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Marshard Orchestra (Complete Radio on Page 11) VOLUME 12 WICHITAN TAKES FATAL POISON DOSE Mrs. Florence Owens, 34, Mixed Lethal Dose in Cup of Coffee SECOND IN 24 HOURS Mrs. Florence Owens, 34, 535 South Emporia, died early, today. from in the the effects county of hospital a poison dose taken late Monday afternoon. Police said that Mrs.

Owens gulped the poison after into a cup coffee. "Marshall Owens, foundry worker and her husband, said she had been despondent for several months. Mrs. Lawrence. Baker, South Emporia, and Mrs.

Jenny DeTienne, 724 South St. Paul, told officers they heard screams and ran upstairs to find Mrs. Owens in agony on the stairs. "I've taken poison, get a doctor," she, gasped, two the women women told told police police. attempted to give her milk as an emetic but were unable to force it down.

Mrs. Owens was taken to the county, hospital where she died 10 mortuary will announce the funeral services. Friends of E. R. Merchant.

were still puzzled over the death of the railroad clerk whose body was found lonely road west of- Wichita late" yesterday afternoon. Sheriff officers pronounced Merchant's death as suicide. A was found beside Merchant's body and a shotgun lay across his lap. Merchant had a wide acquaintance in Wichita. Engineer Found Dying with Hand Gripping Throttle YORK, Aug.

-A Long Island railroad commuter train bound from Lake Ronkonkoma to New York overran two stations today but each time the engineer gave the correct signal and backed up. At Mineola the conductor went forward to ask Engineer George E. Amberman what was wrong. He found him slumped in his cab, dying. At Nassau hospital where Amberman died a few minutes later it was said the cause of death was not yet known.

the City 3c; THE Outside the City 5c Mrs. Wynn, Reno Bound, Says He's 'Too Old for Me' TEW YORK, Aug. beautiful Frieda Mierse wants, she said today, is night gaiety but husband Ed Wynnwell, he's 52 and she is 27. So they're separated, the famous comedian his second wife, and some day had a or finger two Frieda, will think going to Reno. It's not that she doesn't like Ed, not at all.

"The only trouble," she said, "is that he's MRS. ED WYNN old and I'm young, It's making a wreck of me. We have been married 14 months. I'm tired of being suppressed and depressed." Miss Mierse, who became Miss New York in a 1927 beauty contest, said she was recuperating at the Gotham hospital from a nervous breakdown. She is recuperating, of evenings, with the aid of a tall, broadshouldered, wavy-haired young man (Continued on Page 3 Column 4) PRICE: In BABY RESCUED, 2 DIE IN FIRE Maid Leaps with Infant in Her Arms PARENTS ARE TRAPPED TO -(UP)-William N.

Adee and Aug. his 9. wife, prominent in eastern society were burned to death early today when flames enveloped their remodeled farm house in this fashionable colony. Sara Henton, 19, a nursemaid, escaped by leaping from a second story window carrying the Adees' one-year-old son. She broke her hand, but the child was unhurt.

Ray Hunter, 38, one of the first persons to the scene, said the fire apparently started in the wing of the building where the Adees were sleeping. 1 He said Mrs. Adee was at a window when he and Anthony Less, 40, arrived in advance of fire departments from nearby com- Still Fighting Wounds, Given High Honors Lige Debowski, Former Wichita Chef Who Smashed Vicious Bandit Gang, Recovering in Chicago welfare Debowski who used to be the chef at Hotel CLARKE, above, today brought word to Wichita of the Lassen and who has a host of good friends here. Clarke, holding a lapfull of clippings from Chicago and Illinois newspapers that have been giving wide publicity to Debowski, said the former chef still is confined to Cook county hospital. He is suffering from wounds received July 17, 1937, when he killed two notorious Chicago gang leaders during a holdup.

Clarke, a dramatic tenor, 'has been visiting here with his mother, Mrs. Maude Clarke, 738 South Market. He is rising to fame as an evangelistic Word has come to Wichita of Lige Debowski, former chef at Hotei Lassen, who was wounded July 17, 1937, when he slew two Chicago gang leaders in a gun battle in a liquor store there to become the Windy City's Hero Number 1. The news of his condition came WICHITA EVENING WICHITA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938 LOSS OF THE LOCOMOTIVE WILL TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE LIFE OF A BOY Features in the Choo-choo, Puff, Bell, Smoke and Jet of Steam Which Are Lacking in the New Dieseldriven Motor By VICTOR MURDOCK By this time it is pretty well established, in Wichita at least, that the new stream-lined motor, Dieseldriven, is a flop in dislodging -fashioned boys. locomotive I cite in in proof the Jerry Craig, just under four.

affection He is the son of Mr. Orval Craig, Field executive, Boy Scouts of America who recently moved here from Kirksville, Missouri. Young has been taken down to the station several times to view the red-nosed motor which daily whips a Santa Fe train across landscape between Wichita and Chicago but he will have none of it. He says that the motor does not choochoo or ding-ding. Truth to tell his father feels the same way about it, and for that matter, SO does his grandfather.

It can come to pass that in time when the Diesel motor has driven the last locomotive from the field youngsters will be reconciled to the new order, but that day is not yet. I was talking with Orval Craig about the place mechanics have in the mentality of the modern boy. It is a very large place, for in the last one years youth has come into colossal consciousness of implemented power. The era has, as its greatest distinction from preceding eras, mechanical mindedness. Mr.

Craig, who has a world of opportunity to boys, tells me that there is studio deal to support the assertion that a boy of twelve today has a mechanical grasp equal to that his father had at twenty-one. It is little wonder. Machinery is everywhere about him, at elbow, under his feet, and since the airplane arrived, over his head. All the time the tendency of harnessed power is to assert itself more and more quietly. It is at, this point that the oldfashioned locomotive ties itself afresh into the affections of a boy.

The locomotive not only lays to its job with a will, but also lets the bystanding boy know that it is a whale of job. A spasmodic succession of energetic puffs with an ejection en of hissing steam, and a volcanic eruption of smoke appeals to something in a boy that no silent performance, however smooth, can ever reach. Mr. Craig acknowledged that it so with him. About the time Oklahoma was ushered into the sisterhood of states, thirty years or So ago, Orval Craig was born at Augusta, Oklahoma, a place on the then new.

Orient with which his father connected. One of the earliest memories of Orval Craig is of the lively locomotive which drew train daily through the town. It had a particularly snappy snort and a strong-armed fireman did his full duty by its bell-rope. As in the case of most boys no other machine, farm implement or automobile, had the hold on his One day his mother, horse and youth that this noisy, visitor did. buggy, took him along when she drove over to Carmen.

He was seven and wident for any wonders which offer. And one did offer. In the sky above that day that was all and barnappeared an airplane, to 1914 model door. It was wonderful all right, as the first airplane one sights must always be. It was noisy.

But in no way did it equal in fascination the choo-choo that regularly came roaring, rumbling, ringing into Augusta. One day there was a wreck on the Orient and a spare locomotive was sent down the road in rescue. Orval Craig's father lifted the lad into the cab of this locomotive and Orval rode to the scene of the derailment. Close contact with the object of his affections. did diminish them; they grew rather in intensity through this familiarity with the locomotive that day.

Orval Craig's feeling about a locomotive on that occasion most men share. It is an affection as old as the locomotive the first men who had of it experienced to call it lovingly the "iron horse," and in the pioneer railroading days to give it an endearing name. On the original locomotives the name was carried somewhere inscribed on a plate, and when this custom was discarded engineers continued to confer names on and when numbers came to prefix the word "old" to certain favorite engines, as "Old 204." Of course the locomotive is is plain to be seen. But just doomed" by the diesel motor. That' same something will have gone out of the life of the boy, something soul-stirring, something irreplacably, when the last locomotive rolls off to the rip-track to rust away.

Rapid Recovery in Fall Predicted by U.S. Official Sec. Roper's Aide Says Consumption Already Outstripping Output in Industrial Centers WASHINGTON, Aug. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson, predicted today that recovery would be accelerated this fall.

He warned against price increases as business activity expands, advising business and industry instead to concentrate on increased sales volume. "It is apparent from our reports from all parts of the country," he said, "that the federal government's spending program has already had a good psychological effect on business. Government recovery spending to date, he said, could have had litlet more than a psychological effect on business. But, he added, its direct effects should begin to be felt in the fall when the spending will be at a peak. Reports direct from various business and industrial enterprises, he said, indicate the level of orders is above that of current production.

These reports, which are confidential, reveal that, because of the excess of orders over produc- Fade's mUESDAY, Aug. sign in the feet. Twenty-six years ago today a violent earthquake -killed 3,000 Turks, injured 6,000 and destroyed thousands of harems. In Mohammedan countries this date is Saphar 9, 1355. Today's Proverb Let us search and try ways and turn again to the Lord- Lamentations 3:40.

(Memorize this if this is your birthday). The Weather Dr. Bumblebone's forecast: Thunder with few raindrops and great consternation for fear of terrible storms. Hints on Etiquette The knife and fork should not be held in the same hand at the same time except by dishwashers. Words of Wisdom Fanatic fate, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Moore. Today's Horoscope Strong will power is characteristic of persons whose birthday occurs today. They refuse to stay down. Blah Kansas legislature is to be called in extra session to repeal all laws and adopt the Eleven Commandments and the Golden Rule making them apply in all cases. FOURTEEN PAGES Wichita Youth to Switzerland on Scholarship NEWTON S.

ARNOLD a linguist a 22 years Newton S. Arnold, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L.

Arnold, of 231 South Pershing, sails from New York on the morning of August 20 for Switzerland, where he will study a year. He received the Ottendorfer scholarship, given for outstanding scholastic accomplishment in Ian(Continued on Page 3 Column 2) TYPHOON RIPS AT SHANGHAI City Placed Under Virtual Martial Law STREETS UNDER WATER SHANGHAI, Aug. which verged on martial law were taken in Shanghai tonight in preparation for a typhoon which was expected to strike Shanghai about 3 a. m. tomorrow.

Streets in many parts of the city were several feet under water. Traffic was stalled along Bund, the Shanghai's water main front. Refugee thoroughfare camps pose were hard hit. One was levelled by the wind. Power lines were ripped down at some points, starting fires.

Japanese sentry boxes on the bridges of Soochow creek were blown over and smashed. meanwhile took precautions against terrorist activities on the anniversary of the shooting of Japanese soldiers at the Hungjao airdrome here, which was one of the incidents which led to the war. Only three streets between the French concession and International settlement were without barricades. Angels Head for 'Promised Land' Near FR's Home HENRY M'LEMORE INGSTON, N. Aug.

(UP)-Father Divine's gels' expeditionary force" embarked to the strains swing music today for their Krum Elbow "promised land" across the Hudson river from the ancestral home of President Roosevelt. Refreshed by a night in their Kingston "heaven" and a huge breakfast, the angels-from-Harlem boarded the two river steamboats--the of New York the Manhattan- which they started their excursion yesterday, and immediately began eating again. All the angels some 2,500 of them--wanted to ride on the City of New York, because that was the boat Father Divine graced with his presence yesterday, and the archangels in charge had a time keeping the boat from being overloaded. No sooner had the angels, whooping and singing, got aboard the boats than they began, with eager haste, to destroy vast. quan- (Continued on Page 3 Column 2) DESERT RED ARMY, REPORT 1,000 SLAIN: Captured Russians Tell Japanese Soviets Opposed to Siberian War CHAIN MEN TO POSTS TOKYO, Aug.

Domei news agency dispatch from the Siberian frontier reported today Field Marshal Vassily Bluecher, commander in chief of the Russian Far Eastern army, had arrived to supervise Russian army operations. ported "wholesale" desertions from The Domei news agency retoday, tine. were Russian quoted army. in a "Young dispatch desert- "from the front" in the Soviet army. These "deserters" were quoted as saying that Russia did not want to fight and that 1,000 Russians, "many of them handcuffed to prevent them from deserting," were killed fighting at Changkufeng.

Reds Gather Fleet One dispatch asserted Bluecher had arrived at Novokievsk, near the frontier and opposite Possiet bay where Russian warships have been reported concentrated. According to the dispatch Russian troops, were positions but withdrawing fresh from Russian adtroops were expected. Presumably it meant the Russians who had been holding front positions were being relieved. As the Domel dispatch arrived, the government started a third effort to negotiate a peaceable settlement with Russia of the danclashes on the Siberia-Mangerous, frontier. Maxim Litvinov, Russian foreign commissar, had rejected two proposals for negotiations which moru Shigemitsu, Japanese ambas- (Continued on Page 3 Column 1) 3 STATES TEST OUT NEW DEAL Idaho, Ohio and Arkansas Make It Big Issue FEW VOTE IN NEBRASKA BOISE, Aug.

Deal strength in Idaho was tested today in the Democratic primary contest between Sen. James P. Pope, consistent supporter of the Roosevelt administration, and Rep. D. Worth Clark, conservative Democrat who bid for Republican support.

The race between Pope and Clark was the feature of a primary in which Democratic and Republican nominees will be chosen for the senate and house, for governor and other state offices. pre praised During Sen. his William campaign E. Borah, Clark a Republican, and said he was a "disciple" of Borah's isolationist foreign policy. Republican leaders issued statements urging members of their party to stay out of the Democratic primary.

Pope is chairman of the senate (Continued on Page 3 Column 2) VISITS TOBY'S FAMILY Flier Dick Merrill Arrives in Hollywood by Airliner HOLLYWOOD, Aug. Merrill, aviator, and his fiance, Toby Wing of the screen, were visiting here today with the actress' family. Merrill came here aboard an Eastern Airlines plane which was to be overhauled at the Douglas aircraft plant. He will return to his eastern passenger run in a week. FLIERS LAND IN PANAMA COLON, PANAMA, ug.

United States bombers en route from Bogota, Colombia, to the United States, landed at France field today at 12:50 p. m. The aviators planned to resume their flight Thursday morning. TIGHTENS NET ON FATHER OF WRONGED GIRL NUMBER 116. LABOR CHIEF SHOT DOWN AS 20 L00K ON Chatting with Rival When Man Suddenly Fires Bullets into Body ATTACKED IN OWN YARD CHICAGO, Aug.

(U.P.) James G. Dungan, 36, business agent and acknowczar of the Chicago Painters' union, slain last night by assassins, was the victim of rivals who long have been attempting to obtain control of the lucrative union treasury, police believed today. The killing was accomplished with the finesse of an experienced gangland slayer. Shot in Front of Home Dungan was shot in front of his home, a score of neighbors watched, by a man with whom he apparently was acquainted. He had stepped from the house, intending to go out in his automobile, which was parked at the curb, when the man stopped him.

Dungan appeared willing to chat, and sat down on a small iron railing near the curb. Without warning the man whipped out 3 revolver and shot Dungan twice in the neck. One of the bullets emerged from his jaw. As he slumped to the ground, an automobile, containing three men. drew up to the curb.

The gunman jumped in, but before the automobile started away, one of the other men, his face masked with a handkerchief, leaned out a window and fired four shots with a rifle. One struck Dungan in the back of the head, another in the side. Refuses to Talk Dungan was semi-conscious in spite of severe wounds. Police said would not identify his assailants nor make a statement. He died two hours after he had been shot.

F.R. HEADING FOR Leaves Warship This Afternoon in Florida ENDS TOUR WASHINGTON, Aug. The battle for control of the Democratic party enlarges today President Roosevelt's return to the United States from a fishing vacation. Disembarking from the cruiser Florida, Mr. Roosevelt head northward to invade Georgia in a showdown on the so- PENSACOLA, Aug.

(UP) -President Roosevelt returns United States today after nearly a month's absence. He will have completed a mile sea cruise when he disembarks here from the U. S. S. Houston at 3 p.

EST. He left California July 16 for a fishing vacation in the Pacific ocean. The president's special train will leave shortly after 7 p. for Warm Springs, Ga. called party purge of "yes, but" Democrats.

The "purge" forecast when Mr. Roosevelt started west last month (Continued on Page 3 Column 4) HEAT TO HOLD ON Forecaster Gives No Relief Hope for Mid-west KANSAS CITY, Aug. (UP) -The weather bureau today promised more sizzling weather for the Mid-west with a slight chance for scattered showers. Hundreds of Kansas Citians last night slept in parks, along boulevard parkways, in motor cars and on lawns. BOB BURNS TTS REALLY SURPRISIN' how quick people are to help you when you come right out and tell 'em your troubles.

My Uncle Mink, the contractor, would do anything in the world for a person when he understood his problem. I remember the time he was buildin' a house for young Jess Wilson. Jess came to him and says "Can you tell me when my House is going to be finished, Mink? You see. I've arranged to be married as soon as the house is complete." And Uncle Mink says "Now, don't worry, son, you can depend on me and all my men. We'll string this job out just as long as we can!" (Copyright, 1938, Esquire Features, Inc.) Maine Prosecutor Proves Deputy Sheriff Carroll at Scene of Murder SEE LIGHT OF MYSTERY SOUTH PARIS, Aug.

(U.P) The state neared completion of its case against Francis M. Carroll, former deputy sheriff accused of murdering Dr. James G. Littlefield, today by presenting testimony that he was at the scene of the slaying. Thirteen witnesses testified at the two-hour morning session.

The testimony most damaging to. Carroll was that of an 18-year-old high school girl, Hazel Talbot, who said she saw him parked in his automobile outside the home of Paul (Buddy) Dwyer between 7 and 7:30 p. last Oct. 13, the night of the slaying. It was at the home of Dwyer, the state contends, that Carroll killed Dr.

Littlefield when he threatened to expose his allegedly incestuous relations with his daughter, Barbara, with whom young Dwyer had been intimate. Took Rap for Carroll Though the 19-year-old Dwyer pleaded guilty to the murder and accepted a sentence of life imprisonment, he later repudiated the confession, named Carroll as the "real slayer" and said the ousted law officer had intimidated him into "taking the Summer residents and tourists who crowded the courtroom heard witnesses testify that: 1. A cigaret lighter found on the (Continued on Page 3 Column 7) ROSCOE VAUGHAN DIES AT 54 YEARS Was Banker and Air Enthusiast ILL FOR THE PAST YEAR Roscoe Vaughan, 54, prominent banker and air enthusiast, at St. Francis hospital today after an illness of several months. He was born in McPherson July 16, 1884 and came to Wichita in 1914.

Vaughan was with Armour Company for about 10 years during industrial concerns are drawing on their gradually diminishing inventories to meet demand. The reports also indicate the level of consumption continues to remain well above the level of production. WICHITAN IS BADLY HURT Charles J. Casey Injured in Car Crash 'FEAR CHEST CRUSHED Charles J. Casey, 44, 520 South Madison, suffered serious injuries early this afternoon when the car he was driving collided with one driven by Howard K.

Thompson, Windom, at Kellogg and Broadway. Casey was taken in a Gill ambulance to St. Francis hospital where attendants said he was suffering from chest injuries, extent of which were not determined immediately. Casey's car overturned, police said. Thompson and Mrs.

Thompson suffered minor cuts and bruises, police reported. The Weather DRY otap indicates seneral weather conditions for past 24 hours TOR tonight, WICHITA Wednesday -Partly unsettled; cloudy continued warm. FOR KANSAS -Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight; Wednesday unsettled, local thundershowers and somewhat cooler northwest and north central portions in afternoon. Sun sets 7:30. Sun rises 5:39.

HIGH TEMPERATURES LOW Yesterday 78 95-100. Today 75-80 Tomorrow PRECIPITATION Concordia .02 ROSCOE VAUGHAN which time he every state in the Union. He representative covered, in Kansas, Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas for the Continental Illinois company. He was a national vice president of the National Aeronautical association and one time went to Paris to represent the body in an international conclave. He was a member of the Investment Bankers association, and was prominent in the Elk lodge.

Vaughan became ill late last year during a stay in California. He improved some after a series of treatments and then returned to Wichita. He became bedfast early this year and since then has been confined to his home at 3021 East Second until just a day or so ago. Shocker Faculty Pleads with Regents to Separate Homes of Girls and Youths Deans Ask 'Block of Space' Between Sororities and Frats photo. by Wayne Clarke, 29, son of Mrs.

Maude Clarke, 738 South Market, who worked for Debowski at the Lassen. Clarke is now rising to fame as a dramatic tenor and has been studying in Chicago for the past (Continued on Page 3 Column 3) A committee of Wichita university faculty in a report to the board of regents last night recommended separation of building sites for 80- rority and fraternity houses. The- regents referred action to a committee to study the report and suggest probable sites for creation of a sorority row. If they follow the recommendations of Dr. L.

Hekhuis and Dean Grace Wilkie, sponsors of the men's and women's panHellenic councils of the school, the fraternity TOW and sorority row will be separated by a block or more. The letter giving the faculty report it suggested, for number of (Continued on Page 3 Column 5) DEAN L. HEKHIUS sees 'administrative problem' DEAN GRACE WILKIE thinks supervision a question..