upstream,
the Chinese claimed to have won a
smashing victory when a detachment
of japanese, being landed from war
ships, was routed after leaving the
protection of the invaders naval guns.
japanese Confused in Shansi.
In Southern Shansi Province, where
the japanese have been attempting a
new campaign to carry them across the
Yellow River, Chinese maintained the
invaders were becoming increasingly
confused" before the combined on
slaughts of Chinese troops and irregu-
lars.
The defenders declared also they had
destroyed again all the railway track
age in Shansi that japanese had re-
paired.
Unconfrmed reports said the high
| command of the japanese armies In
Central China was removing its head
quarters from Shanghai to Nanking
l65 miles farther inland.
The Shantung irregulars were said
to be streaming southwark. One force
threatened Suchow, important railroad
| junction in Kiangsu Province, while
another isolated japanese detach-
ment near Kuchen, Ahnwei Province
and killed 100.
North of Peiping, the Chinese said
the guerrillas were keeping the in.
vaders on the defensive by their harry.
ing tactics,
Battle Near Kuling.
On the Yangtze front, center OF
major fighting since floods stopped
the japanese Yellow River offensive
in June and the japanese occupied
Kiukiang July Is, battles ragged near
Kuling, a mountain resort 18 miles
south of Kiukiang.
The plight OF 100 Americans and
British who took refuge at Kuling a
month ago was uncertain. Chinese
said they killed or wounded 100 jap
anese and captured munitions near
Kuling.
Chinese dispatches said Japanese
reinforcements from Northern China
were continuing full speed following
the easing Of japanese Russian ten
sion.
DR.. Sun Fo, president Of the Chi
nese Legislative Council, said on his
return from Europe that more active
support from Soviet Russia could be
expected by China.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
APOLOGETIC BANDIT
ENDS LIFE WITH GUN
Man Who Took $4.75 From Taxi
Driver Shoots Self as Police
Close In on Him.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-A nervous,
apologetic bandit who held up Adclra
Adler, taxicab driver, early today and
robbed him Of $4.75, shot himself to
death a few minutes later as police
closed in on him in a West Forty
fourth street hallway.
Adler told police the man had said
II don't like to do this but I'm UP
against 1t. I've got q wife and two
kids"
There was nothing In the dead
mans pockets to 1dentify him.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
REBELS CAPTURE
5000 IN OPENING
GRAND OFFENSIVE
Thousands More Are Killed
in Ebro Front Attack,
Say Insurgents.
LARGE-SCALE SHIFTS
OF TROOPS STARTED
More Than $50 Reported Killed
or Wounded by Bombing in
Barcelona District.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Loyalist ofensipes across Ebro
and Segre Ripers seperdl Ueeks ago
and recent repulsion OF insurgent
ofensiues in Southwestern Spain
put crimp in plans OF Gen. Franco
to clean up rest OF. government
Spain in quick time. Loydtst
Catalonidn attack drew troops
aWay from insurgent forces driving
on Valencia.
By The Associated Press.
HENDAYE. France Aug. 20.-Span-
ish insurgent dispatches said today
that 5000 government militiamen
were captured and additional thou
sands killed as Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco opened what apparently
was a carefully planned offensive.
The insurgents attacked in force
on the Ebro River front, south of
Gandesa, where they reported the
first line Of government trenches in
the Pandos Mountains had been occu-
pied and the second line was being
attacked today.
Bulletins from Barcelona said, how
ever, the government lines had held
against the assault and had not lost
an inch.
Combined Drive Expected.
Observers believed Gen. Franco had
given orders to his field commanders
to wipe out the governments Ebro
salient this week end so a combined
campaign against Barcelona and Va
lencia could start from consolidated
positions.
First indications that a major offen-
sive was near came yesterday when
insurgent authorities Cancelled passes
for exit to France as they had done
frequently in the past before big
drives.
Insurgent military leaders confirmed
later that Gen. Franco himself would
lead q new offensive. The general
issimo named Gen. Juan Vigon,
former chief Of staff of the northern
insurgent army, as chief of his per-
sonal staff. Several insurgent officers
who had been on leave were recalled
to duty, effective tomorrow.
Broad Troop Movements.
Large-scale troop movements also
were under way. italian shock divisions
and Navarrese units, the cream of Gen.
Frances forces, were being shifted to
the Catalan front, while Moorish re-
Inducements took places in Central
and Eastern Spain.
Although the frontier into 1nsur-
gent Spain was almost Theoretically
sealed today, news trickling through
. indicated war planes already were
making heavy preparatory lombard
ments.
During the past three days insurgent
squadrons have concentrated on sea-
ports and railroad lines in an effort
to cut of supplies from government
front lines.
Prisoners captured in raiding parties
were said to have admitted troops in
many positions were short of ammu-
milton. Engineering parties were try
ing repeatedly to repair bomb blasted
roads.
Barcelona Bombed Heavily.
Barcelona was shaken yesterday by
the heaviest bombing since March,
when hundreds died. More than $50
persons were reported to have been
killed or wounded in Barcelona and two
coastal villages, Sitges and Vallcarca,
rs miles to the southwest.
The 1,363-ton British freighter STAN
brook was sunk in the port of VAIL
81
Evening star., 1938-08-20
MORE HOT WEATHER
SEEN OVER WEEK END
Breezes From North to Give WAY
to Humid Winds From the
Southwest.

More hot weather is in prospect for
the District over the week end, the
Weather Bureau said today, Is cool
breezes from the north that famed
Washingtonians yesterday gave way to
humid winds from the southwest.
The forecast Is for continued fair
skies and slowly rising temperature
tonight and tomorrow, with gentle
variable winds senisht becoming south
Tomorrow,
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Hanging Proves Hoax.
BY the Associated Press.

EASTON, Pa, Aug. 20 R.-A re-
port that mans body was hanging
from the Delaware River Bridge sped
five policemen to the scene. They
found pair of empty overalls, left
by painter, swaying gently in the
breeze.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Scores Aces. Takes Deuce.

DEL MONTE, Calf, Aug. 20 tR.-
Ellsworth Vines scored the first ace
ever made on the 230-yard sixteenth
hole at Cypress Point Links yesterday
but had to take . deucs. The teunis
stey seiled his dcst bali into thu ocoan.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Firms Bar Reich Refugees.

HEISINGFORS, Finland, Aug. 20
@.-Sixty Austrian Jewish refugees
who arrived by steamer today from
Stettin, Germany, were refused perpis-
sion to land and were sent back to
Germany
Evening star., 1938-08-20
81 Wanted to Be
President"
Says Alfred NJ. Landos
But Now "The Grapes Are
Sweet.

Two years after his unsuccess-
full campaign as the Repub-
lican candidate for Presi-
dent, the former Kansas
Governor has decided to
write, in frankly human
fashion, his impressions of
that losing fight and about
the lessons he learned in it.
In a series of four articles,
the man who had such a
swift rise to political fame
enforces his statement that
he would not accept the
G. O. P. nomination "in the
remote contingency" it was
offered to him in 1910.
He writes about the compen-
sations of private life, which
make the grapes of defeat
sweet instead of sour" and
he tells why he is very much
in politics without wanting
office.
What are the innermoSt feel
ingS of a man who has been
defeated for the presidency?
Mr.. Landon, proud that he
has kept his sense of humor
and his sense of proportion,
sets down the answer in a
strikingly revealing human
document.
Alfred M. Landon's Articles Will
Appear Exclusively in Wash.
inston in The Star. Begin.
ming Tomorrow in
The Sunday Star
Evening star., 1938-08-20
,'OLD MUDDY BERRY
IS 800 Gallons of Brew Dumped
Into Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 20 (P.-The
Missouri River was really rolling today.
It was the morning after"
No wonder-"Old Muddy" had swal-
lowed $500 gallons of green beer in
one sitting.
The beer, belonging to bankrupt
brewing company, was dumped yester-
day when reorganization efforts were
dropped.
Evening star., 1938-08-20

FOREIGN.
japanese checked on all fronts, Chi
nese declare, Page Al
Germany frees Briton seized on charge
of spying. Page Al
Rebels capture 5000 in big of1en-
sive. Page Al
Fascist party reaches accord with
Catholic Action. Page AS
Reich prepares royal greeting for
Hungarian regent. Page As
Underground railway gives Jews Swiss
refuge Page AS
NATIONAL.
Assailant says Mrs. Kruger broke up
home. Page Al
Hughes ends substratospnere test
flight across U. S. Page Al
Senator Pope may run as Idaho inde-
pendent. Page AS
Thurman Arnold asks greater anti
trust policing. Page Al
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Man plunges four stories; strikes
pedestrian. Page Ais
Haxen moves to begin new safety pro.
gram q ence. paee Ais
Evening star., 1938-08-20

puSSpOL OUtCcF W. VtcHuU, UuS WVS.
teriously arrested Wednesday as he
and his ,oife Were leaving Germany
for Sutherland. He tDas taken to
Gestapo headquarters In Vienna
and held. British government yes
terday informed Germany 1t took
SERIOUS piew OF the arrest"
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 20.-Capt. Thoma,
Kendrick, an official Of the British
Passport ONCE In Vienna, was ar.
rested because proof had been estab.
lished that he was conducting espion.
age activities, it was announced ON.
cially today.
The announcement said the British
Ambassador, Sir Neville Henderson
had been requested to see that Capt
Kendrick leaves Germany at the
earliest possible moment.
(In London, the British govern
ment understood Capt: Kendrick,
who was arrested by German secret
police Wednesday near the Swiss
frontier, already had been released.
Oficials there said he was ex-
pected to leave Vienna tomorrow
or Monday
The laconic communique. which
closed the Kendrick incident so fal
as Germany is concerned, was issued
by DNB, official German news agency
The announcement reads:
THE head of the passport division
In the British consulate general ir
Vienna, Capt. Thomas Kendrick, has
been arrested because there were
proofs of his conducting espionage"
THE British Ambassador who made
inquiries into the case has been re.
quested to see to it that Capt. Kend.
rick leaves the Reich's confines within
the shortest time possible
Confession Reported.
All German afternoon papers print.
ed on their front pages the news o.
the British captains expulsion, assert.
ing he confessed he had spied.
Inspired comment was to the effect
as expressed in Berliner Tageblatt
"The Reich government, in not draw.
ing the full consequences of this con.
fession, merely gave proof of the ear.
nestness Of her desire to foster amica.
BILE relations with England. 1t woulc
be very deplorable If. this were misun
derstood in England"
Boersen zeitung warned Britain
I'VE know Of more cases than this
on account Of its seriousness action
was taken"
Charge Not Communicated.
LONDON, Aug. 20 up. - Capt
Thomas Kendrick. veteran British
passport officer mysteriously seized fou
days ago by German secret police, wa.
ordered out of Germany today be.
cause Of what an official German
statement called proof" Of his con.
ducting espionage.
Although British spokesmen sait
they understood Capt. Kendrick woule
leave Vienna for England tomorrow
or Monday, they declared the nature
of the accusation against him had no
been communicated to the British
government.
Capt. Kendrick was passport Office
in Vienna for l3 years and had beer
called upon to grant hundreds o
British visas for Jewish refugees sine,
the annexation of Austria by Germany
A Reuters, British news agency
dispatch from Vienna, said Capt. Ken
drick arrived at his home there at
pm. following his release.
He declined to make any statement
but Mrs. Kendrick said they were plan
ming to 60 to England as soon as pos
Sible.
Evening star., 1938-08-20
Summary Of Today's Star

Tydings engages radio time to answer
President. Page A-16
Increased fund asked for care of
D. c. trees. Page A-16
Youth beaten by thugs helps capture.
suspects. Page A-16
Evening star., 1938-08-20

(See SPAIN, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1938-08-20
GERMANY FREES
bR|T0N SEIZED ON
CHARGE OF SPYING
Berlin Claims Proof That
Kendrick Conducted
|. Espionage.
IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE
FROM REICH REQUESTED
Passport Official Is Expected to
Leave Vienna Tomorrow
or Monday.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUNU-
Capt. Thomas Kendrick. British
passport officer in Vienna, iDns nys-
tertously arrested Wednesday as he
and his 1oife Dere leaving Germany
for Switzerland. He pas taken to
Gestapo headquarters In Vienna
and held. British government yes
terddy informed Germany 1t took
q serious DieW OF the arrest"
Evening star., 1938-08-20

Fair, with slowly rising temperature
tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures
today-Highest, 81, at 1o:30 am: lowest,
SO, at $50 am; IS at noon.
Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-08-20

Alfred M. Landon's Articles Will
Appear Exclusively in Wash.
inston in The Star, Begin.
ming Tomorrow in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-01
STYLE FIRSTS
1Y n
 (:Q~" E SUPREMELY APPEALING
 NEW COTTON BROCK
PATTERII 634

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