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CUP DEFENCERS’
Three Candidates in Line at
Newport for Conclud
ing Event.
. Br the Associated Press.
NEWPORT, R. I„ June 9.—The
tommlttee intrusted with selection of
* defender of the America's Cup sent
*11 three candidates to the line in a
group today in the concluding race of
the opening trial series.
The result of a three-cornered
sailing contest usually is not very
conclusive and frequently quite mis
leading. As a rule, two of the three
' *re natural antagonists and they dis
pute the entire course, while the third
encounters little opposition to a some
what. empty victory. So, it is alto
gether passible more significance will
attach to the boat which captures
second place than to the winner.
Ranger, Harold S. Vanderbilt’s new
ind undefeated defense aspirant, re
turned to the fray with two victories
over Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee and
one over Chandler Hovey’s Rainbow,
the sloop with which Vanderbilt de
feated T. O. M. Sopwith’s British chal
lenger, Endeavour I, in 1934. In the
other two match races. Yankee showed
Rainbow the way home.
The five opening races of the trials
were sailed in very light air. and yes
terday’s contest, in which Yankee beat
Rainbow, the breeze was measured at
only 2.5 miles per hour at the start.
Unless old Boreas shows a little
more liberality this afternoon, the
first trials will end with the cup com
mittee learning nothing about the
three big sloops in anything stronger
than a 12-knot breeze.
Both Sopwith’s potential challengers,
Endeavour I and his new Endeavour
II. with tuning up already well ad
vanced, await only his command be
fore they open trials through which
he will name the sloop he will use
In his second bid for the cup.
TEXAS CO. AND LAWYERS
FINED FOR CONTEMPT
Judge Assesses $45,000, Charging
Attempt to Deceive Court
in Land Dense Case.
• By the Associated Press.
HELENA, Mont., June 9.—The
Texas Co. nnd two of its attorneys
were relieved yesterday from an inop
erative ruling by Chief Justice W. B.
Sai*!s qf the Montana Supreme Court
assessing them a total of $45,000 in
fines on charges of contempt of court.
Justice Sands held the lawyers, Y. A.
Land of Denver and Louis P. Donovan
of Shelby. Mont., had attempted to
deceive the court n a land-lease case.
Never operative because not enough
concurred In by other members of the
court, the ruling was expunged from
the record upon the defendants' peti
tion.
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
Harness Bace Driver Was In
jured Monday.
BEREA, Ohio. June 9 —Lee
Tink. Owasso, Mich., harness race
driver, who was critically injured
Monday night in a spill at the Berea
track, was reported at. Community
Hospital to have shown slight improve
ment today after an operation.
Tink's chances of recovery, however,
were said to be slim. Suffering a skull
fracture and internal Injuries, he has
been unconscious since his horse, Jakie
McFee, tossed him.
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Crowd Hopes for Glimpse of Harlow Casket
A crowd of curious film fans, who maintained a vigil until late last night outside the mor
tuary in Los Angeles, where lay the body of Jean Harlow.
The late actress and Clark Gable in a scene from her last
picture, “Saratoga.'’ which will never be shown. Miss Harlow
hqd the role of a society girl and Gable that of a bookmaker.
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American U. Will Have Ex
pert Aid in Selecting
Recipients.
A new plan of awarding honorary
degrees has been adopted by the
board of trustees of American Uni
versity and will be put into effect
next year, it was announced today.
Although the university rarely has
conferred honorary degrees in the past,
it has decided to make awards for
"outstanding achievement” in such
fields as public administration, busi
ness, journalism, medicine and law.
In making such awards the board
will consult, in addition to its own
faculty and students, Nation-wide ad
visory boards for each field of activity.
Each year the members of these
boards will recommend to the board
the person who, in their Judgment, is
entitled to be honored because he has
made "the most significant and most
outstanding contribution to the field
of endeavor in which he or she is
engaged.” The board will act on
these recommendations and base its
judgment on a consensus of all con
sulted.
The award for public administra
tion follows the policy of the uni
versity, which is placing emphasis on
the field of public affairs, particularly
through its School of Public Affairs,
where over 1,200 Federal employes
have been participating in an "in
service" training program during the
past year.
Five new members were added to
the Board of Trustees at the semi-an
nual meeting. The new members are:
Bishop Paul B. Kern of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South; Gilbert H.
Montague, attorney, New York City;
John Poole, president of the Federal
American Co.; Dr. G. Ellis Williams,
District superintendent of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and Walter E.
Bastian. former president of the Dis
trict Bar Association.
The American University develop
ment program campaign went forward
today with a luncheon meeting of
workers at the Willard Hotel, ad
dressed by Rev. Raphael H. Miller, j
pastor of National City Christian
Church. The session yesterday was
addressed by Rev. Ze Barney Phillips,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany.
Dr. Arthur C. Christie, president of
the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Joseph
M. M. Gray, chancellor of the uni
versity, spoke.
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WEST POINTERS ENROLL
Three young men from the Wash
ington area, commissioned second lieu
tenants when they were graduated
from West Point this year, have en
rolled for two weeks of study at the
War Finance School here from June
14 to 26.
They are Alan D. Clark, 1851 Co
lumbia road: Robert C, Gildart, 2d,
1406 Webster street, and James N.
Peale, 2219 Albemarle street, Arling
ton, Va.
The course is designed to familiarize
them with forms, records and account
ing methods in the Army. Sixty-five
West Pointers have enrolled for the
two weeks of study.
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Harlow
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passed through the gate. That was
all the police permitted within the
Memorial Park.
There were Lionel Barrymore. Wal
lace Beery, Billie Burke, Virginia
Bruce, Joan Crawford, Ronald Col
man, Sid Grauman, Myrna Loy, Una
Merkel, Ramon Navarro, Chester Mor
ris, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mae Robson,
Charles Rogers, Rosalind Russell,
Norma Shearer, Robert Young, Spen
! cer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Kay Fran
j eis, Robert Benchley, Madge Evans,
Elissa Landi. Edna May Oliver, Lewis
Stone and others.
Brief Science Service.
Brief was the Christian Science
service read by Mrs. Genevieve Smith,
for seven years confidant of the act
ress.
The pallbearers escorting the casket
to the mausoleum were those with
whom Miss Harlow had worked—Clark
Gable, Edward J. Mannix, M-G-M ex
ecutive; Hunt Stromberg, producer;
Jack Contvay and W. S. Van Dyke,
directors, and Ray June, camera man.
In less than 20 minutes the services
were completed. Jeanette MacDonald
opened with the simple song which
the glamour girl so often in life had
asked to hear—“Indian Love Call.”
Miss MacDonald was attired in pink.
Canaries Burst Into Song.
Two canaries burst into song from
their gilded cages in the flower
smothered chapel.
Mrs. Smith read the simple service
—David's Psalm, ‘‘The Lord Is My
Shepherd," a passage from John, a
few words from the key to the Scrip
tures and then spoke a 38-second
eulogy.
"There isn't any one here that I
knows Jean but knows the nobility of
the soul she posseses."
Nelson Eddy's rich voice sounded
the appealing tones of “Ah, Sweet
Mystery of Life."
Between Powell and Carey Wilson,
screen writer, Mrs. Bello slowly
emerged from the chapel to their car.
Tears were seen behind the dark
glasses the usually sauve William
Powell wore. He gave vent to his
grief when he sank to the seat of the
car beside Jean's mother.
The floral tributes were greater than
the chapel could contain. Wreaths,
blankets and a wealth of gorgeous
blossoms were spread on the lawn out
side the wee kirk.
“Good Night, Dearest Darling.”
The most touching floral tribute of
them all was the most simple. It was
a single white gardenia. Her favorite
flower! On the card attached to it,
without signature, was the pathetic
script:
"Good night, my dearest darling.”
The coffin was left in its bower of
flowers in the chapel. Later it was
removed to an adjoining receiving
vault, to await the final decision of the
mother.
Hers was a life of anomalies, in big
things and little. She played hard
boiled sirens—and her mother called
her "Baby.” A figure of persistent
domestic tragedy, with three marriages
ended in two divorces and a suicide,
she was rated universally as a "good
scout" without qualification based on
marital snarls. She called herself
Hollywood’s worst actress and had few
rivals at the box office. Reputedly
worth a million dollars, she drove her
own automobile and answered her own
telephone.
Among the mourners were Charles
McGrew, HI, wealthy sportsman who
married her when she was only 18;
Hal Reason, her third husband, from
r
Bobbe Brown, "stand-in”
/or Miss Harloic, leaving the
Harlow home after calling on
■' Mrs. Jean Bello, the star's
mother, icho was reported in
a state of collapse.
—Copyright. A. P. Wirephotos. \
DR. BURKE INSTALLED
BYD. C. DENTAL SOCIETY
Dr. James W. Brown Is Named
President-Elect—Board Can
didates Chosen.
Dr. John P. Burke was installed
•as president of the District Dental i
Society last night, succeeding Dr. G. '
Dr. Burk?.
A. Smith. He
had been elected
unanimously to
the post of pres- ;
ident - elect last
year.
Officers named
last night are
Dr. James W.
Brow n. presi- ;
dent-elect; Dr.
Harry Kaplan,
vice president,
and Drs. Marion
Palls, David J.
Pitzgibbon, R. G.
Lamb, Walter
Bernhard and
oeorge Clendenin, Executive Com
mittee.
Four dpntists were nominated by
the society as candidates to fill a va
cancy in the Dental Examiners’
Board. These names will be submit
ted to the Commissioners, who are to
make the appointment. Thev are
Harold Hertford. Manly Michaels,
David Gates and Rosalind P. Bain.
DELEGATES ELECTED
Women-* Union of Bureau Pre
pares for Convention.
The women's union of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, Federal
Employes Union, No. 105, National
Federation of Federal Employes, last
night elected delegates to the Na
tional Federation convention to be
held in Springfield, 111., beginning
September 6.
Those named as delegates were
Gertrude N. McNally, Belle A. Trou
land, Mignon G. Miller, Minnie D.
Stevens and Nora James. Alternates
are, Ollie Greer, Fannie Harper and
Margaret Garry.
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whom she was divorced in 1934; her
father, R. Mont Clair Carpenter of
Kansas City, and her former step
father, Marino Bello, who came to his
ex-wife’s aid in her sorrow.
Her second husband was Paul Bern,
film producer, whose death a few
months after their wedding is still
somewhat mysterious, without full ex
planation of motives for suicide.
At the request of Mrs. Bello, who
sought to avoid mob scenes which
have attended funerals of some screen
stars in the past, the body did not lie
in state. The mother ordered the
casket kept closed, wishing her daugh
ter's public to remember her as she
was in life.
Although Jean had one of Holly
wood’s largest collections of jewels, no
gem adorned her in death. She was
dressed in a light heather silk or
gandie gown. In the casket she rested
on velour the color of her shining
honey-gold hair. The gown was
caught at the waist with a wide ribbon
of Alice blue. She wore sandals of
silver and white.
Guards were stationed at the mor
tuary and at Forest Lawn Memorial
Park to kg^away the curious.
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Underwear Institute Makes
Proposal at Wage-Hour
Quiz.
BACKGROUND—
Black-Connery wage-and-hour
bill would give Labor Standards
Board power to fix minimum wages
and maximum hours in all inter
state industries, with power ex
tended to intrastate activities
where in direct competition ■ with
interstate.
Bill also seeks to regulate child
labor by requiring labeling and for
bidding interstate shipment under
conditions of oppressive production,
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Mandatory Increases in tariff rates,
in proportion to production and dis
tribution cost increases effected by the
Black-Connery wage-and-hour law,
was proposed to the Senate and House
Labor Committees today by the Un
derwear Institute.
Presenting the mast careful analysis
of expected effects of the legislation in
a single industry, the institute objected
to the bill as giving autocratic power
over industry to the President.
Instead, the institute, through Roy
A. Cheney, its spokesman, proposed
that the administrative board be given
lifetime appointments and an irremov
able status, subject only to impeach
ment proceedings similar to tha'e used
in cases of Federal judgeships.
The legtslation to be passed, Cheney
specified, should prohibit employment
of minors under 16. set a 40-hour week
and a $12 minimum wage.
Against Exemptions.
Insistence that small establishments
not be exempt from provisions of the
bill marked the testimony of several
witnesses today, as it has in previous
sessions.
Among those taking this position
w-as Right Rev. John A. Ryan of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference,
who appeared in emphatic approval of
the legislation. The contention of
Msgr. Ryan and others on the ex
emption was that “sweated labor" is
more prevalent in small enterprises
than in large.
Strength to thase resisting any
tinkering with the Black-Connery
measure was extended yesterday by
President Roosevelt, who told re
porters he doubted the advisability of
extending the bill to prohibit inter
state shipment of goods produced un
der monopolistic conditions. Such a
propasal has been made by Senator
Borah, Republican, of Idaho in con
versation about the bill.
Child Labor is Issue.
Most determined effort to alter the
legislation seems to renter about the
child labor section with developments
of the past two days showing these
distinct movements: First, to handle
this problem entirely through sepa
rate legislation, or. second, to alter
the child labor provision of the wage
hour bill to make it conform more
closely to the invalidated 1916 child
labor act.
Among yesterday's late witnesses
John M. Keating, spokesman for both
the millinery industry and its union
employes, the latter belonging to the
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery
Workers’ Union, in indorsing the legis
lation. suggested the division of Amer
ican industry in 10 basic adminis
trative sections, the avoidance of ex
emptions or differentials, except in
rare cases, and a vesting of some of
the contemplated functions of the act
in the National Labor Relations Board
and the Children's Bureau.
"More of the Nation's income must
go into consumption and less of it into
savings and investment," Father Ryan
declared.
"The increased wages and increased
cost of production brought about by a
maximum hour and minimum wage
law can be met partly out of profits
and Interest and partly through the
elimination of the high-cost productive
concerns.
"Many observers of the economic
scene are coming to the conclusion
that we shall never again see general
prosperity and general employment
that we shall always have five or six
million unemployed.
"Surely thus is counsel of despair.
"The American people will not and
should not be asked to accept this as
a permanent condition. The supreme
merit of the bill is that it makes a be
ginning at correcting the great evils of
unemployment and underconsumption.
"No other equally promising or
equally realistic formula has yet been
suggested. This plan goes directly
to the root of the evil—namely, the
underpaid laborer.”
Retailers Seen Favorable.
C. O. Sherrill, head of the Ameri
can Retail Federation, appeared to
inform the committee that his or
ganization has not yet been fully can
vassed on the bill, but he felt there
was an inclination to favor some
thing of the kind.
Harvey Wilson, National Upholstery
and Drapery Textile Association, testi
fied his organization is not opposed
to fixed minimum wages and maxi
mum hours, but, “We believe this
bill, as a law, would be Wholly un
workable and would result in con
fusion in industry far exceeding that
connected with the attempt to ad
minister the N. I. R. A., which was
bad enough.”
Joining in the opposition to exemp
tions for small establishments, Wu
son also asked for consideration of
the issue of foreign competition.
“We believe,” he said, “that our
industry's problem of foreign com
petition, particularly from the Orient,
should not be casually dismissed by
saying there are Government agencies
already in existence to take care
of it.”
Public Ownership Cited.
Benjamin C. Marsh, head of the
people's lobby, asked approval of the
bill only as a step in proving the
ultimate need of public ownership.
“None of these other things will
work,” he declared.
“The Black-Connery bill is justified
as part of the futile effort to lift our
selves by our bootstraps in which we
have been indulging ourselves all this
present century, since good free land
passed out of the hands of government
into private speculation and exploita
tion.
28-Inch Twins.
Midget twins, who have attained a
height of only 28 inches in 12 years,
*ere bom to a normal Los Angeles
couple.
Star Ctrnt Wtrit
UK P St. H. W.
$2jn
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Kepi Prisoner
WOMAN CHARGES HUSBAND
SOLD HER. FOR *20.
MRS. RAY DELAMA.
WILLIAM EBAUGH.
A 39-year-old wife appeared
in Justice Court in Nevada
City. Calif., yesterday, charg
ing Ebaugh held her prisoner
in his cabin for three months.
She said her husband turned
her over to the man after a
$20 payment. Ebaugh. 29. a
woodsman, denied the charges.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
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$228 More Is Needed to
Benefit Underprivileged
Children.
Well over the halfway mark, the
fund for reopening the Y. W. C. A.
swimming pool at 614 E street today
totaled $272.
An additional $228 would provide
swimming pool facilities for downtown
underprivileged children.
Along with the checks and currency
that came to The Star this morning
was a generous offer from a real salt
water swimmer who stated that he is ,
willing to go down to the pool each
Saturday and teach the boys how to
swim.
“'Since X cannot aid in a financial
way,” this master of swimming writes ■
—he is a senior member of the Red
Cross Life Saving Service—"may I !
ofTer my services as guard or instructor '
or both for Saturdays, either in the
mornings or afternoons or all day? I
make this offer without any expecta
tion of pay in any way. My pay will
be derived in satisfaction gained from
the knowledge that I have enabled
some one's youngster to get the most
in pleasure and body building from
the water.”
S37 Is Total for Today.
Today's contributions totaled $37.
Over at Opportunity House, at 915
New Jersey avenue, the mecca for
downtown Washington boys and girls,
the youngsters are keeping an accu
rate chart of the swimming pool re
turns, pasting them on a big bulletin
board.
These children have been hoping
and praying the complete fund will
be available by the end of this week.
This morning their hopes fell.
"Gosh, we gotta get busy." Tony
Vagnilio, the custodian of the chart,
said as the news was flashed him.
"We just gotta get that pool. Can't
you tell the people to hurry up?"
One $25 Contribution.
W. R. Winslow, the paint and var
nish man. had already heard such
a plaint and his heart was touched.
So he took his pen in hand and
dashed off a $25 check. That led the
list.
Next came a donation from Charles
E. Sands, executive secretary of the
Bartenders' Union, "Old" Local 75,
who said, "Glad to assist," and turned
over $5.
Miss A. T. Johnston, in contribut
ing $5, wrote: ‘‘I do hope enough
people are interested to contribute so
that the pool may be opened soon.”
There were two other anonymous
donations of $i each. By tomorrow
it Is hoped the fund will swing into
the $300-$400 brackets. Otherwise it
may be impossible to get the pool
under way by the scheduled date, !
July 1.
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DIVORCES EX-WIFE
LOS ANGELES, June 9 (IP).—A di
vorce was granted yesterday to Wil
liam Hollingsworth, jr„ wealthy real
estate operator, while his former wife
was honeymooning with Dick Foran,
red-haired movie cowboy. Hollings
worth testified that Mrs. Ruth Piper
Hollingsworth, Los Angeles society
woman, left him March 15, 1936, and
“the next I heard was when my at
torney received some papers saying
she had been granted a divorce in
Mexico.”
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30,000 Rubber Articles.
More than 30,000 different kinds of
rubber articles are in general use in
the United States, the manufacture
of which gives direct employment to
150,000 workers.
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Asquith’s Fiancee Unable to
Tell Police What Hap
pened to Her.
B5 tlie Asroclated Pr-ss.
LONDON, June 9.—Scotland Yard
sought today to learn Diana Battye’s
own story of her strange eight-day
disappearance that ended in sobbing
collapse on a London doorstep.
The wealthy 21-year-old society
girl was found early today, slumped
on a step next door to the home of
her Oxford undergraduate fiance,
Michael Asquith.
"She was not able to give an ac
count of what had happened to her,”
said a friend of the family in relating
that “Didi,” as her intimates knew
"England’s most photographed
beauty,” seemed on the verge of a
nervous collapse. She was placed
under doctors’ care in the home of
Michael's mother, Lady Cynthia
Asquith.
Has Nervous Breakdown.
Diana's mother, Mrs. Leonard
Harkett, well-known airwoman, said:
"The main thing is my daughter
is safe. She is naturally very dis
tressed and the doctors say she is
suffering from a severe nervous
breakdown.”
Young Asquith, grandson of Britain’s
famous premier, the late Lord of Ox
ford and Asquith, had disclosed to
police that he had received a letter
containing a threat to "remove"
Diana unless he took better care of
her.
Apparently the socialite photog
rapher's model, who had aspired to
motion picture stardom, had been
walking the streets of London while
police scoured the British Isles for her.
Jhe mystery was heightened, how
ever, when it was learned Diana
was not wearing the same dress she
wore when she was last seen before
her disappearance June 1 from the
home of her childhood friend, Vis
countess Long, where she had been
staying for the coronation season.
She had been worried for some
weeks by a series of anonymous
threatening letters. On coronation
night, Lady Long disclosed. Diana was
the victim of a strange assault by an
unknown man who slashed her above
the eye with a razor. The blond beauty
pleaded with Lady Long not to tell
the police because of fear that pub
licity would cause the attack to be
repeated.
A report that ‘ Didi’’ was seen wan
dering about a London square In
a dazed condition last Sunday night
was the only word received of the
girl during her eight-day absence.
Only last night Mrs. Hackett had
made a public plea to the writer
of the seven anonymous letters her
daughter received to "come forward."
"I believe the letters were merely
a silly practical joke," she said, "but
there is no doubt they preyed on
Didi's mind."
Friends to whom the girl had con
fided described the letters as "stupid"
threats and said they were addressed
to her by the name only her closest
friends used—"Didi."
Asquith Notire in Paper.
Asquith, it was learned, put the
following notice in the personal col
umns of several newspapers yes
terday:
"NEB—And the rocks melt with the
sun. Emphatically not like a red, red
rase.—ILMFD."
It was understood the initials
"ILMFD" at the end meant. "I love
my faithful Didi." while the quota
tions were from Robert Burns’ poem,
"My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose."
The new development threw a
romantic light on the rase, but police
did not consider it of much aid in
clearing up the mystery.
There was some speculation, how
ever, that the two may have had a
lovers' quarrel and ’’Didi" returned
after seeing the advertisement,
TESTS ARE AWAITED
IN WOMAN’S DEATH
Husband Still Held for Question
ing After Wife's Body
Is Found.
Br the Associated Press,
LOS ANGELES, June 8.—Results
of paraffin tests on the hands of Mrs.
Luella Giles, 29, found fatally wound
ed in a bathtub at her home last Sun
day, were awaited by police yesterday
to determine whether she fired the
shot which killed her.
Similar tests on the hands of her
husband, Basil L. Giles. 31, a master
plumber, failed to disclose traces of
gunpowder, police said.
They still held him for questioning,
however, pending an inquest tomor
row.
Detective Leut. Adolph Cartensten
said a note indicating the woman
planned to take her life had been
written by her.
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