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No. 33,667. poTofflc”5 Washington.mDtlc WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1936—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. ** w») Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS.
ROOSEVELT CALLS
—
Men of Jefferson’s Type
Required, He Says in Ad
dress at Monticello.
ISAME QUALITIES OF 76
HELD NEED AT PRESENT
Confident Relighting of Spirit
Will Come and Lovers of Democ
racy Will Be Developed.
BY .1. RUSSELL YOUNG.
Staff Correspondent of Tne Star.
| CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va.. July 4.—
Standing reverently on the portico of
Monticello, the home of Thomas
•Jefferson, President Roosevelt today
delivered an Independence day oration
appealing for leaders of the character
and spirit of the author of the Decla
ration of Independence to meet the
problems of the present "to maintain
true freedom in this Nation.” A large
fathering heard the address.
Mr. Roosevelt declared the problems
of 1936 call as greatly for the continua
tion of imagination and energy and
capacity for responsibility as did the
age of Jefferson, and he added with
emphasis that it is not beyond the
power of the people of this country to
relight the sacred fire of fundamental
freedom. He contended there are nc
limitations upon the Nation's capacity
to accomplish this, "except the
strength of our Nation's desire and
determination.” •
However. Mr. Roosevelt spoke as one
*ho has confidence that this relight
ing of the spirit of freedom will come
about and that lovers of freedom and
democracy like Jefferson will be de
veloped. He skid he is not one who is
inclined to believe that the spirit of
such men as Jefferson was the spirit
of a golden age, gone and never to be
repeated.
Glass Lauds President.
It was plain to be seen that the
President was pleased by the com
parisons to Jefferson in the remarks
of Senator Carter Glass and Stuart
Gibboney, president of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Association, who
presided.
Mr. Roosevelt was introduced by
{Senator Glass, who said:
“Virginia greets him because of his
high position; Virginia greets him
because of his high courage and in
comparable patriotism, and Virginia
greets him because he professes that
love of humanity and the plain people
that characterized ThorfflS' .TPffffSfiff*'
Mr. Gibboney said "Mr. Roosevelt,
you are a worthy successor to Jef
ferson and we acclaim you for the
devotion you have shown in your pub
lic life for the common people. Jef
ferson fought for equal opportunity
for all and against all special priv
ilege, the same as you have. You have
been Jefferson's worthy successor in
the fight you have made for the
people.”
Scene Is Inspiring.
The words of the President seemed
to be inspired by his standing amid
the scenes which inspired Jefferson
and which he loved so well.
Amplifiers carried the voice of the
President to the far corners of the
great crowd assembled on the smooth
lawns of the historic estate. However
these thousands of people, mostly from
this section of Virginia, were not Mr.
Roosevelt's only listeners. He was
heard by millions throughout the land
through the medium of a Nation-wide
radio hook-up. In the group of promi
nent persons seated near the President
as he spoke were Mrs. Roosevelt, Post -
master General Farley. Secretary of
Interior Ickes; Marvin H. McIntyre,
one of the President’s secretaries; Miss
Marguerite Leland, the President’s
private secretary; Senator Glass
and Senators Harry F. Byrd of
.Virginia, and Hattie Caraway of
Arkansas, Gov. George Peery of Vir
ginia, Representative Howard Smith
oi Alexandria, va., judge n. wauxjii
Moore, Assistant Secretary of State:
Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secre
tary of Labor; Charles West, Under
secretary of Biterior; and J. M. John
son, Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
Mrs. Roosevelt was attractively at
tired in a white dress and a red and
blue silk scarf,' which combination of
colors gave her a patriotic tone.
In lauding the character and great
ness of Jefferson in his opening re
marks, the President said there are
periods of history when one man
seems great because those who stand
beside him are small, but that Jeffer
son was great in the presence of many
great and free men. The President
expressed the opinion that in 1776
the fathers of the Constitution seemed
to have caught the fire of greatness
from one another and that all became
elevated above the common run of
mankind.
Source of Greatness.
Mr. Roosevelt then declared that
the stirring of a new sense of freedom
•was the source of their greatness. He
pointed out that they were enjoying
the taste of the first fruits of self gov
ernment and freedom of conscience;
that they had broken away from a
system of peasantry, from indentured
servitude; that they were finding that
they could build for themselves a new
economic independence.
The President seemed to be speak
ing in defense of his New Deal policies
when, speaking of Jefferson and his
fellow patriots, he said, “Theirs were
not the gods of things as they were,
but the gods of things as they ought
to be. They used new means and new
models to build new structures.”
The President said the world has
never had as much human ability as
It needs and a modem democracy In
particular needs, above all things, the
continuance of • the spirit of youth.
By way of emphasis he added that
Jefferson was only 33 when he wrote
the Declaration of Independence.
These exercises at Monticello, while
Impressive, were not long drawn out
as is frequently the case on patriotic
^occasions. They began at 10 am.
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-ll.)
Helen Jacobs Captures Title
At WAmbledon in 3-Set Match
Overflow Crowd Sees
Frau Sperling Bow
at 6—2,4—6, 7—5.
By the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON. England, July 4 —
Helen Jacobs finally. captured the
elusive all-England tennis champion
ship today, defeating Frau Hilda
Krahwinkel Sperling of Germany and !
Denmark in the final round, 6—2,1
4—6, 7—5.
The American champion had to
stave off a courageous rally by Frau
Sperling before she could win the title
for the first time. Four times pre
viously Miss Jacobs had reached the
Wimbledon final only to be beaten,
twice by Helen Wills Moody and twice
by Dorothy Round.
Miss Jacobs’ triumph followed the
hollow victory scored in the men's
singles final yesterday by Fred Perry
of England. Perry, winning the title
I for the third successive year, con
i quered Baron Gottfried Von Cramm
I of Germany, 6—1, 6—1, 6—-0, after ;
i the blond teuton had suffered a severe
(See TENNIS, Page A-4.)
MISS HELEN JACOBS.
ON SWEEPS TAKEN
Police Raid “Largest Dis
tribution Center in This
Country.”
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 4.—With the
arrest of 10 persons police and postal
Inspectors contended today they had
struck a heavy if not crushing blow at 1
the largest distribution center in this !
country for Irish Hospital sweepstake 1
! tickets. •
They said a series of raids last night [
i netted $2,500,000 worth of tickets and
records of the names of thousands
of agents. The tickets, which the
officers declared to be genuine, were
on the Cambridgeshire race sched
' uled for October.
Through questioning of one of those
arrested, who gave his name as Mi
chael Hayes and his address as Dublin,
the investigators sought to substanti
ate a belief he was connected directly
with the administration of the sweep
stakes. The other seven men and two
women gave New York addresses. i
The officers carted away a patrol
wagon load of confiscated tickets and
other paraphernalia from the back
room of a jewelry store, which was
.among the plaow raided. The prison
ess were charged with violating the
law forbidding use of mails for lot
teries.
BOY ISNEARDEATH
FROM 3-STORY FALL
8-Year-Old William Jones Victim
of Accident at 1489
Newton Street.
Eight-year-old William (Buddy)
Jones, a pupil at Sacred Heart School,
was reported near death in Emergency
Hospital today after he fell from
the third-floor landing of a fire escape
at the rear of his home at 1489 New
ton street.
Buddy, who had been playing with
other children, went upstairs to get
a drink of water from his mother,
Mrs. William L. Jones. He had been
warned against going on the fire es
cape, and as he left his apartment he
ran toward the corridor exit to the
emergency ladder, apparently with
the idea of teasing his mother.
Buddy slipped under the railing of
the fire escape and clung for a few
moments to the iron flooring. He
lost his hold, however, and plunged
into the concrete areaway. Neighbors
picked up the child and hurried him
to Garfield Hospital. He later was
transferred to Emergency.
At the latter institution Buddy was
said to be unconscious and "sinking
fast." His lather is a branch manager
for the Postal Telegraph Co.
Barefoot Parade Greets Rain.
MANCHESTER, Tenn., July 4 UP).—
Forty Manchester citizens were so
pleased with the drought-breaking rain
that, led by Mayor Wright Hickerson,
they paraded barefoot in a celebration
through the wet city streets.
I
CLAIMS 3 LIVES
Veteran Sailing Captain Hit
Run Victim—Ten Injured
in Crashes Today.
Three persons were killed, one by a
hit-and-run driver, and 10 persons
injured in Fourth of July traffic ac
cidents on highways in nearby Vir
ginia and Maryland. Other accidents
in and near Washington during the
past 24 hours have resulted in injuries
to 12 persons, one of th^m a pneu
monia patient on his way in an ambu
lance to the hospital.
Capt. B. P. Worrell, veteran sailing
vessel skipper, died in Gouldman Hos
pital at Colonial Beach, Va., today
after being hurled into a ditch by a
hit-and-run driver. He was found be
tween Oak Grove and Rollins Fork,
18 miles from Colonial Beach, by
David Dodd and Lee Dodd, brothers.
They took him to the hospital, where
he died 10 minutes after being ad
mitted. Mayor J. A. Myers of Colonial
Beach, acting coroner, issued a cer
tificate of death caused by an automo
bile operated by a person of unknown
identity.
A Richmond rayon-mill worker,
Charles Clarke, 22, was killed and
three companions were injured whpn
a car in which they were en route
through Washington to Baltimore fig
ured in a triple collision 3 miles north
of Fredericksburg, Va., early today.
Clarke died instantly when the car
in which he was riding sideswiped two
southbound machines and overturned
down an embankment.
ijaaora wiison, zv. coiorea, sui
Rhode Island avenue, was killed and
seven other colored persons were in
jured in a head-on collision on the
Rockville-Frederick pike near Rock
ville, Md.
Those injured in the Fredericksburg
crash were taken to the Mary Wash
ington Hospital in that city. They
are Mr. and Mrs. Mary Demuth of
Baltimore, who possibly sustained a
fracture of the skull; Miss Irene
Furry, Dumbarton, Va., fractured leg,
and William Demuth, also of Balti
more, body cuts.
The Wilson woman was riding in an
automobile driven by Henry Amerson,
colored, 1203 Cgrard street, when it
was struck, polfe say, by a machine
operated by Walter Giddings, colored,
of Rockville.
Amerson received a broken left arm,
cuts about the face and head, while
two persons riding with him and four
occupants of Giddings’ car were
slightly hurt. Giddings, who was un
injured. was arrested on a manslaugh
ter charge.
12 Others Are Injured.
At least 12 persons had been in
jured in other traffic accidents in or
near Washington during the past 24
hours. Three adults and two chil
dren, all from Washington, were in
jured in a three-car collision on the
Washington-Marlboro pike at Forest
ville, Md., last night. They were
treated at Casualty Hospital. Those
hurt were Albert Raber, 36, of 221
Jefferson street, cuts; Mrs. Pearl Raber.
< See TRAFFIC^ Page 2.)
DAVID LAWRENCE
To Analyze the Platforms
David Lawrence, whose dispatches are printed regularly
in The Star, has been making a special study of
the platforms adopted by the Republican and
Democratic National Conventions. He
has written a series of six special
articles on the subject of
these party campaign
proposals.
IN THIS SERIES HE WILL ANALYZE THE
IMPORTANT PLANKS OF EACH PLAT
FORM, WRITING IN DETAIL AS TO PLANKS:
Old Age and Unemployment Insurance
Administration of Relief Agriculture Labor
Foreign Trade Policy
The Constitution—Change in Form of Government
Business The Extension of the Merit System
And the Many Other Campaign Principles of
Great Interest to All Our Readers.
1
READ THIS IMPORTANT SERIES OF ARTICLES
Beginning in The Star on Monday, July 6th
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CROP-WILTING HEAT
INCREASES HAVOC
ACROSS MIDWEST
Fears Mount as Blazing Sun
Remains in Place of
Promised Rain.
SOUTH AND NEW ENGLAND
ENJOY LIGHT SHOWERS
No Immediate Hope, However, of
General Downpour to Check
$250,000,000 Loss.
BACKGROUND—
Alarmed by drought, the Depart
ment of Agriculture has established
a live stock feed agency to advise
farmers where and how to obtain
fodder for their stock. Headquar
ters at Kansas City will open
Wednesday. The I. C. C. has cut
freight rates on needed feeds.
Secretary Wallace, already allotting
*5,000,000 to purchase cattle, said
this sum might grow to S30,000,000.
The R. A. seeks authorization to
loan from its SI.425,000,000 relief
fund.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 4 — Crop-wilting
heat spread new havoc across the
Western plains today.
Fears—temporarily allayed by actual'
or predicted rain for several days—
mounted with the mercury in the
Utuuglll MV.ll,
A blazing sun beat down on parched '
prairies as the corn crop entered a
critical three-week period. Extremely
high temperatures were registered yes
terday in the Missouri Valley and the,
Central plains. Norfolk, Nebr., record
ed 111. Omaha had 110—the highest!
ever noted at the weather station j
there in July. Pierre and Mobridge in
South Dakota reported 104 and Bis
marck, N. Dak., 96.
Unseasonably warm weather, meteor
ologists warned, would blanket the
Midwest.
There were scattered showers in
Southern States and portions of New j
York and New England yesterday, j
More precipitation was indicated for
parts of Wisconsin and North Dakota
—one of the most adversely affected
States.
Loss Put at $250,000,000.
But there was no immediate hope
of a general, saturating downpour to
halt crop lasses that have already been
estimated at more than $250,000,000
for the Nation's major agricultural
sections.
City dwellers shared some of
farmers' concern after Agriculture
Department economists in Washing
ton said the weather's eflect on corn
would determine the future price of
meat they must buy for their tables.
Corn, they pointed out. was used to
feed meat animals and was a major
factor in the prices they bring at the
markets.
Reports to the grain trade told of
a deficiency in June moisture in
almost all of 200 reporting points in
11 Central States.
Market men also heard crop de
terioration had broadened in the
Western Canadian Provinces, with
reports from Southern Manitoba and
Saskatchewan of large areas where
not more than 25 per cent of normal
harvest was in prospect.
But profit-taking held grain prices
in check after sensational advances
Thursday.
Only one North American market
pit was open for trading today, that
at Winnipeg. Opening prices there
dipped, the July future yielding
at 86%-7* in profit taking. At Liver
pool futures were firm, closing 1 to 2
pence higher.
Heavy rains cheered sections of the
drought-dried South last night and
fresh showers followed today. Damage
In the South and Southeast has been
estimated at $150,000,000.
Catholics to Pray for Rain.
Catholics in Nebraska prepared to
pray for rain at the behest of the
bishop of the Lincoln Diocese. He
urged the faithful to offer their sup
plications for an end of the crisis
during the first two Sundays of July.
Planters in the alliance district of
the same State armed themselves with
clubs and combed the fields in a war
against another crop menace—jack
rabbits seeking water.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
disclosed at Des Moines the volume of
distressed cattle to be purchased by
the Government would be determined
by the future seriousness of the sit
uation. While ready to buy up to
1,000,000 head, he said such an ex
tensive program for removing the an
imals from barren ranges might not
prove necessary.
He said in an interview the A. A. A.
was proceeding with a 1937 soil con
servation program without waiting for
the outcome of the November election.
Lists Factors in Situation.
Among the considerations, he said,
were:
How severe will the drought be and
what changes will be necessary to
meet conditions created by it?
How much of the new seedings of
clover and other grass will survive
the drought and the grasshoppers?
Will it be possible or practical to
nsure any control over corn produc
tion through payment of higher bene
fits for land shifted from corn to
pass then tor lantf shifted from oats
a grass?
Will it be possible to work out My
plans for future corn lands, either in
connection with the ever-normal
granary idea or as a type of crop in
surance?
OIL LABOR REWARDED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4 (IP).—A
voluntary wage increase ud broader
vacation privileges to approximately
1,500 employes in the California pro
iuctlon and refining departments were
[ranted by the Shell Oil Co. yester
iay.
The raises are retroactive to June 1.
Under the new scale common/4aborers
jermanently employed will receive
(5.30 a day, instead of $4.80. Semi
skilled workers will be paid (6 a day
nstead of $5.73,
/General joerobwoS^
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BACK FROM THE WARS!
RAINS HIT TEXAS
26 Death Toll and Property
Loss Now Estimated
at $3,500,000.
By the Associated Press.
CUERO. Tex.. July 4.—New rains
upstream early today poured another
burden of water into the sprawling
Guadalupe River, which already had
forced 200 families out of their homes
at Victoria.
Fresh downpours of more than 3
inches fell in the Gonzales region,
scene of death-dealing floods three
days ago, but rescue workers said the
river probably wduld unload into the
Gulf of Mexico before the new rise
could reach Cuero or Victoria.
26 Reported Dead.
The death list stood at 26. Property
losses were estimated at $3,500,000 by
farmers, live stock keepers, business
men and home owners. Thousands of
acres of fertile farm.land* were flooded.
At-Victoria, when the west passed
last night, the river toae to more than
31'j feet, the higheit on record. All
the lower portion of the town was
under water. About 25 families were
marooned and rescuers in boats pad
died through the swift waters to rescue
146 persons.
faome or those marooned refused
to leave the water-filled homes. At
one place three Negroes were found
huddled on the roof of their dwell
ing. refusing to abandon it.
Relief Forces United.
The Red Cross. National Guard
units and local officials united to aid
the 200 families forced out of their
homes. They were sheltered in
tents.
As the waters subsided in other
sections fanners looked out over once
green fields and saw their cotton and
com crops leveled, their lands deeply
eroded. In the Cuero area alone,
more than 25,000 acres of farmland
was covered. In the rich cattle coun
try around Victoria, hundreds of head
of live rtock perished in the flood.
TALMADGE IN RACE
Georgia Governor Qualifies as Can
didate for Senate.
ATLANTA, July 4 UP).—Gov. Eugene
Talmadge qualified today as a candi
date for United States Senator, to
oppose Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
of Winder. Charles D. Redwine of
Fayetteville, president of the State
Senate, qualified for Governor of
Georgia as a Talmadge candidate.
POPE DISCUSSES U. S.
Audience Is Held With Arch
bishop Amleto Cicognani.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, July
4 UP).—Pope Pius granted an audience
today to Archbishop Amleto Cicog
nani, apostolic delegate to Washing
ton, and discussed with him condi
tions in the United States.
Japan Dates Air Maneuvers.
TOKIO, July 4 (^.—Extensive
aviation maneuvers to test air de
fenses on the coasts of Northern
Kyushu and Southern Korea were an
nounced today by the war department.
The maneuvers have been set for
late September or early October.
They will be under direction of Field
Marshal Prince Morimasa Nashimoto.
Readers’ Guide
Page.
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Answers to Questions-A-6
Art..——B-3
Books _B-2
Churches —-B-4-5
Comics _B-7
Death Notices-A-8
Editorial -A-6
Lost and Found-A-3
Music . B-3
News Comment Features „ A-7
Radio . B-6
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Serial Story_B-6
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Washington Wayside-A-2'
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England to Hear
Liberty Bell Toll
In Freedom Echo
Radio listeners in England, where
the Fcgirth of July is just another
Saturday, may be surprised today to
hear the tolling of the famous Lib
erty Bell, which 160 years ago sig
naled the separation of the United
States from Great Britain.
The tolling of the Liberty Bell,
reading of the Declaration of In
dependence and a description of the
fateful Boston Tea Party are three
of the events scheduled during a 30
minute program starting at 2 p.m..
which will be transmitted by short
wave to England for rebroadcast over
the British Broadcasting Co. stations.
The description of the Boston Tea
party will be made from the wharf
where the party, which was one of
the deciding factors in the Revolu
tion, occurred. The declaration and
! sound of firecrackers to go with it
will come from New York, and the
ringing of the Liberty Bell from Phil
| adelphia. A two-minute program
. from the Capitol portico here is part
1 of the program, as are other brief
! radio glimpses pf America on the
: Fourth of July from Chicago, San
Francisco. Denver, Cleveland and
! Princeton University, where the A A.
1 U. track and field meet is being held.
STEEL COMPANIES
Pledge Entire Resources to
Combat Attempt to Or
ganize Workers.
BY JOHN C. HENRY'.
Following the strategy set forth by
the American Iron & Steel Institute,
the United States Steel Corp. and the
Republic Steel Co. today pledged their
entire resources to combat the com
mittee of Industrial Organization in
the latter’s attempt to organize the
500.000 employes of the steel in
dustry. The two concerns and their
subsidiaries number more than half
those employes on their rolls.
The United States Steel pledge
was made in a statement under
the name of William A. Irvin,
president of the corporation, ap
pearing in the United States 6teel
News, a corporation publication.
As in the institute’s full-page news
paper advertisement of last Wednes
day, the corporation statement defined
the issue as one of closed shop vs.
open shop and declared the company
committed to the “principle of the
open shop.”
T. M. Girdler, head of the Republic
Steel Co., issued a similar pronounce
ment on behalf of his concern.
Keeping pace with this aggresive
ness on the part of the defense, the
Organizing Committee of the C. I. O.
pushed its plans for two impressive
pro-labor demonstrations tomorrow at
Chicago and Homestead, Pa. In the lat
ter community arrtmgeihents were
made to greet 25,000 workers in the
steel Industry, a majority of them
( See STEEL, "Page 4.)
I
Girl, 2, and Boy, 13, Are
Among Those Hurt
Early in Day.
The Fourth was not 12 hours old be- ;
fore five persons, a 2-year-old girl, a
13-year-old boy and three adults, had
been Injured here and in Alexandria
by firecrackers tossed by careless cele- j
brators. Two others were injured J
when firecrackers went off in their I
hands.
Eli Bryant, 26. of 624 Tenth street
southwest, and his daughter, Dolores j
Anne. 2. were burned when a colored
boy threw exploding firecrackers as
they were walking in the 200 block of j
Fourth street southwest. They were
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Those injured in Alexandria were
Andrew 2^11, 200 East Windsor avenue, |
who was struck under his eye by frag- I
ments of a firecracker which broke
hta eyeglasses, and' Mrs. H. J. Thomas
206 North Fairfax street, hit on the ;
face and leg by a firecracker tossed
from a passing truck.
Some boys had been throwing un- |
lighted firecrackers from a window
in the 500 block of A street southeast
and Louis Persell. 13, of 417 A street
[ southeast and several playmates had
been scrambling for them. As Louis
| stooped to pick one up a lighted one
1 landed on his back and exploded. He
j was treated at Providence Hospital.
Billy Shotter. 11, of 4108 Twentieth
1 street northeast, and Lionel Bradford
| of Fairfax. Va.. were burned on the
! fingers when firecrackers beat them
5 to the throw.
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TABOR CREW WINS
IN BRITISH REGATTA
Kent Beaten by Four Lengths in
All-American Final for
Thames Cup.
Ey the Associated Press.
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England,
July 4.—Tabor Academy of Marion,
Mass., today won the Thames Chal
lenge Cup in the royal Henley regat
ta, defeating Kent (Conn.) School by
four lengths in an all-American final.
The Tabor eight was clocked in 7:44
for the Henley course of 1 5-16 miles.
After Kent had whipped Browne
and Nichols School of Cambridge,
Mass., in the first semi-final, Tabor
easily won from the Kingston Rowing
Club, last British survivor, by a
length and three-quarters.
A crowd of 15,000, including Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin, saw Kent
earn its trumph over Browne and
Nichols in 7 minutes 49 seconds for
the Henley course of a mile and five
sixteenths. Tabor was clocked in
7:42 in winning from Kingston.
The Zurich (Switzerland) Rowing
Club captured the > Grand Challenge
Trophy, beating the Leander Rowing
Club by a length and a quarter in
7:25.
First Trinity of Cambridge won
the Ladies’ Plate competition, defeat
ing Clare College, Cambridge, by two
and-one-half lengths in 7:48.
McCarl Blocks Effort to Collect
From Dying Federal Embezzler
A tortured conscience is the only
repayment John M. eornell can offer
the Government for stealing $20,000.
In October, 1916, Cornell, a Navy
pay cleric, resigned. In May, 1918,
after a $20,000 shortage had been
foui\d in his accounts, the Navy De
partment ordered him court martialed.
It was only a gesture, for Cornell had
disappeared.
Ip July, 1918, "Robert E. Hastings”
enlisted in the 3d Anti-Aircraft Bat
tery at Fort Morgan, Ala., and went
across with the outfit. Followed over
seas service, and in January, 1919, he
was discharged at Fort Monroe, Va.
No erne suspected “Hastings” was
Cornell, the fugitive from Justice, but
he never forgot it
In February, this year, he surrend
ered on the 18-year-old charge, stood
trial, and was sentenced to three
years at hard labor in Naval Prison,
Portsmouth, N; H.
Again, it waS only a futile gesture.
Naval doctors found that Cornell
was suffering from malignant disease;
that “his duration of life is from three
to six months, and furthermore, it
is our opinion that he will never be
able to begin or undergo the sentence.”
So the Navy Department wrote the
General Accounting Office, asking if
any money he might have coming
from the Government could be seized
to offset his shortage.
Unofficially, the department was in
formed, it was amplified, that as
"Hastings” he had taken out a war
risk insurance policy and that he was
also entitled to compensation for
disability, on account of his war serv
ice, if he saw fit to claim it.
One of the last decisions rendered
by former Controller General McCarl
brought the case to light yesterday.
In it, he held that the insurance,
designed for a beneficiary, could not
be taken in event of Cornell’s death.
Any allowances he had claimed might
be applied on the debt. But the Vete
rans’ Administration said he had
sought none.
Cornell awaits the end in a Naval
Hospital.
FAIR SKIES AID "
OF JULY FOURTH
Rain Predicted Late Today,
but Thousands Make
Trips Over Holiday.
FIREWORKS TONIGHT
FEATURES PROGRAM
- /
Display Will Start at 7:15 Unless
Showers Prevent—Band
Will Play.
A warm sun and clear skies—con
ditions that promised to prevail most
of the day—favored the Capital today
as it began celebrating the Fourth of
July in befitting fashion.
A discordant note found its way
into the otherwise ideal forecast,
however, when the Weather Bureau
predicted a possible thundershower for
this area either late this afternoon or
early this evening.
Threats of rain had little effect on
thousands of Washingtonians who
began week end excursions with the
slamming of desks and closing of
offices yesterday afternoon and by
automobile, train, boat and plane
streaked for beach resorts and Sum
mer camps to take advantage of the
extra day afforded by a Saturday
holiday.
Official Washington, including the
President, members of his cabinet and
other high ranking officers, will not
join in the festivities. The President
was scheduled to deliver an address
at Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monti
cello, Va., while most of the others
also wrere out of the city.
From the first popping of firecrack
ers by small boys and girls in the
suburbs early this morning, until the
mammoth display of patriotic pyro
technics scheduled for tonight on the
Washington Monument Grounds,
every minute of the day will be filled
with programs arranged by patriotic
and civic organizations.
Oratory and eulogy of the founding
fathers who gathered to sign the
Declaration of Independence 160
years ago will not be lacking, but for
the most part the Fourth of July
program of a generation, or even a
decade ago, has given way to brief
parades and briefer speeches. On
the program at the Washington
Monument tonight, five minutes has
seen set aside for the reading of the
Declaration, 10 minutes for the ad*
dress of the “speaker of the occa
sion,” Senator Radcliflfe of Maryland,
In keeping with modern ideas of
a "sane’’ Fourth, fireworks displays
will be staged by experts, not only at
the Monument celebration, but at
others arranged in communities
throughout the city. But for those
who insist on shooting off ttieir own
fireworks, the American Red Cross
and health department officials have
issued special warnings to insure a
minimum toll of burns and Fourth of
July casualties.
To give vent to youthful energies,
however, an elaborate series of ath
letic events and group games has been
arranged by various community or
ganizations, including the annual 10
mile marathon sponsored jointly by
the District Department of Play
grounds and the Takoma Park Citi
zens' Association, the winner of which
will receive the three-year competi
tive trophy awarded by The Evening
Star.
The marathon was to start at 1
p.m. from a point on the Mount Ver
non Boulevard and finish at Fourth
and Van Buren streets in Takoma
Park.
While Washingtonians besieged
offices of the American Automobile
Association for road information, the
packed excursion trains to Atlantic
City, N. J., and other nearby resort
spots, indications were that Wash
ington would also be a mecca for
many excursion parties eager to visit
the Capital over the week end. Ho
tels reported reservations were "brisk"
and many of them expected to be
comfortably filled despite the general
exodus.
Marine Band to Play.
The celebration at the Washington
monument will be held unless rain
is actually falling at 7 o’clock, 15
minutes before the program is sched
uled to start, officials announced. A
30-minute concert by the United
States Marine Band will be followed
by a procession of flags, in which Boy
(See FOURTH, Page A-ll.)
' •
TRIAL CLEARS BRITON
Soldier Had Been Charged With
Assaulting Japanese.
PEIPING, July 4 (jP).—Pvt. Herbert
Cooke was acquitted today by a Brit
ish consular court of a charge of as
saulting Sakai Onishi. friend of a
Japanese soldier, fatally injured
May 26.
An attorney for Cooke proved to
the satisfaction of the court the
British private was not present when
Onishi was attacked.
(Cooke was held for trial after the
court denied Japanese claims Kisaku
Sasaki, the Japanese soldier, was as
saulted “by a foreign soldier wear
ing a British uniform.”)
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