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Hyaftsville Man
Wins Top Honors
In Woodridge Show
L. L. Powers Exhibits
Best Gladiolus and
Takes Other Prizes
* L. L. Powers, Interstate Com
merce Commission employe, emerged
from the Woodridge Garden Club’s
14th annual gladiolus show last
night with a fistful of prize rib
bons as sweepstakes winner in the
specimen blooms classes of the
show.
Mr. Powers, who lives in Hyatts
ville, Md., also exhibited the best
gladolus in the show', a 15-flowered
spike of Picardy.
Sweepstakes winner in the floral
arrangement classes was Itfrs. C. E.
Ross of Falls Church, Va., while
the prize for the best gladiolus
shown by a member of the Wood
ridge Garden Club went to Mrs. J.
A. Gamble.
Wins With Petunias.
Petunias exhibited by Mrs. Ma
thilde K. Bartlett, a club member,
won the award for the best ar
rangement.
A 3-inch tall display of coral bells
and dusty miller, exhibited by H.
J. Clay of the garden club, won the
prize for the best miniature.
The judges of the show, which
was held in the Sherwood Pres
byterian Sunday school building at
Twenty-second street and Rhode
Island avenue N.E., were Howard
R. Watkins of Someset, Md., and
Mrs. William D. Kneesi of River
dale, Md.
The winners, by classes, follow:
Class 1. collection of 15 named varieties
♦n separate containers, first, L. L. Powers:
second. L. P. Ditman. class 'Z. collection of
10 nampd varieties in separate containers,
first. Mrs C. E. Ross: class :t. collection of
five named varieties in separate containers,
first, W. A. Hoffman: second. W. A. Shiner.
Specimen Bloom—Exhibition.
Class 4. white, cream, blush, first. Mrs.
9 A. Gamble: second. C E 8enseman:
third, C. E. Senseman: class ft. yellow,
first. L. L Powers: second. Mrs. J. A.
Gamble: third. C E Senseman: class 6.
scarlet, first. L. L. Powers; second. Mr.
and Mrs. W. A Shiner: third. L L. Powers:
class 7. red. dark red. rose, first. C. E.
8enseman: second. Mrs. C. E. Ross: third.
Mrs. C. E Ross.
Class 8. oranee. first. L. P. Ditman;
eecond. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson: third. C.
E. Senseman: class 9. light Dink, first. C.
E Senseman: second. Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Shiner: third. L. L. Powers: class 13.
Picardy only, first. L. L. Powers: second.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson: third. W. A.
Hoffman; class 13. lavender and light blue,
first. L L. Powers: second. Mrs. C. E
Ross: third. L. P. Ditman: class 14. violet
tnd purple, first. L. L. Powers: second. L.
Powers: third. L. L. Powers: class 1ft.
"smoky or other color, first. L. L. Powers:
second, W. A. Hoffman: third. L. P. Dit
man.
Specimen Bloom—Decorative.
Class 16, white cream, blush, first. C E.
Senseman; second. Mrs. C. E. Ross: class
17. yellow, first. Pansy Bierly; second.
George L. Lee; class 18. scarlet, first. W
A. Hoffman: second. C. E. Senseman; class
39. red- dark red. rose first and second.
Mrs. C E Ross; class 20, pink, any shade,
first. C. E. Senseman; second. Pansy Bierly;
third R. H Burtner: class 22. lavender
and light blue, first. R H. Burtner: second.
C E Senseman: class 24. "smoky” or other
color, first. R H. Burtner: class 25. seed
ling—not previously exhibited, first, second
and third, R. H. Burtner.
Exhibition—3-Spike Color Class.
Class 26. white, cream, blush: first. R.
R Burtner; second. Mrs. C. E. Ross: class
27. yellow; first. Mrs. C. E. Ross: class 28.
scarlet, first. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shiner;
second. Mrs. C. E Ross; class 29. red. dark
red. rose; first. Mrs. C. E. Ross; class 34,
Picardv only; first, L. L. Powers: second.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson: third. Mrs. C E.
Ross; class 35. lavender and light blue;
first L L. Powers: second. Mrs. C. E. Ross:
third. Mrs C E Ross: class 37. ‘‘smoky’’
or other color; first. L. L. Powers; second.
L. P. Ditman.
Decorative—3-Spike Color Clas*.
Class 41. red. dark red. rose, first. Mrs.
C. E. Ro6s: class 44. lavender and light
blue, first. R H. Burtner; class 46. - smoky’’
or other color: first. R. H. Burtner.
Gladiolus Arrangement.
Class 47. basket with foliage only: first,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shiner: second. Mrs.
C E. Ross: third, L. L. Powers: class 48.
vase with foliage only, first L L. Powers:
second. Mrs. J A. Gamble: third. Mrs. C. E.
Ross; class 49, gladiolus tips for table,
first. Mrs. C. E Rdsk; second. Mrs. John J.
Bruka: third. Mr. and Mrs. W A. Shiner:
class 50. basket with other flowers and
foliage, first. Mrs. John L. Bishop: second.
Mrs C E. Ross: third. Mrs. C. E Ross:
class 51. vase with other flowers and foli
age. first. Mrs. J. A. Gamble: second. Mrs.
C. E Ross: third. Mrs. C E. Ross: class 53,
corsage, first, L. L Powers: second. Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Shiner; third. Mrs. C. E.
Ross.
Arrangement of Other Flower*.
Class 64. harmony arrangement, first.
Mr. and Mrs W. A. Shiner; second. Mrs.
John J Sruka: third. Mrs. c. E. Ross: class
65. arrangement in white pottery con
tiner, first. Mrs. C E Ross: second. H. J.
Clay: third. Mrs. M. J. Murray; class 66.
arrangement in yellow pottery container,
first. Mrs. A P Hofman: class 57. ar
rangement in green pottery container,
first. Mrs. C. E. Ross: second. Mrs. L. M.
Bartlett; third. Mrs. John J. Sruka: class
68. arrangement in pottery of other hues,
first. Mrs. John J. Sruka: second. L. L.
Power*: class 6P. arrangement in clear
glass, first. A. P. Hofman: third. Mrs.
J A. Gamble: class 00. Japanese arrange
ment. first. Mrs. L. M Bartlett: second.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A Shiner: third. Mrs. J.
A Gamble: class 61. miniature arrange
ment. not over 3x3 inches, first. H. J. Clay:
second. Mrs. John J. Sruka: third. Miss
Mae E. Simpson, class 02. miniature ar
rangement, over 3x3. up to Hx6 inches,
first, A P. Hofman: second, Mrs. John J.
Sruka third, A. P. Hofman; class 63, pet
container arrangement, first. Mrs. J. A.
Gamble: second. Miss Mae E. SimDSon;
third. Mrs. J. J Sruka.
Arrangement by Children.
Class 64. for children up to 12 years of
•ge. first. Joe Ditman: class 04a. for chil
. dren 12 to 15 years of age, first. Jackie
Sruka; second. Jackie Sruka; third, Jackie
Sruka.
Other Flowers.
Class 65. African marigolds, basket; first.
Mrs. Andrew Dixon: class 66. African mari
golds, vase, first. A. P. Hofman: class 68,
French marigolds, bowl, first. Mrs. M. J.
Murray; second. Mrs. C E. Ross; third,
Mrs. C. E. Ross: class 71. petunias, vase,
first. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. shiner: class 72.
petunias, bowl: first. Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Shiner; second. H. J. Clay; third. Mrs. C.
E. Ross; class 73. large zinnias, basket,
first. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shiner: class 74.
large zinnias, bowl, first. Mrs. C. E. Ross:
second, A. P Hoffman: third. Andrew
Dixon: class 75. pompon zinnias, basket,
first. Mrs. L. M. Bartlett; second. Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Shiner: pompon zinnias, bowl,
first. Mrs. L. M Bartlett: second, Mrs. J.
J. Sruka; third. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shiner;
Class 77. dahlias, large type, basket, second.
Mrs. C. E. Ross: class 78, dahlias, large type.
Vase, first and second. Mrs. C. E. Ross:
class 70. dahlias, small type, basket, third.
Mrs. C. E. Ross: class 80, dahlias, small
type. bowl, first. Mrs. C. E. Ross: class 81. j
fantasy zinnias, basket, first. H. J. Clay,
aecond. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shiner; class
82. fantasy zinnias, bowl, first. Miss Mae
B. Simpson: second. Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
flhiner class 83, any other annual or
STen^al flowers, vase first. Mrs. M. J.
urray: second. Mrs. M. J. Murray; class
86. vase of lilies, first. Mrs. C E. Ross;
Class 86. vase of roses, first. Mrs. J. A.
Gamble; second. A. P. Hofman; third. A.
P. Hofman; class 87. bowl of roses, first,
A. P. Hofman.
Author Maugham
Expected to Join
Refugees in U. S.
W. Somerset Maugham, 66-year
old British author, is expected to
join the growing colony of refugee
celebrities in the United States late
this month.
Friends in Washington were ad
vised that the famous writer plans
to join his daughter Liza and his
2-year-old grandson, Nicholas Vin
cent Somerset Paravicini, who are
now guests on the Long Island
estate of Mrs. Nelson Doubleday.
Mr. Maugham was one of a large
group of residents of Southern
France forced to flee their villas
before the German advance.
The escape to England was made
aboard a collier crowded with refu
gees and delayed again and again
under distressing circumstances.
.lit was not known whether Mr.
Maugham, like Noel Coward, the
British playwright and author, will
hive an official capacity with the
British government. Mr. Coward
arrived recently on a mission for
the British Ministry of Information.1
dk
WIN C. A. A. FLYING HONORS—John Lambert of Baltimore,
representing the University of Maryland, and Miss Barbara
Erickson, University of Washington, have reached the finals in
the Shell Oil Co.’s intercollegiate aviation scholarships. They
will compete August 15 with other regional winners in the
finals here for scholarships of $1,000, $750 and $500. Miss
Erickson, who won over six other contestants in her district,
all young men, was the first girl student to solo under the new
Civil Aeronautics Authority student flight-training plan.
—A. P. and Wide World Photos.
Lithuanian Envoy's
Opposition to Russia
Problem for Nazis
Berlin Must Decide
Whether Soviet Has
Right to Legation
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 10.—Tiny Lith
uania's Berlin Legation maintained
opposition today to Soviet Russian
demands to surrender and ap
peared likely to raise a ticklish
problem for Germany.
The German Foreign Office, un
officially at least, was confronted
with the task of deciding whether
or not Russia, through incorpora
tion of Lithuania in the Soviet
Union, has the right to take over
the Legation.
It was learned at the Legation
that so far there have been no of
ficial exchanges with the German
Foreign Office respecting the Lith
uanian position.
The Lithuanian Legation wTas
heartened by United States’ refusal
to recognize the absorption of the
little Baltic states into the Soviet
Union.
Officials of the Russian Embassy,
who already had occupied the Lat
vian and Estonian Legations, called
yesterday at the Lithuanian Em
bassy and demanded the property
be surrendered. Lithuanian officials
told them to ‘‘go peddle their
papers."
In the early morning, Lithuanian
Minister Kazys Skirpa, who escaped
from Lithuania just ahead of the
Russian forces of occupation, rushed
off in an automobile to an unan
nounced destination.
Other Lithuanian envoys, includ
ing the Minister to Washington,
have joined Skirpa in protests to
their government over its submis
sion to Russia.
That situation apparently makes
it certain the Berlin Legation will
not return willingly to Kaunas, the
Lithuanian capital.
Roosevelt Foreign Policy
Invites War, Nye Says
Br the Associated Press.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, assailing peacetime con
scription, told a radio audience last
night the administration’s foreign
policy, “carried to its logical ex
treme, can do nothing else but in
vite a war for us long before we
are ready for it.”
“Peacetime conscription and draft
of manpower such as is now being
advanced in a legislative way,” said
the North Dakotan, “would be a most
direct contribution to the creation
of dictatorship.”
Asserting national defense was
one issue and the foreign policy of
President Roosevelt another, Sena
tor Nye continued:
“There is only one point where
the two issues may be said to inter
lock. The foreign policy has made
it essential that we make all speed
to replace the chip on Uncle Sam's
shoulders with sizable cannons. * * *
Having strutted along the sidelines
of the European war, wearing a chip,
and not a thing else, yelling threats
at some of the belligerents, we have
been forced to show our card in the
hole. Unfortunately that card seems
to be admittedly a military deuce.
Our job at hand now, by reason of
this strutting and posing, is to
shuffle the pack quickly and deal
ourselves a new hand at a price
in billions.”
Congressional Record
Is Strong for Farley
By the Associsted Press.
The Congressional Record, chroni
cle of the proceedings of Congress,
blossomed out yesterday in what
might be called a Jim Farley edi
tion. Forty and one-half pages of
the 108-page issue are devoted to
laudatory editorials and articles
from newspapers praising the retir
ing Democratic National Committee
chairman and Postmaster General.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir
ginia, on behalf of his colleague,
Senator Glass, who placed Mr. Far
ley’s name before the Chicago con
vention for the Democratic presi
dential nomination, obtained unani
mous consent of the Senate to insert
the 175 newspaper clippings in the
Record.
Conscription Foes Poll
Congress on Sentiment
By the Associated Press.
The National Federation for Con
stitutional Liberties, an organization
opposed to the Burke-Wadsworth
conscription bill, yesterday demand
ed that each member of Congress
state his position on the bill.
It sent ballots to the members and
announced that failure to return
the ballots by August 15 would be
considered a vote for conscription.
The Rev. Owen A. Knox of De
troit is chairman of the organiza
tion. Among vice chairmen listed
was Representative Marcantonlo,
American Labor, of New York.
M
8,000 in Montgomery
Would Be Registered
In Event ol Draft
Election Supervisors
Make Estimate After
Baltimore Conference
Approximately 8,000 Montgomery
County men between 21 and 30, in
clusive, would be registered through
the machinery of the county elec
tion boards In the event conscrip
tion is enacted by Congress, ac
cording to estimates of the War
and Navy Departments.
Returning from a conference In
Baltimore yesterday, members of
Montgomery County's Board of
Election Supervisors said the reg
istration probably would take one
day and would be scheduled 10 days
to two weeks after a presidential
proclamation set conscription ma
chinery in operation.
Attending the conference yester
day were Lt. Comdr. Charles H.
Bryant, Navy liaison officer for the
conscription program, and Donald
Bowie, jr„ chairman; Carey King
don and Delaney Brown, members,
and Alfred D. Noyes, clerk, of the
election supervisors.
The registration would be held
in the 68 places usually used in elec
tions and additional places if nec
essary. Election officials will form
the basis for the registration staff,
but others may be named as re
quired, and volunteers may be used
wherever available.
Draft boards will be established
after registration has been com
pleted. During the World War, one
such board served for the entire
county, but due to the increase in
population in the past 20 years it
is expected that three would be set
up, one in Rockville, another in
Bethesda and a third in Silver
Spring.
John F. Sterling Dies;
Retired Sea Food Dealer
John Fulton Sterling. 62. of 1200
Euclid street N.W., retired sea food
dealer, died yesterday at his home
after a long illness.
Mr. Sterling, a native of Crisfleld,
Md., came to Washington 18 years
ago. His busi
ness was located
at the old Cen
ter Market. He
retired when the
market was dis
continued. He
was a Mason,
Knight Templar
and Shriner.
Mr. Sterling is
survived by his
widow, Mrs.
Edith Wilson
Sterling; two
daughters, Mrs.
Nancy Jane Lan
ham and Mrs.
Mary Jane Davis, both of Washing
ton; a brother, Aaron Sterling’ of
Crisfield; five sisters, Mrs. Ida Hor
sey and Mrs. Martha Lockerman,
both of Crisfield; Mrs. Mary A.
Leonard of Washington, Mrs. Effie
Hallberg of Gainesville, Fla., and
Mrs. Carrie Matthews of Silver
Spring, Md.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a.m. Monday at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street N.W.,
with burial in Fort Lincoln Cem
etery.
Dr. Rasmussen to Talk
On 'Righteous Indignation'
Dr. Carl C. Rasmussen, pastor at
Luther Place Church, will preach on
"What Is Righteous Indignation?”
at 11 a.m. tomorrow. At 8:30 a.m.
the Rev. Carl W. Folkemer, assistant
pastor, will preach on “Looking for
Something New.” Miss Ann Burger,
who is supplying for Mrs. Cor
nelia L. Kinsella at the organ, will
accompany Paul Ledig's offertory
solo, “When I Consider the Heavens.”
Mr. Ledig will sing at both services.
The Luther Leagues will have a
buffet supper at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Gould Wickey, 7516 Six
teenth street N.W., at 5:30 p.m. Fol
lowing the supper, Miss Katherine
Wickey will tell of her experiences
at the youth conference at Toronto.
The World Service Society will
leave the church at 5 pjn. Tuesday
for a picnic supper at Hains Point.
Features of the evening program
are a discussion of the current refu
gee problem, devotional service led
by Miss Geraldine Thornton and a
magazine quiz led by Miss Gladys
Hagen.
Miss Ida Richter Dies
GERMANTOWN, Md., Aug. 10
(Special).—Miss Ida F. Richter, 76,
life-long resident of this vicinity,
died at her home here yesterday
after a short illness. She was a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Hartman Richter of Ger
mantown. She is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Daisy Murphy, Ger
mantown, and Mrs. Mamie Keefer,
Washington, and two brothers, Wil
liam T. Richter, Washington, and
Hershey J. Richtar. Germantown.1
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Capt. Milliken Urges
Women to Prepare
For Police Tasks
Legion Auxiliary Told
They Could Serve if Men
Were Called to Arms
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, chief of
the Metropolitan Police Department
Woman’s Bureau, today urged girls
and women of Washington to ac
quaint themselves with the many
tasks in the Police Department
which they will be required to take
over in event of a national emer
gency.
Capt. Mflliken was the principal
speaker at the American Legion
Auxiliary Junior Conference held in
connection with the 15th annual
convention of the District Depart
ment of the Legion Auxiliary at the
Commerce Department Auditorium.
“There are hundreds of things
you could readily do in the Police
Department without being regular
officers, ’” Capt. Milliken told the
conference, “and these things will
have to be done in the event our
men are called out on emergency
military duty.”
Pointing to the “serious situation”
facing America, Capt. Milliken said
that in her opinion women are sure
to be called for emergency tasks.
Only by adequate study of social
and economic problems can the
women hope to do their part in
preventing an America that is
“another Europe of today,” when
an emergency arises, she said.
New Officers Installed.
New officers of Girls’ Nation,
junior organization of the auxiliary,
installed at the conference were
Helen M. Zaruba, president; Claire
McCarthy, vice president; Dorothy
Snow’, secretary;' Marie Combs,
chaplain; Mary Thornton and
Patricia Lipscomb, colorbearers, and
Peggy Combs, sergeant at arms.
Mrs. Dorothy R. Harper, founder
of Girls’ Nation, was in charge of
the installation. The outgoing presi
dent, Mary Catherine Ware, pre
sided at the conference.
A charge that any one avoiding
payment of defense taxes is ‘‘as
morally guilty of sabotage as an
enemy attempting destruction of
factories or battleships'’ was made
last night by James B. Fitzgerald,
national vice commander of the
American Legion, in an address at
the opening meeting.
Conscription Indorsed.
Mr. Fitzgerald reiterated- the ■
| Legion's stand for universal con-!
| scription and said his organization 1
j “has continued to maintain a firm
! stand for military obligation for 21
years.”
Mrs. Helen L. Gilbert, Eastern
national vice president of the aux
iliary, urged the members to sup
port wholeheartedly national de
fense measures. “With the United
States the last remaining democracy
in the world,” she sftid, “it is very
important that the women of the
Nation realize the necessity for sup
porting any measures needed to
build up our defenses.”
Miss Minnie May Harday, na
tional executive committeewoman.
opened the convention and later
turned the gavel over to Mrs. Mary
B. McMlllin, departmental presi
dent. The latter gave an address
of welcome. A musical program was
furnished by the United States
Navy Band Orchestra.
Awards rPesented.
Mrs. Catherine Mills, chairman of
the auxiliary's Awards Committee,
made the following presentations:
Ruth Turner Americanism Trophy
to James Reese Europe Unit No. 5;
the 8 et 40 Dorothy B. Harper Child
Welfare Trophy to Sergt. Jasper Unit
No. 13; Nellie V. Hines child welfare
award or $10 to Sergt. Jasper Post.
No. 13; Mary Winfred McCarthy
Welfare Cup to Sergt. Jasper, No.
13 Juniors’ Unit; Mary B. Corwin
j Community Service Trophy to Nash
Unit No. 8- Department History
Trophy to Coolev-McCullough Unit
No. 22; Anna E. Elliott History
Trophy to Sergt. Jasper Juniors for
three years’ possession; Mary K.
Killeen Senior Membership Trophy
to James Reese Europe Unit No. 5;
Mary K. Killeen Junior Member
ship Trophy to Nash Unit No. 8;
Margaret Franklin Memorial Mem
bership Trophy to Sergt. Jasper Unit
No. 13; Alicia M. Kohrt Trophy to
Victory Unit No. 4; Alicia M. Kohrt
cash award of $2 for best theme
song to Mrs. Perna Zott of Nash
Unit No. 8: national president’s cita
tion to all units reaching 100 per
cent of their quota to Nash Unit
No. 8; Killeen Unit's Catherine Wa
ters Rehabilitation Trophy to Coo
ley-McCullough Unit No. 22; the
vice president's silver awards for
best membership quotas exclusive of
transfers to the G. P. O. Unit No.
33, Nash Unit No. 8 and Victory
Unit No. 4; Miss M. Edna McIntosh
membership award to James Reese
Europe Unit No. 5.
Monument to Be Closed
The Washington Monument will
be closed to visitors after 6 p.m. to
day and all day Monday to permit
repairs to the elevator, the National
Capital Parks Office announced.
The regular schedule of visiting
hours will be resumed at 9 &m.
Tuesday.
401 Subject to Army Call
RICHMOND, Va„ Aug. 10 VP).—
A survey by the State Budget Divi
sion shows that 401 State employes,
including many important officials,
would be subject to immediate call
in the event of congressional
approval for the bill authorizing
mobilization of Reserve officers and
the National Guard for training.
CANDIDATES FOR BEAUTY TITLE—On August 19 the Interior Department Recreational As
sociation will hold its annual cruise, and Judges will select Miss Interior for 1940. Pictured
are the first five candidates for the title (left to right); Helen J. Cranston, National Park Serv
ice; Joan McLaughlin, solicitor’s office; Velma Carter, National Park Service; Amy Hamilton,
Grazing Service, and Irene Nesbitt, Grazing Service. —Star Staff Photo.
Census Lists 256
Religious Sects and
55,807,366 Members
Figure, Based on
1936 Statistics, Shows
Million Gain Over 1926
By the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau today listed
256 religious denominations in the
United States, with 55,807,366 mem
bers.
This count—nearly half the
population—was based on 1936 sta
tistics, which have just been com
pleted. The count was made by
correspondence with officers of the
different denominations.
The membership total was about
a million larger than a similar
count in 1926, which showed 54.576,
346. No major shifts were shown
among major religious branches,
however.
Economies forced on churches by
the depression, while not shown in
membership figures, were demon
strated by a $518,953,571 calculation
of total church expenditures in 1936.
In 1926 the total was $817,214,528.
Value of church edifices also
dropped from $3,839,500,610 in 1926
to $3,411,875,467 in 1936.
The largest single denomination
was Roman Catholic with 19.914,937
members.
Other large denominations in
cluded: Jewish, 4,641,184; Negro
Baptists. 3,782,464; Methodist Epis
copal Church, 3.509,763; Southern
Baptist Convention, 2,700,155; Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, 2.
061.683; Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, 1,797.927;
Protestant Episcopal Church, 1,735,
335; Northern Baptist Convention,
1,329,044; United Lutheran Church
in America. 1.286.612; Disciples of
Christ, 1,196,315; Evangelical Luth
eran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and
other States, 1,192.553, and Congre
gational and Christian Churches,
976.388.
Smallest denomination listed was
the "Friends (Primitive),’’ with 1
church and 14 members.
San Miguel, Rich Cuban,
Once Kidnap Victim, Dies
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, Aug. 10.—Antonio San
Miguel, 85, victim five years ago of
a kidnaping by a revolutionary
group, died yesterday, leaving a for
tune estimated at $8,000,000.
The capitalist was abducted In
June, 1935, by revolutionaries who
demanded $187,000 ransom with
which they intended to finance an
uprising.
When police seized the ransom
just as San Miguel's business asso
ciates were about to deliver it, the
kidnapers released him on his prom
ise to pay. Police never determined
whether he actually paid.
Subsequently two persons were
sentenced to death for the kidnap
ing but were, freed under a later
general amnesty decree.
Walter Law, Film Actor,
Dies in Hollywood
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 10.—Walter
Law, 64, veteran screen actor and
former stage player, died Thursday.
He was developed by Producer
William Fox during the era of Wil-,
liam Farnum and Theda Bara. His
latest appearance was with Eddie
Cantor.
Nazi Tells of Seeing Balloons
Guarding Convoy Shot Down
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 10 (Via Radio).—A
Nazi pilot who participated In
Thursday's first air attack on a
balloon barrage - protected British
convoy told in a German broadcast
today watching six of the big rub
ber balls crash in blue and red
flames.
The pilot was identified as Avia
tor-Reporter Hans Theodor Wagner.
"Six went down,” he said, “leaving
long sheets of smoke behind them.
Those mWes of steel cables must
have caused confusion and damage
when they crashed down.
"A number of the barrier balloons
were plainly visible near Dover
They were at a height of 2.000 me
ters (6,560 feet), just below the
cloud ceiling.
“When our first Heinkels reached
the balloons, volleys from their ma
chine-guns tore up the well-rounded
envelopes and a moment later
blurred flames quivered from within
them.
“While the first balloon was quick
ly enveloped in flames and de
scended British crews below at
motor winches tried in vain to pull
down the others or to release them
so they could ascend into the clouds
out of our view.
“But we were too fast and volley
after volley penetrated the bal
. loons.”
British Urged
To Tune Out
Lord Haw Haw
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 10.—The Minis
try of Information is trying to
persuade Britons that Lord Haw
Haw, Germany's ace English lan
guage propaganda broadcaster, isn't
worth listening to.
One ministry advertisement gives
this answer to the question of
“What do I do if I come across
German or Italian broadcasts when
tuning my wireless”:
“I say to myself, ‘Now this blighter
wants me to listen to him. Am I
going to do what he wants?’ I re
member that German lies over the
i ait are like parachute troops drop
j ping down on Britain—they are all
i part of a plan to get us down—
j which they won’t.
”1 remember nobody can trust
a word Haw Haw says. So, just
to make them waste their time, I
switch ’em off or tune ’em out!”
2,900 Marines
At Quantico Base
Ordered to Cuba
Contingent in 'Training'
Will Be Near Canal
And South America
| By the Associated Press.
Amid far-reaching plans to
strengthen United States defenses
in the Caribbean, the Navy is
ordering 2.900 Marines to Guantan
amo Bay, Cuba, for intensive train
ing maneuvers.
The contingent—the 1st Marine
Brigade of Quantico, Va.—would be
in a position to reach Central or
South America quickly, should any
trouble requiring their presence
arise.
The Navy already has undertaken
conversion of four fast American
ships into "destroyer transports”
so the brigade could be moved
swiftly.
The action comes shortly after
the adoption at the Havana Pan
American Conference of a resolu
tion expressing opposition to the
transfer to other non-American
nations of foreign possessions in
this hemisphere. The conference
voted to let one or more of the
American republics establish a pro
visional administration over any
possession affected.
Transfer of the Quantico brigade,
Navy officials said, is "for the pur
pose of preliminary training of this
force in view of extensive maneuv
ers planned during the winter in
the Caribbean area."
The maneuvers—similar to those
conducted each year—involve land
ings and other operations. Guan
tanamo provides a base from which
ships may operate in carrying out
one of the Navy’s missions; keep
ing any enemy aircraft carrier from
getting within 1,000 miles of the
Panama Canal.
Pan-American Again Using
Land Planes for Sea Hops
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 6.—After 12
years of passenger service above the
Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico, Pan-American Airways has
started a trend back to land planes
for over-water flights.
It was a land plane that Pan
American used in 1928 to span the
unheard-of distance—90 miles—
from Key West to Havana in the
first important American over
water air passenger schedule.
During most of the succeeding
dozen years, Pan-American depend
ed on huge seaplanes, equipped
with big pontoons and unsinkable
hulls in the development of a net
work of lines throughout Latin
America and across both the Atlan
tic and Pacific and to Alaska.
The return to land planes began
with the purchase of three huge
stratoclippers—the Flying Cloud, the
Rainbow and the Comet—for 1,200
mile over-water hops from Miami
to the northern coast of South
America.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
In recess.
House Ways and Means Commit
tee resumes excess profits tax hear
ings. 10 am.
Duchess Whispers
Advice to Windsor
At Press Meeting
Amused by Formality,
They Turn Interview
Into Friendly Chat
By the Associrted Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 10.—
The Duchess of Windsor, who will
be first lady of the Bahamas when
j the Duke goes there to assume his :
: duties as Governor, already has
proved of considerable aid to her
husband in the islands.
Throughout the long interview
they gave the press yesterday, the
i Duke noticeably depended on the
Duchess for whispered promptings.
Both seemed amused at the open
ing formality of reporters, who had
been coached carefully in the proper
form of address. The royal couple
soon set the interview on such an
informal plane that few bothered to
say "your royal highness" or “your
grace."
In fact, virtually the only for
mality of their first day in Bermuda
revolved about the Duke’s golf
match, in which he and Eldon Trim- j
ingham, prominent local merchant!
and member of Parliament, lost to ]
j the Duke's equerry, Capt. Woods and 1
W. J. H. Trott, another prominent!
| Bermudian. Officials refused to an
nounce the score.
Last night Maj. Gen. Denis Kir
wan Bernard. Governor of the col
ony. gave a dinner for the Windsors
attended by 14 guests, including
members of the Governor's house
hold, the Duke's entourage, Ad
miralty officials and the Colonial
Secretary’.
The Duke, asked what he would
do in the Bahamas with the trailer
they brought from Europe, said:
"I don't think we will have much
use for it. But we are very sold on
that trailer."
To which the Duchess add^d:
"Why, all refugees have trailers
nowadays."
The United States now has about
$20,000,000,000 worth of gold in
storage.
Two Bandits Caught
Alter Hurling Dead
Woman From Car
Oklahoma Fugitives Shoot
Police Chief and Kidnap
Farmer in Wild Chase
By tie Associated Press.
OILTON, Okla., Aug. 10.—Two
prison fugitives who hurled the
shot-torn body of a woman clad in
red from their speeding automobile,
wounded Oilton's police chief and
kidnaped a farmer, were held here
today.
The gunman, Bill Hall, 25. and Joe
Lovelace, 24, surrendered to high
way patrolmen west of here last '
night after a running gunfight. Hall
had been shot five times.
Bill Glimp or Drumright, the
farmer hostage, had a flesh wound
in one leg. Patrolmen mistook him
for one of the fugitives.
Sheriff L. L. Fisher said Lovelace
declared the slain woman, whom
he identified as Jeanne Culp, 30,
Asher, Okla., was thrown from the
car because "she seemed to be dead.”
Restaurant Robbery Started Chase.
Police Chief Clark and Constable
C. L. Irwin, hunting three men who
robbed an Oilton restaurant earlier
in the day, halted a black sedan in
which Hall. Lovelace, the woman
and a colored man were riding.
The officers leaped to the running
boards A point-blank shotgun
charge knocked Chief Clark to the
pavement. Constable Irwin emptied
his pistol into the car, fell off as
it sped away.
The body of the attractive, red
haired young woman was found on
a business street a short time later.
Constable Irwin expressed belief she
was a sweetheart of Hall and was
slain accidentally in the exchange.
“ ommandeer Two Auto*.
Speeding southward over a coun
try road, the gunmen took another
car from Earl Williams. Oilton.
Later, near Drumright, they kid
naped Mr. Glimp and comman
deered his 11-year-old automobile.
The colored man was gone when
the fugitives reached Mr. Glimp’s
farm, and Lovelace told Sheriff
Fisher he apparently jumped out
of the car after the Oilton gunfight.
Forcing Mr. Glimp to replace the
wounded Hall behind the wheel,
the gunmen speed southward. Near
Perkins they were challenged by
Highway Patrolmen John Boyd and
J. R Butler.
After a short chase the car was
stopped. Mr. Glimp darted out and
was shot in one leg. Hall and
Lovelace came out with their hands
high.
Hall Seriously Wounded.
Hall, who escaped from the Okla
homa State Prison last July 7 while
! serving a 10-year term for bur
glary'. was taken to a Stillwater
hospital. His condition was report
ed dangerous.
Lovelace, who on July 26 fled
the Nebraska State Prison Farm,
where he W'as doing five years for
forgery, was placed in jail* at Still
water.
Sheriff Fisher said Lovelace re
lated that he and Hall planned
the restaurant robbery, leaving the
W’oman in a field before the holdup
and going back for her afterward.
They met the colored man when
they went back for the woman, he
added
‘ He wanted to come along with
us and he had a shotgun, so we
took him,” Sheriff Fisher quoted the
fugitive.
—
Transportation Bill
Action to Be Opposed
By the Associated Press.
A group of House members de
cided yesterday to oppose final ac
tion on general transportation leg
islation next week because of the
omission of an amendment by Rep
resentative Wadsworth. Republican,
of New York designed to protect
waterways.
Mr. Wadsworth said about 30
members of Congress decided at a
meeting to try to send a Senate
House conference report back to
committee with instructions to re
instate the provision.
The section would permit all car
riers to charge "compensatory
rates”—which would permit water
ways, brought under Federal regu
laltion like railroads, to reduce their
rates to meet any competition.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau )
District of Columbia—Fair; continued cool tonight; tomorrow partly
cloudy; gentle to moderate northeast and east winds.
Maryland—Fair; continued cool tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy.
Virginia—Partly cloudy in north and cloudy with light show’ers in
south portion tonight and tomorrow; continued cool.
West Virginia—Cloudy; continued cool, followed by showers tomor
row and in northwest portion late tonight. «
Weekly Outlook.
North and Middle Atlantic States—
Showers Monday night and Tuesday and
again about Friday. Warmer Monday,
cooler Tuesday night; warmer middle and
latter part of week.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee—Showers
early Dart, of week; again about Wednes
day and again at end of week, slightly
below normal temperatures first Part and
seasonable temperatures middle and latter
PaThe disturbance that was oyer North
western Louisiana Friday morning is ad
vancing slowly north-northeastward, being
central over Arkansas. Little Rock. 1.010.5
millibars <29.84 inches). Another disturb
ance is moving eartward over Western
North Dakota. Williston, 1.008.8 millibars
C’M TO inches), with a trough extending
southward to Northeastern Colorado. A
high-pressure area is moving eastward
over the lower Lake region and the Middle
Atlantic and Norlh Atlantic States. Green
ville, Mr .1.028.1 millibars (30..HO inches),
and pressure is relatively high on the
North Pacific Coast. North Head. Wash..
1.022.7 millibars (30.20 inches). During
the last 24 hours showers have occurred
in the lower Missouri and Mississippi
Valleys, in the east Gulf States, and In the
interim of tne middle Gulf States. Temper
atures have risen In the Lake region and
the middle Rocky Mountain region.
Tide Table*.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_12:58 e.m. 1:59 a.m.
Low _ 7:49 a.m. 8:51a.m.
High_ 1:23 p.m. 2:20 p.m.
Low _ 8:04 p.m. 9.08 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today_ 5:10 7.10
Sun. tomorrow_ 5:17 7:08
Moon, today _ 1:00 p.m. 11:38 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1940. Ave. Record.
January _ 2.12 3.55 7.83 *37
February _ 2.77 3.27 6.84 *84
March_ 3.42 3.75 8.84 *91
April_ 6.19 3.27 9.13 *89
May _ 8.10 3.70 10.69 *89
June __ 0.86 4.13 10.94 *00
July _ 5:73 4.71 10.63 *86
August_ 0.08 4.01 14.41 *26
September _ 3.24 17.45 *34
October _ 2.84 8.81 *37
November_ 2.37 8.69 *89
December _ 3.32 7.56 *01
Report (or Last 2t Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 P.m. _ 84 30.18
8 P m _ 78 30.16
Midnight _ 70 30 20
Today—
ia.m. _ 67 8020
ASTSI 2$:i*
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muday
at Great Falls today.
Record for Last 31 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today )
Highest, 86. 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 87
Lowest. 66, 6 a m. today. Year ago, 72.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 100, on July 27.
Lowest, 7. on January 29.
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 90 per cent, at 3:30 a m. today.
Lowest. 38 per cent, at 10:15 a m. today.
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp Raln
Barom. High.Low. fall. Weather.
Abilene_ 29.94 90 63 _ Clear
Albany __ 30.30 87 56 _ Clear
Atlanta _ 30.36 88 68 _ Cloudy
Atl. City. 30.27 81 _ eioudy
Baltimore 30.27 88 66 Clear
Birm'gham 30.03 89 72 0.23 Cloudy
Bismarck 29.89 95 68 _ Clear
Boston_ 30.30 83 64 _ Cloudy
Buffalo._ 30.27 88 63 _ Cloudy
Butte — 30.09 93 47 _ Cloudy
Charleston 39.97 87 75 _ Cloudy
Chicago _ 30.09 86 71 Cloudy
Cincinnati. 30.09 93 70 _ Cloudy
Cleveland. 30.21 90 67 _ Cloudy
Columbia 30.06 88 73 _. . Cloudy
Davenport 30.09 82 69 0.05 Cloudy
Denver 29.89 93 6(1 _ Cloudy
Des Moines 30.06 78 67 0.93 Rain
Detroit _ 30.18 84 70 _ Cloudy
El Paso _ 29.91 94 68 _ Clear
Galveston. 29.94 89 71 _ Cloudy
Huron 30.03 92 58 _ Cloudy
Indl n polls 30.03 91 74 _ Cloudy
Jacks vllle 29.94 81 73 _ Cloudy
Kans. City 3000 78 67 0.03 Cloudy
L. Angeles 29 91 92 62 _ Clear
Louisville 30.06 91 73 _ Cloudy
Miami _ 29 91 93 75 0.19 Cloudy
Mpls.-St. P. 30.06 81 64 0.46 Rain
N. Orleans 29.97 85 77 _ Cloudy
New York. 30.27 89 69 _ Clear
Norfolk 30.18 80 72 _ Cloudy
Okla. City 29.94 83 63 _ Clear
Omaha 30.03 84 63 _ Cloudy
Philadphla 30.27 87 64 _ Clear
Phoenix 29.80 112 84 _ Clear
Pittsburgh 30.24 85 65 _ Cloudy
P’tl nd. Me. 30.30 86 60 _ Clear
P’tl’d. Oreg. 30.18 77 58 _ Clear
Raleigh _ 30.12 86 69 _ Cloudy
St. Louis _ 30.03 78 68 0.22 Rain
S. Lake C. 29.94 lo.l 65 _ Cloudy
S. Antonio 29.94 97 72 _ Cloudy
San Diego 29.89 75 65 _ Cloudy
8. Fr cisco 29.94 69 61 Clear
Seattle ._ 30.18 69 56 .II Cloudy
Spokane.. 30.06 87 68 _ Clear
Tampa 29.94 91 76 Clear
WASH..D.C. 30.24 86 66 _ Cloudy
FOREIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.)
Temperature. Weather.
Horta (Fayall. Agores 75 Cloudy
(Current observation*.)
San Juan. Pu*rta Rleo 78 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba_ 78 Cloudy
Colon. Canal Zona_ 76 Cloudy
Mr. Sterling.