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1 DIE IN RAIDS
UPON CANTON BY
JAPAN’S PLANES
Rescue Workers Digging in
Ruins for Victims Are
Machine-Gunned.
1,000 SUFFER WOUNDS;
RAIL STATION TARGET
Lunghai Line Eastern Terminus
Bombed—Kweiteh Occupation
Claimed by Nipponese.
BACKGROUND—
Canton has been port of entry
for large supplies of war materials
going to Hankow and thence to
Chinese armies defending Central
China. Japanese have raided Can
ton by plane at various times in
earlier part of war, as well as Can
ton-Hankow Railway. Forces of
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, also obtain
ing arms through French Indo
china and the Yunnan Railway.
By the Associated Press.
HONG KONG. May 28 —Official
estimates counted 500 persons killed
and 1.000 injured in Canton after day
long Japanese air raids on the crowded
gateway of Southern China. Entire
city blocks were reduced to ruins by
the devastating raids.
The Japanese raiders, flying low
over the shattered Wongsha Railway
station district, were reported to have
followed their attacks by machine
gunning rescue workers digging in the
ruins for victims.
Forty persons were said to have
been killed and 50 injured in the
hail of machine-gun bullets.
The Japanese airmen concentrated
their death-dealing projectiles around
the Wongsha station of the Hankow
Canton Railway line, over which men
and munitions have poured into Cen
tral China to fight the Japanese in
vaders.
Railway Main Objective.
The railway apparently was the
puncipal objective of the bitter attack
which spread out to include closelj
packed civilian districts.
Wongsha was converted into a
shambles by four succeeding raids.
Then the Japanese airmen turned
their attention to the city’s central
district in the vicinity of Central
Park and the Canton Mayor’s office,
narrowly missing the city hospital
for the poor. An entire block of houses
was reduced to tangled timbers and
mortar.
The Tungshan residential suburb,
formerly the home of Canton’s foreign
residents, was next with an uncounted
show'er of deadly bombs.
Thirty Japanese planes roared over
the crowded city twice in the raids.
Volunteers were called out during
the raid to prevent panic-stricken
Chinese refugees from swarming into
Shameen, the International Settle
ment, for protection.
More than 100 bombs, many of them
incendiary, were dropped during the
attack.
Several fires raged in the bombed
districts and Chinese crowded to the
river bank asking to be admitted to
the settlement. Shameen is an island
in the river.
Two hundred British sailors ready
to leave for Hankow were unable to
proceed because of the, bombing of
the railway.
Lunghai Terminus Bombed.
HANKOW. May 28 (/Pi—Japanese
aerial attacks on Haishow. eastern
terminus of the Lunghai Railway,
wrecking a women’s school and a
church of the Southern Presbyterian
Mission, were reported today to the
United States Consulate General.
No forigners were injured, it was
said. The raids Tuesday and Wednes
day were the first evidence received
here that the Chinese still held the
Northeastern Kiangsu city, despite a
Japanese landing near the port.
American Mission Hit.
PEIPING. May 28 (/P).—’The super
intendent of -the American Lutheran
United Mission at Chumatien, Honan
Province, 130 miles south of Cheng
chow, reported today that Japanese
airmen scored several direct hits on
the mission compound in an attack a
week ago. Three Chinese were killed
In a schoolroom.
Kweiteh Taken, Say Japanese.
SHANGHAI, May 28 (JP).—'The Jap
anese army officially announced the
occupation today of Kweiteh after
fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the
Lunghai Railway city 90 miles west of
Buchow.
While Japanese forces battled west
ward along the Lunghai toward the
strategic junction city of Chengchow
and fanned out southward through the
heart of Honan province, army leaders
released an incomplete tabulation of
ammunition and equipment seized in
the capture of Suchow.
They said the properties included
26.000,000 rounds of rifle and machine
gun ammunition, 40,000 hand gren
ades, 15,000 anti-aircraft gun shells,
60 locomotives and 1,500 freight cars.
Japanese forces ranged widely south
of the Lunghai, battering at masses
of Chinese troops trying to check their
offensive against Chengchow.
Occupation of Kweiteh removed a
major obstacle in the path of the Jap
anese westward along the Lunghai.
They probably will use it as a base
for their push toward Kaifeng, the
next large city before Chengchow.
Fierce resistance by the Chinese de
■ fenders made the going hard. A Japa
nese spokesman in Peiping admitted
that Lt. Gen. Kenji Doihara’s division,
forced back northeast of Lanfeng, had
been completely surrounded by Chi
nese troops who constantly were at
tacking ‘‘in the most obstinate man
ner.”
The Chinese sent reinforcements in
large numbers to Swatow to guard
against a possible Japanese landing,
such as the recent one at the South
China city of Amoy. The Chinese
press reported 60,000 Japanese troops
had arrived at Amoy from Formosa
while a squadron of Japanese planes
was based at Quemoy Island, aff Amoy.
Yates Trims Ewing, 3 and 2,
To Win British Amateur Title
Atlantan Shoots Par on
Last 16 Holes to
Take Match.
Bj the Associated Press.
TROON, Scotland, May 28 —dharley
Yates of Atlanta today won the British
amateur golf championship, beating
Cecil Ewing of Ireland in the 36-hole
final, 3 and 2.
Three up with four to play, the
American lost the 33d hole to Ewing’s
8-foot birdie putt, then sank another
8-footer himself on the 34th to take
the match.
One up at the end of the morning
18 holes, Yates shot even par for the
16 holes of the afternoon round. He
was 3 up at 27, lost the twenty-eighth
as he got into trouble the only time
on the round, then finished with five
pars and r, birdie.
At the final hole Charley hit a fine
mashie niblick shot to within eight
feet of the cup, while the giant Irish
man was in a trap at the left of the
green in 3. Ewing marched into the
sand, exploded out nine feet away
and knocked the putt into the back
of the cup. Then Yates, without an
instant’s hesitation, stroked his ball
home to win.
When the ball vanished into the cup,
Johnny Goodman, Chuck Kocsis and
Ray Billows, Yates’ mates on the
United States Walker Cup team,
rushed across the green and hoisted
Charley on their shoulders. Francis
Ouimet, the Walker Cup cajatain, who
was standing on a wall above the six
teenth green, jumped down, forced his
way through the crowd and shook the
Georgian’s hand.
The entire gallery of 7,000 set up a
terrific shout, disregarded ropes and
marshals and mobbed the new cham
C. 1.0. THREATENS
HP IN DETROIT
24-Hour ‘General Strike’
Protest Voiced Against
‘Police Brutality.’
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 28.—Detroit was
faced today with a threat of a 24
hour "general strike" by C. I. O. unions
as aftermath of rioting at the Amer
ican Brass Co. plant in which scores
were injured.
The strike, labor leaders said, would
be in protest of "police brutality and
their use as strikebreakers.”
Mayor Richard Reading, after re
ceiving police reports of the brass
company disorders Thursday after
noon, announced that police would
“continue to act for the preservation of
law and order."
A second mass demonstration at the
brass company was called off by union
officials Friday with the announce
ment that "next Wednesday we’ll
make Thursday’s affair look like a
warm-up.”
Tracy Doll, United Automobile
Workers’ <C. I. O.) official, said that
all C. I. O. unions in the Detroit area
were considering a proposal for a 24
hour strike if police activity at labor
demonstrations is not curbed. Doll
said that a delegation of C. I. O.
leaders would appear before the City
Council next Tuesday to make a for
mal protest.
Recorder’s Judge John V. Brennan
issued a writ of habeas corpus yester
day, returnable Saturday noon, for re
lease of 28 persons the U. A. W. said
were held by police for Thursday’s
riot.
Approximately 600 union sympa
thizers and 175 police were involved
in the clash Thursday. Sympathizers
had gathered to aid the mine, mill and
smelter workers in their picketing pro
testing a wage cut. Six policemen and
two union members still are in hos
pitals.
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PLUNGES 14 FLOORS
Prominent New Yorker Dies After
Park Avenue Fall.
NEW YORK, May 28 <*>>.—Socially
prominent Dr. Robert Burlingham, 50,
plunged 14 floors to his death today
from the Park avenue apartment of
his family.
His father, Charles C. Burlingham,
former president of the New York
City Bar Association, said Dr/ Burl
ingham had not been sleeping well and
“acted from a sudden Impulse.”
CHARLEY YATES.
plon, who succeeds Bob Sweeny, the
United States-born Londoner.
He fell off his high perch and simply
stood there until police grabbed him
and made a passageway through the
crowd to a nearby road. They put him
in a police car and took him to the
clubhouse.
In his first competition over a
Scottish course, the Atlantan thus be
came the sixth American to win the
title, which this year virtually
amounted to a world championship.
Walter J. Travis, Australian-born
but entered from Garden City, N. Y.,
led off the over-seas parade in 1904.
After him came Jesfc Sweetser, in
1926; Bobby Jones. Yates’ fellow
townsman who has made Charley his
protege, in 1930, the year of his grand
(See GOLF, Page A-5.)
Injury Received on May 9
Fatal, Bringing 1938
Toll to 33.
Five-year-old Richard Bitanga died
in Emergency Hospital today of
head injuries received when struck
by an automobile near his home at
915 Twentieth street N.W. on May 9.
Richard was said to have run into
the path of the car. driven by Ben
jamin C. Johnson, jr., 30. of 1213 M
street N.W., when he dashed across
the street to join a playmate.
His death raised the Distrtetls traffic
fatality toll for this year to 33, as com
pared to 48 for the same period of
1937. The thirty-first and thirty-sec
ond deaths were recorded yesterday
and last night.
Bicycle Rider Killed.
Bartholomew King. 14. of 2812 Sixth
street N.E., was killed and his com
panion on a “double” bicycle ride in
jured critically when their bicycle
collided with an automobile on the
Franklin Street Bridge, between Sev
enth and Tenth streets N.E., last
night.
The injured boy, Mario Dimiglio. 14.
of 618 Girard street N.E., who was
riding on the front of the bicycle
pedaled by young King, was reported
in serious condition today at Sibley
Hospital, where he was treated for a
possible skull fracture and cut back.
Boys Taken to Hospital.
Herbert A. Wright, 30. of the 5300
block of First street N.W., said by po
lice to have been driving the auto
mobile in collision with the bicycle,
took the boys to Sibley. His skull
and leg fractured, young King died
shortly after arrival at the hospital.
Earlier yesterday, a 65-year-old man
who died in Gallinger Hospital after
being struck by a street car at Sev
enth and I streets N.W. Thursday
night, was identified as William Ran
dall, 633 I street N.W.
Inquest Tuesday.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
said inquests in the three fatal acci
dents would be held at the District
Morgue Tuesday. Mr. Wright. Mr.
Johnson and Alton M. Lee. 26, of 1725
New Hampshire avenue N.W.. listed by
police as motorman of the street car
that struck Mr. Randall, are scheduled
to appear at the inquests.
The most seriously hurt in other
traffic accidents yesterday was Leslie
Williams, 10, colored, 2127 Tenth
street N.W., who ran from behind a
parked car near his home and into
the side of a passing automobile. He
was treated at Garfield Hospital for
a badly lacerated left arm.
Sings in Court.
LOS ANGELES, May 28 (£>).—
Pinky Tomlin, song writer and actor,
sang a song in court and won a $2,400
plagiarism suit filed against him by
Warner E. Walker, 24, singer and com
poser from Mineral Wells, Tex.
The ditty Tomlin sang for Judge
Clement Shinn yesterday was “chang
ing My Ambitions,” which Walker con
tended was just another name for his
own song “Ambitious For You.”
Beich Planes to Yugoslavia.
GREIFSWALD. Germany, May 28
OP).—A massed flight of 37 German
military planes took off today for
Belgrade to give aerial demonstrations
at the invitation of the Yugoslav gov
ernment during an international avia
tion exposition tomorrow. The avia
tors will spend the night in Vienna
before flying on to the Yugoslav
capital. _
Fugitive Grabs Falling Pants;
Fearing Gun, Officer Shoots
A colored youth who wu out
distancing three or four policemen
in a brisk dash for freedom late yes
terday wasn't going for a gun when
he "reached for his hip.”
The cry had been raised, however,
that the fugitive was armed. Shortly
after he made the gesture he was
shot through the thigh, police reported,
by Pvt. J. W. Carroll of No. 8 pre
cinct.
The officers captured the youth at
Wisconsin avenue and Grant road
N.W. and returned him to No. 8 pre
cinct, from which he had fled. He
was treated at Georgetown Hospital for
a flesh wound and held for investiga
tion.
The youth identified himself as
Allen Johnson, 20, of Frederick, Md.
He and two companions had been
brought to the precinct following an
automobile accident at Wisconsin ave
nue and Macomb street N.W.
Police were questioning Allen about
a knife with a 3^-inch blade they
found on him when he broke away
and Art! Pvt. Carroll and several
other officers were approaching the
precinct when they saai the youth
dash through the door.
The policemen gave chase on foot.
Somebody shouted, “Look out. he’s
got a gun!” the policemen said. The
foot race had progressed some six
blocks when Allen made the unfor
tunate sresture toward his hip pocket.
Capt. Lloyd E. Kelly, who investi
gated the shooting this morning, asked
Allen if he "reached for his hip.”
"Yes,” waa the reply, ‘I reached
back to grab my pants, which were
about to fall off!” . ..
Capt. Kelly said he examined the
youth’s .trousers and found his belt
loops bad parted.
HARM REPLIES
TO PRESIDENT ON
Says He Believes Roosevelt
' Is Misinformed on
Its Operation.
SINGLES OUT EXAMPLE
GIVEN BY EXECUTIVE
Declares Speech Did Not State
Results Secured Under 1938
Bill Correctly.
BACKGROUND—
Criticism of tax laws has mount
ed steadily from 1936, with undis
tributed corporate profits and capi
tal gains levies bearing brunt. Last
winter House committee recom
mended modifications. House com
plied, but Senate took more extreme
action. After protest from Presi
dent, conferees agreed on compro
mise. Last night measure became
law without his signature.
Answering President Roosevelt's at
tack on the new tax bill. Mississippi's
veteran Democrat. Chairman Harrison
of the Senate Finance Committee,
said today he believed the President
"has been misinformed as to the man
ner in which the capital gains tax in
the Revenue Act of 1938 operates.”
“For example.” Mr. Harrison ex
plained, "he gives the following ex
ample:
•' 'In other words, if you or I sell
stocks, which we have held for a few
years, at a profit of say $5,000, we have
to pay a tax of 15 per cent on that
profit; whereas, the man who made a
profit of $500,000 on stocks he has
owned is required under this new bill I
to pay a tax of only 15 per cent, just
as you and I would.'
Believes President Misinformed. |
Senator Harrison said the President
concluded from the foregoing example '
that "nobody by any stretch of the
imagination, can say that this new i
provision maintains the principle of
payment in proportion to ability to
pay.”
"I could agree with the President's
i conclusion if the example stated the
results secured under the bill correct
ly,” Mr. Harrison continued.
"Unfortunately, this is not the case,
and the President has apparently been
misinformed as to thfe'^-bperation of
the capital gains tax under the new
bill."
Cites Own JEpmple. ,
"For cxemple, if Toa and I art !
married persons and have a capital
gain of $5,000 on stock or securities
held over two years and no other in
come, we will not pay a tax of 15 per
cent. We will pay no tax at all.
"That is explained because of the
fact that a married man is exempt up
to $2,500. If he has no other income
and he makes $5,000 on a capital gains
transaction, under the provisions of
the bill, he only has to be taxed on
one-half of the $5,000, which is $2,500,
and under this law to that amount he
is exempt. Therefore, he pays no tax.
"If we have a salary of $5,000, and
the $5,000 capital gain in addition, our
tax will b; $220. The tax on $5,000
salary alone is $80. So, our tax has
■been increased by $140 on account of
the $5,000 capital gain and the rate of
tax on that gain is therefore less than
3 per cent."
With a large proportion of the Sen
■ ate membership listening intently,
Senator Harrison began by expressing
regret that he found it necessary to
disagree or take issue with those of
his own party.
Will Ask Revision.
Earlier Treasury disclosed that the
administration will ask the next
Congress to overhaul the Federal tax
laws completely, codifying and simp
lifying them as well as incorporating
business levies favored by President
Roosevelt.
A spokesman said the department
< See TAXES. Page‘A-5 )
. — ■ ■ m
Busch President of Bolivia.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 28 <>P).—Bo
livia’s constituent assembly yesterday
named Lt. Col. Oerman Busch con
stitutional President of Bolivia. He
had been provisional President of a
military junta which assumed control
when President David Toro resigned
last July 13.
''WtLtjMA.TWW
A SURPRISE SHOT!/
"new DEALADMINISRATIQN
Victim After Ride Turns Tables
On Three Fun-Loving Bandits j
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Man Leaves Coffee They
Bought to Borrow 5
Cents, Calls Police.
Three tender-hearted, “fun-loving"
bandits had their "kindness” repaid
with rather stern measures early today
when their victim left a cup of coffee
one of them had bought him and tele
phoned police on a borrowed nickel
to bring about their capture.
The unappreciative victim was
Sherbit R. Stamper. 29-year-old deliv
ery office employe of the Pioneer Laun
dry, 920 Rhode Island avenue N.E.. who
decided the "fun"-had gone far enough
after he was taken for a 25-mile ride
into Virginia and robbed of $10.
During the robbery, Mr. Stamper
said, his shoes were taken off and in
spected for more money and hi* coat
was tried on by one of the bandits, who
gave it back when it didn’t fit.
Mr. Stamper, who lives at 1111
(See BANDITS, Page A-6.)
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BULLETIN
More than a score of members
of the Youth Committee Against
War appeared at the Pennsyl
vania avenue entrance to the
White House today and after plac
ing seven placards on the fence
reading “P. D. R.—You're Pre
paring for War—You Fight It”—
retreated to the other side of the
street on the arrival of police. A
large crowd of sightseers were on
hand to witness the demonstration.
(Early story on Page A-16.)
BAD FAITH IS CHARGED
TO FRANCE BY TURKS
Explanation of ‘Maneuvering’ in
Alexandretta Demanded by
Ankara Government.
By the Associated Press. ”
ANKARA, Turkey, May 2*.—Turkey
has charged France with “acts of fla
grant bad faith,” demanding an ex
planation of “maneuvering" in the
State of Alexandretta, where an elec
tion campaign is in progress, it was
disclosed today to the National As
sembly. The French government re
plied with Assurances, it was said.
The campaign for the elections July
25 is “proceeding under pressure of
all kinds and the gravity of the situ
ation is evident,” the foreign minister
said.
Syria, including Alexandretta and
Lebanon, is supervised by France un
der League of Nations mandate. The
elections will determine whether Alex
andretta is to be Turkish or Arab.
Disorders and bloodshed have marked
the campaign.
Summary of Today's Star
Page Page.
Amusements B-16 Radio .B-8
Church News, Real Estate,
A-10-11-12 B-l to B-3
Comics ..B-14-15 Short Story -B-8
Editorials_A-8 Society -A-7
Finance _A-14 Sports -B-6-7
Garden Page A-13 Woman's Pea
Lost & Found B-8 tures -A-7
Obituary-A-6
FOREIGN.
500 killed in Japanese raid upon
Canton. Page A-l
Spanish rebels heavily bomb Bar
celona. Page A-3
Mexican federate pursue Cedillo closely
in bush. Page A-3
Quints enjoy first ice cream on 4th
birthday. Page A-41
Czechoslovakia hails Benes on 54th,
birthday. Page A-4
NATIONAL.
Harrison replies to President on
taxes. Page A-l
Hull warns Kellogg pact remains in
force. / Page A-l
O’Connell to ask Roosevelt action in
Hague fight. Page A-l
Norris and King disagree on Morgan's
T, V. A. statement. Page A-2
Spending-lending bill faces prevailing
wage fight. Page A-2
Big three in auto industry face quick
trials. Page A-2
Problems of minority groups before 6
day parley opening here. Page A-5
WASHINGTON AND NEARBI.
Victim turns tables on "fun-loving”
bandits after ride. Page A-l
Woman found unconscious beside B. A
O. tracks in N.E. Page A-l
Work to start on new traffic artery
in Southeast. PageA-15
East Washington study ordered by
planning board. Page A-16
House group ends hearings on D. C.
appropriations. Page A-16
Series of Memorial Day services start
here today. Page A-16
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
The Capital Parade. Page A-9
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Washington Observations. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-9
SPORTS.
Mickey Cochrane gets the laugh in
feud with Jimmy Dykes. Page B-6
Welter fight postponements delay
Louis-Schmeling plans. Page B-6
Brilliant field assured for 500-mile
auto race classic. Page B-6
Zamperini case Indicates need for
clean-up by A. A. U. Page B-7
Yaross to give accurate line on
Abrams’ ripg caliber. Page B-7
Yates gives Sargeant credit for his
golfing prowess. Page B-7
MISCELLANY.
Service Orders. Page A-9
Nature’s Children. Page B-8
Shipping News. Page B-8
Vital Statistics. Page B-8
Bedtime Story. Page B-14
Letter-Out. p*6« B-14
Cross-Word Punde. PageB-l4
Contract Bridge. Page B-ll
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SHERBIT R. STAMPER.
—Star Staff Photo.
11(1_
House Member 'Glad to Be
Back in U. S.’ After Melee
in Jersey City.
By the Associated Press.
Representative Jerry O’Connell,
Democrat, of Montana said today he
would ask President Roosevelt to take
some personal action in behalf of an
investigation of alleged infringements
of civil liberties in Jersey City, N. J.
Returning from his second unsuc
cessful attempt to address a mass
meeting there in defiance of Mayor
Frank Hague, the 29-year-old Con
gressman said he had been invited to
the White House to ‘‘discuss the situa
tion” and would make an appoint
ment as soon as possible.
The President recently referred a
letter from O'Connell to Attorney
General Cummings, who subsequently
announced that the Justice Depart
ment was investigating.
Representative O'Connell's first
statement on reaching Washington
this morning was “I’m glad to be back
in ‘America.” He was 'accompanied
by his wife, who said she was badly
bruised when knocked down by two
policemen in the crowd which assem
bled at Pershing Field last night.
The Montanan termed “an absolute
lie” the description of the meeting
which Daniel Casey, Jersey City di
rector of public safety, was quoted as
giving.
The congressman described Police
Chief Harry Walsh, who directed
O’Connell’s seizure, as “an cad-fash
ioned type of policeman who wants to
badger you all the time.”
Police Rescue O'Connell.
Bs the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. J„ May 28.—
Representative Jerry O'Connell, frus
trated in a second attempt to speak in
Mayor Frank Hague’s bailiwick, and
rescued by police from a fist-swinging,
pro-Hague crowd, said today he would
(See O’CONNELL, Page A-6.)
Miss Louise Zimmerman Is
Discovered Unconscious
in Northeast Area.
Found lying unconscious beside
railway tracks at Minnesota avenue
and Galt street N.E. late last night.
Miss Louise Zimmerman, 34. of 1212
Kenilworth street N.E.. lay in Cas
ualty Hospital today, apparently suf
fering from hysteria and unable to
tell police what had happened to her.
Physicians were puzzled by Miss
Zimmerman's condition. There were
no marks of violence on her body.
Hospital attaches said her apparent
hysteria might result either from
nervous shock or from a brain con
cussion. which might have been in
duced by a "sandbag" blow on the
head without leaving an apparent
wound.
Her sister. Mrs. J. G. Veihmever,
with whom she made her home, be
lieved the stricken woman may have
been held up as she was walking home
from work last night and stunned by
the shock. Miss Zimmerman was of
a high-strung, nervous temperament,
she said.
Police said Miss Zimmerman's purse
was missing when she was discovered.
Her sister said Friday was pay day
at the Acme Laundry, Minnesota and
Foote streets N.E., where Miss Zim
merman worked, and the missing
purse undoubtedly contained her
week's pay. It was not unusual for
her to work as late as 11 o’clock on
Friday nights. Mrs. Veihmeyer said.
Ross Henderson, 34. of 4119 Haves
street N.E., found the woman lying
unconscious about 2 feet from the
Baltimore & Ohio tracks, and called
police at 11:05 p.m. The spot where
she was found was on MisS Zimmer
man's usual route home from work,
her sister said.
Casualty Hospital physicians said a
crowd had gathered around the strick
en woman when the hospital ambu
lance arrived, and pointed out her
pocketbook might have been picked
up by some by-stander. A flashlight,
which she apparently used to light her
way home, still lay beside her. Police
were examining this for fingerprints.
Groaning and moaning on her hos
pital bed, to which she was tied by
the wrists to prevent her falling out.
Miss Zimmerman opened her eyes
when spoken to today, but was unable
to speak coherently. Physicians ex
pected her to become fully conscious
some time during the day.
Capt. Hugh Groves of the eleventh
precinct and Detective Buck Berry at
tempted to question Miss Zimmerman
shortly before noon, but without re
sult.
Miss Zimmerman's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Zimmerman, live at Fair
view Beach, Va.
WINS PLANE PAYMENT
Jury Awards Hall $40,000 for
Commissions in China.
LOS ANGELES, May 28 (4>).—Bert
Hall, war-time aviator and adventurer,
was awarded $40,000 in commissions
for his services in selling 20 airplanes
to the Chinese nationalist government
in 1931.
A Jury ruled in favor of Hall yester
day. The Douglas Aircraft Co. con
ceded Mr. Hall assisted in the sale,
but valued his services at only $3,000.
Burglars Bind Watchman, 65,
And Loot Chevy Chase Club
Burglars broke Into the Chevy Chase
Country Club, bound a 65-year-old
night watchman and escaped with
$150 in cash and 11 quarts of whisky
shortly after 3 --
o’clock this
morning.
The money was
taken from a
strong box which
was broken open
with an iron bar
after the men
found it in the
office of the ex
clusive club, lo
cated at Bradley
lane and Con
necticut avenue,
in Chevy Chase,
Md.
W. F. Drlrttri
William F. Drinkard. the watchman,
told Montgomery County police he was
preparing to make his rounds soon
after the club closed for the night
A
When ne was seized ay mui UI
men in a hallway on the club’a main
floor.
He said they tied him up with nap
kins, tablecloths and towels taken from
the dining room and then rifled the
office. After robbing the strong box,
the men broke open a door leading to
the bar and smashed a locked cabinet
door and stole the liquor.
A number of checks the men found
in the strong box were burned in a
nearby wash basin.
Mr. Drinkard said the men left by
the front door after taking the liquor.
He escaped from his bonds about 15
minutes later and telephoned police.
He was not injured.
Officers said Mr. Drinkard was un
able to tell whether the men were
white or colored because the hall in
which he was seised was dark. They
found that the men gained entrance
through the door to an old furnace
room.
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POWERS RECEIVE
HULL WARNING ON
CZECH VOTE EVE
Kellogg Pact Signatories
Reminded Treaty Is
Still in Force.
RESTATES U.S. INTEREST
IN CONDITION OF WORLD
Statement by Secretary of State,
Given to Press. Has Yet to
Go to Governments.
Bv CONSTANTINE BROWN.
A warning shot to the nations which
might disturb the world's peace was
fired today by Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull.
Fearing that tomorrow's elections
in Czechoslovakia might ignite the
powder keg in Central Europe, Mr.
Hull issued an official statement re
minding the signatories of the Kellogg
pact that that peace instrument is
still in force.
Text of Statement.
The statement follows:
"With reference to the critical situa
tion involving countries in Central
Europe. I desire to say that the Gov
ernment of the United States has been
following recent developments with
dose and anxious attention.
"Nearly 10 years ago the Govern
ment of the United States signed at
Paris a treaty providing for the re
nunciation of war as an instrument of
national policy. There are now par
ties to that treaty no less than 63
countries. In that treaty the con
tracting parties agree that ‘the settle
ment or solution of all disputes or
conflicts of whatever nature or of
whatever origin they may be which
may arise among them shall never be
sought except by pacific means.’ That
pledge is no less binding now than
when it was entered into. It is bind
ing upon all of the parties.
Cannot Shut Our Eves.
"We cannot shut our eyes to the fact
that any outbreak of hostilities any
where in the world injects into world
affairs a factor of general disturbance
the ultimate consequence of which no
man can foresee and is liable to in
flict upon all nations incalculable and
permanent injuries.
"The people of this country have in
common with all nations a desire for
stable and permanent conditions of
peace, justice and progress and & most
earnest desire that peace be main
tained. no matter where or in what
circumstances there may be contro
versies between nations."
It was made clear at the State De
partment that this statement of the
Secretary of State has not reached
yet a ' diplomatic status." It has been
given to the press only and has not
been communicated to the various
foreign offices in an official form.
In the event that the situation be
comes more acute over the week end
the State Department is expected to
take further and probably more con
crete steps.
Invoked in Ethiopia.
The Kellogg pact was brought out of
musty archives at the beginning of
the Italo-Ethiopian conflict when both
Italy and Ethiopia were reminded that
they, as signatories of the Paris pact,
were under ti e obligation to settle
their dispute by pacific means.
A similar action is contemplated by
the United States Government In the
event tomorrow's election takes a turn
which might make a German
Czechoslovak conflict inevitable.
Official quarters have not disclosed
yet whether they have in mind some
thing more drastic than the reminder
issued today by the Secretary of State.
| but it is believed that some further
! steps may be considered if the Secre
tary's statement falls upon deaf ears
| in Berlin—as observers believe it will.
THREE-WEEK CAMPAIGN
OPENED BY DE VALERA
Irish Prime Minister Determined
to Seek Clear Mandat#
for Policies.
Ey the Associated Press.
DUBLIN. May 28.—Determined to
seek a clear mandate to carry on his
policies. Prime Minister Eamon de Va
lera today plunged into a three weeks'
campaign for election of a new Dail
Eireann or lower house of Parliament.
Dissolution of the Dail Eireann was
announced yesterday and new general
elections were called for June 17.
Defeat in a snap vote Wednesday
over creation of an arbitration board
to deal with civil servants grievances
caused the decision, though under the
constitution new elections were not
mandatory.
BYRNS IS CANDIDATE
House Seat Sought by Son of Late
x Speaker.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 28 (>P).—
Joseph W. Byrns, Jr., was in the race
today for the Democratic nomination
for Congress from the Hermitage dis
trict represented by his father, the
late Speaker of the House, for 28
years.
The 34-year-old Byrns, announcing
his candidacy last night, said he stood
"Where my father stood—I am for
Roosevelt.”
He will oppose Representative Rich
ard M. Atkinson, incumbent.
PRESIDENT ARRIVES
Will Spend Quiet Week End at
Home of Mother.
HIGHLAND, M. Y., May 28 <£>).—
President Roosevelt arrived here at
7:30 a.m. (E. S. T.) today and went
at once by motor car to Hyde Park to
spend a quiet week end at his mother'#
home.