6 STAR COMPLETE MARKET'S PAGE 4(J Friday THE EVENING SUN May 31, 1940 0. P. MEETING SAYSWHITELOCK ST. 'BOMBERS' THREATENED HIM City Police On Alert For Saboteurs Stanton Calls For 24-Hour Guard Against Fifth Column In Industrial Plants D'AREZZO TOPS MERIT LIST AT NAVAL ACADEMY Scholastic Honors Also Go To Ramsey And Graziano HTH SUSPECT ARRESTED IN MURDER PROBE Questioned On Shooting Of Girl's Escort In City Park -M if 7 Ct HiV Kfc -Vf 4rMt Z.SiS rfJ: HELEN PIDGEON AiVVE TKOCKA These young women Avcrc three-alarm fire in the Union CALLED TO PICK COMMITTEEMAN Tilghman Summons Delegates For Showdown On Selection Circ*mstances Point To Reelection Of 0. E.
Weller By Thomas O'Neill W. David Tilghman, chairman the Republican State Central Committee, today summoned the sixteen National Convention delegates from Maryland to meet tomorrow for an immediate show-down in the fight ever the selection of this State's representative for the next four years on the Republican National Committee. Authoritative sources said the circ*mstances of the hurriedly called meeting pointed to the probable reelection of National Committeeman Ovir.gton E. Weller. Forces seeking to unseat Mr.
Weller, taken by surpri5e, went into conference today, hoping to agree on a candidate with whem to oppose the incumbent. They had not anticipated a meeting of -the national convention delegation in advance of the convention beginning June 24 at Philadelphia, and some of their spokesmen were inclined to question the validity of any action taken by the delegation before its credentials have been approved at the convention. This point appeared to offer no concern to the Veiler managers. Follows Hamilton Requests The reason given for the meeting of the delegation more than three weeks head of the convention date was a request from John D. M.
Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Convention, for an early selection of the State's member of the convention platform committee. That committee is to assemble in Philadelphia June 17 to go over the fundamentals of Republican policy before the arrival of the main body of delegates. In the call for the meeting, however. JIr. Tilghman said that tomorrow' ression would dispose of other pending business, including the election of National Committeeman and a National Committeewoman.
A new National Committeewoman is to be named becauso the occupant, Mrs. William P. Lawson. is not a candidate for reelection. Fight Aimed At Weller Mr.
Weller, the incumbent National Coir.mitteman, is very much a candidate for reelection, and all of the fighting has been aimed at him. With the support of former Gov. Harry W. Nice, the party's nominee for the United States Senate, ten delegates regarded as favorable to the reelection of Mr. Weller were ramed among the sixteen national convention delegates at the State convention two weeks ago.
Of the remaining six, four were elected by anti-Wcller forces commanded by Paul Robertson, chairman of the Republican city committee, and Charles A. Dorsey, member of the Board of Supervisors of Elections, and two from Western Maryland were bound by their district caucus to vote for a change in the national committee representation. During the intervening two weeks the anti-Weller' forces have sought to win recruits to an "anybody-but-Weller" movement. They have put forward claims of success, but these have been discounted by rival claims from the other side. Mr.
Dorsey, spokesman for the anti-WeEerites. said today that his faction's candidate for National Committeeman had not been selected, explaining: Want "Decent Young Man" "All we are interested in is in getting a decent honorable, young man for National Committeeman anyone who can get all elements together and beat the Democrats once in a while." A large group of candidates for National Committeewoman appeared seemed likely the choice of the JContinued On Page 36, Column 4 Daylight Measure Goes To Council Next Monday Junior A. Of C. Sponsoring Plan To Put Question On November Ballot Mayor Said To Favor Popular Vote Numbers Game Operator Tells Of Rendezvous In Extortion Case Brought Two Pistols And Street Without Firinp, He Adds A confessed numbers game operator, testifying as the complainant in art extortion case in the Northeastern Police Court, today alleged that ther is a plot to "get him" by the Mm people who bombed Little Willys tavern, at Whitelock street and Druid. Iltll avenue, two yearn ago.
Pressed by Magistrate Henry B. Mann to specify those he had in mind, the comph.itiant. William Claik. col ored, reeled off live names. One of th men he named was arrested after the Little Willy hombi.ng and later re leased.
Another was sought but never found. The names of the three others were not mentioned, publicly at least, in the Little Willy Blast In Tunnel. Too The explosion at Litt'r Willy's plac was one of two blasts that stirred the city two summers ago. The other was in the Montebello tunnel. They occurred only a few days apart and.
althoush there was a theory first' that they were connected, police concluded eventually that they were not related. Investigation developed evidence that the tavern bombing was due to "over-competition" in the numbers racket and that the tutinel explosion, if not an accident, was an indication of labor trouble. No charges ever were made in the tunnel case, but the investigations of that and the other kept the authorities busy most of the summer. Two Hired, He Charges Defendants in the ca.se in which the Little Willy bombintr reverKra1 the Northeastern Police Court today are Henry Brown and Paul Deane. colored, who are charged with con spiring to extort money from Clark by threatening to bomb his home in the 500 block Sanford Place.
Clark alleges they were hired to do the bombing. He had a date to meet them on Pennsylvania avenue, around the corner from Sanford Place, on Tuesday night, and he saw to it, it was said, that the police helped him keep it The police, who were tipped oft by telephone, found Clark, Brown, Deane and a homemade bomb in Clark's car. Chief Inspector Stephen G. Nelson and Inspector Hamilton R. Atkinson were among the officers who made the seizure.
Doubt It Would Explode They described the bomb as a tomato can loaded with bird shot and gunpowder. It also had been fitted with Continued On Page 36. Column STRICTLY For BALTIMORE CRITTrs acclain "MY FAVORITE WIFE- with IRENE Dt'NNE and CAR PICTURE Xaturallv, We Are Holding FAVORITE WIFE" FOR a 2nd and FINAL WEEK! i rius -i The Latest Exeltlni Issue Of The MARCH OF TIME "THE PHILIPPINES" SEE HOW JAPAN'S "FIFTH COLUMN" IS NOW WnPKING IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Plus A BIG STAGE SHOW Lose Something yentc Holiday? If you lost something ever the Memorial Day holiday, don't fret and worry over it too much, because there's an excellent chance that you'll recover whatever you've lost if you advertise through a result producing Sunpsper "Lost and Found" ad! This Sun-Ad jound a bracelet: BRACELET, diamond and platinum. links. Htivlfr a A I.e-ay Thtr.
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Two Conferences Held The subject of possible sabotage in the city was first taken up at a conference of police captains and in spectors immediately following the outbreak of war in September, Com missioner Stanton said, and after reports of the activities of fifth-columnists in the Low Countries, a second conference was held. Beyond saying that the water front and industrial centers of the city are under special surveillance. Commis sioner Stanton declined to go. He said that to make public plans would be to make them valueless. He did say, however, that suspicious behavior of several persons had been reported to him, and that he had informed the proper Federal authorities.
Special Watch In County The Police Commissioner's statement was made following the receipt by Baltimore county officers of a special order from the County Commissioners directing them to keep the Martin air plane factory, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrow Point plant, the Black Decker plant and the Eastern Rolling Mills and the Oella Miner. under a special watch. 2 Stranded In Motor Boat Reach Safety Trio Aboard Cruiser With Disabled Engine; One Swims Ashore For Assistance Annapolis, May 31 (P) Stranded five hours on the ninety-five-foot cruiser Colleen in the stormy Chesapeake Bay, two men were rescued late yesterday by a Naval Academy patrol boat several miles off Bay Ridge. The rescued were W. S.
Starrett and Bruce Wallace, of Washington. They and Richard Starrett, a brother, left New York ten days ago for Washington. The fuel line to the engine clogged and the boat drifted for five hours in pounding waves six feet high, the trio reported. One anchor was carried away but another finally held. Richard Starrett left in a small boat for aid but the boat capsized.
He swam ashore at Bay Ridge, obtaining assistance from Horace J. Donnelly, of Washington. Donnelly took Starrett to the academy, where a patrol boat was sent out. It towed the cruiser into the academy wharf. The trio will resume their trip to Washington after the cruiser is repaired.
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14. who appeared to be about 32 years old, was taken into custody in the 1900 block West Pratt street just why the police would not disclose and was tken to the Southwestern Police Station. Photograph Produced He was questioned briefly, then locked in a detention room, and Capt. M. Joseph Wallace, Southwestern district commander, telephoned to headquarters.
A short time later two officers from headquarters arrived at the Southwestern station with a photograph from the rogues gallery in the Bertillon Bureau. It was hinted that the picture would be taken to St. Agnes Hospital and shown to Miss Petersen, who was beaten with the butt of the same pistol that was used to kill her fiance and suffered fractures of the nose and cheekbone. Public's Aid Sought With their thirteenth suspect questioned and released only a few hours before the seizure of the fourteenth, the police today had admitted that they would nerd help if the man who attacked Miss Petersen and killed her fiance is to be caught. "The general public could be of great assistance," the officers said, implying that they thought someone could furnish them with information that might lead to the arrest of the right man information about someone, for instance, with a scratched face.
Girl Tells Of Struggle Miss Petersen has told the authorities she thinks she inflicted a number of scratches on the face of her assailant. Several of the thirteen suspects seized and released bore scratches, but were able to satisfy the police that they were not involved in the murder. The thirteenth suspect, who was picked up yesterday at Baltimore and Gay streets, first told the police he had been clawed by a cat. but later confessed he had clawed himself with his finger nails in a fit of pique over losing his job. He had been employed by an oil company.
Scheihing's funeral was held yesterday from his parents' home at 53 South Morley street. Plain-clothes men mingled with the crowd at the services, alert for any incident or individual that might have incited suspicion. But if the officers noticed anything significant they have not revealed it. ACCIDENT PROBE BEGUN Police To Confer On Death Of Aged Home Clerk Frederick, May 31 (Officers will confer with the State's Attorney today on the accident last night in which Curry W. Gregory, 62, was fatally injured.
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SOe. GUILD TONIGHT 50rAIc8s3? W. 22nd St. CHES. 131 OtLBFRT PUN AFORE SULLIVA Comic Ope ALICE STONKOWSKA THREE GIRLS IN A FIRE Schapiro Sons who fled a 150 FLEE HAMPDEN RAG FACTORY FIRE Three-Alarm Blaze In Industrial Area Routs Employes, Half Of Them Women Approximately 150 employes, more than half of them women, fled today from a three-alarm fire in the rag factory of S.
Schapiro Sons, in the 1600 block Union avenue, the heart of the Hampden-Woodberry industrial area. During their lunch hour thousands of workers from the neighboring mills and factories flocked to the blaze, which was marked by a great column of smoke from hundreds of burning rag bales. Long One-Story Building The rag factory itself is a huge one story brick building that was formerly the machine shop of a radiator plant. It is 515 feet long and 150 feet wide and has 125,000 square feet of floor space, most of which is in one big room with a wing running back from each end. It was in this room, among ceiling-high piles of bales, that the blaze started, from an origin that was not learned, firemen said.
Bernard Schapiro, a member of the firm, said the room is used for sorting, grading and baling and that the finished bales are stored at the rear. Aisles Between Bales The bales weight from 8J0 to 1.100 pounds each and are stacked in blocks, with aisles between them. Shortly before noon one of the employes discovered the fire amid the bales and notified Joseph Stahl, the plant superintendent. By the time Stahl had turned in an automatic alarm and made a persona! investigation, the flames had gained great headway and he concerned himself with getting all the employes safely out, ordering them to leave at once. Interior Burning Furiously When the first firemen arrived they found the interior of the building burning so furiously that they rang in a second alarm and followed it Continued On Page 36 Column 1 Safety Dollar Three Battleships On Hand For June Week Festivities Special Dispatch to The Evening Sun Annapolis, May 31 Three midship men of the graduating class today were singled out for honors as the traditional June Week festivities got under way at the Naval Academy.
First scholastic honors went to Mid shipman Joseph Paul D'Arezzo, of Los Angfles, and second to Midshipman Lyle B. Ramsey, Abilene, Texas. Mid shipman Frank J. Graziano, of Jersey City, N. was third in order of merit.
Prizes To Be Awarded Tokens of these honors, along with prizes for proficiency in special sub jects, will be given the trio at a dress parade on Wednesday. Three battleships New York, Texas and Arkansas are scheduled to arrive later today. They are to stay here throughout the nine days of festivities. leaving on June 8 with the new first and third classes for a summer practice cruise to the Canal Zone and South American waters. Closing Chapel Services Baccalaureate services Sunday will mark the last time the 456 first, or senior, class midshipmen gather as a unit in the Academy chapel.
They will sing the hymn that has closed every chapel service during their four years: "Eternal Father! Strong to save. Whose arms hath bound the restless wave. Who biddst the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep. hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea." Graduation exercises June 6 in Thompson Stadium will elimax the June Week cycle of dances, parades and ceremonies which annually attracts parents, sweethearts and alumni from all parts of the country. Visitors Pouring In Already many visitors have arrived and hotels here are expected to be crowded tomorrow.
Among the visitors will be Charles Edison, Secretary of the Navy, and high-ranking Government officials. President Roosevelt, because of the press of work, has not decided yet whether he will make the commencement address. Later today the color girl Is to be named by the commander of the com pany winning most points in drills. She will participate in the dress parade Tuesday on Worden Field and, if old navy custom is restored, get kissed by the commander in the presence of several thousand spectators. An old custom will also be revived tonight when the academy gathers in Bancroft Hall for a reunion dinner.
Afterward, there will be an officers' hop. On tomorrow's schedule are a base ball game and track meet with Army and a dance at night. Memorial Exercises To Be Held Sunday Members Of Maccabean Post Will Visit Hebrew Friendship Cemetery Memorial services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, 3600 East Baltimore street, by members of Maccabean Post, No. 32. American Legion, in cooperation with the Maccabean unit and the juniors of the auxiliary.
An automobile procession will assemble at the War Memorial Plaza at 1 o'clock and will proceed to the cemetery, where the program will begin at 2 o'clock. Rabbi Morris Lieberman will be the chief speaker; religious rituals will be in charge of Morris S. Oshry, post chaplain, and music will be furnished by the Maccabean Glee Club. Dr. Alvin H.
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Association of Commerce in daylight saving time has resulted from a survey made by the association which in dicated there still was a great deal of interest in the time change, although Baltimofcans once before voted it down. Association's Attitude Mr. Towner explained that the association itself has not taken stand on the question, although the survey revealed that two-third of those who expressed an opinion were in favor of the summer time change. If the resolution is passed, the refer endum must be included on the ballot to be placed before Baltimore votert at the Presidential election. If it is not passed, Mr.
Towner said, then the association may resort to a petition If 10,000 voters sign a petition calling for a referendum then it must be in eluded on the ballot, he said. CHELTENHAM BOARD OF MANAGERS NAMED Conditions At School Also Re viewed In Statement By Governor 0'Conor Appointments to the board of man agers of the Cheltenham School for Boys were announced today by Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor. The Governor also issued a statement reviewing condi tions at the school.
The appointments announced were Judge Joseph N. Ulman, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore. Dr. G. Canby Robinson, of the medi cal faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Dr. Frank R. Isaac, head of the Strawbridge Home for Boys, at Sykes-ville. James A. Pratt, superintendent of the Maryland School for Boys.
Two Others Reappointed Joseph H. Blandford, now president of the board of Cheltenham, which elects its president, was reappointed, as was Hal B. Calgett. Both are Prince George's county men. Harry Clifton Byrd, president of the University of Maryland, whose term expires in 1941.
left the board. The Governor said Mr. Byrd had informed him that he could not give to the body the time it required. M. Hamp ton Magrudcr, whose term expires tomorrow, notified the Governor that he did not wish reappointment.
Another vacancy was created recently by the death of Dr. William Gibdon. Governor's Statement In his statement accompanying announcement of the appointments, the Governor said: "I am making four new appointments to the board of managers of the Cheltenham School for Boys and two reappointments of present members. These six appointments are necessary because of the expirations of terms Continued On Page 36, Column 5 SPECIAL NOTICES Ton Can I.va alr-rnniliiloned ic refrigerator fiOc wplrkly, 4 months SI weekly. 8 mir.tlii One weekly payment Include" refrigerator and lea Hoffbertrer WOlfe An Bran ton Manor.
Fine Food. Sinner Luncheons. Parties. Route 2f. L1berr In order to make it possible for Bal-timoreans once again to vote on whether the city should adopt daylight saving time, the Junior Associa tion of Commerce on Monday will have introduced into the City Council a resolution thst will call for inclusion of the question on the November ballot.
The action was announced today by Lester N. Towner, president of the association, at a luncheon meeting of the group. Mr. Towner said that Capt. Richard C.
O'Conncll, President of the City Council, had promised to aid in having the resolution introduced, and that Mayor Howard W. Jackson had stated he was in favor of the referendum method of deciding the question. A number of City Councilmen have indicated that they would vote for ths resolution, Mr. Towner revealed. The continued interest of the Junior BAD WEATHER STOPS CLIPPER IN BERMUDA Children Aboard In Hop From Lisbon, Reported Haven Of Belgian Royalty Bad weather along the American coast today caused Pan American Airways officials to cancel the flight of the Yankee Clipper to this country and to hold the plane in Bermuda after it crossed from the Azores last night.
Dispatdhcs from Bermuda stated that five children were among the passengers bound for this country on board the clipper. Speculation as to whether or not soma of the children might be members of the Belgian royal family has arisen due to the fact that King Leopold's three children are reported to have sought refuge in Lisbon, Portugal, the European clipper base. Four Under Name "De Francis" The Associated Press reports, how ever: "There was nothing known that would indicate any of the children were members of the Belgian royal family. Four, listed as American, were traveling under the name of 'De They boarded the plane at Lisbon." Censorship of all dispatches from Bermuda, however, would, in the opinion of observers here, make it impossible for the Associated Press correspondent to advise the American offices of, the news-gathering agency of the presence of the Belgian King's family. The plane is scheduled to leave Bermuda tomorrow for Baltimore or New York.
Camera Club Gets Australian Display For its final photographic exhibition of the year the Baltimore Camera Club has obtained the 100-print show of Dr. Julian Smith, of Sidney, Australia, and will place it on view Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5 o'clock until June 23. The display will be held at 601 West North avenue, and there is no admission charge. Prints displayed consist of character portraits and figure studies, which are said to comprise one of the finest such collections extant. Margaret Brent School Pupil Gets Silver Award Goes To Frank Mills For Letter Describing Fix Late Student Might Get Into Chasing Street Car Ttco Demonstrations Today Knee-Hi gave two safety demonstrations today.
The first, at 9.30 A. was for the children of School No. 46, Broadway and North avenue. Later she visited St. Edward's Parochial School, Lafayette avenue and Poplar Grove street.
Monday, the little dog will go to School No. 20, meeting her pupils at Caroline and Federal streets at 9.30 A. M. Knee-Hi awarded silver dollars today to three more Baltimore school children for safety letters they had written her. The friendly little terrier also prepared to send copies of her favorite portrait and her safety rules to winners and losers alike.
Today's lucky letter writers won over several hundred competitors. and her master. Dr. George E. Brunson.
spent many hours reading nd rereading the safety mail before selecting the winners. Brent School Impresses They were particularly impressed by the number and quality of the letters sent in by students of the Margaret Brent Public School, St Paul and Twenty-sixth streets. And so they were very happy to award a silver dollar, picture and safety rules to Frank Mills, a pupil there. Frank wrote: Dear Professor I am going to tell you about a boy who was in too much of a One morning Jack just wouldn't get up. His mother shook him two or three times and finally got him out of bed.
She warned him that he would be late for school. He dressed, ate his breakfast very quickly and ran do vn the street to Continued On Page 36. Column 3 BEAUTIFUL REX! TODAT "REBECCA" 13 ml. from Garrison BKd. Syks.
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