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INDIANA HARBOR,
FEARING VIOLENCE,
BEGS FOR TROOPS
• Militia Moves Into Cleveland
as C. 1.0. Steel Forces
Are Realigned.
EARLE JOINS ORATORS
HEARTENING STRIKERS
'‘You Have Roosevelt, a Liberal
Congress and Me," He Tells
Rain-Soaked Crowd.
BACKGROUND—
Bethlehem, Republic, Youngs
town Sheet <{- Tube and Inland
have declined to sign contracts '
with John L. Lewis' steel union
on the ground it considers C. I. O.
groups irresponsible.
. Gor. George F.arle of Pennsyl
vania closed the Bethlehem plant
two weeks ago with a martial law
order, subsequently lifted restric
tions.
By 'he Associartct Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 5—C. I.
O s strike legions, pepped by Fourth !
of July oratorical fireworks that ter- j
rifle rainstorms could not dismay, te
formed their lines today on the last
two remaining strike battlegrounds—
Cleveland and Indiana Harbor, Ind.
Troops were moved into Cleveland
to preserve the peace when Republic
Steel reopens its four large plants
here tomorrow.
There were no troops at Indiana
Harbor, where the Youngstown Sheet
A' Tube Co. is awaiting guarantees
of safety for its men before reopening: j
but there were pleas for troops, and*
a prediction that “there will be blood
shed if protection is not supplied
Immediately.”
The union's crack orators sought
»t. Fourth of July rallies to put new
iron in their men's determination to
“fight it out" i as Philip Murray, j
strike chairman, put iti “a week, a
month, a year—ves. 10 years.”
Farle Speech Cheered.
Pennsylvania's New Deal Gov.
George Earle flew through a thun
derstorm to reach a rainsoaked rally
at Johnstown. Pa., and tell the cheer
ing strikers and sympathisers: "You
don't need acts of violence when you
have Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
Washington, a liberal Congress, and
a Governor like me."
Bethlehem's Steel's plant at Johns
town, sprawling for 7 miles through
the valley, was idle o\er the holiday
■week end. It reopens tomorrow, and
the management says the working
force is virtually normal. Few pickets
are on the line there.
A committee of six ministers of
fidiana Harbor telegraphed Gov.
ownsend of Indiana that they had
conducted a secret poll of steel work
ers in the Calumet area, which in
cludes the mills of both Indiana and
, Illinois around Lake Michigan and
that 86 8 per cent of the steel workers
favored "return to work with safety."
1 end 13.2 per cent wanted to remain on
strike pending "signing of the contract
requested bv C. I. O.”
The Ministerial Committee, which 1
was non-sectarian, told the Governor j
"the situation is entirely out of con- 1
trol." and "there will be bloodshed if
protection is not supplied immedi
ately.”
From another source, 1he "Associ
ation of Sieel Employes"—an inde
pendent. non-strike union of Youngs- 1
town Sheet <fc Tube Co. workers—the
Governor was importuned to send
troops. The Sheet & Tube Co. is
ready to reopen, it announced, as
foon b* authorities provide protection
for the workers, a majority of whom,
according to the company, hate ex
pressed a desire to return to work at i
the concern's East Chicago. Ind., plant, !
employing about 6.000 men.
Militia Demobilized.
Gov. Townsend made no sign that
he would meet the requests for troops, j
Militia was mobilized last week for j
a few hours and was then demobilized |
w'hen Inland Steel and the C. I. O.
rame to agreement, and 12.900 men
went, back to work there.
Ohio troops were sent to Cleveland
• t the request of Mayor Harold Bur
ton and Sheriff Martin O'Donnell,
who told the Governor “violence and
disorder are certain unless proper
steps are taken to prevent it.” “Peace
ful picketing’’ will be permitted, but
the number of pickets will be limited
* to 12 at each entrance.
Johnstown, Youngstown and War
ren, Ohio, mass meetings yesterday
ell brought out ringing declarations
> by C. I. O. leaders that the strike
Is being vigorously carried on. Some
of the statements were:
Philip Murray, at Johnstown: “All1
we ask Is a square deal, and we have
every reason to believe our pickets tin
(See STEEL, Page A-7.)
ACCOKEEK MAN, 25,
DROWNS IN CREEK
Henry (‘‘Buck’’) Penn Loses Life
While in Swimming With
Friends.
• Special Dispatch to The Star.
ACCOKEEK. Md„ July 5.—Henry
("Buck") Penn, 25, an employe of
the Capital Material Co., who made
his home with his mother here,
drowned in Piscataway Creek yester
day while in swimming with friends
near Fort Washington.
Penn, sole support of his mother
and several small brothers and sis
ters, had been in the water for about
two hours when he was missed. Mem
' bers of the party began a search and
his body was found entangled in the
tall grass which chokes the stream.
k Pending funeral arrangements, thek
body was taken to the Hunt ii Ryan 1
funeral home in Waldorf.
Fourth Totl 322
Lives, hut None
By Fireworks
Traffic Fatalities Are
Greatest, With
200 Killed.
Bv the Associated Press.
The lives lost during the Nation's
celebration of its 161st independence
anniversary stood at. 322 today with
not a single death directly attributed
to fireworks.
Automobile accidents were respon
sible for 200 of the deaths, drownings
74 and miscellaneous causes accounted
for 48.
The Independence day casualty list,
the third largest since 1930, was
above the average for the past
eight years. From 1930 to 1937 the
Fourth of July death total was 2,117.
an average of approximately 264
deaths for each year.
The day's toll was slightly below
last year's total of 346.
Although the holiday passed with
out a single fireworks death, an As
sociated Press survey showed hundreds
were treated for injuries from ex
plosives. Thirty-six firecracker vic
tims were treated in Chicago hos
pitals.
Many of those burned or maimed
by incautions handling of firecrackers
were from communities which had
"outlawed" fireworks in deference to
the "safe and sane Fourth" campaign,
started in 1907 by James Keeley, then
an editor of a Chicago newspaper.
_New York, with 28 deaths, led the
(See MISHAPS. Page A-_4.)
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BATTLE TO C. 1.0.
Green’s Organization to
Urge Employers to Sign
as Protection.
BACKGROUND—
In August, 1936, Executive Coun
cil of a. F. of L. suspended 10
union affiliates of C. 1. O., thus
cutting approximately 1.000,000
members from 3.000,000 total of or
ganized workers.
Breach has continued and deep
ened since that date, with C. 1. O.
adding several unions and more
than doubling its membership as
it fought to organize steel, auto
mobile and other great mass pro
duction industries.
By tt.e if soclated Press.
Informed persons said today the
American Federation of Labor would
seek closed shop agreements as a part
of Its strategy in a renewed struggle
for organized labor supremacy with
John L. Lewis' Committee for Indus
trial Organization.
Organizers will tell employers, it
was asserted, that a closed shop would
be to their advantage because of the
federation's ban on sit-down strikes
and its record of adherence to con
tracts.
By this means the A. F. of L. chief
tains hope to gain sole right of rep
resentation even in some plants wheie
sentiment for the C. I. O. is strong.
Major sit-down strikes have been
by unions affiliated with the C. I. O.
200 Organizers in Field.
The federation has employed about
50 additional organizers for this mem
beiship campaign, bringing to 200 the
total number it has in the field. They
are under direction of Lewis Hines,
appointed by President William Green
to lead the battle with the C. I. O.
To finance the campaign, the A. F.
of L. Executive Council asked unions
for double federation dues of tw'o cents
a member a month, instead of one
tent. Green said nearly all had re
sponded, increasing the federation's
monthly income about $30,000.
Lewis, publicly, has assumed an
attitude of complete indifference
toward the A. F. of L. campaign.
ivn rmuiis rva«'KS up.
Disclosure of the federation's strat
egy was coincidental with a state
ment from Secretary of Labor Perkins
that sit-down strikes were ‘'unsuited”
to America. She predicted labor
unions would quit using them.
A request from Representative Dit
ter. Republican of Pennsylvania, for
clarification of her views on sit-downs
brought the statement from the sec
retary.
BINGHAMS INVITE 1,200
LONDON, July 5 Some 1.J00
Americans in London were invited
to attend Ambassador Robert Worth
Bingham's garden party today in cele
bration of the United States’ Inde
pendence day.
Miss Henrietta Bingham was to
help her parents receive the guests
under marquees on the embassy lawn.
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Hail Spans Blown Up.
PONCE, Puerto Rico, July 5 (/P).—
Independence day dynamiters blew up
two railway bridges and set fire to
three coaches today. Nationalists in
Puerto Rico have demonstrated fre
quently In favor of independence from
the United States. Eighteen persons
were killed on Palm Sunday during a
clash.
POSTPONEMENT OF
FT
Spectacle Would Be Held
Tomorrow — Traffic
Takes 1 Life Here.
FIRECRACKERS, GUNS
CAUSE INJURIES TO 15
Alexandria Couple Killed Near
Altoona, Pa., in Collision
of Automobiles.
Rain today threatened postpone
ment until tomorrow night of the
District’s giant Independence day
celebration, scheduled to begin at 7:15
p.m. at the Ellipse with a Marine
Band concert and to end with a spec
tacular 45-minute fireworks display.
The pageantry will go off on sched
ule if the weather is dry, officials said,
but a shower at the start of the cele
bration or during it would bring about
the postponement. Ticket buyers are
being given identification tags to en
able them to return tomorrow if they
are disappointed tonight.
Dull skies lrd residents of Mont
gomery and Prince Georges Counties
to call off an all-day celebration which
was to have included athletics, a pa
rade and fireworks display in Takoma
Park, Md.
One traffic deaih and 15 minor
injuries from July Fourth' carelessness
with firecrackers or guns was the toll
of the first 24 hours of the two-day
Independence day celebration in and
near Washington. Last year’s count
was 14 traffic dead and 60 firecracker
injuries.
Dies in Hospital Here.
Joseph Henson, colored, 69, Po
monkey. Md„ died in Providence Hos
pital this morning after being struck
by a hit-and-run driver last night
near Brants Corner, Md. Other hos
pitals treated 11 motorists and pedes
trians who suffered bruises and frac
tures in traffic mishaps.
Mrs. Thelma Fowler. 25. of Alexan
dria. Va.. and her husband. Arthur E.
Fowler, 29. were killed near Altoona.
Pa., the Associated Press reported,
when their car was in collision with
an automobile driven by Walter H
Measing. Nutley, N. J. Measing posted
*1.500 bond pending a coroner's in
quest.
Police attributed the few injuries
on the Fourth to the fact firecracker
owners have all day today to enjoy
the splutter and fuss of aizzling gun
powder. If rain does not interfere,
the most colorful pyrotechnic display
In Washington's history will light the
skies tonight at the Ellipse celebra
tion, which begins at 7:15 o'clock and
ends with a 45-nnnute skyrocket pro
gram.
The Weather Bureau had forecast
showers tor today and it started rain
ing this morning.
Despite the unfavorable outlook,
the Independence Day Committee ex
pects almost 100,000 persons to pack
the greensward behind the White
House if the rain stops. Twelve
thousand chairs, obtainable for 25
cents apiece, have been provided, and
there is room for 80.000 to stand.
Tickets are available at the Ellipse
and the Keystone Automobile Club.
i/in 10 w nun.
The Capital Transit Co. completed
arrangements for special service over
its lines approaching the Ellipse. Be
ginning at 5 pm. and lasting as long
as necessary after the fireworks dis
play. extra cars and buses will be run
to care for the throng attending the
celebration.
Washington stores were closed all
day today to permit their employes
to' enjoy and observe Independence
day, Edward D. Shaw, secretary of
the Merchants and Manufacturers’
Association, reported. The thousands
of Government employes and others
who took advantage of the long holi
day to leave town Friday and Sat
urday were still gone, not expected to
return until late tonight or early to
morrow.
Among the persons Injured by fire
crackers are:
Robert Johnson, 17, of 741 Thir
teenth street southeast, treated at
tSee FOURTH, Page A-4 )
OSAKA TEMPLE SOLD
TO SUPPLY NAVY IRON
Great Edifice Brings $ 150.000 as
3,000 Japanese Dealers
Bid.
By th* Associated Preai.
OSAKA, Japan, July 5.—The mag
nificent temple of humanity was sold
under the auctioneer’s hammer today
to furnish scrap iron for war ships of
Japan’s increasing navy.
The edifice, vacant since the gov
ernment suppressed the Hitonomichi
sect for esorteric rites, was sold for
(150.000 to an Osaka scrap iron mer
chant who will dismantle it and sell
the metal. Some 3.000 iron dealers
flocked to the temple, bidding In the
hope they could resell the massive
framework to the navy for a sub
stantial profit.
U. S.. British Clippers Poised
For Two-Way Ocean Flights
B? the Associaiec Press.
POYNES, Ireland. July 5.—The Im
perial Airways flying boat Caledonia
wax poised at the mouth of the River
Shannon today for a pioneering 1.800
mile commercial survey flight across
the Atlantic.
Given favorable weather, the ship
was scheduled to leave Western Ire
land at 7 p.m. (1 p.m., Eastern stand
ard time), and head out over the At
lantic toward Botwood, Newfound
land, on the proposed trans-Atlantic
commercial air route. 4
i Three hours later the Pan AmeridVh j
Clipper III wax to shoot down the ]
runways at Botwood Airport and point
her nose eastward across the ocean.
It was possible the two huge flying
boats, co-operating in the commercial
survey, might sight one another pass
ing somewhere in mid-ocean.
West-to-east headwinds were to be
against the Caledonia, and it was
estimated the flight to Newfoundland
would require about 16 hours.
As the Caledonia rocked on the gray
waters at the mouth of the Shannon,
hundreds of foreign tourists gathered
at Foynes and nearby Limerick to wit
ness the takeoff. £
Bad weather Saturday held up the
(See OLIPPKRi Paje AltT)
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! TRIPLE SLAYINGS
After 11-Hour Grilling. Ad-'
mits Killing Three Cali
fornia Girls.
(Pictures on Page A-2.)
Bj the A.ssocia so Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 5 —Broken by .
11 hours of constant grilling, a 32
; year-old W. P. A. worker paced a cell
today after confessing. Detective Lieut.
! Leroy Sanderson said, the brutal at
tack-slaving of three little girls.
By his own words. Sanderson said
Albert Dyer branded himeslf as the
j man who strangled Madeline Everett.
7 her sisier, Melba, 8. and 9-vear-old
Jeanette Stephens, and ravished then
bodies as they lav in a sand# ravine.
“We shall, of course, ask for the
death verdict," said District Attorney
Buron Fitts when Dyer's purported
■ confession was obtained last night.
He said he was filing three murder
charges. I
Confesses al Police Threat.
Dyer, employed by the W. P. A
to guard children at a street crossing
near Centinela Park in suburban In- '
glewood, broke. Sanderson said, when
police threatened to lake him to |
Inglewood, where enraged citizens
milled about the police station dur
ing questioning of other suspects last
■ week.
“Well—I did it!" he gasped, San
derson related.
Then Dyer's wife reached his side.
"He never did it," she cried—"he
never did it!”
On the morning of their death. Dyer 1
said, he played with the girls in the
park. It was then, Sanderson asserted. !
the guard persuaded them to hunt
rabbits in th<» n«»Rrhv hills
They Finally A creed.
"They said their mothers didn't
want them to, but I kept telling them
how much fun it was and finally they
I agreed that they would meet me.” the >
138-pound. 5-foot-5 suspect was quoted !
sis confessing.
At the appointed hour, his story
continued. “I watched the three girls
coming down the road. They were
dressed in bright-colored clothes and
looked fresh and nice.”
Their route lay through a bean field
; and down a steep-siaea ary wash.
"We sat down to rest and I asked
t Madeline, that was the youngest one.
to come with me up the draw a bit
| and see if we could scare out a bunny,
j she came right along and the other
; two girls agreed to stay behind.
Chokes Madeline to Death.
"When out of sight of the others,
I reached out and grabbed Madeline
by the neck and choked her to death.
When I thought she was dead, I knot
ted a rope around her neck to make
sure.”
Madeline's limp body was left
jammed into a narrow crevice.
“Then I singled out. Jeanette. I told
her we'd trapped a rabbit and said
(See MURDERS, Page A-3.)
THIRD IN FAMILY DIES
OF POISONOUS FUNGI
t ___
Two Others Seriously 111 After
Sating What They Believed
AMA UDIJ1 UUHI5.
By the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON. W. Va., July 5.—
Five-year-old Mary Louise Raub died
today, the third victim of a family
meal which physicians said may have
included poisonous fungi mistaken for
mushrooms.
Two Raub children died yesterday,
several hours after the funily of 11
was stricken at their isolated farm
home at Glenwood.
Mrs. Raub, the only member of the
family who did not partake of the
dish, was not affected.
One by one the children fell ill, and
finally the lather, G. F. Raub, was
stricken. The most seriously 111 today
were Raub and his 7-year-old daugh
ter, Margaret.
HELD AS FUGITIVE
Police Say Man Pled Prom Caro
lina Road Gang.
Edward Lane, 27, of Spartanburg,
S. C„ was arrested hare yesterday by
Detective Sergt, Howard Ogle as a ;
fugitive from a South Carolina road
gang.
Ogle said Lane, who waa serving a
three-year term with theAoad gang
for assault and robbery, toid him he
Bed because he "wanted a vacation.”
Vicar Who W'ed
W indsor Sure of
Real Love Match
Arrives in JSeiv York
for Lecture Tour
j
Bv Ihe Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 5 —The little
vicar who stirred a church contro
versy by marrying the Duke of Wind
sor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield said
today if he had it to do over again
he would "do the same thing."
The vicar, Rev. Robert Anderson
Jardme. who arrived aboard the Queer.
Mary for a two-month coast-to-coast
lecture tour, said he thought it "un
fair' for the Church of England not
to look at the wedding from the
spiritual standpoint
"The Archbishop of Canterbury took
a political view of the subject rather
than a spiritual view,” said the vicar.
"I have married divorced commoners
before, and if I had this to do over
again. I would do the same thing. I
wanted the couple to have a fair
chance.”
Rev Jardme said he thought the
romance of the duke and Mrs. War
field was a "real lasting love match.”
"They are intensely happy,” he said.
"Those who sav it will not last are
false prophets. It is really a spiritual
match.”
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MRS. FRANK 0. LOWDEN
FOUND DEAD IN HER BED
Wife of Ex-Governor of Illinois
Was Daughter of Pullman,
Sleeping Car Magnate.
By the Associated Press.
OREGON, 111., July 5.—Mrs. Flor
ence Pullman Lowden. 69. wife of
former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of
Illinois, was found dead in bed early
today at her home, Sinissippi Farm,
near here.
A maid at the home gave out the
first word of Mrs. Lowden's death.
She said it was unexpected and that
Mrs. Lowden had not been ill.
Mrs. Lowden was the daughter of
George M. Pullman, multimillionaire
sleeping car manufacturer, from whom
she inherited a large fortune. She
married Lowden on August 29. 1896.
Three daughters and a son survive.
With her husband, who has been a
prominent figure in councils of the
Republican party for many years.
Mrs. Lowden returned recently from
an extensive tour in Europe.
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DETROIT WINS, 8 TO 4
Chicago Beaten in Holiday Morn
ing Game.
DETROIT, July 5 C43).—Home runs
by Hank Greenberg, his eighteenth
of the season, and Billy Rogell, ac
counting for five runs, enabled De
troit to defeat Chicago, 8 to 4. in
today's morning game. Boots Pof
fenberger won his first victory as a
starting Tiger pitcher.
Audrey Boomer’s Record 69
Is Tied by U.S. Golfer as
British Play Begins.
S'* the Associated Pres*.
CARNOUSTIE. Scotland. July 5.—
Blond Horton Smith, a demon with
a putter when he's right, and tall,
thin Aubrey Boomer. 40-vear-old
Englishman, who has been a proles-,
sional in France for a number of
years, posted joint 69 s over the cham
pionship Carnoustie course today to
gain at least a temporary lead in the
first qualifying round of the British
opeu golf championship.
Their scores were two under per
and lowered Hector Thomson’s course
record by one stroke.
Smith, out of last week's United
States Ryder Cup victory with a lame
back, was definitely in putting form
on the first nine, where he scored
five birdies with putts ranging from
9 to 24 feet. Boomer did his best
work on the back nine, the 40-year
old veteran picking up two birdies
on the homeward journey, while play
ing tlie other holes in par.
Behind Boomer and Smith came
tlnee players with course record 70s
scored over the shorter neighboring
Burnside links, being used only for the
qualifying rounds. One was Oene
Sara?en. the veteran American who
won the British title In 1932 and today
lost two strokes on the back nine
after going out in 32, three under par.
The others were young Ernest E
(See GOLF, Page A-3.)
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
TALKS TO VAN ZEELAND
Belgian Premier Makes Full Re
port on Conversations With
Roosevelt.
Br the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 5.—Fresh from his
talks with President Roosevelt and
Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Pre
mier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium
made an exhaustive report today to
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden.
President Roosevelt was "very help
ful—I am very satisfied with my visit,"
Van Zeeland said.
Before the prime minister received
the Belgian he indicated Great Brit
ain was not taking the initiative
toward summoning a world economic
conference.
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Title Match Begins.
HOT SPRINGS, Va„ July 5 f/P>.—
Lily Harper, Portsmouth defender,
spotted 17-year-old Susie Ingalls of
Hot Springs three years as the young
sters began today their 18-hole cham
pionship match in the Virginia State
women's golf tournament.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements B-16 | Radio _A-1S
Comics . B-14-15 I Short Story B-12
Editorials ... A-6 ! Society _ B-3
Lost, Pound B-12 | Sports ..A-14-15
Obituary ...A-l* I Woman's Pg. A-12
FOREIGN.
U. S., British clippers poised for two
way ocean hops. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Fourth celebration takes lives of
310. Page A-l
Steel strikers reform lines on last two
fronts. Page A-l
Committee on tax avoidance to decide
course tomorrow. Page A-2
Wallace aides ready to start farm
tenancy program. Page B-l#
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Scouts participate in ceremonies at
Arlington. Page A-l
D. C. Minimum Wage Board to plan
procedure Friday. Page B-l
Senate action on D. C. tax bill likely
to be delayed. Page A-2
Oldest Inhabitants to hear Marvin
urge D. C. suffrage. Page B-l
Safe robbers get $991 at confectionery
store. Page B-2
Tax delinquencies declicAin Fairfax
County, r Page A-4
Virginia murder believed solved as
police slay chauffeur. Page B-l
EDITORIALS AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Washington Observations. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Constantine Brown. Page A-9
Headline Folk. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Ail-Stars primed for “power” tilt
Wednesday. Page A-14
Terry “snooty” in choioes for National
League. PageA-14
BUcky Jacobs earns chance to start
for Nats. PageA-14
Feller flashes sound arm despite de
feat by Tigers. Page A-14
Tilden doubts U. S. can win Davis Cup
doubles. Page A-15
College grid evils are numerous sur
vey indicates. Page A-15
Brescia favored against Tow here to
morrow night. Page A-15
MISCELLANY.
Dorothy Dix. Page A-12
Betsy Caswell. Page A-12
Shipping News. Page B-S
Young Washington. Page B-9
Winning Contract. Page B-12
Nature's Children^ Page B-14
Cross-word Puzzl£| Page B-14
Bedtime 8tories. Page B-15
Letter-out. Page B-15
SCOUTS TAKE PART
5.000 Picked Youths Lay
Wreath at Tomb of Un
known Soldier.
i Full Page o/ Jamboree News
on Page A-6.)
Braving showers which drenched un
furled colors in the Arlington Amphi
theater, 5,000 picked Scouts represent
ing the United States and 24 foreign
nations pledged themselves today to
"defend at any co6t our democratic
free institutions.”
The pledge was voiced in behalf of
Scoutdom by Dr. Ray O. Wyland. di
rector of education of the Bov Scouts
of America, as a prelude to the laying
of a wreath of flowers by foreign
Scouth at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier.
As rain deluged the assemblage. Dr
Wyland exhorted the young pilgrims
to be "patriots of peace, to carry on
and preserve for posterity the blessings
of liberty—that these honored dead
may not have died in vain."
“Let us at this sacred national
shrine.” Dr. Wyland said, "rededicate
our lives and fortunes to the service
of mankind and the defense and ex
pansion of every human right and the
correction of every human wrong."
Dr. Wyland declared Scouts will
protect to the limit freedom of the
press, of speech, of conscience and of
other essentials of a democracy.
The amphitheater was filled almost,
to capacity and hundreds of other
Scouts and spectators stood in sur
rounding corridors, where they were
protected from the rain. When Dr.
Wyland had completed his address the
audience moved to the Unknown
Soldier's Tomb, where the foreign
Scouts stood at attention. Dan Beard,
patriarch of Scouting, stepped for
ward and placed a wreath at the tomb,
after which other floral tributes were
laid by the foreigners.
As the wreaths were placed, the
assembled Scouts sang "America.”
The ceremonies were concluded with
the playing of “Taps” by a Scout
bugle corps from Racine, Wis.
Dr. James E. West, chief Scout
executive, presided over the cere
monies.
Jamboree officials announced that
the Sea Scout regatta will be held
“rain or shine” beginning at 4 p.m.
today off Hains Point.
NATS RECALL CHASE
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., July 5
(JP).—Calvin Griffith, president of the
Chattanooga Lookouts, said todav
Kenneth Chase, left-handed pitcher,
has been recalled by the Washington
Nats.
Chase, who has had several tryouts
with the Washington club, has won 5
and lost 10 for the Lookouts. He will
hurl against Little Rock today before
leaving tonight.
Bridge Roof Stolen.
VENICE, July * <*>).—'The entire
roof of the world-famous Bridge of
Sighs—two tons of lead—was dis
covered today to have been stolen.
The theft was ^gund out. when rain
began to leak,.™iugh the structure
which has been visited by literally
Billions of
PLANE ON LAND,
EARHART RADIO
MESSAGE HINTS
Three Dashes Come in on Lost
Aviatrix’s Wavelength in
Reply to Instructions.
AIRCRAFT THOUGHT SINKING
FROM EARLIER INDICATIONS
Garbled Signals Out of Pac ific W astes
Confuse Operators Trying
to Fix Location.
Bf the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 5.—Three long dashes on radio
key transmission received at 5 a.m. '8 a.m. E. S. T. > on the v.ave
length assigned to Amelia Earhart. were declared today bv Paul
Mantz, her technical adviser, to be the most hopeful sign yet
received that she is alive and on land.
“The Pan-American station in Hawaii sent out instructions
to her, including one to send three long dashes if on land.” Mantz
said. “George Palmer Putnam, her husband, telephoned to me a
short time ago that he was advised that three dashes were heard
almost immediately after the instructions were sent out.
“We heard the dashes here and this is the most hopeful sign
yet. We understand that Honolulu and the Itasca also heard the
three dashes."
Earlier Navy officials at Honolulu had received a garbled radio
message, purportedly sent by Miss Earhart, which indicated her
plane was sinking.
The message, received by three Navy operators, was pieced
together as follows: “281 North Howland call KHAQQ beyond north
don’t hold with us much longer above water shut off.”
Meaning Is Guessed.
Officials took the message, if it was authentic, to mean the
plane was about 281 miles north of Howland Island, by Miss
Earhart’s estimate, and sinking slowly.
The operators said keying of the message was poor and they
were able only to pick up fragments. It was received between
4:30 am. and 5:30 a.m., Pacific Coast- time (7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
E. S. T.t.
Earlier thus morning cross bearings taken on weak radio signals believed
from Miss Earhart and her navigator. Frederick Noonan, further confused
weary Pan-American operators at Howland and Wake Islands.
The radiomen, who have maintained a ceaseless vigil in an effort to
locate the missing globe-girdling plane, said the bearing fixed the location
of the mysterious transmitter as roughly 400 miles northeast of Howland
Island. This location is miles from am- lanHfali
A previous bearing taken bv Pan
American and Coast Guardsmen in
Honolulu last night placed the sender
in the vicinity of Gardner and Mc
Kean Islands in the Phoenix Group
approximately 150 miles south of How -
land. This bearing may be inaccurate
because of the weakness of the signals
The British steamer Moorbv, 240
miles north of Howland, reported it
heard a strong, continuous carrier
wave frequency near midnight last
night, and for the last time at 1 am.
<3:30 am.. Pacific siandard time,.
Coast Guardsmen declared they last
heard the carrier at Honolulu at 1:30
tT a m., Eastern standard timei.
Voices of Both Heard.
At Santa Paula. Calif , Walter Mr
Menamy, Los Angeles amateur radio
operator who repeatedly has an
nounced interception of radio messages
from Miss Earhart. said he heard her
voice again at 5:40 a m.. Pacific stand
ard time 18 40 Eastern standard timpi
today, followed 4 minutes later by
that of her navigator, Capt. Frederirk
Noonan.
“Reception was terrible because rt
static, but I could make out Miss
Earhart saying KH —the start, of her
call letters. KH.4QQ 1 have heard
her voice over the radio before I am
positive it was hers," said McMenamy
“At 5:44 I heard a man\ voire.
Capt. Noonan's I am sure. I eoulri
make out QQ' but not much else. He
talked for a long lime, apparently ex
plaining at great length his location.
It sounded as if he had his hand over
the microphone—very blurred. Then
the radio began to fade."
Powrr Ability Is Mystery.
Coast Guard officials said they were
encouraged by the repeated signals,
but were at a loss to explain how the
Earhart plane could still have power
to transmit. San Francisco Coast
Guard radio men sent word they had
received weak carrier waves on 3.105
kilocycles since 2:15 am. <5:15 a m.
Eastern standard timei, at times for
short intervals.
If the signals being received at
Howland, Baker and Wake Islands.
San Francisco and Honolulu are a
hoax. Coast Guardsmen expressed the
belief they probably were being broad
cast from the coast or one of the ]*
lands in the Phoenix group.
The messages came as the Navy's
fastest warships sped in search of the
world-famous aviatrix and her navi
gator, who vanished in the lonely equa
torial Pacific three days ago.
One armada, including the giant,
aircraft carrier Lexington—transport
ing 57 fighting planes and 3.000 men—
dashed westward toward tiny How
land Lsland from California.
Battleship Quits Honolulu.
A battleship ploughed southward
from Honolulu to aid the Coast Guard
cutter Itasca in its search of the un
familiar Howland waters, where Miss
(See EARHART, Page A-3j
Quezon in France.
CHERBOURG. France, July 5 —
President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippine Commonwealth arrived here
aboard the liner Bremen en route to
Paris. He was met by Capt. Francis
E. Cogswell, naval attache of the
United States Embassy, and United
States Consul Gen. Addison E.
Southard.
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