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’TRAFFIC DEATHS
WILLBEPROBED
Inquests Scheduled Today.
Fatalities for 1936
Mount to 93.
BULLETIN.
Samuel B. Famum and Vernon
L. Derrickson. drivers of the two
automobiles that struck and killed
Wilmot W. Trew, were exonerated
this afternoon by a coroner’s jury.
The Jury deliberated only five min
utes before deciding the death was
“accidental.”
Two inquests are scheduled for to
day and thifd probably will be held
tomorrow into week end traffic fatali
ties which brought the District's 1936
total to 93.
The cases to be investigated today
involve the deaths of Wilmot W.
Trew, 56-year-old real estate dealer,
who was struck by two automobiles
In front of his home at 5900 Six
teenth street, and Charles P. Meyers,
73, of 509 Sixth street, who died of
injuries received December 3.
Trew, vice president and treasurer
©t the William H. Saunders Real
Etate Co., was killed Saturday night,
an hour before he was to drive to
Baltimore to spend the evening with
his two young grandchildren.
The real estate man was struck by
the car of Samuel B. Famum of
Paterson, N. J., knocked down and
then run over by a taxicab operated
by Vernon L. Derrickson, 1808 Kal
mia road.
The offices of the Saunders Co.
will be closed all day tomorrow out of
respect for Trew. Funeral services
will be held tomorrow at the residence,
at an hour yet to be decided. Burial
Will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Trew was a member of the Wash
ington Real Estate Board, the Board
of Trade and the Kiwanis Club, and
was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite
Mason.
Dies in Gallinger.
Meyers died in Gallinger Hospital
•arly Saturday of injuries suffered
when he was struck at Sixth and G
afreets by a truck police said was
driven by George W. McDonald, 18, of
320 Stewart square southeast.
The other inquest will be into the
death of Mrs. Anne L. MacAg thur, 51.
of 1109 D street southeast, who died
a In Er. urgency Hospital Saturday night
a short time after having been struck
by an automobile at Seventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Two other persons died in Wash
ington hospitals during the last 48
hours as the result of accidents in
nearby Maryland and Virginia.
These victims were Harold Cook,
18. of Woodstock, Va„ who died in
Georgetown Hospital of brain con
cussion and back injuries suffered in
a crash on the Lee Highway at Halls
Hill. Vft.. and Marcellus Pickrell, 65,
©f Waldorf. Md„ who died in Sibley
Hospital after being struck by a car
Bear his home.
Charles Cook, 42. father of Harold,
Buffered cuts, bruises and a head in
jury in the accident in which his
Bon was killed. He was reported im
proved today at Georgetown.
Several Injured.
A number of other persons were
> hurt, one seriously, in accidents yes
terday.
Five of the victims were riding in a
taxicab that crashed into a parked
ear at First and B streets south
east.
William Steadman. 22. of 3545
Eleventh street, a passenger in the cab.
was taken to Providence Hospital with
• fractured skull and severe cuts.
The other occupants of the cab were
eut and bruised. They were William
Fischer. 24, of 3207 Mount Pleasant
Street, the driver. Mabel Herbert. 19.
and her sister, Harriett, 21, both of
117 Kentucky avenue southeast, and
Daniel McDuffy, 25, of 1364 Spring
•road.
Doris Strange. 21, of 1701 Oregon
Bvenue. suffered brain concussion when
the car in which she was riding ran
Into an excavation on Alabama avenue
southeast. She was taken to Casualty.
Police said the automobile was driven
by Francis M. Goodwin, Jr., 26, of 2126
Connecticut avenue.
Thaddeus L. Richards, 32, of 1526
TJ street southeast, received severe head
Injuries In a crash near Reds Comer,
Md. He was taken to Casualty.
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Fear Felt for Safety of Chinese Chieftain
Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek (right), kidnaped in the Najiking rebellion, pictured with his aides.
—A. P. Photo.
Congressional Country Club, where j
they are employed as waiters, when
the car overturned.
Joyce, who Simms said was driving
: the machine, was instantly killed.
Members of the Bethesda Fire Rescue
Squad took Gibson to Georgetown :
University Hospital.
Matthews
(Continued From First Page.)
bullet coursed through his shoulder
and came out through his rhest after
piercing the lung. Ether could have
caused his death, doctors said. There
was a cut on the side of his scalp, pos
sibly made by a razor, according to
police.
The Boy 8couts rushed to a nearby
filling station and told the proprietor
of their discovery. He telephoned
Montgomery County police at Silver
Spring. State’s Attorney James H.
Pugh of Rockville and several officers
rushed to the scene, and the body was
brought here after an Inspection at
the creek. Meanwhile, police combed
the wooded section nearby for addi
tional clues.
Apparently Thrown Into Wator.
Matthews' body apparently had
been thrown Into the branch above
the dam of the Robert B. Morse filtra
tion plant and had been washed over
the dam and then under the bridge
Friday night when heavy rains had
: raised water 20 feet above the dam.
Police said the water no doubt was of
1 sufficient force at the time to throw
the body up on the rock where it was
discovered. Matthews was clad in a
sheepskin coat, tan shoes and grey
overalls.
“There is no doubt about it being
murder—premeditated murder,” Pugh
said, after having launched an exten
sive investigation and begun examina
' tion of witnesses in the case. "Who
ever committed the crime shot Mat
thews through the head with a gun
and then sliced him with a razor. Rob
bery Is one motive. The other I will
not disclose at this time, as we are
checkings it now. He was said to have
! carried a lot of cash.” Pugh refused
to name the suspects.
Sum Unknown.
Originally it was believed Matthews
had $500 or $600 on his person when
| he was reported missing. He had
; withdrawn $500 in cash from the Sil
I ver Spring Bank on October 26. but
investigation showed he had loaned
out this sum on the same day. "The
loan looks allright,” Pugh said.
Other evidence indicated Matthews
| might not have had as much money
' as his slayer believed. Matthews had
sold some property to a Washington
school teacher who is constructing a
home on it. The teacher was be
lieved to have made a payment to
Matthews shortly before the latter
was missed from his farm home. How
ever. a check-up showed the money
had been paid to the bank for Mat
thews’ account after he had disap
peared.
Pugh said evidence also indicated
Matthews often carried *100 or more
on his person and often flashed a roll
of bills. 5
Matthews lived with his brother
Charles, 71. The brother and many
other residents of the neighborhood
already have been examined by the
district attorney.
Brother Tell* of Disappearance.
With an arm that shook slightly
with emotion, Charles Matthews stood
in the kitchen of the farm home on
the Colesville pike today and pointed
to an empty chair near the coal range.
“That's where Elwood was sitting,"
he said.
There were two chairs near the
range. The brothers often sat in
them and enjoyed the warmth of the
fire. They were sitting there on the
afternoon of November 21, just before
4 o’clock.
Charles agreed that “somebody who
knew” his brother committed the
crime. “I couldn't sleep all last
night,” the brother said. “I went to
bed at 12 and got up at 3.”
On the night Elwood disappeared,
Charles left the home on the 4:14 p.m.
bus for Washington, he said, and vis
ited a drug store in the 1000 block of
H street, ate dinner in a restaurant
and then visited a friend of his broth
er’s at the O Street Market. He
missed one bus and returned home
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"I didn't think anything of It at
first. He often went out late Satur
day night and didn't come home
until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. I never thought there was any
thing wrong until Monday evening,”
Charles continued. A friend and
neighbor drove to Prince Georges
County Monday night, but could find
no trace of Elwood Matthews.
The brother's suspicions were
aroused when a neighbor told of hav
ing seen an automobile without lights
come from a road between the
Matthews home and the ColesviUe
pike the night of Monday, Novem
ber 23, Charles said. "I believe, and
several others also believe, that who
ever the car carried did the work—
committed the crime. This is all the
information I have and all that I
can give in my name," Charles con
cluded.
He said the same story will be told
in detail when he is called to testify.
He had lived with Elwood in the old
farm house for the past three years.
Officer Charles Barnes of the Sil
ver Spring police station definitely
identified Matthews' body. County
Police Chief J. W. Garrett, Sergts.
Guy Jones and Leroy Rodgers of Sil
ver Spring and Sergt. T. P. Vollten
of Rockville worked on the case, while
Pugh assembled evidence. Drs. W.
S. Murphy and Gilbert B. Hartley of
Rockville performed the autopsy.
Matthews was separated from his
wife, who. Pugh said, was understood
to have been living for many years
with a daughter. Mrs. Lois Gibson, at
Vienna, Va. The wife's name Is Ella
Matthews. His brother Charles is
married, and his wife and children
live in Washington.
The brother reported Elwood
Matthews missing on November 23,
two days after he disappeared. Mat
thews failed to return home the night
of the 21st. after having left a gaso- j
line station at Four Corners at 8:12
p.m., when he started home. His hogs i
and cattle were not fed that night.
Matthews, a well-to-do truck fanner,1
pouitryman and land owner, was be
lieved worth more than $30,000, and
was said to have refused an offer re
cently of $37,000 for his farm.
Foul play had been suspected ever
since his disappearance. The area
near his home had been completely
searched by police since November 23.
Funeral services for Matthews will
be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the
Warner Pumphrey funeral home in
Silver Spring, with interment in Rock
villa Union Cemetery.
China
(Continued From First Page.)
feverishly fortifying the Tungkwan
district, where he la rushing two di
visions.
The Japanese government, faoed
with the Chinese crisis, moved toward
Intervention and was said to be ready
to conduct a strict investigation of
communistic activity they asserted
was behind the aeixure of Gen.
Chiang.
Conflicting reports on whether Gen.
Chiang were alive or dead flooded
Tokio.
CHINA FACES CIVIL WAR.
Chiang la Definitely Reported Alive
at Slan-Fu.
NANKING, December 14 OP).—
China faced disastrous civil war to
day as the Central government massed
its forces on the border of Shensi
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The dictator - general. Imprisoned
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At his press conference, the acting
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continuing to follow its policy of non
intervention in the affairs of other
nations. Asked if the State Depart
ment regarded the present state of
affairs in China as a threat to the
maintenance of the "open door," he
said no Information was available on
which to base comment.
RETAIL SALES INCREASE
The Census Bureau reported today
that retail sales in the United State*
for 1935 touted S33.161.376.000. rep
resenting a gain of 33.4 per cent over
1933.
This total was 67.5 per cent of the
1939 level of $49,114,653,000. The
1933 report showed sales of $35,037,
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MADISON, Wl*., December 14.—
Partisan lines were formed today for
what published reports described as
an impending effort to end Dr. Glenn
Prank’s tenure as president of the
University of Wisconsin—a position
he ohce called "parole from journal
i ism.”
The reports said his administration
may be ended Wednesday at a spe
cial meeting of the university regents.
The board is controlled by La Pollette
progressive appointees. They remained
silent. Friends and associates rallied
to Dr. Frank’s defense.
He came to Wisconsin at 37, as the
youngest president in the “Big Ten."
From 1921 until September, 1925, when
when he assumed the presidency, he
had been editor in chief of Century
Magazine.
Breach Over Policies.
During the last year a breach be
tween Dr. Prank, once mentioned as.
a possible Republican presidential
candidate, and Progressive Gov. Philip
P. La Pollette developed over admin
istration policies. Last Spring the
conflict came into the open after a
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