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Pacific Northwest
Closes Forests as
Blazes Sweep On
Available Man Power Is
Taxed by Multiple
Timber Fires in Area
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—British Co
lumbia and Washington forests were
closed today as Pacific Northwest
firefighters continued a desperate
battle against multiple blazes that
taxed available man power.
The British Columbia order closed
the forests to everyone—loggers,
miners, trappers and vacationists—
but in Washington, the order af
fected only logging in the western
part of the State.
These measures were taken as
California controlled its dangerous
blazes, and Oregon, the heaviest
loser of the four commonw’ealths so
far, found new hope in rising hu
midity. A plan to close Oregon
forests was held in abeyance due to
the improved weather. Idaho fires
no longer threaten inhabited com
munities, although at least one still
burned out of control.
Burns Toward Town.
Washington's fire menace centered
near the newly created Olympic
National Park, where a revived
blaze at Deep Creek resisted efforts
of 500 men and ate into park timber
after sweeping over old slashings.
It was burning toward the tiny town
of Sappho in the extreme northwest
corner of the United States.
Another 100 men fought a small
but vicious blaze that had already
destroyed one logging camp near
Bellingham and was near virgin
timber in the Mount Bader area.
Various other fires dotted Washing
ton forest lands.
Eastern Washington fires were well
enough controlled to allow release of
80,000 pounds of fire-fighting equip
ment and various forest experts for
Western Washington and Oregon
duty.
Boys Are » olunteers.
Four major fires in the Nelson,
British Columbia, district required
services of all available men. A
score of boys in their teens volun
teered to fill gaps in the fire lines
when no men were available. More
than 600 men were working and
supervisors reported the blazes ho
longer spreading.
Near Kellogg, Idaho, one fire re
mained unchecked, but shifting wind
turned it away from heavy timber
and residences. Two automobiles
were burned when flames trapped
them Saturday, but both drivers
•scaped.
Oregon's most menacing blaze, in
Tillamook County, was less danger
ous today. Saturday night, it was
riding a 20-mile-an-hour wind to
ward coastal communities. One log
ging camp burned yesterday with a
loss of about $30,000.
Green timber and 100.000 young fir
trees fell before a fire in the Mount
Hood National Forest. Choking
smoke drifted into Portland. Refu
gees from the burned lumber town
of Pine Ridge, near Klamath Falls,
were given shelter in the Indian
Village of Chiloquin, 2 miles away.
California smoke eaters battled
400 blazes in 11 days. Officials said
that last night, for the first time in
that period, all fires on State-pro
tected lands were extinguished. Some
fires were still burning in national
forests, but none appeared threaten
ing.
Printers' Union Factions
Gird tor Test Today
Br the Associated Press.
PORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 21.—
Independent and progressive fac
tions of the International Typogra
phical Union, girded for a test of
strength, may find it today in the
report of the Credentials Committee
to the 83d annual convention.
A motion for adoption or rejec
tion may draw battle lines. Lead
ers of both groups have been lining
up the 272 delegates.
Among points of dispute is the
special assessment against the I.
T. U. by the American Federation
of Labor. Failure of the union to
pay the assessment brought suspen
sion from the A. F. L. last week.
Progressives oppose payment.
More than 2.000 delegates and
visitors were registered. George L.
Berry of Tennesseee, president of
the Printing Pressmen's Union and
former Senator, addressed them
today.
Return From China
EASTON, Md., Aug. 21 I/Pi.—John
Louie's six children have returned
from China through the aid of for
mer Representative A. Alan Golds
borough. The Chinese laundryman's
children, all bom in the United
States, had began living with grand
parents in Kongmoon. in Canton
province. Arrangement for their
return was made through the State
Department by Mr. Goldsborough.
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PINE RIDGE, OREG.—FIRE RAZES TOWN—The Are which
wiped out this little forest town Saturday night is shown at
its height. In two hours the Are destroyed a hotel, 200 homes,
various lumbering operations buildings and burned a large
amount of cut timber before spreading Into the forest. Loss
was estimated at $2,000,000. The Southern Pacific Building at
left was one of the few structures to escape the flames.
—A. P. Wlrephoto.
Colored Man Injured
As 100 Whiles Attack
6 After Auto Mishap
Car Accidentally Jumps
Curb, Missing Family
Walking by, to Start Riot
By the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY. N. J.. Aug. 21.—A
colored man was critically injured
last night in a riot between six col
ored men and approximately 100
white men, aftermath of an auto
mobile mishap in the heart of this
city's Italian-American section.
Police Lt. William Curtin said
Joel Robertson, 22, was near death
in the Medical Center with a frac
tured skuli. Lt. Curtin told the fol
| lowing story of the riot:
Robertson and his 14-year-old
brother, Moses, drove an acquaint
ance, Lee Hills, 22, to see his fiancee.
They picked up another friend after
dropping Hills, and started away.
The car jumped the curb accident
ally, narrowly missing a man, his
wife and their child.
Approximately 80 whites stormed
the car, smashed windows, ripped
Moses’ shirt and punched Joel. Police
dispersed the rioters and took Rob
ertson to Bay street police station,
where the pedestrian refused to press
charges against Robertson.
Robertson returned to the scene of
the accident for his car, accompanied
by six colored friends. As they
neared the machine, a crowd of ap
proximately 100 whites set upon
them with clubs, bottles and pool
cues. *
Fifteen policemen arrived soon
afterward. When the crofrd had dis
persed a second time, police found
Robertson lying unconscious in the
street. Nearby was a broken, blood
stained pool cue.
Lt. Curtin said a thorough search
would be made for Robertson's as
sailant.
___ *
Bruno Walter's Daughter
Slain, Husband Suicide
By the Associated Press.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 21.—
The slaying of the daughter of
Bruno Walter, famed conductor and
refugee from former Austria, at the
hands of her husband, who then
committed suicide, was disclosed here
today.
Police announced last Friday that
a "foreign architect” had committed
suicide after slaying his wife, but
it did not become known the wom
an was Walter's daughter until today,
when he canceled at the last minute
an engagement to lead the Mozart
Music Festival at Lucerne.
It was announced that Arturo
Toscanini, Italian conductor, had
agreed to substitute for Walter.
The woman’s husband, a German
non-Jewish refugee named Neppach,
killed himself in his apartment
after firing two revolver shots into
her body, the announcement said.
The bodies were found by police who
heard the shots.
Walter, a fervent admirer of the
former Austrian premier, Kurt von
Schuschnigg, became a French cit
izen after Germany absorbed his na
tive land.
He was frequently shown his re
sentment of the Nazi regime in Ger
many, and last year planned with
Toscanini to revive the famed Salz
burg Music Festival either in France
or England as a "demonstration
against violence and barbarism.”
Du Pont Urges Network
Of Feeder Airlines
Dj tuc A&autiHieu ricas.
Richard C. du Pont, aviation ex
pert, said yesterday he had recom
mended to officials of the Post Office
Department and Civil Aeronautics
Authority the development of a
Nation-wide system of "feeder lines”
to give hundreds of the smaller cities
direct connection with the big cross
country airlines.
The Wilmington, Del., president
of an aviation concern, said the
pickup system presented "an ideal
method for the establishment of a
feeder system, and it has created
new and vast opportunities for the
development of commercial avi
ation.”
The system involves the use of a
grapple-like device for picking mail
or express pouches from the ground
while an airplane is in flight. Such
a system ncffc is in daily operation
on an experimental basis on two air
mail routes in Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Ohio and Delaware.
These lines carry only mail and
express, but Mr. Du Pont said his
company was making an investiga
tion of its use in connection with
passenger service. If extended to
passenger service, stops would be
limited to airports with passengers
to be taken on or discharged.
Taneytown Fair Opens
TANEYTOWN, Md„ Aug. 21 (£>).
—Judging of exhibits started today
at the annual Carroll County Fair,
which opened yesterday.
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Lt. Harry Lohman Completes
47 Years on Police Force
70-Year-Old Officer
Still Remains on
Active Duty
By WILLIAM PAFRIOTT.
Forty-seven years a policeman
and still giving no quarter to crim- J
inals or age is the record of Lt. |
Harry R. Lohman, oldest member
of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment in point of service, who to
day celebrates completion of two
score and seven years in uniform—
a career daubed with color, danger
and near-fatal injuries, but, withal,
plenty of humorous twists to give
it even keel, he declared.
Lt. Lohman, 70, tanned and
rugged and straight as a steel girder,
is almost as active today as when
he joined the force on August 21,
1892, and went to old No. 3 precinct
to tramp his first beat, which in
cluded the tough Foggy Bottom !
district — "Toughest beat I ever j
walked," he said, smiling in retro-:
spect.
He has come a long way since
he helped bring law and order to
Foggy Bottom, has rescued women
and children from fires and floods,
been wounded in service, cited, com
mended, praised by friends and
damned by hoodlums. And he glo
ries in his career. He wouldn't trade
it for the Capitol dome or a maha
rajah's jewels, although there have
been times, he admits, when he felt
like chucking it all for a ham sand
wich. P. S— He was eligible for re
tirement six years ago.
Active duty for Lt. Lohman means
"active" all the way. At present he
is commanding officer at No. 8
precinct (where he has been sta
tioned for 11 years i, serving in the
absence of Capt. Lloyd E. Kelly, and
he's as spry as the youngest rookie
in the station.
Holds Pistol Award.
When interviewed today, the gray
haired veteran wore on his shirt a
gold medal inscribed "pistol expert”
which he won late last spring at the
headquarters range, matching his
younger rivals shot for shot. “I
haven't done much pistol work the
past five years,” he declared, “but
I thought Id test my eyes and
nerves.” They were both all right.
Eight of 10 shots in the target which
he saved struck vital places and
the two “strays” were only a hair's
distance away. All 10 were in the
mythical midsection of the man- ;
target.
Reversing the order of firing, Loh
man also knows how it feels to get
shot, having been carried into
Emergency Hospital with two bullet
wounds in his chest early one Sun
day morning about 25 years ago.
He was blasted at short range white
attempting to arrest a man for ques
tioning in connection with a series
of holdups. The shooting occurred
at Ninth and D streets N.W.
The prisoner whom he had
grabbed by the left arm, shot him
point-blank in the scuffle that en
sued, powder burning the officer’s
chin as the first bullet tore down
ward through his chest. “I was
paralyzed.” Lohman said, “and I
couldn't budge.”
Gunman Felled by Bullet.
Also on duty in the neighborhood
were Detective Harry Cole and
Policeman Oden G. Clay (now Loh
man's son-in-law), who ran to his
aid. The wounded officer yelled:
“Shoot him! I can't get my gun!”
The gunman, as he turned to run,
shot Lohman again but was felled
by Clay with a bullet that fractured
his leg in two places. Both in
jured men were taken to Emergency
Hospital. Although seriously in
jured, the policeman said that when
they brought the gunman into the
emergency room “I was so mad I
just couldn’t help cussing the devil
out of him.”
ine omcer was Dacx on duty in
about three months but his assailant
died of blood poisoning about a
month after the shooting.
The incident was only one of many
for which he was cited and com
mended—so many, in fact, that he
can't remember half of them with
out consulting his file. There is
little in police life that he hasn't
experienced, having been on duty
at nine precincts and spending four
years with the harbor police as
lieutenant and harbor master. While
there, he had plans drawn for the
police boat now in service which was
built to replace an old Navy tug
used then.
Born in Georgetown.
Lt. Lohman was born in George
town December 19, 1869, and began
work at 15 as a field trumpeter in
the Marine Corps. After six years
in the service he resigned and be
came a streetcar conductor, then
turned to selling insurance. His
next step was to the police force,
where he rose steadily through the
ranks. He now hopes to step into a
captaincy before he retires. Friends
say his career has been worthy of
that rank.
Lt. and Mrs. Lohman live at 3419
Fessenden street N.W. with their
son-in-law and daughter, Pvt. and
Mrs. O. G. Clay and their three
grandchildren.
Asked what advice he would give
young rookies starting police work,
the veteran officer said:
"I'd tell them never to let any
one, criminal or superior officer, be
more polite or courteous than they
are. Courtesy is an asset to any one.
even though we policemen aren't
given credit for much of it.
"And another thing: When there
is any doubt about a matter of any
nature, let a man be sure he is right
before he acts. It's better to be
right than sorry—a good thing to
remember.”
He said the greatest fault he saw
in younger men was their timidity in
asking questions about their work.
“The only way to learn police work
is to ask ‘why’ ar.d ‘how’ when
problems arise,” he remarked, add
ing, "that's a pretty good rule for
any business, isn't it?”
Such is the Lehman theory of
success, which, after 47 years of
application, could well be called a
triumph. Today it starts on No. 48.
Hoover Tells Western
Growers to Push Fight
Bt the Associated Press.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. Aug. 21.—
Herbert Hoover has advised Idaho
and other Western States to con
tinue their fight to have the Cuban
sugar import quota reduced and
the limitation on domestic sugar
beet acreage removed.
The former President declared
if the twin steps were taken, not
only would beet producers benefit
but growers of two other major
western commodities, potatoes and
onions, would also profit through
more stable prices.
“It would open the way toward
really getting the western farmer
back on his feet,” he said.
Mr. Hoover paused here on a
flight to West Yellowstone “to get
in a little fishing.”
No Travel Fatigue at 97
TRINIDAD, Colo., Aug. 21 OF).—
Brimful of pep, 97-year-old Charles
S. Riggan stepped off the train after
a 2,000-mile journey, jigged nimbly
and inquired, “When do we dance?”
The Vaughn, N. C„ veteran is the
first arrival for the 49th reunion of
the United Confederate veterans,
opening tomorrow.
Rainbow Division Outing
A picnic outing of Forty-second
(Rainbow) Division veterans. Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter, will be
held Saturday at the estate of Dr.
Albert M. Kloczewski at Herald Har
bor, Md., It was announced by Ber
nard V. Rhodes, chairman of ar
rangements.
Law Faculty Named
Dr. John R. Fitzpatrick, provost of
Columbus University, yesterday an
nounced the following reappoint
ments to the Law School faculty:
James B. Flynn, Frederick C. Lusk,
Thomas W O'Brien, William J.
Neale, George H. Schoolmeester,
Francis Colt de Wolf and Cyril
Wynne.
LT. HARRY R. LOHMAN.
:
Woman Recovering
After Plunge Off Boat
Was Believed Fatal
Husband, Employe of
Bulgarian Legation,
Thought Her Dead 5 Hours
Mrs. Virginia KotzefT. 27-year-old
bride of Venko KotzefT, Bulgarian
Legation employe, was recovering
today at the legation from the ef
fects of a plunge in the Potomac
River that nearly cost her life and
caused her husband five hours of
anguish early yesterday.
Mrs. KotzefT, with her husband
and some friends, took a moonlight
cruise down the river on the S. S.
Potomac early Sunday morning.
About 2:30 am., when the boat was
near Fort Washington, she plunged
overboard. Mr. KotzefT was in a
different part of the boat at the
time. He was notified of the plunge
by a friend and the boat was
stopped.
Lifeboats were put over and
searchlights played on the water,
but no trace could be found of the
missing woman. The cruise was
continued and Mr. KotzefT returned
to the Legation at 2881 Woodland
drive, convinced that his wife was
drowned.
Mrs. KotzefT, however, had man
aged to keep afloat and struggled
toward shore holding on to the
thick vegetation which grows in
the water there. She believes it
took her an hour to struggle
through the water to a point where
she could touch bottom on the
Maryland shore. Then she was too
exhausted to move on.
She appeared at the home of a
farmer about two miles from the
place where she reached shore and
succeeded in reaching her husband
by( phone. This was about five
hoiirs after she had entered the
water.
Mr. KotzefT said this morning
that his wife was still confined
to bed under a doctor's care, but was
recovering.
“Everything is all right,” he said
happily.
Nye Appreciates
Boom for President
Br the Associated Press.
YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wvo.,
Aug. 21.—Senator Gerald P. Nye ot
North Dakota is “most apprecia
tive” of a reported “favorite son”
boom for him as Republican presi
dential nominee.
Here to do nothing but rest, the
Senator isn't saying whether he's in
terested in the movement his friends
say will get its start at a Minot, N.
Dak., rally next month.
He observed only “These friends
are very complimentary and I could
not be other than most appreciative
of their demonstrated faith and con
fidence.
"My 14 years in the Senate leave
me quite content with my present
opportunities for service in public
life, from which I contemplate com
plete retirement after a few more
years."
Senator Nye did not elaborate.
His friends are reported working
also in South Dakota, Minnesota
and Montana, with hope of obtaining
pledged delegations, or at least sec
ondary support in the Republican
convention.
i Holds Annual Service
WICKLIFFE, Va., Aug. 21 (Spe
cial).—The Rev. Dr. William D.
Smith of Christ Church. Va., held
the annual service yesterday at his
toric Wickliffe Episcopal Church,
which his grandfather, Jaquelin
Smith, was instrumental in erecting
in 1846.
Macon Sells Fairly
MACON, Ga., Aug. 21 WP).—Macon
of the South Atlantic League has
sold Third Baseman Carl Fairly to
Toronto of the International League
for cash and one player, an tn
flelder. Fairly will report to the
Maple Leafs next spring.
Slump Won't Rob Yanks of Flag
Says Gehrig, Off to Clinic
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 21—Lou Geh
rig, who should know what he's talk
ing about, says the baseball team
never existed that didn’t run into
a slump now and then.
Baseball fans wanted to know if
Gehrig thought any team had a
chance to dethrone the New York
Yanks this year, when the former
star first baseman of the American
League champs passed through Chi
cago yesterday en route to Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
"Did you ever hear of a team that
didn’t fall off a bit now and then?”
he asked, expressing confidence in
f*
the Yankees’ ability to take their
fourth straight flag this season.
Gehrig was making his first trip
to the clinic since doctors there
diagnosed his condition two months
ago as a form of infantile paralysis.
He (hen had benched himself after
a decade and a half of stellar play
ing with the New Yorkers.
Lou said his trip this time was
for a “routine checkup with the
doctors to see how I'm getting along
with the prescribed treatments.” He
said he expected to rejoin New York
in Chicago Tuesday night. He still
dons a uniform daily, but takes no
batting or fielding‘drills with the
other players, remaining in the dug
out.
I
Aid to China Held
Sufficient Cause for
Hong Kong Blockade
Japanese Taking Serious
View of Two Killings
By British Policeman
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 21.—Japanese
charged today aid lor Chinese Gen
eralissinjo Chiang Kal-chek, coming
from Hong Kong, is sufficient cause
for a blockade of the British crown
colony.
The assertion was in answer to
what Japanese said are British con
tentions they have no justification
for isolating Hong Kong.
A Japanese Army spokesman at
Canton was reported in Hong Kong
yesterday to have declared a block
ade "of the Hong Kong perimeter
is inevitable” if Great Britain re
fuses to discontinue acts benefltting
Chiang Kai-shek.”
Killings Regarded Gravely.
Possible aggravation of British
Japanese relations was feared also
as a result of the killing of two pro
Japanese Chinese policemen and the
wounding of six others by a British
policeman here Saturday.
Japanese Army and Navy repre
sentatives who held an emergency
meeting last night aboard the cruiser
Idzumo, flagship of the Japanese
fleet in China waters, were said to
have reached “important decisions”
regarding the incident.
The Japanese Embassy said “we
take a grave view of this affair.”
Unconfirmed reports said the Japa
nese Army is planning “drastic
measures.” There was no sign yet,
however, of enforcement of such
measures, nor of what they might
entail.
Heavy Casualties Reported.
The Chinese and Japanese com
mands reported they had inflicted
heavy casualties on each other in
recent months’ fighting in China.
Chinese said 20,727 Japanese had
been killed or wounded in Honan
and Hupeh Provinces between April
1 and August 1.
Japanese said they had engaged
20,000 Chinese and killed about 1,800
in a campaign during the past month
in Southeastern Shansi Province.
Japanese Maintaining
Hong Kong Border Guard
HONG KONG. Aug. 21 m.—
Japanese apparently were planning
today to maintain at least semi
permanent, closely-spaced guard
posts to seal the mainland border
between this British crown colony
and Kwangtung Province, China.
Apprehension over possible inten
sification of British-Japanese ten
sion here since Japanese forces
moved up to the boundary last week
relaxed, however.
A British announcement disclosed
British and Japanese officers con
ferred yesterday, the British offi
cers pointing out the exact border.
The line is marked clearly by union
Jacks.
British officers conducted Jap
anese officers along the boundary
today “to avoid any mistakes by
Japanese soldiers.”
The Japanese appeared to be pre
paring to extend their mopping-up
operations northeastward into
Kwangtung.
Strong Japanese units were ob
served landing at Namtau and mov
ing inland. Japanese warships were
| reported to have put another force
ashore at Bias Bay, the same point
whence Japanese began their drive
toward Canton last October.
After capturing the South China
port, the Japanese abandoned the
Bias Bay area. Now it seems they
again will take the port of Wai
chow, the area's chief city, in a
drive for complete possession of the
zone between Canton and Hong
Kong.
Chicago Lawyers' Guild
Plans Service to Needy
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—The Chicago
Chapter of the National Lawyers'
Guild announced yesterday plans
for a legal service bureau to pro
vide inexpensive, standardized legal
services to persons unable to pay
fees ordinarily charged.
The proposed bureau was detailed
in a report by a 10-member com
mittee headed by Alex Elson.
regional attorney in Chicago for the
Wage-Hour Division. The study was
begun in 1937.
Among the services suggested were
consultation, drafting of legal docu
ments, trying small cases and medi
ation. Some of the suggested fees
include $2 for the first half hour of
consultation; $1.50 for wills, convey
ances, leases and notices which can
be drafted on printed forms; $2 to
$5 for legal papers not using printed
forms; $5 minimum for conciliation,
plus 10 per cent of the amount in
volved over $50.
“We look upon the bureau,” the
report said, “as a device for meeting
the need for legal service not now
being met or met inadequately by
the bar and laymen, and a possible
instrument for re-education of the
bar • •
Virginian, 80, Injured
When Autos Collide
Bt the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Aug. 21.—
Turner Clatterbuck, 80, of Culpeper
today is in a critical condition at
University Hospital with a broken
neck, received last night when his
automobile was struck by another
car which was reported to have sped
away.
The elderly man, who was alone,
was thrown from his automobile,
which had turned over, and a pass
ing motorist picked him up and
brought him to the hospital here.
An attending physician said he re
ceived a broken neck, a severed
spinal cord, brain concussion, scalp
cuts and skull injuries.
Berryville Mills fteopen
BERRYVILLE, Va„ Aug. 21 (Spe
cial) .—Berryville Mills, Inc., manu
facturers of full-fashioned silk
hosiery, reopened today, after being
idle some time, with about 25
persons being called to jobs, with
a prospect of more being added.
The management indicated that
unsettled conditions in the raw silk
market had been in large measure
responsible for • period of idleness
at the plant.
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DO YOU KNOW HER?—If so,
inform the Metropolitan Police
at once. At the request of
police, The Star prints this
photograph, found pasted to
the lid of the trunk which ar
rived in Atlanta from Wash
ington recently and contained
the body of a murdered mulat
to woman, whom police are at
tempting to identify.
'Penny' Picture Provides
Trunk Murder Clue
A small “penny picture’’ photo
graph today provided the latest hope
for police in their efforts to iden
tify the body of a murdered mulatto
woman which was returned here
yesterday from Atlanta. The body
was found last Thursday in a trunk
in an Atlanta railroad station, where
it had been shipped from Wash
ington.
The photograph, which was found
pasted to the lid of the trunk, was
that of a well-dressed young mulat
to woman with bobbed hair. Police
said that the picture bears only a
vague resemblance to the murder
victim and that it may possibly be
the likeness of some friend here.
The photograph had been cut in
half.
Meanwhile, pictures and finger
prints were taken of the body at
the District Morgue, where it was
brought by Deputy Coroner Richard
Rosenberg and Detective Sergt. Au
brey Tolson, who went to Atlanta
for the inquest and returned here
yesterday with the body.
At the same time Capt. Ira E.
Keck has reordered all policemen to
check express and dray firms on
their beats in an effort to determine
who took the trunk to the express
station for shipment to Atlanta. /
The trunk, according to police,
was checked from Union Station by
two men who brought it there in an
old truck. The check was issued on
a passenger ticket which was never
used.
Submarine Saury Ends
'Shake-Down' Cruise
The submarine Saury docked at
the Washington Navy Yard early
today after a "shake-down" cruise
in South American waters. It came
here direct from Havana. Cuba.
Lt. Comdr. G. W. Patterson, jr.,
who commands the submarine, is a
son of Dr. Patterson, the civilian
expert at the Indian Head <Md.)
powder factory. He was born in
Indian Head and attended Friends
School in this city.
Navy Department officials said
that the Saury will remain here
about four days awaiting further
orders.
Rain Postpones
Water Gate Concert
And a Honeymoon
Performance fo Be
Given Tonight; Program
Will Be Unchanged
Guy Fraser Harrison, who was to
start his honeymoon after conduct
ing last night's Water Gate concert,
will have to postpone it. More than
6.000 music lovers, armed with rain
checks, are planning to converge on
the Water Gate tonight.
Rain sent the audience at last
night's concert scurrying to cover
Just as the National Symphony Or
chestra concluded Debussy's "The
Afternoon of a Faun,” the second of
fering of the evening.
A few hundred veterans of the
rain-jinxed concerts huddled under
umbrellas, but kept their seats wait
ing for the concert to be resumed.
Manager C. C. Cappel and Con
ductor Harrison surveyed the per
sistent shower and agreed they’d
better call the whole thing off, even
though the guest artist, the Finnish
pianist, Relno Luoma, hadn't played
a single note.
Their next number was "The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice," which has to
do with a youth who started a flood
with magic and then didn't know
how to stop it. The musicians packed
up and went home.
The announcer told the audience,
through the amplifiers, that the
same concert, complete with guest
conductor and artist, would be per
formed tonight.
A few minutes later, however, the
rain let up and nearly a thousand
patrons resumed their seats and
started to applaud. It started to
rain again, however, and they
gave up.
Improved Transfusion
Facilities Hailed
Improved facilities for blood
transfusions, especially at Gallinger
Hospital, were cited today as one of
the reasons for a decrease in the
District maternal death rate be
tween 1936 and 1938 by Dr. J. Bay
Jacobs, clinical director in the ma
ternal welfare section of the Health
Department.
Dr. Jacobs spoke at 61 I street
N.W., headquarters of the W. P A.
housekeeping aid project, in a lec
ture opening the fourth week of the
District W. P. A. health institute.
Dr. Jacobs said Washington's ma
ternal death rate had fallen to 5.5^
per 1,000 live births in 1938 from" '
6.5 in 1936. In addition to trans
fusion improvements, he attributed
the decrease to uninterrupted ma
ternity service commencing with
pregnancy, proper consideration and
handling of prospective mothers of
slight physical structure and early
diagnosis and treatment of venereal
disease in expectant mothers.
The Institute is being held to ac
quaint W. P. A. teachers and super
visors in certain projects with tha
fundamentals of public health.
Other topics on the program include
cancer, tuberculosis, venereal disease
and the work of the Public Health
Service.
Arlington Fire School
Session Tonight
A fire school for memtiers of
Arlington County companies south
of Wilson boulevard will be held
in the Jefferson firehouse at 7 pjn.
today and on next Monday at the
Clarendon firehouse.
In announcing the schools, Elmer
J. Blackmer, jr.. fire training chair
man of the County Firemen's Asso
ciation. also said that classes for
members of companies north of Wil
son boulevard would be held tomor
row at 7 p.m. in the Cherrvdale
firehouse and on the following Tues
day at the Falls Church firehouse.
Relief Needed
Figures show that in January,
1939. there were still nearly 7,000.000
\ families on relief, more than 23.000,
000 people.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau )
District of Columbia—Local showers tonight and possibly tomorrow
morning; somewhat cooler: gentle to moderate shifting winds tonight,
becoming westerly tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia—Partly cloudy, showers in the interior tonight
and probably in east portion early tomorrow; slightly cooler tomorrow
and in the interior tonight.
West Virginia—Partly cloudy; slightly coo’er in west; local showers
in east portion tonight; tomorrow fair with moderate temperature.
A_
Weather Conditions Last 24 Hours.
A high-pressure area is moving eastward
to the southeast of Nova Scotia. Sable Is
land. Novia Scotia. 1021.7 millibars (30.17
inchest. Pressure is relatively low over the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States
and a disturbance is moving northeastward
over Western Quebec. Doucet. 1005.1 milli
bars (29.08 inchest. A secondary disturb
ance Is moving slowly eastward over Lake
Michigan. Green Bay. Wls., 1005.8 milli
bars (29.70 inches i. Pressure Is high from
Western Ontario south-southwestward over
the Southern Plains. Oklahoma City. Okla.. I
1020.0 millibars <30.12 inchesi. while a
disturbance is moving east-southeastward
over Manitoba and the Northern Plains.
Churchill. Manitoba. 1004.4 millibars
(29.60 inchest, followed by rising pressure
over British Columbia and the Northern
Rocky Mountain region. Lanvara Island.
British Columbia, 1027.4 millibars <30.34
Inches). There Is some evidence of a
slight disturbance near latitude 37’ N
and longitude 65' W. During the last 24
hours there have been showers In the
Upper Mississippi Valley, the Lake region,
the west Gulf States and In scattered areas
over the Middle Atlantic and North At
lantic 8tates. the Ohio Valley, along the
east Gulf coast and at a few points In
the western Canadian Provinces. Tem
peratures have fallen over the Upper Mlssl
slopi and Middle and Lower Missouri Val
leys and the Southern Plains.
Report far Last 48 Hoars.
Temperature. Barometer.
Saturday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. _ 70 29.76
8 p.m. _ 72 29.82
Midnight _ 70 28.85
Sunday—
4 a m. _ 69 29.85
8 a.m. _ 73 29.90
Noon _ 86 20.87
2 p.m. _ 80 29.85
4 p.m. _ 91 29.83
8 p.m. __ 81 20.82
12 midnight _ 75 29.88
Today—
4 a.m. _ 73 29.87
8 a.m. _ 75 29.03
Noon _ 85 29.91
Beeari far Last 24 Basra.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Hlchest, 03. 3:30 p.m. yeaterday. Tear
ago. 89.
Lowest. 72. 6 a.m. today. Tear ago.
67.
■eeord Temperature This Tear.
Highest. 96. on August 0.
Lowest. 17. on February 23.
Humidity far Last 24 Hour*.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.I
Highest. 96 per cent, at 10 p.m. yes
terday.
Lowest. 47 per cent, at 11:10 a.m. to
day
ride Tablea.
(Furnished by United Statei Coast and
Geodetic Survey )
Today. Tomorrow.
High__12.36 a.m. 1.33 a.m.
Low __ 7:29 a.m. 8:27 a.m.
High _12:59 p.m. 1:58 p.m.
Low _ . 7:43 p.m. 8:41 P.m.
The Bun and Muon.
Rlsea. Sett.
Sun. today _ 5:26 6:56
Sun. tomorrow_ 5:27 6:54
Moon, today 12:46 p.m. 11:07 p.m.
Automobile lights must ba tumad oa
ona-half hew After sunset.
I
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers mudd’
at Harpers Perry; Potomac muddy at Great
Palls today.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In Inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1930. Average Record
January_ 3.41 3 55 7 83 ’37
February_6.71 3.27 fi 84 ’84
March _2.89 3.75 8 84 91
Abril _ 378 3.27 9,13 ’83
May-0.41 3.70 10 80 ’89
June _ 4.45 4.13 10.94 'On
July __ 2 01 4.71 10.63 ’88
August -3.21 4.01 14.41 '28
September_ ... 3.24 17.45 34
October _ 2 84 8.81 '37
November _ _ 2 37 8.69 '89
December _ 3.32 7.56 '01
Weather In Various Cities.
Temp Rain*
.. , Barom Hlgh.Low. fall Wraths,
Abilene... 30.06 81 64 ... Clear —
Albany_ 29.88 78 70 0 15 Cloud*
Atlanta .. 30.(io 88 69 0.03 Clear
Atl. City.. 29.88 81 75 ... Clear
Baltimore 29 91 88 73 _ Cloudy
B'mingham 30.03 86 65 _ Cloudy
Bismarck.. 29.88 77 47 _ Cloudy
Boston_ 29.94 75 70 0.48 Cloudy
Buffalo_ 29.88 80 64 — Clear
Charleston 30.00 92 75 _ Clear
Chicago _. 29.77 85 57 0.53 Rain
Cincinnati 29 P4 85 60 _ Cloudy
Cleveland. 29.86 77 62 _ Clear
Columbia.. 30.00 90 72 _Clear
Denver_ 30.00 73 47 _ Clear
Detroit_ 29.80 78 67 _ Cloudy
El Paso... 29.97 94 69 ... Clear
Galveston. 30.03 90 73 0.28 Cloudy
Helena- 30.12 87 57 ... Cloudy
Huron_ 30.00 79 44 . Clear
Ind'napolls 29.81 84 54 _ Clear
Jack'nvllle 30.03 92 76 _ Clear
Kans. City. 30.00 76 56 _Clear
L. Angeles. 29.94 79 64 _ Clear
Louisville. 30.00 85 64 Cloudy
Miami_ 30.00 89 81 cloudy
Mpls.St. P. 29.94 83 54 0.S4 Cloudy
N. Orleans 30.03 88 72 0.01 Cloudy
New York. 29.88 87 74 _ Clear
Norfolk_ 28.88 94 70 II" Clear
Okla. City. 30.12 80 61 Clear
Omaha_30.00 73 61 Pbgay
Phtlad’phla 20.88 89 75 “ Cloudy
Phoenix,__ 29.77 107 80 __ Clear
Pittsburgh. 29.94 82 62 0.04 Foggy
P'tland.Me. 29.07 67 65 1.30 Foggy
Ptland.Ore. 30.03 85 55 _ Clear
Raleigh_ 29 94 94 71 _ Clear
St. Louis,. 30.00 89 57 Clear
8. Lake C. 29.94 90 61 " Cloudy
8. Antonio. 30.06 ion 70 6.24 Clear
San Diego 29.91 75 06 Cloudy
8. Pra'ctsco 29.07 67 68 Cloudy
Seattle_ 30.03 85 52 Clear
Spokane.. 29 9 7 93 54 I" Cloudy
Tampa- 30.06 93 76 _ Cloudy
WASH. D C. 29.91 93 72 0.30 Clear
Foreign Stations.
London. England_ 63 Cloudy
Paris. France- 82 Cloudy
Vienna. Austria_ 63 Cloudy
Berlin, Germany_ 70 Cloudy
Brest. France_ 69 Foggy
Stockholm. 8weden_ 64 Cloudy
1 Noon. Greenwich time, today)
Horta (Fayal), Asores.. 80 Cloudy
— _ (Current obaervationt.)
St. Oeorges. Bermuda.. 81 Cloudy
San Juan. Puerto Rico. 82 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba_ 78 Cloudy
Colon, Canal Zom_ 77 Cloudy