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MATCHSUSPECT’S
Microscopic Examination by
D. C. Criminal Investigator
Also Reveals Shreds of
Skin Under Victim’s Nails.
TEST OF BLOOD FAILS
TO SHOW ANY POISON
Hicks Refuses to Say Whether
Clues Point to Man or Woman.
Confidential Report Submitted
to State's Attorney Bowie, in
Charge of Probe.
Strands of human hair found on
♦he coat sleeve of Corinna Loring, slain
Mount Rainier bride-elect, ‘'pretty
definitely” match the hair of a suspect
In the case, it was learned today.
This disclosure followed microscopic
examination of the hair bv Robert W.
Hicks, a District employe, who has
devoted 10 years to scientific criminal
Investigations.
The tests conducted by Hicks, who
said he participated in the investiga
tion of the murder of the Lindbergh
baby, also are said to have resulted in
the discovery of shreds of skin under
the dead girl's fingernails. Exam
ination of her blood, it was said, failed
to reveal any traces of poison.
Hicks said the physical evidence in
the case was turned over to him Sun
day by State's Attorney Alan Bowie,
who is in charge of the investigation.
Hicks said he completed his examina
tions yesterday and submitted a con
fidential. WTitten report to Bowie.
Although refusing to divulge the
eontents of his report for fear it
“might hamper the investigation."
Hicks confirmed reports he had ex
amined the hair, blood and finger
hails. He also made a cursory examina
tion of her stomach.
Two Hair Specimens Found.
Hicks refused to say whether the
hair found on Miss Loring's coat
sleeve was that of a man or woman.
This point, he explained, is of vital
importance in the investigation and
cannot be cleared up at this time.
The hair, he said, was found on the
ruff of the right sleeve, apparently
having been torn from the murderer's
head during Miss Loring's struggles.
The investigator, it was learned,
was given two specimens of hair to
compare with that found on the coat.
One sample, however, did not match.
Hicks, an employe In the District
engineer's office, has devoted all of
his spare time during the past 10
years to criminal investigations. He
said he expected to ‘'co-operate” with
authorities in the future during the
Loring investigation.
Investigators assigned to the mur
der of the 26-year-old bride-elect
shifted their headquarters to Upper
Marlboro, Md.. today, as the bereaved
family and friends of the pretty ste
nographer assembled in the rain to
attend her funeral services at Mount
Rainier Methodist Church.
Meanwhile, the investigators at
Upper Marlboro, led by Lieut. Joseph
Itzel, crack Baltimore detective, pre
pared this afternoon to question a
woman Government clerk from Wash
ington.
The woman. Miss Edith Tavenner,
400 block of G street northeast, is
not under arrest, it was empha
sized. but had agreed to go from the
Capital to Upper Marlboro for ques
tioning.
Itzel plans to question at least 50
persons, including Mr. and Mrs. George
A. Loring. the parents of the murdered
Mount Rainier girl: other members of
the Loring family, and at least a score
Of friends.
Clues Being Analyzed.
Prior to Hicks' disclosures, Itzel
said he had no idea where a num
ber of clues to the murder had been
sent by the Prince Georges County
tnd Mount Rainier police, who first
investigated the crime. The clues
include the strands of human hair
found under the girl's coat sleeve, a
blood-stained paper napkin, the torn
remnant of a man's coat sleeve, and a
length of twine similar to that found
about the girl's throat.
nzei win work irom a headquar
ters in Bowie's office at the court
house here. After the funeral, he
plans to question Leo Lojacono, a
brother-in-law of the slain girl. Lo
jacono is an intimate friend of Rich
ard Tear, 29-year-old attendant at
Et. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Introduced Tear to Girl.
The brother-in-law. who also is
employed at St. Elizabeth’s, intro
duced Tear to Corinna Loring about
four months ago. The couple had
been engaged for several months. The
two were to have been married in
Washington a week ago today.
Miss Loring dropped mysteriously
Irom sight shortly after 8 o'clock
on the night of November 4, only
48 hours before her wedding day.
She had been left alone in her par
ents' home at 3110 Beech street,
Mount Rainier. Her body was found
Saturday afternoon in a pine thicket
about a quarter of a mile from her
home.
Tear was released yesterday after
noon, following his arrest for inves
tigation Saturday night. Several
■ hours later, police liberated a former
auitor of Miss Loring's, Aubrey Hamp
ton, 30-year-old Government clerk,
Tpo was arrested for questioning
Sunday.
Itzel hoped to obtain some useful
information from Lojacono, who was
~(See-:LORING, Page 5.)
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Trujillo Trip Opposed.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic, November 13 (A*).—1The As
sembly today by unanimous vote
adopted a resolution calling upon
President Rafael L. Trujillo not to
take his proposed trip to the United
States.
$2,381,000 Castle
Open, but Scotty
Won't Sleep There
“I Just Get Out the
i Mules and Go Up Into
the Rocks,” He Says.
j By the Associated Press.
THE CASTLE, DEATH VALLEY,
Calif.. November 13.—Death Valley
i Scotty, king of America's most deso
late desert, has opened his $2,381,000
castle again—but he shuns Its mag
nificent bed room to sleep on the
desert rocks.
“Why should I sleep here?" asked
; Death Valley Scotty. "When I want a
I good sleep. I just get out the mules
! and go up in the rocks.”
| He should know—after 35 years in
j Death Valley, which yielded him gold
j enough to satisfy his every whim,
j His bed room is finished in the per
i fection of an Aladdin's dream. The
I bed is hand carved. The rugs, made in
j Spain, are an inch thick. There are
pictures of Buffalo Bill Cody and P.
T. Barnum and draperies which cost
enough to build a bungalow.
I
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Reciprocal Trade Treaty Is
Under Fire of Lumber and
Cattle Interests.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt said at his
press conference today that he had
signed an authorization for the Gov
ernment's signature of the Canadian
America- reciprocal trade treaty,
i He said no time has been set for
signing the treaty. Prime Minister
! Mackenzie King of Canada is expected
1 here tomorrow, however. Secretary
Hull probably will sign for the United
States.
Under the reciprocal tariff act the
: President first must formally author
■ ize signature and. after the treaty
j is signed, must give his official ap
| proval.
The Chief Executive customarily
does not sign the actual treaty.
Tariff Scale Not Revealed.
There still was no official indication
j as to what provisions for mutual tariff
! reductions the Canadian-American
! compact contains, but it was believed
j details probably would be made public
i at the time of signing.
Reports arid apprehensions of what
may be contained In it have brought
! threats of court attacks on its consti
tutionality from cattle and lumber re
gions.
A rumored slash of 50 per cent In
lumber duties evoked from Dr. Wilson
Compton, manager of the National
Lumber Manufacturers' Association, a
declaration that such a move would
be “selling the lumber industry down
the river.”
In Chicago, doubts over the agree- i
ment's terms contributed to a bearish i
market.
Court Test Looms.
The legal attack on the reciprocal ,
; tariff act is planned by the Florida '
j Agricultural Tariff Association. It
complains that the treaty with Cuba 1
is operating to the disadvantage of!
Florida fruit and vegetable producers. j
The law will be challenged, it was
said, as an unconstitutional delegation
of power by Congress.
In the face of these developments,
Secretary Hull said at a press confer
ence that the department is “losing
no sleep” over the question of the
act's constitutionality.
The law permits the President to
reduce tariff rates by as much as 50
per cent, in return for similar con
cessions from foreign countries.
Since its enactment it has been
challenged frequently in Congress,
with Senators Vandenberg. Repub
lican. of Michigan, and Dickinson.
Republican, of Iowa, among leaders pf
the attack.
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THREE SEEK SENATE
JOB TO SUCCEED LONG
Gov. Allen, Shreveport Lawyer
and Alexandria Sociologist
File for Race.
BATON ROUGE, La.. November 13
(/P).—There were three announced
candidates for election to the re
mainder of the late Huey P. Long's
Senate term today after midnight ex
piration of the time limit for filing of
candidacy intentions.
The three were, in the order of
filing, Gov. O. K. Allen, Prank J.
Looney, Shreveport. La., attorney, and
Dr. Irving Ward-Steinman, Alexan
dria, La., sociologist.
Ward-Steinman was the last to an
j nounce his candidacy, submitting his
j qualification papers just before the
j filing time limit.
| Already a candidate for the full
j Senate 'term beginning in January.
1937, he said would seek election for
! the ‘'short term” as well.
I V
ITAUANS1EP0RTED
Force Believed Attempting
to Encircle Ethiopians
on Southern Front.
ADDIS ABABA REPORTS
VICTORY IN 2 FIGHTS
Mussolini and Drummond Talk
Over Methods of Easing
European Tension.
By the Associated Press.
A new threat to the cities of Harar
and Jijiga. focal points of Ethiopian
defense, was seen today in uncon
firmed reports reaching Harar that two
motorized Italian columns were mov
ing into advanced positions in the
South while the northern Italian Army
occupied new territory.
A motorized force was reported to be
rapidly circling the Ethiopian left
wing on the southern front and ap
proaching Sasa Beneh. 155 miles
southeast of Harar. Another such
force was said to be advancing in the
valley of the Webbe Shibeli toward
the Bale district, 125 miles southwest
of Harar.
Gen. Emilio de Bono. Fascist com
mander In chief, informed Rome that
the first army corps in the north oc
cupied the Dessa region and joined the
Danakil column.
Northern Line Extended.
He declared the northern line was
extended westward to the Takkaze
River and the native army corps com
pleted occupation of the Gheralca re
gion.
From Makale it was reported the
northern Ethiopian warriors were
clashing daily in skirmishes with Pre
mier Mussolini's soldiers. Italian offi
cers saw the Ethiopian tactics as at
tempts to harass the Italians in de
fending their communications, while
Haile Selassie's men had time to con
centrate at Amba Alaji, 40 miles south
of the captured Makale.
A Reuters dispatch from Harar said
reports circulated there that Italian
airplanes had left Daggan Bur, 125
miles southeast, for Harar.
Planes Over Jijiga.
Italian scouting planes flew over
Jijiga, advices from Addis Ababa said,
as the Italian military command pub
lished its views of prospective Ethio
pian defense movements.
Possession of Harar and Jijiga would
constitute one of the steps necessary
to extend the Fascist line joining the
two Italian colonies.
‘The offensive capacity of the
enemy cannot last because he cannot
be fed continually with fresh troops
and the right supplies," the Italian
military view said
The movement of the northern
forces westward along the Takkaze
River pointed toward the Lake Tana
region, seat of British power interests.
Fight Reported in Ogaden.
An official communique from Addis
Ababa said both sides suffered many
casualties during an engagement yes
terday near Anele. Ogaden Province,
on the southern front. In another
engagement the Ethiopians chased the
Italians out of position, the report said.
In a northern engagement yesterday,
the Ethiopians took the offensive, at
tacked an Italian column, killed the
commander and scattered the unit.
Eight Ethiopians died in this last en
counter. while the Italians lost "many
more." the communique asserted.
The main combat in Ogaden Prov
ince, through which a great Fascist
force under Gen. Rudolfo Graziani has
been advancing from Italian Somali
land. was reported waged between
Ethiopian Infantry and Italian tank
and machine gun units.
The Italians turned a deadly fire on
the native foot soldiers, the Ethiopian
communique said, but Emperor Haile
Selassie's forces succeeded in capturing
four tanks after a sanguinary struggle
in which the Anele field was strewn
with dead.
While the invasion proceeded. Pre
mier Mussolini and Sir Eric Drum
mond. British Ambassador, discussed
methods of relieving European ten
sions.
Authoritative British sources, mean
time. said Britain would deliver a
new rebuff to Mussolini by withhold
ing an individual reply to Italy's note
protesting the application of League
sanctions.
Inasmuch as the nations are acting
jointly at Geneva, this source said,
there are no grounds for individual
notes of protest and therefore Great
Britain feels that a reply should be
tor warded only after exchanges of
views leading up to a joint answer.
Such exchanges, it was said, have not
been begun.
Credit facilities of a London man
ufacture. of perfumes supplied from
Italy were withdrawn. Many govern
ments weighed an answer to Musso
lini's note, threatening reprisals if
economic sanctions are applied No
vember 18, the scheduled date.
C.C.C. Boss Hanged and Burned;
Police Scout Suicide Theory
By tho Associated Press.
RIPLEY. W. Va„ November 13.—
Three hunters found the flaming
body of J. Fulton Gunnoe, 45-year-old
C. C. C. camp foreman, hanging from
a tree 4 miles from this mountain
town early today.
Investigators expressed conflicting
opinions as to how he met death.
Coroner C. R. Kessel, after exam
ining the charred body, said he be
lieved Gunnoe committed suicide.
Police Lieut. James H. Flllinger con
tended the man was slain.
The hunters sa\ the blazing body
from the woods which fringe this
community, about 40 miles from
Charleston. The glare came from the
farm of James Elliott, only 150 yards
from a main highway.
One of the men, Albert Hysell. 31,
a son-in-law of Elliott, said they were
afraid to approach.
Fencing wire had been wrapped
around the man's neck.
Coroner Kessel said Gunnoe was
alive when the body was set afire,
contrary to the opinion given by Lieut.
Fillinger.
The lieutenant said, “It can't have
been suicide. We are working on a
murder theory.”
Two gasoline cans and a box of
matches were found under the tree.
Lieut. Fillinger sent them to finger
print experts in Charleston.
Gunnoe, reputed well-to-do at one
time, resigned as a deputy sheriff of
adjacent Raleigh County in April.
Acquaintances said he left the
C. C. C. camp last night for a walk.
They described him as a good-natured
“boss" with no enemies. Several per
sons saw Gunnoe on the street later
wearing a raincoat. The raincoat has
not been found.
Gunrioe’a widow lives In the mining
community of Sundial, in Raleigh
County
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Bus Companies Carry Safety
Campaign Into Border States
Cab Association Also Joins Star Drive
to Reduce Traffic Toll—Sugges
tions Are Offered.
Traffic Deaths to November 13—93; Same Period. 1934—10S
Carrying the campaign for street*
j and highway safety throughout the
District and into the nearby bounties
of Maryland and Virginia in their
public service operations, two bus
companies and a taxicab company
have just joined The Evening Star
Safety Council and now are engaged
in pledging all their drivers to strict
j compliance with the 12 primary safe
driving rules of the council.
The Terminal Transportation Cab
Association, under the leadership of
L. N. Mouser, president, and Adrian
A. Duvall, chairman of the Advisory
Board of the association, has under
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Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang
Shot While Attending
Buddhist Meeting.
I
By ihe Associated Press.
TIENTSIN. November 13.—A woman
assassin today killed Marshal Sun
Chuan-Fang. bitter opponent of the
Nanking government and often men
tioned as the possible choice of Japan
to lead an independence movement
of North China.
Sun. formerly one of China's mast
powerful war lords, was shot while I
attending a Buddhist meeting in the
Chinese section of the city by a well
dressed Chinese woman.
She emptied her revolver into Sun’s
body, then calmly surrendered to the
police.
The assassin was reported to be the
daughter of the late Gen. Sze Chung- !
Pin, for whose execution she was as
serted to have held Sun responsible.
Added Provinces to Power.
Marshal Sun once was one of the
most powerful war lords of China. In
1923 he was governor of Chekiang
Province. Later he became military
governor of Fukien Province, then was
placed in control of the whole lower
Yangtze area.
By 1926 he was in control of Che
kiang, Kiagsu. Fukien, and Kiangsi
provinces. On September 9 of that
year, alleging that his territory . had
been attacked by the Cantonese un
der Soviet influence, he declared war
on the Canton government.
For a month he was successful In
battle, then, weakened by the deser
tion of various allied generals, he was
beaten back by the southern armies.
Lost Key City in 19S7.
By February of 1927 he was forced
back to Chuchow and, on February
17, 1927, he lost the key city of Hang
chow to the advancing Cantonese.
At one time it was reported he
might flee to Japan for safety. How
ever, with reinforcements, he retired
to the lower Yangtse Valley, reor
ganized his forces and kept on fight
ing until June, 1928. when he resigned
command of the Shantung and
Chihli armies, to be replaced by Gen.
Chi Hsien-Yuan.
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Peru Protests to Ecuador.
LIMA, Peru, November 13 (A>).—A
foreign ministry communique made
public today said Peru “repeatedly has
protested" against the presence of
Ecuadorean Army detachments on the
Northern boundary of Peru.
"UNDER I
GOAL POSTS"
A Thrilling New Serial of
COLLEGE FOOT BALL
—by—
Eddie Dooley
All-American Quarterback
and Sports Writer
BEGINS TODAY
On Page A-l 3
9
i taken the pledging of the drivers of
its fleet of 200 cabs as members of
the Star Safety Council. At the same
time. Mouser called upon all District
transportation companies, individual
drivers and pedestrians to assist in
the campaign for safe driving and
walking.
With "safety of operation” as the
company slogan, the Washington,
Marlboro & Annapolis Motor Lines,
one of the pioneer bus companies in
Washington, has joined The Star safe
driving campaign to aid in decreasing
the number of traffic fatalities in
(See SAFETY, Page 8.)
PACT IS TOKIO CRV
Papers Allege Military
Treaty as Cabinet Pre
pares to Frame Budget.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO. November 13.—A majority
of the afternoon vernacular news
papers gave great prominence today
to dispatches from Hsinking. Manchu
kuo. of •'reports reaching certain quar
ters” that a secret tri-partite agree
ment between the United States, So
viet Russia and China was imminent.
The reports alleged that Maxim Lit
vinoff. Soviet foreign commissar, and
W. W. Yen. Chinese Ambassador to
Russia, had already concluded the
pact, which the United States was ex
pected to join shortly. The agreement,
the dispatches said, would obligate the
signatories to maintain armed forces
in the Orient to preserve peace there.
It was stated the Chinese-Russian
pact was tantamount to an alliance.
Authoritative quarters said the re
ports emanated from the headquarters
of the Japanese Army in Manchu
kuo.
Non-Japanese authorities, familiar
with Oriental propaganda, pointed
out the story was given out Just
before the Japanese cabinet was
scheduled to begin framing its 1936
1937 budget.
Tokio newspaper reports of a secret
military alliance between the United
States, Soviet Russia and China were
described today at the State Depart
ment as too ‘‘silly and ridiculous" to
deserve notice.
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Washington and its volume
of advertising, which is the
greatest in the United States,
The Star is able to furnish
both reader and advertiser
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lowest cost.
NAVIN. BASE BALL
Boss of Champion Tigers
Stricken While Riding
Horse at Detroit.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. November 13 —Frank J.
Navin, 64. owner of base ball's world
champions, the Detroit Tigers, and
vice president of the American League,
died in a hospital today an hour after
he fell, stricken with a heart attack,
from his horse at the Detroit Riding
and Hunt Club.
First inkling of the tragedy came
when Mrs. Navin. riding back of the
widely known sportsman on the bridle
path, saw' his gentle Irish jumper
galloping toward her. riderless.
Mrs. Navin followed the horse to
the stable and with L. W. Droeger,
manager of the hunt club, and Mrs.
Droeger, Mrs. Navin made a frantic
search of the riding grounds for 15
1 minutes before discovering her hus
band in a clump of tall grass.
Found Unconscious.
The base ball owner was unconscious,
one arm thrown across his chest. He
was hurriedly removed to a hospital,
where he died in a few minuts. Dr.
J. P. Leonard said there were no
bruises on the body and said that
a heart attack caused his death. At
tendants at the club said there was no
evidence he had been thrown from
the horse.
Navin is survived by his wodow, and
a nephew. Charles F Navin, secretary
of the club, who now is in a sanitarium
at Battle Creek, Mich.
Navin's sudden death ended a 30
year career in big time base ball which
sporting luck happily crowned with a
world's championship early in Octo
ber—his only one in three decades of
competition.
Around him through the years
"Poker-Face" Navin gathered some of
the brightest stars of the diamond
from the days of Ty Cobb down to
Mickey Cochrane.
News of his death hit like a bomb
shell in the city where he had made
base ball a big business from April to
October.
Cochrane Move Lauded.
The fans in Tiger town who knew
all the details of Navin's base ball
story from the turn of the century,
had hailed him with louder cheers
since the day he bought Mickey Coch
rane for $100,000 from Connie Mack
of Philadelphia, and installed the pep
pery catcher as manager of the Tiger
club.
That was the dawn of a new
championship era for Detroit base
ball, brought on two league pennants
and one world championship, and
shifted the seat of American League
oase ball supremacy westward from
New York.
One million home town fans banged
the turnstiles into Navin Field in the
1935 season, the richest in Navin's
years of base ball ownership.
Navin was born April 18. 1871. in
Adrian, Mich., one of nine children
of Thomas and Eliza Crotty Navin,
natives of Ireland.
He studied law, but persuaded
Thomas H. Yawkey, multimillionaire
lumberman, to join with him in the
purchase of the Detroit Base Ball Co.
in 1902. He took over the manager
ship of the club and thereafter de
voted all his time to building it up
(See~NAVIN, Page 7.)
RATES BY BANKS
—
Expansion of Loans Held
Essential for Recovery
if Properly Used.
6 PER CENT MORTGAGE
EXAMPLE OF PRINCIPLE
"Pirate Rates" of South and West
of Former Years Believed
at End.
By th* Associ'll Ml Press.
President Roosevelt expressed hope
today that interest rates would be
lowered so as to make large bank
reserves more useful in the drive for
recovery.
Talking with newspaper men. the |
President agreed that expanded bank
portfolios would play a very essential
part in recovery if properly used.
He added that if this money were
not used in a reasonable way the
large deposits would slow up recovery.
He cited an instance of a man in !
the East who contracted to buy a
farm. This man was able to pay 60
per cent cash and required a mort
gage for the other 40 per cent.
This fellow shopped around, the
President said, and the best rate he
could get was 6 per cent on a mort
gage. He added there were lots of cases
like that, slowing recovery.
The President said he did believe
that the old • pirate rates” which pre
vailed in the South and West for
years had been largely eliminated.
Asked if bank examiners were com
plaining to bankers against real estate
loans, he replied that he thought this '
was the case only where banks had
excessive loans of that kind.
PROSPEROUS PERIOD SEEN.
O’Connor Forecasts Rosy F.ra—Less
Spending Urged.
By th* Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, November 13.—
A prosperous period for banks and
business was predicted today before
the American Bankers’ Association
by a Government official and a British
economist, while an industrial leader
demanded a reduction in taxes and the
cost of Government.
J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of
i currency, said the current six-months’
j period would be the best for banks
j in the last four years and Maj. L. L.
B. Angas said he expected a boom
i that would include heavy industries
and retail trade.
Lewis H. Brown, president of the
Johns-Manville Corp., sought to en
! list the aid of the bankers in a
, drive for lower taxes and less cost
in Government.
i Declaring that national banks had
made a profit of 3.93 per cent on
capital In the first six months of
1935, the national bank chief deliv- i
ered an optimistic address.
•’It has always been my custom
simply to present the facts and never
to make a prophecy,” he said. "These
facts, however, and my general knowl
edge of the banking situation impel
me now to predict that the present
six-month period will be the best ,
the banks of the Nation have en- j
joyed for more than four years.”
1,423 in Receivership.
O'Connor confined his remarks
mainly to rehabilitation work in the
national bank field. He disclosed in
this connection that there are still
1.423 national banks in receivership. I
of which 593, with deposits of *1,
067.524,707, hive been placed in re
ceivership since March 16. 1933.
O'Connor, like Leo T. Crowley,
chairman of the Federal Deposit In
I sura nee Corp.. who spoke yesterday.
(See BANKERS. Page 4.)
FRENCH NAVY FUNDS
BOOSTED $34,190,000
I __
Budget Figures Disclose Increased
Expenditures for 1936—Main- ;
tenance Cost Drops.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. November 13.—France will
increase her naval expenditures during
1936 by 526,000.000 francs i about
*34.190,000) over 1935. budget figures
published today disclosed.
The country will spend 3.429,000.000
francs (about *223,500,000) on the
navy, for items which include the addi
tion of 4.650 men.
Naval maintenance costs are lower,
however, because of reductions in
pensions and indemnities ordered
under Premier Laval's decree laws and
a drop in supply costs. Maintenance
1 was estimated at 1,144.000 000 francs
! for 1936, compared to 1,228,000,000
! francs in 1935.
Texan Taking Gospel to Soviet
To Be Sent Home by Embassy
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. November 13.—Ernest
Elmer Baker, long, rangy bricklayer
and cowboy from Menard, Tex., who
walked across part of Germany and
all of Poland to preach the gospel
to the Bolsheviks, arrived in Moscow
today.
It is a year and nine months since
his departure from Menard. He was
brought here by two Soviet guards
from a hospital near Minsk, where
he had been for the past two and a
half months, and turned over to the
United States Embassy. The embassy
has made arrangements to send him
nome.
Previous to his hospitalization.
Baker spent almost a year in a de
tention camp near the Polish border,
having been picked up shortly after
entering the Soviet Union. He had
entered unnoticed over a swamp.
•T asked the Russians why they
k.
were carrying those six-shooters,”;
Baker said, discussing his capture. [
“I told them Jesus Christ was the
greatest of the Communists because !
he was the friend of the working
man and the poor, so they didn't
need to go around carrying guns.”
His captors spoke no English, he
said, nor did anybody at the deten
tion camp. His presence there be
came known here nine months after |
his seizure. * Then Angus Teward. ]
head of the consular section of the
embassy, went to see him and began
the negotiations which led to his re- '
patriation.
Baker, 39 years old and well over 1
6 feet tall, arrived in Moscow wear
ing hob-nailed boots, soiled khaki
breeches and shirt, a heavy padded
coat and a fur hat. all gifts of Rus
sians. He appeared in good health
after his rest in the hospital and said
the Rusisans had treated him consid
erately.
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CHEST lorn HITS
3 DAM DRIVE
Returns Show Nearly 30 Per
Cent of Goal Figure
Is Raised.
DICKINSON APPEALS
FOR LARGER DONATIONS
Need Cited for Funds to Supplant
Direct Aid Withdrawn by
Government.
Pushing well beyond the half-million
mark in their drive for $1,877,900. the
Community Chest campaigners today
reported contributions from 36.616
Chest supporters totaling for the first
three days of the campaign $558,374.
The returns, constituting nearly 30
per cent of the minimum goal, were
tabulated at a luncheon meeting of
leaders and workers in the large ball
room of the Willard Hotel this after
noon.
John Dickinson. Assistant Attorney
General and vice chairman of the
Governmental Unit in the campaign,
gave an inspirational address to the
canvassers. He expressed the hope
they will be able to secure increased
contributions this year to meet heavier
burdens confronting the Chest and
its 65 member agencies.
“Best Possible Cause.
“The Community Chest,” he de
clared, “is the best possible cause for
which you could be exerting your ef
forts. It is a cause that bears on our
community responsibility to the sick
and needy, the aged and the children.
"We have a direct challenge before
as this year—a higher goal and more
difficult problems; but there is a spirit
of optimism abroad in the land today,
a feeling of thankfulness for blessings
that have come to many of the people.
This is the time to get the citizenry
to share these blessings with those
who are less fortunate.”
The Special Assignment Unit report
ed a total of $213,061 from 226 givers,
representing 37.18 per cent of the
unit s quota of $573,000. The Metro
politan Unit reported $62,162 from
3.455 givers, or 27 per cent of its
quota of $230,000. The Governmental
Unit reported $195,403 from 25.585
givers, or 28 per cent of its quota of
$677,000. The Group Solicitation
Unit reported $86,940 from 7,225 giv
ers, or 22 per cent of its quota of
$388,000. Campaign Chairman Wil
liam McClellan presided.
Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss. chairman
of the Speakers’ Bureau, advanced a
thought-provoking suggestion in ad
dressing employes of the Potomac
Electric Power Co. today. Before
signing for any specific amount on a
Chest pledge card, she said, prospec
tive contributors should divide the
sum they had planned to give by 65.
the number of Chest agencies, and
figure out for themselves how much
each agency will receive from their
gifts.
“Extra" Money Needed.
Declaring that cutting off of direct
Federal relief in the District has
brought “hundreds of families” face
to face with the threat of starvation
unless extra money from private
sources is provided through the Chest,
Milton A. Smith, of the Speakers’
Bureau made a plea for generous con
tributions at a meeting of 1.300 em
ployes of the Government Printing
Office last night.
oi trie 20.000 famines now on re
lief in the District, only those having
no employable members—about 5.000—
will be given payments from remain
ing Federal funds," he said. "Of the
other 15,000. those families in which
no one can find a place in the works
progress plan or private industry are
faced with enduring many privations
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FIRE KILLS EIGHT
CHILDREN IN HOME
Parents Escape After Vain Effort
to Save North Carolina
Farm Victims.
By the Associated Press.
ALEXIS. N. C. November 13.—
Eight children of Mr. and Mrs Hubert
Cunningham, farm couple, were
burned to death early today as fire
swept- their six-room, frame dwelling
near here. Cunningham and his wife
were burned, but not seriously.
Trapped and burned to death in the
blaze were Robert Cunningham, 19;
Thomas. 15: Louise. 7: Nellie. 12:
Grace. 10: Jack, 2: Juanita, 4. and
Ruth. 11 months.
Mrs. Cunningham said she and her
husband awoke to find the house in
flames and she tried to go to the room
where seven of the children were
sleeping, but flames drove her back.
She then sought to return to hep
room where she had left Ruth, she
said, but it was enveloped in flames. .
She and her hasband escaped by
the rear door.
The house, a six-room, two-story
frame farm home which Cunningham,
a former Gastonia taxi driver, had
rented last Spring, burned to the
ground. It belonged to Giles Stroupc,
Alexis farmer.
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