Argentina Pressing
Vast Emergency
Arms Program
Up-to-Dote Air Force
Of 1,000 Planes, 5,000
Pilots Planned
Mr. Edgerton is touring South
America as a guest of Pan
American Airways. His articles, !
sent by mail, will be published as
they are received. This is the
eleventh of a series.
By JOSEPH S. EDGERTOX,
Star Aviation Editor.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (By
Airmail).—Evidences of an emer
gency armament program on the
largest scale in Argentine history
are becoming apparent even to the
most hurried visitor to this great
southern republic.
During the flight from Santiago,
Chile, across the towering "hump"
of the Andes by way of the 12,000
foot Uspullata Pass, where stands
the impressive "Christ of the
Andes.” the traveler sees one Ar
gentine military airdrome after an
other, many of them under course
of construction or expansion. There
are impressive army air fields at
Mendoza and Cordoba, where big
airliners of the Panagra division of
Pan-American Airways stop on the
way across Argentina.
At Cordoba there is a new gov
ernment military airplane factory
across the very large airport from
the air transport terminal.
Inquiry brings forth the informa
tion that tne Argentine government
Is planning the construction of a
thoroughly modern air force of
about 1.000 airplanes as a part of
a defense program which already
has reached an estimated total of
120.000.000 pesos and which may go
to 1,000.000.000 pesos or more, most
of which will go into aviation and
anti-aircraft defense.
5,000 Pilots Being Trained.
The plans call for the training of
8.000 military pilots. The govern
ment, working with co-operation of
the Aero Club Argentino, has
opened a campaign for the enroll
ment of civilian candidate for train
ing. Prelimiary examinations now
are being given to selected candi
dates for civilian aviation training
on a basis somewhat similar to that
of the Civil Aeronautics Board in
the United States which now is
undertaking the .lining of 50.000
civilian pilots.
The Argentine program calls for
the construction of airports at many
strategic points, particularly along
the Patagonian coast, which up to
now has been rather neglected
Argentina is alive to the dangers
of Nazi penetration, its fears reach
ing a climax with the recent dis
covery of ihe Nazi plot which was
reported to have had as its goal
the seizure of Uruguay as a Ger- j
man colony. Both Argentina and
Uruguay are putting into effect
military’ defense measures on a large
scale but are attempting to avoid
any direct offense to Germany or
to German leaders in South Amer
ica. As a result, quite naturally,
the situation of somewhat confused,
and itTj for the visfftjr tfl ,
gain a very clear picture of -just
what is going on.
Airports Guarded.
The army, particularly in Uru- ■
guay, now. is-maintaining a war- i
time guard over airports, railroad i
stations, telegraph offices, ports and j
frontiers, and the recruiting of the \
armed forces is in full swing. The 1
streets are full of soldiers, and the 1
evidences of increased military ac
tivities are in evidence on every
hand. A new home for the Ministry
of War, one of the largest govern
ment buildings in Buenos Aires, now
Is nearing completion, and the site
has been cleared for a home for
the naval administration
Argentina has enacted emergency
laws, which include rigid censor
ship provisions for the control of
newspapers and broadcasting sta
tions. much to the alarm of many
Argentine citizens, who regard a free
press and free speech as vital to
the control of "fifth column” ac
tivities. There have been repeated
warnings in the Argentine Senate
that Nazi. penetration in the re
public has reached a very danger
ous stage.
"Fifth Column" Menace.
A new and serious element in the
Argentine "fifth column” situation
has been created by the release of i
some 1.000 sailors from the pocket
battleship Graf Spee. sunk in the ;
mouth of the River Plate following ;
her encounter with British cruisers. !
Except for some of the officers and ]
seamen whose pro-Nazi activities
were regarded as particularly dan- |
gerous. and who are being held on
an island in the river, the young
Germans from the Graf Spee have
been scattered throughout the in- j
terior of Argentina, and there is
evidence that they are becoming
focal points for Nazi organization
on a considerable scale.
One of the greatest danger points
in Argentina, according to reports |
in the capital city, is the province
of Misiones, which extends a nar
row arm to the northeast between
Paraguay and Southern Brazil, ad
joining the Southern Brazilian
province of Rio Grande do Sul. in
which there is a very strong Ger
man element, with some 14 per cent
of the population classed as German
speaking.
Uruguayans Trained.
The Buenos Aires Herald recent
ly published a long article quoting
Bruno Fricke, former officer in the
Hitler S. A. forces and since 1931
head of a “Black Front” group
which has been fighting the Nazi
government in and out of Germany,
to the effect that the danger in ;
Misiones has become acute. He re
ported 12,000 Germans or Germanic I
people in the province and an ex
tremely active pro-Nazi organiza
tion, which now' is well armed.
Because of the strategic location
of Misiones, these Nazis are in a
position to strike against Para
guay to the west. Brazil, with its
large German population, to the
east and oouth; Uruguay to the
southeast or the adjoining provinces
of Argentina. They have two in
ternational borders across which
they might retreat if too strongly
pressed. Mr. Fricke said.
During the height of the Uru- !
gua.van anti-Nazi move Gen. Julio A. I
Rolerti. Uruguayan Minister of De
fense. issued a call for volunteers,
which brought applications for serv
ice from more than 20.000 Uru
guayans. Training of these civil
ians now is getting under way in
all parts of the country.
Deaths from automobile acci- 1
denta are fewer in congested areas j
than in those less densely populated.1
BEETLE DRIVE GETS RESULTS—With the use of traps, farmers
in the vicinity of Elkton, Md., are meeting with success in
combating the dreaded Japanese beetle. This picture shows Dr.
Ernest Cory, State entomologist (left); Henry Mclntire, Cecil
County farmer (center), and Dr. George Langford shown at bin
containing 3,000 quarts of beetles trapped on the Mclntire farm
between July 2 and 24.
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STRAPS
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Billy Merrill, son of E. L. Merrill, empties beetles trapped on his father’s farm, where 1,052 quarts were collected.—A. P. Photos.
President Studies
Suggestions to Aid
Migratory Workers
'Oakies' and 'Arkies'
Topic of Findings
By Special Committee
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt explored rec
ommendations today for bettering
the lot of the Nation's migrant
population—the storied “Okies" and
"Arkies"—through greater Federal
financial aid and greater protection
against labor exploitation.
A specially-appointed committee
submitted its findings and sugges
tions to him in a report which he
personally requested.
This committee, headed by Miss
Josephine Roche, former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, described
the problem as one of great propor
tions.
"The nomad workers of this coun
try number millions.” the report
said. "Probably 2,000.000 of them
look to agriculture for a living and
at least as many to industry * * *
a third of them are children."
The report proposed that a "gen
eral relief program should be estab
lished on a Federal-State basis.
Federal funds being made on a
variable grant basis" similar to
those allocated to States under the
social security program. It also
urged expansion of the Farm Se
curity Administration's system of
migrant workers' camps.
To protect migrants against labor
exploitation, the committee rec
ommended legislation “empowering
the Federal Government to regulate
interstate labor contractors.”
The report pointed out that labor
for many seasonal industries was
recruited at distant points, often
through a labor contractor. Because
these contractors usually carry their
offices under their hat, so to speak,
they escape State regulation, the
report said.
In this connection, the committee
also advocated legislation controll
ing the interstate transportation of
recruited niigrant workers by truck,
the expansion of the Farm Place
ment Service, protection of migrant
children against employment at too
early an age and continued appli
cation of the wage-hour law to
migratory workers now covered.
The committee proposed a series
of regional-Federal-State confer
ences to promote public under
standing of the migratory labor
problem.
Sunday School Picnic
BROWNINGSVILLE. Md., July
26 (Special).—The annual picnic
and supper of the Sunday school
of Bethesda Church. Browningsville,
will be held Saturday on the church
grounds, it has been announced.
Suppers will be served from 4 pm.
to 9 pm.
Maryland Wars on Beetle
In Peach Orchard 'Blitzkrieg'
By the Associated Press.
ELKTON. Md.. July 26—Against
1 a background of death—of ravaged
crops and skeletons In a peach
orchard—"biological control" was
advanced yesterday as the "real,
permanent solution" to the on
slaught of the Japanese beetle.
The statement was made by Dr.
George Langford. University of
Maryland entomologist, during a
tour of Cecil County, Maryland's
"beetle battleground.”
The biological control is dissem
ination of a natural parasite—the
j tiphia or "digging" wasp—and a
bacterial disease—milky white.
It was one of three lethal weapons
i against the pest demonstrated to
! 100 farm and county leaders on
yesterday's tour.
Dr. Langford's prediction came
as cheering news after the caravan
of 30 automobiles had seen the
disastrous swath cut through rich
farmlands by the swarming clouds
of greenish-copper beetles.
I In a peach orchard near Coloia,
Md., they saw actual skeletons—
dead branches lifting clean-picked
peach pits to the sky. There was
not a shred of fruit on the pits.
Some branches were denuded o/
leaves. Others bore only the lace
like skeletons of leaves. It was a
: scene of agricultural "blitzkriec '
and death as realistic as bones on
a desert.
On another farm the caravan saw
riddled ears of corn, shade trees
browned and withered, leaf-bearing
crops withered as though they had
j been through fire.
Here. too. was demonstrated an
other major weapon agair>|t the
beetles—traps brimming full of the
swarming insects, buzzing like a
hive of bees. The traps had been
empty that morning. It was only
noon.
I Mayor Henry Mitchell of Elkton
j showed his asparagus farm, dot
ted by traps, and credited the traps
with keeping his crop free from
, damage. His traps collect 75 gal
lons of beetles a day.
Last year 104 tons of beetles were
trapped in Maryland. This year
150,000 traps have been leased to
farmers under the beetle-retarda
tion program, 50,000 more than last
year.
Dr. Ernest N. Cory, State ento
mologist at the University of Mary
land, was co-leader of the tour.
Most of the "tourists” were from
Caroline, Prince Georges. Queen
Annes, Carroll. Montgomery and
i Baltimore Counties.
Petain Regime Strikes
At Phantom Arsenal
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, July 26.—Worried by
the disappearance of large quantities
of arms during the chaotic days of
the armistice, the Petain govern
ment at Vichy is reported to have
ordered a drive to liquidate a "phan
tom arsenal” now in the hands of
civilians and demobilized soldiers.
Travelers from France reported
the Vichy government had ordered
all citizens and demobilized soldiers
to deliver any arms in their posses
sion to the police or army before
July 30. After this dat* any civilian
found with arms will be subject to
the death penalty.
These sources said thus far there
is no evidence of organized opposi
tion to the Petain government in
unoccupied France, but army lead
ers fear opposition may arise if Ger
many's peace terms prove hard or
food becomes scarce early in the
winter months.
3,000 Attend 'Kismet'
At Sylvan Theater
More than 3.000 persons witnessed
a performance of "Kismet,” given
by the Eckington-Roosevelt players
last night at the Sylvan Theater.
The oriental costumes and music
were a novelty to the playgoers.
Troupers of the East Washington
Community Center will present
"The Vicar of Wakefield” at the
Sylvan Theater Tuesday. .
U. S. Girl Divorces Baron
Seeking $100,000 Wife
B.» the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 26.—Baroness
Margaret Von Mouchenhein was
granted a divorce yesterday from
Baron Egon Karl Freiherr Von
Mauchenhein. German exile who
works in a Detroit automobile plant.
The baroness, who was married
when she was 17 years old in 1935,
charged at the trial that the baron
commissioned a man whose name
was withheld to negotiate a mar
riage with any American woman
with $100,000, “because he was tired
of being a workman.”
The couple came here in 1936
after fleeing Germany. President
Roosevelt last May vetoed an act
overruling a Labor Department de- j
portation order, but no new deporta
tion order has been signed since.
Clark and Dietz Lead
In Public Links Golf
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. July 26— Edward
Furgol of Utica, N. Y., the tourna
ment favorite, was 2 down to
Robert Clark of St. Paul at the
end of nine holes of their 36-hole
semifinals match in the National
Public Links championship today.
In the other semifinal Michael
Dietz of Detroit led Roy Rolce of
Denver, 2 up.
The cards:
Par—Out. 444 434 534—35
Furgol—Out. 545 544 525—39
Clark—Out. 445 434 545—38
Dolce—Out . 545 534 534—38
Diet*—Out . 445 434 433-36
Willkie to Consult
Dewey Manager on
Chances in New York
Swing Through South
Considered; Plans Work
On Acceptance Speech
By the Associated Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo..
July 26—Wendell L. Willkie, pleased
with his reception on a flying speak
ing tour through Wyoming and
Utah, turned today to a considera
tion of campaign tactics to be used
in wooing New York State's potent
votes.
The Republican nominee arranged
a conference with J. Russell
Sprague, New- York Republican na
tional committeeman and a man
ager of Thomas E. Dewey's unsuc
cessful drive for the Republican
nomination.
Mr. Sprague, who already has
declared his allegiance to Willkie,
was expected to tell the nominee
about his chances of carrying New
York in November.
Southern Trip Considered.
Mr. Willkie was reported con
sidering a swing through the Demo*
cratic South on his way to his home
town. Elwood, Ind., to deliver his
formal acceptance address Au
gust 17.
The nominee returned to his
vacation hotel yesterday after
traveling 1,400 miles on his swing
through Wyoming and Utah.
He said he planned to "take a
week off’' next week and retire to
some secluded place to work on his
acceptance speech. It generally
was expected that he would choose
a mountain lodge close to Colorado
Springs.
Associates said Mr. Willkie already
was shaping his acceptance speech
in his mind and that he wanted to
start writing next week.
There was no indication as to how
long Mr Willkie would speak or
what issues he might project.
Election Predicted.
Mr. Willkie discussed arrange
ments for his acceptance speech yes
terday with Indiana supporters. One
of them. Arch N. Bobbitt, Indiana
State chairman, told reporters the
nominee “will carry the State easily
and will be elected the same way.”
Mr. Willkie made seven speeches
on his trip to Utah and Wyoming.
He spoke from the rear platform of
his train in Colorado en route to the
Cheyenne, Wyo.. frontier days rodeo,
known as the “daddy of them all.”
Other speeches were made at Salt
Lake City and Ogden, Utah.
The nominee has been invited to
Amarillo, Tex., for a speech but has
not decided whether he will accept.
After the Elwood talk, Mr. Willkie
is expected to rest for a time—pos
sibly here in Colorado Springs.
Among Mr. Willkie's conferees
yesterday was the Rev Fred Ingley,
Episcopal Bishop of Colorado.
French Press Accused
Of Seeking Prisoners'
Release to Fight
t
Nazis Not to Comply,
Although 250,000 Poles
Are to Be Freed
B.» the Associated P
BERLIN, July 26—Authorized
German sources today accused a
section of the press in unoccupied
France of calling for release of j
German-held French soldiers so,
France within a year or so could i
take revenge on Germany.
The newspapers have been calling <
on Germany to release the thou
sands of prisoners who fell into Nazi
hands with the military collapse of
France.
Germany, the Berlin informants
said, is determined not to comply,
although release of 250,000 Polish
war prisoners is impending.
To offset the French demands,
the German press for days has been
bringing eyewitness accounts of
released German soldiers in an
effort to prove that the French were
inhuman in their treatment of Ger
man prisoners of war and interned
German civilians.
The French-German armistice
provided for release of German pris
oners in France but put, off the
release of French prisoners in Ger
many.
The 250.000 Polish prisoners are
to be released soon, adding further
to German efforts toward stabiliza
tion of Europe, it became known.
They will be made available for
work in Germany and the German
occupied portion of Poland.
Polish farm labor always has been
a prominent factor in the economic
life of Eastern Germany.
The released Polish prisoners, it
was said, must work but will be
free to choose where—whether in
Germany or Poland—and must not
leave for England to Join the Polish
Legion.
Weather
* Continued From First Pa ge.)
of the Library’ of Congress were
dismissed at noon A skeleton staff
remained on duty to keep open
the exhibition halls.
6,000 Relieved at Commerce.
At the Commerce Department
more than 6.000 workers were re
lieved at 1 o'clock, while District
Building employes were let out at
12:30.
Many of the Government first
aid rooms overflowed with heat
victims, though no serious illnesses
were reported.
Meanwhile the Associated Press
reported from Prince Frederick.
Md„ that Robert Glorioso. 46, of
the 400 block of Newton place N.W.
was drowned in Island Creek at
Broomes Island today when he dived
from his crabbing boat in an effort
to save his son, Antonio, 14, who
had fallen overboard.
The boy. who could not swim,
was rescued by Harry Parkes of
Broomes Island, who jumped from
his boat and swam to him. Tire
father's foot became entangled in an
anchor line as he dived overboard,
and he was held under water. He
is survived his widow and two
children.
Yesterday's heat, marked by a
number of prostration cases in the
District and three deaths at Mary
land beaches—one a Washington
man at a Chesapeake Bay resort—
sent the mercury up to 95 degrees
at 5 o clock in the afternoon.
An overnight low of 76 degrees
was recorded at 6 o'clock this morn
ing.
Officials said the District had
experienced nine days of weather at
90 degrees or above, during the cur
rent heat wave.
Brother and Sister Drown.
Raymond Losten. 14, and his 13
year-olri sister. Vera, of Jeanette,
Pa., drowned last night in the Del
aware <k Chesapeake Canal, about
a mile from Chesapeake City. Md.,
the boy losing his life trying to res
cue his sister after she had stepped
into a hole and disappeared from
sight, the Associated Press reported.
The children, with their mother,
Mrs. Nichols Losten. were visiting
relatives at Chesapeake City.
The Chesapeake Bay death was
that of Henry J. Kroll, 65, of 3011
Sixteenth street N.E., a District
baker for many years. Mr. Kroll was
seen to struggle in the water at
Long Beach, Md.. and was rescued
almost immediately. He died, how
ever, within a few minutes after he
was taken to the shore.
Dr. Everard Briscoe, Calvert
County medical examiner, said
death was caused by a heart at
tack.
Mr. Kroll is survived by his wife
Mrs. Margaret Kroll; two daughters
and two sons.
Four G. P. O. Workers Hurt.
A length of air-conditioning tubing
at, the Government Printing Office
collapsed late yesterday, injuring
four employes who had just reported
for the night shift and endangering
the lives of at least 50 others.
More seriously injured was Robert
E. Dalton, 39, of 200 Massachusetts
avenue N.W., who was taken to
Casualty Hospital with head, face
and back injuries. His condition
was described as slightly improved
today. The other injured—George
Marshall of Brentwood, Md.; Walter
A. Leeds, 1620 Ridge place S.E., and
Elmer Welch, 623 Alabama avenue
S.E.—were given first aid at the
G. P. O. medical clinic.
The tubing collapsed on the third
floor, showering the workers with
plaster and debris.
15 Persons Collapse.
Fifteen persons collapsed with
heat exhaustion yesterday. Among
those more seriously affected were
Mrs. Amelia Stevenson, 80, of 949
Shepherd street N.W.; Garland
Smith, 30, colored, 1518 Ninth street
N.W.; William B. Ould, 55, of 1005
Shepherd street N£.; Louis Sisson,
56, of 431 Eleventh street N.W.;
James Woodson, 29, of 604 K street
SE.; JohnRessa, 19, of 835 Jefferson
street N.W., and Katheryn Johann
sen, 55, of 809 Eighteenth street N.W.
Emergency Hospital treated 14
heat victims during the day.
Lower temperatures in prospect
for the District over the week end
already had relieved much of the
country today. The Associated
Press reported that cool winds had
brought relief to the heat-stricken
Middle West, a low pressure trough
extending from Utah to Arizona
and pushing slowly eastward and
southward.
The highest official temperature
reading of the day yesterday came
from Philipsburgh, Kans„ where
the mercury climbed to 116 degrees.
Boys' Club Camps
In the 'Wilds' Atop |
New York Roof
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 26 (>P).—
The Madison Square Boys’ Club
has set up camp in the "wilds”
—atop the roof of the clubhouse
on Twenty-ninth street, within
easy walking distance of Grand
Central Terminal.
The boys have virtually every
thing they would have at a
camp in the woods—except
trees. There are tents pitched
at one corner of the roof, a fire
place for cooking, showers,
metal washtubs and even a
miniature lake.
Police Court Clerk
Soon to Face Trial
In Detention Case
Rives and Huff Cleared
After Hearing Before
Judge G. C. Aukam
A. 5453.85 damage suit against
Police Court Cleric Walter F. Bram
lia.ll. growing out of the alleged un
lawful detention of a prisoner in
the District Jail last May, soon will
go to trial following a hearing yes
terday before Municipal Court Judge
George C. Aukam.
The suit, filed May 29 by Attorney
Frederick R. Wilson, counsel for
Plaintiff William Stroy. 43, of 93
Fenton street N.E., named Mr.
Bramhall, Thomas M. Rives, super
intendent of the Washington Asy
lum and Jail, and Ray L. Huff, gen
eral superintendent of District
penal institutions, as defendants.
At yesterday's hearing to argue
a motion to dismiss the complaint,
filed by Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Chester H. Gray, defense attor
ney, Judge Aukam dismissed the
cases against Mr. Rives and Mr.
Huff, but ruled that the Police Court
clerk must stand trial.
Friends Sought Release.
Mr. Stroy charges that he was un
lawfully detained in the District Jail
during the week end of May 11 to
13. when he was fined $10 on an
intoxication charge and confined
despite the efforts of friends to g$t
his release.
Mr. Stroy was sentenced on Sat
urday. May 11, and that afternoon,
he declared, two friends appeared
at the clerk's office at 2:30 o clock,
but were unable to effect his release
because the office was closed at 1
p.m. The friends then attempted
to pay the fine at No. 9 precinct
station, where he was booked, and
later made another attempt at the
District Jail. They were refused
at every turn, and Mr. Stroy re
mained in .iail until 11:30 a m. Mon
day. when the friends paid the re
mainder of his fine—$7.
PoHce Court Rules Cited.
The suit charges that Mr. Bram
hall is liable because the Police
Court rules, printed in 1927, state
that the office of the clerk of the
court "shall be kept open from 9
am. until 11 p.m. on each day ex
cept Sunday."
Mr. Bramhall stated, however,
that since November 7. 1933, the
clerk’s office has been closing at 4
p.m. on weekdays and at 1 p.m.
on Saturdays, according to instruc
tions from the then Presiding Judge
Gus A. Schuldt. The court clerk
is responsible to the Board of Po
lice Court Judges. Mr. Bramhall
said, and his office has been adher
ing to Judge Schuldt s orders since
that time.
Judge Aukam dismissed the
charges against Mr. Rives and Mr.
Huff because they took custody of
Mr. Sircy under a court order and
had no choice but to hold him until
a release was signed by the court.
No date has been set for the trial.
Tire naval base at Pearly Harbor
in the Hawaiian Islands has a gar
rison of 25.000 troops.
Armed Bandit Taken
After Crowd Joins
In Police Pursuit
Prisoner Held Up
Liquor Store, Admits
Other Robberies
Police squad cars, firemen, cltizaes
and a robbery victim joined in a
chase last night to capture an armed
bandit believed to have been re
sponsible for 13 holdups of liquor
and delicatessen stores in recent
weeks.
The bandit fired two shots at his
pursuers, police said, before he sur
rendered to Policemen D. O. Fletcher
and B. T. Chapman of the Seventh
precinct. Police said the robber was
an escaped inmate of St. Elizabeth's
Hospital, having fled the institution
last October.
The chase began at the Friendship
Liquor Store. 4228 Wisconsin avenue,
after the bandit, had taken $193 in
bills at the point of a gun from
Morris Gottlieb, owner, of 816 Shep
herd street N.W.
Robber I* Pursued.
As the bandit ran out of the store,
Mr Gottlieb, Clarence Higgin
botham, 26. colored, of 522 Oklahoma
avenue N.E., his helper, and a cus
tomer started in pursuit, shouting
for help.
The chase led past the firehouse
at Wisconsin avenue and Warren
street, where Firemen G C. Bowie
and E. G. Williams joined the crowd.
Running in back of stores in the
4200 block of Wisconsin avenue, the
robber was trailed by Policemen Wil
liam C Grooms and D F Meecham
of the Eighth precinct.
Ducking through the back door
of a dry-cleaning establishment, the
bandit ran almost into the arms
of Fireman Bowie and Policemen
Fletcher and Chapman. During
the chase, it is said he fired a
number of shots at his pursuers,
but the bullets went wild Police
claimed there were two discharged
cartridges in the .32-caliber revolver
found on the bandit.
When he was cornered by the
police he surrendered without diffi
culty. crying:
“Don't shoot. I confess. Here s
my money and gun.”
A total of 8200 was recovered
from the bandit. Inspector B. W.
Thompson, who arrived at the
scene of the chase, said the man
had escaped from St. Elizabeths
October 22. 1939.
Confesses Robbery.
Police said he confessed to the
robbery of 11 liquor stores and two
delicatessens and exhibited a de
tailed knowledge of the robberies.
When he was being questioned,
Inspector Thompson said the pris
oner remarked:
"Well, I guess I'll get 10 years for
this."
Inspector Thompson said a line
up would be held today or tomorrow,
to give recent robbery victims an op
portunity to identify the prisoner.
Police removed the bandit to
Gallinger Hospital for observation
foliowing questioning.
They said he admitted taking a
total of $1,002 from nine stores dur
I mg the period between June 25 and
July 23 Amounts taken ranged
from $40 at a liquor store at 1527
Eleventh street N.W., to $225 stolen
fro mthe Mayflower Market on
Connecticut avenue.
Clarence A. Lundell. 1806 Burke
street S.E.. reported the loss of ap
proximately $500 in nickels and
dimes and 300 packs of cigarettes,
taken when his car was stolen about
6 o'clock last night. Mr. Lundell,
cigarette vending machine sales
man. said he had parked his car
near Sixth anr K streets N.W.
Mrs. Sallie Roberts Dies
MARTINSBURG. W. Va.. Julv 28
'Special'.—Mrs. Sallie M. Roberts,
79. died here Thursday. A daughter
of the late George and Rebecca
Hayes Jenkins, she is survived bv a
daughter. Mrs. C. W. Roberts of this
city, and a son. Ward Roberts,
Petersburg. W. Va.
Weather Report
(Furnished by ihe United States Weather Bureau )
District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy and continued warm tonight,
followed by local thundershowers beginning late tonight or tomorrow
morning; cooler tomorrow afternoon and night; Sundav showers and
cooler; gentie variable winds, becoming northerly tomorrow.
Maryland—Increasing cloudiness and continued warm tonight, fol
lowed by showers and thunderstorms, beginning late tonight or tomorrow
morning; cooler tomorrow afternoon and night; Sunday showers and
cooler.
Virginia—Increasing cloudiness and continued warm tonight, fol
lowed by local thundershowers tomorrow and possibly in extreme north
portion late tonight; not quite so warm tomorrow afternoon, cooler to
morrow night: Sunday showers and cooler.
West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness and continued warm tonight,
followed by local thundershowers, beginning in north portion late tonight
or tomorrow morning and in south portion tomorrow: cooler tomorrow
afternoon and night; Sunday showers and cooler, followed by clearing.
The broad trough of low pressure ex
tends this morning from Colorado and
Eastern New Mexico to New England and
the lower Lake region, with lowest pres
sures. I.002.7 millibars inches*, at
Lamar. Colo , and 1 noO.l millibars <*’!».7 I
inches) at Caribou Me Quite warm and
moist air of tropical origin covers all sec
tions south of this trough, while con
siderably cooler and drier air from the
poter regions has overspread the Northern
Rocky Mountain region, the Northern
Plains States. Minnesota and the Northern
Lake region. Butte. Mont . reporting a
minimum temperature of 4". degrees. Ab
normally high maxima were registered
Thursday afternoon from the Southern
Rocky Mountain region and the Southern
Plains States eastward to the Atlantic
Coast. The highest reported was lift de
grees at Phillipsburg. Kans. A disturbance
its approaching the coast of Washington.
Tatoosh Island. 1.00M.8 millibars r.M).70
inches). An area of high pressure is
overspreading Montana and North Dakota.
Havre Mont.. 1.017.3 millibars <30.04
inches), and pressure is relatively high
over the Southern States from Florida
eastward over the ocean and over the
«ean, *a8l„ of New England. Pensacola.
Fla.. l.Olfl.O millibars (30.00 inches), and
a ship about 700 miles southeast of New
foundland. 1.0*23.0 millibars (30.21
mches). Showers have occurred in por
tions of the North Pacific States and from
the Northern Rocky Mountain region east
ward to New England and at scattered
points in Arizona, the Northern Rocky
Mountain region, and Southern Florida.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy. Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Perry, Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Repart far Last 21 Hoars.
„ . • Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. _ P3 29.88
8 P.m _ 85 29.87
Midnight _ 83 29 89
Today—
4 a.m. _ 78 29.91
8 a m. __ 83 29.94
Noon _... 94 29.94
Retard tor Last 21 Hoars.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 95. 5 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 92.
lowest. 76. 8 a.m. today. Year ago. 72.
Record Temperatares This Year.
Highest. 97. on July 29.
Lowest. 7. on January 29.
Hnmidity for Last 21 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 92 per cent, at 5:39 a m. today.
Lowest. 44 per cent, at 4:30 p.m. yes
terday.
Tide Tablet.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
Hlah - 12:25 am 1:14 am
Low .. 7:23i m. 8:15 i m.
High - 12 49 pm. 1.32 p.m.
Low - 7:23 p.m. 8:09 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
„ Rises. Sets,
sun. today 5:03 ; is
Sun tomorrow 5:04 7 ■’’4
Moon, today 11:11pm 1151am,
Automobile liahfs must be turned on
one-halt hour after aonsft.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In tha
Capital (current month to date):
Month 1940 Ave. Record
January _2.12 3.65 7.83 ’37
February_ 2.77 3.27 ft.84 ’8k
March - 3.42 3.75 8 84 'PI
April _ 6.11* 3.27 9.13 '89
May- 3.10 3.70 10.69 -89
June _ 0 86 4.13 10.94 -00
July - 6.38 4.71 10.63 >86
August - ... 4.0} 14.4 1 *26
September__ 3.24 17 45 ’34
October -- 2 84 881 ’37
November - . . 2.37 8.69 '89
December _ ... 3.32 7.50 -oi
Weather In Tnriena Cities.
Temo Ratn
Barom. Huh.Low. fall. Weather.
Abilene_ 29.83 102 70 Clear
Albany 29 80 00 73 0.05 Cloudy
Atlanta 30.03 95 70 Clear
All. City - 2.9 91 82 74 _ Fogg*
Baltimore 29.94 92 78 Cloudy
B mingham .10116 94 73 Clear
Bismarck 29.97 84 59 1 25 Cloudy
Boston .. 29.83 85 09 0.04 Cloud*
Buffalo 29.83 87 72 Cloudy
Butte 29 89 74 43 ... cloudy
Charleston 29.97 98 75 Clear
Chicago 29.83 103 72 0.01 Cloudy
Cincinnati 29 97 100 78 Cloudy
Cleveland. 29.89 97 80 Cloudy
Columbia 29.97 101 75 0 02 Clear
Davenport 29.89 105 74 0.01 Clear
Denver 29.77 9rt 04 Cloudy
Des Moines 29.71 103 70 0.01 Cloudy
Detroit .. 29.80 99 78 ... c Sidy
El Paso . 29.77 96 74 Cloudy
Galveston 29.77 93 82 I" e Sudy
Huron 29.83 83 65 Cloudy
Indnapolls 29 94 97 75 Oear
Jack'nvtlle 30.03 101 73 r ,ar
Kan* Cjty -9.80 102 79 ZZZ C ear
L. Angeles 29.91 85 60 __ Cloudy
Louisville. 30.00 —
Miami 30.09 90 71 "*■ Cloudy
Mpls.St. P. 29.89 80 fl| 01s r SSdy
N. Orleans 30.00 93 77 Cl«r
New York 29.89 74
Norlolk 29.97 91 70 ' ' ciS.r
Okla City 29.83 95 76 a*ar
Omaha 29.71 108 73 1" Cloud*
Phlla'phin 29 89 93 70 0 24 Foray
Pittsburgh 29 94 94 75 4 cioudy
PtUndTde. 29.80 79 01 p
P land Ore. 29.86 73 59 0 17 Bain
Raleigh 2997 98 7? Clear
St. Louis 29 91 101 77 cloud*
S. Lake C. 29.77 94 57 ~~ C ?ar
8 Antonio 29 91 98 75 I’- Cloud*
San Diego 29 91 77 04 C oudy
San FMlsco 29.89 73 57 ~ ~ c SudJ
Seattle ... 29.83 72 59 0 ’2 Rain
Spokane 29 83 78 hi "" cioudy
Tampa 30.00 94 8- Clear
WASH DC. 29.94 95 76 . Cloud*
FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Current observations.)
. _ _ Temperature. Weather
San Juan- Puerto Rico. 82 clouds
Colon, canal Zone_ 78 Clpudr